Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 194 - 171: Toxic! Corruption Lake!_2

Chapter 194: Chapter 171: Toxic! Corruption Lake!_2

Surrounding the Unity Seekers were a large number of goblin knights, minotaurs, and trolls, which indeed looked like a rather formidable team, requiring at least two squads of Silver Rank adventurers to eradicate them.

...

Wait, goblins, minotaurs, trolls?

Why are the monsters used by Sain Dungeon this time so normal?

And those few Unity Seekers, although they seem quite capable, have unfamiliar faces, the kind that could go unnoticed on a busy street, less famous even than Fishing Man Chiraj’s "Hammer Fall" squad.

Such people have a fixed title—extras.

But they are not ordinary extras, they are carefully selected extras, those with Bonds values slightly higher than true cannon fodder.

These people have something in common:

Their eye sockets flickered with yellow flames, their bodies sprouted crimson pustules, their arms entwined with black, thorn-like growths, their feet steeped in sticky black mud.

But these features were well concealed by their clothes, with no anomalies visible.

"Hehehe, this is, the strongest, battle force?"

Ganago first showed a nervous expression, then his face relaxed.

He sized up this group of monsters, quickly calculating their value.

Goblin knights and minotaurs, each requiring a two-digit expenditure of spiritual power, trolls a bit pricier, barely reaching three digits, and among these monsters, there were varying numbers of Beastman Shamans, Animated Corpses, and so on.

All told, the expenditure of spiritual power should be around two to three thousand.

Two to three thousand? For Sain Dungeon, perhaps it could earn that much or even more in just one day, no, just a morning.

But...

"Big spender." Ganago showed a pained expression.

Over two thousand points of spiritual power, even in better times, he would have needed quite a while to earn that much!

In his subconscious, he had already regarded Sain Dungeon and its spiritual power as his own property, hence the heartache he felt right now because Gong Qiying was spending "his money"!

He had originally guessed that Sain Dungeon’s reserves of spiritual power would not exceed ten thousand, after all, once everyone has enough spiritual power, they would upgrade their authority, where would there be any surplus energy.

To summon these monsters all at once, spending one-fifth or even more of that amount, made Ganago curse the other side as a wastrel.

"Kill, eat!"

At his command, the bug swarm and Sain Dungeon’s "strongest army" clashed, the scene resounding with battle cries, the hissing of bugs, and the roars of monsters.

The Unity Seekers from Sain’s side showed extremely high quality, all were experts with Thunder and Fire, able to unleash havoc among the bug swarm.

Finally, the elite bugs swarmed in and, after suffering significant injuries, they took them down!

Not only were the Unity Seekers defeated, but the monster army also continued to retreat, the Chimeric Worms growing stronger as they consumed the corpses of the dead monsters.

Even losing nearly a third of the bugs, the bug swarm’s morale soared, pursuing the monster army and penetrating deeper into Fran Fort.

"Hahahaha!" Cackles of madness echoed from the bugle worms, "How does it feel, Gedwin, how do you feel now!"

He believed that Gong Qiying must be heartbroken now; creating an army at a "great price" yet failing to kill the enemy, what could be more humiliating than this.

To further insult his enemy, Ganago ordered bugs evolved for high-altitude flight to bring all the Unity Seekers from Sain back to base, dumping all of them into the most conspicuous broodmother nest!

Look, Gedwin, your proud Unity Seekers have become my nourishment!

The pulsating broodmother suddenly paused, as if it had eaten something strange, but before Ganago noticed anything amiss, it began pulsating again, even more vigorously.

In Ganago’s eyes, this was proof of the broodmother’s joy.

These Unity Seekers could use Thunder Fire, so after the broodmother consumed them, the bugs it produced might possibly improve resistance to these two attributes.

Hehe, his bug swarm had always only feared Thunder, but now, how good, Gong Qiying actually filled in their weakness, so stupid.

The bug swarm was about to reach the gates of the fort, encountering sporadic attacks from monsters along the way, but they managed to eliminate them after certain casualties.

Seeing this, Ganago became somewhat sentimental.

"You’ve done, already, quite well."

When he had just upgraded to third-level authority, he could not achieve the level Gong Qiying had demonstrated; he even felt a touch of admiration for such talent.

Pity, to seek vengeance against the Demon Clan Priests, he had to strangle this genius in the cradle.

"All troops charge!"

Ganago surged with bloodlust, shouting loudly.

Just then, the swamp at Fran Fort suddenly began to bubble.

With the bubbles rising, the blackish-green swamp gradually took on a glaring crimson hue.

By the time the insect swarm realized something was amiss, the entire Fran Fort had changed its color.

Everywhere the eye could see was painted in crimson, even the sky turning blood-red, a scent that defied description spread, evoking the word "corruption."

The base of the Evil Nest Dungeon was expanding its Fungal Blanket outward, having already spread the purple mat across a great expanse, but as Fran Fort turned red, the Fungal Blanket instantly dissolved into the liquid.

The swarm was joyously racing towards the fort, but gradually, the crimson color also crept over their bodies.

In an instant, the insects at the forefront collapsed.

Like a row of dominoes, the fall of the insects at the front triggered a chain reaction, and a huge swath of the swarm toppled down, the fallen insects immediately consumed by the red liquid, as if they had never existed in this world.

The situation underwent a dramatic reversal.

"What, what is this!?"

Ganago was terrified, his swarm, his invincible swarm, at this moment... was vanishing!

Vanishing at an incredible speed!

What’s happening, what’s the situation, is this red liquid highly toxic, but why would any poison affect Chimeric Worms!?

My Chimeric Worms are supposed to be fearless of any toxin!

Even in the face of never-before-encountered toxins, Chimeric Worms would gradually develop immunity!

Ganago’s mind was filled with confusion, but soon these doubts were replaced by an emotion known as "panic."

Perhaps no one understood Chimeric Worms better than him, but no one understood the essence of Crimson Corruption better than Gong Qiying.

At this moment, Fran Fort could be renamed "Corruption Lake"!

Gong Qiying’s words held true; he indeed hadn’t made any major changes to the terrain of Sain Dungeon, just introduced a slight "improvement" to the water quality of Fran Fort.

Could the adaptability of Chimeric Worms outpace the speed of Crimson Corruption?

"Don’t do this!"

From within the speaker worm came Ganago’s scream of despair.

His swarm was gone; every insect that touched the Crimson Corruption succumbed to death, with no way to escape, for there was no land anywhere nearby.

It was only then that he realized Gong Qiying had lured the enemy in deep, only to use the corruption to wipe out the entire swarm in one fell swoop.

Looking at the eradicated Chimeric Worms, Ganago’s heart bled; he planned to recycle them for spiritual power after their use, but instead, they were wasted here!

"Fine, fine, fine," he said through clenched teeth: "Using thousands of spiritual power as bait, just to trick me, Gedwin, you’ve really got nerve!"

In his rage, Ganago’s speech was no longer stuttered; in his eyes, Gong Qiying’s act of luring him into Corruption Lake with "a fortune" of a thousand spiritual power was bold and wasteful.

When the last insect died, he, on the contrary, calmed down.

"I underestimated you, Gedwin, but do you think a trap that has been exposed would still work on me?"

Gone was Ganago’s rage; he looked towards the hive, reasoning that if touching the Crimson Corruption meant death, then he simply could spend spiritual power to produce flying Chimeric Worms.

In this way, the "final trump card" of Sain Dungeon would be ineffective, and victory would still be his!

The hive could produce an endless supply of insects, my swarm is boundless, but your spiritual power is constantly depleting.

"Hive, hurry up and give me—"

Ganago’s voice abruptly stopped because something seemed off about the hive.

The hive, resembling a giant heart, swelled, growing more enormous and more grotesque.

It pulsed faster and faster, beating a fatal rhythm, and Ganago’s heart raced along, until at last!

"Boom!"

Under the stunned gaze of Ganago.

The hive exploded.

Yellow Mad Fire, red corruption, black curse death, dark Abyss.

The four colors played an ode to life, blooming in their vibrant hues upon the land.

Bursting with vitality, all things flourished.

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