Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 298 - 229 Just an Ordinary Blacksmith

Chapter 298: Chapter 229 Just an Ordinary Blacksmith

"Uncle Andre, your boxing skills are amazing. Can you teach me?"

"It’s just regular punching, you can do it too."

Outside the rascal’s dilapidated house, Kunan circled around Andre, seemingly wanting to learn powerful combat techniques from him.

But unfortunately, Andre’s fighting style really just seemed to be ordinary combat techniques, straight punch, uppercut, continuous hitting, flying kick; each move alone was quite ordinary.

So why could he use them to beat the limb-connecting nobles so easily? Maybe his stats were just too beautiful.

However, Kunan was firmly convinced that he must have a special power technique, which allowed every punch to deliver powerful force. After all, fighters in this world did rely on special power techniques to unleash their inner Fighting Qi and cause significant destructive effects.

"I’m just a regular blacksmith."

In the end, Andre simply repeated this phrase, fully leveraging his "residual shadow" identity. Kunan had to give up.

At this moment, the rascal brought out a big pot of cooked shrimp and crabs, directly using the shell of a Big Crab as a plate. The red food packed the shell, and the presentation was quite meticulous, making one drool just by looking at it.

This was the gourmet meal he had promised earlier. Although it was just plain boiled shrimp and crab with salt, the amount of salt used was quite particular, perfectly enhancing the freshness of the ingredients. No matter how much you ate, you wouldn’t get tired of it.

In the cold Lake Lienia, having such a delicious meal, especially after a tiring adventure, was a great comfort to both the soul and the body. If there was a warm little house, a roaring fireplace, and a bard’s singing, it would be the dream life of adventurers.

Andre and the rascal only exchanged a few brief words, like casual greetings, just to let people know they were familiar with each other. The rascal also asked Andre to help him buy some salt from Curry.

Andre, of course, gave this task to the elves.

This was a limited-time quest, it would become unavailable later, a one-of-a-kind chance.

"Phew..."

Merca licked the crab roe clean from the shell, letting out a satisfied sound. It was indeed a fulfilling meal.

Besides filling her stomach, she also noticed a slight change in her body.

Does it feel like her strength increased a bit?

Though it sounded strange, this feeling was similar to the boost she got when she spent souls to level up her Strength attribute at the bonfire.

It should be the effect of the food, anyway, it would fade away after a while, no need to worry too much.

Compared to the high physical damage reduction from the [boiled shrimp], the strength boost from this meal seemed quite ordinary.

After finishing the food, it was time to continue on their adventure. Before leaving, they received Big Lobster materials from the rascal, these glowing materials could be used to find the Elu cat forging master in the forest region to forge weapons.

For adventurers, these were precious monster materials, but for the rascal, they were just useless scraps.

Andre walked straightforwardly on the road to Academy Gate Town, the elves following closely behind, the fog in the Lake District gradually thinning, which was a good sign. Being able to see the road clearly is better than not.

Occasionally, they encountered monsters on the way. At such times, the Boxing King, no, the blacksmith would swing his fists and beat the monsters to a pulp, making them flee. He would only scare them off, never actually kill them.

As creations of the dungeon, they would only put on a show, never truly engaging in mutual destruction.

But Andre’s performance was very convincing, each hit felt so real that the thrill of it was palpable, making the elves’ blood boil, especially Kunan couldn’t take his eyes off.

He’s not admiring men, he’s just appreciating the muscles, really. After all, over-training does attract the same gender.

"Bang!"

A mud fish dragon charged over like a dragon car, but Andre knocked it to the ground with one punch, causing the ground to tremble.

Watching the monster wail and flee, Kunan just started to speak, but Andre cut him off:

"I’m just a regular blacksmith."

"..."

Yes, yes, you are the most ordinary one, I won’t argue with you anymore.

Kunan wisely chose to keep quiet.

In his eyes, Andre had long since become the image of a reclusive master like a monk who sweeps the floors. If he says he is a blacksmith, what else can we do?

Just go along with it.

With the help of the utterly ordinary Andre, their journey was smooth, as if even heaven was helping them. It was as if the dungeon itself wanted the elves to hurry back to Academy Gate Town, so it reduced the number of monsters that came to harass them.

The weather was getting better and better, with the fog gradually lifting, the surrounding scenery gave the elves a sense of familiarity.

Too familiar, like they had just walked this road.

"We’ve... been walking the wrong way the whole time?"

This was the first time Vienma showed a doubting expression in the dungeon.

When she clearly saw the corpses of the monsters they had killed earlier by the roadside, she became even more certain that they had been happily walking in the wrong direction, eating lobsters and singing all the way.