Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 358: After Modification - 264 New Privileges and Dungeon

Chapter 358: After Modification: Chapter 264 New Privileges and Dungeon

"Eliminate the Sealed Items that escaped from the Dungeon?"

Gong Qiying repeated the sentence, already understanding what it meant.

"You should also know by now, many dungeons are in a dormant state, and the outside world might even call it a collapse."

As Red Teeth spoke, one deserted and ancient dungeon after another appeared before him, flashing like a slideshow.

Some dormant dungeons were completely empty, while others were bustling with people. They had been turned into residences by intelligent races. What was going on?

"When a dungeon is in a normal dormant state, the Teleportation Gate will close, making it nearly impossible to enter."

"But if a Sealed Item escapes, it means the dungeon’s duties have failed. At this time, some dungeons will close permanently, while others will become open underground cities to the outside world. But no matter what form it takes, it means the dungeon is dead," Red Teeth explained.

"Wait," Gong Qiying suddenly raised a question.

He remembered that when he was helping Val Underworld resist the Demon Clan, it all started because the Demon Clan opened the dormant Val Underworld’s Teleportation Gate and entered.

He told Red Teeth about this phenomenon, and the latter fell silent for a moment.

Don’t tell me you don’t know what happened either...

"The worst-case scenario has occurred," Red Teeth’s voice deepened, "someone has mastered the method to enter a dormant dungeon, which means they could potentially break the altar’s seal and cause the Sealed Items to escape."

Gong Qiying comforted, "Maybe this method has certain usage conditions, otherwise it would be too much."

"That’s right, everything follows a principle of balance," Red Teeth said, "but eventually, conditions will be met. We must quickly investigate what technology the Demon Clan used so we can prevent it."

Gong Qiying listened quietly to Red Teeth’s analysis and suddenly wondered why the issue of Sealed Items hadn’t spread among the City Lords.

When he consulted some Dungeon Lords before, it was clear it was their first time hearing this term.

Red Teeth saw his confusion and said, "Because the more people know about this, the more troublesome it becomes. It’s better not to say anything from the start."

Indeed, no one wants to guard a ticking bomb, even if it might never explode in their lifetime.

Knowing too much at this time is not a good thing.

"Let’s continue with what we were discussing," Red Teeth breathed out a scorching breath.

"When a Sealed Item is sealed into a dungeon, all information about them is erased from the surface, only the City Lord remembers."

"And when they break free and leave the dungeon, that information also disappears from the City Lord’s mind, equivalent to all information about them falling into oblivion. We can’t know what the escaped Sealed Items are now."

This greatly increases the difficulty of eliminating them.

Besides, how do dungeons eliminate Sealed Items that have already escaped?

"As long as a City Lord is willing to take over, a dead dungeon can also come back to life. Those Sealed Items have long formed a deep connection with the dungeon. Once the dungeon reopens, it will attract them subconsciously. They will enter at least once in their lifetime, which is the precious opportunity to eliminate them."

"But there are many problems, such as Sealed Items disguising themselves as adventurers, staying in safe zones until the influence of the dungeon seal is removed from their minds, and so on..."

Undoubtedly, the conditions are very harsh; this is an extremely difficult task.

"People who have entered the dungeon from which Sealed Items escaped will also form an invisible attraction with the Sealed Items. The stronger the power, the greater the attraction, perhaps leading to battles."

"Dungeons can also directly pull in a large number of Sealed Items for extermination by spending a huge amount of spiritual power, but besides the need for spiritual power and time intervals, the unknown abilities of Sealed Items are a huge problem. If it fails, the result will be unacceptable losses and retaliation from the Sealed Items."

Red Teeth seemed to be thinking about something and said, "So far, only three dungeons have succeeded in eliminating Sealed Items using this method. Even I don’t dare to take over dead dungeons lightly."

Gong Qiying understood why. A dead dungeon means it has completely lost spiritual power, not even able to maintain the seal.

And to make a dungeon completely lose spiritual power, it must be influenced by many adverse conditions, starting undoubtedly in Hell’s difficulty level.

Red Teeth saw his thoughts and said, "I’m telling you this now just to give you an idea. Taking over a dead dungeon is still early for you; consider it in ten years or so."

"But I have a premonition that your displayed uniqueness might truly change the deadlock of thousands of years. Among this batch of new City Lords, I have the most hope for you."

"Your future is beyond what I can see."

With those words, you give me a lot of pressure...

Gong Qiying was thinking of humble words, but Red Teeth had already changed the topic.

[You have received a request from Red Teeth to transfer the Eagle Capital Dungeon City Lord Authority]

This Red Dragon really worked decisively, and Gong Qiying readily accepted this gift.

He finally had a dungeon far out of Bed City’s influence range!

This also meant that Sain’s influence would further expand.

"Thank you for your generosity," Gong Qiying said politely.

"Tell me what kind of authority you want. With my ability, it’s not difficult to find similar authority and get it for you."

Red Teeth showed what it means to be a senior, although it felt a little strange to show this in front of Gong Qiying, who seemed like an ultimate elder.

"Hmm, do you have any authority to instantly kill adventurers?"

"...No."

"How about the authority to let Monsters leave the dungeon at any time and place?"

"That’s also impossible."

"Then what do you have?"

"Can you ask for something less outrageous...?" Red Teeth’s eyelids twitched.

Gong Qiying was greatly disappointed, thought for a moment, and asked a few more, but none fit.

Then he said, "Is there any authority that lets me build dungeons any time, anywhere?"

Waiting for adventurers to leave the dungeon before starting construction had already become a restriction for him.

"This seems somewhat plausible."

Red Teeth mumbled something, closed his eyes doing something unknown, and after a moment said, "Found it, there’s an effect that’s similar, and the other Dungeon Lord is willing to transfer the authority."

"What’s the specific effect?" Gong Qiying asked.

"It’s called , it allows changing the number limit of people exploring the dungeon at any time, setting the number to 0 can kick all adventurers out, and after kicking them out, you can carry out construction, right?"

This sounded quite decent, equivalent to obtaining advanced Dungeon Lord Authority in advance.

"Then let’s go with this one." Gong Qiying had no more choices, because he had proposed many abilities much better than this, but either they didn’t exist or the owners were unwilling to release them.

This was already the best option he could find.

But he was still curious about how exactly could this authority be transferred?

Just then, he received a message.

Damn, it turns out to be a rigged fight!

Gong Qiying chose to accept, casually set a duel reward on his side, and immediately started the fight, the efficiency was really fast.

Green Peak Dungeon sent out a monster... only half-bodied beastman, which would probably die if left alone.

Never expected to rig fights even in the otherworld... Gong Qiying ridiculed while sending his monster to finish the half-bodied beastman and successfully obtained the authority: Absolute Dominator.

As for the price to pay for exchanging the authority, naturally, it was covered by Red Teeth Dungeon, the rich patron.

No, it shouldn’t be called a rich patron, but rather the generous grand lord.

"Besides, some other Dungeon Lords also want to meet you, my suggestion is to build a good relationship with them."

Red Teeth showed full enthusiasm, and Gong Qiying’s goodwill towards him also increased.

Everything had been explained, it was also time to bid farewell.

But this time it wasn’t Gong Qiying who was leaving, because Eagle Capital Dungeon had already become his possession, so the one leaving was Red Teeth.

When the massive Spiritual Body of the Red Dragon dissipated, Gong Qiying teleported to Eagle Capital Dungeon, carefully observing the scene that had just been burned by a great fire.

After all, if he didn’t look around more now, this place would soon be transformed beyond recognition by him.

"What a marvelous feeling, I haven’t been a Dungeon Lord for even half a year, and I already own three dungeons."

Sain and Val were currently running very well, completely forming a cycle, so even if Gong Qiying traversed back now, they could probably run on their own for a hundred years.

So he currently had the leisure to design new dungeons.

And the location of Eagle Capital Dungeon was superb, near both the Royal Capital and another Great Noble’s territory, the traffic here was surely much greater than the start off Bed City, probably much more profitable too.

Just in time, he had a set of design areas ready but not yet implemented, so let’s put it here.

And as a seamless supporting map, besides Casas Underground Tomb, the Deep Church, Yilushier of Cold Valley, and Yanor Londo could also be scheduled.

Sain Dungeon revealed the story of the Primordial Flame and the Fire Transmission, and with the brilliant performances of the Undead Team and Artorias, the story unfolded for the people.

Then next, it’s time to lead people to further understand Fire Transmission in the second stage of Sain’s story.

"If put in terms of online games, it’s like Sain is about to open version 2.0."

So what does the new version need?

Of course, an extremely cool trailer!

From now on he needed to think about how the new footage should be presented, it must be tightly linked to the upcoming story, and it must be full of grandeur with classic namedropping.

Then where should the trailer be placed, at the first bonfire ignited after entering Casas?

While pondering, Gong Qiying was counting the rewards from Eagle Capital Dungeon.

When someone becomes a Dungeon Lord, they inherit the monsters and buildings that the initial Dungeon Lord could use, preventing new dungeon lords from facing the embarrassment of having no monsters to use.

Val Dungeon also supplemented Gong Qiying with new monsters and buildings, but they were mostly useless things, so he never used them.

The monsters of Eagle Capital Dungeon were also nothing special to him, but while checking the rewards, he suddenly furrowed his brows.

"What’s this?"

There were actually golden-quality items, and...

"This thing is too wicked, isn’t it?"

Gong Qiying certainly wouldn’t release such an ominous thing as a reward.

"Also, what kind of lunatic with wild ambitions would use something like this."

He stashed away the Sealing Treasure Ball and continued checking the items below.

Meanwhile, he already had a preliminary idea in his mind about the setting for the new footage.

"Cruel Conquering Overlord, the one who usurps the gods, devours gods... indeed, namedropping feels the best."

The ancestral methods should not be changed indeed.