Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 379 - 277: Please Keep the Flame Alive in the Darkness_3

Chapter 379: Chapter 277: Please Keep the Flame Alive in the Darkness_3

By the way, the hero is supposed to have a divine artifact, what’s Elsa’s divine artifact?

"We’ve reached a crossroads."

A crossroads appeared in front of the two. Tami turned to look at Elsa, only to find that she was also looking at him, her eyes saying everything.

"You want me to decide?" Tami pointed to himself.

Elsa nodded, with a look of "I just need to act as the muscle".

Again, she’s showing no initiative. She probably acts the same when she’s with her mercenary companions, doesn’t she?

That guy named Sali didn’t come with them, but if he were here, he would probably be the one making the decisions, stopping Elsa from deciding anything.

It feels like Sali is overprotecting her.

Tami hesitated for a moment, then suddenly toughened his tone, saying, "No, this time you make the decision!"

Elsa was stunned for a moment, then resolutely shook her head.

"If you don’t make a decision, I’ll leave." Tami played his ultimate card!

It worked perfectly on Elsa!

"..."

She hesitated, but under the "intimidation and coercion" she had to agree, randomly pointing to a path like she was making a huge sacrifice.

Tami smiled brightly and said, "Great, let’s take this path then!"

They were quite lucky. Although there were many monsters on this road, they found a sorcery called [Casas’s Beacon].

[Sorcery of Casas from Gravel Country, one of the most secret ones. The longer the attack continues, the stronger the attack power becomes.]

[Casas’s invasion spread like flames, and since ancient times, this flame has been treated like a beacon, signaling the start of war.]

As the first discoverer, Tami forcefully handed the book page to Elsa, who had no choice but to accept it, with a look of "I will cherish this for life".

I can’t possibly say I dislike Casas’s stuff and don’t want to use it, Tami quietly complained in his heart.

This time, Elsa’s choice turned out well, so the next time they encountered a crossroads, Tami let her choose again, and then again the next time.

At first, she wasn’t used to it, but gradually, Elsa got familiar with making decisions. She would even think for a moment before choosing at a crossroads.

But there was one time it went wrong.

"It’s a dead end..."

Tami looked at the dead end in front of them, and Elsa felt ashamed for making the wrong choice.

On the way back, she didn’t say a word. When they reached another crossroads and needed to make a choice again, she firmly refused, no matter how much Tami threatened.

Tami had to resort to provocation.

"One failure and you give up? You’re weak, if you are so mentally fragile, why are you even a mercenary? You might as well just...

After a lot of blabbering, Elsa’s face turned dark, but she made a choice, and from then on, she charged through the underground cemetery without Tami’s urging, albeit angrily.

During this time, she encountered a series of mishaps, such as getting her head bitten by a treasure box monster falling from above, falling into a concealed pit, and being made sleepy by hypnotizing smoke.

However, under Tami’s continuous "mocking", Elsa turned her sadness into motivation and kept making decisions herself.

Gradually, she didn’t even realize that she had gotten used to expressing her thoughts, even becoming more talkative.

Great, the plan to correct Elsa’s personality was a huge success!

Although Tami was very tired, with his lips almost numb, he felt it was very worthwhile mentally.

Talking to Elsa also helped keep his spirits high to fend off the darkness.

But as time went on, his spirit inevitably got eroded, sometimes seeing eerie things in the darkness.

Occasionally, Elsa’s figure would suddenly flash and change shape before returning to normal, often scaring him into a cold sweat.

But even when his spirit took a hit, he refrained from crying out, not wanting to add more pressure to the slowly changing Elsa.

"Are we friends?" After helping Tami kill a monster that was trying to ambush him, Elsa suddenly asked.

"Friends?" Tami’s tone suddenly changed, making Elsa tense up instantly.

It was clear that she had a deep, should we say obsession, with the word "friends".

She hesitated for a long time, working up the courage to ask this question, and Tami’s reaction made her heart race.

"Weren’t we friends from the moment we first met?" Tami smiled and added, "You’ve saved me so many times today, I think we could even be considered family now. Even family isn’t always this close."

Family, family...

Without any colored thoughts, just this word, more intimate than "friends", caused the hero’s brain to short-circuit for a moment.

"Hey, wake up, the monsters are coming again!"

The exploration continued, and during this time they didn’t find any missing mercenaries, likely because they had already been killed by the monsters.

Almost two hours later, they reached the edge of the darkness, and as they stepped out of the dark, the chilling air made Tami shiver involuntarily.

An empty room, with monsters emitting cold air all over, no doubt they encountered the second elite monster of Casas Tomb.

The style of this opponent was completely different from the cemetery, even you could say they were out of place.

[Knights of War]

The force from Cold Valley appeared for the first time in front of the adventurers. At the feet of the beast-like Knights of War, a mercenary was screaming miserably.