Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 448 - 314 Inside the Deep Church

Chapter 448: Chapter 314 Inside the Deep Church

So... we raced across the church rooftop under a hail of bullets and endured all that suffering, only to end up back at the Purification Church.

Just to open a door!?

The faces of the Bone Stick Team were strange. They understood this was considered a shortcut and realized that once they opened the main door, if they died again, they could directly return inside the church from the Purification Church without having to run through the graveyard and rooftop again.

But, but... we really felt so tormented!

If it weren’t for the worry that forcing the door open might cause the reward to disappear or result in other unpredictable outcomes, no one would agree to run in circles here, no one!

However, when the Bone Stick Team glanced at the delighted and bright-eyed Fingerley, they silently swallowed their words.

Well, it seems Fingerley really enjoys this kind of design.

No wonder he’s a big shot, finding joy in a journey full of hardships; in this respect, the Bone Stick Team really felt inferior.

"The design is really ingenious; it feels like the most delicate area I’ve encountered so far."

Fingerley marveled as he called everyone to sit by the bonfire, where the light of the fire slowly restored their stamina and gradually reduced their fatigue.

Come to think of it, the Deep Church seems to be the first map in the entire Sain Dungeon to provide a shortcut with a reusable bonfire. Except for the direct paths caused by the special environment of the Casas Underground Tomb, the other areas feel more like they throw adventurers in to wander aimlessly, especially Lake Lienia.

After running around the big world, a small and exquisite walled garden is really refreshing.

Fingerley looked at another [cannot be opened from this side] door and couldn’t help but wonder where they would discover the shortcut to open this door next. The more he thought about it, the more anticipation he felt.

The members of the Hasavi Team relaxed their bodies while the Bone Stick Team took out a notebook to jot down their previous routes. It seemed they wanted to map out their paths, which Fingerley and his team didn’t value since they had no intention of making a guide, but the Bone Stick Team did.

The main routes of the graveyard and rooftop had been explored. Tusi tried to recall the routes and realized that the only path left seemed to be the fork down the stairs from the rooftop, leading inside the Deep Church.

During the rest, Tusi also mentioned to everyone the matter of Jack Baldor in the well, resulting in a group of people surrounding the well, asking the Onion Knight with various supplies if he needed feeding, until he ended up repeating "No, thank you," like a broken record.

"Alright, rested enough, let’s move on!"

Ascending the stairs and heading towards the fork, a narrow and winding corridor appeared before the adventurers, allowing at most two people to walk side by side. The light illuminating the corridor seemed to come from nowhere, casting a faint purple-black hue that felt oppressively uncomfortable.

From here, it was impossible to see other areas’ conditions. It seemed there was a doorway at the corner, and Matilda volunteered to walk ahead. As her large frame appeared in front of the doorway, a group of small-framed slaves jumped down from the ceiling, some landing on the ground to attack her feet, others climbing onto her to grab her head, only to be taken down one by one by her.

Everyone’s expression remained unchanged when the slaves appeared, as they had anticipated an ambush here, whether from the corner, ceiling, or inside the door, even if enemies emerged simultaneously from all three directions...

Just as people thought of this, they saw a church knight, wrapped like a tin can, charge out from the doorway. He engaged Matilda, and then another knight, accompanied by some slaves, charged out from the corner ahead.

Well, enemies do emerge from all three directions. Indeed, Sain always chooses the most delightful move.

The monster composition inside the Deep Church is quite simple: slaves and Mud Monsters as the base-level monsters; Maggot Men and Deep Bishops as intermediate power; and Church Knights as minor elites. Besides these, there are also a few big guys and surprises.

The Church Knight’s own strength belongs to the D-grade tier. [Strong and Weak Balance] can only strengthen him so much, unlikely to leap to C-grade, with a maximum of D++.

Thus, the Bone Stick Team could barely handle a single Church Knight, while the Hasavi Team members could handle several knights simultaneously, highlighting the stark difference.

Since climbing the rooftop, the Bone Stick Team had shown subtle signs of becoming a liability, and now they were completely part of the atmosphere group.

"Keep it up, keep it up, seniors, keep it up!"

The Church Knight’s moves were wide and sweeping, much like a mini Curse Binder, but Matilda had no patience to tangle with them and swiftly finished them off.

Can’t speed-kill a Curse Binder, but can’t speed-kill you?

Advancing along the corridor, they encountered a total of four Church Knights, defeating them and surprisingly finding, besides their gear, pieces of Hero’s meat or raw meatballs as drops, somewhat fitting with the Deep Church’s background. However, the corridor ended in a dead end, with three treasure chests conspicuously placed at the end, seemingly tempting people to open them.

Fingerley tossed a few Flying Knives over, successfully confirming that all three were Treasure Box Monsters.

They returned the way they came and finally entered a somewhat wider room through the doorway the Church Knight had charged out from. The room was arranged similarly to the Purification Church, appearing to be a place for church personnel to conduct prayers. A candelabra, looking like a rake, burned quietly, adding a dim light to the dim church.

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