Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 63 Have you heard of the Sun Warrior?

Chapter 63: Chapter 63 Have you heard of the Sun Warrior?

If one were to speak of the most popular place in the Sain Dungeon at present, it would undoubtedly be the Food Paradise area.

Weapons, equipment, Magic Tools and the like are only needed by adventurers, but food is different—everyone loves gourmet food, especially the kind never encountered before.

As it happens, the Food Paradise perfectly meets these criteria.

It is believed that any seasoned food connoisseur can find their preferred food here.

Therefore, as soon as the Food Paradise was discovered, it was deemed to have significant commercial value.

Supported by the Bed Family, a whole street specializing in local delicacies of the Food Paradise area was successfully established, with caravans loaded with goods continuously moving in and out, spreading the local specialties to every corner of the world, as well as disseminating the news far and wide.

As expected, the peculiar-looking and deliciously flavored gourmet food became hot commodities everywhere, and to this day, there is still an endless stream of people coming from afar. Some are merchants hoping to make a fortune, some are adventurers fulfilling commissions, and others are curious food enthusiasts eager to witness what truly constitutes a Food Paradise.

In short, there are a lot of people.

Anyone wishing to smoothly enter the Food Paradise area cannot do without one thing—hiring adventurers.

On the request board of the Bed City adventurer’s guild, the commissions for hiring adventurers to accompany one into the Food Paradise area have surged, accounting for a frightening seventy percent or more of all commissions!

People desperately need a safe and stable route to the Food Paradise, but alas, the locations of Monsters and traps along the way are always changing, reducing even the most experienced adventurers’ success rate to a mere fifty percent.

Regarding this, Gong Qiying has stated:

"I’ve designed eighteen different sets of traps and Monster configurations for this route; each team that enters will encounter a random configuration."

However, although the configurations keep changing, the overall difficulty is not too high; after all, people need to be attracted here, and one can’t just prevent them from entering.

So far, even though the various food ingredients of the Food Paradise cause a drain on spiritual power, the Dungeon’s spiritual power is still profiting immensely.

How much has it profited? To the point where he could afford to carelessly dispatch Molten Furnace Knights.

He could upgrade his City Lord Authority once again soon, but after mulling it over for a night, he decided to hold off on the upgrade for now.

If he were to upgrade, the accumulated spiritual power would be quickly depleted. In that case...

His ability to withstand risks would significantly decrease.

"At least I have to wait until my reserve hidden spiritual power reaches twice the amount needed for the upgrade before I do it."

Gong Qiying closed the upgrade interface and, taking advantage of the Dungeon’s closure time, began a series of renovations to the Food Paradise area.

The overall layout needed no change, with only minor adjustments required in some small areas.

The entire Food Paradise area is roughly divided into the absolutely safe zones, the dangerous zones with Monsters like the roasted whole pig, and the Super Dangerous Zone where the Rainbow Fruit is located, guarded by an array of even stronger Monsters.

To this day, people have only explored the safe zones and dangerous zones. The edge of the Super Dangerous Zone is somewhat manageable, but once one ventures deep within, groups tend to mysteriously get wiped out.

It’s unclear whether it’s due to the orders of the current guild branch leader Ceder, but every day adventurous teams bravely enter the Super Dangerous Zone and then perish.

Gong Qiying initially thought that after repeated failures, Ceder would come to him for help, but surprisingly, that did not happen. Since Ceder did not come, Gong Qiying couldn’t be bothered to meddle.

"In the safe zone, I’ll add a batch of new food ingredients and reduce those that are less popular, and in passing..."

He hesitated for a while but eventually gave up the idea of planting a few Potato Mines in the safe zone, tossing this device into the dangerous zone instead.

The "absolute safety" of the safe zones needs to be a reality, rather than damaging the reputation.

He also took stock of the most popular food ingredients, ensuring that the most sought-after by people were selected.

Then, quite sneakily, he slightly reduced their quantity.

Since they’re so popular, you’ll have to make a few more trips. Thank you for your patronage.

Food ingredients produced in the Food Paradise area are impossible to cultivate in the outside world; thus, they can only be obtained by entering the Dungeon.

"..."

After finalizing the design, he fell silent for a while and began to feel that something was amiss.

While the safe zones are supposed to be secure, refraining from placing some underworldly items was too agonizing for him.

"Just add a tiny bit,"

Gong Qiying didn’t choose to add Monsters, but instead increased the proportion of ingredients, some with peculiar effects.

The River Puffer Whale, delicious but fatally poisonous unless its poison sac is removed, the Hallucinogenic Mushroom, equally tasty but causes nightmares when consumed, and the Powerful Banana with its super high voltage.

"No, no more adding! Just these three!" Gong Qiying’s left hand tightly gripped his right hand, as if exerting all his might to control the Demon within.

Finally, the evil Gong Qiying was suppressed by the righteous Gong Qiying ()

The Safe Zone yields delicious ingredients, whereas the Dangerous Zone produces not only tasty but also many ingredients with special effects.

Energy Grasshopper, Life Durian, Dissolve Fruit, Wenyou Fruit...

The Monsters that loiter here, like the roasted whole pig, Horned Lion, Gala Crocodile, Mushroom Pig, and such, are all large in size and easy to guard against.

To compensate for this drawback, Gong Qiying added some Monsters.

Little Ganoderma Spirit (from Black Myth)

[Spiritual power required per unit: 65]

[Overall combat power: D-]

Little Fungus Sir (from Black Myth)

[Spiritual power required per unit: 65]

[Overall combat power: D-]

Pumpkin, Man-Eating Flower, Potato Mine (from Plants vs. Zombies)

"These should suffice," Gong Qiying clapped his hands satisfied, "As for trap mechanisms..."

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Leon sat in the adventurer’s guild’s second-floor lounge, his head filled with the scene of Soul V’s Avatar pointing at him.

The more he thought, the angrier he became.

Hiss, such a headache...

The side effects of being resurrected multiple times in a short period were showing now. Not only did he have a splitting headache, but even his memory seemed a bit fuzzy, it looked like he would need a good rest to recover.

He really wanted to seek revenge against Soul V right away!

Leon sighed, having no choice but to accept the fact that he had been defeated. It would probably take a couple of days before he could enter Sain Dungeon again, first he had to recover his spirits.

Now, not a day could he spend without exploring the Dungeon without feeling uncomfortable!

"Boss," Maru entered, pushing the door open, and said, "I just heard people talking about something interesting downstairs,"

"What is it?" Leon asked listlessly.

"It’s about the Sain Dungeon," Maru said mysteriously, "these past few days it has started spreading around, we were so focused on exploring that we forgot to exchange information,"

As soon as it was related to Sain Dungeon, Leon’s interest was piqued, "Go on, spill it, don’t keep me in suspense,"

"Alright, alright,"

Maru spread her hands and said:

"Recently, many people have discovered a Magic Tool called ’Summoning Hook Finger Medicine’ that can summon ’Assistants’ and ’fighters’,"

"What’s that now?"

"Don’t rush,"

Maru leaned in close to him and said:

"Boss, have you heard of the Sun Warrior?"