The Plot Was About to Pick Up Speed

In Gong Qiying's opinion, it would be more appropriate to rename "The Unity" to "Available Heroes".

According to the description, the adventurers he can summon are hero units with built-in group buff talents.

Any creature that has entered the Zane Dungeon can be considered a Companion.

These people can be summoned when fighting other dungeons. It should be noted that the summoned companions are not real people, but rather simulated special individuals.

Their combat abilities, weapons, and items all depend on what they have demonstrated in the dungeon, and their talents will also change based on their performance.

"So what exactly did Leon go through?"

Gong Qiying recalled Leon's character art, which could only be described as "crazy," and his expression became somewhat complicated.

He absolutely refuses to admit that he led Leon astray! Absolutely not!

However, upon seeing Leon's talent called "Beating Frenzy," Gong Qiying fell silent again.

This was the first time he had felt even a little bit guilty.

Let's look at our fellow believers in the distance, family members.

In each battle, there is a limit to the number of allies that can be summoned, which is determined by the dungeon level of both sides, and allies cannot be summoned repeatedly.

Each member of the same mind will transform into different talents based on their own characteristics. These talents are characterized by being diverse in number, having different effects, and all having a group-based nature.

The higher the bond with the dungeon, the stronger the power that the companion can unleash. Once the bond exceeds 20, the original power can be unleashed, and the higher the bond, the greater the increase in power.

Upon closer inspection, Gong Qiying discovered that Da Er, whose strength had been hovering between D+ and D++, had actually reached the C+ level thanks to the boost from their bond!

What's the difference between this kind of improvement and taking a rocket from a standstill?

Fortunately, the strength increase only occurs when summoned as a companion.

Da Er's bond is the strongest factor among these like-minded individuals, Da Er a bond value of 55, higher than Leon's.

There are many ways to increase bond levels, and it might be possible to do so with a small thing, but there are mainly two methods:

First, the degree of acceptance of the dungeon. Whether it's accepting the dungeon's story, the monsters, or the traps, or even if you're a masochist who finds it satisfying to be killed by monsters, the more genuinely you feel that these things are "good," the higher your bond will be.

Two, die.

Death increases synergy, like Guaranteed Pull; the more you die, the higher your synergy becomes.

Fortunately, the death of an adventurer does not trigger dragon cough, otherwise the entire Bede City would be wiped out.

However, if you rely solely on death, the progress will slow down once you reach around level 20 in the Bond system.

The number of deaths among the miners who come to mine every day is far greater than that of the adventurers, but their bond level is still very low.

Da Er's high number of deaths and his high regard for Sion make him the first man to break the fifty mark!

Gong Qiying suddenly had a question.

"Aside from the group buff which seems somewhat useful, these people are still weaker than a single B-rank I could pull out,"

Even group buffs can be replaced by Oath of Sunlight and Flame Grant Me Strength, Golden Tree Oath, and so on.

The description also mentioned that those who are of one mind will have a special attack on dungeon creations, which may be the reason for persuading Gong Qiying to use them.

It's tasteless to eat but a pity to throw away. Fortunately, summoning like-minded people doesn't require using Spirit Power, so it can be used for a quick test in Deathmatch.

He found that the module's greatest use for him seemed to be seeing which people had the highest affinity for the Zane Dungeon, which gave him a sense of accomplishment.

Additionally, certain benefits can be given to adventurers with high levels of bond, for example...

Let them die more often or something.

"I guarantee it's a bit malicious," Gong Qiying couldn't help but laugh.

As he scrolled through the long list of like-minded people, he examined their diverse talents. Even those who had just joined were on the list and possessed their own unique talents. But no matter how he looked at it, the talents of those with low affinity seemed like they were just there to make up the numbers.

Some have the exact same effect, they're just given a different name and presented as new!

It looks like a monster from God of War with a different skin.

Suddenly, Gong Qiying realized something.

For him, being a follower of the same mind might not be as effective as directly summoning monsters, but what about for other Dungeon Lord?

Don't forget, not every city lord has a huge reserve of monsters like him, or can unlock more, stronger and more powerful monsters as their authority increases.

If a normal dungeon is to add a new type of monster, the dungeon lord needs to personally study and thoroughly understand a monster before it can be reproduced in the dungeon.

Gong Qiying didn't know exactly how long the learning process would take, but he figured that thoroughly studying a monster must have taken a lot of time.

Gong Qiying has the resources to switch between different monster systems every day, whether it's mass production of troops, crushing elites, or even doing dirty things like Scarlet Corruption. Other Dungeon Lord, for the sake of time and efficiency, mostly choose to build a complete system.

For example, the Calamity Nest Dungeon is for playing with insects, while other dungeons might specialize in undead, Orcs, Goblin, and so on.

So it seems that the Companion is really useful for other dungeons?

Gong Qiying now very Calamity Nest Dungeon will produce; he imagines it will be demons.

The idea of humans fighting against the demons of Eel's Nest has a sense of destiny.

"To improve the bond level, I need to put even more effort into creating the dungeon."

Make sure the adventurers explore the dungeon with smiles on their faces.

In fact, he has already achieved this goal. Look, an adventurer is being chased and beaten by a group of Ghrū in the Swamp, suffering both physical and psychological torment.

He was indeed smiling when he died.

Even a laugh of relief counts as a laugh.

While there was still some time to spare, Gong Qiying connected with his clone in the outside world and went to the library built by the Bede Family. Anyone could enter and read books as long as they paid.

He flipped through the numerous books containing information about the dungeons, confirming his earlier guess—the monsters used in other dungeons were indeed systematic.

The advantage is that it can maximize the strengths of each monster, while the disadvantage is that it is easier to be targeted and strategies are more likely to emerge.

In that instant, Gong Qiying clearly realized just how incredibly powerful the number of monsters he could use was; if other dungeon lords discovered this, they would probably call him a rich tycoon.

Having a wide variety of monsters available means you can always come up with new things that others haven't seen before, making it harder for others to target you.

When battling other dungeons, Gong Qiying could confidently say:

The advantage lies with me!

"Sir, it's closing time," a library staff member said as they approached.

"Um."

Gong Qiying borrowed several books, but two of them were not available for loan, so he had to wait until the next day to come back and read them.

The next day.

Gong Qiying was about to take another look at the situation in the underground city before continuing to read, but upon looking, he noticed something was wrong.

The number of adventurers entering the dungeon today is even less than yesterday!

In a daze, he thought that Count Philip had come back to life and was continuing his bizarre decrees.

Gong Qiying's intuition told him that something must have happened.

Sure enough, when he arrived in Bede City, he saw guards gathering outside the city, each with an expression of great alarm.

Not only were there guards, but also a group of mercenaries whom no one had ever seen before. They were all burly and strong and looked very powerful at first glance.

The adventurers gathered around the guards, their formation a little loose, but overall they seemed to be in much better spirits than the guards.

He also saw some familiar faces: Si Telan, the Flame Monk, and Luo Jieer.

Da Er isn't here; he's still challenging the Farron Undead Legion today.

The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

The current Earl of Bede, Ka Rong, ascended the newly repaired city wall and addressed his soldiers in a loud voice:

"Val City has been occupied by the demons; it has become a den of demons!"

"Brave soldiers, set out to vanquish the demons!"

The guards responded loudly and seemed to be in good spirits.

Gong Qiying watched all of this, feeling that it all seemed so sudden.

Yesterday everything seemed calm, so why are they suddenly sending troops to Val City today?

Where did Ka Rong get the news of the fall of Val City?

After some thought, Gong Qiying was about to blend into the crowd and go to Val City to see what was going on when, at that moment, news came from Sain.

A distress call has been received from the Val Dungeon.

"Val Dungeon?"

Gong Qiying's eyebrows furrowed even deeper.

Where is the underground city near Val City?

I'm experiencing some writer's block, so I'll only be posting two chapters today.

I want to quickly write the dungeon storyline that everyone likes to read.