Who Designed This Hellish Dungeon?
Chapter 176

The Abyss's Biggest Fan

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Today, a shocking piece of news came from the Great Demon City.

The youngest, most warlike, and most ruthless Ounuo La in history, known as "Trembling White Bone" and "Merciless Iron Arm," has fallen into a coma!

Rumors quickly spread Great Demon City that Ounuo La had fainted from fright!

He was so scared he fainted? What could possibly frighten a high priest?

Before the rumor could spread, it was stopped by United Royal Court composed of the rulers of several large Horde. After an investigation, it was finally discovered that the original spreader of the rumor was a temple guard, who was naturally executed with the highest level of punishment.

The official explanation is that Ounuo La worked tirelessly day and night communicating with the Great Demon Tree, eventually collapsing from exhaustion.

Nobody would believe that, because Ounuo La was in a coma for almost half a month. How exhausted must she have been to sleep for half a month?

Although people were puzzled, they dared not express their doubts, for there was no freedom of speech in the Great Demon City.

Inside the priest's bedroom.

Ounuo La lay quietly on the bed. Her simple long dress accentuated her frail figure. Half a month of coma had left her skin sickly pale, and her hair was disheveled. If one ignored her identity, one would only think of her as a poor, sick little girl.

She covered her eyes, her expression pained, and every time she tried to open them, she encountered a strange resistance.

This resistance was the Great Demon Tree's protection for her. If the Great Demon Tree hadn't severed the connection and protected her mind when she was peering into the memories of the dead, she would probably have become a cripple.

Fortunately, everything she saw when she peered into the deceased's memories was just a recollection of the past, rather than a direct confrontation with the mystery.

In addition, she had a mental strength far exceeding that of ordinary people since childhood, and by the age of fifteen she was comparable to the High Priest, which is why she was lucky enough to survive.

Even so, when she looked directly at the yellow and black presence, her mind, and other things, were still affected.

Unable to open her eyes, Ounuo La struggled to tear a piece of fabric from her skirt and slowly wrapped it around her eyes.

She felt much better the moment the bandage was applied to her eyes.

"Lady Ounuo La, are you awake?" The maid heard the noise and quickly came over. "How are you feeling? I'll go and summon the witch doctor right away."

"No," Ounuo La said, her voice a little hoarse, "Go and call Priest Sa Lai Man. I have something to say to him."

Upon hearing this, the maid's expression suddenly became very strange, and she hesitated for a long time without saying a word.

Ounuo La couldn't see, but she didn't hear any footsteps, so she asked, "Why aren't you going yet?"

"Priest Sa Lai Man has passed away."

She flinched, forcing herself to remain calm as she asked, "What happened? Did the rebels assassinate him? Or—"

"No," the maid whispered. "Lord Sa Lai Man fell to his death from the temple after communicating with the Great Demon Tree."

Ounuo La was stunned; a certain possibility came to mind.

"Where is Priestess Sai Duo Mu? Such a terrible thing has happened, where is she?"

"Lord Sai Duo Mu, like you, fell into a coma after communicating with the Great Demon Tree and has not yet woken up."

"Where is Ka Li Man?"

"He committed suicide after communicating with the Great Demon Tree."

Ounuo La's mouth opened into an "O" shape. At this moment, she didn't care that such an expression would be unbecoming of her dignity; she was so shocked that she could hardly comprehend it.

You all knew the Great Demon Tree was dangerous, so why did you all rush off to your deaths?

"Then, what about the High Priest?" she asked finally, her voice trembling slightly.

If something happens to the High Priest, then all the High Priests remaining in the city will be wiped out!

The maid quickly replied, "The High Priest is well."

Ounuo La breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Did she seal the Great Demon Tree and erase the memories of those two dead people?"

The maid in front of her was her personal maid, and she knew everything she needed to know.

"No."

The maid's expression grew even stranger, and she said:

"The High Priest wanted to go and check, but the Great Demon Tree had deleted the memories of the dead beforehand, and she threw a tantrum because of it."

"Yes, is that so?" Ounuo La didn't know what to say.

She sighed weakly and waved her hand, "You can go out now, I need to be alone for a while."

"That witch doctor—"

"Go out."

When she was alone in the palace, she fell silent.

Her petite body trembled, and her dress slipped off her shoulders, revealing large expanses of skin. She covered her face with her hands and murmured to herself:

"What exactly did I see?"

Leaving aside the frenzied flames in Doslai Bo's memory, let's just talk about the bottomless darkness in Jia Nage's memory.

She was stunned the moment she saw the abyss.

Legend has it that the demon race originated from darkness, but the darkness was dispelled by the gods, and the birth of the Demon King was to bring darkness back to the world.

She originally became a priestess for this very purpose.

But this idea changed the moment he saw the abyss.

What Jia Nage saw was a real abyss, far more real, profound, and captivating than the darkness of the legendary, ethereal demon king.

Why should she waste her time on legends that have never come true? Anyway, the Demon King is always defeated by the Brave, and he has never truly brought darkness.

So.

"Hehe," Ounuo La let out a strange chuckle, peeking through her fingers a "smile" that stretched to her ears and a flush on her cheeks.

It turned out that she wasn't trembling with fear, but rather laughing.

Priestess Ounuo La actually laughed, and her laughter was so abnormal that if someone else saw it, they would definitely say, "Her character has collapsed."

She needs to find out exactly where Jia Nage saw the abyss, investigate it, find it, and then...

"To pay homage to it."

By chance, a huge fan of the abyss was born.

Meanwhile, in the Zane Dungeon.

"Red is destruction, blue is hypocrisy, purple is warning, and green is me."

In the city lord's room, a world color map was being laid out on the Shrine. The range of each color on it was changing every moment, but overall there would not be any large-scale changes. From this, it can be seen that the other dungeons are generally stable.

But there was a green guy who wasn't very well-behaved, jumping around everywhere.

"Bede City, along with several surrounding cities, has been completely transformed into my color."

A small area, about the size of a palm, in the lower left of the center of the map has turned completely green, resembling an unbreakable Alliance, where Sion reigns supreme.

As it spreads further outward, the green blends and intertwines with other colors, occasionally managing to carve out small green dots from the territory of other colors.

What's even more surprising is that, regardless of the color, there are scattered green dots throughout the entire image, making them quite jarring.

This means that the reputation of the Zane Dungeon has spread far and wide, and even other countries have heard of it!

No wonder, if a dungeon simultaneously features stat allocation and reset, magic pages and Weapon Skill weapons, ancient history and hero legends, it's impossible for it not to become famous.

Other Dungeon Lord might find the green dot glaring and want to beat him up, but fortunately, Jia Nage granted him a three-month truce.

After three months, it's hard to say who will be in charge.

The dungeon is thriving, its influence is constantly expanding, its Spirit Power is increasing every day, and new ideas and creativity are constantly emerging, so much so that it has to keep making choices.

At this moment, Gong Qiying felt that he was standing at the happiest moment of his life.

Of course, happiness doesn't mean the absence of trouble.

The day after he defeated the Calamity Nest Dungeon, the Astar Alliance sent a new letter.

[Congratulations on your first victory! The doors of the Astar Alliance are now open for you. I won't say anything more; it's my duty to explain everything about the Alliance to you, my newest member.]

The Astar Alliance is Alliance composed of twenty-one dungeons, each of whose lords is purely human—at least psychologically—and all of the Alliance's diplomacy is handled by my Black Guard Dungeon. Our goal is to expel all evil foreign races.

[Therefore, the primary objective is to eliminate the dungeons that have been invaded by demonic souls. The following is a list:]

A long list of those to be eliminated was drawn up. Gong Qiying glanced at it briefly and thought to himself, "This list is longer than the number of members in the Astar Alliance. Are you sure you won't get killed?"

The other party thoughtfully marked the names of each enemy dungeon with a color; otherwise, Gong Qiying really wouldn't have been able to pinpoint the locations of these dungeons.

At first glance, many of them are underground cities located in the Western Continent, but some are located in human territory.

It's strange that a dungeon in human territory would bring in a demon to be its lord.

Gong Qiying continued reading, and the remaining content was nothing more than the benefits of joining the Alliance, such as receiving protection and assistance from other members, which seemed quite plausible. The responsibility was to provide certain assistance when fighting against other dungeons.

If you don't want to help, we won't force you; just leave the Alliance.

He initially contacted the other party only for intelligence. Although he now has the Knowledge Crystal obtained from Gide's intelligence has not been updated for a long time.

"This Alliance is still useful for now, and the guys in it are quite nice to talk to."

He put down the letter; he had a long time ahead of him to deal with other dungeons, so there was no need to rush.

But today there's a test about the dungeon that he's wanted to do for a long time.

These days, Gong Qiying has been using the "small world" or "world" permission (which means "the A World You Can't Leave Without Victory" ) to create things, and recently he finally created a suitable alternate dimension.

This alternate dimension was named "Wolf Knight," which corresponds to the story of Artorias.

The adventurer Da Er has found three Painting Fragment of the Wolf Knight, but he just can't get the last one out of him, and he's almost become depressed lately.

Because Gong Qiying was deliberately slowing down his progress.

Today, the alternate dimension is finally complete, so—

In the Zane Dungeon, Da Er once again defeated the Demi-Human Swordsman, his face filled with desolation.

He had given up hope of getting a reward, since he couldn't get the last Painting Fragment anyway.

Just then, he glanced at the reward notification, and his eyes suddenly flashed with a sharp light.

[Painting Fragment "Wolf Knight" - Part Four]

He, he.

The fragments of the Wolf Knight Painting Fragment have been collected!

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