Zane!

"Ahhh."

Watching the waterwheel gradually collapse into ruins, the Starfire Knight let out a blank, stunned sound.

Even the Starfire Knight was like this, so the soldiers were even slower to react.

"Did I do something wrong?"

The soldier who had eagerly lit the bonfire earlier looked utterly bewildered. Trembling, he raised the hand that had lit it and swallowed hard.

"Hiss."

Ta Mi sucked in a sharp breath and suddenly felt his calves go weak.

It was back. That familiar feeling was back. This was Zane Dungeon!

The bonfire was still an absolutely safe place, as always, but damn it, it had turned into the trigger for the collapse of the giant waterwheel!

"I give up."

Ta Mi let out a long breath. Somehow, only Zane Dungeon in its current state gave him that familiar sense of security.

Thank goodness. I thought Zane Dungeon had changed its nature. Looks like it still had the same old flavor.

However, at that moment, a few discordant notes appeared.

After countless grueling battles, Ta Mi's strength was no longer what it had once been. He had improved greatly and developed a broad Aura Perception ability.

Within his perception, quite a few dangerous auras emerged from every corner of Plague Village. All of them belonged to monsters.

Even the upper level of Plague Village, which they had already cleared once, was showing even more new auras!

The upper level of Plague Village had originally only contained those ordinary infected residents. Their auras had been highly similar, but now entirely different monsters had appeared—and more than one kind.

Clearly, the true Plague Village had only now revealed itself before everyone.

Everything they had experienced earlier had merely been a little bait Plague Village had created to lure them into the trap.

That bait wasn't