Lucien wished he could snatch the crystal right away but he couldn’t, that would break his dignity and his aura would disappear, so he could only wait anxiously.

Ahh! Come! Hand over the crystal!

Perhaps sensing the eagerness to plunder coming from Lucien’s aura and domain, the queen’s front legs trembled.

She slowly lifted her legs and presented the green crystal.

The moment the green crystal approached Lucien’s pupa, the void twisted, invisible space blade slashed through the pupa.

Crack.

The solid pupa cracked.

Web spider threads spilled out and a faint green light pierced through the darkness, shining over Lucien’s face.

Ah...

[00:15]

Crack!

The pupa slowly disintegrated, fully revealing Lucien’s body inside.

Once the pupa binding him was gone, Lucien’s body almost fell to the ground—

No!

Lucien pinched the ground with his toes and looked up...

The spider queen’s huge face was only three meters away, right outside of his Territory Descent’s radius.

The countless green eyes stared at Lucien meekly, but Lucien’s heart almost jumped out of his chest.

! Fck! Too close!

Lucien forced his trembling legs to stay still, his eyes met the queen’s countless eyes calmly.

"I accept your surrender."

T-that’s so scary. I’d better start merging the dungeons.

[00:10]

The crystal floated above Lucien’s hand but he didn’t rashly touch it.

Instead, he imagined merging the crystal into his house.

Shaaa....

Silence fell over the cave.

Lucien’s mind was fully focused and the moment the green crystal slowly overlapped with his house—

The system immediately chimed in.

DING! [Dungeon Landlord’s Innate Skills: ]

[Land Acquisition (Myth)]

[Merged dungeons: 1/2]

[Estimated skill usage recovery: 24 hours]

Yes! The skill casting is a success!

Next, it’s time to merge it.

It’s just that...he had little time before his body collapsed from the toxin.

[00:05]

He had to hurry!

Merging a dungeon for the second time, Lucien immediately compressed the spider dungeon.

Ggrrrkkk.

The entire dungeon suddenly trembled.

Lurenzo and the two spiders outside were almost thrown off the spider web and fell to the chasm below.

"Ahhh! The hell!" Lurenzo clung to the web with all of his might.

In a place he didn’t see, the void started to distort.

Web-like cracks appeared everywhere, as if something was hammering it to pieces.

Crack. Crack. Crack.

The dimension slowly shrank.

"Kikkk!"

The small spiders, the spiders outside of the inner cave, the spider gatekeepers and even the spider queen...

Everyone suddenly felt a strange thread slowly connected to Lucien.

The connection became stronger and stronger, until...

They felt like they were bound with a chain, their every movement could be sensed by the new owner.

A sense of awe and obedience appeared in the spiders’ hearts, including the spider queen.

As the queen bent her legs, all the spiders, wherever they were, bent their legs and kneeled in Lucien’s direction.

All hail the king!

[00:03]

The system panel immediately popped up with a cartoon image of Lucien’s house.

DING! [Please find a coordinate point to merge your newly acquired dungeon into your main dungeon!]

[Reminder: Please select a place suitable and compatible with the new dungeon’s traits.]

The spider dungeon was full of webs, hanging in the air, dark, toxic—

Lucien immediately pressed a certain place in his house.

There you go—

The attic!

[00:02]

The squeezed dungeon space immediately overlapped with the small attic.

In reality, the green crystal disappeared into the void and entered Lucien’s house, slowly settling at the attic.

Once the crystal resided in the house, the house subtly changed.

Fine spider threads almost invisible to naked eyes hung around the house, forming an intricate trap.

The change was minimal compared to the slime dungeon before.

DING! [Your house has gained a new trait: Trap (Basic)]

[Description: The house has traps that you can mobilize to capture intruders, mobilize them or to hunt prey]

Just like the case with the slime dungeon, the moment his house gained a new trait, Lucien felt a new force, different from his own or the slime dungeon, entered his body.

A green stream immediately entered the veins.

Shhaaaa....

[00:01]

The poison’s spread slowed down several times over, hovering just outside of Lucien’s heart.

The numbness all over his body slowly vanished, his control over his body became smoother, with only a split second lag.

The countdown to his full-body paralyze immediately reset.

[20:00]

Twenty minutes.

DING! [You have gained a permanent buff: +10% toxin resistance!]

[The buff had settled in your main dungeon territory. All beings living there will receive the same buff (temporary).]

[Temporary buff duration: 1 hour]

Yes!! Finally!

Lucien’s body relaxed and he almost plopped down, but he subtly leaned onto the spider queen’s body and ordered,

"Stay still. Don’t move."

"Kikk."

The queen stiffened, allowing Lucien to use her as a sofa.

Now that Lucien knew he’s safe, exhaustion surged like a tide, but thinking about the new dungeon he’s merging, he immediately felt as if being injected with a super gene.

Hohohoho! Let’s see the war spoil!

Hm, the spider dungeon only gives one buff— less than the slime dungeon.

It seemed that the spider dungeon was not as special as the slime dungeon.

Let’s see, the dungeon—

Lucien’s vision zoomed out over the spider dungeon, looking at it like a God.

He immediately saw Mumu’s limp body on the ground and his fingers moved gently, carrying Mumu to his arm.

"Mumu, you okay?"

Lucien felt Mumu’s faint breath, but his life force had stopped decreasing.

He’s stable for now.

Just when Lucien was checking Mumu’s condition, a familiar voice echoed.

"Ahhh! Help!"

Lucien’s vision zoomed in and swept over Lurenzo, who was hanging over the spider web.

Two big spiders crawled just a meter away, about to pounce at the poor guy!

Protecting the tenant is his duty as a landlord, so—

Pinch.

Lucien’s fingers pinched the two big spiders’ image in his vision and immediately threw them away to another web.

Thump.

...?

The two big spiders stiffened. They felt the king’s presence over them just now.

What an honor!

The two big spiders wanted to kneel, but Lucien’s vision had already moved to Lurenzo.

His fingers pinched Luren’s back collar and lifted him high before tossing him onto a stable web.

Lurenzo, who felt an invisible force pulling him up and moving him away, had question marks all over his face.

Huh? What? What the hell? What’s going on??

The live audience only thought that Lurenzo used a skill, yet only he knew that it was a ghost!!

The ghost, Lucien, nodded at himself.

So it’s possible to move another living being inside the dungeon—

But maybe it only worked because Lurenzo was his tenant, a part of his faction.

Let’s try it later with another being unrelated to him.

Then, Lucien snatched the staff in Lurenzo’s hand and threw it into the void, merging the staff with his house.

Deposit secured!

Once Lucien confirmed the deposit was safely stored and his control over the dungeon was complete, the system panel popped up.

DING! [You have successfully merged your second dungeon!]

[Merged dungeons: 2/2]

[Data scanning ••• ]

Lucien’s 3D map house immediately gained an additional page.

[F-rank Giant Toxic Spider Dungeon]

[You can now manage your merged dungeon]

Several virtual buttons appeared on the panel.

[Summon natives

—unlocked]

[Synthesize natives —locked]

[Synthesize dungeon’s byproducts

—locked]

[Evolve dungeon

—locked]

But this time, a new panel Lucien had never seen before popped up.

DING! [Dungeon synthesize available!]

[Description: Fuse two dungeons into one, forming a brand new dungeon.]

[Synthesize will unlock the synthesize options.]

[Warning! At your current rank, the failure rate is: 90%]

[Failure will completely destroy both dungeons being synthesized, killing all the natives inside.]

[The main house might be affected as well.]

! Synthesize?? A brand new dungeon??

Lucien was tempted, but seeing the 90% failure rate, he held back his greed.

No, no, it’s not time yet.

He better find a suitable dungeon to synthesize the spider dungeon.

The slime dungeon was too good to be fused casually!

This time, Lucien didn’t overuse his skill, so he happily looked over his newly acquired dungeon, not knowing that outside...

Sha....

The white gate flickered, slowly becoming faint.

The hunters, including Brother Yong and the others, stared at the disappearing gate with wide eyes.

What...the??

Did that guy inside just...solo-cleared the dungeon?!

Even a full party of ten hunters couldn’t do that!

A sense of fear and awe rose, but then, the members of the Poison Ring Guild reacted.

"That’s our dungeon!! What the hell!"

"Ahhh! Why the hell did that bastard destroy it?? That’s our farm dungeon!"

The commotion quickly alarmed the guild leader and now, a crowd of hunters waited in front of the swirling void without a gate.

Everyone’s eyes burned rage, they all had the same thoughts.

The moment that guy came out—

KILL HIM!