Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 1125 - 730: The Mission to Ring the Bell (Part 2)

Just the thought of being in Lordran made Hevi feel even more immersed; his initial pity for the severely injured knight deepened into empathy.

Immersion is such a magical thing, it can change due to the smallest reasons anytime, anywhere.

"Go ahead and say it." Todd nodded in agreement with the knight's words.

"It's rather embarrassing, but what I want to entrust you with is my mission," the knight said somewhat shyly, "to entrust my mission to someone I've never met."

The word 'mission' came out, and combined with the surrounding environment, it instantly gave a wonderful feeling, as if truly being in this era.

Todd put himself in the situation.

If he wasn't an innocent citizen who had mistakenly entered the dungeon but was truly an undead imprisoned here.

Then, having been saved twice by this knight before him and benefiting greatly from the knight's messages, what kind of response would he give?

Well, there'd be only one answer.

"We agree to your terms, but what is the mission?"

Todd was about to say something similar, but Hevi, full of righteousness, said it first, while firmly holding the knight's hand.

This guy's sense of immersion is stronger than mine... Todd thought powerlessly, as Hevi's performance threw him off.

"In my family, there is such a saying..."

The knight didn't care about the subtle atmosphere developing between the few of them and continued, "Becoming undead means bearing a heavy responsibility. With this undead body... one must embark on a long journey, enduring hardships, heading to the land of the ancient kings..."

"Ring the Awakening Bell, only then can the true mission of the undead be known..."

These words took only a couple of minutes for the knight to say.

But in Hevi's view, these brief words converged into a battle epic spanning thousands of miles!

He loved this kind of thing!

"I promise you, we all promise you, we will ring that bell!"

Receiving a satisfactory response, the knight slowly nodded.

"In this case, I can be at ease... take this, it's a treasure of the undead, though I can no longer use it, and also these..."

Hevi took something from the knight whose hand was barely lifted, and when he displayed it in front of everyone, there were cheers all around.

"It's an Estus Flask!"

The object Hevi held high was undoubtedly the treasure of the undead—the Estus Flask!

That warm-touch red bottle was unmistakably Estus Flask!

Hevi once had an Estus Flask, but since leaving the Sain Dungeon, the unreplenished Estus Flask had become an empty bottle, and he hadn't seen a full one in ages!

And aside from the Estus Flask, he also got a bunch of keys from the knight, which didn't seem like prison keys; where exactly these would be used was unknown.

[Undead Asylum Second Floor Key]

[The so-called Undead Asylum is a huge prison used to confine the undead]

[Even if prisoners find ways to escape their cells, they often cannot return to the world of the living]

Well, Hevi thought his speculation was completely useless since the purpose was written directly on the key.

Once he'd handed everything over to everyone, the knight let out a long breath, as if the long-standing wish had been half-completed and felt instantly relieved.

While feeling relieved, people could also notice the vitality rapidly fading from his body.

"My wish is fulfilled, you must leave here as soon as possible... I don't want to attack you after my death..."

There's a saying that after dying many times, an undead would lose its humanity and become a wandering animated corpse.

No matter what people said afterward, the unnamed knight gave no further reaction, only the faint sound of his breath remained.

"Let's go, there's nothing more here."

As Hevi led the group ready to turn and leave, Todd suddenly said:

"I can see it, his injuries are severe and widespread, certainly from a heavy weapon."

And in the whole Northern Undead Asylum, only one being would use a heavy weapon—the Undead Demon.

Hevi raised an eyebrow, instantly understanding Todd's meaning, and said:

"Then let's take him down, if we can't defeat the Black Knight, can we not defeat a demon?"

Todd nodded towards him, gripping his magic wand tightly, and said: "I'll do my best to help you."

"Yes." Hevi responded, turned, and walked up the steps where the iron ball had rolled down earlier, while the Starfire Knights pushed the physically frailer Todd to the middle of the team, leaving the stronger ones to guard the end of the team.

This was a standard dungeon exploration formation, one that the Starfire Knights were very adept at using.

Though Hevi was at the front, part of his attention was on Todd behind him.

When he noticed the other falling into silence, not even making his favorite sarcastic comments, a smile couldn't help but form at the corner of his mouth, thinking he found another sensitive person.

Everyone's personality is different, so their emotions toward things naturally vary as well. He'd seen many adventurers' attitudes toward residual shadow stories, roughly categorizing them into three types.

One type had no feelings at all, no emotional fluctuations, another type like him occasionally got emotionally involved, while yet others forgot the identity of these residual shadows, truly investing their emotions.

Upon first meeting Todd, Hevi thought this was a profiteer and a definite member of the first category, which was the most common.

But somewhat surprisingly, after spending a bit more time in the Sain Dungeon, Todd was infected by the atmosphere here, showing signs of transitioning to the third category.

This trend would halt completely with just the tiniest influence, but Hevi was not the kind not to take a hint. On the contrary, he found observing this guy's change interesting.

And it also proved that the dungeon he loved had the potential to appeal to more people.

So before this brief dungeon adventure ended, he decided to safeguard Todd's sense of immersion!

But when he quietly told this idea to the Starfire Knights, they showed subtle expressions.

Then—

"Look, the fierce guards blocking our way to freedom appear again; let's live up to the knight's request, attack!"

When a few skinny animated corpse guards suddenly appeared in front of the team, Hevi immediately announced in an operatic tone, raising his weapon in one hand and putting the other on his chest, posing as if he was about to overthrow the Demon King like a hero, exuding righteousness all over!

"..."

The animated corpse guards scratched their heads; even brainless animated corpses couldn't help but react to Hevi's behavior.

And the Starfire Knights behind him couldn't resist turning their heads away.

"Ah, you vicious guards, don't think about stopping us from fulfilling our mission! Go, Todd, now's your time to shine!"

"Eh? Me? Huh?"

Suddenly pushed forward, Todd stood bewildered, yet still used magic to take down the remaining animated corpses.

So cheers erupted from Hevi's side, like spectators in an ancient arena lauding a hero gladiator.

And during the subsequent explorations, whenever faced with some monsters, he kept on with this act.

"Should someone tell Hevi, his acting is really bad..." The Starfire Knights whispered among themselves, "It's giving me goosebumps..."

"But he seems to be quite enjoying himself."

People looked on with astonishment, only to see Todd diligently swinging his magic wand, smashing animated corpses' skulls under Hevi's repeated exaggerated cheers.

Encouraged by Hevi, he proudly stood with his hands on his hips, posing like fate was in his hands.

"This... this actually works?"

The worldview of the Starfire Knights faced enormous shock.

These animated corpses were not threatening, and amid later explorations, they hurried over obstacles, and once they ignored Hevi's exaggerated tone, it felt as if they were truly embracing the undead's destiny, and their weapon swings became more forceful.

And amidst weapon swings, they unknowingly reached the final place.

The mist door, a white mist door stood blocking in front of everyone.

The aura of the Undead Demon emanated from behind the door.