Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 1213 - 781: You Have the Talent to Be a City Lord

Ugh!

Upon witnessing the horror scene, even Luluwo's first reaction was a dry heave.

However, she suddenly realized that she couldn't make any sound, as if her entire vocal tract had lost its ability to react.

This indicated that her body might have been seriously damaged.

And all of this happened without her knowing or noticing!

It's as if everyone was truly under cognitive disruption, only breaking the barrier now as their bodies have completely lost strength, revealing the real scene.

The soldiers saw their own extremely twisted shapes using the oil slicks floating on the swamp.

This scene, likely to appear in a gory B-movie, pierced their souls, shaking the soldiers' spirits, causing their already weak mental states to collapse abruptly!

"Ugh ugh ugh—"

"Help! Help!"

"Why am I...?"

The soldiers' abnormal wails echoed on the scene.

The Starfire Knights naturally noticed this situation quicker than breaking the cognitive barrier, and upon witnessing the plight of others, decided they didn't even need to remove their helmets.

After all, the sudden gain in weight was easy to perceive for warriors of their level.

No, not noticing earlier had already made them ashamed of their warrior identity.

A tremendously hollow sense of weakness surged through their limbs, causing the elite Starfire Knights to fall to the ground.

"No, it shouldn't be like this!"

Reid kept striking himself with igniting flames, burning the bugs attached to his body, causing them to fall in clusters.

But this was merely a drop in the ocean, as the speed of the bugs falling was much slower than the onset of weakness.

Within a few seconds, Reid defiantly fell to the ground as the last flame bomb exploded directly on him, perishing together with the unknown monsters crawling over him.

Before dying, he shouted "Praise Gwyn."

Such courage for self-destruction was indeed not something ordinary people could muster.

Tami was the last to fall; his physical strength turned out to be the best among the group, and his robust physique allowed him to persist until the last moment, finally slaying the final monster before leaning on the blade to kneel.

[When exactly did we get hit?]

The most crucial question popped into Luluwo's mind.

She glanced down at her already swollen tight suit, unwilling to lift her clothes to see what she had transformed into, only wanting to know when everyone got hit.

The bugs attached to people's bodies appeared similar to leeches.

When Reid killed these bugs earlier, blood with a distinctly human smell burst out from inside the bugs, confirming that these monsters were indeed bloodsuckers.

And everyone's unresponsiveness to the monster's parasitism and reproduction indicated that these bugs at least possessed the traits of "disrupting senses" and "rapid reproduction."

That adventurers like us couldn't perceive it meant that this "disrupting senses" ability had traces of magic elements, and wasn't weak.

With her experience, Luluwo instantly deduced the characteristics of these bugs in her mind, analyzing them accurately and almost perfectly.

The bugs were one of the traps deliberately set by Gong Qiying.

Bugs and stinky swamp seemed like a perfect match, okay? It would be strange without bugs.

As for the origin of these bugs...

Just say they were born in the Chaos Breeding Ground! Anyway, Chaos Patients all look like bugs.

[No, thinking about this now is useless, the question is where and when did we get hit?]

Luluwo felt her body growing heavier, increasingly unable to maintain mental clarity.

At this moment, she spotted the dried stains on her cape, which she had acquired when battling monsters in Sick Village.

Besides a large amount of bloodstains, there were also some annoying-looking spots smeared—the remnants of...

A flash of insight struck her mind, catching the main point.

[It could be the Animated Corpses in Sick Village pouring Poison Water on us!]

With the cognitive disruption lifted, she recalled many details related to her body.

It turned out that the onset of physical weakness had subtly appeared even before entering the swamp, so it couldn't have been after entering the swamp that the infection occurred.

The only possibility was the bugs being poured over them along with Poison Water!

Then, the bugs could hide stealthily as everyone searched for Antidotes, waiting for the opportune moment to parasitize.

The cause and effect suddenly became clear, and Luluwo understood.

The feeling of powerlessness completely enveloped her at this moment, and she finally couldn't even maintain a half-kneeling posture, collapsing into the swamp.

[Sain Dungeon has tricked us again...]

At the current speed of the insect outbreak, they're likely to perish shortly after lighting a new bonfire.

And judging by the usual tricks of Sain Dungeon... Luluwo reasonably suspected that Sain Dungeon had calculated the timing precisely, possibly orchestrating a desperate scene when they were in combat with the Elite Monster.

She had guessed right.

If Gong Qiying could read minds, he would definitely recommend that Luluwo should find a Dungeon and become its City Lord; she's too talented.

[Next time, I must avoid the poison water. No, that's not safe enough; I must check my body's condition regularly...]

[These exploration experiences... must be... utilized for next time...]

Thus.

The exploration team, temporarily led by Luluwo, welcomed their first wipeout in Sick Village.

Just because of a small oversight.

...

Uncertain how much time had passed, as the sun rose and set in the sky, when night gradually blanketed the earth, the guardian of the Teleportation Gate in the rebel army's camp emitted a panicked sound.

"They've come out, they've come out! They... look a bit bad, ugh!"

On this day, not only the Starlight Church, but the entire rebel army stationed here was busy with these 'escaped from death' people.

And the intelligence they revealed upon waking made it impossible for the camp to remain calm.

For a moment, the originally substantial number of exploration teams expanded instantly, increasing in number.

Meanwhile, in the city occupied by the Holy Light Church, some distance from Hepa Town.

Deep within the opulent church, in a place that no one could see, was the domain of the bishop ruling here—Megan Bask.

"For some reason, I've been feeling uneasy lately..."

Megan's footsteps were somewhat anxious and restless as she paced back and forth in her own little church, showing none of the pride belonging to a superior, instead resembling a sleep-deprived insomniac plagued by nightmares.

Indeed, since yesterday, she had been slightly sleepless, and the reason, she didn't know.

Inexplicably, her heart felt uncomfortable, as if something bad was happening, making it impossible for her to sleep peacefully.

"This feeling is like..."

She pondered for a moment, finally thinking of an exact way to describe it.

"Just like Leon bragging about how he defeated me as gossip everywhere..."

That indeed would keep one up at night.

For a lady like Megan, the most crucial thing was certainly face; without face, what reason did she have to live!

"Leon... wait and see, I will definitely retrieve all the past humiliations from you!"

Megan slammed the marble table in front of her, causing a crack to appear; she inhaled sharply and quickly withdrew her reddened fist, using her other hand to retrieve the Crystal Ball. Injecting magic power, she spoke to the slightly glowing Crystal Ball:

"How's the research going, is it already fit for the army?"

From the other side of the Crystal Ball came the voice of one of the Holy Light Church's heroes, Anleisi.

The girl's voice was originally lively and energetic, but now it seemed a bit ethereal, as if having stayed up all week in an internet cafe, studying magic until near ascension.

"Very successful..."

Anleisi forced herself to muster some energy, yawned, and said:

"My magic research capabilities are far superior to those of the Magic Association folks. With me in charge, things naturally come to fruition."

"What's the efficiency of the protection?" Megan directly interrupted the girl's self-praise, asking about what she cared for most.

"Haha, it's big," Anleisi suddenly chuckled twice, paused to whet appetites before continuing:

"Against the Thunder Spear used by the Starfire Church bastards, the damage mitigation efficiency can steadily reach over sixty percent! In rapid activation, seventy to eighty percent is achievable! This war is soon to be our victory!"

"Excellent!"

Megan's voice finally lifted in spirit, she had been waiting for this news for a long time, and now finally there was good news that could bring happiness.

The Thunder Spear of the Starfire Church had always been a headache for the Holy Light Church, but now, thanks to Anleisi and other magic researchers' efforts, they finally developed protective magic against the Thunder Spear!

The principle of this magic is not simple and crude damage reduction, but rather resembling a lightning rod, using magic to deflect the incoming Thunder Spear, channeling most of its power into the heavens and earth, thereby greatly reducing the damage suffered by their side.

"I'll hire some resilient Dwarf mercenaries for the front line, this time I will be able to annihilate those Starfire Church bastards completely!"

Looking at the statue of the Holy Light God overlooking the world in front of her, Megan issued a confident laugh and clenched her fist, murmuring to herself:

"The advantage is ours!"