Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 1234 - 792: Disgusting Sewage Swamp

What is that?

Kaius instantly withdrew his perception and strengthened his mental defenses, yet even so, he frowned due to the sudden assault.

Just now, did he perceive... something like a blazing fiery presence?

The light and heat emitted by the burning of the entity had reached a terrifying level capable of scorching someone just from observing it with perception. The good news was that ordinary people's perception abilities couldn't span half of Sick Village. The bad news was that Kaius, who could manage this feat, now felt a slight headache.

It felt as if his brain was just burned for a moment. Although it healed quickly, it seemed as if the pain lingered in his memory.

Could it be... the leader of Sick Village?

He took out Luluwo's notes and flipped through them but found nothing relevant. The notes left very little after recording up to the Magic Tutor, and the rest was just miscellaneous content that hadn't been sorted yet.

It seems the rebel army couldn't explore everything either, leaving unfinished business even in Sick Village.

Kaius closed the notebook and looked again towards Sick Village. He was determined to find out just how strong this so-called leader really was!

He wondered, in comparison to the dual Stone Statue Ghosts recorded in Luluwo's notes, would it be stronger or weaker?

Since their objective was sorcery, right after entering, they headed straight for Sick Village, not bothering to delve into the Undead Parish or even to challenge the dual Stone Statue Ghosts and ring the bell.

The dual Stone Statue Ghosts mentioned in Luluwo's notes were described as powerful, but just how powerful was not elaborated.

On Hevi's map, it stated: Even though they seem strong, we can easily defeat them without much effort!

By instinct, this Hevi kid was definitely bluffing and completely untrustworthy.

Therefore, Kaius judged that the so-called dual Stone Statue Ghosts were likely somewhat formidable but not excessively so.

"Lord Kaius, are we really going down?" the soldiers asked with evident hesitation in their voices.

What made them hesitant was the sewage swamp of Sick Village, as if piled with all the evils of this world.

Though they were currently high above, untouched by the filth, just imagining being knocked down by monsters into it was already...

"Ugh!"

In an environment like this, anyone who didn't gag possessed extraordinary willpower!

Even Kaius, upon arriving at this hellish scene, couldn't help but change his expression, his face turning ashen.

However, in Hevi's map, it was described as:

[Though it looks disgusting, it's actually not a big deal. Every warrior of the Starfire Church can swim through it without a change in expression until the world's end. This is our unparalleled willpower! No other church, especially those pampered brats of the Holy Light Church, can reach our heights!]

Damn you, Hevi!

The Holy Light Soldiers had already read these words. If they just left as things stood, the soldiers might not say anything, but they'd likely already...

Kaius couldn't allow himself to lose face, so he solemnly nodded.

"...Yes!"

The soldiers, stirred into action by these clearly provocative words, reluctantly nodded in agreement, almost on the verge of tears, accepting the task.

In reality, they were desperate to leave, to flee as far away as possible.

But they felt if they just ran now, Kaius would certainly feel embarrassed, so none dared show cowardice.

This operation ended up with both sides unwillingly entering a place none wanted to enter.

[Sick Village]!

The two large characters plastered alongside the nauseating stench assaulted the crowd's faces, making it impossible for those in the front row to keep their eyes open.

They didn't bring any filtration masks or such tools because Luluwo's notes didn't mention it—she didn't even write that Sick Village stank!

Perhaps... because such a minor stench was no obstacle to a famous adventurer, thus not worth documenting?

The Holy Light Soldiers speculated this, trying their utmost to cover what appeared to be an oversight by Luluwo.

The Starfire Knights faced every bit of malice that was recreated here, practically a one-to-one replication, with a comparable experiential impact.

Whatever they fought wouldn't budge, and what dropped after the fight were fecal blocks from the Huge Living Corpses; Infected Living Dead lurking from all sides constantly jabbing people; blowguns invisibly darting out from dark corners, sharply poisoning everyone; Blood Mosquitoes whose emitted fluids could induce poisoning and bleeding...

And the massive waterwheel that collapsed immediately after the bonfire was lit.

"Our way back is gone!"

The Holy Light Soldiers looked at the waterwheel which had collapsed leaving no wreckage behind, and then at the bonfire that once gave them immense hope upon discovery.

These two things won't have any connection, right?

With such a fuss, even the disrespectful praise for the Holy Light God that welled up in my heart when I discovered the bonfire completely disappeared.

Even if Kaius could jump and take everyone back, what status does Lord Kaius have? How dare you trouble him with such a thing?

If this were in the Starfire Church, people would have tried already, but the Holy Light Church has strictly defined ranks. The soldiers below dare not make such a request to Kaius, not even as a joke.

The soldiers suffered terribly throughout this journey. Any more intense stimulation might trigger a miracle of pain.

Then, the intense stimulation came.

Relying on Kaius's blessing, they finally managed to crawl to the lower layer. The soldiers, estimating that a whole day had passed, felt exhausted. Were it not for fear of their superiors, they'd have long ago collapsed; they then encountered the collapse of Sick Village.

Just hearing a "rumble," a burst of dust and shouting, the soldiers "splash, splash" fell to the bottom of the foul-smelling swamp!

"What's going on? Why did it collapse?"

"Help! Someone save me! I'm going to drown, bleck—"

"Something is rubbing against me under the water!"

In the moment of collapse, Kaius jumped up and tightly grabbed a sturdy pillar next to him, even carrying a lucky soldier along. But everyone else fell into the 'water' one by one.

The scene looked miserable; someone with a cleanliness obsession might toss and turn unable to sleep at night.

How could this be? Everyone was clearly following Luluwo's notebook, so why did they encounter a collapse? Why wasn't this marked in the notebook?

A terrifying thought appeared in the soldiers' minds—could it be that the content in this notebook was meant to deceive?

Kaius quickly scrutinized the broken area and, relying on his wisdom, finally deduced the reason.

Because the wooden structure of Sick Village was already quite fragile, Sain Dungeon replicated the damages caused by aging and disrepair, so if intense movements were made above, unexpected damages would surely result.

When these damages accumulate one after another, it causes unforeseen accidents, like the present collapse!

It was their fierce battle with the monsters here that led to the collapse!

But the oversight of Kaius was that, parts of the damage caused by their battle... had been recommended by Luluwo's notebook.

Kaius tossed the soldier in his hand toward the yet-to-collapse platform far away. As he was about to jump down to save people, the platform, not yet collapsed, began to tilt from the soldier's weight, almost toppling.

Can this even happen? Is it a bit too unlucky!

He clicked his tongue, frowned, jumped over to pick up the soldier, who was screaming loudly in fright, and finally threw him directly into the swamp. Anyway, there was plenty of water, and it wouldn't kill him on impact.

But at that moment, the soldiers who had fallen ahead let out terrified screams and the sound of swords being drawn.

When Kaius turned his head, he felt like he saw a scene commonly used in horror films.

A giant fish, much larger than a person, surfaced and stared with giant eyes at the Holy Light Soldiers, its round eyes left only strangeness.

The most terrifying isn't the giant fish surfacing but the two dorsal fins circling the soldiers and then immediately diving into the swamp, impossible to discern where these dorsal fins' owners might be in this muddy swamp.

The concealed horrors beneath the water—this is the essence of this scene's design!

If Roger were here, he might recognize why the appearances of these giant fish looked so familiar...

Aren't these Mud Fish Dragons! At most, their appearance changed slightly!

Three Mud Fish Dragons appeared simultaneously; did they fall into some kind of arena!?

The soldiers couldn't overcome the foul odor, but under the pressure of the monsters, they stumbled forward, slicing and chopping at the Mud Fish Dragon's shell.

Only to see those weapons slid away due to its slippery body and muck, unable to inflict any damage, not even breaking a scale!

Only one soldier bravely chanted a spell amid the nausea here, a Holy Light Missile finally broke the opponent's scale, but just barely. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Kaius remained expressionless as he leapt from the air, wielding his accustomed three blades, intending to take advantage of the opportunity to slay a monster here!

In his complete form now, he absolutely could do it, could do it effortlessly!

The Mud Fish Dragon, "unaware of its limits," opened its mouth wide, wanting to swallow the overwhelmingly charging Kaius whole, and they were about to collide.

At that moment, Kaius's rising momentum suddenly fell sharply, and he exclaimed happily, "Sister has awakened!"

"Thud, smack!"

In the next second, he was swallowed whole by the Mud Fish Dragon.