Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 520 - 356: The Intruder Unleashed

In Tepi’s nearly fifty years of life, the most surprising thing to him was being publicly beaten by his own son at a gathering.

How did Leon, who used to be so timid, turn into someone resembling a Berserker?

What exactly changed him?

And now, another surprising event seemed to be added to his list:

Encountering a mysterious dark blue spiritual body in the Giant Stone Dungeon, wielding dual blades strong as a monster, and not knowing if he could win even with all his might.

When Tepi saw the magic rune indicating he had been invaded, he felt an unprecedented confusion. This so-called "invasion" seemed like something he had seen while investigating the Sain Dungeon, a way for adventurers, who had their minds confused by the dungeon, to engage in internal conflicts with each other.

But isn’t this a specialty of the Sain Dungeon? Why would it appear here—well, with the Glory Stele and the Super Vision Mirror cropping up, another Sain doesn’t seem like much of a problem.

What on earth are these dungeons up to?

Back then, he had praised Sain for successfully using the invasion mechanism to shift some adventurers’ conflicts from the dungeon to adventurer versus adventurer; now, he was being invaded, and it’s even cross-city!

According to the information Tepi had, the invader and the invaded are in a relentless conflict, once encountered, they must fight to the death.

The Dark Moon Sword invader seemed to not have reacted yet, haha, maybe feeling confused by the unfamiliar environment; I know that to win as an invader, both strength and familiarity with the environment are indispensable, coming to an unfamiliar dungeon is like losing an arm!

While the invader hadn’t reacted, Tepi hastily ordered all the magicians to focus their attacks on eliminating the invader in one go.

Yet something miraculous happened, the invader stood still, merely waving the dual blades to form an impenetrable web of blade lights, dispersing all incoming magic in the air.

The skill wasn’t far from that of an Elite Monster!

Tepi was shocked at heart, continuously calling people to attack, while feeling a bad premonition, he said in his heart:

Oh god, barely escaped a skirmish, and now another invader comes to mess with my mind?

His intention was to call for adventurers to swiftly eliminate the invader, but his posture of issuing commands instead made Fingerley fix the target.

Besides feeling confused over his unfamiliar surroundings earlier, he didn’t know whom to attack amidst the crowd. According to reason, every invasion should have a main target and several secondary targets, killing the main target would directly lead to victory, whereas killing secondary targets wouldn’t declare victory.

"The guy issuing commands should be the main target, I seem to notice the mark of the Blood-red Eye Orb on him."

Fingerley was about to chase when Tepi noticed his intention, hastily mounting the carriage to escape alone, the wind lifted his hood, revealing a lionlike face.

"Ah, Mr. Tepi?"

Fingerley halted his steps abruptly; he would never have thought that one day he’d invade the man who had once sponsored him.

Should I stop here, but the Cracked Blood Red Eye Orb on me is already used up, using Deep Blue not only would be inefficient, but also empower the enemy...

A struggle appeared in his eyes, back then, during hard times, Tepi had supported him, and to repay the favor, he worked tirelessly for him for two years, parted ways due to differing ideologies, and had no contact ever since — except for delivering a letter to Leon once.

Regarding this uncle, it’s impossible not to feel some nostalgia, but....

He tightened the cover on his face and muttered to himself:

"Anyway, no one knows me here." frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

It is said that when a person puts on a hood, it is as if all disguises have been stripped away.

"Wa!"

Suddenly, Fingerley laughed loudly as if he had inhaled laughing gas, his legs moving like lightning, breaking through the adventurers’ encirclement and charging directly towards Tepi!

"!"

Tepi shuddered at the sight, almost forcing a heart attack; wouldn’t you feel scared seeing such a dark blue, cackling maniac with a thief’s hood rushing at you?

Not only was he frightened, but even the adventurers beside him were stunned, having only fought monsters before, they had never seen this kind of momentum.

This is probably the reaction when the innocent PVE players encounter the mad PVP players, perhaps.

However, among the stunned crowd, some crouched hugging their heads, trembling in defense; Fingerley’s figure seemed to awaken the rescue memories in that person, mumbling:

"Damn it, why is Sain still chasing me, I’ve already fled to the Warrior Country, yet still being invaded!"

Clearly, this poor soul was among those who were beaten to frustration by invaders and quit the Sain Dungeon.

Now, a nightmare repeats.

"Wait, wait!"

Seeing the invader targeting him, Tepi steeled his heart, randomly grabbing an adventurer and throwing him onto the carriage full of Elf Balls, harshly punching the horse’s hindquarters to make it run, while he jumped off the carriage to block the enemy.

Fingerley understood, the other wanted to protect his Elf Balls even if it meant death, he couldn’t help but think:

Leon and Mr. Tepi, these two might be the strangest father and son I’ve ever met in my life, right.

"Want to kill me, no way!"

Facing the ferocious strong enemy, Tepi roared, one punch wrapped in flames, the other covered in frost, slamming straight at Fingerley.

Yet Fingerley lightly tapped his toes, elegantly flipping over, pulling out a Magic Wand mid-air for an unimpressive... Luminous Stone Magic Gravel attack.

Headshot!

In the next moment, the dark blue spiritual body turned to ash and dispersed before hitting the ground. Having successfully eliminated the target, he had no reason to remain here.

Only the adventurers of the Giant Stone Dungeon were left looking at each other in confusion.

"What just happened?"

"I don’t know, was that an intruder from the Sain Dungeon? Why did they run over here?"

"Ugh... When in doubt, choose magic; it must have been caused by magic. Perhaps it was some magician’s experiment?"

"I hope they don’t come back. I’m really scared..."

[Invaded by the Soul-sucking Ghost "Beautiful Elegant Lady Black Bat"!!!]

"They came again!?"

Familiar with it, this scene is playing out in over forty dungeons.

You might be the next.

While adventurers from other dungeons were cluelessly facing the beasts from the Sain Dungeon.

Fingerley successfully brought back humanity, helping Tusi’s sister perform the Fire Injection Secret Ceremony. Both fell into a sleep-like state.

However, after a mental stimulant magic was cast on them and a potion of unknown effect was given, both woke up instantly and clutched the pillar of the Fire Transmission Ceremony, vomiting profusely.

Members of the Bone Stick Team, still in a joking mood, said, "Brother, I told you not to look at the black hole, but you insisted. How does it feel now?"

"Uh... Where am I?"

Tusi’s eyes showed a clear confusion.

"No way, brother, did you lose your memory too?"

"Why are we at the Fire Transmission Ceremony?" Tusi looked around, muttering to himself, "I clearly remember being at home taking care of my sister."

His sister also said, "I remember just coming out from vacation at the Royal Palace. How could this... be a dungeon?"

Fingerley and the others exchanged glances, dismayed. They hadn’t expected the mental attack from the Dark Meteor Esti to have an amnesic effect. Now it was even more challenging to confront him.

"Well, actually, brother, you..."

Someone took on the role of a commentator, narrating what had happened.

"So that’s how it is. Thank you all, thank you, Brother Fingerley," Tusi sincerely thanked them, but his peripheral vision subconsciously glanced at the black hole above. It wasn’t intentional; it was a reflexive reaction before Fingerley’s large hand covered his eyes.

"Still looking? You never learn, do you?"

Tusi gave a sheepish laugh but felt an inexplicable attraction toward the black hole, which puzzled him. Who wants to go in and get killed by Monsters?

"You must be hungry, looking pale. Eat something to regain your strength first."

Tusi and his sister received two Happiness Eggs as rations. With the usual supplies from Sain arriving, the price of Happiness Eggs had dropped significantly. People originally aimed for Elf Balls, and Happiness Eggs and Enemy Attraction Skulls were just byproducts.

However, for some outsiders who weren’t familiar, Happiness Eggs might be the actual reason they chose Sain’s supplies.

This thing indeed induces an extremely high level of happiness, more effective than the highest concentration Blood Healing Potion. Once you eat one, you want more, eating them daily and monthly.

The sales of Blood Healing Potions have dwindled, nearly becoming unsellable. Fortunately, the Bed family had already transitioned to making classic small fashionable toys, or else they would have gone bankrupt.

At the moment of consuming a Happiness Egg, Tusi felt he floated to the sky, as if immersed in cotton candy, surrounded by sweetness.

When he came back to his senses, he no longer yearned for the black hole and even disliked it, along with losing interest in watching meteor showers.

On the second day of the limited-time meteor shower event, people had already figured out what the new content was. Those interested pursued Little Meteors, while others freeloaded a supply quota to continue exploring the dungeon.

After the Phantom of Pope Shalivan was revealed, it didn’t garner as much attention as expected because the meteor shower captured all the hype, leaving few to challenge it, given its unbeatable difficulty.

Competition for the Glory Stele’s rankings grew increasingly intense, with adventurers from all over striving hard, even Leon slipping out of the top ten, and Tepi beyond the thirtieth place, losing all hope of making a comeback.

Meanwhile, an adventurer named Temude consistently maintained a steadfast position as the eternal second place.

The rewards exchangeable by Little Meteors became the talk of the town. Deciphering the exchange formula was both joyful and painful, but many found it addictive.

There were even those desperately begging others to let them handle the reward exchange, willing to forgo the rewards themselves.

Additionally, a message circulated saying "Esti’s mental attack can drive people to madness or even cause amnesia," but it hadn’t garnered much attention yet.

As time went on, the second day’s events drew to a close.

Gong Qiying stood by the altar, waiting for Red Teeth to deliver today’s data. As for the Glory Stele, Leon was fixed at the fifth position, considered the best child of the Sain Dungeon.

The supply and reward exchange numbers for Sain remained strong, leading Gong Qiying to think that his own ranking might still be first.

Soon, the letter arrived, but its content wasn’t quite what he had imagined.

[The city lords have filed a joint complaint accusing you of maliciously manipulating adventurers to disrupt the normal exploration of other dungeons. What’s going on?]

"...Huh?"

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