Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 522 - 358 City Lords Love Peace

Closing the invasion is impossible to shut down; it’s already become the underlying logic of Sain.

Closing the invasion would mean no fun, but he couldn’t disregard the feelings of other city lords, so Gong Qiying came up with a win-win solution.

Hey, how about I send each dungeon some items needed for the invasion, then everyone can join the chaos?

It’s certain that the bloodthirsty city lords who designed the oversized Esti will definitely agree!

Indeed, when Gong Qiying distributed the Cracked Blood Red Eye Orbs, more than half of the city lords immediately changed their tune, praising him as a genius who understands enjoying life and exploiting adventurers.

As expected, bloodthirsty is the common undertone among city lords.

However, some city lords still disliked the invasion method, and for those individuals, Gong Qiying had to target their personalities for a one-by-one breakthrough.

Facing the conservative city lords, he’d say that everyone was invading, and by then, your adventurers wouldn’t have any countermeasures and would just take hits for nothing.

Facing city lords who didn’t like him, he’d say if you don’t compete with me in invasion records, then I’ll have someone you like, Miss Linville, impressed by me.

Facing the peace-loving city lords... you’ve become a city lord and reached such a high permission level, now you’re telling me you love peace? You’re not just conducting marital inspections like the Unihorn Dungeon, stop talking nonsense, come on, take these boxes of invasion items.

Before long, Red Teeth received joyful news from Gong Qiying:

[Settled]

"Such efficiency."

Red Teeth arranged a meeting of city lords as per the suggestion given by the counterpart, proposing several points of caution and new rules regarding "invasion," and rewarded the dungeons with good results in the first three days.

Other city lords wanted rewards that were nothing more than perpetual usage rights of some kind of monsters or items, more bluntly, spiritual power.

But with Gong Qiying’s dungeon ranked first on the opening day of the event, Red Teeth honestly couldn’t think of a reward to give the other party, in the end just noted it down, to let Gong Qiying come find him whenever he remembered what he wanted later on.

Red Teeth couldn’t help feeling that maybe, after a while, it wouldn’t be him hosting the dungeon meetings here but it would be Gong Qiying instead.

That wouldn’t be bad, when he becomes the boss, I’d have to egg him to organize more events and pluck some good stuff out of him.

Red Teeth thought with a smile.

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Under the night sky, inside the Royal Palace, a suffocating atmosphere envelops this magnificent large architectural complex.

During moments of clarity, Ainz III would stand by the window, gazing at the city he lived in all his life, every old building holds his memories.

Recalling those joyous memories can temporarily make him forget the pain, but when thinking about the city’s imminent demise, the pain returns twice as strong.

Clarity used to be something he longed for, but now it’s become a torture to himself.

"Meteor shower, is it about to end?"

"It’s about to begin..."

Ainz III looked out to a distant place where the lit-up spots indicated adventurers were gathering post-work, the mere sight of these bright flames can make one feel joy and vitality.

He sighed again, now he could only hope in his heart, hoping that when the unknown existence triggers Beastification Symptom, most adventurers would have entered that place... what’s it called... Sain Dungeon? Seems to be called that, hoping people could survive inside it.

Regarding Sain Dungeon, he once in rare moments of clarity held the handmaiden to talk about recent Royal City news to learn about it.

The maid happened to be Tusi’s sister, influenced by her adventurer brother, her understanding of Sain Dungeon was superficial, yet quite comprehensive, being able to talk about everything a bit.

The legend of Fran Undead Team rekindled Ainz III’s passion, Overlord Vonier spawned a desire for achievements, and Lake Lienia’s various magic made him ponder:

If he abandoned everything to become an adventurer back then, what would life be like now?

Before ascending to the throne, he lived anonymously as an adventurer for a while, but was soon dragged back to the Royal Palace, never able to leave since, that period was quite unforgettable, wondering how his teammates back then are doing now.

Yet, when he heard about the Fire Injection Secret Ceremony strengthening spiritual power from the maid, he wondered if that could cure his disease.

Unfortunately, neither the unknown existence nor Eliphas could possibly allow him to go out, as for Minister Oro? That guy was loyal to the Kingdom, but only to the Kingdom, who governs it doesn’t matter to him, as long as the country is well-managed.

If someone were more suitable than Eliphas for governing the country, Oro would probably backstab Eliphas without hesitation.

"These days, Eliphas hasn’t come either..."

Such a pity, if that jerk dared show up in front of him again, he’d definitely bite that guy’s pretty face no matter what.

A while ago, Minister Oro surprisingly visited him once, and the only order or request Ainz III gave him was—

Standing by the window, Ainz III could see a sneaky figure running around in Royal City, evading patrolling guards while running parkour, finally flipping over the Royal Palace.

That was Princess Serine, the child went out to play again.

Ainz III’s only request was that, at least let Serine, whom he hadn’t even met clearly once, be a bit freer.

Without his help and Minister Oro’s consent, no way the Royal Palace packed with guards and magic could let Serine go out and play.

Thankfully she had her limits, never actually ran away, going out and returning the same day, perhaps enjoying time away from her princess identity.

"My child grows up beautiful."

Ainz III proudly talked to himself, rare joy appearing in his emotions, yet the moment this emotion emerged, beastification began once more.

He painfully knelt, his body becoming alien again.

Meanwhile, Princess Serine already ran out of the Royal Palace, quickly changed into some ordinary clothes, donned a cloak, removed her makeup, no one could recognize her as the bright and shining princess of daytime.

People might wonder why this ordinary person could possess such excellent skills, actually, this is thanks to Sain.

Upon knowing the princess loved Sain-related things, people naturally considered Sain when choosing gifts, Serine received gifts including things like [Soul of the Nameless Warrior], [Experience Candy], [Magic Candy], items to upgrade and strengthen oneself.

She hadn’t had the chance to use them before, because Eliphas didn’t seem like the type to allow her into the Sain Dungeon.

But recently, Selene discovered a good opportunity, and for some unknown reason, Eliphas stopped coming to the Royal Palace to meet her. His guards, who were clearly recognizable, also decreased, so she seized the opportunity to persuade Minister Oro and succeeded in getting herself into the dungeon with the guards.

Though she only wandered around the safe Fire Transmission Ceremony and the food area, that precious experience still left her feeling extremely satisfied.

It was during that time that she used all the items gifted to her by the nobles at the bonfire.

She "consumed" all sorts of Soul and Experience Candy, skyrocketing her level to around forty, mainly enhancing intelligence and agility.

However, after increasing intelligence, she found that she hadn’t become much smarter, leaving her feeling somewhat disillusioned.

No skill at all, just numbers brought by money; since Sain Dungeon’s mutation, Selene was still the first to use so many upgrade items at once.

"Hey there, boss, I’m here again." Selene greeted the owner familiarly at a street-side barbecue stall.

"Oh, it’s you! Same as usual?" The owner, grilling skewers, said, "By the way, I have good news for you: Those guards who were extorting everyone apologized yesterday, surely God answered our prayers. I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll treat you to an extra serving of barbecued white Lienia Lobster!"

"Is it Sain Dungeon ingredients? Yay!"

Upon hearing that the guards apologized, Selene’s lips curled upwards slightly, knowing exactly who was behind it.

She strolled through the bustling streets munching on barbecue, warmly greeted by small vendors who said:

"Strange, this girl has only appeared here for a few days, yet she’s so popular?"

"Since she showed up, people keep encountering good things; this kid must have been blessed by the Goddess of Fortune, who wouldn’t like her?"

After wandering around the familiar streets, Selene turned her direction towards the residential area, as the surrounding scenery grew dimmer... Isn’t this Tusi’s family’s neighborhood?

She came here upon hearing about residents who stare blankly at meteor showers in the middle of the night, creating a very eerie scene, so she wanted to see it for herself.

She truly just wanted to take a quick look, absolutely not going deeper.

The flickering streetlights and cold air created horror; she was excited earlier, but now she felt a bit scared.

"Perhaps I should turn back."

Although muttering to herself, she still steeled her nerves and moved forward, but then...

"Isn’t there nothing here?"

The residential area was as it had always been, no different from when Fingerley visited, not even the streetlights were repaired.

The only change was that those residents who used to gaze at meteor showers like telephone poles from rooftops were gone, people slept normally in their bedrooms, and some awkward sounds of creation could be heard.

Occasional moans mixed with remorseful exclamations, "Why did I go to Sain Dungeon to suffer?"

Selene both sighed in relief and felt disappointed, muttering, "Why did I believe urban legends?" Then she turned to leave.

"Tap tap tap——"

Suddenly, in the darkness, a figure sprinted towards her!

"Ah!"

Selene screamed and fell to the ground, reflexively closing her eyes and shouting about ghosts. frёeωebɳovel.com

The figure stopped in front of her, and as she trembled in fear, a voice full of apology reached her ears, "Sorry, sorry, didn’t mean to scare you. Are you okay?"

Looking up, Selene saw a tall, handsome blond man reaching out his hand to her.

"It’s okay."

Patting her chest, clearly shaken, she chose to let him help her up.

"Really sorry, I’m in a hurry, I’ll be going... huh?"

Their faces were quite close, and upon seeing each other’s face, Fingerley froze.

Selene grew tense, was she just recognized?

However, Fingerley simply ran off without saying anything, making her breathe a sigh of relief.

"Maybe I shouldn’t have gone out today..."

Selene took several deep breaths, leaving the unremarkable residential area.

Meteors streaked across the sky, while local residents slept soundly, paying no attention anymore.

Residents in other areas seemed to gaze at the starry sky, but by morning, they’d enter Sain Dungeon.

Then, they’d discover a Glory Stele had appeared.

The ranking of the new Glory Stele had nothing to do with captured Little Meteor’s quota; it returned to tradition.

Counting the number of people slain during the invasion!

"Haha, I’m going to invade ten times today, ten times. Yesterday was just too thrilling!"

A Sain adventurer stepped out of the Fire Transmission Ceremony, unable to use the Eye Orb inside.

However, as soon as he left the Fire Transmission Ceremony, he received a familiar alert.

[You are invaded by Giant Stone Dungeon’s "Tepi"!!!]

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