Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 524 - 360: The Near-End of the Meteor and the Frenzied Invasion

Chapter 524: Chapter 360: The Near-End of the Meteor and the Frenzied Invasion

There was a disturbance coming from the residential area, as if a group of people were chasing a man, the sound of footsteps rustling in the air.

This sudden event made Dal, the leader of the Fran Guard patrolling the area, come to a stop.

He watched the group of running people for a while, his nose twitching slightly, and finally shook his head, muttering to himself: "It’s not these people."

Ever since he accepted the Wolf Blood and honed his Wolf Blood with the Wolf Blood Soul, his physical attributes could no longer be measured by human standards, and could instead be seen as a wolf-like beastman in human appearance, the most notable characteristic being...

His sense of smell became more acute.

Since Luluwo was attacked by strange creatures that were both orc-like and demon-like, Dal and his Fran Guard had been secretly investigating the matter, looking for any trace clues that the unknown enemies might have left. However, until recently, they had found nothing, as the enemies hid their tracks perfectly.

Just yesterday, he heard strange rumors in the residential area, saying that occasionally someone could be seen staring up at the starry sky, looking particularly eerie.

But the rumor seemed somewhat unbelievable, as others claimed they were also in the residential area at the same time and saw nothing unusual.

It’s very odd that different people could give completely opposing answers at the same time and place, which necessitated an investigation.

Yesterday, he came here to investigate and indeed detected some discordant scents, but upon careful analysis, it differed from the smells of the enemies when Luluwo was attacked... Whatever, they’re all unstable factors that need to be screened out quickly!

Then came today, when he planned to further pinpoint individuals as targets, the scents suddenly vanished.

Completely disappeared, leaving only human scents in the entire residential area.

It was so clean that Dal thought there was something wrong with his nose, so he brought others to investigate, but found the residential area to be very safe, with no abnormalities at all.

What made him believe that all his findings weren’t hallucinations was that yesterday when he stepped into the residential area, he could sense potential threats, as he’s always been sensitive to danger.

But this led to his second confusion: today, the residential area had no threatening elements at all, seemingly as harmless as a little white rabbit.

"Just one day, what on earth happened here?"

The only difference he found today compared to yesterday was that a group of people in the residential area were lying at home inertly. After inquiries, it turned out they had followed adventurers into the Sain Dungeon yesterday and accidentally got sucked into a black hole, which damaged their spirits. Luckily, it wasn’t a serious issue, as a couple of good sleeps would heal them.

This... could Sain Dungeon really be related to these incidents?

Generally, when encountering such situations, normal people would think that the lurking dangerous factors in the residential area sensed the investigation and hid themselves.

But Dal thought differently. When elements of Sain Dungeon appeared in a bizarre event, he truly believed that the dungeon was up to something again.

"Should I report this to the City Defense Soldiers first, or investigate ourselves? The soldiers in the Royal City can’t possibly be as good as those in Bed City..."

As he was pondering, Wiska and Klan, both part of the Fran Guard and currently his right and left hands, suddenly ran over in a hurry, shouting:

"Not good, Brother Dal, other dungeons are causing trouble, you need to go back to hold the fort!"

"Hm?"

Dal frowned; he knew about the joint mutation between Sain and other Dungeons, and knew that recently adventurers from different dungeons suddenly started invading each other, which turned normal dungeon exploration into chaos, preventing even the time to capture a Little Meteor. So he stopped going in.

What did other dungeons causing trouble have to do with him, though?

"Ah, you’ll see if you go take a look, a bunch of people are waiting for you there!"

He was almost dragged away by the two and brought to Sain Dungeon. Along the way, he sent Klan to report the residential area’s abnormalities to the City Defense Soldiers. Upon entering the Sain Dungeon, Wiska led him straight to Academy Gate Town. Currently, only the Lake District’s safe zone and the Fire Transmission Ceremony wouldn’t be invaded, and some adventurers were even taking refuge there.

In front of the large bonfire here, a Glory Stele appeared, and the height of the two leaderboards had already soared to the sky. If one wished to inquire, they could easily flow information into their minds, which was quite convenient.

On the Little Meteor leaderboard, Leon firmly held the top spot, with Temude in second place, and the rest were people from other dungeons. The adventurers of Sain Dungeon sacrificed their rankings collectively to support Leon in securing first place.

On the invasion killing leaderboard, familiar names started appearing, and the top-ranking person was unexpectedly Steeran!

But the gap between her and Gilles, an adventurer from Glory Dungeon ranked second, was quite small and could be overtaken anytime.

Following them were Luluwo, Gus, Leon, and Fingerley, with five Sain Dungeon adventurers in the top ten.

When Dal’s gaze moved further down, he paused, surprisingly seeing a name even more unexpected than Steeran’s.

Ranked eleventh, Roger.

At this moment, he truly wanted to exclaim "What!?"

Even Gold Level Matilda was ranked behind Roger; how did he manage that!

Continuing to look further down, how was it that Gapar was within the top thirty? Which dungeon were you hiding in?

The competition on the leaderboard was very fierce, changing rapidly every moment, dazzling the eyes.

Under Wiska’s guidance, Dal entered a room.

Then he stood at the doorway, not daring to enter, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead.

As for why... it was because he saw several social big brothers and sisters with dragon and tiger tattoos in the room, whose aura was strong enough to stop the heart and lung of ordinary people.

"Yo, Dal, you finally came." One of the big brothers, exuding a sunny aura, waved and laughed. Dal carefully observed this man with blood-red lion tattoos all over his body, finally exclaiming in surprise:

"Leon!?"

When he saw the woman on the other side with the red eagle effect on her body, he exclaimed, "Stellan?"

"Hmm....."

Stellan’s face turned slightly red, and she lowered her head in embarrassment, feeling a bit ashamed by the effect on her body.

Beside her, Elsa was sitting with a bored expression. She was quite simple, without any effects, and only had a tattoo that formed a full moon on her forehead.

Luluwo’s odd outfit was unsurprising, but the attire of the last person left Dal in silence.

"Hello, I’m Fingerley, from the Hasavi team."

Fingerley’s voice came from underneath the Treasure Box Monster’s head. Dal felt like no one would believe him if he told them about this scene.

Who would wear the head of a Treasure Box Monster as a helmet?

In fact, this was a piece of equipment that Fingerley had acquired, and its effect was quite good.

[Mark of the Greedy]

[Mimic the head of the Greedy one—it can be worn on your head if you desire.]

[Increases the souls obtained after defeating enemies, and enhances treasure hunting abilities. However, due to the curse of the mark, life force will be somewhat weakened.]

[The appearance of the Greedy one is the mark of sin.]

A tattoo on Fingerley’s chest formed the emblem of a Dark Moon Sword, giving him significantly more style points compared to the others, but the Treasure Box Head was a bit baffling.

Dal now felt like he was a naive primary school student surrounded by social youths, about to be asked for protection fees any second.

"Alright, since everyone is here, let’s start the meeting quickly."

Leon clapped his hands and said, "Let’s discuss how to get our adventurers more positions on the Glory Stele in these last few days."

People discovered that the joint mutation of the dungeons appeared after the meteor shower outside, and the meteor shower was nearing its end. So, would this mutation also end? It’s very possible, as the Glory Stele settles every seven days.

Currently, the rewards that Little Meteors could be exchanged for were already very enticing, so what about the rewards at the top of the rankings?

Adventurers from all dungeons realized this, resulting in an unprecedented frenzy of invasion activities, with even the adventurers from the Sain System, who were formerly holding the lead, being pulled down.

After the event where everyone worked together to capture Little Meteors, Leon developed a strong sense of belonging towards the adventurers of the Sain System. So he wanted to help more people achieve good ranks, but he couldn’t do it alone. That’s why he called everyone over.

"Heh, interesting. To crush others on the stele... I’m in." Fingerley was the first to speak.

"Me too." Stellan nodded.

"I’m in, and so is this kid." Luluwo caught the absent-minded Elsa’s little head, making her nod up and down in agreement.

"Alright." Dal readily agreed. His life now could be considered given by Sain, so of course he wouldn’t refuse.

"Great!"

Leon clenched his fist and shouted:

"Then let’s formulate the battle plan now!"

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"Excellent, as expected of Leon, he started ranking fights without me guiding him."

Gong Qiying contentedly put down the various letters in his hand, which were challenges sent by various dungeons.

After two days of fermentation, the adventurers on the top hundred of the Glory Stele astonishingly unified, hailing from Sain, Giant Stone, Glory, and Red Teeth, while adventurers from other dungeons became scattered, indicating that adventurers from these four dungeons had considerable martial virtue.

As the last few days of activities were drawing to a close, Glory, always at odds with Sain, played some tricks to boost their adventurers’ strength, planning a major effort to push the Sain System adventurers out of the front ranks.

Seeing how capable their adventurers were, the Giant Stone in the Warrior Country also developed a desire to rank, but Panson had a good relationship with Gong Qiying, and this was just a friendly match between the two.

Red Teeth was so enchanted by beauty that he couldn’t extricate himself and was devastated upon discovering that the pretty Bubble Fox Dragon was actually male, temporarily removing him as a competitor.

This meant that the final days of invasion would be a battle between Sain, Glory, and Giant Stone.

Near Gong Qiying’s hand were several newspapers.

[A large number of enchanted armors from ancient gladiators found in the Glory Dungeon. Wear it to become invincible!]

[A large number of manually operable Giant Stone Magic Statues discovered in the Giant Stone Dungeon!]

[What is the mysterious red light appearing in encounter battles? Why has there never been any survivors?]

It’s easy to see that Glory and Giant Stone were powering up the adventurers at the top of the stele.

Gong Qiying had no intention of condemning this behavior, nor did he intend to give wheelchairs to his adventurers, after all.....

"My adventurers are cheats themselves."

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