Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?

The reasons are complex, such as people definitely preferring to be the Savior, or they haven’t finished collecting the King’s Soul and can’t choose Kass or Flament yet, or perhaps stemming from a simple inner sense of right and wrong...

In short, among the hundreds of people who have come to the Abyss so far, not a single one has chosen to act with Kass.

Thanks to the efforts of various strategy groups, adventurers have discovered that if one chooses a great snake to go to the Initial Firestove together, the other snake will disappear. Moreover, even without collecting all the King’s Souls, one can reach the Initial Firestove, but just can’t open the door or do anything.

Out of a warrior’s wariness, Temude has yet to choose a great snake to go to the Initial Firestove together.

But now, he intends to choose Kass.

As for the reason...

A peculiar expression flickered in Temude’s eyes, an ambitious emotion, the gleam of ambition overwhelmed his former gaze.

One could say his entire being is now covered by the effects of the Sin Flames, trapped in a situation manipulated by ambition without being aware.

And the ambition rising in his heart is to choose a path Leon and other adventurers have never taken—

To choose to become the so-called King of Darkness with Kass!

"You have indeed taken all the King’s Souls, what diligence! Surely, surely you are the King of Darkness I have always awaited, a true King of Man!"

Kass’s voice was filled with unprecedented joy and excitement, clearly current developments have him excited beyond control, after all, the long-awaited event is now so close to obtain.

Temude looked at his posture, his mouth curling up in the opposite direction.

The reason he made a choice none of the other adventurers have before, initially had various reasons, but now it’s purely driven by ambition.

Having witnessed the Onion Knight’s suicide in the City of Sin, and then the finale of the White Spider and Klarna in Smoke Lake, a series of bad news confronted him, making him unable to shake off thinking of an unusual outcome.

What if I choose to extinguish the fire?

The Fran Undead Team, Elderly, Giant King Yum, and now, based on the fragmented information emerging from the Sain Dungeon, it seems the interval between each Fire Transmission is continually shortening, now reaching a fear-inducing time.

From the past where one Fire Transmission guaranteed hundreds to thousands of years of prosperity, to now perhaps needing to "elect" an Ember King every few decades, the Primordial Flame is visibly weakening and there’s no method to make it flourish again. Continuously adding Firewood merely delays the decline.

The demise of the Primordial Flame, this destined end is drawing ever closer, the fear-inducing dark age is certain to descend in the future.

The decline of the Initial Fire directly reflects on all things in this era.

Compared to the era of Gwyn’s Fire Transmission, all confirmed regions of the Ember King era are now filled with corruption—a pervasive rotting atmosphere steeped in hopeless despair.

Whether it’s the environment, living creatures, or human minds, everything has withered, making those in such a setting naturally feel despair and depression.

Under such circumstances, Fire Transmission has transformed from a universally expected heroic feat to extend the world into an oppressive burden on the world. Regardless of others’ thoughts, Temude believes.

Fire Transmission in this era has become "transmitting fire for the sake of transmitting fire."

Such Fire Transmission brings no hope, and a world extended thus has no future. If that’s the case...

Might as well choose not to transmit fire now!

It’s said that after darkness descends, it’s the Deep Sea Era, and Pope Shalivan with Elderly are making preparations to get through the Deep Sea Era. Although what that era looks like is still unknown and can’t guarantee it’ll be better than now, but...

Before choosing to come before Kass, Temude contemplated a lot, attempting to find justification in written information that extinguishing the fire is the correct choice for the era.

However, influenced by the Sin Flames, he’s now abandoned complex thoughts and notions of right and wrong, leaving only one thought in his mind—

Make the choice of extinguishing the fire to be "first," to be the "first" Leon didn’t achieve!

Although Leon who transmitted fire hasn’t appeared yet, in a Schrödinger’s life state, but it’s clarified that burning oneself for Fire Transmission.

Yet to become King of Darkness, one just needs to take away the flame.

It seems to have no impact on one’s safety, doesn’t it?

In this way, the warriors of Warrior Country have no reason to stop Temude.

"There’s no time to lose, quickly take a step forward, remove the waning Gwyn."

Kass calmed his mood, returned to that tempting yet deeply unpleasant tone, said to the excellent Undead Warrior before him:

"I, Kass, will take you to the Initial Firestove and wait for you there."

Wait for me to do what? Temude frowned.

And overseers?

"Wait to serve the triumphant you, to formally unveil the dark age..."

This statement somewhat carries the sentiment of a loyal minister.

"Alright, hurry and come forward, I’ll take you to the hiding place of the weak king."

"Your Highness..."

The warriors always behind Temude couldn’t help but speak: "Can we really do it?"

No matter how one listens, Kass’s words mean taking them to fight Gwyn!

Among these warriors are those who have witnessed the Sunlight King’s prowess at Scameroon. Now, merely mentioning the challenge against Gwyn made even the warrior spirits tremble slightly, more fearful than participating in Battle Festival to challenge Latan.

"If you’re afraid, then I’ll go alone."

Temude spoke words he hadn’t said before, stepped towards Kass.

The warriors showed struggling expressions, but as their Prince neared Kass, they finally couldn’t bear their stagnant feet, ran towards Temude.

Seeing such a scene, Temude revealed a slight smile, as if approving the bravery of his subordinates.

At that moment, Dark Great Snake Kass opened its mouth wide, swallowing him whole.

The entire world immediately plunged into pitch black.

A moment later, the sensation of teleportation struck, Temude opened his eyes again, found himself in a dark space with only a stone door, alone, with the head of the Dark Great Snake slowly emerging from the darkness.

This scene unleashed would definitely frighten countless children into tears.

"Here is Gwyn’s tomb."

"Go ahead, place the Royal Artifact on that pedestal."

This guy’s words really sound like demons guiding mortals.

Temude scanned the surroundings, easily accepting the fact that he alone arrived here, summoned the Royal Artifact, placed it on the tree root before the stone door.

"Boom—"

Flames shot from the pillars on either side of the stone door, roaring as the door trembled open.

A hot wind mixed with ashes eagerly rushed from the gap, blowing onto his face, the scorching sensation marking the entry into the Firestove.

As the unexpected scene of the Initial Firestove unfolded before him, not only did he show no surprise, rather he felt the Initial Firestove should look like this.

"Well then..."

Temude took a step towards the Initial Firestove, stepping onto ground covered in ash.

"Extinguishing the fire, it’s going to begin."

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