Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?

The awakened adventurers all experienced a process where their eyes went from cloudy to clear, and when they fully understood what they encountered...

One by one, they began to complain about Temude, as the adventurers started a very resentful roast session.

"I had just received the reward for defeating the boss monster, and now it’s all gone before I even managed to count it."

"Why did he extinguish the fire for no reason! I never want to recall what just happened!"

"I think he just wants to take revenge on society."

"What’s the situation in the Sain Dungeon now? If we go in again, will we get hurt?"

"If he doesn’t transmit the fire, will it affect the outside world?"

Some were simply complaining, some were incessantly roasting, and others were voicing fears.

But based on Leon’s previous experience showing that the transmission of fire had no impact on the outside world, perhaps this time extinguishing the fire would also have no effect either.

Turci listened to these discussions and couldn’t help but shake her head, it looked like Temude was going to attract some criticism among the adventurers group, and extinguishing the fire could be seen as malicious, affecting his reputation outside the adventurer circles as well.

"We’ll see how he plans to respond this time. Since he dared to act, he must be prepared... should be prepared?"

Listening to the adventurers’ gossip, she indeed found that regardless of who they are, everyone is interested in gossip.

However, in this leisurely relaxed moment, a few discordant voices suddenly reached her ears.

"Hmm?"

Turci’s gaze instantly sharpened, and the Healing Magic she cast on everyone in front of her suddenly transformed into multiple Magic Shields!

The adventurers enclosed in the shields hadn’t had time to react, and were pushed to the sides by her control. Enclosed in the round shields, they rolled out like pins, creating a large open space in an instant.

And in this open space, four adventurers were left slowly waking up.

"Did they really infiltrate here? Is it because the detection magic hasn’t been repaired?"

As the adventurers reacted belatedly with cries of alarm, Turci raised her hand, conjuring ice spikes in the air, and a multitude of frost-formed spikes crashed down on the adventurers on the ground!

"Murder!"

But at that moment, the adventurers on the ground suddenly sprang up, their previously emaciated, corpse-like appearance rapidly transforming, swelling into one grotesque monster after another, exuding an nauseating miasma.

"It’s the Demon Clan!" the crowd immediately cried out in alarm.

These muscular Demon Clansmen, obviously incredibly strong warriors just by looking at their bodies, roared towards the sky and swung their muscled arms against the ice spikes.

In regular fantasy tales, attacks like ice spikes would either be smashed effortlessly by strong enemies or dodged easily by agile ones — hitting them was never a sure thing.

But these ice spikes were cast by a Magic Professor.

"Splat splat splat——"

The sound of flesh being pierced and torn apart reverberated throughout the hospital, making patients who rarely witnessed such bloody scenes scream even more hysterically.

These four members of the Demon Clan were instantly pierced by the ice spikes, pinned to the ground. Though they tried to struggle, the spreading frost had already firmly bound them, freezing their blood into part of the ice before it even touched the ground.

Turci hadn’t even had the chance to admire her work when her strong perception detected the presence of other Demon Clan members. She rushed out and flung another series of spells their way.

Soon after, within the hospital, she captured a total of nine Demon Clan members, none of whom managed to harm any patients.

"Why, why are the Demon Clan here?"

"They also came out of the Sain Dungeon!"

"But why were they exposed?"

The hospital immediately went into an emergency state, evacuating gathered patients and leaving room for the Demon Clan and the guards.

"Because they suffered mental trauma and couldn’t maintain their disguise," Turci provided the answer at that moment.

These Demon Clan members disguised as humans were so well-camouflaged that even she didn’t notice at first. They appeared exactly the same as ordinary humans, but only upon waking did their severe spiritual power deficiency prevent them from maintaining their disguise, leading to exposure.

"The Demon Clan didn’t have such advanced disguise abilities before. Have they evolved?"

If it weren’t for the timely incident in the Sain Dungeon, people might never have noticed the presence of these Demon Clan members.

Right now, who knows how many disguised Demon Clan members are infiltrating the Sain Dungeon and even this continent!

No one realized this was happening!

"Temude, you’ve actually done a good deed here."

No matter his original intentions in taking such action, the result showed it to be a deed of merit.

Apart from Hepa Town, Bed City, Black Stone City, Royal Capital, and Imperial Capital, adventurers from all these places had discovered the presence of disguised Demon Clan members among them.

For a time, everywhere went into a state of alert, focusing on the Demon Clan situation to the point that pursuing Temude’s act of extinguishing the fire became secondary.

Exactly how many Demon Clan members are hiding here, and what are their purposes, has the death of the new Demon King not awakened them?

"A thorough investigation, we must conduct a thorough investigation!"

While everything outside was in chaos, in the Sain Dungeon, the unconscious Temude slowly woke up.

"Am I... am I still alive?"

He looked at his body, incredulous, not expecting to be intact.

In the moment darkness completely engulfed him, he felt he experienced an extremely long and somber era, one which he could no longer fully recall but...

The feeling of being engulfed by coldness in the dark, without support, was unforgettable.

Even one hailed as the King of Darkness could not resist an era post-extinguishing of the fire.

That’s not an environment fit for human survival, perhaps... perhaps only the World Snake like Kas guiding him to extinguish the fire can live there!

"Extinguishing the fire was a scam..."

At this moment, the Sin Fire’s influence had vanished, and Temude was awake, realizing that he had been deceived.

If, in the Ember King era, extinguishing the fire was necessary, then in the Gwen Era, it wasn’t yet time to put out the flames — there was still hope.

"What was I thinking!"

Realizing what he had done, he frantically started pounding the floor tiles!

The pain quickly radiated from his hands, and he paused, surprised that he felt pain from hitting the tiles?

"Has my power weakened?"

Temude suddenly realized that his power had diminished, weakened to a frightening degree.

"The King’s Soul remains, but I can’t summon their power, and I’m fragile as paper. What is going on?"

It felt as though his strength had been depleted by the encroaching darkness, leaving him unable to access his power!

As if sealed!

And he didn’t know how long this state would last!

Suddenly, Temude was in a panic, realizing that aside from this abnormal state he was in, he’d found no sign of any reward, meaning...

The act of extinguishing the fire itself bore no rewards!

He then realized he was in the Fire Transmission Ceremony but the dense fog veiled the entire world, obscuring everything, encapsulating everything in an oppressive atmosphere.

The whole world was devoid of life.

In his panic, Temude wandered around and it was then that he saw the bonfire, and like seeing salvation, he ran immediately towards the bonfire.

Upon reaching the bonfire, a line of magic words suddenly appeared.

[Start the cycle?]

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