Chapter 4 Here Comes the Crucible Knight!
The types of monsters available in a dungeon are determined by the dungeon lord's knowledge.
But Gong Qiying didn't expect that even the monsters in fantasy works on Earth could be restored.
At a quick glance, they are all familiar works - "Dark Soul", "Bloodborne", "Elden Ring", "Monster Hunter", "The Elder Scrolls", "Final Fantasy". There are even "Plants vs. Zombies" and "Pokemon" with unique styles!
Not only game works, but also anime works such as "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba", "Attack on Titan", "Akame ga Kill", "Jujutsu Kaisen", "One Punch Man" and so on are also available!
"This is an exclusive cheat that only I, a time traveler, can possess,"
After getting over the initial excitement, he checked carefully and found that only a few monsters in each fantasy work were unlocked, and the remaining large number of monsters were displayed in gray and even marked with unlocking conditions.
[Unlocking condition of hero Guda: Level 3 city lord authority]
[Unlocking conditions of Tiandi Huangti Dragon: Level 5 City Lord Authority]
[Arzeus unlock conditions: ? ? ? ]
Gong Qiying checked and found that the mental power required to upgrade to the third level of city lord authority soared to 50,000, the fourth level required 500,000, and the fifth level was simply displayed as a series of question marks.
There is still a long way to go.
After further investigation, he was somewhat depressed to find that the positions of many monsters overlapped and were of no use at all.
For example, the Goblins native to this world are almost identical to the Pokémons in Zelda, both of whom are low-IQ soldiers. The specific data is presented as follows:
【Goblin】
[Required mental power per unit: 1]
[Life: F, Strength: E, Intelligence: F, Endurance: E+, Speed: F, Overall Combat Power: F]
[The average data of normal adult humans is E]
【Pokoblin】
[Required mental power per unit: 3]
[Life: F, Strength: E+, Intelligence: G, Endurance: F, Speed: F, Overall Combat Power: F]
When the overall combat capability is the same but the attributes are slightly different, the mental power required by monsters in fantasy works is often more than twice that of local monsters!
"Not good value for money,"
Gong Qiying's excitement was further dampened when he realized that fantasy monsters were worth more.
"I'm still in the primitive accumulation stage. I have to carefully calculate every point of my mental power. Except for special circumstances, the monsters in the dungeon are mainly local monsters."
[Available Buildings] have also been updated, and there is no doubt that the buildings in fantasy works have also been refreshed. Gong Qiying saw his favorite Fran Fortress and Sick Village at a glance.
After taking another look at the cost, I suddenly didn’t like it so much.
In addition, he can also use props from fantasy works as rewards in the Sen Dungeon, but the mental strength required is still overwhelming.
Perhaps when they have enough mental strength in the future, adventurers will be able to pick up a cancelable straight sword, a red and white Poké Ball, or Johnny Silverhand's arm in the Sen Dungeon.
"The divergent thinking ends here,"
Gong Qiying turned his attention back to the crystal ball. In front of him was a notebook, where he recorded the areas that needed improvement in real time.
Time passed minute by minute until the moonlight descended on the earth, and there were still two hours before the dungeon closed.
After two hours, the entrance to the dungeon will be closed, and only exit is allowed, but no entry. Adventurers stranded inside will be forcibly teleported out after half an hour.
From midnight to three in the morning, this is the rest time that God has left for the underground city.
"Nearly three hundred people died,"
This number was somewhat beyond his expectations, but on second thought, this was also the effect of "first sight killing".
In a few days, when the news spreads that something unusual has happened in the Sion dungeon and the difficulty has greatly increased, it is estimated that the flow of people will be reduced, just like the flow of online games is always the highest during the period when the server is open.
What Gong Qiying needs to consider is how to keep the adventurers.
By blindly increasing the difficulty, his mental strength would be greatly increased in a short period of time, but what he wanted was sustainable development and a long-term success.
"It's time to consider increasing the reward,"
Gong Qiying pondered for a while and sighed again.
"But if you don't have enough mental power, it will cost a lot just to repair the damaged buildings and traps and replace the dead monsters. You also need to fill in the gaps, modify the map routes, and increase the rewards."
"No, in the short term, we still have to focus on collecting spiritual energy,"
A very helpless fact is that even if he discovered the problem, he could not change it in a short period of time.
"It would be great if thousands of people could come to me and commit suicide,"
When he looked at the crystal ball again, his eyebrows suddenly raised, as if he saw something surprising.
"No way, someone is almost getting through?"
The crystal ball showed an elf girl with pointed ears, who was drawing a longbow and shooting an arrow at the minotaur's head, and then officially entered the underground mine below!
This was the first adventurer who arrived at the lower level unscathed—at least seemingly unscathed—except for her. All those who arrived at the lower level triggered the teleportation trap.
"You are very strong, but," Gong Qiying stared at the miniature model of the dungeon, "I can't let you pass it."
As for the reason, it is because the final BOSS is himself!
As the lord of the dungeon, Gong Qiying/Godwin shoulders the responsibility of accepting the challenge as the final BOSS!
Once you die, it will take a lot of mental energy to revive, at least thousands of mental energy. If you don't have enough mental energy, you will die completely, and the position of city lord will be handed over to others!
Why is that weakling Godwin still the city lord? Someone should have killed him long ago.
Because he hid the city lord's room extremely secretly!
He had to pass through eighteen teleportation mechanisms in a row to get here, and also had to go through several unrelated decryptions. In fact, no one had ever found him, so he created a fake final BOSS to accept the challenge.
From what I remember, all dungeon masters do this.
In order to save money, Gong Qiying deleted the teleportation mechanisms and left only two. The fake BOSS only symbolically placed some skeleton monsters and blood mosquitoes, so the chance of being found was greatly increased.
He spent almost one night rebuilding a dungeon. The workload was so huge that it was impossible for a human to do it.
Negligence is inevitable.
"I didn't expect there were experts among the masses. I didn't think it through."
He pinched his brows and started to choose from the available monsters.
He had to strangle the elf girl when she arrived at his door, but the mental energy he expended could not exceed the amount required to revive himself after being killed, otherwise it would be a loss.
When he saw a certain figure among the available monsters, he suddenly laughed.
"The decision is yours, go ahead, Mr. Crucible!"
【Furnace Knight (Axe Helmet)】
[Required mental power per unit: 800]
[Life: C, Strength: C+, Intelligence: C, Endurance: C, Speed: C, Overall Combat Power: C]
(End of this chapter)
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