Chapter 404: Dark Area and Terrifying Screaming Demon
Lake Lienia.
As the only area in the Sen Dungeon where people can stay permanently, it cannot be put together with other areas when discussing which area is the most popular.
Because if there is a lake area, people will probably choose the lake area.
In addition to convenience and the ability to learn magic, since the map is large enough and some of the resources are highly random, even ordinary people have a chance to survive and bring back some good stuff after taking a walk around in it.
If you can open a shop in each safe zone, you can make money even if you sell food. After all, adventurers always have various needs.
As the center of Lake Lienia, the Rhea Lukalia School of Magic is naturally a popular map. People think that if this magic school is taken out alone, it can exist as an independent area. This is enough to prove how large the area of the lake area is and how rich its content is.
In addition to the four types of mainstream magic, namely pyroxene, soul, crystal and Kalia, there is also a chance to learn some unknown magic in the magic academy that has strange effects but is particularly useful at certain times. This makes magic lovers often come here to visit, and its popularity has lasted for a long time.
However, the purpose of the Church of Holy Light is not these magics, but the underground maze connected to the magic academy, or even a small dark area without light in the underground maze.
The underground maze is a maze that conforms to the public's stereotype, with frequently changing routes, different types of monsters, and safe areas for temporary rest. The only thing that is unique to Sion is the blessings of various gods.
In the complex underground maze, there is a special area - the lightless area. Adventurers call that dark map.
To some extent, the lightless area is very famous and popular in some adventurer circles, but it is also notorious among other adventurers. The reputation is seriously polarized. Those who like it like it very much, and those who hate it don't want to encounter it. If they have to go there, they just want to pass through it quickly with a torch.
The reason is simple, it is because of the special mechanism used in it.
I don’t know if it’s magic, physiological factors, or the influence of other forces, but if there are no torches to illuminate the dark area, people in it will feel psychological pressure, and the pressure will increase as they stay in the dark for longer.
Even if you can drink some spirit-boosting potions to resist, as long as there is no torch, the psychological pressure will still increase, it's just a matter of speed.
When the pressure reaches a critical point, interesting things happen.
People's beliefs will be tested. If they fail the test, they will be tortured by stress, become overwhelmed with negative emotions, and randomly become violent, cruel, and greedy. These negative emotions can accumulate.
If you pass the test, your moral character will improve, and some may even possess the virtues of a saint and become a person of noble morals.
Whether it is torture or virtue, it can have a certain impact on the adventurer's own strength. This randomness seems very interesting to some people and makes people unable to stop, but it also makes some people extremely disgusted, because no one knows whether they will reveal some socially deadly secrets that cannot be known to others when they are tortured and become negative.
There was once a man who, overwhelmed by despair, revealed that he was dating five different people at the same time. This resulted in bloodshed within the team because the five boats he was dating all belonged to his teammates.
At present, the probability of being tortured or gaining virtue is related to the adventurer's own psychological quality. People with strong psychological quality may be able to gain a lot of virtue all the way.
Exploring a dungeon could potentially change one's personality, but the adventurers had never heard of such a thing and were filled with curiosity about the dark area.
One of the reasons that attracts curious people to explore boldly is that both virtue and torture will only take effect in the underground maze, and you will change back after leaving the maze.
After all, if they can't return to normal, few people would want to come in and bet on whether they can become as noble as a saint.
Negative emotions will disappear after leaving the underground maze, but virtues can still have a faint residual effect. There are real examples of adventurers becoming sunny, cheerful and positive after returning from the dark area.
Therefore, the lightless area is very popular among adventurers who want to experience another personality, verify whether their beliefs are firm, make changes to their personalities, etc.
Count Charon once proposed using dark areas to reform and educate criminals.
As it turned out, if four criminals were put in jail, five of them would go crazy, so the proposal was shelved.
Regardless of whether the lightless area is popular or not, as an area with special mechanisms, it enjoys a good reputation among adventurers. Recently, it has become popular to challenge the lightless area. The more people who can withstand the pressure, the more respected and popular they will be.
This is also the reason why Albud recommended this place to the bishop, and the bishop accepted it after thinking about it.
After all, other than this, the Church seems to have no other way to do anything with Dungeons and Adventurers. It can't send the Holy Light Knights to open a new area for the first time or open the Resurrection House to adventurers for free, right? The former is time-consuming and laborious while the latter will result in a loss of money.
Bed City, Holy Light Church.
Albud was walking in the corridor inside the church. People passing by did not dare to look at him with a stern face. They just greeted him and walked away in a hurry.
He responded perfunctorily, thinking about other things.
Although the bishop agreed to his suggestion just now, he hesitated on the choice of whether to bring Lika into the dungeon, especially the live broadcast. This kind of thing is really uncontrollable. It is safer to record it with a photo stone. If something goes wrong in the live broadcast, they can't take the responsibility.
Finally, the bishop's choice was to train Lika for three days, especially in the aspect of mental stress resistance. In addition, during these three days, Albud would increase the number of believers entering the dark area and conduct more extensive experiments to ensure that Lika would be safe after entering.
"What a suspicious old fellow." He muttered to himself after he walked out of the church.
He can falsify experimental data and the like, and the lightless area seems to have become much more merciful recently. He just wants Had and the church to lose face in this failure, and it would be best if they can never recover!
As for the reason
A hooded man passed by him and the two men completed their conversation in an instant.
"The church will enter the underground city in three days. If you want to make big news, then choose that time."
"Got it, thank you for your trouble."
"Where's my reward?"
"Don't worry, the Shadow Brotherhood will definitely give you and your family more money than you can spend for the rest of your life. It's much more promising than staying in the church, and you don't have to endure any bullying. The deposit has already been put in your mailbox."
After passing the hooded man, Albud's expression relaxed for a moment.
Albud used to be a typical everyday person. He just wanted himself and his family to have a life of wealth and prosperity without worries about food and clothing. At that time, the Church of Holy Light was a good choice. After he joined, he was lucky enough to be promoted to the captain of the Holy Light Knights with his outstanding abilities and the disguise of a fanatic. However, these alone were not enough to give him a sense of security, especially since he had a lot of family members.
His goal was to go further, and only by continuing to rise in position could he feel a little more secure, but Hader's arrival ruined everything, and it was at that time that he discovered something.
The harder he works, the harder his superiors will try to give him jobs and prevent him from getting promoted.
The harder you work, the less likely you are to get promoted.
For someone like him who has no connections, his life is probably over.
So he became addicted to invasion for a while and released stress through invasion, but this decadent lifestyle was of no help to his current predicament, until one day, an organization calling itself the Shadow Brotherhood approached him and expressed their willingness to pay for the scandal of the church in order to make a big news.
Albud was hesitant at first, because if the news broke, his work might be affected. What really made him make up his mind was what Hard said not long ago.
"Your daughters are very pretty and cute. Would you like to consider me? Haha, just kidding. I can't possibly marry a commoner."
Regardless of whether Hader was joking or not, it made Albud furious.
His heart is now filled with the desire for revenge.
"Let's buy some toys for our daughters today."
Having said this, he walked away.
The mysterious hooded man turned his head and looked at the other person's gradually receding back, took off his hood, rubbed his face, and restored his appearance that had been changed by the magical props produced in the dungeon to its original state, revealing a familiar face.
"The name of the Shadow Brotherhood is quite useful."
Gong Qiying raised the corners of his mouth.
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Three days later, the team organized by the Holy Light Church was completed.
The experimental data presented by Albud was very reassuring, and the church had also made multiple preparations, so it felt that it was foolproof.
In addition to the Knights of Holy Light, the team also includes senior priests and nuns, as well as Had and Albud. Together they will protect Lika.
After three days of not seeing him, Lika, who was blessed by God, now had a dull expression on his face. He reacted slowly to the outside world, and sometimes even had no reaction. This was the result of the special training, which temporarily kept him from having emotional fluctuations and made him feel less pressure. Probably.
“Make sure to take a perfect photo.” Before leaving, the bishop reminded: “Promote the best side of the church.”
The Dark Moon faith actually recovered, which was something the Church of Holy Light had never expected and could not accept.
Now they have to come up with something that can attract adventurers to become believers.
"Please rest assured, we will be fine. It's just a dungeon, not worth my worrying about." Had patted his chest confidently and looked around the team. He suddenly wondered, "Wait, why are there only fourteen people? One is missing?"
"No, not less."
The bishop smiled and said, "The one coming from the royal city will also follow you to ensure that everything goes well this time."
As soon as these words came out, Albud's body shook, and he looked around at the air, and finally found a place where there was a slight fluctuation.
The expert who was in charge of delivering the weapons was also going into the dungeon with them! ?
What are you doing here?
“.”
He suddenly felt that he might not be able to accomplish anything today. If that master was there, he would never allow any accidents to happen during the exploration process.
He was already harboring ulterior motives and was under tremendous pressure, feeling as if he were being pressed down by the warrior pot.
No matter how much pressure he felt inside, he couldn't show it. Had was pleasantly surprised and felt his sense of security greatly increased.
The team set off like this, and after a while, they soon arrived at the underground maze.
They were lucky; the location of the lightless area in the underground maze was random every day, and today it happened to be close to the entrance.
The priest in charge of filming had set up the photo stone device early in the morning. People took spirit-strengthening potions at the entrance to the dark area. The church even took the time to perform a secret fire-injection ceremony for everyone. When everything was prepared to be foolproof, the church members, without any torches, stepped into the dark area.
When walking into the dividing line between light and shadow, people's vision is suddenly shrouded in endless darkness, and they feel depressed in just a moment.
At this moment, a golden light wave came from the air, and the pressure in people's hearts suddenly disappeared.
Albud thought to himself, damn it, the master from the royal city must have used some level of magic that could actually help people resist stress.
It would be nice if he could be separated from the team.
"Hey, it's just a dark place, it's not that scary. Hey, remember to take a handsome picture of me." Had walked in front confidently.
Lika was in the center of the team. He shivered when he entered the darkness, but otherwise had no reaction to the dark area.
The team moved forward slowly, and monsters appeared from time to time, such as rotten pigmen, wriggling slime, and moving skeletons. The monsters here were all horror types, and just looking at them could bring psychological pressure to people.
What’s even more amazing is that these monsters love to howl and scream. People are already nervous in the dark, and they would be really scared if they were suddenly howled by the monsters.
However, the invisible master from the royal city always releases magic, relieving people's mental stress time and time again.
Albud calculated the time. According to the previous dozens of experiments, people should be facing their first stress test now.
But thanks to the obstruction of the invisible master, everyone is still alive and well.
Damn, bad people do good things.
He had to think that he might fail today, and just then, a new monster appeared.
"ah--"
A loud scream that could almost pierce a person's eardrum suddenly sounded in the maze, and everyone who heard it was temporarily dazed and unconscious. Even Lika, who had previously had no reaction to the outside world, frowned!
Albud glanced at the air around him and was surprised to find that the invisible master did not release magic immediately to relieve everyone's psychological pressure!
What? It turns out you can also suffer setbacks.
Suddenly, a bird-shaped monster swooped down from above the crowd, grabbed a priest, opened its sharp beak and let out a loud howl that was unacceptable to humans!
Blood gushed out from the holes on the pastor's body, and the scene was extremely horrifying.
This is a classic monster in the dark area - [Horror Screaming Demon]!
It can use its screams and body to attack adventurers. If the adventurer is lucky enough, its temperament will change drastically when it hears its scream! It's like torture!
When the terrifying screaming demon appeared, another classic monster in the dark area, the [Limper], brought a group of small limpers and surrounded the church's team.
For a moment, demons were dancing wildly and howling everywhere.
"Be on guard!" Hader ordered, "Show us our most fearless side and destroy all the monsters. Not a single one of you can die!"
The terrifying screaming demon was suddenly hit by something and kept retreating. It was the invisible master. She was angry!
With this master around, Hader would definitely not be afraid and commanded everyone to rush towards the limping man.
Just then, a strange sound was heard in the darkness again.
It sounded like a mentally insane old man was telling something.
"Hehehe, yellow-haired men and brown-haired women, watch your head and your feet, this is a prophecy of disaster!"
"What?"
The blond man was a Holy Light Knight. Just as he reacted, a large amount of rubble suddenly fell on his head. A huge rock even hit him on the head, causing him an instant concussion.
But who is the brown-haired woman?
The ground in front of the terrifying screaming demon suddenly cracked, and the screaming demon attacked by the "air" suddenly broke free from the attack and pounced towards the crowd.
Albud suddenly realized that the brown-haired woman was referring to the invisible master!
She fell!
In the darkness, a crazy old man with tattered wooden shackles and two eyeballs in his hands was laughing.
This is the monster [Noisy Prophet].
(End of this chapter)
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