Chapter 697 is Sean’s self-defense
"As expected, when outsiders are not around, people no longer care about their reputation."
Gong Qiying looked at the battle invitations that had flooded the screen and kept a smile on his face for a long time.
"No, it's more like they'll immediately fall out once their own interests are involved."
The first dungeons to receive battle/deathmatch invitations were Explosive Light, Holy Light, and White Blood, three dungeons I had only recently encountered.
Soon after, a bunch of other dungeons appeared. Gong Qiying had heard of the names of these dungeons, such as the Natural Dungeon, the Moonlight Dungeon, and the Solid Rock Dungeon, but had almost no contact with them.
What are these people doing crazy?
If you think about it carefully, the reason these dungeons followed suit was probably because the Holy Light Dungeon spread the news that Sion was coming to open a branch city.
Then the news erupted in an animated burst, like a can of Mentos being thrown at it.
Gong Qiying opened the world color map, observed the surrounding dungeons with the Fanatic Dungeon as the center, and compared them one by one with the dungeons that sent him "invitations", and then showed an expression of "I see".
No wonder everyone's reaction was so intense.
It turns out that they are all neighbors who are fanatical about the dungeon.
"That's not surprising."
Scameron, the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Religions, is a country famous for its many faiths and religions gathered under one roof.
Due to the special national conditions, the dungeons here are more or less tainted with religious elements, or are artificially given religious elements. For example, during his investigation, he heard that the White Blood Dungeon had no religious elements at all but was still revered by the sect that believed in the Blood God.
But due to the special national conditions, the underground city here lacks "giants".
That is, the heavyweight players can be seen at a glance because their own colors occupy a large area in the entire national map.
For example, there is the Sion Dungeon to the Kingdom of Anor and Red, and the Red Fang Dungeon, which once dominated the Warrior Kingdom but is now temporarily overshadowed by the Sion Dungeon.
There are no giants, and the influence of the dungeons on Scameron's side is very dispersed. Dozens of large and small dungeons of different colors form a puzzle with uncertain edges.
Even with the support of the Holy Light Church, one of the most influential sects in the country, the color coverage of the Holy Light Dungeon is actually only one or two circles larger than other dungeons.
In addition, due to the war, the influence of Scameron's dungeon is changing dramatically every day, and it seems that the fighting is quite fierce.
Maybe you are the one who dominates the world today, but tomorrow a master suddenly appears and slaps you off a cliff. A few days later, you have an encounter and climb up from the bottom of the cliff to kill the master, but you cannot rest yet because there are other opponents wandering around nearby.
The entire Scarmelon is like a bunch of small vendors competing for customers. It is estimated that a large company will emerge in the future, but that is a matter of the future. Now it is still a fierce business war.
Then, a question arises.
What would happen if a large company that has not been in business for long but has already gained a great reputation suddenly came to open a branch among all these small vendors?
"Of course the result is that those vendors who don't have any unique characteristics are kicked to death."
It is absolutely impossible to expect believers to continue paying tribute to their own dungeon. The Skamirons have a flexible bottom line for faith. You just have to see whether they will change their faith after Sion comes and opens a branch city.
It can be modified.
The most likely scenario is that the people of Skamiron would hesitate for a while in their own beliefs and then immediately run to Sen to convert to religion. Their biggest worry is probably which one they should believe in.
I was stuck in the same dilemma as the people of Red, who were struggling to decide whether to eat the rice from the Warrior Kingdom or the pancakes from the Anor Kingdom. In the end, I decided to eat both and add the food area, so that I could be considered healthy.
So, faced with this hopeless, hellish future, what should the local dungeon of Skamiron do?
Of course, we had to quickly overturn the stall before the goods from the Sean Dungeon were delivered!
Gong Qiying counted and found that there were more than ten dungeons that had issued a declaration of war against him.
They are all neighbors. What happened to the idea of being good to your neighbors? This has become eating your neighbors!
"So many people challenged me at once. Do you know you can't beat me alone, so you're planning to fight me in rotation?"
The current Sean dungeon is different from before. He has the power to refuse to fight.
However, there is no guarantee that there are people in these dungeons that have issued the challenge who still have the power to "initiate the battle for the first time and therefore cannot be rejected."
Rather than waiting for such people to come to him, Gong Qiying still prefers to hold the initiative in his own hands. He will take the initiative to pick a fight back in these dungeons, and then
Fight back one by one!
[Although there are people who act like bitches occasionally, I've been looking forward to this generally peaceful situation my whole life. If possible, I'd like you to refrain from any violence.]
The voice of Chiya appeared in his mind at that time. This sentence was said by Gong Qiying not long ago when he said, "Why don't I just beat up all those suspicious dungeons?"
"Grandpa Chiya, look carefully, I didn't initiate this trouble. They came to me first."
Gong Qiying clenched his fists, making his bones crackle.
"This shows that the city lords have been influenced by the war in Scameron and have become warlike. I will help you re-educate them."
He is protecting himself. Chiya will support him and maybe even come to help.
“But it’s really exaggerated when you think about it.”
He looked at the large area of green on the world's colored map, representing the Sion dungeon. Although he still wanted to complain that the color scheme looked like Nurgle, he was now almost used to it.
What he exaggerated was that it had only been less than a year since he took over the Sean Dungeon, but he had actually grown the Sean Dungeon business to its current size, with three countries rushing to serve him.
In a month or so it will be the first anniversary of the Sion Dungeon, so the current operating time of Sion is only a "few months" at the very least.
This can be considered terrifying.
Wherever there is a Sion dungeon, it will attract many people to come in and dedicate their spiritual power, while spreading the color of Sion.
Although the speed of transmission is not as fast as Nurgle, the efficiency of dyeing is still shocking enough among city lords.
So it is no wonder that the local city lords of Skamilon overreacted so much. They were all afraid of dying in the business competition.
"But then again, I don't think I've ever played dirty tricks on my peers. I've always spoken based on my strength, so my moral character can be said to be quite noble."
At this point, Gong Qiying's expression suddenly became strange again, because he suddenly thought of a question.
It seems that wherever the Sion Dungeon appears, a major event will occur in that country that is powerful enough to affect the entire country.
No, you can't think like that. It should be said that it is fortunate that Sion came to save these countries before they collapsed!
The next country that Sean's dungeon will go to is confirmed to be Skamiron, the Kingdom of All Religions.
This country has already experienced such a terrible thing as civil unrest and war. Even if we go through the Sean Dungeon, there won't be any disaster more serious than war, right?
That shouldn’t be the case, right?
Gong Qiying shook his head and stopped worrying about these trivial matters. Instead, he began to read the declarations of war that were presented to him.
He glanced at them and then clicked one at random.
【Accepted the battle of the Explosive Dungeon】
Once you have accepted the challenge from a dungeon, invitations from other dungeons will automatically become invalid and will be valid until the end of the battle.
Explosive underground city, the city lord is Yan Huo.
Among the three city lords that he met at the beginning, Yanhuo chatted with Gong Qiying the most.
Although Chiya said that he had a bad temper and that he was acting a bit at first, his words and actions revealed that he was a decent person. He seemed to be the same type of person as Pantheon from the Stone Dungeon.
After all, most city lords directly sent a death battle, but Yanhuo was relatively calm and restrained, and sent a dungeon battle.
Gong Qiying prefers dealing with people with this kind of personality because he doesn't have to be so careful with his words when speaking.
"And we can use the flames as a breakthrough point to get information from him about other people."
No matter what, locals like Yanhuo have the deepest understanding of Scameron.
In addition to these factors, there was another reason why Gong Qiying chose Yanhuo as the first person to fight.
That is, he really didn't understand what the conflict was between his Sion Dungeon and the Explosion Dungeon.
Gong Qiying knew about the Spark Church.
When he first learned from Chiya that there were traces of the Fire God Flame in the Explosive Dungeon, he wondered if the Explosive Dungeon, which outwardly expressed its dislike for Sion, hated Sion because of religious issues.
The Holy Light Dungeon can be said to be due to religion, he can't think of the White Blood Dungeon, maybe the Explosive Fire Dungeon is also due to religion?
But after talking at that cocktail party, he learned that the first decline of the Explosive Dungeon was because the people who used to come regularly to worship the remains of the God of Fire gradually stopped coming.
He even asked about the time carefully.
During that period of time, the Church of Spark had not yet changed the God of Fire from the original Flame to Gwyn. At that time, Leon and the others had just been roared to death by the lion ape and fell into a state of terror and stayed at home in autism.
At least at that time, the Sion Dungeon did not harm the interests of the Explosion Dungeon.
So Yanhuo said that he hated Sion for reasons other than religion. Gong Qiying wanted to try to make it clear in this battle. If he could, it would be nice to gain a friend.
After all, among the city lords he met at the party, only Yanhuo looked slightly like a normal person.
The remaining two are a rich and arrogant religious fanatic and a poor and gloomy villain girl, both of whom seem difficult to deal with.
Gong Qiying was about to contact Yanhuo, but after thinking about it, he took out the letter paper, as writing a letter would appear more formal.
Dungeon combat and dungeon deathmatch are two different things.
A fight to the death is a fight to the death. The loser will lose everything, including all resources in his own dungeon, which will be at the mercy of others. The most serious situation also means the greatest rewards.
But fighting is different, it is more like a competition, except that both sides have to bet something before they can start fighting, and the winner can get the treasure that the loser bet on as a reward.
Gong Qiying thought he could probably guess what Yanhuo wanted.
Before he finished writing the letter, news came from the Explosive Dungeon. It seemed that the person was even more impatient than Gong Qiying, and was very anxious.
It was not a letter, but a direct call request, just like when a projection device was directly delivered to the Val Dungeon.
Gong Qiying prepared the projection device, and a moment later, Yanhuo's figure appeared on the projection device, still with the appearance of a fire elemental creature.
"I'm sorry, Godwin, for suddenly challenging you to a dungeon battle. But judging by your expression, you don't seem angry at all."
Yanhuo apologized as soon as he appeared, but when he saw the smile on Gong Qiying's face, he swallowed the rest of his apology and returned to his previous personality at the party.
"So polite? I thought you would say something harsh when we met."
"Haha, harsh words are meant for enemies like the demons, but you are my friend."
"How can you fight with your friends?"
"Sorry, sorry, but I started the fight because I thought you needed someone to help you."
The flames that made up Yanhuo's body danced more nimbly. Although his facial features were only a few bumps under the combination of the flames, the depression in his mouth showed that he was grinning.
"You must be aware that as soon as you come here to open a branch city, you will become a target of public criticism. When Chiya invited you, who is so far away from here, to subdue the Sealed Artifact, I guessed that you would probably accept this invitation."
No, I was actually quite surprised when I saw so many death battle letters. Surprised, Gong Qiying said in his heart.
It seemed like Yanhuo had created a very powerful imagination for him.
"So, I was thinking, dealing with so many city lords must be a tough job. If someone could come and help you, they would definitely be in your good graces, right? They would even protect you in the future."
The depressions in Yanhuo's eyes blinked cunningly.
Gong Qiying didn't dislike the way he directly expressed his demands. Such a straightforward way of speaking seemed very refreshing now.
"Look at the Glory Dungeon in the distance. I have always been generous to my friends." Gong Qiying responded with a smile.
The flames of Yanhuo leaped even more vigorously. He nodded and said, "Actually, I wanted to be more direct, but in an environment where everyone is challenging me, you know, I have to cater to the public, not to mention..."
He stretched out his hand towards Gong Qiying, as if to shake hands with the air.
"I'm so envious of your giant, flaming golem. If I win, how about giving me one?"
He was actually sensible enough not to ask for the right to summon the Furnace Golem, but only wanted one.
"No problem. On the contrary, if I win, you will introduce me to all the dungeon masters in this country. Prepare for my mouth to dry out."
Gong Qiying also stretched out his hand and shook hands symbolically with Yanhuo's projection.
It's really worry-free to talk to open-minded people, he sighed in his heart.
And Yanhuo also sighed.
"Those who like to play with fire are indeed not bad people."
(End of this chapter)
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