Dungeon Designer: Bringing Smiles to the World!

Patch was right; without exception, all the items he sold were extremely useful to adventurers.

Repair powder can significantly extend the lifespan of equipment, saving a large amount of maintenance costs.

【Green Grass】can, to some extent, replace the priest's energy to restore prayer, and is very useful when facing groups of enemies, whether in battle or escape.

Several types of oils that can inflict special damage such as fire damage, magic damage, and poison damage on melee weapons are also quite good, and will be very useful when dealing with enemies that are weak to certain special attribute attacks.

But these little props didn't hold Grace's attention for long; the priestess's eyes were soon drawn to a white scroll.

The pop-up notification clearly displays the content recorded on this learning scroll.

Farewell Tears

Miracles imparted by Moen, the apostle of Archbishop Kalim

When facing imminent death, this is the only time one can escape.

This is a miracle created to give the dying enough time to say goodbye.

Tears are shed for the living, far more so than for the dead.

The description is simple, but the effect is astonishing.

After casting, it grants immunity to one death. Although the damage still occurs, it won't heal, but it buys adventurers invaluable healing time.

Not to mention that this miracle lasts for several minutes, enough to sustain a quick battle.

Perhaps the only drawback is that it places extremely high demands on the user; ordinary priests will be drained after only a few uses.

Furthermore, the priest class differs from the mage class; they cannot replenish their magic power by crushing radiance stones.

However, this shortcoming was not a big problem for Grace, who was of mixed merman and merman blood. Her talent, inherited from her merman mother, allowed her to draw energy from the moisture in the air at any time, which was enough to make a large number of human magicians and priests envious.

However, this talent is not very useful in Blighttown.

The water here is completely tainted by filth; even breathing makes Grace uncomfortable, let alone drawing magic.

But in any case, this is a priest's divine skill!

Grace's eyes lit up, and she quickly pointed to the scroll, asking, "How much is this?"

"Special price: 300 souls, or 10 humanities."

"Ugh, that's expensive." Grace obviously couldn't afford it.

Patch glared at her: "Hey, little girl, don't talk nonsense! This is already the lowest price I've offered because you're the first customers of Blighttown. I'd sell such a high-quality Miracle Scroll for at least a thousand souls to anyone else!"

After being scolded, Grace quickly ran to the other three and asked them if they had found any souls or humanity during their exploration.

The result was naturally that they returned empty-handed.

Now it was Patch's turn to be dumbfounded: "Wait? You didn't kill a single monster along the way?"

"You've taken them all? Quite a few. What's wrong?" The group looked puzzled.

Patch covered his face: "Humanity is unique to humans, and the ways to acquire it are varied and not limited to killing. However, the soul is separated and falls away when a living being dies. The number of souls separated varies depending on the strength of the creature. In short, it takes some time..."

Upon hearing this, the group froze. After arriving in this godforsaken place, the disease village, they were bombarded with information while being chased by monsters. They had no time to wait for the monster's corpse to extract its soul.

A sense of regret for missing out on millions of gold coins arose in the hearts of the three people except for River.

Are they now going to turn around and run off to collect souls from the corpses of dead monsters?

However, Elisa and Joel soon set their sights on Patch.

You can't beat those monsters, but you can't beat a defenseless merchant like me?

That's right!

This is all a conspiracy by the treacherous dungeon lord! His aim is to kill them on their way to collect souls! As adventurers, they will never fall for it!

"What are you doing?!" Patch, noticing their malicious gazes, became alert. "Do you really want to bully the trustworthy Patch?! I just gave you so much information for nothing! Even Soul Eaters aren't this inhuman!"

"A soul-devouring ghost?" Grace asked immediately, having heard a new term.

"They're those guys who're obsessed with using killing to plunder humanity." Patch didn't explain much, turning to say, "If you have no soul or humanity, then you must have something to sell, right? I'm open to bartering."

"Hmph." Elisa snorted a few times. If you can just rob someone, why would you barter with them?

Joel also drew his sword, looking like he was about to rob someone.

No matter how captivating the other's story was, neither of them trusted Patch, the merchant who had inexplicably appeared in the dungeon, from beginning to end, assuming that he was just another trick by the dungeon lord.

Faced with this situation, these righteous adventurers must strike hard!

Robbery? It feels good, but it's illegal.

Raiding dungeons? It's legal and awesome!

Seeing that his goods and even his life might be in danger, Patch's face showed a pleading expression, but his hand had already silently reached for the shield on the ground beside him...

Fortunately, the fight did not break out again, as Grace stopped the three of them in time.

"Grace, you don't really want to do business with this guy, do you?" Elisa advised. "Even though he's human, who knows if he's one of those traitors who betrayed the surface and sided with the chaotic races underground?"

"I know all that, but Mr. Patch really didn't harm us, and he did tell us a lot of information, didn't he?" Grace's tone was quite firm: "I don't want to do that. Let me handle the trade."

Rivera, who hadn't said a word, simply stood quietly beside Grace, unconditionally supporting Grace's actions.

Rivers looked at Grace with a hint of wistfulness in her eyes.

She marveled at how the little girl she had watched grow up had transformed from a caged bird at the mercy of others into someone capable of making her own decisions.

The situation has become 2 against 2.

In other adventurer parties, this could very well be the trigger for the team to fall apart.

Fortunately, Alyssa and Joel were sensible and didn't insist on robbing Patch anymore, instead putting away their weapons.

Elisa glared fiercely at Patch: "If you dare to trick our Grace, I'll stuff you into the gluttonous dragon's ass!"

"I wouldn't dare," Patch laughed. "Besides, the Gluttonous Dragon doesn't have a butt either."

After saying that, Patch looked at Grace: "Kind-hearted and beautiful lady, what can you offer?"

Under everyone's gaze, Grace reached out and removed the silver necklace with azure sapphires from her neck.

Rivera's eyes flickered slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't speak.

"Beautiful lady, ordinary treasures and jewelry are worthless in this world," Patch smiled.

"This is a magical item." Grace said, handing the necklace to Patch.

Having just obtained the necklace and used the Appraisal skill granted by Rogue, Patch quickly said, "Are you sure you want to use this to exchange for [Tears of Farewell]?"

"I'm sure," Grace said firmly.

"Hehehe, well then, the deal is done." Patch accepted the necklace and handed the scroll containing the words "Tears of Farewell" to Grace.