Dungeon Designer: Bringing Smiles to the World!

Rogue, far away in the Dorne Dungeon, was unaware that a storm was brewing against his own dungeon.

More than those things, Roger has other matters to worry about right now.

Just as planned, in order to create something like Patch that would help him take care of his child, Rogue contacted the lich Horak again.

After hearing Rogge's request, Horak's expression turned strange.

"So you mean you want me, a lich who's a master of souls, to create a babysitter for you?"

Most people would probably change their tune immediately after hearing Horak say that, since it was rather...insulting.

However, Rogge remained calm and immediately brought up the crucial issue of the dungeon: "My energy is limited. If I have to take care of Corax, I will inevitably relax my oversight of the dungeon's design."

"Why not just use [Dominate Humans] to dominate any adventurer?" Horak said, somewhat speechless.

"I can't trust him."

Rogue's reasoning was simple: "Dominate Humans" is only a 5th-level spell, and it can be easily dispelled by classes like Arcane Mages.

"Alright, alright."

Holak didn't refuse any longer and reluctantly agreed.

"Remember to send me the design drafts; I need to prepare the soul and materials in advance."

After saying that, Horak hung up the call.

Just like when creating Patch, Rogue needed to design the character's appearance, personality, and other characteristics. Horak was responsible for creating the mold using fresh corpses and specific souls. Finally, Rogue used his special ability to infuse the mold with negative emotional energy.

In this way, a life that truly possesses self-awareness, advanced intelligence, and even a unique soul can be born into the world.

With the experience of making Patch last time, the preparations were completed quickly.

A body meticulously crafted by Horak was transported to Rogue via teleportation magic.

"What is this?"

Korax, who had been quiet all along, suddenly came over, sniffed, and tilted his head in confusion: "There's no smell."

"A lifeless doll will naturally have no smell."

That's right, a doll.

At this moment, what stood before Rogge and Corax was not a corpse, but a lifelike doll.

The doll is tall and slender, with snow-white hair and porcelain-like skin. She wears a brown long dress in the style of the Victorian era.

"I didn't expect Horak to be such a good doll maker." After circling the doll a few times and confirming that there were no problems with the details, Roger nodded in satisfaction.

Beside the doll is a special soul created by Horak using the lich's special abilities, according to the settings given by Rogge.

This is the most crucial point; otherwise, Roger, who is not proficient in soul techniques, would not be able to create a life with self-awareness and advanced intelligence using only negative emotional energy.

"A doll..."

While Corax was still muttering the word he didn't understand, Roger had already begun injecting negative emotional energy into the doll.

As energy was inputted, the special soul began to gradually merge into the doll's body.

Seeing this, Roger couldn't help but sigh.

The guy who first discovered and utilized negative emotions as a kind of "omnipotent energy" was a genius.

Unfortunately, the textbooks in the underground city of the academy only had a vague description of this, but at the time, both students and teachers generally believed that the previous Demon King had invented this technology.

A short while later, as the energy injection ended, the exquisite doll slowly opened its eyes.

"Ah... are you my hunter?"

The doll looked at Rogge, its voice cold and indifferent.

Great, it's the silent attribute, we're saved...

Cough cough cough, shaking off the strange thoughts in his mind, Rogue nodded: "I am Rogue, the lord of this [Dorn Dungeon]. You should already know your mission."

"mission……"

The doll lowered its head, as if it were pondering something.

As beings that are artificially created and endowed with personality and intelligence, it is not strange that commands are written into their instincts.

"My mission," the doll turned to look at Corax beside her, "is to take care of Miss Corax's daily life and to complete her compulsory education."

"Hmm, it seems there shouldn't be any problems."

Roger casually tossed the doll a compulsory education textbook from the Magic City Academy and gave it a name.

"Maria, from this day forward, this will be your name."

The puppet took the textbook and nodded gently.

"Finally, I can get some rest." After finishing all that, Roger couldn't wait to go back to his room to catch up on some sleep.

Since Kolac arrived in the dungeon, he hasn't had much rest.

Although Corax is the quiet and unassuming type, this is actually because she lacks common sense.

Normal people's stomachs will growl when they're hungry, but Corax is the type who won't utter a sound even when he's starving to the point of exhaustion.

"Thump!"

With the door to Rogue's room closed, only the doll Maria and Corax remained in the living room.

After a moment of staring at each other, Maria was the first to lower her head and begin flipping through the textbook in her hands.

Unlike Corax, who lacked common sense, Maria, as an artificial life form, had already been instilled with the necessary knowledge and could naturally understand the contents of the textbook.

As a nanny and teacher, Maria's first priority is obviously to digest the content of the textbook herself.

but……

"Snapped!"

Maria closed the textbook and looked at Corax.

As a grown man, Roger certainly didn't know how to do a girl's makeup, so although Corax was clean and tidy, her black hair looked very messy, like a stray cat that had been wandering for a long time.

Setting education aside for now, Maria decided to focus on taking care of Corax first.

……

Meanwhile, in the room, Roger, lying on the bed, tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

Although my mind was thinking about resting, my body felt the same way.

But at this moment, Rogge still couldn't help but think about the plans to modify the dungeon.

Furthermore, according to the information I heard from the adventurers in Leman City using my phantom clone, Horak's [Taifa Dungeon] will soon face joint exploration by two teams.

The Blighttown map was designed by Rogue a long time ago, and now it seems somewhat outdated.

They were no match for the few adventurers in the SilverAsh Squad.

Just like that monster Galadron, it could probably defeat all the monsters in Blighttown by itself, except for the Gluttonous Dragon.

Since the structure of the Blighttown couldn't be modified in a short time, Rogue had no choice but to focus on the monsters.

"Sigh, it feels like I'm destined to be a workaholic..."

With a sigh, Roger forced himself to sit up despite his fatigue, preparing to think carefully about what kind of underworld monsters he should release into the Sick Village this time.