Dungeon Designer: Bringing Smiles to the World!

After a battle that wasn't too difficult, the nine men found the ground in front of them littered with the corpses of the sick village residents.

The corpses were piled up together, emitting a nauseating stench, and a swarm of disgusting flies hovered and swarmed above them, eager to feast on the desolation.

"vomit……"

Seeing this, apart from Galadon and Rivera who remained relatively calm, the other seven all wore expressions of nausea, as if they were about to vomit.

This scene is truly pushing both the physical and mental limits.

"No, no." Alyssa pinched her nose, shook her head, and looked at Joel with encouraging eyes.

"Well……"

Although reluctant, Joel had no choice but to grit his teeth and use his spare longsword to clear away the pile of corpses and collect as many souls as possible from the sick village residents.

There was no other way; after seeing the huge amount of divine skill equipment that Patchina was selling, no one wanted to miss any opportunity to earn souls.

Fortunately, Joel wasn't "fighting" alone, and the others couldn't just sit back and reap the rewards. They all pitched in to help, and even Grace, a former noblewoman, puffed out her cheeks and rummaged through the pile of corpses.

This "unwillingness" and "disgust" are of course also a kind of negative emotional energy. After this, everyone contributed a lot of energy to the dungeon.

As the saying goes, perseverance pays off. After some exploration, the number of souls collected by the group was quite considerable. "Just" a few dozen more battles like this would be enough to buy the three great divine skills they had seen before!

"I feel... ugh... I can't take it anymore." Elisa quickly cast the first-level spell [Water Creation] to give everyone, who were still smelling bad, a bath.

After getting away from the stinking pile of corpses, everyone felt that they could breathe more easily.

"These monsters are too weak to lose much soul, and fighting them is a waste of time," Elisa suggested. "Let's conserve our strength to face that Gluttonous Dragon."

This suggestion naturally received strong support from everyone. After all, they could go back and "farm monsters and souls" after defeating the Gluttonous Dragon, so there was no need to waste time and energy now, which would only make the later battle with the Gluttonous Dragon more difficult.

Once the decision was made, the group immediately set off, hoping to reach the highly poisonous swamp at the bottom of the disease village as soon as possible, and then fight the gluttonous dragon for three hundred rounds!

However, dreams are beautiful, but reality is harsh.

The scale of the diseased village far exceeded everyone's previous expectations.

This can't even be called a village anymore; it's almost half the size of a town!

This is also "thanks" to Rogge's strategy. Since time did not allow him to make major adjustments to the structure of the disease village, he simply and crudely expanded the area, which could still cause great trouble for the adventurers.

In addition, with the "monster pack" as their winning strategy, the group will inevitably encounter a large number of well-organized and disciplined Sick Village residents patrolling every short distance they travel in the village.

"These guys don't seem like infected monsters at all; they're more disciplined than a regular army."

Beneath a dilapidated, towering tower, Lia stared at the villagers of Sick Village patrolling with torches in the distance and muttered under her breath.

"We can't afford to waste time fighting these monsters like this," Galadon said in a deep voice beside Leah. "We need to finish this quickly."

The five members of the SilverAsh Squad all turned to look at the four members of the Ember Squad.

"How did you get to that swamp at the bottom?" Horn couldn't help but ask.

"Ahem, it was just luck, pure luck." Joel was a little embarrassed. Now it seemed that they were incredibly lucky to have all made it to the bottom of Sicks Village alive.

"There are far more monsters here than when we explored before," Elisa said.

"Hmph." Dylan sneered, "In the end, you're still completely useless."

"What did you say?!" Elisa immediately bristled.

Seeing that the two were about to start arguing again, and that it might attract the residents of the diseased village, Horn and Joel quickly pulled them back.

"Alright, alright, let's think about how to get to the swamp quickly and find that gluttonous dragon."

In a typical dungeon, it would be sufficient for the two assassins, Aisso and River, to scout ahead.

In this labyrinthine village of disease, finding a path that avoids the patrol areas of the villagers and quickly reaches the most poisonous swamp at the bottom sounds like a pipe dream.

The group could only pin their hopes on the strategy guide they had bought from the mysterious shopkeeper.

Elisa cast the [Glimmer] spell, and Lia, holding the strategy guide, quickly and carefully read through every suggestion in the guide.

A few minutes later, after finishing reading the not-so-thick guide, Lia said with some surprise, "There really is a path in the guide!"

"What?!"

The others quickly gathered around, while Lia flipped to a page in the guide.

"It says that Blighttown was actually built around a huge central drainage canal. It was this canal that discharged countless filth from the Undead City above to the bottom of Blighttown, eventually forming that poisonous swamp," Lia said quickly.

"If we can find that drainage ditch, we can get to the swamp quickly!"

"The key question is the entrance to the drainage ditch? Does the guide mention it?" the others quickly asked.

"Uh, let me take another look." Leah flipped through the guide again, but finally shook her head awkwardly: "It doesn't mention the exact location of the drainage ditch entrance, it only suggests that we look in the area where the most residents of Sick Village are gathered."

"Damn it! Isn't this outrageous?!" Elisa couldn't help but swear.

The purpose of finding the hidden path was to avoid fighting that group of Sicks Village residents, but now they say that to find this path, we have to go to places with lots of monsters?

What are you doing, leaving it there?

"The drainage ditch?" Rivera, who hadn't said much until now, suddenly interjected, pointing in a direction: "That should be the place mentioned in the guide."

Looking in the direction River pointed, all they could see was darkness, with only a few scattered lights in the darkness.

"Oh, I forgot you're not assassins, you don't have darkvision." River shook her head.

At this moment, the assassin Aiso from the SilverAsh Squad also spoke up, pointing in the same direction as River: "That's right, there's a large columnar building over there, that should be the drainage ditch."

"Snapped!"

Lia slammed the guide shut: "Looks like we have a direction now."

After determining the direction of travel, the two assassins, River and Aiso, took on the responsibility of leading the group forward, and they needed to do their best to avoid plunging into the area where the residents of Sicksville were gathered and patrolled.

They also need to be on guard against powerful monsters like Soul-Sucking Ghosts in the vicinity.