Dungeon Designer: Bringing Smiles to the World!

"BOOM...!!!"

After the dazzling and spectacular explosion, the giant mushroom finally collapsed to the ground, its entire body covered in soot.

Not only that, but a rather tempting aroma wafted into everyone's nostrils, instantly whetting their appetites.

"Gurgle..."

Everyone turned to look at Grace, who had made the sound.

The priestess's ears immediately flushed red, and she covered her face, hiding behind River. It would be too embarrassing to admit that she had been tempted by a freshly roasted monster in the dangerous dungeon.

"Uh." Alyssa looked at the fallen mushroom from left to right, hesitated, and reached out to touch it. "Is this thing edible?"

"Let me do it." Horn raised a prayer catalyst and released a prayer to detect toxicity and disease.

"I should be able to eat it, but..." Despite his age, Horn had never eaten this kind of novel plant-based monster that had been roasted.

The group looked at each other, none of them willing to be the first to try something new—no, the first to try something new.

"I'll do it!"

Suddenly, Joel, who had been punched away by the mushroom earlier, rushed over and swung his [Serpent Scimitar] to cut off a perfectly roasted piece of the umbrella cap.

Fueled by resentment at being knocked away twice, Joel took his first bite.

Under the watchful eyes of others, Joel chewed a few times and then suddenly stopped.

"Are you alright?"

This startled Grace, who immediately prepared to cast a healing and detoxification prayer, but Joel simply waved his hand and then took a few gulps of water from the water bottle at his waist.

"Cough cough, I'm choking a bit."

Joel gave a thumbs up: "Two words: delicious."

After waiting a while, seeing that Joel didn't seem to be poisoned, the others decided to give the roasted mushrooms a try.

It has to be said that while these mushrooms are fierce when they fight, they also taste really good.

"I feel like if we could take it out, it would definitely sell like hotcakes." As a money-grubber, Elisa was the first to come up with the idea of ​​starting a business.

"It's already this difficult to take down just one, let's just give up." Joel quickly shook his head. One mushroom could send him flying with a single punch. If there were more, wouldn't they beat him so badly that he would be resurrected and sent back to the city?

"That's true." Alyssa didn't dwell on it much and quickly cut the mushrooms into pieces with the others, preparing to use them as their next food source.

Compared to the dry rations bought from the association, which were useless except for filling one's stomach and tasted like chewing wax, these mushrooms were simply a delicacy!

"Alright, let's move on."

Lia jumped onto the tree trunk and looked ahead.

After the battle with the mushroom, she regained confidence in her senses.

"Speaking of which," Joel said, chewing on a mushroom and speaking somewhat unclearly, "mushrooms don't usually appear alone, do they?"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone had a bad feeling.

"Rustle and rustle..."

The sounds of large creatures moving through the grass and trees echoed from all directions.

"You jinx!" Alyssa glared at Joel. After being in the team for so long, she had long since noticed the hidden attribute of the swordsman in her team.

"What does this have to do with me!"

"Alright, run!" Horn interrupted the two's bickering. They could already see a large number of mushrooms peeking out from the woods.

If we exclude the overpowered attack methods of the Dark Hand, the individual combat strength of this group of mushrooms is no less than that of the Soul Eater.

With just these few people, and with Galadon, a key shield guard, out of combat, a head-on confrontation would definitely not be a wise choice.

"call out!"

Several arrows were fired, slightly hindering the movement of a few mushrooms.

Dylan and Elisa once again cooperated and used magic to create a wall of fire. Normally, Lia, an environmentally conscious elf, would definitely condemn this behavior, but the situation was urgent and they couldn't care less about that now.

Fortunately, although these mushrooms were incredibly powerful, they weren't very fast. The group broke out of the encirclement without much effort and ran out of the forest in one go.

"Huff huff..."

Panting heavily, Elisa looked back at the woods and was surprised to find that the once raging wall of fire had been extinguished. Above where the fire wall had been, there was only a group of bloated flying insects, some of which were still spraying water downwards.

"A magical environment."

Lia remarked that if this weren't an underground city, it might be a perfect place for elves to live.

But unfortunately, reality doesn't offer "what ifs".

Moreover, Lia had another question.

Was this environment formed naturally, or was it designed by the lord of the underground city?

If it's the former, how long would that take?

If it's the latter, what kind of genius would the designer be?

However, Lia ultimately chose to keep her doubts to herself and focus on her exploration for now.

Although they had left the grove, the group remained inside the enormous tree hollow.

The vibrant scene seemed to exist only in that small area just now; the place where everyone was now was extremely desolate, with withered vines and branches everywhere, as if thousands of years had passed.

"We should go down."

Lia peeked out and looked through the mesh woven from withered vines into the bottomless tree hole.

The group entered the tree hole in the middle section, and obviously, the best way to find the Gluttonous Dragon and the Curse-Breaking Stone was to explore downwards.

After all, in the dungeon, the more dangerous the place, the more precious the treasures there are – that's an ironclad rule.

Looking at this familiar jumping puzzle segment, unpleasant memories flooded everyone's minds.

Do they still remember that deep pit jumping game in the Dorne Dungeon?

"I have guts..." Joel wanted to say something more, but after being glared at by Elisa, he wisely shut his mouth.

"Is there no other way?" Horn hesitated. Although he was not dead, Galadon had already handed over command to him.

In Horn's view, this kind of terrain with no return was indeed very dangerous, and unless absolutely necessary, he would take any other route if given the choice.

Aisso and Rivers immediately broke away from the group to scout ahead, but returned a moment later, shaking their heads in unison.

There is no other way.

"Alright." Horn nodded helplessly, and could only prepare to go down with the others.

After casting the [Feather Fall Technique], feeling much lighter, the group didn't waste any time and began to descend along the winding path formed by the intertwined dry vines and branches.

Meanwhile, Elisa, Dylan, and Lia, the three main ranged damage dealers, always kept their staffs and bows firmly in hand.

They worried that, like before, some disgusting monster would suddenly appear again, as the threat of any monster would be greatly increased in such treacherous terrain.

Good news: their worries were unnecessary; they did not encounter any of those disgusting flying monsters.

But the bad news is that a group of "people" carrying swollen giant eggs on their backs blocked their way.