Danmaku, my skills refresh weekly.

"Build it, then demolish it."

"I see."

Approaching the 18th floor, the environment here was even more extravagant than Xia Er had anticipated.

Firebirds, produced on the 20th floor, breathed flames as they assisted the blacksmiths in forging steel. Silverback apes dragged the prey captured by Lambton into the food storage, and while doing so, they secretly grabbed a thigh and chewed it.

Charles also unexpectedly saw a Berg Bear, who was lazily sleeping on the side, when he was woken up by the guards of the Dark Faction with a whip and began to work slowly and reluctantly.

"Seriously, a day apart feels like three autumns~~" Charles leaned back strategically.

He walked over and, in front of the guard, threw the Berg Bear into the firebird's blazing furnace, roasted it until it was peppery, and then tossed it to Lambton, who was changing shifts to eat.

“From now on, this is how you'll do it to anyone who misbehaves!” Charles said calmly as he put the freed collar into his pocket.

"Yes!" The guards stood at attention with respect.

Alfia's beautiful eyes flickered repeatedly: "How did you come up with such a despicable... I mean, perfect method?"

Charles scratched his head: "I think the reason others didn't think of it is mainly because they can't accept monsters."

When people encounter monsters, all they think of is fighting each other.

Even if they had the ability to enslave them, they wouldn't dare to try due to various security concerns.

Take, for example, the monster festival that the Ganesha Familia is about to prepare. Just the act of transporting monsters to the ground would make the residents feel uneasy, let alone using monsters for anything.

But the secret faction has no such concerns.

The technology for the collar is relatively mature; even level 5 enhanced dragon species can be cultivated. Simply catching some laborers only takes a little more time.

Alfia couldn't help but think.

"If there are enough collars to bind and enslave all monsters of a single type, will the dungeon still hatch that type of monster?"

What if we capture all the monsters?

Dungeons are not infinite. Just as the floor master has a limit of one, there is also a limit to the number of other monsters that can exist at the same time. Although it is very high, possibly as many as several thousand or tens of thousands, there is always a limit.

If we capture all these monsters and make them work, feeding them and keeping them alive, would that bring world peace?

Although it is difficult and the items and materials required may be astronomical, it seems simpler than clearing a dungeon.

Moreover, if humans don't enter the dungeons and reconcile with the monsters, it seems the dungeons won't need to collapse as agreed.

She suddenly realized that the Dark Faction seemed to have found a perfect way to reconcile the world.

Zeus and Hera's efforts over a thousand years were overtaken by these guys from the Dark Faction.

Chapter 292 The Dog's Research and the Happy Cable Car

"A very interesting conjecture, comrade."

Inside the construction tunnel connecting the 18th and 19th floors, a female dog-person wearing a white coat and with gleaming eyes emerged.

She wagged her broom-like black tail, her small blue eyes smug and proud.

"However, the materials for making the collar are extremely rare, requiring one to go deep into the lower realms to obtain them. In addition, they need to be combined with a variety of different curses, so they have never been put into mass production."

The woman in the white coat glanced sideways at Tina: "I don't know how you convinced that guy Balka to spend so much time preparing the 'collar'."

"Who is this?"

Charles scratched his head, feeling that the woman looked somewhat familiar.

“This is researcher number 9527, who is currently conducting modification experiments on some monsters,” Tina said expressionlessly.

"Kora, I have been given the great name Haschi by the Lord of the End!"

“In the midst of wickedness there is neither past nor future, only the conviction to march toward evil. That’s what you said before.” Tina tilted her head.

"Ahhh, Yamero, I only said that because I thought it was cool." Dog hurriedly covered Tina's mouth.

After sacrificing her own god, Haski was adopted by "noname" and also upgraded, gaining a "mysterious" ability rarely seen in the city.

However, at that time, Charles bestowed favors upon so many people to cover up his true intentions that he completely forgot about this talented individual.

In fact, most of the researchers who did not follow the path of Apat have a high probability of obtaining "mystery" and becoming sorcerers after sending the goddess to the gallows.

However, some people did not delve too much into the "Fairy Soldier" project, and some people's ability values ​​were not up to standard, so in the end only Hasqi leveled up.

Hasqi raised her head: "Hmph, since you came with Tina, you must be one of us. Let me show you the results of my research."

Charles and Tina exchanged a glance.

Did we say we were going to go see it?

"He probably wanted to show off and demonstrate his status."

"It's just the canines' instinct to fight over the alpha wolf," Alfia explained.

Since Ciel was also planning to go to the 19th floor, which had not been explored in the original work, he followed Haski through the desolate tunnel.

About 10 meters from the bottom, Xia Er and the others crawled out of the passage and entered a huge cave. Huge pillars supporting the floors stood throughout the cave, and at the end was a corridor leading to another cave.

This place is like an unfinished house that has not yet been renovated. A wide variety of experimental equipment is placed in various parts of the cave, and various containers filled with green fluorite liquid contain bizarre-looking chimeras.

"No wonder he's a mad researcher." Charles was astonished.

Even without the eccentrics providing the seedbed technology, these lunatics from the shady Apat always managed to bring him unexpected surprises.

Examples include a Burgher Bear with phoenix wings, killer bees with huge, gun-like spikes bound by its hands, and a hellhound with three heads...

"What's the point of researching these things? To develop weapons?" Alfia said calmly.

"Of course, it's to make working easier!" Hasqi said matter-of-factly, swishing its tail and raising its nose.

"If the hellhound had three heads, wouldn't its work efficiency triple, as would its eating efficiency? And if it got sleepy, it could just have one head sleep while the other two heads controlled the body to work."

"Furthermore, equipping silverback apes with two pairs of arms would allow them to move heavier loads, saving on many precious 'collars'."

Charles interjected, "Could we raise monsters with better taste? Like chicken-tailed snakes, and try to get them to reproduce?"

"Hmm, not a bad suggestion." Hasqi had a teachable look on her face: "Although the monsters underground cannot reproduce on their own, they are capable of doing so. If we actively command them to do so, given the habits of monsters on the surface, it is entirely possible to succeed."

Charles licked his lips: "I've never eaten a phoenix egg or a dragon egg before."

Alfia thought to herself, "Oh no, it seems like Sharl is on the same wavelength as this mad sorcerer."

No, it seems like Ciel's thought process isn't quite normal either?

Charles wondered if he could get some Palu to fight for him, like a Gatling gun with three heads, firing away in a rapid-fire manner; that seemed quite interesting.

But their purpose in coming here this time was not to visit.

Is there a quick way to access deeper layers?

Having learned about the changes to the man-made maze, Shire tentatively revealed his purpose.

"Yes," Hasqi answered decisively.

Immediately, she summoned a Lymton and swam away from the edge of the maze. A moment later, a bottomless vertical shaft appeared before Charles.

"This……"

"This is a passageway reserved for the construction of later floors, and it will also serve as a route for transporting supplies and for rapid movement."

Knossos is an inverted pyramid structure that is completely upside down from the underground city, with the area increasing as you go up.

The edge of the first layer actually extends far beyond Orario, almost reaching the port city.

Because of its location far from the maze, this vertical shaft is situated on the ground at a distance of approximately ten kilometers from the city. One must descend to the 50th floor before reaching the maze itself.

“Lambton is incredibly useful; its ability to devour soil and dig tunnels is perfectly suited for the construction of man-made mazes,” Haski explained.

Of course, Balca's ambitions didn't extend to building a man-made maze to 50 stories in his lifetime, but Tina's ideas accelerated the work by tens or hundreds of times, allowing him to start by building the maze to 37 stories.

Therefore, a vertical shaft leading to the 37th floor was excavated in advance using Lambton and simply secured.

"So, is this shaft safe? Could monsters come out of it?"

Hasqi said indifferently, "So what if they come out? It's all an accident. At most, a few believers will die."

and……

Hasqi took out two red whips from the cave next to the shaft. As the whips were lashed, two half-human birds emerged from the cave on the other side.

"These are our means of transportation. These half-human birds have been fed some magic stones, so they can handle most level 3 monsters. As long as they are not other specially enhanced species, simple round trips are not a big problem."

Charles gave a thumbs up: "As expected of the Dark Faction... They would never dare to do this in the city."

While Royman also has plans to build shafts in the future, he will still need to use the hardest metal to construct the passages, unlike the Dark Faction, which is completely unscrupulous and disregards the consequences.

What should have been a major project that lasted at least several years was completed by them in just a few days using a few Lambtons.

Charles was very excited. He climbed onto the back of a half-human bird (Happy) and, with the flapping of its wings, quickly descended into the depths of the shaft.

Chapter 293 Alfia's Training

As Shire descended through the shaft opened by Lambton, he continued to fall, falling, falling.

The magic stone lamps embedded around the rock wall flashed rapidly, like large bands of light.

In just a few minutes, as the centaur's wings flapped wildly, its descent speed decreased sharply, and it gradually landed on the ground.

Alfia followed closely behind, riding down on her centaur.

At the tunnel below, several Dark Faction soldiers were waiting to meet him. They took the red whip from Xia Er's hand and sent one of them to control the [Mammoth Foolish Old Man], kneeling before Xia Er.

A rope ladder, resembling a ladder, hangs down from the back of "Mammoth Yu Gong".

This is a relatively rare battle-type monster that is born around the 20th floor. Its shoulder height is close to 7 meters, and its broad back can accommodate more than a dozen people riding at the same time. It runs quite fast, but it is a bit bumpy.

After riding in the "Mammoth Yugong" for nearly ten minutes, we came to a gate sealed shut with the hardest metal.

"When you come back, remember to tap the central ruby ​​three times. Today's opening phrase is 'mammoth's tusk,' and you reply, 'In Lambton's stomach.'"

It's quite a ritualistic thing to do.

Charles nodded, passed through the open metal gate, and left the man-made maze.

Looking at the desolate, white-painted walls before her, Alfia was lost in thought.