Dungeon Designer: Bringing Smiles to the World!

Dylan stood frozen in place, his eyes gradually becoming bloodshot, muttering that sentence over and over again.

"Light is time...light is time..."

These five short words seem to contain the secrets of the world.

Magic related to time involves rules and is always profound and powerful.

Most mages can only touch the threshold of time magic when they step into a higher-level advanced profession, such as an arcane mage or a starwalker.

As for studying, that's something for later.

But now, the truth about time has been revealed to Dylan.

"Ura-shilu... Light is time... Ura-shilu... Light is time..."

Dylan's brain was working at lightning speed; the large amount of thinking he did in a short period of time accelerated his metabolism.

The specific symptoms include increased body surface temperature, sweating, shivering, and so on...

Abbreviation: Red Temperature.

"Hey, are you alright?"

Lia waved her hand in front of Dylan, but he still didn't react.

Seeing that wisps of smoke were beginning to rise from the other person's head, Liya became anxious. If this continued, their brains might be burned out.

"Mr. Horn..." Lia looked at the priest beside her.

"I see. These young people nowadays have no respect for knowledge at all."

As he spoke, Horn began to release prayers.

[Calm your mind]

After the prayer was completed, everyone around felt as if they had been doused with cold water, and their minds instantly became clear and calm.

Yes, this is a sphere prayer.

With the help of prayer, Dylan finally emerged from the red-hot state.

Seeing this, Lia breathed a sigh of relief: "Phew... I was so worried. I thought you were going to have your brain fried by just one sentence."

No one expected that a single line on an item could be so devastating, almost turning the team's main damage dealer into a cripple.

Dylan rubbed his throbbing head and explained to his teammate, who wasn't a mage, "That sentence contains the secrets of time magic. Although we don't understand the details yet, it's at least an inspiration..."

Previously, Dylan didn't take the Dorne Dungeon seriously, but now he has changed his mind.

"Ula Xilu, it seems I need to go back and look up this name."

After thinking it over, Dylan looked at the other four and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine now."

After a minor incident, the five of them resumed their journey.

Dylan borrowed some [Repair Powder] from Galadon and carefully studied the properties of this magical item.

This reduced his focus on the vision shared by the [Arcane Eye].

In the darkness, something terrifying is approaching.

The mage in charge of the first layer of defense was completely unaware.

"rustle……"

A strange, grating sound echoed faintly in the darkness.

"careful……"

Almost the instant after the high-ranking assassin, Aisso, spoke.

Countless twisted and eerie black shadows suddenly pounced on the group from all directions, including in front, behind, left, right, and above.

The attack came so suddenly.

"Dylan!"

Galadon's loud shout startled Dylan, who was engrossed in researching "Repairing Light Powder."

The mage then looked into the shared field of vision of the [Arcane Eye], and saw at least thirty terrifying black-haired skeletal centipedes attacking from the darkness surrounding the five people.

Dylan quickly reported the number and unleashed [Dancing Light] spell.

The next second, four torch-sized light sources floated into the air, illuminating the surroundings and highlighting the terrifying and twisted appearance of the skeleton centipedes.

Garadon swung his shield fiercely, knocking away a skeletal centipede that lunged at him.

"ah!!!!!"

A piercing scream rang out, stabbing at everyone's eardrums.

【Healing Mantra】

Horn immediately released a healing prayer.

"Break through!" Galadon shouted.

There were simply too many monsters; they had to break through the encirclement.

"knew!"

Hoping to make amends, Dylan took out a few moon vine seeds and a milky white feldspar from his satchel and threw them behind him, then chanted a spell.

【Moonlight】!

Instantly, a silver beam of light descended from the center of the moon vine seed and the milky white feldspar, completely blocking the entire escape route.

All the skeletal centipedes that stepped into the beam of light let out mournful screams and howls.

Invisible ghostly flames were burning on them.

[Stride forward]

Horn put the prayer on everyone to hasten their prayer.

"Walk!"

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the five members of the team immediately formed a breakout formation with their captain, Galadon, as the spearhead.

"Knock knock knock!!!"

With its towering size and brand-new shield, Garadon could easily knock away any monsters in its path with every step it took.

The remaining four immediately followed, with Dylan continuously attacking the skeleton centipede with spells.

Lia's arrows continued to hit their mark every time they left the bowstring, each shot fatal.

Leaving behind a pile of monster corpses, the five quickly broke through the encirclement and arrived at a narrow, damp passage with a water trough in the middle.

"Those monsters didn't chase after us." Dylan panted as he activated [Arcane Eye] again, this time carefully checking the escape route.

"Feel sorry."

Dylan apologized cleanly and decisively. He knew that it was his carelessness that allowed the monsters to get so close before launching their attack.

No one blamed Dylan, after all, everyone makes mistakes like that, not just at the Silver level, but even at the higher Gold and Diamond levels.

Perhaps only those 33 master-level adventurers wouldn't do that.

"Um……"

But Galadon still extended his hand, the meaning of which was clear.

Dylan silently returned the [Repair Powder], it seemed he wouldn't have a chance to study it again before leaving the dungeon.

"It seems that the monster intelligence reports didn't mention it?" Priest Horn broke the silence.

“That’s right.” Dylan nodded. “Moreover, according to the intelligence provided by the association, the terrain of this level of the prison shouldn’t be this complicated. It seems that this underground city has changed again.”

This is not good news for adventurers.

Change means the unknown, and the unknown often means danger.

"It seems the new lord of this underground city is quite inspired; he's probably not some immortal lich or vampire," Horn speculated.

Finding out the details of the dungeon lord was also one of their team's tasks.

"Perhaps they are humans who have defected to the surface?" Lia guessed.

"It could also be a dark elf..." Dylan stopped halfway through his sentence because he saw Aisor, who had half dark elf blood, standing next to him.

"Alright, let's move on." Galadron preferred hands-on exploration to verbal discussions.

However, before everyone could even leave the passage...

"Croak... Croak..."

A strange croaking sound came from ahead.