How come there are succubi in this dungeon?

Chapter 41 A Little Seasoning

"If I create the eighth level, my soul essence will break through to level fifty and enter a new rank. I wonder if I will gain any new abilities..."

Caesar was filled with anticipation. He raised his hands, causing the entire underground city to rumble and shake in a very ceremonial manner.

The moment the new level was formed, Caesar sensed that the essence of his soul had broken through to a new rank.

His control over the underground city has increased significantly, and his perception has also been greatly enhanced.

In some mysterious way, Caesar's perception transcended the boundaries of his own dungeon, sensing a vague presence.

It is grand and ancient, and has an aura similar to mine.

"This is... an underground city!?"

Caesar was surprised and temporarily put aside his work of creating individual artifact spirits to focus all his attention on sensing them.

"It really is an underground city..."

A moment later, Caesar confirmed his guess, and his expression was quite interesting.

Although it is called an underground city, it does not mean that the buildings and terrain inside the underground city are actually underground.

Dungeons are more like 'small worlds'.

But no one knows exactly where the things in the dungeon are located.

Throughout history, countless powerful individuals have attempted to find even the spatial coordinates of a single underground city, but without exception, they have all failed.

Now, after Caesar's perception broke through the underground city itself, it did not extend to the surface, but rather explored the space that those powerful people could never find in their entire lives, and sensed another underground city.

"I wonder if I could open a passage through?"

The space Caesar perceived was a void; apart from the silent underground city, there was nothing else, just emptiness.

Caesar briefly calculated the life force he would need to open the passage, but his usually omnipotent sixth sense failed him.

He had no idea of ​​the costs, the feasibility, or the potential consequences of his actions.

After weighing the pros and cons, Caesar obediently withdrew his senses and began creating the artifact spirit.

"Let's absorb some life force first."

Caesar remained remarkably composed, seated on his throne, his palm open, a black soul gradually growing in his hand until it reached the size of a basketball before stabilizing.

"Boss..."

An obscure soul fluctuation emanated from the black soul. Caesar smiled and said, "I'll call you Blackie. From now on, you'll be the leader of the Spirit Clan."

Kuroko

[Race: Spirit]

[Level: None]

[Special Feature: Cannot be attacked before a residence is selected]

[Cost: 5,000 Life Points]

There is no essential difference between Kuroko and the spirits created later; it is the leader simply because it was the first to be born.

Then Caesar created a hundred more spirits, each a different color.

Clumps of basketball-sized spheres quickly began to frolic on the seventh level.

Their initial intelligence is similar to that of a child, a blank slate. It can be said that their future personality depends entirely on their subsequent experiences and their owner's values.

"Since the nature of artifact spirits is not suitable for special existences, I will not set up a gold prize."

Caesar, having a change of heart, didn't give away the defective gold reward, but instead put a black, ordinary reward into the lottery system.

This time, the artifact spirit is simply an after-sales service for the Enchanted Soul, and its impact on adventurers may not be as explosive as when the Succubus and Enchanted Soul levels appeared previously.

Therefore, Caesar planned to add some seasoning to the seventh floor.

[Challenge Area]

This was inspired by Caesar's listening to Undine and Olya's views on the North Underground City.

Undine believes that North Dungeon lacks the interactive element of outsmarting monsters compared to other dungeons; people come in just to try their luck at a lottery or get a foot massage.

After spending these days there, she felt like she was about to retire early. Going into the underground city was like taking a walk after dinner, without any excitement.

Similar phrases appeared in many adventurer reports collected by the Ston family, to which Olya belonged.

Caesar's first reaction was that it was absurd.

How can anyone not like a peaceful life and always think about passion and danger? Are they all masochists?

But upon closer reflection, I realized that I also enjoyed playing competitive games in my past life, and the adrenaline rush was indeed intoxicating, not to mention real-life adventures.

After becoming the dungeon master, he would clap and cheer like a bloodthirsty spectator when he watched Willis use a tornado to destroy the parking lot against the lottery thief.

And so, the idea of ​​conquering the challenge was born.

Caesar recreated the hellish dungeon of North when he first arrived, stuffing it with all sorts of small traps and snacks, and replacing the surrounding terrain entirely with uniform "anti-magic stones" and "gravity stones".

Ordinary adventurers who enter will have their magic drained and will be forced to stagger by the abnormal gravity.

The monsters that Caesar put in were immune to both of these things.

Once inside the challenge area, even Willis had to walk carefully and proceed cautiously, as any high-level monster inside could pose a deadly threat to him.

Both anti-magic stones and gravity stones are extremely rare mineral resources, and there will definitely be forces coming to mine them extensively.

The problem is that anything with magic will be sucked into scrap metal when it gets close to the anti-magic stone. If you rely solely on hardness to mine, the weapon grade will have to be at least level seven. In addition, with the influence of the gravity stone, at least level eight mining tools are needed to effectively mine the combination of the two.

Therefore, Caesar has no need to worry about encountering problems in the short term.

As for why it's called the "Challenge Ground," it's naturally because there's a glittering treasure chest at the end of this underworld-like checkpoint.

A random regular reward will be refreshed every day.

After experiencing the absurdly low odds of winning in the North Dungeon, no one would lose interest in conquering it.

Besides the challenges, Caesar also has an idea to provide adventurers with the 'excitement' they love.

That is to set up an "arena" in the dungeon.

No matter how you look at it, a dungeon where you can't truly die is a perfect place to open a fighting arena.

The fighters are fearless in the face of death and engage in fierce battles in the ring. These life-or-death struggles are much more exciting than ordinary matches on the ground.

In fact, some shrewd businessmen in the empire have done this before.

However, since the dungeon closes every day, the automatically respawning monsters will have already destroyed the buildings when you enter the next day.

Even if it's built at the initial level, slimes or other things will dirty the entire building, and it will take half a day to clean it every day, not to mention the dungeon riots.

After trying it out, the merchants discovered that this thing was simply impossible to operate in the long run, otherwise they would definitely lose money.

However, operating at the succubus level completely eliminates these problems.

As the levels increase, Caesar can't keep making all the succubi dry bath, or the adventurers will get tired of the sight.

In the future, the succubus hierarchy, along with the functions of the first four levels, will become more and more complete, and will become a true underground "city".