Dungeons, legendary catastrophes from ancient times.
The opening of these disasters always comes with unique curse effects.
Li Si had always assumed the dungeon hadn’t been opened yet, so she never considered the curse.
But just now, after Lili Ya overate, she realized something was wrong.
It wasn’t that she’d discovered some curse.
She’d just seen a familiar face.
She’d seen that face while patrolling this stream in the afternoon.
At the time, she didn’t think much of it.
But seeing it again at night, she suddenly sensed something off.
When Lili Ya passed out from eating, everyone wore amused expressions.
Except for the owner of that face—they looked dead serious.
After locking eyes with Li Si, they even stepped back.
That alone could be excused as social anxiety.
But more importantly, the Strict Father’s ability to sense danger had vanished from that person.
So Li Si made a bold guess.
Maybe someone had already opened the dungeon entrance long ago.
The first dungeon in the Kingdom of Minos was called the City of Temptation.
Opening it would release a seductive miasma that bewitched adventurers’ minds.
That was the core content of the first chapter.
According to the original plot, the players were supposed to lead the female protagonist group to open the dungeon on the first night of the Crimson Moon’s descent.
Then the heroines would withstand the seduction curse through sheer willpower.
Of course, if they failed, they’d trigger a few defeat CG scenes and it would be over.
But in reality, because she’d been kicked out of the party, a drastic change had occurred.
In other words, a different adventurer team had opened the dungeon on the night of the Crimson Moon, gotten bewitched, and become the dungeon lord’s minions.
And that team was the five ice sculptures outside carrying huge bags of buttered popcorn—the Thunder Team.
She figured this world really did have some kind of plot force.
It must have sensed the story deviating and the heroines about to crash here.
So it threw her this quest, forcing her back onto the main storyline.
Of course, Li Si could completely ignore it.
After all, the quest had no time limit.
She could take her sweet time, dragging it out, and teach the Chosen a lesson about the harshness of adventure.
But now she couldn’t afford to be that relaxed.
The seductive miasma had inexplicably targeted Lili Ya.
Lili Ya’s overeating tonight wasn’t just gluttony.
Li Si could sense a bewitched state in her, growing stronger by the minute.
“Lili Ya, how do you feel?”
Lili Ya hugged her staff and looked at the concerned Li Si with a bit of shame.
But her desire to get stronger overpowered everything.
Even knowing she was a burden, a waste, she didn’t want to miss any chance to grow stronger.
She nodded firmly, “Li Si, I feel a lot better now! I’m just still a little hot!”
Li Si nodded.
To break the charm, she had to defeat the dungeon lord.
She turned her gaze toward the city.
The dungeon was built like a maze, with three floors.
In the game, it was a tutorial level after leaving the Beginner Village.
In reality, it wasn’t that powerful either.
From a glance, the maze was mostly filled with Goblins and Cat Demons between levels 5 and 10.
For a temporary pioneer group, monsters of that grade were no problem at all.
Of course, considering that those adventurers might not be unified in their desire to clear the dungeon, Li Si withheld one piece of information.
“This is…”
Yi Li Sha Bai suddenly stopped.
A strange sensation slowly surfaced in her heart, like a very faint, subtle itch.
A negative status effect.
She made that judgment almost instantly.
Without needing orders, the nearby Mei Lin started channeling a purification spell.
But the next second, she shook her head and gave her conclusion, “It’s the curse of this dungeon. A seduction effect. There’s only one way to remove it.”
“…Completely eliminate the miasma.”
Nearby, within Ao Li An Na’s party that had just entered the dungeon, Wei Ya whispered the answer.
Yi Li Sha Bai frowned.
Facing this entirely new type of adventure, they had no clue what to do.
But up ahead, one person seemed to know exactly what needed to be done.
Yi Li Sha Bai shouted ahead, “Hey, how much do you actually know about this place?”
‘How much?’
Li Si didn’t even look back.
If you want to know, then follow.
This dungeon was a tutorial, but conquering it quickly with just her own strength would be a stretch.
Even in the game, multiple people had to divide the tasks to speedrun it.
Li Si had her priorities straight.
The seduction effect was more severe on lower-level adventurers.
If she didn’t use the adventurer team to speedrun this dungeon, Lili Ya would soon completely become the minion of the dungeon lord, Yadana.
She stepped into the maze.
An ordinary adventurer stepping inside for the first time would easily get lost.
But as a veteran Minos player, Li Si had experience from hundreds of runs.
Navigating the maze was no challenge.
“Roooar!”
A Cat Demon with pink hearts glowing in its eyes lunged at her face.
Li Si slashed it back with her sword, shielding Lili Ya.
Instead of pursuing, she turned and sprinted, signaling Lili Ya to follow.
Lili Ya was weak, but she was right about one thing—she did have a specialty.
Her agility was above average, and she could run fast.
It wasn’t as fast as Li Si, but at least she didn’t fall too far behind.
Li Si didn’t dare run too fast either.
Lili Ya’s current state seemed normal, but that was how the charm worked.
It could suddenly amplify her desires at any moment, making her lose control like she had while eating.
So Li Si had to split her attention to take care of Lili Ya.
The maze was chaotic, with plenty of traps.
Dividing her focus inevitably led to a few accidents and some HP loss.
But luckily, she had plenty of consumables, so Li Si didn’t mind.
Lili Ya, on the other hand, was full of guilt.
Several times she wanted to help with a healing spell, but her already low success rate became even worse under the charm—she couldn’t manage a single successful cast.
Lili Ya lowered her head.
When she was alone, failing to cast a spell didn’t matter.
She could accept failure quickly.
But now there were two of them, and she couldn’t handle it.
She knew this was bad.
She wanted to get stronger, and Li Si had come to her side to help her do that.
She shouldn’t be thinking about things like this at a time like this.
But her thoughts couldn’t stop blaming herself.
“Watch out!”
A sharp warning jolted her awake.
Lili Ya looked up in panic, only to feel her body go limp as a figure tackled her into a wall.
Li Si held her sword in one hand, cradling Lili Ya in her arms, crouched in a corner.
Her gaze fixed ahead.
“Hehehe—don’t interrupt the lord’s rest.”
A goblin one and a half meters tall, wielding a greatsword, looked at the wall it had just chopped through and laughed arrogantly.
It hadn’t been aiming at Li Si, but at the dragon girl charging ahead.
Mei Fei Er wasn’t mindlessly rushing in.
This was her first time in a dungeon like this, and she had no idea which way to go.
She was just following Li Si’s lead.
But soon she spotted a staircase leading down.
Since she’d seen the path, how could she not charge?
“Hey, are you two going to report to Lady Yadana?”
The greatsword goblin suddenly turned and greeted the corner, cheerfully giving a thumbs-up.
“Long live Lady Yadana!”
Li Si silently returned the thumbs-up.
The goblin, missing its left ear, nodded in approval, then pulled Lili Ya straight down the stairs.
“Holy crap… that actually worked…”
“So this outfit isn’t just for show…”
“Holy crap… the clothes can fool goblins!”
The group of adventurers who had followed the Chosen were dumbfounded.
They looked again at the goblin, who had already raised its greatsword, grinning at everyone with a bloody and pink smile.