CHAPTER 568: CHAPTER 295: ARRIVAL AT THE WHITE-HAIRED ONE’S UNDERGROUND MAZE—YILI VILLAGE! (PART 2)

Shami interrupted White Hair’s fabricated emotions.

"By the way, Lina, didn’t I ask you to establish the Underground Maze in the Fess Kingdom before? How’s that progressing now?"

White Hair snapped back to reality.

"Eh. It’s already two-thirds completed."

"As expected, Lina, you’re the one I can trust the most. Some idiots haven’t even started yet."

Shami looked gently at White Hair.

The leader was already curious about what White Hair’s Underground Maze looked like.

With White Hair’s personality and abilities, it would definitely be a place that adventurer parties would dread hearing about.

"But recently, more and more people have been coming to the village, making it difficult to continue appearing and continue renovating."

White Hair sighed helplessly.

Shami was momentarily stunned.

"Eh?—Ah!—Your Underground Maze isn’t Yili Village, is it!"

"Yes."

White Hair nodded.

Shami stopped in confusion, White Hair’s Underground Maze was beyond his expectations.

"Of course, the location for the Underground Maze should be somewhere you’re familiar with and unexpected by the adventurer parties. Yili Village is the perfect place, not only is it my village, but it was also the supply village during the subjugation of the former demon king Luwaka."

White Hair’s reasoning was very convincing.

"Uh. If constructed well, if a demon clan’s underground city is a village... it’s not impossible..."

Shami stroked his chin.

"But how does it serve the purpose of defeating the adventurer parties?"

"Don’t worry, Shami. Even though the village seems to lack danger now, in reality, I’ve already set many of my designed traps there."

White Hair mysteriously told Shami, then pulled him quickly to the east side outside the village.

"Remember when I told you not to go to the east side of the village? It’s because I have set up ambushes there long ago."

The two arrived at the outskirts of a small forest on the east side of the village, where those who couldn’t find accommodation in the village set up camp. Numerous tents filled the small forest.

At that moment, from inside the tents came the sound of slapping, as the sound rose and fell, Shami couldn’t tell where exactly it came from.

So late at night, these people wanting to subdue the demon tribe are really persistent.

"Ouch! Brother, what’s with you...?"

"Sorry, brother, I don’t know what happened, today you just looked so kind-hearted..."

"Humph, ah ah ah!"

Along with the slapping sounds came the unwilling cries of men.

Shami frowned.

"Why does this feel so strange? What’s going on here?"

"Shami, look up there."

White Hair pointed to the canopy of a certain tree.

Hidden in the middle of the canopy was a Slime almost blending in with the tree. Even though the Slime was asleep, Shami could clearly feel air currents continually emanating from it, spreading all around.

"This is the ’Sour Slime’ I got from Jelly."

"Oh, have they even developed such Slimes?"

"This type of Slime can fully utilize the Water of Life within them, evaporating it into the air, making the air around filled with aphrodisiac effects, stirring up people’s desires. Anyone who stays in this little forest long enough will start indulging themselves uncontrollably."

"Oh, and I borrowed a gender preference-confusing Magic Stone from Saili and had the Sour Slime swallow it. This way, the Slime’s aphrodisiac effect will have a double impact on male adventurers. As long as the Slime is there, they’ll keep ’sword fighting’ all night until they’re utterly exhausted."

"By morning, the Sour Slime will hide to avoid exposure. The adventurers who exhausted themselves will fall into deep self-doubt. Being the main force of the adventurer parties, these male adventurers will lose combat capacity and be caught in internal conflicts and external skepticism."

"This is the [Obstacle: Good Brothers Sword Play] that causes adventurer teams to turn against each other!"

White Hair girl explained in detail.

"What a vicious strategy."

The demon king took a sharp breath, looking at White Hair with renewed respect.

White Hair skillfully pulled up an artificial bush, hiding behind it with Shami.

"And every night I observe their activities from here, meticulously looking for their weaknesses. Of course, I also watch those all-female adventurer parties."

"So you’re basically a voyeur! My respect for you has disappeared completely! Is this huge scheme just for a little personal enjoyment?"

White Hair’s face turned red, and she said nothing.

The book... real people are way more interesting...

"I guessed it right! You lewd hero!"

"N-no, not a lewd hero..."

White Hair hurriedly retorted, stammering clumsily.

"Because the Underground City is Yili Village, it can’t be designed like a normal underground city to weaken adventurers’ strength. Come on, I’ll show you something else."

White Hair felt her heart racing, probably due to the effect of the ’Sour Slime’ on her as well. If she didn’t move, she might end up pushing the demon king down in the forest.

White Hair quickened her pace, pulling Shami, heading into the village.

The two arrived at the edge of the lake at the back of the village.

This was Yili Village’s only lake, the water clear and clean, with blooming lotus flowers in summer often attracting villagers to swim.

Now, in winter, the lake was bare, its surface like a mirror reflecting the stars in the night sky.