I, the villain, trained the loser into a dark boss

Liz folded her hands. She smiled with relief at seeing her juniors flirting with each other.

"It's just... it's only a little better today."

Liz wouldn't believe what Leah said. After all, her ears were red with joy when she heard this "compliment".

"Anyway, come in first and we'll talk slowly. After all, some things can be explained here - especially some things should be told to Leah."

But before entering the door, Liz paused for a moment and looked at Leah who followed her.

"Oh, right. Do you know what this guy sent to the Witch Association's express station in order to spread rumors about kidnapping you?"

"What?"

Liz took out a bunch of cut hair from her pocket. The cut surface was very neat. It was obvious that she had never cut anyone's hair before. Few people would cut it like this.

However, this strand of hair was well preserved and wrapped in a silk cloth that looked very high-end.

"Will——So, I, I, I, I, I... One day, I tied my hair up and it was short on one side and long on the other side, but I couldn't adjust it. Is it because of you?!"

Liya even pulled up her ponytail with one hand to cover it up for him.

"Uh... Isn't it... Isn't that how you cut your hair? Anyway, it's long hair, and one cut of the scissors will..."

Will took a look and it seemed that one side was long and the other was short, but he couldn't tell without looking carefully, because Leah's hairstyle was a double ponytail, and he picked a strand from one side at random.

"Hmph!" Leah pouted, puffing up like a pufferfish.

"Then... that, um... then as a reward, I... I will wash your hair tonight?"

"Then... what kind of reward is that?"

"If you don't mind, you can help her blow dry her hair. What she hates most is using wind magic to blow her hair, because she can't control the temperature of the heated air well, and sometimes it will burn."

"Mom! Don't expose my shortcomings at this time!"

"You know to call mom now?"

"Okay, I promise to complete the task. If you don't burn your whole hair, you will win."

"You——!"

——Accompanied by such noise, the three walked into the witch's corridor.

Chapter 375 Hanging Paintings

After really walking into the witch's corridor, you will find that it is more like an "exhibition hall" than it looks from the outside. In the classical and gorgeous corridor, there is a portrait hanging on the wall every few meters.

"Um..."

Will walked very slowly.

It was the first time for him to enter this brand new place that he had never heard of in the original work.

And it was a place with a huge amount of information that he had never thought of.

Almost every step he took, he would stop slightly and stand in front of the portrait to observe carefully.

There are names under the portraits. This "exhibition hall" is more like a "Celebrity Hall" than those "museums" in the field of art. Each painting depicts a specific person.

"This person is... Monte. If I remember correctly, he seems to be a famous adventurer three hundred years ago. Monte is best at fire and steel defense. Unfortunately, he died in a duel due to insufficient attack power."

"And this person should be Elena, the master of ice magic from Entak College? She created "Temperature Magic". In the book of this school, she left many beautiful ice sculptures..."

"And... Oh, it's a certain head of the Systrom family, and it's a rare one with a good reputation. I remember that he and his wife were adventurers together, but unfortunately they both died in the dungeon."

...

Some of the portraits here are "celebrities", but some are unknown juniors.

But most of them are famous adventurers.

Some of the portraits still had clear figures and names, but many had become blurry, like a painted oil painting that had been splashed with water before it dried.

Will pondered as he looked.

Is the Witch's Corridor part of the dungeon? Why would a part of the dungeon record human adventurers?

And...

Will felt that these people were inexplicably "familiar". He had read their "history" and heard their "stories", but seeing their lifelike portraits here and feeling their temperament in the paintings was like reacquainting them with history.

He even had the illusion that he had met these people before.

Connecting the foreshadowing of the original work, and... what the original author had said in that interview with him... what would be the connection?

When Will was thinking about the final stroke, Leah interrupted him--

"You are really familiar with the history of adventurers and magic. No wonder the history teacher always praises me for your good homework."

"Ah? You mean that old-fashioned old lady? She seemed to have asked me if I wanted to be her student. History is much easier than experimental magic, and thesis is easy to write and easy to get started."

"Then...what did you answer?"

"You must be kidding. How can anyone compare to Teacher Leah?"

"...Okay, I knew it."

Liz suddenly stopped in front of them, turned her head, and looked at Will.

She was floating in the air, so she could walk faster and less tired-more importantly, it would make her look taller and not look like an "elder".

She used her staff to prop up Will's head, forcing Will to look up at her in a somewhat stiff posture.

"So, what did you think of when you saw these?"

"Think... I thought of it, um... It turns out that the underground city also records human celebrities. The two worlds have more information flow than I thought?"

Liz's face showed some doubts.

She put down the staff.

"You don't know?"

"Know, know what?"

"I thought you knew, otherwise how could you say that you were looking for the witch Ya'er?"

"This, this is..."

Will was thinking about an explanation that Liz would believe, and it was not much different from the original real reason.

In the original work, the information about the witch Ya'er appeared in... a fragment of memory of a very important "monster" at the top of the galaxy, telling the story of how she was regarded as an "alien" by humans, how she got along with more "alien", and how she became a witch.

Will vaguely felt that... that "monster" and Ya'er should have some kind of inextricable connection. As long as he finds her...

But, how to explain this matter?

Liz waited for a few seconds, and didn't seem to expect an answer, just shook her head.

"Forget it, you still have the pendant she left just now, right?"

"Yes."

"Come here."

"So, mother, what is in the corridor? What do we want to find about Ya'er?"

Leah also came up. She felt that Liz had concealed a lot of information that the witch should know from her. She didn't know whether it was a kind of protection for her or she was not qualified.

"It's something you will know sooner or later. Sorry, because I was looking for clues about Ya'er for a long time, so I didn't tell you this."

Liz took a few steps forward.

The witch's corridor is very long, but its spatial relationship is not "stable".

In simple terms, you were standing in front of the tenth painting one second ago, and you might be standing in front of the twentieth painting the next second.

"We're here. Does this painting look familiar to you?"

"This is..."

Will looked up. The portrait showed a "girl" who looked only in her teens.

...Her headdress was a blue rose with a petal missing. Will realized at once that this was a member of the royal family of Entaq, probably a princess.

"But Cecily."

"This name...?!"

Will took out the pendant.

"The name... reads the same."

The two names read almost the same, but a few letters affect the "expression".

"She should be the princess of the second generation of the royal family of Entaq? She is keen on exploring the dungeon and is good at ice magic. It's a pity... During the last exploration, I don't know if it was because the royal family at that time had a tradition of infighting..."

"She died in the dungeon?"

"That's right. According to history, she was also a spoiled little princess who lived in her own castle; she was also one of the few people who hoped to establish her prestige through exploring the dungeon. The two identities constituted a contradiction for her."

Hearing this, Will seemed to have realized something.

He raised his head and looked at the portrait carefully, comparing it with the empress in his mind.

Of course, the person in the portrait in front of him was completely different from the empress of the end of the ice abyss in the pendant. Whether it was hair color, eye color or appearance, they were not the same person.

The portrait was also a little blurry, and it looked more like a layer of color was lost in the sun.

The princess was just innocent and cute, but seemed to be crazy and disdainful...

She seemed so similar to the person standing on the castle that day in temperament and "personality".

"It's just... like the same 'soul'."

"Hmm, you should understand now, right, Will."

"Mother, it's not possible..."

But the answer was given by Leah, who was listening quietly-

"The empresses and 'monsters' with human consciousness that we met in the dungeon all came from..."

"The adventurers who died in the dungeon according to records, right?"

Chapter 376 Research on the Driving Force, History and Current Situation of the Dungeon

When Will was alive in his previous life, he read that the dungeon and the adventurers were actually in a mutually dependent relationship, and he was thinking about a question-

If what both parties needed most was cooperation, why was the initial dungeon exploration so difficult?

Why was the initial dungeon exploration in history a situation of mutual slaughter?

Wouldn't it be possible to achieve a cooperative situation at the beginning?

Now he seemed to understand the reason.

Suppose...

From the beginning, the advanced creatures with consciousness, personality and intelligence on this side of the dungeon had to be supplemented by the dead adventurers?

Then, the original dungeon would use this as a driving force to hunt down the adventurers who came into it, right?

"Yes. It's very close to the answer. Although we don't know where the earliest creatures inside the dungeon came from, most of the residents we meet now... have maintained the "personalities" of some famous adventurers in history."

This can explain some of the mysteries that Will encountered before-

For example, why can they communicate with the emperors of the dungeon without language barriers, why did he feel "familiar" when he saw the photo just now, and why there is also a social and ecological system of their own inside the dungeon...

Because, these BOSSes he has experienced may have been...

Humans.

Humans outside the world?

"It doesn't seem to be a very difficult answer to guess. In the earliest recorded human history, the dungeon appeared for the first time about a thousand years ago. The monsters in the dungeon at that time were even released to the human side... becoming the prototype of the earliest monsters. But after that, they decreased..."

Liya propped her chin.

Although she knew the least information a few minutes ago, she is now completely immersed in the thinking of the dungeon.

The recorded history of this world is not long. The longest history with a certain time that can be found is around the node of about a thousand years. Before that, it is already a mixture of myths and legends, which does not seem to be very credible.

Of course...