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

Will also suspected that the recorded time seemed too short for this world. It was as if the humans in this world had been like this since birth.

As a "worldview written on toilet paper", he always rounded off his doubts with "not being rigorous is normal".

But...

If you think from the perspective of "this is not a story, but a real world", there will be more strange places.

"How did they do it specifically? After all, they are completely different from what they look like in front of us. You mentioned 'personality', could it be..."

Will looked at the portrait.

Comparing the princess in the portrait again with the queen of the underground city in the Ice Abyss at the end of the road, you will find that... they are like one person from the "inside".

The personality, spirit and obsession are all like one person. If we use a general term to summarize, perhaps it is similar "personality".

Liz listened to this question, as if she expected it, she slowly explained:

"It's a very good idea. The dungeon is not short of... material, you should know it very well - and to generate a body or a monster, you only need material. But they lack "consciousness" and "personality."

"This... okay, it's true."

Will laughed awkwardly.

In the dungeon, countless strange things can be born, whether it is raw materials or products, whether it is in line with the development of the human world now, it can be born.

It can even be said that the current "human" world is completely dependent on the development of the dungeon.

"They can get new bodies in the dungeon and put in their personalities. Unfortunately, their memories as humans should be sealed. Otherwise, remembering that they were human in the last second and wanted to kill people in the next second, it's still hard to accept it, right?"

After listening to this, Leah reached out and gently touched the wall of the corridor.

The wall is also "entity" and "matter". As Liz said, in the dungeon, the thing that is least lacking is material, and such a corridor also very luxuriously uses a lot of resources that are very scarce in the eyes of humans outside.

"What are they going to do with such a troublesome thing?"

"...With personality and consciousness, they will explore the unknown and move towards the ultimate world deep in the dungeon."

Will thought for a while and said this.

"...If that's the case, won't these consciousnesses disappear in the dungeon? In other words, even if we kill them as monsters, they may enter the empty shell of another monster and be reborn again next time?"

This sentence was raised by Leah, who looked up at the portrait.

"Oh~ Leah, you think quickly. Do you feel guilty about knowing that the monsters killed in the dungeon are actually living humans?"

Liz looked as if she had caught the interesting side of her daughter, and looked at Leah and spoke.

"No, no. Why do you ask that? They have already died once, and they can't be saved. It's okay to kill them again, right?"

She said it very lightly, and there was a sense of "witch's magical thinking".

"What about you?"

Liz folded her hands and looked at Will.

"Me?"

"Yes, suppose, their consciousness will disappear, disappear by your hand, don't you feel guilty?"

Will shook his head without hesitation.

"...Why should I feel guilty about the death of the monsters I put in the level? It's not my own will, they drop rewards. Moreover, if there were no things they dropped after death, the humans in this world would never have reached this point."

For Will, what they were in their previous lives is actually "not important", they are just ordinary monsters in the level.

If you insist on saying what he feels now, it's probably the same as Leah's thoughts.

For people who have lived a lifetime and have already faced death, the second death is not something worth "compassion" for them.

"Well... well, you are indeed... a good match?"

Liz is obviously also a person who has no sense of guilt at all - for her who is older than Leah, she has seen more.

"But, Leah's guess is right. Consciousness will not disappear."

"Yeah. Otherwise, there is no way to explain one thing."

Leah, who first proposed this idea, nodded. She stopped, looked around the corridor carefully, and finally looked at Will.

She shook her finger, obviously wanting to keep it a secret.

"I guess smart Will should have thought of it too."

"Uh... what?"

Will was "called out" by Leah, and he was exposed to so much information at once, but he had no idea at all.

It was like the best student in the class who didn't daydream in class but just couldn't think of a solution, and was suddenly called out by the teacher and said in front of the whole class "You must know it".

Chapter 377 Once you accept this setting...

Liya saw that Will was "sweating profusely" and seemed to have no idea, so she decided to give a little hint--

"The refresh rate of modern dungeons and the number of monsters are greater than those in ancient times. As time goes by, the difficulty and danger of dungeon exploration decrease with time. Now, the dungeon party and the human party can cooperate openly. Why is this?"

"...?!"

Liya summarized the previous content briefly, as if she was highlighting the key points for Will.

"Even recently, you can withdraw from the challenge at any level of the dungeon. Human beings are becoming less and less prepared for dungeons... They don't seem to need adventurers to come to the rescue."

"Because..." Will instantly found his train of thought after being prompted like this, "They have no shortage of people. So there is no need to die here."

"That's right. If the monsters in the dungeon also dissipate after the death of humans, then their total number cannot increase. The relationship between humans and the dungeon will stagnate at the beginning of history, or even the system will completely collapse. The only thing The possibility is that people who die in the underground city...achieve 'immortality' in a strange way."

Leah looked at Liz with an expression like a child looking for encouragement.

"Right? Mom~"

"Yes, as long as they are accepted by this side, even if they die as monsters, they will not disappear."

"However, the portrait seems to be fading. Does this mean anything? For example... the personality will be slowly worn away or something like that?"

Liz shook her head and spread her hands.

"To be honest, the witch is not responsible for studying the 'origin and driving force of the dungeon'. The emperors in the dungeon generally live only a few years, and they are unconscious. If the witch hadn't happened to discover this tunnel that serves as a connecting passage for the dungeon, Corridor may not be able to reason to this point.”

As she spoke, her eyes stared at this classical corridor that seemed to collect the characters in the dungeon like a museum.

The promenade is very quiet. It extends infinitely to both sides and cannot be seen to the end.

Just like the emperor of every underground city "digging" into the depths, he can never see the end, but he must always keep going.

"..."

Will looked around and was thinking about one thing.

The "imagery" of the dungeon is a very important thing.

It is assumed that this "museum corridor" contains the prototypes of all the "personalities" in the underground city. It is equivalent to a "database" independent of all dungeons, storing information about them when they were humans.

So……

Here, can we also find... the original identity of the empress Li Weiqi in the original work?

The mysterious empress whose origin was deliberately concealed in the original work will be...

His search was fruitless. It was really difficult to find a certain person in the vast number of portraits.

"In short, what I tell you here is all the witch knows. I only have a lifespan of more than two hundred years, and I don't know what happened earlier. However, it seems that there are still some doubts. For example, in fact, the adventurer's The number of deaths is huge. There don’t seem to be that many conscious monsters in the dungeon now.”

"Yeah. There are also a lot of trapping monsters, which look like they were copied and pasted without setting up special combat logic. It would be too sad if such monsters had personalities."

"Wei! Er! Say something we can understand."

"What kind of person can enter the underground city is still a mystery - at this point, this outsider only relies on these hanging paintings. Do you believe what I say?"

"I……"

Will paused and spoke in a tone that meant he wanted to joke with this "mom".

"If I said that you had proved so much, and I felt that for a paper, the evidence was too isolated and there was no way to reproduce or conduct comparative experiments, would you kill me on the spot?"

"No." Liz showed a smile, "I think you are old-fashioned and a bit interesting."

"Well, actually I believe it."

Will accepted a series of settings for the establishment and development of the dungeon.

Not just because of the promenade here, but because...

Because the damn author who created this world indeed very proudly proposed to reveal the origins of the monsters in the dungeon, where their thoughts came from, and why they have memories.

if……

If the answer is this, it is a self-contained and interesting setting.

However, many of the mysteries now make Will feel that they are not that simple.

For example, if this is such a system, then...where did the "personality" that controlled the first dungeon come from?

"Then let's move on. This place is too deserted to stay for a long time."

Liz said, walking past the hanging painting that was just to reveal this matter, and continued to lead them to walk in the long corridor.

The corridor seemed to suddenly shrink, and it squirmed a few times, as if it would be able to reach the exit soon.

"Speaking of which, if I can live forever in the dungeon, it doesn't seem like a bad thing. If I had known earlier, would it have been better for me to die in the dungeon? Can I also live like an emperor now?"

"Will, please wake up. What do you think...those emperors don't even have memories? Do they really have...the so-called self?"

Leah was silent for a moment when she mentioned this.

She remembered that she had also wanted to use her body's reaction to control Will and make him lose his "self".

But now she understands.

Love that exists in personality and soul does not depend on physical perception...

That's what she really deserves.

"In short, I won't allow you to do such a thing - I don't like Will becoming less like Will."

"Leah is so serious, I was just joking. Well... after all, with my abilities, I'm afraid I don't have the qualifications to be hung up here."

"We don't know whether they will gradually lose themselves and their personalities. After all, the residents of the underground city have a very short time to "live" each time, which is not enough for them to understand all this."

"... I always feel a little pitiful."

"Not pitiful, Leah." Liz interrupted her sigh, "They in the underground city... are more like seekers who achieve their goals through martyrdom... Oh, we are almost at the end."

"Well, I'm finally going home. After I go home, I can let Will take a good look at my newly built laboratory..."

Liya proudly raised her flat chest.

Then, her brain's association from "laboratory" to "ancient magic" made her realize one thing.

"Wait, after talking so much, have we forgotten something? What about Yaer? Aren't we discussing it because of Yaer?!"

As the last one to realize it, Leah finally realized that she seemed to have not talked about the key point.

"Oh... yes. But..."

Liz stood there, just like cutting a piece of paper, and drew a square at the end of the corridor that was still extending infinitely in front of her.

Then, she lifted a corner.

Behind the corner was a beautiful field, and among the forest and grass, there was a mushroom-like house.

Liz invited the two of them as if she was lifting a door curtain -

"It's too tiring to talk standing up. Come to my room and have a cup of tea. This is an absolutely safe place, and... the last book left by Yaer also needs to be taken out for discussion."

Chapter 378 Warming Hands

Will didn't expect Liz's room to be so...

Simple?

He thought there would be many books in Liz's room, especially those related to ancient magic. This may come from the stereotype of Leah.

But Liz's room is very "refreshing", there is not even a bookshelf, and there are not many books on the table.

She seems to have put away all the related books.