Don't call me evil god

The button icon flashed a dazzling red light.

Having had experience operating the light screen on the round platform in the Creation Altar, the believers were not unfamiliar with this kind of thing.

A volunteered believer walked to the front and shouted:

"Praise the God of Knowledge!"

He aimed at the button, closed his eyes, and slapped the light screen on the round platform.

After a few seconds, the cave was still quiet, so quiet that only the breathing of the believers in the pioneering strategy group could be heard.

The believer who touched the [Pressure Relief] button opened his eyes a little uncertainly.

"Huh?"

"I... seem to be fine?"

He touched himself twice.

He did not lose his mind;

He did not grow strange organs or extra limbs;

He did not have any cysts, blood clots, hyperplasia, etc.

"Is this a wrong step and it didn't work?" The believers were a little confused.

But the original red button on the light screen had disappeared, replaced by a square long frame.

[Pressure relief in progress.]

[Current pressure relief progress: 24%]

Just as he was about to check the surrounding situation, a Ranger Seeker's ears suddenly moved.

He cast the first-level wilderness magic [Acute Hearing] on himself.

The effect of this magic is similar to the shadow magic [Midnight Vision] of the stalkers.

The effect of the ranger's magic is to enhance their hearing, making it easier for them to detect tiny movements in the distance.

"Something is approaching us!"

"It's not slow!"

Several other rangers in the team also reported similar intelligence.

Soon, the obvious sound could be heard without relying on the assistance of magic!

The sound came from the depths of the dark cave, and the rumbling sound of thousands of troops rushing on the ground echoed dully in the cave.

Pete thought of the pressure relief prompt he had seen before: "Hiss... Could it be that those 69 level 1, 32 level 2, and more than 100 level 0 monsters are rushing towards us!!!"

Since the number of people allowed to participate in each test in the shallow layer is 30, the number of people in this exploration team is also 30.

This is also the standard configuration recognized by the knowledge seekers when exploring the dark cave.

Well, of course, there are only 29 people left now.

A guy who was killed directly by the level 4 monster in the [Isolation Layer] for opening up the wasteland and collecting intelligence has returned to the Creation Altar and resurrected.

With their current combat power, if they cooperate properly, the monsters in the "pressure relief flow" can be killed.

The premise is that they have to occupy the appropriate terrain and prepare the means to deal with it.

After all, professionals like mages and priests who are fragile have to shut down once they are approached by monsters.

Facing the possible crisis, Pete decisively used his command power.

"Shieldman, go and block the entrance to the passage we came from with three people, and the other two shield warriors stay with the mage and priest and prepare to support!"

"Prepare the illumination arrows and grease spells in advance, don't save the casting materials!"

"Priest, first give the person who meets the enemy a blessing of damage reduction!"

Commands were distributed in an orderly and fast manner.

When the believers were getting nervous and preparing to fight the enemy.

The ranger who first heard the sound suddenly raised his hand and reminded loudly:

"Wait! No!"

"The position has changed!"

"It sounds like they are heading in another direction!"

The rumbling sound of the march echoed in the cave. As the ranger believer said, the sound from the depths of the dark cave changed slightly when it approached the depth range of the [Leakage Layer] where Pete and his friends were.

The final result was that they did not meet Pete and his friends, but "passed by them".

When the sound sounded closest, the two sides might only be separated by the rock wall and soil layer in the cave.

Listening to the dull treading sound getting farther and farther away from the surface, the believers looked at each other.

"Decompression?"

"No, this decompression means to lead the monsters in the dark cave to the surface?!"

"We just took the initiative to lead a bunch of low-level monsters to the dark forest?"

...

After walking around the [Leakage Layer] area, Pete and his team found several similar cave spaces with round platforms of similar specifications inside.

When the believers approached and touched it, the "decompression" button would also appear on it.

It's just that the number of decompression monsters reminded in different caves is different.

The one with the most found so far has hundreds of level 2 monsters, and there are even more level 1 monsters and level 0 monsters.

There are also the ones found at the beginning, with only more than 30 level 2 monsters.

But the members of the strategy team did not find any passage that can directly lead to the surface.

If they want to return to the surface, they need to return along the original route, first descend to the [Shallow Layer] area, and then return to the surface from the cave passage over there.

After returning to the ground, they explored the corresponding surface locations above the cave spaces in the leakage layer in the general direction.

The believers soon discovered a surprising and terrifying pattern.

There are monster nests of varying sizes in the roughly corresponding locations!

And the size of the nest is proportional to the number of monsters that have been decompressed!

…

At this time.

Not to mention that the believers were full of various ideas.

Norwen in the Kingdom of God was shocked.

When the believers entered the [Isolation Layer], Norwen had already had a lot of ideas when he saw the name.

Add the [Leaked Layer] and the things found on the surface.

Norwen is now 100% sure:

"The Dark Crypt is definitely not something that was formed when the New Huili Evil God came to the world."

"This thing is 100% related to the gods of the previous era!"

Even though the information related to the Dark Crypt was severely damaged by the crazy shouting of the void, Norwen has obtained enough clues by organizing the exploration of believers.

"The monsters born from the pollution of the evil god would have been suppressed underground in this forest."

"With the arrival of the New Huili era, the Dark Crypt... uh, has been in disrepair for a long time, and the original suppression measures have failed, which led to the original Dawn Forest becoming the Dark Forest?"

Continue to think along this line of thought.

Nowen suddenly thought of a slightly outrageous possibility:

"The gray fog in the Kingdom of God has locked me in this space, making it impossible for me to leave. I can only observe this world through the perspective of mortal believers and the channels established by faith."

"There is also gray fog in the Dark Crypt, and the name of the isolation layer is obviously used to imprison and separate monsters and the pollution of evil gods."

"Is there a possibility?"

"Maybe it is not a monster that is suppressed in the deepest part of the Dark Crypt, but the body of a certain evil god?"

"The legendary pioneer adventurers also mentioned that they seemed to have witnessed the body of the evil god in the deepest part of the Dark Forest."

"Think further."

"I might also be suppressed somewhere?"

"Or, maybe it is me who is suppressed in the Dark Crypt?!"

...

Author's note, there should be no plot in this story where the protagonist personally ends up, and the Kingdom of God should be inseparable before the finale.

(If the outline is changed later, it will be another matter. There is no such plot in the current outline.)