Encyclopedia of Feanor Continent

Luminous mushrooms do not refer to a single type of mushroom. Many mushrooms that glow in the dark are classified as luminous mushrooms, including fan-shaped, coral-shaped, round, long-stalked, and even some saprophytic mushrooms. Plants are also included in this category.Most luminous mushrooms are neither edible nor medicinal. They just emit faint fluorescence quietly in caves without a trace of light or underground, attracting some creatures in the dark to eat, and sticking spores to these places moving diners. -- "Feno Continent Encyclopedia Subterranean Creatures"

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Usually Evandel makes up his mind on everything, and Palos will listen to him, but when Evandel can't make up his mind, the Templar shows his own side: "Alkai, how do you feel?" The sharpest, you lead the way."

Alkai's voice sounded from the front: "Something's wrong, there's one less breathing sound."

Phils took a breath: "Who is missing?"

"Dad, where are you?" Daya called out, "Dad, answer me!"

Greg didn't make a sound.

Not long ago, the barbarian stepped on Fiers' foot and apologized repeatedly amidst the screams of the elves, but now the two-meter-tall man seemed to have evaporated from them, no matter how anxiously his daughter shouted , did not give any response.

Diaya fumbled around in a panic, and when she reached Palos, Palos grabbed her hand and said, "Don't worry, Geer was still there just now, when did he disappear?"

"One will disappear if you don't pay attention." Alkai's voice still can't hear any emotion, "Just like the extra person, there is no movement at all."

"Daiya is still here, he won't go away by himself, we have to look back." Palos grabbed the mage tightly with one hand, and drew out his sword with the other to guard.

Dia Ya said anxiously: "Dad must have been taken away by something, maybe it's the extra person just now! We have to save him as soon as possible!"

Talking about the sound of Diaya's footsteps, Palos hurriedly called her: "If the other party can capture a strong man like Geer silently, it is possible to capture any of us silently." Alone, everyone holds hands, don’t be alone.”

Although Diya was very anxious, she stepped back and acted with them. They groped and walked back while calling Geer's name. A terrible truth was discovered: "The road is not right."

"What's wrong?" Phils' voice was tense.

"When we came here, it was supposed to be a left-turn passage, but now it's a straight road."

"Could it be that your memory is wrong?" Phils asked with luck, and the Ranger replied simply but with certainty: "No."

"This maze is changing..." Evandel became even more anxious, "This is impossible..."

"Anyway, let's go ahead and have a look before we talk." Fiers suddenly screamed after saying this, "Ah! Who stabbed me! Dia?!"

Daya quickly denied: "It's not me!"

"You are the only one in that direction...not right!" Fiers exclaimed, "The extra person!"

"Stand against the wall!" Palos pulled Avandell and stuck it against the wall, and the others did the same. They waved their weapons into the darkness to prevent others from approaching, and they didn't cut anything.

After a while, Alkai called them to stop: "...one more is missing."

"Diya?" Fiers endured the pain and greeted the barbarian girl, but did not receive any response, "Diya? Don't make such a joke, hey?!"

After such a short time, Daya also disappeared without a sound.

"...Why did this happen?" Things were getting more and more in a direction that the mage couldn't understand at all.

"It's a hell of a life." Fiers nervously grabbed Avondel's cloak and dared not let go, "Can't you think of a way? Usually you have the most ways."

"I can't help it." Evandel said in a low mood. "Everything here is beyond my cognition."

Phils belatedly remembered and said, "Although your magic light source is no longer usable, we can start a fire!"

Avondel told him in frustration: "The things for the fire are either in the camp or in my bag. As long as I can't cast spells, I can't get them out."

The storage space he once thought was the safest has now become a locked treasure chest. Not only can he not get out all the emergency props, he can't even take out Festantis' skull to ask for news.

Palos said: "We still have to continue exploring to find an exit or a light source. Phils, how is your injury?"

Phils clutched his wound, breathed heavily and said, "It looks like it was caused by a dagger, it's not very deep, it's okay."

They huddled together, holding each other or leaning on each other, holding weapons in their hands, and continued to explore carefully in the maze. This time, everyone was very focused on guarding against any movement around them. Who else, even a human being with less than sensitive senses like Palos can hear it, but for a long time, they can't hear anything except each other's tense breathing.

Alkai suddenly said: "Who is it? Speak!"

He felt a slight air current, as if someone was rushing forward, the elf ranger swung his knife reflexively, and immediately heard Diaiya's scream.

"Diya?" Fiers called out in panic, but there was no answer, no sound of falling to the ground, and no sound of anyone leaving, as if Diaya appeared out of thin air just now, and disappeared out of thin air after being slashed by Alkai.

Alkai squatted down and touched the ground: "... No matter who it is, I did hit it just now, and it was very deep, but there was no blood on the ground."

"It's not right..." Evandel said anxiously, "it's not right anywhere...Let me think about it, everything in the world has rules to follow, I must have neglected something."

As soon as the words fell, he suddenly felt something cold wrap around his feet, and the huge force brought him down to the ground. The mage let out a short exclamation, and reflexively wanted to He cast a spell to protect himself, but still nothing happened.

Fortunately, Palos was holding his hand firmly, and the templar swung his sword and slashed in a general direction. The touch from his hand seemed to be cutting something soft and tough, and he swung it a few more times. With the sword, everything was cut empty, and the thing seemed to retreat without a sound.

In the darkness, only Evandel's painful groans remained.

Alkai was on guard with a long knife, and Palos anxiously touched Avandel: "What's wrong with you?"

Evandel touched the wound on his ankle, and there was a burning pain from his fingertips. The buckskin boots were corroded as fragile as burnt paper, and the skin inside the boots was corroded.

"The wound is like a fire... That thing seems to be a tentacle with corrosive mucus." Evandel took off the half-corroded boots, biting a piece of cloth with his mouth, and wiped it with excruciating pain Touching the mucus on the skin, the painful place indicates that the corrosion is not serious enough. The most serious place has no feeling when rubbed, and the epidermis may have been completely corroded.

"Go, go!" Arkai, who heard something again, squeezed them back with his back, while waving a long knife to prevent the monster from approaching again. Phils also waved the dagger blindly, but his dagger accidentally caught Al. Kai's blades collided and sparks exploded.

That momentary twilight allowed them, who had been in total darkness for a long time, to see the true face of the monster. It blocked the entire passage like a wall, and a big round mouth in the middle was covered with layers of There are countless tentacles stretching out like sea anemones beside the inwardly curved teeth, some of which are already close at hand.

The fear of not seeing anything was unsettling, but seeing it was even more frightening. The thing made a gurgling sound and squirmed closer.

"Go!" Alkai shouted, relying on the impression left by the moment when the sparks flashed, he rushed towards the monster, the long knife in his hand pierced deeply into the monster's body, and he grabbed the knife with both hands He cut down the handle with all his strength, and made a big gash in the monster's body, while the slimy tentacles firmly grasped his body.

Palos could only hear the sound of Alkai fighting the monster, he couldn't think of anything, and ran away with Evandel, who couldn't move.

"This way!" Phils opened the way on the left front, and Palos blindly waved his long sword around behind. After breaking, Evandel had never hated his powerlessness so much. Rose's shoulders were on his back, taking the jolt.

After all, they were running in the darkness where they couldn't see anything at all, and they had no way of knowing what was going on ahead. Amidst Fiers' exclamation, the bricks under their feet suddenly sank, and Palos fell to the ground. It felt like the whole ground had collapsed, and the shattered bricks and stones fell down on his head and face. The only reaction he had in time was to hold Evandel tightly in his arms.

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Evandel fainted for a while before slowly waking up under the shaking of Palos.

Palos was ashamed, with blood dripping from the top of his head on his face, and his anxious expression eased up after seeing Evandel woke up. He hugged the mage tightly in his arms: "Great... you still alive..."

Evandel looked around in a daze. They seemed to have fallen from a completely dark maze into an underground cave. There were some glowing mushrooms growing here. Although it was extremely weak fluorescence, it could still give people a general overview of the surroundings. .

They were sitting next to the collapsed pile of bricks and stones. The sloping stone pedestal was at least four or five meters high, and the surroundings were so quiet that only the sound of Palos' excited breathing could be heard.

"...Where's Phils?" Evandel asked after a while.