Chapter 84: Underground
Kaz returned to the passage.
His slightly hunched back looked even smaller in contrast to the huge wizard tower.
Thor looked up.
The dark grey wizard tower stood before us.
The lower part of the tower only had walls and no windows, so Thor couldn't use this to judge how many floors the wizard tower had. He just felt that the wizard tower in front of him was no shorter than those skyscrapers.
Magnificent and majestic.
The vicissitudes of time have added to its mysterious and profound heritage.
But for the apprentices who cannot leave the tower at will, this place is more like a prison.
After watching Mentor Kaz leave, Thor quickly put his sad feelings behind him.
He rubbed his hands, drooling, and moved closer to the lovely, credit-worthy companion flowers.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t pick a companion flower that produces white fruits. Both blue and red ones are very useful, and Thor doesn’t mind them.
He walked along the edge of the field, looking for flower buds that caught his eye.
Soon Thor found one that was of good quality.
The flower stems are upright and the buds are full, which looks very vibrant at first glance.
Moreover, the flower moved obviously when Thor approached and leaned its head towards him.
Thor decided immediately that this was the flower.
So he noted the location and appearance of the flower and turned back to the cabin.
While walking, Thor felt a strange touch on his ankle, as if something was rubbing against him.
He looked down and saw a black tentacle as thin as a grass stem extending from the ground.
The tentacles were smooth and soft, and it was hard to tell whether they were plants or animals.
The more Thor looked at it, the more familiar it seemed.
Finally, he suddenly remembered that this black tentacle was the same tentacles he saw in the swamp in Mentor Rum’s room.
Although it is much smaller, the appearance is almost exactly the same! This tentacle is actually real!
Was the black quagmire real or fake? Was the peaceful and beautiful garden in front of him really located on flat land? Thinking of the scene of the black tentacles rolling the corpse into the ground, Thor's scalp suddenly tingled. The strange touch just now also turned into a caterpillar, constantly drilling into his trouser legs.
He quickly ran towards the wooden house at the entrance of the garden, ready to call the gardener for help.
Through the window of the wooden house, Thor saw that the gardener was sitting inside with his back to him.
The arm position looks a bit stiff.
"Flower..." Thor felt something wrapped around his calf again and quickly called for help.
But before he could utter the second word, a black tentacle as thick as a thigh suddenly appeared in front of him, wrapped around his left arm and pulled him into the ground.
The land that was flat and hard just now became soft and collapsed like mud.
…
The loose soil, carrying stones, rushed towards Thor.
No matter how hard Thor struggled, he couldn't stop his falling.
Finally, he simply gave up struggling, closed his eyes tightly, and let go of his perception.
At the same time, chant the "Burning Breath" spell, waiting for the real culprit to appear, and then give him a hammer first!
The resistance in front of him suddenly disappeared, and Thor fell into a pool of mud with a "plop" with mud all over his body.
The black tentacles wrapped around his arms also disappeared.
But the expected attack did not occur.
Thor propped himself up from the mud and wiped his muddy face with his muddy hands.
"Pfft!"
Because he had to open his mouth to chant the spell, Thor's mouth was filled with a lot of disgusting mud.
He forced his eyes open and found that it was pitch black all around him, and he couldn't see his hand in front of him.
The hole above my head seemed to be blocked by something, and no sunlight poured down.
Thor stood up in the dark, raised his hand to feel around, but didn't touch anything else.
There was mud under his feet, and he could hear something moving around underneath.
A slippery, muddy ball rubbed against Thor's ankle, scaring him so much that he stepped back and almost fell into the mud again.
Darkness amplifies the senses of hearing and touch.
The unknown is terrifying.
Thor tried to calm himself down and observed his surroundings using his most familiar meditation.
However, to his surprise, the semi-immersive meditation that had always given him an advantage over his enemies did not yield any findings this time.
No spirits, no weirdness.
It's scary clean.
At this moment, something suddenly moved under Thor's feet.
He was startled and quickly stepped back.
As his hand swung back, he touched a hard stone slab.
It seems to be a stone platform raised above the mud.
The countertop also felt a little damp, but it was better than standing in mud.
Thor pushed himself with his hands, dodged the tentacles under his feet, and climbed onto the platform.
"laugh!"
"laugh!"
"laugh!"
"laugh!"
The moment Thor stood on the platform, candles suddenly lit up at the four corners of the platform, illuminating the underground space.
The land above his head was at least three meters away from Thor's position.
Fortunately, there was mud on the ground and the unknown black tentacles that caught Thor when he fell just now, so he was not hurt.
The soil was supported by some force, and apart from a little mud and gravel, nothing else fell down with Thor.
There was a spacious space around the light. Except for the platform under Thor's feet, the rest was covered with black and gray mud.
From time to time, black tentacle-like and vine-like things surged and shuttled in the mud. Except for the absence of corpses, the scene was similar to the one Thor saw at Mentor Rum's place.
The black tentacles in the mud didn't seem to hurt anyone. Apart from rubbing Thor's arms and ankles, they hadn't done anything really harmful.
I don't know why it insisted on pulling Thor down.
"Ew... the mud has flowed into my collar. It's so uncomfortable. I must learn how to clean it up before I learn the next witchcraft."
Thor took off his robe, carefully avoiding the mud on it, and wiped his face with the relatively clean part.
"Forget it, I'd better learn the light spell first. If I encounter a place without light, I will immediately become blind."
With the familiar candlestick, Thor's fear of this underground space dissipated a lot.
The presence of the candlesticks indicated that this was also the territory of the wizard tower. However, the dust and moss on the platform indicated that no one had used it for a long time.
Thor turned around and finally noticed the appearance of the platform.
This is a square platform with a side length of about five meters. There are two laboratory tables in the middle, and some broken utensils are placed messily on the table.
Thor walked over and saw a sunken groove in the ground between the two laboratory tables.
He measured it and found that the groove could probably accommodate a normal-sized adult.
"Someone must have done experiments here, but for some reason, this place was abandoned."
A series of mud marks were left on the platform, destroying the original dark moss.
Thor walked along the edge of the platform. There was mud all around. Going further was out of the range of the candlelight. There was only land in the distance, and he couldn't see if there was a way out.
"It doesn't feel safe to walk around." Thor looked up, "Why don't we try to leave from above."
Thor went over and lifted one of the laboratory tables. It was very heavy, but he could barely lift it.
He stood on a laboratory table and could not reach the top of the space. If he stacked two laboratory tables together, he should be able to grab the soil above his head.
I hope there will be some support I can get from above, or I can find a way to seek help from outside.
Although Thor had disappeared for a long time and the gardener should come to find him, Thor was not the kind of person who would just stand there and wait for rescue.
He lifted a corner of one of the lab tables and tried to drag it over first.
“Squeak——”
A sharp sound was heard, and the legs of the laboratory table left several black marks on the platform.
There seemed to be too much noise, and the mud around it began to bubble.
Thor quickly stopped and observed the movements around him.
Although the tentacles did not attack him just now, he still had to act with caution. Thor did not have the confidence to defeat this monster whose head and tail he could not see clearly.
Black tentacles emerged from the mud and twisted and stretched towards the platform, but they seemed to be restricted by something and could not extend within the range of the platform.
Thor waited for a while, making sure that those things would not run onto the platform, before continuing to move the laboratory table.
However, with a "pop", something fell on his left shoulder, and something cool slid across Thor's cheek.
His movement of lifting a corner of the laboratory table suddenly froze, and his eyes slowly looked to the left.
Something like seaweed was clawing at Thor's shoulder.
No, it has no teeth, only black thread-like tentacles. If it weren't so small, it would look very similar to the giant tentacles in the mud.
(End of this chapter)
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