Not long after entering the mushroom forest, Hope noticed that Carl had a frown on his face.

"I don't know, but I always feel like there's something bad about this place."

Rubbing the area between his eyebrows, Carl looked around nervously, as if he was on guard against something.

There were fewer wild animals in the mushroom forest than the two had expected.

Along the way, Hope and Carl haven't encountered any tricky monsters.

But precisely because of this, Carl became more cautious.

Powerful beasts mark their territory.

The environment of this mushroom forest is considered quite good in this underground city, but there are not many wild beasts living here.

So this may mean that there is a powerful creature in this forest.

Most people on the continent of Khorvaire are actually a bit superstitious about psychic powers.

They believe that people with awakened psychic powers can predict good and bad luck, and even the future.

Because he grew up in Zoro, Hope's understanding of psychic powers also carries this kind of prejudice.

"In that case, let's set up camp here first. The mushrooms here look strong. We can build a wooden house on top of them."

"Which one do you mean?"

Without waiting for Carl's confirmation, Hope had already nimbly climbed up a thick mushroom with a stem radius of at least three meters.

The cap of the mushroom she chose was relatively flat. Carl roughly estimated it and thought that the area of ​​the entire cap was at least two hundred square meters.

Just cut down some mushrooms around to use as wood, and you can quickly build a nice wooden house on it.

The only problem is that its stem is very tall, and it is quite troublesome for Carl and the materials to go up and down.

"Have you ever thought of building the camp somewhere else?"

Climbing up with Hope, Carl looked at the butt swaying left and right in front of him and asked in a muffled voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, Carl bumped into Hope.

"Come on, do you think everywhere is as peaceful and stable as your hometown?"

"This forest must exist for a reason. If we want to gain a foothold here, the best way is to rely on the special features of this forest."

As he said this, Hope's devil-like tail suddenly swung and hit Carl in the face lightly.

I don’t know if it was in retaliation for Karl’s behavior of contradicting her just now, or if it was an accident.

"Okay, you have more experience in wild survival than me, so I'll listen to you."

Following the direction where Hope was crawling, Carl followed obediently and soon arrived at the place where the cap and stem of this huge mushroom were connected.

The material of this mushroom has become completely woody, but perhaps because of this, there are some cracks on its cap.

Carl hadn't noticed it when he was down there just now, but once he climbed up, the gaps became obvious.

Hope and Carl climbed onto the cap of the mushroom through one of the cracks.

Looking up, they saw fluorescent mushrooms taller than this mushroom growing unevenly around them. The two of them looked extremely small, like little people who had accidentally entered the land of giants.

"To be honest, if we really set up a camp here, it really wouldn't be very obvious."

Looking at the scenes around him, it took Karl more than ten seconds to speak.

"Humph! Now you know how right my choice was, right? I'll go down to chop wood for hunting later. You get ready and we'll make a fire and cook."

Seeing that Carl realized his good intentions so quickly, Hope put his hands on his hips, said this very firmly, then turned around and climbed down the mushroom.

Without any movement, she just "slid" down along the mushroom stem.

"It seems that what she said before about living in trees was not a joke."

Looking at the figure disappearing in the crack, Carl felt a lot.

But he quickly got into the mood and started writing and drawing on the ground.

"I remember that we were taught how to build a wooden house in the wild in school. I can make two climbing ropes to transport materials. It would be great if I were at level 3 now. A level 3 machinist can use magic to make a set of tools. I can definitely make a processing machine tool!"

While planning the work that would be done later, Carl began to look forward to a higher level.

Not long after, Hope came back with the dimensional bag.

"Monitor lizard meat, stones, and some relatively tender fluorescent mushrooms... Are you sure we can eat these fluorescent mushrooms?"

After counting the things in the dimensional bag, Carl discovered that Hope had brought back many palm-sized fluorescent mushrooms.

"I don't know, but I saw this young monitor lizard feeding on it."

Hope washed the blood off his body with fresh water from the alchemy pot, frowned, and answered Carl's questions.

Carl drew a giant rune representing fire on the stone slab that Hope brought back, and started to roast the monitor lizard meat as he did before.

He did not touch the fluorescent mushrooms rashly.

In his previous life, there were many cases of southwest cousins ​​being poisoned by eating mushrooms. He himself was not proficient in alchemy and did not understand the toxicity of plants, so he did not dare to try it rashly.

As for why the monitor lizard didn't die after eating it, there is a big difference between the absorption capacity of reptiles and mammals for various substances.

Even among mammals, the diets of different species are not the same.

Take dogs, which are the most familiar to people, for example. Chocolate is highly poisonous to them.

However, Carl did not waste the fluorescent mushrooms that Hope brought back.

After removing the moisture from them, Carl used their plant fibers to weave ropes and tried to make them into a magic prop - a climbing rope.

A general climbing rope is about 20 meters long and can withstand objects weighing nearly 1 ton. The user can activate the rope through commands and command the other end of the rope to move to the destination you specify.

The user can also command the rope to be tied firmly to a specified object, or to be loosened, tied, untied, or rolled up.

For adventurers who need to climb up and down, this thing is a very convenient prop.

If Carl could use the fluorescent mushrooms to make a climbing rope, their subsequent work would be much easier.

"etc!"

Just as Carl was squeezing out a handful of juice from the fluorescent mushrooms with a stone, Hope on the side suddenly stopped Carl's next action.

Following Hope's gaze, Carl discovered the reason why the other party stopped him.

Because Carl's actions just now were a bit rough, the cap of the giant mushroom was splashed with the juice of the fluorescent mushroom.

At this moment, the mushroom cap was emitting a brighter light at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Not only that, a cluster of crystals is piercing the epidermis of the cap and slowly growing out.

There seemed to be an orange-red energy vortex inside the crystal, and the surrounding magic power gathered because of its growth.

In Eberron, such things have a standard name - Eberron Dragoncrystal, the crystallization of the power of Eberron, the dragon of the earth.

(End of this chapter)