Chapter 254 253. Infant Level Dungeon
"How can we get through this? If you grow wings, can you..." Before Thorin could finish his words, he felt a huge force coming from his waist!
"Ahhhhhhhhh——!" Thorin only had time to let out a series of distorted screams before his body drew an arc. He frantically flapped in the air, and finally, at the moment when he was about to hit the cliff on the opposite bank, he narrowly grabbed onto the edge of a protruding rock.
puff!
The huge inertia caused his face to slam hard against the cold rock wall. His nose bridge felt a sharp pain and warm blood instantly gushed out.
But he didn't care about that. The ecstasy of surviving the disaster surged in his heart: "You are really amazing, Glenn! I..."
He turned his head excitedly to praise his companion, but saw a sturdy figure rising into the air!
Glenn jumped in mid-air, but unfortunately, due to the short run-up distance and insufficient jumping height, he could not reach the edge.
"Ah?!" Thorin watched in horror as the pair of strong hands failed to reach the rock, but instead grabbed his hanging calves!
"Ahhh!" Thorin felt a heavy force pulling him downwards. His fingers gripping the rock instantly felt a tearing pain, and he was nearly pulled under. "Asshole! Couldn't you make a sound before jumping?!"
"Bullshit! There's no time!!" Glenn hung on Thorin's legs, gasping in fear as well.
Thorin glanced back with difficulty, and saw that the edge of the cliff where they had just stood was now crowded with scarecrows. Fortunately, they were all ordinary scarecrows. If there were any that could throw or cast spells, the two of them would be sitting ducks.
Glenn tried to climb up along Thorin's legs, but just as he climbed a little, both of them were shaken and the sound of cracking stones came from above.
Thorin shouted anxiously, "Don't move! Stop climbing! It's going to break! Can't you just hold on to the rocks around you first?"
Glenn looked around and said, "What the hell can I do? I'm completely naked! There's nowhere to start!"
Click——
The stone that Tolin had dug cracked a little more.
"Brother! We can't hold on for two people! How about... you sacrifice yourself? I still have to become the greatest adventurer! I'll carve your name at the bottom of the monument!"
"So I'm the nameless mercenary A who died at the beginning? I bet you don't even know my last name!" Grumm tried to climb up quickly. "Although the reward you gave is high, it's still far from enough to buy my life!"
“I really can’t do this anymore—!”
Snap!
The rubble flew everywhere, and the two dwarves hugged each other, screaming and rolling towards the bottomless darkness below!
The two of them crashed and tumbled on the steep cliff face. Just when they thought they were doomed, they suddenly landed on a soft surface...
It was pitch black and I couldn't see anything.
"Ouch! My dear beard!" Glenn's cry of pain was the first to be heard. With real grief and indignation, he groped for his proud beard in the darkness, and felt jagged and broken edges at his fingertips.
Thorin stretched out his arms and legs, sinking deeply into the unknown softness. His voice was filled with the bewilderment and dejection of someone who had just survived a catastrophe: "Where is this? Deeper? A manor or a house?"
He didn't even have the energy to blame Glenn for what he had done before. He just felt that the anvil of fate was hitting him in an extremely unreasonable way.
"It seems... neither?" Glenn's voice was filled with uncertainty.
After he said this, Thorin shuddered and realized that the tingling sensation on his skin caused by resisting the curse had disappeared!
Dwarves are naturally highly resistant, so they can explore the Scarecrow Abyss relatively easily. However, when attacked by a curse, they should still feel a stinging sensation, but now the stinging sensation is gone!
"Did it come out?!" Thorin's voice suddenly rose, filled with incredible ecstasy, but then he asked in confusion, "But... why? How did it come out?"
Chila——!
A sharp tearing sound accompanied by a sudden influx of light interrupted Thorin's thoughts! It was Grumm. He pulled out his only remaining hatchet and fiercely split the softness that enveloped them!
The two men used their hands and feet to crawl out of the gap, and were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them, with their mouths opened so wide that a dwarf wheat cake could be stuffed in.
The eerie wheat fields and decaying windmills disappeared, replaced by a dreamy forest of fluorescent mushrooms!
Countless huge mushrooms of various shapes rise from the ground, their caps like umbrellas and clouds, emitting soft fluorescence. Tiny luminous spores float in the air, and layers of light interweave and flow, like a flowing galaxy!
And the two of them also emerged from a mushroom tree!
Faced with such a beautiful view, Glenn immediately tore off the corner of his clothes to cover his mouth and nose, and Thorin followed suit.
With the help of the light, the two turned around and saw the space crack at the top of the giant mushroom tree.
"So..." Grum stroked his stubbled beard, his voice filled with a deep sense of absurdity, "Maybe we... fell into another dungeon?"
"Goblin!" Thorin suddenly shouted.
Glenn's muscles tensed instantly, and he held the only remaining short axe across his body. He glanced around vigilantly, but found nothing except countless mushrooms and flying spores.
"No...it seems like there really is one...but goblins are not that tall...but that green one..." Thorin rubbed his eyes and his tone became uncertain.
Just now I seemed to catch a glimpse of a blurry, tall green figure flashing behind the mushroom tree.
"If there really are goblins out there," Grumm spat bloody saliva, his face darkening, "that means we've fallen into a dungeon on demon territory. We've just escaped the tiger's mouth and walked right into the wolf's den!"
There is no way to survive if they return to the Scarecrow Abyss, so the two can only try to figure out the situation here.
The two chose a direction and groped their way forward carefully.
Behind a mushroom tree not far away, Dylan, bewildered as to why the boss had let anyone in, quickly transformed back into human form...
The two dwarves stopped after walking a few steps because they encountered a cow horse Puji.
Because it looked harmless, Glenn didn't attack immediately. He just frowned and looked at it: "Isn't this one of those walking mushrooms you encounter in caves?"
"The correct scientific name should be Puji!" Thorin corrected as usual, moving closer to observe. "But... why does this Puji have tentacles? Is it a new species?"
As he was speaking, two more Pujis slowly walked out from the mushroom forest and joined the group of people watching the dwarves.
"What should we do?" Thorin asked.
"What should I do... Let's ignore it for now. They are just puffballs. Can they eat people? Ignore them. Let's figure out which level this is on first!" Glenn didn't want to make too much noise.
So, the two dwarves continued to move forward, followed by three Pujis. However, strangely, as time went by, more and more Pujis gathered around them!
When they finally walked out of the edge of this fantastic and strange mushroom forest, there were already no less than thirty or forty Pujis following behind them!
They did not attack, but just followed silently, which was completely different from the aimless running around in their memory.
As soon as they stepped out of the mushroom forest, the view suddenly opened up. It was here that they ran into the Horn Trio who had just finished the lottery.
"Two dwarves...?" Horn looked at this dwarf group that he had never seen in the dungeon, especially the Puji group behind them, his eyes full of surprise.
When Glenn saw that the person in front of him was a human, his tense nerves relaxed instantly, and a look of relief and ecstasy appeared on his face!
"Humans! It's humans!" He slapped his thigh excitedly, suddenly realizing, "And there's also Puji! I understand! This isn't the demon clan's haunted place, this is the purple crystal dungeon in human territory!"
Thorin immediately realized, "Is it the Amethyst Dungeon known as the 'Cradle for Newbies' and 'Safe Enough to Take Babies for a Walk'?"
"Yes! That's it!" Grum nodded vigorously, his tone full of joy. "There are only ten floors in total, and the monster levels on each floor are clearly marked. As long as you don't commit suicide, it's safer than a mine! It's definitely a baby-level dungeon!"
He turned to the three people from the Horn and shouted in Common with a thick dwarven accent, "Hey! Human friends, this is the Amethyst Dungeon, right?"
The two dwarves also spoke the common language. Only the royal family and historians knew the real dwarven language, so the three people from Horn could hear their conversation clearly.
In response to the question, Aimee turned her face away, clearly displeased that the other party was so disregarding of her own dungeon.
Horn thought that these two dwarves were strange. How could someone ask such a question?
But he still nodded cautiously: "Yes, this is the Amethyst Dungeon."
After getting the confirmation, Glenn's last bit of vigilance disappeared.
He looked at the slowly swaying Pujis around him, especially the few that were blocking his way.
"Ha! Then this must be the first or second floor! I was so nervous for so long!" He laughed loudly, as if to vent his previous depression. Amid the exclamations of "Stop!" from the three people at the horn, he swung the short axe in his hand, and with the broad axe blade, he swatted the nearest Puji with brute force, as if swatting a fly!
The broken pieces flew far away.
“You…what are you doing!?”
Amidst the horn's distorted cry, a bewildered Thorin was blown away by the sudden aftermath of the explosion...
(End of this chapter)
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