Chapter 50 50. Almost Killed
The parchment booklet was frayed at the edges, and Calvin checked it for the third time, but still couldn't connect the five floors in the guide with the scene outside the stairs.
Is this the brightest class as promised?
There wasn't even a clump of fireflies to be seen. In the pitch-black fifth floor, the dim glow of mushrooms was the only source of light.
And on the road leading out of the stairs, there happened to be a row of fluorescent mushrooms on both sides, as if they were deliberately paved.
Calvin felt that this scene was even more bizarre than what he saw in the small cave on the second floor.
Even Gray was a little discouraged: "Your strategy is too far off! Should we... continue moving forward?"
"Since we are here, let's take a look at the situation."
After they came out, they found that even the dome was covered with mushrooms, and the fluorescent light was connected into one piece, like a sky curtain.
Calvin felt uncomfortable all over, as if someone was watching him, and he almost regretted his decision two minutes ago.
However, when he told Gray about this feeling, Gray shook his head and said he didn't feel anything.
Calvin couldn't just decide to return based on his feelings, as that would be too willful.
"Are we really going to follow this road?" Gray asked, pointing at the mushroom road in front of him.
This road does look suspicious, but it coincides with the direction of the forest written in the guide.
Even though the guide is out of date, the terrain should not have changed completely.
After thinking it over, Calvin took out his small staff.
First-level magic - illumination.
A ball of orange-yellow light floated at the tip of the staff.
"Let's go to the outside of the road."
Pah--
As they took their first step out of the path, they felt something sticky under their feet.
When I bent over to check, I was surprised to find that the outside of the path was covered with translucent mycelium.
From beneath them, all the way to the edge of darkness, all they could see was mycelium land!
"I was wondering if the color of the ground looked weird. It turns out it's all this stuff!" Gray stepped back in disgust. "How about we just walk?"
Calvin could only nod.
The path was clean, as if the mycelium was blocked by the fluorescent mushrooms on both sides.
The surroundings were quite quiet, and there was no trace of the monsters mentioned in the guide.
The only thing they encountered was a hill of corpses, which had been mostly decomposed by mycelium and were so broken that it was impossible to tell what they had originally been.
Everything made the two of them gradually feel uneasy. They were always alert to their surroundings and didn't even speak.
The two did not stop until they saw the forest.
"Is that the 'forest' you were talking about?"
In the direction Gray pointed, countless giant glowing mushrooms stood tall, with mycelium hanging from their caps, forming a mushroom forest in the staggered heights.
Only a small number of giant trees were sandwiched between the giant mushrooms.
Apparently, even the terrain information in the guide is outdated!
Before Calvin could say anything, a strange sound rang out in the forest.
puff--
puff--
The rich sound is particularly clear in a quiet environment.
A three-meter-tall fat mushroom slowly walked out from behind the giant mushroom, with four thick hyphae tentacles swaying in the air.
Next to this giant Puji, there were a dozen small Pujis that also had tentacles and were exactly the same as the one on the second floor.
The Pujis seemed to have noticed the two people and stopped.
"Calvin! Let's retreat!"
“Calvin?”
Only then did Gray realize that the light of the illumination magic beside him had disappeared at some point.
"Calvin, you—"
The next second, Gray found that his body became transparent, and Calvin's voice came from the side.
"Me what?"
"You...you did a good job. Your reaction was faster than mine!"
“Tsk!”
There was no time to argue any further, Calvin crouched down and grabbed the corner of Gray's clothes to make sure the two would not get separated.
"Retreat, retreat, this place is too weird."
"What about your homework?"
"What else can I do? I can only use my savings to buy one from a black marketeer."
The already tight treasury was about to shrink again, and Calvin felt like his heart was bleeding.
In his grief, Calvin didn't notice the pulling force on his hands and bumped into something.
"It hurts so much!" It seemed like his forehead was broken and he could feel the bleeding.
But he soon had no time to care about this minor injury.
A humanoid creature covered with inky scales stood in front, staring at the two invisible people with its head tilted.
"Dragon dragon dragon dragon..." Before Calvin could finish his words, he was grabbed by the neck and lifted up by the monster, which was not even as tall as him.
The invisibility skills of the two lost support and became ineffective instantly.
At the same time, a loud shout came from the side!
【Fury LV4】
[Brute Force LV4]
It's Gray!
Seeing Calvin being attacked, he immediately activated the amplification and chopped down with the sword raised in both hands.
【Heavy Cleave LV5】
clang--
Half of the broken sword flew into the air. Gray trembled as he maintained the downward chopping posture, blood flowing out from his broken knuckles.
He couldn't understand why his fine steel sword couldn't even cut a scale on the opponent's shoulder?
I clearly checked my equipment carefully before entering the dungeon.
Isn't this the fifth floor?
The monster grabbed Gray's neck with its other claw. Gray wanted to resist, but his hands were numb from the shock and he couldn't even lift them.
Feeling the force coming from the claws getting stronger and stronger, Gray's breathing became increasingly difficult.
Calvin next to him had a purple face and was almost suffocating.
It seemed like a moment, and also like an eternity. At some point, the pressure on my neck suddenly disappeared.
Gray lay on the ground in a mess, breathing the air greedily.
After catching his breath, he looked up and found that the horrible monster had disappeared, and Calvin was lying on the ground, motionless, with even his chest not rising or falling.
"Calvin? Calvin! Wake up!"
Two slaps on Calvin's face still failed to wake him up.
Gray hurriedly opened the small bag he was carrying and wanted to take out a bottle of healing potion, but was interrupted by the Pujis who surrounded him.
He subconsciously tried to grab the sword, but missed it and then he remembered that only the broken sword was left on the ground.
He was quickly tied up.
"It would have been better if you had strangled me to death just now..."
When Gray was wondering how he would be killed, he saw a Puji on the opposite side stretched out a hollow mycelium tentacle and inserted it into Calvin's mouth.
The tentacles expanded and contracted along with Puji's body.
Gray, who was tied up, struggled, but he could only watch and could do nothing.
Suddenly, Calvin's eyes widened and he frantically pulled out the mycelial tentacle from his throat.
"Cough-cough-cough-cough-cough-cough-uh-"
After coughing, Calvin collapsed on the ground as if he was half dead - in fact, his blood volume was indeed reduced by half.
puff--
There were heavy footsteps, and the fat guy Puji finally walked up slowly.
It rummaged around in its stomach, took out four things and threw them in front of Gray.
Then the Pujis let go of Gray, turned around and left, and soon disappeared into the mushroom forest.
Gray looked at the sword, fruit core, magic crystal and a bottle of healing potion left by Puji on the ground, and was unable to react for a moment.
This is... being saved from the monster by Puji?
Gray quickly gathered his things, carried the weak Calvin, and hurriedly fled back to the staircase.
——
I forgot to tell Xiao Hei that humans are not monsters!
(End of this chapter)
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