Chapter 53
The red dragon returned to the top of the crater contentedly, and only then did he have time to look at the islands below. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Hey? I've grown up a lot. Claudius sighed, the main island of Hell Island, the island formed by the volcanic mountains, has grown much larger and taller than when he was asleep a few years ago, but with the cessation of large-scale eruptions, it is estimated that it will not grow as quickly as it used to.
Now the volcanic island has become a green island, at least more than 70 of the island area has been covered by various subtropical plants, but there are no animals, basically seabirds inhabit here. Claudius appeared this time, and many birds were directly scared to death. There are no snakes on the island except for birds, and the number of birds without natural predators is huge. However, it seems that if the boats of those adventurers had landed, there was a good chance that there would be more rats on the island.
Unbeknownst to Claudius, while he was sleeping, a violent eruption of a volcano sent a large amount of ash and pumice to the island of hell, and the ensuing earthquake also brought about changes in the underground of the island—the cracks and cavities created by the earthquake were very deep, and the magma glowing red in the darkness illuminated the long, narrow passage at the edge of the crack. On this day, geographically, this Hell Island was officially connected to the underworld that dots the land of Faeron. It's just that it is still unknown if any underground creatures have made their way to the island's underground along this new passage.
Claudius's brief lucidity, of course, also led him to discover the mushroom people hiding in the dense red mushrooms. "Aha! It's really fun stuff. Even mushrooms can appear in this world - but then again, how do these mushrooms grow? Could it be that Lao Tzu's crotch is really moss? Not good! Where is terbinafene hydrochloride ointment? But at the moment there didn't seem to be any itching or itching, and Claudius just screamed for a while and then gave up—he himself found it a bit boring and without an audience...... Of course, he also found that the flame mushroom people in his attribute table were shining, and he immediately checked the characteristics of these mushroom people very casually.
It turns out that these mushroom people are very good farmers - especially in cultivating edible fungi, and they seem to be very good as servants - and many of the stunts of this group are in the life aspect. As for combat ability, there is not much to say except that the strength can be seen, the physique is not bad, and the defense is simply exaggerated - the attack speed is pathetic, the attack distance is miserable, and the weapon they are good at is actually an improvised weapon - which means that these mushroom people can only use straw forks, dung forks, or wooden stick rakes and the like, and it is estimated that the only weapon that can be bladed may be a long-handled scythe...... Claudius looked at the mushroom people who were the length of his fingers now, and could imagine in his mind what they would look like with weapons in their hands..... It's ridiculous, that's how Claudius thinks about this picture. The long-handled weapons in the hands of these mushroom people are probably replaced by normal people, that is, half-human tools.
As for the combat skills, it is even worse to be good, the various "proficient" that the dragon tooth soldiers have, these flame mushroom people do not have any, the only one only has the skill of proficiency in simple weapons, and there are no combat skills such as homeopathic slashing, and even the options that can be employed are only various production occupations in addition to farmers, and the only combat profession is only peasant soldiers, and it is actually a non-entry peasant soldier who cannot be upgraded.
Fortunately, there is a flame in the name, so these mushroom people have a high trait that is fire immunity, "This may be able to gather a large number of mushroom people to share the damage and jam the enemy, and then I will have a doomsday breath of the whole flame...... Hahahaha. Claudius remembered the shameless gameplay of a game from a long, long time ago, and laughed out loud, feeling that he had been in a bad mood because the delicious crab had slipped away and his subordinates were so wasteful.
The red dragon lay down in the same place, and then quickly fell into a deep sleep again, not caring at all about the group of weak humans outside. "Who would be a normal person looking for death?" At this time, he usually forgot the large amount of money and experience brought by slaying dragons - after all, the imprint of earthlings on his body was too big, so he often forgot that he was actually a gift package of experience and money.
As usual, the mushroom people continued their usual business after Claudius fell asleep - helping the red dragon clean the dust from his body and finding new mushroom cultivation sites, after all, only more mushrooms would increase the number of mushroom people. There aren't many places in the crater where these mushrooms can grow, although they are not afraid of high temperatures. In the volcanic wall, the Flame Mushroom people found a crack that was large enough for a whole group of people to walk side by side, but the entrance formed a curved ruler shape, which greatly deceived the vision into thinking it was just a small crack. Mushroom people find that this crack is step-by-step downward, and the darkness and damp warmth are perfect for mushroom growth.
The mushroom people began to collect moss and trees from the outer side of the crater and the dense forest below, like worker ants, and then dragged the surface through the scorched surface into the cracks, moistened with water from the Endless Water Pump, and planted with spores and mycelium. The next step is to wait patiently for the mushrooms to grow, but before they can do so, they must collect metal-rich ash to "fertilize" the pile, and something important is something like Claudius' unintentional saliva in his sleep. The ratio of mushroom people to mushrooms is actually very low, only five to seven of the 1,000 mushrooms will develop into mushroom people, while most of the other mushrooms will grow into small mushrooms that glow red, and only about one or two mushrooms will grow abnormally and eventually grow to the size of the mushroom house in the Smurfs cartoon - these fat big mushrooms can grow to be as tall as three or four people, and reach six or seven meters in diameter. Then the mushroom people would dig out the doors and windows in the handles of the umbrellas and hollow out the inside of the mushrooms - all so quickly that when the caps of the big mushrooms turned dark red and began to glow, they would become something as hard as metal. Mushroom people live in these big mushrooms as if they were houses. The mushroom people's diet is simple, basically a few fermented wood and lichen, enough water and some metal-rich volcanic ash - theoretically these mushroom people with fairly sharp teeth should be able to eat meat, but Claudius has eaten all the meat so that the little mushrooms have not had a chance to eat it.
It took several days for the mushroom people to do this, and it took several days for the adventurers to organize and build their departure camp after the successful landing, which was due to the fact that Claudius deterred the sea monsters and kept them hiding in the water for a long time. After successfully transporting the ship's materials to shore, the adventurers who had completed the construction and organization also sent thieves or rangers to scout the terrain - interestingly, many of these adventurers did not know each other's existence, and the adventurer squads were basically teams of about a dozen or so, and they may not have known each other in the past. The Kraken helped them complete a new formation.
The team of the gods of justice was the largest and most complete, and they were able to rescue the ship's crew without even casualties. After bringing all the food ashore and building improvised houses to shelter from the daily rainstorms, they left the crew to guard them, while the twenty-three priests and paladins began to scout and record the interior of the island, and the experienced old priests thought that it would take them about a week or two to get close to the volcano - there were no followers of the Father of Oaks among them, so the jungle was not friendly to them......