Chapter 38: The Ancient Tree (3)
"What should I do? After I put the elven dagger into the package to avoid attracting the caterpillars, I sat in the darkness and frowned, sick at the thought of a bunch of those caterpillars ahead.
It is definitely not possible to use flames, and using flames in such a dense space must be the consequence of burning out oxygen suffocation, so even the lighting only dares to use a small fire to shine, and I am afraid that it will ignite the sawdust, and the water vapor is very little in this kind of confined space, and it is probably impossible to even gather the weight of a water balloon, let alone soil.
"If it's a bug, what about the low temperature?" I thought for a moment, and cautiously unleashed my magic, and in my eyes the various elements began to slowly slow down from violent vibrations, and after a blink of an eye, the temperature around me began to slowly decrease.
I lowered the temperature and crawled forward in the dark for a short time, when suddenly, my hand touched a spherical object with a hard shell, which felt like a curled up caterpillar.
"Bingo!" I whispered inwardly.
I crawled forward cautiously while creating low temperatures, and from time to time I touched the insect balls in my hands, although these insects were disgusting, but they still retained the characteristics of insects, and they had low temperature tolerance, and they could only curl up and reduce their body functions to save their lives when they encountered low temperatures.
"Hello. I couldn't help but sneeze, and I cautiously stopped, but luckily the bugs should have hibernated. I felt that my hands and feet were starting to stiffen a little in the low temperature, and it was more physically demanding to move, not to mention the mana used to keep it cold.
"No, it's really over when you fall at this point. I tried to hold on, crawling a little faster, and I could feel the balls of worms almost blocking my path one by one, and I would definitely be eaten by this time when I recovered the temperature.
I couldn't help but shudder at the thought of myself crawling all over my body with such disgusting fat caterpillars.
"I thought I might be able to keep it, but I didn't expect to use it. I sighed secretly, crawled forward, explored the small package around my waist with my right hand, fumbled for a while, took out two bottles of potion, confirmed the marking, made sure that one was a droplet-shaped mark, and the other was a flame marker symbolizing the elements, I stuffed these two potion bottles into my mouth, and then bit them open with my teeth. Two bottles of potion flowed in slowly, to be honest, the taste was not too good, it felt like a concentrated energy drink from the previous life, with a strange sweetness, but now this situation seems to be unable to ask for too much.
After swallowing, a stream of hot air slowly flowed from the abdomen to the limbs of the whole body, I felt that my physical condition had recovered a little, some of the abrasions caused by crawling began to improve, and I felt a cold breath entering my brain, I felt a little clearer, and my magic power slowly recovered.
"Tsk. I slammed my mouth, there are still a lot of magical things in this world, although the recovery potion is still a stimulating potential, and the magic potion is about to stimulate the spirit and concentrate the magic power, but in this case, as long as it is useful, thank God. I touched my waist bag and sighed, there were only two bottles of recovery potions and two bottles of magic potions left, not that they were stingy, but that this kind of low-level potion was difficult to find in a hurry, and the body couldn't stand it if it was too high-grade potion to drink.
"It's still too naïve. I still underestimate this situation too much, how can the place where the little princess of the elf country be trapped can easily pass, I already knew that they should have prepared all the potions, and then prepared a full-body magic equipment, and they didn't go all the way through. But just think about it, potions usually don't have much time to drink during battles, and the effects are not immediate, so it's useless to take too much.
I continued to climb forward for a while, and I felt that the effects of the healing potion and the magic potion were about to disappear, and the magic began to decline again, and the fatigue began to rise again, and I was thinking about whether to drink another bottle, when suddenly, there seemed to be some light in a place not far ahead, which felt much wider than here, a bit like the exit of a passage.
"Oops. Me?? I screamed secretly, because I was excited to see a place like an exit, the magic was not well controlled, and the hot air rushed in, and the temperature quickly began to rise, and in a short period of time I could feel the insects around me slowly shaking.
"Fight. I thought about it quickly, if I wanted to lower the temperature again, not only would it take a lot of mana, but I was afraid that it would not be too late, so there was only one way......
"Wind Blade...... Flurry!" I gave up on suppressing the temperature, and the constant influx of hot air around me caused the temperature to rise at a fairly rapid rate, and as I began to release a lot of magic, I could almost feel the bugs next to me quickly stretch out, and aim at me to attack.
I pointed forward with my left hand, and countless small wind blades flew in front of me indiscriminately, and at the same time, I also took out the elven short sword in my right hand, and the moment the glimmer appeared, I intuitively felt what it was called, and the feeling of powerlessness in the darkness was indeed uncomfortable. In the faint light, I saw countless pale green wind blades flying, and the black caterpillars were chopped into pieces as soon as they approached, and the black insect liquid flew everywhere like disgusting ink paintings.
I crawled forward on all fours with my might, occasionally smashing out one or two of the worms that slipped through the net with my elven dagger.
"Damn. I felt a pain in my right shoulder, probably from a bug in the dead corner.
At this time, I didn't care about it, and after making up for a wind blade, I simply lowered my head and barely protected my face and crawled forward, the result was that the speed was much faster than before, but the calves, waist and back were climbed by caterpillars, and the sharp teeth bit deep into the flesh, and the pain was severe and at the same time with an unbearable itching feeling.
Suddenly, I felt my hands empty, and a feeling of weightlessness was followed by a sharp pain of falling. I didn't have time to look around, I quickly used my short sword to check the place where I felt the sharp pain, only to see a disgusting black caterpillar biting through my leather armor at the shoulder and gnawing at my flesh, I felt a creepy bout, pulled it and found that the caterpillar bit very tightly, as I pulled it seemed to drill into it a little more, and the sharp pain in my heart made me can't help but snort.
"Damn. I took the elven dagger, took a deep breath, and cut off the flesh and the worm, only to see the worm fall to the ground with my shoulder meat, and blood flowed out of the shoulder. I quickly bandaged it with my bandage, then stabbed the worm to death, and then quickly repeated it elsewhere, and when I finished bandaging the last wound, I was covered in cold sweat, and the pain was excruciating, but with the itching sensation of rolling on the ground, and the blood was not full of bright red blood, but mixed with a thick black liquid with a rancid and fruity scent.
With trembling hands, I took out another bottle of healing and magic potion and poured it in.
"How could it be ......" I looked at the wound on my shoulder, and saw that the wound slowly wriggled as if it was about to heal, but it seemed to be blocked by the black liquid, and the blood stopped, but the black liquid still continued to flow out of the wound, like pus, and at the same time, the rancid smell was even stronger, almost rushing into my nostrils. At the same time, I also noticed that the body fluids of those insects could not be eliminated after they were touched on the body, and even if they were washed with water, they still imprinted on the skin and flesh like dye, and at the same time, a faint itching sensation came from the dye.