Chapter 16: The Mushroom King

The journey to meet the mushroom king was long and long, and the soft ground covered with mycelium, although full of elasticity, was also very physically draining, and the little mage Sok could not support it first, and then Savina also lost the ability to walk, and only Efeld could continue to advance.

However, the mushroom guard showed enough enthusiasm to allow Sok and Savina to rest on his mushroom cover, which was dozens of feet in diameter, and he continued to walk unhurriedly, without feeling the slightest fatigue, his heart did not shake at all, and the little mage Sok even began to meditate on the umbrella of the mushroom guard, recovering the spell slot that had been consumed last night.

A few hours later, the mushroom guards suddenly stopped.

"Ahead is the royal court of the mushroom king!"

The mushroom guard raised his arm on one side, one of the three fingers stretched forward, and in the fluorescence of the mushroom forest, the three of Shavina saw a huge flat-topped stone mountain towering high from the center of the mushroom forest, and countless small figures were moving on the stone mountain.

"I can only send you here, and you need to walk the rest of the road yourself. ”

The voice of the mushroom guard sounded in the minds of the two and the beast, and then he retreated to the side of the road, his legs immediately splitting into countless mycelium as thin as wool, and quickly reaching deep into the fungus carpet, as he raised his hand to carry Sok and Savina down from their heads and to the ground.

"Thank you very much, mighty mushroom warrior, I don't know your name yet?"

Shavina saluted the mushroom guard, then asked.

"We don't need names, if you really want to call me, then you can use the name Pooh. ”

The mushroom guard's legs had been completely dug into the ground, and after answering Savina's question, he closed even his little eyes and didn't make any moves, and he became a normal member of the mushroom forest again.

Shavina took Sock and Efield to start approaching the meada mountain, and Soke, who had recovered the spell position, immediately released a light spell, but even if they saw the location of the mushroom king's royal court on the umbrella cover of the mushroom guard, Shavina and the three of them still spent nearly half an hour, and finally when the light spell was about to disappear, they finally reached the foot of the mesa mountain.

"Stop, this is the Mushroom King's Court, and you are not allowed to enter at will!"

Just standing at the foot of the mountain, the two mushroom people who were only four or five feet tall, although they still had umbrella covers, could already clearly see the body structure and limb joints flashing out from behind the giant mushrooms growing at the foot of the mountain, and aimed the slender spears in their hands at the three of Savina, their heads already had obvious mouthparts, and the throat of the unknown structure spoke a string of elven words in the whole air.

"We are adventurers from the surface world, and we have been following the dark elves to this vault, brought to us by the mushroom guard Vinnie. ”

Savina calmly explained to them what she was trying to do, and the little eyes under the canopy of the two mushroom men flickered, and then she suddenly withdrew the spear in her hand.

"Come with us, the King of the Mushrooms has known of your coming, and he is waiting for you on his throne. ”

With the two short but more humanoid mushroom people, Shavina and her party came to the back of the flat-topped stone mountain, the flat-topped stone mountain is a huge cave, the outside of the cave is a lake, hundreds of dwarf humanoids with dim yellow spots on their bodies, and the light spots on their foreheads are working on the lakeside, they shake off some fine powder from their bodies from time to time and sprinkle it on the mud floor, and then use the simple tools in their hands to turn the dirt over and bury the powder into the ground.

The two mushrooms led to the inner side of the cave, which was not deep, and a creature that looked like a dwarf creature working outside but was several times taller sat on a huge rock on the inner side of the cave.

"King, the trespasser has been brought. ”

"Go down. ”

The mushroom king emitted a bright cloud of spores from the dim yellow spot on his body, enveloping Shavina and the others. Then the mushroom king's voice sounded from the bottom of Savina's heart.

"You don't need to be confused, I am the king of the mushrooms, and don't resist the spore cloud of the mushrooms, which is a means for us to communicate with other creatures. ”

"I already know what you're here for, and I can provide you with information about the dark elves, but as a condition, I need you to do something for me. ”

The mushroom king's voice continued to speak in the hearts of the two men and the beast.

"We mushrooms are entering the next stage of life evolution, Spore Humans, but in the process of evolution, some of our people have taken a different path, they have evolved into fungal giants, although they have evolved into huge sizes, but they have lost their intelligence, what I need you to do is to go to the spore forest on the other side of the lake to collect the spores of the fungal giants, I need to understand the reason for their loss of intelligence. ”

"As soon as we retrieve the spores of the fungal giant, you'll tell us where the dark elves are, won't you?"

"Don't bother, I'll tell you where the dark elves are first, I trust you. ”

Shavina confirmed with the Mushroom King again, but the Mushroom King teleported a picture directly from his mind. In the picture, a group of more than 20 young dark elves, led by an adult male dark elf and a female dark elf wearing a black cloak, walked into a small tunnel on the other side of the vault where the mushroom forest is located, and a young male dark elf walked at the back with an unconscious little girl in the crook of his arm.

As they entered the tunnel, a large rock slowly moved, obscuring the entrance to the small tunnel.

"That's Katyusha. ”

Sock immediately recognized that the little girl in the crook of his arm was his sister, and anger appeared on his little face.

"Thank you for your trust, we will fulfill your entrustment. ”

Shavina saluted again with Sock, turned quickly and walked out of the cave.

"Miss Shavina, let's go after the dark elves at once, for in a minute, Katyusha will be more dangerous. Knowing his sister's whereabouts, Sock was eager to fly over and kill the dark elves and save his sister......

"But we just took over the commission of the mushroom king, and as you can see, there are so many dark elves, we are no match at all!"

Shavina is a little hesitant, and she is kind and wants to save Katyusha as soon as possible and avenge the children in the orphanage, but betraying the trust of others is not something that should be done.

"Shavina, you go ahead and save Katyusha, I'll pick the spores of the fungal giant, and I'll join you when the time comes. ”

Efeld, who had been silent, offered his opinion, which was immediately agreed by Sock, and then Savina thought about it and agreed.

"Efeld, stay safe! we'll go save Katyusha first!"

Shavina took Efeld's fur and instructed her like a family member, and then led Sok to the tunnel shown in the picture, they must catch up with the dark elves as soon as possible, so that Katyusha has a better chance of survival.

Watching Shavina go away, Efeld stretched and ran in the direction the mushroom king had pointed out, as long as he could collect the spores of the fungal giant there, his task would be completed.

In half an hour, Efeld walked along the shore of the lake to the other side of the small lake, and unlike the thriving side of the mushroom king, the mushrooms had withered, and the huge mushroom remains fell to the ground in all directions, like the scene of a terrible earthquake after an earthquake.

On the remains of some of the mushrooms, strange objects like giant hot air balloons swayed slightly with the air current, and in the middle of these objects, dozens of fungal giants that emitted a foul-smelling stench, as if the rotten mushroom rods were spliced together, were nervously walking back and forth, and they also had dim yellow spots of light, emitting bursts of foul-smelling spores.

"Where are their spores? are they coming out of the spot like the Sporogenists, or are they somewhere else?"

Looking at the fungal giants in front of him, Efeld began to look for the location of the spores of the fungal giants, but half an hour passed, and he could not find where the spores of the fungal giants were.

"No matter, let's take a look at the light spot first. ”

Thinking so, Efeld crept up to a fungal giant, his limbs charging up, and Edelman's metal claws ready.

Suddenly, the fungal giant sat down on the mushroom wreckage, and then Zhu Ba found that he didn't need to pick at the light spots on his body. (To be continued.) )