OBS Chapter 2826 Underground Bugs
Chapter 2826 Underground Bugs
Chapter 2826 Underground Bugs
The suspicious Xia De almost immediately extinguished the light balls floating around him and looked at the cave that suddenly appeared in the darkness:
"Underground hole? How is this possible? Why didn't I notice such a large underground space with my powerful spatial perception?"
Mithril is a special metal, and although it is possible for it to cause supernatural phenomena near the mines, this definitely does not include the ability to shield space.
So standing at the melted hole, Shade looked hesitantly at the darkness below. Of course, he would not jump down rashly, and from the perspective provided by "dark vision", the area below looked more like a naturally formed underground cave, with nothing inside.
This place is not completely closed. There are underground cracks around the cave that connect to other locations. However, because the "Strong Spatial Perception" does not work here for some reason, Xia De does not know what this cave is.
However, he suddenly remembered the content of his conversation with Professor Youke Wood, so he took out a green leaf that had been turned into a toy from his pocket, but nothing happened when he put it in front of his eyes, which showed that Shad was not affected by the so-called "hallucinogenic gas".
However, he then replaced the ordinary green leaf with the "Leaf of Eternal Youth". This time, after putting the leaf in front of his eyes and waiting for a moment before taking it off, the world he saw with his right eye was indeed different.
It's not that the illusion is broken, but that something that was originally hidden is revealed.
The roots of a huge tree trunk broke out from the bottom of the underground cave, then spread throughout the entire cave, and then extended along the cracks to invisible places.
On those dark tree roots, there were white vesicles, or things like insect eggs, clinging to them. To be more precise, those insect eggs were translucent, and they only appeared white because of the white mist that was slowly surging inside them. The vesicles emitted a faint light in the darkness, the light was not strong, but the brightness slowly changed with the surging of the white mist in the vesicles.
It was precisely because of the transparent vesicles and the white mist that Xia De could clearly see the insects that were sleeping in those eggs.
Those bugs are roughly the same size as normal adults, but judging from their appearance, they are "paradox bugs" no matter how you look at them.
"Tree roots that grow up from the ground instead of down, and these paradox worms."
The mithril mine that Shad wanted to find was indeed here. Although he did not dare to summon the light ball for illumination, he could see patches of silver phosphorescence on the side walls of the cave. This was the color of mithril ore.
The silver phosphorescence and the light of the insect eggs on the thick and ancient tree roots complemented each other. This scene deep underground actually looked extremely shocking. Xia De even held his breath unconsciously. Gradually, as the [Youthful Eternal Leaf] was away from his eyes for a longer time, the tree roots and insect eggs disappeared again.
Just when Xia De was about to cover his eyes with the leaves again, white mist suddenly emerged from the originally empty underground cave.
The thick fog that symbolized the concept of "time chaos" filled the bottom of the entire underground cave in just a breath. At the same time, the buzzing sound of insects appeared clearly in the depths of the cave, and it was getting closer and closer to Shade's position.
Shade decisively took off the key from his chest with his left hand. The ritual array appeared under his feet. As soon as he grasped the Staff of Yggdrasil in his hand, he slammed the bottom of the staff against the ground:
"The stability principle of the ancient elves!"
Emerald green light gushed out from the top of the staff, like a tree growing a canopy, or like a shield that protected Shade from the wind and rain. The sound below was not the collective awakening of the insect eggs, but an invisible thing that made a buzzing sound, which suddenly collided with the emerald green light under the cover of the rising white mist.
With a click, Shad's magic was forcibly interrupted, and he himself was even flung backwards like a cannonball.
The thing hidden in the fog also revealed its appearance due to the power of magic. The "paradox worm" was about three meters in size, with a dark shell and wings that seemed to be able to forcibly distort time when flapping.
It was obviously seriously injured when it collided with the magic that was specifically designed to restrain them, but after the first strike, it immediately crashed into the hole again.
It was impossible for it to fit into such a small hole, but it shrunk to the size of an adult during the flight and successfully entered the hole. When Shade fell and was about to stand up, he saw the insect rushing towards him.
Without a second thought, he raised his empty right hand and threw out a huge spinning flame:
"Chaos Residue!"
This is not a forest, so there is no need to worry about forest fires. And because the First Flame has burned the Paradox Bugs, the flames will have a damaging effect on the bugs. In addition, the battle field is small, so Shade is not worried that the opponent will be able to escape.
And the insect did not hide. A colorful light suddenly rose in front of the flame, and then the violent and rotating fireball gradually slowed down. After stopping, it accelerated and flew towards Xia De.
"Reverse time?"
Xia De uttered a rare curse in his heart. This time when he went out to look for minerals, he did not bring the Night Watchman with him. He could only open his arms to embrace the flame and completely absorb it and transform it into spirit before the explosion occurred.
But after the flame, another beam of white light sprayed out from the insect's mouth, using the cover of the flame to spray directly onto Xia De's body. Then, there was a clear sound of a clock hand turning, and then large pieces of white light shattered on Xia De's body.
[Time is paused, but it doesn't work on you. ]
The paradox worms were immune to almost all attacks, so Shade did not try to attack again. As the worms charged at him again, he stepped back and appeared directly at a higher point in the passage, then took out the [Disaster Card: Gravel Worm], used the power of "Earth Walk" to jump into the mud, and then rushed all the way to the ground.
So soon, in the forest in the afternoon illuminated by the late autumn sun, Xia De jumped out of the mud, then leaped lightly, stepped on the tree trunk beside him and jumped onto the branch.
He held the staff in his right hand and held the fireball in his left hand, waiting for the bug to come out. But he waited for twenty minutes, even ran to the entrance of the mine, but the bug didn't come out, so he could only admit that the bugs didn't follow him.
Professor Youke Wood was no longer here at this time, and Shad did not try to go deeper underground again. Instead, he turned around and left. Then he used the "Friend of Chocobo" pendant to summon a Chocobo that was willing to help, and rode it to Little Mig Village.
After successfully meeting the hermits of the [Forest Hermits] in the village, Xia De was taken to the hermits' base.
Unfortunately, the Hermit Order's Grand Elder, Mr. Steve Davis, is not here today because he is working with the church to deal with the issue of the burning trees in the forest. Fortunately, the Hermit Order's secret keeper, Mr. Meloni, is here.
Now the forests near this station have lost all their leaves. The people living deep in the dense forests have harvested the crops they planted this year and are preparing other winter supplies to welcome the coming cold winter.
Mr. Meloni was still talking to Shade beside the largest campfire in the camp. He listened to Shade's story, but he didn't show much surprise on his face. He just nodded slightly.
"I remember you knew that there were countless paradox bugs sleeping in the local dense forests."
"Yes, this was created by those time travelers over countless years."
Mr. Meloni nodded again, slightly turned sideways and looked at the forest in the distance:
"Some of those bugs were sealed, while others seemed to be suppressed by the power of the forest itself and fell asleep. Although I don't know about the large underground cavity you mentioned, the Hermit Group discovered a long time ago that there are underground caves that extend in all directions under the Vista Forest, and most of the sleeping bugs are inside them."
However, the hermits did not observe the hidden insects through the [Eternal Youth Leaf], they had their own unique magic.
Xia De asked in surprise by the fire:
"So, it's always been like this? I mean, no one has done anything?"
"So what can be done?"
Mr. Meloni asked in return:
"In addition to the secret arts of the elves, the powerful time power of the thirteenth ring sorcerer like a month ago."
This refers to the two Adele's above the city of Vista, dealing with the bug that emerged from Flora's soul.
"Except for a few difficult rituals we have mastered, there is no way to harm those bugs. If there are only one or two, the power of the United Church can indeed kill them, but how many bugs do you think are sleeping in the ground beneath our feet?"
Shade couldn't answer this question either, but he understood what Mr. Meloni meant:
"You have a point, but this is like a bomb. The longer you don't solve it, the more powerful the explosion will be. Are you really just stalling? This is probably the worst approach."
Mr. Meloni smiled and said:
"I know what you mean, but we are not simply delaying. Our previous view was that when this forest can no longer contain so many paradox bugs, we will notify the church. As long as the true god descends, all problems will be solved. If it's just a few bugs, the True God Church probably won't ask for the power of the gods, but what if there are tens of thousands of bugs?"
"That's a good idea. But since the local bugs are all asleep, what did I just encounter?"
Shad asked again, a question Mr. Meloni could also answer.
He stood up and left for a while, and soon returned with a thin booklet. The booklet was called "A Survey of Species in Vista Woodland", but except for the cover, there was no letter on it, and the inside was full of pencil illustrations.