Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 413 Parasitic Gibberella

"Come on, let us in." Gillianis made a "please" gesture, and the Sword Song Lion Armor on her shoulder began to chant something. A faint green acid barrier enveloped everyone in the team. When Sera's fingers touched the magic barrier out of curiosity, the barrier quickly bulged in the direction of her force, and then bounced back even more forcefully.

"Ouch." Sera made a mock cry, but the sound was not sincere at all. Of course, the barbarian would not be hurt by the barrier that protected him.

"Don't poke around if there's nothing to do." The Elf Master glanced at Sera, "This barrier is not meant to trap you. The inside is not that strong."

"As for the outside, don't worry... No one can penetrate this spell except me."

"Including your teacher?" Sera asked curiously.

The Moon Elf was silent for a moment: "He is just my enlightenment teacher."

With Gillianis's words, everyone felt relieved and walked into the ruins in formation. This unknown area that was home to red mold was not so much a ruin as it was a dark cave full of mold. It was incredible that Gillianis could bring the cave entrance directly to everyone - Ron and the others didn't even know which mountain this cave belonged to!

Ivy walked in front with her shield raised. The light magic made her tower shield look like a huge torch, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark environment. The huge reptiles hiding in the caves could not stand such bright stimulation at all. When they approached according to their nature, they would make miserable insect sounds, shake their limbs, which ranged from eight to hundreds, and quickly escape from this hell full of light.

Of course, there were some fearless creatures, but these creatures that rushed forward were not even smart. They seemed to have no ability to think. Apart from violent and brutal attacks, they were too lazy to even open their mouthparts. Ivy and the other companions who were walking in front of them killed them easily. The green and white, and the white with a little bit of red body fluids splashed on their body defense barriers, and a series of teeth-grinding "sizzling" sounds immediately rang out.

"This spell is really good! Among my former companions, even the most experienced spellcasters were unwilling to waste extra arcane magic on it!" Anastasia raised the sword in her hand with some surprise. The body fluids on it were being quickly dissolved by the strong acid. "They don't understand how difficult it is to wash off the explosion of these insects!"

"Only an expert like you who also uses a sword can understand our pain!"

"Insects are insects, and arthropods are arthropods. Insects are arthropods, but not all arthropods are insects," Ron corrected the other party. At the same time, a halo of light flashed in his left eye, allowing him to observe the surface of the magic barrier like an electron microscope, looking at the fragments and residues that had not been completely dissolved. "Also, her magic doesn't seem to cover that wide a range. The strong acid above is effective not because it detects their body fluids."

"It's fungus." Sera took over the conversation and squatted on the ground with a serious face. The barbarian thought about it and finally decided not to use the Blue Grip to cut open the insect corpse on the ground. She reached out to ask Driver to borrow a dagger, pulled over the corpse of a giant spider, and stabbed its head segment that had not been crushed yet.

The tough chitin exoskeleton was slowly cut open, and what came into view was not the giant spider's messy internal tissue, but a large bunch of abnormally thriving red fungi!

It's red mold again! "No wonder they're jumping at us like they're blind!" The goblin hunter gasped and took a few steps back involuntarily, "They're really blind!"

"The original organization has been squeezed out," Sylvia showed a disgusted expression, but continued to follow Sera's movements to observe the structure inside the giant spider's head section. "I even doubt whether these insects have been dead for many days?"

"It shouldn't be that extreme," Ivy tentatively used the flaming sword in her hand to burn off a limb of the giant spider's corpse and pushed it over. "Although I don't have as much theoretical knowledge as you, I still know that arthropods like this have more than one 'brain' to control the body. Even if they are hit in the vital parts, they can often survive..."

The half-elf's voice stopped abruptly, because she found that the inside of the limb she burned was also messed up by the red mold. Since fire is not a weakness of these fungal creatures, the red molds at the broken ends have not even died. They stretched out a large number of hyphae and sprayed spores at a speed visible to the naked eye, trying to infect any creature that dared to disturb them.

The barrier constructed by Gillianis worked again. These fungi seemed to be more intelligent than the organisms they parasitized. After being frustrated, they quickly shrank into a ball and curled up in their chitinous shells motionlessly as if they were dead.

"These red molds have hollowed out the entire creature. This body is completely controlled by them," Gillianis murmured, "So, they don't need more sophisticated means of attack. They just need to hit the target and inflict wounds on themselves or the opponent."

"Luckily, I have you here, sister!" Anastasia wiped the cold sweat from her forehead. "If it weren't for this barrier, I'm afraid we would have been in trouble!"

Recalling her habitual show of skill just now, which had splashed a large amount of Fusarium-saturated insect fluids everywhere, the elf mercenary felt a sense of fear - she had indeed done the mission of the Fusarium ruins in the elves' hometown, but the Fusarium there did not have so many tricks!
"This is the second variant," Ron took out the weaving foreword and carefully wrote it down. "We have never encountered similar species outside. It seems that the mutation of these red molds should be a gradual process, rather than the result of direct catalysis by arcane or divine magic."

"This is good news. If there really is a mastermind behind this, its power should be relatively limited."

Compared to the previous existence that took away all the undead creatures in the earldom in an instant, if it were this creature, it probably wouldn't be patient enough to go through so much trouble.

"I'm still a little worried about your teacher, my friend," Victoria glanced at Gillianis worriedly, "Of course, I don't suspect that he is the mastermind, but is there a possibility that he is an accomplice?"

"After all, there seem to be too many doubts along the way..."

(End of this chapter)