Kobold Wizard's Journal

Chapter 213 The Hole and the Rabbit
Luger hesitated, trying to understand the intention conveyed by the squeak.

"What is it saying?" Leiden asked curiously.

"It... wants us to follow it down there... that's roughly what it means..." Ruger scratched the hair on his chin.

"squeak!"

With a squeak, it began to wriggle, and the already not-so-small opening gradually widened as it moved.

The little creature twisted and squeaked as it went, seemingly waiting for Luger's command. With just one command, it would twist and squeak its way ahead.

Although Squeak looked very excited, Luger did not respond to it immediately.

Ruger discovered a problem: to be honest, he, as the owner, still didn't know how fast Squeak traveled underground, otherwise he could roughly judge how far it traveled each round trip.

“I want to go and see,” Ruger said.

Leiden examined the door on the ground and nodded. Actually, the door was not complete; it looked like it was missing a small panel.

“It seems that summoned creatures and familiars are also indispensable…” Leiden murmured.

Luger went over and patted Squeaky's head, stopping it from twisting back and forth.

Squeak obediently plunged down, turned around, and exposed its tail.

"That should be faster."

As Luger spoke, he reached out and grabbed the last leg of Zizi, while wings materialized behind him to envelop him.

Leiden blinked and followed suit.

At his command, Ruger finally witnessed the speed at which Squeak traveled underground, which was clearly somewhat unexpected by Leiden. Fortunately, this minor incident did not injure him. After traveling a distance, Ruger estimated that Squeak's speed underground was about three to four times that of running on the ground, which was truly astonishing. Of course, if Squeak had not carried the two of them on the way, its running speed on the ground would have been even faster.

The two new tails were not quite used to it yet, but they gritted their teeth and persevered, with Leiden even resorting to magic.

Luger, on the other hand, was thick-skinned and tough, and even chuckled as he looked at Leiden, protected by a pair of wings.

After all that trouble, the journey of Tail finally came to an end.

There were no underground palaces, magical huts, or anything else as imagined.

Before the two of them lay a door, or rather a door frame, resting peacefully in the soil, tilted there, with a door panel at the very edge of the frame bearing a brass pull ring.

Rugra stayed in Leiden, and the two of them stayed in the cave. Squeak rolled around and expanded the area.

Clever Zizi knew not to damage the area near the door frame without being specifically instructed.

Ruger arrived at the door, took out a piece of the door panel that had been put away for comparison, and confirmed that it was correct.

Leiden also came closer to examine the remaining door frame. The missing door panel was exposed, and behind it was just dirt, with nothing special about it.

Ruger looked at it for a moment and noticed something was wrong, but not with the door itself, but with his knowledge of the squeaky thing.

He called to Zizi, pointing to a small piece of the remaining door panel and the pull ring on it.

"squeak!"

The magical pet whimpered softly, and Luger nodded repeatedly.

The clever little guy couldn't possibly resist biting the ring.

"It said it tried to bite the ring, but couldn't pull it off several times..."

Ruger looked at Raden, who was waiting to interact with his master.

After hearing this, Leiden pondered for a moment, and under Luger's curious gaze, he reached out and wiped away the dirt on the brass ring, solemnly put his palm through the ring, gripped it tightly, and pulled hard.

Leiden's expression immediately changed. "I might need some help," Leiden said slowly, "It's absorbing my mental energy."

Ruger raised his hand.

“No, no, no, that’s not what I meant,” Raden suddenly interrupted, then continued, “I sensed a strange guiding force, but it’s very different from my campfire. I feel like I can pull it open, but I might not be in good shape afterward. If I run into trouble, you’ll have to handle it first.”

“Of course,” Ruger said.

He believed that Raiden knew that he had just been promoted to the fifth level of wizard apprentice and that his total mental strength was still far from that of a peak apprentice like them, so he was afraid that he would be wasted and become a useless person.

A creak! The sound was particularly jarring in the quiet world.

The crooked and dilapidated door was pulled up, yet it seemed as if it wasn't pulled up at all.

Because the door didn't move, but with the sound, everything around it was turning over.

It's as if Leiden didn't just pull up a door, but turned the whole world upside down.

Ruger blinked as he watched the fleeting, wondrous change.

Even the well-informed Raiden looked dumbfounded. If he were a child, Ruger would definitely tease him, saying, "Look at you, little guy, you've turned the world upside down."

What a wizard apprentice can touch with his own power is naturally not something major that can affect the nightmare world.

Luger looked around; Squeak was still beside him.

They were no longer in the creaking hole, nor was the dilapidated, leaning door in front of them. Instead, they were standing in an unfamiliar grove of trees, with a clearing in the distance and a house built of gray stones and wood in the middle of it.

Ruger looked closely and saw that the door of the house was very dilapidated, with only a small piece of the door panel remaining, and a brass pull ring on the panel.

"Who is it! Who!"

A rabbit darted out, roaring loudly.

It has a human-like body, wears an extremely neat set of black clothes, its arms seem to be no different from those of an ordinary person, and its head is a large white rabbit head.

But Luger noticed that its feet were bare, directly on the ground, which disrupted the overall eerie sense of civilization. Moreover, its feet looked neither like those of a rabbit nor a human, with only a few white hairs.

"Who!" the rabbit roared at the top of its lungs, "Which rude bastard stole my door!"

Every time the rabbit opens its mouth and shouts, you can see its neat, white teeth, which are just like human teeth, completely unlike those of a rabbit.

At this moment, Ruger could only look at Leiden, who met his gaze, shook his head, and sat down under the tree to meditate and recover.

Luger soothed Squeak, keeping it quiet, and continued to gaze into the distance.

"Come out! I know you're here! Foolish, greedy, cowardly, wicked, door-stealing, lying children, you little wizards who come to deceive me every now and then!" said the rabbit-man. "You've been spying on my Tuzel's house all this time! Peeping at Tuzel while he sleeps! Don't think I haven't noticed you!"

The rabbit continued its incessant rant, and it looked like it could keep going for a long time.

Ruger watched for a while, then hid behind a tree and sat quietly next to Leiden. At his instruction, Zhizhi burrowed into the ground.

The rabbit cursed incessantly, venting its dissatisfaction. It was a grudge that couldn't have been built up in just a few days; the door panel was probably just the trigger.

Ruger blinked; there really seemed to be someone here.

Moreover, they are wizard apprentices who won't do anything without a profit.

He laughed and glanced at Leiden, who was meditating with his eyes closed. They seemed to have arrived at a rather nice place.

Perhaps there will be some unexpected small gains.

"Is this some kind of exploration of the nightmare world?" Ruger thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)