This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 50 50. Almost Killed
The parchment booklet was frayed, and Calvin checked it a third time, but still couldn't connect the five floors in the guide with the scene outside the stairs.

Is this the brightest class we were promised?

There wasn't even a clump of fireflies to be seen. In the pitch-black fifth floor, the dim glow of mushrooms was the only source of light.

On the road leading out of the stairs, there is a row of fluorescent mushrooms on both sides, as if they were deliberately paved.

Calvin felt that this scene was even stranger than what he saw in the small cave on the second floor.

Even Gray was starting to back off: "Your strategy is way off! Should we... continue moving forward?"

"Since we're here... let's take a look around."

After they came out, they found that even the dome was covered with mushrooms, and the fluorescent light was connected into one piece, like a sky curtain.

Calvin felt uncomfortable all over, as if someone was watching him, and he almost regretted his decision two minutes ago.

However, when he told Gray about this feeling, Gray shook his head and said he didn't feel anything.

Calvin couldn't just decide to return based on his feelings, as that would be too willful.

"Are we really going along this road?" Gray asked, pointing to the mushroom road in front of him.

This road does look suspicious, but it coincides with the direction of the forest written in the guide.

Although the guide is out of date, the terrain should not have changed completely.

After thinking it over, Calvin took out his small staff.

First-level magic - illumination.

A ball of orange-yellow light hovered at the tip of the staff.

"Let's go to the outside of the road."

Paji——

As they took their first step out of the path, they felt something sticky under their feet.

When I bent down to check, I was surprised to find that the outside of the path was covered with translucent mycelium.

From beneath them, all the way to the edge of darkness, everywhere they looked was mycelial land!

"I was saying the color of the ground looked weird, and it turns out it's all this stuff!" Gray retreated in disgust, "How about we just walk?"

Calvin could only nod.

The path was clean, as if the mycelium was blocked by the fluorescent mushrooms on both sides.

The surroundings were quite quiet, and there was no trace of the monsters mentioned in the guide.

The only thing they encountered was a small mountain of corpses, most of which had been decomposed by mycelium and were so broken that it was impossible to tell what they had originally looked like.

Everything made the two of them gradually uneasy. They were always alert to their surroundings and didn't even speak.

The two didn't stop until they saw the forest.

"Is that the 'forest' you were talking about?"

In the direction Gray pointed, countless giant glowing mushrooms stood tall, with mycelium hanging down from their caps, forming a mushroom forest with varying heights.

Only a small number of giant trees were sandwiched between the giant mushrooms.

It’s obvious that even the terrain information in the guide is outdated!
Before Calvin could say anything, a strange sound rang out in the forest.

puff--

puff--

The rich sound is particularly clear in a quiet environment.

A three-meter-tall, fat creature slowly walked out from behind the giant mushroom, with four thick mycelial tentacles swaying in the air.

Beside this giant Puji, there were a dozen small Pujis that also had tentacles and were exactly the same as the one on the second floor.

The Pujis seemed to have noticed the two of them and stopped.

"Calvin! Let's retreat!"

“Calvin?”

Only then did Gray realize that the light of the illumination magic beside him had disappeared at some point.

"Calvin, you—"

The next second, Gray found that his body became transparent, and Calvin's voice came from the side.

"What am I?"

"You...you did a great job! Your reaction was even faster than mine!"

"Tsk!"

Without time to dwell on it, Calvin crouched down and grabbed the corner of Gray's clothes to ensure they wouldn't get separated. "Let's retreat, this place is too weird."

"So what about your homework?"

"What else can I do? I can only use my savings to buy one from a black market dealer."

The already tight treasury was about to shrink again, and Calvin felt like his heart was bleeding.

In his grief, Calvin didn't notice the pulling force on his hand and bumped into something.

"It hurts!" His forehead seemed to be broken and he could feel the bleeding.

But he soon had no time to care about this minor injury.

A humanoid creature covered with inky scales stood in front, staring at the two invisible people with its head tilted.

"Dragon dragon dragon dragon..." Before Calvin could finish his words, he was grabbed by the neck and lifted up by the monster, which was not even as tall as him.

The two people's invisibility lost its support and became ineffective instantly.

At the same time, a loud shout came from the side!
【Fury LV4】

【Brute Force LV4】

It's Gray!
Seeing Calvin being attacked, he immediately activated the amplification and slashed down with the sword in both hands.

【Heavy Slash LV5】

clang--

Half of the broken sword flew into the air. Gray trembled as he maintained the downward chopping posture, blood flowing from his broken knuckles.

He couldn't understand why his fine steel sword couldn't even cut a scale on the opponent's shoulder?

I clearly checked my equipment carefully before entering the dungeon.

Isn't this the fifth floor?

The monster used its other claw to pinch Gray's neck. Gray wanted to resist, but his hands were numb from the shock and he couldn't even lift them.

Gray's breathing became increasingly difficult as he felt the force coming from the claws grow stronger.

Calvin next to him had a purple face and was almost suffocating.

It seemed like a moment, and also like eternity. At some point, the pressure on my neck suddenly disappeared.

Gray lay on the ground in a mess, breathing the air greedily.

After catching his breath, he looked up and found that the horrible monster had disappeared, and Calvin was lying on the ground motionless, with even his chest not rising or falling.

"Calvin? Calvin! Wake up!"

Two slaps on Calvin's face still failed to wake him up.

Gray hurriedly opened the small bag he was carrying and wanted to take out a bottle of healing potion, but was interrupted by the Pujis who surrounded him.

He subconsciously tried to grab the sword, but missed it and then realized that only the broken sword was left on the ground.

He was quickly tied up.

"You might as well have strangled me to death..."

Just as Gray was wondering how he would be killed, he saw a Puji on the opposite side extending a hollow mycelium tentacle and inserting it into Calvin's mouth.

The tentacles expanded and contracted along with Puji's body.

Gray, who was tied up, struggled, but he could only watch and could do nothing.

Suddenly, Calvin opened his eyes wide and frantically pulled out the mycelial tentacle from his throat.

"Cough cough - cough cough - cough cough cough - ugh -"

After coughing, Calvin collapsed on the ground as if he was half dead - in fact, his blood volume was indeed reduced by half.

puff--

With the sound of heavy footsteps, the fat guy Puji finally walked up slowly.

It rummaged through its stomach, took out four things, and threw them in front of Gray.

Then the Pujis let go of Gray, turned around and left, and soon disappeared into the mushroom forest.

Gray looked at the long sword, fruit core, magic crystal and a bottle of healing potion left by Puji on the ground, and was unable to react for a moment.

This is... being saved from the monster by Puji?

Gray quickly gathered his things, carried the weak Calvin on his back, and hurried back to the stairwell.
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I forgot to tell Xiao Hei that humans are not monsters!

(End of this chapter)