The surprised Shade almost immediately extinguished the light ball floating around him, and looked at the cave that suddenly appeared in the darkness:
"A hollow in the ground? How is this possible? With my powerful space perception, why didn't I notice that there is such a large underground space here?"
As a special metal, mithril may indeed cause supernatural phenomena near mineral veins, but this definitely does not include the ability to shield space.
So standing at the melted cave entrance, Shade looked hesitantly at the darkness below. Of course he would not jump in recklessly, and in the field of vision provided by "dark vision", the bottom looked more like a naturally formed underground
The cave is empty.
This place is not completely sealed. There are underground cracks around the cave that connect to other locations. It's just because the "powerful space perception" fails here for some reason, so Shade doesn't know what this cave is.
However, he suddenly remembered the content of the conversation with Professor Uke Wood just now, so he found 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 meant that Shad had not been affected by it.
The effects of so-called "psychedelic gases".
However, he then replaced the ordinary green leaf with the "Eternal Youth Leaf". This time, after putting the leaf in front of his eyes and waiting for a moment to take it off, the world he saw with his right eye was indeed different.
It's not that the illusion is broken, but that what was originally hidden is revealed.
The huge tree trunk root system broke out from the bottom of the underground cave, then spread to the entire cave, and then extended to invisible places along the cracks.
And on those dark tree roots, white vesicles, or things like insect eggs, adhered to them. Those insect eggs were more accurately translucent, just because of the white mist that was slowly billowing inside.
Only then did they appear to be white. The vesicles emitted a faint light in the dark. The light was not strong, but the brightness slowly changed with the surge of white mist in the vesicles.
It was precisely because of the transparent vesicles and white mist that Shade could clearly see the sleeping insects inside the eggs.
The size of those bugs is about the same as that of a normal adult, but judging from their appearance, they are all "paradox bugs" no matter how you look at them.
"Roots that grow up from the ground instead of down, and these paradoxical bugs."
The mithril mine that Shade wanted to find was indeed here. Although he did not dare to call out the light ball illumination, he could still see patches of silver phosphorescence on the side walls of the cave. This is the color of mithril ore.
The silver phosphorescence and the light of the insect eggs on the roots of the thick ancient trees complement each other. The scene deep underground actually looks so shocking that Shade even held his breath without knowing it. And gradually, with the effect of "Young Ageless"
The leaves are away from the eyes for a longer time, and the roots and insect eggs are hidden again.
And just when Shade wanted to cover his eyes with leaves again, white mist suddenly appeared in the originally empty underground cave.
The thick fog that symbolizes the concept of "time chaos" has already filled the bottom of the entire underground cave in just one breath. At the same time, the buzzing sound of insects clearly appeared in the depths of the cave.
And it's getting closer and closer to Shade's position.
Shade decisively took off the key from his chest with his left hand, and the ritual matrix emerged under his feet. The moment the [Staff of Yggdrasil] was grasped in his hand, he suddenly tapped the bottom of the long staff.
Toward the ground beneath my feet:
"The stability principle of the ancient elves!"
Emerald green light spurted out from the top of the long staff, like a big tree growing a canopy, and like providing Shade with a shield from the wind and rain. The sound below was not the collective awakening of insect eggs, but a buzzing sound.
The buzzing invisible thing suddenly hit the emerald green light under the cover of the white mist that had surged up.
With a clicking sound, Shade's thaumaturgy was forcibly interrupted, and he even flew backwards like a cannonball.
And the thing hidden in the fog also showed its appearance due to the power of thaumaturgy. It was a "paradox insect" about three meters in size, with a dark carapace and wings that seemed to be able to forcefully distort time.
It was obviously seriously injured when it collided with the thaumaturgy that specifically restrained them, but immediately after the blow, it hit the hole again.
Its body shape would have been absolutely impossible to enter such a small hole, but during the flight it actually shrank to the size of an adult, and then successfully entered the hole. Shade, who had fallen, was just about to stand up when he saw the insect rushing towards him.
Without thinking, he raised his free right hand and the huge rotating flame was immediately thrown out:
"Remnants of Chaos!"
This is not a forest, so there is no need to worry about forest fires. And because the Paradox Bugs have been burned by the initial fire, the flames have a harmful effect on the bugs. In addition, the battle venue is small, so Shade has no worries about the opponent being able to avoid it.
And the insect did not hide. A colorful light suddenly rose in front of the flame, and then the violent fire ball that rotated and flew gradually slowed down. After stopping, it accelerated and flew in the direction of Sha De.
"Reverse time?"
Shade uttered a rare curse word in his heart. This time he went out to look for minerals without the [Night Watch]. He could only open his arms to embrace the flame, and completely absorbed it and transformed it into a spirit before the explosion occurred.
Just after the flames, another beam of white light ejected from the insect's mouth was covered by the fire and sprayed directly on Sha De's body. Then there was only a click~ a clear sound of the clock hands turning, and then Sha De
There were large traces of broken white light appearing on his body.
[Time is paused, but it has no effect on you.]
The Paradox Bug was immune to almost all attacks, so Shade did not try to attack again. At the same time that the bug hit him head-on, he stepped back and appeared directly higher in the passage, and then took out [Disaster]
"Er Solitaire·Sand Worm", used the power of "earth movement" to jump into the soil, and then jumped all the way up to the ground.
So soon, in the forest sea in the afternoon illuminated by the late autumn sun, Shade jumped out of the soil, then jumped lightly, stepping on the tree trunk beside him and jumped onto the branch.
He held the long staff in his right hand and held up the fireball that had not yet grown in size with his left hand, waiting for the insect to come out. But he waited for a full twenty minutes, and even ran to the entrance of the mine, but did not wait for the insect.
The insects chased me out, so I can only admit that the insects did not follow.
Professor Uk Wood was no longer here at this time, and Shade did not try to go deep underground again. Instead, he turned around and left here, and then used the pendant of "Chocobo Friends" to summon Lu Xing, who was willing to help.
Bird, rode it and ran towards Xiaomige Village.
After successfully meeting the hermits of the [Forest Hermits Group] in the village, Shade was taken to the hermit group's residence.
Unfortunately today, the great elder of the hermit group, Mr. Steve Davis, is not here for the time being because he is cooperating with the church to deal with the fire-burning trees in the forest. But fortunately, the hermit keeper Meloni
Sir is here.
Now the forest near the station has lost all its leaves. The people living deep in the dense forest have harvested the crops planted this year and are preparing other winter supplies to prepare for the cold winter ahead.
Mr. Meloni was still talking to Shade by the largest bonfire in the camp. When he heard Shade talk about what he had just seen, he didn't show much surprise on his face, and just nodded lightly:
"I remember you knew that there are countless Paradox Bugs sleeping in the local jungle."
"Yes, this was created by those time travelers over countless years."
Mr. Meloni nodded again, turning slightly sideways and looking at the forest sea in the distance:
"Part of those bugs were sealed, and the other part seemed to be suppressed by the power of the forest itself and fell asleep. Although I don't know about the large hole in the ground you mentioned, the Hermits discovered the Vesta Woodland a long time ago.
There are underground caves extending in all directions underground, and most of the sleeping bugs are inside."
However, the hermits did not observe the hidden insects through the [Eternal Youth Leaf]. They had their own unique magic.
Shade asked in surprise by the fire:
"So, this has always been like this? I mean, nothing has been done?"
"So what can be done?"
Mr. Meloni asked rhetorically:
"In addition to the secret skills of the elves, the powerful time power of the thirteen-ring warlock is just like a month ago."
This refers to the two Adeles above the city of Vista, dealing with the bug that emerged from Flora's soul.
"Except for the 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 you guessed that the ground beneath our feet is sleeping.
How many bugs are there?”
Shade couldn't answer this question, but he also understood what Mr. Meloni meant:
"What you say makes sense, but it is like a bomb. The longer it is not resolved, the more powerful the final explosion will be. Are you really just delaying? This should be the worst thing to do."
Mr. Meloni smiled and said:
"I know what you mean, but we are not just procrastinating. Our previous view was that when this woodland can no longer seal so many paradox insects, we will notify the church. As long as the Righteous God descends,
All problems will be solved. If it’s just a few bugs, the Zhengshen Church probably won’t ask for God’s power, but what if there are thousands of bugs?”
"This is really a good idea. But since all the local bugs are asleep, what did I just encounter?"
Shade asked again, Mr. Meloni could also answer this question.
He got up and left temporarily, and quickly got back a thin booklet. The name of the booklet was "Vestal Woodland Species Survey", but except for the cover, there was not a single letter in it, and it was all full of pictures.