This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 366, Section 365: The Cube
The surrounding space rippled violently like the surface of water!

In an instant, the bright sunlight overhead vanished, and Salian felt a wave of weightlessness wash over him. When he regained his balance, he found himself alone in complete darkness.

It can't be said that he was alone, because the puff was still on his head.

Salian reacted extremely quickly, casting a light spell and a spatial reconnaissance spell almost the instant he landed.

The soft halo dispelled the darkness in a small area around it, and the magic orb quickly scanned the surroundings, but the information it returned showed that there was nothing there.

His face turned extremely pale, but this was not solely due to being trapped in an unknown space.

Instead, in that instant of spatial shift, he sensed an extremely subtle yet pure and malevolent magical fluctuation, the source of which... came from the direction of his teacher, Iros!

"Is it... a problem with the sacred tree?"

Salian desperately hoped this was just an accident, and not something the teacher had done intentionally...

"Where is this?"

In any case, the most urgent task is to find a way to escape this strange, dark prison.

The scene of the changing space felt somewhat familiar to Lin Jun, similar to the elevator in her own home, only the location was different.

The culprit is obvious: it's Iros!
He used some kind of abyssal magic that Lin Jun couldn't understand at the last moment.

However, Lin Jun didn't understand how Iros managed to do that.
This should be a permission control only for administrators, and a dormant sacred tree obviously couldn't do that, right?!

Moreover, what exactly does this chief archmage of the elves want to do?
……

This was an extremely vast and empty space. Salian explored it for a long time, but all around him was nothingness and silence, as if everything was swallowed up by endless darkness.

Finally, guided by the puff above his head, he discovered something unusual.

This made Salian even more upset.

Along the way, his self-created spatial detection magic, which he was so proud of, seemed to be no match for this round, chubby creature.

He understood, of course, that the two detection mechanisms were completely different and their functions naturally had different focuses, but the embarrassment of being reminded by Puji slapping his face every time still made him feel that his pride, like his head, was being repeatedly rubbed by Puji sitting under his butt.

Of course, Salian was a seasoned elven mage and wouldn't deliberately ignore Puji's prompts because of personal emotions.

He suppressed his slight resentment and followed the guidance, eventually discovering a huge black cube floating in mid-air.

Its composition is unknown, its surface is absolutely smooth and dark, it is frozen in mid-air, motionless, exuding an unnatural eeriness.

Lin Jun felt that it looked somewhat familiar, but couldn't quite place it.
Salian cautiously circled the cube for a long time, even casting the scouting spell again. However, the spell's feedback indicated that the cube's location was completely empty, as if it were just a non-existent phantom.

With no other option, Salian finally had to risk extending his finger and trying to touch it.

However, the instant his fingertips touched the smooth surface, he let out a shrill scream, and fell backward as if struck by a heavy hammer, clutching his head tightly with both hands, rolling and howling in agony on the ground, as if he were being subjected to some kind of torture.

Lin Jun, who managed to safely jump out of the car with the help of the scout Puji, looked at Salian's miserable state and finally found the source of that familiar feeling!

This is exactly what those "junk messages" from the Abyss look like!
However, unlike the fast-flowing torrents of information he had encountered before, the information in this cube seemed to have been forcibly fixed by some force.

In short, you'll know once you try. While Salian was still immersed in excruciating pain and had no time to spare, he stretched out a mycelial tentacle and gently placed it on the surface of the black cube.

In an instant, a grand yet fragmented image forcibly flooded into Lin Jun's consciousness:
An endless gray-white mist shrouded the sky and earth; as far as the eye could see, the earth was decaying and lifeless.

In the distance, an ancient and dilapidated palace complex, under the influence of some incomprehensible force, slowly detached from the ground, rose into the sky, and then silently collapsed and shattered, eventually turning into nothingness and being completely annihilated.

The flow of the scene may seem slow, but Lin Jun can clearly perceive that the time span it represents is probably very long.

With so much information, it's no wonder Salian was writhing in pain.

Lin Jun quickly scanned all the information, while Salian on the other side was still groaning in pain.

To be fair, Lin Jun thought he was quite lucky. Those individuals who had directly come into contact with the flow of information in the abyss had their heads explode like watermelons.

Fortunately, the content of the information cube in front of him was fixed and limited; otherwise, Salian would probably have lost his life long ago.

After a long while, Salian finally recovered from the terrifying shock, collapsed to the ground, and breathed weakly.

"What...what is this?" he muttered unconsciously, trying to dispel the shock and oppression in his heart with words.

However, a voice he knew all too well came from the darkness, answering his question:

"That's what another continent looked like across the sea, behind the fog. And it's also the future of the land we stand on."

Iros emerged from the darkness, and with a gentle wave of his hand, a clear "Clarity" spell shone down on Salian's forehead, effectively relieving the lingering pain and confusion in his mind.

"Teacher... what... what happened?" Salian asked weakly, propping himself up.

Iros didn't answer directly; he simply turned around and slowly walked in one direction: "Follow me."

Iros walked steadily ahead, with Salian following silently behind.

The scene seemed no different from the countless times the master and apprentice had traveled together in the past, but Salian's heart was filled with struggle and helplessness.

The teacher's attitude spoke volumes. He wanted to get to the bottom of things, but he didn't know where to begin, and he dared not think about how things would develop after he asked.

If the teacher really wanted to harm him, it would be an easy thing to do.

The gap in strength between the two sides is simply too enormous.

Finally, Iros led Salian to another similar information block, but this one was much smaller.

Ilos gestured to Salian to come forward and touch it.

Salian took a deep breath, suppressing his fear and doubt, and extended his finger again.

Surprisingly, this time there was no severe headache caused by the influx of massive amounts of information; the cube contained only a short sentence:

"The long night of all things has come as scheduled. The Ark is both our last refuge and the beginning of a new world."

(End of this chapter)