This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 371, Section 370: Helpless
"Did Iros really say that?" Eko stared intently at Salian in front of him, his tone filled with disbelief.

After their encounter, Salian revealed everything to the head guard without reservation, including his conversation with his teacher and the contents of those horrifying information cubes.

"So you're saying that this rampant madness is also his doing?" Eco's voice trembled slightly with anger.

“I’m afraid…yes.” Salian nodded with difficulty, wishing so much that it wasn’t true.

"Has he gone mad?!" Eko's low growl echoed in the empty darkness. "Go out now? Going out now means plunging headlong into the continent's conflicts, fighting those forces to the death, and in the end, like last time, letting the uncontrollable human hero become the final winner?"

"For this reason alone, he didn't hesitate to destroy the entire dungeon and kill more than forty of my elite ranger brothers! And now he plans to sacrifice even more elves?!"

"I must kill him with my own hands!" Eko said, growing angrier and angrier, his heart boiling with murderous intent. He wished he could immediately plunge his twin blades into Iros's chest and get to the bottom of things.

However, trapped in this strange, invisible cage, he had a lot of strength but nowhere to vent it, so he could only clench his fists until they cracked.

“Sarian,” Eko suppressed his anger, placing his hopes on the young mage, his eyes filled with eager anticipation, “the black wall blocking our way suddenly disappeared. Did you find a way? Do you have a way to figure out how to get out of here completely?”

Salian could only shake his head helplessly: "I didn't do it, and I don't know what happened."

“Perhaps someone else has found a way. The most urgent thing is to see if we can get everyone together!” Eco quickly calmed down and made a judgment.

Salian extended the brilliance of his illumination spell to its limit, the soft light dispelling the darkness as he began searching for his companions in the void.

Eventually, they found another student of Iros.

Unfortunately, the disappearance of the Black Wall had nothing to do with him, and Iros didn't even try to recruit him.

But they couldn't find the last person, Serdan.

The last section of the black wall surrounding the Shenmu area still stands.

Now, in their view, either Seldan has removed most of the Black Wall, but they themselves are still trapped in the last area.

Either Seldan has already chosen to side with Iros and left early, or the disappearance of the Black Wall has another reason.

But whatever the truth, they were stuck in a helpless stalemate.

Left with no other option, the group turned their attention to the static black information blocks in the space, hoping to find clues within them.

However, this is undoubtedly a rather painful method, as not all information blocks contain just a few lines of information like those three diary blocks.

These blocks vary in size, and the one that initially caused Salian immense suffering was even considered relatively small among them.

Every time I touch or receive information, it is a form of mental torture.

Even though the three of them had tried to choose the smallest cubes and took turns bearing the weight, they were still overwhelmed by the massive amount of information and suffered terribly.

Before long, they had to stop this near-suicidal behavior.

Salian felt dizzy, his mind filled with chaotic images and broken sounds, making it impossible for him to concentrate. Even casting a spell to clear his head had little effect.

The other monk was in even worse condition; he had already fainted.

Even Eco, though he clenched his teeth and didn't utter a sound from beginning to end, could be seen from his paper-white face and slightly trembling hands that he had reached his limit.

Despite enduring such immense suffering and torment, they gained nothing!

They saw more of the horrific scenes after the world was shrouded in mist, but found not a single piece of information on how to escape.

Salian felt a wave of despair.

The teacher clearly didn't intend for him to starve to death here; in other words, the teacher's plan had most likely been completed before he starved to death.

If we also consider that after escaping, they would need time to reach and stop the teacher, then the time left for their operation becomes even more pressing. And now it seems unlikely that they will find a way out within this limited time.

Salian could only lie helplessly on the cold ground, silently praying in his heart.

Hopefully, his sister will be quick-witted enough to realize something is wrong and cleverly stay far away...

……

In the only corner still isolated by the black wall, countless enormous information cubes floated in the void.

Puji was also in this corner.

The black wall that separated those elves was essentially information as well, and Puji could pass right through it.

In this final corner, there are many blocks dozens or even hundreds of times larger than the information blocks about the misty scene that Bizarrean first saw.

Even if they saw these information blocks, they could only choose to bypass them; trying to interpret them directly would be tantamount to suicide.

Meanwhile, the scouts with their mushroom caps out of sight flapped their wings and darted between blocks, flying from one block to another without stopping.

Lin Jun didn't analyze each block in detail. She chose to accept them first, glance at them, and if she didn't think they were the ones she was looking for, she would put them in a corner and analyze them later.

Only take a second look at things that might be related to controlling the dungeon.

A lot of information was piling up, but fortunately it hadn't reached the point where Lin Jun felt too much pressure.

Compared to the previous incident involving emptiness, this time the information gathering was virtually risk-free.

Moreover, although Lin Jun glanced at most of the information, she tossed it aside like trash.

But in reality, the proportion of useful information in this space is far higher than that of the void.

Even a scene with unclear meaning or a few incoherent words is infinitely more meaningful than the pure garbage information in the normal Abyss that's like typing on a keyboard.

Lin Jun's quick analysis actually helped him figure out how Iros controlled the teleportation.

Because the sacred tree is rooted in this static abyss space, any abyss rituals performed within the sacred tree's area will inevitably be interfered with, losing their original function and instead becoming a connection between the sacred tree and this space.

The control over the dungeon was obviously found within the sacred tree.

In other words, Lin Jun could easily infiltrate the sacred tree by performing a simple abyss ritual.

Of course, success will not be so simple, but we can only see the next step after taking this first step.

……

At the elven camp, a pile of materials was handed over to Pelagal by Seldan.

"Is this some kind of magic circle being set up? But what can you possibly set up? The teacher actually entrusted you with something like this..."

Serdan was speechless. It wasn't that he looked down on his close friend, but he was just a ranger. He did have a spellcasting level, but at most it was only two or three levels.

Adding a little magic power to an arrow is fine, but setting up a magic circle, even the most basic one, would feel very difficult.

Perrager simply smiled and said, "Come and see for yourself, it will definitely surprise you!"

When Pelagal jumped down from his backpack full of arrows and began drawing a magic circle with the materials in front of the sacred tree sapling, it was completely unexpected for Serdan!

He was horrified to discover that it wasn't a backpack at all, but a disguised poop!
Before he could recover from his shock, Peraguer, holding an arrow, pierced his abdomen...

(End of this chapter)