This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 386, Section 385: The Door Was Opened
A buzzing alarm sounded throughout Golden Flame Fortress.

The two most elite armed forces in the city, the Flame Guards of the Firebeard Clan and the Heavy Armored Legion of the Blacksteel Clan, quickly assembled and headed fully armed toward the entrance to the Molten Core Dungeon.

Vermark Deepfire, the elder brother of Torin and heir to the Deepfire Clan, stood at the window of the family tower, tugging at his meticulously groomed beard, his face growing increasingly grim.

His troublesome underling caused such a commotion on his very first day in the Molten Core dungeon.
Rather than believing that the Molten Core dungeon, which had been peaceful for hundreds of years, had encountered trouble today, he was more inclined to believe that Torin had messed up again, perhaps accidentally triggering an alarm.

"Father will skin him alive this time!" Vermark cursed under his breath. Although he often scolded his good-for-nothing brother, he couldn't just stand by and watch him suffer.

Vimark hurriedly followed the direction of the army.

However, when he arrived at the entrance to the dungeon, he saw dwarven soldiers forming a shield wall, struggling to hold back the large number of elemental creatures pouring out from the depths of the passage...

……

Bang!
Grum used his shield to smash away a storm elemental that was trying to squeeze into the passage, but a new elemental spirit quickly filled the gap.

The two were trapped in the communication room, which was teeming with ferocious elemental creatures. They could only barely defend themselves by relying on this narrow passage.

"Damn it! I should have run away right away!" Grlum shouted in frustration as he parried the attacks.

Torin swung his axe, slicing through a fire spirit that tried to approach, and apologized, panting, "Sorry! I didn't think to run first..."

“Alright, alright,” Glenn interrupted him. “It’s my fault for not just dragging you away! Now that the alarm has been sounded, let’s hold on! Reinforcements might be coming soon!”

After saying that, he couldn't help but continue to complain about the two's bad luck: "The last time something happened in the underground city was more than fifty years ago! That time it was just that the temperature of the underground fire forging furnace went out of control and caused a hole, unlike this time it was life-threatening!"

The two men held the entrance to the communication room tightly, and struggled to hold out for an unknown amount of time.

The healing potions he carried with him were long gone, and his arm, which was wielding the weapon, was trembling slightly from exhaustion. Yet, the elemental spirits outside the door continued to emerge without diminishing.

"Damn it! What are those guards dawdling about?" Glenn spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. "They should have been able to crawl this far by now!"

Their location wasn't far from the entrance to the underground city, and reinforcements should have arrived long ago.

On the other side, Torin was too exhausted to even curse. He could only lean against the wall, panting heavily. The battle axe seemed exceptionally heavy in his hands.

Just then, a violent tremor came!

A commanding voice, like a thunderclap, echoed throughout the dungeon:
"You vile insects... Today, you will pay the price!"

With this roar, an even more violent tremor came from deep underground, and rubble fell from the top of the passage.

Clearly, the voice possesses terrifying power.

"What...what is that?" Torin's voice trembled involuntarily.

Glenn was slightly better, but his face was still deathly pale: "Whatever it is, it seems that reinforcements won't be arriving anytime soon..."

Another elemental spirit darted into the passage. The two exchanged a glance, both seeing the helplessness in each other's eyes; they had little strength left.

A chill ran down his spine, and Torin shivered involuntarily.

He instinctively turned around and was surprised to find something familiar had appeared in the room!

In the instant Torin stood there stunned, the berserk elemental spirit charged forward. Grum mustered his last strength and braced himself with his shield, roaring hoarsely, "Stop standing there! Even if we die, we'll die like warriors!"

"Death?" Tolin suddenly had a flash of inspiration and hurriedly rummaged through his backpack. "Hold on! We might not die!"

"what?"

Before Grlum could react, he was scalded by a fire spirit's flames, screaming in agony as his already damaged shield shattered completely.

Just when it seemed they couldn't hold on any longer, a magical force suddenly acted upon him. Torin and Glenn's bodies began to shrink rapidly, and in no time they became two tiny figures.

Seeing the fire spirit that had grown to an enormous size before him, Grum finally lost his temper: "What kind of method is this? Isn't this just making us even more likely to die?!"

However, Tolin grabbed him and turned to run back!

It was only then that Glenn noticed a palm-sized spatial rift that had appeared in the corner of the room, constantly emanating a chilling aura.

The two narrowly dodged a powerful blow from the fire spirit and leaped into the crevice. The instant they passed through, the spot behind them was completely engulfed by raging flames.

Given the current size of this spatial rift, even elemental beings would have difficulty crossing it.

The two survivors collapsed on the ground, panting heavily, but soon got up again.

"It's so cold!"

The two dwarves huddled together back to back, and as their bodies gradually cooled down, they felt an icy chill!

"Are you kidding me? We finally escaped, and now we're going to freeze to death?"

Do you have anything to start a fire?

"How could that be?"

Puff——

Just as the two were cursing each other, a familiar figure appeared in front of them. To the shrunken dwarf, it was a huge creature, as big as a small mountain.

Faced with the swirling mycelial tentacles, Glenn decisively dropped his warhammer.

He still clearly remembers the consequences of swinging his hammer at Puji in the Puji Dungeon!

Besides, he no longer has the strength to use weapons and can only leave it to fate.

His only question now was: Where exactly was this place? It didn't look quite the same as the Puji Dungeon he had seen in human territory before.

……

This was the first time Lin Jun had ever encountered a rift from another dungeon opening onto her territory!
Two petty thieves even sneaked in!

Did you think that shrinking yourself would make you unnoticed?

Lin Jun immediately captured the two dwarves and at the same time dispatched several lizardmen to lead their subordinates to guard the rift.

The intense heat emanating from the other side of the fissure was unsettling; it seemed to connect to some unknown place, and it would be best to interrogate these two uninvited guests.

Moreover, the cracks seem to be widening, so just in case, Lin Jun plans to bring in more people to defend the area.

He now only hoped that this was just an accident, and not a prelude to an attack by some enemy.

The rift expanded rapidly, and by the time reinforcements arrived, they encountered the first elemental spirit passing through it.

The raging fire spirit burst out from the crack, which was already half the size of a puff, and recklessly scattered its flames in all directions.

then,

Without being attacked, the flames grew smaller and smaller, the temperature dropped... and finally, with a "whoosh," it went out on its own...

(End of this chapter)