"Haaah… Looks like we really are lost…"
Wandering through the mushroom forest for another hour, Lucia finally admitted that they were lost. They had been walking with no real goal, just trying to reach the outskirts of the forest. The few walking mushrooms that showed up on their way forced them to constantly change direction and move around them.
Having walked for the last hour, Lucia had already noticed that the giant mushroom trees around them were growing higher and denser, even the amount of glowing plants, herbs and flowers were increasing in number.
As they continued walking deeper and deeper into the mushroom forest, Poe and the rest noticed that they stopped seeing the walking mushrooms, it was as if they had completely disappeared from the face of the world, not even one in sight.
Suddenly, Poe felt his instincts acting up, warning him about some kind of danger approaching.
Looking around, Poe noticed everything was normal, but then it happened, it showed up in all its glory and splendor.
[Fluffy rabbit, lvl 21]
Looking at the cute little white ball jumping around in front of him, Poe remembered something he had forgotten by now. The fluffy rabbit shaman from the start of the time tunnel.
Poe thought it was alone and without a tribe, but it looked like it did indeed have a tribe in this time tunnel.
From what Poe remembered and from his past experience with his fated enemy, the fluffy rabbits. Poe knew that they moved in a flock and built fluffy rabbit tribes, in the places they lived. Rarely moving alone.
Poe thought that there were no fluffy rabbit tribe in the time tunnel, because there was only one fluffy rabbit so far and it was unique. Other than that, Poe had also traveled quite far and had yet to spot a single fluffy rabbit, so he was sure that there were no fluffy rabbit tribe here…
"No wonder the walking mushrooms stopped showing up…"
Poe muttered to himself as he looked towards the unsuspecting fluffy rabbit.
The fluffy rabbit did not notice anyone and continued to nimble on a few nearby glowing plants; it was clearly enjoying itself, not knowing its species greatest enemy had set its eyes on it.
Ivy and Lucia on the side also saw the fluffy rabbit, but just as they were about to approach it, they felt an intense killing intent from behind them.
Looking at Poe, Lucia and Ivy both saw the same expression as the when he fought against the fluffy rabbit shaman. Wondering why Poe had such an intense hate for such cute little things, Ivy decided to ask.
"Poe? Why do you even hate such cute little balls of fluffiness? It's not like they will do anythin-"
Just as Ivy was about to explain how great and innocent all small and cute looking things were, a certain cute ball of fluffiness discovered them.
The fluffy rabbit turned towards Ivy, Lucia and Poe while showing a savage expression leaking an enormous amount of killing intent, making the fluffy rabbit look extremely terrifying.
Well… At least as terrifying as a white fluffy ball with small not really that sharp teeth could look… On the other hand, the small fangs visible on its left side and right side only made it look even cuter…
"See! How can you hate something that cute!?"
Ivy, who was about to start explaining why the little cute fluffy rabbit was indeed an innocent little cute fluffy rabbit that would never hurt anyone. Suddenly saw a little white ball flying towards her, with a speed faster than even the fastest walking mushroom.
Ivy was shocked when she saw how aggressive the cute little fluffy rabbit was, in her mind, cute things should not be that aggressive and needed to look cute, walk cutely and smile cutely!
This fluffy rabbit however, did not do any of the 3 sacred signs of cuteness!
Seeing this, Ivy was saddened, to think she would meet a fake here… Thinking this far, Ivy made a fireball appear in her hand as she threw it towards the fluffy rabbit, burning it to ashes.
[Gained 11 EXP + 60 EXP: A member of your group/party killed an enemy without needing you. Yay, free EXP?]
Seeing the fluffy rabbit being burned to ashes, Poe returned to his usual self, as he looked speechlessly towards Ivy.
"W-why?"
"It did not follow the core teachings from the church of cuteness, all living cute things should follow them! Even you follow them perfectly!"
Ivy said as she looked admiringly at Poe.
"W-what is the church of cuteness?"
Poe asked, as he looked disturbed. The church of cuteness did not sound like a place he would like and if people there were like Ivy… Just thinking about it made Poe break into a cold sweat.
"Don't think about it… They are just a bunch of weirdos who gathered after the first person to walk the path of cuteness appeared in the ancient past…"
"Yes, yes, it is said that the person left the world after solving a few major threats to the safety of the world and even solved several wars between the big kingdoms in the past!"
"Those issues were also created by that person… The wars started because the citizen of the different kingdoms all wanted to pamper that person… Therefore, they went to war, all to decide who was worthy enough to pamper that person… The threat to the world was none other than that person, as the kingdoms started fighting each other waaaaaay too much. The balance of the elements and mana in the world started breaking apart, it did not really help that some of the extremely strong people who left the world in the past returned and joined fight… The fight ended after that person left the world. What remains today is the church of cuteness; it has followers all over the world, Ivy being a high ranked member…"
Hearing this, Poe felt more and more scared of this so-called "church", to him it sounded like a dangerous place.
With that in mind, Poe's fear of Ivy increased ever so slightly. First, she was a pervert and now she was even member of some sort of cult that worshiped cuteness!?