Chapter 122 – Tentacles aren't necessarily handsome either
Byron waved his mouth at Sol again, signaling him to walk ahead.
But Saul tinkered with it for a second and refused.
"Senior, I have a way to get down there too." He raised his hand and tapped the back of his neck.
A slender black tentacle reached out from the back of Sol's neck.
The tentacle grew longer and longer, stretching until it reached three or four meters, twisting merrily around Sol.
These days could be suffocating for the little algae.
It turned to Saul's side, and with a gentle vibration, one tentacle split into two. With another shock, it split into four.
The four tentacles waved in the air, and then they all turned into sharp swords and plunged into the ground.
Then it tensed with force and directly lifted up Saul's entire body.
Byron stared at those tentacles, his bulb-like eyes gently swaying, "Eh?"
"Senior recognizes this?"
"Uh-huh."
Sol sighed, "Let's go down and talk about it."
"Uh-huh."
Byron gave the tentacle one last look, moved to the side of the hole in the ground, and with a lowered head, floated down.
Thor commanded the algae to take himself down as well.
It was just that his body could only keep swaying in the air as the small algae moved due to the complete lack of a catch.
Algae's tentacles kept plunging into the surrounding mountain walls alternately and quickly, only sometimes having to be careful not to knock Saul into the walls of the hole in the ground.
Saul swayed and swayed, only to feel like a duck being hoisted up in a hanging oven, not as handsome as he thought he was.
But it was better than Senior Byron.
Ten minutes later, he landed on the ground with a gray face and a helpless look on his face, just in time to see Wright forcibly holding back a smile as he helped Byron untie the live knot on his mouth.
After going deep into the underground, the space to move around here was instead much more spacious than on the ground.
At the very least, all of them could walk upright.
Bill stood on guard, now that they were deep underground, they could encounter enemies and monsters at any time. It was no longer possible to relax like on the ground.
However, when he saw Saul being brought down by a few black tentacles, he still couldn't help but be distracted and look at him a few more times.
Wright was the last one to see Saul's new look, so shocked that he directly abandoned Byron and ran to Saul's side, "You, is that a tentacle from the Soul Devouring Demon Swamp on you?"
Wright couldn't help but reach out to touch those black tentacles, but the small algae immediately retracted back to the back of Sol's neck when Wright's hand reached out, with a look of utter disgust.
The loss on Wright's face was visible to the naked eye when he didn't get to touch the baby algae, and he even turned his head to ask Saul, "Did you pick this up in the abandoned lab under the tower?"
"Yes."
The abandoned lab wasn't a secret, and Saul nodded in acknowledgement.
Though Komoro had run out after him on her own, not picked it up.
"But I've been there a few times, and the Soul Devouring Devil Swamp doesn't leave the abandoned lab at all. How did you manage to transplant it into you? Can you sell me the method? I can give you 50, no, 60 credits!"
Although Sol was heartened by the credits, ...
"This method of mine requires gaining proximity to the Soul Eater Devil Swamp. Senior Wright, when you go to the abandoned laboratory, will the Soul Devouring Demon Swamp actively get close to you?"
Sol's words caused the excitement that filled Wright's face to instantly disappear.
"No, it doesn't like me." The light in Wright's eyes dimmed, "It only wants to roll me to death."
Bill, who was originally a little heartbroken at the side, heard the conversation between the two and temporarily dropped his interest in the Soul Devouring Demon Swamp.
Suddenly, the ground under Saul's feet was arched open by something. The ground cracked open, and a fleshy worm-like thing rushed out, opened a large round mouth, and bit at Saul.
Saul immediately jumped backward and stuck to the wall of the hole in the ground, his hands danced quickly and he was about to throw a strike against the Necromancer when he saw a purple smoke wrapped around the meaty worm that was burrowing out of the ground.
After being surrounded by the purple color, the worm quickly fell back to the ground and didn't move a muscle.
The purple smoke was sucked back into Bill's mouth, revealing the fleshworm on the ground that had turned lavender.
"You're going to have to learn combat spell casting soon." Bill hooked the corners of his mouth out of habit, "The enemy won't give you time to recite spells and cast gestures every time."
On the other side Wright had stepped forward to examine what Bill had killed, "It's a crypt worm." Saul didn't take Bill's words to heart as he too moved over to look.
Crypt Worms he had heard of, a kind of creature that lived in the very deep underground.
Although the name carried the word worm, the biomorphology was more plant-like. Their digestive organs and outer skin were the apprentices' preferred experimental materials.
It was only when Wright excitedly dug out all the crypt worms under the land that Saul realized that these guys that were originally supposed to be grayish-brown had turned purple-brown.
"Oh! Bill, you have to stop your hobby of indiscriminately releasing poison." Wright took a metal rod and picked up the worms on the ground, "Look, this doesn't even work anymore."
Bill bristled, "Then you'll just have to move a little faster next time."
Upon hearing that the crypt worm couldn't be used anymore, Saul was a little disappointed, but he didn't show it, thinking that he would definitely encounter it again in the future.
Just then he realized that at some point Byron, who had returned to his normal size, walked over to Wright.
His mouth once again stretched out and stuck to the purple-brown worm's outer skin.
"Gulp gulp gulp ..."
Accompanied by the sound of boiling water, the worm in Wright's hand quickly returned to its grayish-brown color.
"Byron, I'm really liking your little mouth more and more!" Wright exclaimed in surprise.
It was Bill who wasn't so happy, he hugged his arms and glanced at Byron obliquely, "You still need to be cautious about sucking on things. Some of the toxins in my body don't even have an antidote for myself."
Byron let out a soft 'hmmm', not sure if he got the warning implied in Bill's words.
Saul didn't care about the mutual trysts between Level 3 apprentices. As a level two newcomer, he took the initiative to step forward and take over the job of carrying the loot.
Wright was eager to help Saul along to take out the underground crypt worms intact.
This Crypt Worm was small-arm thick and two meters long. It belonged to the small ones amongst the adult crypt worms.
The big guys lived deeper underground.
Saul took out a silk woven pocket from his backpack, and with a gentle shake, the pocket unfolded and was one person high.
Wright skillfully put the crypt worms inside.
Saul closed the mouth again, and the silk woven pocket immediately shrunk to the size of a leather ball.
This was not space sorcery, but a compression technique based on magic power.
Saul patted the pocket in a good mood.
If he could pick up a few more Crypt Worms today, then the harvest from this trip down to the bottom of the earth wouldn't be bad.
The crowd continued onward with mixed emotions.
They seemed to have entered a platform where the crypts almost all stretched flat and straight without going any deeper underground.
Saul looked left and right the whole way, hoping to pick up some more goodies. But alas, the underground was still barren in general, and wouldn't be able to swipe a glitch after a few steps like the game.
As a place that had already been explored by its predecessor for dozens or hundreds of years, this was only normal.
Sol took a deep breath and set his mind right.
However, the Byron in front of him suddenly stopped, and Saul nearly crashed into it.
Cocking his head to look over, Saul realized that Bill and Wright were both standing still as well, hands up and backs taut.
Both in a defensive stance.
Passing through the gap between the three's bodies, Saul finally saw what made their whole bodies tense up.
Up ahead, the road diverged for the first time, with a total of three passages.
Each passageway could accommodate two people passing through side by side.
At this moment, in the middle one, a single grayish-white, translucent humanoid silhouette stepped out of the passageway.
They lined up, raising their legs high and lowering them gently, standing on tiptoe, as if they were afraid of waking anyone up.
Their upper bodies swayed gently as they moved, and their heads bobbed little by little.
None of them had arms ...
Happy New Year's Day to all my fellow readers!!!!
I had a rare day out shopping and bought a lot of new stuff before I had time in the evening, but I managed to get a chapter out!
Keep up the good work tomorrow.
(End of chapter)