Chapter 1628 Myconids
Myconids are not weak chickens left to be slaughtered. Even Aldai and the other three had to be nervous throughout the whole process for fear of being surrounded by myconids.
So, what is the thing that beats the myconids?
Aldai looked at the traces around...
Hopefully it won't be a red dragon.
There are still some barely recognizable shacks on the huge mushroom cap like a hill. This thing is most likely the home of the myconids, but it has been burned by the flames.
The three of them hesitated for a while, then decided to go over and take a look.
After all, if you can determine what the operation was, you can be prepared in mind, so that you won't be in a hurry if it happens to you.
As we get closer to the huge mushroom cap, we can find a convenient staircase of equal height on one side (although it is also a mushroom). Although it has been burned by fire, we can still walk on it.
Going up the stairs, you can see more details when you are closer than you can only see the burnt blackness and coals from a distance.
Many human-shaped mushrooms fell on the umbrella cover, some were large and some were small, some were tall and some were short. They had been burned by the flames, and their original color could no longer be seen at all, only a charred black color.
This is the myconid, but a burned to death myconid.
However, judging from the posture of the myconid corpse, it was not like something fell from the sky and launched an attack. If that was the case, the myconid should have run away.
But now the corpses of the myconids were scattered all over the place, with dead bodies running in all directions.
"Perhaps, not some kind of powerful monster, but a group of them."
Nemea judged:
"Is it possible it's a Cerberus?"
She pointed to the coals on the ground and said:
"This looks a bit like the footprints of a hellhound."
Cerberus is also an alien creature, but although it is called Cerberus, it does not live in the Nine Nether Hells, but in the plane of fire element.
Ah, yes, this thing is actually an elemental creature.
"Probably not. Generally, hellhounds appear with lava or fire elements, and there are no traces of fire elements around them."
Zola interrupted at this time:
"Could it be that someone summoned a large number of hellhounds?"
"It's possible, but there's not enough evidence for the time being. I haven't seen any remnants of summoning spells around here."
The three of them continued to walk up while guessing.
The top of the huge mushroom like a hillside had no living things at this time, except for the smell of burning, which was still smoldering coals.
Although myconids are intelligent creatures, they do not form civilizations like most intelligent creatures. They basically exist in the form of tribes.
Moreover, the myconids do not have writing, so it is very difficult to find any records related to this group of myconids.
Aldai hopes to find one or two survivors, preferably half-dead ones, so that she can ask what happened.
Then don't say it, really don't say it, they found it.
At the top of the giant mushroom cap, the three of them saw a large group of myconid corpses nestled together.
It was as if there was some kind of threat that launched an attack from the outside and surrounded the umbrella, forcing these myconids to flee to the highest place in the center, but were eventually surrounded and eliminated.
The corpses had all been burned and would shatter into pieces at the slightest touch.
"Come here, there seems to be one alive here."
Nemea quickly called the two of them over, pointed to the burnt corpse of the myconid and said:
"I just saw its legs moving."
Zola and Nemea worked together to move the burnt Myconid corpse away, revealing a Myconoid body underneath that was not completely burnt, but was also blackened.
This guy's body is bright yellow and looks like a human-shaped Aoki Aoki. There is a flaky mushroom cap on his neck, and a somewhat twisted head stuck on it.
Its body was half-burnt, with the left half almost carbonized, but the right side, most of the torso, and the head were still intact.
Aldai stretched out her hand and checked it with magic:
"This should be the Myconid King."
Myconids are actually somewhat similar to bees. Each myconid tribe will have a myconid king, and their collective consciousness is greater than their individual consciousness.
Generally speaking, the strongest one in a myconid tribe is definitely the myconid king, and he is also the most important. As long as the Myconid King does not die, the tribe will not disappear and can be rebuilt.
So at the last moment, a large number of myconids protected their king, so he was not completely burned.
"It is indeed alive, but it is in a dying state."
An injury like this would be enough for an average person to be taken to the crematorium, but the Myconid's body is made up of mycelium, and it can be regenerated even if it is cut in half.
Aldai looked at Zola, who nodded, holding the Holy Emblem in his hand, and gently placed his other hand on the Myconid King's chest:
"Treat serious injuries."
The sacred healing aura penetrated into the Myconid King's body, and its legs twitched violently, and then a large number of dark green spores were sprayed out from the pores under its neck, almost surrounding the three of them.
Nemea's first reaction was to pull out her dagger and chop off the Myconid King's head, but Aldai immediately stopped her.
"This is a spore, non-toxic."
Myconids have no vocal organs and cannot speak, but they can communicate spiritually through spores. Whether they are with their companions or with foreigners, they can only rely on telepathic spores.
Immediately afterwards, an old voice sounded in the minds of the three of them.
"Warm-blooded ones, thank you for saving me."
Aldee signaled Zola and Neemia not to be impulsive, and gently pressed her temples to concentrate.
"Who are you?"
"I am Chacha Bunasca."
This name is really weird.
"What's going on here?"
"Steel! Cold steel!"
Through telepathy, all three of them received the voice of the Myconid King that contained great anger.
"And it can bring the fire of destruction"
Aldai thought about it:
"You mean some kind of machine?"
"Machine? Is that what you call steel? I don't know if it is, but it is steel dug out of the ground."
It is indeed difficult for the myconid to understand what machinery is. It can only explain it in a way that it understands.
"They suddenly appeared, floated in the air, and began to burn my people, even the young mycelium"
"Do you know where they come from?"
"Not sure."
Its voice sounds like roaring or wailing:
"But only from lava."
This sounds really strenuous. Why does it come from lava?
The Myconid King looked around with his insect-like eyes:
"Warm-blooded people, you are not like dwarfs and dwarves."
"We are not."
Aldai said in her heart:
"We come from the surface."
"The surface of the earth? A place with vicious fireballs?"
Well, the sun's rays are indeed a vicious fireball to them.
Aldai didn't want to reveal too much information about herself, so she asked again:
"Can you give us some direction as to where the things attacking you came from?"
"Can...with..."
The Myconid King struggled to sit up and pulled out a mushroom fragment from the unburnt part under his body, like pulling out a board.
Lines quickly appeared on it in black, like a map.
(End of chapter)