Chapter 68: Putrid Wedding (please subscribe)
There were echoes from the mist-shrouded cave in the distance. The harsh gasps and echoes echoed the terrifying music, intertwined together, like a dissonant song. music.
Brian immediately gestured to Hesiah beside him.
The sword mage understood and hid with him in the shadow of a tall mushroom.
"Is the wedding going to start soon?" She leaned next to Brian and whispered softly.
"That's right." Brian nodded slightly.
"What do you think the demon lord's wedding will be like?" Hesaya looked at him curiously and expressed her inner doubts.
Unknowingly, Brian had left an image of omniscience in her mind, because he would give her a satisfactory answer to any question she asked.
"You'll find out later. I hope you won't be frightened when you see it."
Brian looked at her strangely, then said to her with a smile , "Today I will take you to steal the demon lord's bride. Believe me, that scene that happens once in a thousand years will be so wonderful that you will never forget it."
After speaking, without waiting for the other party to reply, he quickly gave her a quiet look, signaling to be silent.
Through the small cave shrouded in mist, Brian saw a row of creatures who were the singers of these songs.
His elf vision allowed him to clearly see that they were a group of figures that looked like humanoid creatures. Their stiff bodies were also wrapped in messy patterns of glowing moss and capsules.
With their crazy and joyful singing, they penetrated the consciousness of the two people and echoed in the depths of their minds:
Toadstools bloomed in the rock bed,
The king of love in the chaos and darkness.
Make a wish! Hope! laughter!
A gift for ladies!
Petition! eager! Dance steps!
Spread the spores of joy!
Faces decay, years pass quickly,
Lightless Woodland and Zugmoy!
Hearts are in harmony, and branches are connected by the same mind.
The two become one, and they will not change until death!
Long live! Long live! Long live!
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The parade had a strange festive atmosphere. They jumped, danced, and danced in weird ways, heading towards the Mushroom Palace deep in the mist.
These fungus creatures and other spore slaves, while dancing crazily to music that only they can hear, constantly release large amounts of spores, filling the air with a strange fragrance. Son.
"Can you dance?" Looking at the parade, Brian nodded thoughtfully and asked the sword mage next to him through telepathy.
“I have never liked aristocratic life and endless parties.”
Hesiah was stunned for a moment, not knowing what the other party meant. She felt guilty for some reason, and then quickly answered in a tactful tone.
"That means I can't do it. There's so much nonsense." Brian looked at her and said, "If you can't do it, then forget it and just follow the parade quietly."
“What do you mean?” Hesiah secretly breathed a sigh of relief for no reason and asked again.
“This is the procession for Lady Fungi’s wedding.”
Brian explained to her through voice transmission, “If the two of us want to blend into the procession and go to Yogmoogu Palace, The easiest way is to appear in front of them and join their team.”
Then he walked and danced again.
Hesiah added in her mind what Brian had not finished.
Looking at the weird dance of the slow parade, she couldn't help but feel a chill, and was secretly glad that she didn't try to be brave just now, but chose to tell the truth.
"Then can you dance?" She looked at Brian with a smile in her silver-gray eyes.
"The team has already gone far. Let's follow quietly and make sure we don't get discovered." Brian did not continue this embarrassing topic and quickly changed his gaze, signaling her to prepare to leave.
Seeing Brian's weird look, Hesiah's lips unconsciously raised a smile, and she immediately followed his footsteps.
Following the parade, the two of them safely arrived at the Yogmoo Palace mentioned by the Myconid King Bastiffe without any obstruction, and they took root in this fertile soil. of super giant mushrooms.
The cave where the ancient Yogmoog Palace is located is very large, and this huge mushroom almost fills the entire cave.
Brian couldn't even clearly estimate the size of the giant mushroom standing in front of him from his position.
He saw countless smaller mushrooms growing on its main stem. The huge main stem gradually branched upward into smaller mushroom rods. On the top of each mushroom rod was a giant tower. A large mushroom cap on the top of the tower.
The floor of the cave near the main pole is covered with a layer of fungi, and a terrifying and eerie soft light radiates from the windows carved into the main pole. The discordant sounds that echoed in the distance are still lingering inside.
A rotten stench rushed towards him, like a sense of fear, penetrating his skin and piercing his soul.
Even though he and Hesiah had taken the magic potion prepared by the Myconid King, they could hardly stand the overwhelming stench.
"Do we really want to go in?" Under the sickly pale blue light around her, Hesiah's face was frighteningly white. She resisted the tumbling of her stomach and said with a slightly hesitant expression.
Originally, she had thought that the Horror Garden she had encountered before was already the most terrifying place.
Who would have thought that the Gardens of Dread would be more like a pale reflection of the real horrors surrounding Yogmooghur's palace than the palace before us.
She saw tall crescent-shaped ledges surrounding the cave walls, slowly connecting to the cave's lower floor.
The ledges are covered with shimmering carpets of moss and fungi, large and small fungal cysts, and various potholes of different shapes filled with ichor and ooze.
Some of them have even dried up and become scabs, just like the scars on human flesh that have bulged after healing, which is almost unbearable to look at.
“We’ve already arrived, what else can we do?” Brian stabilized his breathing, turned to look at Hesiah, and comforted: “Let’s go, just get used to it and you’ll be fine.”
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Hesiah nodded, suppressed her inner discomfort, and followed Brian closely, stepping into the corridors of the Mushroom Palace filled with pus and mud pits.
Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she noticed the bloated cyst on the corridor ledge squirming slightly. Almost instinctively, she quickly reached out and grabbed Brian's arm tightly, looking at Looking at him, "Brian, have you noticed that these sacs are moving?"
Brian stopped and let the noble lady in front of him hold one of his arms tightly and said to She said;
“I have noticed it a long time ago. The things wrapped here are all living creatures collected by Philo, the king of mushrooms, in the wilderness of the Underdark. Do you think this mushroom palace grew like this by eating soil? Is it big? That’s because it absorbs the flesh and blood of the creatures in the capsule, as well as the nutrients provided by the surging earth vein radiation energy.”
At this moment, a soft crack echoed. In their ears.
A bloated sac next to Hesiah suddenly burst, and dense spores and foul-smelling black pus burst out like a grape that had been squeezed.
“Ah!!!”
Suddenly, a heart-breaking scream of pain and fear echoed in the corridors of the palace without warning.
Hearing this blood-chilling scream, Hesiah, who was already nervous, was caught off guard and actually witnessed the explosion of the rotten capsule.
She was horrified, and various horrific scenes appeared in her mind, with uncontrollable fear in her eyes.
Almost instinctively, she forced down the scream that rose up in her throat, shifted her gaze, and buried her head in Brian's arms with a face full of fear, holding his body tightly with her hands.
This sudden scene left Brian no time to enjoy the warm and fragrant feeling of nephrite at this moment, let alone push her away directly.
However, sniffing the faint fragrance in her hair made him feel that his depressed mood suddenly relaxed a lot, and he began to enjoy the atmosphere involuntarily.
But he calmed down quickly, then tightened his right hand around her slender waist, and gently patted her trembling body with his left hand to comfort her.
“Do you plan to continue like this forever?” Seeing that the frightened girl refused to leave, he asked her helplessly, and then joked with a smile:
"If we delay any longer, the Fungus Queen's wedding will be over. How can we try to steal the wedding?"
He discovered something strange.
As the contact with this noble lady deepened, the courage of the other party seemed to become smaller and smaller.
This reminded him of the time when he was in college, when he could throw a girl over his shoulder and knock him down, but he had to help her twist the bottle cap. Hearing Brian's words, Hesiah finally realized something. A blush appeared on her pale and pretty face buried in her chest. She quickly let go of her hands and got out of his arms.
The sudden embarrassment made her instantly forget her fear, and she even forgot to remind Brian what she had seen.
Brian patted her shoulder, gave her a reassuring look, and immediately curiously went over to check the newly exploded cyst pit.
I wanted to see what it was that actually scared this noble lady like this.
He walked to the ledge and unexpectedly found that what was wrapped inside was a drow elf. To be precise, it should be a part of the drow elf.
Because except for half of the face, long white hair and a chest armor that can be barely recognized, the other parts are simply impossible to imagine how this drow was tortured by fungi and decay to look like this. of.
He was seen thrashing feebly, and the tone of his screams also increased. It was not until his eyes saw Brian's face clearly that his screams stopped abruptly.
At this moment, the drow's frightened expression suddenly flashed with a trace of reason, and then with strange ecstasy, it closed its eyes and slowly sank into the pile of fungi.
A moment!
Brian felt his mind suddenly shaken by the strange smile of the drow. His body suddenly froze in place, and a row of light blue data appeared in his retina:
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Will save successful!
You successfully saved yourself from the lethal effect of "Fear of Death"!
You successfully save against the fear effect of "Fear of Death"!
You successfully saved the fright effect of "Fear of Death"!
"Death Fear" is invalid for you!
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After seeing the data check clearly, Brian was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, and his legs were shaking slightly.
His stiff body also staggered, and with Hesiah's timely support, he was able to avoid the risk of falling.
"Are you okay?" Hesiah looked at the pale Brian and asked with concern.
She looked at him with worry and horror in her heart.
She saw that his lips were white, and fine cold sweat broke out on his forehead. The sweat was like wax tears, flowing down his forehead, and sticking a few strands of soaked hair to his pale cheeks.
It is hard to imagine that even Brian, who has always been calm and composed, is extremely frightened.
This made her secretly regret that she had forgotten to remind him, so that such a thing happened.
"It's okay, I was careless just now."
Brian took a deep breath to calm himself down, then grabbed Hesiah's hand, used the force to stand up straight, and used his sleeves to Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, he controlled his voice and spoke to her.
The slap in the face was really painful. Just now, he was secretly laughing at how this noble lady suddenly became less courageous. As a result, his retribution came immediately.
Just now, many horrific scenes suddenly appeared in his mind, including mountains of corpses, seas of blood and white bones, as well as various cruel and terrifying scenes.
If he had not already developed a strong will and activated the Psion's "Mind Blank" ability in time to suppress this fear for a moment, he might even have been killed on the spot. Scared to death.
This made him secretly regret not joining the procession and entering the palace with them.
Although the prerequisite for joining the parade is to follow their beats and dance awkwardly together, at least it is safe and worry-free, and you don’t have to worry about walking forward here.
After quickly regaining his composure, Brian became alert again.
He clearly felt that with the death of the drow, deafening moans and cries began to echo throughout the cave.
This fearful voice seemed to be covering up the frightening movement of the drow's painful screams, until it finally turned silent, leaving a scalp-numbing grunt.
At the same time, the stem of the giant mushroom trembled, as if enjoying a pleasant joy.
Brian knew that the scene just now was definitely the Mushroom Palace eating.
The object of the meal was undoubtedly the drow that had just disappeared.
He thought for a moment with a slightly solemn expression, and felt that he still had to go to the hall of the Mushroom Palace in person.
He called to Hesiah beside him and motioned for her to continue moving forward.
Although he had just experienced a horrific scene, to Brian's surprise, Hesiah quickly restored her calm and calm demeanor, which made him look at the noble lady a few more times.
After all, it would be a bit difficult if she was too scared to go in.
So the two of them continued walking deeper into the palace, preparing to witness the next unspeakable horror spawned by the corrupt lady.
The moment he entered the hall of the Mushroom Palace, Brian was shocked by the scene in front of him.
In this huge mushroom palace, large and small mushrooms and fungi are endless, making the surrounding darkness illuminated by various fungi that sparkle like stars, bathing the entire wedding scene in The red, blue and purple glow is filled with hazy shimmer, making everything in front of you look very dreamy.
Of course, in Brian's opinion, the premise of all this is that there are no words from those dancing mushrooms.
Suppressing the discomfort in his stomach, he watched a large number of deformed creatures dancing around the foundation of the giant fungus tower.
Among these controlled beings are various humanoids, as well as various other creatures.
Their bodies are covered with ulcers, rot and cysts of flesh and blood.
Some dancing fungi were shaped into humanoid creatures and danced among the crowd. Some of the creatures looked like spore servants controlled by the Fungus Queen, while others were myconids and other fungal creatures infected by Zurgmoi spores
He saw a man covered in fungi. The drow stood up and staggered into the wild dance, and as the drow danced, his bones began to melt like wax.
The two duergar taunted each other happily while spitting slime from their mouths.
There were even a few crazily laughing Dreadclaws, constantly patting their hard carapace that had been corrupted by fungus, and jumping up and down on the ceiling.
“Don’t look at the central hall, the fungus queen is sitting there.”
Aware that Hesiah’s eyes were moving towards the tower-shaped central hall, he quickly whispered Reminder: "Look at my eyes later."
Hisaya pressed the hilt of the sword tightly and nodded solemnly.
“Praise to the great sower, two more guests are here!”
At this moment, a friendly and giggling voice sounded. The tall myconid Wang Feiluo walked up to the two people, raised his hands and cheered:
"Two guests are invited to join the party! I am soft Friends, let’s welcome the greatest and most magnificent moment in the Sunless Woodland!”
“No!”
Brian took out the ‘Dawnbringer’ and raised his head to greet the enthusiastic crowd. Philo, the fungus king, said unhurriedly, "I am not here to attend the Queen's wedding today."
"It is the great sower, Mrs. Fungi, my soft friend, please correct your use." "Words." The mushroom man Wang Feiluo warned him solemnly and asked curiously, "Then what are you here for?"
Brian took a step forward, his seemingly thin figure facing the Myconid King's tall and straight body without fear.
"Listen to me, today, I am here to steal the marriage!"
His sharp eyes swept around, and although his voice was not loud, in this chaos, The Mushroom Hall was like a bolt from the blue, knocking all the myconids, spore slaves, and a large number of deformed creatures to the spot.
At the same time.
The 'Dawnbringer' he raised high suddenly jumped out with a lightsaber, spraying out angry flames.
(End of this chapter)