Chapter 523 Dungeon exploration (3)
Chapter 523 Dungeon exploration (3)
?But they still had their years of experience to rely on.
They reacted quickly and didn’t stay in a daze for long.
After hearing what I shouted, they all jumped out of the circle of light that was cast.
Right after the last person jumped out, there was something that peeked out of the ground.
It was the same thing that Cecilia had described to me before.
There were these mushrooms that suddenly poked out of the ground, but they didn’t seem that dangerous to me.
They seemed like normal orange mushrooms with white dots on their cap.
These seemed like normal mushrooms no matter how I looked at them…that was until they started to change.
These mushrooms sprouted out of the ground and then…they started to grow in size.
They continued to grow larger and larger until they were the same size as humans.
Well, they were a bit shorter than humans, just reaching between around three to four feet.
But that wasn’t the most shocking part.
The most shocking part was that there were faces that appeared on these mushrooms. They appeared on the stipe of these mushrooms, right under their cap.
And the weirdest thing was how cute the design of these faces were…
For some reason, these mushrooms seemed familiar to me. It was almost as if I had seen them in some kind of game before…
But now wasn’t the time to think about that since they were coming at us.
The important thing now was thinking about how to deal with these mushrooms that had suddenly sprouted out of the ground.
Cecilia was much calmer than me as she said, “Shields up and take formation. Use the arrows and magic spells to pelt them down while keeping them in place with the shields.”
The guards and knights didn’t hesitate at all as they took their positions.
They had been well trained by Cecilia, so they knew exactly what to do.
They split up in two groups with the first group lifting their shields to form a wall in front of the second group, The second group pulled out spears and arrows to aim at the mushrooms that were in the center of the blockade of shields.
The mushrooms tried breaking free, but they weren’t able to.
Since what had happened last time, I had made sure to strengthen the shields with some runes.
I had planned on keeping these things for later, but it didn’t seem like the time.
So before heading into the dungeon, I had worked with the dwarves that had come with Elsa to engrave all of the shields that they had brought.
The shields were able to block the attacks of the mushrooms, but it was all about whether the people holding the shields would be able to resist the brunt of the attack.
However, Cecilia had also thought about that and had trained them in this situation.
They were using a two man formation with each shield.
There was one that was holding the shield and there was one that was holding the one holding the shield. That second person would help bear the brunt of this attack, so they didn’t collapse even if the shield could resist the attack.
With this shield wall, the mushroom monsters were completely trapped in this one area.
The arrows rained down on them and the spears stabbed through the gaps of the shield wall.
The mushroom monsters weren’t able to do a thing as more and more of them fell under these arrows and spears.
It seemed that everything was about to go well, but then…
The mushroom monsters seemed to realize that there was no way out for them, so they became desperate.
There were some that started throwing their entire body at the shield wall.
Based on how much the guards and knights were buckling under the tackle of these mushroom monsters, it was clear that they were quite heavy.
But they were able to hold on in the end and didn’t buckle under these attacks.
However, that wasn’t the only thing that the mushroom monsters did.
There were some that stood in the center that didn’t follow the other mushroom monsters to throw themselves at the wall. It seemed that they were preparing something with the way that they were gathered.
Cecilia naturally also recognized this, so she said, “Forget about suppressing the ones that are charging, aim for the ones in the center! Take them out before they get a chance to do anything!”
The archers immediately raised their bows up when they heard this and aimed their arrows at the mushroom monsters in the center of the formation.
After taking a second to adjust, they released their arrows into the air.
The arrows flew over the heads of the shield wall and the mushroom monsters tackling said shield wall, perfectly aimed at the mushroom monsters that were in the center.
But before they could hit them, there were some mushroom monsters that suddenly jumped up in the way of these arrows. They blocked them with their bodies so that not a single one of the arrows would land on the ones in the middle.
It seemed that they didn’t even care about their lives as they let the arrows pierce right into them.
This was someone that no one had expected, so no one had prepared a back up to take care of the mushroom monsters in the center.
This delay was all that they needed to do what they wanted to do.
The mushroom monsters in the center suddenly bent down as if they were compressing themselves.
As they compressed themselves like this, they started to shake and there seemed to be some kind of yellow dust that came from the caps on their heads.
This dust grew more and more dense before they suddenly stood up again and shot that dust into the air.
As the dust flew into the air, it instantly scattered apart and started to spread in all directions.