Novel Bin Chapter 1076 The Mysterious Ruins
Chapter 1076 The Mysterious Ruins
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Amidst the ocean of incredibly tall and thick grass, we finally found something, a small vestige of an ancient civilization, these ruins were not metallic like the previous ones. They were made of a very tough stone similar to the one most dungeon is made of, and similar to the dungeon Arachne once controlled.
It seemed this area wasn't just some old spaceship they left here, but a whole palace of stone they once built… Or told their slaves to build for them. The ruins were in a great state compared to the Sunstone Plateau one, except that they were overrun by all sorts of plants, the grass wasn't touching it though.
However, we noticed a large quantity of vines growing through it, slowly tearing down the hard stone through the ages, there were many trees popping out of the ruins, there were no shiny crystals or spirit crystals though, which was usually the norm in places with high concentrations of spirit energy or mana, weirdly enough.
"Here we are…" My mother looked around. "Looks like some fewer ancient ruins if they're made of stone and not metal. Pyuku, is this where you sense your kin?"
"Kind of…" Pyuku was a bit worried. "But I feel their presences very weakened. Maybe it was just their essence left over the ruins? Perhaps they passed through here and aren't exactly here."
"Hmm, well, we'll only find out once we enter." Nepheline said. "Right?"
"Yeah, don't lose hope yet." Ninhursag patted Pyuku's head. "Let's enter."
We followed Pyuku's guidance as we made our way across the grass, finally reaching the entrance of the ruins. The first thing we noticed were countless roots extending all the way inside.
They were not the roots of a tree, but countless of very thin roots, which came from the underground. It was a bit weird they weren't tree roots, and that no monster or animal had tried eating them.
Perhaps they had but they kept growing back or something? I could sense a lot of Mana flowing across them, interestingly enough. Once we entered, there was a long, empty corridor full of vegetation, and countless vines.
Further inside, there were three paths, one moving forwards, and the other two to the left and right, we chose the path to the left because that's where Pyuku felt the presences.
The interior was full of mysterious and beautiful types of plants we've never seen before, of many colors and shapes I picked a few while leaving most behind due to them not being medicinal at all.
There were mostly poisonous plants though, which made me wonder if there was someone here that once tried to make a poisonous plant plantation or something…
"Based in how we've not met any slimes yet, I can assume there's nobody here. If there was a settlement, we would have already meet guards or something." Pyuku sighed in disappointment. "But I wonder, if I can sense their presence here, maybe they left something behind?"
He still had some hope to find more clues, so we moved into the end of the corridor. On the way, we meet a variety of plant monsters, all weaklings at Tier 6 at most. From Creeping Vines, Tier 5, to Cannibal Flowers, Tier 6, and there were many tiny ones with legs that released poisonous pollen named Poisonous Gnome Flowers, ranging from Tier 2 to 4.
The poison wasn't a problem for us, with mother's magic, she simply conjured a [Divine Ailment Ward] that protected us from any Poison below Tier 9 for 24 hours, we simply stomped the annoying little guys on our way to the end of the corridor.
There was a large stone door, covered on grass and vines, it seemed closed shut, but we noticed countless of the same roots at the beginning of the ruins connecting to this place, all going below the gates.
"The gates seem to be only closed normally, let's push them." My father said, gently pushing them to not destroy them with his overwhelming physical strength.
Creaaak…!
The gates slowly opened wide, to reveal a large, dark room. As we walked inside, we found these same thin roots growing everywhere, spread over the ceiling, walls, and the floor, of course.
However, once we entered, we all sensed an eerie sensation, there was something alive here, or many living beings, not plants, but the type of living being that moves, talks, and attacks.
"This place…" My father seemed in high alert. "I think there are a lot of monsters, be careful-"
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However, Pyuku wasn't careful, running forwards as he suddenly found something on the ceiling, there were large wooden roots that ended on small, balloon-like growths.nove(l)bi(n.)com
They were strange fruits, and inside, we could all notice small, slimy things, like some sort of natural juice oozing out of the fruit's transparent interior.
But it all changed when we realized the interior of these oozes had small crystals, and if I looked good enough, tiny, black dot-shaped eyes.
"T-They're here! More like me! My people! B-But why are you inside fruits?!"
Pyuku was reckless, before we could go catch him, a large and thick root, made of countless smaller ones wrapped around together, swung against him amidst the shadows!
BAAAAMM!!
"Uwah!"
Pyuku ended having half of his body cleaved down, splattering over the floor, only for it to quickly fly back to his body and fuse once more. He was very resilient due to his slime physique.
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Three more gigantic roots appeared around him, while none attacked us. The tree monster or whatever it was, was specifically aiming at Pyuku! If it had all these slimes as prisoners, does it use them as some sort of preferred food?
"What the…?! Why is it only attacking me?!"
Pyuku started running away, he didn't use fire magic spells he had learned from eating monsters most likely due to the fear of setting ablaze his companions trapped in the fruits, so he used the other element he was good at, which wasn't born out of abilities or spells he "stole" from monsters he had eaten.
"[Aqua Bullets]!"
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