"Lisha and the others are taking the lead again."

The dark and dark underground,

Starfall March 2, 837, Moldavia, an unnamed underground tunnel.

The bright light of the pyroxene lamp swayed in the corridor, accompanied by the sound of footsteps, you can see five slowly walking figures on the walls of the corridor.

This is an unknown tunnel nearly 1,000 meters underground in Moldavia. In order not to consume oxygen and beware of possible flammable gases, this team of people wearing mage robes carefully use pyroxene lamps that do not require oxygen as lighting tools. Every time they walk a distance, they will carefully use magic to detect the situation of the tunnel ahead to avoid accidental collapse or corridor collapse. Although collapse cannot take the lives of these mages with high-level silver strength, they still have some strength to return to the ground from the underground of a thousand meters deep and can only wait for the mentor's rescue.

There is no doubt that that is definitely not the result this team wants to get.

"Oh, there's really nothing I can do, after all, I have the first person to accompany her."

In the corridor, a rather rude voice suddenly complained: "It's really a blessing that she is lucky enough to find the first underground world entrance in the entire empire."

The owner of the voice was a dwarf. He held a pyroxene lamp in his hand and kept chattering: "The first discoverer's points reward is three times that of others. In addition, the reward for discovering the Dylaner crystal grass and moonlight crystals, it is difficult for us to compete for the first place in this new school year."

"Nick, don't always hurt your own morale!"

On the side, a dissatisfied female voice scolded: "Although Lisa has the advantage, she did not confirm the specific ecological map of the underground world, nor did she draw a roadmap and came back directly... We have the chance to surpass her!"

"Come on, Karin, at least 5,000 credits, how long will it take for us to make up for it?"

It was probably because of the long underground exploration that made both of them quite bored. This time, they found an opportunity and started arguing. Nick and Karin were cautiously investigating the future while refuting and questioning each other. Behind the two, a man and a woman who seemed to be brother and sister were also communicating with each other softly.

"Brother, our dragon's appetite is getting bigger and bigger... Half of the points in the last mission were paid into its stomach."

Amira's tone was helpless. The girl with long platinum hair was carrying a strange grass plant that looked like a trumpet. This was a magical plant commonly used for underground exploration. It can quickly convert oxygen under the stimulation of magic, so as not to be unable to continue moving forward due to insufficient oxygen. She said to her brother quite worriedly: "If this continues, we may be poor by it."

"My sister, maybe we're already poor, otherwise I'll be able to change to a new staff last time."

The girl's complaint was the young man with long platinum hair, who was tightly clamped the broken staff in his right hand. He stood at the end of the team, holding a magic drawing in his left hand, automatically recording the corridor that the team walked through. Ivan showed a helpless expression like his sister: "Sir, our dragon is far more talented than the same type, so it eats three times that of an ordinary white dragon... It ate magic crystal worth 150 credits in two days, plus 200 pounds of monster meat. No matter how quickly our team completes the task, it is not as fast as it can eat!"

Alva, who was standing aside, did not add to the topic. At this time, he was holding a compass-like instrument, frowned, and muttering something softly in his mouth.

"Strangely, we have already penetrated 1,800 meters underground. The concentration of magic not only did not decrease, but instead soared four times... Where did the First No. 1 dig? Is the giant magic crystal vein?"

It can be seen that the Seventh Prince could not understand the data displayed by the instruments in his hand, but did not find any signs of danger, so he continued to explore with his partners with doubts.

The five people walking underground were the first team of Winter Fort College, the students of Joshua.

At this time, more than fifty teams of Winter Castle Academy had joined the ranks of underground exploration. The well-equipped spellcaster team brought their magic pets, puppets, and even contract elements into the mysterious underground corridor to explore their ends. The first team was undoubtedly the farthest and deepest team except the corridor excavator.

The five people in the first team are all among the best in the academy. Except for the newly enrolled prince Alva, the others have been enrolling for about five years. Under the education of many elite mentors, these five years have allowed them to grow from ordinary people to advanced silver spell casters. It only takes a little and opportunity to smoothly touch the golden barrier.

A large number of high-level silver students who are not yet twenty and have a high chance of advancing gold. Although the incredible success rate is brought by the great magic wave, it must also recognize the superior education system of Winter Castle Academy. In addition, it is not without reason that the Empire and Moldavia have been increasing funding year by year, because even if the individual abilities are not outstanding, students who may not be able to advance to gold have sufficient knowledge reserves. Whether as magical creature experts or as magical technology researchers, they all have their own skills.

In fact, if it weren't for these students, Moldavia would never have built so many magic factories.

"The magic concentration is not a problem. We make money by finding the ore veins."

Hearing Alva's whisper, Ivan walked forward, and he followed everyone over a small mound of landslides in the landslide, and shrugged and replied: "Didn't Lisa and the others discover the moonlight crystal veins because of the abnormal magic fluctuations? The reward of 2,500 credits is enough to buy a complete set of the latest generation of magic mechas, which is really enviable."

Underground exploration is really boring. It is always a dark corridor. The brown and gray soil and rocks are a big test for the psychological quality of the explorers. Therefore, in order to avoid problems in mentality due to long-term boring exploration, the members of the first team will discuss from time to time to avoid being inattentive.

While chatting, they continued to walk along the downward corridor for a while, and everyone came to the depths of the ground, which was nearly two thousand meters away.

"Wait, something is wrong, it's a bit strange since the beginning!" Suddenly, Nick, the dwarf who was walking in the front, shouted in a low voice, his expression was solemn, and then it became very bad in an instant: "No, it seems that this is not the first-time dig..."

Before they could say the next thing, the corridor at the bottom of everyone's feet shattered like a scattered ice layer, and the fragile soil layer mixed with scattered rocks fell downwards. At the moment of such an unexpected situation, the crowd of team No. 1 suddenly showed their strong qualities.

"Floating technique! Detect life! Nitrogen barrier!"

Before falling for a second, the five people stopped in the air under the action of the floating technique, and a light blue atmospheric barrier also appeared around everyone, turning into an indestructible wall to resist all attacks. Amira's eyes were flashing with red light at this time. She frowned and said quickly to her friends around: "A lot of life reactions! We should have come to the underground world that Lisa and the others discovered!"

"The corridor just now was much smaller than before. It should not be excavated by the first number, but by local creatures themselves!"

Nick also hurriedly said what he hadn't said before. He took out a tomahawk-shaped wand from his waist, and there was an obvious trigger at the handle of the axe. The dwarf skillfully took out a few large alchemy bullets engraved with "burning", "freezing" and "explosion" runes, and then stuffed them into the personal magic weapon of God's knowledge, whether it was an axe, a magic wand or a hand gun, and made perfect preparations for the battle: "But no matter what creature it is, wait to eat my elemental blast!"

Various kinds of magic-enhanced lusters began to appear faintly around the dwarf, and the others were also prepared accordingly.

Unlike before, the first team, which had been through many battles, had already planned to fight in all sudden situations, but it was just a sudden collapse. Before starting underground exploration, they had prepared corresponding plans. According to the preparatory plan, even if they encountered a secluded dragon lich underground, they were confident that they could escape.

But it is obvious that they do not need to go against the dragon lich who usually wanders at the peak of the golden level to the initial level of the extreme spirit. After the mud and rocks under them completely collapsed, they clearly saw the huge underground space behind the collapsed place under the pyroxene light.

The slimy mold flashing with glimmers, the underground bat group was panicked because of the huge sound, with unusually thick magic fluctuations, and strange, but extremely regular "slam" sounds.

"decline?"

"Of course, aren't we here just to explore the underground world!"

They were collectively safe and sound when they encountered an accident and found their own group's destination. Although the five were very excited, they suppressed the double joy. With Karin's gentle curse adjustment, the floating technique on everyone began to slowly relieve themselves, approaching the ground, and finally landed on the mound of soil formed by the collapse.

"This is the underground world? It feels a bit empty."

Alva looked around and sighed: "I originally thought it would be a mushroom forest or a similar environment to a insect nest... I didn't expect it to be so simple."

As he said that, he planned to take a step forward and take a closer look, but then Ivan stretched out his hand and grabbed him.

Alva turned his head in confusion, but what he saw was Ivan's serious face.

“Hostile.”

The moment after this sentence was said, Alva's pupils shrank slightly, and he suddenly felt a faint, but extremely solid hostility and even murderous intent, gathering towards everyone on his side.

"Hao!"

Nick turned the pyroxene lamp in his hand without hesitation and shone it in the direction of hostility. He could immediately see that countless black and brown insects escaped from the fungi group under the light. In the next moment, in the dark depths that the light could not be exposed to, two golden lights suddenly appeared in the glimmer of the fungi.

Soon, these two points became four, eight, and ten o'clock... After a few seconds, more than thirty golden light spots approached everyone silently and came within the light range.

It's a snake... no, this kind of big 'python'.

More than a dozen black giant pythons, more than twenty meters long, slowly crawled out of the darkness. They emitted strange magic fluctuations throughout, as if they could absorb the light around them. As the bodies rubbed against the rocks, the giant pythons' cold snake eyes scanned the five people in front of them. These strange creatures living deep underground opened their huge mouths full of sharp teeth to everyone, and made a silent scream.

Suddenly, the dark brown magic surged, and the soil around the first team began to deform rapidly, turning into sharp and sharp ground-stinging rock blades, pressing towards everyone!

"Start the fight!"

The first team, without any tension, had experienced many battles, even massacred all the shark lizards on the coast of the Arctic Iceland, had long been accustomed to attacking and being attacked. This sudden battle that took place in the underground world was already as expected.

It would be better to say that this is why some of the disciples are so looking forward to this dangerous exploration.

...

"Karin, add the fire."

Deep underground, in the middle of the battle scene, the first team of five people, who were extremely tired, lit a bonfire.

Nick, the dwarf who had already set up a barbed wire grill and smeared with olive oil, was carrying something on the side. When he returned to the simple kitchenware, the red-haired girl next to him skillfully lit a raging fire under the iron plate of the frying pan.

So sizzled, and suddenly, the familiar fragrance of oil appeared in the underground world, but the fragrance did not spread, but was bound to a certain range by magic.

On the other side, Ivan and Amira brothers and sisters also came from a distance, their arms full of washed glowing fungi and various strange herbs.

"I'm so lucky. There are still Kaman white grass here. This thing is the main material of energy potion." The young man sighed so much.

"Compared with the Diraner crystal grass that Lisa and the others discovered, this thing has no value at all." The girl shook her head.

On the other side, Prince Alva was skillfully using his portable short knife to quickly unravel the corpse of the giant python brought by Nick.

The techniques obtained by countless shark lizards were dismantled, and it was no different to apply them to the giant python at this time. The former prince and the adventurer were now exerting the superb sword technique he inherited from the royal family to the extreme. In just a few seconds, the giant python with tough skin as strong as steel and muscles, and his muscles were easily broken down into smooth and solid strips of flesh.

“Is the sauce ready?”

"It's ready, so are the seasonings."

"The meat is cut."

"Okay, let me leave it next!"

Everything was ready, and a glimmer flashed in the dwarf's eyes. He used magic to take Alva's cut snake meat from the air, then took out iron knives from his waist pocket and inserted it, and placed it on a barbed wire grill that had been roasted and hot.

【Pu Shao underground python】

[Required raw materials: an unnamed underground python]

【200g sugar】

【150g of pepper and salt】

【50 grams of holy water of life】

【200g sauce】

【Detoxification Magic (Twice)】

【Carman White Grass Powder 50g】

【100g of luminescent fungus essence】

【Effect: Unknown】

"Can this luminous fungus be eaten?!"

On the side, Alva looked at the dwarf skillfully prepared sauce with a look of strangeness, and then applied it to the snake meat. The appetizing fragrance made him swallow his saliva subconsciously, but even so, for the safety of his digestive system, he still cautiously put forward his opinion: "Don't that thing smell a little smelly?"

"The smell is the smell of dead fungi rotting mucus. In fact, if you wash the normal glowing fungus, you can smell a scent similar to woody mildew."

Nick, who had lived underground for many years, shook his head. He held a clean spherical fungus in his hand to correct the prince's misunderstanding of the luminous fungus: "The reason why this thing can glow is because of the magical gum in the center of it... It can be said that the gum at its core is similar to that of slime, it is pure magic colloid, and of course it can be eaten."

As he said that, Nick took a brush and applied a layer of fluorescent magic colloid onto the snake's flesh. Suddenly, the fragrance became more intense.

"It doesn't matter if fungi...but, can this kind of creature really be eaten?"
To be continued...