"Let Lisa take the lead again."

The dark underground,

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

The bright light of the pyroxene lamp swayed in the corridor, and with the sound of Si Suosuo's footsteps, five figures walking slowly could be seen reflected on the wall of the corridor.

This is an unknown tunnel nearly a thousand meters deep under Moldavia, in order not to consume oxygen, and to 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, they will carefully use magic to detect the situation of the tunnel ahead, so as not to encounter an accident of accidental collapse or tunnel collapse - although it is said that the collapse will not cost the lives of these mages with silver high-level strength, but they want to return to the surface from a thousand meters of depth, They still have some strength to catch up, and they can only wait for the rescue of the mentor.

Without a doubt, that's definitely not what the team wanted.

"Alas, there's really no way, after all, there is the first number to accompany her."

In the middle of the corridor, a rather rough voice suddenly complained, "It's really thanks to her luck that she was able to find the first entrance to the underground world in the entire empire area. ”

The owner of this voice was a dwarf, he carried a pyroxene lamp, and his mouth chattered: "The reward for the first discoverer is three times that of the others, plus the reward for discovering the Jilaner Crystal Grass and the Moonlight Crystal, this new school year, it will be difficult for us to compete for the first place." ”

"Nick, don't keep beating the morale of your own people!"

On the side, a rather dissatisfied female voice reprimanded: "Although Lisa has the advantage of being the starter, she didn't confirm the specific ecological map of the underground world, and she came back directly without drawing a road map...... We have a chance to overtake her! ”

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

It is estimated that the long-term underground exploration has made the two of them quite bored, and this time they found an opportunity, so they quarreled, only to see Nick and Karin cautiously scouting the way forward, while refuting and questioning each other, and behind these two, a man and a woman who looked like brothers and sisters were also communicating with each other softly at this time.

"Brother, our dragon's appetite is getting bigger and bigger...... Half of the points from the last mission went into its stomach. ”

Amira's tone was helpless, and the girl with long white blonde hair was carrying a strange grass plant that looked like a trumpet—a demonic plant commonly used in underground exploration, which could quickly convert oxygen under the stimulation of magical power, so that the exploration team would not be able to continue due to lack of oxygen. She said to her brother rather sadly: "If this continues, we may be poored by it." ”

"My sister, it's not that we're already being eaten poor, otherwise I'd have been able to get a new staff last time."

The object of the girl's complaint, the same white-blond long-haired young man clenched the already somewhat broken staff in his right hand, he stood at the end of the line, and in his left hand was holding a magic drawing, automatically recording the situation of the road that the team walked all the way, Ivan showed the same helpless expression as his sister: "My lord said that our dragon eats three times as much as an ordinary white dragon because its talent is far beyond that of its kind...... It ate 150 credits worth of magic crystals in two days, plus 200 pounds of monster meat, and no matter how quickly our team completed the task, it couldn't eat as fast as it! ”

Alva, who was standing on the sidelines, did not join the conversation, he was holding a compass-like instrument, frowning, and muttering something softly.

"Strange, we have gone 1,800 meters deep into the ground, and instead of decreasing, the concentration of mana has soared by four times...... Where exactly did the first horn go? Giant Magic Crystal Vein? ”

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

The five people walking underground were none other than the first team of Wintercastle Academy, the students of Joshua.

At this time, more than fifty teams have joined the ranks of underground exploration, and a team of well-prepared and well-equipped spellcasters has entered the mysterious underground tunnels with their own magic pets, puppets, and even contract elements to explore their ends, and the first team is undoubtedly the farthest and deepest team except for the first digger.

The five members of the first squad are all among the best in the academy, except for the newly enrolled prince Alva, the others have been enrolled for about five years, and under the education of many elite tutors, these five years have allowed them to grow from ordinary people to high-level silver spellcasters, and it only takes a little bit and opportunity to successfully touch the golden barrier.

A large number of Silver High-level students who are not yet twenty years old and have a great chance of advancing to Gold - although such an unbelievable success rate has the convenience brought by the Great Demon Tide, it must also be recognized that Wintercastle Academy's superior education system is superior. In addition, it is not for nothing that the Imperial and Moldavian Territories have increased their appropriations year after year, because even students who are not very outstanding in their personal abilities and may not be able to advance to the gold level still have sufficient knowledge reserves, whether as an expert in demonic biology or as a researcher of magical energy technology, they all have their own skills.

In fact, if it weren't for these students, it would have been absolutely impossible for the Moldavian Leader to establish so many magic energy factories.

"The concentration of mana is not a problem, but we can find the veins and we earn it."

Hearing Alva's whisper, Ivan walked forward, he followed the crowd and jumped over a small mound of collapsed stars, shrugged his shoulders and replied: "Lisa, didn't they just discover the moonlight crystal vein because of abnormal magic power fluctuations, the reward of 2500 credits is enough to buy a complete set of the latest generation of magic mechas, which is really enviable." ”

Underground exploration is too boring, it is always a dark corridor, brown and gray dirt and rocks, which is a big test for the psychological quality of the explorers, so in order to avoid problems with their mentality due to long-term boring exploration, the people of the first team will have some discussions from time to time to avoid lack of concentration.

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

"Wait, something is wrong, it's a little strange from the beginning!" Suddenly, Nick, the dwarf who was walking in the front, whispered, his expression was solemn, and then he instantly became very bad: "It's not good, it doesn't seem to be the first digging ...... here"

Before he could say the next words, in an instant, the tunnel under everyone's feet crumbled like a collapsed layer of ice, and the fragile soil layer mixed with scattered rocks fell downward, and at the moment of encountering such a sudden situation, everyone in Team No. 1 suddenly showed extremely strong quality.

"Levitation!" "Detect life!" "Nitrogen barrier!"

Before they could fall for a second, the five of them stopped in mid-air under the effect of the levitation technique, and a light blue atmospheric barrier also appeared around everyone, turning into an impregnable wall to resist all attacks. Amira's eyes were flashing red at this time, she frowned, and quickly said to her companions: "A large number of life reactions!" We must have arrived in the underworld that Lisa had discovered! ”

"The tunnel just now is much smaller than the previous one, it should not be the first excavation, but the local creatures themselves dug it!"

Nick also hurriedly said what he hadn't said before, he took out a battle axe-shaped wand from his waist, and there was an obvious trigger on the handle of the axe, and the dwarf skillfully felt out a few large alchemy bullets inscribed with the runes of 'burning', 'freezing' and 'blasting', and then stuffed them into the personal magic weapon that God knows if it was an axe, a wand or a handcuff, and was perfectly prepared for battle: "But whatever kind of creature it is, wait to eat my elemental bombs!" ”

The dwarves began to loom with the glow of all sorts of enhanced magic, and everyone else prepared accordingly.

Unlike before, the first team of the battle-hardened squad had already planned to fight in all sudden situations, but it was just a sudden collapse, and they had already prepared a corresponding plan before they started to explore underground, according to the preparation plan, even if they encountered a dragon lich living in seclusion underground, they were confident that they would be able to escape.

But obviously, they didn't need to go against the dragon lich whose strength was usually hovering from the peak of gold to the beginning of extreme intent, and after the earth and rocks below them completely collapsed, they could clearly see the huge underground space behind the collapse under the light of the pyroxene lamp.

The shimmering slime molds, the swarms of underground bats panicked by loud sounds, the unusually thick fluctuations in mana, and the weird, but extremely regular, 'whoosh' sound.

"Down?"

"Of course, aren't we here to explore the underworld!"

Encountered an accident but collectively unharmed, and directly found the destination of their group, although the five people were excited, but suppressed the joy of this double share, under the adjustment of Karin's soft chant, the levitation on everyone's body began to slowly lift, approaching the ground, and finally landed on the mound formed by the collapse.

"This is the underworld? It feels a little empty. ”

Alva looked around and let out a sigh of emotion: "I thought it would be a mushroom forest, or something like a worm nest...... I didn't expect it to be so simple. ”

As he spoke, he was about to take a step and walk forward to examine it carefully, but then Ivan reached out and grabbed him.

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

"Hostile."

At the moment after these words were spoken, Alva's pupils shrank slightly, and he suddenly felt that a faint but extremely condensed hostility, even killing intent, was rapidly converging towards everyone on his side.

"Wow!"

Without hesitation, Nick turned the direction of the pyroxene lamp in his hand and shone it in the direction from which the hostility came, and immediately he could see that there were countless black-brown insects in the fungal group under the light, and in the next moment, in the depths of darkness that the light could not illuminate, the faint light emitted by the fungus suddenly lit up with two golden lights.

Soon, these two points became four, eight, and a dozen...... A few seconds later, more than thirty golden points of light silently approached the crowd and came within the range of the light.

It's a snake...... No, this size, it should be said 'python'.

More than a dozen black, more than twenty meters long giant pythons, slowly crawled out of the darkness, their whole body exuded strange magic fluctuations, as if able to absorb the surrounding light, accompanied by the body rubbing the rocks to form a 'bang', the indifferent snake eyes of the giant pythons scanned the five people in front of them, these strange creatures living deep in the ground opened their huge mouths full of sharp teeth to everyone, and let out a silent scream.

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

"Let's fight!"

There was no tension, the first team, who had been in a hundred battles and even slaughtered all the shark lizards along the coast of the Arctic Ice Field, had long been accustomed to attacking and being attacked, and this sudden battle in the underground world had long been expected by them.

Rather, this is the reason why someone's disciples are so looking forward to this dangerous exploration.

……

"Karin, add fire."

Deep underground, in the middle of a chaotic battle scene, the exhausted first team of five people lit a bonfire.

Nick, the dwarf who had already set up a barbed wire grill and smeared it with olive oil, was carrying something, and when he returned to the improvised kitchen utensils, the red-haired girl next to him also skillfully lit a roaring fire under the iron plate of the frying pan.

Suddenly, the familiar oil fragrance appeared in the underworld, but this fragrance did not spread, but was bound by magic within a certain range.

On the other side, siblings Ivan and Amira, also approached from a distance, their arms full of washed glowing fungi and all kinds of strange herbs.

"I'm so lucky, there's still Kaman White Grass growing here, and this thing is the main ingredient of energy potions." The young man said with emotion.

"Compared to the Jilaner crystal grass that Lisa and they found, this thing is worthless." The girl shook her head.

On the other side, the prince Alva was skillfully using his portable short knife to quickly dissect the corpse of the giant python carried by Nick.

The technology obtained by dismantling countless shark lizards is no different when applied to the giant python at this time, the former prince, the current adventurer is at this time he inherited the exquisite sword skills inherited from the royal family to the extreme, in just a few seconds, the skin is as tough as steel, and the muscles are coiled like the roots of the giant python was easily broken down into pieces of smooth and coagulated meat strips.

"Is the sauce ready?"

"It's ready, and so is the seasoning."

"The meat is also cut."

"Okay, I'll do the rest!"

When everything was ready, the dwarf's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he used his magic to fetch Alva's cut snake meat, then took the iron skewers from his waist pockets and inserted them, and placed them on the barbed wire grill that had been baked for a long time.

【Urayaki Underground Python】

[Raw materials required: an unnamed underground python]

【200g sugar】

【Salt and pepper 150g】

【Life Water 50g】

【Sauce 200g】

【Poison Removal Magic (2 times)】

【Carman white grass powder 50g】

【Luminous fungus extract 100g】

[Effect: Unknown]

"Can this glowing fungus be eaten too?!"

On the side, Alva watched with a strange look at the dwarf's skillful preparation of the sauce, and then smeared it on 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: "That thing...... Doesn't it smell a little stinky? ”

"The stink is the smell of rotting mucus from dead fungi, and in fact, if you wash the normal glowing fungus, you can smell a fragrance similar to wood grease."

Nick, who had lived underground for many years, shook his head, holding a cleaned spherical fungus in his hand, correcting the prince's misconception of the luminescent fungus: "The reason why this thing glows is because of the magical gelatinous mass in its center...... Suffice it to say, the gelatinous substance at its core is similar to that of a slime, and it is a pure magic colloid, which can certainly be eaten. ”

As he spoke, Nick took a brush and smeared a layer of fluorescent magic colloids on the snake meat, and suddenly, the fragrance became even stronger.

"Fungi don't matter...... Is this creature really edible, though? ”

On the side, Amira said with a hesitant expression: "This giant python can control the soil, rocks and water currents and use magic, it seems to have intelligent life...... Is it really okay to eat it? ”

"Some monsters can still talk, the most important thing is delicious, you look at the dragon, there is civilization, but there are many people who eat its flesh after the dragon is defeated."

On the side, Ivan said with a nonchalant face: "I have detected it a long time ago, this giant python is non-poisonous and nutritious, not to mention that we have added 50 grams of life holy water, with this thing, even if you take a big mouthful of poison, it will be fine...... I've been exploring the underground for so long, so I should add a little protein. ”

"yes."

On the other side, Karin also nodded with a full face: "Look at Lisa, because of the dry food for a few weeks, we are professional explorers, we can't be like her, we have to learn to take materials from the surrounding environment at any time to supplement nutrition." ”

The speed of the snake meat was very fast, and soon, everyone began their first meal since entering the underworld.

"Brother, feed me!"

"Really...... In this way, the small one can't get married. Facing Amira, who still didn't want to touch snake meat, Ivan could only helplessly obey his sister's willfulness, and he said softly: "Open your mouth." ”

"Ah~"

On the side, Nick listened to the 'Uh-huh! ''It smells so good!'' ''Delicious!'' Wait for the sound while chewing on the snake meat and feel the effect of your cooking product.

"There is a certain energy recovery effect, it should be the reason for the Karman white grass and fungal essence, originally the slime slime and the Karman white grass powder are stirred, it is the easiest energy elixir."

While eating the meat, the dwarf thought about it and took out a pen and paper, and wrote down the effect of the Urayaki python with one hand: "It can restore a lot of magic from the attributes of earth and water, and it can strengthen the perception of night light to a certain extent...... Write it down, this snake meat tastes awesome. ”

After roughly writing about the cooking process this time, the materials and the effect, Nick put away the simple recipe in his hand with satisfaction, and could vaguely see that the other pages of this simple recipe had been written densely, and the whole book was about to be full.

A few days later.

After returning to his territory, Joshua heard the urgent news and immediately went to the underground laboratory of Winterhold Academy.

There, he met Nostradamus, who had a stern face.

"What's wrong?"

The warrior's brows furrowed, and he was a little confused: "What is so tense?" Something is wrong with the server? Or does the battleship line need me to fix it? ”

"No, you underestimate the Empire's magic technology too much......" Shaking his head, the old mage showed a faint smile on his face, but soon, his expression returned to seriousness, he stood on the tempered glass plate outside the laboratory door, turned his head and gestured to Joshua, "As for why you were called back...... Check it out. ”

Shrugging, Joshua turned his head, and instead of going to the window, he looked directly through the wall with his gaze and at the position indicated by Nostradamus.

It was a dying black python that used nutrient solutions to sustain its life, and its golden snake eyes had become numb, and it no longer had its original vitality.

"It's ......"

At first, he didn't see anything, but soon, Joshua's eyes widened suddenly, and then, his brows furrowed, and the warrior said in a deep voice: "Divine power?!" ”

"Earth Divine Power?!"