Chapter 431 - One Glance, One World (1/2)

The translucent purple flower was still lying in his hand. Roland heaved a sigh and put it in his system Backpack.

This item was not very valuable in the game, but from the perspective of reality, it was completely different.

Earlier, Roland had only one petal, which wasn’t effective on him. But Vivian’s mental power wasn’t very stable, so Roland gave it to her for her to tranquilize herself.

Otherwise, it would’ve taken another year or two before Vivian became an official Mage considering her gifts.

Now, a complete flower of the world tree was enough to improve Roland’s soul by a level.

But he was not in a rush to use it. He could wait until the quest was over.

After all, he didn’t know the side effects of consuming a complete flower of the World Tree. What if he slept for a dozen days?

Roland kept digging. He created two luminous b.a.l.l.s and made them follow him.

While forming stone stairs in the aisle, Roland separated the soil with earth element power and moved it out.

After more than three hours, Roland finally came to the entrance of his goal.

This place was said to be a city dating back a thousand years. So, it was not unusual that it was buried a hundred meters deep.

Then, he rested a while on the stone chairs and put on the full set of magic regeneration equipment.

Very soon, Betta and his other friends arrived.

The cave was slanted. Because it was too deep, there was absolutely no light from down below. However, weird and creepy sounds were echoing upward, as if it were a cave leading to h.e.l.l.

Betta couldn’t help but leave a comment in the guild system. “Brother Roland, are you really down there?”

Roland: “Come down. I’m waiting for you at the bottom.”

Betta and his friends lit their torches and walked down slowly.

The cave that Roland built was only wide enough for one person to pa.s.s at a time.

It was well-known that one would be nervous when walking in the darkness even though they had a torch because they couldn’t see very far.

They would feel that the path was very long, or that they had walked a long time.

Betta and his friends felt that the darkness was almost infinite before they finally saw the light b.a.l.l.s at the bottom.

All of them were relieved and walked down quickly.

They came to Roland and were about to speak, but then they saw the round hollow before Roland as well as the profound darkness within.

The light from the luminous spheres that Roland summoned was completely consumed by the darkness, so they couldn’t see anything at all.

It suggested that before them was a gigantic s.p.a.ce that was almost boundless.

Also, standing at the entrance of the hollow, they could smell the stink of soil and mud.

They even sensed a breeze.

“This must be the entrance to the dungeon,” said Roland casually.

Then, he turned around and looked at the entrance where he came in.

The soil from up above surged back and soon filled up the long cave.

F6 all knew that Roland was taking precautions in case anyone broke in while they were on the quest.

But even though they knew that, they were still rather ill at ease now that they didn’t have a way back any longer.

After the cave was blocked, the breeze they just sensed was gone too.

The place was very quiet, so quiet that they could hear their friends’ heartbeats.

While they were all silent, Roland walked into the hollow first. “In any case, let’s go in and take a look.”

The rest of them took a deep breath and followed him.

Roland felt that he stepped on something soft the moment he walked into the hollow. He lowered his head, only to find himself standing on a pile of dry gra.s.ses.

The dry gra.s.ses were on the ground. After his step, the gra.s.ses all crumbled into powder, dust clouding everywhere.

“They’ve been completely dried?” Roland murmured.

Then they moved on. After all, this place had been deserted for more than a thousand years, and even the best-preserved item here was probably already dried up.

Roland continued walking on the dry gra.s.ses with loud noises.

Betta and his other friends quickly followed him.

Their footsteps echoed in the empty s.p.a.ce.

After several seconds, infinite more footsteps suddenly sounded around them.

They were light but dense, as if countless people were walking toward them in the darkness from all directions.

All five of them were shocked. They came to a stop at the same time.

Then, they quickly gathered into a circle with their backs to each other while they looked around vigilantly.

But soon, all the footsteps disappeared, as if they had never been.

None of them talked. After all, they were in a strange environment, and they feared that they might attract monsters.

They waited a long time, but the footsteps never sounded again.

Roland was stunned for a moment. Then he realized something.

After that, he walked on voluntarily.

His friends were going to stop him, but then they decided to follow him.

After all, Roland had always been the backbone of F6.

All they needed to do was follow him.

They walked forward slowly again. Several seconds later, the blood-freezing footsteps echoed again.

Betta and the rest of them grew nervous again. They were about to gather, but Roland said ahead of them, “Don’t worry, it’s just multiple echo.”

Everybody was relieved after hearing that.

They followed Roland.

The dense, overlapping footsteps continued in the darkness. Several seconds later, Roland’s voice echoed back to them.

D-D-D-D-D-D-on’t… W-W-W-W-W-W-Worrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry…

His voice was seriously distorted in the echo. Together with the dense footsteps, it was as if people were talking and walking around them. It was so creepy that they all had gooseb.u.mps.