<h4>Chapter 524 Dungeon exploration (4) </h4>


    This yellow dust that had been shot into the air, it was the spores of the mushrooms.


    No one knew just what effect these spores would have, but they must have been shot for a certain reason.


    The spores hung in the air for a bit before suddenly falling down towards the shield wall.


    But they couldn''t dodge out of the way since the mushroom monsters were still throwing themselves at the shield wall. They had to keep those shields up or else the entire formation would copse.


    It really seemed like this was headed towards disaster until…


    I suddenly shouted at the elves, "Fire spells! Use fire spells to burn away the spores!"


    The elves were caught off guard when I shouted this, but Moon quickly said, "Do it now!"


    As she shouted this, she had already raised her hand and mes had gathered in her palm.


    When they received this order from Moon, the elves no longer hesitated and gathered mes just like Moon had done.


    They quickly fired these mes out as a jet of mes at the spores that hung in the air.


    As the mes made contact with the spores, they immediately burned away the spores. They werepletely incinerated, not even a trace of the spores were left after the mes burned them away.


    But these spores floated everywhere, so it was hard for the me spells to get them all.


    They were able to get most of the spores that floated there in the air, but some of it made it past the shield wall and fell on the guards and knights that were there.


    As soon as they fell onto these guards and knights, they immediately took root.


    The ces where the spores fell, there were mushrooms that formed on their skin.


    It didn''t seem like these mushrooms were doing anything at first, but then the guards and knights that had these mushrooms growing out of them suddenly started to scream in pain.


    The mushrooms had taken root in their skin and seemed to be draining them of their nutrients with the way that the roots wriggled under their skin.


    It seemed that if they were left like this, they would bepletely drained of any life that they had.


    But this wasn''t the time to deal with this since the pain had caused the guards and knights who had been inflicted to be unable to do anything.


    It would have been fine if they were all part of the group that shot arrows, but there was one knight that had been a shieldbearer that had been touched by the spores.


    This single knight copsing created a gap in our shield wall.


    It seemed like the mushroom monsters were about to break through when Cecilia suddenly charged forward.


    She left themand up to me, that was the trust that she had in me. She charged forward to grab that shield and take the ce of the knight that had been infected.


    So the shield wall was able to keep going, but it didn''t seem like it was over yet.


    The mushroom monsters in the center seemed like they were getting ready to go again…


    My mind quickly turned when I saw all of this before suddenly shouting, "Send fire down on the mushroom monsters in front of the shield wall. It doesn''t matter if our men get burned a bit, just kill all of the mushrooms in front of the shield wall."


    The guards and knights forming the shield wall revealed bitter smiles when they heard this, but they didn''t let themselves get distracted.


    I looked at Moon and said, "Follow me."


    Moon gave a nod before raising her hand to gather the mes again.


    I also raised my hand and started chanting.


    "mes of this world, gather at mymand and follow my will…"


    As I chanted, there were mes that gathered in my hand.


    This was part of what I had learned with the priest.


    Since I had strained my mana using the Orb of the Dead, my mana pool had grown muchrger and I was now capable of using magic.


    I had learned some simple spells from the priest, but I never thought that I would be using them here.


    With Moon, we gathered mes above the mushroom monsters in the center and before they could run away, we let these mes fall down on them.


    The mushroom monsters clearly didn''t expect this as they didn''t dodge out of the way at all.


    The mes were very effective, not just against the spores, but also the mushroom monsters themselves.


    When the mushroom monsters were engulfed in the mes, they werepletely burnt to ashes.


    It was as if as soon as they touched the mes, the parts of them that touched the mes burst into mes as well.


    These mes didn''t discriminate as they quickly spread across the mushroom monsters.


    They even lit each other aze by standing too close.


    The mes jumped from one mushroom monster to another, quickly setting all of them aze.


    When it was over, there were only charred mushroom monsters that were left.


    With this charring, there was a smell that filled the air…


    It was the smell of grilled mushrooms…


    Though no one would actually dare eat these mushroom monsters.


    But it would be a lie to say that it wasn''t tempting.


    They strangely smelled delicious.


    However, that wasn''t what I was concerned with right now.


    There were still people that had mushrooms growing out of them after all.


    I quickly went over to those people with Moon and she tried to cast a healing spell on it, but it had no effect at all.


    Healing spells would heal injuries, but it wouldn''t remove a parasite like this…


    So they tried cutting the mushroom off, but it just grew back right away. And when it grew back, there was what seemed to be a strong suction that came from the roots embedded in the skin that made that person scream out in pain.


    It seemed that these mushrooms were very resilient…