Six Ring Wizard

Chapter 42 Sleeping Mushroom
  Many people may not be able to find ten even if they search for three or five days in the Moonlight Forest, which is a waste of time.

Only first-class wizards will often come to take this task. This is one of the few tasks that can earn magic stones, and it is also highly safe.

Herage continued to read some information about sleeping mushrooms, which generally grow twenty or thirty centimeters below the ground.

Veterans generally use experience to observe whether the ground is suitable for the growth of sleeping mushrooms, and then dig up the ground to see if there are any sleeping mushrooms.

This method has a low success rate and requires a lot of time for experienced users.

"Perhaps you can let Shenlan try it." After comprehensive consideration, Herage thought that this task should be more suitable for him.

There is no need to accept this quest. After picking the Sleeping Mushroom, you can go directly to the Affairs Hall to exchange for the Magic Stone.

After Herage decided, he started to make preparations and needed to go to the flea market to buy some related things.

Moonlight Forest is located in the north of the northern forest area. It takes an hour to hike and only takes more than [-] minutes by carriage.

There is an inn at the intersection in the northern forest area. You can take a carriage to the Moonlight Forest. The fare is two silver coins. Official wizards are free, but official wizards generally do not come to take the carriage.

While Herage was waiting for the bus at the inn, he found that there were three other people waiting for the bus, all wearing wizard apprentice robes.

"Are you going to Moonlight Forest too?" After a short silence, a fat wizard raised the topic.

"Yes, I... it's my first time to go." A thin wizard apprentice said nervously.

After a brief understanding, the four of them got to know each other a little better.

The fat wizard is called McCann, the skinny wizard is named Luca, and there is another named Sunny.

McCann has been here three times, earning a total of one magic stone and some gold coins. The other two, like Herage, are here for the first time.

"After entering the Moonlight Forest, don't go deep, just stay at the edge." McCann introduced.

"Why? The danger level of this mission should be quite low," Luka asked.

McCann explained: "The mission itself is not dangerous, but there are not only monsters deep in the Moonlight Forest, but you may also encounter people from the Green Cabin."

"Green Cabin? Moonlight Forest is quite far away from them, so it should be difficult to encounter them." Luka said, recalling the terrain.

"The probability is indeed relatively small, but there was once someone who went too deep into the Green Cabin and met the people in the Green Cabin, and then was tortured to death, and the body was hung at the entrance of the Moonlight Forest." McCann seemed to have experienced it personally, with a look of fear on his face.

Sunny then said: "It is indeed possible that the people from the Green Cabin will also come to the Moonlight Forest to pick some resources, so it is better for us to keep a certain distance. We are all first-class wizard apprentices and cannot go too deep."

Herage listened to them talking about this information and stood aside silently without speaking.

He had known this information before, someone in the Zatan Tavern had mentioned it.

After a few people talked for a while, the carriage finally arrived.

The horse pulling the carriage is a hybrid of a monster called Hellfoot. It has flames on its hooves and is very fast.

There is no driver in the carriage in Moonlight Grove. Hell will pull the carriage back and forth on a fixed route, and then go back to the horse farm to rest by himself when it gets dark.

There is not much space inside the carriage, which can accommodate six people.

Hellfoot looked back and made sure that Herrag and others got on the bus before starting to run. The flaming horse hooves would leave some burnt marks when they ran over. There were many such footprints on this road.

It was early in the morning, and Herag and the others needed to hurry up and come back before sunset.

No matter where you are, the forest at night must be particularly dangerous.

More than twenty minutes later, the four of them got off the bus at the inn at the entrance of Moonlight Forest.

After arriving at the inn, Hell Foot will stay here for a while, and then move on after no one gets off the bus.

The trees in the Moonlight Forest are very thick and very tall. It looks like they have been growing for many years.

There are generally dense low shrubs under the trees, and there are some obvious paths at the entrance, which are traces of people walking through them all year round. Walking a little further inside, you can no longer see the road at all. It is very difficult to walk through such a jungle.

Herage was more prepared, pulled out the long sword from his waist, and opened the way as he walked.

He picked a direction and started searching. The other three people did the same, each picked a direction and started searching for sleeping mushrooms.

"Deep Blue, start detecting the underground, target sleeping mushrooms." Herage gave the order, asking Deep Blue to scan the surrounding area.

After his body data was improved, Deep Blue's scanning range expanded to [-] meters.

Sleeping mushrooms are usually located twenty or thirty centimeters below, which is completely sufficient.

The surface of the sleeping mushroom is covered with a special substance, which has a shielding effect on magic power, but has no effect on Deep Blue.

"Sleeping mushrooms have been found, and the location has been marked in red." After Herage took a few steps, Deep Blue gave a hint.

In Herage's field of vision, there was a red shuttle-shaped mushroom in the ground a few meters ahead.

Herage took out the shovel in the space ring and dug at the designated location.

He was particularly careful when digging because he knew that the mushroom was too close to the ground and he could dig up the sleeping mushroom if he wasn't careful.

A few minutes later, Herage saw the sleeping mushroom's head.

Sleeping mushrooms have no caps and are purple in color.

Herage cleaned up the surrounding soil along the position of the sleeping mushroom, and then dug out the sleeping mushroom easily.

Obtained the first sleeping mushroom.

Herage continued to move forward. With the help of Deep Blue, he could save a lot of observation time.

The ground is covered with so much low vegetation that even an experienced observer would spend a lot of time just observing.

Five minutes later, Herage stopped, and Deep Blue discovered a sleeping mushroom again.

In one morning, Herage found sixteen sleeping mushrooms.

He checked that it was still early, grabbed some dry food and ate some, then continued searching for sleeping mushrooms.

It wasn't until the light dimmed in the moonlight forest that Herage looked up and realized that it was already evening.

He counted his harvest and found a total of fifty-five sleeping mushrooms.

There was dew and lots of leaves hanging on my body, and there was a lot of mud on my trouser legs.

Herage wiped the sweat from his forehead and started to walk outside. He had been moving around the outside of the Moonlight Forest and did not go deep. It only took about ten minutes to reach the entrance.

Walking in the forest is very strenuous. Herage felt a little tired after a busy day in the forest.

He was the first to come out, and after a while the other three came out one after another.

The three of them looked even more embarrassed than him, especially McCann, who was already fatter, so his whole body would be covered in sweat, and his robes would be wet.

"How much did you dig?" McCann said weakly.

"Two," Ruka said.

Sunny said: "Two."

McCann took a breath: "I only found three, and I'm exhausted. Herage, what about you?"

(End of this chapter)