Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 84

Chapter 84 Underground

Kaz returned to the passage.

His slightly hunched back looked even smaller in contrast to the huge wizard tower.

Thor looked up.

The dark gray wizard tower stood before him.

The lower part of the tower was only walls, without windows, so Thor could not tell how many floors the wizard tower had. He only felt that the wizard tower in front of him was no shorter than those skyscrapers. It

was magnificent and majestic.

The vicissitudes of time had added a mysterious and heavy background to it.

But for the apprentices who could not leave the tower at will, this place was more like a prison.

After watching Teacher Kaz leave, Thor quickly put aside his sad feelings.

He rubbed his hands, drooling, and approached those lovely companion flowers that were worth credits.

It didn’t matter if he didn’t pick a companion flower that could produce white fruits. Whether it was blue or red, they were all very useful, and Thor didn’t mind.

He walked along the edge of the field, looking for a flower bud that caught his eye.

Soon Thor found a plant with good appearance.

The flower stem stood upright, the bud was full, and it looked very lively.

And the flower moved obviously when Thor approached, and leaned its head towards Thor.

Thor immediately decided that it was this flower.

So he wrote down the location and appearance of the flower, turned around and walked towards the wooden house.

While walking, Thor felt a strange touch on his ankle, as if something was rubbing against him.

He looked down and saw a thin black tentacle like a grass stem extending from the ground.

The tentacle was smooth and soft, and it was hard to tell whether it was a plant or an animal.

The more Thor looked at it, the more familiar it felt.

Finally, he suddenly remembered that this black tentacle was the tentacle in the swamp he saw in Teacher Rum’s room?

Although it was much smaller, the appearance was almost exactly the same!

This tentacle actually existed! Is

the black swamp real or fake? Is the peaceful and beautiful garden in front of him really located on flat land?

Thinking of the scene of the black tentacles rolling the corpse into the ground, Thor’s scalp suddenly tingled, and the strange touch just now turned into a caterpillar, constantly drilling into his trouser legs.

He quickly raised his feet and ran to the wooden house at the entrance of the garden, ready to ask the gardener for help.

Through the window of the wooden house, Thor saw that the gardener was sitting inside with his back to him.

The position of his arms looked a little stiff.

“Flowers…” Thor felt something wrapped around his calves again, and hurriedly called for help.

But before he could say the second word, a black tentacle as thick as a thigh suddenly appeared in front of him, and suddenly wrapped around his left arm and pulled him into the soil.

The land that was flat and hard just now collapsed like mud.

…

The loose soil wrapped around the stones and rushed towards Thor.

No matter how Thor struggled, he couldn’t stop his falling body.

In the end, he simply gave up struggling, closed his eyes tightly, and let go of his perception.

At the same time, he chanted the spell of “burning breath”, just waiting for the real owner to appear and give it a hammer first!

The resistance in front of him suddenly disappeared, and Thor fell into a pool of mud with a “smack” with mud all over his body.

The black tentacle wrapped around his arm also disappeared.

But the expected attack did not appear.

Thor propped himself up from the mud and wiped his muddy face with his muddy hands.

“Pfft!”

Because he had to open his mouth to chant the spell, Thor’s mouth was also filled with a lot of disgusting mud.

He reluctantly opened his eyes and found that it was pitch black all around, and he couldn’t see his hand in front of his face.

The hole above his head seemed to be blocked by something, and no sunlight was pouring down.

Thor stood up in the dark and raised his hand to grope, but didn’t touch anything else.

His feet were full of mud, and he could hear the sound of something drilling around underneath.

A slippery mud-covered thing rubbed Thor’s ankle, scaring Thor to step back repeatedly and almost fell into the mud again.

The darkness amplified the sense of hearing and touch.

The unknown made people tremble.

Thor tried to calm himself down and first used his most familiar meditation to observe the surroundings.

However, to his surprise, the semi-immersive meditation that always gave him the upper hand did not find anything this time.

No spirits, no weirdness.

It was so clean that it was scary.

At this moment, something suddenly moved under Thor’s feet.

He shuddered and quickly raised his feet to hide.

As his hands were waving back, he touched a hard stone slab.

It seemed to be a stone platform that was higher than the mud.

The surface of the platform was also a little damp, but it was better than standing in the mud.

Thor pushed his hands to avoid the tentacles under his feet and climbed onto the platform.

“Swish!”

“Swish!”

“Swish!”

“Swish!”

The moment Thor stood on the platform, candles suddenly lit up at the four corners of the platform, illuminating the underground space.

The land above his head was at least three meters away from Thor’s position.

When he fell just now, fortunately there was mud on the ground and the unknown black tentacles to catch him, so Thor didn’t fall badly.

The soil was supported by some force, and except for a little soil and gravel, nothing else fell with Thor.

The surroundings where the light reached were a spacious space. Except for the platform under Thor’s feet, the rest of the place was black and gray mud. From

time to time, black tentacles and vines would flow through the mud. Except for the lack of corpses, the scene was similar to what Thor had seen at Instructor Rum’s place.

The black tentacles in the mud did not seem to harm living people. Before, except for rubbing Thor’s arms and ankles, they did not make any truly harmful movements.

No one knew why they had to pull Thor off.

“Ew… The mud has flowed into my collar. It’s really uncomfortable. I must learn to clean my next witchcraft.”

Thor took off his outer robe, carefully avoided the mud on it, and wiped his face with the relatively clean part.

“Forget it, let’s learn the light spell first. If I encounter a place without light, I will immediately become blind.”

Because of the familiar candlestick, Thor’s fear of this underground space dissipated a lot.

The presence of the candlestick means that this is also the territory of the wizard tower. It’s just that the dust and moss on the platform indicate that no one has used this place for a long time.

Thor looked back and finally noticed the appearance of the platform.

This is a square platform with a side length of about five meters. There are two experimental tables in the middle, and some broken utensils are placed on the tabletops in a mess.

Sol walked over and saw a sunken groove in the ground between the two experimental tables.

He measured it and found that the groove could probably accommodate a normal-sized adult.

“Someone should have done experiments here, but for some reason, it was abandoned.”

A series of mud marks were left on the platform, destroying the originally dark moss.

Sol walked around the edge of the platform. There was mud all around. If he went further, he would be out of the range of the candlelight. There was vaguely land, and he couldn’t see if there was a way out.

“It doesn’t feel safe to walk around.” Sol looked up, “Why don’t we try to leave from above.”

Sol went over and lifted one of the experimental tables. It was very heavy, but he could barely lift it.

He couldn’t reach the top of the space by standing on one experimental table. If he stacked two experimental tables, he should be able to grab the soil above his head.

I hope there is a place above to borrow strength, or a passage to ask for help.

Although the gardener would come to find Thor if he disappeared for a long time, Thor was not the kind of person who would just stand there and wait for rescue.

He lifted a corner of one of the lab tables and tried to drag it over first.

“Squeak–“

a sharp sound rang out, and the legs of the lab table left several black marks on the platform.

It seemed that the movement was a bit loud, and the mud around began to bubble.

Thor hurriedly stopped and observed the movement around him.

Although the tentacles did not attack him just now, he had to act cautiously. Thor was not confident that he could defeat this monster whose head and tail could not be seen clearly.

One by one, black tentacles emerged from the mud and twisted and stretched towards the platform, but they seemed to be restricted by some kind of restriction and could not extend to the range of the platform.

Thor waited for a while to make sure that those things would not run to the platform before continuing to move the lab table.

However, with a “click”, something fell on his left shoulder, and something cool slid across Thor’s cheek.

His action of lifting a corner of the lab table suddenly froze, and his eyes slowly looked to the left.

Something like seaweed was baring its teeth and claws on Thor’s shoulder.

No, it had no teeth, only black thread-like tentacles. If it weren’t so small, it would look very similar to the giant tentacles in the mud.

(End of this chapter)