The first day of traveling through the Poisonous Forest was smooth, we didn’t encounter any aerial monsters and no monsters on the ground tried to attack us.
When it was night we stopped in a cave that was already known to the Elves, as soon as we entered the cave that was hidden by an Illusory barrier, Joseph throws some silver coins in a magic circle near the entrance, then two barriers were activated, one was for defense and another for illusion.
Inside the cave were some simple beds, a magic stone of light, and some chairs.
I sit down on a chair and Hinata who was invisible sits on mine on my shoulders.
“Don’t you have a better place to sit?” (I)
“No.” (Hinata)
Sigh
“…” (I)
Joseph is startled to see Hinata, but then he sits in another chair, sometimes he looks curiously at me and Hinata.
“Is she a Ghost or a Wraith?” (Joseph)
“A Specter type, but don’t worry, Hinata is one of my Familiars.” (I)
I grab a bottle of blood to drink while Joseph grabs some fruit.
“There’s still more than half of the trip left, but I’ve already warned them of our arrival.” (Joseph) 𝒷𝒹ℴ𝓿𝓁.𝓬𝓸𝓂
“Tell me more about this Poisonous Forest.” (I)
“There’s not much to know, its name describes this place well, everything here is poisonous, whether it’s the trees, plants, fruits, monsters, weather, or even the air we’re breathing right now.” (Joseph)
“Even the air?” (I)
“Many poisons can spread through the air, so since this place has so many poisonous things, the air itself has become poisonous.” (Joseph)
“But the poison in the air in this place is still not that strong, anyone with a strength above grade C must have a strong enough body to make the poison useless.” (Joseph)
“The real problem starts further in the center of the Poisonous Forest, in that place only the poison is strong enough to kill those with Grade S strength or weaken those with SS Grade strength.” (Joseph)
“Then it won’t be a problem for us.” (I)
“Only the Lesser Catastrophe Grade monsters of this Poisonous Forest would have any poison strong enough to affect us.” (Joseph)
“(Probably not even these monsters will be able to poison me.)” (I)
I look at a fruit tree near the cave, the fruit looked like an apple with purple streaks, it was attractive but clearly poisonous.
I open my hands and create a line across the barriers and stick a fruit for me.
As soon as the fruit is in my hands I get a better look at it, it has a slight sweet smell and a beautiful appearance, and with my ability to identify I have already discovered that it has poison that affects the muscles.
I bite into the fruit and start to chew, its taste was amazing, its texture and sweetness brought a smile to my face before I knew it the fruit had already been completely devoured.
“A pity to be poisonous, this fruit is delicious.” (I)
“Yes, but if someone below Grade B eats this fruit, then they would be bedridden for at least 1 week, that’s with a lot of pain in their muscles.” (Joseph)
“Maybe I’ll take some of these fruits with me…” (I)
That night I walked around and started to assimilate several trees, mushrooms, flowers, and fruit trees in the Dungeon, I already had a new floor that I created 3 days ago, and I was still deciding what to do with it, but I decided to make this a full floor of poison where I can leave these fruit trees away from innocent people, but still be able to pick some for myself whenever I want.
I also released Orion to hunt at night and collect the blood of many monsters for me, I will use these bloodlines when placing the monsters on the Dungeon floor.
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The next day Orion and I were back in the cave, we spent the whole night in the forest, but it was a good harvest, all the blood Orion managed to gather for me was put in special bottles where it will be preserved for me to drink later.
Also, I got 5 types of fruit trees, dozens of each, I also got a lot of mushrooms, more than 13 of them, hundreds, there are mushrooms everywhere in this place.
As soon as I was reunited with Joseph, I straddled Ragnar while Orion reverted to his child form to stand on my shoulder, Hinata always stayed by my side, but it wasn’t much help.
We both flew away, Joseph once again leading the way, while I watched the forest below in case I came across any interesting monsters or other fruit trees.
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“Let’s go higher, the weather is changing, the clouds are starting to gather, let’s stay on top of the clouds.” (Joseph)
I follow Joseph since he’s the expert on this place but I look at the clouds he pointed out the clouds were colored in green and purple hues any idiot could see they were full of poisons that’s when I realized what Joseph said earlier.
“(Even the weather is poisonous…)” (I)
I may be resistant to poisons, but I don’t want to find out if I can withstand a downpour of what I imagine are various types of grandchildren mixed together.
When we’re above the clouds, I go to Joseph’s side.
“Is this kind of rain normal?” (I)
“Unfortunately yes, even monsters protect themselves from this rain so they don’t die… damn…” (Joseph)
Me and Joseph look in the same direction, I look calmly as he gets nervous about the black cloud coming towards us above the clouds.
There’s only one big problem, that’s not a cloud, it’s thousands of black birds.
“Birds of the deadly wind.” (Joseph)
“They are weak individually, but the problem is that they are many and they are always in groups, but I have never seen such a large group.” (Joseph)
Sigh
“Looks like this isn’t going to be as smooth a trip as I imagined.” (I)
I look at the birds while waving for Joseph to do nothing, then I look at the birds approaching and I release my Aura to cause fear in the birds, which keep coming towards us, but when they are some distance away the cloud of birds opens up avoiding getting too close to me because Joseph was around was fine too.
The birds had a horrible stench that made me sick it was so bad.
