Chapter: 623

This time, Jay didn’t do some much as breath while the black points rose.

Slowly as they poked out of the sand, it was only up to Jay’s knee, then his hip, then soon enough it was much taller than him. About twice as tall.

It was like a whole forest of these little black points poked out, as they covered every part of the sand without leaving a single gap.

At first they looked like triangle shapes, but soon enough, they revealed that they were actually arrow shaped. A white shaft with a triangular head.

Suddenly, they all stopped growing. The next thing they did almost caused Jay to jump and choke on his breakfast.

In an instant, all of them opened up like umbrellas and created a puff of wind around their bases, lightly blowing some sand around.

They were like a field of mushrooms, but this was where the resemblance ended.

Below them hung some strange tendrils with a thumb-sized red fruit at the bottom, hanging just above the sand but not quite touching it.

Jay couldn’t help but lick his lips as he saw the red luscious fruits, they seemed to be almost bursting with juices.

Still, precaution was always necessary, and Jay waited and watched, but it seemed like these strange giant desert mushrooms were just happily absorbing the morning sunlight.

“Hm, ok then…” he shrugged, standing up.

This time, the mushrooms didn’t retreat back into the soil when he moved.

“Oh?” he squinted, “Perhaps they’re only fragile when they’re rising up?” he guessed.

Jay was about to send a skeleton in to investigate, but on the other side of the desert there was more movement. A glade deer emerged from the thick, still-dark forest.

Jay could tell the deer seemed startled and frightened as it panted. It paused for a moment as it saw the strange desert covered in giant mushrooms, but it quickly skipped right into the sand and began weaving through them.

It nimbly hopped between the mushrooms, and soon, behind it there was movement. The shadows shifted as something large appeared at the edge of a forest – clearly, it was what made the deer so startled.

Jay ducked behind a rock and kept watching as he saw the large green and red predator emerge – but something wasn’t quite right.

The large beast stopped at the edge of the sand, not daring to even step on it. Its large head looked down at the sand for a moment before it gazed hungrily at the glade deer while glistening drool globbed off its jaws.

The predator itself wasn’t what caught Jay’s attention though, but it was how it acted as it came to the edge of the forest and watched its prey.

“Hmm…” Jay gazed, “it won’t step onto the sand? But why…”

There was something sinister going on that even stopped a savage beast in its tracks.

Jay could tell it was tempted though as its large clawed paws thumped around the edge of the sand. It was barely holding itself back from charging into the desert.

Suddenly, the deer, which was jumping between the mushrooms, was cooing and crying as something tugged on its fur and stopped it from getting further away.

It’s fatal mistake? It touched one of the red fruits.

The red fruit didn’t look sticky at a glance, but once it touched the deer’s fur, it seemed like it burst and created a red patch on the fur – though still connected to the hanging tendrils of the mushrooms.