Chapter: 680

Still, through all this, he didn’t let panic set in – he simply tried to cut away the tendrils faster.

However, the tendrils kept pulling.

Slowly, to even Number Three’s surprise, he was pulled out of the sand.

While it made it harder to cut, he ignored his current predicament and calmly continued to cut with a cold efficiency hammered into his mind and body through his years of training.

More tendrils were cut, but he was simply too slow.

Before too long, his whole body was pulled tight.

Channeling more mana into the suit, he even resisted it for a moment, but he soon decided to conserve his mana for the time being.

There was no point fighting it if the result would be the same.

With no way to continue cutting, he stored the arc stones in his inventory, as he currently couldn’t place them into his armour.

Thankfully, the mushrooms were not strong enough to pull his armour apart completely.

After the mushrooms stopped pulling him in multiple directions, he found himself tucked under the mushrooms cap, strapped to it as if he was a peasant in a dungeon.

“Hm.” He angrily grunted for a moment as he wasn’t able to do anything, but soon decided it was a hidden blessing.

He could finally get some rest as he waited for the others to show up and cut him loose.

As he hung there, he secretly rested his eyes under his heavy black helmet.

Suddenly though, the mushroom began to move.

The vine-like tendrils even seemed to loosen – though it was not setting him free.

“Fuck.”

The flesh of the mushroom closed around him suddenly, and instead of being pulled apart, he was now being squeezed inside its cap.

In all this, though, he still didn’t panic.

He calmly took out the communication crystal in relayed another message.

“Number Three. Trapped inside a mushroom. Waiting for assistance.”

The mushroom had already closed and was pitch black inside.

He didn’t even hear them say ‘Acknowledged’ in response.

“It cuts off mana lines?” he wondered, intrigued by the strange specimen he found himself in.

“Number Three. Need Assistance. Please respond.” he tried.