Chapter: 681
No response.
Next, he felt a fluid fill up the inside of the mushroom cap. He quickly put his communication crystal away to protect it, as he heard a familiar hissing and bubbling noise of corrosive acid.
The tendrils burnt away and the red plaques melted off.
Thankfully, the fluid couldn’t eat through his armour; it wouldn’t be very good armour otherwise.
Finally, he was free.
Well, relatively free.
‘Free’ was an overstatement – he was still trapped inside the mushroom cap after all, drowning in a syrup-like acid.
Still, he looked on the bright side in such situations, to mentally keep himself going.
“Nice to move again.” he thought, gripping the wall of the mushroom and trying to tear away a chunk of its flesh, yet to no avail.
In all this he had not panicked, but soon his own suit of armour which had kept him safe all this time sent him a message which did:
[Internal air supply – depleting]
[Air left: 1.3 hours]
His thoughts began to spin rapidly in his mind.
“Fuck. How far away are they?”
“No way to tell how far away they are.”
“All I can do is conserve my air.” he shook his head, “I should have filled up my air reserves to the brim. Too late to think about that now.”
“Save my oxygen… or find a way out.”
Channeling some mana into his suit, he first tried to punch his way out.
Cavities of air formed behind his armour-clad fist as the power and speed was so great as it shot towards the mushroom, landing directly on the wall – however, the mushroom didn’t budge.
Not one bit.
It was like an immovable object. It was like a natural law.
“Physical damage immunity.” he thought.
Still, he tried his sword next – also to no avail; Its surface quickly bubbled and turned a shade of reddish-brown before he could even add it back into his inventory.
For a moment he considered taking out his arc stones again, but since he was floating in acid he thought they would surely either dissolve or have their enchanted engravings broken.
Now, he had one option left: to wait, floating in the pool of acid within the mushroom capsule.