818 A Strange Cave (Part 1)

Wind and lightning circled around the body of a black sheep as it moved towards the second layer of the Tomb at rapid speed. Evan sat atop the sheep and looked at a bizarre-looking mushroom in his hand.

The mushroom in his hand was white with hundreds of dark purple dots on it, releasing green smoke.

"This thing doesn't look edible at all," Evan said to himself as he examined the mushroom. If he were still on Earth, he was sure that he wouldn't even touch a mushroom full of purple dots, let alone one releasing green smoke.

But because of the information window in front of him, Evan knew that the seemingly poisonous thing in his hand was quite precious.

---) Enigma Mushroom: A fungus filled with enigma energy. Upon consumption, the user's sensitivity towards world essence would be greatly increased for the next twenty-four hours, allowing them to absorb the world essence at a faster rate.

He found the Enigma Mushroom inside one of the storage rings that Carla gave him. There were many other things inside the rings, but the only thing that he could use was the Enigma Mushroom.

Evan glanced at the details of the mushroom and took a deep breath.

"Calm down, calm down even if this thing is poisonous, I still have mid-level poison resistance, so I won't die... probably," He said in a low voice and finally tossed the mushroom into his mouth.

As he chewed the mushroom and its taste exploded inside his mouth, Evan's face turned pale white, and he wanted to throw up. However, thinking about the effect of the mushroom, he resisted the urge and swallowed it.

"Eeak," Evan made a disgusted face after swallowing the mushroom and drank a large mouthful of water.

"Its taste was even more bizarre than its look and name," He said and tried to feel the changes around him.

Surprisingly, when he tried to feel the world essence, he noticed he could sense it more clearly. Moreover, the world essence from the surrounding area was rushing towards him as if attracted by something.

Noticing that the Enigma Mushroom was working, Evan willed it, and his core started to absorb the world essence from the surroundings.

The speed at which his core was absorbing the world essence was at least ten times higher than normal, which made him smile widely.

In the essence spring, his core had reached the fifty percent mark of the mid-level Rank One. Similar to what happened when his core reached the fifty percent mark of the beginner level Rank One, the amount of world essence he now needed to advance increased greatly after reaching the fifty percent mark of mid-level.

The effect of the Enigma Mushroom would last for one day, and Evan also needed to travel for around one day to reach the second layer, so he continued to absorb the world essence while the sheep moved towards the second layer.

Around 23 hours later, Evan was finally able to see the outline of the second layer of the Tomb.

"So that's the second layer, huh," He muttered, looking at the dark sky in the far distance. "It looks creepy."

Inside the Tomb Of The Ancient, there was no concept of day and night. In the third layer of the Tomb, the sky always stays light blue in colour with occasional floating clouds and a shining sun.

But unlike the third layer, the sky of the second layer was completely dark. There was nothing in the sky, no star, no moon, no clouds, nothing. The sky was just covered in a dark, gloomy aura that gave people an eerie feeling.

The wind and lightning sheep continued to move forward, and after some time, they finally entered the second layer of the tomb.

The moment the sheep entered the second layer of the Tomb, Evan felt the gravity around him change and increase by at least three times.

He raised an eyebrow when he felt the sudden change in gravity and ordered the wind and lightning sheep to stop.

Hearing Evan's order, the wind and lightning sheep stopped. Evan dismounted the sheep once it stopped and lightly stomped on the ground to check something out.

After stomping on the ground a few times, Evan nodded his head with a look of understanding on his face.

"As expected," He said and suddenly punched down the ground without holding back.

BooooooM!

A loud booming sound echoed out, and hundreds of meters of the area of the surroundings shook. Cracks started to spread out on the ground in a spiderweb-like pattern and soon covered an area of five hundred meters.

When Evan saw the result of his punch, he sighed and shook his head.

"If I had punched down the ground in the third layer like this, I would have easily destroyed a few kilometres of the area without any problem, but in here, my punch couldn't even affect one kilometre of the area..." He said as he looked at the dark, gloomy area around him.

It was not that Evan had gotten weaker after entering the second layer; the reason he wasn't able to do much damage was that the second layer was much more durable than the third layer.

Moreover, because of the sudden change in gravity, it was not easy for him to extract his full power without getting used to the high gravity.

Realizing the second layer was quite different from the third layer, Evan didn't immediately rush deeper into the second layer. Instead, he did some light exercises and stretching to get used to the gravity so that he would be able to use his full power without any problem if he encountered any danger.

Just like that, one hour passed by, and the effect of the Enigma Mushroom ended.

"Fifty-six percent, huh..." Evan muttered in a low voice, examining the progress of his core once the effect of the Enigma Mushroom wore off.

After examining his core, Evan was about to move towards the location he received from the team black yesterday, as he had already gotten used to the new gravity in the last hour. However, before he could proceed, he received another message from Team Black, and his expression changed.