The Soul's Odyssey : A Litrpg Reincarnation by Underboss

Author:Underboss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Animals! They’d filled the maze with nothing but the bones of beasts, and there was nary a skill residue to be found. The occasional humanoid corpse was littered throughout, but they were always hard to get to. Because whichever dork created this place encased the layers of bone in unmelting ice.

I first sensed something useful from a skull that looked elven—at least I hoped it was elven, otherwise the remains were a child's—near the surface of a block of what I dubbed “eternal ice”. The magic ice was hard to break through, even for my skeletal knight. After wasting far too long to get out a jawbone, my glorious reward was a skill for trenching. Trenching, as in a person who specifically was a master at building crap canals for troops. I added a tooth to my necklace on principle, but I cussed while I did it.

Who knows when that skill might come in handy? Not me, that’s for sure.

The ice explained why roving bands of ghouls hadn’t eaten all the bones at least. More than that, the bizarre frost was cool. As in, absolutely freezing. Hoarfrost constantly grew around our metal weapons and implements. And, if I hadn’t already been undead, I got the impression I would be in grave danger from continued exposure. I was profoundly grateful that none of us got frostbite. I checked Handybro frequently to make sure it didn’t get that nasty black coloring such wounds presented. Having a member of the crew looking so tacky as to not know what gloves are, just wasn’t in the cards.

One of the more interesting theories about why the Zu-Rakan died out was because of a divine cursed ice age. The author of the phallus book ridiculed the premise because undead didn’t need heat to sustain themselves. Yet, here I was in the Ossuary surrounded by thousands of years old ice. Given that the bluish clear crystals blocked my sense undead spell, but not my greater necrometry blessing, I believed the god enacted ice age theory was probable.

The maze hadn’t just taught me about historical cataclysms and shit pits. I also learned that plants could be undead. For whatever reason, until now, the thought had never occurred to me that a tree or mushroom might also be a zombie. But after considering the issue, there was no reason I could account for that said they shouldn’t.‌ I knew that there were varieties of parasitic fungi on earth that mimicked undead behavior, but the organisms in those cases were still living. Instead, what I found here was a dead ass plant that attacked and converted animals.

My first encounter was with a rotting gray mushroom that leaked a sap that looked like blood. The colony had taken over a family of gigantic spiders, and sent them at us with abandon. Those plants hadn’t given a lick of butt that we were also undead, either.

Not that I minded.

Truth be told, getting instantly attacked was thrilling. With my two comrades in

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