Chapter 192: Landslide (1)

Just because something couldn't be seen didn't mean it was gone.

Though out of sight, smelly things continued to rot and smell, breeding poison and insects, leading to bigger problems.

The same was true for the incident at Kurotsurugimine.

Even as the master optimistically thought, "Nothing will happen," and covered up the issue, the problem was growing vigorously.

The mold created by Jinseong's small ritual was gradually increasing in number, infecting trees, settling in the shade, and growing as it spread its roots underground along with mushrooms.

Moreover, not only was it growing, but due to the cursed object containing mana that Jinseong had brought, it took on the properties of mana, spreading its influence more strongly and fiercely throughout the mountain.

The mycorrhizae of the mold spread relentlessly, creating a mycorrhizal network, and mushrooms carrying mana and spreading spores multiplied their numbers by continuously dispersing offspring between the piles of fallen leaves.

And the mushrooms that grew this way finally reached beyond the forest to the solar panel facility, and instead of increasing their influence above ground due to the beating sunlight, they spread their roots in the damp and dark underground, settling there.

Thus, Kurotsurugimine became the domain of mold, and it reached the point where if you dug just a little deep anywhere on the mountain, you would smell the strong scent of mold rather than soil. Mold had penetrated between the densely grown trees all over the mountain, settling in black just beneath the tree bark.

Moreover, in some trees, it had completely eaten away the insides, becoming mold-formed pillars. Like the giant fungi, Prototaxites loganii, said to have existed in the Paleozoic era...