68. The Queen's Privilege: The Noble Azshara Always Gets Whatever She Wants

"Move aside! They're coming through."

Purple mushroom-headed Marasmius's shout echoed across the Brokers' Floating City's flight platform. Hearing the warning, the surrounding Brokers hurriedly backed away.

But Diakum stood his ground and braced himself on his Sunstrider Warhammer.

Under his gaze, Marasmius's "mushroom duplicate" was straining with all its might to establish a stable connection with the mushroom ring far away in The Maw. Because of The Maw's peculiar nature, ordinary mushroom-ring teleportation could no longer function there.

Now, this ancient giant mushroom head had to use some "rule-level" power to possibly cross the seal the Eternal Ones had imposed upon The Maw and bring Queen Azshara and her servant out.

Marasmius might look bizarre, but as the first creature personally shaped by the Winter Queen, its miraculous "mushroom-ring teleportation" was clearly a derivative concept related to "space."

Combined with the fact that it was a fungal creature and surely possessed racial talents akin to "mitosis," the purple giant mushroom head absolutely counted as a "hidden powerhouse" of Ardenweald.

Whether it could fight was another question, but this power was perfect for ambushing people and gathering intelligence.

And The Maw, from the moment it had been created, had been a place where one could enter but never leave. That was The Maw's fundamental rule. Yet when the other Eternal Ones had joined forces to exile Zovaal and used their own power to punish him, they had instead added some loopholes that could be "bug-exploited" to that Mawsworn rule.

There were many bizarre legends about The Maw.

It was said that there was a strange stone in The Maw, a relic left behind by the First Ones. Once activated, it could connect to the Eternal City of Oribos. Unfortunately, ever since that stone had stood in The Maw, no one had