Ch. 121Something Even Goblins Could Do
Aik’s battered advance party pushed through the seventh layer’s lava caverns and discovered a crimson Mushroom Plain where goblins bred resource-producing Gem Snails. They considered raiding a goblin camp, but hid when juvenile Flameburst Wyverns arrived and the goblins began tending to them.
- Aik learned that the trap in the lava caverns had killed every Low-Level Professional and left the advance party with fewer than thirty survivors.
- Aik ordered the party to press deeper into the seventh layer because they could not return without resources or information to justify their losses.
- After several more days of battles and traps, the survivors emerged onto a Mushroom Plain bordered by a boiling Lava Sea and populated by goblin camps and Flameburst Wyverns.
- Ghost reported that a nearby goblin camp was breeding Gem Snails, and the party discussed capturing the snails and learning the breeding method.
- Seven or eight juvenile Flameburst Wyverns landed near the goblin camp, so Aik’s party concealed themselves and watched the goblins scrub the wyverns with lava and feed them mushrooms and elemental gems.