Time always flowed like water. In the blink of an eye, two days had passed since Li Mo entered the Spirit Tomb.
Or perhaps it had been two days of being lost?
Of course, there was no sun or moon in the Spirit Tomb. There were only glowing crystals overhead, so Li Mo had no way of knowing the time.
"When will these days ever end?!"
Li Mo wandered aimlessly through a forest filled with bizarre plants, a piece of bread still in his hand.
Fortunately, even though he was lost, survival was never the greatest problem for mages, because...
If they were thirsty, they had water magecraft. If they were hungry, they had bread spells. If they were cold, they could even use fire magecraft to make a fire!
And Li Mo was even better off, because he knew Constant Temperature Magecraft!
But what was so tasty about bread to a foodie?
"I have no idea what kind of weirdo mage designed this spell. Couldn't they at least make the bread sweet and fragrant?"
Not being able to find anything edible besides bread was what Li Mo considered his greatest problem.
It was even worse than being lost!
Although some of the plants in the forest looked rather delicious, even if Li Mo had ten times the courage, he would not dare eat them!
He was not Shennong. What if he ate something he should not and accidentally kicked the bucket?!
Wasn't Shennong killed by poisonous grass after eating it...
So Li Mo could only complain that he should have prepared food in advance while gnawing miserably on his bread.
"Outsider brat, what did you come here for?"
A ghostly voice suddenly rang out in the silent forest, making Li Mo, who had been fully focused on the great task of eating bread, leap three feet into the air.
"Who's there?!"
Li Mo's face had initially been filled with fear, but then he remembered that he was no longer an ordinary person. He was a mage now, and his expression gradually relaxed somewhat.
"Who's talking?"
However, his many years as an ordinary person did not seem to have been instantly changed by becoming a mage. After looking around and finding no one, Li Mo's heart rose into his throat again.
Damn, could this place have ghosts?
But ghosts were just spiritual entities, weren't they? He even had a mage's spiritual entity with him...
"Brat, look down. I'm beneath you!"
Li Mo finally identified the source of the voice and lowered his head. Then... staring at the thumb-sized ant beneath his feet, which was still brandishing its limbs, he began questioning his life.
What kind of human suffering was this?!
An ant was talking. Were they kidding him? This was Mushroom's Type-Moon World, not some Eastern fantasy cultivation setting!
"Brat, why aren't you saying anything? Did you come to my Ant Forest to do something bad? Spit it out, or I won't be polite!"
Li Mo finally confirmed it. This ant really was talking to him.
Good heavens!!! An ant had become a spirit!!!!!
Didn't they say no animals were allowed to become spirits after the founding of the nation?!
And... what the hell was Ant Forest? Were all those people in the main world really saving and scraping every day just to plant trees here?
"Brat, I'm warning you, I, Ant Flower Shell, am not someone to be trifled with. If you don't explain your purpose, I'll stuff you into a griffin's ass!"
Ant Flower Shell...
Li Mo was beyond making snarky remarks. What the hell kind of name was that?!
Could this Fallen Dragon actually be Ma Daddy's incarnation in this world...
"Hey, let me tell you, I can—"
"Hello, Ant Flower Shell. I'm lost!"
"But... huh?"
The limb-waving Ant Flower Shell suddenly froze, then looked at Li Mo as if he were an idiot.
At that moment, Li Mo felt as though he could hear someone swallowing. It was the sound of shock.
Don't ask how he could see emotions in an ant's eyes. If you asked, he would not know either!
"You're a human mage, right? You're telling me you got lost?" Ant Flower Shell's voice suddenly rose, and Li Mo could hear the thick mockery in it.
Or rather, perhaps Ant Flower Shell could not be blamed. Li Mo really did seem like someone who attracted ridicule?
Looking at the thumb-sized ant beneath his feet, which did not seem threatening at all, Li Mo answered with complete honesty, "Yes, I'm really lost. Maybe... I'm just terrible with directions?"
Although Li Mo felt that he was not actually bad with directions, he did not reveal the truth. After all... family shame should not be aired in public!
Didn't Brishisan have any dignity?
"All right, human brat, I believe you. I'll tell you how to leave Ant Forest. This is the territory of our Heavenly Horn Ant clan, so don't get lost again next time." Likewise, perhaps because he sensed that Li Mo posed little threat, Ant Flower Shell readily believed him.
But... Li Mo was dumbfounded again. What the hell was a Heavenly Horn Ant?!
Wasn't this the Spirit Tomb?! Wasn't this Type-Moon?! How had some ridiculously overpowered race from another world written by a certain great author appeared here?!
Could it be that he had accidentally transmigrated again, and even ended up in Ye Fan's world?
After transmigrating to some great world, should he become sworn brothers with Ye Fan, or become an emperor himself? Waiting online, urgent!
"Ant bro, have you heard of Ye Fan?"
To confirm the truth, Li Mo began asking endless questions.
"No. Who's that?"
Ant Flower Shell shook his head. Li Mo had no idea how that thumb-sized body managed such a difficult movement.
"What about the Ruthless Great Emperor?"
He shook his head.
"What about the Unbeginning Great Emperor?"
He shook his head.
Li Mo: Uh...
"Then have you heard of Great Emperors? What about Immortal Kings?" Li Mo refused to give up and asked again.
And yet... Ant Flower Shell continued shaking his head.
"What are you even talking about? I have no interest in your human emperors!"
...All right, then. He had not transmigrated after all. He had simply overthought things.
Li Mo felt a little embarrassed, but a tiny thought still remained in his heart, so he asked, "Ant bro, does your Heavenly Horn Ant clan have any other people... I mean, any other ants? It can't just be you, right?"
Ant Flower Shell tilted his head, seemingly unable to understand what this human was trying to say, but he still answered honestly, "Of course. Since we're called the Heavenly Horn Ant clan, naturally there are other Heavenly Horn Ants. There's Ant Gold Fortune, Ant Treasure Card, and plenty more."
Li Mo: ???
Now he was certain. This Fallen Dragon was definitely Ma Daddy's avatar in this world!
Otherwise, why did every mage say the Fallen Dragon was great? How else could he explain these ant families in Ant Forest?!
Ma Daddy, where are you?
Can you hear me?
I want to return to the main world. Can you take me with you?
But... it seemed he had forgotten something important... the great Fallen Dragon...
Did you understand now? Fallen Dragon...
Fallen...
Holy shit, Rem!
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