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A group of Abyssal Myconid stepped out from the thick shadows that lined the edges of the passage. Elayne immediately wondered if they were the same wild ones she had encountered higher up in the Netherworld, but it quickly became clear that they were not. These ones stood taller and looked far more humanoid, with stronger, more refined builds. They wore simple clothes made of cured leather and carried practical weapons at their sides.
They belonged to a more civilized, smarter, and social kind of Myconid.
"A large group this time. Are you aware that you are once more trespassing the territory of the Shadow Cap Tribe?" asked the leader, a larger and more muscular humanoid mushroom with a giant dark cap covering his head and a pair of glowing red eyes. "Those that wish to go to the colosseum must go through the Nether Crystal Passage!"
"And be devoured by even scarier monsters?" sighed Marble, crossing her arms. "Don't you even realize why everyone takes this route instead?"
