Dungeon of Knowledge

Chapter 100: Brawlers

Chapter 100: Brawlers- Excerpt from , Third Edition

Aliandra

Ali kept her eyes and her mana sight peeled for signs of any more Forest Guardians, but it was hard to make out anything against the riotous storm of chaotic ambient mana that billowed up out of the dense jungle.

This lowest level of Dal’mohra had once been flush with fields and orchards, producing a wealth of food to supply the city and its surroundings. Given the thousands of years that had passed, she had expected the nature and light mana orbs and enchantments sustaining the farmland to have failed, leaving an area dead and dark, much like the cavern in which she had awoken. However, it was anything but.

The floating orbs of light were long gone, but it was not dark. The jungle itself glowed.

“Why is it so bright down here?” Malika asked.

“The mana is so dense that it’s glowing,” Ali answered. And that was not all. Everywhere she looked there were crawling creatures or flying insects – and the vast majority of them shone with radiant white or yellow light, or glowed with deep viridian green, chartreuse, or various shades of jade.

“I can’t see much of anything through this,” Calen groused.

Indeed, the density of the gnarled trees, draped with heavy layers of vines, moss, and all sorts of aerial plants made