The bioluminescent fungi of various shapes and sizes turned a deep color, their originally gentle purple and blue hues now tinged with an ominous dark red tone, as if bleeding.
Some fungi even stopped glowing, becoming like pitch-black stones.
A few plants particularly adapted to shadows became active.
Dark red veins emerged on the surface of some vines, pulsating like blood vessels, while some massive, man-eating flower-shaped dark plants slowly opened their jagged mouths, releasing a cloying, nauseating fragrance, luring potential prey.
The visible range shrank dramatically, from the previous twenty to thirty meters, plummeting to less than ten meters, or even shorter.
Beyond ten meters was a thick, seemingly alive darkness that wriggled.
It wasn't merely a lack of light; rather, the Shal Moon brought a light-absorbing and distortion quality, giving shadows substantive thickness and vitality.
