Chapter 679 - 668: The Consumption of the Absolute Delicacy Mushroom
Chapter 679: Chapter 668: The Consumption of the Absolute Delicacy Mushroom
Extreme Sword... Levelless Skills, but just that!
Lin Jun now, with his own effort and sweat, has trained a completely personal levelless skill!
Unfortunately, after calling Norris and Karen over, Lin Jun realized that "Absolute Taste" seemed a bit different from what he imagined.
Sadly, the two of them were not able to be the first batch of lucky ones to taste the absolute flavor.
In a certain cavern of the Mushroom Garden, a small green mushroom grows at the center of the cave.
It looks just like an ordinary, yet-to-mature hallucinogenic mushroom.
However, if someone with the "Magic Perception" skill stands here, they would see endless magic power gathering from all directions through the fungal mat, continuously pouring into this small mushroom.
You should know that such a large magic supply, even if it’s to grow a delicious mushroom, would just sprout from the fungal mat like pouring beans.
Yet this small mushroom takes all this vast magic power in as if it were a bottomless pit, but its growth seems barely noticeable.
Lin Jun doesn’t know if this "Absolute Taste" mushroom is delicious, but with such rich magic power, Xiao Hai will definitely like it.
The skill "Absolute Taste" also has a unique trait; Lin Jun can attach it to Puki like "Life Essence".
But to generate such a small mushroom, who knows how much magic power is needed, let alone how much would be needed for Puki’s size.
Overall, let’s first generate one normally and see how long it takes for it to fully grow.
Honestly, looking at this "Absolute Taste" mushroom, Lin Jun always has a sense of it being like celestial treasure absorbing the essence of the sun and moon for a thousand years.
Lin Jun doesn’t know if there is any history where a plant gained "Absolute Taste".
But with the magic power it requires to bear fruit, if not for Lin Jun’s vast fungal mat providing magic power, could ordinary plants truly survive to bear fruit?
Well... maybe only the old Divine Wood has a chance.
Carefully sealing the cavern to prevent D Level personnel from accidentally entering while playing hide-and-seek, Lin Jun estimates that just one "Absolute Taste" mushroom would require the entirety of Pujie Dungeon plus part of the Mushroom Castle’s magic to support it for seven to ten days.
Just hope the effect after maturation won’t disappoint.
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Northern Territory, midsection.
After the Empire temporarily retreated, Little Pig, knowing they would return with force, instructed the army to fortify along the Gong River.
The choice of this location was mainly due to this river.
Because Chis had been intentionally avoiding, Puki’s sea fungi hadn’t found a real opponent to test their strength against, and now this opportunity is just right.
Under the calm river water are countless eccentric sea Puki, waiting for the first batch of guests.
And at the camp built on the riverbank, besides the soldiers of the Mushroom Castle, there are also many dwarves present.
However, the groups are distinctly divided.
On the Mushroom Castle side, various races are mixed, while on the dwarf side, besides dwarves, there are only a few heating Puki present.
The styles of encampment are completely different on both sides.
The Mushroom Castle side features a camp of low mushroom houses of various colors, with underground pathways everywhere for Puki and soldiers to enter and transfer.
While the dwarves’ side resembles a small fortress.
It’s hard to say which is superior, but purely in terms of construction ability, dwarves are indeed much more skilled than the Mushroom Castle.
Despite having agreed to the request for support, the dwarves clearly don’t fully trust the strength of the Mushroom Castle.
After all, according to intelligence, the Mushroom Castle stalled the Empire’s previous offensive mainly by sending large numbers of Puki to die.
This time, the person commanding the dwarf reinforcements happened to be an acquaintance—General Duvalin.
When Inanna was on a mission, he was the one commanding the attack on the Molten Fire Dungeon. Lin Jun’s impression of him was quite average.
General Duvalin is good at commanding, but his personal strength isn’t particularly strong. Thus, the dwarves also brought along Bardor this time.
He’s the only dwarf who would brazenly run to the Mushroom Castle camp asking for delicious mushrooms.
Unfortunately, no matter how many delicious mushrooms he eats, he never gets to savor the taste like that of No. 4’s tentacle again.
"Of course, of course, all intelligence will be sent to your department as soon as possible, so please don’t worry."
After seeing off the somewhat arrogant dwarf advisor, Louisa withdrew her smile, coldly watching the dwarf camp in the distance.
She naturally knew what the boss meant by bringing in dwarf reinforcements.
Firstly, it pulls the dwarves into the fray, sharing the possible subsequent pressure, secondly, it’s to have as many of them be parasitized by mycelium as possible.
No need for any conspiracy tricks, just provide the best medical support for these allies.
Louisa is very curious if, once the fungal mat covers the Mountains and most dwarves are connected to the Fungal Network, will those dwarves still speak to her in a commanding tone?
Gathering up her small thoughts, Louisa refocused on the main affairs.
According to intelligence, due to Eugene’s widespread plea for assistance, the Imperial Army organized this time is stronger than the Mushroom Castle initially estimated, likely including some experts as well.
Therefore, Louisa decided to appropriately enhance the overall strength of her Puki forces.
After all, playing dumb while hiding your strength is a skill, and if not done well, might end up really acting a pig.
Louisa doesn’t want to appear incompetent even with the boss’s full support.
Therefore, batches of Puki are being strengthened, some even receiving "Battle Instinct" once again.
The only problem is...
Louisa gathers information from each department through the fungal mat, and the speed of upgrading the Puki is slower than she expected.
The new batch of flying Puki, requested earlier and approved by the boss, has still not grown out yet.
This doesn’t match her impression of Mushroom Castle’s production capacity.
Politely asking the boss, Louisa’s answer was:
"There are important projects over here... the challenges are temporary... the Empire hasn’t arrived yet... when the Empire arrives..."
Basically, they can’t spare attention at the moment.
Louisa’s fingers tapped gently on the table, looks like she’ll have to think of ways herself.
She was pondering how to use the sea fungi to strike the Imperial Army hard, trying to weaken them as much as possible, when a spy responsible for the Empire’s affairs delivered intelligence about some of Eugene’s invited reinforcements.
Louisa received the report, reaching out to flip through it.
Prince Visarus has sent two palace-level bloods—how generous of that old thing, makes one wonder what price Eugene paid.
A giant troll unit from Virelis—those tough-skinned creatures are a bit troublesome.
Blood Race Duke Levi might have dispatched his assassins (uncertain)—even if true, that’s fine; the Mushroom Castle has never feared spies and assassins.
She turned one page at a time until she reached the last page.
Under Duke Eleanor’s banner: newly palace-level, Yvette.
Louisa’s movements halted.
Her scarlet eyes fixed on that name, staring at it for a long time.
After a while, Little Pig licked the corner of her mouth playfully: "Already palace-level now, truly worthy of being my dear sister..."