Mushroom Lord in the Underground City

Chapter 687: Chapter 676: Escape from the Northern Territory

"What are you looking at!"

Ba Duo swung his axe, snapping Eugene out of his daze just in time to dodge.

After the swing, the wounded Ba Duo didn’t pursue but rather carried his giant axe, laughing as he looked at the two hill-sized giant Puki in the distance.

"There’s actually such a big Puki, those who play with Puki really have endless tricks!"

Then, he looked at Eugene with ill intentions: "Dead bat, are you thinking about ditching the army and escaping alone?"

Ba Duo mocked on purpose, afraid Eugene might actually flee when things went south.

This guy, relying on military superiority, had been pressing Ba Duo for quite some time.

If he doesn’t fight back, even the delicious mushrooms aren’t fragrant to Ba Duo!

However, Ba Duo was overthinking.

Considering that Dean would go after Eugene if he abandons these thousands of Demon Race.

And Eugene himself, having brought most of his assets, wouldn’t escape until absolutely necessary.

The giant Puki was certainly impressive, and being surrounded from both sides was dangerous, but it wasn’t desperate yet.

This was his first time seeing a giant Puki, though he had read about them in Sigmund’s battle reports; he didn’t expect to find them in the Northern Territory.

Moreover, the giant Puki before him was larger than the ones blocking the passage in the battle report from Dragon Roar Valley.

If it could explode, the power would surely not be less.

But this wasn’t a valley with only one pass like Dragon Roar Valley; it was a relatively open plain.

The giant Puki’s movement was eye-catchingly cumbersome, as long as one distanced themselves in time.

The threatening dwarves in the ongoing battle were equally insignificant; Ba Duo could hold them off, and other dwarves, having been reduced to arrows at the end of their flight in earlier attacks, would similarly lack power in pursuit upon retreat.

The real trouble came from the newly emerged forces from the belly of the giant Puki.

Not numerous, but enough to entangle them.

In the distance, after routing the Imperial Army there, Louisa was already gathering her forces to rush over.

Being encircled like that would be catastrophic.

Now, across Gong River there was still a last reserve force meant for unexpected contingencies, under the command of a quick-thinking adjutant who was attempting to bypass the damaged ice from another side to support him.

Thus, it remained a race against time.

Now the goal shifted from quickly defeating the dwarves to breaking out of the encirclement within the time limit.

He decisively abandoned the soldiers still engaged in battle, issuing an order for other units to break through.

Facing Ba Duo and two other dwarves’ attack, his pale hand clenched fiercely.

The two dwarves yelped in pain, blood mist seeped from within them as they weakly collapsed to the ground.

Elite dwarves dared to charge at him, not yet killed by forced blood extraction but incapacitated temporarily.

As for Ba Duo.

He also tightened his grip, a mist of blood instantly erupted from Ba Duo’s wounds, yet it didn’t hinder him from roaring and slashing down with the battle axe, carving a wound on Eugene’s chest.

This was followed by continuous giant axe attacks, leaving Eugene no chance for blood extraction.

"Yes, yes, just like that, let’s fight to the last moment!"

However, Eugene took advantage of the evasion gap to summon the surrounding blood, crashing it onto Ba Duo and once again pulling away.

But upon attempting forced blood extraction again, Ba Duo’s wounds merely spurted a little more blood.

Eugene turned sharply, spotting Louisa already flying down ahead using her blood crystal wings’ high-speed capability.

At such a close range, Eugene confirmed Louisa’s level.

Hall, but with extraordinary blood control ability.

Yet he was puzzled.

He actually sensed blood control power coming from the flying Puki behind Louisa’s back.

Absurd.

It’s said the Blood Race can transform more than just humans; occasionally, there are Blood Race Lizardmen, Blood Dwarves, etc.

But however eccentric, the transformed should at least be humanoid intelligent life, right!

What’s up with these Puki?

Not to mention humanoid, Puki doesn’t even have blood, right!

Each Puki’s blood control ability isn’t strong, but together, they inexplicably merge this control power perfectly, cooperatively advancing Louisa’s power, really disrupting his Duke-level blood control.

Eugene realized he couldn’t continue the fight!

"The dead mouse wants to run?" Ba Duo immediately noticed Eugene’s intent, directly tossing his axe without care for how to fight weaponless afterwards.

Runes lit up on the spinning giant axe, wheel-shaped wind blades swirled around, whistling towards Eugene’s head.

Upon preparing to explode with blood to accelerate, Eugene faced the disarmed strike and dared not resist, forced to stop and prioritize evasion.

Then, Little Pig charged down, holding the activated red-black greatsword, slashing down.

Eugene could only draw out his blood, condensing it into a weapon to counter.

However, in merely one clash, his blood-crafted weapon shattered partially.

"Demon Crystal Armor!"

He knew this thing, after all, spies risked their lives to bring back images of it.

Yet previously, he didn’t pay much attention.

This set, with at least dozens of Demon Crystal nodes across the body, required not only a large quantity of identical standard Demon Crystals but also cutting and processing precious Demon Crystals.

Too expensive for advanced use, too ineffective for low-level, essentially long outdated gear.

A complete set’s threat was less than simple Demon Crystal armor with one or two nodes.

While its effect was much weaker, its activation requirements were significantly lower.

Now, he found Louisa’s armor, embedded with A Level Demon Crystals, nearly blinding.

This was madness from dwarves, bringing out their entire stock just to trap him?

Why not use it against Levi adjoining them?

Equipment overwhelm, or fiscal overwhelm.

Eugene dared not to fight further, opting to constantly dodge.

But once Ba Duo retrieved the axe and rejoined the fray, the situation utterly collapsed for Eugene.

Additionally, the remaining Demons had died or been injured severely, with imminent pummeling, forcing Eugene to grit his teeth fiercely!

Little Pig sliced off one of Eugene’s arms, and Ba Duo rotated the axe to sweep away one of his legs.

But simultaneously, blood erupted from Eugene’s body, transforming him into a crimson blood shadow, rapidly leaving the battlefield, even surpassing the retreating joined units, flying south at high speed.

"Damn!"

Ba Duo smashed his axe into the ground, then reconsidered, picked it up, and chased the fleeing Eugene’s troops.

Little Pig, however, remained calm, methodically directing the pursuit.

She’s unworried about Eugene or his troops escaping.

This wasn’t the Fungal Mat edge but the belly, a whole week’s journey from the edge, the boss’s territory.

From when they stepped on the Fungal Mat, the outcome was already determined.

All Fungus Castle soldiers eagerly hunted these moving Contribution Points, except No. 4 who was almost crying with anxiety—his body too heavy, unable to keep up!

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The blood shadow was incredibly fast, this escape method leveraging bloodline power at a huge cost, but effective.

In just a few hours, Eugene had traversed the distance typically covered in four days.

After slowing down, Eugene didn’t dare linger, striving southward, hoping some of his troops could escape.

From afar, Eugene saw Dean rushing over with reinforcements upon receiving a distress call.

Dean also saw him, a face filled with shock at Eugene’s miserable state.

Yet before they could speak, a shadow zipped past, and Eugene who had just survived disappeared from sight.