Mushroom Lord in the Underground City

Chapter 732: Chapter 721: Delivery to Your Door

Unlike the fog, which creates scenes based on memories, Absolute-Flavor Mushrooms and Despair Mushrooms are guided by emotions, using high-concentration Magic Power to manifest a real Illusion Realm.

However, just like Dylan’s father–daughter deep-affection Illusion Realm couldn’t affect Little Pig and the others, the Illusion Realm created by the Despair Mushrooms also needs emotional Resonance to take effect.

Fear and despair are the emotions that most easily produce Resonance, and the stronger the Resonance, the more it attracts attacks from the Illusion Realm monsters.

This is also why Lin Jun had to knock all the slaves unconscious before moving them.

Before those blood-drawers and soldiers who were deeply trapped in chaos and terror were taken out, the unconscious slaves were relatively safe.

This was all precious experience the D Level researchers of the Mushroom Garden had left for Lin Jun.

Unfortunately, monsters composed purely of Magic Power really pose little threat to true experts, and with the Illusion Realm being time-limited, as long as you have roughly Diamond Level strength, it’s basically enough to protect yourself inside a black fog Illusion Realm created by others.

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The huge Puki walking along the seabed by the port had not gone far yet; its massive and clumsy body meant it didn’t move very fast. If he wanted to, the Demon King could quickly catch up to it.

However, recalling the warning Tanaka had relayed, the Demon King ultimately did not enter the sea.

Handing the man under Spiritual Lock over to the somewhat organized camp soldiers to guard, the Demon King once again Teleported to other cities within Eleanor’s territory that had Teleportation Magic Arrays.

As soon as he arrived, the Demon King once again felt the thick extreme emotions in the air—this city was also shrouded in black fog.

The difference was that the monster in this Illusion Realm was somewhat different: it was a colossal creature coiled in the sky above the city, stretching out countless withered long hands, wringing each captured fellow dry on the spot.

Skillfully using Magic to protect his own Spiritual Power and ensure he would not lose his mind under the influence of the extreme emotions in the Illusion Realm, the Demon King once again set out in search of the source of the Illusion Realm.

The Demon King was like a firefighting squad, going from city to city to carry out rescues.

But just like that slave man had said: how many could he save?

Not every city had Teleportation Magic Arrays; relying on the convenience of Teleportation, the Demon King ultimately only resolved the black fog in three cities.

By the time he flew to another factory city, the black fog here had already naturally dissipated, leaving only streets covered in bloodstains and half a city of ruins.

But correspondingly, Lin Jun’s side had not achieved complete success either.

In the rush to act, the slaves near the port were manageable—load them up, dive into the sea, and they were safe—but in the more inland cities, by the time the black fog dispersed, the Puki transporting the slaves might be caught before reaching the sea; even taking underground routes was not absolutely safe.

Not to mention, in some places, due to this or that accident, the Illusion Realm source was stopped—or even killed—early, and in the end only a little more than half the slaves were successfully transported away.

However, what Lin Jun was most focused on at this moment was still the Demon King himself.

There were more!

Compared to the last time he saw the Status panel, there were now additional Skills: [Envy] and [Undying]!

[Envy] was clearly Mortis’s—can the Demon King also seize Skills?

And what was with [Undying], this kind of shameless cheat Skill that’s basically a standard issue for protagonists?

Was it something he had recently managed to obtain, or had he had it all along?

If it was the former, Lin Jun could be a bit more at ease; if it was the latter... could there be even more?

Looking at those still-blurred pieces of information on the Demon King’s panel, even Lin Jun felt a bit afraid. How did the previous Hero defeat a complete Demon King?

No matter what, Lin Jun realized that he absolutely could not allow the Demon King to become complete!!!

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At the same time, in Night Lily Manor, Eleanor was already on the verge of a breakdown.

Watching the countless urgent reports being Teleported in like snowflakes, she had completely fallen into a state of helpless panic.

Her manor itself had not been attacked by Lin Jun’s Despair Mushrooms; although there were quite a few Blood Beast Factories nearby, Eleanor, weak as she might be, was still a Duke. Using a Despair Illusion Realm to steal slaves right under her nose was not very realistic.

Because of this, she still hadn’t fully figured out what exactly had attacked those other factory cities.

The reports were full of conflicting accounts, with different monsters described by different people, everyone having their own guesses; truth and falsehood mixed together, and Eleanor simply could not deduce the reality from the reports alone.

But there was one thing she knew clearly—most of the territory she had managed for years had been destroyed!

In the past, if she had suffered this kind of blow, she would have felt heartbroken, gone into a Fury, and sworn to find the culprit and tear them into a thousand pieces.

Yet now she had no time to think about any of that.

Mortis was dead; the Demon King had taken the throne.

For some Lords, this might just mean a change of leader while life went on as usual.

But for Eleanor, it was not like that.

Although she had only had brief contact with the Demon King through the Crystal Council and had not even met him face-to-face yet,

Eleanor had still sensed that she and the Demon King were not on the same side.

To put it more harshly, she felt that the Demon King loathed her, just as he had personally come this time to take action against her factories and Puki.

If her territory were still stable, Eleanor might still indulge in the illusion that the Demon King, for the sake of overall stability, would more or less turn a blind eye to her.

But now, with more than half of the bargaining chips in her hands destroyed, could that little bit that remained really keep her safe?

She even already had the pretext laid out—mismanagement of the territory, resulting in a great disaster and causing huge losses to the Empire...

If she couldn’t keep herself safe, what should she do?