The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 387 Vine and Mushroom
Moran didn't go to sleep until 5 a.m., but she woke up early in the morning.

I checked the time, and it was only 7:30.

She only slept for two hours, but Moran felt as well as when she slept for seven or eight hours.

After the age of eighteen, the witch's need for sleep decreased significantly.

After Moran's magic level reached its peak, her body needed less sleep; two and a half hours was enough for her to rest and recover her strength.

On the small bed next to it, Zizi was fast asleep, hugging a wine bottle. It was still a cub and at the age when it should be sleeping.

Moran tiptoed out of bed and out of the tent.

It was already fully light.

The bustling market, the warm bonfire, and the throngs of witches from last night all seemed to have vanished with the arrival of dawn.

Only a few scattered tents remained, accompanied by the chirping of insects and birds in the early morning.

Moran took out both of his planting pot cards and materialized them.

The small planting pots for the ground-drilling mushrooms were placed at the tent entrance, while the larger planting pots for the Zzzzt's wine bamboo were placed in the corner between her tent and Vasita's tent.

We might have to stay here for a while, so it's a good time to take them out and let them grow properly.

Moran was cultivating a bond with the burrowing mushrooms using alien magic when Lilith appeared: "Moran, you planted burrowing mushrooms too? Hehe, me too! I've had them for a whole year."

As Lilith spoke, she also took out a {Planting Pot Card}, which materialized into a small planting pot. Magic surged out, and a small red mushroom head immediately sprouted from the pot.

It's about the same size as Moran's Burrowing Mushroom, but the Burrowing Mushroom doesn't grow taller; it only grows its internal space.

"Senior, your burrowing mushroom should let you into its inner space, right? How big is it?" Moran asked.

Lilith's expression froze: "Not yet..."

"Huh? That shouldn't be the case! A year of nurturing should be enough for the burrowing mushroom to recognize its master..."

Before Moran could finish speaking, a dark shadow jumped from Lilith's wrist into the basin. The burrowing mushroom immediately jumped up as if startled and burrowed into the soil.

A black vine, resembling an octopus, sits arrogantly in the planting pot, even poking its tip into the soil!
"You stinky vine, you scared it again!" Lilith picked up the vampire vine, grabbed another planting pot, and shoved it into it. "Stay put in this pot. If I catch you scaring the little mushroom again, I'll take away all your blood food for today!"

Upon hearing that it was taking away blood, the vampire vine immediately became obedient, unlike the vine it had been before.

"Now you know why the burrowing mushroom still doesn't like me after a year, right?" Lilith angrily poked the little vine. "It's all this guy's fault!"

"..." Moran felt very relieved thinking of the little monkey who was still fast asleep in bed.

After Sylph got up and heard about it, she looked at the two planting pots spaced far apart on either side of Lilith's tent and said:

"Could it be that the Vampire Vine thinks you have Burrowing Mushrooms living in the wild, so it doesn't need to help you clear out enemies anymore? Even plants without spirits compete for resources, so plants with spirits would be even more so!"

After all, when Lilith stayed in the wild before, Vampire Vine was always her guardian.

Lilith was taken aback and looked at the vampire vine.

The vampire vine twisted and turned in the pot, completely disregarding the food.

Lilith and it had a magical pet contract after all. Even though the vampire vine was highly intelligent and could already conceal its emotions and thoughts, she could still sense something from its habits and actions. She used the Tree Friend spell to ask:
"Are you really worried it will replace you?" The vampire vine seemed not to hear, listlessly fiddling with its little vines.

Lilith: "..."

There's no doubt about it!

“Who said it was going to replace you? It’s responsible for taking my tent underground, and you’re responsible for guarding the surface, isn’t that good enough? Double protection!” Lilith said.

The tip of the vampire vine turned around: "ヽ(゜Q。)ノ?" Really?
“Really!” Lilith said.

The vampire pointed to the pot next door and demanded, "Then I want to share a pot with it right now!"

Lilith hesitated for a moment, then moved them to a larger pot and put the burrowing mushroom and the vampire vine in it.

This time, the vampire obediently squatted in the pot, not poking around in the soil and scaring the burrowing mushroom. It even used its roots embedded in the soil to communicate with the burrowing mushroom: "Don't worry, I'll protect you and your master!"

After breakfast, when Lilith came to check on how the vine and the mushroom were getting along, she suddenly noticed a small red mushroom cap next to the vampire vine.

My eyes widened in surprise: "My God! The burrowing mushroom actually sprouted out of the soil on its own!"

Even Sylph came to see it, finding it quite unusual.
"The burrowing mushroom feels safe only when it's buried in the soil. Unless you lure it out with some kind of magic, it will never burrow out of the ground on its own!"

"They probably think the vampire vine can protect it, right?" Moran said uncertainly.

Lilith poked the vampire vine: "You're something else, getting the little mushroom to trust you so much so quickly."

The vampire vines stretched straight out: (｀＾)
Lilith took out the flesh and blood, and the vampire vine immediately couldn't hold on any longer, hugging the flesh and blood and burying it into its roots.

The burrowing mushroom jumped out of the planting pot in disgust and slowly grew larger in the open space next to it.

"!!!" Lilith turned to look at Sylph: "It's gotten bigger! Could it be that it recognizes me and is willing to let me into its inner space?"

Sylph smiled and nodded: "Yes. Let's go take a look!"

Lilith was overjoyed. She had been trying to cultivate this mushroom for a year without success, but today, as soon as the relationship between the Vampire Vine and the Burrowing Mushroom improved, the mushroom took the initiative to invite her in!
She excitedly patted the mushroom-shaped pillar: "Open the door!"

A small, round doorway immediately appeared on the mushroom-shaped pillar.

Lilith bent down and crawled inside, then came out shortly after, excitedly telling them, "There's enough room for a tent inside! The tent card fits perfectly!"

Moran nodded to himself; it seemed the burrowing mushroom was growing quite fast.

It seems that although their alien magic is not as effective as Sylph's and takes a little longer to cultivate, it only takes a year to be able to set up a tent and camp inside the burrowing mushroom.

It will be put to use very soon.

"Luckily, I didn't forget to buy the {Drilling Mushroom Seed Card} and {Planting Pot No. 1 Card}!" Vasida also hugged her Drilling Mushroom planting pot.

After the vampire finished eating, it stretched out a vine and poked the ground-drilling mushroom. The ground-drilling mushroom then shrank and jumped back into the planting pot.

It stayed still right next to the vampire vine.

Lilith stroked the little vine with great satisfaction, then pointed at the cap of the burrowing mushroom: "That's more like it!"