I'm in Warhammer, I just want to grow mushrooms

Chapter 236 Ancient Strengthening Fungus
Don't rush to "log off".

Li Nuo still had things to do.

The corpse of the Beast King's personal guard lay sprawled on the cold floor, blood gushing from his head like a tidal wave.

Even in death, it remained a colossal creature, an existence that ordinary orcs could never hope to reach.

Li Nuo opened the system interface and redeemed the reward for "offline retrieval of the gene knowledge base".

"System, I want to know how these giant orcs are bred. Is it the psionic energy fluctuations from battle that make them far stronger than orcs of the same height, or is it the result of some kind of orcish sorcery?"

A system message popped up.

[Searching the genetic database for Simulator characters such as Shaman Boy - Sark, Mad Doctor - Samar, Tech Master - Guradil, and Psyboy - Pampa.]

【Search completed.】

Search results: 0 item.

"Hmm? Zero search results?"

Li Nuo was stunned, her mind almost unable to process what was happening.

After a few seconds of contemplation, a guess came to mind.

The upgraded version of the Noisy Box is called the Howling Box, which enables zero-latency communication across interstellar time.

Li Nuo has only ever seen the Roaring Box in the possession of members of the Ulanor Orc Empire.

Does this mean that this is a mechanical sorcery that only a master technician or a young technician of the Orc Empire level can unlock?

The same reason.

The genetic knowledge base of the Palu warlord's priests, mad doctors, and tech masters does not contain any witchcraft related to "giant orcs," which is likely because the Palu warlord's level is not high enough.

If it were the mad doctor from the Ulanno Empire, there shouldn't be any problem.

"System, search for the mad doctor on this battleship." Li Nuo thought for a moment, then added:
"Especially that mad doctor who concocts potions around Ulger, prioritize listing its simulated price."

The system text refreshed again.

[Searching for simulated objects.]

Search complete.

Search results: 5 items.

【Name: Beast King's Chief Mad Doctor - Usa】

The simulation subject is the Mad Doctor, and the starting price for the simulation is 5 Magic Spores.

The simulated subject possesses the title of "Chief Mad Doctor of the Orc Emperor," and the starting price for the simulation has been increased to 1 Magical Spores.

[The simulated subject has gained control of 3333 Pain Boys; the starting price for the simulation has been increased to 2 Miracle Spores.]

[The simulated object has been modified by mechanical witchcraft and mad doctor witchcraft, increasing its price by 200%.]

The final simulated price is 6 Magic Spores.

[Number of miraculous spores: 52.]

[Do you confirm the simulation?]

Li Nuo found a place to hide his current body and used his mind to confirm the start of the simulation.

Consciousness emerged in three dimensions, passing through layers of cabins, and entered the mad doctor's laboratory that it had visited before.

I opened my eyes to find the alchemical crucible in front of me bubbling and a deafening roar echoing in my ears.

"That damned sharp-beaked brat, how dare he kill my good boy! And that damned 'poison nail,' it's hidden away! That guy is as cunning as ever!"

King Urg the Beast, enraged on his throne, his blood surging and waves of heat emanating from his body.

Li Nuo was curious about how Ulger knew about the situation on the ground.

He glanced at the holographic image and instantly understood.

It turned out that Ulger had sent out his elite special forces soldiers to observe the battle from the sidelines.

These special forces soldiers wore combat recorders and invisibility cloaks, enabling them to transmit footage to the Beast King in real time.

Just as Li Nuo transferred his consciousness to the mad doctor Usa, the special forces kid arrived at the scene.

"Men! Turn that place upside down! Find that damned pointy-mouthed brat!"

"Yes, boss!"

The three beast king guards received their orders and left with heavy steps.

Li Nuo buried himself in stirring the crucible, searching for the memories of the mad doctor Usa.

He quickly found the answer.

The moment the truth came to light, his heart began to race uncontrollably.

Guided by his memory, Li Nuo stretched out his right hand, which was trembling with excitement, and picked up a small jar of powder from the large alchemy table.

At the bottom of the glass jar, a small bulge formed from light green crystalline powder, emitting a faint but perceptible psychic energy fluctuation.

He aimed at the powder and threw it out to analyze the fungi. A system message popped up, and Li Nuo's breath caught in his throat.

He never imagined that he would encounter a completely new ancient fungus here.

[Name: Primordial Strengthening Fungus]

[Type: Ancient Sacred Creature.]

【Analysis Results:】

[This is a psionic yeast capable of rapidly fermenting food. Under high temperature and normal pressure, its fermentation process transforms ordinary food into psionic food, stimulating the consumer's psionic field. When an orc's psionic field is activated, it strengthens their body.]

Ancient, health-strengthening, fungi!

This is the secret of the giant orcs!

This fungus was a treasure discovered by the Beast King Ulgr in an underground ruin. Currently, only the Beast King's own mad doctor team has a stockpile of it; other orc factions have never even heard of it.

It was this ancient creation, unique to the Beast King, that gave the Beast King and his personal guards a huge advantage in size.

Li Nuo forcibly suppressed the tremor in his heart. Following the habit of the mad doctor Usa, he unscrewed the lid of the glass jar and used a small spoon to scoop out a spoonful of powder and sprinkle it into the crucible.

As he closed the glass jar, Li Nuo ran his fingertip across the powder at the rim of the jar, quickly collecting it into the fungal warehouse.

On the system interface, brand new fungal samples have appeared in the last row, last column, and last cell of the fungal repository.

Since things have come to this point, wasting any more time here would be disrespectful to the ancient strengthening fungus.

Offline.

Number.

The title of the young priest Sak.

Li Nuo switched perspectives with lightning speed and arrived at the shaman's hut ten kilometers underground on Planet Palu in the blink of an eye.

"Zarg! Get me some of the biggest, fattest, and strongest Skugs! And get the cooking kid over here to help!"

"Okay, sure." Zarg was playing frisbee with the silly dog ​​at the door of the shed when he heard the priest shouting. He casually threw the frisbee and ran quickly toward the nearby railcar.

Outside the shaman's shed are artificial farmlands, above which are artificial solar tubes and irrigation facilities. The fart spirits work in the fields, and the transfer of goods relies on unimpeded trains and capsule warehouses.

Zarg's ride changed from a kata transport plane to a nuclear-powered train. When he had nothing to do, he liked to race underground, making him a veritable underground street racer.

In just ten minutes, he brought ten plump meat Scouts from the neighboring Scout farm.

The farts held down Skull and put them to sleep with electric shocks, while the cooking boys slaughtered them on the spot.

Bring a pot of water to a boil, then add the chopped meat and bones, along with various orc spices—mainly mushrooms to enhance aroma, freshness, and remove any fishy smell.

Once the soup boiled, Li Nuo walked up to the high platform and sprinkled a small pinch of the ancient strengthening fungus into the three-meter-high pot.

The system doesn't lie; this fungus has an astonishing fermentation effect under high temperature and normal pressure conditions.

From the moment the powder dissolved into the broth to the moment the entire pot of soup turned from meat color to light green, only a few dozen seconds passed.

A tantalizing aroma wafted out, causing the green-skinned creatures to swallow hard and their mouths to water. Li Nuo took a deep breath, letting the fragrance fill his nostrils.

He sensed it.

His psionic field was vibrating, though very slightly, but it was definitely vibrating.

Extremely faint psionic fluctuations emanated from the psionic field and entered the body of the shaman Sak, causing a slight itch in his muscles and bones, as well as in his head.

"Wow! Priestess, what did you add? I feel so hot!"

"Ah, my head is so itchy, I need to grow a brain."

Perhaps because it was their first time encountering psionic food that could build muscle and strengthen bones, the orcs and fart spirits felt it particularly strongly.

Even that big, clumsy Zarg couldn't stop drooling, and kept scratching his whole body as if countless tiny ants were crawling all over him.

Li Nuo stood on the high platform with his hands on his hips, chuckling to himself.

"Quiet, boys. This is a new recipe I just came up with, I've named it... uh..."

The name "Taigu Qiangshen Fungus" is too difficult to pronounce.

It needs to be a simple, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-remember name.

"I named it 'Crazy Growth Spirit'! A whiff of its aroma will ward off all diseases. A sip of its soup will invigorate you. A bite of its meat will make you strong and healthy! Whoever behaves well will get to eat it!"

The orcs and fart spirits drooled at the sound.

Li Nuo turned his head and said to Zarg:

"Have Elon come over; I have something to discuss with him."

"hold head high."

Airon serves as the commander of the garrison on the planet Paru, possessing both combat prowess and prestige.

The planet Paru has rarely been at war since its founding, but Airon has not been idle either.

He established a fully simulated combat field in the underground arms depot, where various combat drills are held every day.

Orbital bombing, air raids, urban warfare, field battles, and so on—the list goes on, but space combat training is the only thing that cannot be done.

The weapons used in the training were specially made by Linuo.

It was a tranquilizer gun that used chemical tranquilizer darts as ammunition. It contained two components: an anesthetic to mimic the effect of death and an alchemical potion to enhance the body.

The more times you are hit by tranquilizer darts, the more times you can be enhanced.

In this way, the rookie soldiers in the garrison will grow rapidly through repeated "deaths" in simulated combat, and will no longer be a burden to the garrison.

Li Nuo called Elon over for two reasons: first, to acknowledge his daily work, and second, because Elon's physical abilities had reached their limit and measures other than mechanical modifications were necessary to achieve a breakthrough.

“Aero, all the parts of your body that could be replaced with mechanical artifacts have been replaced with the highest-grade metal objects. But I know you crave to become bigger, stronger, and more WAAAAAGH.”

Li Nuo stood on the high platform, his line of sight level with that of Aaron, who was over five meters tall:

"Aero, tell me, do you crave power?"

"Of course! I dream of becoming stronger!" Aaron pounded his chest, making a loud thud.

Li Nuo pointed to the large cauldron:
"Quick! Try my new invention! I guarantee you'll be so excited you'll want to go to near-Earth orbit!"

Elon had noticed the thick soup in the large pot long ago.

He took the spoon and fork from the fart demon, scooped a spoonful of scalding hot soup into his helmet, absorbed it through the feeding port on his breathing mask, and then used the fork to shovel a large piece of meat inside.

Soup and meat enter the stomach through the artificial esophagus, where they are processed into liquid food by a cutter and compressor inside the esophagus.

A few seconds later, Aaron's two prosthetic eyes widened, and a high-pitched scream came from the vocal device in his throat:

"I...I feel like I'm gaining weight!"

Except for his head, nerve bundles, and a small amount of body tissue that could not be replaced with artificial parts, all other parts of Airon's body lacked flesh and blood.

But now, the psionic field is violently vibrating, and the psionic fluctuations are acting on his little remaining flesh and blood, causing him to grow new organs.

Orcs are born with a series of organs such as a heart, lungs, and stomach, as well as muscles and bones.

As he ate bite after bite of meat, Aaron's size grew to nearly six meters, a meter taller than before. The extra part was the newly grown skin, muscles, bones, and organs.

"Great, I can start a new renovation now!"

Airon looked at his belly. A green swimming ring had appeared between his iron crotch and iron breastplate. It looked a bit ugly, but it was still better than his body being unable to be modified any further.

Aron's guards also took a few bites, happily welcoming the new body parts.

Li Nuo recorded the experimental data on the side, and invited different groups of orcs to come over for soup and meat.

Finally, just before dawn on Terra, the experimental results were released.

The fermentation effect of the ancient strengthening fungus is closely related to the life level of the food.

The higher the life level of the ingredients, the better the fermentation effect, and the stronger the resulting spiritual energy fluctuations.

However, the strength of psionic fluctuations does not determine the effectiveness of the physical enhancement.

Whether the health-strengthening effect is good or not depends on the individual's tolerance level to the fermented product.

The fermentation process of the Taigu Qiangshen fungus produces fermentation products that can cause irreversible tolerance in consumers.

The stronger the tolerance, the weaker the strengthening effect.

When tolerance is high enough, the ancient tonic fungus has almost no tonic effect.

Li Nuo calculated that if he were to make spiritual energy dishes using ordinary food, a height of 5 meters and a weight of 500 kilograms would be the limit for the body-strengthening effect.

This is the level of Urg's Beast King's Guard.

If you want to take this a step further, there are essentially two approaches.

First, it enhances the reversion degree of the ancient strengthening fungus, thereby strengthening the medicinal efficacy of the fermented product.

Secondly, select ingredients that represent a higher level of life.

It's clear that Ulgra adopted the second approach to strengthen itself, which explains why it used the Pointy-Beaked Boy as its food.

Li Nuo couldn't bring himself to bite the pointy-mouthed boy, nor could he bring himself to bite the devil.

To be precise, he couldn't bring himself to eat any humanoid creature; at most, he would eat Scuttle.

From this perspective, deeply optimizing the genetic fragments of Sgulgers and elevating their life level is a must.

Li Nuo pondered to himself and instructed Zharg to help him collect high-quality Shiguge.

Assign tasks and then log off.

Time is spent on daily work, exploring the internet, and studying ancient strengthening fungi.

Several days later, at night.

As Li Nuo was preparing to go to bed, a system message appeared in his field of vision.

[Archived files: "Poison Nails" Axon, "Beast King's Chief Mad Doctor" Usa.]

[Archived Briefing:]

After nine days of warp travel, the battleship carrying the Orc Emperor Ulgrih is about to arrive at its destination: the primitive planet home to the Iron Slag Warlords.

The system has detected the presence of Chaos Orcs within the Iron Slag Warlord faction based on past records.

[Please pay attention to the movements of Arcane and Ursa. If these two are corrupted by Chaos, the simulated price of possessing them will increase significantly.]

Li Nuo knew that Waaagh's simulation could simulate Chaos Orcs.

But while it's fun and games, don't joke about gambling.

Li Nuo always felt that simulating Chaos Orcs was unsafe, and it was best to keep an eye on the movements of the simulated characters to avoid accidentally being corrupted by Chaos.

After careful consideration between Axon and Usa, Lino chose Axon, who had more freedom of action, for the simulation.

(End of this chapter)