Final Lord

Chapter 237 The Dangerous Mushroom Ring
"Blind Chicken!" Wang Bufu immediately ordered, "Find Blind Cat and Elder Evil Eye, and have them prepare healing magic. Blind Chicken, you come along too; you deal with those spores."

Hesca, you immediately take Hera and the other harpies to find your team. Have Hera use Healing Dance to bring them back! It's extremely urgent, hurry!

Wang Bufu's order was absolutely correct. When Heska and Hera brought the team members back, many of them had been severely infected by the poisonous spores and were on the verge of death.

If Hera hadn't been clinging to life all the way, at least a dozen would have died.

The blind chicken immediately dealt with the spores on their bodies. Many of these spores had already grown into hyphae, deeply penetrating the harpies' skin and blood vessels.

After the blind chicken pulled out the longest mycelium, the harpy's blood gushed out like a fountain—the mycelium stretched to a full six meters long, and it was a semi-metallic mycelium with barbs and a transcendental rank.

It's hard to imagine how much pain that harpy endured along the way.

The blind cat and the evil-eyed tribe unleashed their healing and dispelling magic, showering the harpies with spells as if they were free, which saved their lives.

Wang Bufu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that all the harpies were out of danger.

He asked, "Hesca, what exactly is going on?"

"We found a strange mushroom ring, and it's alive!" Heska told Wang Bufu, still shaken, what had just happened.

Wang Bufu unconsciously rubbed his fingers together, staring at the mushroom mycelium that was still stubbornly wriggling under the purification magic, his pupils slightly contracting.

The cross-section of this mycelium revealed a gear-like metallic texture, and it emitted a mechanical clicking sound as it was purified by magic.

Even Blind Chicken, a master of symbiotic relationships with mushrooms, couldn't get rid of it directly; Blind Cat had to use magic to weaken its activity first.

“This is definitely not normal mycelium from the White Spirit World.” Wang Bufu suddenly tore off a piece of the cap. The cap struggled violently in his palm, and tiny metal barbs extended from its edges, trying to pierce his hand, but were blocked by his glove.

Plunder Bronze Mushrooms (Rank S)
Extraordinary Tier 4 Food

Effect: Can be eaten directly or used in cooking.

Long-term consumption can permanently increase defense by up to 8 points, and there is a low probability of obtaining the Parasitic Spore special skill.

Be very careful when cooking it; it has a rather unpleasant temper.

"Plundering the Bronze Mushroom... I've checked Bai Ling's collection. She's a hoarder, a real scavenger. She collects every strange thing that appears in Bai Ling's world. If she had this before, she definitely wouldn't have let it go."

Wang Bufu took off his gloves, letting the mushroom cap take root in his palm.

As if confirming his judgment, the blood beads seeping from his wound suddenly floated in mid-air, being fiercely extracted by the plundering bronze mushroom. The mycelium of this mushroom gripped and rotated in Wang Bufu's hand, and began to break down the flesh and blood around his wound.

The Elder of the Evil Eye immediately tightened its tentacles around the wound, stopping the mycelium's actions: "Lord, you, you, you... what are you doing?"

Wang Bufu, without changing his expression, pulled out the cap of the mushroom and said, "Let's test its aggressiveness. It's stronger than I imagined."

I have a pretty good idea what's going on. It must be a newly formed natural wonder.

Natural wonders can be broadly categorized into four types. The Fountain of Life is a logistical type, the White Spirit Tree King is a defensive type, and the Fountain of Miracles is the rarest, origin-type.

And this new wonder is aggressive!

Aggressive natural wonders have strong self-defense mechanisms and will indiscriminately attack anything that comes near them, whether it is a monster or a creature of order. Once it enters its territory, it will kill it indiscriminately!

The stronger the self-preservation mechanism, the higher the value of the wonder itself! Wang Bufu looked at everyone and said, "Aggressive natural wonders cannot be left unattended, otherwise they will use violence to erode the surrounding environment to expand their influence. Over time, they will form an impenetrable territory."

I'm going to lead troops to capture that natural wonder. Who among you wants to come?

Upon hearing this, the cave dwellers all stepped forward, and the harpies were filled with fighting spirit. Even the heavily injured harpies who had just awakened struggled to get up from the ground.

Blind Chicken and Blind Cat stood directly next to Wang Bufu. Blind Cat raised his staff and shook it from side to side, while Blind Chicken hugged Wang Bufu's leg.

Only the evil-eyed ones stared at the writhing mycelium and took three steps back.

Just then, TouchBeast suddenly squeezed out of the crowd, its primal, muscular tentacles slapping against Blind Cat's back: "I! Want! To! Go!"

With each word he uttered, one of the eyeballs on his tentacle opened.

"Good! There's still one person with guts in the evil world."

Wang Bufu laughed loudly and ripped off his cloak, using his telepathy to call out the names of the selected troops.

"Prepare for battle! But remember..." A golden flame ignited at his fingertips, illuminating the wildly writhing mycelium on the ground. Under the flame's glow, the mycelium gradually calmed down: "This time, we don't want destruction, we want conquest!"

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Wang Bufu followed Heska to the northeastern edge of the grassland, where the sight before him caused his pupils to shrink slightly—

The mushroom rings resemble precise gears, with seven different types of fungi arranged in perfect geometric patterns, and mycelium flowing and spreading across the surface of the cap.

The soil inside the ring sinks in a spiral shape, and spore mist constantly spews out from the central burrow. The surrounding grass blades have all transformed into semi-mushroom shapes, rustling as they sway in the wind.

Heska exclaimed in surprise, "That hole wasn't in this location before, it was on the right edge of the mushroom ring, how did it end up in the middle?"

Wang Bufu carefully observed the cave, and his years of combat experience allowed him to quickly understand the situation.

"That cave is a troop nest, and it has been requisitioned by the natural wonder. It seems that this natural wonder has entered expansion mode, and your reconnaissance must have accelerated its expansion process."

Fortunately, it was discovered early, before it escalated.

Wang Bufu felt a sense of relief. A natural wonder with such a strong offensive drive, if fully developed, could have a self-defense force with combat power comparable to a dozen or so extraordinary legions.

"Everyone be careful, don't go near the grass. Blind Chicken, help me sense the range of underground mycelium."

“I’ve already sensed it, it’s here!” The blind chicken pointed to the grass in front of him and said confidently, “If you walk forward fifteen meters, you will step into the mycelium’s range, and fourteen meters will be absolutely safe. The boundary is within that one-meter range.”

"it is good."

Wang Bufu carefully took out the fire and placed it near the grass.

"Boom!!!"

Like a startled beast, the mushroom ring erupted with countless mycelia like tentacles, and three mushroom-covered creatures emerged from the burrow: the [Fungi-Dwelling Beasts]. These monsters resembled hybrids of cavemen and fungi, their bodies shimmering with a cold light, and spores spewing from the crevices of their skin from time to time.

(End of this chapter)