This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 9 9. Explosion of troops! Flame Demon's unusual movement!
"Don't these need to be buried underground?"

"I'm not a plant..."

Do people in this world still not know the difference between fungi and plants?

The cattle and horses had already carried all the fire flies and the fragments of their larvae back to the mushroom garden.

Monsters like Fire Mosquito, which rely on agility and evasion, are not very strong. It is difficult to leave an intact corpse after being hit by a mushroom cannon or killed by a shelled Puff.

Now they are evenly spread in the planting area, and the first batch of them have begun to produce mycelium.

After these monster corpses are decomposed, they will provide Lin Jun with both skill proficiency and magic power. The magic power contained in a single fire mosquito is not much, but the amount is large.

Lin Jun will invest all of this magic into the production of new Puji.

The number of Pujis that the mushroom garden can currently accommodate by naturally absorbing magic power is approximately 300. 100 of them are from the logistics team, responsible for maintaining the daily operations of the mushroom garden, and the rest are combat Pujis.

This time, Lin Jun planned to exceed the upper limit and obtain 400 combat Puji at one time, and then devote all his energy to the next operation of hunting earthworms.

Anyway, if there are still many survivors after the operation, we can just lay them off. The most important thing is to ensure the success rate.

There is no other fire mosquito nest nearby that can provide him with so much nutrients so easily. If he fails this time, it will take him an unknown amount of time to organize a second round.

"Lin Jun, look, I seem to have gained a new talent!"

Inanna hadn't known when she used the Water Snake Technique. Lin Jun had seen her use this skill in battle before. It couldn't be said to be invincible, but at least it could be said to be completely useless.

Not only does it have a short range and poor power, it can't even kill a fire mosquito in a head-on hit. Its only advantage is that it can be controlled to a certain extent after being fired, but with Inanna's terrible skills, it has become a negative effect.

Compared with Ice Blade, it was a case of being killed by explosion.

I guess Inanna herself realized this, and after using the water snake twice, she never used it again.

But now, the water snake that Inanna cast actually swam around her flexibly, like a small protective green dragon.

This was definitely not Inanna's normal level, so Lin Jun decisively pulled out her panel again.

Sure enough, her level reached LV30, and even if she only shared a small part of the experience gained by hundreds of fire mosquitoes, she was able to level up two levels.

The fixed effects now include [Favor of Elemental Spirits: Elemental Spirits will assist the caster in manipulating spells].

"Try to attack the stone with your ice blade."

The target Lin Jun gave was 100 meters away from Inanna, a distance where a puff of lightning would hardly miss.

"Oh? Let me try."

The moment the ice blade shot out, Lin Jun knew that she had deviated to her grandmother's house again, but the ice blade miraculously adjusted itself during the flight and finally cut a corner of the stone.

“I…actually got it right!”

Inanna herself looked incredulous.

In fact, if her shooting angle was not so off, the ice blade should have hit the bull's eye. It was so off that it could finally touch the target. The elemental spirit is really powerful.

Lin Jun also noticed that when Inanna used the ice blade, the water snake technique surrounding her was not canceled.

So is it something like AI-assisted control capabilities?

It’s just that the elemental spirits here replace the functions of AI.

Come to think of it, this world actually has elemental spirits. I thought magic was just pure magic.

Lin Jun also realized that humans, like him, naturally gained a fixed effect or skill that matched them every ten levels, just like his mushroom cannon and fungus web. Inanna called it talent.

It seems that this is not unique to him. Humans are like this, and I guess other races or monsters are the same.

However, there are still some differences. I don’t know if it’s because I can’t see the panel, but Inanna’s talent is obtained automatically, while he has an additional step of choosing one of three.

Lin Jun glanced at his current level of LV44. It was still too early for him to choose his talent next time.

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In the following time, Lin Jun plunged into a large-scale project called "explosion of troops".

The good news is that the mental integration skill that has not been used for a long time has finally reached level 6, otherwise Lin Jun really would not be able to control so many Puji at once.

But even so, he had no time to chat with Inanna.

But Inanna didn't mind it. She was recently obsessed with exploring her new talent.

In addition to helping her adjust the trajectory and aim automatically, the elemental spirit can also help her with other things like active follow-up lighting and automatic 360° all-round defense through water mirror refraction. In short, they are much more skillful than she can use them herself.

But spells like Purge and Mire remain unchanged—elemental spirits do not enhance the power of the spells themselves.

Days passed, and just when everything was about to be ready, a strong magical fluctuation was heard outside the mushroom garden.

"Lin Jun, what happened? Why do you suddenly feel so depressed?"

Just like the aftershocks of an 8.0 magnitude earthquake in the distance, even Inanna, who had no magic perception skills, noticed that something was wrong. Lin Jun even directly observed the magic vibrations coming like waves, one after another, making him uncomfortable.

Lin Jun checked the surveillance he had set up outside. These scattered small clusters of mushrooms could not provide Lin Jun with vision, but they could sense the surrounding magical fluctuations.

Soon Lin Jun figured out the source of the fluctuation - the direction of the Flame Demon's lair.

Now that he knew it was the direction of the Fire Demon, Lin Jun felt relieved. He comforted the frightened Inanna casually and continued to concentrate on the finishing work of the troop explosion.

It’s not that Lin Jun is not afraid of the Fire Demon. On the contrary, as the strongest monster discovered so far, Lin Jun has always been wary of the Fire Demon’s movements.

If he ever finds the fire demon moving towards the mushroom garden, he will definitely pick up the bucket and run away immediately.

Fortunately, this never happened.

In fact, after Lin Jun's observation, Yan Mo was almost a homebody.

Unlike itself which grows on the ground and is inconvenient to move, the Fire Demon is simply too lazy to move, as if just soaking in lava can satisfy most of its needs.

However, staying at home doesn't mean it won't go out. So far, there have been records of Flame Demon going out three times.

Every time it goes out, it causes magical fluctuations in the vicinity, just like today. Lin Jun suspected that it was going out to fight.

However, he had no idea who he was fighting against or where he was fighting. He also didn't know what kind of opponent could fight against the Flame Demon. The part Lin Jun explored was still too small compared to the entire depth.

Lin Jun's original plan to smuggle was to take advantage of the opportunity when the fire demon went out and run through its nest to the upper level.

However, this plan is still quite risky. The most important thing is that he has no control over when the Fire Demon will return.

The shortest of the three records was only a few hours, and the longest was estimated to be three or four days.

The smuggling plan was a real gamble on life, so it was replaced by the digging plan.

I don’t know how long it will take for the Fire Demon to return home this time. I hope he doesn’t cause any accidents that interfere with my hunting of earthworms.

(End of this chapter)