This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 36 36. The old guy exploded the props

On the wet rock top, the falling water drops were trembling violently.

The infrasonic attack echoed within the cave, and a layer of corpses piled up at the bottom.

The old crystallized bat was extremely agitated, its jagged claws constantly scratching the upside-down rock surface, leaving white marks.

From time to time, it would land and use its wings to sweep aside the Puji that came too close.

The wing bone spike accidentally scratched the cap of a mushroom, and lavender hallucinogenic spores immediately gushed out.

The old bat flapped its wings and retreated continuously, returning to the top of the rock in a panic, its chest heaving violently.

When it finally recovered, some of the Pujis below had already repaired their bodies and started moving again.

A new round of infrasound waves then exploded in the cave, knocking down the newly revived Puji again - this dilemma has lasted for countless cycles.

The Puji killed by the sound wave will be resurrected, and the Puji caught and exploded will emit hallucinogenic poisonous fog at close range.

The old bat could only delay time like this over and over again, but the Poofs were getting closer and closer...

When the last foothold was also covered by hallucinogenic spores, the old bat was finally poisoned and fainted, falling from the top of the rock and lying motionless.

Lin Jun thought that the old bat would finally explode into a desperate state.

But maybe it's because it values ​​life more as it gets older, but it just keeps curling up there, and even when it's about to die, it doesn't dare to come down and tear a few Puji apart.

The final casualties were much smaller than Lin Jun had expected.

Outside the cave, two figures had been waiting there for a long time.

Mushrooms grew on the half-elf's broken earlobes, and the emerald green wooden staff in the human woman's hand had merged with the fungal film growing between her fingers.

These two were parasitic puppets made by Lin Jun before.

This time the work of dissecting the old bat was done by these two puppets.

But before that, the two puppets had to each drink a bottle of antidote.

Otherwise they will also be paralyzed by the hallucinogenic poisonous fog.

I always feel that after being made into a puppet, it inherits the weaknesses of both mushrooms and humans.

After entering the cave, Lin Jun first controlled the two puppets to cut the neck of the unconscious old bat.

Ok?
How come there are panels that can be pulled open?

Not even dead?

This time, Lin Jun simply cut off the entire bat head.

The panel still didn't disappear.

Lin Jun opened the panel with a puzzled look on his face, only to find that it was not the old bat's panel.

[Artifact: Sunstone (Fragment)]

???

Without having time to pay attention to the S-level magic crystal, Lin Jun hurriedly controlled the puppet to search the old bat's corpse.

After cutting open the chest, they finally found a piece of sunstone emitting hot light inside.

My goodness, the cave environment is so cold, how come the old bat’s high temperature resistance is level 5.

It turns out that it was baked by sunstone fragments!
So the old bat's title of transcending death is also related to this sunstone fragment?

Did this magical artifact extend its life?
Unfortunately, there is still no information on the panel.

According to the existing information, in addition to emitting light and generating heat, sunstone may also be used to survive?
So the question is, what use is this to Lin Jun?
The lifespan of mushrooms on Earth can range from a few months to thousands of years.

But this is not Earth. After being here for so long, Lin Jun has not felt any aging problems.

Rather than worrying about dying of old age, it is more realistic to worry about whether you will be killed by a powerful monster or adventurer one day.

This made Lin Jun think of another incomplete artifact he had seen.

What he wants is a magical weapon that can unleash powerful killing moves.

The three arm-sized S-level magic crystals and the sunstone were finally sent to Lin Jun's secret space hidden at the bottom of the swamp.

As for the remaining body of the old bat, it will not be wasted. The puppet is still cutting it into small pieces and then bringing it out.

After all, the old bat has so many max-level skills that a lot of proficiency can be plundered.

He took out his own piece of sunstone, studied the cross section for a long time, and finally found the corresponding part to connect the two pieces of sunstone together.

The broken ends automatically glued together, forming a seamless whole, which was consistent with Lin Jun's stereotype of the artifact.

The more complete Sunstone emitted even more intense light and heat, so hot that even a Level 7 Heat Resistance could barely withstand it, forcing it to be held a little further away. Would this thing, once complete, truly become a small sun that could burn mountains and boil seas?
Even the panel has changed.

[Artifact: Sunstone (Remnant)]

It was obviously upgraded, but Lin Jun still couldn't figure out how to use it.

This feeling of being useless really makes me anxious.

Fortunately, Lin Jun knew what the three S-level magic crystals were used for. The old bat's 500% skill power bonus made him very tempted.

I'm going to tinker with it and see if I can install it on the car.

----

Two days after dealing with the old bat, a surge of magical power suddenly appeared on the entire fifth floor, immediately attracting Lin Jun's attention.

It came up from the lower level, and it did not come out through the level passage, but penetrated the level wall from underground and came up vertically.

It is not like the intense magic shock during battle, but a more lasting and regular magic fluctuation.

This is something I have never encountered before.

The magic fluctuations lasted for more than ten minutes before stabilizing again.

Has something changed in the dungeon that I'm not aware of?

I asked Dylan who was building a wooden house. As expected of a low-level adventurer, he didn't know anything about the more advanced questions.

Dylan had no choice but to put down his work and go on a business trip to the surface to gather information, which was a good opportunity for him to find out about Inanna as well.

Even after sending Dylan, Lin Jun was still worried.

Something must have happened with such a large-scale magical shock, and the unknown always makes Mushroom anxious.

He planned to produce more Pujis recently and send some of them to explore the lower level.

It seems that the plan to strengthen the vehicle, which was originally planned to be done slowly and carefully, will have to be accelerated. He does not want to put himself in possible danger due to insufficient preparation.

----

In Yafeng Town, inside the guild president's office.

Oberon had just finished listening to Helena's report about two gold-level orc adventurers who had not returned for 10 days after accepting an A-level mission on the fifth floor.

The young branch president rested his chin on one hand and tapped the table with the other, hesitating whether to increase the level of the task or put it on hold for the time being.

Recently, many diamond-level adventurers have been invited to the capital. He learned from some special channels that there seems to be a big move going on.

There aren't many Diamond-level players hanging around out there right now, and even if an S-level mission is released, it's not certain someone will take it in the short term.

After all, according to the current intelligence, these Puji will not actively attack unless the adventurers force their way into the swamp, and will not have much impact on the adventurers' exploration of the maze.

Updating the official guide, it seems to be a more cost-effective way to keep adventurers away from the swamp area.

A rapid knock on the door interrupted Auberon's thoughts.

"Come in."

The person who came was Mirabelle, the head of intelligence analysis. As soon as she came in, she said straight to the point:
"The detection crystals set up on the seventh, fourth, and first floors have all detected magical fluctuations, and they are decreasing with each floor."

In an instant, Oberon forgot everything about the fifth floor of Puji.

He held onto a glimmer of hope and asked, "Are you sure this isn't interference or a false alarm?"

Mirabelle didn't reply, but the meaning was self-evident.

"Ugh--"

Oberon also realized that he had asked a stupid question. Mirabelle would never make such a low-level mistake.

but--

"It shouldn't be time yet? How come it's so early this time? And it just so happens that all the diamond-level players have been transferred away..."

Oberon grabbed his golden hair randomly, causing the originally neat hair to stand up in messy arcs.

He yanked open a drawer and pulled out a bottle of elven ice wine.

After the wine went down his throat, Oberon finally calmed down and said to Mirabelle:

"Issue a demonic tide warning and seal off the dungeon entrance.

I will report this matter to the General Assembly and write to several surrounding cities requesting support.

Ixion, I hope nothing serious will happen this time..."

(End of this chapter)