Chapter 19 19. Release from Prison

The fifth level of the Amethyst Dungeon, the swamp area.

Mud mixed with blood seeped into the swamp through his fingers. Dylan leaned against the slippery rock wall, and the penetrating wound in his abdomen made it difficult for him to move.

He failed, he failed right at the beginning.

Failed to use sleeping powder to control the lone parasitic tree before being discovered.

Now not only was he stabbed and seriously injured, his weapon was also knocked away, and other parasitic trees in the distance received the signal and gathered around.

"Bella."

Whispering his daughter's name, Dylan's eyes burned with the desire to live - he couldn't die now.

Bella is the only child between him and his late wife. She is smart, sensible and talented.

He has already reached the silver level at such a young age, and in the future he will definitely become a much more powerful figure than his useless father.

She still has a bright future and shouldn't die now, let alone become an ugly creature like a vampire and live in pain.

So he couldn't die yet. He still had four packets of sleeping powder. He still had a chance. As long as he could escape from the swamp...

“Dead end…”

At some point, the road ahead was blocked by a stone wall.

Dylan wanted to retreat, but five parasitic trees had already surrounded his retreat route, and their pale roots were ready to capture Dylan.

If his body was intact, he could try to rush out before the parasitic trees surrounded him, but now, with the serious abdominal injury, it was impossible for him to do so.

He grabbed the climbing vine hanging from the stone wall and tried to climb up the stone wall along it, but the climbing vine was pulled off completely, revealing a stone door that was covered by it.

"Ha... ahem... haha... hidden room..."

This was the first time he had come across a hidden room in all these years. If it were any other time, he would have been ecstatic because there would usually be valuable things inside.

But now…

The parasitic tree was less than twenty meters behind him. Dylan didn't care about anything else. He groped for a protruding mechanism and pressed it.

Now he could only pray that there would be a legendary artifact inside that could help him turn danger into safety.

As blue dust continued to fall, the heavy stone door opened inward.

Bang, bang, bang——

Several magic shells shot out from the shadows and hit a parasitic tree that had already extended its roots towards Dylan, breaking it in half.

The fluorescent mushroom caps in the darkness lit up one by one, and rows of strange round puffs appeared in front of Dylan.

I have been imprisoned for ten thousand years.

Now you dare to trespass into my territory,

What the hell! What kind of tree man looks so disgusting!

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Life in the treasure chest room is not a worry about food and drink, it's really... quite boring...

It’s not as good as the Mushroom Garden, where you can fight monsters every day.

Life here was so boring that Lin Jun ate all the fluorescent grass in the room and gained a fluorescent skill that consumed almost no mana.

Of course, the level increases quickly here.

There was a pool full of highly concentrated magic power. When Lin Jun had collected almost all of it, he directly raised its level to LV47.

He then took out the one tenth of the lava heart that he had picked up.

As expected of the Flame Demon's true body, it still emits astonishing heat even after being shattered.

If Lin Jun’s high temperature resistance had not reached level 7, the mycelium would not be able to stick to it.

After decomposing the Lava Heart, Lin Jun leveled up again and looted a new skill: [Self-Destruction LV3]

From now on, he won't need to use magic crystals when playing the self-destructive Puji...

Fortunately, the Fire Demon died suddenly. If he had left a trace of blood and given him the opportunity to self-destruct, it might not be certain whether Lin Jun was in that position, but the three adventurers in front of him would definitely be dead.

The question now is how to get out?

He has produced another 40 Poojis.

Due to limited space, he couldn't increase quantity and could only choose to improve quality. Each Puji was equipped with five to seven skills.

He had tried to bombard the stone door collectively, but it couldn't be broken.

The treasure chest room must have special reinforcement measures, otherwise wouldn't it be easy for this firepower to blow up a rock?

As for the self-destruction technique, Lin Jun didn't dare to use it, fearing that the power would be too great and the space would be too small, and he would be blown up...

I don’t know how long I was shut down, but something interesting happened - the treasure chest was refreshed!

After a burst of magical power, the slate lid of the treasure chest returned to its original position. After it was opened, a ring was taken out from inside.

Unfortunately, it is an offensive magic ring that adds no attributes and can only cast Ice Cone three times a day.

Its power is about the same as that of a mushroom cannon, and it is completely useless to Lin Jun.

In the days that followed, Lin Jun could only wait for the treasure chest to refresh something to see if it could help him get out.

It would be nice if I could get a classic teleportation scroll or something like that.

However, before Lin Jun waited for the treasure chest to refresh for the second time, the stone door was opened from the outside...

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The light from outside shone in and illuminated Lin Jun's body by the pond.

This is the breath of freedom!

But in the next second, the Pujis blocked the door tightly and also blocked the light to prevent any possible attack from harming the main body.

After the repaired Strongest Puji carefully hid its body inside its shell, Lin Jun finally had time to observe the situation outside.

A seriously injured adventurer lay beside the stone gate, not daring to move.

This is the person who released this fungus. He did a good job.

Further outside there are a few trees...people...such disgusting monsters.

After opening the panel and seeing the [Fusion Parasite] skill on it, Lin Jun finally figured out what it was.

They immediately opened fire, and several parasitic trees used their skills to try to fight back, one of which even released a fireball.

However, it was all in vain in the face of Lin Jun's firepower. The fireball was blown apart before it could be fully condensed, and instead burned itself.

After easily taking out a few parasitic trees, the only one left was this weak adventurer.

Don't get me wrong, Lin Jun doesn't want to kill to silence the witness.

In fact, as long as the true identity of the person was not exposed, he didn't care about the leak of information such as "a group of strange Puji appeared in the maze".

This man released Lin Jun, and Lin Jun saved his life, and they were even.

The problem is that he looks like he's about to die, and the health on the panel is slowly but steadily decreasing.

Letting him die like this is not in line with Lin Jun's principles as a mushroom farmer. At least he should try to save him.

The difficulty now is that Lin Jun doesn't have any healing skills...

Pujis are consumables. If they are broken, just throw them away. If they really need to be repaired, just use mycelium to repair them. You can't use mycelium to repair people...

Can you help him call other adventurers?

Not to mention that I don’t know where this is, even if I find other adventurers, I’m afraid a fight will start first.

Lin Jun recalled the introduction about [Fusion Parasitism] he had just seen, and looking at the several parasitic trees still soaking in the mud, it seemed that this was the only way.

The Pujis dragged the unconscious Dylan and the remains of the parasitic tree into the treasure room.

Lin Jun controls the mycelium to accelerate the decomposition of the parasitic tree.

This is a very unprofitable behavior, as the magic power consumed to accelerate the process is far more than the magic power gained by decomposition.

But Lin Jun got what he wanted.

[Seven Sins of Greed Trigger]

[Plundering Skill: Fusion Parasite LV1]

The main body personally spread spores on the fatal wound in Dylan's abdomen. With the help of magic power, the mycelium gradually merged with the flesh and blood to block the wound.

It even replenished Dylan's vitality to a certain extent.

In the end, he really used mycelium to heal people...

Lin Jun always felt something strange when feeling this neither-human, nor-mushroom existence appearing in the fungus web.

The purity of your own organization seems to have declined?

(End of this chapter)