Chapter 260 259. Whatever the Demon King can do, Puji can do too!

The magic circle cannot draw enough magic power from the ground?

Lin Jun looked at the mycelial network that spread throughout the underground of the demon tribe... Ha, this is really strange, I have no idea what is going on...

Lin Jun swore on Dylan's broken tombstone that he really didn't mean it!

With his limited knowledge of magic arrays, he couldn't even create a single third-level magic array. He couldn't understand the sophisticated combination of magic arrays in the cradle at all. Who knew that its operating principle was so dependent on the earth magic?

But...it's just right.

Hearing the voice in his head, Shou's heart sank slightly, but he still asked, "Do you have any solution?"

The sound of flapping wings came from the sky, and a bat fell down shakily, accurately stuck in the natural curvature of the hunter's horns - there was no other way, the curvature of the two horns was too convenient to stop!

"Can I come in?" Lin Jun asked.

Xinghuo looked at Puji who suddenly appeared in a daze. As an important new priest, he had never gone to the mushroom garden to "work" and had not been parasitized by mycelium. This was the first time he saw this legendary mushroom spirit with his own eyes.

But many of the other demons noticed the sudden appearance of Puji, but they still didn't understand what had happened.

Shou glanced at Xinghuo and the other tribesmen, thought for a moment, and then walked towards the stone house with a puff of air.

When entering the door, he lowered his head to avoid bumping into it.

Inside the stone house, the newborn demon boy lay quietly on the ground, with dark blue magic patterns spreading from the faintly glowing magic core on his chest, but only extending to his arms before stopping abruptly.

The ritual was apparently interrupted before completion, and the remaining magic patterns were dim and useless. At least on the panel, there was no [Cold Resistance] at all.

Lin Jun was a little surprised that the demon was already in the form of a teenager when he was born.

As expected of a species that can reproduce asexually like mushrooms, their efficiency is higher than those hermaphroditic creatures that need to reproduce slowly!

The boy did not wake up, but his body was shivering instinctively in the cold.

The panel has started to lose health, and it will not be long before this newborn demon dies in his sleep.

Wrapping him in a fur blanket and keeping him warm by the fire might keep him alive temporarily, but doing so would be pointless and would only prolong his suffering. He would not be able to survive this journey to escape from the Far North.

But for Lin Jun, this fatal problem was just a matter of adding a skill to the blank board.

But before that...

There was a little commotion outside the stone house, and soon a few more Pujis squeezed in.

Different from the bat puff, this was a burrowing puff temporarily generated by Lin Jun for keeping warm. Of course, he pretended to run in from the gate of the tribe!

The Pujis surrounded the newborn demon boy, but did not start to heat him up immediately... His health still needs to drop a little more.

Shou stood in the middle of the stone house, calmly holding the cradle behind him and watching the Pujis' actions quietly.

After a while, the health volume dropped to about a quarter, and the four burrowing puffs began to work together.

With the "buzzing" sound, the temperature in the stone house was quickly raised, and the life of the newly born demon gradually returned to stability.

At this moment, the bat that had been stuck on the hunting horn jumped down lightly and landed on the boy's chest. It shook its mushroom cap, and fine spores fell evenly.

Shou saw what was going on. Every member of the tribe connected to the fungal network would be sprinkled with spores.

But...it turns out that being sucked blood by a vampire isn't a necessary step...

Parasitism completed.

And then you have to connect to the fungal blanket...

A burrowing creature scurried to a corner of the stone house where no magic circle was drawn, and began to drill down.

Shou subconsciously raised his hand, as if wanting to stop them, but in the end he chose to acquiesce and let the Pujis do their thing.

More than ten minutes later, mycelium appeared at the entrance of the cave.

A few minutes later, a fungal carpet had grown in the corner of the stone house.

This scene made Shou's eyelids twitch.

Having worked under Puji for so long, he certainly knew how the fungal blanket spread and that there were fungal blankets outside the dungeon.

But he didn't expect that the fungal mat would spread throughout the tribe in less than half an hour, which meant that there might have been a large area of fungal mat underground for a long time!

Everything that happened before his eyes reminded him that, although his tribe appeared normal on the surface, they had probably been surrounded by Puji for a long time. Even the lack of magic power just now might be...

Lin Jun didn't care what Shou was thinking, and wouldn't care even if he knew.

After thoroughly understanding the so-called "cradle" and "newborn ceremony", Lin Jun was certain that the demon descendants would absolutely be inseparable from him in the future, as long as he showed them the power of this "gift"!

The Pujis dragged the newly born demons onto the fungal mat, and the mycelium connected to them automatically, and magic power flowed into the demons' bodies along the fungal mat.

The incomplete ice-blue magic pattern on the boy's body suddenly lit up for a moment, then dimmed again.

Lin Jun didn’t know what this sudden light up meant, but just now, [Cold Resistance LV8] was activated!

The magic power consumed is minimal, even less than creating a cannon mushroom. After all, this newborn demon has no skills yet.

The drilling machine stopped heating, the warmth in the stone house gradually dissipated, and Shou's heart was in his throat.

However, the young man on the ground did not shiver. Instead, his brows relaxed in his sleep, and his breathing was steady, as if he was in the most comfortable environment.

"This...?!" Shou's voice trembled with disbelief.

Lin Jun's voice was like a gentle whisper, with just the right hint of temptation, echoing directly into Shou's mind: "It's no big deal. It's just that I... happen to have mastered some tricks to bestow power upon 'followers'."

"Followers..." Shou chewed the word over and over again.

"Of course," Lin Jun said frankly, "Don't underestimate the process. The price paid is not small. If they are not truly our own, how can it be worth helping them so much? But you don't have to mind. I don't mean any other things. You have helped me a lot recently, so this is just a small gift in return!"

…

Shou carried the newborn demon and walked out of the stone house. He looked around at the worried-looking tribesmen who had gathered around him, took a deep breath, and announced, "The ritual... was successful! We have a new tribesman!"

After a brief silence, thunderous cheers broke out!

The demons hugged and jumped excitedly, and some even improvised a sacrificial dance.

The big pot that had been prepared long ago was set up, and the mushroom soup mixed with insect meat, mushrooms and a small amount of delicious mushrooms began to boil - to celebrate the birth of new life, this is the only festival of the demon tribe.

Only Starfire, her face filled with shock and confusion.

The newborn demon was carried back to the big tent and placed on a relatively comfortable bed.

Generally speaking, a newly born demon needs a few days of sleep to gather its consciousness, so just let it sleep.

Xinghuo followed closely in. He carefully examined the still incomplete magic patterns on the boy's body and asked in confusion, "How did he do that?"

"This... is Puji's ability,"

"Puji's ability?"

Shou did not continue to answer, but slowly took out the magic core that the elder gave him before his death from his arms and thought silently.

He thought a lot, including the current situation of the tribe, the tribesmen who had been living in symbiosis with the mycelium, Qiong who loved to eat delicious mushrooms, the large amount of fungal mats that might exist underground in the tribe, and even more so, Puji's methods that were comparable to those of the legendary Demon King!

After a long moment, he finally looked up at Xinghuo, the only other senior warrior and priest left in the tribe, and said word by word, "Xinghuo, let's... throw mushrooms!"

(End of this chapter)