Chapter 36 36. The old guy revealed his props

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

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

The old crystallized bat was extremely anxious, and its jagged claws kept scratching the surface of the upside-down rock, 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, then hurriedly returned to the top of the rock, its chest heaving violently.

By the time 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, and fell from the top of the rock and lay motionless.

Lin Jun thought that the old bat would finally explode.

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

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

Outside the cave, two figures had been waiting here 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 membrane 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, I have inherited 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.

Um?

How come there are panels that can be pulled open?

This guy is not 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)]

???

There was no time to pay attention to the S-level magic crystal. Lin Jun hurriedly controlled the puppet to search the old bat's body.

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 at 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 fragment of the sun stone?

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 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 wanted was a magical weapon that could unleash powerful killing moves.

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 before taking it out.

After all, the old bat has so many full-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 a magic weapon.

The light and heat emitted by the more complete sunstone was even stronger, so hot that even the LV7 high temperature resistance could hardly withstand it, and it could only be held a little further away.

If this thing is complete, will it really turn into a little sun that burns mountains and boils 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.

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

It came up from the lower level, and not 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 fluctuation of magic power lasted for more than ten minutes before it stabilized again.

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

I asked Dylan who was building a wooden house, and he turned out to be a bottom-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, so that he could also find out about Inanna.

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 had been prepared slowly and carefully, will have to be speeded up. He does not want to put himself in possible danger due to lack of preparation.

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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, and he learned from some special channels that there seemed to be big moves to come.

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 that anyone will take it in the short term.

After all, according to the current intelligence, these Puji will not actively attack unless you force your 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 Oberon'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 layer by layer."

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

He asked with a glimmer of hope: "Are you sure it's not interference or a false alarm?"

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

"well--"

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 out in messy arcs.

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

After drinking the wine, Oberon finally calmed down and said to Mirabelle:

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

I will report this matter to the headquarters and write to several surrounding cities to request support.

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

(End of this chapter)