Chapter 297 296. One Sixth
A strange purple mushroom-capped Puji was trying hard to show off his chubby body in front of the tailless lizard man who was sitting cross-legged.
"Norris, how do you feel?" Lin Jun asked.
"What...feeling?" Norris looked confused, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly, "Isn't it just that Puji is...uh...cramping?"
"Don't you have even a little bit of...blood boiling? Primal instinct roaring? The desire to rush forward to protect it and cherish it at all costs?" The voice was full of inducement.
"No... Boss!" Norris was speechless. "This is Puji! Who knows if it will explode on its own? Why am I so excited? I just want to stay away from it, lest it explode suddenly!"
Why didn't it work? Could it be that this guy is no longer human?
Lin Jun did not give up. After a long delay, [Charm (mild)] finally appeared on Norris's status bar.
“Huh?” Norris looked a little puzzled and subconsciously stretched out his hand, “This Puji… seems a little… cute?”
His fingertips almost touched the shaking purple mushroom cap.
Suddenly, he shuddered: "Wait! Boss! Are you testing something on me?"
The moment he realized this, the slight charm on Norris naturally disappeared.
Well, that's what happens when you're at a low level, and Norris has some understanding of himself, so he's mentally prepared, so this result is understandable.
Lin Jun turned around and used this skill to harm the relatively weak-willed guys among the lizardman captives. The effect was immediate. It didn't take much effort before the target's eyes became blurred and he wanted to hold Test Puji in his arms as a treasure.
Although this skill is called "Charm Human", the "human" actually refers to humanoid creatures.
The effect is achieved, but the problem also arises - after being charmed, what next?
The bewitched object will indeed subconsciously keep that "special" Puji by his side, never leaving it, as if protecting a treasure, but that's all!
Without going through the fungal network, Lin Jun could not communicate with the charmed object and give instructions.
But if you make up a language and start speaking, the other person will be frightened and wake up instantly.
Is it because the supporting skills are incomplete?
After some research, I found that there was indeed a skill missing called [Telepathy].
The half-demon leader Bastardos has this skill, but it is obviously impossible for Lin Jun to disassemble Bastardos on the spot just for this thing.
The reason for Bastardos's surrender was simple.
The most important thing is of course that you can’t beat him!
Secondly, his entire hometown was wiped out, and the remaining people in his tribe, except for the hundred or so people around him, were all in Lin Jun's hands.
Surrendering might give the tribe members a slightly better life.
In short, he's a useful guy, and you won't want to kill him just for a small skill.
Lin Jun also tested another skill, [Kiss of Temptation], with great interest.
As for the effect... it's basically like when Puji sticks to the opponent, it can absorb a small amount of vitality.
It's quite useful, but... there's neither "temptation" nor "kiss". It wouldn't be out of place if the name was changed to "life drain".
Lin Jun's fantasy of the "Charming Puji" image that could captivate everyone and make people willingly give up everything for her was no longer a possibility.
Among the newly acquired skills, the most useful one is [Regeneration].
The effect of [Regeneration] does not conflict with [Mycelium Reorganization]. The recovery effects are cumulative, and the cost for Puji is the consumption of magic power.
This skill is very good whether it is used on heavy armor Puji or subordinates, provided that the level is higher.
As for that [fake death], Lin Jun felt that it was similar to "turtle breathing". It would stop all activities, and even the magic power in the body would dissipate to only enough to maintain survival.
In this situation, even if Puji got up, he would not be able to continue fighting due to insufficient magic power.
It feels like it’s not completely useless, but the application scenarios that can be thought of are too harsh and not very applicable.
In addition to the many skill improvements brought about by plundering, Lin Jun's own core ability [Spiritual Integration] finally broke through the bottleneck and was promoted to LV8.
The upper limit of the number of Puji that can be directly controlled has jumped from 2,500 to 5,000, doubling!
But Lin Jun noticed a detail.
[Spiritual Integration] When it was level 6 to level 7, it also doubled from 1500 to 3000.
Before this upgrade, his actual control limit was 2,500, because the dungeon core occupied a fixed 500 units of "computing power" resources.
Logically speaking, after this upgrade, the number of controllable Puji should have increased to 5,500, but in fact, it only doubled on the basis of the reduction.
Therefore, the dungeon core does not occupy a fixed value of 500 units of computing power, but a constant one-sixth of his total mental computing power.
The bad news...
Lin Jun tried to raise Xinghuo's [Spiritual Integration] to level eight.
The results were disappointing, no change.
As the best among the demons at controlling Puji, Xinghuo can control more than 150 Puji at most.
However, the increase in the level of [Spiritual Integration] neither increased his control limit nor inspired the ability to accurately command multiple Puji to perform different tasks at the same time like Norris did.
It felt like Spark's potential in this area had been developed to its limit, and upgrading this skill would be of no use.
Lin Jun conducted the same test on other demons, and the results were exactly the same. The "capacity expansion" effect brought about by the increase in the level of the [Spirit Integration] skill seemed to be only effective for himself.
After sorting out the harvest, Lin Jun also began to think about the possible subsequent developments of this incident.
Some people fled, which was almost inevitable.
After all, this is a world with various skills, magic, and flying abilities. When the number of people increases, there will always be some people who are good at escaping and can rush out.
Not all those who escaped would return to the tribe and wait for Lin Jun to come to them. After seeing the tribe destroyed, some half-demons chose to leave alone.
In short, some intelligence leaks are inevitable.
What would you do if you were the empire?
The two tribes closest to the demons have been defeated. Even if the tribes farther away are willing to assist the empire, they are powerless due to the severe cold and distance restrictions.
And even if they come, they may not win.
As for the empire sending its own army to conquer, it is even more impossible.
After all, the army within the empire should generally not have high-level [Cold Resistance] - I am really amazing to be able to thrive in such a harsh environment!
Then there are only two possibilities left.
Either leave me alone for the time being, or send those strong men who are strong enough to defeat Lin Jun individually, that is, those dukes!
In order to deal with this possibility, Lin Jun naturally had to be prepared.
In short, start moving!
(End of this chapter)
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