Chapter 4 4. Magic Crystal
The mushroom garden is backed by rock walls on both sides. These rock walls look like skeletons gnawed by giant beasts, and the surface of the dark gray rock layers is covered with honeycomb-like erosion holes.
Dark purple crystal clusters condensed in certain depressions, scattered throughout the entire rock wall, and the concentration of magic power around these amethysts was always higher than at other locations.
The so-called mining area is where these amethysts are collected.
Although inserting this purple crystal into the soil will not directly turn into nutrients, it can attract the free magic power in the surrounding air to gather and improve the efficiency of mycelium in collecting magic power.
There are many Puji equipped with the Chitin Shell skill in the mining area. They form a thick shell on the mushroom cap and then use it to chisel out the crystals in the rock wall.
To be honest, with only a level 4 skill, the shell is not hard enough and the mining efficiency is quite low. Puji can also be easily killed by his own shock. But the conditions are limited, so it is good enough to be able to mine it.
Inanna set her eyes on a fist-sized piece of purple crystal that she had just mined and held it tightly between her short legs.
"What are you doing?"
"Lin, Lin Jun?"
The pink Puji trembled violently and tripped over the purple crystal under his feet.
"Don't talk in your head all of a sudden..."
"Do we have other ways to communicate? Get used to it sooner."
Inanna thought about it and it was true, but she still felt that she might not be able to adapt to someone talking in her mind anytime and anywhere...
"You have so many magic crystals here." Picking up the purple crystal again, Inanna couldn't help but sound excited.
"Magic crystals? Do you mean these amethysts used to fertilize the fields?"
"Fat...fat field?"
A green-capped mushroom jumped out and used its short legs to lift up the cap of a large mushroom nearby. Underneath it was a purple crystal half-stuck in the soil.
"You, you, you actually used magic crystals to fertilize the fields?"
"What else?"
"This is magic crystal! This is magic crystal that can be used to make magic items, as a base for a magic array, and even small pieces can be used as magic crystal materials for casting spells! How can it be used to fertilize the fields?"
Inanna looked so heartbroken that it seemed like Lin Jun was wasting a gift from heaven.
"Have you forgotten that this is a dungeon? But it does have other uses besides fertilizing the fields."
I saw a tentacle made of mycelium extending from the bottom of the mushroom, activating the skill [Entangle LV3], rolling up a piece of purple crystal half the size of a palm, and tying Puji and the magic crystal together.
Then, a steady stream of magic power poured into the magic crystal, and the magic crystal changed from dull to shiny, and then from shiny to sparkling. The excessive magic power inside caused the entire magic crystal to be in an overloaded state.
When cracks appeared on the magic crystal and it let out a mournful cry of being overwhelmed, Puji jumped wildly onto an open space with the magic crystal.
Bang--
It exploded.
The aftermath of the explosion caused Inanna to fall again.
"It's very powerful, isn't it? This thing is very useful against monsters."
Rolling to the ground, Inanna didn't know what to say.
A C-grade magic crystal, which could be used as the main material for a silver-level adventurer's staff with a little processing, was treated as a disposable item in front of her, releasing an explosion with a power equivalent to that of a LV4 level Pyroblast.
Even the most ignorant upstart in the Federation would not waste these precious magical materials like this!
You know, even her own magic wand is inlaid with only a B-grade magic crystal.
"By the way, you haven't told me what you want the magic crystal for."
The sudden return to the topic made Inanna, who was still cursing Lin Jun for being a spendthrift in her heart, unable to react for a moment, and she directly stated her purpose:
"I want to use it to cast a spell."
After saying this, Inanna felt guilty again, because she didn't know whether Lin Jun would regard the ability to cast spells as a threat. If Lin Jun felt that she was a threat, her life would be in danger...
"Oh? Didn't you say you can't cast spells after turning into a Pooji?"
Lin Jun didn't seem to consider the threat at all, and his words were full of curiosity.
Inanna breathed a sigh of relief and quickly explained: "Just try it out. Maybe using the magic crystal can bypass the limitations of Puji's body."
"Then you try it."
Another tentacle stretched out from under the mushroom, rolled up the magic crystal next to Inanna and stretched it towards her.
Faced with the tentacles suddenly approaching, Inanna instinctively took two steps back, but was still entangled.
After the tentacles circled around her twice, they tied the magic crystal to the top of her mushroom cap.
"Be careful, these tentacles are very fragile, don't break them."
After all, it is a stolen skill, and if it is used forcefully with mycelium, we cannot expect it to really bind tightly.
Upon hearing this, Inanna did not dare to move and focused her energy on casting a spell - Glimmer, a spell that even an apprentice could easily cast.
A ball of orange-yellow light appeared above Inanna's head, flickering and seemingly unstable in its magic power.
After flickering for a while, Inanna seemed to have found the trick and the brightness finally stabilized.
"It worked! It really works!"
Inanna was so excited that she actually jumped up on her short legs.
Snap——
The bound tentacles broke instantly, the magic crystal fell to the ground, and the glimmer magic was extinguished - the mycelium tentacles were really very fragile.
"Hmm, sorry..."
Lin Jun didn't care about the wasted mycelium at all. All his attention was focused on Inanna's spellcasting.
"Try to cast it again now."
"It can't be released without magic crystal."
"It doesn't matter if you fail, just let it go, I'll see if there's any difference."
have a look?
Inanna didn't quite understand what Lin Jun meant, but she still tried to cast the Glimmer spell on her own.
Then, unsurprisingly, it failed, just like she had tried countless times before.
But Lin Jun, who had been observing her, saw more.
【Magic Perception LV4】
This was taken from a magic vine called Noctis's Whisker that originally lived in the mushroom garden area. They rely on magical perception to find prey and then strangle them with vines. It is worth mentioning that the entanglement skill was also obtained from them.
Although these magic plants are of high level, they cannot move and in Lin Jun's eyes are no different from food on the plate. Now they are extinct in this area.
Lin Jun was a little regretful about this. Both skills of Noctis's Whiskers were quite practical. However, he was only thinking about getting a piece of land at the time and didn't think too far ahead. Otherwise, he could have left some seeds and raised them like the rolling beetles and slimes in the breeding area, and slaughtered them regularly to extract their skill proficiency.
In the magic vision, Lin Jun observed that the flow of magic power when Inanna cast the spell was indeed smooth in the initial stage, but the flow of energy was blocked at each node and could never form a complete closed loop, as if the way she cast the spell was wrong.
Inanna had just used the magic crystal to cast the Glimmer spell, so it was impossible that her casting method was wrong.
In Lin Jun's opinion, this is more likely caused by the different body structures of humans and Puji - to put it simply, the hardware and system do not match and cannot run.
The magic crystal is an independent environment that can better match the way these magics work.
It feels a bit like the fact that you can only use the corresponding skills after you have modified the Pujis.
"So can you use other magic now?"
Lin Jun knew that she was a dual-element level 4 magician, and he also wanted to see more spells.
"Well, I'm afraid I need more practice. I'm not familiar with using my body to output magic power. Also, this magic crystal has not been polished and some turbid areas inside will interfere with casting. I need to get used to it."
"Turbid? The purer the magic crystal, the better?"
Lin Jun really had no idea about this. He only knew that it could gather demons by sticking it in the soil. He thought some of the different effects were just a matter of size. As for using it to self-destruct... its purity didn't seem to make any difference.
"Of course. It is said that the staff of Archmage Zorya is inlaid with a completely pure S-grade magic crystal. The power of any spell cast through that staff will be tripled!"
"S-level? There are different levels... Wait a minute."
After a while, while Inanna was puzzled, two Puji came to her together, carrying a large piece of crystal clear magic crystal.
"A...A-grade magic crystal? And it's the size of an arm!?"
(End of this chapter)
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