Chapter 9 9. Explosion of troops! Flame Demon moves!
"Don't these need to be buried underground?"
“I’m not a plant…”
Are the people in this world still unable to tell the difference between fungi and plants?
The cows, horses and oxen had already carried all the fire flies and the fragments of their larvae back to the mushroom garden.
Monsters like the Firefly, which rely mainly on agility and evasion, are not very strong, and it is difficult to leave an intact corpse after being hit by a mushroom cannon or killed by a shelled Puff.
Now they are evenly spread in the planting area, and the first batch of them that were brought back have begun to produce mycelium.
After these monster corpses are decomposed, they will provide Lin Jun with skill proficiency and magic power at the same time. The magic power contained in a single fire mosquito is not much, but the amount is large.
Lin Jun will invest all of this magic power into the production of new Puji.
The number of Pujis that the mushroom garden can currently accommodate by naturally absorbing magic power is approximately 300. Among them, 100 are from the logistics team, responsible for maintaining the daily operation of the mushroom garden, and the rest are combat Pujis.
This time, Lin Jun planned to exceed the upper limit and get 400 combat Puji at one time, and then devote all his efforts to the next operation of hunting earthworms.
Anyway, if there are still many people alive after the operation, we can just lay them off. The most important thing is to ensure the success rate.
There is no other fire mosquito nest nearby that can provide him with so many nutrients so easily. If he fails this time, he doesn't know when he can organize a second round.
"Lin Jun, look, I seem to have gained a new talent!"
Inanna had somehow performed the Water Snake Technique. Lin Jun had seen her use this skill in battle before. It couldn't be said that she was invincible, but at least it could be said to be completely useless.
Not only does it have a short range and poor power, it can't even kill a Fire Mosquito in a single blow from a direct hit. Its only advantage is that it can be controlled to a certain extent after being fired, but with Inanna's horrible skills, this has become a negative effect.
Compared with Ice Blade, it was like being killed by an explosion.
I guess Inanna herself realized this, and after using the water snake twice, she never used it again.
But now, the water snake that Inanna cast actually swam around her flexibly, like a small protective green dragon.
This was definitely not Inanna's normal level, so Lin Jun decisively pulled out her panel again.
Sure enough, her level reached LV30, and even a small portion of the experience gained from hundreds of fire mosquitoes allowed her to level up two levels.
There is now a new fixed effect: [Favor of Elemental Spirits: Elemental Spirits will assist the caster in manipulating spells].
"Try to attack the stone with your ice blade."
The target Lin Jun gave was 100 meters away from Inanna, a distance where a Puji shot would hardly miss.
"Hey? Let me try."
The moment the ice blade shot out, Lin Jun knew that she had deviated to her grandmother's house again, but the ice blade miraculously adjusted itself during the flight and finally cut a corner of the stone.
“I…actually got it right!”
Inanna herself looked incredulous.
In fact, if her firing angle wasn't so off, the ice blade should have hit the bull's eye. It was able to finally hit the target even though it was so off. The elemental spirit is really powerful.
Lin Jun also noticed that when Inanna used the ice blade, the water snake technique surrounding her was not canceled.
So is it something like AI-assisted control capabilities?
It’s just that the elemental spirits here replace the functions of AI.
Come to think of it, this world actually has elemental spirits. I thought magic was just pure magic.
In addition, Lin Jun also realized that humans, like himself, would naturally gain a fixed effect or skill that matched themselves every ten levels, just like his mushroom cannon and fungus web.
Inanna called it a gift.
It seems that this is not unique to him. Humans are like this, and I guess other races or monsters are the same.
However, there are still some differences. I don’t know if it’s because I can’t see the panel, but Inanna’s talent is obtained automatically, while he has an additional step of choosing one out of three.
Lin Jun glanced at his current level of LV44. It was still too early for him to choose his talent next time.
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In the following time, Lin Jun plunged into a large-scale project called "explosion of troops".
The good news is that the long-unused mental integration skill has finally reached level 6, otherwise Lin Jun would not be able to control so many Pujis at once.
But even so, he had no time to chat with Inanna.
But Inanna doesn't mind this. She has been obsessed with exploring her new talent recently.
In addition to helping her adjust the trajectory and aim automatically, the elemental spirit can also help her with other things such as active following of the lighting spell, and the water mirror refraction can provide 360° all-round automatic defense. In short, they are much more skillful than she can use them herself.
But spells like Purge and Mire remain unchanged - elemental spirits do not enhance the power of the spells themselves.
Days passed, and just when everything was about to be ready, a strong wave of magical power was heard outside the mushroom garden.
"Lin Jun, what happened? Why do you suddenly feel so depressed?"
Just like the aftershocks of an 8.0 magnitude earthquake in the distance, even Inanna, who had no magic perception skills, noticed that something was wrong. Lin Jun directly observed that the magic vibrations were coming like waves, one after another, making him uncomfortable.
Lin Jun checked the surveillance he had set up outside. These scattered small clusters of mushrooms could not provide Lin Jun with vision, but they could sense the magical fluctuations around him.
Soon Lin Jun figured out the source of the fluctuation - the direction of the Flame Demon's lair.
Now that he knew it was the direction of the Fire Demon, Lin Jun felt relieved. He comforted the frightened Inanna casually and continued to concentrate on the finishing work of the explosion.
It’s not that Lin Jun is not afraid of the Flame Demon. On the contrary, as the strongest monster discovered so far, Lin Jun has always been very wary of the Flame Demon’s movements.
If he ever finds the fire demon moving towards the mushroom garden, he will pick up the bucket and run away immediately.
Fortunately, this never happened.
In fact, after Lin Jun's observation, Yan Mo was almost a homebody.
Unlike itself which grows on the ground and is inconvenient to move, the Fire Demon is simply too lazy to move, as if just soaking in lava can meet most of its needs.
However, staying at home doesn't mean it won't go out. So far, there have been three records of Flame Demon going out.
Every time it goes out, it causes magical fluctuations in the vicinity, just like today. Lin Jun suspected that it was going out to fight.
However, he had no idea who he was fighting against or where he was fighting. He also didn't know what kind of opponent was capable of fighting the Flame Demon. Compared to the entire depth, the part Lin Jun explored was still too small.
Lin Jun's original plan to smuggle was to take advantage of the opportunity when the fire demon was out and run through its nest to the upper level.
However, this plan is still quite risky. The most important thing is that he has no control over when the Fire Demon will return.
The shortest of the three recorded times was only a few hours, and the longest was estimated to be three or four days.
The smuggling plan was a literal gamble on one's life, so it was replaced by the digging plan.
I don’t know how long it will take for the Fire Demon to return home this time. I hope nothing unexpected will happen that will interfere with my hunting of earthworms.
(End of this chapter)
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