Chapter 612: Reunion and Absorption

Unlike the fierce battle outside.

Surging waves of spiritual essence, Rod was immersed in his advancement.

The blue-white soul mist behind him manifested, as one war soul after another appeared in succession.

The spiritual essence of advancement was enhancing every war soul.

This was within expectations.

After all, he was a spiritual warrior whose advancement centered on war souls; after the eighth tier, it was only natural that the war souls on his body would be elevated.

"Gorgon."

Suddenly, a familiar call came.

Light surged from the war soul of the Fungal Warrior Gorgon.

—Lady of Fungi, Zugu Zugu Moyi.

His brow rose, and the memory of that moment surfaced in his mind.

Thinking about it is a little exciting.

Rod shook his head and chose to ignore it.

The girls were still fighting; he had no intention of wasting time fooling around with Zugu Zugu Moyi.

Although the flow of time on Zugu Zugu Moyi's plane was not the same.

He still wanted to finish his advancement quickly and then go cut people down.

"Gorgon!"

A clear note of annoyance entered the Lady of Fungi's voice.

Heh.

If I pay attention to you, I lose.

Rod paid her no heed, pouring all the spiritual essence he had accumulated over the past two months with full force.

It could be called a tremendous amount of spiritual essence.

Some he had absorbed himself through breathing techniques, some he had cultivated together with the girls when they were intimate.

Most of it came from the derivative skill of 【Alluring Bodily Fluid】 — 【Paradoxical Motivation】.

【Paradoxical Motivation: The desire living beings feel toward you transforms into the source of your power.】

Two months of wild living.

【Alluring Bodily Fluid】 stacking on itself in a ridiculous, self-bootstrapping fashion.

The vast desire of all the girls gathered upon Rod alone.

Right now, at this very moment — it was about to burst!

Suddenly.

The spiritual war soul of the Fungal Warrior Gorgon flared brilliantly, enveloping Rod's entire body at once.

"Mm?"

When he opened his eyes.

A familiar palace.

Along both walls, decorations crafted from a clever union of fungi and wood were casually arranged and displayed, while the walls themselves bore exquisite murals painted in fungal pigments, each one depicting the origin of the decoration beneath it.

He stood upon a vivid crimson fungal carpet.

Looking ahead.

At the far end of the crimson fungal carpet sat a throne, elevated high above, fashioned from a giant mushroom cap.

Lady of Fungi Zugu Zugu Moyi sat gracefully upon the throne.

Watching him with a smile.

Rod: "."

Forced summoning?

That's just shameless.

He checked his status, found he could still easily return, and so did not mind it much.

"Gorgon, it truly is no easy matter for Us to see you."

Zugu Zugu Moyi said with a cold smile.

Her appearance had changed considerably, but the standard spiritual ether about her had not.

The filth that once covered her was gone.

So too was the torso formed of flat sheets and curling fungal growths that gave off a strange stench.

Her lower half was no longer a bundle of curling, thick, whip-like pseudopods.

Now her humanoid features were far more pronounced.

Her upper half was a woman's body, the slender waist and back held ramrod straight.

Pale pink skin, with layers upon layers of fungal gills at her neck and the back of her head, arranged just so into an elegant, noble high bun.

Her face had not changed — still bewitchingly beautiful, the pitch-black pupils carrying a cold indifference to all living things.

A layer of white fungal film covered her disproportionately towering breasts atop that slender waist, faintly visible.

Her lower half was covered by large blood-red fungal gills forming an exaggerated, magnificent gown.

Rod's eyes lit up slightly.

Much better to look at!

Before, she had at most been an unfinished human sculpture that had, by chance, taken on the form of a woman of considerable charm.

Now she seemed deliberately tailored to his sweet spot.

He boldly stepped forward.

Ignoring Zugu Zugu Moyi's frown, he went to the side and undid his belt.

"Are you being too presumptuous, Gorgon?"

Rod's face hardened.

He handed over everything the extreme druid connected through the parchment last time had contributed.

He said: "How could that be?"

"Hmph! I won't bother with you this once."

Saying so.

Zugu Zugu Moyi gave a cold snort.

Rod did not hold back.

The bar-shaped fungal gills serving as eyebrows twitched from time to time.

And at the same time.

The effect of 【Paradoxical Motive】 activated.

As a high-tier existence, Zugu Zugu Moyi contributed a massive amount of origin power.

At the same time, 【Elbert's Arousal Codex】 was also madly absorbing the spiritual aether within the other's body.

This breathing method had two modes.

One was mutual benefit, the other was unilateral siphoning.

Naturally, the latter was more effective.

Rod felt the energy coursing through his body, working together with Hera's 【Amber Toxin】 to frantically stimulate every inch of his muscles, bones, and organs.

The power in his body was surging wildly.

Rod boldly reached out, brushing aside the thin white fungal membrane that served as clothing, revealing the pale pink skin all over her body.

Zugu Zugu Moyi gave a cold snort.

Following Rod's instructions: "Like this?"

Obviously enough.

The strengthened 【Charm Secretion】 made it hard even for her to resist.

"Mm, then just keep going."

"Hmph! Boring!"

That's what she said.

But while the fungal Lady verbally disdained it, her body was very honest.

Rod meanwhile frantically used the breathing method to steal the other's power.

However.

Last time they met, the energy within the other still felt extremely advanced and abundant — why did it now feel like it wasn't all that strong?

Although I have indeed gotten quite a bit stronger myself.

A good while later.

A summoning voice came again by his ear.

"Rod."

"Rod!!!"

The call went from low to piercingly shrill, unbearably harsh.

Another familiar voice long unheard — our newly ascended goddess of magic, Mystra.

Rod gave a startled "yo."

He instinctively turned his head to look.

Outside the palace, a blurry magical figure appeared.

"Mm?"

Zugu Zugu Moyi clearly noticed something.

She suddenly startled, her face turning fierce as she blasted a huge cloud of red spores toward the outside of the palace.

"Scram!!!"

But blue magic surged back, shattering the spore fog in an instant.

Zugu Zugu Moyi looked as if she'd seen a ghost, her arm instantly exploding into mangled flesh.

Her shoulders jerked inward, her face showing extreme terror.

But the surging magic paid her no heed, latching onto Rod.

With a whoosh, Rod flickered and vanished along with the magic!

"No! Gorgon!"

The fungal Lady wailed sharply.

(End of this chapter)