Chapter 19: 19 Prison Break

The fifth floor of the Amethyst Dungeon, swamp area.

Mud mixed with blood seeped into the swamp from between his fingers; Dylan arched his back against the slippery rock wall, and the penetrating wound on his abdomen made it difficult for him to move.

He failed; he failed just as he started.

He failed to control that lone Parasitic Tree with Ghost Sleep Powder before being discovered.

Now he was not only seriously injured, but his weapon was also knocked away, and other Parasitic Trees in the distance had received the signal and were surrounding him.

"Bella."

Whispering his daughter's name, Dylan's eyes burned with the desire to survive—he couldn't die now.

Bella was the only child of him and his late wife; she was intelligent, sensible, and quite talented.

At a young age, she already had silver-level strength; in the future, she would definitely become a much more powerful figure than her useless father.

She still had a beautiful future and shouldn't die now, let alone turn into an ugly thing like a blood-eating ghoul and live in pain.

So he couldn't die yet; there were still four bags of Ghost Sleep Powder, and he still had a chance, as long as he could escape the swamp...

"Dead end..."

Don't know when, the front was blocked by a stone wall.

Dylan wanted to retreat, but five Parasitic Trees had already surrounded his retreat from afar, their pale roots restless, waiting to capture Dylan.

If his body were intact, he could still try to rush out before the Parasitic Trees surrounded him, but now, with his serious abdominal injury, it was impossible.

He grabbed the climbing vine hanging from the stone wall, trying to climb up the stone wall along it, but the climbing vine was pulled down entirely, revealing a stone door hidden by it.

"Ha... cough cough... haha... hidden room..."

For so many years, this was the first time he had stumbled upon a hidden room; if it were any other time, he would definitely be overjoyed, because there would usually be valuable things inside.

But now...

The Parasitic Trees were less than twenty meters behind him, and Dylan couldn't care about that much; he groped and found a protruding mechanism and pressed it in.

Now he could only pray that there would be a legendary artifact inside to help him turn danger into safety.

Accompanied by the constantly falling blue-gray dust, the heavy stone door opened inward.

Bang bang bang—

Several magic cannonballs shot out from the shadows, hitting a Parasitic Tree that had already extended its roots toward Dylan, breaking it in half.

In the darkness, the fluorescent mushroom caps lit up one by one, and rows of round, strange Puji appeared before Dylan's eyes.

I have been imprisoned for ten thousand years,

Now you dare to break into my territory,

Truly—holy crap! What kind of tree man is so disgusting!

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Life in the treasure chest room was not worried about food or drink, it was truly... quite boring...

Not as good as the mushroom garden, where he could fight monsters every day.

Life here was so boring that Lin Jun ate all the fluorescent grass in the room, gaining a fluorescent skill that consumed almost no magic.

Of course, leveling up here was fast.

With a full pool of high-concentration magic, Lin Jun directly pulled his level to LV47 when he had collected almost all of it.

He also took out the one-tenth of the Lava Heart he had picked up.

As expected of the main body of the Flame Demon, it was still emitting astonishing heat even after shattering until now.

If it weren't for Lin Jun's high-temperature resistance already being LV7, he was afraid that his mycelia wouldn't have been able to stick to it.

After decomposing the Lava Heart, Lin Jun leveled up again and plundered a new skill: [Self-Destruct LV3]

In the future, he wouldn't need to use magic crystals to play self-destruct Puji...

It was fortunate that the Flame Demon died suddenly; if it had left a sliver of blood and given him a chance to use self-destruct, it was uncertain whether Lin Jun's position would be okay, but the three adventurers in front would definitely be dead.

Now the problem was how to get out?

He had already produced another 40 Puji.

Due to limited space, he couldn't go for quantity, so he could only choose to improve quality; each Puji was equipped with five to seven skills.

He had already tried to bombard the stone door collectively, but it couldn't be broken.

The treasure chest room must have special reinforcement measures; otherwise, wouldn't this firepower easily blow up a piece of stone?

As for self-destructing the door, Lin Jun didn't dare to use it, fearing that the power would be too great and the space too small, blowing himself away...

After being locked up for an unknown amount of time, an interesting thing happened—the treasure chest refreshed!

After a burst of magic fluctuation from the treasure chest, the stone lid actually returned to its original position, and after opening it, a ring was turned out from inside.

Unfortunately, it was an offensive magic ring that didn't add attributes but could only cast Ice Cone Technique three times a day.

The power was on par with the mushroom cannon, which was completely chicken ribs to Lin Jun.

In the days that followed, Lin Jun could only wait eagerly for the treasure chest to refresh something else to see if it could help him get out.

If only he could refresh a classic teleportation scroll or something.

However, before Lin Jun waited for the second refresh of the treasure chest, the stone door was opened from the outside...

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The light from the outside shone in, shining on Lin Jun's main body by the pool.

This was the scent of freedom!

But in the next second, the Puji blocked the door and the light tightly, preventing any possible attacks from harming the main body.

After the strongest Puji, which had completed repairs, carefully hid the main body inside its shell, Lin Jun finally had the time to observe the situation outside.

A seriously injured adventurer was lying by the stone door, not daring to move.

Was this the person who let this fungus out? Not bad.

Further outside, there were a few trees... men... what disgusting monsters.

Opening the panel and seeing the [Fusion Parasitism] skill on it, Lin Jun finally understood what this thing was.

Immediately covering with firepower, several Parasitic Trees used skills to try to fight back, and one of them even released a fireball technique.

However, it was all in vain in front of Lin Jun's firepower; the fireball technique was blown away before it even finished condensing, and instead, it burned itself.

Easily finishing off a few Parasitic Trees, the only one left was this weak adventurer.

Don't misunderstand; Lin Jun didn't want to kill to silence him.

In fact, as long as the matter of the main body wasn't exposed, he didn't care about the leakage of news to the extent that "a group of strange Puji appeared in the maze."

This person let Lin Jun out, and Lin Jun saved his life in passing; that settled it.

The problem was that he looked like he was about to die now, and his health on the panel was slowly and steadily decreasing.

Letting him hang like this naturally didn't conform to Lin Jun's principles of being a mushroom; at least he had to try hard to save him.

The difficulty now was that Lin Jun didn't have healing skills...

Puji were all consumables; if they were broken, just throw them away, and if they really needed to be repaired, just use mycelia to patch them up; humans couldn't be patched up with mycelia, right...

Call other adventurers for him?

Not to mention that he didn't know where this was, even if he found other adventurers, they would probably start fighting first.

Lin Jun remembered the introduction about [Fusion Parasitism] he saw just now, and looking at the few Parasitic Trees still soaking in the swamp, it seemed that this was the only way.

The Puji dragged Dylan, who had fallen into a coma, and the remains of the Parasitic Trees into the treasure chest room.

Lin Jun controlled the mycelia to accelerate the decomposition of the Parasitic Trees.

This was a very losing behavior; the magic consumed to accelerate was far more than the magic obtained from decomposition.

But Lin Jun got what he wanted.

[Seven Sins of Greed triggered]

[Plundered skill: Fusion Parasitism LV1]

The main body personally dispersed spores onto the fatal wound on Dylan's abdomen, and the mycelia gradually fused with the flesh and blood under the blessing of magic to block the wound.

It even replenished Dylan's vitality to a certain extent.

In the end, it really was using mycelia to patch up a human...

Feeling this non-human, non-mushroom existence appearing in the mycelial network, Lin Jun always felt it was strange.

Did the purity of his organization seem to have decreased?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 20 =====