[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms":3,"chapter-this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-8":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","This Dungeon Has Sprouted Mushrooms",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2219063,3995,"Chapter 8","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-8",8,"\u003Cp>[Golden Sunwood Tavern]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As one of the only two taverns in Dumbwind Town, the town closest to the Amethyst Dungeon, unlike its peers that sell inferior alcohol and are crowded with all kinds of people all day long, the wine glasses in the Golden Sunwood Tavern are always filled with good wine that is fragrant and mellow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Correspondingly, the higher prices also mean that the guests who come here are adventurers with some strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, today, the adventurers who should have been sitting scattered are strangely crowded on the right side, making the four people sitting alone on the left look like they have booked half the venue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, that is the diamond-ranked adventurer team—Silver Thorn, with everyone over LV50.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's not that the Silver Thorn team is overbearing; it's just that anyone with a discerning eye can see that their atmosphere is wrong, and no one wants to touch the bad luck at this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone is silently drinking on the other side with a mix of cowardice and curiosity, hoping to hear a bit of gossip to use as conversation material for the next few days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most eye-catching member of the Silver Thorn team is the half-dragon Gal. His height of 2.3 meters makes him taller than ordinary people even when sitting, and with that enhanced heavy armor, he looks like a city wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, he is indeed the city wall protecting his teammates. In countless battles, he has stood in front to block surging enemies, creating a safe output space for his teammates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only flaw is that Gal didn't inherit the ability to breathe fire from his dragon-human mother. Otherwise, if he had suddenly breathed fire while blocking the enemy, even a barbarian warrior general would have had to drink hatred on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the words spoken by this half-dragon at this moment don't sound brave at all:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's over, it's over. I'm afraid we can't stay in the United Kingdom anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boss, if you ask me, this mission is impossible to complete anyway. Why don't we just slip away to the archipelago while they aren't prepared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There won't be a chance to run once we come out of this dungeon trip!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sharp blade shoots at Gal's chest armor and bounces onto the table. The Shadow Walker Night Owl plays with two other blades at her fingertips nonchalantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This elf, who has slit the throats of countless monsters with flying knives, is currently staring at her own front-line member with eyes like goblin feces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you forget that you almost vomited your stomach out just by sitting on a boat on the river for two days last time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still want to run to the archipelago? I'm afraid you'll die on the boat halfway there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, the mission hasn't even started yet. Completing it can earn us a city!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night Owl's eyes shine when she mentions the city. Heaven knows why a typical elf would be so interested in obtaining a human city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then you have to be able to complete it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You said we must bring her back intact, but it's already been half a month!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't tell me you don't know what happens to adventurers who are trapped in the Amethyst Dungeon and don't die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's nothing more than the parasitic trees on the fifth floor or the tentacle nests on the ninth floor. Even if you save the person, their brain will be rotten. Do you think the Duke will accept that as 'intact'?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best case is being caught by wandering barbarian beasts as reserve meat. By now, I'm afraid her limbs have been dismantled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And we still have to pray that she hasn't had a mental breakdown due to despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This mission is almost impossible to complete!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Duke comes to hold us accountable in person, Night Owl, you can just slip away with Shadow Shuttle, but the three of us will all be hammered to death!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's no wonder Gal is so afraid of Duke Amara. As early as ten years ago, when everyone present was still gold or silver, Amara was already a LV70 powerhouse standing at the pinnacle of humanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't look at the fact that all four of them are over level 50, only ten levels or so behind Duke Amara, but in reality, even if you tie them all together, it's only enough for a max-level big shot like the Duke to warm up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gap between levels becomes more obvious the further you go, not to mention that the skills of someone like Duke Amara, who has been at the max level for a long time, must be numerous and high-level. Otherwise, he wouldn't have the ability to hold off the Empire's pressure at the border for so many years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop, stop, stop, Gal, don't say any more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Gal wants to continue preaching defeatism, Captain Nova has to interrupt him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's still possible to save her, right? If her brain is broken, there's no way, but if she's missing a few arms and legs, just pour a bottle of limb regeneration potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The risk is indeed high, but the return is also considerable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How can we give up before we've even seen the person?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just treat it as a gamble. If we really only bring back a fool, I'll go answer to the Duke alone, and you guys can take the opportunity to escape.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Nova also knows that his warrior is telling the truth. If it were 10 years ago, he would also choose to escape, drill into the Western Archipelago or the territory of elves and dwarves, and even Duke Amara wouldn't be able to do anything to him no matter how strong he is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it won't work now. The United Kingdom and the Hermit Empire have constant disputes, and it looks like a formal war is about to break out. At such a time, neither elves nor dwarves will easily agree to the entry of high-end combat power from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only place to go is the Western Archipelago. After all, as a human, he can't just run to the Hermit Empire and be a blood servant for those vampires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the archipelago is not a good place either. The mist further west is constantly expanding and swallowing islands, and the slave owners on the islands are all anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At such a time, if diamond-ranked adventurers with nowhere to go go there, they will definitely be forced to resist the mist by them as a threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That job has a much higher mortality rate than exploring dungeons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weighing it up, it's better to gamble—gamble on being able to save the Duke's daughter intact, or gamble on the fact that even if they only save a fool, the Duke won't hammer him to death directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the team is not a one-man show, and it must be decided by the team members together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old rules, let's vote. I vote to enter the dungeon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to be a city lord!\" Night Owl also voted in support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I still think we should run now.\" The half-dragon obviously doesn't want to gamble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ivan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three look at the fourth member of the team who hasn't spoken from beginning to end and has been tinkering with something under the table—Ivan Niets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The small figure of the halfling is almost swallowed by the edge of the wooden table. He really has no presence when he doesn't make a sound, but as the main C mage in the team, his opinion is naturally equally important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally took it out!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A damaged and deformed discarded magic crystal is thrown in front of the few, and Ivan impatiently takes out a brand-new B-grade magic crystal and \"clicks\" it into the empty slot on his abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding mana surges in, flowing through the magic crystal into Ivan's limbs and bones. The violent mana torrent washes over every nerve synapse, throwing him into a blurred trance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah oh\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire tavern hears the halfling mage's comfortable groan, and the eyes of others can't help but become strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night Owl grips the blade in her hand tightly, just barely stopping it from flying into this embarrassing teammate's neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This mana-addicted idiot...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the archmage opposite whose eyes are rolling back and who has even started drooling, Nova only feels that the team is hard to lead and his heart is very tired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The mission cannot be delayed, so it's 2 to 1. Gal, carry Ivan on your back. Nova and Night Owl are enough for the first few floors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gal sighs and doesn't continue to oppose, but reaches out his hand to Nova.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Magic resistance potion! Did you forget that he gave me a magic explosion at zero distance on his back last time and almost sent us both away?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1484,"2026-06-17T14:48:51.838Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","982a41df4afb4ec7d05f872bbbe838940e94bef3ff2ef6f8da93887612db5f26","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-9","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-7",165,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-dungeon-has-sprouted-mushrooms-cover.jpg"]