Final Lord

Chapter 19: Cave Elegy
Wang Bufei's voice suddenly became serious.

"Over 1,300 years ago, on the Shen Gu Continent, there existed an underground kingdom founded by cavemen. The entire Shen Gu world's cavemen lived around this underground kingdom.

The cavemen at that time had a powerful civilization and a very complete caveman career tree.

From ordinary level 1 cavemen to legendary level 3 cave kings, underground disasters, earth dragon hunters, etc., we have everything.

At that time, the Caveman Kingdom controlled a powerful force capable of hunting down dragons.

During the caveman kingdom, all cavemen had a common staple food. It was this staple food that ensured the population growth of the cavemen and gave birth to the great caveman kingdom.

That staple food is... mushrooms!"

"Mushrooms?" Blind Cat asked, his eyes bewildered. In his mind, mushrooms were poisonous. Many of his fellow cavemen had died after eating mushrooms out of sheer starvation. Therefore, he had never considered mushrooms a serious food.

"Yes, it's mushrooms." Wang Bufu said with certainty: "When the cavemen advanced to the second level, there was a profession called Cave Fungus Carrier. The entire path of this profession is based on cultivating mushrooms.

Once a Cave Carrier reaches Legendary, one person can support a million Cavemen.

The strength of the Caveman Kingdom stems from their incredible reproductive capacity and sheer numbers. Hidden behind the many legendary battles of the Cavemen are the unsung Cave Carriers, the Kingdom's greatest contributors.

However, survival is cruel. The kingdom of cavemen, adapted to living underground, continued to expand and eventually offended another underground race.

That race is the true king of the underground world, the legendary Earth Dragon Clan, a race that is legendary from birth!

In order to compete with the terrible earth dragons for territory, the cavemen even evolved the Earth Dragon Hunter, a legendary way to restrain the earth dragon clan.

Out of fear, the Earth Dragons chose to lead their vassal races into a decisive battle to completely destroy the Caveman Kingdom.

As you can probably guess, the Earth Dragons triumphed. The Caveman Kingdom was destroyed, and hundreds of millions of Cavemen were hunted down and killed.

Do you know why you cavemen have cowardice as one of your racial talents?

Because all the cavemen who didn't have cowardice in their racial talents were killed by the Earth Dragon Clan and its vassal races! Only the cavemen clans with the cowardly attribute had the opportunity to reproduce.

They have been killing for more than a thousand years, and have engraved the negative talent of cowardice into you cavemen, which has been passed down from generation to generation.

Most of your cavemen's legendary paths were destroyed by the Earth Dragon Tribe, and all the cavemen who knew these paths died. Fortunately, they only reached the legendary stage, and the epic stage of most cavemen's career paths was allowed to be preserved.

There was only one profession, and not only the legendary and epic, but also the advanced formulas of the extraordinary and ordinary stages were destroyed by the earth dragon clan!

That profession is cave carrier.

As the saying goes, those who understand you best are often your enemies. Clearly, the Earth Dragon Clan is well aware of the true core of the Caveman Kingdom's strength.

Even today, over a thousand years later, cave carriers remain a taboo for the Earth Dragon Tribe. As soon as a cave carrier is discovered, the Earth Dragon Tribe will hunt them down at all costs.

The cavemen in the room shuddered as they heard this. Legends, epics, a war that wiped out a race more than a thousand years ago! All of this was too far away from them. Yet, it was also so close to them, because they were all cavemen.

They are the descendants of the losers in the war of races, living in a river of blood and flesh made of countless ancestors.

It turns out the cavemen's suffering wasn't innate. They could have lived proudly on the Shen Gu Continent, as members of an underground race. But they lost, and with it, there was no return.

At this moment, every caveman in the room was overcome with grief. Wang refused to accept these simple words, instead outlining before them the cavemen's thousand-year history of blood and tears.

Wang Bufu waited for a while, until the cavemen had digested this information, before he said, "The defeat of your ancestors is too heavy, too heavy for your entire race to bear. Naturally, I will not let you bear it either.

I have told you so much just to tell you one thing.

You cavemen are not born weak. You can have a very bright future. Whether you can seize this future depends on the present.

Cave carrier, a profession forgotten by time, I know the formula!"

When Wang Bufu said this, all the cavemen were shocked.

Wang Bufu also smiled appropriately.

"Now you know why I said you can't leave if you stay, right? If the Earth Dragon Clan learns about the Cave Carrier's formula, I'll definitely die!
I know you might say that you are just weak cavemen who don’t have the ability and will not spread this news, but what if?
I don't allow any chances of anything happening.

So, either you successfully advance to Cave Carrier and die with me, or you die now. There is no other way."

The blind cat almost cried after hearing this.

They'll surely die with you, but what about me? I'm already a Toxic Caveman, so is there still a chance for a class change? Will I be silenced?

No! Lord! Before you talk about something so important, could you please let me get out of here? Keep it a secret! Don't you even have a sense of confidentiality?

I don't want to know. I don't want to know at all! It's over. Oh my god, I'm going to die.

pat!

At this moment, the blind chicken was the first to kneel down before the king.

Blind Cat shuddered and immediately translated, "My Lord, he said he is willing to swear to his ancestors and the gods that he will always be loyal to you. Please give him the opportunity to become a cave carrier."

"Oh, you're not afraid?" Wang Bufu raised his eyebrows.

“Woo-la…”

The blind cat listened to the blind chicken's cry, and the more he listened, the more shocked he became. His frown gradually relaxed. He even forgot to translate it at first, and only realized it when Wang Bufu called out to him.

"Lord, he said that he was afraid of the power of the Earth Dragon Clan, which is known to everyone in the entire underground world.

However, you may be the last person in the world who knows the Cave Carrier class recipe.

This is not just his chance, but the last chance for the entire caveman race. I beg for mercy, Lord."

"Good, good, good." Wang Bufei looked at the blind chicken with admiration. The blind cat had good vision and found a good little brother.

"Since you have such ambition, I will give you this opportunity!" Wang Bufu walked to the blind chicken, took the blind chicken's hand, and led the blind chicken to another cave. Before leaving, he said, "Blind cat, watch the door and don't let them run away."

"Yes! Lord!" The two blind cats hurriedly blocked the exit of the cave and stood upright.

In the cave, Wang Bufu smeared a bunch of slime made from a mixture of various materials on the blind chicken, then took out a piece of smelly stuff and said, "This is the excrement of you cavemen. It smells a bit bad, but you have to bear with it."

He reached into the barrel with a wooden spoon and played the role of a dung boy. Wang Bufu scooped a spoonful of feces onto the blind chicken, smearing it evenly, then applied a layer of slime. He then scooped out more feces, then applied more slime. He repeated this cycle four times. The blind chicken felt dizzy from the nauseating smell. My god, becoming a cave carrier actually requires covering your entire body in feces! What kind of experience did the first cave carrier have to create this method?

After the fourth layer of smearing was completed, Wang Bufu looked at the blind chicken that was completely covered in the dark brown mud and said, "Sit tight. There is only one step left, and it is also the most important one."

Seeing that the blind chicken had perked up and sat up straight, Wang Buzhu took out a group of white mushrooms that looked like a brain and a stone mushroom that was also white from the bag.

Stone Mother Fungus

Extraordinary Level 1 Spore

effect:

Can be planted on rocky terrain. After planting, it can produce ordinary 2nd level food [Stone Mushroom] and ordinary 3rd level food [Delicious Stone Mushroom].

Normally, the mother fungus of stone mushroom needs to grow and cultivate on rocky terrain, and the cultivation cycle will be very long.

Cave Carriers can ignore any restrictions when growing mushrooms!
Wang Bufu said softly to Blind Chicken, “The advanced formula for the Cave Fungus Carrier is what I just applied to you, plus any mushroom or mushroom spores.

Note, it's any mushroom! There's no limit to what kind of mushroom you can use when advancing your Caveman Carrier. If you have access to Legendary Mushrooms, you can even use Legendary Mushrooms to advance.

However, the advancement process of the cave carrier is risky. After the advancement ceremony begins, mushrooms will grow on your body surface, fungal roots will quietly pierce your skin, and then begin to compete with you for control of your body.

This process will be extremely painful, and if you faint during this process, you will die, and your corpse will be mistakenly upgraded to a [Fungus Beast]. Of course, I won't let this happen.

Once you fall into a coma, I will remove the mushrooms. This way, although you will still die, the mushrooms will remain and your body will be preserved.

The success rate of Cave Carrier's advancement is related to the mushroom used during advancement.

The greater the gap between the strength of the mushrooms used and the cavemen themselves, the less likely the advancement will be successful.

You are now a level 0 caveman, and you will definitely succeed in planting level 0 mushrooms. The success rate of ordinary level 1 mushrooms is 80%, the success rate of ordinary level 2 mushrooms is 40%, the success rate of ordinary level 3 mushrooms is 20%, the success rate of extraordinary level 1 is 10%, and so on, which is constantly halved.

Now you have two choices: use a regular level 2 Stone Mushroom to advance, with a % success rate. Or, use the Stone Mushroom's Stone Mother Fungus to advance, with a high probability of success.

"Wow?" The blind chicken cried out, not knowing how to answer.

Wang Bufu immediately used perfect command to control the blind chicken's body and said to him in his heart: "Speak in your heart, I can hear you."

"Yes! Lord. I want to ask, what is the difference between using the two types of mushrooms to advance?"

"It's a huge difference. Danger always brings opportunity. Although cave carriers are primarily logistical professionals, they also have combat capabilities. This profession's combat effectiveness is completely dependent on the mushrooms that are connected to their lives.

The stronger the mushrooms grown on one's body, the stronger the combat effectiveness of this profession.

At the same time, the cave carriers had to perform a mushroom fusion at each major stage, from ordinary to extraordinary, extraordinary to epic, etc. The success rate of this fusion was determined by the mushrooms fused last time.

The higher your starting point, the stronger your future will be."

"Then I'll choose the Stone Mother Fungus!" Blind Chicken said without hesitation: "If I die, I'll just be an ordinary caveman dying. If I survive, the cavemen will have hope. It's worth it."

"Good boy! I was right about you. You are very courageous." Wang Bufu praised the blind chicken.

A blind cat is smarter than a blind chicken, but a blind cat definitely doesn't have the responsibility of a blind chicken. Given the caveman's situation, cleverness alone won't save him; he must rely on fearless sacrifice.

"Although there is a success rate for advancement in theory, personal will and belief can reverse the probability and turn the impossible into possible! Good boy, I'm here to help you!" Wang Bufu gave a final word of encouragement and placed the stone mother fungus on the blind chicken's back.

In an instant, the stone mother fungus, as if stimulated by something, rapidly grew hyphae that spread all over the blind chicken. At the same time, the mud on the blind chicken began to fluctuate, blocking the hyphae from extending downwards.

But the stone mother fungus was determined to go deeper. The spreading mycelium slowly and firmly pierced through the protection of the blind chicken and penetrated into the body of the blind chicken!

"Ah!" The blind chicken screamed, its body suddenly tensed up, it jumped into the air in pain and fell to the ground.

In Wang Bufu's vision, the blind chicken's health began to drop at a speed visible to the naked eye.

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Advancement begins.

"My Lord, I am in so much pain, I am going to die."

"Hold on! Blind Chicken!" Wang Bufu shouted in Blind Chicken's mind, "The rate at which your health points decrease is related to your willpower. Now you should be able to feel the mycelium in your body. Use your willpower to control your body and attack them, slowing down their spread in your body!"

Then, the mycelium will release nutrients to protect itself. These nutrients can also restore your health.

As long as your health remains above 5, you will not fall unconscious."

"I understand, my lord."

As soon as Xia Ji finished speaking, his rapidly decreasing health points began to slowly rise.

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The first wave of mycelium invasion was suppressed by the blind chicken. But this was just the beginning!
As more mycelium broke through the mud blockade, the blind chicken's health began to drop rapidly again.

18/30
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"Ah! Lord!"

"Blind chicken! I'm here, hold on! You're the bravest caveman! Once you make it, you'll be a free citizen of the territory. I'll use a lot of resources to train you and help you grow quickly.

In the future, all the cave carriers in the territory will be cultivated by you. You don’t have to be a blind cat’s little brother, you are the big brother! "

"I am the big brother!" Blind Chicken's body, which had been bent like a shrimp, gradually straightened up, and his health finally began to rise again.

But he held on, and the amount of mycelium entering his body increased.

In this way, the blind chicken's health value went up and down, always hovering around 10 points. From time to time, it would dive to 6 points and then slowly rise back up, which made Wang Bufu feel like having a heart attack.

Time passed by minute by minute. One minute, five minutes, thirty minutes! A full thirty minutes had passed, but the blind chicken's advancement ceremony was not over yet!
"My lord, I'm almost dying." The voice of the blind chicken in his consciousness became weaker and weaker, and he was almost on the verge of death.

Wang Bufu really regrets it now. If he had planted stone mushrooms, Xia Ji would have succeeded long ago.

But the power of the stone mother fungus is so strong that even a good seedling like the blind chicken can hardly support it. What should I do?
(End of this chapter)