This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 113, Section 112: Promotion System
What kind of mutation is this?
The scales that popped up look a bit like dragon scales...

Faced with the giant black mushroom, Lacus, with nowhere left to retreat, once again drew blood from his body.

This damned level is full of mushrooms. He can't find any monsters to draw blood from, so he has to use his own blood.

If the Blood Spike can't break through the scales of the Big Black Mushroom, then go around it!

Lacus is a genius!
Instead of drawing blood into a blood cone, it is now subdivided, and subdivided again!

The blood is coagulated into threads, and the movement of each blood thread is controlled...

The extremely precise control required caused Lacus a splitting headache, but in the face of life and death, he stubbornly endured the pain that almost made him faint.

[Skill Upgrade: Blood Manipulation LV6→LV7]

"Uh-ah!"

Countless blood vessels shot out, heading straight for the large black mushroom in front of it.

The blood vessels didn't hit the scales; instead, they changed angle as they got closer, piercing through the gaps between the scales and then detonating the magic and life force contained within the blood.

For a moment, the large black mushroom trembled and took two steps back.

With no time to be smug, Lacus took advantage of the interruption of the giant black mushroom's movements, transformed into a bat, grabbed the Holy Scripture, and flew into the air.

Along the way, the mycelium hanging from the mushroom trees stretched towards him, but thanks to the bats' small size, he managed to dodge them all and escape the mushroom forest.

Lacus only breathed a sigh of relief after flying into the air.

Luckily, he can fly!
The sacred text wasn't abandoned either; now all that's left is to figure out how to fly out of the fifth floor...

Suddenly I sensed something rapidly approaching... a plop?
A puffy thing spreading its wings and gliding down from the dome?

What the hell is this thing?!
Lacus's bat form made it difficult to retaliate, so he could only flap his wings to get away, but he wasn't as fast as that Puji.

But it's alright, Lacus figured it out. This little thing can only glide, not fly. Once he gets close, he just needs to quickly dodge it...

bang——

After the explosion at close range, Lacus, who was in the form of a bat, was spun around and thrown away, taking a long time to regain his balance.

He didn't have time to care about his injuries, but his empty claws terrified him.

"The Holy Scripture? Where is the Holy Scripture?"

The holy book he was holding disappeared in the explosion. He wanted to go down and look for it despite the danger, but he felt something blocking his way.

Jet-black scales, golden vertical pupils, enormous wings, and claws slapping at him...

……

Lin Jun, still basking in the joy of her dive-bomb self-destruction, suddenly felt a headache coming on when she saw the half-vampire being slammed down like a cannonball.

Did it kill him?

As the first demon to enter his own dungeon, Lin Jun naturally paid close attention to this guy.

I never expected they came for the yellow book.

I was originally planning to interrogate him, but it wouldn't be good if he just killed me.

Lin Jun doesn't dislike guys who can improve their skills on the spot; who wouldn't like to gain more skill proficiency?

But how could you hurt Little Black...?

To be honest, this guy is pretty amazing. He's only level 40 and just stepped into the Gold rank. He was able to deal effective damage to Little Black all by himself, although it was only a little bit.

It's worth noting that the last time Xiao Hei was injured, it took four Gold-level and nearly twenty Silver-level fighters working together to achieve the result.

Thankfully, the panel hasn't disappeared yet...

Soon, the Pujis responsible for cleaning up the area brought over the escaped Yellow Book and his half-vampire accomplice.

The yellow book is alright; apart from the slightly yellowed edges of the pages, it looks quite good, and the text on it keeps refreshing like a scrolling screen.

Through her studies, Lin Jun has now reached level six in the "universal language of mankind," and can understand some of it, albeit with a bit of guesswork. Most of it is just empty talk about disclaiming responsibility and begging for mercy.

It's worth mentioning that Lin Jun keeps her own control panel open while reading the words in the yellow book.

If he discovers the charm effect, he will let the Yellow Book know that things have been pretty good before.

As for this half-vampire who barely retains a human form... let's scatter some spores and begin the interrogation!

……

"So you came by yourself?"

The interrogation went smoothly. Xiao Hei sat down in front of the thief and showed him a brutal scene of eating. With the help of Lin Jun's parasitic and hallucinogenic spores, Lacus told almost everything he knew.

Lacus revealed everything about his search for the Holy Scripture, his connection to the Vampire Duke, and his speculation that he was a pathfinder.

Lin Jun just didn't quite understand.

"Since you're being mistreated, why not choose to leave?"

Lacus, who had been deprived of blood and unable to heal his injuries, lay on the ground and answered in a muffled voice:

"Bloodline Pact... If you betray your lord, even if you survive, you will never be able to advance in rank."

What is a promotion?

“A title is power… but also a shackle,” Lacus suddenly coughed violently, dark red blood seeping onto the ground. “Being unable to be promoted to viscount… means that one’s rank cannot exceed 40, and one’s lifespan… is no more than 120 years…”

It sounds like a highly hierarchical and tightly controlled system.

Lin Jun was a little envious.

Once this parasitic ability exceeds its limits, its coercive power becomes somewhat weak.

Seeing Lacus lying unconscious on the ground, Puji carried him to the swamp.

He does indeed have a death replay state, allowing him to slowly die in the swamp, without revealing any information to his side.

They had no intention of taking him in as a dog.

During the interrogation, it became clear that this was not a well-behaved guy, not to mention that he was also stuck in the promotion system, so he was not suitable to be a subordinate.

What Lin Jun was most concerned about was the extent to which the demons valued the Yellow Book; no matter how you looked at it, the Yellow Book was a scourge...

Should we throw this book away?
Lin Jun rejected the idea in just one second.

This thing has been here for so long, we can't just let it out like this.

Rather than losing it, let Xiao Hei tear it up!

For some reason, the holy book on the ground suddenly started typing pleas for mercy at a speed three times faster...

As for the demon teams that might come later, Lin Jun didn't care too much.

The demons dying in the Amethyst Dungeon will not have any adverse effects on Lin Jun.

They can't possibly send a duke in just to cause trouble for us, can they?

It's not that Lin Jun has any prejudice against demons; you can see from the shapeshifter Kloro that the so-called racial differences in this world are probably not that significant.

Lin Jun even really wanted to interact more with races other than humans, such as elves, dwarves, and demons.

But the prerequisite is that you have to be friendly.

There's no need to be polite to robbers who come to steal your things.

I glanced at my panel again; no Charm. Good.

A little creature stepped forward and rolled up the holy book that was still chattering and claiming to be the "Book of Honesty." Lin Jun was going to re-seal it.

There were at least dozens of landmines scattered around!
Oh, and there's also my own Elite Puji Project. The first batch is almost ready. I hope it can be completed before the other demons arrive, so I can ask them to help test its practicality.

(End of this chapter)