This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 195, Section 194: Control
Oh no, the teleportation ability doesn't work, I can't go back!
Eh?
Wait... doesn't this mean... I lost again?!

He instinctively turned around, wanting to take one last look at his cunning opponent, but what he saw were several mycelial tentacles curling towards him.

【Entangle LV6】

Kill Fifteen or something, Pinky is still watching, wrap him up, knock him unconscious, human shield to challenge the Sword Saint!
However, when all six tentacles were halfway extended, they suddenly changed direction.

Their target had suddenly become the figure that had appeared at the edge of the spatial rift like a ghost—

Sword Saint Elwin!

They were just a moment ago far away!

what is this?
An ultimate teleportation technique that can only be used once in a lifetime?!
"Wow... it's been so long since I've gone this fast... my back is about to give out."

The Sword Saint held his unsheathed sword horizontally with his left hand. The scabbard passed precisely through the pendant ring around Fifteen's neck, suspending him in mid-air like a teru teru bozu doll.

With lightning speed, he drew another short sword from his waist and casually slashed horizontally, severing the six tough mycelial tentacles instantly!

At the same time, a strong stiffness instantly swept over the knight's entire body, making it unable to move as if it were frozen!
Status: Paralysis

Ignoring the knight's slurping at his feet, the Sword Saint looked with interest at Fifteen, who was hanging on his scabbard with a lifeless expression, and teased, "My bad, my bad. I was so busy teaching you how to use a sword that I forgot to teach you how to use your brain. Look, even a monster is smarter than you now."

After saying that, with a slight flick of his wrist, the ashamed Fifteen was thrown next to the paralyzed knight, Puji.

Having finished all that, the Sword Saint calmly called out to the distance, "Little Inanna—! It's your turn to get to work!"

"Coming, coming!" Inanna's response was tinged with confusion.

She only felt a flash of silver light beside her, and then her Sword Saint uncle disappeared without a trace. And then... it seemed... it was over?
what happened?
Did the boss's plan succeed?
Inanna jogged over and saw Fifteen standing dejectedly behind the Sword Saint, and a large mushroom wrapped in a red cloak on the ground!
After the knight's legs and mycelial tentacles were cut off, it did indeed look like a large mushroom.

“Come on, try and see if your dagger can subdue it.” Sword Saint Elwayne tapped the “mushroom” on the ground with his chin, his tone casual. “If it doesn’t work… tonight we’ll taste what this ‘King of Puji’ tastes like.”

Inanna took a deep breath and took out the jeweled dagger from her bosom—"Bound by Stone Heart".

Her gaze fell on the knight, Puji, who was at the mercy of others, and her breathing became heavier involuntarily.

Although all of this was the boss's plan, an uncontrollable thought still quietly crept into her mind:

Could this dagger really have the boss under control?

What if... what if it actually gets under control... what should we do then?
A boss who obeys him completely?!
The impact of this thought was so strong that Inanna's hand holding the dagger began to tremble uncontrollably.

The swordsman, noticing her trembling hands, assumed she was frightened and comforted her, "What are you afraid of? After being hit by my 'Song of Cessation,' it's just a block of wood now, unable to bounce. Tsk, not like that reckless child of Alama, so timid?"

Inanna didn't explain. She composed herself, and magic flowed like a gentle stream into the gem dagger in her hand.

Azure runes instantly lit up the surface of the dagger, moving and flowing like living things.

Without hesitation, she slashed her palm with the sharp dagger. Blood gushed out, but instead of dripping, it was strangely absorbed by the greedy gem on the dagger, causing the gem's light to become eerie and profound.

Immediately afterward, under everyone's watchful eyes, Inanna crouched down and, with the dagger that had absorbed her own blood and was emitting an ominous blue light, aimed it at the knight's wound and steadily... plunged it in!
……

Could I be controlled by a magical item?

If the main body is directly affected, there might be a chance, but as for getting hit through a Puji?
How can it be!

Although that's what she thought, Lin Jun's actual answer to the question was—she didn't know. This is a magical and unreasonable world; maybe it really is possible?

But Lin Jun still chose to let Inanna do it.

the reason is simple.

If any magical item can so easily control me with a puff... then this fatal weakness is like a sword hanging over my head, impossible to avoid!

With such a huge and undefendable vulnerability, how can one talk about secretly developing and dominating a region?
Sooner or later, they'll be seized by some random guy who'll pop out from somewhere and become his plaything.

Rather than falling into the hands of some unknown, insignificant enemy and being used as a tool at will... it's better to "submit" to Inanna now.

At least this silly girl isn't a bad person. You might as well stay with her, live a life of leisure, and have some peace and quiet.

Lin Jun was a little nervous as the dagger stabbed down.

A short while later, the knight had a new status effect.

[Fixed Status: Intermediate Magic Contract (Inanna Saint Claire)]

Lin Jun immediately opened her panel—nothing had changed!

So... it's neither completely ineffective nor completely controlled, but rather it merely locked onto this knight's clone!

Can I still control the knight now?
……

"How is it?" asked the Sword Saint Elwayne, who was watching the spectacle with his arms crossed.

Feeling the new connection between herself and the puff in front of her, Inanna said, "It seems to be working!"

"Oh? Then try making it move?" The Sword Saint raised an eyebrow, clearly wanting to see the effect.

stand up!
With a thought from Inanna, the knight, finally recovering from paralysis, struggled to move his body, but he simply couldn't carry out the command...

Just as Inanna was thinking about what command to give next, Lin Jun tried it out, and the knight suddenly sprayed out a ball of hallucinogenic spores.

Second-tier magic - Gale!

Guge reacted swiftly, and an almost instantaneous gust of wind swept away the poisonous fog without a trace.

He didn't say anything, but his gaze gently fell on Inanna.

"I'm...sorry! I'm not very skilled yet..." Even though it wasn't her, she still took the blame for the "operational error" with tears in her eyes.

At the same time, the little bubble of fantasy in my heart about "controlling the boss" burst completely with a "pop".

Having easily dealt with the so-called "King of Puji," the Sword Saint had no reason to linger any longer and led his team back to the surface.

Knight Puji's severed mycelial tentacles and short legs need time to regenerate, and at this moment he can only look like a round package, held in Inanna's arms.

As she turned to leave, Inanna quietly dropped a small notebook, about the size of her palm, onto the spot.

(End of this chapter)