This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 196, page 195: The Little Notebook

Intermediate Magic Contract.

It now appears that Inanna can indeed command the knight Puji through this contract, but the execution priority is lower than that of her own commands.

This is different from nodes.

If Lin Jun wants to command the Puji under the node, she must first move the Puji back from the node to the main group before she can control it. This means that the Puji will only listen to the command of one leader at a time.

But now this knight is responding to the orders of two bosses at the same time!
interesting.

And this is only an intermediate-level magic contract, doesn't that mean there are advanced-level magic contracts?

So, would the command priority of a high-level magic contract be higher than one's own?

These are all questions worth exploring.

After all, what if one day you painstakingly and exhaust all your resources to create an ultimate, invincible "Puji God," only to have it get destroyed by a high-level magic contract the moment it's born...? Just thinking about that scene is enough to give you a heart attack!

After the Sword Saint and the others left, Lin Jun began to clean up the mess—piecing the cut-up Puji figures back together, and so on…

However, this time, only the elite Poji that were cut down by Fifteen survived thanks to [Mycelial Regeneration]. All the Poji that were attacked by the Sword Saint were unable to rise again.

What the hell?
From the perspective of [Magic Perception], the area around these puffy cut surfaces is affected by some kind of inhibition effect, preventing the mycelium from regenerating.

What are the effects of the ultimate sword technique?

Or is it the effect of the longsword in the Sword Saint's hand?
How disgusting!

Lin Jun originally thought that she could still use the Puji by piecing them together, and at most lose a few hundred. Now it seems that she has really lost more than a thousand Puji!

What a loss!
Thankfully, the heavy armor and those other heavy armor items weren't brought out, otherwise the loss would have been even greater.

I had originally planned to head straight for the core following the path Aiding had outlined in the fungal network as soon as they left, but it seems I'll have to spend a few more days replenishing the Puji first.

As for the little notebook that Inanna "lost" at the end?
Lin Jun controlled a puffy creature to gently flip it over.

Handwritten book title: Dungeon-related notes

The handwriting is neat and tidy, clearly the work of Inanna, and a mushroom is drawn next to the title.

Lin Jun, who has reached level nine in the [universal human language], can now read these texts almost without difficulty.

Turning to the inside pages, the content is quite "casual"—it's all fragments that Inanna wrote down from memory after she finished reading those books at the Relics Association.

I wrote down whatever came to mind, resulting in a disjointed and unsystematic piece, as scattered as an overturned jigsaw puzzle.

But for Lin Jun, there was still a lot of valuable information in it.

For example, the so-called "class" is actually a series of separate independent spaces that may be thousands of miles apart, and these spaces are connected by "ladders".

For example, the source of the dungeon's endless magical power is actually outside the world.

There are even speculations about the identity of the dungeon's creator—in that era, only heroes, demon kings, or gods possessed the power to create dungeons.

It's rare to have a chance to learn about the dungeons without relying on the Yellow Book. Humans do have some skills, don't they!
While replenishing Puji's food, Lin Jun carefully studied it.

……

surface.

Well-informed adventurers had already caught wind of the news and crowded both sides of the road.

Some people's gazes were fixed on the Sword Saint as if drawn by a magnet—adventurers are a group that reveres strength the most, and witnessing the figure of one of humanity's top warriors was enough for them to boast about for a long time in the tavern. Others' gazes were focused on Inanna... or rather, on the strangely shaped Puji in her arms.

At this moment, the knight's foot had regenerated a small section, and the six mycelial tentacles had also recovered to a small extent. They were limp and curled up, and at first glance, they looked somewhat like some kind of arthropod larva.

But its equipment made it stand out.

"That's the 'King of Puji'?" An adventurer's eyes widened, his voice filled with disbelief.

They've lived with Puji for so long, and apart from the last time they participated in the expedition, none of them have ever seen the king!

"Why is he wearing a cloak and carrying a tattered shield? Does he even know how to use human equipment?"

"Tsk, wait... that pendant it's wearing, I feel like I've seen it somewhere before..."

As the one who defeated the Puji, the Sword Saint naturally wouldn't care about the odds and ends hanging on a Puji.

Even after Master Guge later identified the seemingly tattered "shield" as a precious ancient dragon scale, the Sword Saint only showed a slight interest in its origin and spent a long time discussing and analyzing it with Guge.

In the end, all of these things were left to Inanna to deal with as she saw fit.

Inanna naturally wouldn't steal Puji's things. All she could think about right now was finding an excuse to go back to the dungeon alone. She'd been here so long, and she still hadn't found a chance to lie on the fungal carpet!
"It really worked!" President Fal looked at the knight in Inanna's arms and said in disbelief.

He didn't doubt that the Sword Saint couldn't handle the "King of Puji," but he didn't expect that the other party could actually find him in the dungeon.

“Thanks to Master Aidin’s detection spells,” Gug said in a deep voice from the side.

Along the way, the only people who could get along with him, this diamond-level mage who was dedicated to studying formations, were neither the exceptionally powerful sword saints, nor the other mages accompanying him, nor even a simpleton like Inanna.

Only Aidin, who is of the same rank, can have some profound discussions with him about magic, and the two are currently on quite good terms.

"So, can this 'King' command the other Puji?" Far asked, as this was the key question.

If not, then capturing this king is of no use.

Guge nodded slightly: "It has been verified on the way that it can exert a certain degree of control over the Puji tribe in the underground city."

He paused, his tone turning heavy, "Unfortunately... we are truly powerless to repair the core."

"Sigh..." After the conversation, Far only felt a headache.

Although Gug is only at the Diamond level, if we only consider his expertise in array runes, he is even comparable to the great mages of the Elven race. If he asserts that the core cannot be repaired, then it is truly beyond saving.

I've only just taken office as the branch leader, and the dungeon is going to be gone in six months!?
Although this catastrophic event cannot be blamed on him, his plans to achieve something during his tenure have been dashed.

Not to mention that when the dungeon collapses, it might cause a small-scale disaster, so we need to prepare contingency plans in advance...

So much so that he didn't care about Puji anymore.

These Puji will probably perish along with the dungeon. Even if Inanna helps to move some of them to the surface to continue breeding, it won't make much difference.

The difference in magic concentration between the surface and the dungeon is too great. The fungal carpet on the surface can barely survive on the magic collected, and there is hardly any surplus magic to generate a large number of Puji.

The Duke's family can't possibly water the mycelium with magic potions every day just to produce a few Puji, can they?
As for this "King of Puji," having separated from its massive herd, it is merely an individual with slightly higher intelligence but relatively weaker strength among diamond-level monsters.

In the future, it will probably just be a special pet that Miss Inanna keeps to relieve her boredom.

Therefore, the moment it was confirmed that the dungeon was doomed, Far's interest in the Puji vanished, replaced by worry about the future of this branch: If the dungeon disappeared, would this branch still have any reason to exist?
The green mushroom controlled Puji to gently close the notebook and carefully put it away.

Great, I'm starting to understand everything!
(End of this chapter)