This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 275, Section 274: The Search
Scout Number Four, who flew back to the sixth floor, ultimately found nothing.

Needless to say, the group of elves had already run away, and they didn't run into them on their way down.

The tree spirit, which was in a frenzied state, had disappeared without a trace.

In fact, Lin Jun couldn't even find a single tree spirit in the sixth-floor area.

Are they operating in deeper areas?
Lin Jun couldn't figure out whether the group of elves had specifically captured the tree demon and brought it to the sixth floor, or whether a tree demon that had wandered to the sixth floor had just happened to run into them.

Scout No. 4 attempted to continue exploring downwards, but was devoured by a giant demonic frog on the seventh floor.

【Refraction Invisibility LV7】is not without flaws; there will still be a slight distortion of light, but most people and monsters will find it difficult to detect.

But this big frog was clearly one of those that could detect it.

More importantly, Lin Junzhen never expected that its tongue could be launched 30 meters in an instant, and was caught off guard by the sneak attack.

With Number Four dead, Lin Jun temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​continuing the investigation.

Six levels of the map are enough for now. Lin Jun plans to move his fungal carpet to the surface first, as the Elf Graveyard is waiting for him.

The expansion of the fungal carpet in the Shenmu Underground City area is progressing quite smoothly, mainly because there are few monsters in the area that can destroy the fungal carpet on a large scale.

Slimes and mud monsters also exist, but the former are few in number and scattered, while the latter have fixed activity areas, so you can just avoid them.

Other monsters may eat mushrooms, but they mostly ignore the creep itself.

However, while digging underground tunnels, I encountered a nest of monster rats that would bite the butts of the burrowing creatures.

Lin Jun released poison along the tunnel, and after some time, she finally managed to make them disappear completely.

Meanwhile, on the other side, scout Puji No. 1, hiding in a tree hole, had just performed "surgery" on himself, removing the symbiotic magic crystal from the center of his body.

The original purpose of installing magic crystals on the scouts was to enhance their combat power. However, Number One has now infiltrated the elven city and no longer needs this combat power boost. In fact, it would be bad if the fact that he had magic crystals inside him were discovered, so he simply removed them.

After all, it involves cutting open the body to separate the magic crystals that have grown together; one wrong move and you might end up committing suicide.

It was only because Lin Jun was able to monitor the blood volume data on the panel at any time that she was able to accurately control the depth and extent of the dissection and barely complete this high-risk surgery.

At this moment, a Grade B magic crystal, still attached with some mycelium, was inside the tree hole.

Scout Puji lay sprawled to the side, the shocking gash on his body awaiting the slow repair of the [Mycelium Regeneration] skill.

The cracked body prevented Puji from moving; only its mycelial tentacles could move.

At times like this, any random monster could easily be wiped out in an instant.

Fortunately, this would not happen. Before the surgery, Lin Jun carefully selected this area rarely visited by elves and cleared away all threatening wild monsters in the vicinity in advance.

Within the city limits of the elves, apart from the domesticated ones, there are almost no wild monsters above the gold level, making it easy for scouts to clear them out.

I'll just lie here for a day...
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"Little Chirp—!" Elawen's clear call echoed through the forest, startling several birds into flight.

“Actually… you don’t have to be so loud,” Salian reminded him, sounding slightly exasperated.

His slender hands were held out in front of him, with a slowly rotating, semi-transparent spherical phantom floating above his palms.

At the center of the illusory image, the tiny outlines of him and his sister were clearly reflected, and the image radiated outwards in a radius of sixty meters from them. Whether it was the area behind the ancient tree or the roots and insects buried deep in the soil, everything tangible was presented in this magical spatial projection with exquisite detail.

Eighth-tier magic - Spatial Exploration.

Third-tier magic - Illusion.

Salian skillfully combined the two spells to create the probe sphere that was now moving in sync with their movements.

This is not a simple superposition; it requires a deep understanding of the two spells themselves, and even more so, the painstaking study of the subtle resonances and conflicts that arise when the magical nodes of the two intertwine.

This unique spherical spatial phantom is the culmination of his personal research.

If he were to delve deeper along this path, he might even be able to create a variant of an advanced spatial exploration spell.

And now, this promising mage is using this "half-finished product" that is still in the testing phase to help his sister find the lost mutated Puji...

Salian wearily waved away the phantom in his hand, took out a bottle of azure magic potion from the lining of his mage robe, and drank it down.

After two consecutive days of intense use of this still-unoptimized combination magic, even he felt he couldn't keep up.

“Perhaps…it has already gone too far?” He carefully chose his words, subtly suggesting to his sister that perhaps she should give up.

Having just finished that exhausting negotiation and not even had time to rest before being pulled into this task, Salian felt utterly drained, both physically and mentally.

"No!" Ellawen turned around abruptly, her face filled with worry. "Chii is just a Puchi! Even if this is Isildorin, it's too dangerous for it! What if it gets snatched away by a ferocious wood owl or a cave lizard? It saved me, and I'm the one who brought it out of the dungeon. Now it might end up getting hurt..."

Salian's mind flashed back to the image of that Poji easily beating up his sister's other monsters, and his lips twitched slightly: "Isildorin is probably... not as dangerous as you think."

“You scared it away!” The shorter Elawen stared straight at him with her clear green eyes.

Salian finally sighed resignedly, "...I understand, I understand, keep looking."

He focused his mind again, and his magic gathered once more, causing the translucent detection sphere to slowly appear in his palm. The siblings' figures once more disappeared into the lush green forest.

They searched for two more days, but still found nothing.

On the fourth day, Salian, unable to bear it any longer, retreated to his own home and refused to come out.

Elawen had no choice but to continue searching on her own, venturing into the Tree Market area that she hadn't previously explored.

……

Scout Number One has now fully recovered.

Lin Jun casually buried the magic crystal that had been dug up in a random place.

B-grade magic crystals are nothing to Lin Jun.

The reason why Scout Puji didn't go back to Elawen's hut was mainly because Lin Jun's attention was drawn to an elf's potion shop!

There are also potion shops in Silent Wind Town, but the shop owner can only mix basic magic potions and basic health potions at most. Most of the other potions are sourced from other places.

This elven potion shop is clearly of a completely different standard; all the potions there are made by the shop owner himself!

(End of this chapter)