This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 413, Section 412: Hunger
For a long time, Keith lived in that transparent cage.

By simply extending its limbs forward slightly, it will touch a smooth yet hard boundary, which is the entirety of its perception of the world.

One day, the jar shattered due to a sudden tremor, and the nutrient solution that had been sustaining its life leaked out completely, forcing it to try to stick its limbs out.

So... what we encountered before wasn't the boundary of the world!

The world outside is so much bigger, but... I'm so hungry!

Keith licked the nutrient solution off the ground, but for some reason, the opening that used to continuously produce new nutrient solution had dried up.

I'm so hungry!

I really want to go back into that jar; I'm so hungry outside!

In his hunger, Keith ate one of his own legs, but then became even hungrier.

It felt itself getting weaker and weaker.

Another tremor, and something fell beside it from above, almost hitting it.

Then, more things began to fall.

Keith dodged with all his might, leaping past a collapsing boulder, only to be pierced by a falling pillar. Not long after, a second one appeared.

It was strung between two pillars and could no longer move.

Purple blood flowed all over the ground, and Qi Si felt his consciousness gradually fading.

In a daze, it felt something tearing at its body. It was something it had never seen before, not something hard and motionless, but something that could move just like itself.

It was eating Keith, and the next second, its claws pierced through the body of the unknown monster, and Keith frantically stuffed it into its stomach!

After digesting the information and regaining some of his senses, Keith discovered that behind the broken and collapsed door lay an unknown new world.

It's a pity it can't move now, but it's okay, food will always come in from outside and reach its mouth for it to hunt.

After an unknown amount of time, it ate its fill and created its first ball of flesh, which then grew into a six-clawed creature!

The six-clawed creature helped it catch more food, and then came more six-clawed creatures, eye worms, fleas... and evil eyes...

It ate everything it could perceive, and it never wanted to experience hunger again.

[The Seven Deadly Sins - Gluttony Assessment: Hunger Fear Value (√), Harvest Phase (√), Triggerable Race (×), Infamy Value (×)]

[Judgment failed]

Keith continued to eat diligently, but soon it realized that the food nearby seemed to be dwindling.

It felt fear, and it wanted to escape!
The forces binding it are weakening, but it's not time for it to escape yet; they need to weaken further.

Otherwise, if only your own heart runs away, you might end up becoming someone else's prey.

It hates becoming someone else's food.

Fortunately, a new dawn has appeared.

A strangely connected area.

There, Keith first learned about warmth, and first saw lava and ponds.

And then there's... an endless supply of food!

Despite having so much food, Keith was unwilling to waste a single bite. It cherished every single bite and would devour everything edible in every place it visited!

Then, it encountered that nightmare.

Those soft, white, and very easy-to-digest mushrooms!
Those things that should have been its food instead killed and dragged away its insects.

When Keith first saw the fungus dismember a six-clawed creature through the eyeworm, it felt furious.

It is the predator!
Only it can eat others!

It will eat all these mushrooms, leaving nothing behind!
it……

It escaped...

He abandoned everything, and even broke his leg again!

On the icy plains, for the first time in a long time, it felt the terror of hunger once more. With each passing second of hunger, its hatred and fear of the mushrooms grew stronger.

Unlike last time, however, it was not trapped, and its free body allowed it to actively seek out food.

It found the Luo River by gnawing on mud and tree bark.

It was amazing. Although it was my first time in the water, I felt as if I was born to live in it.

Moreover, there is plenty of food in the water!

During its second growth spurt, it became adept at the task, feeding on monsters in the water and preying on two-legged creatures on the shore.

After yet another feast, it encountered mushrooms again... and the mushrooms appeared once more.

But it's okay, I'm not the same as before, I've escaped the cage, I just need to give myself a little more time...

A bat, appearing out of nowhere, inexplicably approached me, muttering something like "purple is quite rare," and swarmed from east to west.

Only by splitting into two parts again did Keith barely manage to save his life.

It's so scary outside...

After that, Keith hid his "heart" even deeper, carefully developing again while searching for a safer place.

To the west, at the end of the Luo River, it discovered the sea!

There's more food over there, it wants to go there!

But there are also unknown dangers there, so it needs more power.

It decided to have one last big meal before leaving!
The target... is naturally those two-legged idiots by the river!

……

Several enormous tentacles covered in sharp teeth and mandibles bit through the ice and shot into the sky!

Accompanied by the unfortunate man's screams, blood rained down from the sky.

Meanwhile, the ice kept breaking apart, and people were constantly falling into the river, never to resurface.

Some tribal warriors attempted to attack the tentacles, and under their combined assault, they successfully severed one tentacle, but this did little to improve the situation.

The Tentacle Beast wasn't a new species for Keith; it's just that in the past, all Tentacle Beast eggs would perish halfway through their journey, and Keith only now realized that it was because there was no water.

The Tentacle Beast is of a similar rank to the Evil Eye, but it doesn't have special skills like petrification or magic shields; all it has is its sheer size and powerful vitality!

These two-legged predators, when gathered together, are indeed quite powerful, but that's only on land; in the water...

The tentacles of the water-borne tentacle beast did not attack anyone, but instead continuously shattered the ice surface.

As the remaining ice surface dwindled, most of the demons who managed to reach the ice fell into the water, except for a few who could fly or were truly agile.

Then, the feast began.

……

Oh dear, this is terrible.

Through the cloaked scout Puji's vision, the battle unfolding on the frozen river below was laid bare; it could no longer be called a battle.
Upon arrival, I sensed a large lump below; it turned out to be Keith's new unit!

This greedy fellow actually tried to steal the prey that should have been his when he wasn't looking!
Unforgivable!

Although she realized that she had misjudged the target of the tribal alliance, Lin Jun did not order the mushroom fortress army led by Little Pig to turn back.

Now that the army has marched this far, it can't return empty-handed. Even if it's just arriving late, it would be good to follow behind and give Qis a good beating and some training.

But now it seems that these useless tribal alliances are just giving away freebies!
No one understood the danger of Qisi better than Lin Jun. If it was allowed to prey on and grow stronger unchecked near its homeland, it would be difficult to deal with the situation later.

"Little pig, speed up!"

Upon receiving Lin Jun's direct order, Louisa, standing on the Puji chariot, immediately turned around and transmitted the command through the fungal network to the entire army: "All units, listen up! Advance at full speed!"

On the snow-covered plains, the army raised clouds of snow wherever it went.

(End of this chapter)