What's wrong with me, a mage, loving to farm?

Chapter 138. The Pit Lord, the Miner Infected by Fungus

After confirming that everything was ready, Kroya picked up the bark of the simulated magic tree.

It still has that slippery texture, but holding it in your hand feels like stroking human skin, which feels really strange.

The so-called "Mimetic Tree" is not only able to disguise itself as human skin, but can also disguise itself as the skin of many other creatures.

For example...

"cat."

Kroya poured her magic into it while imagining what Blue Cat looked like.

The small, simulated magical tree bark immediately began to ripple, and eventually it truly transformed into a piece of skin covered in fine blue cat fur.

At first glance, it really looks as fresh as if it were peeled off a cat, and even the texture is still a little warm.

"That's really amazing, they can imagine all sorts of things like that."

Kroya took a look at it and stuck it onto the golden cat sculpture. It immediately stuck on perfectly.

Then came the second piece, and the third piece.

Each time a piece is applied, as long as the two pieces are placed together, they will immediately merge together, becoming a single piece without any seams.

Soon a blue cat was formed.

On its belly, Cloa deliberately left a little bit of white that looks like a pocket.

This is now 90% complete.

All that's left are the eyes...

He took out two polished, round, emerald-green gems and inserted them into the eyes of the cat golem, then infused them with magic.

The golem actually blinked, looking incredibly lifelike.

It leaped up nimbly and rubbed against Kroya's wrist, its built-in sound-emitting magic even mimicking a cat's meow.

Meow~~~

It was a drawn-out cry with a touch of coquettishness.

Anyone who loves cats would find it hard to resist this sound.

"Okay, that's fine."

Kroa looked at the blue cat-shaped golem she had created with great satisfaction.

He added a small amount of "soul solution" purchased from the Holy Spring Merchant Guild to the core golem runes inside the cat's body.

This soul solution is one of the most crucial items in creating a magic tower spirit. The tower spirit needs to be soaked in this solution and then infused with the knowledge of a magician to become an omnipotent tower spirit capable of handling all matters.

In other words, this is actually a special solution that can give inanimate objects a faint intelligence.

Previously, when he calculated that this solution would cost 1,000 magic crystals to buy 10 milliliters.

However, when I inquired again not long ago, it turned out that 100 magic crystals could buy 10 milliliters.

After inquiring, he learned that this soul solution was actually an item sold by mages in his Mage Lord Alliance.

There are incredibly generous benefits for members of the alliance.

So he immediately bought two bottles without hesitation, intending to make a batch of golems to observe the effects. If the effect was really good, he would start making tower spirits.

Of course, there are conditions for such a favorable price.

After Kroya finished making the twelve blue cat golems, he put them aside and took out the Holy Spring Crystal Card.

They made contact with a lord known as "The Pit".

He replied quickly and invited her to meet him in person, which she accepted, choosing to meet him in the Deep Blue Illusion.

Accompanied by the flowing water of the sacred spring.

A moment later, still in the midst of those endless snow-capped mountains, a peculiar little wooden hut appeared before him, adorned with various animal pelts and heads.

Each of those heads looked ferocious and menacing; even just the heads exuded an extremely terrifying aura—an aura of evil and violence.

Kroya glanced at them a few times.

A demon, this is definitely a demon's head.

Although they are just the common kind of minor demons, these things are really rare in the primary plane world. Generally, they only appear in places that have contact with the lower planes.

Could this "pit" lord be a lord in an area that intersects with the lower plane?

That's practically hell on earth.

Let alone development, we'll have to do everything we can to avoid being overthrown by the devil.

He took a deep look at the demon heads, then reached out and pushed open the door of the cabin. With a creak, the scene inside came into view.

There were actually two people inside!

One of them was a young man dressed in distinctly exotic clothing, extremely scantily clad, with only a skirt-like garment likely worn in the most prominent areas.

The other was a tall man with short black hair and scars on his face. He looked heroic but also very menacing.

He was drinking water from a silver cup.

"It's Master Hanjiao!" The boy saw Kroya and smiled, "We've been in contact before, my name is Gray Sand."

"Oh. You're the Sand Mage, nice to meet you." Kroya smiled back, subtly sizing up the other man, who was indeed much as he had imagined.

He must be the lord of a tropical desert.

By this time, the tall man had finished drinking the water in his glass, put it down casually, and said to Kroya, "Since it's our first meeting, I'll get straight to the point."

"Pit Mage, please speak." Kroya nodded.

"Do you have any magical plants that can soothe your wounds? I've heard that your territory is near the Mermaid Sea, and the Mermaids are most skilled at healing emotional pain."

"Soothe the pain, you mean something that can soothe the pain in your heart?"

"That's right." The Pit Lord suddenly slapped his forehead: "You don't know my territory, do you? My territory is near the Yavana Sacred Mine."

Upon hearing the words "Yavana Holy Mine," Kroya's expression changed slightly. That place was one of the largest magic crystal mines on the entire continent, and also the main magic crystal supply area for the Kingdom of Norland.

Most importantly... those prisoners he's taking in now come from there.

The territory is near the Yavana Sacred Mine. This... this is a really lucrative opportunity. Even a tiny bit of the magic crystals that flow out there would be enough to make someone fat.

"It seems you know about the Yavana Sacred Mine, but you don't know that the Sacred Mine is in a bad situation right now."

The Pit Mage sighed: "Some cultists over there sacrificed the miners in the mine and received a response from the Sindarkara in the abyss."

He casually picked up something from the side and handed it to Chloe.

Upon closer inspection, the latter discovered that it was actually a head covered in mushrooms and various spores. Although its expression was distorted, it was still clear that it was laughing joyfully.

It was as if they were enjoying a boundless feast of bliss.

It was filled with an uncomfortable feeling.

The Gray Sand Mage explained from the side, "The Abyss Sindragora is the territory of an Abyss Lord, filled with all sorts of fungi, from the most basic mushrooms to molds, they all come from her."

Hearing this knowledge that he had never heard of before, Chloe silently wrote it down, intending to write it down when she got back.

"So it's been corrupted by the power of a demon lord summoned by the cultists?"

Kroya suppressed her discomfort and glanced again at the mushroom growing on the head, feeling increasingly uneasy.

To be honest, he has three different types of fungi in his own territory, so he's bound to be a little concerned about them.

Unfortunately, this is not the outside world, so the power of the Astral Imprint Technique is ineffective, and we can't see the inside of these heads at all. Otherwise, we could have studied them more closely.

At least we'll know the names of these fungi, and once we know their names, things will be much easier.

Upon hearing his question, the Pit Lord replied:

"Yes, at first they just ate the mushrooms that grew on the ground, but then they became more and more fanatical."

They enthusiastically brought all the surrounding creatures into the mine, letting them enjoy a mushroom feast.

However, once you eat those mushrooms, you will be infected and assimilated by the fungi inside, and turn into this.

The Church's Holy Inquisition Army and the Mage Guild's Orichalcum Golems had already entered the mines, but they still couldn't prevent the leak.

"Some people in my territory have been infected by accident, and saving them requires more than just removing these mushrooms."

And we must also awaken them from the painful mental dream provided by these mushrooms.

This level of mental magic should only be achievable by the merfolk; only their songs can awaken a person from deep-seated illusions.

At this point, he solemnly promised, "If Lord of Han Reef can help me resolve this matter, I am willing to provide you with a soul solution of grade A purity."

Kroa's heart skipped a beat.

Grade A soul solution! With this, I can start building my own tower spirit.

I am indeed somewhat tempted.

(End of this chapter)