Mushroom Lord in the Underground City

Chapter 441 - 432: Lin Jun’s Remarkable Memory

In the underground passage, fierce winds howled, and electric arcs shot everywhere.

Behind the rubble, in the cracks on the walls, and the cover of corners, Night Owl flitted through these shadows, her speed pushed to the limit. Every pass narrowly avoided the frenzied lightning strikes, while her Black Blade glided across the surface of the storm spirit, inflicting damage.

However, the Diamond Level storm spirit was too large, almost filling the entire passage, making it impossible for Night Owl’s Black Blade to reach its cyclone center for a fatal blow.

As for a battle of attrition, it was too disadvantageous for Night Owl, who hadn’t slept for several days, her forced exertion wouldn’t last long.

The storm element emitted a low hum, the air pressure in the passage abruptly rose, countless tiny electric sparks burst from its body, weaving into a net of electricity covering the entire passage!

Night Owl tapped her toes, blending her form into the shadows by the wall.

In the moment the electric net passed, she reappeared, ready to seize the gap after the opponent’s skill to counterattack, but her right foot suddenly went soft, almost causing her to fall.

Her right foot had just been grazed by the lightning, though it caused no substantial injury, it triggered a paralysis effect, and in her poor condition, Night Owl failed to notice it immediately.

"Damn it..." Just as this thought surfaced, blinding lightning filled her vision.

Night Owl was slammed heavily against the stone wall, black smoke rising from her body, the air carrying a faint smell of burnt flesh.

Another electric arc struck, but Night Owl’s figure vanished once more, leaving only a splash of crimson where she stood.

In the basement, unable to hold on any longer, Night Owl tumbled out from the shadows, rolling twice before spitting a mouthful of blood.

Night Owl felt as if she’d been infected by that madman Ivan; otherwise, why would she do something so foolish?

Upon seeing the Diamond Level storm spirit, she should have retreated decisively, dragging away one of the three injured, at least saving two lives.

Now look, playing the hero only to endanger herself too.

Facing death, she began to mutter in Elf Language, berating everyone from the captain to herself, even Edin, who wasn’t present, wasn’t spared.

"Night Owl, how are you?" Nova staggered over to her, supporting himself against the wall.

Beside Night Owl, only he could still barely move.

"What’s the difference if I’m better or worse? Anyway, in a moment... cough cough... I’ll be dead!" Coughing up blood onto Nova’s face, Night Owl struggled to finish her sentence.

Nova asked, "Do you still have the branch?"

Night Owl searched through her torn clothes, pulling out the branch: "What? Take one down before dying? That’s an Elemental Spirit, not a Demon, it’s pointless."

Nova took the core, clutching it tightly, thorns pierced his palm as blood trickled down the branch.

This act rendered Night Owl silent, watching him in bewilderment.

Nova quietly explained, "This thing has another use..."

The next moment, to Night Owl’s shock, Nova stabbed the branch into her arm!

"Nova! What are you..."

Before she could finish speaking, a surge of vitality flooded into her body through the branch.

This wasn’t ordinary healing, but pure life force!

Her injuries and fatigue swiftly dissipated under this power’s wash, at the cost of Nova’s hair visibly turning gray.

Night Owl jolted, slapping away his hand, that feeling of draining another’s life terrified her.

Nova glanced at the now vibrant Night Owl, slowly sitting against the wall: "Gall’s injuries are too severe, without my Healing Technique, taking him would be a death sentence, you take Ivan..."

As he spoke, Nova handed the core to Night Owl, his intention clear.

"Nova..."

Night Owl wasted no more words, took the core, and moved to Ivan, about to slip into the shadows, but suddenly halted.

Why hasn’t that storm spirit come in yet?

She hesitated for a moment, before sneaking back into the passage to investigate alone.

Then, she saw it.

The entire passage was filled with dense spores.

...

"Yes, yes, just like that, don’t stop!"

At Lin Jun’s command, Puki under Edin swelled their caps together, spitting out large amounts of spores.

These particles, carrying faint magic, surged continuously into the narrow passage like a thick fog.

In this relatively enclosed space, the spores were almost impossible to disperse, and electric arcs couldn’t clear them all away.

Soon, except for a circle around the storm spirit, every corner was filled with this spore fog.

In the storm element’s Magic Perception vision, the entire passage was obscured by magic spores, making it difficult to discern any existence within.

Due to the narrow terrain, Air Flow Perception, too, was in chaos, as the storm swept and rebounded everywhere, leading to similar confusion.

This was Lin Jun’s deliberate doing, after all, he had all these reconnaissance skills for so long, he was well aware of how to counteract them.

Both major observation means were restricted, the crystal-less Knight Puki swaggered to within eight meters of the storm element before stopping.

A surprise attack!

As the Mushroom Cannon fired, the storm element barely reacted, taking a full-force magic cannon attack head-on.

The violent energy impact sent its massive body quaking, lightning scattering everywhere.

Yet this wasn’t enough to be fatal. The storm element, having discovered the attacker, immediately engulfed everything in lightning as it swept forward.

The Knight Puki didn’t back down, activating Blade Storm Level 8, turning its entire body into a high-speed spinning bladed gyro, colliding head-on with equal ferocity!

Magic Resistance Level 9

Regeneration Level 7

Fungal Filament Reassembly Level 8

In the passage, electric serpents danced wildly, mycelium splattered everywhere.

Two frenzied "gyros", one large, one small, engaged in a life-or-death struggle in the most primitive, brutish manner, a series of collisions making the entire passage tremble.

This complete abandonment of tactics in a raw power contest didn’t make Lin Jun panic at all.

After all, he could view the status panel, pulling it up to compare both sides’ rate of bleeding was enough to know the outcome.

Indeed, as time went on, the storm element gradually fell behind.

Electric arcs diminished, its whirlwind’s rotation speed seemed to slow as well.

While the Knight Puki across the way, although heavily wounded, still had ample magic, maintained by high recovery, its status was much better than the storm element’s.

And at this moment, Night Owl, who had arrived, directly joined the fight.

Enduring some lacerations, Night Owl broke through the elemental spirit’s gradually loosening outer storm, stabbing the Black Blade into its core cyclone.

The Diamond Level storm element let out a final tremor before suddenly bursting apart, blasting Night Owl away.

The force wasn’t very large, Night Owl performed several backflips to dissipate the momentum.

However, as she approached Puki, Lin Jun gently flicked a mycelium tentacle, causing the unaware Night Owl to lose balance and take a tumbling fall.

This scene was just seen by Edin, who followed in.

"Boss, she’s a member of the Silver Thorn Squad." He feared the boss might mistake her for an enemy.

Night Owl? How could Lin Jun not recognize her: "I know, this guy slashed my Puki before!"

Watching Night Owl, covered in scratches, blood flowing but still unclear about what had happened, Edin earnestly recalled accidentally getting rid of a few Puki before joining... (there’s still a Chapter)