This Dungeon Grew Mushrooms - Chapter 605
The red dragon’s severed horn was collected by Lin Jun as a signature trophy. He planned to frame it later.
Before that, Marshal puji performed a small ceremonial act—climbing to the top of the broken horn, tilting his mushroom cap slightly upward, spreading his tendrils wide, and casting a simple imaging spell to immortalize the heroic pose.
“Tsk tsk. Big red lizard looked scary, but that’s all it was. One shot—gone without a trace.”
Beside him, the Sword Saint puji, who had just crawled out of a mycelial cocoon after revival, shook his unfamiliar new mushroom body.
“Is Mushroom Garden’s combat style… to annihilate allies along with the enemy?”
No one had told him before the battle that he was serving as disposable bait—and that he would have to eat a map-wide blast that didn’t discriminate friend from foe.
He had thought he was coordinating with Four to severely wound the red dragon and create an opening for a follow-up siege.
Was sacrificing teammates really supposed to be this decisive?
“You only died once! And it’s not even your first time. Why are you acting shy about it?” Lin Jun retorted with complete confidence through the fungal network. “Didn’t I revive you immediately? You’re a Sword Saint—broaden your mind a little! Relax. If you only had one life, I definitely wouldn’t have spent it so casually.”
Sword Saint: “…”
Nearby, another fungal cocoon split open and Four slumped out limply.
Even in its giant-beast puji form equipped with Life Essence-level regeneration, it couldn’t withstand the sheer violence of the Ultimate Resonance Cannon.
Now inhabiting a standard puji body, Four’s consciousness felt weak and listless.
“My strength… it’s gone again… I feel so empty…”
The gap between its former giant body and this ordinary mushroom form left it temporarily dispirited.
The Sword Saint wasn’t much better—this new body lacked the familiar agility of his former tendrils—but he would never flop onto the ground and expose his belly like Four.
Just normal “post-revival side effects.”
After reviving them, Lin Jun began tallying the spoils.
The red dragon had been blasted into countless fragments by the Ultimate Resonance Cannon.
Lin Jun ordered two portions separated out.
One was sent to the kitchens to fulfill Little Pig’s promise that the soldiers would eat dragon meat.
Even if each person only got a few shredded strands, eating it still counted.
The other portion went to Little Gray, to see whether it would increase her Ancient Dragon Path progress.
The rest? The fungal carpet would decompose it on-site.
On the system panel—
Obtained Title: Dragon Slayer (Immunity to Dragon’s Might)
Seven Sins – Greed Triggered
Plundered Skill: Flame Dragon Breath LV3
Plundered Skill: Flight Mastery LV2
Plundered Skill: Energy Absorption (Fire) LV2
Plundered Skill: Battle Instinct LV2
Plundered Skill: Dragon’s Might LV2
…
The harvest was quite abundant.
For instance—Mushroom’s Might… activate!
In an instant, Marshal puji radiated domineering presence.
His bright red cape billowed dramatically in the breeze—courtesy of a simultaneously cast Minor Wind spell.
However…
The Sword Saint continued adjusting to his new body without even turning his cap. Four lazily rolled over on the ground.
The Sword Saint already possessed the Dragon Slayer title, and Four was essentially part of Lin Jun—so the immunity effect applied to them as well.
They didn’t even notice that Lin Jun had activated Dragon’s Might LV2.
Marshal puji calmly deactivated Mushroom’s Might, then cast Imaging again, as if the wind spell had always been for dramatic photography.
Putting Mushroom’s Might aside, the other skills also held great potential.
Flight Mastery LV2—For a long time, the mushroom race’s air force had suffered from weaknesses in high-speed maneuvering and complex aerial combat. This skill could significantly improve their mobility.
Battle Instinct LV2—A passive, beast-like intuition. Once equipped, it functioned automatically without requiring Lin Jun’s focus, boosting the combat capability of ordinary puji by a noticeable margin.
And Flame Breath LV3, Energy Absorption (Fire) LV2, and the rest—all worth developing further.
No wonder dragons stood at the top of the food chain. They were walking treasure vaults of skills.
There was only one issue—
Revenge Mark (Caster Location Lock Active)
Although the dragon had been killed via the Jishen Unit, the mark did not attach to any individual puji component.
It anchored directly to Lin Jun’s soul.
Clearly, this was a soul-targeting tracking mark.
But this was within expectations.
Before deciding to eliminate the red dragon, Lin Jun had already considered the possibility of a revenge mark.
A mark either attaches to the body—or the soul.
If it marked the body, he could discard the affected puji.
If it marked his mushroom core body, he could use body transfer to shed it.
And if it marked the soul—
Inspiration LV8
Lin Jun descended into the depths of his consciousness and conducted a half-day soul inspection.
Eventually, he located the black mark clinging to his soul.
It wasn’t especially well-hidden.
The reason it took so long was simply because Lin Jun’s soul mass was enormous—conducting a full inspection was a massive undertaking.
Soul Touch LV4
After locating it, he targeted the mark directly.
It had some resilience. The first strike failed to erase it completely; most of it remained, only slightly faded.
But it worked.
Like scrubbing a stubborn stain, Lin Jun spent another half day eliminating it entirely.
The marked status disappeared from the panel.
Everything under control.
After all, without confidence in clearing such tracking marks, he would never have dared to fire that shot.
While the mark removal went smoothly, Little Gray’s results were less satisfying.
After feeding her fragments of her “distant relative” mixed with delicious puji, her Ancient Dragon Path progress did not move at all.
The red dragon had clearly been drawn by the resonance of Ancient Dragon Path.
Yet consuming it brought no increase.
Apparently, Ancient Dragon Path wasn’t a simple devour-and-evolve system like he had assumed.
Did Little Gray need to personally fight?
Or perhaps more strictly—win in single combat without assistance?
If only someone could explain it.
This had been Puji Fort’s and the Jishen Unit’s first real battle—and against a dragon.
Lin Jun hadn’t been certain of victory. He couldn’t afford restraint.
He refused to become one of those talkative villains who forget to finish the job and end up overturned.
If he had known he could one-shot the dragon, he might have tried capturing it alive.
He wondered…
Would any other dragons come knocking?
