Mushroom Lord in the Underground City-Chapter 230 - 227: Why Is Yours So Big?
[Tear my pages?]
[Sit on me with a Puki butt?]
[Lock me in a tiny explosive room?]
[Now, how does it feel?] The text on the page radiated with pride.
[Does the feeling of your soul being pulled and extracted feel special?]
[To control thousands of individual units, your soul’s essence must be immense... Perfect for slowly savoring this bone-deep dissolution sensation!]
The Holy Scripture vented its accumulated grievances with venomous words while relentlessly driving the soul it had accumulated over centuries, continuously washing over and polluting the core Crystal Stele.
Soon, the gray-black soul occupied most of the stele and continued to spread.
[Ah! It’s here!]
[Permission! I can feel it!]
The light-ring stars that surrounded it suddenly accelerated their rotation, emitting a deep humming sound!
At the same moment, a blindingly large lightning bolt struck without warning during the chaotic battle on the fifth level!
The lightning, like a divine whip of punishment, swept across the land, leaving a massive, molten, charred gully of terror!
Scarecrows, shellworms, phosphorescent moths, venomous lizards... countless Demons turned to ash without even a scream, leaving only wisps of smoke and the acrid stench of scorching in the air.
[Heh, interesting!]
After a brief amusement, the Holy Scripture calmed its excitement after realizing its wish.
[Time to get down to business]
The Holy Scripture, maneuvering its ring of stars with the authority of a ruler, flew straight to the final closed metal door of the core area.
It attempted to open it using the newly obtained core permissions...
The door remained motionless, unresponsive!
[???]
Suddenly, the Holy Scripture darted back to the Crystal Stele, and in an instant, it pinpointed the source of the problem—
On the stele, now stained gray-black by centuries of accumulated soul, a spot glowing with cyan light stood out prominently!
[Even with a collective soul, how is it not all absorbed yet???]
...
Soul.
Invisible, intangible, only momentarily visible in a tangible form when tearing pages.
Although it had deduced from some information that its [Greed] acquired Skill Proficiency through souls in corpses, Lin Jun still had no idea of what the "soul" itself looked like and its position in the world.
Now, for the first time, Lin Jun felt this tactile sensation coming from the soul—his soul... was caught!
It wasn’t a spatial connection, nor a signal transmission from a Fungal Mat network; it was a deeper, more fundamental contact.
Even when he decisively severed all external Fungal Mat connections, this unseen pull targeting the soul itself was still firmly locked onto the soul!
In this invisible link, Lin Jun for the first time clearly "perceived" his own soul!
It felt like a viscous, shapeless liquid being continuously drawn into something called "core" like a vacuum... being sucked in...
The Pukis under his command collapsed one by one in a seemingly random order, like puppets with their strings cut.
The situation’s collapse seemed to spiral into a more desperate Abyss than the worst-case scenario anticipated!
But...
From the soul-level perception, he wondered if it was an illusion that the vacuum’s aperture seemed a bit small?
The feeling was more like a straw trying to suck that bi-colored Slime.
Moreover, once the soul was absorbed, it seemed to connect in some way with the Underground City, though vaguely.
Using the controlled soul to wash over the core and seize authority...
Since he couldn’t pull the soul out anyway, Lin Jun simply squeezed himself voluntarily inward.
...
The cyan spot on the Crystal Stele suddenly spread rapidly!
[No way...]
The Yellow-covered Book wanted to insert more souls in to crush this entity completely, but he was out of reserves...
[No no no, what kind of entity’s soul could be so immense?!]
Yet, whether or not the Yellow-covered Book accepted reality, the cyan soul rapidly spread in the Crystal Stele, pushing the gray-black souls controlled by the Holy Scripture into a corner, compressing and compressing, until—
A soul shrieked as it was forcibly squeezed out of the Crystal Stele.
Like the signal of a dam breaking, countless gray-black souls followed in quick succession, rushing out of the stele!
They didn’t return to the Yellow-covered Book, but quickly dimmed and dispersed in the air, becoming formless.
[No! Don’t! My soul! The souls I’ve amassed over three hundred years!]
The Yellow-covered Book’s thin pages fluttered helplessly, unable to stop the soul’s departure.
Soon enough, the massive Crystal Stele was completely permeated with pure cyan, entirely crystalline and devoid of any blemish!
And it wasn’t over. Using the invisible soul link between the Yellow-covered Book and the Crystal Stele, the cyan soul’s tendrils silently crept up the edge of its cover!
[!!!]
The Yellow-covered Book frantically tried to cut off the connection to the Crystal Stele, but it immediately experienced what Lin Jun had felt—it was useless to attempt a physical severance once grasped on the soul level.
[Wait! Boss! Boss! Let’s talk this over!] The hasty handwriting appeared in panic.
[Don’t... don’t come in anymore!]
...
...
...
Pop—
A Cow and Horse Puki carried a Voice Puki swaggering into the core chamber, a new growth connected to the Purple Crystal’s Fungal Mat near the area.
The two Pukis went directly beneath the floating Yellow-covered Book.
At this point, the Holy Scripture’s cover was already covered with cyan patterns.
The glow surrounding the Yellow-covered Book gradually faded, losing its support, and the Yellow-covered Book slowly fell down.
The Puki gently caught it, fungal filaments brushing over the cover, wiping away non-existent dust.
"Little Puki?" The Voice Puki quivered slightly, producing a hoarse, raspy sound that echoed in the core room.
[That is... a term of respect!]
"Deliberately didn’t tell me?"
[My... my expression might have been improper, but that was never my intention!]
"Quite impressive, our forbearant and enduring Holy Scripture lord!"
[Spare me! Spare me, please! I have important information! Huge intelligence!]
A slender yet extraordinarily striking Electric Arc suddenly appeared, without any warning, accurately striking the cover of the Yellow-covered Book!
[Awww, awww, awww——!!!]
With a faint crackling sound, the last remnant pages of the Yellow-covered Book emitted a puff of black smoke.
[Mercy... wrong... have...] This time, it couldn’t even form complete words.
"It’s okay," the Voice Puki’s tone was calm, even slightly soothing, as the Cow and Horse Puki’s fungal filaments gently smoothed the electrocuted and charred pages, "you have plenty of time... to speak slowly."
[Title Obtained: Administrator of the 13th Dungeon (Acquire highest permissions of this Dungeon)]
