"Why would it be in the deep zone?" Fifteen still seemed somewhat puzzled.
"Perhaps it hid down here after being wounded by you last time," Aiding offered as an explanation.
Lin Jun still had no intention of exposing the secret of his mycelium vision, so in the passage, the group encountered two puffshrooms guarding the entrance.
This arrangement of reconnaissance units in the passage inevitably reminded everyone of their previous encounter with the Chiss.
Sword Saint Elvien paid no heed to these two puffshrooms with their weak auras, his steps never faltering.
However, Fifteen, acting out of caution, flashed his sword light and cleanly sliced them in half, eliminating the potential threat.
The moment everyone followed the Sword Saint into the cavern, what greeted them was a puffshroom legion already arrayed in battle formation!
The puffshrooms on the mycelium had clearly completed their assembly in an extremely short time. The entire passage entrance was blocked tight as a drum, trapping everyone firmly in the narrow area at the cave mouth.
Among those present, there were no tank-type puffshrooms. Apart from the elite puffshrooms beside the knight, the others were all cannon fodder level.
The so-called arrangement of the "Puffshroom King" being controlled wasn't about simply gifting the knight over like some free offering—such crude theatrics would only backfire!
On the contrary, it had to go all out under the current circumstances, harboring the resolve to kill the Sword Saint, and launch the most ferocious counterattack!
As for what would happen if it actually defeated or even killed the Sword Saint?
In that case, it would mean humans posed no threat whatsoever, and there would be even less to worry about!
Without the slightest hesitation, the command was issued! Several rolling suicide bomber puffshrooms charged out from the formation first, while simultaneously, from the shadows of the cavern ceiling, a group of bat puffshrooms hanging upside down also dove down, swooping toward everyone's heads!
However—
The Sword Saint didn't even move.
He merely shifted his wrist slightly, and a sword light suddenly blazed forth. His sword's trajectory was impossible to capture—after just one flash, all the charging suicide bomber puffshrooms and bat puffshrooms froze mid-motion.
Immediately after, their bodies split along an absolutely smooth cutting plane, silently falling in halves onto the mycelium, not even managing to use [Self-Destruct]—this was attack speed and range far surpassing Fifteen's!
The Sword Saint walked forward, gripping his sword.
"Master!" Fifteen suddenly called out urgently.
The Sword Saint turned his head slightly with mild confusion.
"Please leave the 'Puffshroom King' to me!" Fifteen's eyes burned with intense fighting spirit and unwillingness to concede.
"Fine." The Sword Saint's response was extremely concise.
The instant his words fell, Elvien's figure had already vanished!
In everyone's eyes, they could only catch a brilliant, dazzling silver moon arc that suddenly bloomed in the dim cavern!
This moon arc wasn't stationary, but at an inconceivable speed, instantly plowed through the innermost, most densely packed puffshroom cluster of the encirclement!
Only now were the puffshrooms just beginning to react to Lin Jun's command of "full army attack"!
Magic power was still gathering in the mushroom cannons, hallucinogenic puffshrooms began compressing their caps.
But it was all too late.
Except for a few puffshrooms positioned extremely remotely who luckily avoided being covered by the moon arc and managed to fire off several mushroom cannon shots that were too distant to be accurate.
All the puffshrooms surrounding the expert group with their imposing momentum—whether scaled or unscaled—were neatly cut in half during the Sword Saint's fluid, lightning-fast charge.
Like harvested wheat stalks, puffshroom corpses fell in swaths across the mycelium.
The scene was so clean and efficient, perfectly matching the sight from the previous Chiss cavern, with perhaps the only difference being that there was no purple fluid splattering from within the puffshroom bodies.
In one stroke, only some scattered puffshrooms remained in corners of the cavern, no longer able to pose a threat, along with the knight and its accompanying elite puffshrooms.
Though he had witnessed it several times before, the Sword Saint's power still left Aiding's heart shaken.
Inanna pressed her lips together, the sudden disappearance of so many signals making her feel inexplicably uncomfortable.
Meanwhile, Fifteen sighed quietly in his heart at the gap between himself and his master, then drew the twin swords from his waist, looking toward the distant "Puffshroom King."
He wasn't the type to obsess over victory and defeat, but last time... that fight had been truly frustrating!
"Don't forget, we need it alive," the Sword Saint, who had already sheathed his sword, reminded.
Fifteen nodded heavily, his gaze sharp as a torch, locking onto his target as he shot forward like an arrow from the string!
His speed was extremely fast. However, having just witnessed the Sword Saint's terrifying display of near-instantaneous movement and single-stroke battlefield clearance, Fifteen's charge, though fierce, showed a gap that seemed impossible to bridge.
Even so, it was more than enough for fighting the knight, so Lin Jun didn't relax in the slightest.
Under his command, ten elite puffshrooms stepped forward!
"Still trying that trick? You underestimate people!"
[Ground Shrinking LV7]
His figure disappeared like flowing light, reappearing steadily before the fat otaku puffshroom!
Behind him, the ten elite puffshrooms had already been sliced into fragments, not even managing to use [Subsonic Attack].
This time, Fifteen had even preemptively replaced all his backup potion bottles with sturdy magical beast skin pouches—even if the potions' effectiveness would deteriorate faster as a result, he absolutely wouldn't give his opponent the chance to repeat the same trick!
However, when he looked up, the knight puffshroom was already jetting away at a distance, leaving only a fat otaku puffshroom in its original position.
BOOM—!!!
A deafening explosion wrapped in flames and rubble erupted violently! The intense shockwave even caused the knight puffshroom in mid-air to tumble!
Though Fifteen, at the explosion's epicenter, wasn't injured thanks to his pendant's protective shield, he still ended up disheveled and covered in dust.
Again like this!
Again this feeling!
This despicable "Puffshroom King"!
Without stopping, Fifteen continued pursuing with [Flowing Steps].
He noticed that narrow little hole in the distance. This puffshroom undoubtedly wanted to burrow into a hole again just like last time—he couldn't let it succeed.
Biting open the skin pouch, the spicy liquid surged down his throat as Fifteen's speed explosively increased.
The knight puffshroom rolled into a ball with its crimson cloak, barely charging into the small hole, with Fifteen already in pursuit.
What Fifteen saw upon entering was the cloak once again caught on stones, unable to be removed in time, as the "Puffshroom King" hastily grabbed its shield trying to protect itself!
Even having fought this far, seeing it clumsily repeat the same mistakes, the corners of Fifteen's tightly pressed mouth couldn't help but curve upward slightly.
Despite being so clever, in the end it was still just a magical beast, not even knowing how to learn from previous lessons.
"It's over!"
Fifteen flicked his wrists, crossing his twin swords before his chest.
[Ground Shrinking LV7]
His figure vanished again!
CLANG—!!!
A piercing clash of metal rang out in the small cave! Sparks flew!
Twin swords crossed, adding another sword mark to the dragon scale shield, but only one mark.
The other sword precisely and unerringly cut into the puffshroom's rear end, and whether intentionally or not by Fifteen, the position was exactly the same as last time, not off by a hair.
"Finished!"
Not finished, but rather, he was the one who was finished.
Beyond the vision blocked by the cloak, at the end of this shallow cave wasn't any escape passage at all, but rather a spatial rift with twisted edges leading to profound nothingness!
"What?!" Stepping into empty air, the victorious smile on Fifteen's face instantly froze!
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