For the first time in a long while, No. 10 was hugged in Inanna's embrace, and it rarely didn't refuse.
No. 4 squatted on the low table to the side, pacing back and forth.
Between its tentacles, it pinched that translucent white tooth, turning it over and over. It swapped it from this tentacle to that one, and then from the left side to the right side. In short, it was just dangling it back and forth right in front of No. 10.
Unfortunately, No. 10 never asked the question it was anticipating.
The depressed No. 4 felt that the tooth was too small and not conspicuous enough, deciding to get a bigger trophy next time.
Best if it's like that dragon horn of the Mushroom Lord!
Recently, the Mushroom Fortress was going to build a Marshal statue and would use that dragon horn as decoration. No. 4 also wanted to obtain such a huge and handsome trophy!
It was just that, to get trophies, one had to go out and seek battles. But leaving the Pink Puchi, that...
Looking at Inanna's hands, No. 4 was somewhat reluctant to part again.
No. 4 hadn't made up its mind, but No. 14 had already decided.
...
"You want to go out on a journey alone?"
"Not a journey, it's to exterminate the Hand of Passage."
No. 14 communicated with Lin Jun in the mycelial network while dealing with the attacks from Norris and Ming.
The Ji-da lunged from the left. Every step of the four-meter-tall behemoth's body shook up a spray of snow, and the Resonance Cannon on its shoulder had already gathered a faint blue light.
Ming sprinted fiercely from the right, completely lacking any defensive posture.
The Sword Saint didn't use a sword, relying solely on the tentacle blades inherent to the Puchi body.
With one sweep, it tripped the charging Ming; with another slash, it cut off the Ji-da's charging Resonance Cannon.
The Ji-da's left arm drill thrust over with a whistle, but it was too slow.
The Sword Saint merely turned sideways, letting the drill brush past the edge of its mushroom cap.
Seeing that they were about to be defeated.
"Ming!"
"Understood!"
The two retreated simultaneously, pulling a distance from the Sword Saint. The Sword Saint didn't pursue, standing in place, unhurriedly waiting for them to come up with a countermeasure.
Ming leaped into the air.
The Ji-da raised its left arm, and the drill was actually aimed at the falling Ming.
Following Lin Jun's voiceover narration of "Combine!", Ming's body fell from the air, his two legs accurately slotting into the center of the drill.
The Ji-da's drill began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster, faster and faster.
Ming was spun into an afterimage.
He opened his mouth, wanting to shout something, but could only let out a garbled "Wu lu lu lu" sound. Saliva and suspected vomit were flung into an arc by the centrifugal force, drawing circles of trajectories in the air.
"Physical Immunity Giant Pinwheel!"
Spinning Ming, the Ji-da charged at the Sword Saint once again.
This was also a move made out of helplessness.
Through multiple sparring sessions, they discovered that aside from Ming, all attacks would be sliced open by No. 14.
And when Ming charged alone, he was always toyed with by No. 14 using various techniques. They could only come up with this strategy to break the deadlock.
The Sword Saint, who had traveled far and wide and was highly experienced, couldn't help but take a few steps back looking at Ming, who was spinning so fast vomit was flying everywhere.
If it were an ordinary person spinning like this, not to mention the high temperature inside the earth-drilling Puchi, just this rotational speed would be enough to dislocate their bones.
This guy Ming, relying on [Physical Immunity], was fine no matter how he was tossed around...
"Pity."
[Moonwalk LV7]
A silver arc lit up on the snowy ground, fast as moonlight itself moving.
Norris only felt his vision blur. That afterimage had already bypassed his front, and the Sword Saint's figure landed lightly on the snow behind him.
In the next moment, cracks emerged at every joint of the Ji-da, and it just fell apart on the spot.
And Ming, along with that earth-drilling Puchi, was flung out by the massive centrifugal force.
He tumbled more than a dozen times in the air, tracing a high parabola, and finally smashed into a snowdrift over ten meters away with a bang, leaving only two legs sticking out twitching.
Norris ran over and put in a lot of effort to dig him out of the snow.
Ming lay on the ground, his eyes rolling in circles, while bubbles were still gulu gulu popping out of his mouth.
Having finished serving as sparring partners, the Sword Saint finally brought the chat back to the main topic.
"I promised I would help you do things. But recently, there hasn't been anything you needed to rely on me for, right? Don't tell me you can't handle those two Dukes."
Only after becoming a Puchi could one personally experience the formidable power of the Mushroom Garden.
Even without counting the Boss's bizarre intelligence capabilities, just the overt strength of the Mushroom Fortress wasn't something two Dukes could chew on.
According to the Sword Saint's estimation, if the Empire wanted to resolve the Mushroom Fortress, they would have to bring out at least the lineup they used when attacking the Human Kingdom back then to gain an advantage, under the premise that the Mushroom Fortress didn't deploy the Ji-God Mechs.
As for what would happen after the Ji-God Mechs came out, it would undoubtedly lead directly to the high-end combat power having a decisive battle at the location of the Ji-God Mechs. He couldn't easily predict that result.
And this was only on the Mushroom Fortress battlefield, not the fungal mat that had already spread across half the world.
In short, in the Sword Saint's view, it was still early for the situation to develop to the point where he was needed on the field.
"Taking advantage of this free time, I plan to clean up those hiding bugs again... Ah, I mean the Hand of Passage."
"Why did you have to emphasize that?"
"..."
Fortunately, after a brief silence, Lin Jun still agreed: "Mm... I've noted it down... Alright, go ahead. But if you leave the range of the fungal mat, contact me at least once a month."
Just as the Sword Saint expected, the Boss didn't stop him, and even provided him with some areas where the Hand of Passage had recently appeared.
After all, according to his observations, the Boss also seemed to hate the Hand of Passage.
Although he didn't know why a group of Puchis would loathe an evil cult that had nothing to do with them, when it came to exterminating the Hand of Passage, having aligned interests was a good thing.
The Sword Saint Puchi set off alone, leaving behind only a round, dashing back figure.
Lin Jun recorded another mark against him.
...
Not to mention, Lin Jun truly planned to deal with the Hand of Passage.
The reason was also very simple: they seemed to have some plans regarding him.
Ever since the group of Priests from the Hand of Passage were chased into hiding by the Empire, they had been quiet for a very long time.
Lin Jun also didn't know where they were hiding during this period. After all, there was no fungal mat in the Empire, so Lin Jun had no vision.
But recently, in the vicinity near Elinore's territory, traces of their activities appeared again.
Although they were just some underlings, their actions of stealing Puchis and collecting mycelium from the fungal mat made it hard for Lin Jun not to be suspicious.
After all, there was a deity behind the other party, even if this deity couldn't protect her believers, resulting in the Hand of Passage being almost wiped out by the sieges of various factions.
But there was still unknown, mysterious power.
Lin Jun didn't want to ignore them due to arrogance, only to wait until they came up with some outrageous ritual and pulled a huge stunt on him.
The best method was naturally to strike proactively and exterminate them before they caused trouble!
Speaking of which, last time he had also captured a Lizardman Priest. Due to transportation reasons, Lin Jun threw him over to No. 13 to disguise as a blood livestock.
This guy was a true believer; not a bit of intelligence could be pried from his mouth.
Fortunately, Lin Jun's methods of obtaining intelligence weren't limited to extorting confessions by torture.
The information taken from his brain could just happen to be put to use this time.
The world was already rotten enough. For guys like the Hand of Passage who only muddied the waters, it was better to let them exit the stage early!
(End of Chapter)
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