Mushroom Lord in the Underground City-Chapter 351 - 343: Abyss Experience Card

"Lord, everything is ready, are you... prepared?" Margas bowed and asked Duke Sigmund, who was sitting at the center of the massive Abyss Magic Array.

Surrounding the Magic Array were nearly a hundred slaves deprived of their five senses, firmly fixed like puppets on various energy nodes.

Among them, a few recent offenders of military regulations from the Demon Race were mixed in.

"Begin." Sigmund said and then tilted his head back to drink the Illusion Potion in his hand all at once.

Sigmund didn’t consider the mysterious enemy a fool. Although he had set a trap, if it alerted the opponent because there was no Illusion Potion, that would truly be a case of being too clever for his own good.

Releasing at the appropriate time makes it less likely to be seen through.

The power of the abyss does not belong in reality. Unlike ordinary Magic Arrays, the Abyss Array dissipates constantly and cannot be maintained for long. Successfully luring the opponent into the trap in one go is the optimal solution.

Consciousness sank into the dream realm.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw what he knew all too well — the dilapidated wooden plank house, and the three children endlessly trying to catch frogs in the nearby creek.

Above this scene, a semi-transparent membrane covered the sky.

On the other side of the membrane, the grand Vampire City constructed by the power of the Illusion Potion was faintly visible.

This was the true base level of his dream, but unlike Inanna who couldn’t fully control her mind in dreams, Sigmund had a stronger command. He waved his hand, and the surrounding scenes dispersed.

In their place was a sinister, vampire Gothic-style dark throne, along with the deep hall.

...

Thud—! Thud—!

Footsteps that seemed to shake the entire dream space echoed in the dream realm, and a giant blue Puki, unimaginably large, violently crossed into the neutral buffer zone of the "Strange Dream" and stepped into the illusory Vampire City!

It swung its massive mycelium tentacles, seemingly slow and clumsy but packed with terrifying power and speed.

Where its tentacles passed, pointed buildings crumbled and shattered like toys, and wandering demon phantoms in the city were easily crushed and flattened.

Lin Jun brimmed with confidence!

After all, this time he had inserted two fingers in!

The Puki giant beast rampaged through the city, continuously weakening that tough protective shell.

The violent tremors even penetrated through layers of the dream realm, reaching Sigmund.

Through the membrane and illusion, although Sigmund couldn’t see clearly, he could distinctly feel that today’s commotion was much more intense than any previous occasion.

He contemplated when he should break the illusion...

Crack!

The "sky" above suddenly shattered!

"Here! Here! Found you!" A voice full of pure heartfelt joy came from beyond the broken sky!

Following quickly were giant mycelium tentacles reaching through the gaps in the sky!

They kept clawing at the cracked edges, violently trying to rip the entire "heaven" open!

Below, seated on the throne, Sigmund gazed up at the scene akin to the Demon God invading, showing no fear, and instead laughed deeply.

He felt that once again he had narrowly won a gamble at the edge of life and death, just like before!

This mysterious enemy surprisingly had a method to break through the protection of the "Illusory Dream"!

If he hadn’t taken a chance today, the outcome might not have been pretty.

The massive Puki fell into the dark hall with a thunderous crash, its form adaptively shrinking significantly, but compared to Sigmund on the throne, it remained an overwhelming behemoth, its shadow nearly engulfing the entire throne.

Confronted with this oppressive sight, Sigmund showed no panic. His head lifted, crimson eyes fixed on Puki, he said, "I’m really curious... Who are you? To be so fiercely loyal to the Saint Claire Family, risking yourself for such perilous dream games! Despite having such outstanding Spiritual Power, you continuously pretend to be this... foolish comical figure! At this final moment, would you mind enlightening me?"

Sigmund’s voice was light, this was a dream, no need to truly "speak."

"You’re the one looking foolish!" the voice boomed!

The giant tentacle swung down!

"That’s really unfortunate."

In the next moment, an utterly dark void, seemingly capable of devouring all light and hope, suddenly appeared between him and Puki! Infinite darkness poured forth like a bursting dam, engulfing the entire dream realm!

A faint yet resilient transparent shield around Sigmund flickered violently, barely keeping the darkness at bay.

At the same time, in the secret chamber of the Crimson Tower in reality.

Two slaves fixed at the Magic Array nodes suddenly had their heads burst like balloons, red and white mixture splattering on the array patterns.

Following that, like fallen dominoes, heads of more captives exploded one by one! In merely a few seconds, a dozen sacrifices met the most tragic of ends, and it was still continuing!

Even with decoys serving as buffers, Sigmund himself was far from comfortable.

As Margas warned, even the mere aura of the Abyss Power is fatal.

He felt as if his brain was violently struck by an invisible sledgehammer, the intense dizziness and pain blurred his vision, and his ears rang, his entire consciousness violently fluctuated.

Yet he still clenched his teeth, relying on sheer willpower to withstand this wave of assault.

Through the wildly flailing curtain of darkness, he could faintly see the giant Puki form on the opposite side, frozen since the darkness emerged, completely motionless.

No matter whether he could survive, Sigmund burst out laughing with reckless joy!

...

The moment darkness touched him, a baffling piece of information drilled into Lin Jun’s soul.

[Hardness 7, Density 2.8 grams per cubic centimeter]

Before Lin Jun could understand what was happening, more, larger, and chaotic streams of information crazily rushed into his consciousness!

[Average height increased by one centimeter]

[#########]

[Alona Leech: 3758056]

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[Average magic density increased by 2.1%]

[Ark Plan Progress: 245%]

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[Sarah Lambert]

[#########]

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[Justice (Acquisition Conditions: Harvest Phase, Justice Value above 8000, Evil Value at 0, Hero Acquisition Difficulty reduced by 50%)]

[1+1=3]

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The endless information flood entered, akin to when he touched the Dungeon Core, yet fundamentally different.

Although most information from the Dungeon Core was incomprehensible to him, at least he sensed its intrinsic logic and coherence.

But the information from this darkness was entirely different, vast yet chaotic and without order, most of it incorrect.

These harmful junk data kept flooding through the contact point, rapidly consuming Lin Jun’s entire soul’s processing capacity!

Even with Lin Jun’s current soul strength, roughly estimated, under such a scale of information bombardment, he could only last about ten minutes.

Although continuously battered by junk information, it hadn’t interfered with Lin Jun’s thought and action yet.

Evidently, this was a carefully laid trap by the opponent! Given the circumstances, it was unreasonable to stupidly charge in.

Just as Lin Jun planned to strategically withdraw, the dark hole suspended between them, spewing darkness and chaotic data, closed without any forewarning!

Less than half a minute in total.

The darkness vanished, the dream reverted to the ruined castle hall image.

Before Lin Jun, the vampire half-kneeling beside the throne, one hand supporting the ground and the other clutching his head, muttered incoherently.

Hmm?

Seems there’s no need to retreat?

Lightly nudging the vampire, the opponent appeared to want to respond but seemed powerless.

"Hehe."

"Here’s a smack from me!" The giant tentacle crashed down directly!