Mushroom Lord in the Underground City

Chapter 814: Chapter 800: Dragon Struggle Concludes

Thud, thud, thud—

Number Four kept shifting positions, trying to attack from every possible angle, but in the end every strike hit nothing but air.

The Divine Artifact Void Realm created a sealed, circular space all around; it looked close enough to touch, yet no matter what it did, it couldn’t reach it, and could only keep shouting "Damn it" inside the Fungal Network.

This space, called a cage, actually covered hundreds of square kilometers, stretching from deep underground up into the sky, providing more than enough room to move.

Through the severed connection between the inside and outside Fungal Mat, Lin Jun could sense that this forcibly twisted cage was being slowly corrected by the world itself.

Only, the time needed to fully correct it was enough for Xiao Hai to die many, many times over.

Xiao Hai facing the Giant Dragon alone had no chance of victory.

However, she was not a dragon fighting alone.

The inside and outside were cut off; Magic Power from the outside couldn’t flow in, but at least the Fungal Mat was still under Lin Jun’s control.

On the Fungal Mat within the spatial cage, hundreds of Puki drilled out after draining the Magic Power from the surrounding Fungal Mat.

Large patches of the Fungal Mat died as their Magic Power was forcibly drained; Lin Jun only retained the minimum amount of Fungal Mat needed to control these Puki.

The few nearest Puki, the moment they emerged, rolled themselves into balls and barreled toward the Giant Dragon.

The Magic Power within the Fungal Mat inside the cage was limited; these Puki’s strength ranged only from cannon fodder to Elite Puki at best. The scant Magic Power in their mushroom bodies couldn’t even reach the level of pests in the eyes of the Giant Dragon.

Even so, the Giant Dragon did not let these Puki rush up unchecked.

Its left wing spread wide like a scythe and swept in a circle around its body; the dozen-odd Puki charging in were all shredded, most not even killed by the bone spurs on the wing-tail, but pulverized by the gale it kicked up.

Yet it was precisely the two Puki skewered by the wing-tail bone spurs that made contact with the Giant Dragon.

One of the Giant Dragon’s hind legs suddenly buckled and went limp, losing all sensation; it had to brace its body with its wings.

[Soul Touch Level 9]

A Giant Dragon whose soul was shattered in death could not provide progress toward the Ancient Dragon Path; using this Skill meant Lin Jun had already given up on seizing the Ancient Dragon Path.

What he was doing now was only killing this Black Dragon and rescuing Xiao Hai.

The Giant Dragon tried several times, but could not regain feeling in that hind leg.

It quickly understood that this was some kind of attack method of these seemingly weak Puki.

The Giant Dragon looked at the Puki all around, lurking near and far, ready to move, and said, "You despicable creature, do you really intend to use such filthy methods to defile the sacred Dragon Struggle and the glory of us Giant Dragons?"

A voice Puki with little wings slowly flew up. "Your glory, I don’t care."

More Puki surged forward in a mass. The Giant Dragon beat its wings, soaring into midair; Corrosive Dragon Breath poured down from above, turning the charging Puki into black sludge.

But quite a few Puki still escaped into the air and continued to entangle with the Giant Dragon.

However, the Giant Dragon’s speed was far beyond what these cannon fodder and Elite Puki could match; even without Dragon Breath, the gusts it raised were enough to kill Puki.

The number of Puki within the cage plummeted sharply.

At the same time, as Xiao Hai watched the Puki battle the Giant Dragon, Lin Jun’s voice sounded in her mind.

"Xiao Hai, no matter what your mom and that Giant Dragon said, I’m going to save you. But to save you, I need your Power too."

Two Puki leapt into Xiao Hai’s arms; she instinctively hugged them, murmuring, "Boss..."

"Yes, I’m your boss. So trust me and obey my commands!"

...

The gale whipped up by the dragon wings howled past; the few Puki caught within it were torn to pieces in seconds.

By now, the sky had already grown much clearer; only a scant dozen or so Puki still remained on the field.

Suddenly, in the distance, a black meteor came hurtling straight toward the Giant Dragon. Seeing this scene, a smile instead appeared on the Giant Dragon’s draconic face.

"So you finally find the courage and resolve, huh? Not too late, I suppose."

It recognized Xiao Hai’s [Meteor Impact], so it once again climbed higher and used the same Skill to clash head-on.

However, just as it took off, the Skill was forcibly interrupted!

Not only [Meteor Impact]; at this moment the Giant Dragon’s entire status panel had gone dark.

[Seven Sins of Envy: Seal an individual’s abilities]

Watching Xiao Hai rapidly close in, the Giant Dragon could only raise a Dragon Claw to meet her.

Bam—!

Mycelium scattered in the air as Xiao Hai was blasted away like a cannonball, crashing into the ground below. The Giant Dragon, on the other hand, had merely shattered a few Dragon Scales in the center of its claw.

Yet in the next instant, the Giant Dragon’s right wing drooped, losing all sensation. Relying on its remaining wing, it slowly descended from the sky.

This was the handiwork of the two Puki Xiao Hai had been holding in her arms.

And at the instant it landed, from the shadow of a stone at its landing point, a Puki popped out and brushed against the Giant Dragon’s tail.

The dragon tail flicked, and the Puki was swatted to pieces, but the Giant Dragon already felt its draconic body becoming even harder to control.

In the distance, Xiao Hai climbed out of the crater she had smashed.

Large patches of Black Scale on her body had shattered, revealing the blood-soaked wounds beneath.

The pair of golden Dragon Eyes met again. This time, trusting her boss, Xiao Hai let out a low, threatening growl at the Giant Dragon.

"Xiao Hai, finish it!" Another two Puki leapt into Xiao Hai’s arms.

At the same time, several shadows in the distance brazenly closed in on the grounded Giant Dragon that could no longer fly.

Hugging the Puki, Xiao Hai once more turned into a black meteor. The Giant Dragon extended the Dragon Claw it could still move and slowly raised the polyhedral Divine Artifact.

So it still had to use the Divine Artifact after all.

But Lin Jun was not afraid.

This Divine Artifact was clearly not the offensive type that could unleash a Spatial Blade; in this situation, there wasn’t much it could do.

The most likely use would only be escape.

Yet the Giant Dragon did not run. Instead, it braced its draconic body, thrust out its chest, and faced Xiao Hai head-on.

Thud—!

The two black shadows merged into one.

The violent collision instantly crushed the two Puki Xiao Hai held in her arms, but they had already fulfilled their purpose.

From the [Inspiration] viewpoint, the Giant Dragon’s soul was already like a guttering candle in the wind; even if Lin Jun stopped attacking now, it couldn’t hold on for more than a short while.

At the same time, Xiao Hai’s twin claws, at the cost of every scale shattering and her dragon bones cracking, tore open the Giant Dragon’s chest and physically stabbed into its heart.

The Giant Dragon spewed a mouthful of dragon blood, drenching Xiao Hai and turning her into a figure drenched in red.

"Giant Dragon..."

Following the sound, the Giant Dragon lowered its head to look at Xiao Hai, still embedded in its chest, and suddenly tensed the muscles of its chest, trapping Xiao Hai’s claws in place.

"An Ancient Dragon should at least... with its own will... make a choice!"

As it spoke, the Giant Dragon used the last of its strength to press the Void Realm down toward Xiao Hai!

The instant the Divine Artifact touched Xiao Hai, it embedded itself in her chest, then burst into multicolored radiance. The Mycelium on Xiao Hai’s body vanished completely in that prismatic light, destination unknown.

Not just on the surface; from inside to out, every last strand of Mycelium disappeared without a trace.

Not understanding what had happened, Xiao Hai only felt the boss’s voice suddenly vanish from her mind; immediately after, she was trapped in midair by an invisible wall.

Having done all this, the Giant Dragon used its final connection with the Divine Artifact to nudge the polyhedron.

Its collapsing draconic body did not fall to the ground but plunged directly into twisted space, finally crashing heavily down atop the Dragon Cliff, beside the Ancient Dragon’s corpse.

The Giant Dragon cast one last glance at the Ancient Dragon’s remains. "This way... is good too... Let me... keep you company..."

Its golden Dragon Eyes gradually dimmed.

The Kobolds who still maintained the Dragon Cliff heard the commotion and gathered from all around.

After confirming that the Giant Dragon was dead, the Kobolds silently stepped forward and began cleaning the blood and wiping the Black Scale, just as they had always tended the Ancient Dragon’s corpse after the dragons departed.

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