"Let go of me! Who are you? Let go of me!"
Waking up to find herself stuffed in a sack, Inanna twisted her body with all her might.
"Pero, did you water down your Sleep Spell? She's already awake."
"Idiot, don't call out my name. Her ducal father poured so many resources into her, how could her resistances be low? It's already good that she's only waking up now."
Inanna suddenly froze. Both of these voices were familiar to her.
"Pero? And you, Oakes! You ambushed me? You betrayed my father?"
"It's all your fault for talking too much, she recognized us," Pero said irritably.
Oakes, however, seemed unconcerned. "What's there to be afraid of? She won't have a chance to go out and tell anyone."
What did he mean? It wasn't just kidnapping?
"What are you going to do?"
Realizing her life might be in danger, Inanna became even more agitated.
The sack over her head was yanked off, and the first thing she saw was Oakes's sinister face.
"What are we going to do? My dear young lady, you're going to be a monster's dinner today!"
Inanna looked around. The walls of the dim passage were covered with purple crystals of various sizes.
Had she been brought to the Amethyst Dungeon?
"You two rats in human skin, the old man never treated you poorly? And you actually betrayed him?"
"Because your father is finished. Do you really think he can stop the empire's attack? And killing you will be the final straw that breaks him. By killing you, I can also become a noble."
Thinking of the noble title promised by the person behind the scenes, Oakes couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Stop laughing, it'll be troublesome if we attract monsters," Pero impatiently interrupted his laughter. "This is it, put her down."
Inanna was thrown onto the ground, still looking like she wanted to bite someone.
Oakes looked at Inanna's beautiful face and said with regret, "Such a beautiful woman, how can she be just like her father? I even wanted to see what a duke's daughter tasted like."
"This is the sixth level. If you don't mind monsters gnawing on your bare ass, you can go ahead now."
"Just kidding. Once I become a noble, what kind of woman won't I have?"
Pero raised his magic wand and pointed it at Inanna, chanting an obscure spell.
"Transformation Spell?"
Inanna immediately recognized the magic Pero was using. Her bound feet kicked towards him, trying to interrupt the casting, but Oakes grabbed her.
"If you have the guts, kill me! You killed... me..."
As the Transformation Spell finished casting, Inanna gradually lost the ability to speak and turned into a Puff with only a pair of short legs, commonly known as a Walking Mushroom.
After finishing the incantation, Pero somewhat reluctantly took out a bottle of potion shimmering with starlight and poured it over Inanna.
Oakes, standing nearby, clicked his tongue in wonder at this scene.
"Solidification Potion, you're really willing to spend. Why go through all this trouble, I say? Wouldn't it be easier to just kill her and throw the body down to feed the monsters?"
Listening to Oakes' brainless comment, Pero felt his misophonia acting up.
"You kill her, see if you don't get the Duke's Vengeance Mark on you after you kill her. Don't you dare give me up when he comes running to kill you, abandoning his territory.
Location magic, Vengeance Mark, she couldn't possibly not have them. Letting the monsters in the lower levels eat her clean is the safest method."
Saying this, he thoughtfully cast an extended Slow Fall Spell on the Puff that Inanna had transformed into, so she wouldn't be instantly killed by the fall later.
"Forget I said anything." Oakes wasn't angry at being looked down upon. He walked up to Inanna. "Farewell, young lady."
With that, he kicked out, watching as Inanna was swallowed by the rift.
This rift led directly to the depths of the dungeon. No one had ever fallen down and climbed back up, let alone a Puff with no combat ability.
Bastard!
How dare you trick me using the old man's name!
I'll kill those two beasts with my own hands!
It's so dark around...
This rift seemed truly bottomless. Even the extended Slow Fall Spell couldn't reach the bottom.
Feeling the constantly increasing speed of descent, after her anger cooled, the sixteen-year-old girl who had never faced death finally felt fear.
Am I going to die just like this?
Poof—
Inanna felt herself land on a soft, elastic bed, which bounced her high up again. After several bounces, she finally landed on the ground with a thud.
I didn't die! As expected, I am favored by fate.
But where is this?
Puff have no facial features and cannot see, but they can vaguely sense things around them.
What caught me seemed to be a three-meter-wide... giant mushroom?
What's with the sounds around me? These figures flickering past my eyes are so familiar...
Aren't these Puff, just like me after transforming?
Why are there Puff, the lowest creatures in the food chain, in the dangerous depths of the dungeon?
And so many of them!
Uh, why are they surrounding me...
As the owner of the mushroom garden, Linden felt that he might have been too distracted lately, causing him to make frequent low-level mistakes.
Case in point, there was actually a Puff in the mushroom garden that he couldn't control. He didn't know if it had naturally landed after growing up without being connected to the Mycelial Network in time.
It even had a pink mushroom cap, making it particularly conspicuous among the pile of Puff with cyan and gray caps.
Had it mutated?
Fortunately, it was easy to remedy. He just needed to connect it with hyphae and switch it to the channel of the Mycelial Network.
But why was it resisting so fiercely?
This uncontrollable Puff actually started running around everywhere when faced with the Puff Linden sent to connect it.
One moment it would knock over several Puff, the next it would stomp around in the mushroom patch, making a mess of the mushroom garden.
Annoyed, Linden simply commanded a large group of Puff to surround it, squeezing it so it couldn't move. Only then did he connect the hyphae.
"Ahhh! Get away! Get away!"
What the hell?
As soon as this Puff connected online, Linden was bombarded with screams, so loud that his hyphae bristled.
"Quiet!"
An undeniable command was transmitted through the Mycelial Network to every Puff. For a moment, the entire mushroom garden stopped moving.
"Damn it, no, normal operations in all areas."
After a long while, after restoring the operation of the mushroom garden, Linden finally focused his attention on this special Puff.
He had also realized by now that this was definitely not a Puff produced by his own garden, but an outsider mushroom.
How strange, could there be an outsider mushroom in this remote corner of his?
"Speak! Where did you break in from?"
"Who are you? How are you talking to me? No, how am I talking now?"
Tsk.
This guy was clearly in a state of confusion and couldn't speak clearly. Linden simply pulled up her panel directly.
[Name: Inanna Saint Claire]
[Race: Mushroom - Puff]
[Level: LV28]
[Health: 3280]
[Strength: 1]
[Agility: 1]
[Constitution: 1]
[Intelligence: 33]
[Spirit: 24]
[Racial Talent: Spore Diffusion (Can actively spray spores around, guaranteed to trigger upon death)]
[Fixed Effects:
Church Blessing (Provides Light Element Affinity LV4, Light Magic LV4)
Vengeance Mark (Transfers to the killer upon death, the caster can track the killer and deal extra damage to them)
Tracking Mark (Location marker)
Fruit of Life (Gains 3000 extra HP and Life Regeneration LV4)
Dragon Crystal Potion (Provides high all-around resistance)
Permanent Transformation Spell (Unless the magic is dispelled, the transformation effect will last permanently)
Connect to Mycelial Network (A short-range psychic network formed by magic resonance between hyphae)]
[Skills: Riding LV4, Element Affinity (Water, Light) LV4, Mana Storage LV3, Mana Control LV4, Light Magic LV4, Water Magic LV3, Cloth Armor Mastery LV2, Dagger Mastery LV2, Magic Resistance LV6, Physical Resistance LV6, Mental Resistance LV6, Corrosion Resistance LV6, Toxin Resistance LV6, Paralysis Resistance LV6, High Temperature Resistance LV6, Cold Resistance LV6, Stun Resistance LV6, Underwater Adaptation LV6, Astrology LV1, Ancient Elvish LV2, Life Regeneration LV4]
My goodness, a super pink Puff with over 3000 HP and all resistances at LV6!