Chapter 795 - 541: Hundred Mushroom Envoy (2)

On the way back, he finally figured out where those mushroom-men came from.

Scarecrow: 0 (16) Rebirth LV30, Listening Wind

Power: 2992→3124, F

Attribute: 10 Wood

Abilities: [Gratitude][Water Film][Forget][Dragon Expulsion][Weeds][Taichi][Stable Space][Hexagonal Warrior]

Skills: [LV5 Snail Grass (S)][LV5 Entangle (S)][LV5 Willpower (A)][LV5 Small Fireball (A)][LV5 Godzilla’s Power (S)][LV1 Hundred Mushroom Envoy (A)](New)

After absorbing that whole vat of thick mushroom soup, the Scarecrow actually gained a new skill.

[Mushroom Envoy]: Can temporarily summon mushroom-men to fight alongside you

He hadn’t tested the combat strength of these mushroom-men yet, but they shouldn’t be too weak.

Luckily it rolled an A‑rank skill, so it wasn’t a loss.

If it had come out as an E or F‑rank skill and filled up the newly opened skill slot, that would’ve been pretty unlucky.

Through communicating with the Scarecrow, he got a rough understanding of this skill.

Right now these mushroom-men can be summoned once every 1 hour, and each batch exists for half an hour.

In other words, in theory mushroom-men can be present around the Scarecrow for half of the time.

At LV1, [Mushroom Envoy] can only summon 3 mushroom-men at a time.

And every time the mushroom-men that come out may be of different types; it’s a random summon.

Although contact time was short just now, once he got close Li Pu could clearly sense their aura.

The ones the Scarecrow summoned weren’t alien mushroom-men, but beast-type mushroom-men.

"Uh, infinite related materials?"

Then a bug-abusing idea sprouted in his head.

[Grass!]

Scarecrow: Summoner, you’re finally going to lay hands on Ben Cao’s little brothers!

The Scarecrow immediately protested.

These weren’t ordinary magic beasts, they were his little-brother magic beasts.

"Just saying."

Li Pu spread his hands.

What he cared about wasn’t the Scarecrow’s protest, but that he knew this plan wasn’t very realistic.

He’d hunted plenty of mushroom-beast monsters himself, and their related materials were basically all fragments of their own bodies after they died.

Those fragments don’t stay fresh for long; more importantly, you usually need dozens of the same mushroom-men to scrape together one set of related materials.

So right now it’s unrealistic to complete a set of related materials from the Scarecrow’s random mushroom-men; farming cards off them is possible though.

After waiting a bit, the Scarecrow’s summon cooldown was up again.

So Li Pu told it to summon some out for a look.

[Mali Mani Grass!]

The Scarecrow put on an act and chanted a line of "spell".

[Gu gu da da!]

[Gu da!]

[Gu, hmph!]

Three vortex-shaped lights suddenly appeared out of thin air and flickered; mushroom-men of various forms were immediately summoned to its side.

"Interesting."

Li Pu raised an eyebrow at the sight and began sizing up these three guys.

These three mushroom-men were also quite different from the three he’d seen just now.

The mushroom-man on the left had an oversized cap and a tiny body, with freckles on his face and cross eyes to boot—one look and you knew he wasn’t very bright.

The one in the middle was tall and skinny, his cap shaped like a wizard hat, holding a deadwood staff shaped like a mushroom in his hand, looking like some kind of Mage.

The mushroom-man on the right was gray‑black all over, with short little arms crossed over his chest, a cold expression and sharp gaze; he even met Li Pu’s eyes with a counter‑stare.

"Have them take turns attacking me once."

He decided to test these mushroom-men’s strength.

[Grass!]

Scarecrow: You said it yourself, Summoner!

The Scarecrow chuckled, then gave the order.

[Gu gu da da!]

The idiot mushroom-man stepped up first and swung a punch at Li Pu.

But Li Pu stood there without moving and it still whiffed.

Because it was cross‑eyed, whenever it attacked a target it had to first do a multiple‑choice question: hit the right side or the left side; there was a certain chance it would miss.

"This feels really unreliable."

Li Pu was quite speechless.

[Gu gu da da!]

But very soon, the idiot mushroom-man threw a second punch.

This punch was on target, so he reached out and caught it.

Pa!

The little fist hit his palm, making a crisp sound.

"This..."

Li Pu’s eyebrows knit slightly: "This strength is actually way higher than the Mushroom Brave’s."

On one hand it showed that the Mushroom Brave was truly weak; on the other, it meant this idiot mushroom-man’s power wasn’t bad.

Next he tested the wizard mushroom.

He’d thought it would be some caster type, but it turned out to be a Staff Master.

The staff work was quite tricky, and several times it nearly slipped around Li Pu’s two‑handed defense.

The last gray‑black mushroom was more in line with its look; it could teleport to the target’s shadow to launch a sneak attack—a pretty powerful move, except its raw attack power was a bit lacking.

"Feels pretty good, kind of like opening blind boxes."

Amid the Scarecrow’s heartbroken cries, Li Pu smacked all three mushrooms to pieces one by one and took their cards.

"Even you yourself don’t know what you’ll summon out. That way it’s even easier to catch the enemy off guard."

"Worthy of an A‑rank skill."

He nodded in satisfaction.

And casually leveled this skill straight up to LV5.

At that point, [Hundred Mushroom Envoy] made the mushroom-men’s exist time increase to 45 minutes, which in disguise meant a shorter CD.

The key thing was, each level also added one more mushroom-man.

Now he could summon 7 mushroom-men in one go.

Plus the large number of vine-men, he suspected this guy was heading down the Summoner path.

He felt like without noticing, the Scarecrow was becoming more and more like him.

With a large group of thug underlings, while his own combat power was nothing to sneeze at.

"Forget it, this kind of thing can just go with the flow."

Anyway, he didn’t have any detailed plans for the Scarecrow’s future. A guy who couldn’t even complete his first Rebirth—what future was there to talk about?

In short, just get stronger however you can.

After wrapping up his review, he once again started fiddling with the Scarecrow’s third consecutive Rebirth.

This time, he wasn’t going to use a big water tank.

Instead he was going to use the Rebirth plan that Senior Full‑Tree had brought him last time.

[Fire Prohibition Envoy]

Summary: Adds extra effects to flame-based methods

Rebirth Effect: When the Fire Prohibition Envoy’s flames burn a target, the target becomes unable to use skills

Specific Implementation: Activate the Rebirth array and burn within the flames

Required Conditions for Implementation: Fireproof Rebirth Array, fire source

Budget: Depends on the specs of the fire source

Note: If the fire source’s energy is sufficient, after Rebirth the summoned beast’s own flame skills can also be enhanced

The intensity of flame the Scarecrow could currently withstand had already reached A+ rank.

The elemental fire elf used to charge the [Fire Storage Core] was also A+ rank, a perfect match.

And in theory it only needed to be charged for a week, but in the Mushroom Realm it had basically been hugging the [Fire Storage Core] the whole time, so the energy stored inside was definitely full to the brim.

Li Pu was really looking forward to what the Scarecrow would turn into this time.

He laid out the Rebirth array and arranged all sorts of auxiliary materials around it according to the plan’s instructions.

Then he had the Scarecrow walk in holding the [Fire Storage Core].

[Cao cao cao!]

Although the setup was different from before, the Scarecrow was still full of anticipation.

At Li Pu’s signal, it squeezed hard with both hands and crushed the [Fire Storage Core].

Whoom!

A surge of pure flame from the elemental fire elf instantly spread over the Scarecrow’s entire body with the help of the auxiliary materials.

[Cao~]

The Scarecrow felt warm and comfortable.

The flames were fierce and ceaseless.

In the blink of an eye, the Scarecrow wrapped in them was like a big ball of fire.

Yet it lay down inside with complete ease.

"Next comes the waiting."

This time, Li Pu didn’t dare leave.

So his gaze fell on the other two summoned beasts.

First was Fu Fu; this guy seemed to have been asleep the entire time since coming to the training ground, which was really exasperating.

Once the Scarecrow finished this Rebirth, he really would have to take it to that Sleepy Beast Association to see if there was a cure.

Then he looked at No. 2.

This guy had already gone through four Rebirths; he wondered if its heart had become any more honest.

Since he was idle anyway, should he try a communion and test out [Possession]?

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