CHAPTER 490: CHAPTER 411 MUSHROOM BEAST HEGEMONY

"Magic mushroom, has it become sentient?"

Lette stood in the Holy Flame Bone City, looking at the chubby little figures all over the city, feeling a bit overwhelmed.

"These little things running around everywhere, what on earth are they! I don’t recall ever creating these things!"

After completing the Holy Rank for the entire Elf Clan over at the Elf Imperial City, they handed over command to the Elf Queen and the Elf Princess.

They then returned to the underground city and arrived at the Nether Beach via the Holy Flame Bone City.

As a result, just as they arrived at the Holy Flame Bone City on this side of the Nether Beach, they found the entire city occupied by these peculiar little creatures.

Initially, Lette thought it was some kind of strange enemy, but he quickly sensed that these little things had the same energy fluctuations as the magic mushrooms.

Lilith reached out and grabbed one of the little orbs, the little guy looked quite cute, flailing its tiny arms and legs.

"Judging by the material, it definitely is magic mushroom. But why have they turned into this form?"

"Perhaps the self-optimization process went wrong."

Lette quickly made his way to the Dungeon Center and placed his hand on the Death Demon Mushroom.

Soon, he understood the whole story through the stored information there.

Lette guessed it right; it was indeed the result of the self-optimization adaptive system, but it wasn’t a mistake.

After the construction of the Four Cities of the Nether Beach, three of the inner cities, due to undertaking the purification work of the corrupted Nether Sea water, accumulated a large amount of energy.

This energy was something the immortal creatures above the Nether Beach were desperately longing for, so they naturally launched an attack on the Four Cities of the Nether Beach to gain these resources.

But could the defensive mechanisms set by Lette be mere decorations?

Under the frantic blasting and cleansing of the magic mushroom army, the Four Cities of the Nether Beach encountered no problems.

But as the energy continued to accumulate, more and more powerful predators began coveting these treasures.

To tackle these assaults, the self-optimization system started ongoing upgrades for these magic mushrooms.

While Lette was engaging in clever maneuvers with the Divine Realm, Life God System, and Dragon Clan, those magic mushrooms were left on the Nether Beach, continuously killing, summarizing, optimizing, killing...

Until today, the original magic mushrooms had completely transformed, becoming little Mushroom Spirits.

"This is really... something unexpected."

No sooner had the words left his mouth, a weird trumpet sound echoed over the city.

Immediately, these little Mushroom Spirits each opened their mouths, making similar noise.

The entire Holy Flame Bone City rose in a cacophony of sounds, as the little Mushroom Spirits began gathering towards the city wall direction en masse.

As it turned out, another undead army was advancing towards the Holy Flame Bone City.

The little Mushroom Spirits on the city wall raised their hands; their previously short and stout arms began to proliferate wildly, eventually transforming into numerous barrels aimed at the enemies below.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

In a barrage of concentrated fire, the undead army disintegrated on the spot into dust, and a massive fungal mat spread from the city walls, devouring the remnants of the undead army, feeding it back into the Death Mushroom at the Dungeon Center.

After eradicating the enemies, the little Mushroom Spirits jumped down from the city wall and resumed bustling around the city.

Witnessing the fully automatic enemy annihilation process, Lette couldn’t help but widen his eyes.

"This is freaking possible too?"

"Isn’t this what you expected?"

Lilith was holding a cute little Mushroom Spirit: "Fully automatic defense against foreign enemies, decomposing tasks, completing energy collection...

What are you dissatisfied with?"

"I’m not dissatisfied, just surprised that the magic mushrooms self-optimized to such an extent."

"Is this what you would call... Emergence?"

Lilith’s words suddenly made things clear for Lette.

"Well, when you put it that way, could this be my... Favoured ones?"

"One of them, perhaps. They’re quite adorable, I really like them."

Lette casually picked up a nearby little Mushroom Spirit and scrutinized it: "These things seem genderless too. Inside they truly hold infinite potential, it could be considered an Emergence Miracle.

Alright, seeing how you like to max out firepower and sweep the battlefield clean when dealing with enemies, then... consider you as my Favoured ones.

But, just being cute is not enough!

I need you to become battle Favoured who can conquer far and wide!"

Lette said, taking out the Advanced Golden Finger he collected from the Elves.

"So, become stronger."

Lette’s ultimate goal of helping the Elves advance was for the Nether Beach plan.

He had originally intended to eliminate the Gate of Truth’s influence within the Nether Beach, and now Lilith confirmed the presence of the Desecrated Temple in the Nether Beach.

Therefore, focus had to be placed on the development of the Nether Beach.

The earlier arrangements Lette made in the Nether Beach were primarily for better handling of the polluted Nether Sea water, decomposing the Power of Corruption.

While fortifying himself, it also allowed for the world’s repair and possibly advancement.

However, it’s still somewhat challenging to conquer the entire Nether Beach.

Upgrading the original magic mushrooms was the solution Lette had found.

But what he didn’t expect was that in his absence, the magic mushrooms within the Four Cities of the Nether Beach underwent a qualitative change prompted by self-optimization.

In that case, building on the little Mushroom Spirits’ evolution, let’s have another round of artificial advancement!

As Lette injected the Golden Finger into the Death Mushroom at the Dungeon Center, this immense information instantly spread throughout the Four Cities of the Nether Beach via underground mycelium.

Powerful energy began to aggregate, then started enveloping all the city states.

All the little Mushroom Spirits in the city ceased their activities, standing in place one by one.

Mycelium grew at their feet, connecting to the main underground mycelium network, subsequently forming fungal insect cocoons around their bodies.

This scene somewhat resembled the magnificent view once seen at the Lake of Life.

Crack, crack!

Soon, these cocoons shattered, and one by one, larger little Mushroom Spirits emerged from the cocoons.

Compared to before, they lacked some cuteness but gained some ferocity. In terms of power, they were on another level.

Though not yet elevated to the Holy Spirit Species, their strength was considerably higher than the usual Golden Species.

Lette observed the evolved Mushroom Spirits, rubbing his chin: "Hmm... so now, are they Mushroom Beasts?

So next, am I going to lead this group of Mushroom Beasts to dominate the Nether Beach?

Strange, why am I dreaming of this?"

Lilith reached out and poked the ugly-cute Mushroom Beasts: "Why do they look so dumb?"

"Newborn Favoured, lacking wisdom and heritage, naturally they seem foolish.

But no worries!

They are my Favoured, after all, education can’t be neglected.

Let me impart them some wisdom."

With that, Lette rolled up his sleeves and placed his hand on the head of one of the Mushroom Beasts.

"Come, I’ll give you some wisdom of ancient sages.

Once upon a time, there was a great philosopher full of wisdom, everyone called him Brother Kong.

And there was another great philosopher full of wisdom, everyone called him Brother Meng.

Everyone affectionately referred to them as, Scary Brother!

Brother Kong’s values were Benevolence, Righteousness, Propriety, Wisdom, and Trust! Brother Meng’s values were Propriety, Wisdom, Benevolence, Righteousness, and Trust!

Believing in Scary Brother can grant you a peculiar energy called Virtue, thus becoming a Scholar.

The greater the Virtue energy, the more righteous the Scholar becomes.

Ah! A common Scholar whose Force Field isn’t strong enough can’t gain the trust of other Scholars.

The more convincing Scholars are called Great Scholars, and renowned Great Scholars are called Grandmasters..."