Chapter 1432: Chapter 1331: The Infinite Endurance of Mushrooms
Luck time is here, Da Fei immediately halted the relocation of the barracks and the barrel transport of the Blood Pool, summoning all 1,000 Evil Demons, 300 Flower Demons, 100 Vine Demons and other troop types with production skills, letting them first gather at the forest edge to rest and recover stamina.
Elena exclaimed: "What are you planning to do, sir?"
Wow hahahaha, of course, it’s to let you witness the moment of a miracle! But, wait! Am I being a show-off here?
Da Fei remembered something and asked: "By the way, since your Dark Elf Clan lives underground, you should know how to cultivate mushrooms, right?"
Elena nodded: "Of course, mushrooms grow quickly and have low survival requirements, being the most important food source underground. As a Queen successor, I naturally know how."
No kidding, right? Your attribute panel didn’t tell me you could grow mushrooms, your hidden skills are too many!
Da Fei quickly asked: "Food? Can these Mushroom Trees be eaten?"
Elena chuckled: "Once they become trees, they can’t be eaten. Mushrooms can only be considered food during their initial growth period."
Just like bamboo shoots! Da Fei further asked: "What do you do after harvesting a batch of mushrooms? Do you use seeds to grow them?"
Elena shook her head in surprise: "No, we can’t grow them ourselves, we just wait for mushrooms to grow by themselves. What we can do is enhance the yield once new mushrooms are born in the Mushroom Forest." She points to a small cluster of mushrooms under a nearby Mushroom Tree: "That’s the one."
Really? Living by the whims of nature?
Shadow Witch Shiva added: "During the hundred years in the Obsidian Mine, we lived off the mushrooms in the mine. If it’s about improving mushroom yield, our Dark Elf Clan can help!"
My God, even troop types can enhance mushroom yields? This should be a skill, right? If you can do it, why doesn’t it show in your skill bar? Not too low-level to be shown? That’s impossible! Tamilia’s vine cultivation isn’t particularly high-level either, yet her God-level Vine Forest Master skill is displayed there.
Da Fei couldn’t believe it: "You really just wait for mushrooms to grow on their own? You can’t actually grow them yourself?" And you still call this cultivation?
Elena smiled bitterly: "That’s the extent of our agricultural production level. I suppose it’s the key limitation of Dark Elf population. If we could fully master mushroom planting, it would be unimaginable for the underground world."
Da Fei suddenly realized! If you can’t even manage the basic step of planting seeds, no matter how much you improve yield later, you can’t form a complete skill system, hence it doesn’t appear in the skill bar? Essentially, they don’t know how to collect mushroom seeds, letting the spores float randomly in the air?
Having figured it out, Da Fei laughed heartily: "Alright, I’ll show you how to grow mushrooms! As for cultivation, leave it to you!"
Da Fei waved his hand, and the rested thousand Evil Demons and Flower Demons, along with the four production-skilled Contract Angels such as Ror Ariel, soared to the sky above the Mushroom Forest. Seeing the vast, dense gathering army, Da Fei shuddered with excitement!
Lucky Hand—Activate!
With a rainbow light covering the whole army, Da Fei’s radar was a flash of gold, the sky above the Mushroom Forest sparkled like stars shining brightly!
—System Prompt: You have discovered Mushroom Spores, acquiring Master-level Treasure Appraiser information!
Da Fei laughed aloud: "Gather!"
The swarm of Evil Demons and Flower Demons commenced, like an immense aerial net sweeping over the forest! In that instant, system information flooded the screen:
—System Prompt: Your Evil Demon Army collected 361 "Mutated Mushroom Tree Spores"...
—System Prompt: Your Flower Demon Army successfully collected 125 "Mutated Mushroom Tree Spores"...
Da Fei laughed heartily: "See this, these are mushroom seeds!"
Elena, shocked, lost color in her face: "So mushroom seeds can be collected too!"
Wow hahaha! Worship me, adore me, follow me for a lifetime! Da Fei laughed and said: "Correct! My plan is to cultivate a Mushroom Forest along the lake shore soil in the Holy Vine Central Village. Although Miss Ror recommended a Mirage Mushroom Master named Alice, now with Miss Elena, there’s no hurry to find her."
Elena joyfully said: "Don’t worry, sir, I will cultivate a Mushroom Forest with all my might. Once it’s established, there will be a continuous supply of mushroom food, making it possible for me to develop a complete Mushroom Breeding skill!"
—System Prompt: You have obtained information on the Mushroom Breeding skill!
My god! It really is a skill! This sets the stage for Elena to gain wisdom and for the Dark Elf Army to upgrade! Great, you will be the Mushroom Corps in the future!
Just then, Savara laughed: "Actually, the biggest issue restricting you, sir, is the inability of the ship’s cabin’s water and food to support a large number of troops for a long time, especially the substantial expenses of numerous Dragon Clan troops. Once the Holy Vine Space can produce food, the number of troops you can carry will be unimaginable!"
Da Fei was suddenly enlightened! He’s made a point, I’ve never considered the water and food issue, relying on the large cabin, with so many troops, especially those big-eating dragons, the daily water and food expense is indeed significant! Although I have enough fuel to circle the globe many times, the food can’t keep up with this pace?
Da Fei was elated with sudden realization: "Exactly! I can’t even imagine, if I could produce mushroom food in the ship, wouldn’t our ship have endless power? There’s nowhere in the world we couldn’t go!"
Elena laughed: "I will definitely help you achieve your dream of endless power!"
Da Fei laughed heartily: "Let’s all work hard together!"
Amidst laughter, the aerial gathering army swept over the skies like a sieve several times back and forth, the countless particle light spots finally dwindling under the sweep, until they completely disappeared.
—System Prompt: You have obtained 6643 "Mutated Mushroom Tree Spores"! You have obtained Master-level Treasure Appraiser information!
Six thousand seeds! This is the power of the army’s harvest, wow hahaha! Da Fei laughed: "Go plant mushrooms!"
Elena excitedly said: "Please give me the seeds, sir, I will do my utmost!"
Is this the rhythm to charge towards a skill? Da Fei laughed: "No problem!"
Savara and Daelir also laughed: "Then, sir, we’ll take over the troops and continue ground defense. I think the ship’s cargo hold can’t accommodate so many troops."
Da Fei sighed: "Then everyone will have to keep working hard. If we can use the Sealing Order in the Holy Vine Space later to build a village and barracks, things will be much less cumbersome."
Although player-territory barracks don’t have the nearly unlimited troop capacity like the system’s Main City barracks, as long as the barracks’ level is high, it can still store a significant amount. Anyway, I’m still quite far from a true Sky City.
With the reception of 100 Vine Demons’ "Flying Sky Vine Chair", Da Fei, Elena, and all the Dark Elf Army returned to the underground cave, then back to the ship. Meanwhile, the Evil Demon Flower Demon army re-engaged in the relocation barrel transport work.
The victory celebration after meeting was briefly passed over, and Elena eagerly started planting mushrooms along the lake shore soil. Da Fei, Anlicia, and Catherine watched alongside. As for Tamilia, she wanted to watch but was tied up with her own duties.
The first batch of seeds Elena scattered, the seeds flashed black light and vanished into the soil.
Da Fei curiously said: "Is this magic?"
Elena laughed: "Yes, it’s a very faint Earth Magic that gathers rich Earth-element energy around the mushrooms, accelerating their growth. This is my first time using it on seeds, but I think the principle should work."
Accelerating growth? Da Fei asked in amazement: "Can Druid’s Natural Magic be used on mushrooms?"
Anlicia laughed: "I’ll directly respond for the three elders, Lord City Lord. No! Mushrooms can’t exactly be classified as plants, Druids also aren’t familiar with mushrooms."
Alright, fungi!
Just as they were chatting, the soil where Elena just scattered seeds suddenly stirred, several pink-white little umbrella buds emerging visibly fast from the ground!
"So fast!" Everyone was stunned! Elena was overjoyed!
Even with Da Fei’s previous experience in planting, he couldn’t help but be astounded: "This must be Miss Elena’s skill power, right?"
Elena excitedly said: "No, it’s the fertility of this soil that’s beyond imagination! Sir, infinite endurance is no longer a dream!" (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you’re welcome to vote for it on qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com for reading.)
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