Chapter 440: Chapter 304: Encountering the Pope Again, Great Battle with a Tier 5
The Bloodthirsty skill began to devour and convert!
A massive amount of flesh and blood energy surged into Su Ze’s body, instantly causing his form to swell again, returning to its maximum size—and even expanding beyond it!
All his injuries healed completely, and his condition returned to its peak.
Su Ze tore through the earth, bursting out from underground and casually ripping apart a handful of mycelia.
Devouring the pointy red mushroom hadn’t increased his power by much, as most of the flesh and blood energy had been used to heal his wounds and replenish his stamina.
Killing the red mushroom had been met with fierce, coordinated resistance from all the High-tier Mutated Fungi, which had also greatly increased his energy expenditure.
However, Su Ze was more focused on the Silver-gray Energy within his body.
After devouring the pointy red mushroom, he discovered another strand of Silver-gray Energy inside him, just as he’d expected!
’It seems this Silver-gray Energy exists within all Mutated Fungi of Tier Four and above.’
Moreover, Su Ze noticed that the strand of Silver-gray Energy he had extracted from the Tier Four Mutated Chicken Mushroom hadn’t dissipated; it was still stored within his body.
’It seems this Silver-gray Energy is different from the golden energy within the Sands of Time. The golden energy can’t be stored in the body for long, but the Silver-gray Energy can.’
This made Su Ze even more curious about the purpose of this Silver-gray Energy.
’But whatever its purpose, since it can be stored, there’s no harm in stocking up!’
’High-level energy will definitely be useful for something.’
In an instant, all the surrounding High-tier Mutated Fungi were as good as dead in Su Ze’s eyes.
But just as Su Ze was about to attack his next target, the distant Tier Five Mushroom suddenly uprooted itself.
In the core area of the Mystical Mushroom Forest, the ground had long been torn asunder by the repeated battles. The Mushroom pulled its countless mycelia from the earth, using them to support its main body as it slowly rose.
It looked like a giant white steamed bun with countless hair-like roots growing from its underside.
It resembled a massive octopus with innumerable tentacles.
And hanging from those tentacle-like mycelia were corpses—some half-decomposed, some already mummified, and others little more than dry bones.
There were hundreds of them!
The Mushroom shook itself violently, shedding all the corpses entangled in its mycelia.
’It’s getting desperate...’ Su Ze understood. By killing two Tier Four Mutated Fungi in a row, he had thoroughly enraged the Tier Five Mushroom, provoking it into uprooting itself to fight him to the death.
Like those immobile Spiritual Plants, once these Mutated Fungi took root, they wouldn’t move easily.
Every time they moved, they would suffer a great loss of vitality and need a long time to recover.
Facing a Tier Five Mutated Fungus, Su Ze remained quite wary and retreated for the time being.
He didn’t want to be locked in a bitter struggle with the Tier Five Mushroom while also being ambushed and besieged by the surrounding Tier Four Mutated Fungi.
’It would be best to lure it out of the core area.’
The uprooted Mushroom was surprisingly agile for its size. Its mycelia squirmed rapidly as it shot toward Su Ze like a bolt of white lightning.
Su Ze retreated swiftly, moving directly out of the Mystical Mushroom Forest’s core area.
Unexpectedly, the Mushroom followed him out.
It had no choice. If it didn’t kill or repel Su Ze, he would surely continue to harass it.
It couldn’t just remain unrooted in the core area, waiting for him.
Once outside the core area, Su Ze stopped retreating and took the initiative, charging forward to meet it.
Most Mutated Fungi were equivalent to long-range human evolvers and were actually afraid of close-quarters combat. Su Ze, on the other hand, was fundamentally a melee-type evolver, so naturally, he wanted to close the distance.
Close-quarters combat gave him the advantage.
Su Ze’s current strength had been boosted to the Supreme level by "Bloodthirsty," so he wasn’t afraid of this Tier Five Mushroom.
He used a Rhino Charge to rush in front of the Mushroom and slammed into it, but it felt like hitting a ball of cotton.
The Mushroom was affected by the Dizziness effect and didn’t retaliate immediately. Su Ze seized the opportunity to grab the Mushroom’s fruiting body. It was as soft to the touch as a 36D chest. With a powerful tear of his hands, he ripped the giant, steamed-bun-like fruiting body apart.
The inside was soft and pure white, like cotton candy, but it released a cloud of fine spores that landed on Su Ze.
The moment the spores landed on Su Ze, they began to pop and crackle like Pop Rocks in a mouth, blasting crater after crater into his body and sending his liquid form flying.
It was a good thing he was currently in a massive, liquid form. A normal person would have been blasted into oblivion by such a dense barrage of explosions, with not even a skeleton left behind.
The Mushroom finally recovered from the Dizziness. The part of its fruiting body that Su Ze had torn open seemed to melt, turning into a thick, white pulp that dripped to the ground.
This white pulp rolled and squirmed, heading straight for Su Ze.
Su Ze hastily retreated, dodging with a Space Jump. He had a feeling this stuff was definitely bad news.
But he was a step too slow. A drop of the white pulp invaded his body, instantly contaminating a section of his watery form and turning it white.
He decisively abandoned that part of his body, severing the contaminated fluid and letting it fall to the ground.
The once formless fluid, now contaminated by the white pulp, had seemingly become a block of jelly. It jiggled on the ground but didn’t seep into the soil.
Su Ze’s pupils constricted. Staring at the glistening white, jelly-like substance, he felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
A realization struck him. This was almost identical to the fatty tissue inside the bodies of those who had been parasitized by the Pope!
It was all the same: glistening white, completely bloodless, and wobbling precariously like jelly.
