Mushroom Lord in the Underground City

The dragon never expected that there would be a being larger than its mother.

Even less did it expect that such a sky-covering giant would be a Puki?!

Four tentacles, like giant pythons, tightly wrapped around its wings and torso, continuously layering upon each other, trying to trap it completely.

"Roar——!"

The black scales on the dragon rose like countless sharp blades opening simultaneously.

With a powerful struggle, the dragon scraped off a portion of the mycelium tentacles like a rasp.

As the dragon continued to struggle, a large amount of mycelium that came into contact was scraped off, with countless pieces the size of a person falling into the deep ravine below.

The binding force of the tentacles became weaker and weaker, and the dragon gradually broke free.

Suddenly, an electric arc rose from the surface of the mycelium with a "sizzle."

Soon after, overwhelming currents surged from all directions and slammed into its body.

[Thunder Robe Level 10]

"Ah ah ah!"

Number Four at that moment seemed like the embodiment of heavenly thunder, with countless blue-white electric arcs jumping and surging between its gigantic mushroom body and tentacles. The dragon almost thought Azra’s lightning dragon breath had struck it in a daze.

Number Four gave the dragon no chance to breathe, the four tentacles continued to wrap layer by layer, forming an impenetrable spherical electric cage, with only flickering electric light seen through its gaps.

As the tentacles continued to wrap, the dragon’s roar grew fainter.

Just then, there was a muffled "puff" sound from the tentacle sphere, suddenly a crack opened on the surface, and black smoke began to spew out from the crack.

Number Four tried to seal it, but the corrosive dragon breath quickly corroded more openings!

Finally, the dragon shook from within, and the blackened, brittle mycelium cracked like dried mud shell, splintering into fragments.

The dragon rose from the black smoke, its wing membranes tattered, scales charred, blood continually dripping down its scales.

Yet, those golden eyes shone brightly.

"Shameless mushroom, you dare to use your filthy despicable tentacles to interfere with the Dragon Struggle?"

"Then show me your full capability, let me see, you... dare what?"

The dragon roared to the sky, turning into a phantom shadow, dodging the gigantic Mushroom Cannon shot by Number Four.

The battle continued, Number Four’s broken tentacles soon recovered completely.

While the dragon had strong recovery powers too, compared to Puki, it was much less so. When Number Four’s tentacles were restored, it had merely stopped its wounds from bleeding.

However, the battle shifted into a one-sided beating situation.

The dragon traversed back and forth in the air at a speed that was completely disproportionate to its size, Number Four’s attacks couldn’t touch it at all.

On the contrary, the dragon’s claw strikes, wing slashes, and dragon breath, Number Four couldn’t evade them, relying solely on its long health bar and fast recovery to withstand the attacks.

Although far from losing, not being able to touch its opponent frustrated Number Four greatly.

But Xiao Hai was still there, it couldn’t unleash [Infrasound Attack] or similar indiscriminate range attacks.

In the Fungal Network, it shouted, "Black demon, get out of the way, you’re blocking me!"

However, the problem was, the dragon’s target was Xiao Hai all along.

The sensing from [Ancient Dragon Path] made it impossible for the dragon to lose sight of Xiao Hai.

Sure enough, Xiao Hai just darted out a short distance without leaving the range of Number Four’s [Infrasound Attack], and the dragon reacted.

It first dodged the incoming tentacles, flew low beneath Number Four’s rear, spitting a mouthful of [Corrosive Dragon Breath] onto Number Four’s two huge short legs.

Then with a spin, its dragon wings sliced through the corroded brittle short legs, causing Number Four’s mushroom body to tremble and collapse with a crash.

The dragon was aware that it couldn’t kill this resilient giant Puki, but it wasn’t aiming to finish it off.

Spreading its wings, it descended, landing right in front of Xiao Hai.

It looked at the "whimpering" Xiao Hai, disappointment filled its golden eyes.

"Why are you so cowardly, even facing death, you lack the courage to resist?"

Feeling the giant creature writhing behind it, the dragon no longer held back, raising its front claws high.

"Mom... wants to listen... to dragon... words."

The dragon claw, heavily descending, stopped right above Xiao Hai’s head.

That intermittent, full of grievance Dragon Language, momentarily stunned the dragon.

"There’s an opening!"

Behind it, Number Four, likewise filled with grievance, crawled over using tentacles, fully swinging them out.

As it hurled the dragon away, the tip of the tentacle separated and a Puki came out, carrying a Perfect Mushroom within its body, accelerated, and burrowed into the dragon’s mouth.

The Perfect Mushroom melted instantly upon entering, and the next moment, thick white illusion realm fog gushed from the gaps between the dragon’s scales.

The dragon blinked its eyes, and returned to the day it couldn’t forget.

"Dragon, now I... am unable to move, the little one can only be entrusted to you."

The dragon showed no emotions, yet the envy in its heart burned fiercely like wildfire, only to extinguish at the next moment.

"Only by entrusting her to you, can I be at ease."

In mother’s eyes, shimmered love and trust.

Although knowing that love didn’t belong to itself, the dragon still opened its wings, sheltering the little black one beneath, as if that would allow it to share a bit of the love in those eyes.

The Perfect Mushroom’s illusion realm, even the dragon couldn’t resist, even Xiao Hai, the fool, was affected to some extent, immersed in these feelings.

Only Number Four remained unmoved.

Pu——

Number Four appeared behind the dragon, its four tentacles compressed to the extreme, with sharp stingers gleaming coldly.

[Sharpness Level 10]

[Spring Needle Stabbing LV10]

Powered by Number Four’s size, the four mountain-sized spikes shot fiercely at the seemingly unaware black dragon!

However, the spectacle of a dragon-kebab did not occur, the illusionary ancient dragon extended a dragon claw and lightly tapped in front of the dragon’s chest, a bundle of colorful brilliance overflowed from beneath the black scales.

[Divine Artifact: Void Realm]

Ha?

Amid Lin Jun and Number Four’s full fungal cap confusion, the four tentacles seemed to shoot into another dimension, vanishing into an invisible wall in front of the dragon.

The tentacles didn’t actually disappear; tens of kilometers away, four tentacles emerged from the void, two shots missed, while the other two poked straight through a mountain.

Lin Jun had considered the black dragon might use a divine artifact, yet hadn’t expected it to be in such a form!

Clearly, it wasn’t activated by the dragon completely immersed in the illusion.

Was it an automatic defense? Or was it triggered by that ancient dragon illusion...

The dragon awoke, glanced at the tentacles being pulled back from the twisted space by Number Four, and looked at the still lingering illusionary ancient dragon.

The enormous form of the ancient dragon dispersed into feathered light, walking out from it was a girl with dragon horns on her head and wings on her back.

That beautiful figure, compared to her, Xiao Hai resembled an elf compared to an undeveloped monkey.

The dragon-winged girl slowly approached, lifting the dragon’s subconsciously drooped head, the slender palm tenderly stroked over the black scales.

"Dragon, all this time, you’ve worked hard."

In the golden dragon eyes, a tear slid down the gaps between the scales: "Mother..."

This time, the dragon’s call received an answer.

"I am here, child." Silvia’s voice was soft, gentle, "Though not every dragon is, indeed dragon, you are truly mother’s good child."

While gently caressing the dragon, Silvia lifted that constantly rotating polyhedron, redirecting the approaching tentacles to another place.

Then she placed the divine artifact onto the dragon’s claw.

"Good child, the Ancient Dragon Power should belong to you, don’t hesitate in your ways, go and seize it!"

The white mist gradually dissipated, Silvia’s figure became increasingly transparent, she glanced softly at the dumbfounded Xiao Hai opposite, sighing lightly.

"As for my foolish child controlled by villains... let her slumber together with me on Dragon Cliff..."

The dragon-winged girl’s figure completely dispersed, the dragon reached out a claw, yet only grasped air.

In its claw, only the divine artifact Void Realm continued rotating.

The dragon clenched its claw, letting out a prolonged dragon roar skyward.

The next moment, the Void Realm released colorful brilliance, completely blocking Number Four outside with a cage comprised of twisted space.

Within the cage, only Xiao Hai and the dragon!