The mushrooms were beasts too, so inside some of them Nicola managed to find poisonous and wooden cores. Since they were fungi they had no meat, only a spongy tissue that formed their entire body. After death, besides its cores there was not much use for they meat, besides its use in alchemy as ingredients of the level 9 bronze stars.
'Wait a minute' Nicola suddenly remembered something back on Earth. 'Mushrooms reproduce with the release of spores, so even if the spores are dead they can be crossed and planted so that new mushrooms can sprout here' Nicola looked at the glowing mushroom in the corner of the room with an idea in mind.
Tests of it began by crossing the spores of some dead mushrooms and planting them in a glass terrarium that reproduced the favorable conditions for them to develop. This was still the first phase of his research, and he needed time to get results. However, if it really worked, he would have a few hundred mushroom monsters available to work for him.
When he finished his experiments it was late at night and he used that moment to rest and improve his recovery. His physical injuries were practically all healed with the light magic, but the body still needed some time for the poison to be completely expelled from his body, after all it was hundreds of mushroom beasts that attacked him, he was lucky to have left it alive.
The other days were spent with Nicola training his puppeteer skills, this profession demanded some requirements.
First of all, the master would have to design his puppet, all the parts and gears should be described and designed perfectly for everything to work, the second was to manufacture these parts, generally the projects were directed to the appropriate craftsmen, metal parts for the blacksmiths, woodworkers for carpenters, stoneworkers for sculptors, fabrics and straps for tailors and energy stones for jewelers.
Nicola had a certain level of expertise in almost all of these areas and his new job as an elemental craftsman it had brought many inspirations that he could use. But that was not all, a puppet master must still have one more thing, the technique of controlling his puppet, high-level puppets could be linked with blood and take orders through the thoughts, the most rudimentary ones needed the master to control his movements with elemental mana threads attached to them.