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"Planta, there's at least… twenty different walking mushrooms up there!" Said the guide, who had been lurking behind us in silence for a while. "Ah, they're small fry, the highest level is the level 5 Red Fire Mushroom, that's a new one, it can shot fireballs, so be careful!"
"Alright!" I said, as I waved my wooden staff and I quickly decided to use my Spells to attack from long distance. What greeted our sight as Belle turned to the side of the cave with the treasure chest icon was twenty colorful mushrooms, there were paralyzing ones, poisonous spiky ones, black mushrooms, orange mushrooms, and more. Some were poisonous while others were mostly only capable of attacking by jumping.
"Accelerated Growth!" I conjured the powerful Buffing spell on Rita and over me to get a nice boost to our EXP gain and other things, and then I quickly conjured Wooden Shield, which createa a shield made of wood out of the ground, which I then manipulated with Plant Manipulation and shaped into a wooden spear! This is what I call "cheating the game" by using a defensive spell and converting it into offensive!
"Wooden Spear!"
FLAAAASH!
"W-Woah! T-That's…!" Muttered the guider in horror, as he saw the giant spear of over 5 meters fly towards the mushrooms, Rita was left speechless as she saw the chaos unfold.
BOOOOMMM!!!
"Gryeeeh…!"
"Gryaugh!"
"Gyeh…"
The powerful Wooden Spear I created easily hit all the mushrooms gathered together, the force alone destroyed half of their group in a single second, as I saw many system windows showing up gained EXP and items. The corpses of the mushrooms quickly dissipated into bright particles of light one after the other.
[You defeated [Spiky Purple Mushroom: Lv3]
[You gained 20 Gold]
[You gained 150 EXP]
[You acquired [Poisonous Mushroom Cap] x1]
[You defeated [Paralyzing Yellow Mushroom: Lv3]
[You gained 50 Gold]
[You gained 200 EXP]
[You acquired [Paralyzing Mushroom Cap] x1]
[You defeated [Strong Orange Mushroom: Lv4]
[You gained 60 Gold]
[You gained 220 EXP]
[You acquired [Orange Mushroom Cap] x1]
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"T-That was amazing!" Said Rita. "Elayne, do that again!" She was just sitting behind me and waiting for me to do all the job, did she actually expected me to complete her entire quest? She was the one that brought the game to me to begin with so I am going to make her work for it.
I wasn't going to let Rita just backseat in here and just watch me slay these monsters, she also had to put up some effort! I quickly picked her up and pushed her off Belle.
"Ouch! H-Heeey! What's the deal? Huh?!" Rita angrily roared, quickly realizing something was moving her way. The mushrooms didn't ran away from us at all, they continued moving forward and immediately tried to attack her. Rita desperately tried to run away, as I incentivized her to fight.
"Rita, fight! They're low level and I am buffing your stats! Come on, give them a good smack like before!" I said. I had given her food prepared by me and she also drank the potion, alongside that, I had conjured Accelerated Growth and Geomancy on her, so she was very strong right now with every single buff stacked up.
"F-Fight? Ugh, alright! UWAH!" Rita dumbly stepped back and fell over her butt, suddenly finding a mushroom jumping towards her.
FLASH!
However, her aura suddenly grew darker like shadows, as a creature resembling a flying eyeball with bat-like wings showed up, hitting the mushroom away!
CLAAASH!
[PARRY!]
"Eh? I parried it!" Said Rita. "That must be thanks to my Skill! See? It was nice to level it up, hehe, the chances to get parried by spirits is high now!"
Rita's special Skill gave her the ability to be protected by Dark Spirits, there was a high chance for the spirits to either parry attacks, heal her, or buff her stats randomly, although the chances increased a lot after reaching level 10. Rita did something smart, this skill is absolutely broken early game.
She quickly stood up and began fighting. She used her large staff and smacked the mushrooms away, while the Dark Spirits occasionally showed up and defended her, healed her, or buffed her. It was insane to see so many dark spirits showing up every second to aid her… Dark Elf Sorcerers are insanely strong!
And while fighting, Rita continued to gather a dark energy in her staff, which she quickly pointed out at the mushrooms further away.
"Dark Beam!"
FLUUOOSSH!
A massive beam of darkness was fired without a second of delay, hitting a handful of mushrooms and the high leveled one in the back strongly, lowering all their HP! Several of the small ones were one-shotted, while the big one ended very weakened.
"Now, Belle!"
"MEEEE!"
Belle continued to charge forward, crushing the mushrooms in her way and then using her strong horns to hit the Giant Orange Mushroom, a two-meter-big orange mushroom at Level 5.
CLAASH!
"GRYEE!"
The creature gave a loud and pitiful cry before falling into the floor motionlessly, it was deader than dead by now! Amazing, Belle is really just way too amazing! She really just killed this little guy so easily!
Ding!
[You defeated [Giant Orange Mushroom: Lv5]
[You gained 200 Gold]
[You gained 500 EXP]
[You acquired [Giant Orange Mushroom Cap] x5]
[Total EXP gained: 2800]
After the battle ended, a "total EXP gained" window showed up, showing how much total EXP I earned, it seems I am getting closer to level up once more, although the requirement for level 10 is to get 9k EXP, which is a bit too much. Maybe if I wasn't killing low level mobs only, it wouldn't take so long.
"Phew, that was… not so hard!" Said Rita, her HP was below half, so I quickly used healing spells to get her back up to full HP.
"You almost died there but it was good practice." I said while nodding.
"D-Did you had to throw me in there though?" She sighed.
"Yes."
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