Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Chapter 48: Dungeon War (5)

Mushroom of Appetite, a [D] rank item that popped up from the [Gacha]. As its name suggests, it is a mushroom that fills your appetite. Its seeds once sown will continue to grow until the mushrooms cover most of the ground and the only way to stop them is to burn them down. Once eaten, the mushroom will fill your stomach but at the same time increases your appetite to eat more and more of them.

It was an emergency food item in those popular games back on earth, that was used by players in a crisis when the food in their inventory ran out. Of course, the downside of the item made it undesirable but the effects could easily be negated by using Elixir of No Ailment and such. Thus all of the players made sure to stock one sort of as a last resort whenever they went for exploration. It was also one of the items imported from the other games and put into the [Gacha].

At present the third floor was full of Mushroom of Appetite which was the real trap set for these unaware monsters who were only concentrating on the obvious traps that were in front of them. Since they did not have any skills to negate the effect of the mushroom their only choice was to keep on satiating their never-ending appetite.

Simon who was lounging on his jade sofa made a wicked smile as he looked at the scenes displayed by his dungeon window. “Just when you think everything is going alright and you let your guard down, that is when the dungeon truly bares its fangs” he said every word slowly and deeply. the mushroom of appetite was displaying its full might in his dungeon right now.

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Gelgar explored the areas for quite a while before frowning, that was because he suddenly found himself back in the same place where he started. The paths were so much alike that even he a Demon Viscount was having difficulty navigating through. Suddenly he received a sound transmission from Mike and hurriedly started walking towards a particular area. Even before he reached the place where his subordinates had called him, he saw groups of monsters lying dead around the area. Some cleanly split in half, others melted in a half-burnt corpse and some caught in pit traps and became swiss cheese.

A gruesome sight spread all over the area as he got close. He did not know what face he was making, but he was sure that it was anything other than calm. Veins bulged in his forehead, his eyes glared murderously and his body trembled intensely as he looked down at his kneeling subordinates.

“What is the meaning of this? Why are all of them caught up in those pathetic traps and dead… are you guys even taking this seriously?” at the end of his sentence, he narrowed his eyes and questioned as killing intent leaked from his body. His killing intent was strong that it made the cowering subordinates shudder even more. One could imagine how much killing you had to do to materialise your killing intent.

His two subordinates were aware of Gelgar’s cruelty and knew the amount of blood the man had bathed in. All of his enemies died after being subjugated to an inhumane torture and right now those crimson eyes were staring at them murderously. They had no doubts in their heart that if they were not useful, Gelgar would show no mercy even if they had served him for dozens of years.

“S-Sir Gelgar b-by the time we reached here they were already dead. We immediately rushed here after we detected a strange occurrence among the monsters” Mike said as he lowered his head even more deeply due to the immense pressure weighing down on him. Everything was going according to plan when things suddenly started going haywire and even he couldn’t comprehend what had led to this incident. No matter how much he thought he couldn’t figure out why the monsters would get caught up in such obvious traps and even if they did, the others could have easily saved them as the traps were not lethal enough to kill them in one hit. All of the behaviour of the monsters were peculiar up until the moment they died. The third floor that was supposedly easier than the second floor suddenly turned into a disaster zone.

“Sir Gelgar, I believe it is not that the monster became negligent but because they got caught up in another trap that was carefully set up for them” Berd knitted his brows together as he replied after pondering for a while. He flipped one of the corpses and saw it body covered in tiny mushrooms similar to the ones growing everywhere on this floor. these mushrooms were unremarkable and didn’t seem poisonous; however, every corpse that he had come across had these mushrooms growing all over them.

“What do you mean speak clearly!?” Gelgar who was irritated due to the inability of his subordinates spoke out in an annoyed tone. One could even see that the man was barely holding onto his rage.

“When I sensed the disturbance among the monsters, I immediately rushed here to check on them. And to my surprise, I saw them ignoring all the traps and easily getting caught up in them. It wasn’t that the monsters immediately died but those that could have helped them had ignored them altogether. I believe the trap laid out was very obvious but at the same time extremely inconspicuous. It is that mushroom that is growing all over this floor that is the cause of this incident .” Berd explained as he got up and plucked a mushroom from the wall.