What kind of mutated Puki is this?

These exploded scales, look like dragon scales...

Facing the Big Black Mushroom, Lacus had no choice but to draw blood from his body once again.

This damned layer, it's all mushrooms, he couldn't find any monsters to draw blood from, so he can only use his own blood.

The Blood Awl can't break through Big Black Mushroom's scales, so let's bypass them!

After all, he's a genius!

Instead of condensing the blood into Blood Awls, he subdivides it, then subdivides again!

He condenses the blood into threads and controls the movement of each blood thread...

The overly refined control required made Lacus's head feel like splitting open, but between life and death, he stubbornly endured this nearly fainting pain.

[Skill Upgrade: Blood Manipulation Level 6 → Level 7]

"Uh—ah!"

Countless blood threads burst out, shooting straight at the Big Black Mushroom ahead.

The blood threads didn't hit the scales, but changed angles upon approach, penetrating between the seams of the scales, and then causing the magic power and life force contained in the blood to detonate.

For a moment, the entire body of the Big Black Mushroom trembled and retreated two steps.

No time to be proud, Lacus took advantage of the interruption in Big Black Mushroom's movements, transforming directly into a bat and grabbing the Holy Scripture as he flew upwards.

On the way, the filaments from those Mushroom Trees all reached out to him; luckily, with the bat's small size, maneuvering around allowed him to avoid them and burst out of the Mushroom Forest.

Having flown to mid-air, Lacus finally let out a small sigh of relief.

Luckily, he can fly!

He didn't drop the Holy Scripture, the next step is to figure out how to fly out of the five layers...

Suddenly feeling something quickly approaching... A Puki?

A Puki with wings spread, gliding from the dome?

What kind of ghost thing is this!?

In bat form, it's inconvenient to counterattack, Lacus can only try to flap his wings to move away, yet couldn't match the speed of that Puki.

But it's okay, Lacus saw that the Puki can only glide, not fly, approaching it could be avoided quickly...

Bang—

After a close-range explosion, the bat transformed by Lacus was blasted away, spinning for quite a while before regaining balance.

He didn't have time to care about the injuries on his body; the emptiness in his claws shocked him.

"Holy Scripture? Where's the Holy Scripture?"

The Holy Scripture he was holding disappeared in the explosion, he still wanted to risk the danger to look for it, but felt something blocking above him?

Pitch-black scales, golden vertical pupils, gigantic wings, and the claw that swooped towards him...

...

Still immersed in the joy of dive-and-self-destruct, Lin Jun saw the half-Vampire knocked down like a cannonball and became worried again.

Didn't accidentally kill him, right?

As the first Demon to enter his Underground City, Lin Jun naturally gave twelve points of attention.

Never expected that he came for the Yellow-covered Book.

Originally wanted to interrogate it a bit; if it's directly killed, that wouldn't be good.

Lin Jun doesn't mind those who can break through in the heat of battle, who doesn't like more Skill Proficiency?

But you can't injure Xiao Hai...

Admittedly, this guy is quite powerful; at just Level 40, he had just stepped into Gold Level, and facing Xiao Hai alone actually caused effective damage, although just a bit.

It's worth knowing the last injury to Xiao Hai required four Gold Level and nearly twenty Silver Level working together.

Thankfully, the panel hasn't disappeared...

Soon, the Puki team responsible for cleaning brought the Yellow-covered Book that escaped, along with the half-Vampire accomplice.

The Yellow-covered Book was fine, besides the book edge slightly scorched looking rather spirited, the text on it refreshed nonstop like a scroll.

Having learned Human Universal Language up to Level 6, Lin Jun could understand some with guessing.

Mostly clearing relations and begging.

It's worth mentioning that Lin Jun would view his panel while looking at the text on the Yellow-covered Book.

If he spotted a charm effect, the Yellow-covered Book would know that the prior days could be counted as not bad.

As for this barely retaining human form half-Vampire... spray some spores for interrogation!

...

"So you came here alone?"

The interrogation went smoothly, sitting before Xiao Hai, showing the brutal feeding of Puki scene to this thief, combined with Lin Jun's parasitic spores and Hallucinogenic Spores, causing Lacus to tell everything.

About finding the Holy Scripture, the Vampire Duke, and his guess of being a pathfinder, all were revealed by Lacus.

Lin Jun was a bit puzzled.

"Since you suffered abuse, why not choose to leave?"

Having not drank blood, unable to recover from injuries, Lacus replied with a muffled voice:

"Bloodline contract... if betraying the master, even surviving means never advancing."

"What is advancing?"

"Nobility is power... and shackle," Lacus suddenly coughed violently, dark red blood stains soaked onto the ground, "unable to advance to Viscount... means level cannot exceed 40, lifespan limit... only 120 years..."

Sounds like a strictly hierarchical, highly controlling system.

Made Lin Jun a bit envious.

His parasitic ability, beyond range, its enforcement is somewhat weak.

Watching Lacus already fainting on the ground, the Puki beside him carried him to the swamp.

Indeed, Death Playback status was on him, letting him slowly die in the swamp, preventing any information from leaking out.

Didn't intend to recruit him as a dog.

In the interrogation, he found out it's not a docile guy, let alone being stuck by advancement system, not suitable to be taken as a subordinate.

What's more concerning for Lin Jun was the importance Demon Race places on the Yellow-covered Book, by any means it's a disaster...

Consider throwing away the book?

In merely a second Lin Jun dismissed this thought.

This thing stayed here for so long, it cannot be simply released like that.

Rather than discarding it, having Xiao Hai tear it up!

On the ground, the Holy Scripture suddenly sped up its typing pleading...

As for the subsequent Demon Race teams possibly arriving, Lin Jun wasn't too concerned.

Demons dying in Purple Crystal Dungeon won't bring any adverse effect to Lin Jun.

They wouldn't send a Duke sneaking in just to cause trouble for him, right?

Not to say Lin Jun had any bias against Demons, from Shapeshifter Keroro it demonstrated that this world's so-called racial distinction might just be such.

Lin Jun even somewhat wants to interact more beyond humans, elves, dwarves, demons, etc.

The premise being, you have to be friendly.

To the thieves coming to rob, there's no need to be polite.

Rechecked his panel, no Charm, good.

A Puki came forward, rolling up the still chattering "honest book" Holy Scripture, Lin Jun was set to make a new seal for it.

No less than dozens of landmine Puki placed around!

Oh right, the Elite Puki plan was also going well, hoping to be completed before other demon races arrive, just in time to let them help test its practicality.

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