CH 151

“Are mushrooms the only things these monsters drop?”

Hannah asked. So far we had avoided fighting for the most part as we made our way down to the boss room but for some reason a large amount of monsters were hanging out in front of the stairs to the 16th floor.

“There’s a reason it’s called the mushroom dungeon. It’s got edible mushrooms, edible poisonous mushrooms, and poisonous mushrooms.”

“Whats the difference between edible poisonous mushrooms and the poisonous mushrooms?”

“That’s a good question Hannah.”

It’s a good thing that Hannah isn’t scared to ask questions.

“Simply put edible mushrooms and their poisonous variant are handled by chefs while the poisonous mushrooms are given to a pharmacist or alchemist.”

A chef would be able to take the edible poisonous mushrooms and using the skill detoxify would be able to make something edible. However they could also take it and make poison bait out of it.

“For now just collect the drops but make sure you don’t eat any of them without appraising them properly first.”

A single bite of a poisonous mushroom can have some pretty nasty effects and end up making you incapable of fighting. Of course there are other mushrooms that are used for recovering MP, just because it’s called the poisonous mushroom dungeon doesn’t mean that everything in here is going to be poisonous.

After that we went down to the 16 floor and a familiar scene happened.

“Zephyrus, There’s one here isn’t there!?”

“Yeah, get the key.”

“Okay.”

Hannah handed me the hidden door key. This time it looked exactly like the rock wall around it but if you look closely you could see a small key hole. After I turned the key the rock wall slowly opened inward into itself, it’s so much more exciting seeing this happen in person that it was in the game. However there was also another reason to be excited.

“”Golden chest!””

Rana and Hannah dashed towards the chest. Rana had an AGI of over 50 and should have easily won the race to the chest as Hannah only had an AGI of 10. However I was in shock to see that they were neck and neck.

“I win!”

“….I lost…”

How did Hannah beat her to the chest!? Was Hannahs loot goblin giving her some sort of hidden power that I didn’t know about?

“Zephyrus, Can I open it!?”

Wasn’t it Ester’s turn to open it? I don’t know if winners privilege applies in this case.

“I don’t mind, I’ll just open the next one.”

Ester whispered to me, she’s so mature.

“Sure go ahead.”

“Yay! Please provide me with something good your holiness!”

As soon as I agreed Hannah jumped up and down praying to his kittiness. Unfortunately the items in the hidden rooms were fixed so I didn’t think that praying would actually help all that much.

“Is this… an item bag?”

Yep, in other words, we now have two large item bags. Now Kahlua and her party will be able to have one as well so they will be able to collect more materials. There are large item bags around but they are expensive and the general consensus back when this was still just a game was to wait for a drop since there were a couple fixed chests that had item bags in them. It was recommended to have as many as possible though because they are highly useful when it comes to diving into the dungeons.

Hannah decided that we shouldn’t use the item bag right now since we were going to give it to someone else. She said that new presents were the best.

“Alright, next up is the boss.”

We decided to have lunch before going into the boss room. We avoided fighting as much as possible on the way here so it was only noon.

“The boss this time is the mother mushroom or mama.”

“Mama…….”

Hannah muttered.

“It releases poisonous spores at certain intervals so when it does, Rana you’ll need to make sure everyone recovers.”

“Leave it to me. But you’ll help too right?”

“Of course.”

Rana’s purification prayer has a large cooldown since it’s a low level. As the level goes up the cooldown gets shorter and it doesn’t take as much MP. Because of this I plan to use recovery.

“Mama is like Fatty in that she will spawn several baby mushrooms. And if you attack the mama while these mushrooms are still alive they will all focus on you regardless of who has aggro.”

Unfortunately this boss does not use it’s own health pool to summon the little ones.

“The smaller ones attack with poison as well. So Rana make sure that everyone has a continuous recovery effect if you can while also using the abnormal condition recovery magic.”

“Got it.”

“Okay.”

“It will also produce a large amount of the smaller ones so we should try to wipe them out quickly with ranged attacks. Are there any questions?”

“Do you mind?”

Ciara raised her hand.

“Sure.”

“Does the boss have any direct attacks?”

“Well, it does have two arms so it will hit you.”

It also has two legs so it will walk around although it does move quite slow because it has a rather large body.

“I see, altogether it seems like it has a far number of characteristics from other bosses that we’ve seen up until this point.”

“Yeah. That’s because it’s the last boss of the beginner levels.”

After that we finished eating around 1:00 and headed towards the boss room.