Death Cap - Thirty-Nine - Interesting Enough to Study

Death Cap - Thirty-Nine - Interesting Enough to Study

Death Cap - Thirty-Nine - Interesting Enough to Study

There were two final new hybrids developed from the [Ghoul Button Mushroom] that I found interesting enough to study.

The first of these was the combination with my [Faerie Fire Cap]. The mushroom which had the most magical potency to it.

The result was a rather lumpy mushroom which was on the smaller side. It had a bulbous middle to its stem, which acted as a sort of sac for its spores which could, with a squeeze, be sprayed out of the many little holes on its top.

[Dead Faes Lament] - Rare

An inedible mushroom which grows in rings around the location where a fae was buried for its final rest. These mushrooms react to any necrotic magic by releasing their spores, which will light themselves on fire on contact with undead flesh and will disrupt necrotic magics.Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

The only thing I had to test this one was my [Blight] skill, which did make the mushroom react.

Placing a few of the mushrooms down in a culvert that was out of sight, then spraying [Blight] near them made the mushrooms burst apart, sending scintillating spores through the air. They werent too bright, and touching them revealed that they werent hot enough to actually burn.

Maybe theyd burn undead flesh but not my still-alive flesh? I had no way of testing that.

I would maybe approach some of Dearils people one day. Those priests entire goal was to fight the undead, so I imagined that a biological weapon designed to burn zombies and ghouls would be valuable to them.

For me, it was little more than a curiosity. Id bring some with me into the dungeon, I supposed, in case I ran into any undead, but I hadnt heard of any in the Ditz Dungeon.

The other interesting combination was with my new healing mushroom. This one was quite the opposite of the previous.

The [Healing Chime] was a mushroom whose effects I couldnt quite pin down. It was meant to accelerate healing, but I had the impression that that didnt really do much. It wasnt a magical cure-all, certainly.

Even healing twice as fast, which would be an impressive boost to ones healing speed on paper, still meant that a serious wound would take weeks to heal instead of months.

[Healing Chime] - Rare

A small mushroom that accelerates healing when eaten raw.

Combining that with the [Ghoul Button Mushroom] produced an interesting offspring.

The only possible exception was if these reacted strangely with any healing effects but... well, it was an idea for later, maybe.

I only had two other hybrids of my [Healing Chime] left. The first was with my [Purple Horse Head] a kind of mushroom I was quietly cultivating for a rainy day, though only in really small quantities.

[Purple Eye Mushroom] - Uncommon

A mushroom which, when eaten raw, will improve the eaters eyesight.

That was one of the shortest descriptions Id seen, but maybe it didnt need to be much longer than that. The utility here was obvious. I ate one to see what would happen--pun intended--and found that very little changed.

Maybe my vision was sharper? I didnt exactly have the equipment to test it before and after. Then again, my eyesight was one of the few things which werent too bad with my young body. The description didnt say temporary, so it was possible that the healing was somewhat permanent in nature.

I wouldnt over-consume these, just in case. Too much healing could be as bad as not enough at times. Still, maybe these would prevent me from needing glasses in my old age.

I snorted. As if Id ever get old enough to have to worry about that.

I expected that combining the [Healing Chime] with some [Blackbottle Night Watcher] would lead to similar results. After all, low-light vision was low-light vision. Instead, I ended up with something entirely different. Maybe it was the added rarity that made it better? I couldnt tell, but I wasnt about to complain about the results.

[Healing Bottle] - Rare

A mushroom with potent healing characteristics. When consumed in its raw form, the mushroom will encourage rapid healing in the consumer until the mushroom passes through the digestive system. Spores will grow within the consumers faecal matter.

I could do without the last part, but still. The mushroom was about the size of my fist, entirely purple on the outside with a glossy texture, and it was spongy and soft, almost fragile. Squeezing it too much broke it, revealing a beige interior.

It tasted surprisingly sweet, like cotton candy, almost, but with a smoky aftertaste. Dirt-flavoured cotton-candy, maybe? It certainly melted in the mouth in a strange way.

The effects on eating it were much more pronounced than eating a [Healing Chime]. I could feel a tingle across my body, and my heart beat a little faster for a while. I... think that worked? I asked.

Sir Nibbles raised his head from his blanket-pile. Then made a sort of dismissive grunt.

Hey, dont knock it, this stuff might save your skinny badger butt one day, I said. I plopped the rest of the mushroom away, then got to cleaning. So far, things had gone pretty well.

I was disappointed that I couldnt weaponize things as much as I wanted, but Id gotten some decent new mushrooms to play with, and at the end of the day, thats all I needed to be happy, I think.

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