[Information Spore LV1 (Transmit information to flesh and blood creatures via spores, can guide and suggest to creatures with low IQ in a range)]
This skill could transmit information, but Lin Jun rather doubted how much information could be transmitted, and it might be one-way, after all, it was transmitted via spores.
At least it definitely wasn’t as convenient as conscious communication in the mycelial network. Even without Lin Jun’s mycelium parasitism, Lin Jun didn’t lack methods if he wanted to communicate.
The latter effect was somewhat interesting, able to affect low-IQ creatures in a range. Put bluntly, those ordinary monsters that moved on instinct.
If this option had appeared at level fifty, Lin Jun would have chosen it without hesitation.
At that time, Lin Jun was still struggling in the dungeon, living days of maneuvering between monsters and adventurers.
With it, controlling monsters on a large scale for his own use would greatly increase safety.
Unfortunately, it came only now.
Nowadays, his territory was stable. The dungeon and the Puchi Fortress were his base. He had a pile of Puchi Master armies under him, lacking neither mid-level nor low-level combat power.
Adding some monsters as subordinates, especially the kind of thugs that could only be controlled within the spore range, seemed somewhat useless.
Of course, if there was really some ancient magical beast with super strength but a bad brain squatting in some corner of this world, this skill would be worth it.
Unfortunately, at least for now, he hadn’t heard of such a thing.
Shifting his view to the second skill, Lin Jun’s spirit lifted!
The second row was actually a No-Level Skill!
Maybe because he decomposed and absorbed too many skills before, making the skill pool shallow?
But regardless, drawing a No-Level Skill was like winning the jackpot.
However…
[Absolute Taste (Ultimate Deliciousness)]
Is this description serious?
Understood literally, this was probably walking to the end of the road of “Delicious,” reaching an ultimate level similar to [Sword Ultimate].
Lin Jun even suspected this was a super rare skill that had never appeared in history.
[Sword Ultimate] had at least appeared a few times in history, and there were currently some masters in the world who trained swordsmanship to the peak. Although the hope of touching “Ultimate” was slim, the possibility existed after all.
But [Absolute Taste]?
Never even heard of it.
Not to mention, in the current market, apart from Lin Jun’s own Delicious Mushrooms, reaching LV4 in [Delicious] was already extremely rare.
As for higher LV5 and LV6, before Delicious Mushrooms came out, probably only major nobles like Inanna might have stored one or two in their warehouses, saving them to keep up appearances on important days.
As for higher?
None!
Even [Delicious LV10] couldn’t be reached, let alone this [Absolute Taste] suspected to be the superior version of [Delicious].
However, Lin Jun already had the most delicious mushrooms in the world. Was becoming even more delicious meaningful?
Finally winning the jackpot in leveling up and getting a No-Level Skill, why was it such a useless one…
He couldn’t possibly expect that after those masters tasted it once, they would beg to serve him just to taste it again, right?
Scroll to the last option.
[Soul Touch LV1 (Can touch other souls through physical contact)]
Soul?
Soul volume had always been Lin Jun’s advantage, so seeing this word immediately spirited him up.
Touching souls was something Lin Jun actually did every day.
[Greed] decomposing corpses was originally the process of himself chewing those soul shells.
However, [Greed] could only decompose corpses and had no effect on living people.
And in the entire decomposition process, Lin Jun couldn’t intervene on the soul level.
Besides that, he had also experienced more direct contact on the soul level.
The most representative was undoubtedly the Different Dream that Fatty Xi pulled off back then.
With the help of the notes left by that warlock, Lin Jun also mastered the construction method of this ritual, but found that the conditions for holding this ritual were quite harsh.
Various rare materials were not a problem for him now; the real key lay in the medium!
There must be an item strongly associated with the target physically or mentally, such as a blood oath, a high-level slavery contract, or one of the twins with mental synchronization.
The medium Fatty Xi used back then was a fragmented blood oath. He found it in the other party’s secret storage room after killing his former master.
It was precisely relying on this contract that the Different Dream could anchor and invade Inanna’s dream.
Lin Jun had also seen that blood oath. Having been used twice consecutively as a medium in the Different Dream ritual, the blood oath itself was already tattered and ineffective.
As for the content of the contract, it was about the same as an ordinary slave contract, but an additional clause left a deep impression on him:
“Prohibit controlling the Contract Master by any direct or indirect means.”
General contracts wouldn’t specifically emphasize forbidding slaves from controlling masters. Normally, other clauses would have already restricted it to death, leaving no room for counterattack, so naturally, there was no need to re-emphasize like this.
Inanna’s mom… seemed not simple either.
Unfortunately, Fatty Xi kept his mouth shut about any past.
Whether it was about that mother, about Alama, or about his past of regicide.
Every time Lin Jun beat around the bush, he had absolutely no intention of satisfying Lin Jun’s curiosity.
Of course, Lin Jun couldn’t just give up like this.
Since there was no mental guidance skill here, Lin Jun was recently learning mental-type Dream Construction, planning to try finding answers in Little Xi’s dreams later.
Different Dream was indeed a solid contact on the soul level.
And more common ones, such as the Succubus’s Charm, mental suggestions in mental magic, Dream Construction, etc., were actually clashes of mental power, not true soul contact.
Therefore, this skill [Soul Touch] looked quite special.
However, the description only said it could touch. Could this touch be transformed into an attack or restraint?
If it was just purely touching, creating a consciousness communication effect similar to telepathy, then its practical value would probably be quite limited.
[Information Spore LV1]
[Absolute Taste]
[Soul Touch LV1]
Unexpectedly, the first to be eliminated was actually the precious No-Level Skill!
[Information Spore] could stably improve tactical flexibility in defensive battles, but currently, it seemed its upper limit wasn’t high, lacking the potential to turn the tide of battle.
[Soul Touch] had little description and unknown practicality, containing an element of gambling.
After a moment of weighing, Lin Jun made a decision.
[Obtained Skill: Soul Touch LV1]
The instant his thought settled, a Puchi used for testing popped out of the fungal mat.
What slightly surprised Lin Jun was that the Puchi carrying the skill didn’t autonomously master the usage method of the skill as usual, but required Lin Jun to operate it personally to use.
Was it because it related to the soul?
In the vision of [Inspiration], changes happened quietly. At the tip of a soft tentacle of the Puchi, a layer of cyan glow gradually spread, as if his own soul was concentrated in that tentacle!
So… what should he touch now?
“Norris, no need to train the Underwater Assault Puchi Team today. Come to the Mushroom Garden quickly; I’ll show you something good!”
(End of Chapter)
