Vitality Magic Mushroom

Chen Chuan's smile gradually faded as he noticed that his physique and agility had increased unusually. A thought occurred to him.

He sat cross-legged, sank his consciousness into his body, and opened the Seed of Life's detailed attributes.

Seed of Life (activation trait/nourished): A Seed of Life with the activation trait that had once been nourished by the power of a plane core.

Effect 1 · Vitality Solidification: Your physique and agility are anchored to your spiritual power, granting them an additional boost. (Current bonus: 30% of spiritual power)

Effect 2 · Life Magnetic Field: The Seed of Life continuously emits a life magnetic field, enhancing your physical recovery, accelerating the growth cycles of plants within its range, and improving their quality.

Effect 3 · Abundant Energy: Your magic power recovery speed increases twofold. The Seed of Life can store additional excess magic power (twice your capacity), and upon activation, your magic power is fully restored.

Effect 4 · Summon Vitality Magic Mushroom (inactive): As one of the Vitality Magic Mushroom Plane's core sequences, it can summon Vitality Magic Mushrooms no higher than the host's level from that plane through the Plant Summoning skill.

Chen Chuan stared at the new attributes, his pupils widening slightly as his breathing involuntarily slowed.

Although he knew that a high-quality Seed of Life could gain new effects upon advancement, gaining a combat skill directly was extremely rare, and all its existing effects had been greatly strengthened.

This was exactly the means of fighting he had dreamed of!

After calming his excitement, Chen Chuan got up and headed straight for the library. He exchanged for a copy of Plant Summoning Basics and eagerly opened it to study.

As a basic skill, Plant Summoning was a branch of the Complete Compendium of Wizard Summoning. Other branches included undead, demon, and Magic Creature summoning.

According to the book, summoning methods and incantations were much the same; the only fundamental difference lay in the summoning anchor.

There were two kinds of anchors.

The first consisted of items used directly. The summoned creature's level depended on the item's grade, and it was possible to use one above the summoner's level, though this carried risks.

In particular, chaotic and evil creatures were highly likely to turn on their summoners if their level was too high.

The book especially emphasized, however, that in the Wizard World, any creature summoned to the plane had to obey—even dragons had to lie down, and demons had to crouch. Otherwise, the Wizard World's expeditionary forces might prove more than their home planes could withstand.

The second kind was a growth-type anchor, like Chen Chuan's Seed of Life. It could grow on its own, but needed time and resources to nourish it. Such anchors were scarce, but had tremendous potential.

Back in his dormitory, Chen Chuan followed the summoning procedure described in the book and formally bound the anchor to the Seed of Life.

He took a deep breath and tried to activate the Seed of Life's fourth effect.

He focused all his attention, sank his mind into the Seed of Life, and silently mouthed the word "summon."

The Seed of Life trembled slightly. A tiny green vortex appeared above his palm, giving off a faint, fresh scent of vegetation.

Chen Chuan could clearly sense the life force unique to plants emanating from the vortex, as though he were standing in a primeval forest.

He carefully extended his spiritual power into the vortex and sensed a miniature plane enclosed within the void of the universe.

Like a magical key, the Seed of Life briefly opened the plane's seal.

Within the plane, vast, colorful forests of magic mushrooms grew, inhabited by all manner of magic mushroom creatures.

Some were small and delicate, floating freely through the air and giving off a soft halo of energy; others were enormous and powerful, like magical puppets.

Chen Chuan could sense that they covered a range of power levels, from apprentice to Formal Wizard.

Suddenly, a distinctive, authoritative spiritual signal reached straight into the depths of his consciousness:

"Are you the master of the Seed of the Magic Mushroom? Are you a wizard, my lord?"

Chen Chuan's spirit jolted, as though struck by an invisible needle.

He looked along the path indicated by the spiritual power and saw an enormous magic mushroom forest on a mountain. Atop it, a gigantic magic mushroom nearly a hundred meters tall sat upright on a mushroom throne, a crown-shaped cap on its head. Its immense power sent waves of stinging pain through Chen Chuan's spiritual power.

Chen Chuan was horrified and nearly cried out.

He understood that after binding a summoning anchor, a summoner could use it to probe a small amount of information about the summoned creatures' plane, with essentially no effect on the summoner's body.

But plane guardians were an exception.

According to the information he had consulted, if core materials could be taken out of a plane, the plane had either been destroyed or enslaved, or at best had become a vassal.

In any case, the plane's guardians could not have survived. They were incarnations of the plane's will.

Could the one before him be the guardian of the Vitality Magic Mushroom Plane?

The magic mushroom king's expression was calm, but the obsequiousness in its spiritual power puzzled Chen Chuan.

"Please don't misunderstand, my lord wizard. I am not the original guardian. He died in battle, and the Magic Mushroom Plane is now subordinate to the Wizard World Alliance."

The magic mushroom king's voice rang directly in Chen Chuan's mind.

"The Seed of the Magic Mushroom? Is that the Seed of Life I have?"

"Yes. To preserve a seed of hope, the previous guardian sealed the Seed of the Magic Mushroom nourished by the plane core and sent it to a safe plane with spatial teleportation magic. The one you have must have been displaced from the teleportation by interference in space and time."

Chen Chuan was startled, his thoughts racing.

Could it be that after the Seed of the Magic Mushroom fell, Liya's friend picked it up on the battlefield and sold it to Liya as an ordinary resource, and Liya then sold it to him for the Black Wizard Seed badge?

The more Chen Chuan thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

Apart from its obvious vitality, the sealed Seed of the Magic Mushroom's other effects would only manifest after it was absorbed.

In the eyes of a Formal Wizard, it was merely a high-quality Seed of Life, hardly worth mentioning.

In the end, he had gotten the better end of the deal. It had even gained new effects and become an anchor to the Vitality Magic Mushroom Plane.

"My lord wizard, I can sense the Seed of the Magic Mushroom's effects. In my capacity as plane guardian, I shall enhance them for you."

Chen Chuan felt a powerful force surge out of the vortex, and the Seed of Life swayed slightly.

He checked its attributes and found that effect 4 had been upgraded:

Effect 4 · Summon Magic Mushroom (active): As one of the Vitality Magic Mushroom Plane's core sequences, it can summon Vitality Magic Mushrooms one level above the host from that plane through the Plant Summoning skill.

Summon Magic Mushroom had been upgraded. It could now summon Vitality Magic Mushrooms one level above Chen Chuan, with combat strength comparable to a First-Class Wizard Apprentice.

According to the book, First-Class Wizard Apprentices were the main force for the academy's outside missions, possessing considerable practical combat and survival skills.

The strongest First-Class Wizard Apprentices could even rival some weaker ranked professionals. Known as "pinnacle apprentices," they possessed unique titles that spread to more distant planes as they grew.

Most Black Wizard Seeds who returned to the Black Tower were pinnacle apprentices from other academies.

"Then I shall not disturb you, my lord wizard. You may summon and requisition the people of my plane at any time. I hope they can lend you a hand. When you become a Formal Wizard, you are welcome to visit my plane. I shall look forward to your arrival."