One-Punch Mushroom

Lin Qiye felt his head buzz, and he nearly fainted from anger.

The things this summoning technique summoned really were random—and absurd!

Tom Cat had been outrageous enough, but what was this thing? A big white mushroom? It even had arms and legs.

Even if it was a mushroom man, what use was it? Could they stir-fry it or put it in a hot pot?

They might as well rename Random Summoning "Comedy Character Summoning"!

"Qiye, what on earth did you summon?" Baili Pangpang stared at the giant mushroom, which was just as wide at the top as at the bottom and even fatter than he was, and asked with his jaw agape.

Mo Li, who had only just arrived, had the same question.

"I—I don't know either!" Lin Qiye said with a wry smile.

Forget it. Since I've already summoned it, I might as well not waste it. I'll leave it here to draw the Masked Squad's attention. If this mushroom can hard-control those guys for a few seconds, it'll have done its part for us.

Just as Lin Qiye was about to order the rather vacant-looking giant mushroom to walk toward the recent battlefield, Zhou Meng's voice suddenly sounded in his head and stopped him.

"Qiye, don't rush. Didn't you want to open the door? Just have this mushroom open it for you."

"Huh? Open the door? This thing? How? Ram it open?" Lin Qiye no longer had the energy to complain, but after looking at the mushroom man's build, he thought Zhou Meng might have a point.

"Go on, uh, mushroom man! Open the warehouse doors for me!" Having given up, Lin Qiye issued the order.

At its summoner's command, the mushroom man's two short little legs suddenly got moving, carrying it toward the doors.

"Don't bother! You've wasted your time learning that summoning technique! What good can a fat mushroom do? The Masked Squad could be here any minute. Let me open the doors!" Mo Li was getting anxious and immediately started forward.

The mushroom looked sluggish, but it didn't walk slowly.

In two steps, it reached the doors. It swung its thick, pudgy arm back and struck a punching pose.

At that instant, Lin Qiye and the other two felt as though boundless power had gathered in that one punch.

"Bang!!!!!!"

A tremendous crash rang out, startling Lin Qiye, Baili Pangpang, and Mo Li into jumping.

The warehouse doors were five meters high and three meters wide, with two huge steel panels—and the mushroom man sent them flying with a single punch!

They even smashed through the wall at the back of the warehouse!

What kind of mushroom is this? What fertilizer made it grow like that? Give me two jin of it too!

Calling this bro a mushroom man is an insult. He should be called Mushroom Daddy, the One-Punch Mushroom!

"Bro Mushroom! I'm following you from now on!" Baili Pangpang rushed over in an instant, wrapped his arms around the mushroom man, and refused to let go.

Mo Li hurriedly closed her gradually dropping jaw and cleared her throat. "What are you standing around for? Hurry inside and get your weapons."

She had wanted to take another look at the mushroom, but she forcibly restrained her curiosity, ran straight to the back of the warehouse, and found a large tachi.

Lin Qiye came to his senses and went to get a straight saber.

As they picked out their weapons, the two shared what they knew about the current situation.

Although Mo Li had been somewhat resistant to Lin Qiye at first, and especially resistant to Baili Pangpang, she decided to cooperate after Lin Qiye explained what was at stake. They would use the recruits' ultra-high-risk Forbidden Ruins to counter the Masked Squad's ultra-high-risk Forbidden Ruins.

"You're the Blazing Angel's agent, but as far as I know, the Blazing Angel doesn't seem to have a summoning ability. Where did you learn it?" Mo Li asked, looking at the One-Punch Mushroom beside them in puzzlement.

"Ah, I don't really understand it myself. Besides, this is the only thing I can summon right now." Lin Qiye gave her a vague answer.

Mo Li nodded in understanding. Everyone had to have some secrets, and Lin Qiye had already been honest with her about most of his abilities. There was no point pressing him for answers under the circumstances.

By now, more and more recruits were pouring into the warehouse and picking out weapons for themselves.

But when they entered, what caught their attention wasn't the dazzling array of weapons, but the doors that had been sent flying, the collapsed rear wall of the warehouse, and the giant mushroom man standing off to one side.

"Holy shit! Who did that to the doors?"

"And the wall too—how did it collapse? Looks like the doors smashed into it!"

"I heard there are a lot of capable people in our class, including a God's Agent and people with ultra-high-risk Forbidden Ruins. But punching the doors right out and smashing down a wall with them—isn't that a bit much?"

"No, why are you still talking about that? Look over there. What is that thing? A mushroom that can move? I thought I'd been hit with some kind of mental attack just now!"

"It's probably someone's summon, right?"

"Hey, do you think that mushroom sent the doors flying with one punch?"

"You know what? You might be right! We'd better keep our distance! I've heard of plenty of summons going berserk. Come on, let's go!"

The recruits muttered among themselves in hushed tones as they gave the mushroom man and the nearby Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang a wide berth. Their looks said a great deal.

"We're about done here. We should get going. I remember there's another person with an ultra-high-risk Forbidden Ruins—the man who was the first to object when Instructor Yuan was speaking earlier. Do you remember him?" Mo Li recalled the scene.

"You mean that guy who looked really cocky?" Baili Pangpang let go of the mushroom and thought back as well.

"Right, if we—"

Before Mo Li could finish, Lin Qiye whipped his saber from its sheath and slashed behind her.

A somewhat blurry short sword appeared behind Mo Li, and Lin Qiye's saber pressed firmly against its edge. Clearly, if Lin Qiye hadn't reacted in time just now, she would already have been out.

Mo Li rolled forward out of the short sword's reach and quickly drew her tachi, her expression hostile.

"You can actually see me? You must be the Blazing Angel's agent!" A man wearing a crescent-moon mask emerged from the air. He was Moon Ghost, a member of the Masked Squad.

Lin Qiye didn't waste words on him. Besides himself, there were more than a dozen recruits in the warehouse, plus Mo Li and Baili Pangpang. They truly outnumbered their opponent, and they couldn't miss this chance!

Mo Li understood at once, and she and Lin Qiye closed in on him together.

"Brothers! Gang up on him!" Baili Pangpang waved his hand, and the recruits charged at Moon Ghost with howls. They discovered that although Moon Ghost's ability to turn into moonlight was tricky, Lin Qiye could sense his every movement and his position.

"Fuck! Where are my teammates?! Somebody help me!" Moon Ghost felt things were getting worse and worse, and he shouted angrily into his headset.

Meanwhile, several of his teammates had already surrounded the warehouse from three different directions.

"You really suck, Moon Ghost. You can't even hold off a few dozen recruits?" Tianping said coolly from a rooftop east of the warehouse.

But his attention wasn't on the fight between Moon Ghost and Lin Qiye's group. Instead, it had fallen on a peculiar creature.

"Uh, Captain, Whirlpool, Rose, can you see it clearly? What is that thing standing in the warehouse?" He was starting to doubt his own eyes.

Standing on the road to the south, Whirlpool rubbed his eyes and frowned. "It looks like... a mushroom? A mushroom man?" he said, sounding puzzled.