The original purpose of playing Resting Melody was to restore Poet's Inspiration before the emotional effects of Blade of the Mind faded, so he could continue communicating with the spores.
But Tang Qi soon realized that he had overthought the matter by one step—
For the spores, "expressing sufficient goodwill" was already enough to make them willing to communicate.
Especially after they had briefly calmed down.
Respect was always mutual.
Tang Qi did not consider them enemies.
Nor did they regard Tang Qi as an enemy:
"You understand us very well—the spores said."
Beneath the armor, Dawn, whose body was already covered in mushrooms, suddenly spoke.
Tang Qi did not stop playing. For a bard, multitasking was an entirely ordinary skill:
"I happened to encounter some of your kind. They told me a few secrets."
"Could it be that you also came from underground?"
In other words, had these mushrooms never left the underground world?
Had they migrated here from the Underdark?
Tang Qi suppressed his doubts and explained:
"Someone brought part of your 'kind' to where I live—or to be precise, we were actually the newcomers. In any case, that was where I learned about you."
"You were the newcomers. Wouldn't you be driven out?"
"There's a rental contract, so no."
Because Dawn transmitted certain terms to the spores through thought, they could quickly understand their meaning even if they had never heard of a "contract" before:
"Can we sign a contract too?"
"You mean?"
"We have nowhere to go."
The murmurs in their ears sounded like wailing, making people's skin crawl.
They even caused the adventurers resting peacefully to grip their weapons involuntarily.
But Tang Qi knew that this was merely how they expressed their sorrow.
"I know you were forced to migrate here, but why did you