Under Tel'arn's modifications, the Mushroom Men soon received the necessary alterations.
Tel'arn equipped it with a forty-centimeter-long blowgun.
It could fire hard wooden darts at enemies.
The longer the blowgun's tube, the farther its wooden darts would travel and the harder they would hit.
A forty-centimeter blowgun like this had a pitifully short effective range!
The wooden darts gave out after flying just a few meters.
But Tel'arn had a unique approach that could effectively solve this problem.
Plant lifeforms were not creatures of flesh and blood. They did not need lungs to breathe.
Of course, they did not need other organs either.
So Tel'arn made sweeping modifications to the Mushroom Men.
He created two chambers inside the Mushroom Men to store high-pressure air, along with a matching pumping mechanism.
This would let it shoot wooden darts a long way using compressed air.
After some tinkering, the blowgun was successfully upgraded into an air gun.
But because the air pressure was so high, the Mushroom Men often blew the blowgun tube right out of their mouths.
When he saw the Mushroom Men blow their tube several meters away, Tel'arn's face immediately grew even greener.
Herad, who had watched the entire test of the improved Mushroom Men, was equally speechless at the results.
The blast of air certainly seemed powerful, but what was the point of blowing the weapon itself away?
After thinking for a while, he offered Tel'arn another idea.
The Peashooters in Plants vs. Zombies could spit hypersonic peas from their mouths to shoot zombies dead.
Then the Mushroom Men could do the same, and do it even better!
Their mouths just could not be shaped like a Peashooter's.
How far could a short, thick, trumpet-shaped mouth like that shoot a bullet?
The bullets' accuracy would also be terrible!