The Red Dragon's broken horn was gathered up by Linden, who planned to mount it later as an iconic trophy.
Before that, Marshal Puji climbed ceremoniously onto the top of the horn, Mushroom Cap lifting slightly, tentacles spread wide, and used a simple Image Projection Technique to preserve this heroic pose.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Big red lizard. Looked scary, but that was all. One casual blast, and it was reduced to ashes!"
Off to the side, the Sword Saint, who had just revived and crawled out of a Mycelium Cocoon, shook its new mushroom body, which it still was not used to. "Is Mushroom Garden's way of fighting to reduce allies and enemies to ashes together?"
Before the battle started, no one had told it that it was going to serve as a one-use decoy to draw fire, and in the end, it had even had to tank an indiscriminate map-wide cannon blast!
It had thought it was supposed to cooperate with Cave Four to severely injure the Red Dragon and create an opening for the follow-up siege... Wasn't this sacrificing-a-teammate move a little too decisive?
"You only died once! It's not like it's your first time, so why are you acting all coy?" Linden's thoughts rejected the complaint with perfect confidence. "Didn't I pull you right back up? You're the mighty Sword Saint. Be a little more broad-minded! Don't worry. If you really only had one life, I definitely wouldn't use you up so casually."
The Sword Saint: "..."
Beside them, another fungal cocoon split open, and Cave Four oozed out limply.
Even though the Behemoth Puji form was equipped with an overpowered regenerative ability like [Life Essence], it still could not withstand the Ultimate Resonance Cannon's extreme violent output.
After Cave Four came out, its thoughts were full