Chapter 1626 – Fungus Fight

Leeroy was enjoying the battle, an emotion she usually didn’t get to experience. For the most part, the Immortals didn’t get to fight like this. They usually charged until they got bogged down, then slugged it out with whatever they were against, right up until their Phoenix Fire Organs kicked in and healed them, allowing them to get stuck in all over again. At this point, most opponents found they’d had enough.

The unusual terrain in the heart, along with the massive weight of the Immortals’ armour, meant that they were fighting in very short bursts, followed by a great deal of climbing. Was the climbing all that enjoyable? No, of course not. Leeroy was on her third climb at the moment, and her poor legs were struggling.

Yet, she was still having a good time. After all, there was something about throwing herself at an enemy, dragging them from their perch and pulling them down to their doom. Then doing it again. And Again!

By this stage, the joints in her legs were aching fiercely, but the pain in her limbs was not enough to stop Leeroy from doing what she loved, and she knew the rest of the Immortals felt the same way.

Cleansed mana continued to fountain out of the vents, filling the heart, and the Krath were being forced higher and higher. It wouldn’t be long until they were out of this chamber entirely.

Leeroy supposed that was a good thing, but she couldn’t help but feel a little cheated that they were getting further and further away. The fall was more exhilarating the higher up she started, but the climb back up was only getting longer.

“Hurry sisterrrrrrrr,” a falling Immortal called out to her as she plummeted from above, a thrashing beast trying to throw her off.

“I’m working on it,” Leeroy grumbled, hauling herself up another few metres.

She should have worked on her Grip Skill a little more. How was she supposed to know that she’d be required to climb while wearing full armour?!

“I don’t suppose you feel like helping?” she asked her fungal passenger.

The Zombie fungus didn’t respond, not that she’d expected it to. In truth, Leeroy wasn’t entirely sure how it worked. Clearly the fungus had some sort of mind of its own, otherwise how could it take over when she ‘died’? They were in some sort of symbiotic relationship, but how much they could actively cooperate, she didn’t know. The fibres that had spread throughout her body and carapace didn’t impede her in any way. In fact, they seemed to have strengthened her, if anything, but she couldn’t actively command them to do anything.

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She did have a sense of the spores that had been spread all through the heart, however. They clung to every enemy now, subtly sapping their strength, ready to be recalled once she ‘died’. It gave Leeroy an odd sense of comfort, knowing that she could go all out, even to the point of death, and still her body would fight for the Colony. The final twinge of guilt for disagreeing with the Eldest that she may have felt when stuffing herself into the waiting maw of an enemy monster was now gone. A freeing sensation.