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📜 Review of This Dungeon Grew Mushrooms

This novel is not the usual “MC gets OP skill, slaps everything into oblivion, collects jade beauties” kind of broth you find in the cesspit. No, here the MC isn’t a lone hero......he’s a hive. A pulsating, thinking, evolving mushroom collective, where each little Puff is both pawn and heir. You don’t read it like you’re following a single swordsman.... you read it like you’re watching a general slowly refine his legion across countless battles, each death recycled into a sharper formation, each setback birthing an adaptation.

Early chapters? Yes, a slow crawl, but deliberate. The author lays the foundation, stone by stone, spore by spore, until the dungeon breathes with its own ecology. Floors teem with unique life, NPCs thought to be filler return as keystones, and side characters refuse to fade into dust. The tapestry tightens until you realize: every discarded thread was planted for a reason.

The MC himself? Morally gray like a rain-soaked ink painting. He isn’t a hero, nor a cartoon villain. He doesn’t slaughter indiscriminately, but when pushed, he retaliates with precision and cruelty — not for fun, but for utility. Fear is a tool, mercy a wasted resource. Yet he isn’t blinded by bloodlust; he trades, negotiates, and maintains a certain pragmatic civility. Think less "edgelord massacre" and more "cold strategist who knows corpses rot faster than alliances."

The true brilliance lies in the battles. These aren’t simple “cast skill, win fight” affairs. They’re military campaigns. Puff soldiers evolve with every generation: new armor, new toxins, new formations. The most efficient tactic? Self-destruction. Grim, yes. Effective? Absolutely. The hive learns faster than any lone cultivator ever could.

Now, poison warnings for wandering Daoists:

🍄 POV Shifting Poison – Mild
The author sometimes cuts away from other factions just as things get interesting. It can feel like watching a juicy play and the curtain slams down mid-scene. Not lethal, but irritating.

🍄 Slow Burn Poison – Gentle
The early arcs are heavy world-building. If your dao-heart is fragile and you crave constant sword clashes, you may wither before the spores bloom.

🍄 Hive-Mind Venom – Delicious
For those weary of braindead MCs or endless harems, this is actually a tonic. But for readers who need a waifu clinging to the leg every 10 chapters, this will feel like starvation.

Strengths? Interconnected world, a hive-mind protagonist with believable pragmatism, battles that feel like strategy rather than brute force, side characters that live past their debut chapter. Weaknesses? A bit of pacing drag, abrupt POV cuts, and the occasional missed opportunity for deeper faction insight.

Verdict:
If you liked Kumo Desu ga? but wanted something more strategic, more interconnected, less “waifu-bait” .....this is your train into fungal enlightenment. The spores grow slowly, but they root deep.

Daoist Poison Rating: 8.5/10 — potent but not lethal, best consumed by those with a taste for hive-minds, tactics, and spore-ridden pragmatism.

— Daoist Inkdrunk,
wandering the apocalypse with a cracked gourd of venom and half a smile

Reincarnated as Mushroom, now i have seen everything god damn