"It's over! Teacher Wei'an, I failed again! I added the Lucien flower, Morpheus sand, and the Seven Luminaries according to the exact recipe sequence. The Moon and Aries were conjunct and ascending, the phases were harmonious, and the moist star matter wasn't dissipated, yet why did the potion still die?" "The astrological signs were correct, but the water vapor escaped during the ascending palace, and the fire wasn't heated during the water division. In this case, you should seal the earth first to solidify the form, then invite fire to transform it. This is called... closing the door to the earth first, then opening the door to the sky." "Sealing the earth... is it prepared using the Four Elements Method?" Faced with Teacher Wei'an, the enigmatic teacher in the academy, yet no one dared to provoke him, the girl was stunned for a moment before mustering the courage to ask. "But the 'Hermi Alchemical Guidelines' don't record this kind of sequence. Teacher, are these alchemical techniques you're talking about the ones you learned through secret training in the church?" Wei'an shook his head. "...

[A non-human protagonist + the Fourth Calamity + farming management + behind-the-scenes plot + group portraits + search-and-fight] Le Ang, caught in a summoning ritual by a descendant of a noble, travels back in time as a gray rat hiding in the basement of a noble mansion, unexpectedly gaining the ability to summon players from Blue Star. Upon seeing the virtual reality game's realism, the Blue Star players, whose consciousnesses were summoned, become obsessed with their respective in-game characters—rats. As the game planner and the NPC boss to the rat players, Le Ang, while expanding his power through the supplies brought back by the players, learns extraordinary knowledge of this world from the descendants of the nobles... Gradually, Le Ang discovers that he has mastered alchemy. He transforms the frail rat players into his own creations. Flying squirrels with bat wings, muscular giant mutated rats...

Humans kneel down to worship corpses, gods rot and whisper, and wizards search for the secrets of decay in madness.

Edward opened his eyes and became an apprentice candidate in the dark wizard world.

However, his low mental qualifications caused him to be deported from the wizard academy in less than 3 months.

Fortunately, Edward awakened the [Disorder Detection Technique] that can dig out hidden information, which made him notice that the mushrooms in this world have unlimited evolutionary potential:

from [mycosac weapons] lurking under the skin to [mycosac horn] parasitic on living bodies;

from [zombie spores] that control insects and ants to [mycotic chimera ants] that absorb high-quality genes from the body;

from [rotten feast fungi clusters] that grow infinitely by absorbing nutrients from corpses to [scarlet corruption] that corrupts and infects all existence;

many years later, Edward, who is known as the [Mushroom Duke], looked at the latest experimental [green-skinned orcs] and couldn't help but fall into deep thought:

"No, what are these fungi doing over there?"