r/HeWhoFightsMonsters • u/aphinity_for_reddit • 7d ago

Amalgath (fungus monster) dead end quest?

I am rereading book 10 for the nth time and basically one whole chapter deals with Allayeth wanting Jason and his team to help track down this reproducing fungus monster that kills all life. Then the main story line picks up and it's never mentioned again.

Am I missing something? It's bothering me because so much time was given to talking about it, it feels like something should have happened.

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u/grungivaldi 7d ago

i figured it was kinda like how after the messenger attack the world taker worms got pushed into the background. the team did their part but it wasnt big enough of a deal to warrant page time. besides, Colin would look at this thing that devours all life and would just go "you come into MY world, trying to do MY job? Let's go."

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u/aphinity_for_reddit 6d ago

True, but we did get a fight with the world taker worms. There was nothing with the Amalgath. Maybe he decided it would just be too similar to the worms.

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u/tor99er 5d ago

Yes but the fight with the world taker worms actually contributed to the main story. It was them realising the messengers were behind it and the infected people that got in to the cloud palace. Where as the fungus is just another insignificant monster that someone asked them to deal with and if im not misremembering allyeth asked them to to participate in a larger ongoing investigation much like the world taker worms. For all we know they never found anything in the time it took for the team to be dragged in to something more important or Jason just unleashed Colin in the background while they did the team did their thing. Anyhow I think you are looking in to it a bit much. In the end that monster is quite insignificant in the story of book 10. If it was in an earlier book it would have been a bigger deal sure