Artificer Adventure Guide

While Carl and Hope were getting annoyed by the water outage, in the Mind Flayer base deep in the forest, the hobgoblin Mind Flayer was planning how to quickly become stronger.

Standing in the "data room" of the Mind Flayer base, his psychic energy swept over the brains floating in the pale yellow liquid, hoping to find knowledge that meets his requirements.

Mind Flayers use the brains of intelligent life as a "storage" for knowledge, and the only way to read the information in them is through psychic energy.

"This one won't work, this one won't work, this one..."

His sight stopped on one of the brains, and the Mind Flayer floated closer to it, allowing more of his psychic energy to penetrate into the brain in front of him.

This brain stores some spell knowledge about the mage and a variant career information suitable for the Mind Flayer to take office.

But looking at those spells, the Mind Flayer hesitated a little.

The variant career recorded in the brain is called the Mind Flayer Arcanist, which is actually a special name for the Mind Flayer after taking office as a mage.

The reason why the mind flayer hesitated to acquire this profession was that the mind flayer race would reject individuals who became mind flayer arcanists.

This mind flayer born in the dungeon currently still holds the idea of ​​returning to the mind flayer race in the future, and once he takes up this profession, the mind flayers will regard him as an alien.

But thinking of the goblins that are gradually approaching the base, the mind flayer's eyes became firm again.

"I must replenish my brain and nutrition as soon as possible! At worst, I will develop a new race in the future!"

Muttering in a low voice, the mind flayer began to copy more detailed information in the brain into his mind through psychic energy.

Soon, the mind flayer opened his eyes again.

His spirituality began to transform with the help of psychic energy, and the spiritual core of the variant mage profession condensed in the depths of his soul.

The already powerful innate spirituality, along with the killing spirituality accumulated during this period, was injected into the spiritual core, and the level of the mind flayer began to grow rapidly, and the spells that could be cast also began to increase gradually.

0 ring, 1 ring, 2 ring... until he got two 5th ring spell slots, the level of the mind flayer stopped growing temporarily.

At this time, the mind flayer who became the mind flayer arcanist was equivalent to a 10th level wizard.

"Ha, no wonder there are mind flayers who take this path, the principles of these spells are so exquisite!"

Opening his eyes again, two rays of light burst out of the mind flayer's eyes.

Raising his right hand, the mind flayer simply made a few gestures, uttered a few spells, and then lightning lit up in his palm.

Slapping the nearby wall with one palm, the chitinous shell instantly became charred.

This is the 0-ring Shaper School spell [Electric Claw].

Among the eight major schools of wizards, the Shaper School focuses on the study of destructive power, and the famous Fireball is the representative spell of the Shaper School.

"Very good! With these spells, I will be able to kill all those damn barbarians!"

With his hands clenched, a cruel light flickered in the eyes of the Mind Flayer.

But soon, he patted his forehead again and gave up the idea of ​​killing all the goblins.

"No, no, no, I have to keep them in captivity, just like my ancestors did, so that I can have a constant supply of brains."

With a more cruel idea in his mouth, the Mind Flayer smiled and went to the psychic amplifier in the center of the base.

He needed to use this device to strengthen his psychic power and learn the remaining spells in his mind as soon as possible.

"Guji~"

While the hobgoblin Mind Flayer was sitting on the psychic amplifier, the first brain-eating monster in charge of the base walked out slowly from the room next to it.

After checking the status of the hobgoblin Mind Flayer, it walked behind the psychic amplifier and stuffed its claws into an inconspicuous cavity.

The hobgoblin Mind Flayer sitting on the psychic amplifier suddenly trembled all over, but he didn't seem to notice this abnormality and continued to study the spells.

‘The master has completely lost contact. He must have met with misfortune. It seems that we need to speed up the process and let this offspring of the master give birth to the main brain as soon as possible so that the master’s mind can be revived.’

With such a thought in mind, the brain-eating monster, which is larger than normal brain-eating monsters, crawled back to the next room.

…

“Chief! There is a discovery!”

In the mushroom forest, a goblin in the vanguard immediately ran to the central position to report the news to the goblin chief after discovering the corpses of several beasts with their heads exploded.

At this time, it had been nearly 12 hours since the goblin team entered the forest.

It was also difficult for these goblins with poor eyesight.

Several goblin barbarians next to the goblin chief stopped the goblin who wanted to move forward and confirmed their eyes with the barbarian who was on the wild magic path next to him.

After seeing the other party carefully observe for a moment and nod, the two guards let the goblin go.

After simply reporting the discovery in front, the goblin acting as a scout hung his head and waited for the order of the goblin chief.

"It seems that we have finally found the guy's trail. In this case, let's continue to cut down vegetation according to your findings! When we find the guy's lair, we will kill him!"

With a flash of enthusiasm for fighting in his eyes, the hobgoblin chief paused the battle axe in his hand and spoke excitedly.

The goblin who came to report the situation immediately stood up and ran back to the front in excitement.

Everyone in the Raging Tribe has a special desire for fighting.

Soon, the scouts in front found more similar corpses.

Although they were short-sighted, the Mind Flayers did not deliberately cover up when they killed these beasts. Once they found one of them, they could always find another one by following the clues.

So, the goblins followed these corpses and gradually headed towards the Mind Flayer base.

…

At 4 a.m., Carl woke up from his dream.

Confirming that his basic spirituality had been restored, Carl sat upright on the bed and made an alchemy pot.

Walking out of the room, he first poured fresh water into one of the wooden barrels, and then took out the steak from the dimension bag to prepare breakfast.

As soon as he took out the pottery basin, he heard a noisy sound again.

After leaving the wooden house, he lay on the edge of the mushroom cap and looked down, and found that the goblins who had passed by before were carrying their companions and retreating from the road they had opened in the woods before.

The goblin team looked miserable. In terms of numbers alone, at least a dozen people were reduced.

Although this is far from the total number of goblins of nearly 500 people, it is not normal that so many people went to fight a mind flayer and still lost.

Watching the goblins gradually disappearing on the forest path, Carl frowned and raised the danger level of the mind flayer in his mind.

"What's going on? It seemed that the goblins had the upper hand before, but in a blink of an eye, the mind flayers have the upper hand. Is there something special in the mind flayer base?"

The most famous base of the mind flayer is their Nautilus spaceship.

This thing can not only perform teleportation to other worlds, but also fight very well.

But Carl carefully recalled the appearance of the base, and he didn't think it was a converted Nautilus spaceship.