Artificer Adventure Guide

Although it took some time to explore the base of the mind flayer, Carl felt that this exploration was not a loss.

After trying hard to remember the terrain along the way, Carl planned to restore a 1:1 map in the dream world after returning, and then practice his off-road ability.

As the saying goes: Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will win every battle.

If you are not even familiar with the route to the enemy's lair, how can you expect to win?

Returning to the edge of the woods along the original road, Carl continued to move forward, and soon saw the mind flayers and some brain-eating monsters heading towards the canyon at the outermost edge of the woods.

I don't know what the mind flayer is thinking, but it has been using psychic power to suspend itself in the air.

Not only is the speed slow, but it has to stop and rest occasionally.

However, as he watched, a guess suddenly popped up in Carl's mind.

'This mind flayer may have just completed its transformation, and its control of psychic power is not fine, so it uses this method to familiarize itself with psychic power. '

There are also advantages and disadvantages in the transformation of intelligent creatures into mind flayers.

The most suitable ones are naturally humans of the right age and level.

Races with "fey blood" such as goblins, half-elves or elves are not so suitable for transformation into mind flayers.

Although they can be transformed successfully by force, such mind flayers will start a little slower in adapting to psychic power.

After all, the fey blood has a certain resistance to hypnosis caused by charm and magic effects, which will make the memory of the transformed person have a greater impact on the mind flayer, thereby hindering the new mind flayer from using psychic power.

Psychic power is the power from the mind, and even self-cognition is blurred, so psychic power naturally cannot progress quickly.

However, after thinking about this, a new question emerged in Carl's mind.

'Why are they going to the canyon? '

After a brief contemplation, Carl's face changed.

"That weird thing under the Goblin tribe, could it be from the Mind Flayer? No, no, no, although the Mind Flayers were once the subordinates of those ancient evil demons, the Mind Flayers living on the surface rarely collude with the evil demons, but..."

Thinking of the information Hope told him about the Mind Flayer who kidnapped him, Carl was not so confident in his integrity.

According to Hope, the Mind Flayer was dissatisfied with the training of the Mastermind, so he planned to control the Grey Wall City and use the plan of trade with the Kingdom of Breland to seize control of the Mastermind.

However, his plan was exposed shortly after the incident began, and the Lord of Grey Wall City beat him half to death.

The guy was let go by begging for mercy.

As a result, he turned around and regretted it, directly robbed an airship, disconnected from the Mastermind, captured some local residents of Grey Wall City, and ran to the Dark Abyss to try to make a comeback.

What can I say about this person, he must have an IQ.

The mind flayers and their main brains are connected in a form similar to the hive consciousness. In theory, the main brain will know what the mind flayers under the control of the main brain think.

He was able to carry out the plan until it was officially implemented, which was considered to be a good job of keeping secrets.

But from the current situation, it is not impossible for this mind flayer to collude with the evil demons sealed in Khyber in order to make a comeback.

He dared to kneel down and beg for mercy in the market of Gray Wall City, just for this tolerance, plus the face of betraying him.

At least Carl thinks that the possibility of him colluding with the evil demons is very high!

Standing up, Carl was about to rush back home to upgrade his equipment to prevent him from not being able to save his life if something that shouldn't appear appeared in this dungeon.

However, the mind flayer team in the distance suddenly dispersed.

Faintly, Carl seemed to see a figure swaying in the canyon.

"Could it be that the bear goblins and the big goblins from the goblin tribe have returned? What a coincidence?"

Thinking of the fact that he had taken back most of the goblin tribe's property, Carl's mouth twitched slightly under his helmet, and he always felt that it was a pity that he couldn't be there to watch the show in person.

"Fight! You must fight! It's best to fight to the point where both sides are injured!"

With the most simple hope, Carl waved his arms twice towards the canyon in the distance, cheering them silently.

Turning his head, Carl took another long detour and returned to the mushroom.

In order to hide, he put away the climbing rope after returning to the mushroom cap.

In this way, even if someone finds this place, at least they will not be allowed to climb up directly along the rope.

"We need to hurry up and upgrade the power armor, as well as the magic patterns for the rapid-fire weapons and firearms. If possible, we can consider changing the model of the power armor to the guardian to strengthen the close combat. We have firearms for long-range combat, but the close combat is still a bit weak."

Looking back at the wooden house behind him, Carl took off the power armor, walked to the smelting furnace, and injected spirituality into the rune plate again.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

The continuous sound of blacksmithing sounded, and Carl gradually hammered a piece of leftover scraps into an octagonal octagonal badge, and then hung it on the smelting furnace.

This is the mainstream belief in Eberron - the symbol of the Nine Gods of Destiny, or also known as the Gods of Destiny.

The eight sides each represent a god in a certain field, and the octagonal badge itself is the symbol of the God of Knowledge and Law.

People believe that the sum of the Gods of Destiny is all the good things in the world, and most people pray to them whenever they encounter difficulties.

However, although the belief in the Gods of Destiny is widespread, there has never been a formal revelation from God.

As long as you walk on the path that corresponds to their corresponding fields, even if you have never chanted their doctrines, you can receive their blessings and become a priest.

Because of this, the Gods of Destiny have no church, and people's belief in them is more casual, belonging to the folk belief with a large population base but little organization.

But there are temples of them everywhere on the continent of Khorvaire, just like the Taoist temples in Carl's previous life.

The reason why Carl made this holy emblem, in addition to finding the feeling through simple forging, is actually to treat a dead horse as a living horse, and want to rely on metaphysics to let the Gods of Destiny bless and bless himself.

Now there are mind flayers in front and goblin tribes behind. This terrible situation is difficult to change by hard work alone.

So Carl finally chose to burn incense.

…

"Disgusting monster! Take my axe!"

At the mouth of the canyon leading to the goblin tribe, several bear goblin barbarians who were sent to guard here started to be violent and rushed towards the brain eater and mind flayer.

The Mind Flayer, who was transformed from a hobgoblin, obviously did not expect that so many barbarians would appear in the tribe during the days he was away, and he was at a loss for a moment.

The Brain Eaters wanted to use psychic energy to immobilize the bugbears as before, and then teleport to their brains.

But the wild bugbears were not under their control at all.

The heavy metal axe chopped down in the air.

With a "puff", a brain eater died on the spot.

"Guji~, retreat!"

The Mind Flayer swept his eyes across the bugbear barbarians, and directly released a powerful psychic energy, causing most of them to be blown away.

He took the remaining brain eaters and fled towards the mushroom forest.

Compared with his previous "leisurely stroll", this time, his floating speed was surprisingly fast.