Artificer Adventure Guide

In the dead woods, the deep pool was as calm as a mirror, just as usual.

But suddenly, two white spots appeared in the depths of the pool and gradually floated up.

The mirror-like pool finally showed fluctuations.

"Splash~"

The water splashed up, and Carl climbed up from the bottom of the water wearing power armor.

Losing buoyancy, the weight of the power armor made Carl a little uncomfortable for a while.

He quickly scanned the surroundings with psychic power, and was relieved when he did not find any life reaction.

"Very good, safe on the shore."

After shaking off the water stains on his body, Carl roughly identified the direction, and then turned on the psychic power and got into the vegetation on the side.

'It seems that the brain-eating monsters that tracked me before have left. I wonder if they will continue to patrol nearby. '

Carefully emitting psychic power, Carl moved forward while checking the surrounding situation.

However, the forest was much safer than Carl thought. After walking for most of the day, Carl did not see a single living thing.

It was not until they were about to reach the giant mushroom where the wooden house was that Carl saw a few goblins stationed near the road they had opened.

These guys seemed to be building a watchtower, but the crude craftsmanship made Carl, a mechanic, shake his head.

Compared to the mind flayer with an ancestral base, these goblins looked like guys from the tribal era.

‘It is said that the goblin’s Dakan Empire used to occupy most of Khorvaire and could even compete head-on with the elves. Their descendants have fallen to this point? ’

Looking at the goblins who tried to build a watchtower with wooden mushrooms but didn’t know where to start, Carl felt quite emotional.

‘However, as a race that is naturally close to the caste system, it is understandable that the goblins have developed into what they are now. ’

‘Tsk, if you think about it this way, the goblins are becoming more and more like my third brother. Fortunately, the goblins in this world are reproductively isolated from most creatures, otherwise it would be really terrible. ’

After teasing the goblins in his heart, Carl bypassed the goblins who were thinking about how to build a sentry tower and continued to move towards the wooden house.

When he reached the bottom of the mushroom, Carl found the climbing rope he had hidden in advance, and then returned to the top of the mushroom.

There were not many things to take away, except for toiletries, there were only food and wooden barrels.

Packing the marinated steaks and wooden barrels together, Carl looked around and suddenly felt reluctant.

After all, it was the camp that the two had built with great effort, but now they had to temporarily abandon it because of the battle between the goblins and the mind flayers.

"I will definitely come back!"

Putting the bone china and rune board into the dimension bag, Carl looked at the direction of the mind flayer base and swore in a low voice.

But Carl regretted it after he finished speaking. It was a bit unlucky to say the classic lines of Gray Wolf in this situation.

After three spitting sounds, Carl resolutely released the mechanism of the climbing rope, and then slid down the stem of the giant mushroom.

Continuing to bypass the goblins, Carl followed the previous route and successfully returned to the pool and returned to the cave.

…

"I'm back!"

Returning to the interior of the giant mine car, Carl loudly announced his return to Hope.

Hope in the cockpit came over after hearing the sound, and her skin was wet with sweat. It seemed that she had been exercising before Carl came back.

Taking out the pickled meat and pottery from the dimension bag, Carl cut some and prepared to make a broth to replenish his physical strength.

Of course, some mushrooms need to be put in it. Although the fluorescent mushrooms don't taste good, this is the only way for the two to take vitamins at present.

Eating raw meat is okay, but the two have already pickled all the meat they hunted.

If you want to eat fresh 0-mature steaks, you can only go out hunting again.

The current situation does not support them to continue to be so extravagant.

The goblins have begun to build fortifications, which clearly shows that they are ready for a long-term battle with the mind flayer.

Neither the goblins nor the mind flayers are something Carl and Hope can afford to offend now.

The safest way is for the two of them to stay in the giant mine cart until the winner is decided and then go out.

"I'll check the inside of this giant mine cart later. I always feel that the space inside should not be this small."

After the broth was cooked, Carl saw Hope seemed to want to continue to exercise, and immediately planned to slip away.

"No! You must continue to exercise with me today! Do you still want to be a part-time warrior?"

Reaching out to grab Carl, Hope's eyes glowed and he looked energetic.

Carl is not a person without perseverance, as can be seen from the fact that he has to train fighting skills in the dream world every night.

The reason why he is unwilling to exercise is not only because of the muscle soreness after excessive exercise that makes him feel insecure, but also because of Hope himself.

As the time they spend together increases, the restlessness of youth is gradually heating up.

"Okay, okay, I will train with you, I will train with you after dinner!"

Carl comforted Hope with a forced smile, then turned and ran away.

Looking at Carl's departing back, Hope gritted his teeth and cursed inwardly, "coward".

"Huh~, why do I always feel that Hope has been a little too proactive recently? If this continues..."

Suddenly taking a step forward to the left, Carl adjusted his posture, but still felt uncomfortable.

Looking up at the metal wall next to him, Carl thought to himself while checking it with psychic power:

"Forget it, let it go."

...

In the few days after Carl and Hope hid in the giant mine cart, the goblins began to build various defense facilities inside the forest.

The brain-eating monsters sent by the Mind Flayer were eliminated by them with extremely high efficiency, but they could not break through the Mind Flayer base, and the situation was once in a stalemate.

While this tug-of-war continued, inside the Mind Flayer base, special brain-eating monsters that were a circle larger than ordinary brain-eating monsters were busy in the core room of the base.

This is located directly below the psychic amplifier, and three-quarters of the entire room is occupied by a container containing an orange-yellow solution.

In the center of these orange-yellow solutions, a giant brain with a length, width and height of at least two meters floated quietly.

The claws were nimble on the operating tables around the container, and the large brain-eating monster kept adjusting, but the brain inside the solution did not give the response he expected.

On the operating table, the cavity secreting viscous liquid was wriggling slightly, as if expecting something to fill it.

Seeing this, the large brain-eating monster turned and walked out of the room, then brought back a normal-sized brain and put it into the cavity.

"Guji~"

The squeezing sound of the soft body was heard, and the brain was squeezed into a paste-like substance by the cavity, and then injected into the solution where the giant brain was.

Suddenly, the giant brain trembled slightly.

Immediately afterwards, the entire Mind-Flayer base suddenly floated off the ground slowly.

Under the hemispherical shell, the roots of the four tentacles extending out began to secrete mucus.

The mucus gradually deformed as the tentacles squirmed, and gradually hardened in the air.

Slowly, the entire Mind-Flayer base gradually turned into a shape similar to a water drop.