There was no sign of corrosion on the armor shell, which meant that the black mist was not a corrosive substance or magic like Death Cloud.
Turning off the self-breathing system, Carl took a deep breath.
Carl inhaled some of the black mist lingering on the power armor, but it was colorless and odorless, and Carl was not sure of its specific composition.
Just as he was about to move forward, a voice suddenly bewitched Carl in his mind.
"Until now, you haven't found any clues to leave the dungeon. Why don't you indulge your desires? Why do you want to explore this place that looks so dangerous?"
"Turn around, go back to the tunnel exit, press that Tiefling who never avoids suspicion all day long against the wall, spread her thighs, grab her hair, and take your..."
Along with the bewitching words, some erotic images began to flash in Carl's mind, as if everything in his mind could be easily realized as long as he turned around and left now.
He could indulge his desires on Hope without worrying about his moral bottom line or thinking about the future. This suspicious tunnel had nothing to do with them anymore.
In just a moment, Carl's breathing became heavy.
He gradually turned his body, as if he was going to run towards Hope the next moment, and then follow the instigation of the voice in his head to satisfy his overflowing desires as an adolescent boy.
Under the mask, Carl's eyes flickered.
But when he was about to take a step forward, a faint spiritual energy fluctuation spread from the center of his eyebrows to the surroundings, and the sound just now gradually weakened and finally disappeared.
“Could there be an ancient evil demon sealed here?”
Carl shivered all over, and when he regained consciousness, he couldn't help feeling a little scared.
Fortunately, he gained spiritual power by resisting his inner desires in the dream world, otherwise, he might have been in trouble just now.
"Activate the self-breathing system!"
Following Carl's instructions, the mechanism at the power armor helmet was activated, and a bubble created based on the principle of an underwater breathing cap filled the inner layer of the helmet, blocking out the outside air.
After standing there for a while, Carl speculated that his previous abnormality was probably caused by breathing some black mist.
Knowing this, Carl didn't dare to delay and ran straight into the depths of the tunnel.
'The thing inside doesn't want me to go in, which means he knows he can't beat me. And I've already inhaled his black mist, but he only dares to use my lust to drive me out instead of directly controlling me. Either this guy is still sealed, or he doesn't have a stronger power! '
Passing through the thick black fog, Carl soon arrived at the ceremony site at the end of the tunnel.
Seeing a similar design again, Carl felt a sudden panic in his heart for no reason.
But fortunately, when he saw the furnishings here clearly, he felt calm.
'There are goblin corpses all over the ground, a hideous mutant being transformed, and a black stone sword in the middle of the ritual site... It seems that the tribe above was originally normal goblins, but the black stone sword revived and lured the goblins here to transform into hideous mutants.'
Based on the scene before him, Carl roughly guessed what had happened.
With his hands gathered in front of him, Carl chanted a spell and made specific gestures with his fingers.
The black stone sword in the center of the ceremony seemed to sense the danger and actually retracted the black mist that had filled the passage and injected it all into the body of the newly born hideous mutant monster.
But it was still a step slower.
Carl had completed the spell before the monster hatched.
【Magic Missile】
The name of the spell flashed through his mind, and Carl swung out his arm. Three flashing darts formed by magic force fields flew out, and then under Carl's control, they simultaneously hit the black stone sword.
"Crack"
Dense cracks spread from the black stone sword, and thick black mist was released from the cracks in the sword.
"Damn it! Human! You're ruining my life!!!"
A shrill voice rang out in Carl's consciousness, and the black mist completely broke away from the Black Stone Sword and penetrated into the body of the hideous mutant monster.
Before Carl could step forward to stop them, these tentacles had already dragged the goblin corpses around them into a ball of flesh.
Disgusting mucus flowed out from the lump of meat, and when the mucus dripped onto the ground, white smoke actually rose.
"Use the acid made from the stomach acid in the goblins' stomachs? Damn, I have no spell slots left, so I can only use normal attacks."
Not expecting that the enemy could actually transform into the second stage, Carl quickly activated the pulley crossbow on his arm and launched an attack forward.
Because of the previous performance of the thing that resided inside the Blackstone Greatsword, he thought he had successfully defeated his opponent by solving the problem of the opponent's sword body.
Unexpectedly, the other party could actually change his body temporarily.
"But judging by its current behavior, this strange thing should only be able to parasitize things that are affected by evil power. Otherwise, it should be parasitizing me."
“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh…”
The crossbow arrows formed by magic power hit the big meat ball one after another.
But apart from making holes on its surface, the opponent's vitality did not weaken at all.
"I could have been born in a higher form..."
The sound rang in my consciousness again, and the ball of flesh suddenly began to turn.
"I will corrupt you into a slave of the devil, and then use your body to let that tiefling give birth to countless offspring for me! This will make up for my shortcomings!"
The other party's voice was still lingering in his consciousness, but the ball of meat rolled towards Carl with an unstoppable momentum.
"Wo-groove!"
Instead of turning around and running away, Carl seized the opportunity and inserted the arms of his power armor into the flesh as the opponent rushed over, then used the opponent's forward momentum to perform an over-the-shoulder throw.
“Plop!”
His arms were separated from the meat ball, and Carl watched the other person fall to the ground.
The bodies of the goblins had not yet completely merged, and the fall actually caused them to scatter, revealing the group of tentacles wrapped in the middle.
Seeing the real owner, Carl directly activated the lightning launcher on his chest. Brilliant electric light lit up in the ceremony venue, once, twice, three times.
The black mist parasite, which had already been knocked unconscious by the fall, had not yet recovered before its body convulsed in the repeated electric flashes.
Carl had originally planned to fire a few shots with a pulley crossbow, but when he used a shoulder throw just now, the acid on the surface of the meat ball corroded the parts of the pulley crossbow.
Helplessly, Carl had to use the lightning launcher on his chest to continuously attack the opponent, and then he personally took action to tear off the tentacles from the core.
Suddenly, the black mist began to dissipate from the flesh in the middle of the tentacle group.
Seeing this, Carl quickly stepped back.
The man and the fog remained in a stalemate, but the black fog seemed to be gradually shrinking because it had lost its source of support.
'He must be trying to take my body.'
With this thought in mind, Carl reached into the dimensional bag and grasped a Khyber Dragon Crystal inside.
Sure enough, when the size of the black fog shrank to a certain extent, the reality that it was about to dissipate made the black fog's consciousness no longer consider the side effects of directly parasitizing Carl, and instead circled and shot towards Carl.
At this moment, Carl took out the Khyber Dragon Crystal and activated it with magic.
A bluish-purple light burst out, and the black mist that shot out was like Lord Piccolo encountering the Mafuba, and was sucked into the binding force field released by the dragon crystal.
(End of this chapter)