After more than a week of trekking, the Furious Tribe finally found the Goblin Tribe near the Mushroom Forest with their previous captured bear goblins.
Thus, the broken goblin tribe welcomed its new master.
Compared to the harsh environment of the Furious Tribe, which is almost surrounded by the lava lake, this goblin tribe located deep in the canyon is undoubtedly quite comfortable.
The barbarian goblins who came here didn't care where the ordinary goblins here had gone. After cleaning up the mess left by the battle between Carl and Hope, they moved in here.
The captured bear goblin from his own tribe did discover it, but because of the humiliation he had suffered from the Furious Tribe during this period, the bear goblin not only did not speak out to warn them, but instead was expecting bad luck to come to the people of the Furious Tribe.
The giant lizard that escaped from the breeding shed due to the negligence of the hideous monster was caught by the barbarians of the furious tribe from the canyon.
For a whole day, the bear goblins and hobgoblins stationed here ate barbecued monitor lizards and held a crazy banquet with defective weapons that Carl could not fit into.
In the eyes of the people of the Furious Tribe, they are now equivalent to "furnishing territories".
It was in this atmosphere that danger quietly arrived.
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In the right wing of the cabin, Carl, who had been struggling with Hope for a long time, finally coaxed her to sleep.
Just as I was about to return to my room to have a good rest, a faint psychic fluctuation came from a certain direction.
Carl's weak psychic energy was activated reflexively, and a voice mixed with the noise of software stirring rang in Carl's mind: "Brain..."
This incoherent information made Carl a little confused, but he immediately raised the level of importance of this matter to the highest level.
"There is actually someone else with psychic powers in this dungeon. And judging from the strength of this psychic energy fluctuation, the other party must be at least a level 6 psion or even a mind flayer."
"Could it be no coincidence that we were teleported to this dungeon?"
"That mind flayer, could it be that he has some secret base here?"
Countless questions popped up in Carl's mind. He walked straight out of the wooden house and came to the edge of the mushroom cap, trying to determine the source based on the direction of the psychic energy fluctuation just now.
However, although exploring the dragon patterns gave Carl good vision and perception, Carl could not see anything due to the layers of fluorescent mushrooms.
"Do you want to go and have a look? Although my psychic power is very weak, it should be able to focus my thoughts and prevent others from sensing it."
An unknown enemy is more dangerous than an enemy whose underwear is exposed.
After thinking for a moment, Carl's eyes gradually became firm. He stood up and went back to the living room to put on his power armor.
Today's power armor has undergone Carl's initial upgrade, and the thickness of the armor has been greatly improved.
Carl made the fragments of the black stone greatsword into matte paint and evenly brushed it on the outer shell of the power armor.
This resulted in the power armor that Carl made with reference to Tiga now looking more like a version of Dark Tiga.
But none of this matters. The most important thing is that Carl used a Khyber dragon crystal to make a lightning launcher on the chest of the power armor and drew storm runes on it.
Although it failed to seal a storm elemental creature in it to give the power armor function, the storm rune also increased the power of the lightning launcher.
"The thermal weapon pendant with the rapid-fire weapon infusion has not been completed yet. Now I can only use the pulley crossbow to support it. But fortunately, I am only going there for reconnaissance this time. If everything goes well, I won't need to do anything."
After reinstalling the pulley crossbow that was damaged by the black fog on his left arm, Carl looked at the smelting furnace outside the house with some regret.
The pulley crossbow had been repaired by Carl long before the two of them returned.
But he did it more to commemorate this weapon that had fought alongside him for a long time.
After obtaining enough metal materials, the first thing Carl thought of was to use them to make guns.
Thermal weapons infused with rapid-fire weapons are the most important means of force for a machinist in the early stages.
"Unfortunately, the injection method of [Continuous Shot Weapons] for thermal weapons is much more complicated than that of [Continuous Shot Weapons] for bows and crossbows. Even if I have been simulating in the dream world all this time, I cannot guarantee the success rate."
The artificer's [Rapid Weapon] infusion is actually derived from the mage's level 2 feature of the conjuration school.
The School of Conjuration can summon creatures or create objects out of thin air, and their 2nd-level feature [Minor Conjuration] can create non-magical items made of magic power out of thin air.
With reference to this characteristic, the artificer created a low-profile version of this ability - the [Continuous Fire Weapon] injection method.
Ordinary bullets are of course non-magical items, or in other words, as long as the object does not have magical effects under normal conditions, it is basically non-magical.
Compared with ordinary crossbow arrows, the bullet involves a variety of materials and its shape is precise to the millimeter, making its corresponding injection method more complicated.
It would be relatively simple for Carl to directly use his infusion ability to create a finished product, but in order to continue to use the dimensional bag and alchemy pot, Carl needs to draw the corresponding continuous-fire weapon infusion magic patterns on the weapons himself.
This is a bit difficult.
Shaking his head to dispel the chaotic thoughts in his mind, Carl came to the gap between the ground and the mushroom cap and slid down by pulling the rope.
The Infiltrator model of power armor was as quiet as ever, even quieter than Carl's physical body when moving.
After taking a long detour along the mushroom forest where there was no road yet and conducting a careful investigation, Carl soon discovered something unusual.
"A giant lizard with an exploded head. It looks like it was done by a brain-eating monster. So there are really brain-eating monsters and mind-flayers here?"
Whether it is a brain devourer or a mind flayer, their main source of nutrition is the brain of a living creature.
They will not eat the bodies of living creatures unless they have to.
"The direction of the bloodstains is this way. It looks like they want to move out of the woods... In that case, I will go against their direction and take a look!"
With a little bit of luck, Carl tried to go to the lair of the Mind Flayer and the Brain Devourer, and launch a sneak attack when their main force was out and the defense was empty.
Even if he failed, he would at least know where the enemy's lair was.
Looking up, Carl followed the direction opposite to the blood trail and went deeper into the woods.
Along the way, the animals with exploded heads vaguely formed a route map leading to the Mind Flayer base.
This arrogant behavior of not hiding one's whereabouts made Carl somewhat suspicious whether this mind flayer was the same person as the one who captured him.
But it must be said that the other party's approach provided Carl with considerable convenience.
Carl picked up a few animal carcasses that were in relatively good condition and put them into the dimensional bag. He picked up the carcasses as he walked, and soon, a chitinous hemispherical base appeared in front of him.
A dozen brain-eating monsters were walking slowly around the building, looking like they were guarding the place.
The hemispherical building occasionally releases powerful spiritual energy, and it seems that it is investigating the surrounding situation.
"As expected, there aren't that many good things to be found in this world. But it's okay. At least we know the location of the Mind Flayer base. Next, let's go see where those guys are going!"
(End of this chapter)