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

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

The mind flayers use the brains of intelligent beings as a "storage" of knowledge, and the only way to read the information in them is through psionic power.

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

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

This brain contains some knowledge about the wizard's spells and information about a variant profession suitable for the mind flayer.

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

The variant profession recorded in the brain is called Mind Flayer Arcanist, which is actually a unique name for the Mind Flayer after he takes up the job of a wizard.

The reason why the mind flayers are hesitant to take up this profession is that the mind flayer race will reject individuals who take on the job of a mind flayer arcanist.

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

But thinking of the goblins that were gradually approaching the base, the Mind Flayer's gaze became firm again.

"I must replenish my brain and nutrition as soon as possible! At worst, I can develop a new tribe on my own later!"

Muttering something under his breath, the Mind Flayer began to imprint more detailed information in the brain into his own mind through psychic energy.

Soon, the Mind Flayer opened his eyes again.

His spirituality began to transform with the help of psionic energy, and the spiritual core of the transformed mage profession condensed deep in his soul.

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

0 ring, 1 ring, 2 ring... until he obtained two 5th-level spell slots, the mind flayer's level stopped increasing temporarily.

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

"Ha, no wonder there are mind flayers who would choose this path, the principles of these spells are so ingenious!"

When he opened his eyes again, two rays of light flashed in the Mind Flayer's eyes.

Raising his right hand, the Mind Flayer made a few simple gestures, uttered a few spells, and then electric light lit up in his palm.

A palm slapped the nearby wall, and the chitinous shell turned black in an instant.

This is a 0-level Shaping School spell [Electric Claw].

Among the eight major schools of mages, the School of Evocation focuses on the study of destructive power, and the famous fireball is the representative spell of the School of Evocation.

"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 mind flayer's eyes.

But soon, he slapped 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 an endless supply of brains."

Speaking even more cruel thoughts, the Mind Flayer smiled and headed for 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 psionic amplifier, the first brain-eating monster in charge of guarding the base slowly walked out from the room next door.

After checking the status of the hobgoblin mind flayer, it walked behind the psionic amplifier and stuffed its claws into an inconspicuous cavity.

"There is no news from the master. 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 a main brain as soon as possible so that the master's mind can be revived."

With this thought in mind, the Brain-Eating Monster, which was larger than a normal Brain-Eating Monster, crawled back to the next room.

…

"Chief! We've made a discovery!"

In the mushroom forest, a goblin in the vanguard discovered the corpses of several wild beasts with their heads exploded and immediately ran to the central position to report the news to the goblin chieftain.

At this time, nearly 12 hours had passed since the goblin team entered the woods.

It's also difficult for these goblins with poor eyesight.

Several goblin barbarians beside the goblin chieftain stopped the goblin who wanted to move forward, and glanced at the barbarian of the wild magic path beside them.

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

After simply reporting the findings ahead, the goblin acting as a scout lowered his head, waiting for the order from the goblin chieftain.

"It seems that we have finally found the trace of that guy. 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!"

There was a flash of enthusiasm for battle in his eyes, and the hobgoblin chieftain paused the battle axe in his hand, his voice excited.

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

Everyone in the Rage Tribe has a particular thirst for battle.

Soon, the scouts ahead discovered more similar corpses.

Although they are short-sighted, the mind flayers did not deliberately hide when they killed these beasts. Once they find one of them, they can always find the other one by following the clues.

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

…

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

After confirming that his basic spirituality had been restored, Carl sat upright on the bed and created an alchemy pot.

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

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

After leaving the cabin, 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 along the path they had opened up in the woods.

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

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 lost.

Watching the goblins gradually disappearing on the woodland path, Carl frowned and raised the danger level of the Mind Flayer in his mind.

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

The most famous base of the Mind Flayers is their Nautilus spaceship.

Not only can this thing perform teleportation to another world and travel around, but it is also very powerful in fighting.

But Karl carefully recalled the appearance of the base and didn't think it was a converted Nautilus spacecraft.

(End of this chapter)