Level 1 warriors have the [Recovery] feature, which allows them to store extra energy and use it to recover from injuries or restore physical strength.

In terms of "continuous combat" ability alone, warriors are much better than barbarians.

The Barbarian's strength and explosiveness are indeed difficult to deal with, but it is not impossible to deal with.

If a warrior fights a barbarian, the barbarian will be dragged into a protracted battle by the warrior unless he can defeat the warrior in the first place.

Barbarians can only rage a limited number of times, and after each rage, their bodies will enter a brief state of weakness.

Granted, the Barbarian is resistant to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage while raging.

But resistance will not always exist. The less you pay attention to it when you are raging, the more you will be harmed during the weak period after the rage.

…

As the Mind Flayer's Nautilus spacecraft destroyed the entire mushroom forest, the goblins were also intensively preparing their defense facilities.

It is during this period that the entire dungeon enters the so-called "summer".

Influences from the Elemental Plane of Fire have descended upon the dungeon.

The fire element in the air became extremely active and abundant. The temperature in the dungeon rose sharply, and some areas close to the lava even reached a terrifying temperature of over 50 degrees.

The Mind Flayer's Nautilus spaceship was inevitably affected to some extent.

Under the high temperature, the living tissue inside the Nautilus spacecraft became "lazy", and the response speed of both the tentacles on the outside and the various components of the spacecraft decreased visibly.

On the other hand, let’s look at the Furious Tribe.

Because they have always lived in lava areas, although they are short-sighted, their heat resistance is first-class.

The heat here in the woods was even cool for them.

However, the impact of high temperature on the current situation in the dungeon is not limited to this.

Due to the decreased activity of living tissue inside the spacecraft, the connection between the main brain, which had been controlling the hobgoblin mind flayer through offline control, and the mind flayer began to have problems.

At "noon" one day, during the time when the fire element is most active, the earth elf Mind Flayer woke up from his slumber.

…

“Woo——”

Above the mushroom forest, the Nautilus spacecraft that had been absorbing the energy of the giant mushrooms finally stopped running.

Its four outer tentacles drooped limply, and the orange-red pattern around the spacecraft became dim.

Inside the spaceship, the hobgoblin Mind Flayer who had broken free from the psychic amplifier was looking at the drastically changed core control room with a changing expression on his face.

Although his consciousness had been dormant during this period, through the psychic reading of his brain, he already knew what had happened during this period.

Looking at the "Psychic Amplifier" in front of him with anger, endless rage burned the mind of the Earth Elf Mind Flayer, making him want to destroy everything in front of him.

No one likes to be controlled by others, and the mind flayer who plays with psionics is naturally even more unwilling to do so.

Most mind flayers are inherently in the hive mind of the main brain, so although they are resistant to the main brain's active influence on their behavior, they will not put up much resistance.

But this earth elf mind flayer is a mind flayer that has never been controlled by the hive mind since birth, and can be considered an innate "independent individual".

So after discovering that he was being controlled by a mastermind unknown to him and doing a series of things, the earth elf mind flayer immediately wanted to resist.

Although the influence of the Mastermind on the Mind Flayer is very effective, the consciousness inside the Mastermind has not been activated now. If it cannot rely on the body of the Earth Elf Mind Flayer, the Mastermind is equivalent to a brain in a vegetative state.

Now that the Mastermind wants to borrow the body of the Earth Elf Mind Flayer, it can only rely on the psychic amplifier.

No, it’s not quite appropriate to call it a psychic amplifier now. In fact, this thing is just a connector that allows the user to connect to the main brain.

The reason why the effect of psychic energy amplification occurs is simply because the main brain plays a role in this process.

"Guji~"

Just as the hobgoblin Mind Flayer slowly raised his hand and prepared to cast a destructive spell at the chair in front of him, the door of the guard room in the core room suddenly opened, and a brain-eating monster that was much larger than its peers walked out.

"Your Excellency, destroying the Mastermind now is not a good idea."

Driven by psionic energy, this mind flayer creation actually tried to make suggestions to the hobgoblin mind flayer.

Psychic energy fluctuations flashed in his eyes, and a magician's hand was released silently. The large brain-eating monster was directly knocked away by a force and crashed into the wall on the side.

The pervasive psychic energy invaded the mind of the brain-eating monster, and the mental barrier that the brain-eating monster built using its own psychic energy was directly broken through.

The earth elf mind flayer read one by one the series of arrangements made by his "mother" for this mind flayer base, and he, who was about to be overwhelmed by anger, suddenly calmed down.

"Did you intentionally choose the hobgoblins in the dungeons to become mind flayers?"

The tentacles on its chin were intertwined and twisted, and the Earth Elf Mind Flayer looked at the Brain Devourer that was slowly crawling up and asked in a cold voice.

"This is the master's order, sir. It is also the master's arrangement for you to become a mind flayer arcanist. The master is the only one you can rely on. The mind flayers outside will spare no effort to kill you when they see you."

Prostrating himself respectfully at the feet of the hobgoblin Mind Flayer, the Brain Eater honestly recounted the arrangements made by the Mind Flayer, who was probably already dead.

Goblins were chosen as the transformation material in order to make the newly born mind flayers' use of psychic energy flawed, and the brain reserves inside the base would force the newly born mind flayers to go out in search of intelligent life.

As a result, the newly born mind flayers will inevitably come into conflict with the goblins outside.

This way, the information about the mind flayer arcanist stored in the database will be noticed by the newly born mind flayers.

Even if you don't notice it, this big brain-eating monster will find a way to guide it.

This series of plans was actually quite rough, and many unexpected events occurred.

But perhaps it is precisely because of its roughness that things eventually developed to this point in a special way.

Staring at the brain-eating monster on the ground, the earth goblin mind flayer clenched his claws, wanting to kill it directly.

But when he thought about his current situation where everyone in the world was his enemy, he finally held back.

"I will no longer let the main brain control my body. I will solve these problems in my own way. Don't worry, I will revive the consciousness of the mother body from the main brain, provided that you help me."

Quickly accepting the reality that he had been "arranged" by others since his birth, the Earth Elf Mind Flayer bent down and spoke to the Brain Devourer in as calm a tone as possible.

The main brain is connected to the Nautilus spacecraft. If the main brain is destroyed, the spacecraft will naturally collapse.

Even for the sake of this spaceship, the Earth Elf Mind Flayer cannot leave the Mastermind alone at this time.

But he didn't want to be the one sitting on the psychic amplifier.

(End of this chapter)