In the beginning, Cardisoth was like all mind flayers.
Or rather, like all the extraordinary beings trapped in those broken spaces, it received the same information, and its heart was filled with rage.
Anger at the other supernatural beings that keep invading their home, and hatred for the culprits who caused all this!
Humanity has betrayed the gods, and they have used despicable means to force us, the noble ones who are the messengers of the gods, into this miserable state where we can only kill each other.
Without a doubt!
All of this...
"It's all humanity's fault."
Everyone else around him was filled with hatred, and Caldisso, being in the thick of it all, naturally didn't have any unique perspectives.
Or rather, having a similar maternal nest consciousness means not having a particularly distinct individual consciousness.
It's just an ordinary mind flayer, hunting humans like any other mind flayer of its kind.
To retaliate against humanity in one's own way, transferring the pain inflicted upon oneself onto others.
Until that day.
That day, the mind flayer encountered an existence that was destined to change its entire life.
About sixty or seventy winters ago, on an ordinary night, Cardiso accepted a mundane mission.
It's really just a very simple task: to eliminate humans in a remote area as discreetly as possible and lead the clues to humans in a nearby city.
At the beginning, everything went smoothly. Humans without any special powers were like exquisite food picked at will in Caldisso's hands.
Unable to control its killing urges, it gradually forgot the requirements of its mission in the pleasure of revenge, and simply followed its instincts to feast in the village, sucking out their brains.
In the last house, after thoroughly draining the brains of a couple locked in a tight embrace, Cardiso discovers the truth behind their unusual behavior.
In the arms of that ordinary couple, there was a well-hidden young boy.
It's pointless; for mind flayers who use psychic powers as naturally as breathing, their struggles are futile.
Just as it was about to devour the child they were desperately protecting in their arms, its tentacles stopped.
Because he saw a pair of pitch-black eyes that seemed particularly eerie at that moment, calmer than a child who had witnessed the death of his parents.
He didn't cry out or struggle; he just stared intently at Cardiso, seemingly deep in thought about what he should do.
In the otherwise rather mediocre human race, there are always individuals with exceptional talents who emerge from time to time.
The child in front of me has a talent similar to "innate extraordinary intelligence"—no, it can't be that!
Even if his exceptionally brilliant mind prevents him from experiencing fear like a normal child, he shouldn't be this calm.
Unless... the boy's reason prevails over his other weaker emotions, allowing him to calmly analyze the situation and react accordingly.
A human being possesses a talent similar to "mechanical mind"!?
greedy.
Unbridled greed consumed Cardiso's mind, driving him into utter madness.
Cardiso understood what this meant.
This means that if it devours the boy's brain, it also has a certain probability of acquiring some of his talents!
The mind flayer's instincts made Cardiso unable to resist the urge; it couldn't wait to insert its tentacles into the boy's brain.
Pfft.
The boy did not flinch, allowing the mind flayer to plunge its slimy tentacles into his skull, reaching his brain...
However, in that very instant, Cardiso, who had just tasted the sweetness of the feast, was forced to abruptly end his extravagant meal.
At some point, a cone of light, barely thicker than a child's arm, pierced through the softest part of the upper side of Caldisso's tentacle!
It directly damaged its brain!
Who is it?!
Where is the enemy?
Has my action been exposed?
Before he could think it through, Cardisos sensed that the alarm device he had set up in the center of the village had been triggered.
The enemy is about to launch a surprise attack, and there are many of them!
Although it was a pity to lose that genius's brain essence, the severely injured Cardiso did not continue to be greedy and decisively chose to obey the mastermind's order to retreat.
Later, Cardiso did not remember how it escaped back to the city-state, but when it awoke from its slumbering brain pool, it discovered something different.
It, Cardiso, a mind flayer, has developed its own consciousness independent of the mainframe.
But for Cardisoo, this was the beginning of another nightmare.
Perhaps he had truly gained some special ability from that boy, Cardiso began to think uncontrollably.
Unlike other supernatural beings, mind flayers can extract more information, memories, personality traits, and even fears from the human brain.
The old Cardiso wouldn't have cared, but now he finds himself thinking involuntarily, constantly reorganizing and analyzing information he had previously ignored...
What is truth?
What is fake?
This question often leads to different conclusions depending on the perspective from which it is viewed.
The so-called truth often doesn't actually have a definitive conclusion.
Even if such a view exists, it only applies to certain specific groups of people.
So, after an unknown period of time, Cardiso came to a conclusion that it had never been able to comprehend before.
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"I don't believe it! How could we be invaders? That's absolutely impossible."
That's absolutely impossible!
That's right...
"This is a hoax, this war is the biggest hoax ever!"
"No, no, that's not how it is!"
"How could we possibly be the invaders?!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
!
Cardiso thought he had discovered the truth, but in the end he was unable to do anything.
No one was willing to listen to its "crazy" ideas; its voice was simply inaudible to others.
When everyone has only one idea and absolutely no one is allowed to disagree, then those who raise objections... will become outcasts.
The most absurd people are those who are sober.
Moreover, since mind flayers are generally disliked by others, and Cardisoth, who has developed independent thought, is an outcast even among mind flayers.
So, it went mad.
In everyone's eyes, Cardisoo was insane.
A disgraceful mind flayer corrupted by humanity and driven mad.
At that moment, Cardiso, who seemed to have lost his mind in everyone's eyes, suddenly received a special order.
That was a summons from a saint!
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