Artificer Adventure Guide

After passing through the area with the richest dragon crystal, a faint black mist wrapped around Carl's power armor.

The outer shell of the power armor showed no signs of corrosion, which meant that the black mist was not a corrosive substance or magic such as Death Cloud.

After turning off the self-breathing system, Carl took a 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's 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 very dangerous?"

"Turn around, go back to the exit of the tunnel, press the tiefling who doesn't know how to avoid suspicion all day long against the wall, spread her thighs, grab her hair, and put your..."

Accompanied by the bewitching words, some erotic pictures 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.

In just a moment, Carl's breathing became heavy.

He gradually turned around, as if he was going to run towards Hope the next moment, and then satisfy his overflowing desires as an adolescent boy as the voice in his head instigated.

Under the mask, Carl's eyes flickered.

But when he was about to step out, a faint spiritual energy fluctuation spread from his forehead to the surroundings, and the sound just now gradually weakened and finally disappeared.

"Isn't there an ancient evil demon sealed here?"

After shivering all over, Carl, who regained consciousness, couldn't help but feel a little scared.

Fortunately, he gained spiritual energy because he resisted his inner desires in the dream world, otherwise, he might have been tricked just now.

"Start the self-breathing system!"

Accompanying Carl's command, the mechanism at the position of the power armor helmet was activated, and a bubble made according to the principle of the underwater breathing cap filled the inner layer of the helmet, shielding the outside air.

After standing there for a while, Carl speculated that his abnormality just now should be caused by breathing some black fog.

Knowing this, Carl did not dare to delay and ran directly to the depths of the tunnel.

'The thing inside didn't want me to go in, which means he knew he couldn't beat me. And I have already inhaled his black fog, but he only dared to use my lust to drive me away instead of directly controlling me. Either this guy is still in the seal, or he has no stronger power! '

Passing through the heavy black fog, Carl soon came to the ritual site at the end of the tunnel.

Seeing a similar design again, Carl panicked for no reason.

But fortunately, when he saw the furnishings here clearly, his heart calmed down.

‘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 this black stone sword revived and lured the goblins here to transform into hideous mutants. ’

Based on the scene in front of him, Carl roughly guessed the whole story.

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 ritual site seemed to sense the danger and actually took back the black mist that originally permeated the passage and injected it all into the body of the newly born hideous mutant.

But it was still a step slower.

Before the monster hatched, Carl had completed the spell.

[Magic Missile]

The name of this spell flashed in his mind, and Carl swung his arm. Three flashing darts formed by the magic force field flew out, and then hit the black stone sword at the same time under Carl's control.

"Ka La"

Dense cracks spread from the black stone sword, and thick black mist was released from the cracks in the sword body.

"Damn it! Human! You ruined my good thing!!!"

A shrill voice sounded in Carl's consciousness, and the black mist completely broke away from the Black Stone Great Sword and drilled into the body of the hideous mutant.

The body of the mutant twisted, and then suddenly exploded, turning into tentacles, entwining the surrounding goblin corpses.

Before Carl stepped forward to stop it, these tentacles had already dragged the surrounding goblin corpses into a meat ball.

Disgusting mucus flowed out of the meat ball, and when the mucus dripped onto the ground, white smoke actually rose.

'Use the acid synthesized from the stomach acid in the goblins' stomachs? Damn, there is no spell slot left, so I can only use ordinary attacks. '

Unexpectedly, this enemy could actually activate the second stage of transformation. Carl quickly activated the pulley crossbow on his arm and launched an attack forward.

Because of the previous performance of the thing that was lodged in the Black Stone Great Sword, he thought that he had successfully defeated the opponent by solving the sword body that the opponent was lodged in.

Unexpectedly, the opponent could even temporarily change his body.

‘But judging by its current performance, this strange thing should only be able to parasitize things affected by evil power. Otherwise, it should be parasitizing me.’

“Swoosh, swoosh…”

The crossbow arrows formed by magic power hit the big meatball 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 more advanced form..."

The voice sounded again in his consciousness, and the meatball suddenly started to turn.

"I will corrode you into a slave of the evil demon, 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 meatball rolled towards Carl in an unstoppable manner.

"Wo--groove!"

Instead of turning around and running away, Carl aimed at the opportunity and inserted the arms of the power armor into the meatball while the opponent rushed over, and then used the opponent's forward momentum to perform a shoulder throw.

"Plop!"

The arms broke away from the meatball, and Carl watched the opponent fall to the ground.

The bodies of the goblins had not yet completely merged, and this fall actually directly broke them apart, revealing the tentacles wrapped in the middle.

Seeing the real owner, Carl directly activated the lightning launcher on his chest, and bright electric light lit up in the ritual field, once, twice, and three times.

The black mist parasite, which had been knocked unconscious, had not recovered yet, and its body was cramped in the lightning again and again.

Carl originally planned to use the pulley crossbow to fire a few shots, but when he used the 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 personally took action to tear off the tentacles from the core position.

Suddenly, the previous black mist began to dissipate from the meat ball in the middle of the tentacle group.

Seeing this, Carl hurriedly retreated.

The one person and the mist were in a stalemate, but the black mist seemed to be gradually shrinking because it had lost the source of possession.

‘He must want to take over my body. ’

With this thought in mind, Carl reached into the dimensional bag and held a Khyber Dragon Crystal inside.

Sure enough, when the scale 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 power.

The blue-purple light bloomed, and the black fog that shot out was like the Great Demon King Piccolo encountering the Mafuwa, and was sucked into the binding force field released by the dragon crystal.