Artificer Adventure Guide

In the chaotic dream, Carl suddenly felt his mind clear.

He clearly realized that he was dreaming at the moment, but he could control this dream and make it show the scene he wanted to present.

With a thought, golden wheat fields, fiery red maple forests, fragrant barbecue grills, and Hope, who was only wearing a tube top and low-waisted shorts, appeared around.

"Huh?"

Carl was startled when he saw Hope.

But Hope in front of him just maintained the half-kneeling posture when the two first met, with no subsequent movements or consciousness, obviously just Carl's imagination.

"It seems that the scene at that time had a big impact on me, but I think the time when the heart flayer larvae parasitized should be more memorable to me, right? I thought of this kind of thing when my mind was a little empty. Is it because of the influence of puberty?"

Concentrating his thoughts, the phantom of Hope, who was wearing cool clothes, disappeared in the dream.

As Carl gradually focused his attention, some information began to emerge in his mind.

'Is the heart flayer larva brain dead? Because it can't process the information in my mind? I am now absorbing its psychic energy, and its body has become an implanted organ to assist my brain? Is this the reason for this dream? ’

Through psychic energy, Carl quickly figured out his current situation.

He was sure that this was not the environment created by the Mind Flayer larvae, because psychic energy was indeed being slowly mastered by him, although the total amount of psychic energy was not much.

Feeling this power that was different from magic, Carl calmed down and tried to continue to explore more uses of it.

Gradually, Carl felt that psychic energy interacted with his spirituality, and then, an illusory attribute panel suddenly appeared in the dream.

[Name]: Carl Iris

[Age]: 14

[Race]: Human (?)

[Occupation]: Artificer Level 2

[Attributes]

Strength: 11

Agility: 11

Constitution: 12

Intelligence: 14

Perception: 12

Charisma: 13

[Features]: Artificer Apprentice, Ritual Caster, Telekinesis, Telepathy

[Spells]

Ring 0: Mage's Hand, Magic Trick, Lightning Pull

Ring 1: Identification (Ritual), Feather Fall, Long Stride

Looking at the attribute panel showing his own information, Carl's eyes were mainly focused on the two specialties of Telekinesis and Telepathy.

According to the textbook of the magic academy where Carl studied, specialties are the combination and sublimation of spirituality and skills.

As a spellcaster, Carl can understand what specialties he has acquired through his own mental power.

Before this, he only had the two specialties of Artificer Apprentice and Ritual Caster.

"Is it because I have completely acquired the body and psychic power of the Mind Flayer larva that I have these two specialties?"

Just as he was about to study this matter carefully, Carl suddenly remembered that he and Hope still had to escape, and now was not the time to waste time for curiosity.

With a thought, Carl's dream dissipated, and he woke up from his coma.

Before he opened his eyes, he felt the worry from Hope.

'It seems that my telepathy can only perceive other people's emotions at present, and cannot accurately read and transmit thoughts. '

Thinking so, Carl opened his eyes.

"Huh~, thank God, you finally woke up."

Seeing Carl wake up, Hope, who was sitting on the ground holding him, breathed a sigh of relief.

"How long have I been unconscious?"

While asking this, Carl stood up from the other's arms.

Although it was quite comfortable to rest his head on the other's thighs, Carl knew that now was not the time to be greedy.

"About five or six minutes? Or... ten minutes? Sorry, I don't have such an accurate judgment of the passage of time."

Putting his hair behind his ears, Hope thought for a moment and gave a not very accurate answer.

But Carl didn't expect to get an accurate data. He asked this question just to cover up the embarrassment of being unaccustomed to close contact with girls.

"Okay, then we have to speed up. These stone pillars are written with the words of the Mind Flayer. I fainted just now because I touched them and triggered the psychic power."

"These stone pillars will exert psychological hints on the intelligent creatures who see them with the help of psychic power, so that they can't notice the abnormality."

After vaguely explaining the reason why he fainted, Carl picked up a hand axe of Hope and chopped it at the stone pillar he just touched.

With a "clang", the spiritual suction text on the stone pillar was destroyed by Carl's blow, and a trap door made of wire mesh appeared in the center of the room that was originally empty.

This is where the airflow goes.

"Hurry! This should be the passage leading to the outside, let's..."

Come to the trapdoor happily, Carl just opened it, and was suddenly sucked under the trapdoor by a strong suction.

Caught off guard, he fell directly down.

Seeing that something was wrong, Hope flew over and tried to grab Carl and pull him away.

But the suction was rapidly increasing, and the violent airflow rushed to the passage below.

The wind pressure pushed her body closer and closer to the passage. Hope changed from standing to lying down at the beginning, but still couldn't prevent the two from being swallowed by the ghost thing below.

"Don't worry about me! Escape if you can!"

Seeing that both of them were about to be sucked into the ground, Carl tried to get Hope to give up on him.

But Hope's brain responded before her mouth.

'I'm not the kind of ungrateful person! '

The strong thought was captured by Carl's telepathic induction, and Hope also overdrew her own strength at this time, trying to pull Carl up from the other side of the trapdoor.

But at this moment, an unprecedented and violent shaking came from the surface.

Countless rubble fell from above, and one fist-sized stone just fell on Hope's head.

Suddenly, her eyes rolled up and she fainted.

Before Carl knew what happened above, he and Hope fell into deeper darkness together.

During the fall, Carl tried to find a handful of fluff from his bag of classic fashion garbage to release the feather fall technique again, but before he could move, he suddenly felt that he and Hope had crossed a certain "boundary".

At the same time, the originally dark cave was suddenly illuminated by a blue-purple light.

Carl tried to look back. A slowly rotating energy vortex was at the bottom of the cave, sucking in the air.

Carl knew this thing.

The adventure manual compiled by the magic academy mentioned it more than once, and even children of eight or nine years old knew it very well.

This was a portal leading to the half plane of the dungeon, and on the other side of the door was the domain of the Yellow Springs dragon Khyber.

‘How could there be a portal to the dungeon here! ’

As the thought came to mind, Carl and Hope fell into the portal.

The cave above collapsed in a violent tremor, completely burying the portal passage.