Crimson Servant

It was undoubtedly a bad experience. When the power that I believed in was manipulated by others, the feeling of powerlessness was like cold fingers grabbing my ankle and continuing to climb. The body becomes heavier and heavier while immersed in the thoughts of frustration, and the boulder called despair is gaining weight on the shoulders and top of the head.

The mind flayer's spiritual power accelerated the process of mental deterioration. The sense of failure grew extremely quickly in John Camp's heart, and soon despair and pessimism took over the warlock's mind.

Continuing to try in vain, every failure of the crimson spell will change direction and become a perfect blow to the sorcerer's self-confidence. Finally John lowered his hand, and Zatanos allowed him to experience the despairing silence, turning his attention to the others.

The Warlock almost sank under the mental attack of the Mind Flayer, but the increasingly unshakable feeling of powerlessness in his heart allowed John to regain his faith.

He had already experienced despair once. When the crimson ring opened in the clouds and the evil god's power was focused on him alone, John's body had already remembered the powerlessness he felt when facing Vertis during the first sacrifice.

If the suffering that the Crimson God inflicted on himself had any positive effect on John, it must be the desire to survive that sprouted from the bottom of John's heart in a desperate environment.

This psychic power has withstood the corruption of Veltis, and will also withstand the spiritual corruption inflicted by the mind flayers.

John closed his mind and used his spiritual energy to create a secret room for his thoughts before he became completely desperate and silent.

[We must find a way to fight Zatanos. 】

[There is no invincible ability. I once thought that the Crimson Spell was, but it is not, and neither is the mind flayer's psychic ability. 】

[Think, John, about the mind flayer's reasons for resisting the Crimson Spell. 】

【Your talent is your weakness. 】

This sentence was repeated many times in the mind of the warlock. The lines of thought gradually converged from the messy threads, and every distracting thought was sorted into a single voice.

Zatanos sensed the resurgence of John Camp's soul. He turned his eyes and looked at the warlock who miraculously recovered from despair. Only a few seconds had passed in real time, but both of them knew that the warlock had spent far more time in his mind.

The mind flayer understood this, which was why he was even more surprised. Recovering from a difficult setback often requires a lot of time to wash away emotions. However, the speed at which a warlock recovers from a blow, even by human standards, is a bit too short.

If this is the reason why the Crimson God likes him: a favored person who is not easy to mess up... Zatanos felt the huge spiritual energy released by the black egg in his hand, and the slight turmoil in his heart was calmed. The extremely selfish racial nature of the mind flayers makes them easily accept the power of psychic powers. Zatanos will not doubt his own power like John. He is sure that the power of psychic powers will make John Camp waste another one of his Chance.

This time, Zathanos will deal with this stubborn problem once and for all.

John looked at the psychic storm surrounding the Mind Flayer and spoke slowly.

"Trying to fight against the Mind Flayer with psychic powers. Before facing you, I always had this naive idea. In the final analysis, it is just the vanity in my heart that is causing trouble. Someone has been talking about me in my ears. Special, it makes me believe that I have the ability to be as special as the Crimson Beloved, so I have always wanted to prove this."

"What I understood was not entirely wrong, but the gift of Vertis made my thinking direction a little skewed."

"The Crimson Ritual will search for materials from the sacrifices and decipher the knowledge and secrets of the sacrifices. This is the secret technique of the warlock, and the same is true with the spiritual power of your mind flayers. Defeat the enemy with his ability, and learn from the barbarians. Isn’t it quite refreshing to use skills to defeat barbarians?”

"That's what I used to think. The reason why Veltis' crimson spell is so bad is that this bad demon likes to humiliate his opponents in this way. Until I met you, Zatanos. Your ingenuity with psychic powers Using my powers to overpower my spells made me realize that I could never be better at using my powers than a natural mind flayer."

John covered his face with a weird smile on his face.

"The power of the crimson spell seems to have made me make repeated mistakes again."

"I am not a gifted person like you."

"I've always been an ungodly guy who took advantage of the rules, and that's what makes me special."

Zatanos did not understand the meaning of the warlock. Even if he used his spiritual power to peer into his mind, he could only see ecstasy and crazy emotional impulses in the red mist, just like the brain of a madman.

"You are the second genius who is better than me in using abilities."

In the hands of the warlock, a beautiful magic key appeared.

[Crenzo's Silver Key]

The Mind Flayer saw that thing, and he immediately paid attention to John's mental fluctuations to dig out information about this magical item.

"It's just a magic item that can unlock the 'door'." John explained with a smile, "The silver key does not have offensive power, but the first genius helped me broaden my thinking."

【what you up to? Zatanos' tone couldn't help but become anxious. The frantic emotions in the warlock's mind hindered his exploration, but the mind flayer still unearthed the belief in victory in his mind. This gave him a bad feeling.

"The Silver Key is the first spell I can cast less well than others, and the Mind Flayer's Psychic Mastery is the second."

"Guess what happens when the special talents of two races appear in one person, and when the two secret arts are combined?"

"I also have the same mental network as the Mind Flayer."

"My consciousness, like the master brain, can connect to countless spiritual 'portals'."

John smiled, inserted the silver key into his right temple, and turned it.

Open, the door to the soul.

The cognitive self that sealed the mind and constituted [Warlock John Camp] was unlocked by the power of the silver key, and every channel leading to the Warlock's heart was completely opened. Under the mind flayer's psychic probing, John became a house with an open door, containing the warlock's treasure trove of knowledge about the Crimson Magic.

Warlock John Kemp becomes a collective consciousness, and every mind manipulator can enter the house and become him.

The mind flayers are aware of the danger, but their keen psychic perception has already integrated into it consciously. This is the original instinct of the mind flayers to rule intelligent creatures.

"It's like an octopus that likes to hide in dark holes."

[Just like an octopus likes to hide in dark holes. 】

The mind flayer and the warlock who are connected to the warlock's psychic network speak simultaneously.

John looked at Zatanos with some pity, who had a premonition of danger, and defied his body's instinct to restrain all his spiritual energy. He turned to look at the two mind flayers who were already thinking in sync with his own.

Mind flayers cannot resist the instinct to psychically manipulate an unsuspecting mind. It is their way of survival, as natural as breathing.

[How dare you control us. 】

Zatanos's roar was transmitted to John's mind, and John, who had lifted the spiritual barrier, became a spiritual black hole in his perception. The mind flayer could not resist this pull, just like a moth to a flame. The biological instinct of inner demons.

"No, I can't."

John said calmly, looking at the two mind flayers who were thinking in sync with his own. Their bodies are limp, blood penetrates the flesh and turns into blood pools, and red mist leaks from the body.

"Becoming a member of the Beloved means accepting the corruption of the Crimson Power."

"Look, they didn't do it."

[Accepting other consciousnesses will make you insane and create a split personality. You are doing a stupid thing, warlock. 】

John nodded in recognition of Zathanos' curse.

"You're right, but I do it all the time."

"Keep fighting your instincts, Zatanos. Otherwise you will join my Crimson Network."

"The mind flayer's power is the mind flayer's weakness."