As the Mind Flayer base changed, the Mind Flayer seated atop the Psionic Amplifier also sank into a deep dream under the powerful psionic fluctuations.
His physical body was connected through the Psionic Amplifier to the giant brain in the room below.
An awareness sleeping within the giant brain seized control of his body through "offline operation."
Surging psionic energy gathered around his body. The chitinous walls all around him cracked one after another, revealing the writhing purple-red muscles beneath.
The four tentacles outside the base began waving in all directions, their thick limbs deftly wrapping around the giant mushrooms nearby.
As an orange-yellow liquid seeped from the surfaces of the tentacles, the giant mushrooms' fluorescence began gathering toward the points where they made contact.
Gradually, the parts of the giant mushrooms that had lost their fluorescence began to petrify. Once all the fluorescence had vanished, the giant mushrooms had completely turned to stone.
After absorbing the giant mushrooms' energy, orange-red energy patterns began to appear across the tentacles' surfaces.
The patterns extended all the way to the base serving as the main body. Nourished by the orange-red energy, the base began undergoing an even more thorough transformation.
"Rumble!"
The giant petrified mushroom, drained of all its energy, collapsed with a crash. The Mind Flayer base continued forward, methodically searching for its next target.
"Chief! This is bad! That monster's base suddenly floated into the air, and it's started sucking the mushrooms dry in the woodland!"
Outside the woodland, a goblin who had discovered the latest movements of the Mind Flayer base rushed into the chief's tent and reported everything he had seen to the Hobgoblin chief.
His body trembled faintly, and his eyes were bloodshot.
The Hobgoblin chief, who had been gnawing on a roasted Giant Lizard leg