Chapter 278 Shadow Thief! Eat me a piece of fire!
Maybe people in the world have misunderstandings about beholders, and even think that they are the same type as chaotic demons.
But the opposite is true. Almost most beholders are born with lawful evil or neutral evil alignment.
However, in Levi's eyes, the vast majority of beholders may be born with chuunibyou.
They generally believe that only they themselves are the wisest and most powerful, and that other creatures are inferior. This attitude and their powerful abilities determine that the beholder's highest goal is to conquer and dominate.
Some strong beholders tend to attack and invade, while beholders with weaker abilities to recruit and control will work with other biological slaves to conquer through armed force, while others will join forces with the Zhentarim.
Beholders in this evil organization work together, or form alliances with others, to gain power through control of trade and occasional military action.
Others will come to big cities like Jishui City, join evil organizations like the Shadow Thieves, and then gradually infiltrate these networks with a large number of spies, assassins, slave traders and thieves, and then rule this huge underground kingdom.
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But obviously, the beholder Kik Darkwrath is not included in this list.
His path to demonic birth was a little twisty.
If we use the plot in some biographical novels, Kike is a typical congenital 'defect', there is something wrong with his eyes.
He is born with double pupils
The beholder who was born with double pupils sounds a bit crazy.
But that's not actually the case.
Unlike the ancient mythological records of Livy's Blue Star, people with double pupils are generally saints. In fact, after modern medical explanation, this situation is caused by adhesion and distortion of the pupils, from O shape to ∞ shape, but
It does not affect the entry of light beams. It is also called synopsis. Modern medicine considers it to be a phenomenon of early cataracts.
Perhaps to humans or other races in this world, this can only be regarded as a minor problem that is insignificant.
But for the beholder, the problem becomes a bit big.
Using the pupils to release some magic rays is to the beholder what breath is to the dragon.
After the pupil distortion, the beholder's natural magic ray basically became a problem for Kike
A beholder that cannot use magic rays is a 'dragon beast' that is more useless than a giant dragon that cannot breathe.
Because beholders who have been in middle school have hated everything since they were young, and nothing can make them hate it more deeply than "another different beholder".
In theory, beholders can coexist peacefully with each other as long as they look similar to themselves.
But as time goes by, you will always find small details in your cohabitants that are completely different from yourself, and this will always make them angry.
Each beholder believes that its body shape is unique, and any beholder that is different from itself is fake and should be eaten.
The difference in form is actually only the most subtle aspect of individual differences between beholders.
For example, in their tribe, there are two famous beholder variants—the Eye of the Elder and the Eye of the Hive Mother. Their abilities are quite different from ordinary beholders.
There are countless strange and bizarre images of beholder-like creatures. They are a truly unpredictable race.
Creatures such as the Eye of Gauss, the Eye of the Warlord, and the Eye of the Abyss all arouse the wrath of true beholders, who view their appearance and abilities as poor imitations of orthodox beholders.
Therefore, one can easily imagine the status and situation of a being like Zeke who cannot use magic rays among the beholders in the Underdark.
Since he was not killed by other members of his clan, he was considered to be smooth in dealing with things and had good luck in dealing with danger.
Unable to follow the path of a sorcerer or a mage, he was inspired by the rogue swordsmen of the adventurer party.
He can't use magic, but he, Kike, can still wield a sword!
Compared to those two-handed and two-legged rogue swordsmen, Kike has an advantage that is incomparable to humans.
The beholder's natural levitation ability can slightly reduce its weight. Although it cannot fly to high altitudes, it can float in mid-air like a magnetic levitation.
Moreover, the beholder's body is strong and compact. The standard weight of an 8-foot-diameter beholder is between 4,000 and 5,000 pounds. The outer shell is as hard as steel, with very few bends except for the eyelids and throat.
This is equivalent to giving a rogue swordsman, who must keep his body light and cannot wear heavy armor, a natural "soft hedgehog armor".
What's more important is that he has eight 'hands'!
Moreover, the beholder's naturally developed brain allows his eight tentacles to be undisturbed when wielding weapons, and can even fight together like eight rogue swordsmen!
The conclusion is that Tajik believes that a beholder has far more advantages if he chooses to be a rogue swordsman than a profession!
But everything is difficult at the beginning, especially in a social environment that extremely excludes ‘others’.
Originally, he wanted to find a drow rogue as a mentor, but God knows whether those black-skinned monkeys whose brains were filled with reproductive fluid would drain his young glands dry, so he chose to go.
He went to the surface of the earth and began a magnificent, er, cross-out, humiliating career.
It was all because when he had just landed on the surface, when he needed to 'reserve' some living supplies and was about to do the 'normal operations' of a bunch of evil people, he kicked an iron plate that would affect his life!
It is the enchanted shipboard armor of the Nese magic ship!
And after so many years, Kike felt like he was out of touch again.
The beholder has an average IQ of 250. How could he reveal his true identity for forty-three years just by saying "harpist"?
Isn’t it because the guy who came is too strong, hard and has chrome tentacles?
If we don't do this, with the opponent's lineup, we may not be able to kill a level 18 beholder in three strikes!
But the situation seemed to be more complicated than he imagined!
This group of people actually stacked dozens of layers of buffing magic on him, pushing his status to an almost legendary level, giving him the illusion that he had become a sword master.
But that’s okay, it’s just a show with you.
At least it's not life-threatening for the time being, right?
But he soon discovered that he was wrong
It's so wrong!
After the three lunatics who called themselves Harpers added 'buff magic' to him, they turned around and added more to the leader of the group, the 'Crimson King'!
Just half a minute later, the magical aura superimposed on the body of the 'Crimson King Diavolo' almost blinded Kick's eyes.
At the same time, Levi took out an exaggerated "Harpy of Fire" from his space ring.
And for the effect of 'shooting material', at this moment he seemed to slowly pull out the sword lingering with the fire of sin from the void on one side.
Taking the long sword into his hands, he held it in front of his chest, and a small stream of red dragon breath leaked out from Levi's nostrils.
In an instant, streaks of crimson flames spiraled upward from the feet and converged on the sword's edge.
The scorching hot wind kept blowing on the already stunned Kike's cheeks, giving him the illusion that his eyes were about to be baked dry.
This is not his illusion!
The temperature of the entire basement increases at a rate visible to the naked eye!
"O underground emperor of the Shadow Thief! It will be your lifelong honor to fight against Diavolo, the Crimson King!
"Even death! Can't let you escape from my hands!
“Suffer death!!!
"Let the flames! Burn everything!!!"
Looking at this start that was so domineering in the prelude that it almost broke his watch, Kike's tear ducts were about to urinate. He just wanted to beg for mercy, but it was already too late!
Click!
As Levi took a step forward, the entire brick surface, which had been blackened by the flames, instantly cracked and sank, and the broken fragments scattered in a ring.
【Fire Trample】!
And his body followed the direction of the sword that was like a toppling mountain, and he stepped forward indomitably.
【Shadow Charge】!
The next moment, Levi's figure had disappeared from the place like a shadow, slanting towards the storm of flames before he came to the actor Kick, who was clearly panicking and had a look of "indifference" on his face.
The two swords clashed head-on!
Poof!
A mouthful of blood as much as an aunt's blood spurted out from Kike's eyes uncontrollably. The whole 'man' was like a baseball being hit, creating a 'skylight' on the ceiling.
And a torrent of flames, centered on the two of them, rushed freely and swallowed up the entire underground space in an instant.
boom!
This gilded rose restaurant has stood here for more than 300 years.
Chapter completed!