The mage lady who suddenly heard Li Wen's voice paused and braked suddenly. She was supposed to hang the octopus head far away in this complicated terrain and use kite tactics to carry out Poppy's mission, but she could
What is she doing now?
Anna stopped, turned around and prepared a spell. The moment the black robe appeared around the corner, a freezing ray shot out instantly.
The frost instantly bloomed into a sky-blue flower at the place where it was hit, as if a real cold air enveloped the small space on the ground. This coldness also spread to the black robe.
Evocation Faction 6th Level Trait—Powerful Cantrip: Starting at 6th level, your damaging cantrips can affect creatures that would otherwise be immune to the cantrip's effects. When a creature succeeds on its saving throw against your cantrip, it still takes half damage (if
Yes), but will not be affected by the other effects of the cantrip.
Even if the save is successful, you will still be affected by the spell's aftermath, taking half damage.
At the same time, the Freeze Ray spell itself can leave a patch of frost terrain where it hits, reducing the movement speed of creatures within it by 10 feet.
The power of a mage lies not only in their spells, but also in their flexible brain.
It's a pity that the octopus head just lowered its head and glanced at the frost under its feet, and then continued to speed up again... and even accelerated towards the mage lady.
In the dark corridor, an octopus head flying towards me like a soul-eating monster quickly approached, and the corners of its black robes trembled violently in the airflow.
It will definitely cover its face with those disgusting and slippery tentacles, injecting some kind of milky white liquid into the strong suffocation feeling...
"ah!"
A first-level spell - apply oil on the soles of the feet, Anna turns around and runs again.
An endless chase.
The illithid disappeared from Li Wen's sight several times, and when it reappeared, it appeared from another completely opposite direction, so that Miss Mage had to change its direction several times.
"Oops~"
When the strangeness of the first time was gone and the magical power in her body was surging again, the mage lady seemed to enjoy this chasing game endlessly, until her physical strength was exhausted and she was stumbled by a stone of fate and was destined to stagger.
Depending on the profession and physical attributes, the fighting time that each profession can last in battle is different.
A warrior can fight with a hip opponent all day long.
A mage may only be able to last two hours in a battle that requires him to keep moving.
The gravel on the ground caused Miss Mage, who fell heavily to the ground, to have several cuts on her tender knees. Faced with the octopus head that followed closely, she used her last energy to smash out a flaming arrow.
This is Miss Mage's final attitude.
After hanging it and attacking it so many times, you should be able to complete Master Bobby's mission, right?
Anna closed her eyes, waiting for the strong feeling of suffocation to cover her body...
Um?
Itchy... numb...
Like some ants dancing in their own...
Anna opened her eyes and saw a piece of light green light converging from the octopus head's hand, as well as a smooth gray-white head that was close at hand but slowly moving away... and a pair of big gray-white eyes.
Does it look a bit cute up close? If you ignore the four tentacles...
Anna moved her eyes downwards and looked at the place where she just felt numbness - her knees...are they okay?
There is no such healing ability in the mage's spell table. Is this octopus head still a priest?
Facing Miss Mage's puzzled eyes, the octopus tilted its head, and the two tentacles on its chin curved to both sides.
╰~╯
"Bang!"
The crystal staff hit the octopus lightly on the head, and it was pushed aside.
All was quiet.
After a slight freeze, the octopus head quickly raised his hands to block in front of him, and at the same time took two steps back again.
In Miss Mage's puzzled eyes, one of the tentacles on the chin of the octopus's head was stuffed into its mouth, and then some weird buzzing sound was emitted from the mouth of the illithid.
???
Miss Master was confused, and Li Wen was equally confused.
Grammatically speaking, the sound produced by this illithid resembles the common language used by the elves and dwarves on the Moon of Madness continent.
But... because the pronunciation was so non-standard and accompanied by some strange noises, even Li Wen, who had learned the common language of the Lunar Moon Continent, was not prepared to hear its meaning clearly.
I just vaguely heard a few possible vague words - such as "rescue", "protect", "bad", "you", etc.
The vague words and previous actions allowed Li Wen to roughly confirm his guess——
Sure enough, it was this illithid that had been secretly protecting this reckless mage lady.
Are there also monsters among illithids?
As the person involved, the mage lady also had her own judgment. Looking at the movements of the octopus head in front of her, she probably guessed that the other party did not want to take action against her.
But……
"Then why did you lay so many traps to harm me?"
These words made the three tentacles of the illithid freeze slightly, and then began to fly around excitedly, and rapid syllables came from his mouth wrapped with one tentacle.
Li Wen could vaguely hear the words "no", "yes", "I", "them", etc.
The mage lady looked at the illithid's "performance" and nodded in enlightenment to determine the meaning for the other party, "So you wanted to use traps to harm me, but I saw through them cleverly and cracked them, so you admire me now?"
"..."
"..."
One sentence silenced two people...or one person and one stranger.
Li Wen knew that he could no longer watch the show, so he sent a text message and began to remotely control the mage lady.
Anna, who suddenly heard Li Wen's voice, looked around in surprise. She knew the existence of the SMS spell, but the existence of the fifth-ring spell - detection, was a secret to her.
But when she thought that Sir Poppy was always watching over her, boundless courage arose out of thin air.
She followed Li Wen's instructions and asked the question.
"I heard that illithids like to enslave other beings. Why don't you catch me?"
The illithid once again made that weird pronunciation, and Li Wen heard a few words in it-"alone", "mastermind", and "outside".
"Ouch~ So it's Jiang Zi?"
The mage lady nodded without knowing anything.
Seeing that this confused human being finally understood what he meant, the Illithid was so happy that the remaining three tentacles were flying around.
The whole body also moved slightly closer again.
"Bang!"
"Baji~baji~"
"Baji~baji~"
Their eyes met and each of them blinked.
Why! Hit me again!
The mage lady held the crystal staff and smiled shyly, "Nervous."
Under the guidance of the illithid, we found a clean place for Miss Mage to rest for a while, so that she could recover her strength and leave the Underdark.
However, before leaving, Li Wen used all his spell slots and asked some questions that he cared about through the mouth of the mage lady.
In the dark tunnel, strange tentacles danced wantonly in the shadows. As if unaware, a human girl sat beside it with a smile and talked, and what she answered was a buzzing syllable with unclear meaning.
Sometimes mixed with a gentle knock from a crystal rod to wake up the sleeping mind...
…
"Liar! They are all liars! The magic heart mine is useless! The octopus head I encountered even opened my gourd."
"That's right! He also robbed my Demonic Heart Mine!"
"There are a lot of octopus heads as you go deeper... I am not dead, but now they have converted me into their camp. Which brother will come to save me?"
"Brother upstairs, where are you? Me too...they have a lot of fishmen here! They are slippery and feel so comfortable to the touch."
"???"
"???"
The previous conversation between Li Wen and Miss Mage did not prevent other players from hearing it. After learning about Miss Mage's whereabouts... especially when Miss Mage got a mission and even received the task reward in advance, another group of players
Bravely stepped into the underdark.
On the premise that they each carried the Demonic Heart Mine, some people even walked very far away.
…
Li Wen received the mage lady who returned safely under the escort of the illithids.
I was able to walk in and out of the two exploration operations safely, even in the first half of the journey without the escort of illithids. Maybe it can be said to be... the chosen one?
In her battle record, Li Wen saw a series of thoughts of the illithid——
【???(Voice): Why is it her again?】
【???(voice): Be careful not to jump!】
【???(Voice from the heart): Don't run that way! It's the other way around! It's the other way around! That's not your way home.】
【???(Voice): Don’t go there! Don’t go there! Hey! You can’t go there! That worm has a bad temper.】
【???(Voice): Hehehe~She should understand now.???Why are you hitting me again?】
【???(Voice): I didn’t set those traps, I was saving you! Save you!】
【???(Voice): I live alone outside and am not controlled by the mastermind. I don’t like to eat your brains either.】
[???(Voice): The master brain? The master brain is the master brain? He is our king. Normal people need to obey his orders, but I have been alone outside for a long time, and it seems... I don’t want to go back. 】
[???(Voice from the heart): You want to attack our mastermind? That’s not possible! You can’t defeat us. Our mastermind is a demigod. Every mastermind is a demigod. You can’t defeat us.]
[???(Voice): This is called Demonic Heart Mine? It has the smell of "blood curse" on it. Most of the creatures here may regard you as the same kind. As long as you don't take the initiative to provoke, they generally won't take the initiative to attack you.
Take action. Of course, this time it is more about the effect of the belt on your body, its effect is stronger.】
【???(Voice): What you are talking about are the newborns of our race... Generally speaking, the creatures we plant as "tadpoles" will become our new race members from the inside out after a period of incubation.
But you seem to be different from those ordinary people? I don’t know what the result will be if I plant it on you.】
[???(Voice): Try? Can’t try! Can’t try! I can’t touch you! That belt on your body has a repelling effect on me, and I don’t have a “tadpole” (shyness). 】
[???(Voice): Be careful~ don’t come back again. It’s very dangerous here. My people will eat your brains if they catch you... Oh, by the way, you have no brains. 】
…
Judging from the information collected by Miss Mage, some of the racial habits of the illithids have been slightly exposed.
They cannot produce the next generation on their own and must rely on enslaving other intelligent beings to continue the development of their own species, and their food must also be the brains of other intelligent beings.
This leads to one point - the illithids are inherently enemies of every intelligent creature group.
Another important piece of information is that this solitary illithid is a special one. It is not controlled by the so-called "master brain" it calls. As for its members, they all act under the control of the so-called "master brain".
.
And...the mastermind is a demigod!
Every mastermind is!
What is a demigod?
The strongest person among the gods, an existence whose status surpasses that of a high legend.
The three known combat power ceilings on Gaia are only high-level legends!
Of course...demigods only surpass high-level legends in terms of status. If the two really fight, it will still depend on their respective abilities and performance.
Demigods must be high-level legends, and high-level legends are not necessarily demigods. The only difference lies in whether they have certain qualifications to become gods.
No wonder I heard from Helen before that the illithids are the overlords that rule the entire multiverse. If they have many master brains, and each master brain is a demigod, then their overall strength is indeed stronger than the three races on Gaia.
There are too many.
This information is only part of the things that satisfy Li Wen's curiosity. If there is really useful information, it may be the function of the belt made of magic heart ore.
Simple Demonic Heart Ore only has a certain bewildering effect on some monsters in the Underdark that have also been mutated by the blood curse. Belts made of Demonic Heart Ore have a more powerful bewildering effect on them and can also help them.
Intelligent life resists illithids' implanted "tadpoles".
If one day, there might be a confrontation between humans and illithid monsters, then would half the moon's Demon Heart Mine be an important strategic material?
"That... is the mission completed?"
Miss Mage was still waiting in front of Li Wen. Hearing her voice, Li Wen nodded, "Okay, thank you for your help."
The next moment Li Wen confirmed, Miss Mage saw the mission completion message popping up on her panel.
"Yeah!"
Miss Mage turned around and walked away without any regrets. After completing the task, the belt truly belonged to her.
She can't wait to start her adventure in the Underdark again!
After the player obtained some information from the maverick illithid, Li Wen directly opened a portal and returned to his home on Gaia.
There are no signs of attacking the illithid monsters in the Underdark area for the time being, and this information is of no use for the time being. However, you can entrust the dwarves to help you build some magic heart mineral equipment in case of emergency.
Hmm... Or maybe you can ask Helen if there are any craftsmen who can make equipment?
The craftsmanship of dwarves is indeed unparalleled in the world, and it is difficult for ordinary human craftsmen to match it, but making equipment with magic heart ore may not require such clever techniques, at least in the opinion of Li Wen, who has studied "The Melting Pot" for a few days.
After all, the dwarves are not as good as Helen... There will definitely be some handling fee for making it with them.
Li Wen hesitated slightly and decided to ask Helen first.
As soon as the door opened, a guard in silver armor seemed to be preparing to knock on the door.
Eyes facing each other.
Before he could speak, Li Wen stretched out his hand and said, "You go ahead."