After handing over the psychic system of the mage profession to Helen, Li Wen watched Helen's speech for a while and then started talking.
What happened next had nothing to do with him. Anyway, he had made his requirements clear to Helen.
In fact, Li Wen is not satisfied with the current spiritual energy system. As a brand-new power, the way spiritual energy affects the world is not essentially different from the magic itself.
At best, the current efforts are just to change the key attribute for exerting psychic power from charm to magic, and turn the original personal talent into a practical application method that can be quantified with knowledge.
According to Li Wen's wildest idea, the two special systems of magic and psychic energy should be completely separated.
When casting psychic energy, you can suppress the magic elements in the area and prohibit spell casting. When casting spells, you can prohibit all mental fluctuations in the area.
When facing a spellcaster or a person with psychic talents, a master who is dual-trained in psychic abilities and spells can always bully the opponent and be unable to fight back.
However, this idea is just a little crazy idea of Li Wen, and there should be no chance of realizing it at present.
It didn't take much time for Li Wen to go back and forth. When he returned to the territory of the illithid again, Li Wen saw the outrageous figure waiting in front of the cabin that the illithid had arranged for him.
"Back?"
Li Wen suddenly appeared from behind and was obviously frightened.
"You...my lord, when did you come out?"
Li Wen didn't answer, just asked.
"Did you get any information about the target?"
When it comes to business, he seems extremely proud, "Of course, we have already discovered the enemy's lair clearly!"
Isn't it just a fusion of illusions and traps that change reality? Can it still stop them from exploring the rules with their lives?
Perhaps the mind itself is fickle, but the changing properties of the reality and illusion affected by the mind are difficult to change after solidification. Even if those aboleths can use their spiritual power to rewrite and rewrite the rules of change over the long days, then it will not be possible.
It takes a certain amount of time.
In other words, if we attack now, the aboleth lair, whose pattern has been figured out, cannot be a hindrance to everyone.
After handing over the results of their exploration, Li Wen nodded after briefly checking them.
"Then, let's go!"
[Epic mission - Explore the aboleth lair! The first phase of the mission has been completed, and the mission process has been updated. The goal of the current stage: attack the aboleth lair and assist the illithids to capture at least one aboleth prisoner! 】
I know that the rewards are not that easy to get, but considering that a new skill book has been added to the skill book blind box and the probability of getting a new skill book from the first batch of blind boxes has doubled, this is acceptable!
rush!
Get ready and set off!
The shell ship carries the mastermind and slowly breaks through the water surface and sinks into the water. The repulsion of the psychic energy maintains the cavity on the deck of the shell ship, forming a space for people to move and breathe.
Dark Bobby stood on the deck, his eyes curiously scanning the slowly sinking dark water bottom.
After their shell ship, there was another oval-shaped submarine following closely behind.
Seeing the submarine, which had a somewhat rough shape but had various spell runes engraved on the hull, Dark Poppy licked his lips, his eyes full of interest...
He only knew that the players completed the mission, but he did not know what methods the players used to complete the exploration mission.
Now look at it, it turns out to be this kind of "high technology"?
Bullfrog Bullfrog!
Two boats with very different shapes, one behind the other, sailed in the dark waters. Some fish in the water world curiously followed the boats around, trying to see if they could get anything to eat from this new thing.
The natural fluorescence emitted by an unknown mineral is distorted in the rippling water waves, reflecting a splendid light in people's eyes.
As it gradually drove in a certain direction, the water above seemed to become darker and darker. The dark deep water was like a thick sky, weighing heavily on everyone.
It seems that if you don't pay attention, you will be crushed into dregs in an instant under this pressure.
Boundless loneliness and fear linger in everyone's heart, which cannot be changed by strength.
No wonder there is such a thing as phobia of the deep sea. Without the protection of a magic shield, tons of seawater would press on the human body. Unless they are physically strong warriors, even legendary mages would not be able to escape...
Except for prepared mages.
Dark Poppy looked at it for a moment and then became indifferent.
The underwater world is dark and deep, and the deeper you go, the more bizarre the deep-water creatures you encounter appear, like species from two different planets.
It kind of means that no one is going to read it anyway, so I just want to read it casually.
But that's all.
It's nothing interesting. What Dark Poppy is looking forward to are those aboleths that are said to have been born from the beginning of the world and are omniscient.
"How long will it take to arrive?"
Dark Poppy asked directly in the mental network that connects everyone except the player to the illithids.
"Come on, come on, we're already driving at full speed."
Looking at the little fish waving its tail slowly outside Chi Chi's shield, Dark Poppy raised his eyebrows, "Isn't your full speed too conservative?"
"The world underwater is not safe."
The voice of the illithid mastermind sounded dullly, "Kuo-toa people don't dare to enter the deep water area at will."
Some creatures on Gaia have very terrifying natural biological levels, and due to environmental factors, underwater wild creatures are often more terrifying than creatures on land.
There's nothing good to be gained from messing with them.
The tribe of illithids has been surviving in this world for many years, and the most obvious thing is that the water in this world is very deep.
Even a demigod-level mastermind never feels that he can walk sideways in this world.
Keeping a low profile is a survival rule that every independent group of illithids should learn.
"oh"
Listening to Dark Bobby's emotionless voice, the mastermind said again.
"...Those aboleths are not easy to mess with."
"oh"
"How about we turn back?"
"don't want!"
"Their nests are terrifying and ever-changing. To outsiders, they look just like normal waters. Even if you pass by at a very close distance, you may not be able to find the real place where they hide. And because they emit water all year round,
Their thoughts are chaotic and escaping, so much so that a large area near their lair is covered with chaotic spiritual energy fields, where our perception will also be severely interfered with. To be honest, for half a day, I was not sure that we
Can we find their real nest?”…
Dark Poppy squinted his eyes and recalled in his mind the information that the players had previously obtained.
"It was a piece of bottom water that looked normal, a series of continuous underwater rocks, and five seaweeds half as tall as a man swaying in the water. The entrance was two-fifths of the way between the rocks and the seaweeds."
"Um?"
"Just keep walking and you'll know when you get there."
When the shell ship plunged in the specified direction according to Dark Bobby's instructions, the scenery in front of him suddenly changed.
What was originally just a dark but still clear water suddenly turned into a dark gap with no bottom visible.
The dark perspective effect of magic allows Dark Poppy to see a certain distance in the darkness. The underwater gap in front of his eyes opens up into countless smaller forks, with one or two more branches appearing every irregular distance.
Four or five bifurcated cracks came out.
Like the dense bubbles inside a cake, the endless choices leave people feeling endlessly confused.
Two lonely ships were suspended between the gap in the huge and narrow abyss, with no one to rely on.
"Damn it, it's really coming in."
The mastermind sighed subconsciously, then looked at the silent abyss in front of him and advised again.
"Look, there are so many gaps, and the virtual and the real intersect. No one knows whether the selected gap is a dead end. It's not even clear how many places in this entire place are illusions. It's even harder to tell if you look for them one by one.
We have to find out when..."
"Go this way..."
"This..."
"Run it in."
"Um?"
Following Dark Bobby's instructions, the shell ship stopped in front of a black cliff that looked like it was covered with unknown aquatic moss.
The player's submarine following behind also hovered and stopped quietly.
The players on the boat are nervously calculating the probabilities.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Is this the place?"
"We have collected some experimental data before, and their real entrance is a probability cloud. Who knows if it is here?"
"Didn't you say you are a professor in the mathematics department?"
"I'm a professor and I'm not a quantum computer! Damn it!"
"Master Poppy won't let us explore the road, right?"
"They've stopped moving...I think that's probably the case."
"Wait a minute! They seem to be planning to go directly."
…
"Are you sure?"
Facing the black cliff in front of him, the illithid mastermind released his spiritual energy and used his own soul to feel whether the wall in the gap in front of him was really just an illusion.
However, the feedback result is...no?
Although the chaotic psychic field cannot suppress its psychic ability, it is undoubtedly a huge suppression of its perception ability.
Here, it is as if it has been deprived of hearing and vision, and has become blind and deaf. It is supposed to be omnipotent with spiritual power.
A person with normal senses is afraid of falling into such a situation, and it also doesn't like to be in such a situation, which is why it has always resisted coming here.
What it is worried about now is that if this wall becomes a solid thing, then who can be better if his shell ship collides head-on with this hard stone wall that bears an unknown number of tons of water pressure...
Dark Poppy pointed forward, his eyes wild.
"I'm sure, hit me!"
"You have to know that the lair of the Aboleth is half true and half false. Even if you have been here before, the previous entrance does not mean the current entrance. And they are also masters of psychic energy. We cannot use psychic energy to protect the hull.
, let alone hesitate or even have the slightest intention of retreating. Even if it is the correct passage, it will instantly become a physical wall."
Dark Poppy walked up to the master brain and patted its superficial cortex, causing waves of flesh to flow out.
"Don't be afraid! Your brain is going strong."
"Why"
The mastermind sighed and ordered: "Braincase... Bah! Parrot, move forward at full speed!"
Several illithids on the ship looked at the black cliff that was getting closer and closer, and the four tentacles on their chins were stiffly entangled together in fear.
"boom!"
The violent vibration caused by the imagined impact did not occur, and the shell ship penetrated directly as if it had passed through a layer of paper.
The green fluorescent light shone on everyone's face for an instant, and the scene in front of them changed dramatically again.
The originally cold and oppressive waters were filled with green light that came from nowhere, and silver threads spread across everything visible, as if giving everything a layer of magical light.
What's even more frightening is that the perception of time and space seems to be completely broken here, and the perception of up, down, left, and back is completely reversed and chaotic.
Dark Bobby casually released a brand new four-ring psychic spell on himself - Intelligence Fortress.
The power from the spell slightly eased the chaotic sense of time and space, and the magical brilliance completely disappeared from the eyes, revealing the true face of this body of water.
Not far away, three dark creatures that looked like manta rays with two dark blue fluorescent tentacles on their heads were staring at the two boats that had suddenly intruded with their evil eyes.
Hull.
"We really found our nest!"
The mastermind marveled at how Dark Poppy could really lead them to find the only correct path through his random wanderings.
Now that it is really face to face, the next step is its life.
"First, seal off its escape space."
Now that they are face to face, the mastermind is not worried about not being able to defeat these aboleths.
Their frontal combat capabilities are not particularly powerful. Putting aside environmental factors, their individual strength is equivalent to that of human third-level professionals. Of course, this is the lower limit.
The upper limit is higher, but not much higher. At least in the memory of the mastermind, I have never heard of an aboleth reaching the level of a high-level legend.
Not all races have the same terrifying development limit as humans. In today's god system, there are even some gods who were promoted from humans.
This kind of creature was able to control the creatures on the vast land before the intervention of gods in the past. This was achieved purely by the accumulation of pollution from their thoughts that permeated the environment.
Innately invincible, they only need to pollute the minds of every new creature over time, and they can easily become the masters of all creatures in that dark period.
But now... facing them directly, they have no chance of winning.
As for the hint from the mastermind, Dark Poppy was not worried.
He pointed to the oval-shaped submarine behind him, "There are also a group of migrant workers here."
"Let them block their escape route and leave the rest to me."
The gray cerebral cortex of the main brain was shaking with excitement.
It's not that it has no interest in the aboleths, it's just that these creatures are too difficult to deal with in their lairs.
And as long as they can break in, to the mastermind, they are like a group of turtles without the protection of their shells.