The battle between psychic powers is silent and dangerous.
At this point in the Mastermind's life, the ability of psychic energy to distort reality no longer requires magic as a medium.
Both sides are masters of using psychic energy, and the space groans in pain between them, flickering like a dreamy bubble.
The three aboleths immediately realized that the intruder was not easy to deal with. They turned around and wanted to run away, but found that a simple wooden boat with a round shape had blocked them behind them.
The only magic crystal cannon on the submarine protruded from one of the holes in the submarine, and the muzzle condensed a faint purple light.
As for the remaining players, they have all left the cabin and feel good.
These are all carefully selected players who are good at underwater combat. They can still move freely under the water despite the effects of spells.
The aboleths who tried to use their psychic powers to clear the way discovered that the nasty guys blocking the road had special equipment on them, which blocked their psychic attacks to a certain extent.
Seeing that they were outnumbered and unable to run away, these three aboleths wanted to explode on the spot.
As long as they are not caught in the water elemental plane of the four elemental planes and their essence is completely wiped out when they are reborn, they will exist forever.
Their memories will always exist, and even if their bodies in the material world are destroyed, it will only be a new reincarnation journey.
The only possible danger is that when they reshape their bodies in the water elemental plane, they may be attacked by some brutal water elemental spirits and fall into a dangerous situation.
However, firstly, the water elemental plane is vast and there are few spirits. Secondly, water elemental spirits are generally not as violent as fire elemental spirits, and they are less likely to take the initiative to attack other individuals.
This is the only trouble they can get into.
Of course, if we talk about losses, it is that when they return from the water elemental plane again, they will lose the nest they have been operating for many years.
When they return to the material plane, they don't know which body of water they will appear in.
However, the psychic pressure from the mastermind came in an instant, dispelling all thoughts of the three aboleths.
While fighting, its escaping spiritual energy was also quietly weaving a trap, like a spider's magic web. Silently, these three aboleths had nowhere to escape.
The mastermind is usually timid, but he doesn't even care when it comes to fighting.
Dark Poppy smiled and patted the gray cortical surface of the master brain, "I want to ask them something alone."
…
The two ships docked at the farthest end of the lair, as if this could show some goodwill.
Li Wen came to the three aboleths that were suppressed by the spiritual power of the mastermind and said softly in a calm tone.
"I know you understand the common language on the surface. Answer a few questions and I will set you free."
Three aboleths with flat bodies like manta rays stared at the humans in front of them with their small eyes, showing a bit of human contempt in their eyes.
Are they immortal, a threat?
They have always been the only ones to threaten others. How has it ever been others' turn to threaten them?
The biggest humiliation they have ever encountered so far is that some powerful professionals rushed into the lair and destroyed their bodies.
As for imprisonment?
It can be seen for a moment but not for a lifetime. Their spiritual energy is free and cannot be restrained. As long as you find an opportunity for them, they can escape immediately.
Seeing the non-violent non-cooperation of the three aboleths, Li Wen was not angry and just pointed at the shell ship behind him.
"Illithids, you should know each other, right? They have always been interested in your memories. I don't know if you can retain your memories and return to the water elemental plane to be resurrected if you are eaten by them. Do you plan to try?
"
…
Aboleth: Never eaten.
Illithid: Never eaten.
Then a strange, shrill voice that sounded like a doll sounded in Li Wen's mind.
"What do you want to know?"
Li Wen suddenly smiled and said, "It's great that this is so early. I'm just asking two questions that have nothing to do with you. Don't be nervous. The first one..."
"Do you know the recent elemental fluctuations? Your roots are in the water elemental plane. Logically speaking, you should be able to detect something."
"Of course! We know everything."
"So, has similar situations happened in history?"
"have……"
"when?"
"When heaven and earth first opened..."
"?"
Are you planning to start with the creation of the world by Pangu?
Li Wen stared at the other party, his eyes full of suspicion.
Do you also know about the beginning of heaven and earth?
It seemed that no one knew what was going on in Li Wen's mind. The high-pitched baby's voice sounded in Li Wen's mind.
"You also know that our roots are in the water elemental plane. The four elemental planes have always existed, and the appearance of the material plane was an accident. It took us thousands of years of inheritance before the material plane appeared in
In this multiverse, the later outer planes, the astral plane, the etheric plane, and even the current inner plane and the two mapped planes of the material plane - the Fey Wilds and the Goblin Plane - are all latecomers.
The roots of this universe are only the four elemental planes."
"..."
Li Wen thought for a moment, "What is its development process?"
Under the mental monitoring of the mastermind, these aboleths cannot lie, but if what they say is true, then this information may not be of much reference value to Li Wen.
When the world first opened, not to mention humans, even dragons, giants, dwarves, elves and other immortal species probably did not appear.
What he wants to know is how the creatures in the past dealt with similar things, rather than simply hearing a story that happened in the past.
Listening to Li Wen's question, Aboleth's baby voice sounded a little impatient.
"I said before, when the heaven and the earth first opened... before the heaven and the earth first opened!"
"What's the meaning?"
"Fool!"
Suddenly there is another slightly different and strange sound inserted next to it.
"What he means is that elemental fluctuations similar to today's occurred first, and then the current world came into existence. Do you understand?"
"Um……"
Li Wen pinched his chin, feeling for the first time that his ability to understand was not enough.
"You mean...the reason for this elemental fluctuation is for the creation of the world?"
"Idiot! Idiot!"
"Now that there is a world, how can we create it?"
"It's a restart, idiot!"
This time, three distinctive baby sounds sounded almost one after another.
"First return to the origin, and then freely collide."
"At an unknown moment, the material plane will appear again."
"Back to the beginning! Back to the time when all the gods were gone!"
"The intro and outro are the same!"
"The Elemental Kings are launching their ritual."
"The world will be reborn again."
When it comes to this kind of content, the thinking of the three aboleths seems a little crazy.
It seems that I am looking forward to this day very much.
Li Wen was suddenly startled, recalling the meeting of gods that had occurred in his mind on the first day the players arrived.
The voice that calls herself the Goddess of Creation seems to have said that the purpose of inviting players here is to help complete this era change.
Could it be that the change of era she mentioned refers to today's elemental riots?
How could it be?
Why is it necessary to restart the change?
I haven't had enough fun yet...
Li Wen shook his head, feeling that this information was too shocking and subconsciously unwilling to believe it.
And if this ending is so destined, does it matter if players come over... or not?
Does what the aboleth, who cannot lie, say must be the truth?
Li Wen shook his head and calmed down.
"I have another question, do you know about the moon? Does this kind of elemental fluctuation have anything to do with the moon?"
"That moon in the sky? It's just a big stone. Apart from affecting the tides, it can't affect the elements."
"No...it's the twelve moons surrounding Gaia!"
"Never seen it! Never seen it!"
"How come you haven't seen it? The moon! The moon of corruption! The moon of madness! Or resource module 2, resource module 5?"
These are things that everyone in the human world knows, how could an omniscient being like the aboleth not see it before?
"I've heard of it! I've never seen it! That's not from our world! It's fake! It's all fake!"
The words spoken by these aboleths became more and more outrageous, and Li Wen was already considering whether they had gone crazy because they had absorbed too many memories.
Moreover, given their mental state when they spoke, it was difficult for Li Wen to believe that they were all normal.
"What? Don't believe it?"
Aboleths are masters of the mind. Even though their psychic powers are suppressed by the mastermind, they seem to be quite sensitive to some of Li Wen's obvious thoughts in front of them.
"There are so many things that don't belong to our world. None of the things you brought are from our world!"
Li Wen looked back.
It's normal for players not to belong to this world. In the magical world, when magical players come, Li Wen has long stopped thinking about the underlying reasons behind their appearance.
But……
The "those things" in the aboleth's mouth should also include those illithids, right?
"Are you saying that illithids are not native to our world?"
"Of course not! Of course not!"
"They are just some refugees who smuggled in! They are the remnants of the previous universe!"
"Any race has a process of evolution, but they suddenly appeared on the star plane with their palaces and battleships! They can hide it from others, but they can't hide it from us!"
Ah this...
Li Wen glanced at the brain shell on the conch shell ship, but there was no movement.
But you don't need to think about it to know that it is 100% paying attention to this side now, and it probably heard every word of the conversation between you and the aboleth.
"Okay...I have no problem."
The words of these aboleths contain a lot of information, and they sound crazy. You may need to rely on your own thinking to identify which words are useful and which are not.
Waving his hand to his brain, Li Wen shouted in the spiritual network.
"knock off!"
All done.
[Epic mission - The mission of exploring the aboleth lair has been completed, and the rewards are being settled...]
Some skill book blind boxes, which are a combination of the new psychic spells and the Book of Paths of the Mage Psionics System, are distributed directly, and Li Wen no longer cares about those players.
Li Wen has always had a very clear grasp of the role of tool man for players.
On the contrary, Li Wen is now very interested in the origin of the illithids.
Sitting on the shell ship on the return trip, Dark Bobby sat on the deck of the shell ship and leaned against the gray cortex of the mastermind.
A slight tremor was transmitted to him through the contact between bodies.
Dark Poppy put one hand on his knee, and without looking back, he tapped the mastermind's big head with the other hand.
"Hey! You must have heard what we just said, right?"
The mastermind's response seemed duller than ever.
"I heard it."
"So it's not that you can't find them, but you don't want to take me to find them, right?"
The mastermind's voice was low and steady, with a heavy meaning that Li Wen had never seen in it before.
"Yes."
"Why not pretend to kill them by mistake...or let them run away?"
"You have to know..."
"Then it seems that the Aboleth is right. This universe has really been restarted?"
"have no idea……"
"Um?"
"I don't remember... Why do you think we were successfully resisted by the Gith in the first place? It wasn't because of how outstanding their talents were, or because they were resistant to our 'psionic control', it was simply because...
…We are declining irrepressibly. Our bodies are degenerating.
Transformation, our spiritual energy is weakening, and even the battleships and palaces we once had, we have gradually forgotten how to control and drive. Our strength and memory are declining, which is the reason for our rapid defeat. So...
…I really don’t remember anything about the past.”
"No impression at all?"
"Not at all."
"Do you know the reason?"
"Maybe we are rejected by this universe? After all, we are not the race it created. But what is the truth, I don't know."
"I heard you have a god?"
The rumors about illithids that he heard from the Dragon Queen jumped into Li Wen's mind.
"The gods did not create us, but we chose the gods. After choosing to believe in the gods that appear in our country, our power will no longer decline."
Then it can all be explained.
"Then again, the last question, why did you choose me?"
Judging from the main brain's current response, the other party is actually not afraid of him.
The previous rat-throwing weapon was not so much that Li Wen took the initiative to steal the other party's inner thoughts, but rather that the other party deliberately exposed his own weaknesses.
The mastermind's spiritual realm is so powerful that it can even cover hundreds of thousands of people on an entire battlefield. How could he not be able to read his own voice when he was still a weakling before?
Li Wen has been doubting this since he relied on the master brain's spiritual realm to end the war between Dressel State and the Golden Lion Kingdom.
"You are special."
The mastermind's voice was surprisingly calm.
"I don't know why, but my spirit can tell me... you are special."