Beneath the surface, there are thousands of meters of earth buried under countless soil and rocks.
Here, honeycomb-shaped simple caves are scattered throughout various dark and damp areas.
Their existence is like the nodes on a spider web, arching the huge city in the center.
Not only provide it with resources, but also provide it with defensive power!
If only with the help of that dim firelight.
You can also see tens of thousands of beings living in it, doing rigid and hard work like rotting corpses every day.
From time to time.
There will also be some slaves who die from overwork.
However, death cannot end their suffering...
After that.
Most of their body tissues will be eaten by other slaves.
But their most core part, those tender and energetic brains, are not delicacies that slaves can enjoy!
Those delicious foods, along with the heads of dead slaves, will be dedicated to the ruler here, the terrifying group called "Illithid".
It was a life form with a body similar to that of a human, with thick and powerful limbs, but a head like an octopus.
On a physiological level, they present an androgynous structure.
They usually feed on the brains of other creatures.
Except that.
For them, other flesh and blood tissues are just non-nutritious waste that cannot satisfy their hunger.
And they are born with powerful psychic abilities.
Not only can it control other living beings and make them do various things they don't want to do, it can also create deep illusions to confuse other living beings and make them fight each other without knowing it.
!
And when [Illithids] eat the brains of other creatures.
They can also absorb part of the other party's memory fragments just like reading a file.
Just have enough luck.
It is not difficult to directly master a skill that you don't know at all!
Allowing them to directly skip the slow learning process that originally took years or even decades to go through!
And such talented and favorable conditions.
In addition, the social structure similar to that of an ant colony and the memory sharing characteristics between [ilithids].
And, although the reproductive ability is not strong.
But they only need a few months of rapid growth from childhood to adulthood, and they have a long lifespan of hundreds of years...
With the combination of various factors, [Illithids], a powerful group full of predatory nature but uniquely endowed by nature, directly burst out with extremely strong potential and mobility!
When various ethnic groups are still in the ignorant and barbaric stage.
They have successfully mastered the strange magical technology tree that is quite impressive, a little different from common sense, and almost impossible to be learned and copied by foreign races!
Under that self-contained magic technology and strong individual strength, it can be said to be a two-pronged offensive.
Inside this world.
The tragic conditions encountered by those other races.
It's basically adults beating children.
That kind of scene can't even be called a battle.
It's like beating an egg against a rock.
The coalition forces composed of various races were crushed without any hindrance...
More than fifty percent of this [world] was easily conquered by hundreds of thousands of [illithids]...
To this day.
Those hundreds of large and small [Illithid Cities] have long spread all over the [World], and together they form a huge [Illithid Empire]!
By [The Illithid King].
Ruled by a powerful being that looks like a giant brain but is covered with thick tentacles!
His existence is completely the collective consciousness or central processor of the group of [Illithids].
Let this extremely powerful ethnic group be connected together and become a true whole, not a piece of scattered sand!
You can say it without any politeness.
Their strength and intelligence are absolutely superior to other races!
The dominance position is extremely stable.
From the beautiful and wide surface of the earth, to the dark and humid underground, to the endless ocean, their footprints are all there!
Look around.
There is no enemy at all!
even.
In this [world], the alien races that are still lingering in the areas that have not been conquered by the [Illithid Empire] are still able to barely maintain a state of resistance until now.
It's just because the [Illithid Empire] needs enough food.
in their eyes.
Those lawless places.
It's just a pasture for raising livestock...
They don't need to do it themselves.
You only need to rely on the slave troops under your control to flatten them without any hindrance!
The [Githyanki] named [Fredos Kalgara] was born in this environment.
Moreover, he is still the unlucky one among them.
He was born directly in a large underground city belonging to the [Illithid Empire].
Became one of its slaves.
In the past, his biggest dream was to escape from this hell-like place!
Or, settle for the next best thing.
Being able to die a good-looking death is actually not unacceptable...
As for the Githyanki, the origins and circumstances of this group need to be traced back to a certain period in the distant past.
They were also called the Gith.
They are born with some [psionic abilities] that are not as powerful as [Illithid], but cannot be called weak.
Therefore, in the early stages, their existence can barely be regarded as one of the main forces resisting the "Illithid Empire".
However, the [Magic Technology] accompanying the [Illithid Empire] was completely formed.
[Gith], this ethnic group.
In the end, he was crushed to pieces.
Almost everyone was beaten into slaves of the [Illithid]!
During that period.
Due to external situations, internal disputes, defeats in wars...
The entire [Gith] also ushered in a great decline and division.
They were completely split into the [Githyanki] and the [Githzerai], two completely different groups, one who likes to think, and the other who likes to fight.
at the moment.
Although he is a [Githyanki] who advocates violence, he looks at the healed gap in space around him and the two strange outsiders who have no trace of them anymore.
Also, the green scroll is still in place...
After hesitating for a long time.
[Fredos Calgra], after all, could not hold back the curiosity in his heart, and cautiously stretched out his hand...
Then, not long after.
As he opened the scroll, countless words that were extremely complex and difficult to understand, but full of inexplicable attraction, suddenly caught his eye...