Chapter 684

Name:Warhammer Wizard Author:Emperor
About half a mile to the left, the chasm was wider there.

After careful observation, Raistlin discovered that there was actually not one rift, but two rifts. They intersected each other to form an irregular "X" terrain. It was only because his position was blocked that he could not see the whole picture.

At the junction of the two rift valleys is a large lava lake.

A huge black rock stands in the middle of the lava lake, like a steep mountain, the highest point is close to the gap above the rift, and one side is blocked by a large waterfall, like an island in the lake.

There are several stone bridges at the waist of the boulders of the mountain, spanning the lava lake hundreds of meters wide, connecting the surrounding cliffs, and it is like walking on the clouds under the background of fog.

At this moment, a spirit sucker was flying over the stone bridge and entering the mountain peak.

Raistlin's eyes followed it, and the all-seeing eye saw through the rock, and found that a huge space had been dug out, divided into dozens of layers.

The highest floor is located on the top of the mountain, built into a dark palace, blocked by invisible magic power, and even the all-seeing eye cannot see through it. The architectural style of the exterior of the palace is unique. The walls are carved with countless murals in the shape of illithids, tentacles, and tadpoles.

The vastness of this spiritual energy has reached the point where it can be seen with the naked eye.

It is like a layer of glowing blue-purple light, which has the effect of taking the soul away, and it is also like a living thing. If you look at it a few times, you will have hallucinations.

This is the purest power of the mind!

The palace above the mountain is like a tower, and the spiritual power emanating from it envelopes the entire city. Many caves, stone bridges and tunnels on the cliffs are also equipped with corresponding rune circles and magic traps. Within the field of vision, a strange light was revealed everywhere in the city, as if entering a distorted world in a nightmare.

Raistlin was secretly startled, and looked away.

If an outsider breaks into the city and cannot resist the erosion of this kind of spiritual power, he will soon fall into hallucinations and eventually become a slave of the illithid.

At the same time, triggering these magical traps will also alarm the mastermind.

Although he couldn't see what was going on inside the palace, Raistlin was sure that the mastermind of the illithid must be inside!

At this time, Kui Lu sent a message and said, "Come with me."

Everyone followed her invisible force field and entered an uninhabited cave not far away. Inside lay the skeletons of several gray dwarves, which seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.

Raistlin carefully inspected the cave, making sure there were no traps.

In fact, the tunnel entrance that everyone came in is located on the edge of the city, far away from the core area, and relatively safe.

Kuilu looked at Raistlin, "What do you think?"

"I agree with Izzet's guess. Elaento probably has a holy rank powerhouse." Raistlin glanced at Izzet and replied, "But I still want to give it a try."

That palace is equivalent to the mage's tower. Judging from the strength of the spiritual power it emits, it is far beyond the legendary high-level, and there is a probability of more than 99% that it has a holy-level spirit sucker.

According to the Book of Strangeness, illithid society is divided into four classes.

The highest is the Mastermind, which controls everything in the entire community, and other illithids are just extensions of its will; followed by super illithids, also known as elders of illithids, these powerful psions have six tentacles, which are stronger than ordinary There are two more illithids, and they form the council of elders who manage the city on a daily basis.

Then there are common illithids, citizens of cities.

At the bottom is the huge number of slaves.

Slaves are also divided into two levels, one is armed guards, with weapons and armor, well-equipped, forming an extraordinary army, their leaders can follow the illithids and become guards or servants; the other is labor Slaves, who do all the dirty work and are food for illithids.

Illithids must eat the brain of at least one sentient being every month, otherwise they will become malnourished, become weak, and even starve to death.

Therefore, illithids will maintain the number of slaves and force them to mate and reproduce in order to obtain sufficient labor and food sources.

Slaves, slave armies, and ordinary illithids are nothing to fear.

The main brain controls all illithids, but they are not particularly powerful. As long as they can enter the brain pool where it is located, it is not difficult to kill them.

The real danger comes from those illithid elders!

There are not many super spirit suckers with six tentacles, at least they are legendary mid-level monsters, most of them are legendary high-level monsters.

The author of the Book of Oddities speculates that a small number of illithid elders who resist the will of the mastermind may leave the city with a group of illithids, devour enough brains to transform themselves into new masterminds, and establish a brand new illithid society group.

But most elders of illithids are completely controlled by the mastermind, and they are willing to serve the mastermind.

The larger the scale and the larger the population of the illithid community, the higher the probability of birthing a holy rank powerhouse, and this is the case with Elaine.

But there is one thing, holy-rank spirit suckers are unique.

The possibility of two holy-level spirit suckers being born in a city is extremely low. Firstly, there is insufficient resources, and secondly, the mastermind will not allow situations beyond its control to happen.

Kui Lu thought about it, "You can try, but you only have one chance."

What she meant was that once the battle started and the mastermind was alarmed, it would pass the situation to all the illithids and protect the palace heavily. Especially the holy-rank spirit sucker who didn't know where he was. The mastermind sensed Raistlin's purpose and would never let the holy-rank strongman leave his side.

"One time is enough."

Raistlin nodded calmly, "I will be in charge of luring the holy-rank spirit absorber out of Elaento. After it leaves, I will open a portal and directly enter the palace where the mastermind is. Ms. Kuilu, you will lead everyone Enter the palace and kill the Mastermind."

This method of diverting the tiger away from the mountain is very simple, but it is also very effective.

Illithids are almost certain to hit without knowing the enemy's target.

"good."

Kui Lu readily agreed.

She is very confident in her own strength, and she is not afraid to fight a holy-rank spirit sucker, but it is better to avoid a frontal battle, minimizing the risk.

Raistlin looked at his teammates, "Everyone, check your Mind Orb."

Illithids are born psychics, mastering a large number of psychic spells. The most important thing to fight against them is to protect the mind. Previously, the team hunted and killed the Balrog. In order to avoid being controlled by the Balrog's mind, Izzet prepared a top-grade Soul Orb for everyone, and now it works again.

The ultimate spiritual orb can resist a spiritual spell with a nine-ring ring once a day, or three spiritual attacks with a seven-ring ring or below.

After the battle starts, Daensos will bless everyone with the magical spell of "Spiritual Protection", increasing the number of resistances by two times.

"I don't need it."

Kui Lu smiled softly, the archmage has better protection spells.

Raistlin took out five blue gemstones from the Nebula ring and handed them to his teammates, including Kuilu.

She took a look at it, and said in surprise, "The leap gem?"

"Yes." Raistlin nodded and replied, "Take it with you. If something goes wrong, crush the gem and teleport it to my mirror image and leave Elaento. My mirror image will keep track of the situation outside the city and help everyone Get out of danger."

The value of the jump gems is high, and each one costs tens of thousands of gold shields.

There are many ways to use it. You can inject soul power in advance to form a teleportation rune, crush the gemstones and teleport there. Ren used this method to enter Anser's mausoleum, bypassing the space isolation.

It can also be used in reverse, using the gem as a coordinate to teleport the wearer to a designated location.

The space in the Underdark is unstable, and long-distance teleportation is impossible. The effective range of the leap gem has also been reduced a lot, but it is still no problem to teleport out of Elaine Tor.

After using it last time, Renn deliberately collected more than a dozen leap gems, which finally came in handy.

The teammates feel at ease when they get the jump gem.

"Ms. Kuilu, please cover up my fluctuating spellcasting." Raistlin held the staff, and after Kuilu did as she said, he began to activate the true mirror image on the "Endless Storm Staff".

This ten-ring spell can only be cast once every seven days, and it takes one minute to cast the spell, which consumes the mana equivalent to three nine-ring spells.

Kui Lu saw that he had been casting a spell for half a minute, and the huge magic fluctuations hadn't subsided, so she was taken aback immediately, and lost her voice:

"Ten-ring spell!"

She is a level 25 archmage, and currently she has mastered several nine-ring spells. She can only start studying ten-ring spells at level 30, which is still far away.

And Raistlin is just the pinnacle of legend...

Kuilu stared closely at Raistlin, her purple eyes fell on the staff in his hand, and she realized in her heart that this ten-ring spell was attached to the legendary staff. Finally, a minute later, Raistlin finished casting, and an identical Raistlin appeared.

"True mirror image technique!"

Kui Lu saw it at a glance, then guessed the origin of the staff, and exclaimed: "It turned out to be 'Magic Storm, Endless Spellcaster'! You have obtained Endless Storm, this is the staff that many spellcasters dream of owning." , where did you get it?"

The eyes of the female drow flashed, and her beautiful face was full of envy.

She also has a legendary magic item, which is the "Silver Moon Robe" she wears. It has many powers, but it is mainly used for protection. No matter it is fame or power, it is far inferior to Endless Storm.

"I paid a huge price for it, ma'am." Raistlin expressed his meaning cryptically.

Kui Lu immediately understood, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I won't steal your magic staff."

The true mirror image lasts for one hour.

Not wanting to waste time, Raistlin made the real mirror nod to the crowd, and the Inspired Prism Cloak disappeared.

The true mirror image returns the same way in invisibility.

He kept flashing, and it took only two minutes to return to the gray dwarf mine several miles away from Elaineto. The illithid was still overseeing the workers in the mine. Unleash scrying spells everywhere.

Raistlin's true mirror image quietly lifted the rainbow cloak, and instantly replaced it with five-ring invisibility.

Then, he stood in a corner of the mine and glanced at the illithid.

The illithid suddenly turned around.

With a mental leap, it narrowed the distance to the real mirror image, and raised its hand without hesitation to instantly cast a spell.

Psionic Shockwave!

Snapped!

A burst of invisible spiritual power spread out like lightning, covering a fan-shaped area tens of meters long with dual attacks of spirit and substance.

The real mirror figure was exposed.

The illithid's four tentacles twitched in unison, its gray pupils were filled with spiritual light, and it was quite excited, as if it had won a game of patience and finally tracked down its prey.

Its reaction was extremely fast, and it mentally locked on Raistlin's real mirror image with a little fingertip.

Mind blast!

This is the ultimate move that the Illithids are best at. Almost all Illithids have devoted a lot of time and energy to mastering it proficiently. Mind Blast is a five-ring spell, which produces a strong mental shock in an instant and penetrates directly into the soul of the enemy. If the mind protection is not enough, the head will even be blown off.

It is the first level of legend, and it has raised the mind blast to the sixth ring. Even in Elaineto, it is one of the most proficient mind blast monsters.

But in the next moment, its eyes froze.

The Mind Blast hit the human on the opposite side, but it was like a breeze, without any effect. The imaginary result of the head burst did not appear, and even failed to interrupt the opponent's spellcasting.

A dark green ray responded to the mind blast.

Dissociation!

A transparent psionic shield emerged from the illithid's body. At the same time, it waved and summoned a smooth mirror in front of its body, bouncing off the dissociation rays.

The illithid behind the mirror disappeared.

It realized the strength of this human spellcaster, far surpassing itself, and immediately decided to escape. It uses teleportation to teleport to the other side of the mine, but when it completes the jump, it finds that the enemy is gone too.

Before it could find the enemy, it sensed a magical wave from above its head.

The illithid has a global vision, and can see the situation from all angles without turning the head. A huge fist is condensed and slapped down.

Bigby grabs the palm!

In the midst of danger, the illithid remained calm and cast its second-best spell as quickly as possible, summoning the star guards.

This spell cannot be cast instantly like Mind Blast, but it only takes half a breath to complete. Star Guardian is a powerful monster summoned from the star world. Its tall body is extremely tough and powerful, comparable to a storm. Giant, enough to block the giant palm above his head.

However, its spell was interrupted.

A sense of time and space disorder made the summoning of the star guard fail, and the mind jump was too late.

In the astonished eyes of the illithid, the giant palm came down.

With a bang, the entire mine trembled, and the illithid fell to the ground and fell into a stone pit. The giant palm grabbed the dizzy Illithid in the palm of his hand, exerted all his strength, and instantly crushed its psychic shield.

Snapped!

A ball of flesh and blood flowed out between the fingers of the giant palm.

Only then did the duergar slaves in the mine realize what had happened. Seeing the mirror image of Raistlin appearing, they screamed in terror, dropped their mining hoes and fled in all directions.

The true mirror did not hunt down the duergar, letting them escape.

He pretended not to know that the illithid had passed everything he had experienced before his death to the mastermind, and searched the corpse.

In the city of Elaento, almost at the same time that the real mirror image was discovered by the spirit sucker, the palace let out waves of spiritual screams. On the upper floor of the city's rift valley, a dozen or so illithid figures appeared, flashing rapidly in mid-air, mind-jumping into the tunnel again and again, and hurried towards the mine.

Raistlin and his teammates hid in the cave, secretly observing the movement of the city.

"They have passed." Kui Lu whispered.

"hold on."

Raistlin shook his head slowly, he didn't sense the breath of the holy illithid.

Among the dozen or so illithids who rushed to the mine, there were two elders, both of the legendary high rank, but they were far from the holy rank.

With the strength shown by the real mirror image, the mastermind will not immediately send out holy rank powerhouses.

A few minutes later.

The first illithid rushed to the mine, saw the real mirror image from a distance, and immediately cast a spell to attack.

It's just a high-ranking psion, and it arrived the fastest because it was close. Raistlin's true mirror image let it unleash a mind blast on itself, shooting a few spears of light at random, blasting the shield within a second, Blow up its body into minced meat.

The scene of killing a high-level illithid with a real mirror image was seen by several illithids who came behind.

Immediately, they spread out to besiege the enemy.

The real mirror image frowned, as if it didn't expect so many illithids to come, but it was unafraid, and summoned twelve mirror images to start the battle.

The mine is full of spells, and the light of psionic, arcane and fire blooms.

Explode, cut, bind, counter!

Various spell effects filled this space, and the mine shook violently, showing signs of collapse.

After this spell battle started, the illithids realized that something was wrong. The human wizard seemed to be immune to mind spells, and the various mental attacks they released had no effect at all. His mirror image is also very unique, each mirror image has self-awareness, and its strength is not much worse than that of the main body.

Fifteen spirit suckers faced twelve mirror images, and there were three more, but they were powerless to fight back.

Less than half a minute.

Most of the illithids died, only two elders of the illithids and three legendary mid-levels were left alive, but none of the mirror images were reduced.

Surrounded by twelve mirror images, they struggled to hold on, and they were about to be annihilated.

All this information is passed to the main brain.

Of course, Raistlin's body also knew the battle situation like the back of its hand.

In the city of Elaine, a terrifying and tyrannical aura suddenly appeared, covering the entire rift valley, and the tens of thousands of slaves in the city were all lying on the ground, trembling.

"Holy spirit sucker!"

Raistlin, Kuilu and their teammates hiding in the cave looked dignified, but also somewhat happy.

The dispatch of the holy spirit suckers also means that the opportunity has come.

The real mirror image in the mine immediately broke away from the battle and fled with six mirror images. The remaining six mirror images continued to attack the three legendary illithids who were still alive. After leaving the mine, the six mirror images scattered and fled, choosing different directions and leaving waves along the way.

The real mirror image didn't escape too far, restrained its breath, and hid itself in a cave with a cloak of rainbow light.

Not long after they left, the holy illithids arrived.

The six mirror images left in the mine saw a terrifying illithid. It was taller than the elder of the illithid, and its emaciated body exuded vast spiritual energy, which almost condensed into a substance that was suffocating.

The battle in the mine has begun.

The six mirror images had almost no resistance against the holy-rank spirit suckers. The will of truth only made the mirror images last longer, and one mirror image was killed within a few seconds.

Taking advantage of the mirror image to drag the holy spirit sucker, Raistlin nodded slightly towards the crowd, first summoned twelve mirror images, and then began to cast spells.

A few seconds later, a portal appeared in front of him.

The opposite of the portal was the palace. Kuilu passed through it for the first time. His teammates went in without hesitation, and Raistlin's twelve mirror images followed quickly.

The palace is extremely empty, with thousands of square meters.

The surrounding light was dim and the air was humid, like a beast's lair, and Raistlin could vaguely smell the smell of sea water. The voice of all things did not hear a sound, the palace was dead silent, and the only building was the huge pool in the middle of the ground.

The diameter of the circular pool is more than fifty meters, and it is filled with liquid, like a small lake.

The lake was deep and glowed brightly with a blue-purple color.

brain pool!

Raistlin cheered up. According to the book of strangeness, the mastermind of the illithid must be immersed in the brain pool to survive.

Kui Lu held the silver sword and flashed to the edge of the brain pool.

Teammates surrounded the past one after another.

Raistlin also flashed to the edge of the pool for the first time, and when he looked down, he was stunned. He thought of many possibilities, such as the main brain being very powerful, or there were many illithid guards around the brain pool, and a protective circle was arranged, etc., but he never thought of this situation.

The brain pool is empty, there is nothing!

Even as mentioned in the Book of Strangeness, there are hundreds of tadpole-like offspring of illithids cultivated in the brain pool, but there is not even a single one.

Raistlin's eyes were filled with astonishment, thinking that he was wrong.

However, with the all-seeing eye and the eye of the soul plus the will of truth and the key to the door, there is almost nothing that can hide or disguise in front of his eyes. He looked at the moon dancer and found that the archmage also looked astonished, obviously , she also did not find the mastermind.

"Where's the mastermind?" Izzet asked in surprise.

The teammates also searched everywhere, using various means to search in the palace, but found nothing.

Raistlin and the twelve mirror images searched the palace, but found nothing.

He sensed that in the mine, four of the six mirror images had been wiped out, and only two were still stalling for time, but the strange thing was that the holy-level spirit sucker didn't seem to be summoned by the mastermind, and it was still taking it easy Fight the mirror image.

wrong!

Raistlin suddenly realized that the holy spirit sucker might not be ignorant of someone invading the palace, but that it knew the situation in the palace very well, so it was not in a hurry to come back to rescue it.

It is impossible for Elaine to not have a mastermind, otherwise the illithids in the city would have disintegrated long ago.

The main brain cannot leave the brain pool easily, and its range of activities is very limited.

It must be in this palace!

But why can't I see it? The spirit sucker mastermind did not attack himself or his teammates...

Suddenly, Raistlin's heart shook violently, and his pupils shrank sharply.

He has experienced this kind of situation before, but it was not Raistlin, but Ren experienced it. In that small plane with no name, it was the most terrifying battle he had ever encountered in his life. It was like a nightmare, and he would never forget it in his life. .

Time jump!

Mastermind entered the time jump!

A terrible name came to Raistlin's mind, and it made his soul tremble. Even if it wasn't the person he thought of, it was definitely not a match.

"escape!"

Raistlin yelled, "Crush the Jump Jump..."

Before he finished shouting, a figure appeared on the water in the brain pool, and before everyone could see the other person's appearance clearly, the moment the other person appeared, time in the palace stopped.