Invincible Chapter 268
Kane admits that Dawn of the Gods is the most technical organization he has encountered so far.
Sutton's accomplishments and achievements in the field of strong gene fusion are beyond Kane's.
He suspected that Sutton was an expert in the fields of biology and genetics when he was still an Syrian.
Sutton basically played around with the incarnations of Shabu and Hastur, the two troubled secondary old gods of Graki and Eihuot, who also failed to escape his clutches, and then used their mixed genes in Sri Lanka. On the people of Cammouth.
This is not ordinary boldness. If you are not careful, you will make wedding dresses for others, build an army for the enemy, and even send your own intelligence.
But Sutton succeeded, at least for now, without a problem.
So when Kane manipulated Sisyphus to use the power of darkness to frighten a few ghost lynxes, the extraordinary characteristics he showed had a certain charm of Cthulhu.
The energy tentacles swaying like water plants revealed a strange, ominous, and spooky aura.
The ghost bobcats deeply felt the pressure and fear from the bottom of their hearts. This is the fear of divinity in life, even if there is only a trace, it is also compelling.
Well, the food can be distributed, and they must not be full, otherwise the ghost bobcat will not work hard anymore.
But if there is no such deterrence, it is easy to cause a fight if they are not fed. This is somewhat similar to the principle of "protecting food".
Druids can communicate with animals. Animals are willing in advance. As for language, only low-level Druids need to rely on language to communicate. The language used by animals is extremely crude. How can it be possible to communicate smoothly with language? Relying on 'understanding' is the most appropriate.
The thoughts of animals lack depth and breadth, and require special guidance and inquiry before they can barely recall some content and complete communication.
Kane can be considered a veteran in this regard. He was a Druid for a while in his previous life. Some skills are like learning to ride a bicycle. After learning, it is hard to forget. And he is a god now, so he doesn't need to be familiar with that.
After asking the ghost bobcats for directions, Kane left. He didn't let the ghost bobcats become temporary animal companions to help him explore the map. The purpose of this operation was not to control this area, but to find the way.
Hermione had heard about the location of the Dawn of the Gods lair and how to get there with a probability from him in the parallel world. Then relay it to him, he only has the key points of information,
For example, what is the representative scenery. The specifics have to be found slowly.
This process will not be too fast, after all, the lair of the Dawn of the Gods is very deep, and the Underdark is very vast.
A few hours later, when he came to a special area filled with colorful mist on the top, he encountered a magical creature with no words, the flame snake.
He is more used to calling them Flame Naga, because apart from the feature of flame, they are very similar to the Naga of World of Warcraft. Majestic, very magical features.
Of course, it's just the appearance, the two are fundamentally different, classified by species, the flame naga is considered an elemental creature, not an ordinary flesh and blood creature.
These gorgeous creatures who were still playing in the lava pool before, when they saw Sisyphus, immediately howled and rushed over, as if they had seen their father and enemy.
Druids seem to be at a disadvantage when it comes to burning elements, but the Druid combat class is already a panacea. After the master level, it is rich in means and has no obvious shortcomings. It's not scary either.
In addition, from the perspective of DND, Druids are very powerful among the various combat roles at this stage above level 15 and below 20. It can be said that the peak stage of Druids is this level. The means appear to be weak.
This is also a major reason why Kane unified his druids into dark druids. This combat role is too panacea, through trade-offs, to meet the needs.
For example, the healing ability of dark druids is almost banned, and in the sun will be quite limited or even weakened, but the combat effectiveness has been significantly improved.
Facing the flame naga rushing towards him, Kane controlled Sisyphus to transform into elements directly.
Fire and earth mixed with elemental lava, Sisyphus looks like a fire mouse standing upright and growing in size.
It first grasped the long pole of the flaming machete of a flaming naga, raised its foot to kick it away, and then used the handle of the knife to hold the slashing knife, moved its feet, swung the knife with both hands, and chopped off the head of the other flaming naga Down.
In the process, he failed to completely avoid the attack of the other flame naga and was stabbed, but the machete in his hand flicked backhand and disemboweled him.
In less than two minutes, the seven flame naga fell to the ground.
They are not dead at this time, if their limbs are pieced together, they can still be alive, if they are placed in lava, they can recover faster.
Naturally, Kane would not give them such an opportunity. He directly activated the techniques of elemental plundering and elemental essence plundering, and would only suck them up one by one.
These two skills all require the assistance of the power of darkness. They are cruel but practical. They are typical cannibalism.
After entering the lava pool and taking a hot bath, digesting the elements and elemental essence, Kane was not in a hurry to exit from the elemental transformation state.
This transformation can only be used once a day, and the duration of each time shall not exceed 2 hours, and he must make the best use of it.
In the next exploration, Kane manipulated Sisyphus to kill more than 40 flame naga.
This kind of creature seems to have a certain degree of intelligence, but it is not known whether the attribute of the fire element has affected their minds. They are very tyrannical and have no desire to communicate with other creatures. They dare to invade their territory, and the only result is life and death.
To put it bluntly, such two creatures were naturally eliminated on the surface long before the appearance of human beings. That is to say, the relatively closed underground world is special, so the flame naga have survived until now.
For Kane, the main thing is to find a way.
He knows the approximate location of the Lair of the Dawn of the Gods, but the underground is no better than the surface. If you want to go from A to B, the surface may be 1 kilometer straight, but it is normal to go around dozens of kilometers underground.
And this is already very face-saving, at least some people get around. It doesn't work at all, so what can you do?
For ordinary people, this road is already blocked, and only with the blessing of extraordinary power, the exploration of the lava lumen can be made like cave diving, can the road be feasible.
Two hours passed quickly, and for the last part of the journey, Kane found a cave to live in under the protection of energy.
This cave is basically an oven for ordinary people. It is not very big in total, there are no other passages, and there is only a lava pool to keep the entire cave warm.
Sisyphus can rely on the essence and elements of various fire elements collected during his previous transformation to make the high temperature here beneficial and harmless.
The desolate dead land that is boring and lacks miracles is the normal portrayal of the Underdark region. In comparison, the Underdark region of Faerun's world is too magical. Of course, this is also related to the world structure and the level of the magic tide.
After the cooldown of Elemental Transformation ends, Kane controls Sisyphus and goes on the journey again.
Cruising in the lava is dangerous and boring, surrounded by fiery red and sticky, sliding is very laborious, and there are also natural traps such as turbulence and mud swirls.
Because it has the characteristics of mudslides, it is more sticky, so once it gets in by mistake, it is extremely difficult to get rid of. If you follow the trend, you may be directly sucked into an area several thousand meters deep, which basically means death. After all, at that depth, it is more difficult to shelter in an ordinary place, and without the elemental affinity provided by elemental transformation, even Supported by a protective shield, his eyes are also darkened, so it is easy to miss life.
This is also an important reason why Kane did not completely hand over the exploration work to the dark druids transformed by Abathur. They are unable to take risks, and the exploration method is too slow.
In fact, the reason is that Dawn of the Gods has a high level of skill.
The Iron-Blooded Swarm cannot be crushed by technology, so many things have to be done honestly. Like looking for a lair, Dawn of the Gods has a teleportation circle, but Kane dare not use it, first of all, he will scare the snake, and second, there may be traps inside.
The 14-hour exploration time is not too long, but adding the two-hour limit for elemental transformation means that Kane controlled Sisyphus and stayed in the lava area for a whole week.
If there is any harvest this week, it is to fatten Sisyphus.
Even putting aside all the advantages brought by the godhead, Kane can be called a super all-rounder who is knowledgeable and able to understand by analogy in terms of technology alone.
Based on the reality, he planned a way for Sisyphus to quickly improve his strength.
By now, Sisyphus has successfully worked part-time as an elemental ascendant.
It is an advanced profession of shaman, and it needs a level 10 shaman foundation to be promoted.
So even though the Elemental Ascendant is only level 3, the total occupational level has already crossed the threshold of level 30 (advanced occupational level is of high value), and many well-known demigods and electors in the world of Toril are not at this level. This is the miracle brought about by cannibalism + technology.
The biggest flaw of this miracle is that it has not cultivated a soul that matches this body. And even if it is a strong foreign soul, it will be very difficult to complete the fusion of soul and body, and most of it will rot in Kane's hands, playing as an alternative avatar or a big toy.
This is also one of the fundamental reasons why souls in the Transcendent Domain are expensive.
Although the body is good, ordinary extraordinary people can't control it, and those who can control it, even if they need it, often prefer to spend more effort to create something more suitable for them, rather than rashly accepting ready-made ones.
He achieved the part-time job of an element ascendant, which to a considerable extent solved the problem of inconvenient exploration in the lava area. On the eighth day, after 10 hours of non-continuous exploration, Sisyphus finally got rid of the pain of diving in the lava and regained his footing on the ground.
The uncanny workmanship of nature is always beyond people's imagination. Like the area in front of us, because there is an air duct connected to the dormant volcano, there is actually such a volcanic rock cave area more than 100 kilometers underground.
It's like an anchored giant submarine, with oceans of lava in all directions. Inside, it seems to be a soft clay floor. In many places, lava has accumulated in pools like puddles, and due to the high temperature inside the cave, it has always maintained a bright color.
It looks beautiful, but in fact it is cruel. Ordinary people come here, and they are turned into jerky every minute, even if they want to be beggars.
Kane was very satisfied with finding such a natural lava submarine.
He quickly opened the space door inside, and then the engineering team from Menzoberranzan arrived.
The engineering team will build this place into a giant lava ship powered by geothermal heat and pressure-forged hull. The specific plans are basically ready-made. Now that Menzoberranzan City already has construction capabilities, it is not too difficult.
Sisyphus did not stay, and continued to explore and find his way along the wind channel.
This exploration is mainly to climb up, and sometimes you have to transform into a small animal to pass through those flat but wide enough cracks.
During the three-day "rat road trip", apart from obtaining some unique underground plant-like magical creatures, there was nothing to mention in other aspects. It can be said that there is no road at all. In many cases, it is not only necessary to drill gaps, but also to dig holes to move forward.
At this stage, the value of druids is fully brought into play. Animagus transforms, and has corresponding deformation restrictions. Masters can transform at will, but they can't get rid of the embarrassment of appearance.
Although the druid's transformation has limitations, it can not only have the ability of this type of animal after transformation, but also go up to the next level, with the characteristics of magical creatures (generally speaking, whether it is self-transformation or animal companions, Neither can target magical creatures).
Moreover, only when the laws of the world endorse the druid (nature believer) combat role, can the druid better break through the restrictions of body shape and physique, and arbitrarily become an animal that is much smaller or larger than the main body.
The straight-line distance between Menzoberranzan City and the lair of the Dawn of the Gods is not too far, but Kane finally found the door after walking through the long march of thousands of mountains and rivers.
Kane pondered, with my hard work and caution, this raid should be a big victory, right? As a result, he meets unexpected people in Sutton's villainous lair.