Chapter 1272 Stone Blind Barbarians

The dark sound blind monster is not stupid. After a brief moment of astonishment, he realized that the source of preventing him from roaring was behind him.

However, it has a long neck, a big head, and short forelimbs like a carnivorous dinosaur. It can't reach the tiny blood mosquito attached to its back, so it can only be forced to shut up, and can't think of any way to get rid of the "silent barrier" covering itself. .

Losing its ability to hear and speak, the dark sound deaf monster lost the way to perceive the outside world, turned around in a hurry, and staggered towards the direction of the "Palace of Silence" completely based on memory, as if to ask for help.

Joan waved his hand to prevent Ruby from chasing the dark sound blind monster, recalled the blood mosquito agent, and waited at the same place.

As expected, after a short while, the dark sound blind monster turned back, followed by a group of murderous strong men.

These guys looked like humans at first glance, but when they got close, Joan took a closer look and immediately found that there were significant differences between them and the humans on the surface world.

Their gray complexion almost blended with the dark environment of the underground world. They were cold and dull, wearing poorly made leather armor, all with disheveled hair, and holding rough stone axes polished by obsidian in their hands.

The contours of their faces are similar to those of humans, except that the place where the eyes should have grown has degenerated into two groups of smooth muscles with lighter skin. Although the faces are not ugly, they are very uncoordinated due to the lack of visual organs.

Seeing the weird looks of this group of people, Joan compared the illustrations in "Vares Monster Illustrated Book", and it was not difficult to guess that the other party were all "stone-blind barbarians".

It is said that the stone-blind barbarians were originally humanoid creatures living in the surface world. There are records that they are the ancestors of humans, but there are also studies that show that the blood of the stone-blind barbarians is closer to the half-orcs, the hybrids of humans and orcs.

Logically speaking, the stone-blind barbarians living in the Underdark should also be classified as humanoid creatures, just like "dark elves" belong to a branch of elves.

However, it is not.

Except for the degradation of vision, the stone-blind barbarians are like a humanoid group with a relatively backward civilization in terms of body shape, appearance and living habits. The Asian relationship is closer and belongs to the "humanoid monster".

The stone-blind barbarians have neither the innate ability to cast spells nor any supernatural ability. Their ancestors are ordinary humanoid creatures. The reason for the subsequent gene mutation is entirely the result of external interference—to be exact, the seizure The sins of the demons.

There were no stone-blind barbarians in the world until one day, a group of mind flayers decided to kidnap a group of strong humanoid creatures from the surface world to serve as slaves.

In order to make these slaves work hard willingly, the mind flayers used scientific methods to perform craniotomy on the slaves, and forcibly implanted orders to sacrifice their lives to serve their masters.

Just being spiritually loyal is not enough. These people from the surface world have lived in the warm sunshine for the first half of their lives, and couldn't adapt to the harsh environment of the Underdark. They soon began to get sick and died in batches.

The mind flayers don't want to waste their property in vain, not to mention that they have already carried out brain modification on the slaves. If all of them die of illness, wouldn't the previous efforts be wasted?

In order to allow these slaves to adapt to the dark region as soon as possible, the mind flayers modified their physiological functions, so that these people who were born in the sun became as adaptable to the lightless environment as the aborigines in the underground world.

If you want to live in the dark area, a pair of eyes with night vision is very necessary.

The slaves from the surface world had poor night vision. The mind flayer master was very dissatisfied with this, and decided to upgrade their eyes and use surgery to forcibly endow them with "dark vision".

"Body modification" is certainly the traditional art skill that mind flayers are best at, but occasionally they miss it.

Regrettably, the eyeball modification of the surface slaves ended in a disastrous failure.

Instead of getting "dark vision" as expected by the mind flayer master, these slaves all became blind.

The mind flayers were... ok with it, slaves were nothing more than toys for their fun anyway.

Slaves who have become blind can still be used as waste. Anyway, they have been broken. You might as well use them to try more interesting and dangerous experiments, such as transforming the "blindsight" ability.

Most of the slaves died tragically under the whimsical torture of the mind flayer master. Fortunately or unfortunately, there are still a few slaves who survived and really gained the ability of blindsight.

The mind flayers kept these successful samples in captivity, and continued to perfect the transformation of their visual organs until they ensured that the blindness acquired after the operation could be passed on to their offspring.

Of course, not all offspring are initially blind with the ability to "blindsight," and most newborns are still sighted and normal.

For mind flayers, babies with sound eyesight are useless waste products. They can either be used as samples for human experiments, or they can be used as desserts to extract brains...

After several generations of selection, the "blindness" and "blindness" of the slaves gradually became stable genetic innate characteristics, and a race was born from this, that is, the "stone-blind barbarians".

The ancestors of the stone-blind barbarians were brutally poisoned by mind flayers both mentally and physically, and were transformed into a mess. They can no longer be called "human beings", and they still retain a large part of their cultural traditions when they were human. Scholars We can only classify it into the category of "humanoid monster".

To this day, most of the stoneblind barbarians in the Underdark still live in the shadow of the mind flayers, playing the role of slaves and experimental subjects.

Fortunately, the "toys" of the mind flayers are far more than stoneblind barbarians, and they have long lost interest in stoneblind barbarians, so there will be some more fortunate stoneblind barbarians, or the master died of accidents, or out of some Due to this accidental factor, he got rid of the slavery of the mind flayer, fled to settle in a place far away from the sphere of influence of the former slave owners, and lived a free life.

The enslavement and oppression suffered since ancient times has distorted the souls of the stone blind barbarians.

These humanoid monsters, whether they have been freed or not, mostly show a gloomy and cruel temperament, a bit like the "orcs" of the surface world.

The Compilers of the Varys Monster Manual classify the stoneblind barbarians as evil, and incidentally point out that certain stoneblind barbarian tribes learned from their mind flayer masters the evil of "raw eating human brains". hobby……

Qiao An sincerely hoped that the group of stone-blind barbarian brothers who appeared in front of him at this moment would not have an unrealistic appetite for his head with an intelligence attribute of 33.