Chapter 2505 Mysterious Cave

The hole leading to the beholder's lair is blocked by a large "air spore eye", which will self-explode when approached, emitting deadly spores.

Joan can use the "Robe of the Styx" to become an incorporeal ghost form, and pass through the blockade of the "Eye of Air Spores" without triggering self-destruction, but he still doesn't know anything about the situation in the nest, and he doesn't want to rush into it. Breaking in, and leaving this clump of dangerous fungi is a hidden danger after all, it's better to destroy them completely and leave a smooth escape route for yourself.

If you encounter the "Eye of Air Spores" in the open air, it is not difficult to deal with it. You can directly use "Fireball" to detonate all the "Eye of Air Spores", and then use a "Create Wind" Just blow off the tiny spores flying all over the sky.

However, in an underground closed environment, this simple and crude approach will not work. Once the "eye of gas spores" is detonated, a large number of spores will flood the cave, and the consequences are more terrible than the gas explosion in the mine.

Although the "Eye of Airspore" looks ugly, it is not an evil fungus. The positive energy stimulated by the "Branch of Irminsur" cannot kill them. Fungal necromancy.

Opening the spellcasting material package, Joan took out a small piece of black agate, wrapped it in a sponge, held it in his hand, and began to cast spells.

"Vanwa!"

Chanting the spell symbolizing "Wither and Decline" in a low voice, Joan pointed his left hand to the area where the "Eye of Air Spores" were overgrown.

The cold and dark negative energy flows out through the magic net, silently submerging all the "eyes of gas spores", frantically squeezing the vitality of these supernatural fungi, making them dry and dehydrated.

Even if the double damage to fungi is not considered, the basic damage of the 8-level "Death Technique" up to 20 energy levels is enough to kill any "Eye of Air Spores" in seconds, and there is another advantage of negative energy magic, it will not be as strong as the wind. Elemental magic such as fire, thunder, and lightning can cause violent airflow fluctuations, and of course it will not explode the "eye of air spores".

The "eyes of air spores" near the cave were all eroded by negative energy, like deflated balls, shriveled and withered one after another, and the spores that had lost their vitality were also scattered in the soil, turning into dust.

Cleared of these dangerous obstacles, the cave entrance became flat and open.

Joan took out another piece of black agate from the spell-casting material bag, and considered whether to bless this gemstone with "Soul Binding" and "Resonance", so as to lure the beholder hidden deep in the lair to come out and die.

If the beholder couldn't resist the temptation of the "resonance technique", left the lair voluntarily, and couldn't help but touch the black agate that was used as a bait, the soul would be sucked into the black agate and sealed, leaving a intact corpse for Joan Anatomical studies.

This plan to lure the enemy out of the cave seems to be very good at first glance, but after deep thinking, Joan found two hidden dangers.

First of all, he still doesn't know how many beholders there are in the depths of the cave. If more than ten beholders rush out at once, it will be troublesome.

What's more, the "anti-magic cone" released by the main eye of the beholder can suppress all magical and supernatural effects, and the range is as far as 150 feet. As long as you stare at the black agate from a distance, the bait you set up with all your heart will be scrapped on the spot. Isn't it a waste of time a game?

In fact, with the persecuted delusions of the beholders being suspicious by nature, it is not normal to not take a photo with the "anti-magic cone" when seeing suspicious objects.

Considering these variables, Joan had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​luring the enemy out of the cave, and instead used the "advanced peeping magic eye" to transform 38 glass beads into detectors with "true seeing" and fly into the cave to explore the way first. .

Joan continued to cast spells, using a piece of crystal wrapped in gum as the material to create a "smart magic ball" around his body, and controlled the transparent ball with his mind to float up with his body, following the path explored by the glass magic eye. The road flew deep into the cave.

Benefiting from the "High-level Strange Eye Seal", Joan's left eye and the strange eye on the back of the neck have obtained a supernatural vision similar to "True Sight". Without the need for light sources, the sight can penetrate the darkness and see clearly the scene in the tunnel .

There is more than one tunnel leading to the depths of the cave. After only five minutes of exploration, Joan encountered no less than two-digit forks on the way. The degree of complexity is comparable to the maze built by the tauren. A glass magic eye is arranged for each fork. Exploration, if this momentum continues, 38 magic eyes may not be enough.

Joan kept switching perspectives between the glass eyes, and soon noticed an interesting sign.

Tunnels in caves can be divided into two types according to the excavation method.

The walls of most of these tunnels show irregular scratches that look like the work of the knell beetles.

There are also a few tunnels dug in hard rock formations, the inner rock walls are very smooth, and the cross-sections are all regular circles with a radius of 10 feet, just like those drawn with a compass!

This is typical of beholder dwellings.

Including the death knell beetle, most burrowing subterranean creatures always tend to bypass hard rock formations and look for softer soil layers to dig tunnels out of labor-saving considerations.

But beholders don't need to detour.

As we all know, a pure-blooded beholder must have eleven eyes, except for the "main eye" located in the center of the body, the other ten smaller eyeballs grow at the end of the tentacle-like eye stalk.

In addition to serving as visual organs, these ten eye stalks can also emit unique magic rays, one of which is the "dissociation technique".

Beholders are good at using "dissociation rays" to dig tunnels. Regardless of soft soil or hard rock formations, a dissociation ray will instantly open a regular cylindrical cavity 30 feet long and 10 feet in radius. A large amount of dissociated soil and sand are automatically decomposed into particles invisible to the naked eye, which can be called the most convenient and efficient method of digging holes in the world.

It is precisely because of this supernatural talent that can release "dissociation rays" at will, beholders will always dig criss-cross tunnels in their lair like a maze, outsiders will go astray if they are a little careless, bad luck It is also possible to step on a trap.

Joan has encountered several traps along the way.

For example, at this moment, not far in front of him, the seemingly smooth and flat ground is actually only a layer of rock as thin as potato chips. eye".

A well-armed explorer stepped on the trap suddenly, and immediately stepped on the ground, fell into the pit, and exploded the "air spore eye".

Beholders love to set this kind of "pressure-triggered" traps in their lairs, because they have the supernatural ability to float and drift, and can easily float over the pits. In the tunnel, it is inconvenient to fly even if you have wings, and you have to go through the traps everywhere.

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