Chapter 2506 Mysterious Cave (Ⅱ)

Joan doesn't need to worry about the dense traps in the tunnel.

Regardless of whether there are people living inside the sphere, the total weight of the "Smart Ball" will always be close to zero.

Joan uses mental power to remotely control the "smart ball" surrounding him, which can float and drift like a beholder without triggering the trap below.

Floating along this tunnel to the end, a stone wall stands in front of it, and there is a shaft extending vertically downwards in front of the stone wall.

This is again typical of a beholder lair.

Flying creatures in the surface world, including flying magic, mostly fly like birds. When they come to the underground world with a more complex and cramped environment, their flying ability will be severely limited.

For example, the bottomless shaft ahead is a problem for most creatures that rely on wings to fly. Unless they are as flexible as bees, vertical take-off and landing in the shaft will inevitably bump into walls frequently, and their heads will be broken. Sliding down the rope.

Beholders fly differently from birds, and vertical take-off and landing is exactly what they are good at. The eye stalks that can be twisted in any direction are also very suitable for hunting enemies in shafts, so there are always many such in the beholder's lair. structure.

Joan remotely controlled a glass magic eye and lowered it to the bottom of the shaft, found a cave, and continued to explore through the cave. In front of him was a relatively open hall, and there were squeaking insects in the darkness.

Looking around, I saw a group of large beetles with trumpet-shaped horny organs on their heads patrolling.

Joan controlled the glass magic eye, carefully avoiding the group of death knell beetles, lest the magic eye be shattered by the supernatural sound waves they emitted.

Among the ten magic rays that beholders are good at, there is one called "charm ray", which is equivalent to the fourth-level spell "charm monster".

These simple-minded big beetles have obviously been charmed by the beholder and become her servants.

Joan didn't want to disturb the beetles guarding the gate, so he escaped into the spirit world with the "spiritual magic ball", slipped past under the eyes of the death knell beetle, then recovered his physical form, and continued to explore the depths of the cave .

The tunnels in front gradually became scarce, replaced by large and small stone chambers, these signs indicated that the residence of the beholder was very close.

Beholders who live alone like to dig a spacious stone room farthest from the lair entrance as their boudoir.

There are also smaller caves dug out near the master bedroom to serve as storage, cells, and parlors—although there are very few opportunities for them to be used, after all, beholders are not very hospitable hosts.

The beholders are all parthenogenetic, they don't need a spouse, and they don't have the concept of "marriage". In addition, their personalities are generally sensitive and suspicious, and they rarely live with their own kind.

However, beholders don't mind keeping a group of "lower creatures" as slaves, such as dwarves, gnomes, kobolds, goblins and other intelligent creatures that are common in the underground world. nigger.

Beholders will strictly inspect their servants, select loyal and strong elites from among them to serve as guards, dig caves near the master bedroom as guard rooms, and occasionally make exceptions to allow the most favored servants to have a separate room.

Joan manipulated a glass magic eye, approached the largest stone room, and peeped secretly.

Unexpectedly, there was no one in the room.

Joan frowned, and controlled the glass magic eye to venture into the stone room to search. Sure enough, he found a shaft in the corner. The owner of the stone room was dozing at the bottom of the well at the moment.

This monster was shaped like a big ball floating in mid-air, its body was about eight feet in diameter, and it was covered with uneven purple-black chitin carapace.

There is a huge main eye in the center of the spherical body. Below the main eye is a big mouth full of fangs. Ten flexible and slender eye stalks extend from the whole body, all of which are no less than twenty feet long.

The main eye of this beholder is closed tightly, while the small eyeballs on the ten eye stalks are opened in turn, squinting, observing the surrounding wind and grass, and maintaining basic alertness even when sleeping.

Joan controls the glass magic eye to float above the shaft, a dark area located in the blind spot of the beholder's observation, and casts "advanced inner vision" through the glass magic eye.

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Scouting target: Beholder (large aberration)

state: light sleep

Life Level: Level 16

Attributes: Strength 22, Dexterity 16, Constitution 18, Intelligence 13, Wisdom 17, Charisma 18

Special abilities: darkvision, global vision, levitating flight, 150-foot-eye wave ray x 10 (charm, paralysis, fear, slowness, exhaustion, telekinetic power, hypnosis, petrification, disintegration, death); other (unspecified);

...

Qiao An was quite surprised by the investigation results of "Advanced Internal Vision".

The beholder at the bottom of the well, compared with the average value of adult beholders listed in the "Monster Illustrated Book", has significantly lower life level and various attributes. Is it because the reference data given in the literature is wrong, or is this beholder Underage?

In addition, Joan only detected ten kinds of magic rays, but did not detect the unique "anti-magic cone" of the beholder's main eye. Is this because she keeps her main eye closed, or is there another reason?

With the idea of ​​getting to the bottom of it, Joan remote controlled the glass eye close to the mouth of the well, wanting to observe the beholder from a closer position.

However, at this moment, the half-asleep and half-awake beholder at the bottom of the well suddenly trembled, as if sensing that someone was peeping at him from the dark, all ten eye stalks stood up, except the central main eye remained closed.

"Oops, this guy is awake!"

Qiao An quickly manipulated the glass magic eye away from the wellhead, hid in a secluded corner of the stone room, and observed secretly.

Not long after, the revived beholder floated up from the shaft, and the ten small eyeballs looking around showed unconcealable tension, like a housewife who found a poisonous snake in her kitchen.

The beholder grinned, revealing its long toad-like tongue, and shouted in its unique ethnic language. The trembling voice echoed in the stone chamber, showing its inner panic.

Joan has never learned the "Beholder Language", but with the help of the "Smart Words" blessed in advance, she still understands the meaning of that sentence - "Lord Mitra! Is that you?"

Who is Mitra?

Judging from the honorifics the beholder uses when referring to the opponent's name, it seems to be a woman of considerable status.

It wasn't hard for Joan to hear that the beholder was so afraid of "Master Mitra" that he was so scared that he was suspicious and trembling before he saw his shadow.

"Master Mitra? Master Mitra?"

"Phew... it looks like it was just a false alarm."

The beholder has repeatedly called and no one answered, so the beholder decided that the intruder should not be the adult he was most afraid of. The nervous expression faded, replaced by a fierce face, and turned to look outside the stone chamber door.