Chapter 2513 Beholder Form
Joan originally wanted to raise the intelligence of the death knell beetles to the human level, but when he thought about what happened to the enlightened beetle in Cloud City, he dismissed this idea.
Excessive intelligence may not be a good thing for insects. It is enough to increase the intelligence attribute of the nine death knell beetles to 3 points, which is enough to reach the level of magical beasts, and then order them to patrol around their rooms and shoulder the responsibility. Guard duty.
Returning to the stone room again, Joan performed the "Stone Shaping Technique" and used local materials to transform the irregular stones into tables, chairs and candlesticks.
Sitting in front of the self-made stone carving desk, casting a spell to light up the candlestick, Joan took out the beholder crown, intending to spend some time studying this unique magic tool.
This platinum crown inlaid with precious stones was said by Astaroth to be the work of Samael, the mind flayer elder of Odis.
When Joan first appraised the beholder crown, he didn't think highly of this work. He preconceived that the maker tried to integrate the advantages of the spirit weapon in this magic tool, but unfortunately it failed to meet expectations. The peers left a lot of slots.
First of all, the deformation function of the beholder crown is similar to the 9th-level spell "shape change", which can perfectly simulate the ten rays of the beholder, but it will not adjust the physical attributes of the wearer to the level of a standard adult beholder, but keep wearing it. its own attribute values.
Joan guessed that Elder Samael's own strength, agility, and physical attributes should exceed the level of the beholder on average, and the reason for retaining his own attributes may be because he does not want to weaken the melee ability after deformation. understandable.
The transformation effect of the beholder crown has no time limit, and the wearer can maintain the form of the beholder in the "anti-magic field". It's a bit baffling.
Samuel is a high-level mind flayer and a quasi-legendary mage. He has profound attainments in both psionic energy and arcane art. For him, it should not be difficult to use psionic energy to simulate the function of the beholder ray. Can you completely ignore the suppression of the "anti-magic field"?
It's obviously just a flaw that can be solved with a little optimization, why does he leave it alone?
Joan sat at the desk, stroking the eye magic crown, recalling the information Astaru had revealed before, and the doubts in his heart gradually dissipated.
If you only regard the beholder crown as a magic tool, it is indeed not perfect, but considering the use scene of the beholder crown, it is regarded as a special equipment for espionage activities. Ingenuity.
Astaroth said that her former master, Mitra, had a private relationship with Elder Samael and made a deal.
Considering the hostile relationship between Odis and Udinos, both Mitra and Samael are suspected of being spies. From this detail, it can be seen that both mind flayers and beholders are keen to inquire about information about hostile cities.
When the mind flayer puts on this beholder crown, he immediately becomes a giant-eyed tyrant who pretends to be real. Wouldn't it be very convenient to use this disguise to infiltrate Udinos to collect information?
After all, Udinos is the headquarters of the beholders. Even if the beholders are housewives who don't like to go out, they still have occasional needs for shopping and socializing.
Counterfeit goods are wandering around the streets of Udinos, and the probability of encountering a beholder is quite high. In case of being glared at by the main eye, in order to avoid revealing the original shape, the "beholder crown" must be able to maintain deformation under the cover of the "anti-magic cone" state.
By the same token, it is absolutely impossible for a normal beholder to release eye rays under the cover of the "anti-magic cone". If Elder Samuel changes the ray function of the beholder crown to a psionic mode, it will be more likely to cause spies to reveal their secrets.
Any creature is prone to nervousness in a state of high tension. If it is impulsive and emits rays with psionic brilliance under the irradiation of the "anti-magic cone", how will it be explained next?
After figuring out this link, Joan couldn't help admiring Elder Samael's meticulous thinking. He was still too young to compare with his cunning and cunning.
After the appraisal, Joan put the beholder crown on his head.
This platinum crown will automatically change size according to the wearer's body shape. If you don't want to be too ostentatious, you can hide the crown or turn it into a black wizard hat with a pointed top and wide brim.
And when Joan activates the magic power of the crown and transforms into the form of a beholder, the crown will automatically integrate into the new form. Unless the "true seeing" is blessed, there will be no difference from the real beholder from the outside.
Not being able to conceal the "true seeing" is the only shortcoming of the beholder crown, and it is also the biggest hidden danger for the wearer after sneaking into Udinos!
The vast majority of beholders do not have the ability to perform "true seeing", but if they are unlucky and encounter such a strange thing as Mitra, they can only consider themselves unlucky.
Fortunately, Qiao An didn't need to worry about this problem. After the transformation, he added a "mythical disguise", even "true seeing" couldn't see his true face.
Joan has transformed into the "Eye of Insight" many times, and now he has become a giant-eyed tyrant with a purer bloodline, and he doesn't feel uncomfortable. The spherical body similar to the "Eye of Insight" is automatically suspended in mid-air, and the thought moves , you can drift in any direction as you like, and the speed is similar to walking.
Joan floated to the desk and took a picture of the "remote viewing mirror" placed next to the candlestick. A dark brown sphere was reflected in the mirror. The uneven fleshy skin on the body was actually a very hard bone plate. It is as strong as two layers of plate armor forged from fine steel.
The main eye in the center of the big meat ball was tightly closed, and Joan couldn't open it even if he wanted to. There was no way, this was the consequence of the lack of the main eye gem in the beholder crown.
There are ten small eyeballs on the eye stalks, eight of which are normal. Their eyesight is far sharper than that of human eyes. They have their own "dark vision" and can turn the eye stalks in any direction. There is no blind spot for observation—this is The so-called "global vision".
Joan's "Secret of High-level Different Eyes" is also applicable to the form of the beholder, and the eight eye stalks have a constant "True Sight". If the main eye gemstone can be obtained from Mitra and embedded in the beholder crown, the main eye that regains light will also automatically maintain the "true seeing".
These eight eye stalks correspond to eye wave rays that are paralysis, fear, slowness, mind power, hypnosis, petrification, dissociation, and death effects.
Joan tried shooting at the wall, and found that the power of the ray was equivalent to the spell he cast with the same name in human form, except that those spells that originally acted on a large area, such as "Fear", could only be used in the ray mode. Attack a target.
As with true beholders, all of these eye rays have a maximum range of 150 feet, and can strike multiple nearby enemies individually or focus on a single target at a time.