Chapter 2568 Intruders of Udinos
Judging from the information displayed by the "Mythical Alarm", the intruders were divided into at least four groups, and they were exploring the depths of Joan's territory along different paths.
Joan first suspected that the intruders were assassins hired by the beholder noble Vayu to avenge herself for the dispute caused by the theft of the fishing boat before, but she ruled out this option in a second thought, because the number of intruders was large , but the life level is generally lower than level 10, and the positions are too scattered, it doesn't look like a professional assassin team.
If Vayu expects this group of people to assassinate a "Magic Eye Arcanist", it would be a worrying IQ.
Joan adjusted the "remote viewing mirror" with a hint of curiosity, and first projected the observation perspective to the alarm zone closest to him, to see what overbearing "cute" broke in and killed him.
In the tunnel leading to Mitra's lair, six thin figures were groping forward in the darkness.
Through the "remote viewing mirror", Qiao An clearly saw the appearance of these uninvited guests, and her first impression was "obscene".
These little guys were clearly humanoids, about the size of a dwarf, with their matted hair, thin build, and bald chin making them more dwarf-like.
The sickly white-to-blue complexion and bulging and white eyes like dead fish are annoying. Joan also noticed that their palms only have four fingers, and they both hold a poisoned dagger with a green luster in their right hands.
Based on these external features, coupled with the startled demeanor of the intruders, it was not difficult for Joan to guess their identities.
"It turned out to be a group of Dilro dwarves."
"Dillo dwarves" are a subspecies of the dwarven race, and the least likely branch of the mainstream dwarves.
The orthodox descendants of Moradin really hate the gray dwarves who have degenerated into demon believers, and at least admit that they belong to the dwarf lineage. As for the Dilo dwarves who have similar experiences to the gray dwarves, they are afraid of dirtying their names even by mentioning their names. Mouth, I wish this hateful and pathetic creature would die as soon as possible.
The ancestors of the Dilro dwarves are also descendants of Moradin with pure blood. Similar to the gray dwarves, they also had bad luck when they were digging mines in the Underdark.
What follows is a cliché that has been repeated countless times.
The dwarves who fell into the clutches of the mind flayers were treated as experimental subjects, and all kinds of whimsical and crazy experiments were carried out on them.
Luckily for the duergar, their torment is no match for that of their more miserable cousins. The gray dwarves at least retain their pure dwarf blood, while the Dilo dwarves are freaks bred by mind flayers who forced dwarves to interbreed with humans and fuse other messy genes. Even the species type is no longer "humanoid" , transformed into a "humanoid monster".
Even more serious than the physical deformity is the mental state of the derro dwarves.
This race created by mind flayers with malice is congenitally mentally unsound, and almost all individuals suffer from crazy delusions. Only by torturing the weak can they temporarily obtain distorted pleasure.
What's even more tragic is that the Dillo dwarves didn't realize that they were crazy at all, but felt that other people's brains were not normal-this kind of concept coincided with the beholders who had the same per capita mental illness.
It is not difficult for mentally sound people to understand each other, but it is difficult for lunatics to reach consensus, let alone "sympathy for each other".
According to Mitra's memory, Joan found that the beholders generally had no good impression of the Dilro dwarves, and they regarded these nervous little monsters as vassals of the mind flayers, a kind of unreliable slaves, and they did not succeed. If there are too many things to do, instead of enslaving them, it is better to kill them directly for food.
As for what the Dilo dwarves think of the beholders, Joan is still unknown, but judging from the sneaky dwarfs in the tunnel, they seem to have been brainwashed too much by their mind flayer masters. So much so that he lacks the most basic awe of the "giant-eyed tyrant", otherwise how dare he break into Udinos without authorization?
In his lair, Joan kept the 6-ring protection system magic "bronze wall and iron wall". This "poor man's version of the mystic lock" has a variety of defensive measures, which are set in every corner of the lair. ” and “Wall of Illusion.”
Normal people are in a dark environment, and usually try to create a light source to illuminate, or cast light magic to dispel the darkness, so that they can see the surrounding situation clearly.
Such an approach would instead fall into the trap that Joan had set in advance—the light would trigger the "illusion wall", creating all kinds of terrifying scenes in front of the intruders' eyes, enough to scare the hell out of them.
It's a pity that Joan's defensive measures specially designed to deal with normal people failed to play their due role when they met a group of mentally disturbed guys today.
The first Dillo dwarf who entered the tunnel found his eyes darkened and screamed in horror.
"Can't see anything! Damn! Someone must have sneaked up on me! Blind my eyes!"
While roaring, he frantically swung the poisoned short sword, almost stabbing his companion behind him.
"Root is blind?" whispered another dylo.
"He said he couldn't see, so he was blind," echoed another.
"Can you see the road ahead?" the third derro asked his companion tentatively.
The five dwarves looked at me and I looked at you, all with guarded looks in their eyes, for fear of exposing their true situation and thus incurring the persecution of other Dilo dwarves.
"I'm not blind, of course I can see!"
"I can see too. The road ahead is unobstructed, and the vision is clearly very good. Only the blind can't see clearly."
"That's right, we're all normal except for poor blind Root, so let's move on."
The five Dillo dwarves were all pretending to be calm, lest they expose the fact that they were "blind too", but no one was willing to lead the way.
"Let Lute lead the way. He's already blind anyway, so it's useless to keep it. It's better to let him walk the trap for us in front."
"agree!"
"agree!"
"agree!"
"agree!"
The other four "clear-eyed" dwarves all raised their hands in favor, and only Root was still yelling frantically.
"God! What's the matter? Am I really the only one who is blind? No...it's not fair!"
"That's fair, my poor friend."
The Dillo dwarf who proposed to let Root explore the way suddenly kicked Root from behind, causing him to stumble into the tunnel shrouded in "darkness".
"The minority obeys the majority, there is no fairer rule than this!"
"That's right! It couldn't be fairer!"
The five dwarfs giggled. At the same time, Root's groans and curses came from deep in the tunnel.
No one ignited the fire, so the "Phantom Wall" in the tunnel was not activated. The six Dilro dwarves passed through the road covered by the "Darkness Technique" by mistake. Their natural "Dark Vision" allowed them to see their surroundings clearly again. , So they fell into an awkward silence collectively.
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