Chapter 2589 Joan's New Territory
The mine director of Vayu Territory, named Nokomis, is an "Eye of the Kiss of Death", whose appearance, attributes and various abilities are similar to Astaroth.
Security captain Nigel is a subspecies of beholder called "Tongue Eye", also known as "Beholder Killer". Today, Joan is outside the palace of Ishtar and Saoirse, I met a team of "Tongue Eyes" who served as military police.
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Reconnaissance target: Eye of Tongue (Large Abnormality)
Life Level: Level 14
Attributes: Strength 24, Dexterity 19, Constitution 18, Intelligence 10, Wisdom 18, Charisma 20
Special Abilities: All-area vision, darkvision, levitate, 150-foot cone of antimagic (dominant eye), 15-foot tongue strike, gouging eye (poison)
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Nagel, like most of her compatriots, has a ferocious face, a bloated figure, and a body diameter of 10 feet. She has four short lower limbs with sharp claws, and none of the ten eye stalks has the ability to emit eye rays. The beholder can open a 150-foot cone-shaped "anti-magic field".
The most unique organ of the "Tongue Gouging Eye" is the long and forked sharp tongue, like a harpoon curled up in the mouth, which can be ejected at high speed, easily piercing a stone wall 15 feet away.
The tongues of Nigel and his compatriots can also secrete a special toxin. When they hit the beholder or subspecies of beholder with the tip of their tongue, and the opponent's body is not strong enough to resist the toxin invasion, then with the onset of poison , all the eye stalks will lose their eyesight one after another and lose the ability to release supernatural rays, and they will not return to normal until the toxins in the body are removed.
Just because they were born with such a highly poisonous tongue that specially restrains other distant relatives, the residents of Udinos generally respect the "Tongus Eye" at a distance, and there are rumors that the "Tongue Eye" was specially created by the "Grand Mistress" Assassin, used to punish those sons who dared to go against their will.
In fact, Ishtar recruited most of the "Tongue Eyes" in the city to the security department and appointed them as military police, somewhat with the intention of deterring the beholder nobles—who would dare to betray Her Majesty the Queen of Udinos? , Just wait to be hunted down by a large group of "tongue-gouging eyes"!
There are also four "eyes of the abyss" under Wayu who are in charge of the wharf and fishery, which are the four sisters headed by Daisy.
Not long ago, the four sisters of "Eye of the Abyss" had offended Mitra because of the theft of a fishing boat. When they learned that Mitra had taken over Vayu's territory, they fled overnight for fear of retaliation.
Qiao An didn't bother to pay attention to those four scumbags, and simply let them fend for themselves.
Vayu's territory is almost twice as large as that of Mitra's. The industry includes the fishing pier by the triangle lake, as well as large farms, pastures and magic crystal mines.
Now after being taken over by Joan, the two territories happen to be connected together. Among all the beholder noble territories of Udinos, the total area can be ranked in the top 20.
There are more than 300 slaves in Vayu's territory, including more than 100 tauren, and the rest are subterranean gnomes.
In the following time, Joan led his entourage to inspect the new territory, and found that Lawen managed the farm, ranch and the internal affairs of the territory in an orderly manner, and was indeed a good and trustworthy housekeeper.
Nigel had a tauren guard under him, who were well trained and energetic, so Joan appointed her as the assistant of "Giant-Eyed Knight" Valak, and they were jointly responsible for the military and security affairs of the territory.
"Eye of the Kiss of Death" Nokomis manages the mines in Vayu's territory, supervises hundreds of dwarf miners, and digs magic crystal ore and smelts coarse crystal day and night.
Accompanied by his entourage, Qiao An went deep into the mine for on-the-spot inspection. As expected, the working environment in the mine was extremely bad!
The slaves have to work underground for more than 12 hours every day, even the subterranean gnomes who are good at digging can't bear it, and if they slack off a little, they will be reprimanded and whipped by Nokomis and his tauren supervisors.
Landslide accidents occur in the mine from time to time. Every year, no less than two digits of slaves die in mine disasters. More slaves die due to fatigue, malnutrition and disease. In contrast, the Mitra mine next door The environment and treatment are just like heaven!
Joan originally wanted to reform the new mine according to the system he implemented in the mine next door, but considering that he had just taken over the territory, if he acted too hastily, it might arouse panic and suspicion among Nokomis and the others, so for the time being Suppress this thought, and adjust gradually after getting familiar with the situation in the new territory.
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After finishing his inspection of the new territory, Joan returned to his lair, closed the door, and looked at the various spoils obtained today.
The first is the "Expanding Lens" bestowed by Prime Minister Saoirse. The super magic skill "Spell Widening" attached to it, before Joan mastered it, he parsed it out, copied it into the spell book, and spent some time learning this Super magic skills.
The next highlight was the three pieces of psionic equipment Joan captured from the mind flayer Isaac.
Joan first appraised the "moisturizing suit" that was stripped from Isaac's body, and found that the mind flayer's special uniform looked like delicate leather armor, with a sponge-like structure on the inside, which had the function of long-term water storage and moisturizing.
Mind flayers are strange monsters whose physiology is similar to amphibians in nature. Their larvae are tadpole-like and can only survive in water.
After the mind flayer larvae mature, they will try to parasitize in the humanoid body, thus gaining the ability to move on land, but they cannot completely overcome the nature of amphibians, the body must be kept moist, once exposed to a dry environment, it will Dehydrates rapidly, becomes weak and weak, and if not replenished in time, will die of thirst within two days.
"Moisturizing clothing" was specially invented by mind flayers to survive in a dry environment for a long time.
This leather jacket with added spiritual power can automatically adjust the size and fit perfectly on the wearer's body surface, avoiding the loss of body water to the greatest extent.
The inner lining of the moisturizing suit is made of a special alchemical synthetic material that can interact with the mucus secreted by the mind flayer's skin, firmly locking in the moisture that seeps out of the body.
When a mind flayer puts on a moisturizing suit, no matter whether it is in the cold tundra or the scorching desert, it can maintain its energy for a week even without a drop of water. Afterwards, just pour 1 pint of water into the moisturizing suit to extend the moisturizing function for a week —Mind flayers do not need to drink additional water while wearing a moisturizing suit.
In addition to the two basic functions of body covering and moisturizing, moisturizing clothing can also be enchanted and strengthened like ordinary leather armor.
The defensive performance of Isaac's moisturizing suit is equivalent to "+2 enchanted leather armor", but the craftsmanship uses psionic energy instead of magic, and it can still play a protective function in the "anti-magic field".