Chapter 2590 Portable Brain Aid

Joan put away the moisturizing suit, and then looked at Isaac's "big sword".

The shape of this weapon is similar to that of a military broadsword, and its material is a "star-iron alloy" made of smelted ectoplasm and steel.

"Star Iron" is the product of the psionic metallurgy technology that mind flayers are proud of. This material is silver-gray, and its physical properties are similar to ordinary steel, but when it is picked up by intelligent creatures, it will be different from the Spiritual resonance occurs in the person, and a magnificent shining light spot like a starry sky emerges. When the star iron is out of the grasp of intelligent creatures, the starlight will quickly dim and disappear.

For general weapons, the lethality mainly depends on three factors: the base damage of the weapon, the enchantment bonus, and the strength bonus of the wielder.

The peculiarity of the psionic weapon forged from star iron is that in addition to the above three factors, if the holder is a manifester, he can also integrate his own spiritual power into the weapon while maintaining a state of psionic concentration (concentration). Used to increase lethality.

Specifically, which spiritual attribute the holder relies on to manifest its power, use this attribute to strengthen the power of the star iron weapon.

Isaac is a "psychic", and intelligence is his manifestation attribute, so when he wields this "+2-star iron psionic sword", he can equal his strength bonus to his intelligence bonus. And count towards the final damage dealt to the enemy.

Joan wrapped an eye stalk around the hilt of the sword and swung it in the air. Where the blade passed, blurred starlight was drawn.

Nodding in satisfaction, Qiao Anxin said that it's a bad luck! Anyway, we can be regarded as a "manifester"!

An intelligence attribute as high as 53 means that every sword she swings has an additional 6 energy level of spiritual damage.

"This psychic sword is really good, it's just right for me!"

Putting the psychic sword made of star iron into the scabbard, Joan picked up the pendant that Isaac wore during his lifetime.

The pendant is a hollow sphere with a diameter of about two inches. The outer shell is polished by crystal. Through the wall of the sphere, the transparent mucus filled inside can be seen, and there is also a small group of off-white biological tissues suspended in the mucus.

According to Isaac's memory, Joan learned that the thing sealed in the hollow crystal ball was called a "portable brain aid", which was picked from the spiritual leader of the mind flayer city of Edis - "Legendary Mastermind" Noah. A germ, soaked in the mucus secreted by Isaac itself to keep it moist, can work normally.

With few exceptions, mind flayers favor group living.

In a community of mind flayers, for the sake of maintaining public order and unifying thought, a wise, selfless, and just ruler is needed, and this role is usually played not by a particularly powerful mind flayer lord, but by It is a huge mass of brain tissue lying quietly in a pool of salt water, the so-called "Master Brain".

For mind flayers, the Mastermind is both a "cradle" and a "grave". Their larvae hatch in the brain pool and mature with the company of the master brain, and when they reach the end of their lives, their bodies will also be buried back in the brain pool, and all the knowledge accumulated during their lifetime will be integrated with the soul and the master brain.

In this way, the souls of mind flayers have been fused year after year, and the main brain has continuously evolved, accumulated profound knowledge, and opened all these spiritual assets to the residents of the community to share, like a living library.

Mind flayers are a very smart and studious race, but no matter how smart and eager to learn, the life and energy of an individual is limited after all, and it is impossible to master all the knowledge accumulated by the mastermind for countless generations in a short lifetime. A consensus: Don't try to copy all the books in the "library" and take them away. When you are confused about a certain question, just come and check.

According to Qiao An's understanding, the mastermind should not be regarded as a "textbook", but a dictionary. Everyone should learn to look up the dictionary. Only fools, lunatics or boring people will try to recite the entire dictionary.

The concept of mind flayers is of course wise, but when they need to go out for action, once they are far away from the community where they are, and encounter problems that they cannot handle on the way, it is inconvenient to ask the mastermind for advice.

In order to solve this problem, the mind flayers invented the "portable brain aid" under the guidance of the master brain.

The "portable brain aid" is evolved from a small group of granulation sprouts from the main brain. It has intelligence equivalent to 9 intelligence points, but it does not have thoughts and personalities, nor likes and dislikes. It is simply stored and recorded from the main brain. Some of the skills and knowledge that come down are provided for reference when the holder needs them.

In addition to serving as a "reference book", the portable brain aid can also establish a spiritual connection with the holder, share the senses, and record what the holder sees and hears.

When the mind flayer returns to its community, it will return the portable brain aid to the brain pool as usual to re-integrate it with the master brain. The portable brain aid will upload the information collected from the outside world to the master brain's memory bank, further enriching the master brain's memory. Knowledge reserve.

If a mind flayer operating outside loses a portable brain aid, the person who picks it up, if not a manifester, cannot actively communicate with the portable mind aid.

If the picker happens to be good at psychic powers, he can establish a spiritual connection with the portable brain aid, read all kinds of knowledge from it, and store the information he knows into the brain aid—the brain aid will not treat users differently, even if The other party is not a mind flayer, so he still does his best to serve him.

Joan held the brain aid with an eye stalk, entered the state of psionic meditation, and successfully got in touch with the brain tissue sealed in the crystal shell, searching for the information stored in it.

The brain aid has a limited capacity and cannot carry all the knowledge of the master brain, so it will customize a database that is most likely to come in handy according to the needs of the holder.

The purpose of Isaac and others' trip this time is to harass the beholders of Udinos, so most of the information stored in this brain aid is about the beholder city.

Joan flipped through it hastily. In a recently uploaded file, he found that Isaac also recorded the massacre of his companions by the "implosion technique". He hoped to ask the mastermind the hidden truth behind the tragedy after returning to Odes. , such as where the caster was hiding at the time.

Next, Joan saw Isaac's plan to catch the beholder.

This plan was only partially successful, and Vayu was successfully captured. Three beholders are coming later, and Isaac has already set a trap and is waiting for it.

That's all for the uploaded file, there's no need to talk about what happened later.

Joan held the portable brain assistant, hesitating whether to destroy the living body database, so as not to fall into the hands of others, and track down the truth of Isaac's death through the clues recorded in the brain assistant.

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