Chapter 2608 Mind Surgery

Joan quickly browsed through it and found that the tasks listed on the list can be classified into five categories.

The first category of tasks aims to encourage invention and creation, without explicit requirements.

Residents in the city have developed new psychic powers and created new spiritual weapons, all of which can be presented to the master brain for identification, and honor points will be awarded according to the quality.

The second category is "gathering resources". The resources here include water sources, mineral deposits, alchemy materials, and plundering of living slaves. As long as you can add materials and manpower to Odes, you can get rewards.

The third type of task is "Assassination", which is related to a "Blacklist", on which all the assassination targets are listed.

Including Samael, the traitor of Odis, and enemies of the mind flayers, such as the githyanki and the beholder nobles of Udinos, each assassination target is listed with the corresponding reward amount.

Joan read the blacklist from beginning to end. The highest reward was Udinos' Supreme Ishtar with 12,000 honor points, followed by the spiritual lich Samael with 8,000 honor points. In the back row is Saoirse, the Prime Minister of the Beholder Clan, who rewarded her with 7000 honor points.

The bounty amount corresponding to each assassination target on the blacklist is the result of precise calculations by the mastermind based on the comprehensive information of all parties. The bounty itself can reflect the strength of the assassination target.

Going back according to this idea, it is not difficult for Joan to estimate that Samael's strength is slightly better than Saoirse's, but there is still a big gap with the beholder queen Ishtar.

Of course, this is just a qualitative estimate, without considering factors other than personal strength.

For example, Ishtar stays in Udinos’s manor all day long. If you want to kill her, you have to try to sneak into the magic eye nest city first, and take the risk of alarming many beholder nobles and beholder statues in the city. Of course, the difficulty is extremely high. Outrageous, Ishtar's personal strength is only an important factor among these risks, but it is not the only factor.

The fourth category of tasks on the list is "weakening hostile forces."

In the Underdark region, there are numerous forces, large and small, and Odis is only one of the most powerful forces, but not the only one.

For example, the beholder clan of Udinos, the drow city of Orknir, the stone giant city of Brimir, etc., are all powerful, and their relationship with Odis is very tense.

Arrogant mind flayers seldom form alliances with other races, and are more willing to transform opponents of other races into their own servants. Adhering to such a foreign strategy, it is reasonable for Odis to have many enemies but few friends in the Underdark.

The mastermind Noah is not afraid of any forces around him, but he has to worry that many hostile forces in the underground world will unite to fight against Odes. Although this possibility is very small, he has to guard against it.

In order to prevent Odes from becoming the public enemy of other forces, the mind flayers of Odes are committed to weakening the surrounding hostile races, fanning the flames and creating conflicts among the major forces, and instigating them to be hostile to each other. Only by maintaining this state of melee, Odis will be safe forever.

The final category of tasks on the list is "intelligence gathering".

The mind flayers often set up expeditions and take "portable brain aids" to roam in the dark regions and unknown areas of the surface world. They collect information wherever they go, observe the local environment, products, ecology and social customs, and learn about themselves. All external information received is stored in the portable brain aid.

When the expedition team returned to Odes, they uploaded the information stored in the portable assistant brain to the main brain, and the main brain gave rewards according to the value of these data.

In addition to the above six categories of community tasks, there are also many private commissions listed on the list.

The posters are all citizens of Odis, and the content is nothing more than recruiting expedition partners, seeking scientific research assistants, and buying some special experimental materials. The mission posters will clearly list commissions—except for magic crystals and honor points Occasionally, rewards such as spirit artifacts are also provided.

Joan took the place of "Faster" Gnostic's "vagrant" status, and just now told the mastermind that he wanted to earn honor points and restore Odis's citizenship.

Although this was just an excuse, out of curiosity, he checked the relevant information and found that he needed to earn 5,000 honor points in order to restore Odis's citizenship.

Accumulated 30,000 honor points to be eligible to enter the list of Elder Cardinal Elders.

According to Gnostic memory, Joan learned that the current four elders of Odis, the soul-absorbing city, each have an honor value of no less than 50,000.

Most of the task rewards on the list only have single digits or tens of honor points. Based on this calculation, earning 5,000 honor points is not an easy goal to achieve.

Joan scratched his head and thought about it, is it necessary for him to restore his citizenship?

For a mind flayer born and bred in Odys, this certainly matters!

But Joan is not a born mind flayer. He neither intends to settle in Odes forever, nor desires to be buried in the brain pool after death. The soul and the master brain are integrated into one. Without the title of "citizen", it means nothing to him.

Thinking of this, Qiao An felt relieved, put aside the task list, and turned to check what good things the honor points could be exchanged for from the main brain.

There are three main types of services that the Mastermind provides to the mind flayers.

The first is to provide advice.

For any difficult problems encountered by mind flayers, they can ask the master brain for advice, and seek answers in the master brain's extensive and profound knowledge base. This kind of help is usually free.

The second type of service provided by the Mastermind is the teaching of psychic powers.

Among the various psychic professions, as far as Joan knew, only "Psychic Scholar" could directly learn new abilities, just like a mage learning arcane arts.

However, Odis does not have the professional inheritance of "psychic scholars". Most of the mind flayers in the city are "psychics" or "psychic warriors", and they can only meditate or absorb the brains of intelligent creatures-preferably psionics. The brain of a creature - constantly strengthen the power of the mind, so as to comprehend new abilities.

This way of practice is closer to that of a warlock. The level of achievement mainly depends on personal talent and understanding, and the role of a mentor is very limited.

However, there are always exceptions to everything.

If a mind flayer really wants to master a certain psychic power but has been unable to comprehend it for a long time, he can ask the mastermind for help and ask him to perform a ninth-level power "psychic surgery". The long-standing ability was transplanted into his memory, as if he had comprehended it by himself.

The "mind surgery" performed by the main brain not only consumes a lot of energy, but also leads to the death of a large number of brain cells. Of course, it is impossible to provide the service of transplanting supernatural powers for free at such a high price, otherwise it will be exhausted sooner or later.

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