Chapter 2847 Mind Vision
Suppressing his curiosity for now, Joan followed Dr. Saul to the exhibition area on the fourth floor. Through the transparent force field shield, he saw a familiar beholder floating in the air opposite him.
Take a closer look, as expected, it is Mitra's former nemesis Vayu!
Last year in Udinos, under the orders of the Supreme and the Prime Minister, Joan led a team to hunt down and kill Isaac and other mind flayers who harassed the Demon Eye Nest City. Isaac and others were caught in the trap and taken to Odis, where they were bought by Dr. Saul at a high price and used as experimental subjects.
Now, after a year, Qiao An saw Wayu again, and found that she had only a shell left, her brain was parasitic and wormed by the mind flayer tadpoles implanted in her body, and transformed into a so-called "mind-seeing monster". Her mood was quite complicated. .
It is true that Wayu has fallen into such a miserable situation. However, she is Mitra's compatriots after all. She had the opportunity to rescue her from danger, but she gave up because the behavior of "repaying evil with kindness" violated the tradition of the beholders. Now seeing Wayu turned into a puppet that lost his soul, Qiao An felt somewhat uncomfortable.
The most prominent change of Wayu, parasitized by mind flayers, is that four purple tentacles grow around the mouth, which are organs specially used to extract the brains of prey.
Joan took a closer look and found that the monster's main eye and stalk eye still retain sound visual functions, but the eyesight has changed significantly compared to before.
In the past, Wayu's eyes were full of manic and surly looks, like a powder keg that was on fire at one point, and his mood was very unstable.
Now her eyes have become gloomy and indifferent, deep and restrained, completely opposite to the previous spiritual temperament, and this is the rational temperament respected by the mind flayers.
Vayu is probably the first "mind seer" in the world of Vares. Joan wanted to know if she still retained the ability she had when she was parasitized by the mind flayer, so she used the force field barrier to investigate.
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Scouting targets: Large aberrations (beholder subspecies, mind flayer subspecies)
Life Level: Level 12
Attributes: Strength 28, Dexterity 18, Constitution 22, Intelligence 23, Wisdom 19, Charisma 23
Special Abilities: darkvision, global vision, telepathy, levitation, spell resistance; 150-foot cone of antimagic, 150-foot eye ray (charm, paralysis, fear, slowness, exhaustion, telekinesis, hypnosis, petrification, disintegration, death); brain squeeze, mind blast 60 ft., psionic powers (manifestation level 12th; powers known: read thoughts, mind wave, dominate, mass suggestion, teleportation, plane shift), other (unknown proven)
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Judging from the investigation results, "Mind Vision" is worthy of being another great pioneering work created by Saul's laboratory.
This monster retains all the racial abilities of the beholder, including the "anti-magic cone" and ten kinds of "eye rays". On this basis, it also has the racial abilities of the mind flayer, such as brain squeezing, spell resistance, and mind blast. It is called the perfect fusion of two strange things.
Compared with the former Wayu, there is also a degradation of the mind-seeing monster, that is, her life level has been reduced to level 12.
This is because the life level of the mind seer depends on the mind flayer tadpole parasitic in the host body, and this tadpole that has only matured not long ago and was transplanted into Vayu by Dr. Saul has only 12 life levels— — This point is also reflected in the manifest level of the mind seer.
The psychic powers of the mind-seeing monster are actually the standard innate powers of adult mind flayers. Since they have just completed their transformation and have not had time to awaken the psion profession, there are only a few abilities that can be used.
At this time, Dr. Saul came over and introduced the latest achievement of "Mind Vision" to Joan and Metatron.
As the host, Wayu's brains have been devoured by mind flayer tadpoles, but Dr. Saul still uses the name Wayu to refer to his masterpiece, and revealed an unreasonable detail to the visitor.
"Master Metatron, Brother Gnostics, of course you also know that during the transformation process of our mind flayer family, we usually only inherit the host's physical body, not the host's memory and temperament, but this empirical rule It seems to be malfunctioning on the mind seer."
"Doctor, do you mean that the mind seer has inherited the temperament and memory of the beholder host?" Metatron asked in surprise.
"To be precise, it has inherited a part of memory and an unusually strong emotion."
Having said that, Dr. Saul gave Joan a meaningful look.
"Brother Gnostic, you may wish to guess which part of the memory the mind seer inherited from Vayu, and who has strong emotions about it."
"Mitra?" Joan guessed.
"That's right, the 'Evil Eye Arcanist' Mitra was the one Vayu hated the most during his lifetime. The memory and strong hatred for Mitra persisted until his death. Being inherited by the mind flayer tadpole is also a special case. "
"Dear doctor, when can I pass the test and leave this narrow and cramped cage?"
The Psychic, who had been quietly floating in the display cabinet, suddenly spoke, his sharp voice was exactly the same as that of Wayu's, and there was a trace of resentment in his words.
"I'm sorry, Vayu, you are still under observation, and we can't release you for the time being." Dr. Saul said apologetically.
"Doctor, isn't Shakluf outside? My situation is similar to his, why can't I go out?" Xinshi asked unconvinced.
"Shakluf was also isolated and observed at the beginning, and he was not freed until we confirmed that his xinxing was not affected by the host. Your situation is different, Wayu. Frankly speaking, your xinxing is obviously affected by the beholder. host influence."
"You and I know how crazy the beholder is. Letting you out may pose a threat to the safety of our laboratory, so we have to temporarily wrong you to stay in the isolation area and wait for us to observe for a while to ensure your emotional stability. Controllable, I will let you out."
After hearing Dr. Saul's words, Mind Vision Monster seemed to be hit, and his eyes were drooping, looking very depressed.
"Doctor, I think this sister is very pitiful, can you find a way to help her erase the memories and resentments inherited from the host, and eliminate the unstable factors?"
Metatron said hesitantly.
"Master Metatron, we have plans in this regard, such as performing a 'psychic surgery' on Vayu, or using the ninth-level ability to 'program memory', it is possible to restore her mental state to health, but Vayu You are very repulsed by this type of treatment, and neither do I."
Dr. Saul shrugged helplessly.
"It's all for her own good, why reject it?" Metatron asked puzzled.
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