Chapter 640 The Tide

Mrs. Angst sat on a chair with a gloomy look.

The raiding team did not return at the agreed time, and even now, the martial arts master has not been able to step into the hall to apologize to her, which only means one thing, that is, the raiding team has been wiped out.

This is rare in the history of the drow elves. Generally speaking, the drow will hardly suffer any losses when fighting on the surface. They are masters of stealth operations, but... they were wiped out.

Considering that the other party even posed a threat to the city, this seems to be a reasonable thing. In fact, this made Mistress Angst relieved. As a drow elf mistress who has ruled the city for thousands of years with conspiracy and trickery, what she hates most is the hidden arrows and conspiracies from other places. If her martial arts master returns to the city with a confident smile at this moment and reports to her that the mission has been completed, then it will arouse the suspicion of Mistress Angst.

But now... the martial arts master and the team he led have proved that the threat does exist and is huge.

So, should we encourage other families to go to Waterdeep again?

Madam Angst tapped the armrest of her chair and thought. The matrons of the leading families in this city were all high-ranking priests favored by the Spider Goddess. As long as she leaked a little bit of information, these families would certainly come one after another to win the blessing and favor of Rose.

But this would also annoy the surface humans in Waterdeep. Although Madam Angst was confident that the other party could not attack her city with a large army, she did not want to make enemies with a huge surface force. After all, she also knew the terribleness of the powerful human wizards. Even in the Underdark, human wizards were not easy to provoke.

Let's do it.

Thinking of this, Angst made a decision.

It would be unwise to attack Waterdeep again rashly, but she could spread some rumors to indicate that the Spider Goddess had given her a sign that the city was about to suffer some kind of destructive disaster. And as long as the source of the disaster could be found and eliminated, the favor of the Spider Goddess could be won. This was enough to make a large number of drow families in the city take the initiative to search in the Underdark around the city.

That's enough. As long as they take action, they will form a huge and dense spider web with the entire city as the center. At that time, once the prey steps into it, they will get the news immediately.

As for what to do next...

Angest's mouth curled up slightly, and a smile appeared.

Everything is under control, don't worry.

Duanmu Huai didn't know the vicious conspiracy of the drow elf mistress at this moment, because he had more important things to do at the moment.

"A pair of kings! Exploded!"

Duanmu Huai threw the cards in his hand to the ground and raised his hands.

"I won!"

"I lost."

Ogis put down the cards in his hand and whispered.

"Then it's your turn, Ogis, go find something fun nearby."

"Okay, master."

Ogis nodded, then stood up, and disappeared into the dark tunnel a moment later.

"Such a boring game, it's a pity that you are so devoted to it."

Jia Wei sat next to him, looking at the cards in his hand with disgust.

"After all, there's nothing to do, so it's good to take a break."

Duanmu Huai stretched and looked at Jia Wei.

"What? Still not getting along with Ogis?"

"What do you think?"

"Hahaha, don't be angry, Ogis wants to be a good sister, so she imitates the content of the book she has read."

"If she really wants to be a good sister, then please at least listen to me!"

"Hahaha... So you haven't discovered it yet?"

"Discover what?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's voice become serious, Jia Wei frowned and stared at him.

"You always think Ogis is a perfect doll, so you always want to replace her, right."

"That's right."

"But I think you also see that she is not perfect."

Duanmu Huai spread his hands.

"If Ogis is really a perfect puppet, then she can completely imitate the attitudes of the elder sisters in the books she reads to treat you, right? A perfect puppet must obey orders perfectly and execute orders, but do you think Ogis is now acting like a sister perfectly?"

Even as a little cotton jacket, she is leaky and wears anti-armor, and every time she backstabs Duanmu Huai, she hurts him badly. Where can there be such a perfect puppet. A puppet that perfectly diss the master?

"This……………………"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, Jia Wei was speechless for a moment. Indeed, thinking carefully, her hatred for Ogis at the beginning came from the fact that she was just a replica created by the maker to imitate Ogis, and because her maker felt that she was not as perfect as Ogis, she was thrown aside.

It is precisely because of this that Jia Wei has always hated Ogis. The reason why she attacked Ogis is because she felt that as long as she could defeat Ogis, she could prove that she was far better than Ogis and she was a perfect puppet.

But...perfect?

After carefully recalling Ogis's performance during this period, and then looking at it from the perspective of her own maker, Qiangwei suddenly discovered that Ogis was far from perfect. It's even possible that his maker would be disappointed if he saw Ogis now.

After thinking of this, Qianwei suddenly felt as if she had lost all her strength. She had always regarded defeating Ojis as her primary goal. After all, in Qianwei's thinking logic, as long as she defeated Ojis, If he proves that he is stronger than her, then he can prove that he is the perfect doll.

But now it seems that Ogis is far from perfect, so even if she defeats Ogis, she still cannot become a perfect doll.

This means that Qiaowei's goal cannot be achieved.

So what is left of her?

“The ambiguous concept of perfection is actually meaningless.”

Duanmu Huai patted Qi Wei on the head.

"You can be whoever you want to be, just like Ogis - to tell you the truth, when she first followed me, she was far more taciturn than she is now, like a walking doll. . It’s because she has experienced so much that she has these emotions and feelings and becomes what she is now. Let me state in advance that I didn’t make her become like this.”

Duanmuhuai also hopes that his little cutie will be a caring little cotton-padded jacket.

Unfortunately, this is a leaky one.

"Don't you wish she would be more obedient?"

"Everyone has their own ideas and personalities. It's not fun to force everyone to think the same as you do. Although I also hope that Ogis will be a more considerate little cotton-padded jacket... But this is also quite interesting."

"Yeah……………"

After hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, Qiangwei thought for a moment, and then her eyes lit up, as if she thought of something. Then Qiangwei looked at Duanmuhuai, showed a smile, and then came to his side.

"Then, let me serve you instead of my useless sister. Master, I am not like my sister. I am very obedient."

"Well......then first..."

"first?"

"You have to learn how to make tea."

"……………I will work hard."

"Plop."

At this moment, Ogis came back, and at the same time she stretched out her hand, and then, whether intentionally or unintentionally, a black shadow flew out from behind and hit Duanmu Huai and Qiu Wei in front of them.

"I was over there and it suddenly appeared and tried to attack me."

Ogis explained lightly.

"Then I thought the owner might need it and brought it back."

Under the firelight, you can see that what is tied up by Ogis is a monster that is slightly taller than a human and wearing a robe. Its most obvious feature is its face - it is a face that looks like an octopus. The mouth part also shook like the tentacles of an octopus, and the two eyeless dead fish eyes shone dimly in the firelight.

This is an illithid.

"Good job! Ogis."

Duanmu Huai was overjoyed to see this illithid. The illithid is one of the ugliest monsters in the Underdark and even the entire world. It is famous for eating the brains of its prey. Of course, the illithid is most famous for its psychic power. , they can easily control the brains and minds of other creatures, which is why all creatures avoid illithids.

What's even more terrible is that when an illithid controls you, you won't feel anything strange. No matter what kind of character you were, what beliefs and goals you had, when an illithid controls you, you You will feel that everything you do exists for the illithid, and you will serve the illithid. If the illithid is satisfied with your service, it will emit a sense of satisfaction and joy, allowing the manipulated The person shed tears of gratitude, as if he had been rewarded by the emperor.

But if the illithid is dissatisfied, the person being manipulated will also feel a deep sense of guilt, as uneasy as when a licking dog displeases the goddess, and vows to use everything he has to make up for the mistake - they will become The illithid's most loyal servant, and it seems like it comes from the heart.

More importantly, illithids are cautious by nature, and they rarely move in the depths of the underdark far away from their own cities. Ogis caught an illithid, which means that there must be an illithid city nearby.

At this moment, the illithid lying on the ground was also confused. It discovered Ogis accidentally. At that time, the illithid thought that this kind of lone prey was very easy to deal with, so it did not hesitate. He started teleportation, came to Ogis, and then sent a psychic shock to her.

The illithid was confident that the opponent would fall unconscious under the impact of its own mind. However, Ogis just looked at it in confusion and did not show anything strange. On the contrary, the illithid was struck by Ogis. The silk threads were tied up instantly and then dragged all the way here.

how so?

Until now, the illithid can't figure out why his psychic shock cannot have an effect on the human girl in front of him - but in fact this is a matter of course. After all, whether it is Ogis or Qiuwei, no matter what they look like on the surface, How much like humans, they are just dolls after all. Dolls made of inorganic materials do not have the brain response of humans or other creatures, let alone the spirit.

So the mind sucker's mental shock to Ogis was almost the same as hitting a stone.

But now it was different.

The mind sucker stared at the huge armored warrior, his eyes lit up.

According to the experience of the mind sucker, creatures with huge bodies are generally easier to manipulate, especially the black-armored warrior in front of him who looked like a melee barbarian, which meant that his will and spirit must not be strong.

Judging from the attitudes of the two human girls, this black-armored warrior was their master, so as long as he could control this black-armored warrior—————!

However, the mind sucker did not act immediately. Of course, it saw the terrifying and strange power armor on the other party. The mind sucker could not recognize what it was, but still had to guard against the possibility that it might be some kind of magic equipment immune to mind control. So it just fell to the ground, posing a helpless and weak look.

Well, if you don't count the strong mental power of the mind sucker, from a purely physical point of view, their bodies are indeed weak and helpless.

And Duanmu Huai was happy not only because the city of the mind sucker was already in front of him, but also because he had a perfect experimental subject.

The mind sucker is proficient in the power of the mind, while the will of the old gods will destroy all spirits.

So, who is stronger?

"Let's compete."

Duanmu Huai grabbed the mind sucker and lifted it up. Then he took off his helmet and showed a hideous and evil smile to the mind sucker.