Chapter 432 Swamp Bear Man
The variety of monsters in the Underdark is as famous as its dangerousness. In front of the powerful mental power of the main brain, most of the monsters in the Dark Hell cannot escape its brain control. In addition, Catheric is probably next to the main brain now...
'Stop imagining, while I still have the courage to move forward. '
Noshil shook his head and dispelled the complicated thoughts in his mind. The Underdark is the territory of the underground race. It is indeed very dangerous, but it will not definitely cost him his life.
Although the unique environment of the Underdark has abolished his means of teleportation and escape, with Noshil's strength, if he really wants to run, there is probably nothing in the world that can stop him head-on, not even Catheric!
'The risk... can be tolerated, and the benefits... are beyond imagination. In this case, there is nothing to say. ’
Noshir first took out the sound transmission stone and reported to Jahira and the others the intelligence he had searched before, including the existence of evil thoughts, the types, number and distribution of the undead inside the Moonrise Tower, and the strange area below the Moonrise Tower.
Noshir emphasized that he was exploring here now, but because the environment here was somewhat unexpected, he might not go back in a short time. The plan of distracting the enemy's attention and fighting guerrilla warfare with them could only be left to them temporarily. After all, what Noshir had to do now could not allow him to continue to be indecisive.
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In order to better observe the surrounding environment and to be able to respond to various emergencies more promptly, Noshir did not choose to continue to transform into mist. He took off his modified iron boots with nightmare spurs on them and replaced them with elf boots that were more suitable for stealth operations.
At the same time, because of the narrow tunnel environment, Noshir did not take out his large and conspicuous legendary axe, but took out the two hand axes he had used for a long time as a self-defense weapon.
Because of the elf boots, Noshiel would not make much noise even if he ran, and coupled with his already high agility, his speed did not drop at all.
As he went deeper into the dark area, Noshiel finally found some traces of the existence of the mind flayer, some glowing mucus, and a skull that had been drained of brain marrow, all of which were evidence of the existence of the mind flayer.
Following these evidences, Noshiel also found that the tunnel that originally had only one passage actually had a fork. Those forks were the same as this tunnel, and it can be seen that they should be the work of the same creature. However, perhaps because the end points of those intersections could not reach the location of the main brain, Noshiel did not find those traces of the mind flayer in those forks.
Noshiel quickly retreated from those incorrect intersections, and as he continued to move forward, he finally bumped into some welcome gifts that belonged to this dark world.
The first danger Noshiel encountered was a dark curtain monster lurking above his head. This monster belongs to the category of strange monsters in the secular biological classification.
The appearance of the Dark Curtain Beast looks like a squid shaped like a stalactite, except that there are six large and small dim yellow eyes that can be closed around the junction of its head and tentacles, as well as more than a dozen squid tentacles with sharp cones at the ends and half of the inner part is a cortical membrane.
The Dark Curtain Beast's attack method is very insidious. This monster will deliberately hang its body on the top of a rocky cliff, disguising itself as an upside-down stalactite.
The Dark Curtain Beast will use the echo of sound to locate the position of its prey, and when the prey passes under it, the guy will instantly fall from the sky, wrap the creature's head with its tentacles and sail-like body, suffocating it, and pierce the victim's body with its tentacles, and then immediately secrete a strong venom to help knock down the unlucky guy.
The Dark Curtain Beast can be said to be the most common and most easily encountered dangerous creature in the Underdark, especially for humanoid creatures. The Dark Curtain Beast is an existence that must be carefully guarded against. Because of its size, the Dark Curtain Beast, as a small monster, will only attack humanoid creatures, so as long as you walk in terrain like this tunnel, you must be careful of the hanging stones above your head.
Because the camouflage of this monster is too realistic, when it is still, there will not be any biological reaction, neither movement nor heartbeat. In addition, Noshiel has set foot in this dangerous world for the first time in his life, so he naturally did not find this target.
It was not until the Dark Curtain Beast suddenly attacked when it passed under it that Noshiel barely reacted, and before it hugged Noshiel's head with its body, Noshiel immediately raised the battle axe in his right hand and directly faced the body of the Dark Curtain Beast, cutting it in half from bottom to top!
Because the attack was timely, the Dark Curtain Beast did not cause much trouble to Noshier and died under his battle axe. At the same time, perhaps because it had not captured prey for too long, or because of the unique biological signs of the monster, the Dark Curtain Beast did not have much blood, digestive juices, and leftover prey body tissues in its body. Of course, even if there were not many, these things still existed. The incident happened suddenly, and Noshier did not have time to completely dodge, which caused some very irritating unknown liquid to be stained on his body.
Noshir had to spend some time cleaning these things up. Fortunately, because of the time in Eltoril, Noshir was filled with various unique potions and magic scrolls.
Only a simple cleaning spell was needed to completely clean up the blood and smell. But I don’t know if it was because of bad luck. Just when Noshir had just cleaned himself with the spell scroll and wanted to leave, a monster that might have been attracted by the blood of the dark beast suddenly appeared in front of Noshir.
It was a hunchbacked, thin, but large-bodied, strong-boned humanoid monster.
His whole body was covered with gray-white hair, and a pair of narrow and treacherous eyes grew on a ferocious bear head. The teeth were sharp, but the claws seemed to be blunt. The lower limbs were anti-jointed. It was estimated to have a good jumping ability. Noshir, who had monster knowledge, quickly recognized what this monster was.
"Swamp bearmen. Generally speaking, only the drow elves will domesticate these creatures in large numbers and train them into combat slaves. However, the mind flayers will also control them and use them as hard labor. In short, they are one of the standard slave races in the underground world. It seems that I am really close to finding that place."