Crown of Chaos

The giant conch-shell ship is above the sky.

The internal structure of the mind flayer's creation is different from the sophisticated giant ship structure imagined by humans, or the ancient structure of the Elven Empire Navy that is simple in style but full of magic.

The interior of the spiral shell warship is all composed of flesh and blood tissue like biomass. Every appliance and cabin is connected together through tissues similar to blood vessels and muscles. Under the seemingly solid appearance, there is a life-like pulse squirming. Panting constantly.

Aaron stared coldly at the hall where he was. There were some mind flayers here. They were manipulating arm-like devices, connecting different threads together, and pressing buttons on the console at the same time, creating mysterious spiritual connections. This prompted the shell ship to operate according to their ideas.

The mind flayer race has always been known for its mystery. As mentioned above, if the mind flayers once had a glorious era, it was a long time ago. According to the description in the book Elminster gave him, the mind flayers The race of mind demons believes that other races are only worthy of being their food. For the mind flayers, they have no scruples in planning to conquer all other races, gather countless slaves, and devour their brains. Biochemicals and hormones found only in brain tissue are an essential source of nutrition for adult mind flayers.

Are mind flayers evil? Definitely yes, because they are hard-wired to feed on the brains of other intelligent beings.

Are mind flayers evil? Not in their own eyes, but in the eyes of the mind flayers, we just want to survive and have a full stomach. What kind of sin is it to survive? What kind of crime is it for the reproduction and inheritance of the race?

Therefore, people cannot understand each other because of their ethnicity, geographical environment, and religious beliefs, let alone between races.

But regardless, the mind flayers had caused so much death and damage that Aaron had no reason to spare them.

Forgiveness is not for this time.

"Eleanor, let's do it!"

Aaron turned on his perception. He felt that some mind flayers outside were studying the newly plundered passenger ship. The hall was burning everywhere. The explosion caused by being forced into the mouth of the abyss by the Chaos Skull caused the colorful flames of Tzeentch to spread everywhere. Spread, no mind flayers noticed that Aaron and Eleanor were hiding behind the broken mast on the deck.

"I know." Eleanor struck a hammer and a sword in her hand, and the pastor lady was a little nervous: "Aaron, be careful,"

Following Aaron's movements, the Tzeentch Frisbee appeared out of thin air, and the colorful fire of chaos spread out along the jagged teeth below the Tzeentch Frisbee.

Uh-huh!

Plop!

The octopus head flew into the sky, and dull sounds of falling to the ground were heard one after another. Aaron's figure standing on the Tzeentch Frisbee appeared like a ghost. Every turn took away the lives of at least two mind flayers. He was rampaging through the hall, arrogant. , all mind flayers are powerless to resist.

The Fate of Tzeentch is suspended in the air, and every spell released by the mind flayers in the hall is recorded on it, and no magic is triggered.

The power of Tzeentch is the greatest nemesis for a race like the mind flayers, which are only good at using psychic and magical abilities!

It didn't take long for the mind flayers in the hall to be cleared by Aaron. Eleanor's just-right magical power of silence shrouded the nearby door. The mind flayers on the other side knew nothing about the situation here.

The door that separates the salvage hall from the cabin on the other side has a very strange shape. Rather than a door, it is more like an excretion port closed by a sphincter in the excretory tissue. Layers of muscle tissue seal the entrance to other cabins.

The power of chaos in Aaron's mind swept through the entire cabin and confirmed that there were no other living mind flayers. Then he turned his attention back to this huge cabin. It was about ten meters high and every corner was surrounded by Covered in thick biomass, it looked soft and densely covered in color with outlines of blood vessels and muscle tissue. This made Aaron feel more like he was standing inside the body of a giant beast, rather than in space capable of traveling through the multiverse. Among the ships.

The damage caused by the explosion caused by the Skull of Chaos was huge. Many gaps were opened in the flesh and blood walls of the cabin. As Aaron judged, these gaps were not high-tech, but flesh and blood tissue. Some parts were obviously made of flesh and blood. It was blown apart, and a large amount of pink and purple blood continued to flow out, mixing into a sticky ball.

The strange sense of dislocation made Aaron feel very insignificant, and he immediately turned his attention to Eleanor.

Miss Priest carefully avoided those dirty sticky things. Although there was curiosity in her eyes, she was more disgusted with the mind flayer: "This is the first time I have seen the mind flayer. I used to only see the mind flayer." Ms. Silver Star has heard about such creatures, don’t they all live in the dark area?”

"Yes, since the Mind Flayer Empire was destroyed by the Gith uprising, many Mind Flayers have moved to the Underdark. But don't think that the Mind Flayers have no space fleet. In fact, the Elf Empire Navy The High Command is always monitoring the movements of the Mind Flayer space fleet."

At this time, Barrel finally appeared. The fat sun elf smiled and said: "Mind flayers are a very interesting species. In history, they are sometimes hostile to us and sometimes allied with us. If these creatures were not because of Eating the brains of intelligent creatures is unacceptable to us elves, otherwise there may be room for communication between the two races because of their psychic abilities."

"Now, your Excellency, you have seen the mind flayer's biotechnology." Barrel smiled mischievously: "Do you have any experience to share with your magic consultant?"

"...How do you feel?" Aaron raised his eyebrows: "Barrel, you know when to show up."

"Doesn't this show that you and Ms. Eleanor are strong?" The sun elf smiled very cheaply and said: "That's almost it. Your salary is not worth letting me deal with the mind flayers. Do you expect someone with a monthly salary of 12 gold coins? Are the night watchmen here to deal with Amn’s Shadow Thieves? How much money can they do?"

"You are always so frank." Aaron chuckled, agreeing with Barrier's approach.

This sun elf! Eleanor frowned, but Selun's teachings were such that she would not rebuke Barriel for lacking a "civil spirit" like the Lathander believers.

"You need to be careful, there must be a Perfect Mind Flayer on this ship." Barrier shared the information with Aaron.

Like elves, mind flayers also have higher-level subspecies. In Barrier's description, this type of mind flayers is called "perfect mind flayers". The difference between perfect mind flayers and ordinary mind flayers , as big as between gods and most mortal beings. They are the most cruel, insidious, and powerful of their kind. Their psychic abilities are rated highest by the elves.

Perfect mind flayers usually live separately from smaller kin. If the approximate address of a perfect mind flayer is made public, ordinary mind flayers will swarm there, constantly trying to learn from the perfect mind flayer and steal their heads. Used to strengthen the mastermind of the mind flayers, they will quickly form a group of at least a hundred mind flayers, closely surrounding the perfect mind flayer.

Sometimes the perfect mind flayer will join some powerful organizations and use its power to help the mind flayer society expand.

"How many living people are left in the passenger ship?" Aaron continued to ask.

"There are not many left. I have placed them in one place. Ms. Charlotte is trying to teleport them away." Barrel motioned to the two female drow elves to come forward: "As for the others, I think these two ladies Might be able to help us a little.”

"Hello, Your Excellency Aaron Salian, I am Vanessa and she is Kafka." The two female drow elves introduced themselves to Aaron: "We are the messengers of the Dark Maiden. We are very happy to meet you. You, your name spreads far and wide even in the Underdark.”

"Welcome, the Dark Girl and the Silver Virgin are good friends. I believe we can become friends." Aaron nodded.

Among the two female drows, Vanessa is slightly shorter. She has silver ponytail hair. She wears simple close-fitting leather armor and a leather jacket, exposing her navel, leather pants and boots. The legs are extremely long and slender, the blue eyes are shining brightly, and there is an awe-inspiring and heroic aura about him.

Kafka is taller. Unlike Vanessa, her silver hair is dyed red at the end, forming a gradient color. Although she has the same dark skin, but just from the facial features, Kafka looks Ka is definitely older than Vanessa, and has more mature and beautiful charm. She wears a very serious cloak and serious mithril scales on her upper body, but her legs wrapped in black fishnet stockings are exposed under the armor skirt on her lower body. leg.

The two drows each carry an instrument behind their backs. Vanessa carries a lute, from which you can feel the magical aura, while Kafka carries a harp. Obviously, they all have similar chants. Bard abilities, and possibly a multi-class occupation.

"There is no need to say more. Please give us temporary instructions on what to do." Kafka said proactively: "It is best to get rid of the current predicament first."

"Yes, please give the order, Your Excellency." Vanessa was somewhat resistant to this order, but as Kafka showed a warning expression, the female drow temporarily chose to obey.

"It's very simple." Aaron nodded, and the face of the Son of Chaos showed a bloodthirsty light.

"Let us burn this shell ship to ashes, and by the way, take the mind and wealth of the legendary mind flayer for ourselves!"

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"Kah~kakakakakaka~"

The door of the sphincter-shaped biological cabin opened, and a powerful mind flayer stood in front of the incubation pool, staring at the mind flayer tadpoles inside.

Mind flayers are parthenogenetic creatures. They can lay eggs twice in their lives. The eggs will be put into incubation pools in groups. In the special brain pool environment, the mind flayer eggs will hatch. , giving birth to a large number of mind flayer tadpoles.

Only one in a thousand Mind Flayer tadpoles can survive. The remaining Mind Flayer tadpoles will become nourishment for the mastermind deep in the incubation pool. The growth of the Mind Flayer tadpoles will last for ten years, starting from a slender pink flesh. The tadpoles gradually transform into a small octopus with tentacles and sharp mouthparts. The adult mind flayer will implant these mind flayer tadpoles into the ears or eyes of a helpless humanoid creature. The tadpoles will quickly eat them. It removes the gray matter part of the brains of humanoids, and then pierces its tentacles into their cerebral cortex tissue, gradually merging with the brainstem, and gradually obliterating the host's personality and soul.

After a few days, a new mind flayer will be born.

Therefore, it does not seem to make much sense to use human morality to criticize this special race of mind flayers. In the eyes of these multiverse slave tyrants, everything they do is for survival and reproduction. They think they have nothing to blame. , when it comes to etiquette alone, the mind flayers are even very elegant.

But in the eyes of other races, mind flayers are out-and-out demons.

This mind flayer is observing the breeding of mind flayer tadpoles in the hatching pond.

The mind flayer's incubation pool is also called the brain pool. It has always been the core and most valued place of mind flayer society, because in addition to hatching mind flayer tadpoles, the mind flayer master brain is located in the incubation pool. The deepest part of the pool is responsible for absorbing a large number of dead Mind Flayer eggs and Mind Flayer tadpoles as a source of nutrition.

At this time, he was immersing his soul in the orders of the mastermind.

The mind flayer mastermind wanted to obtain an artifact, the crown of Karthus. The mastermind learned from another mind flayer mastermind, the Lich, that the former great arcanist of Netheril, Karthus, had killed himself before his death. All the knowledge and the results of a lifetime of magical research are poured into this crown. If the mastermind can find this crown, it can move towards the demigod.

Even, if the rumors are true, maybe this crown still contains the twelve-ring super-ring magic that was banished to the end of the multiverse by the goddess of magic - Karthus' Divine Conception!

All the mind of this mind flayer was immersed in the grand plan of the mastermind, and he did not realize that behind him, on a thick blue book, the burning demonic eye symbolizing the god of wisdom was staring at the brain in the pool. .

Suddenly, the mastermind in the incubation pool realized something. In an instant, it sent out strong spiritual energy fluctuations, trying to alert the mind flayer standing in front of the pool.

A higher level of telepathy!

However, this telepathy and other telepathy cannot be transmitted at all. The only thing it can do is to leave chaotic words written with demon blood on the Fate of Tzeentch!

Therefore, it was not until the moment when Tzeentch's flying disk approached that the Mind Flayer woke up from a dream. Before it could turn around, the sharp moon blade had penetrated its chest from behind!

Phew!

The turbid blood splashed into the incubation pool, and the mind flayer tadpoles in the pool were shaking, and the ring-shaped fangs in their mouths made sharp screams.

The octopus glanced feebly at the Dark Moon Sword that pierced through the chest. Its eyes were a little dazed, and it only felt that its spiritual power was rapidly draining. At a certain moment, it covered up the long years of being a mind flayer. His psychic confinement seemed to disappear, and he suddenly remembered who he really was before he became a mind flayer.

However, this time only lasted for a short moment, and the next second, darkness swallowed up everything in him.

Aaron drew out his sword and watched the Mind Flayer fall. He saw a circle of breeding chambers around him. Each breeding chamber contained a humanoid creature. Obviously, their fate was to wait for the Mind Flayer tadpoles to mature. , these cute little octopuses move their tentacles along the eye sockets or ears and crawl into their heads. They eat all the gray matter in the brain and pierce the brainstem with their tentacles, transforming into new mind flayers.

Aaron didn't know whether he saved these people or caused them to lose an opportunity for "glorious evolution", but he had already made up his mind to save them from the fate of becoming a mind flayer.

"mortal."

A psychic communication suddenly entered his mind.

Incubation pond?

"Mortal, quickly hand over the crown of Karsus in your body!"

"The mind is more powerful than matter, and only a small part of our inner potential is exploited. Within your species, only a few individuals are now able to manipulate the power of psychic energy."

"Now, give me the crown and I can teach you how to harness the great power we are born with."

Aaron smiled, why did a mind flayer mastermind also come to teach him?

Are you worthy?

No one understands psychic powers better than Chaos!

"Who asked you?"

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