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Madam Angst sat on a chair with a gloomy expression.

The raid team didn't return at the agreed time, and even now, the martial arts chief has not been able to step into the hall to apologize to her, so it only shows one thing, that is, the raid team has been completely wiped out.

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

Considering that the other party has even posed a threat to the city, this seems to be a reasonable thing. In fact, this made Mistress Angest relieved. The mistress of the drow for thousands of years, what she hates the most are back arrows and conspiracies from other places. If her chief martial artist returned to the city with a confident smile and reported to her that the task was completed, then Madam Angest would be suspicious.

But now... the Martial Skill Chief and the team he led have proved that the threat does exist, and it is huge.

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

Mistress Angst tapped on the armrest of the chair and thought about it. The mistresses in the front row in this city are all high priests who are favored by the Spider Goddess. With blessings and favors, these families are bound to succeed one after another.

But in this way, it will also annoy the group of surface humans in Waterdeep City. Although Mistress Angest is confident that the other party will not be able to attack her city with a large army, she does not want to fight against a huge surface force—after all, she also knows the horror of a powerful human mage, even in the dark Regions, human mages are also not easy to provoke.

Just do it.

Thinking of this, Angst made a decision.

It would be unwise to rashly attack Waterdeep City again, but she could let out some rumors, indicating that the Spider Goddess had given herself a sign that the city was about to suffer some kind of catastrophe. And as long as the source of the disaster can be found and eliminated, the Spider Goddess will be favored—this is enough for a large number of drow families in the city to take the initiative to search the dark areas around the city.

This is enough, as long as they act, a huge and dense spider web will be formed around the whole city. At that time, once the prey steps into it, they will get the news immediately.

As for what to do next......

The corners of Angst's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a smile.

Everything is under control, don't worry.

Duanmuhuai didn't know about the vicious conspiracy of the drow mistress at this moment, because he had more important things to do right now.

"A pair of kings! Exploded!"

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

"I won!"

"I lost."

Augis put down the cards in her hand and said in a low voice.

"Then it's your turn for Augis, go find something interesting nearby."

"Okay, master."

Augis nodded, then stood up, and disappeared into the dark tunnel after a while.

"It's such a boring game, thanks to your dedication to it."

Yan Wei sat beside her, looking at the cards in her hand with disgust.

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

Duanmu Huai stretched his waist and looked at Yanwei.

"What? Still not getting along well with Augis?"

"What do you think?"

"Hahahaha, don't be angry, Augis 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 found out yet?"

"Find what?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's voice became serious, Yan Wei frowned and stared at him.

"You always thought that Augis was a perfect doll, so you always wanted to replace her, right?"

"That's right."

"But I think you've also seen that she's not perfect."

Duanmu Huai spread his hands.

"If Augis is really a perfect doll, then she can completely imitate the attitude of those elder sisters and adults in the books she reads to treat you, right? A perfect doll needs to be Perfectly obeying orders and carrying out orders, but do you think that Augis seems to be perfectly acting like a sister now?"

Even as a little padded jacket, she still has wind leakage and anti-armor, every back stab hurts Duanmu Huai seriously, where can there be such a perfect doll. A doll of the perfect DISS master?

"this…………………"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's inquiry, Yanwei was dumbfounded for a moment. Indeed, after thinking about it carefully, her resentment towards Augis at the beginning stemmed from the fact that she was just a replica created by the maker to imitate Augis, and because of her own The Maker felt that he was not as perfect as Augis, so he threw himself aside.

It is also because of this that Yanwei has always hated Augis. The reason why she attacked Augis was because she felt that as long as she could defeat Augis, she could prove that she was far better than Augis. A perfect doll.

But...perfect?

After carefully recalling the performance of Aojisi during this period of time, and then bringing it in from the perspective of her own maker, Yan Wei suddenly found that Aojisi was far from perfect. Maybe even his creator would be disappointed if he saw the current Augis.

After thinking of this, Yanwei suddenly felt as if she had lost all strength in her body. She had always regarded defeating Augustus as her primary goal. After all, in Yanwei's thinking logic, as long as she defeated Augustis, If you prove that you are stronger than her, then you can prove that you are the perfect doll.

But now it seems that Augis is far from perfect, so even if she defeats Augis, it is impossible for her to become a perfect puppet.

This also means that Yanwei's goal cannot be achieved.

So what is left of her?

"The ambiguous concept of perfection is actually meaningless."

Duanmuhuai patted Jiawei on the head.

"You can be who you want to be, just like Augis—to tell you the truth, when she first followed me, she was far more silent than she is now, like a doll who can only walk That is to say, after going through a lot, you will have these emotions and feelings, and become what you are now. Let me state in advance, I didn't make her become like this."

Duanmuhuai also hopes that her little cutie is a caring little padded jacket.

Unfortunately, it's a leaky one.

"Don't you want her to be more obedient?"

"Everyone has their own thoughts and personalities. It's meaningless to force everyone to think as they think. Although I also hope that Augis is a little padded jacket who is more considerate to me... But it's also quite interesting."

"Yeah……………"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, Yanwei thought for a moment, then her eyes lit up, as if she had thought of something, then Yanwei looked at Duanmuhuai, showed a smile, and then moved to his side.

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

"Hmm...then first..."

"first?"

"You have to learn how to make tea."

"……………I will work hard."

"Plop."

At this moment, Augis came back, and at the same time she stretched out her hand and shook it, and then she didn't know whether it was intentional or not, a black shadow flew out from behind and hit Duanmu Huai and Yan Wei in front of them.

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

Augis explained lightly.

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

Under the light of the fire, it can be seen that the one being bound by Augis is a monster 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 was also shaking like the tentacles of an octopus, and the eyes of two dead fish without eyelids shone dimly in the firelight.

This is an illithid.

"Well done, Augis."

Duanmuhuai was overjoyed to see this illithid. Illithids are one of the ugliest monsters in the Underdark and even in the entire world. They are famous for eating the brains of their prey. Of course, illithids are most famous for their spiritual power , They can easily manipulate the brains and spirits of other creatures, which is why all creatures are afraid to avoid illithids.

What's more terrible is that when the illithids manipulate you, you will not feel any difference. No matter what kind of character you used to be, what kind of beliefs and goals you have, when the illithids manipulate you, you will You will feel that everything about yourself exists for the illithids, you will serve the illithids, and if the illithids are satisfied with your service, it will release a sense of satisfaction and joy, allowing the manipulated The reader was grateful, as if he was rewarded by the emperor.

But if the illithid is dissatisfied, the manipulated will also feel a deep sense of guilt, just like when licking a dog makes the goddess unhappy, and vows to use everything they have to make up for their mistakes——they will become The most loyal servants of the illithids, and it seems as if they come from the bottom of their hearts.

More importantly, illithids are cautious by nature, and they hardly move in the depths of the dark area far away from their own city. Ojis caught a illithid, which means that there must be a city with illithids nearby.

At this moment, the illithid lying on the ground was also very confused. It found Augis by accident. At that time, the illithid thought that this kind of lone prey was very easy to deal with, so it did not hesitate. Launched the teleportation, came in front of Augis, and then sent a psychic shock to her.

The spirit sucker confidently believed that the other party would be knocked unconscious by the shock of his own mind, but Augis just looked at it suspiciously, and didn't show any strangeness. The silk thread was tied up in an instant, and then it was dragged all the way here.

how so?

Until now, the spirit sucker can't figure out why his spiritual impact can't 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 Augis or Yan Wei, no matter what they look like on the surface How much like humans, they are just puppets after all, puppets made of non-mechanical materials, do not have the reaction of the brain in humans or other creatures, let alone the spirit.

Therefore, the mental impact of the illithid hitting August was almost the same as hitting a stone.

But now it's different.

The illithid stared at the huge armored warrior with bright eyes.

According to the experience of illithids, creatures with huge stature are generally easier to be manipulated, especially the black armored warrior in front of him looks like a barbarian in close combat, so it shows that his will and spirit must not be strong.

Judging from the attitudes of these two human girls, this black armored warrior is their master, so as long as he can control this black armored warrior——!

However, the spirit sucker didn't make a move immediately. Of course, it saw the terrifying and strange power armor on the opponent's body. The spirit sucker couldn't recognize what it was, but it still had to be on guard that it might be some kind of immunity to mind control. magic equipment. So it just fell to the ground, looking helpless and weak.

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

But Duanmu Huai was happy not only because of the fact that the city of illithids was in sight, but also because he had a perfect experimental subject.

Illithids are masters of psychic powers, while the Will of the Old Gods destroys all spirits.

So, who is stronger?

"Let's compare and see."

Duanmu Huai grabbed the illithid and lifted it up. Then he took off his helmet and showed a ferocious and evil smile at the illithid.