Chapter 431 Dark Region
‘What the hell is going on? ! ’
In the dark underground tunnel, the smoke that Nohir transformed into circled in place for several times in a panic, and then changed back to its original form. He covered his helmet with both hands irritably. If it weren't for him, he would still have the ability to control himself. , and to guard against the danger here, he might even yell out directly!
‘This damn ghost place is too big! I've been floating here in smoke form for more than three hours! For more than three hours, I still didn't get out of this tunnel! If I couldn't feel that I was still going down, I would have thought that I didn't see the fork in the road at any corner and went to the wrong place! ’
Yes, this is the biggest reason that makes Nohill crazy and helpless. Below the Moonrise Tower is a colony of illithids, but the actual distance between this ghost place and the Moonrise Tower really makes Nohill I deeply experienced what it means to run to death in Wangshan.
Obviously in the game, you just jump down from the hole on the top floor of the tower, and then there is a cutscene. But when Nohir actually walked through it, he realized how much time was saved in that cutscene. distance!
‘Calculating the time, it should be almost eight o’clock in the evening now, right? After several hours of searching, we didn't even get out of the tunnel. Do I really want to continue searching now? ’
Nohir set out from Eltoril early in the morning and arrived at the Land of Shadow Curse. It took several hours just to travel, and then he was busy at the Final Light Inn for a while, and then came here. Collecting intelligence, but now the day is about to pass, and Jaheira and the others are waiting for me to go back. If we continue to search, who knows how long we will have to walk that day?
He doesn't have any skills like the Return Mantra. In this dim tunnel, if something unexpected happens, it will be very difficult for Nohir to escape even if he wants to.
Although his demonic incarnation of Kanbiweng can perform the seven-ring alien teleportation directly to hell at any time, this thing can only allow him to go to hell. If he wants to rely on this trick to come back from hell, then when he leaves the main material plane, Wherever he is, he will be there when he comes back. There is no actual value in avoiding danger. This means that he must spend time to find another way to return to this world, but now he has no time to waste.
'...No, I can't retreat. What is before me now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This may be the only opportunity to directly injure or even kill the main brain before it is fully developed. Even if We can’t wait until tomorrow. Jaheira and the others are indeed powerful teammates, but they definitely don’t have the ability to face the Chosen God and the Mastermind directly. This matter can only be left to me. ’
Nohir unconsciously looked at his raised left hand. Under the gauntlet, his index finger was wearing the legendary ring that could help him resist the psychic damage of the mastermind. Without this thing, no matter how many others came, It's no use either.
‘Just keep going. ’
Nohill clenched his fists, then forced himself to concentrate and put his energy on business. Then, Nohill began to observe the surrounding environment again.
There is no light in the circular tunnel he is in right now, but with his racial advantage, Nohill can still see the specific appearance of the surroundings.
‘You can’t notice the specific surrounding environment in the form of mist, but you didn’t expect that this tunnel is actually composed like this? ’
Stones, there are stones everywhere. Now Nohir's feet and all around are solid rocks. Occasionally, you can see some cone-shaped stalactites, but this kind of underground rock layer obviously does not naturally have such circular passages. .
This tunnel was probably made by some very large creature when it was drilling underground. It was then discovered by the Mind Flayer and Catheric, so they simply expanded and renovated it to communicate between the surface and the underground.
'A creature that can drill out of such a tunnel... a purple worm? Shark lizard? Or a burrowing monster? Time has passed so long that I can no longer tell what kind of monster left this road, but I can be sure that the one who has the ability to do this is definitely one of the above three monsters, and these three monsters , no matter what kind of monsters drilled this path, they all revealed a very crucial piece of information to me. ’
That is, these monsters all have a very unified habitat. This passage is probably connected to the underground world, that is...
‘The Underdark! These monsters are unique to the dark hell! Damn it! I should have thought of this a long time ago. I already knew about the mind flayer's nesting habits and walked into this ridiculously long tunnel myself. I actually didn't realize this until now! The information in the game misled me! ’
Yes, the situation is very clear. The illithid colony that Nohir thought was established not far below the Moonrise Tower is actually not directly below the Moonrise Tower at all!
The real place where the colony was established was actually deep in the Underdark! The reason why Catheric was able to discover these mind flayers was simply because these mind flayers occupied the Moonrise Tower through this tunnel before Catheric returned! And after Kesric completely cleaned out the mind flayers in the tower, he followed this tunnel and discovered the mastermind and the illithid community connected to the Moonrise Tower!
‘Tsk, this is really a bit troublesome. The good illithid colony exploration plan is now going to be changed into a dark hell adventure. This is not good. ’
Retracting his hand from the rock, Noshiel cast his eyes towards the deeper darkness.
Compared to the known risk of the illithid colony, the complexity of the Underdark is much higher than that place. Not only is it full of various dangerous animals and plants, but the Underdark is also full of special magic that belongs to this dangerous world: [Earth Radiation].
Earth Radiation is a very unique magic fluctuation that spreads throughout the Underdark, and its specific function is to distort teleportation and prophecy magic. In other words, in the Underdark, Noshiel can't even transform into a Kanbiong and then use the seven-ring spell attached to it to escape from the other world.
This undoubtedly greatly increased the risk of his trip, and in addition to this, Noshiel even guessed that even if he finally found his original destination, it might not be as optimistic as he had previously speculated.
Maybe the Mind Flayers did have a fierce fight with Catheric, and they lost many community members because of it, but if the main brain is really in the Underdark now, then the main brain will definitely not lack various dangerous guards around it.