Master of Spells from Faerun

Chapter 201 The Mind Flayer Mastermind

"Oritas, the old rules, a piece of Los Roux and a glass of red wine."

Imrik walked out of the room and came to the hall and said without raising his head. After these few days, the psion who opened the tavern came to Imrik's room to feed food every day. Imrik was very interested in this man named Orui. The men in Tas are already quite familiar.

When Oritas saw Imric coming down, he said excitedly: "You're here just in time, Imrik. Let me introduce you to him. This is my lover, Twisting."

Imrik raised his head in surprise, and sure enough, he saw a mind flayer, the same one that had dueled him at the door.

No wonder it was my concubine’s property that recommended me to live here.

Imric complained in his mind that the mind flayers were all hermaphrodites. Although the Twister in front of him looked like a tall male creature, she was actually a strange being who was willing to be attached to her partner, a bird.

Twisting in front of her lover, she rarely showed any indifference at the beginning. She sat upright on the chair, leaning her slippery tentacled head on Oritas' shoulder, raising one tentacle and saying hello: "We meet again. ,Humanity."

Oritas couldn't put it down and touched his slippery hands and said, "Look, isn't my lover very beautiful? She is the most beautiful existence I have ever seen in my life."

Imrik couldn't bear to see Oritas's obsessed look, but he soon put this discomfort behind him. He had not forgotten the purpose of his coming.

The mage looked at the two of them seriously and said: "Your Excellency Twisting, I came here to have a deal to negotiate with your Mind Flayer tribe."

After hearing this, Tuihu sat up straightly, and his voice returned to a cold tone: "Oh? Human, what deal do you want to discuss with us? I don't think the great mastermind can get anything from you."

The mage shook his head and said with a smile: "My ally, a legendary green dragon, and I want to get something in the city of Eredelin, but the first step is to destroy it and eliminate the resistance of the dark elves. I heard that you We have been at war with that group of drow for decades, so naturally I came here to increase the number of allies."

Twisting heard that he thought for a while and said: "I can't make the decision on this matter, but I will take you to see our mastermind, and he will decide whether to cooperate with you."

Imric nodded. His original purpose was to let Twisted Eater introduce him to him.

Oritas glanced at Imric stupidly and said: "Oh my god, I didn't expect your goal to be so big. To destroy a drow city. This is something that even the mind flayers can't do. No wonder you can Take out so much magic equipment.”

Twisting stood up, stretched out his slippery left hand and said: "Grab my hand, I will take you to teleport there."

Imrik looked at the suspicious mucus on the Mind Flayer's skin and hesitated, but finally took it. In a flash of blue light, the two of them disappeared.

In a blink of an eye, the two of them appeared in a huge cave. In the center of the cave, there was a huge salt water pool, and a huge brain-like existence floating in the sky.

The purple ball floating in the air looked like a giant brain with tentacles trailing behind it, and Imric felt its telepathic abilities wash over his consciousness like oily waves.

Fortunately, Imric has the characteristic of psychic immunity, otherwise he would have been controlled by this terrifying existence the moment he saw it.

"Why did you bring a human here, Twisting?" The mastermind's voice sounded in their minds.

Imrik looked at the oppressive monster in front of him and narrowed his eyes. He was worthy of being the mind flayer mastermind. This strength must be at least legendary. If this mind flayer mastermind takes the initiative to attack, I am afraid that within the city of Eredelin, There is nothing that can stop him.

The Elder Brain is the final stage of the mind flayer's life process, an evil being with godlike intelligence.As the core of all mind flayer cities, the Overmind is responsible for guiding the tribe to try to realize the dark dream of illithid hegemony.

He is the physical and spiritual core of his illithid community, an expert in psychic powers and a living warehouse that stores the technology and history of this community. At the same time, he is also the absolute leader of the mind flayer community.

Every mind flayer whose body dies will integrate his body into the master brain. As the number increases, the spiritual power of the mind flayer master brain also increases infinitely. It can be said that a person who has enough time to integrate a large number of mind flayers The mastermind is an existence that even quasi-gods must be afraid of.

Under normal circumstances, the mind flayer mastermind not only possesses various powerful psychic powers, but also has an extremely powerful warlock profession. Even the weakest mind flayer mastermind has a warlock profession as high as level 20.

"Mastermind, this human wants to cooperate with us and capture the city of Eredelin." Twisting replied.

The mastermind's psychic power burst out and broke into Imrik's mind like a spike. He wanted to explore Imrik's memory.

However, the characteristics of psychic immunity prevent the power of the mastermind from being used. Like a stubborn stone, the powerful psychic power cannot penetrate Imrik's heart at all.

"The powerful Lord of the city of Aaskor, my companion, a legendary green dragon, and I heard about the conflict between you and the city of Eredelin. Coincidentally, we also wanted to destroy that city of drow. , there is a proverb among humans, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, I think our alliance is something worth considering." Imrik said with a smile as if he had not noticed the temptation of the mastermind.

The mastermind was silent for a while and said: "Are the monster army in that valley your subordinates?"

Imrik raised his eyebrows. Unexpectedly, the mastermind had already noticed the existence of the monster army. He nodded and said: "Of course, not only that, my companions are about to bring an even larger monster army. As long as the two of us In a pincer attack, you attract firepower on the frontal battlefield, and our monster army can guarantee the collapse of Iredelin City's military power."

The city of Ascor is located to the east of Iredelin City, and the entrance to the valley is to the west of Iredelin City. If the mind flayer's slave army starts a war, plus the monster army, it will indeed be enough to make Iredelin City devastated.

With this in mind, the mastermind's powerful calculations concluded that this was a feasible plan, but the only thing that needed to be determined was.
"How can I trust you, and how can you guarantee that you are not undercover allies of Eredelin City?"

Imric smiled and said: "It's simple. We can make a contract, and we will launch a harassment attack on Eredelin City first. You can choose whether to join in at your own discretion. Of course, I believe that based on your calculations, it should be Know that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to destroy the city of Eredlyn."

The mind flayer mastermind was silent. He was indeed attracted by this proposal. The first matron of Eredlin City is a legendary powerful priest. As a mastermind who cannot move, he has always been limited by the distance of the battlefield. Unable to support the mind flayer's army, the matron relied on her own strength to turn the tide in the end.

With the help of this mage and the legendary green dragon, the offensive and defensive momentum will be greatly reversed.

"I agree, human."

The mastermind's telepathy resounded through the cave, causing vibrations. After Imric concluded a contract with him, he disappeared into the cave.
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Imrik, who returned to the Magic Crystal Tower, used the prophecy mirror in the tower to contact Titanisha.

"A mind flayer city has joined our alliance, Green Dragon, just waiting for your army to arrive to start the war."

The ferocious head of the green dragon appeared in the crystal ball. She said with satisfaction: "Very good, mage. It seems that you not only have strong strength, but also have surprising diplomatic skills. Just wait, my army will come." In the underdark, crush those black-skinned cousins ​​to death!"

Imric closed the Mirror of Prophecy, and Okul walked in with an anxious expression.

"Lord Thor, the red dragon you brought has consumed all the reserves in the valley. It has even eaten more than 100 kobolds. I really have no choice."

After Attila, the Fury of the Red Flame, was recovered by Imrik using the enslavement technique, he stayed in the valley. During Imrik's absence, Okul not only had to find a way to deal with the army's more than 2000 mouths, It can be said that he is extremely broken because he still has to satisfy this big eater.

Imric casually cast the [Food Creation Spell] again and produced a large amount of food. The moment Okul saw the food, he was so moved that he almost shed tears. No one knew that he would face a group of hungry monsters every day. What an experience it was, especially for the red dragon. If it hadn't been for the kobold to fill his belly, I might have become his food.

"Is there anything else?" Imrik asked indifferently.

Okul seemed to have remembered something and said: "Oh, by the way, we caught a few passing adventurers yesterday. They seemed to be going to Iredelin City. I don't know if it will be helpful to you, sir, so I took them He was detained and left in the camp.”

Imrik raised his eyebrows, and just when he was about to say, "I'll go take a look," he suddenly thought of something and stopped.

"Perhaps, I can spy on the information about Iredelin City." Thinking of a certain spell he possessed, Imric suddenly had an idea.

The mage raised his hand, and surging magic power appeared from his hand. Ice and snow appeared in front of him, and then formed a human body, exactly like Imric.

Seventh Ring Spell——[Simulacra].

Simulation is a rather magical spell. It allows the caster to create a copy of any creature, possessing all its abilities, but all abilities and attributes are only half of the original body, and the life level of the selected object cannot exceed the caster's level. twice.

The cost of casting this spell is extremely expensive. Not only does it require ruby ​​powder worth 100 gold coins to copy the target's life level, but it also requires a permanent sacrifice of part of the upper limit of mental power like the magic constancy spell.

But the effect is also very powerful. Imric has now copied himself, and even the closest people can't see the difference, except that the caster level has become level seven.

Of course, the copy created by the simulacrum cannot use the Book of Endlessness, so he simply inherits Imric's own spell slots.

　There are two more chapters later

　　
　
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