The red dragon just wants to do whatever it wants

Chapter 251 There is no demon in the future

The history of Molten Steel Fortress can be traced back centuries. This dwarven fortress located on the cliff of the Rift Valley was once a symbol of dwarven craftsmanship and strength, but now it has long been reduced to a cold lair occupied by illithids. .

The exterior of the fortress still retains the typical features of dwarven architecture, with solid stone walls, intricate carvings, and massive iron doors.

But now, under the influence of the years, the walls are full of cracks. Some of the carvings featuring the dwarf ancestors are no longer identifiable. The slime erosion left by the illithids walking through them all year round looks distorted and desecrated. The iron door has also been damaged. Torn apart by powerful psychic power.

However, the main city of the illithids does not need to be guarded by such things as doors.

Because few guys in their right mind would choose to go to the illithid's territory to secretly cause trouble. It was purely because the old elf hanged himself because he thought his life was too long.

At the same time, almost every creature enslaved by the illithids can be said to be the eyes that the illithids use to monitor the city, like a steel cage filled with cameras.

In terms of the degree of tight security, there are probably not many city-states of other races that can match it.

And the illithid Abedra who rules this molten steel fortress is a standard illithid Archon:

He is cunning, cunning, knowledgeable, tenacious, proud, cruel and ruthless

But home.

Yes, this is a common problem among almost every illithid ruler.

Before they opened up a nest of illithids that was safe enough for them to live, they all preached that they would fight to rebuild the Il Asriel Empire. However, after occupying a nest, they often chose to hide and hibernate for a long time. , and has been focusing on his own acquisition and research of knowledge for a long time.

It was as if the other creatures in the entire lair and even the lower-level illithids were just tools to continue their lives.

Such direct and desperate class solidification will naturally arouse the dissatisfaction of other illithids, which also leads to an endless stream of illithid measures to "conquer the superiors" and even conspire to cause turmoil.

But unlike Drow, who is also accustomed to "subjugating the superior", all Drow's behavior patterns are basically to grab more power, so as to strive to become the mistress and even the spokesperson of Rose.

The purpose of illithid monsters is to get rid of the shackles of the archons and the thinking imprint of the main brain, so as to gain more opportunities for reproduction and the power to explore knowledge.

After all, an illithid only has two chances to produce egg sacs in its life. It must also make outstanding contributions to the group before it can be qualified to put the egg sacs on the main brain pool.

Because of this, any illithid archon who has gone through some years, although the main city ruled by "chaos returns to chaos", can always present a strange order of "order within chaos". At the same time, for the people surrounding the main city, All kinds of 'riots' that break out in the city have a very familiar response plan and the confidence to deal with them perfectly without leaving any hidden dangers.

At least before today, Abedra thought so confidently.

On this day, he was standing in front of the huge brain pool in the main city as usual, checking whether the tadpoles inside were fully developed and eliminating those that were obviously deformed or had such a tendency to mutate.

And help those illithid tadpoles that have finally matured and matured after more than ten years of escaping from the day and night hunting by the tentacles of the main brain nerves to choose a body suitable for seizing the body, so as to help them successfully enter the adult stage.

This is a sacred act.

At least that's true for illithids.

Every tadpole that 'grows up successfully' with the help of their hands can be regarded as his child.

Even though the egg sacs that gave birth to these tadpoles came from different members of the group, they were all individuals who had contributed to the group.

But being able to survive the ten-year-long, almost cruel selection process of the mastermind is enough to prove their health and excellence.

As for selecting bodies for them to take away, it is also a technical job that requires a lot of knowledge and experience.

They must evaluate the vitality and food intake of each tadpole to match the creature with the corresponding brain capacity. Whether it is too small or too large, it will be a problem for future generations.

For example, there was once a mind flayer elder who stuffed a tribesman into the skull of a young half-air giant in an attempt to cultivate a genius for his own selfish purposes.

As a result, the tadpole failed to eat up the host's brain and fused with the brainstem first. At the moment of awakening consciousness, the remaining consciousness of the newborn illithid and the young giant were intertwined in his mind, causing the poor little guy to almost go insane. die.

Even if he survives the incident, he still has to endure the severe mental pain day and night, until the four tentacles also twitch. Therefore, he has become a rare person who has been given the name of "Severe Pain in Cramps" just after he reached adulthood.

But it is undeniable that time has proven that the man with severe cramping pain is indeed a rare genius, in every sense.

So the illithids have suffered since then, because many illithid ‘parents’ have begun to fall in love with this ‘limit-challenging’ dog gambling model:

Anyway, a thousand mediocre illithids are just a thousand ordinary illithids.

But whenever a genius is born, or the legendary 'Soul Eater' is born with six tentacles, there is a chance that the entire tribe will follow suit to reach a higher level.

And the specific operations are 'traceable', so break the traditional model of taking over ordinary humanoid creatures, and try to find the kind of 'gifted' beings, such as high-level professionals,

Another example is an extraordinary creature, a young frost giant, or a young dragon that has just emerged from its shell and has not eaten its first meal.

Of course, the latter two are not easy to do.

Especially for hatchlings that have just hatched and haven't had time to break out of their shells, the dragon eggs themselves are not easy to handle. The hatching conditions for hatchlings are also particular, but hatchlings that meet the requirements are like the lolita in the eyes of a strange uncle. After eating and sleeping, I became overweight.

When Abedra first became the consul, he had the idea of ​​​​young dragons, or in other words, the idea of ​​drow dragonborn in their infancy.

Unfortunately, before he could turn his idea into action and organize a plan to 'import goods' from Spider Nest City, the breeding dragon raised by the drow led his tribe to launch a great rebellion, and he had no chance of escaping. There was no trace.

It is said that he came back with his tribe more than thirty years ago. Unfortunately, he has become a legend, which makes Abadela very regretful.

After all, the legendary red dragon is like a porcupine. As long as your mind is healthy, you should not provoke it easily.

Even if he can bear it himself, the mastermind who is extremely sensitive to the environment may not be able to bear it.

But just when Abedra was grabbing an illithid tadpole from the brain pool to discuss and evaluate its development status with the idea of ​​"not fighting against the world and pursuing development".

The roar was like a terrifying sound like an underground volcano erupting, instantly shaking the entire Molten Steel Fortress.

Abedra managed to avoid throwing the fragile illithid tadpole directly to the wall, but when he turned around, he saw ripples in the entire huge main brain pool because of this huge 'fright'.

At the same time, the loss of contact with too many 'tentacles' at the same time caused the main brain organization to squirm crazily as if frightened. An unknown number of tadpoles were captured and devoured by the main brain out of survival instinct, and turned into its 'melatonin'.

Naturally, they also include many mature individuals who are particularly favored by Abedra and have even prepared their bodies for him.

"No!!!" If Abedra's expression at this moment was captured by David, who was on the way, he would have felt particularly familiar - "Scream". If it was a normal loss, Abedra would not blink an eye. After all, it was the normal survival of the fittest among illithid monsters, but now it was simply a disaster that affected the fish in the pond.

"What's going on!? Report it to me!" Abedra's majestic mental scream immediately spread through the medium of the mastermind throughout most of the Molten Steel Fortress.

Even the illithids were shaken by this resentful scream, and the psychic slaves who were doing hard labor in the city immediately 'lyed' on the ground, most of them fainted, and some even A small number of people close to the core of the main city died on the spot with blood spurting out from their orifices, and they died in a horrifying manner.

"Lord Archon, two legendary red dragons, no! Three red dragons are in the middle of a melee. Judging from their pursuit trajectory, it may inevitably affect our main city. Just now, one of the red dragons' 'Dragon Breath Bomb' It crashed into our main city, and although it was intercepted by us immediately, the aftermath of the explosion still destroyed half of the city block."

"." Abedra was speechless for a moment.

Disputes between five-colored dragons are commonplace, especially when they are fighting for the ownership of a certain nest. If such a disaster happens, you can usually only consider yourself unlucky. After all, giant dragons, especially red dragons, are not likely to fight. Don't worry about how many innocent people will be affected.

However, he can understand the red dragon fight, but what the hell is the three-jowl fight?

It seemed that he also felt the doubts from the Archon on a spiritual level. The witness added his findings:

"Listening to the roars between them, they seem to have a close blood relationship. The cause of the fight is suspected to be a one-sided family challenge. As for the third red dragon, it seems to be on the side to break up the fight. The 'Dragon Breath Bomb' just fired It was him who vomited it."

"." Upon hearing this 'unbelievable' way of breaking up the fight, Abedela's face suddenly became as twisted as if he saw some idiot getting his own excrement on his ovaries when he discharged them next to the sacred master brain's brain pool.

Is this how you red dragons break up the fight?

"All the consuls and elders of the illithids, follow me and make sure to stop these red dragons outside the fortress city."

He must keep this moving disaster out of his territory as soon as possible, otherwise the continued 'shock and unrest' environment will cause the master's brain to convulse and instinctively eat more illithid tadpoles to serve as nutrients.

But he didn't choose who would temporarily take care of the mastermind.

When he is away, other illithid tadpoles are the biggest threat - they may try to gain control of the mastermind at any time or take the opportunity to eliminate some illithid tadpoles to increase the chance of their own tadpoles reproducing.

Just thinking of the two legends that made his brain numb, he still added:

"Be sure to exercise restraint and try not to confront them head-on."

"Yes, Lord Archon." The response from the tribesmen came immediately from the psychic thinking network.

The next moment, with Abedela stepping out, he had disappeared into the main brain pool room and appeared outside the Molten Steel Fortress.

[Advanced Teleportation Technique]

At the same time, the other two consuls and seven elders of the illithids were teleported beside him one after another out of thin air.

Seeing the three red dragons fighting fiercely, Abedra felt that all six tentacles were trembling, and he immediately raised a hand to stop him:

"Your Excellencies, the lair of our Guido Mind Flayer clan is ahead, please stop."

If the guys on the surface saw this scene, they would definitely be shocked:

After all, these monsters that feed on human brains in the eyes of ordinary people once showed such a "civilized and polite" scene. Not only did they announce their home status, they even said the word "please".

Christos saw a group of illithids suddenly appeared in front of them, led by three legendary illithids at the same time. He instinctively prepared to go around.

After all, he was suddenly entangled by Brittney, a descendant of Said Ponga who suddenly appeared. At the same time, he also encountered a lunatic like David Utus who followed him all the way and "watched the fun without taking it too seriously" and occasionally came to cheer him up. He has suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck.

If we provoke a swarm of illithids at the same time, no matter what happens today, we will lose our scales.

But before he could reach him and turn around, David was directly behind him in the air.

The two stacked red dragons just crashed into the array of illithids who were also dumbfounded by this 'air crash'.

The illithid's survival instinct also forced them to move out of the way, allowing the two charges to collide into their territory, making an earthquake-like roar.

"Oops! 'Sir Ancestor', why did you stop suddenly! The collision made my head hurt. Ancestor, are you not hurt?" David raised his sore neck with an exaggerated expression and shouted.

"Get away!" Christos flipped his tail angrily, but failed to throw David, the 'unfilial descendant', away.

Up to this moment, if Christos, who was belatedly aware of the situation, had not known that David was deliberately plotting against him, he would have lived in vain for so many years.

It's just that it's still not clear what the purpose of this guy is. However, due to the presence of a group of illithid monsters who are good at 'mind reading', he can't ask directly. He just continues to accompany him and pretends to be stupid, otherwise the trouble will be even greater.

Brittney, who was chasing after her from further away, had long seen that David had a bad mind. It was only now that she guessed that David's plans were probably related to this group of illithid monsters. She just found it exciting and fun. Immediately he roared excitedly as if he was fighting to the fullest:

"What ancestors and grandchildren to perform for me, the boy of David gave me away, don't think that you are Puff's son's son, I dare not even get you together."

Immediately like a flaming meteor, it stomped on Christos's head.

The tacit understanding of the three successive red dragons allowed them to continue fighting together, but they ended up paralyzing a group of illithids.

Because through just a few sentences of information, they got information that was enough to make their scalps tingle.

'Pavla's son', the son of Crimson Calamity, the fool who almost leveled the Spider Nest City.

The ancestor mentioned by the Son of Crimson Disaster is probably the dark mad dragon Christos who killed half of the Dark Territory back then.

Although the last red dragon has never heard its specific name, it can chase these two and beat them.

The strength can be imagined.

"What should we do? Lord Archon." A group of illithid monsters that could make a surface city-state tremble with fear were completely blinded when they encountered such a strange situation.

"You continue to try to stabilize them, I have to go back." Abaidra said with a headache.

Because whether the red dragons continue to fight or the illithids join in, disaster is inevitable.

He must go back first and immediately go to the instinct release room to capture a group of slaves to help the mature illithid tadpoles seize their bodies, otherwise he will have to wait for at least ten years.

The Guido Mind Flayer clan all have to face the situation of having no successors!

At the same time, just as David and the others attracted the attention of most of the illithids, Dragon Father Artilisia and Rune Lord Belkin each acted as an spirit that had been stunned by the previous psychic scream. Ability slave:

A female drow and duergar.

They were just lying outside the city, and the psychic slaves who were eager to receive the message moved them into the city like patrolling worker ants.

　Cold, cold, cold!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)