The Era of Gods

The hollow cave is straight, but after descending for a certain distance, a rotating stone ladder begins to appear. Here, Lin Xiao transforms from a drow elf back into the body of a true god.

If a true god transforms into any race by changing his form, he will gain all the talents of any race. For example, if he turns into a giant dragon, he will gain all the abilities of the dragon, including the dragon language magic inherited by blood. If he becomes a little gopher, he will also use it. The claws drill holes, and if transformed into an ant, it will also gain the great strength talent of the ant.

Of course, the weakness of ants will also be inherited. Even ants with divine nature are still ants, and they can easily capsize in the gutter.

Therefore, the usual transformation is only to deal with specific situations, and it is safer to transform back into the real body of God in the face of certain dangers.

It was very dark inside the revolving stone staircase, and there was no light at all. Even if the true god had dark vision, he couldn't see too far. He snapped his fingers and summoned a ball of light to float above his head, and the soft white light shone on the surrounding stone walls. It can clearly illuminate the surrounding hundreds of yards.

There is a lot of moss on the revolving stone staircase, and there are no traces on it. It seems that no one has passed here for a long time.

All the way along the revolving stone ladder to the bottom, until he stepped on the soft ground of the fourth floor, he didn't see a single living thing, and the silence was a little scary.

Different from other layers of the Underdark, if the first layer of the Underdark is rugged hills, the second layer is rugged plains, the third layer is composed of huge caves and wide plains, and the fourth layer is the Great Different.

On the fourth floor, countless huge stone pillars connect the ground to the top of the fourth floor, forming a spectacle like a stone forest.

Between the stone pillars is a wide open space, and the open space is full of thin underground plants.

The slender stems of this plant are covered with fine hairs, and it looks like a dogtail grass. It emits an extremely faint shimmer that can hardly be seen by ordinary people with the naked eye, but the underground is almost full of this kind of plant, and the countless shimmers gather together. It is to make the space on the fourth floor of the ground like a night with a moon. Although it is not bright, even ordinary people here can see the scenery not far away with their naked eyes.

These underground plants rely on the strange underground pulse energy of the fourth layer of the dark region to carry out photosynthetic growth. As soon as Lin Xiao entered this layer, he keenly sensed that the ubiquitous strange pulse of this layer has the ability to affect the mind of creatures. No wonder it can evolve Strange species like mind flayers.

Lin Xiao stepped on the soft ground and walked slowly, carefully sensing the strange pulse, like waves of invisible tides coming from a distance, endless.

Any creature that spends too much time in this environment will be affected by this strange pulse.

But after walking for a while, Lin Xiao suddenly sensed another strange fluctuation colliding with the strange pulse, and a faint call appeared in his mind out of thin air, calling him to walk in that direction.

Lin Xiao looked in that direction with some surprise. He couldn't see anything from too far away, but in the field of vision that can only be seen by a true god, a huge distortion protruded from the strange pulse wave in the distance.

"interesting!"

Of course he was not afraid, and strode towards that direction. After about ten kilometers, a zigzagging river appeared between the stone pillars, which is extremely rare in the dark area.

The river is more than a hundred meters wide, and the river is fast-moving. He can even see some unique underground fish jumping out of the water in the river. Occasionally, he can also see huge shadows at the bottom of the water passing by and swirling undercurrents. not safe.

At this time, a slightly larger fish with silver scales jumped out of the water. Lin Xiao immediately cast a spell of spiritual vision on the big fish. As the big fish fell into the water, a brand new picture appeared in the mind of Lin Xiao who cast the spell. middle.

The crystal clear water, surrounded by a large number of swimming fishes of all sizes, constitutes a strange picture.

Try to look down, but you can't see the bottom below, and you don't know how deep this underground river is.

All of a sudden, the big and small fish around quickly fled to the side, and this big fish also frantically rushed to the left like an arrow and rushed several meters away, and then only saw a huge black shadow opening its sharp teeth and biting it. This came to an abrupt end.

Withdrawing his spirit, Lin Xiao stared at the huge black shadow that ate the silver scale fish just now, and once again cast his spiritual vision on the big fish that was probably seven or eight meters long.

This big fish is supposed to be the overlord in the river. It rampages in the water, and when it sees a slightly bigger fish, it will pounce on it and bite it down.

On the surface of the river, in the river, even in the depths of the river bottom, they will wantonly swim and devour.

Lin Xiao's vision also entered the depths of the underground river, and he saw many creatures that he had never seen before.

Speaking of which, for the true god, exploring unknown creatures in foreign lands is also a valuable practice. Knowledge itself is power, and the more knowledge you have, the greater the benefits to your true body.

Anyway, there was enough time, not less than a day or two, he sat by the river to share spirit with that big fish, and explore the mysteries of this big river together.

Unknowingly, this monster-like big fish swam downstream for more than ten kilometers, and came to a place where the current is gentle and the surface is wide. I don't know if it is a lake or a river confluence. The bottom sediment exploded, and a huge tentacle full of sharp teeth popped out, and the three giant teeth outside the top port of the tentacle were deeply dug into the big fish, caught and dragged to the bottom of the river.

"Bobbie?"

This thing reminded Lin Xiao of a famous strange insect, but it was many times bigger in size.

That big fish must be dead, and Lin Xiao withdrew his spell without saving it.

After wasting some time here, he didn't continue to try, and blessed himself with a flying technique to fly forward.

It is worth mentioning that this place is affected by the strange pulse, the magic net is distorted here, and the strength of mages who use the magic net to cast spells will be greatly weakened here. Lin Xiao does not use the magic net to cast spells, but directly uses his own power to cast spells.

Of course, he didn't dare to communicate with the magic net. He was still an outsider now. Once he communicated with the magic net, he would immediately be discovered by the magic god who controlled the magic net.

It didn't take long before he came to the vicinity of the distortion that distorted the strange pulse of the four underground floors in the induction. On the real level, he only saw a stone pillar in front of him that was much thicker than the other stone pillars, which was hundreds of times thicker than the other stone pillars. It is no different from other stone pillars, but there is an extremely powerful will hidden in his telepathy.

As he approached, countless fine light spots slowly emerged from the huge stone pillar, as if they were alive, and gradually approached the stone pillar as Lin Xiao approached.

At the same time, Lin Xiao sensed waves of weak mental power touching him, but none of them could penetrate his mind.

"Is this the mind flayer?"

Mind flayers are certainly not the only ones who can mentally control other creatures, but the mind flayers are the most suitable for this ability in the fourth layer of the Underdark.

At the same time, as he approached the stone pillar to a certain distance, a dazzling light suddenly burst out from the huge stone pillar.

As the light slowly disappeared, a strange creature full of tentacles suddenly and slowly emerged from the stone pillar.

This thing is like a round head covered with soft tentacles like sea urchins. There is a yellow eye on the top of each tentacle. Imagine hundreds of eyeballs staring at you at the same time. That scene will definitely scare the ordinary people to death people.

Lin Xiao looked at the mind flayer very curiously. Generally speaking, a creature with a simpler organizational structure than the school would have a lower IQ than the school, but the mind flayer completely shattered people's perception.

Whether humans or other races have encountered mind flayers in history, mind flayers are known for their extremely high intelligence.

It's just that the mind flayer's gifted mind control is too terrifying and frightening, and thus being artificially distorted and smeared as a race, it makes ordinary people think that mind flayers are terrifying evil creatures without wisdom.

Of course, this race is indeed very evil and terrifying. No matter how intelligent it is, the reproduction method of controlling other creatures to lay eggs and hatch in their brains proves that outsiders' evaluation of them is not wrong.

There are two forms of mind flayers, one is the fighting type, and the other is the spiritual master type.

The fighting type, also known as an illithid, is an adult mind flayer that implants a fully developed tadpole into the ear of a helpless humanoid. The tadpole burrows into the victim's brain and quickly eats Shedding its gray matter and replacing it with its own filthy tissue.

Under its influence, the larva fuses with the uneaten brainstem of the victim, and after obliterating all remaining personality and soul, the larva will use this humanoid body as its own body. The body will also begin to change, completing the creation process of an adult illithid.

As for the disgusting multi-tentacle monster in front of Lin Xiao, it is the mind master type of the mind flayer, which is commonly known as the mind flayer, and it looks like this.

The transformation process of the illithid is irreversible. As long as the larva is implanted in the host for more than an hour, it will be over. Whether it is expelling diseases, lifting curses, resurrecting the dead, restoration, or complete resurrection, even the true god himself cannot reverse this process.

In addition, after the transformation, the illithid will not inherit anything in common from the victim. Regardless of whether humans, orcs or elves are sacrificed, they will all become illithids and will not retain any of the original racial characteristics.

Lin Xiao was a little surprised that there was only one mind flayer here but no illithids. Normally, the habitat of mind flayers should be guarded by illithids with powerful physical bodies and spellcasting abilities.

But he didn't care about these, he only knew that he had found the mind flayer and his goal had been achieved.

With a finger, an invisible force acted on the mind flayer floating in the air.

The mind flayer seemed to be stimulated, the tentacles on his body collapsed tightly, and a powerful spiritual force hit Lin Xiao.

This is of course useless, how can a mere mind flayer be able to shake an incarnation of a true god.