Chapter 51 Observer Beholder
When the campfire returned to silence in the endless darkness of the Underdark, the group of people who had traveled all day fell into a deep sleep.
Even Brian himself was meditating and fell asleep unconsciously.
The Underdark is a desolate world filled with cities and kingdoms of various evil races such as derro dwarves, dark elves, gray dwarves, and mind flayers.
It is also home to some of the rarer races, such as aboleths, beholders, and kuo-toas, as well as almost any intelligent humanoid slave species from the surface.
There are two overriding principles here: survive and destroy your enemies.
So, adventure in the underground world is a bit overwhelming even for a reborn person like Brian, who has been on the run for so many days.
At this time, he could only secretly rejoice that he had undergone many high-intensity training since childhood. As a spell caster, he also had an extraordinary physique.
Otherwise, given his current condition, he might have collapsed from exhaustion long ago.
I don’t know how long it has been
Due to the wizard's keen intuition about magic, Brian vaguely heard a sound that made him feel dazed.
He slowly opened his eyes and looked around subconsciously.
The glow rocks, luminous crystals, and luminous mosses, lichens, and fungi in the cave exuded uncomfortable brilliant colors, filling him with an extremely unreal feeling.
Since he set up a warning and blocking circle at the entrance of the cave, they did not need anyone to keep vigil.
Everyone was still sleeping, and they were not awakened by some ethereal sound like him.
Brian looked at the darkness deep in the cave, frowned and pondered for a moment, then looked at the spell slots, spiritual energy values and arcane energy he had recovered, and decided to go and find out.
"Wake up." He gently shook Hesiah who was nestled in his arms.
I have to admit, this girl is quite smart.
Obviously, she also knew that it would be difficult to return to the surface safely alone.
In this situation where he was surrounded by strangers, Hesiah naturally regarded him as his only support and hope of returning to the surface, and followed him almost inseparably.
Even when they were resting, they would cuddle up in his arms on the pretext of keeping each other warm.
In Hesiah's words: I have already seen all of my body, do I still care about this?
Of course, that's all. Brian didn't take advantage of others' danger and make any extraordinary move.
Because after these few days of contact, he clearly felt that the other party was a girl who was impeccably strong on the outside but fragile as paper on the inside.
If her weakness is touched, it will definitely be like a dam that opens and it will be out of control.
To put it simply, it means that I have lacked the care and warmth from family since I was a child.
This made him somewhat believe that she might actually be the illegitimate daughter of the Raul family, suffering from the same problem as him.
Hisaia, who was leaning in her arms, was not that sleepy. She opened her silver-grey eyes, raised her head buried in her chest, looked at Brian, and whispered, "We still want to Are you going out?"
"No."
Brian shook his head slightly, let go of his hand on the girl's shoulder, and looked deep into the cave, "I just felt something. It’s very uncomfortable to stare at us. I want you to come with me and take a look.”
In any case, the strength of the girl in front of me has reached the level of a hero (around level 11-15).
With her by his side, as long as he does not encounter a legendary strongman, he can almost retreat safely.
So, every time Brian goes out to kill monsters, he will bring the sword mage with him as a free bodyguard and part-time thug. Sword mages are a very unique profession. Their magic does not rely on spell slots at all, and is similar to a supernatural ability and a spell-like ability.
Just by guiding the rune sword in your hand, you can unleash powerful ice, fire, lightning and other elemental damage, which is somewhat similar to the Nine Swords practitioners of the Eastern Karatu Continent.
"Okay." Hesaya retracted his gaze, stood up from his arms, and arranged his long, messy hair.
After getting ready, the two of them walked towards the depths of the tunnel together.
"Did you hear that sound too?" When Brian and Hesiah passed by the Zede Bear Man, the other party suddenly opened his eyes and whispered coldly.
Brian was startled by his actions, then looked at him angrily and said, "That's right, so I want to go over and check. Why can you feel it too?"
< br>"Because I am a royal guard who is about to enter the legendary realm." The Zedi Bear Man grinned and said: "Although I have become what I am now, my mental power has not weakened and I need my help. ”
"Let's forget it."
Looking at his narcissistic and needy look, Brian suddenly had the urge to kick him in the head.
After thinking about it, he smiled and joked: "The future legendary strongman can't even handle a female bear, and he is pressed to the ground and rubbed back and forth. How can he be of any help?"
Hesiah on the side then showed a faint smile.
“.Can we not mention this matter?”
When the future legendary strongman heard these words, his old face suddenly fell down, and he scratched the thick white hair that he had neatly combed in embarrassment. He looked like he wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
"Get some rest early. When we arrive at the Lightless Woodland tomorrow, we might be able to recover."
Brian comforted him with a smile and led Hesiah further into the tunnel. Go.
“You really believe what he said.” Not long after leaving, Hesiah couldn’t help but ask, and then continued:
“I heard that some schools of thought are proficient in confusion and control. A wizard can use his mental suggestion ability to forcibly change a person's memories and personality, making them instinctively deny their true identity."
"If I had never seen his elf face, I would agree with your point of view." Brian recalled seeing a surface elf imprisoned in a cage at the trade fair and told her.
Then he stopped talking and focused on following the voice calling in the trance, leading Hesiah carefully through the maze of tangled tunnels, caves and natural passages.
Finally, we came to a smooth white round stone.
"You have indeed found this place." In the darkness, many eyes suddenly flashed out, and a low and harsh laughter came.
“Don’t be impulsive.”
Brian held down Hesiah's hand that was about to draw the sword and said to her: "I can feel that the other party has no ill intentions."
Hearing this, Hesiah released the hilt of the sword.
A glimmer of light flashed in the darkness, and after a moment's pause, a meat ball with tentacles appeared from between the rocks on the roof of the cave, floating lazily in front of the two of them.
In the darkness, many eyes flickered, watching them intently.
These eyes are connected to a sphere by snake-like tentacles that are constantly dancing. A large mouth full of fangs is split below the sphere. In the center of the floating sphere is a huge one-eye with a burning with a flame of excitement.
"Very good, I really saw the right person." A low groan of satisfaction echoed deep in the cave.
"Observer Beholder!"
Brian squinted his eyes and looked at the strange things floating in front of him with interest.
(End of this chapter)