Chapter 511 Ending
It can be judged that the aborigines in this cave are not really counted, because Nohir was in this cave just a few minutes after entering the mine. Many fragmentary animal stone statues were found.
These stone statues include petrified giant spiders, petrified underground Los beasts, and even some petrified gray dwarves. There is no doubt that these poor guys were normal lives of flesh and blood during their lifetime, but they were unlucky. They encountered a powerful beast that could not be defeated by conventional means, a powerful monster that could turn them from flesh and blood into stone statues in the blink of an eye. This ability to petrify creatures in an instant was only available in the dark hell. Three races have this ability.
One is a beholder, one is a basilisk, and the other is Medusa. Before we determined what kind of monster lived here, he opened his eyes wide in anticipation and became vigilant. , always be prepared to be on guard against enemies rushing out from the darkness, because among these three types of monsters that have the ability to petrify others, there are two that may pose a threat to the current Nohir. These two monsters are beholders. and Medusa.
But after Nohir carefully observed the state of those stone statues, he threw away his expectations, because he had already determined what was living in this abandoned mine. Well, if there are no accidents, there must be a group of basilisks living here.
The reason that supported Nohir's judgment was very simple. There were only two bases for his judgment. One was the decorative style of the lair, and the other was the victims he found.
The areas where powerful monsters live often show their unique personalities and habits. For example, the beholder's lair often shows the weirdness and arrogance of its creator in a very intuitive way. They will decorate their caves with trophies obtained from previous battles, such as petrified adventurers. Beholders often deliberately freeze their fearful expressions, as well as the body parts of other beholders or collected from other powerful enemies. of magic items.
The beholder will use disintegration rays to carve out its own lair, and deliberately design a vertical passage leading to each chamber of the cave, because this environment is conducive to the free movement of the beholder, and can also effectively prevent Intruders can sneak in easily. When someone invades, the ceiling is high enough to allow the beholder to float above and harass the opponent. This architectural style can be said to be very obvious and can be recognized at a glance.
But in this lair, Nohir did not find any special environment worthy of attention. The entire cave maintains a very primitive style. This situation shows that the owner of this cave has no obvious Quirk, or it can be said that the creature living here is just a beast with an average IQ, not a powerful and intelligent monster.
Because of this, Nohir is very confident that he can directly exclude powerful monsters like Medusa and Beholder from the options, plus he is searching During the process, it was also discovered that almost all the stone statues in this mine had been mutilated by external forces.
Because the prey petrified by the beholder is often used by the beholder as ornaments to decorate the lair, the same is almost the case when petrified by Medusa, but these stones have been completely turned into waste, either with large or small tooth marks, Or simply shattered into debris on the ground.
Among these three races, only the basilisk race is a monster that feeds on the species they have petrified, and only they turn their victims into such scattered pieces when they eat their prey. appearance.
After confirming the true identity of his opponent, Nohir also lowered his guard. The opponent was not a beholder or a Medusa, but just a group of basilisks, and this kind of thing didn't exist for him at all. Not even remotely threatening.
Although this creature is huge, has considerable strength, and can turn targets looking at each other into stone statues in just a few seconds, its movement speed is really average. Basilisk Its body is so fat that even if it has six legs, Nohir can kill it five or six times before it turns around.
The only difficulty in cleaning up these guys is their number. Judging from the traces in this mine, the basilisks living here are probably an entire group. It is conservatively estimated that there should be 3 to 3 6 adult basilisks, and possibly a varying number of juvenile basilisks or basilisk eggs.
However, because basilisks do not have the habit of raising offspring, even if there are baby basilisks here, Nohill is unlikely to see this little guy in the nest of an adult basilisk. The chance of picking up eggs in the nest is higher, and this is what Nohill hopes to see the most.
Because basilisk can be tamed, if this kind of monster has been tamed by a professional tamer since childhood, there is a high probability of successfully taming it. The tamed basilisk can understand Some simple instructions, follow the owner's instructions, avoid eye contact with specific creatures, and become controllable and reliable.
And even if its special skills are removed, its own ability can still make it a formidable beast guard. The basilisk egg is therefore valuable. If Nohir can find it here With a nest of such eggs, such a gift might be easier for the dwarfs to accept than a green-footed dragon snake.
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An adult male basilisk quickly moved its six thick limbs and rushed towards the uninvited guest who dared to invade his lair. In the process, he stared at He enlarged his pair of gray and lifeless eyes and used the signature skill of their clan, the petrifying gaze.
Different from the ray spells that the beholder can directly emit, if the abilities of the two races of Basilisk and Medusa are to be used, they must have a very intuitive line of sight contact with the victim, and only in this way can they be petrified. Ability will take effect.
But the brain capacity of basilisks is not enough for them to understand how their abilities work on others. The only thing they know is that as long as they stare at the prey for a while, the prey itself will It will quickly turn into a delicious stone meal.
But this time, it hit the iron plate.
Nohir did not hold any weapons and stood there without hiding, quietly waiting for the moment when the basilisk was about to hit him, and then when that moment was about to come He quickly reached out his hands and grabbed the huge, plump lizard head, exerting all his strength on the spot! Using the force generated by the Basilisk itself when it rushed over, he used an extremely exaggerated over-the-shoulder throw to slam the giant beast onto the rocky ground behind him!
This cruel blow immediately caused it to completely lose its fighting ability, but with its monster-level strong physique, this blow still did not completely kill it, but this is what Nohill hoped. of.
The Underdark seems cruel and ruthless, but in fact it has its own ecological chain. The basilisk in front of him is already the fourth basilisk that Nohill has encountered. It is also the largest and the only one. Male basilisk.
The three basilisks that Nohill encountered before were all female. When he encountered them, he only killed two of the weaker ones, and deliberately kept the strongest one. , and used force to drive him out of the mine. If nothing happened to the male in front of him, he would also drive him away along with the female.
Nohill is not worried that these guys will come back after being driven away, because in a sense, this is turf competition in nature. If his own turf is occupied, and there is The gap in strength is visible to the naked eye. If the original owner of the territory can still save his life after the challenge fails, he will often take the initiative to admit defeat afterwards, completely abandon this area, and instead look for other predatory sites.
At the same time, considering that releasing too many petrified lizards at once would very likely disrupt the local ecological balance, Nohill only released two lizards, one male and one female. The treatment method allows the basilisk to continue to reproduce in this area, but it will not cause the local ecological environment to collapse because of too many powerful predators appearing all at once. Although this treatment cannot be said to be perfect, it can be considered Minimize the possible impact. "This should be the last one."
While looking at the big guy lying on the ground and gasping for breath, Nohir clapped his hands, causing a large handful of dust to burst out between his hands.
Nohir choked on the smoke and coughed, and quickly waved his hand to disperse the dust. As a result, the dust came out directly from the iron glove like firewood ashes. He He quickly took off his gloves, moved his fingers on the spot, and directly broke the small layer of stone that had been formed on his arm into stone slabs.
"This is what it feels like to be petrified...that's it."
Nohir glanced at the stones on the ground, and at the moment when he collided head-on with the basilisk, In an instant, he deliberately made eye contact with it for a moment, wanting to test how far this petrification effect could reach, and now the result was very obvious.
Obviously, the beast's petrifying gaze has no effect on Nohill. After experiencing the feeling of petrification, Nohill also understood the working principle of this skill.
Generally speaking, this is a magic-like method inherent in the basilisk race. By making eye contact with the prey, the basilisk can project the magic attached to its eyes at that moment and convey the message. It reaches the whole body of the prey and quickly produces a magical reaction that can penetrate into the prey's body and quickly turn the prey into stones. This reaction is from the outside to the inside.
If the physical fitness of the petrified target is strong enough, it can directly avoid most of the negative effects through its strong physical fitness. If the physical fitness is not strong enough, it can also strengthen its spell resistance through various means. Sex, so that you can still ignore the petrifying effect caused by staring.
Not only is Nohir's physical fitness far above the standard, he also has the blessing of the Moon Goddess and has very high spell resistance. With the cooperation of the two, he can even be violent. If it is not turned on, most of the basilisk's abilities are directly ignored, and only a thin layer of brittle stone skin composed of foreign magic power is generated on the surface of the body.
Nohir slapped his arm fiercely again. Perhaps because of his high magic resistance or physical strength, even this layer of stone skin only appeared on his fists and forearms. It became a lot easier for Nohir to pack it up.
After cleaning up the stone fragments on his body and driving away all the living basilisk lizards, Nohill returned to the mine and began to deliberately search for the nest location of these basilisk lizards. It finally took a while Later, Nohir successfully found a hidden cave dug by a basilisk in the mine.
He found a nest of seven basilisk eggs in this cave. After examination, three of the seven eggs were diagnosed as stillborn, and the remaining four alive ones were all collected by Nohir.
"The harvest is good. With these things, there will be more room for choice. Next, we only need to go back and contact King Snitik, and we can directly arrange for the spawns to move in."
Nohir threw away the space box in his hand and sighed that this operation was so smooth. He successfully brought all the spawns here, and successfully communicated with the underground dwarfs. The establishment of diplomatic relations also successfully helped the spawn to find a base for survival.
The next step is to wait until the spawns have completely established a foothold here, and Nohir can plan the next trip to hell.
If his actions in hell go well and he is lucky enough to find a way to turn the vampire spawn back into humans in a short period of time, then the spawns will not even need to live here for too long. After a long time, we can fundamentally get rid of the dark days now.
"Although it's unlikely that I'll find it soon, it's just a thought after all... Well, I'm going back."
Hang the space box back to his waist, Nohir turned around and broke the one beside him. A giant stalagmite, the whole person twisted his waist and exerted all his strength, and threw the giant cone-shaped stone pillar to the corner of the mine cave nearby. The giant stone cone brought up the roaring wind, and suddenly, with an unexpected and extreme speed, Smashed through the stone wall at the corner!
Rock collided with rock, and there was a loud cracking sound between the two at that moment! Large and small gravels were flying everywhere, and the crackling sounds were endless. In this chaotic environment, a sudden dazzling red light suddenly occupied Nohir's field of vision.
Relying on his extraordinary and powerful vision, he instantly saw the true face of that thing. It was a round shield made of red magic power. This shield was very strong, no matter how big it was. Even the gravel hitting it cannot break the defense of the shield, it will only cause a ripple-like vibration, and there is a female dwarf hiding inside the shield who looks surprised, as if she can't believe what is happening in front of her. .
‘I’ve been discovered! when? How did he find...'
"I'm just talking about why I keep vaguely feeling a mouse scurrying around me."
"!"
The tangled thoughts in the female dwarf's heart have not yet fully emerged. Suddenly, Nohir's emotionless words came from her side. The fear caused the female dwarf's eyes to shrink to a thin point in an instant, and her whole body froze involuntarily at that moment, scared out of her mind. Covered in cold sweat.
Before she could react further, Nohir waved his hand and grabbed it, tearing up the red shield in an instant, and placed his steel palm firmly on it. On top of the dwarf's head.
"Who are you, little mouse."
(End of this chapter)