Chapter 82 The alien beholder!
The Kingdom of Weirdness is indeed not a place for people to stay.
After humans retreated to the real world, the territory that originally belonged to humans in the weird kingdom became the territory of monsters. Xiao En just passed by a dirty cesspool, and suddenly it turned into a squirming mass. The dark green glue, a spit of acid corroded Xiao En's trousers.
——"Knowledge has discovered the trick of acid splashing."
This damn thing couldn't be killed at once, and was finally killed by Xiao En's invisible hand with a cold weapon. It turned into stinking pus all over the floor. It looks a bit like a slime monster or an ooze monster. Its body has some characteristics of elemental life. It has low intelligence and weak strength, but it is good at disguise. There are snakes, insects, rats and ants in its body that have not been fully digested. This kind of monster seems to be born randomly, and there are more of them in the swamp. The source may be the blood and pus flowing out of the old family members.
For some very large Old Familia in the swamp, when the pustules on their bodies burst, a large area of such pus monsters will emerge. At the same time, they will change the surrounding ecological environment, and they are generally regarded as a source of pollution in the weird country.
Xiao En looked at the corrosive shallow scars on his calf and casually refined the extraordinary relic left by the monster.
This small injury is no longer a problem for him.
The dropped relic is a 0-level magic trick, which can be used to summon a splash of acid.
The spells that the wizard can master are basically the innate abilities of those monsters. Capturing their extraordinary essence for your own use. After the mysterious knowledge is digested, it becomes the source of the spells.
After understanding this, Xiao En can also hunt monsters in a targeted manner and obtain the spell knowledge he wants to master. However, some spells are very rare, and monsters with corresponding abilities do not operate in the material plane.
It's just getting dark now.
Xiao En took the time to rest for three or four hours in the afternoon to restore his magic power to full state. It is now around six o'clock in the evening, and in about an hour, the sun will completely set. Sometimes monsters from the spiritual world will be projected into the weird realm.
He has mastered 7 new spells so far. Because he has digested too much extraordinary essence in one go, his mental pollution has also improved a lot, and the knowledge in his brain is much more active than before.
But the speed of strength improvement is indeed fast, and the resources of the Weird Kingdom are not comparable to those in the real world.
If people are not crazy, then there is no pollution.
“Are there footprints?”
Xiao En is carefully investigating the situation in this area. The wizard is not as good as the rogue in this regard. His tracking ability is average, but he still found something unexpectedly. Because he saw some footprints that had been left for a while on the plains.
These footprints are very large, almost identical to the soles of human feet. The five toes are the marks left by walking barefoot.
“He is very tall and not light in weight. He probably weighs one and a half my body weight.”
Xiao En made a rough calculation and found that the creature that left the footprints was about two meters tall and weighed at least three hundred kilograms. Otherwise, it would not have left such clear footprints. The direction of the footprints was deep in the plain, and it was possible that it had settled in Humanoids out there.
But it’s probably not a human being, maybe it’s a legendary giant.
"But if it is a giant, the footprints are a bit small." Xiao En looked into the distance, hesitating whether to touch it and take a look.
Anyway, it will be dangerous wherever he stays now. He might be able to find a place to stay if he follows the past.
Xiao En cannot sleep in the wilderness forever. Experienced hunters all know that if you find a bear cave in the wilderness and kill the bear inside, that cave will become your temporary safe house. Of course, you have to be able to beat the bear first.
Sean must find a way to survive his first night in the wilds of Weird Country.
In the weird country, even the Abyss City is protected by 'mysterious locks' at night. People who are not talented and bold extraordinary people will basically not go out at night because they will encounter ghosts, literally. mean.
“Those monsters that can survive in the wilderness of the weird country basically have their own way of surviving the night.”
“Once it gets completely dark, monster spawning will probably begin here. mode.”
Xiao En thought about it, and finally decided to follow the footprints and go up to see the situation. It is equally dangerous to stay in the wilderness. Creatures from the spiritual world will enter reality under the cover of night. When the gray fog begins to spread, Those huge reflection giants will also appear in the real world.
They are very very strong!
Xiao En had seen the reflection of the black giant when he followed Lolis away from the high wall. The reflection of these giants would gradually disappear after the sun rose.
The Weird Country is a little safer during the day, but the challenge level will skyrocket at night.
As the sky gradually darkened, a little blue will-o'-the-wisp began to appear in the distance, as if attracting Xiao En to come closer. He was not wearing a haze now and could clearly see the will-o'-the-wisps. After carefully avoiding them, Xiao En gradually discovered some traces that looked like human activities.
“Huh?”
"What is this? Farmland?"
Xiao En found a field that was obviously cultivated, but the crops with seeds in it were unknown. They looked a bit like dark thorns with sharp thorns growing on them. But it produced a fruit that looked a bit like water chestnuts, and it was not yet fully ripe.
"Farming? Is it an intelligent creature?" Xiao En was very confused.
The traces of humanoid activities here are even more obvious. There is a mountain peak in front, and the nearby terrain is a bit like the Shiwanda Mountains, which is the terrain of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan in the previous life, with small hills rising one after another. These hills are very short and distributed quite densely, and part of the surrounding flat land has been cultivated.
Xiao En saw almost no green vegetation along the way. The whole world was in a gray and dilapidated tone. Traces of corruption could be seen everywhere on the earth. The surviving plants were twisted into all kinds of weird shapes. Some of them even came to life.
"It's really a human!" Xiao En's expression was shocked. He had just blessed himself with the ability of super vision.
Dark Vision.
Xiao En's sight penetrated the night and saw a bonfire burning in the distance.
“Can you farm and use fire?”
“Are there any other human survivors in the weird country?” Xiao En was a little excited.
But he still carefully blessed himself with the invisibility technique first, and then under the cover of night, he got closer to the target bit by bit.
Xiao En saw a group of ‘people’.
He didn't know if the other party was still human, because they had facial features that were obviously close to humans, but not like modern humans. They looked a bit like primitive humans, closer to Neanderthals. They are about two meters tall, covered with dirty animal skins, have large skulls, very thick limbs, and quite primitive weapons. Next to the campfire is a heavy bone stick placed at their feet. Their hair is quite thick, their skin tends to be gray-white, and their turbid eyes have a hint of dark yellow. Their eyes are very dull, and their eyesight should not be good. There is a bit of 'wisdom' in their eyes.
It just looks a bit demented and stupid.
"A degenerate demi-human?"
Xiao En saw the food they grilled on the campfire. He didn't know what it was, but it had complete limbs, big feet, and a chopped head. There was a pile of skulls not far from the campfire, and there were dark red bones on the ground. Blood sacrifice seems to be the trace of sacrifice.
This food must be some kind of humanoid creature, they are feasting around the campfire.
Branches of humanity.
The completely degraded stone blind barbarians are not far away from their caves. Most of the degraded barbarians are cave dwellers.
"Generally speaking, such stone blind barbarians are food raised by monsters..."
Xiao En was very vigilant and hid.
The stone blind savages are a subspecies of human beings with self-enclosed minds. They are the product of blindness and ignorance. Their dull hearts are unaware of the outside world. They only rely on instinct and the talents left by humans to survive. Their intelligence is higher than that of primitive humans. Even lower.
This is a small tribe of stone blind barbarians, with only seven or eight family members. If it were a large tribe, Xiao En would have to turn around and run away immediately, because large tribes are kept in captivity by very powerful monsters. of.
They are stupid. If you are careful, you don't have to worry about them finding Xiao En.
The stone blind savages have very low inspiration. They are twisted creations with self-enclosed hearts. When encountering danger that they cannot resist, they will hide in the caves, and then they will be like cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered. They are not very good at all. Knowing how to resist can be said to be completely tamed by the grotesque country.
They are very powerful and physically stronger than primitive humans, and some of them have natural savage talents.
For some monsters who like to eat people and brains, stone blind barbarians are considered free-range slave livestock. As long as they are given a relatively safe habitat, they will slowly reproduce on their own.
It doesn’t matter if it’s missing occasionally. After all, evil creatures don’t care how many of the cattle and sheep in captivity are eaten by wolves in the wilderness.
“There is another ruthless character here!”
Small tribes of stone blind barbarians are often kept in captivity by monsters with psychic abilities. They are easily controlled. A psychic dominator immediately becomes an obedient slave. . Monsters trapping stone blind barbarians only need to regularly deal with individuals who have awakened the barbarian talent. Without a strong leader, they are just a mess.
In addition, they are also born illiterate. Their brains reject any mysterious knowledge. It can be said that their brains have completely degenerated.
"Weird? Or evil?"
Xiao En's figure escaped into the darkness. After almost finishing the food on the campfire, several stone blind barbarians began to fight and fight. The strongest stoner ate the last bit of food. Then they extinguished the bonfire and hid in the crypt amidst a burst of croaking.
They know that they have to hide when it gets dark, and their long-term caveman life has caused them to degenerate more and more into humanoid monsters.
There was a strange neighing sound in the sky.
Xiao En quickly found a hidden corner to hide, and couldn't help but said in his heart: "It would be great if it was a stealth or invisibility cloak." Abyss City sells a large number of rare items, Xiao En has seen a stealth cloak, but unfortunately Eamon He was not given time to prepare.
This is to punish him to death.
Phew!
There seemed to be something passing by in the sky. Thanks to the blessing of super vision, Xiao En's eyesight was similar to that of a ranger, and he could see through all darkness. He saw heads flying across the night sky. Their outlines looked a bit like human heads. There were more than ten of them. Their ears turned into leather wings, and they flew across the sky in groups.
The monster is coming!
The spiritual world has begun to overlap with the real plane, and some evil spirits, monsters, and wandering souls living in other planes have entered the weird kingdom.
——Flying Head Man [Weird] [Evil].
These flying-headed barbarians are slightly larger than human heads. Their jagged teeth are very eye-catching. Their terrifying hissing can frighten nearby creatures. The effect is similar to the wizard's fright spell. Their bites It is poisonous and can turn other creatures into its own kind.
This is a Constitution saving throw. If it fails, within a few hours, the target bitten by the flying head will lose all its hair first, and the ears will gradually turn into leather wings, and the tentacles will expand from the lower jaw and scalp. It stretches out, and the teeth grow longer until they turn into fangs. Finally, the victim dies, and the head separates from the body and turns into another flying-headed beast.
Information from the Night Watch headquarters has recorded this kind of monster. It is a relatively common evil spirit, and people bitten by them will be poisoned.
But there are generally not so many flying-headed barbarians in the real world. There are dozens of ferocious heads flying by. Usually when so many flying-headed barbarians gather, there will be very powerful monsters. Appear.
There was a sound passing through the air.
Xiao En saw the scary ghost flying in the sky. It looked like a twisted starfish, with necks growing out of its five corners, and bald heads on top. These ugly heads Scales grew, eyes were filled with menacing green flames, and gray-white wings extended from its body. After hovering in the air, it quickly commanded a group of flying beasts to leave.
Weird.
The Far Country is the origin world of aberrations. They are all weird beings whose bodies have been completely distorted. Basically, weird beings that do not conform to the common sense of normal creatures can be regarded as a race of aberrations.
This one is really unbeatable.
To deal with the horror ghosts, you need at least a whole team of experienced night watchmen and one or two sealed objects. They are very difficult opponents. (Challenge level 10 or above)
Fortunately, these flying-headed barbarians did not find Xiao En. The figure of the scary ghost circled and left with a group of flying-headed barbarians, heading towards the swamp.
About half an hour later.
The will-o'-the-wisps in the distance suddenly began to shine, and then a strange tall silhouette emerged, about two meters tall. It walked along the grassland of the plain, and behind it were groups of scattered will-o'-the-wisps, faintly heard. There was the sound of insects gnawing something.
——Night Witch [Evil Ghost].
This rickety night witch is herding soul worms. They serve some powerful evil creatures, monsters that like to devour souls. The night witch can collect the wandering souls and use a unique 'herding ritual' to The collected souls are transformed into a strange and ferocious insect.
It was Xiao En’s first job at that time, cleaning up those ugly bugs with human faces.
The night witch did not come near here.
This area seemed to have a unique ecological balance. Neither the Flying Barbarians nor the Horrible Ghosts came over, and the Night Witches only grazed their cattle around the area, not even destroying the simple 'cultivated land' of the stone blind barbarians.
Hiss hiss.
A dense swarm of bugs appeared at the foot of the hillside. They all had ferocious human faces, were about twenty or thirty centimeters in length, and crawled slowly. The night witch is a very patient 'herder'. It collects the wandering ghosts of the will-o'-the-wisp while checking the growth status of the soul worms.
If there is one that is not growing well, that is, it does not have a human face on its body, it will lift its black hood, revealing a mouth full of sharp and fine teeth, chewing and eating greedily and enjoyably. Get rid of those unqualified soul worms.
This is their snack.
In the night wilderness of the weird country, generally no one attacks the night witches and hags who are grazing, because they are just 'herders', and there are more terrifying existences behind them.
However, the grazing soul worms are very attractive to all monsters eager to devour souls, and sometimes daring evil creatures will take action.
The night witch's herding staff is a very powerful magical staff. Its combat effectiveness is not weak. They rarely enter the real world and have the ability to move across planes. They are only available in the weird realm, the spiritual world, and the shadows. Planes and other places can only be encountered.
“They are all difficult enemies to deal with.”
Xiao En should be in a safe area now. Of course, behind this safe area is another dangerous monster, but it is still there. Xiao En was not found.
The figures of the night witches will not stay. They will continue to graze until dawn, and then they will harvest the wandering souls along the way before leaving the real plane again.
There is no underworld in the weird country, and there is no such thing as a soul entering the underworld. After ordinary humans die, their souls are consumables and food.
In the dark.
A weird green eyeball the size of a fist floated out. It flew directly to the cave of the stone blind barbarian, checked the livestock he had raised, and then slowly circled around the territory. .
——The strange eyes!
Xiao En's pupils shrank slightly, and he happened to see the green eyeball floating at the door of the crypt. It dragged a ten-centimeter-long eye stalk, suspended one meter above the ground, and circled in a circle at a not-so-fast flying speed.
This is a part of a monster's body that lets its secondary eyes come out to patrol its territory.
Its body should be in the cave at the back.
Because the separated eyeball cannot be too far away from the main body, after inspecting the stone blind barbarian's crypt, this green eyeball approached Xiao En's direction, following the trajectory of its floating flight. , will almost certainly pass by Xiao En's hiding place.
“Damn it! These weird eyes seem to be able to see through invisibility!”
"It can't be a beholder, right?"
Beholders can be found in many worlds. For example, one of the source worlds of alien souls is a crystal wall system called Kingdom Tianyu. Many world souls come from the crystal wall system of Kingdom Tianyu, Savage Tianyu, Gray Dome Tianyu, etc.
The once-dead Lolis were alien humans from these places.
They can come in, and monsters from distant countries can sometimes come out, so there are many indescribable terrifying creatures that have gone to other crystal wall universes and turned into ancient evil things there.
Many of the creatures that escaped from distant lands are called aberrations. They are indescribable and deformed creations that do not conform to biological principles. Some of the aberrations even look like they are just randomly pieced together with twisted shapes. Together.
The collision of these two different universes is the source of the birth of Weird Kingdom.
However, since the gray mist spread, the entire weird kingdom has been completely sealed, and only souls can enter and exit.
Those beings that are not souls, even the alien gods summoned by Lolis, will be quickly distorted by the laws of the world, and even be swallowed by more terrifying indescribable things.
But the planet where the Weird Kingdom is located seems to have a special attraction, which often brings souls from other crystal wall universes into it. One of the spirits from another world that Butcher knew was an angel from Heaven Mountain. She also entered the weird kingdom from the crystal wall system of Tianyu after her death.
Most of the alien souls here come from the crystal wall system of Dungeons and Dragons. In the Dark Age, there was even a powerful alien wizard who used artifacts to spy on distant lands. That one was called the Ebony Demon. The artifact of the mirror recorded a lot of information about the distant universe and compiled it into a terrifying book "The Book of Eternal Chase".
With the help of this artifact, a powerful wizard named Efeguo began to study the mysterious boundaries of the universe that transcended space and reality, and truly recorded what he saw in the ebony mirror in the "Book of Eternal Chase" Horrible sight. After in-depth and detailed research, Efeguo discovered and confirmed one thing. In that terrifying distant universe, there are indeed some extremely weird ancient beings living there. Even the immortal gods will be disturbed by them when they enter. Corrupted by madness.
It is also because of this that in other crystal wall systems in other worlds, there are people who have been secretly studying forbidden knowledge about the distant universe. This is how some souls from other worlds came to the weird country.
Even the Extraordinary System of the Weird Kingdom is a variation of professionals that adapts to the laws of the distant universe, and its roots come from the Forgotten Kingdom.
Not far away, the strange eye flew over!
Xiao En held the gun instantly and held his breath. The distance between them was less than twenty meters. If it flew a little further, it would be able to see Xiao En.
In an instant.
The figure of the Strange Eye stopped, its fist-sized eyeballs looked at Xiao En's hiding place, and then a green energy light struck.
Bang!
Xiao En decisively shot in advance, and a bullet directly blew out its eyeball. Amidst the spurting green blood, a painful roar came from the cave in the distance.
It’s really a beholder!
Because a huge eyeball monster flew out from the darkness. Its diameter was about one meter. Its body was covered with crawling cuticles. Each green eyeball was connected to the body by eye stalks. The eyeballs on its body were locked at the same time. Xiao En's position.
The moment they met each other, they had a resonance, just like when Xiao En met Lolis.
It is the soul of another world!
But for this monster, only when its soul enters the realm of weirdness can it be considered a return to the race’s ‘homeland’.
The distant country is the origin of all strange things. They are 'strangers' in other crystal wall universes, but they are very powerful and can live well no matter where they are. .
This is also a soul from another world that has just reincarnated, because the real beholder should be bigger and stronger than it.
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(End of this chapter)