Chapter 267 Snail Shell Ship
At first glance, all that comes into view is the endless snowfield, which seems to have no end at all.
But in fact, the temperature did not meet the standards of the snowfield. It was just a bit cold. A few people distributed warming potions, which was enough to solve the temperature problem.
Aldai judged that a large illusion had been cast here. In fact, they were just moving forward in an underground cavity, but what they saw was a snowfield.
The purpose of the illusion is obviously to cover up what you want to hide, so that people who accidentally fall into it will retreat.
Aldai was holding the staff in one hand and covering one of her eyes with the other hand.
Above her head, there was an almost transparent magic eye floating.
This is a spell called the Mystical Eye, which can see through illusions and see the flow of magic. Because it is visually connected to your own brain, if you don't cover one eye, your brain will not be able to process too much information, causing you to be very dizzy.
But maybe this illusion is too powerful. The arcane eye can only see an area with a radius of about twenty meters around. No matter how far it is, it will still be obscured by the illusion.
The tiefling rogue Nemea explored the path in front, while the dwarf Drager and the halfling Perrin walked in front and behind Aldai respectively. This is the standard formation for adventurers moving forward.
They have been walking for almost ten minutes. The aurora in the distance has not weakened at all, and the distance does not seem to be shortened. However, if you pay attention to the surroundings, you will find that every time everyone moves forward, the scenery in the distance fluctuates as if teleporting. .
This is the illusion adjusting itself to ensure that it can perfectly cover people's vision.
However, the aurora has nothing to do with illusions. Aldai vaguely saw some divinity in the aurora through her secret eyes.
That was when the Demon King's Ring found itself in Aldai, who guided the Demon King's followers, and it wanted to return to the Demon King's finger. As long as you follow the aurora, no matter what scenes the illusion creates, you will never get lost.
Continuing forward, suddenly a black behemoth broke into the field of vision, looking like a strange-shaped ship.
"Is that an illusion too?"
"Not sure, but it's in our way."
When they got closer, several people saw that this black behemoth looked like a huge cephalopod, with tentacles as thick as a tree trunk and as dry as dried meat. The cold magic light revealed an unknown and terrifying look. contour.
"What's this?"
"It doesn't look like a ship."
The three adventurers looked at what appeared in front of them in shock. Neemia even lightly touched one of the tentacles lying in front of him with his fingers. The touch was as cold as stone.
"This is a ship."
Aldai stepped forward and used her arcane eyes to clearly see that this thing was real and not some illusion.
"It is a shell ship, a magical ship belonging to the illithids."
“…..”
The three of them looked at each other and unconsciously covered their scalps.
Illithids are hideous-looking creatures with purple skin and octopus-like heads that survive by eating the brains of intelligent creatures.
The most terrifying thing is that this monster will implant its larvae into living people. After the larvae eat up all the gray matter of the host's brain, the original host will turn into an illithid.
This process is extremely painful and irreversible, and not even Wish, one of the most powerful spells in magic, can do anything about it.
"No one wants to encounter an illithid, not even the demons of the Nine Hells!"
As a tiefling who is an evil demon, this sentence is really convincing.
"This conch-shell ship has been here for a long time. It fell." Aldai's mystical eyes saw that there was still a long gully left at one end of the conch-shell ship, which was left by the impact.
"And we now have no choice but to go in and see what's going on."
Aldai pointed with her staff, and the three of them looked up and found that the aurora that was there just now had disappeared.
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It takes a lot of courage to get close to a shell ship, because you never know when an octopus head will pop out and try to eat your brains.
What's even more damning is that each of these octopus heads called illithids are ridiculously strong and can use psychic powers to attack.
However, Aldai felt that there was no need to worry about the illithids.
The shell ship is actually a biological warship. The main body of the shell ship is actually organic matter, such as huge blood vessels and tendons, and the shell will be reinforced with wood or metal.
The tentacles of the shell ship should be kept moist for a long time and have a lot of mucus.
But now it seems that the tentacles of this shell ship have completely shriveled up like dried meat, and the mucus has long since disappeared.
In other words, this is the corpse of a shell ship, and it has been stored for a very long time and has become a mummy.
No matter how terrifying the illithid is, it is still a living thing. It is impossible to live without eating or drinking, so the probability of encountering an illithid on this shell ship is very low.
Aldai was actually more curious about why a shell ship was found where the Demon King's Ring might be stored.
The current speculation is that the shell ship accidentally landed here while making a space jump. It may be avoiding some kind of attack.
However, the aurora has disappeared, and I don’t know when it will appear again. Perhaps it is like a reminder, signaling Aldai to go to the shell ship first.
The four of them circled the shell ship and finally found a hole in the armor plate on one side that they could enter.
The armor plate that originally covered the hole has disappeared, and there are very obvious bite marks on the edge of the hole. Even though the shell ship has now turned into 'dried meat', the bite marks are still clearly visible.
Aldai touched the bite mark at the entrance of the hole and said:
"This is the bite mark of the red dragon. It seems that the shell ship may have jumped here urgently to avoid pursuit."
Nemea was a little timid:
"Is there a red dragon nearby?"
Draeger comforted:
"Impossible, this happened a long time ago. Don't be afraid, just explore the way ahead."
Exploring the path is the task of the rogue. Even if Nemea is afraid, he must do his part.
She gritted her teeth, took out the dagger from her waist and got in first.
The shell ship was surprisingly warm, and it felt like the few people had gotten into the body of a huge monster. There was a faint smell of rotting flesh and blood surrounding them.
The place they entered was probably a corridor on the shell ship. At first glance, it was all dark and shriveled muscle tissue, whether it was the ceiling, floor or walls, they were all the same.
No one would like this style of corridor. It felt like walking down the throat of a monster. Except for Aldai, whose expression did not change, everyone else showed disgusted expressions.
At this moment, a rotten wind blew gently, like a ghost's hand caressing the skin, making people shiver.
The only exception was Aldai. Not only was she not afraid, she even seemed to be very interested:
“Go ahead and let me see what interesting things I can find.”
(End of chapter)