Chapter 580 Crystal Castle (Part 1)
The architectural style of the dwarves is heavy, solid, and rough. You don't care whether it's refined or not, just say it's useful or not.
Everything I saw before, except for the initial gate and the maze, was all in the style of the dwarves. Even Yue Luo said that this was a dwarven ruin from the Five Kings Mountains period.
But what’s going on with this style of painting now?
Walking down the stairs, the first thing that catches your eye is the huge translucent crystal structure, which reflects the light blue light and looks like a crystal castle.
There is a round hole facing the three people. To be honest, it looks a bit like a sewage pipe, but no matter it is up, down, left, or right, it is a whole crystal structure, and there is not even a trace of splicing.
This is not something that dwarves can do.
So, is it an elf?
When the magical civilization of the elves was at its most developed, it had been quite partial to this kind of natural crystal structure for a while. If it were taken alone, it would not be surprising to say that it was the creation of the elves.
But this is underneath the dwarven ruins.
It is true that elves and dwarves appeared almost at the same time, but the period when the magic civilization of elves flourished was thousands of years different from the period of the Five Kings Mountains.
The decline of the elves occurred twelve thousand years ago, and the Five Kings Mountain Period occurred seven or eight thousand years ago. These two should not be able to meet.
Aldai is now becoming more and more curious about who built this ruins. Perhaps the most reasonable explanation is that this ruins has been expanded by many races. Otherwise, there is no way to explain why there is such a huge difference in painting style. Put together.
Looking to the left and right sides of the 'Crystal Castle', you will see a large mushroom forest, which should be connected to other underground cavities. The three of them even saw a group of Furum floating between the tall and glowing mushrooms.
This is a kind of monster that is similar in shape to a jellyfish, with two eye stalks inserted at the top. At first glance, it looks a little cute.
The threat level is indeed not high, and they generally do not attack people actively, but their appearance is not good news.
Where fur appears, it can generally be said to be deep underground. In such a place, it will have a great impact on the teleportation spell. The teleportation spell is likely to fail, or be teleported far away from the original destination. Go thousands of miles away.
This effect is called leyline radiation, which is equivalent to a super interference. Teleportation spells that are not specifically optimized for it must not be used.
This is equivalent to sealing Aldai's escape route. After all, in the worst case scenario, Master can teleport away, which is the last resort.
However, Aldai would not back down. The three of them just waited at the door for a moment, and then got into the passage directly opposite without hesitation.
The more mysterious the place, the more excited Aldai is. If she hadn't been looking for the Demon King's Ring, Aldai would have spent several years searching every corner of the place.
After entering the passage, you will see that everything above, below, left and right are made of crystal, as if the entire building is polished from a single piece of crystal. This construction technology definitely involves special abilities similar to magic.
However, these crystals do not reflect light, but have high light transmittance. When the three of them walked in this passage, they felt like they were walking in an aquarium and looking at marine life through the glass.
From time to time, you will see some underground creatures flashing past behind the crystal. Their real location may not be where you see it. The light passing through the special refraction surface inside the crystal may obscure the scenery far away from Aldai and the others. refracted.
With such attention to detail and enjoyment, this kind of operation makes people doubt that it is the creation of elves. They like to pay attention to details.
Continuing to move along the passage, there were no forks in the road, and after just a few turns, Nemea, who was walking at the front, suddenly signaled to stop.
The three of them looked out from the corner and saw a row of round things on the opposite side of the passage, about ten meters away.
After taking a closer look, I found that it was the head of some kind of special creature. The skin of these creatures is purple, and there are a large series of tentacles where the mouth and chin should be. The slender heads are somewhat like the classic alien images in movies, and they are also somewhat like deep-sea creatures.
Nemea trembled a little and whispered:
"Could that be..."
"Well, it's an illithid. To be precise, it's the head of a dead illithid."
"..."
The illithids are a race that specializes in eating human brains. Although they also have high intelligence, they are not accepted by mortal society at all and are classified as monsters.
This group of guys will take advantage of the night to control the victim's mind with their mind, and take the initiative to put their brains together for the illithids to eat. Their mouths hidden under the tentacles are very similar to the structure of the nautilus's mouth. Like a crowbar, they can easily pry open the brains of intelligent creatures.
It would be fine if these guys just eat brains. Animal brains are brains, but they only eat the brains of intelligent creatures, which is hard to resist.
And the way illithids reproduce is even more unacceptable.
They will fish out worm-like illithid tadpoles kept in saltwater pools and place them on controlled mortals. These illithid tadpoles will burrow through the eyes, ears, or nostrils, and burrow into your body. In his mind, he was devouring the gray matter and replacing it with his own body.
It won't be long before the unlucky guy will be transformed directly into an illithid in a burst of painful convulsions and psychic energy.
This kind of creature that directly feeds on mortals of other races is certainly not popular with people. Even in fairy tales used to scare children in many places, illithid is a boss with a high appearance rate.
This is why Nimiya was frightened on the spot.
The last time I went to get the Demon King's Ring, I had encountered illithids and even a shell ship. This time, there were even illithids.
But this time, it was more like the illithid was chopped off first and its head was placed on the ground as a decoration.
"Don't be afraid. No matter how scary the illithid is, this thing is just a ball of rotten meat when it dies. Let's go over and take a look."
Although Nemea doesn't really want to get close to this purple octopus head, but...
OK.
The three of them came out of the corner and approached the row of illithid heads. The strange thing was that the further they walked forward, the higher the heads became.
At first, I thought it was because of the distance and the illithid's head was placed in a relatively high position. As it got closer, it naturally gradually became taller in the field of vision.
But when the three of them continued to get closer, they discovered that the illithid heads were not in this passage, they were just refracted images.
When the three of them reached the other end of the passage, the illithid's head had already moved directly above them. Looking up, they could clearly see the rough cut section, as well as the illithid's trachea and The esophagus is similar to looking at specimens through a glass plate.
This should be due to the influence of environmental factors. As mentioned before, the surrounding crystals will refract images from far away.
This discovery made the three of them feel a little relieved, but then again, who could kill a dozen illithids and rip off their heads as decorations?
(End of chapter)