Arcane Journey

Chapter 269 The Giant Eyed Tyrant
The five eyes flickered, watching them intently.

These eyes are connected to a sphere by snake-like tentacles that dance non-stop. Below the sphere is a mouth full of fangs. In the center of the floating sphere is a huge one-eyed, burning with excitement.

"Long time no see, Victor."

Brian pressed Santilla's little hand, motioning her not to act rashly, and looked at the observer beholder, "I never expected to meet you here."

He was still prepared to meet the observer beholder in this magic demiplane, but he didn't expect to meet him not long after it appeared.

Moreover, he could clearly feel the vigilance in Victor's five small eyes.

Recalling that the leader of the Harpist told himself that this demiplane was occupied by a group of beholder tyrants, he probably guessed the reason why this observer beholder, who was once the familiar of the missionary mage, appeared here.

Receiving Brian's reminder, Santilla stopped trying to take out the weapon, but locked a pair of vigilant blue eyes on the beholder.

"There are many things you didn't expect, Brian." The observer's beholder floated to Brian and Santilla, circling around them with scrutinizing eyes.

"Bryan, you are really haunted, you must be jealous that Victor is the most perfect creation of the 'Big Mistress', so you want to persecute Victor, and then tracked all the way here from the Underdark, by the way Then take Victor's treasure, right?"

"Actually, like last time, it's just a coincidence." Brian looked at the observer beholder who was slowly spinning around him, "I came here mainly for this magical demiplane, you know..."

"The demiplane belongs to Victor!"

The observer's beholder interrupted Brian's words excitedly, and said in an almost roaring tone, "The half-plane was created by Vitek in a dream, and no one can take away Vect's half-plane."

Hearing this, Brian recalled one thing.

Due to lack of time, he once asked his Ms. Polaris in Tarling what kind of spells or different dimensions could slow down the flow of time.

The answer Ms. Polaris gave him was that he needed to find a beholder whose strength was in the legendary realm.

Because the beholder is a materialized alien creature, the powerful beholder can even materialize the different dimension space he wants through thinking.

If Victor's words are true, doesn't it mean that this guy's strength is at least in the legendary realm.

However, Brian learned from the mouth of the storm that this demiplane was created by the legendary elf mage Slinxi, not the beholder in front of him.

Thinking of this, Brian immediately sorted out the context.

Obviously, this half-plane was not created by the beholders. The reason why Victor claimed this half-plane was his was probably because he had entered this half-plane in the form of a dream.

Therefore, this stinky and shameless guy thought that this demiplane was created by himself.

After all, when beholders are dreaming, not only can they change reality, but even their reproduction is produced through dreams.

Although the demiplane was not created by the beholders, Bryan guessed that the different time flow rate between the demiplane and the main material plane is likely to be caused by their dreams distorting reality.

After he figured out the problem, he couldn't help wondering what role those beholder tyrants played in this demiplane.

"You said this demiplane is yours." Brian asked, "Then tell me..."

"The half-plane is originally Victor's, there is nothing to explain." Victor interrupted his words again, and said excitedly, "The half-plane was created by Victor in the dream, and no one can explain it." Victor's demiplane cannot be taken away."

"I mean, this demiplane..." Brian explained to Victor patiently.

"Vector doesn't care what you mean, this demiplane belongs to Victor." His words were once again interrupted by the excited observer beholder.

"I know the demiplane is yours..."

"Nonsense, this belongs to Victor!"

"... Nima." Brian felt that he couldn't communicate with this beholder at all, and he gestured to the drow girl beside him with his eyes.

"I don't like him a long time ago." Santilla muttered, looking at the beholder who was still circling around the two of them, and waved her hand unpredictably.

In an instant, emerald green vines broke through the ground, dancing like a wild snake, wrapping the meat ball of the unsuspecting observer into a rice dumpling, leaving only four eyes on the tentacles, showing a flustered look .

"Woooooooo..."

The observer beholder struggled twice, and under Brian's gesture, Santilla gave him a mouth to speak.

"Bryan, Victor knew that you had no good intentions." The four small eyes of the beholder glared at Brian angrily, "Victor is the most perfect creation of the 'Great Mistress', how could he be betrayed by such an outstanding creature like you?" I'm stuck with the little girl's tricks, let you see Victor's..."

As the beholder spoke, the four tentacles with small eyes immediately branched out, ready to release supernatural rays.

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly seemed to see something frightening, and the four tentacles quickly softened again, hanging in midair like vines.

Bryan saw that the drow girl next to her had taken out a longbow at some point, and put on a sharp arrow that shone with silver luster.

This elegant composite longbow is made of sorrel wood, inlaid with silver elf-style patterns, the ends of the bow horns are covered with silver, and the middle handle is wrapped with blue wire.

As the bowstring was gradually stretched by Santilla, a bone-piercing chill permeated the air.

"Could it be..." Seeing this piece of equipment, Brian recalled one thing.

It is said that the lord of the elves, Corellon Larethian, made the first legendary-quality Elven Wintermoon Bow dozens of centuries ago and gave it to an elf hero.

Over time, Corellon's clerics created several copies of weapons of superior quality based on this legendary composite bow.

When the first elf player obtained this composite longbow of excellent quality in the Temple of Corellon due to his outstanding military exploits, he learned from the history of the weapon that the first composite bow of legendary quality made by Corellon was also It is also a replica, which was reproduced through a long-lost elven artifact.

Seeing this legendary compound bow imitated from an artifact, Brian's last trace of doubt about Santilla's true identity completely disappeared.

"Speak, why don't you continue?" Santilla looked at the Observer Beholder who was trapped by the vines like a rice dumpling with a half-smile.

Feeling the sharp and cold light of the sharp arrow, Victor shrank his eyes and was too frightened to speak.

He quietly protruded a tentacle, and the eyes on it blinked frantically at Brian, as if sending him a distress signal.

Brian ignored it.

He could feel the beholder's fear of Santilla's weapon, because the sharp arrow on the bowstring, engraved with mysterious elf runes, not only restrained the strange monsters, but also produced something similar to "dissociation" after hitting the flesh. technique" effect.

"Actually, I really want to give you a sword at close range and see your expression." Santilla continued playfully: "But you really smell bad, so I plan to kill you with an arrow."

"Don't worry, I won't miss the shot." She deliberately showed the dreadful expression unique to the drow clan, and said intimidatingly:
"My arrows hit every shot, but I can assure you that you won't be killed by the first arrow, nor by the second, because I'll try to make sure you feel your own death is coming."

The bone-chilling chill emanating from the drow girl's azure blue eyes made it hard for Brian to see if she was joking or not.

"Bryan, what are you still doing?" The beholder collapsed in fright, flailing its four tentacles with small eyes and yelling at Brian.

"Hurry up and save Victor! This drow chick is too scary, scarier than the human chick you were with last time, Victor can feel that she is really going to kill Victor! Victor It is the most perfect creation of the "Big Mistress", so you just have the heart to watch the loss of one of the most perfect creations in this world. Don't forget, without Victor deliberately releasing water, you would not be able to get the items left by the preaching mage... ..."

Brian was about to stop Santilla's actions, but the other party had put away his weapons.

The drow girl suddenly grabbed another message in the beholder's words and asked, "The human chick who was with him last time? Who is she? Where did you see it?"

"Of course it's in the Underdark!"

The observer beholder secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly answered Santilla's question, "Bryan and a human chick came to the place where Victor guards the master's treasure."

As if sensing the subtle changes in Santilla's expression, Victor's four eyeballs rolled around, and while he was wandering between Brian and Santilla, he added emphatically, "You know, The relationship between the two of them is very close, holding small hands for a while, hugging them in their arms for a while, and even kissing a little mouth when they are happy... Victor is very envious."

"..."

Brian's head was full of black lines, and he was about to interrupt the beholder who was digressing. The drow girl beside him turned around with her thick white hair and looked at him with a strong curiosity in her eyes, "What he said is Really? Who is that human?"

"Do you still need to ask?" The beholder quickly answered, "It must be his lover. Victor has been guarding the Underdark for hundreds of years. Of course, he knows the depressive environment there best. A lonely woman who ventures in the Underdark can Do you have to think about what to do? Oh, they must be..."

"Brian, is what he said true?" Santilla looked at him with resentful eyes.

"Of course what Victor said is true!"

The beholder pointed a tentacle finger to the sky, "Victor can swear to the gods that everything Victor said is true, if Victor lied, let Victor...let Brian die!"

Hearing this sentence, Brian suddenly had the urge to strangle Victor to death.

But when he thought about it carefully, this slobbering beholder really guessed the relationship between him and Hesaiah so closely that he didn't even have a chance to defend himself.

After all, although he likes girls, he is not scumbag enough to hide it on purpose.

Faced with this situation, he quickly calmed down.

He didn't intend to explain anything, but started to change the subject, and said to Santilla with a straight face, "Now is not the time to discuss this issue. The most important thing is to complete the task at hand first."

"Look, look, Victor guessed everything right, so he's going to change the subject because he's guilty. That human chick must have had an affair with him." The beholder's tentacles with small eyes pointed Brian, yelling at him.

"Bryan, you are shameless! You actually deceived such a beautiful and pure drow girl. Let me state in advance, Victor didn't deliberately provoke trouble, Victor was just doing it for..."

"boom!"

A howling fireball hit the booing beholder, drowning him in the smoke, and there was a painful wail, "You stinking shameless, dare to attack Victor!"

"Bryan, did he guess everything right?" Santilla's blue eyes flickered slightly, and she looked at him curiously, "So, I'm also curious about who this human girl is?"

"Almost." Brian didn't hide anything, and told Santilla truthfully.

"You should know that girl. She is the queen regent of Cormyr. She was the one I met when I escaped from the city of Orens and returned to the surface."

"I see." After listening to his explanation, Santilla nodded thoughtfully, with a playful smile on her lips.

"Actually, when I heard the news about you from Mr. Storm, I was still wondering why you were able to be named Lord Protector of Cormyr. It turned out to be because of this relationship, um... In this case, I feel relieved. "

"What are you worried about?" Brian asked in a daze.

"I can beat her." The drow girl raised her elven compound bow, raised her chin arrogantly, and said to him as a matter of course, "One day, my strength will surpass Silver Moon in the Northland. Castellan."

"...Is this related to strength?" Brian looked at her dumbfounded, and pretended to be serious and warned, "You must not mess around."

Hearing these words, he suddenly realized that he had ignored the fact that this seemingly naughty and cute drow girl in front of him was a teacher from the dark elf's ancient Orens city.

When it comes to using intrigue and trickery, I am afraid that no woman he knows can compare with her.

In fact, from the time he got to know Santilla, including having sex with her, and escaping from the city of Ancient Orens, he regarded this girl as the object of an accidental encounter, and didn't take her seriously.

After all, he is quite familiar with the promiscuous personality of the dark elf, and he doesn't think that the other party will really emerge from the mud like a lotus without being stained.

Who would have thought that he still underestimated the reincarnation of Eilistraee.

The three books he gave to Santilla, as well as the note left subconsciously, turned out to be self-defeating, making this strange drow girl always remember him deeply in her heart.

Therefore, under such circumstances that are not exclusive, it would be a happy thing if he could bring this god reincarnated boss into his harem.

Although he once wanted to create a harem in this world, but after careful calculation, there are only a handful of girls that he really recognizes, and he is already satisfied with it, there is no such thing as seeing one and loving another, seeing a woman and being unable to walk Road, and there was no idea of ​​adding new members because of this.

Therefore, he is still a little worried, if this drow girl is too possessive...

"Oh, the Shura field!"

The beholder appeared from the dissipated smoke, "Victor likes to watch the Shura field the most, and Victor has seen the most exciting Shura field at his master's place."

"Hey!" The observer beholder looked at Santilla, "Miss Drow, Victor didn't deliberately provoke trouble. You see that Brian is like this. Are you not angry at all?"

"what!!!"

Santilla raised her small hand, and a bone-chilling ball of frost exploded. While Victor was wailing, layers of frost condensed on the surface of his body at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Don't worry, I won't mess around." Santilla looked at Brian provocatively, a mysterious smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then quickly disappeared, "My curiosity has been satisfied, let's go back Let's get to the point."

"What's the situation with this demiplane?" Brian asked seriously the Observer Beholder who was shivering from Santilla's magic.

"The half...half plane belongs to Victor!" As soon as the half plane was mentioned, the beholder yelled excitedly again, but when he saw the unfriendly eyes of the two, he immediately faltered.

"The half-plane was created by Victor with his own dreams. Wisteria Valley and the residents here are all created by Victor. This is Victor's paradise and toys. As long as he stays here, Victor will feel Abnormal satisfaction and happiness, no one can drive Victor away and occupy Victor's half-plane."

"Then are there any other beholders here?" Brian continued to ask.

"No!" Victor said without thinking, "There is only one beholder, Victor, and absolutely no other beholders."

Brian and Santilla looked at the beholder suspiciously at the same time.

"Really not." The beholder assured the two with a guilty conscience, "If Victor lied to you, Victor is... a puppy."

"As far as I know, there are a group of beholder tyrants living in this demiplane." Brian looked at him meaningfully, then changed the topic, and said in a slightly cold tone, "From now on, you have become A puppy."

"Cut!" After the lie was exposed, the observer beholder retorted stiffly: "What's wrong with being a puppy, the puppy is so cute, woof woof..."

Santilla on the side was amused by the beholder's funny look, and said with a smile, "I've never seen such a brazen beholder."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Bryan said coldly: "The purpose of our coming here is to destroy this group of beholder tyrants. If you tell the truth, maybe when I feel better, I will not only spare you, but also hand over the half-plane to you to manage. otherwise……"

He looked at Santilla beside him, and the drow girl raised her weapon.

"Don't, don't, don't...don't do it! Can't Victor tell the truth?" The observer's beholder shrank in fright, and said dejectedly:

"Actually... this demiplane was not created by Victor alone, other beholders also participated, but Victor contributed the most, and the inheritance right should belong to Victor. Damn Reckney relies on his large number of people , drove poor Victor away, and wanted to take it for himself."

"I believe what you say for the time being."

Brian nodded thoughtfully, exchanged glances with the drow girl beside him, and asked, "Then do you know a ranger named Azara?"

"Of course Victor knows." The beholder quickly replied:
"He's a harpist, babbling, trying to keep himself happy, relieve his boredom, escape Wisteria Valley, and hold a grudge against the harpers who imprisoned him."

"But since the damned Reckney came, he imprisoned Azara, turned into a ranger, and lived in the Wisteria Valley." The beholder made the last addition.

Brian learned through magic that the beholder in front of him was not lying.

He thought for a moment, and said to Victor, "In this case, how about you take us to find Reckney, and we help you eliminate him?"

"No! Victor is not going!" The observer beholder flicked his four tentacles and kept shaking his head, "Vector can't beat Reckney, and Reckney can enslave Victor, and Vic I dare not go there."

Hearing this, Brian immediately realized that the Reckney mentioned by Victor was definitely a giant-eyed tyrant.

Among beholders, the Eyed Tyrant suppresses his xenophobic tendencies and turns them into a dictatorial ideology.

They will end their solitary life and build their own vast empire by enslaving their own kind and other creatures in the name of giant eye tyrant.

The giant-eyed tyrant will also set up his territory in the interior or underground of the big city, and operate agents at all levels to form a network to serve his interests.

In easy-to-understand words, the beholder who likes to be alone has evolved into a giant-eyed tyrant who can farm and cultivate technology.

In the Great Crest of the Underdark Region, there is a giant-eyed tyrant with unfathomable strength. His territory is even more terrifying than the lich's lair, and it is known as the tomb of legendary professionals.

Back then, when there was turmoil in the Underdark, even the incarnation of the demon lord King Yenoghu hated it.

Obviously, this demiplane was regarded by the giant-eyed tyrant as his wretched development territory.

In this case, if Victor is really allowed to go with them, not only will he not get any help, but he will also create an extra enemy out of thin air.

Even so, he couldn't help but secretly lamented the extraordinaryness of the observer beholder in front of him, that he was able to escape from the slavery of a giant-eyed tyrant.

It is worthy of being the magic pet of a preaching mage.

In this case, Brian began to think about waiting for the task to be completed, whether it was by means of coercion or temptation, he must fool this beholder and help him manage the demiplane.

He thought for a long time, and said to Victor, "Then you should stay here honestly, and the two of us will meet this giant-eyed tyrant named Reckney."

"Don't worry, Victor will stay here honestly. Even if you kill Victor, Victor will not go there." The observer blinked with lingering fear, and said:

"If you can kill Reckney, Victor will tell you where Azara is being imprisoned, but the premise is that you can't drive Victor away, because this demiplane belongs to Victor. Otherwise If you don’t, you will never know where Azara is sealed.”

"Very good." Brian nodded slightly. He was about to ask about the ranger, but he didn't expect Victor to bring it up, which saved him a lot of trouble.

Then, without wasting any time, he and Santilla walked towards the Wisteria Valley.

(End of this chapter)