The Rise of the Cemetery

After passing through countless crumbling and dilapidated ruins, looking at the history buried in endless dust, the Gorefiend didn't feel any mourning, but concentrated on sneaking into the depths of the ruins.

Hanging upside down on the high cave dome, two or three hundred meters above the ground, you can have a panoramic view of everything below. The line of sight crosses the heavy fog and casts its eyes on the magnificent city wall that has been standing for thousands of years. Although it is dilapidated and the bricks and stones on it are covered with unsightly moss and lichen, you can imagine its style at that time just by the 30-meter-high wall base and the spacious corridor that can accommodate two carriages.

The reliefs on the city wall have been weathered and fallen off, leaving only mottled shadows like scars. There are groups of figures patrolling the corridor regularly. It can be seen that the defense line is extremely tight. Anyone who wants to sneak in from the ground will not be alone. easy job. However, these patrols on the bright side are just a cover, what really prevents outsiders from entering is the dark magic traps and psionic traps hidden in the corners.

There are not only traps on the ground, but even the dome where the Gorefiend is crawling has placed a lot of psionic threads. Invisible and quality spiritual energy threads criss-crossed one after another, arranging the space where the dome is located into a terrifying cobweb formation, so the Gorefiend no longer dared to go deep when he came to the position above the city wall, he could only watch from afar The demeanor of a mind flayer city.

As far as he could see, there were still many intact buildings inside the city wall, and there were many underground creatures coming in and out there. With a glance, the Gorefiend recognized quite a few: elves, drow, githzerai, githyanki, stone-blind barbarians, gnolls, gray dwarves, gnomes, centaurs, goblins, orcs...

These strange races that are usually out of reach can be found here, and they seem to be able to live together in "harmonious". There is a thick green soup in a large pot. The Gorefiend curled his lips slightly, expressing infinite sympathy for those who fell into the hands of the mind flayer and became slaves of the mind forever.

This is probably the "common area" where mind flayers enslave creatures to live, and it looks chaotic, dirty and disorderly. And the deeper "upper city" area is shrouded by a faint twisted shield, making it impossible to get a glimpse of it.

When he was helpless, he suddenly found a group of "people" hurriedly walking on the gray stone-paved road leading to the "upper town" below him, and there was a "human figure" wearing a dark gray cloak in the center. Before he had time to think or plan, the Gorefiend instinctively opened his mouth, and a ball of blood the size of an egg spewed out, dripping down in an arc in the air.

It was just a small piece of blood leaving the body, which instantly weakened the Gorefiend. The hands and feet that were gripping the stone wall of the dome trembled a little, and they were almost loose. The mass of blood just now was small in size and quantity, but it contained more than one-third of the energy in the Gorefiend's body. It's no wonder that the Gorefiend's physique almost couldn't bear such a huge energy loss in a short period of time.

While still in the air, the blood mass began to change at an extremely fast speed, protruding out countless slender tentacles, and opened a strange eye. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a small alien creature, falling down with agility and speed that were extremely disproportionate to its body, but while falling, its body was also making constant fine-tuning in the horizontal direction to ensure its landing point and the ground. The marching cloaked figures coincide.

When it fell halfway through the air, the color of the body surface of the alien creature composed of blood clusters began to change, and a chameleon-like talent for color imitation appeared, blending with the background color it was on. Catch its presence with the naked eye.

When it was more than 20 meters away from the cloaked man, the body of this strange creature suddenly flattened, and at the cost of rapid self-ignition, it eliminated all kinds of noise and momentum when it fell, and finally dripped lightly on the cloaked man's shoulders, and turned into Liquid of the same color sticks there.

The man in the cloak was also aware of it at this moment, looked up suspiciously and looked around, but didn't find anything different from usual. For a brief moment when the cloaked man looked up at the sky, he revealed the purple-red skin under the hood, an octopus-like head, and two long and two short tentacles on his chin.

This is already a mature mind flayer.

It stopped in doubt and scanned around several times repeatedly. The vigilant look in its demeanor instantly infected several spiritual servants in front of and behind it. One by one, they drew out their weapons and began to look for possible enemies nearby.

Nothing was found. This made it even more confusing.

The unreasonable intuition of danger just now is so strong and sharp, it has deeply hurt its keen mind, it cannot be a misjudgment and illusion. But now I am in the city, half a mile away I am about to enter the protection range of the psionic shield, what unknown danger will there be at this time?

The baffled mind flayer twitched the slender tentacles under his jaw, and with a thought, he lifted the guard order of the servants, and continued his journey forward.

Soon, everyone came to the psychic shield that separated the inside and the outside. Several servants who followed them bowed and saluted, then turned and returned to their "home" in the lower city. Only the mind flayer calmly walked towards the invisible Quality light film.

After sensing the mind flayer's psychic power, the originally seamless light membrane suddenly opened a human-shaped hole that was about the same size as him, and put it in.

When the film of light slowly closed behind the mind flayer, this strange creature, equivalent to the avatar of the gorefiend, dared to pull out one or two filament-like tentacles from its flat body, passively detecting everything around it. All mental fluctuations and energy reactions were compressed to the lowest level, and the weird eyes opened again, but due to the effect of color imitation, they appeared darker than the dark gray cloak. Looking at it suddenly, I thought that the dark spot was just a stain that the mind flayer had inadvertently picked up.

As the mind flayer continued to advance along the road, the surrounding basic images and sounds were also simultaneously generated in the blood demon's mind. This is not a magical effect, nor is it a supernatural effect, but the synchronous induction of instinct between cells in the same body. This induction can only be disturbed, but cannot be completely cut off.

This is a nearly intact relic that has been restored, with gray stone-paved streets and flat-roofed houses on both sides, completely constructed of earth-rock mixed materials. According to the restored patterns, it is speculated that these are ordinary places such as taverns, hotels, or shops, but now, the people living here are all mind flayers and illithids wearing robes and wearing an octopus head.

The mind flayer Kazyek greeted several familiar partners, and without stopping, he went straight to the towering palace at the end of the street. This is a city built by arcanists thousands of years ago. Of course, there cannot be a temple. There is a spacious and majestic arcane palace, where arcanists gather to discuss issues. Of course, it has now become the city center for mind flayers hall.

Mind flayers don't have the same set of red tape as humans, let alone procrastinating and useless bureaucracy. Kazyek just stood quietly at the gate of the city hall for a moment, and the "person" he wanted to see appeared in front of him. Elder Demon - Sai Lewoer.

Sinister and regal, this burly humanoid stands nearly 8 feet tall when erect. Its body is like purple-red rubber, with a layer of grease-like mucus attached to it, sparkling luster in the dim natural light. Dressed in ornate robes that drag on the ground, the mind flayer elder Selevor has two shorter tentacles and four extremely long ones on his octopus-like head. Its eyes are a pair of silvery white expressionless spheres.

The two demons didn't have any conversations, they were staring at each other, their thinking tendrils were flying, sending information through teleportation. Of course, in this silent communication, a lot of messy words would be inadvertently captured by the Blood Demon clone who was close at hand.

"...human mage...drow..."

"High-level..." "Arrival..." "Ruins..."

Of course, there is no way to know the complete content, but from these repeatedly mentioned keywords, enough information can already be obtained for brain supplementation. It seems that the big move of the Mage Guild did not hide from the detection of the Mind Flayer. The mind flayer Kazeyek obviously just came back from the outside and brought the latest information from the Mage Guild.

In just a few fingers, the two demons completed the communication.

The mind flayer Kazejek bowed slightly, turned around and left the gate of the city hall, and walked towards his residence in the west of the city, while the mind flayer elder Serrewall turned back and submerged into the darkness that seemed to be substantial behind him.

The moment the two demons turned around, the Gorefiend avatar on Kazyek's cloak was like a drop of water, sliding down the soft cloth surface, and finally fell on the moonstone floor. The whole process was silent, and since there was no mana fluctuation, it did not arouse any vigilance of the two demons.

When the tranquility returned to the entrance of the city hall, a water stain slowly bulged on the floor. Compared with the original egg size, the current Gorefiend clone is only half of its original size. Since it is not a complete living body after all, any action must be driven by burning itself as a nutrient, so without external supplementation, the blood essence energy carried by itself can maintain its activity time of 40 minutes at most. If some energy-intensive actions are made, this time will be greatly reduced.

The mission that the Bloodfiend left for this clone was not to spy on the mind flayer's secrets, but to further confirm the actual location of the space coordinates described by the master and possible obstacles. No matter at any time, the master's instruction is the first sequence that needs to be completed.

After confirming the safety of the surrounding area, the Gorefiend clone began to deform locally, and soon a miniature spider appeared on the spot. It's just that compared with real spiders, this miniature little guy only has a similar shape and 8 flat and sharp joints.

It bounced lightly, and stuck to a towering stone pillar with a little help in the air. The Gorefiend avatar followed the pillar with its own unique agility, avoiding the area where some special runes and spirit patterns were located. , Climbed straight to the tall eaves of the city hall.

At the highest point at the top of the hall, the Gorefiend clone stopped. This is a stone statue of a beautiful girl, standing on the highest point of the hall, and the Gorefiend avatar is crawling on top of her slightly incomplete exquisite headband at this moment.

The Gorefiend avatar protruded two slender tentacles again, erected them high, while slightly trembling and agitating tiny and undetectable special space ripples, while turning around and repeatedly comparing the surrounding space feedback, the effort and the memory stored in the core Compared with a group of special numbers, looking for the spatial node mentioned by the master.

After turning around completely, the tentacles of the Gorefiend clone pointed to a mysterious place 3 miles behind the city hall. There is a small 3-story tower, which is inconspicuous among the surrounding buildings. The only thing that is a bit special is its solitude. At least in the central area with dense buildings, it lives alone in a single place, with a distance of nearly 100 meters from the surrounding buildings, which is enough to reflect its specialness.

When the space perception of the Gorefiend avatar landed on the small tower far away, the data fed back from the outside world perfectly matched with the data in the core area.

found it.

Not daring to be negligent, the Gorefiend avatar started an irreversible spontaneous combustion almost at the same time as it came to a conclusion. Turning around, all the tentacles were pointing towards where the Blood Demon's body was, even if it was more than a dozen miles away, they were pointing exactly the same. All the energy generated by the violent spontaneous combustion poured into these tentacles, and sent out the images and detection data near the space position it finally determined in an unprecedented way.

"Boom..."

The special teleportation sound sounded continuously around the Blood Demon clone, and seven mind flayer elders successively revealed their figures in the air. The moment each mind flayer elder appeared, he stared unblinkingly with his silver-white eyeballs at the strange little life that was emitting hot white light from the top of the statue of the girl.

Countless layers of force field walls immediately imprisoned him in place, but it was already too late. The Gorefiend avatar that completed the information transmission died when the inner core was burned, leaving only a handful of ashes after the blood was completely burned. At the last moment, the Gorefiend clone opened that treacherous monocular eye, sending a message to the mind flayer elders present in the form of consciousness fluctuations.

"I will return!"