Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 431 The Underdark Area
'What exactly is going on?!'

In a dark underground tunnel, the smoke that Noshir transformed into circled in the spot for several times in a somewhat crazy manner, and then changed back to his original form, covering his helmet with both hands in annoyance. If he still had the ability to control himself and was not on guard against the danger here, he might even shout out loud!
'This damn place is too big! I've been floating here in the form of smoke for more than three hours! For more than three hours, I still haven't walked out of this tunnel! If I hadn't felt that I was still going down, I would have thought that I missed the fork in the road at a corner and went to the wrong place!'

Yes, this is the biggest reason that makes Noshir crazy and helpless. Below the Tower of the Moon is a colony of the mind suckers, but the actual distance between this damn place and the Tower of the Moonrise makes Noshir experience what it means to be desperate.

Clearly in the game it was just a matter of jumping down from the hole on the top floor of the tower, followed by a cutscene. But when Noshir actually went through it, he realized how much distance that cutscene saved!

"Calculating the time, it should be almost eight o'clock in the evening, right? After searching for several hours, I haven't even walked out of the tunnel. Should I really continue searching now?"

Noshir set out from Eltoril early in the morning and came to the Cursed Land of Shadows. It took him several hours just to travel. Then he was busy at the Inn of the Last Light for a long time. Then he came here to collect intelligence. But now the day is about to pass, and Jaheira and the others are waiting for me to go back. If I continue searching, who knows how long it will take?

He didn't have any skills like the Mantra of Return. In this dark tunnel, if something unexpected really happened, it would be very difficult for Noshir to escape.

Although his evil demon incarnation, Comparable to Weng, can perform the seven-ring other-world teleportation to hell at any time, this thing can only allow him to go to hell. If he wants to use this trick to come back from hell, then he will be in the same place when he left the main material plane when he comes back. There is no practical value in avoiding danger at all, which means that he must spend time finding another way to return to this world, but now he has no time to waste.

'...No, I cannot retreat. What lies before me now is a golden opportunity. This may be the only chance to severely damage or even kill the Mastermind before it fully develops. Even if I wait until tomorrow, it will not work. Jaheira and the others are indeed strong teammates, but they definitely do not have the ability to face the Chosen Ones and the Mastermind directly. This matter can only be left to me.'

Noshier unconsciously looked at his raised left hand. Under the gauntlet, on his index finger was the legendary ring that could help him resist the mental damage of the main brain. Without this thing, it would be useless even if more people came.

'Keep going.'

Noshil clenched his fists, then forced himself to concentrate and focus on the business. Then, Noshil began to observe the surrounding environment.

There was no light at all in the circular tunnel he was in, but thanks to his racial advantage, Noshir could still see the surroundings clearly.

"I can't perceive the specific environment around me in the mist form, but I didn't expect that this tunnel would be constructed like this?"

Stones, stones everywhere. Now, the ground under Noshiel's feet and the surroundings are all solid rocks. Occasionally, you can see some pointed cone-shaped stalactites, but this kind of underground rock formation obviously does not naturally produce such a circular passage. This tunnel should be made by some large creature when drilling underground, and then it was discovered by the Mind Flayer and Catheric, so they simply expanded and modified it to connect the surface and the underground.

'A creature that can drill out of this tunnel...purple worm? Shark lizard? Or cave-dwelling grabber? It's been so long that I can no longer tell what kind of monster left this path, but I can be sure that the one capable of doing this is definitely one of the three monsters mentioned above. And among these three monsters, no matter which one drilled out of this path, they all revealed a very crucial piece of information to me.'

That is, these monsters all have a very unified habitat. This passage is likely to connect to the underground world, which is...

"The Underdark! These monsters are unique to the Underworld! Damn it! I should have thought of this long ago. I already knew the nesting habits of the mind flayers and even set foot in this ridiculously long tunnel myself, but I didn't realize this until now! The information in the game misled me!"

Yes, the situation is very clear. The mind-thirs colony that Noshier thought was built not far below the Moonrise Tower is actually not directly below the Moonrise Tower at all!

The real location of the colony was actually deep in the Underdark! The reason why Kesseric was able to discover these mind flayers was because they had occupied the Moonrise Tower through this tunnel before Kesseric returned! After Kesseric had completely cleared out the mind flayers in the tower, he discovered the Mastermind and the Illithid community connected to the Moonrise Tower through this tunnel!
"Tsk, this is really a bit troublesome. The good plan of exploring the colony of the illithid monsters has to be changed into an adventure in the dark hell. This is not good."

Taking his hand away from the rock, Noshir cast his gaze into the deeper darkness.

Compared to the illithid colonies where the risks are known, the Underdark is infinitely more complex. Not only is it filled with a variety of dangerous animals and plants, the Underdark is also filled with special magic that is unique to this dangerous world: [Earth Radiation].

Earth vein radiation is a very unique magical fluctuation. This fluctuation is spread throughout the Underdark, and its specific function is to distort the magic of teleportation and prophecy. That is to say, in the Underdark, Noshir couldn't even transform into a Kambiwon and then use the seven-ring spell that came with it to teleport to another world and escape.

This undoubtedly greatly increased the risk of his trip. In addition to this, Noshier even speculated that even if he finally found his original destination, it might not be as optimistic as he had previously speculated.

Maybe the Mind Flayers did have a fierce fight with Catheric, and they lost many community members as a result, but if the Mastermind is really in the Underdark now, then there will definitely be no shortage of various dangerous guards around him.

(End of this chapter)