Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 511 Ending
It can be judged that there are actually no indigenous people in this cave, because Noshier had only entered the mine for a few minutes when he found many fragmentary stone statues of animals in the cave.

These stone statues include petrified giant spiders, petrified underground los beasts, and even some petrified gray dwarves. There is no doubt that these poor guys were normal lives with flesh and blood when they were alive, but they were unlucky enough to encounter powerful beasts that could not be defeated by conventional means. A powerful monster that could turn their flesh and blood into stone statues in the blink of an eye. Only three races in the dark hell have the ability to petrify creatures in an instant.

One is the Beholder, one is the petrified lizard, and the other is Medusa. Before we are sure what kind of monster lives here, he is still expecting it with his eyes wide open, alert, and ready to guard against enemies rushing out of the darkness at any time, because among these three monsters that have the ability to petrify others, there are two that may pose a threat to Noshil now. These two monsters are the Beholder and Medusa.

But after Noshir carefully observed the state of the stone statues, he threw his little expectation to the wind, because he had already determined what kind of creature was living in this abandoned mine. If nothing unexpected happened, it must be a group of petrified lizards living here.

The reason that supported Noshir's judgment was very simple. There were only two simple bases for judgment. One was the decoration style in this nest, and the other was the victims he found.

Areas where powerful monsters live often display their unique personalities and quirks. For example, the nest of a beholder often displays the weirdness and arrogance of its creator in a very intuitive way. They will decorate their caves with trophies obtained from previous battles, such as petrified adventurers. Beholders often deliberately freeze their expressions of fear, as well as the remains of other beholders or magical items confiscated from other powerful enemies.

The beholder will carve out its own lair with disintegration rays and deliberately design a vertical passage leading to the chambers of the cave, because this kind of environment is conducive to the free movement of the beholder and can effectively prevent invaders from easily sneaking in. When someone invades, a high enough ceiling can allow the beholder to float in the air and harass the opponent. This kind of architectural style can be said to be very obvious and can be recognized at a glance.

But in this nest, Noshil did not find any special environment worthy of attention. The entire cave maintained a very primitive appearance. This situation showed that the owner of this cave did not have any obvious hobbies, or it could be said that the creature living here was just a beast with ordinary IQ, not a powerful monster with extraordinary wisdom.

Because of this, Noshier was very confident that he could directly eliminate powerful monsters such as Medusa and Beholder, which possessed extraordinary intelligence, from the options. In addition, during the search, he also discovered that almost all the stone statues in the mine were damaged by external forces.

Because the prey petrified by the beholder would often be used by the beholder as ornaments to decorate its nest, the same was true for the stones petrified by Medusa, but these stones had completely turned into waste, either with large or small teeth marks, or simply shattered into debris on the ground.

Among these three races, only the petrified lizards feed on the species they petrified, and only when they are gnawing on their prey will they turn their victims into such a scattered appearance.

After confirming the true identity of his opponent, Noshil let down his guard. The opponent was not a beholder or a Medusa, but just a group of petrified lizards, and this kind of thing posed no threat to him at all.

Although this creature is huge in size and possesses considerable strength, and can turn the target it is looking at into a stone statue in just a few seconds, its movement speed is really average. The body of the petrified lizard is too fat. Even if it has six legs, Noshil can kill it five or six times before it turns its head.

The only difficulty in cleaning these guys out is their number. Judging from the traces in this mine, the petrified lizards living here are probably a whole clan. A conservative estimate is that there should be 3 to 6 adult petrified lizards, and there may be varying numbers of young petrified lizards or petrified lizard eggs.

However, because fossilized lizards have no habit of raising offspring, even if there are really young fossilized lizards here, Noshil is unlikely to see these little guys in the nests of adult fossilized lizards. Compared to seeing young ones, the chance of picking up eggs directly in the nest is greater, and this is also the scene that Noshil most hopes to see.

Because fossil lizards can be tamed, if this monster is tamed by a professional trainer since childhood, there is a high probability of successfully taming it. The tamed fossil lizard can understand some simple commands, obey the instructions of the owner, avoid eye contact with specific creatures, and become controllable and reliable.

And even without its special skills, its own abilities still make it a formidable beast guard, and the eggs of the basilisk are therefore very valuable. If Noshir can find a nest of such eggs here, such a gift may be easier for the dwarves to accept than a green-footed dragon snake.

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An adult male petrified lizard quickly moved its thick six limbs and rushed towards the uninvited guest in front of it who dared to invade its nest. At the same time, it widened its gray and lifeless eyes and displayed the signature skill of their tribe, the petrifying gaze.

Unlike the ray spells that beholders can directly fire, in order to use the abilities of the two races, the petrified lizards and the Medusa, they must have a very direct eye contact with the victim. Only in this way can their petrification abilities take effect.

But the brain capacity of the petrified lizards is not enough for them to understand how their abilities work on others. The only thing they know is that as long as they stare at their prey for a little longer, the prey itself will soon become a delicious stone meal.

But this time, it hit a wall.

Noshier did not hold any weapons, and stood there without dodging or avoiding, quietly waiting for the moment when the petrified lizard was about to hit him. Then, when that moment was about to come, he quickly stretched out his hands and grabbed the huge, fat lizard's head, and exerted force on the spot! With the force generated by the petrified lizard itself when it rushed over, he threw the giant beast hard on the rocky ground behind him with an exaggerated shoulder throw!

This brutal blow instantly made it completely lose its ability to fight, but thanks to its monster-level strong physique, it still did not completely kill it, but this was also what Noshil hoped for.

The Underdark seems cruel and ruthless, but in fact it also has its own unique ecological chain. The basilisk in front of him is the fourth basilisk that Noshir has encountered. It is also the largest and the only male basilisk.

The three petrified lizards that Noshier had encountered before were all females. When he encountered them, he only killed two weaker ones, and deliberately kept the strongest one. He drove it out of the mine with force. If there was no accident with the male in front of him, he would drive it away together with the female.

Noshier was not worried that these guys would come back after being driven away, because in a sense, this was a competition for territory in nature. If his territory was occupied and there was a visible gap in strength between the two sides, and the original owner of the territory could still survive after failing the challenge, he would often take the initiative to admit defeat afterwards, completely abandon this area, and look for other hunting grounds instead.

At the same time, considering that releasing too many petrified lizards at once would very likely disrupt the local ecological balance, Noshier only released one male and one female lizard. This method of handling allows the petrified lizards to continue to reproduce in this area, but it will not cause the local ecological environment to collapse due to too many powerful predators appearing at once. Although this treatment cannot be said to be perfect, it can be regarded as minimizing the possible impact. "This should be the last one."

Noshir looked at the big guy lying on the ground gasping for breath and clapped his hands, causing a handful of dust to explode between his eyes.

Nosher coughed due to the smoke and dust, and quickly waved his hands to disperse the dust. However, as soon as his hands waved, the dust came out of the iron gloves like firewood ashes. He quickly took off his gloves, moved his fingers on the spot, and directly broke the small layer of stone that had been formed on his arm at some unknown time into pieces of stone slabs.

"This is what it feels like to be petrified... that's all."

Noshier glanced at the stones on the ground. At the moment of head-on collision with the petrified lizard, he deliberately made eye contact with it for a moment, wanting to test the extent of this petrification effect. Now the result is very obvious.

It was obvious that the beast's petrifying gaze had no effect on Noshir, and after experiencing the feeling of petrification himself, Noshir also understood the working principle of this skill.

Generally speaking, this is a spell-like method that the petrified lizards are born with. By making eye contact with their prey, the petrified lizards can project the magic power attached to their eyes in that instant, transmitting it to the prey's entire body, and quickly producing a spell reaction on the prey that can penetrate into the prey's body and quickly transform the prey into stone, and this reaction is from the outside to the inside.

If the physical fitness of the petrified target is strong enough, most of the negative effects can be directly exempted through the strong physique. If the physical fitness is not strong enough, you can also enhance your own spell resistance through various means, so that you can still ignore the petrification effect caused by the gaze.

Not only did Noshir's physical fitness far exceed the standard, he also had the blessing of the Moon Goddess and possessed a very high spell resistance. With the combination of these two, he ignored most of the petrified lizard's abilities without even activating his rage, and only generated a thin and brittle stone skin composed of external magic power on the surface of his body.

Nosir slapped his arm again. Perhaps because of his own magic resistance or physical strength, even this layer of stone skin only appeared on his fists and forearms, which made it much easier for Nosir to clean up.

After cleaning off the stone fragments on his body and driving away all the living petrified lizards, Noshil returned to the mine and began to look for the nests of these petrified lizards. After spending some time, Noshil finally found a hidden cave dug by the petrified lizards in the mine.

He found a nest of seven petrified lizard eggs in the cave. After inspection, three of the seven eggs were confirmed to be stillborn, and the remaining four alive were all collected by Noshir.

"It's a good harvest. With these things, we have more options. Next, we just need to go back and contact King Snitker, and we can arrange for the spawn to move in directly."

Noshil tossed the space box in his hand, and felt that this operation was so smooth. He successfully brought the derivatives here safely, successfully established diplomatic relations with the underground gnomes, and successfully helped the derivatives find a base for survival.

The next step is to wait for the derivatives to gain a firm foothold here, and then Noshir can plan the next trip to hell.

If his actions in hell go smoothly and he is lucky enough to find a way to transform the vampire derivatives back into humans in a short period of time, then the derivatives will not even need to live here for too long and will be able to fundamentally get rid of the current dark days.

"Although it's unlikely to be found soon, it's still a thought... Okay, let's go back."

After hanging the space box back on his waist, Nosher turned around and broke off a giant stalagmite next to him. He twisted his waist and threw the giant conical stone pillar to the corner of the mine. The giant stone cone brought up a whistling wind and smashed through the stone wall at the corner at an extremely sudden speed!
The rocks collided with each other, and at that moment, there was a loud shattering sound between them! Large and small pieces of rubble flew everywhere, and the sound of crackling was endless. In this chaotic environment, a sudden and dazzling red light instantly occupied Noshier's vision.

Relying on his extraordinary powerful eyesight, he instantly saw the true face of the thing. It was a circular shield made of red magic. The shield was very strong. No matter how big the gravel was, it could not break the defense of the shield. It would only cause a vibration like ripples. Inside the shield was a female dwarf hiding with a look of surprise on her face, as if she couldn't believe what was happening before her eyes.

"I was discovered! When? How did he find me..."

"I was wondering why I kept feeling like there was a mouse running around me."

"!"

The tangled thoughts in the female dwarf's mind had not yet fully emerged when Noshir's emotionless words suddenly came to her side. Fear made the female dwarf's eyes shrink into a thin dot in an instant, and the whole person involuntarily stiffened at that moment, and she was scared to death with a cold sweat.

Before she could react further, Noshir swung his palm and instantly tore the red shield apart, and placed his iron palm firmly on the dwarf's head.

"Who are you, little mouse?"

(End of this chapter)