Red Dragon has magic

Chapter 212 I've Been Waiting for You for a Long Time
It's not that the mind flayer has almost no friends, it's that it has no friends at all and has many enemies.

The control center of a mind flayer colony is the Elder Brain, which plays the same role as the brain in the body, and the mind flayers in the colony are merely extensions of its will.

An Elder Brain must live in a dimly glowing pool of salt water filled with life-sustaining fluids and psychic energy. If forced to leave the pool, the Elder Brain will soon die, and carrying an Elder Brain in the salt water pool through the narrow and tortuous underground tunnels is often a difficult or even impossible task.

In this case, in order to protect the safety of the Elder Brain, the mind flayer colonies are often hidden deep in the Underdark.

The mind flayer colony that Leon found was located in a dark cave behind a deserted sunderland gnome village.

Before getting close to the mind flayer colony, Leon saw a patrol of mind flayer slaves.

That patrol consisted of a mind flayer, a minotaur, and two duergar.

The latter certainly did not voluntarily submit to the mind flayer, but was captured by the mind flayer and enslaved after being subjected to continuous mental attacks.

What's more, those slaves knew what they were doing and were full of disgust, but they were powerless to resist the orders of the mind flayer. The mental despair and the fear of being imprisoned in the body became an endless and painful burden for the slaves.

Very few slaves were able to die naturally, and most of them became food for their masters. After eating their brains, the remaining bodies would be used to feed other slaves, and there would be no waste.

"What it is?"

With his excellent dark vision and clairvoyance, Leon could easily spot other guards hiding in the dark in addition to the patrol team of the Mind Flayer colony.

It was a Mind Flayer Rope Pillar, the result of implanting a Mind Flayer tadpole into the brain of a Tree Rope Monster. Although it has the same intelligence as its Mind Flayer relatives, it has always been used by the Mind Flayers as a convenient tool, kept in the dark as a guardian and sentinel.

That thing was even more disgusting than the mind flayer, looking very much like a natural stalagmite, with thin, flexible tentacles around its rocky body, only one red eye, and a mouth full of jagged teeth.

It is easy to avoid the patrol team, but if you want to avoid those mind-flayer rope pillar monsters disguised as stalagmites, you have no chance at all unless you gather and disperse your energy.

Whether to leave or find a way to go in and take a look, Lyon was stumped.

He had gone through so much trouble to find this place, and now that he was here, he really didn't want to leave so easily.

In addition, magic equipment and props made by humans, elves, dwarves, etc. are easy to buy on the market. Magic equipment and props made by the Mind Flayer have basically no chance to be obtained except by looting the Mind Flayer colonies, and they are priceless.

There's nothing wrong with an automatic writing pen.

The Thought Extractor is a malevolent machine that allows its operator to read any content in the target's mind.

Resonance stones have no uniform size or appearance, and can be used for entertainment or in some dark occasions. For example, those that can radiate satisfaction and obedience can be used in prisons where prisoners are held to keep them quiet and prevent conflicts.

Leon felt that Tassera would definitely be interested in the things of the mind flayers. He could just take out any one of them and ask her to cooperate with him in doing anything. And Cecilia might be able to come into contact with psychic energy through the resonance stone and awaken her psychic energy from then on.

Of course you have to go in and take a look, so the next question is whether to transform into a red dragon and kill the patrol team first, then slap the Mind Flayer rope pillar monster to death with one slap, and fight your way in, or use the gathering and dispersion of energy to fly into the big hole, and wait until you actually enter the Mind Flayer colony before making plans. You need to choose carefully between the two courses of action.

Leon thought for a moment and decided to go in first to take a look at the specifications of the Mind Flayer colony, so that he could know himself and the enemy first, and then decide what to do next.

Leon decisively activated the gathering and dispersion of air, transformed into a ball of clear air, bypassed the patrol team and the Mind Flayer rope pillar monsters, passed through the dark cave, and entered the interior of the Mind Flayer colony.

The first thing that appeared in front of him was a central square. It was very large and there were several Mind Flayers wandering around there, and a group of Brain Devourers were running around like dogs.

Each mind flayer has a room of its own, and the size and location of the room are determined by its status. The mind flayers favored by the mastermind, powerful arcanists, and researchers occupy better places, while the newly born mind flayers can only live in small and simple places.

The Mind Flayers' rooms are located around the central plaza, and the size of the Mind Flayer colony can be determined based on the rooms they contain.

A mind flayer metamorphoses by implanting a mature mind flayer tadpole into the ear, nostril, or eye of a helpless humanoid captive. Over a period of one week, the victim's body tissue is replaced by mind flayer tissue, and a new mind flayer emerges.

Only races that are close to the mind flayers in height, weight and body shape will be used for transformation by the mind flayers. Other races are usually used as slaves and food after being captured by the mind flayers.

It was a slave barracks, a place used to house slaves, and now there were only a pitiful number of slaves.

Leon saw a laboratory filled with books, scrolls, bubbling beakers, complex mechanical equipment in varying degrees of completion, and corpses and body parts that were used as research subjects... Those neatly arranged gems should be resonance stones.

After some observation, Lyon quickly concluded that this mind flayer colony was very small and would not have been established for long.

In rare cases, a mind flayer's transformation ritual may produce a Eater of Souls, a more powerful mind flayer not controlled by the Elder Brain. The Eater of Souls brings wisdom, creativity, and power to a mind flayer colony.

Once the mind flayer colony grows to a sufficient size, the Soul Eater will strike out on its own, taking half of the mind flayers and slaves with it on a large-scale migration, looking to establish a new mind flayer colony and quickly transform into a mastermind.

This is a good opportunity, if you miss it, it will be gone.

Leon made up his mind to find the Mastermind Pool, kill the Mastermind, and then loot the entire Mind Flayer colony.

The mind flayer colony was really small, and it didn't take Leon much time to find the deepest room. He discovered that a huge pool occupied the center of the room, surrounded by a wide edge engraved with complex images and inscriptions.

The water was dark, with countless tiny mind flayer tadpoles swimming, circling, and emitting a foul odor. Above the water, a huge brain floated, covered with twisting tentacles, emitting visible flames of psionic power.

Finally found you, Mastermind.

Just as Leon was about to speak, he saw a group of mind flayers floating in from all directions, and a voice sounded in his mind right after them.

"I waited for you a long time."

"You finally came."

"Red Dragon."

"Have you been waiting for me?" Leon looked at the main brain, a little confused for a moment.

"You knew I was coming?" Leon continued, "When did you find me?"

"When you were peeking outside our base." The main brain cannot speak, and can only communicate through telepathy, "Didn't anyone tell you that your hiding skills are poor?"

Leon pursed his lips, admitting that his concealment skills were not very good. After all, he had never received training as a stealth or ranger. He asked again, "How do you know I'm a red dragon?"

"You turned into a red dragon and killed my people. Do you still think I don't know?" The main brain's voice was without any emotional fluctuations.

Leon didn't know which mind flayer he killed used psychic power to tell the Mastermind about him.

Leon was in a bad mood at the moment. He thought he was very smart and easily sneaked into the Mind Flayer Colony and reached the main brain pool. He didn't expect that they had already discovered him. It turned out that he had been calculated by them all along...

It's understandable if you think about it.

In terms of intelligence alone, he is just an ordinary office worker from Earth. He goes to school mediocrely, graduates and works mediocrely, and works overtime desperately to stay in the big city. He is neither better than others nor worse than others.

In comparison, the intelligence level of any mind flayer is comparable to that of a human genius, and the mastermind that controls the mind flayers is the final stage of the mind flayer's life process. Whenever a mind flayer dies, the mastermind's servants will feed its brain to their mastermind so that the mastermind can absorb the knowledge and experience contained in it. They are simply evil beings with god-like wisdom.

"So?" Leon didn't panic. "You knew I was coming, but you didn't run away?"

"It's just a teenage red dragon." The main brain waved its tentacles, "If you come, I can be free."

"I want to become a master dragon." The master dragon continued to send out telepathic messages. You can imagine how excited it is now.

One of the few consolations for those who struggle against the mind flayers is that their range is limited to that of the pack's elder brain.

Once the pack manages to capture a dragon, the Elder Brain attaches itself to the dragon's back and thrusts its tentacles into the dragon's brain, causing a horrifying transformation of the dragon's body into a nightmarish Elder Brain dragon.

The Elder Brain was now able to move like a dragon, freed from the confines of the saltwater pool and becoming the commander of the Mind Flayer army.

Leon knew why the main brain had obviously discovered him a long time ago, but did not take any action. It kept saying that it had been waiting for him for a long time. It turned out that it wanted to take over his body.

"That mind flayer told you that I'm a red dragon, but did he tell you how powerful I am?" Leon teased. He admitted that the Elder Brain was smarter than him, but that was all.

Leon returned to his dragon form, tore off two scales, used his external body skills to summon two red dragon clones, controlled the two red dragon clones to deal with those mind flayers, and rushed straight towards the main brain.

(End of this chapter)