Arad's Sword

Chapter 316 Crazy Development
After understanding the origin of the psychic and the mind catcher, Midi's perception of psychic powers has reached a new level.

Not just a great achievement, but a peak state.

Under this peak level of psychic powers, even the mind catcher can't resist Midi's all-pervasive attack. Under the manipulation of Midi's will, the invisible psionic energy is like a sharp sword, displaying all kinds of tricks. The skills that people cannot defend against, finally go straight to the depths of the soul.

A confrontation between psychic power and anti-psychic power, Midi won the final victory
Finally, at the end of the fifth month, he succeeded in annihilating all the guerrillas and once again restored the security and peace of the settlement.

At this point, as the psyker who wiped out the mind catcher, Midi's reputation in this mind flayer settlement reached its peak.

The mind flayer council unanimously agreed to upgrade Midi from "overlord" to "consul". From then on, the council willingly retreated to the second line, and Midi took sole control of the highest power in the entire settlement, and his position was still above the elder.

Of course, in reality, it is almost impossible for such a situation to take the initiative to give up the virtuous. After all, even if it is a mind flayer, as long as it is an intelligent race, it will definitely have greed and desire for power.However, in this illusion, Midi has obviously met the conditions to become a "consul", so naturally no one will object.

So far, in just five months, Midi has successfully become the supreme ruler of a mind flayer settlement from a tester who knows nothing about spiritual power.

Of course, some of the factors are due to the mind flayer warlord possessed by Midi. He is a strong man with a level of 70. In reality, within one face-to-face, I am afraid he can directly Psychic energy bombards Midi.

But in addition to the registration advantage brought by the 70-level body, what is more is Midi's own understanding and hard work.

His strong and firm will and his ingenuity made him finally stand at the pinnacle of psykers.

At this point in the trial, Midi could feel that it was probably the end, and there was no stronger enemy in front of him, nor would he have a higher status.

So, is it over?
Looking at her own octopus head in the mirror, her white pupils without pupils, and her four tentacles that can be manipulated at will, Midi couldn't help feeling a little unsatisfied.

Although the body of a mind flayer is completely different from that of a human being, with the presence of psychic powers, many things are literally "whatever you want" in the literal sense, which is quite interesting.Midi didn't mind experiencing it for a few more months to further improve her psychic powers from the peak.

After all, if it were real time, it would only be a few days. Being able to practice in this illusion is also a good thing.

Just as Midi was thinking, the ancient voice suddenly sounded: "Achieving the position of consul, the first stage of the central temple trial is over, please wait until all the testers have completed the first stage or are eliminated After that, enter the second stage of the trial."

And the second stage of the trial?
A kind of surprise suddenly surged in Midi's heart.

Moreover, judging from the reminder of this ancient voice, there are other people besides himself in this trial.

Most likely, they are the testers in the temples on the other eight corners of Bajiao Island!
I don't know what happened to Avril Lavigne and the others, have they seized a temple to enter this trial?Midi couldn't help thinking this way, but in this case, even if he wanted to help, he couldn't help these three companions. The only thing he could do at the moment was to wait.

"Apart from me, who else has completed the first stage?" Midi asked tentatively.

"You are the first to complete the trial, but according to speculation, the Seventh Temple should be able to achieve the position of consul within half a month." The ancient voice replied, the level of detail was beyond Midi's expectations.

"Then who is the tester in the Seventh Temple?" Midi continued to ask, but this time, his question hit a snag.

Regarding the situation of other temples, the ancient voice said that it has no comment.

Not discouraged, Midi asked again, "So, what should I do while I'm waiting?"

"Continue to develop. There will be no enemies in the waiting stage, and the territory in the trial illusion will continue to expand. Explore and develop as much as possible. After reaching a certain stage, special rewards exclusive to the Central Temple will be issued." The ancient voice finally said, and then it went away without a sound.

Explore and develop?special reward?

Midi chewed on these two sentences thoughtfully and fell into deep thought.

He faintly sensed that when the trial entered the second stage, it might be the beginning of a new war, and the enemy might be other trialists.

Without any hesitation, Midi immediately started to develop.

After five full months of stressful and crisis-filled battles, Midi already knew the resources needed for the development of the mind flayer settlement.

In addition, as the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Belmar and the leader of the Falcon Group, Midi naturally knew very well how to develop a settlement.

The military force of the mind flayer settlement is mainly divided into two types, one is the most core, the mind flayer magician, they are good at all kinds of combat magic, and have powerful offensive psychic powers, they are the core of the mind flayer army. backbone.

The other is the army of servants. These poor servants didn't do it voluntarily, but because they were brainwashed after being captured by mind flayers to become part of the army.In addition to loyalty, the wisdom, skills and experience of these servants have been preserved, so they are powerful fighters far better than alchemy puppets and undead.

In battle, they mainly act as meat shields and cannon fodder.

Although these meat shields have performed well many times under Midi's command, this time, Midi decided to give priority to the development of mind flicker magicians.

After all, only when the number of mind flayers increases can the number of brainwashing sessions increase and the number of minion armies increase.

The number of mind flayers depends on the size of the mind crystal pool in a settlement, and at the same time, the potential of the parasites themselves.

To this end, Midi formed a powerful exploration team to explore frantically in order to find more high-quality materials for building the mind crystal pool.At the same time, he also personally led the attack, using psychic powers to capture more stragglers on the border.

Finally, under this two-pronged approach, a new mind crystal pool was built and connected to the original crystal pool, and in this crystal pool, more and more tadpoles began to swim in it.

Mind tadpoles, this is the mind flayer in its juvenile form.

And after throwing a prisoner into this mind crystal pool, a tadpole will burrow into the host's skull in just a few seconds, feast on his brain, entangle there, and fuse with the remaining lower brainstem One.

Soon, self-awareness was awakened, and the host's body transformed into that of a mind flayer.When the ritual known as transmutation ends, the host disappears, replaced by a newborn mind flayer.

The height that this mind flayer can reach in terms of magic power depends on the strength of the host itself, and the height that it can achieve in terms of psychic powers depends on the degree of development of the tadpole back then.

The stronger the two, the stronger the mind flayer created.

Even, there is a very small probability that when the host body is extremely powerful, there will even be mutant mind flayers with particularly powerful psychic powers.

With the continuous expansion of Midi, the number of mind flayers in this settlement quickly increased from the initial two hundred to three hundred, and the number continued to grow continuously.

At the same time, the increase of mind flayers naturally made the servant army further expand, from the initial [-] to about [-] in one fell swoop.

These servants are not low-level soldiers, but high-level awakened ones, and an army of [-] awakened ones, according to Midi's estimation, is probably enough to sweep the Delos Empire before the opening of Sky City.

When the number of mind flayers increased to a considerable [-], the ancient voice suddenly sounded again in Midi's mind: "The settlement has been upgraded to a city, do you want to open the special reward of the Central Temple? This reward can Greatly increase the force level of the city, but at the same time, the consumption will also be greatly increased."

"Open." Midi replied without hesitation.

Things like resources are meant to be consumed. It has never been heard that saving can win a war.Consumption increases, as long as the site is further expanded.As the ruler of a kingdom, a conqueror, Midi deeply embodies this way.

Soon, from the alchemy factory in the mind flayer city, a brand new type of troops emerged.

Protoss exile.

This kind of magical life form is exactly the ones that appeared on the Bajiao Island before.

These exiles are very similar to those of the City Lord of Light in Sky City, the difference is that their bodies are not made of magic materials, but the unique "stars" in the Star Ocean as raw materials, and then reshaped with spiritual energy It is extremely strong, highly resistant to magic, and completely immune to psychic powers.

There is no doubt that if the second stage of the trial is a competition between the Central Temple and the other eight temples, the protoss exile who is immune to psychic powers will be Midi's biggest trump card.

Midi immediately stopped the construction of the soul crystal pool and the recruitment of the servant army, and focused on creating the protoss exile.

However, even if the power of a city is gathered, the output of the protoss exile is still extremely low, and only one can be produced a day.

For a whole month, Midi had a team of thirty protoss exiles.

He named it "Exile Squad".

At this time, Midi's mind flayers had reached 450, and the army of servants under him was even more than [-].

Next, isn't it time for some military exercises?
Midi secretly calculated in his heart that for a mature commander, when the army reaches a certain number, the next step is to pay more attention to quality rather than quantity. He is already very satisfied with the system, and the next thing to do is to practice it in actual combat.

However, before Midi's vision could be realized, the ancient voice sounded again, this time, it was not an explanation, but a tone of announcement.

"Everyone who tried, the first stage of the trial of the Nine Great Temples on Bajiao Island has been completed, and now we are entering the second stage. The goal of this stage is very simple, to eliminate other testers! The mind crystal pool has been destroyed. Occupation means being out! In this trial, rankings will be ranked and rewarded according to the length of survival time. Now, the second stage of the trial begins."

Accompanied by this voice, the reports of the scouts came from Midi's mind at the same time.

"My lord, discover the tunnel leading to other regions!"

(End of this chapter)