Breaking the third update
Quiet chants echoed in the jungle. The enemy archmage surrounding Ryan and the others turned on a powerful magic device, causing a very dim halo to cover the surrounding large area. Ryan roughly identified After a while, I discovered that this kind of magic barrier can not only prevent the target trapped in it from escaping easily, but also create an illusion that makes it impossible to see what is going on inside from the outside. I think it must have been the owl falcon that caught the ferocious badger just now. It was shot because of this. Although it was high in the sky, if it flew over this barrier, it would still easily cause some unknown changes, and it might reveal flaws for outsiders to see.
After seeing Ryan and others completely fall into his control, Captain Hani no longer had a warm and amiable smile on his face, but was filled with a ferocious expression, luring his prey into surrendering step by step. It was probably this guy. The handsome dark elf's favorite thing to do, and his greatest enjoyment in this life is the desperate expressions of his prey before they die, but now there are hundreds of people on his side surrounded by a dozen small mercenaries with low strength. But he didn't see what he wanted to see on the faces of these dark elves. This really made Hani feel unhappy, but his status in the entire mercenary group was not particularly high, especially in front of the mercenary group at this time. In front of the four leaders, he did not dare to cross the border anyway, so he had to wait for the orders of the leaders.
"Those four guys in cloaks have a special smell about them." A certain leader of the mercenaries belonging to Captain Hani suddenly spoke. His voice sounded a little unclear, and his tone was circuitous on the empty hillside. The drifting gave people a hazy feeling, but although his voice was relatively small, it was very prestigious in the minds of these mercenaries. As soon as the leader spoke, the other mercenaries including Hani all lowered their voices in fear. They lowered their heads, not even daring to make a sound. Many of them were actually trembling slightly. This was really strange for the murderous mercenaries.
After hearing the voice, Ryan immediately recognized the identity of the speaker. He now understood why everyone, including Hani, behaved in such a fearful manner, so Ryan took a step forward and said, "I am now Now I understand why you want to keep the two archmages alive. It turns out that your mercenary group is the slaves of a certain illithid. But I'm curious why you don't directly use your spiritual power to control them, but instead use your current This kind of mercenary group method."
Seeing that Ryan revealed his identity, the leader of the mercenary group who spoke was silent for a moment and then said again: "I didn't expect you to be able to see my identity. It seems that your strength is stronger than I thought. Hiss, I'm starting to look forward to the refreshing feeling when I eat your brain." After saying this, the leader of the mercenary group took off a mask from his face, revealing his illithid appearance, and looked at After seeing their leader's appearance, the mercenaries, including Hani, couldn't help but take a few steps back away from the leader of the illithid. Obviously, they had already seen this legendary peak-level illithid. Horrible, it is definitely a nightmare that will forever linger in the hearts of these mercenaries.
"Hiss, hiss." After taking off the mask, the illithid leader seemed to have no scruples anymore. He shook the tentacles on his face and released powerful spiritual power towards the surroundings. Due to the protection of the defensive barrier around him Because of this, the spiritual power used by the illithids to demonstrate could not be released through the barrier, so the tangible and invisible power was repeatedly reflected and stirred in this small area. This change not only made Hani's mercenaries Some of them couldn't bear it. Even the snow mastiffs that were chewing the corpses all crawled on the ground with their tails between their legs. Their strength was the worst among the entire mercenary group, so they were the first to bear such huge pressure. Choosing to surrender,
Originally, according to the idea of the legendary peak-level illithid, Lane's weak companions should not be able to withstand his mental pressure. Unexpectedly, no matter how he demonstrated, those dark elf maids who only had legendary high-level strength were completely unable to withstand it. Any abnormal movement, on the contrary, when the illithid leader's repeated attempts were ineffective, Ryan suddenly yawned. This subtle move immediately made the illithid leader angry. He did not care about his delicious meal and directly threw himself. The mental power was concentrated and charged towards Ryan,
"It seems that you have been squatting here on the Lost Peak for a long time." Ryan shrugged his shoulders and said in a teasing tone: "There are not many illithid monsters in the current world who dare to be as arrogant as you. Don’t you know that there is a magic item that can completely defeat the mind control of your illithids?”
"Nonsense, how could our great illithid be restrained by a magic item." The illithid leader responded with a disdainful tone, and then he began to concentrate on controlling his mental power to invade Ryan's brain, but he The gap between him and Ryan is too huge. Not to mention that it is impossible for him to successfully invade Ryan's brain with his own power. Even if Ryan lets go and lets him do whatever he wants, with Ryan's amazing magic control ability, , you can counterattack and invade the mind of the illithid leader at any time, and use illithid methods to turn this arrogant guy into your slave.
The face of the illithid leader was filled with a ferocious smile, but gradually he found that the methods he relied on were completely ineffective. This inevitably made the illithid leader angry. He didn't know what was going on here, but But it would not affect the next move of the illithid leader. He invaded the minds of many mercenaries around him without any hindrance. The ogre mercenary who guarded Dilula for him just now was still there. Several other companions immediately felt the countless negative emotions in their minds. After letting out bursts of heart-rending howls, they became the slaves of this illithid. Then, under the command of their master, these The mercenary group turned into slaves brandished their weapons and rushed towards Ryan.
"Whoosh, whoosh." More than a dozen sharp armor-piercing arrows stirred up a loud sound of breaking through the air, and they faced the bodies of the slaves who rushed over. Opponents like the legendary peak were not something that these dark elf maids could face, but If they are ogre mercenaries, facing opponents whose strength is about the legendary level, these maids have no fear. They don't need Ryan to give orders, they just pick up their crossbows and start shooting. Soon, these maids have no independent consciousness. The slave's body was pierced with many wounds,
Such scars naturally did not threaten the lives of those slaves, but they were enough to affect their strength. The seriously injured slaves moved much slower, leaving more opportunities for the maids to attack. , and soon their bodies were covered with arrows. The few slaves who kept bleeding outside lost the strength to continue fighting and fell to the ground. Among them, the ogre mercenary slave who rushed to the front was a few meters away. Ryan only had three steps. If he fell a moment later, he only had to straighten his arms and the weapon in his hand would be able to attack Ryan's body.
Seeing that the spiritual power was ineffective and the controlled slaves had little effect, the illithid leader was very angry. He turned his head and prepared to control more mercenary slaves. Unexpectedly, those mercenaries were also extremely cunning. When he saw himself When the leader of the illithids looked at him, they all retreated quickly, and in the process, they pushed and pulled their companions hard to block them between themselves and the leader of the illithids. Such actions were natural. It would cause chaos in the array, which would give the trapped Ryan and others an opportunity to take advantage of. Unexpectedly, Ryan and the others stood there like this, turning a blind eye to the fleeting opportunities that appeared around them. This confident attitude was unexpected. Let the illithid leader dare not act rashly,
"I didn't expect that you are also a strong man at the peak of legend." The leader of another mercenary group on the hillside spoke. He was wearing thick fire-red armor, and his face was wearing a mask with the same material as the armor pattern on his body. The biggest feature of the mask is that it is a bright red color, as if it has just been covered with flowing blood. It looks extremely ferocious and terrifying. Since the face and body of the leader of the mercenary group are covered under the armor and mask, Ryan cannot guess. The race of the other party can only be roughly judged from the body shape. It should be a humanoid creature with useful intelligence.
Ryan ignored the other party and just stood there and remained silent. The leader of the mercenary group wearing fiery red armor did not take it seriously either. He continued to speak: "Please allow me to introduce myself. I am the Bloody Rose Mercenary Group. Commander, you can call me Bloody Face." After the leader finished saying this, he paused for a few seconds, as if to give Ryan time to digest his news, but Ryan had never heard of such a name before. Naturally, he would definitely not show a shocked expression. He did not know the notorious reputation of the Bloody Rose in the other world. This mercenary group specializes in killing other mercenary groups. It has been committing crimes since the day it was established. However, it has remained standing for decades. Countless mercenaries who came to trouble it finally chose to give in. Of course, many more mercenaries who did not make this choice disappeared, which also reflected the combat effectiveness of this mercenary group from the side. terrible,
"These are my three assistants, the illithid, the dark elf and the Rakshasa demon. The four of us are at the peak of legendary strength. I believe we are enough to deal with your four cloaked opponents. As for your other companions, They are no match for those guys in my mercenary group." The leader of the mercenary group who wore a blood mask and called himself Blood Face always had a buzzing voice when speaking because of the mask. He continued: "I'll give you a A fair chance to fight, if you lose, how about joining the Bloody Rose and serving me for ten years."