This is the zombie form of a beholder.

Although it has little intelligence, it can retain most of the beholder's magical abilities during its lifetime.

Including deadly charm rays, dissociation rays, fear rays, death rays, petrification rays, negative energy rays, sleep rays, slowness rays, telekinesis abilities, anti-gravity flight abilities...

In terms of capabilities, it is completely a super mobile energy ray turret.

And it can be used in an unlimited amount every day, so there is no need to worry about spell slots like other spell casters.

If these two well-preserved corpses with main eyes are made into "Dead Eye Tyrant", they can even retain their 45-meter-long cone-shaped anti-magic force field.

It can even be said that in addition to having no intelligence, the "Dead Eye Tyrant" is a complete beholder wearing the characteristics of an undead creature.

No!

Maybe it's even scarier than a beholder.

Because in addition to the original abilities of beholders, these guys also have a lot of immunity characteristics of undead creatures.

In the "Book of the Dead", there are very detailed and specific transformation methods for this undead creature.

When he went on an adventure in Leyline City before, Zuo Si wanted to capture a few beholders or get some corpses.

It's a pity that we didn't meet it along the way.

Now that I happened to see it, I naturally won’t let it go easily.

Not to mention a mere five thousand gold coins, he would buy it without hesitation even if there was an extra zero.

Because the power and value of a "Dead Eye Tyrant" cannot be measured by just a few thousand or even tens of thousands of gold coins.

Thinking of this, Zuo Si simply waved his hand to the Dragonborn Knight: "Give him 10,000 gold coins!"

Without saying a word, Davian took out a small leather bag from his pocket, counted out ten money orders worth one thousand gold coins and handed them over.

"Here, this is a note for ten thousand gold coins. You can take it to any temple of the goddess of wealth to exchange for equivalent currency, or you can directly buy what you want at any store in Waterdeep City."

"Hey! Thanks, man. I knew there would be someone who knew the goods. Now the corpses of these two beholders belong to you."

This tall and sturdy barbarian warrior was obviously not entering a big city for the first time. He understood the value of these small pieces of paper with the side profile of Woking, the goddess of wealth, and grinned with a kind smile.

Due to their straightforward personalities, they will always show their likes and dislikes to a person directly on their faces.

Watching this adventure team composed entirely of barbarians walk out of the Tower of Order, Davian quickly stuffed the beholder's heavy flesh ball corpse into the dimensional bag, and then walked away under the stunned gaze of the young mage.

You don’t need to ask to know that this young man doesn’t know the value of the Beholder’s corpse, let alone the specific process and craftsmanship of making the “Dead Eye Tyrant”.

It is estimated that the reason why I paid two thousand gold coins is probably to use those eye stalks to make magic equipment such as eyeball robes.

Continuing to wander along the market, Zuo Si discovered that the spellcasting materials sold at the Tower of Order, both in terms of type and rarity, were more than one level higher than those in the capital of Amn, Askatra.

On the one hand, the attitude towards magic here is more open and tolerant. Not only are there a large number of spellcasters, but the average level is also very high.

Even in the noisy lobby on the first floor, you can still occasionally encounter high-level mages and warlocks passing by.

On the other hand, Waterdeep is naturally located in the dangerous Northland, and most of the area is still in a wild and undeveloped state.

Adventurers can often find good things in some ruins, wastelands and forests.

Moreover, there is Leyline Maze City and Skull Harbor, which engages in various slave trades and illegal transactions, at your feet.

Therefore, there is no shortage of "supply channels" and the price is relatively cheaper.

After shopping around for a while, Zuo Si spent almost all the cash he had.

Then he led the people directly out of the Tower of Order, opened the portal in an inconspicuous alley in Waterdeep City, and returned to the Mage Tower after a long absence.

"You are finally willing to come back?!"

When a group of people passed through the portal, Wilmes, who was still in the form of a dragon, suddenly opened his eyes with a surprised expression on his face.

Obviously, Zuo Si is as insidious as the Githyanki on the starport, and chose to fix the location of the portal in the dragon's lair under the tower.

"Did nothing happen during my absence?" Zuo Si asked, looking around.

Wilmes replied casually: "Except for your dark elf slave running away, basically everything is going according to the original plan. Oh, by the way, the female dragon you captured, I will take her with the giant

The mutated hounds are locked up together, in the bondage room next door."

"The drow ran away? When? How did she run away? Didn't she wear an upgraded slave collar around her neck? Didn't the little idiot stop her?"

Zuo Si frowned subconsciously and asked a series of questions.

Because he couldn't figure out how a prisoner who was under mind control all day could escape from the heavily guarded mage tower.

"That damn drow obviously has strong resistance to mind control.

I don’t know when she managed to break free from the control but didn’t show it.

Then he stole a wire saw and quietly cut off the collar around his neck.

Finally, use the meal delivery time to deceive your awakened Mage Tower consciousness and dive directly into the intricate waterways.

Since there was no obstacle between the lower level of the mage tower and the sewers of Ascatla some time ago, the entire escape process was extremely smooth.

After this happened, I asked the goblin slaves to seal the passage, leaving only a hidden secret door."

Wilmes didn't hide anything and told what happened openly.

From the nonchalant tone and attitude, it is easy to see that this red dragon does not take this matter to heart at all.

"What about the goblins? Didn't any of the goblins who dug underground in the mage tower escape?" Zuo Si continued to ask.

Although he had captured and produced several dark elf creature cards in Leyline Labyrinth, he didn't care so much about a mere prisoner.

But the problem is that this incident is not just about a prisoner escaping, but also a huge loophole in the management and defense of the mage tower.

Otherwise, even if the female drow has psychic resistance and successfully cuts off the collar around her neck, she should not be able to escape.

Wilmes responded without thinking: "The goblins have no chance to escape. Because I have arranged a continuous sitting system for them. If one escapes, the whole team will die together. Not to mention there are a large number of undead creatures following."

After hearing this answer, Zuo Si's originally serious face finally relaxed a little and began to communicate with the tower's consciousness through spiritual connection.

After a while, he roughly knew everything that happened during his absence, as well as the current progress of excavation and construction of the underground part.

Since goblins are not natural burrowers like kobolds, many collapse accidents inevitably occurred while digging.

Just because of this, more than a thousand unlucky people were crushed to death and suffocated to death.

Although the corpses excavated later were resurrected by necromancy magic and continued to work sleeplessly in their undead form, it still affected the overall progress.

Later, as a last resort, we had to invite a few kobold burrowing experts from the other side of the portal to provide technical guidance, and the collapse accident rate slowly dropped.

In addition, there is also bad news that in the mountains south of Zhaze Sibo, the goblins are almost extinct.

Because almost all the goblins in the surrounding areas were captured and turned into coolies under the mage tower.

If we need more labor, we may have to turn our attention to creatures such as orcs and gnolls that are not easy to manage.

However, the consciousness of the Mage Tower gave a suggestion, that is, kill them all first, and then bring back only the corpses to transform into low-level undead.

Zuo Si thought about it for a moment and immediately agreed.

After all, the biggest advantage of the undead is that they don't need to rest, eat or drink, and can work twenty-four hours a day.

In comparison, from the perspective of pure labor efficiency, the price-performance ratio of Goblin Werewolf is really not very high.

If some experiments didn't require a large number of living subjects, they would have no value at all.

In addition, since they learned that live goblins were for sale in Zuo Si, the Masked Mage Guild immediately sent people to purchase hundreds of them, probably either for necromancy magic experiments or as guinea pigs for testing the effects of various new medicines.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that it is a one-time consumable for apprentices to practice how to stay focused and cast spells in battle.

In short, they not only gave a relatively high price, but also set a long-term purchasing contract.

This amount of money alone is enough to buy enough food to feed thousands of goblins for a full year or two.

You must know that the feed carefully prepared by Zuo Si for the goblins is very "scientific" and "nutritional".

This includes insanely cheap aged shelled barley and beans as the staple food, paired with a rich stew of various seaweeds, small fish, shrimps and crabs, plus some equally cheap raw kohlrabi, radishes, onions and mushrooms.

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Not only is it a combination of meat and vegetables, but the nutritional intake is also very comprehensive.

And there are a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs with shells and bones, which will definitely not be lacking in calcium.

The only drawback is that the taste is definitely not very good. Since there are no condiments in the thick soup, it is inevitably full of fishy smell.

The steamed rice made from aged shelled barley and beans is a little chewy and hard to swallow.

If you eat for a long time, your teeth will wear out very quickly.

Fortunately!

Zuo Si had no intention of letting these goblins live for more than five years, and successfully avoided the tragedy of those old goblins having difficulty eating due to bad teeth.

You are so attentive and kind, aren't you?

He couldn't help but give himself a thumbs up as a "good person".

From birth to burial, to becoming a never-tiring undead, the life of a werewolf and goblin was clearly arranged.

After roughly checking the current number of goblins and their fertility status, Zuo Si showed a satisfied expression on his face: "Not bad! It seems that this attempt to raise goblins has achieved initial success.
To be continued...