"But why didn't it react at all?" Zuo Si stared at the silent mastermind and frowned subconsciously.

Another mind flayer hurriedly explained: "Because we cleaned away the subjective consciousness of Ith Amidon during the transformation process, and only retained the knowledge and spiritual energy recorded in it.

Therefore, the current mastermind is like a newly born baby, which needs to be slowly guided and grown, and ultimately shape a brand new personality.

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In a month or two at most, it will initially possess the intelligence and understanding of a human child, and in a year or two it will quickly mature and become your right-hand assistant."

"I see. Since that's the case, let's go home. This shell ship should be able to move now, right?"

Zuo Si stared at the passages and cabins that were severely damaged by the iron ball and asked in an uncertain tone.

The leader of the mind flayers replied without thinking: "Of course. In fact, the main parts of the spacecraft have been properly repaired. It just looks a little damaged in appearance. It will not affect its flight ability. But the problem is

, the passages in the Leyline Maze City are generally narrow, making it difficult for huge shell ships to pass through."

"You don't have to worry about this.

I will personally open up a road to the star port, and then use the star port as a transfer station to teleport directly back to the underground of the mage tower in Ascaltra.

In this way, you can establish a base in the underground kingdom I excavated.

Moreover, there are enough goblins raised there, and humanoid creatures such as orcs, gnolls, and hobgoblins can often be captured.

Whether it is used as food or transformed into mind flayers, it is fully guaranteed."

Zuo Si had obviously thought up all the plans when he captured the shell ship.

When the mastermind grows to a certain level, he will make it and the entire psychic ship into a planeswalker card, and will never give the opponent any chance to escape his control.

Zuo Si is very wary of dealing with a unique life form like the Master Brain.

Because he understands the growth potential of this thing better than anyone else.

The God of the Mind Flayers, Ilshensiin, has proven what staggering heights an Overmind can reach when it's powerful enough.

After simply packing up all the belongings, psychic devices and other miscellaneous things that might be useful on the seventeenth floor of the deep sea, even the psychic generator on the dam, Zuo Si let the mind flayer

Driving the shell ship to the next level.

You must know that the Mind Flayer has been entrenched here for so many years, and has long collected a large amount of valuable property and magic items.

It's just that they are not interested in things other than psychic powers, so they keep them in the warehouse as sundries, planning to use these things in exchange for more valuable slaves when a slave merchant passes by.

Yes, in the eyes of the mind flayer, things like gold, silver and jewelry are not as important as slaves.

Therefore, these octopus heads are very generous to underground merchants and caravans who can sell their slaves regularly and in large quantities, and will even provide them with a batch of necklaces that are immune to psychic invasion and control as additional rewards.

Similarly, slave merchants can also earn a lot of gold coins from each other, as well as profits up to ten times or even dozens of times.

Some of them are rare or extremely intelligent slaves, and can often be sold for thousands or even tens of thousands of gold coins each.

Now, all these things have fallen into Zuo Si's pocket.

He even found a small hand crossbow with enchantment level 3 among the magic items. It didn't require arrows at all, and there was no need to work hard to pull the bow string. It only needed to pull the trigger to shoot a flaming arrow made of energy.
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The rate of fire can reach one shot every three seconds, making it a pretty good magic weapon.

In addition, there is also a statue of a small cat that can summon a lynx or a lynx.

Of course, in Zuo Si's opinion, calling it a pet should be more appropriate.

Unlike ordinary lynxes or lynxes in the material plane, its eyes seem to contain some magical energy and can sense and see through many traps and people with malicious intentions.

And there is no time limit after summoning it. As long as you feed it regularly, it can exist permanently.

Although it is not of much use to Zuo Si himself, it is definitely a good gift to give to others.

He planned to give this thing to Hermione as a birthday gift when Hogwarts starts next semester.

I believe this girl who likes cats will be very happy.

In order to allow the shell ship to sail out of the seventeenth floor, if all the passages along the way are not large enough to accommodate the passage of this behemoth, Zuo Si will personally take action or summon the elders of the earth element, or use various magics to temporarily widen the passages.

To the extent that the shell ship can continue to move forward.

After traveling slowly like this for almost two days, they finally reached the sixteenth floor.

However, with the size of the original portal leading to the star port, it is obviously impossible to accommodate the shell ship.

So Zuo Si directly mobilized the Githyanki spellcasters stationed in the asteroid and the mind flayers to join forces, plus his own power, and barely built a super giant portal that was just big enough to accommodate it.

If anyone from the outside world saw this scene, their jaws would definitely drop in shock.

After all, the Githyanki and the mind flayers are well-known sworn enemies.

But Zuo Si not only managed to let the two races coexist peacefully, but even worked together to complete a task.

Considering that the interior of the asteroid is also very crowded, when the shell ship slowly drove out, it directly entered the sky outside the star port.

Looking at this huge psychic ship floating in front of him, Erron, the supreme commander of the Githyanki people, couldn't help but sigh slightly: "Master, I never thought you could actually do this.

You must know that the mind flayer's shell ship has never been captured by outsiders so far.

Because when they realize that they are doomed to fail, they often directly choose to explode the spacecraft to produce a terrifying energy shock and die with the enemy."

"Ith Amidon must have had the same idea. It's a pity that he was completely defeated before he could make a move. Just like the high-ranking Githyanki people living in the Star Plane, they would never have thought of this outpost for nurturing future generations.

It will continuously provide them with the spirit of resistance and the fire to promote social change." Zuo Si pursed his lips and said meaningfully.

"Yes! And I can also take the credit for the disappearance of the Deep Sea Mind Flayer on the 17th floor, and use it as a merit to apply for more assistance from above, whether in terms of manpower or materials. If you are interested in the star

If you are interested in specialties from around the world, you can give me a list. As long as there is an opportunity, I will apply to my superiors."

Elrond was obviously full of bad news, and immediately began to think about how to pluck the wool of the empire's center.

"Well - why don't you get me some more astral matter. There should be a lot of this in the Githyanki lair."

Zuo Si lowered his head and thought for a moment before making a decision quickly.

Because the properties of astral matter are so special, it looks like a ball of silvery translucent colloid that can be shaped into various shapes and even energy expressions.

Many psychic spells are achieved by shaping astral matter.

Therefore, if you want to understand spiritual energy in depth, starting from astral matter is undoubtedly a very good starting point.

What's more, now that we have a shell ship and a new mastermind, we can use astral matter to create a lot of interesting psychic equipment.

Isadora and Strange Objects also need some astral matter to make weapons for themselves.

Moreover, it is difficult to obtain a large amount of astral matter in the material plane.

If it is too dangerous to go to the astral realm through astral projection, it is completely worth the loss.

Now that there is an opportunity in front of him, Zuo Si naturally cannot let it go easily.

"Astral matter?" Erron was stunned for a moment, then immediately responded in the affirmative. "No problem. I will contact my boss later and try to get you a full ship of astral matter."

The reason why he agreed so happily is because there are so many of these things in the star realm that they are almost overflowing.

Except for psions and psychic warriors, no one will be interested in it.

Of course, Erron, who is good at making golems, still likes to use astral matter to make golems.

Although these golems are not as solid as steel or rock, they can make many spellcasters who are facing astral matter for the first time scrambling.

The two stood at the dock of the star port and chatted for a while about their experiences in the star world. Zuo Si immediately activated the power of sparks to strengthen the connection between himself and the mage tower, and then directly teleported the shell ship to the dragon's nest underneath the mage tower.

When the huge shell ship appeared out of thin air, Wilmes, who was still lazily dozing, woke up instantly. He thought he had been invaded by a foreign enemy, and immediately opened his mouth to spit out a deadly breath of flames.

But the next second, she saw Zuo Si walking out directly.

"Damn it! Next time you make such a big noise, can you say hello in advance? You know, I almost launched an attack just now." The red dragon shook his head and complained angrily.

Zuo Si explained nonchalantly: "Sorry, I forgot because of the emergency. Now, immediately summon a group of goblins and undead and let them open up a tunnel near the bottom to create a space large enough to accommodate this thing. Also,

Slightly increase the upper limit on goblin reproduction to ensure that the mind flayers and their masterminds have sufficient food and hosts."

"I know, I'll let those slaves do it." Wilmes agreed simply.

After all, she is just a supervisor, and she doesn’t have to do it herself.

As for how many werewolves and goblins will die in this project, this evil red dragon doesn't care.

After setting up the shell ship, Zuo Si immediately teleported back to the mansion in Waterdeep City with his people non-stop, and visited Kelben to explain the situation of the Elf Magic Archer Lantis.

After listening to his description, the ancestor of the Magic Goddess showed an interested expression and asked in a low voice: "Are you sure he really used the death arrow to kill an adult brass dragon with one blow?"<

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"No, not one, but two, and without exception, he was killed in one blow. Although magic items and equipment are responsible for this, his personal level and strength cannot be underestimated. I suspect that he is a legendary demon

Archer, people like this must be quite rare even among the Sun Elf nobles."

Zuo Si did not hide anything and expressed his views openly.

"Okay, I'll remember it. In a few days, I will personally go to Yongju Island to ask if any important descendants of the noble families have disappeared there." Kelben took the initiative to take over the matter.

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You must know that even among elves, magic archer is a rare profession.
To be continued...