[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

Seeing the silver-haired girl's pale face after the competition, infected by the joy of winning the championship, Mihail paused with his slightly raised mouth.

His body leaning against the railing subconsciously stood up straight.

Alex's complexion was very bad... He thought it was because he was too nervous for the first match, but now that the match is over, she played very well, it can be said that Hufflepuff won the match and she is very It's a great credit, but even this joy still didn't stain her pale face with a blush.

why?

After thinking for a while, he took out the piece of parchment that Alex gave him yesterday, and sent her a message: Congratulations on victory, I watched your game, you flew so beautifully!But your complexion looks very bad, is it because you were too tired from yesterday's practice?

After sending the message, Mikhail put away the parchment, and his heart sank as he watched the people surrounded by the crowd heading towards the castle.

It wasn't until after the celebration party, when Alex lay on the bed and opened Taobao at night, that she saw the message Mihaile had given her.

The opened fan-shaped shell projects a light blue magnified scallop phantom at a height of about ten centimeters. One side is a screen, and the other side is a virtual keyboard with 26 letters attached. If necessary, it can be switched to handwriting input on the side.

This is a new function that Alex recently added to Taobei. She thinks that the original screen of Shell is too small and looks laborious.

After hesitating for a while, she went back: No, it's just that she didn't sleep well at night.

She thought that Mihaier should have rested at this time and would not receive the message, but she didn't expect that Mihaier's message would come over in the next second: too nervous?

The finger hanging on the virtual button paused, Alex wanted to change the subject, but when the finger fell, for some reason, he said what was in his heart: No, I had a nightmare.

Michael: What nightmare?

What nightmare?

What kind of nightmare was that?

Alex hesitated for a while before slowly typing words one by one on the virtual keyboard:

"I dreamed about...a girl."

"That girl, she ended up turning into a monster."

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She knew that it was not a dream, it was a reality that had happened.

She is a very ordinary girl, older than she is now, about twenty years old.One night, she went out to buy something in the supermarket, but fell into an unbelievably deep hole for no reason on the way.

Before she could recover from being thrown into a mess, they found her.

That group of things called themselves illithids, or mind flayers.

Horrible creatures like octopuses, evil and full of power, they found this human being on the ground who came to the underground world inexplicably near their own territory, and they talked a few words, "Why can such a weak human being bypass so many protections and appear in front of us?" next to the city"—she was shocked to find that she could understand what those things were saying, obviously they were talking with so-called psychic power—after that, they tied up the weak and messy intruder and sent them to the brain pool.

This year's newborns were short of a host, and they decided to make up for the missing one.

Then, the tadpole that was fished out of the brain pool by the illithid was sent into her ear canal.

From the telepathy of those illithids, she knew that the thing would burrow into her brain, eat its gray matter quickly, and replace it with its own foul tissue.Then, the tadpole will fuse with the remaining lower brainstem that has not been eaten, obliterating all remaining personality and soul of the original owner-when these things completely disappear from the body, she will no longer be her, but the transformed animal. The latter tadpole, a newborn illithid.

She didn't want to die, not at all!

In the severe pain, only this thought remained in his brain.

Perhaps, obsession will eventually lead to miracles, and in the end, she won the battle for personality and soul.

The consciousness of the tadpoles that belonged to the illithids was swallowed up by her, and all the racial inheritance engraved in the souls of the illithids were inherited by her.

She thought the nightmare was over...but at this moment, the nightmare really began.

What a frightening world.

The recipe was just the first problem. When she walked out of that hut, she concealed her abnormality and became a member of the illithids. Following the adult illithids, she began to learn everything that illithids should have, and interacted with the surroundings. As other races of the world fight for territory and resources, she truly realizes how dark the world is.

This is an underground world full of intrigue, conspiracy, killing and death.

There are no dwarves who are kind, enthusiastic and like forging in her imagination (she thinks dwarves always live underground), and some are races she has never heard of:

The drow elves who serve Lolth after the darkness believe that being invisible is not a crime; the kuo-toa murlocs with a fish head and fish scales all over their body, they often rob those lone traders together. Creatures called goblins, who have the same hobbies as them; strange-looking beholders who often wander in the wild. These beholders who were expelled because they looked different from the local beholder race and had to escape wandering outside were keen to use them. The charm spell collects various minions...

In addition to these, there are gray dwarves, aboleths, lurking pseudomonsters, swamp bears, deep gnomes, and even more creatures that the newly born illithids don't know.

But among these creatures, the most evil title may also belong to her race at this time: illithids.

Those creatures call them mind flayers.

They are good at using psionic powers and are good at various psychic powers. The cities of illithids are full of creatures enslaved by them.

She was like an outsider who accidentally came to Meteor Street, the dark and evil feeling overwhelmed her.

What a horrible reality.

But compared to those, what was more terrifying was the occasional sight of the elders in the team on her.

That feeling of doubt.

Her incompatibility will bring death to her.

She is well aware of this.

Growing up in a society that is not healthy, but peaceful and friendly, the girl who strongly rejects the idea of ​​taking other people's lives, or even hurting others, finds out painfully that her so-called bottom line only ends there.

She ended up killing someone anyway—or shouldn't, it was a drow.

For survival.

She told herself that it was for survival, but as time went by, she couldn't recognize herself more and more.

Easily take the lives of other intelligent creatures, enslave those defeated and make them your own servants, step up in the society where the spirit suckers rule, and those who stand in the way will always die, either because of accidents or Killed by other enemies, or killed in field battles...

As long as it is not discovered, then it is not a crime...

Apart from never eating illithid food, what so-called humanity does she still have?

Occasionally, when she was resting, she sat by the pool, and when she saw the monster reflected in the pool, she realized that she could no longer remember what she used to look like.

Today, she has become a disgusting monster from body to heart.

How terrible, how sad, she abandoned the bottom line in order to live, she told herself that she just wanted to live.

But what is the use of living?

Could she still go home and meet her parents in this state - she couldn't even remember what they looked like!

Thinking about it, she will only be driven out of the house by screaming monsters in horror, and probably the police will come. If she can be captured, she should be sent to the laboratory—there is no underground world in her world, let alone these monster.

But no one can catch her, such a weak existence, she doesn't even need to use Mind Blast, she can get away with just a charm... I was shocked when I was thinking about how to deal with people who had never thought of fighting, She felt a deep fear.

What is she thinking?

She is thinking of using the methods she has learned in this world over the years to deal with her family and the violent institutions of her country, the world she was looking forward to returning to!

She, it is finally no longer a human being.

Michael's message came quickly: don't be afraid, the nightmare will pass, you see, you are awake.

Alex opened his mouth, but couldn't speak. He only pressed one key at a time, and slowly pressed out what he wanted to say:

"Last night, after I came back, I tried the Patronus Charm again, and it succeeded. What appeared was no longer gas, but the physical Patronus you mentioned."

Michael: But it seems that you are not very happy, can you tell me why?

Why not happy... Her lips turned pale because she remembered that scene, and she almost used all her strength to type out the phrase: "My patron saint is the monster in my dream!"

Why is it!

She thought it was a nightmare, a nightmare that would pass after all!

but……

The Patronus Charm is a profound magic that embodies the symbol of the heart.

Even with the human skin on, she was still that monster.

Mikhail held the quill pen, looked at the writing on the parchment, and didn't put down the pen for a while.

He knew that he should comfort her at this time, telling her that it was okay, it was just the image of a Patronus Charm, and the appearance of the physical Patronus formed by the Patronus Charm would change.If she really doesn't like it, then it will change spontaneously.

That's what he should have replied.

But it seemed that there was a force supporting his wrist, preventing him from dropping the pen no matter what.

No...that's not what he wanted to say...

He didn't think that...he didn't want to say that at all.

A huge, indescribable thing weighed heavily on his heart, making the beating of the heart seem weak.

The letters belonging to Alex dimmed, which meant that the person on the other end had turned off barking and was offline.

The blond boy sat at the desk.

After a long time, he suddenly took out his wand and shouted: "Call God to protect you!"

Silver gas quickly erupted from the tip of the staff, forming a six-foot-tall silver monster.

The Patronus, which has the same appearance as the illithid, floats quietly in mid-air.

He looked at his patron saint for a while, and suddenly he punched the table hard, breaking the mahogany desk into two halves.

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Sorry, I forgot to change the chapter name