Chapter 204 Humanity under the Dark Starry Sky
Keith is a great actor.

It is a very elegant mind flayer, tall and slender, with handsome and charming facial features (for a mind flayer). Even the tentacles on its chin are smoother and longer than those of other mind flayers. It has a very unique position in the clan, second only to the elder brains who command the lower-level mind flayers.

The so-called gourmet actors are actually human actors.

But unlike human actors, Keith mainly performs eating, that is, he is the eating broadcast actor of the Mind Flayer.

In terms of strength, Keith is not strong. He is just a barely high-level mind flayer. Even many of the cultivated shadow mind flayers are stronger than him. However, his psychic power is very special. Keith has a strong ability of emotional resonance, which makes him a natural actor.

The dining area.

It is located on the sixth satellite of the Garden Planet, Gemini. It is a huge circular building, a bit like the ancient Roman Colosseum, which can accommodate a large number of spectators at the same time.

There are floating crystal clusters all around, which are the rare items [Emotional Resonance Stone] from the Mind Flayer technology tree.

Generally speaking, the not-so-rich Mind Flayers have such a landmark building, which is a food show for everyone. Here we must mention the physiological structure of the Mind Flayers. They must eat brains regularly, and this hunger is very strong. But sometimes they can't get so many brains, so they can only watch the food show and use the emotional resonance stone to satisfy their desire for brains.

This is the reason why eating broadcasts have been popular among the Mind Flayers for tens of thousands of years.

Therefore, a great gourmet has a very high status!

Although the Mind Flayer Expedition Fleet Keith was in had been corrupted by Suen, they did not have such a strong demand for brains, and instead pursued something called "essence". But Mind Flayers were still Mind Flayers after all, and it was necessary to watch "eating shows" regularly every month to satisfy the desire of the brain.

So sometimes, tens of thousands of Mind Flayers would come to Keith’s eating show at the same time.

However, around the feeding ground, there are several distinct camps of mind flayers. The first is the camp of Suen's followers. They are priests and possess divine power bestowed by Suen. Although most of them can only cast three-ring divine spells, they are stronger than other mind flayers, and they also wear an emblem of a huge head covered with tentacles on their chests.

The second is the Shadow Mind Flayer camp, which is a kind of Mind Flayer with black skin and can sneak in the shadows. They are a new species bred by the elder brains under the guidance of Suen, but because the breeding plan has not been completed, these monsters can only be temporarily invisible. During the breeding process, due to some side effects, their mental energy was weakened, and their psychic energy pool is not as good as that of normal Mind Flayers, but their mental blasts are still very powerful.

The third is the Constructor of the Mind Flayer. The Suen Mind Flayer possesses very advanced alchemical technology. These alchemical Mind Flayers are accompanied by various types of construct robots. They are the main combat force of the Mind Flayer expeditionary fleet. The combat effectiveness of the Suen construct soldiers in the killing form is quite high, and their number is very large.

"Please welcome the great foodie, Keith!"

The gravity of the Garden Planet is only half of that of the material plane. The mind flayers are accustomed to flying using levitation, and with just a little bit of psychic power, they can complete their daily walking.

A mind flayer host stood in the center of the performance venue, using a gorgeous tone to transmit telepathic communication to others through the crystal cluster stones, and also resonated his own excited emotions to the audience. To describe it in human terms, it was to set the mood before the performance, and by the way, use the emotional resonance stone to pass on his excitement to others.

Keith walked gracefully and slowly towards the dining table.

It can fly, but flying on stage would make it look stupid. As a famous performer, it must have an aura, so it walks like a humanoid creature, and must walk with accents, with its profile facing the audience at a 45-degree angle so that the audience can notice the six strong and smooth tentacles on its chin.

If not for some unexpected events, Keith might even have been promoted to a Soul Eater, a high-level mind flayer.

There was thunderous applause.

The Suen mind flayers will only make such sounds when they pray to Suen and participate in the food performance, rather than communicating through telepathy.

"Everyone."

"What we are going to taste today is a human with an intelligence of 19 points."

As usual, Keith began to introduce today's main course and tried to arouse the audience's emotions. When they heard that the ingredients had 19 points of intelligence, the surrounding Suen Mind Flayers became agitated, because they had not tasted such high-end goods for a long time.

They can't wait.

Keith raised his hand to calm the audience gracefully, and continued to introduce: "It comes from the twelve head farms on the eighth satellite, produced on the planet Terra that we see before us."

"They are the ninth batch of slaves captured by the expeditionary fleet during the Dark Ages. They have been bred to the fifty-second generation so far."

“It’s a very excellent breed!”

As a top performer, Keith wanted to arouse the emotions of all the audience. He introduced it in detail: "Its ancestor was a northerner. The dull northerners should not have such high intelligence."

"But we captured a Northern Witch, and the ingredients this time are the descendants of the Northern Witch!"

Thunderous applause rang out again.

Keith was very satisfied with the audience's performance. He activated the emotional resonance stones around the performance venue and continued, "The Twelve Head Farm is an excellent breeding base. The slaves produced there are of very high quality, with a large number of high-quality varieties with intelligence attributes between 15 and 16. Moreover, they no longer know how to resist and are quite docile."

"If you need anything, you can contact the staff at the Skull Farm."

This is the customary advertising time.

Occasionally, there would be wealthy mind flayers who would spend money to buy slaves for tasting. The feeding grounds alone could not fully satisfy their needs. However, due to the high prices and limited quantities, ordinary mind flayers could not afford them, unless they could invade Holy Terra again and break through the protective barrier of the real kingdom.

Since the construction of the Twelve Realms of Clock Nirvana was completed, interstellar monsters have not invaded Holy Terra for nearly a thousand years.

"Next."

"Please invite the farm manager, Dawo, to serve our staple food today!"

creak.

A heavy alchemical door opened, and a high-ranking mind flayer with a slightly arrogant look walked in front. Its skin was light purple, a bit like a soul eater. Behind it was a girl about sixteen years old, with skin that was a bit too pale, very delicate facial features, and a look with a hint of morbid beauty. Her head was much larger than that of an average human, which made her look a bit weird, destroying the overall beauty. Her pair of blue eyes were like dazzling gems, but her eyes were empty like a doll with a broken heart.

There was no hair on the girl's head, and her smooth skin looked like oriental porcelain. Such a smooth scalp would make it easier for the mind flayer to eat, and it would also look quite beautiful.

"Well!"

"It's really a masterpiece!" The Mind Flayers around couldn't wait to exclaim.

Keith was also very satisfied with the ingredients in front of him. It was an ultimate delicacy that even he had rarely tasted. It was a genius among humans, a true genius, even a genius among geniuses.

The girl's expression was calm.

She looked like she had a cognitive impairment and was indifferent to the outside world, or she had already known her fate. She had profound knowledge and mastered a lot of knowledge that the mind flayer allowed her to learn, but she didn't have any magic power, not even a little bit of extraordinary ability. She was wearing a snow-white human dress, and the skin on her slender arms was paler than the cloth, and you could even see some blood vessels, as if she had albinism.

The mind flayers use various means to reproduce human subspecies. Only the real elite humans can cultivate such geniuses. The others have become a kind of pathological creature called "Giant Brain Man".

But this is Keith's performance venue, and the giant-brained people cannot be on the stage, as that is something only low-class performers eat.

decent!

style!

grace!

Keith is well-known among the mind flayers. Every meal he eats is a masterpiece, a genius among humans and humanoids. Only in this way can he maintain his status. If there are no excellent ingredients, he would rather hold a food show only once every six months. - Emotional Resonance Stone.

Amid the surging psychic power, Keith's slightly excited emotions also resonated with the tens of thousands of Mind Flayer audiences present.

Even this premium ingredient has to be handled with caution.

It is said that the top product of the Twelve Heads Farm is a genius with 20 intelligence points. It is a creation bred with sinful blood. Even a great gourmet like it is not qualified to taste it. It is often secretly sent to the mind palace of the Great Mastermind. This corrupt dark ritual will create many defective products. Those failed products are giant brains, an extremely ugly, deformed and stupid sub-human monster.

A human subspecies with an intelligence of 18-19 points is already the limit of what an ordinary mind flayer can come into contact with.

"Lie down," Keith ordered.

Under the fluctuation of spiritual energy, the girl lay expressionlessly on the white marble table. Her swaying snow-white dress seemed like a bunch of spread lilies, so beautiful that it broke one's heart. Her slender and smooth calves, under the crystal lights of the performance hall, seemed as gorgeous as porcelain gems. The girl's chest rose and fell slightly, which meant that her mood was not as calm as she seemed. In her frosty and dim eyes, there was a faint glimmer of despair and darkness.

They are the descendants of the lost human race.

Without the protection of the nameless people, they sank on the distant garden planet. Children without the protection of the giants would never grow up. Although they could see the stars in the distance by looking up, they could never return home.

Even if they are a group of geniuses, they are just a dish of delicacy on the long table.

No one here cares about the beauty of the girl, because she is just a piece of food. In the fragmented beauty, countless mind flayers stare at her brain with hungry and greedy eyes. What a fine product it is, with snow-white and smooth scalp, perfectly contoured skull, and eyes as bright as gems. The moment the skull is opened, one can imagine how delicious the brain inside will be!
Those gradually dimming sapphire eyes, bit by bit becoming completely desperate, bit by bit dying in boundless pain, she would feel her brain being sucked away, she would feel death gradually approaching, those extreme emotions would completely erupt at the last moment of death, that is the supreme delicacy of the mind flayer, the most extreme emotional feast they can ever taste!
Keith's hands were shaking slightly.

Its tough tentacles climbed up along the girl's forehead. It was choosing the best angle so as not to let the girl die in the process of eating. Only the most perfect "eating alive" could live up to its title of "great gourmet" and bring the most extreme emotional resonance to the audience nearby.

It is an elegant artist, for it feeds with the same precision as the art of a mind flayer.

soon.

Keith picked the perfect angle, from which he could keep the girl alive after sucking out two-thirds of her brain. With a little psychic magic, she could survive until Keith ate every last drop of her brain.

On the long white table, the girl slowly closed her eyes, her eyes like sparkling sapphires, and she finally looked in the direction of Holy Terra.

Perhaps the humans there have long forgotten these lost descendants...

Tick!Tick!
Just as the girl was quietly waiting for the Mind Flayer to pry open her skull with its tentacles, she suddenly heard a ticking sound like a clock.

The world stopped at this moment.

She should be like all mind flayers, completely still in time, but her intelligence is too high. Although her high intelligence makes her understanding of the world very vague, as if separated by a layer of gray fog, this talent also allows her to sense the changes in time.

She was still.

Her body, heartbeat, and breathing were still, but her consciousness was not.

this moment!
She saw a black giant as majestic as a mountain, who might be the successor of the legendary unknown giants.

Under the endless starry sky.

Countless mysterious silver runes were engraved as if they were a dazzling nebula. The gorgeous nebula was rotating at high speed, and the outer layer was shrouded in a huge translucent purple bubble. Under the illusory reflection of the starry sky, she saw the phantom of a dark giant. His eyes as deep as the abyss were staring at her with a hint of pity in his eyes.

A huge netherworld hand gently lifted her up, as if it was holding a beloved object, and she was held in the palm of the hand and lifted up to the sky!
"child!"

"I'll take you home!..." the black giant whispered.

In an instant.

The girl broke free from the still time, tears streaming down her face, she cried silently and choked.

At this moment, she finally realized that she had not been completely forgotten.

They are no longer the descendants of humans lost under the stars.

The shadow of the black giant gently wiped away the crystal tears from the corners of her eyes. He whispered softly, "Don't cry, child."

"I'll set off some beautiful fireworks for you!..."

——Eternal Blazing Sun【Spell Upgrade】【Eleventh Ring Legendary Spell】!!!
A bunch of dazzling fireworks bloomed under the starry sky.

As if announcing the return of mankind to the starry sky, the sun-like hot light illuminates the entire garden planet, allowing countless human descendants kept in captivity in the Skull Farm to see the light at the end of the sky. It is so warm and hot that it is enough to melt all the darkness!
"Sealed Artifact No. 1!"

"Let the Scourge Messenger Group enter the lunar outpost and stand by!"

"Recall the Farstriders, Recall the Pathfinders, Recall the Order of Martyrs, Gather the Astra Militarum, Gather all the Orders of Holy Terra!..."

"The Mechanical Heart demiplane has entered the first level combat readiness state!"

"The Golem Construct Corps is ready for interdimensional projection!"

"Contact Abyss City."

"Send a church envoy group to seek help from the seven witch king cities. I can give up all the mineral resources in the Black Abyss."

"Notify Lady Hecate."

"Let Quin-To go to the Eternal Forest. I need the help of the forest sages and archdruids!"

"Send Orn from Abyss City to Baiyujing and bring the blueprints of the Dragon Head Battleship that I sealed up. I need the support of the Zhendan people's fleet!"

"Let Yvonne Tanner go to the Tower of Knowledge and tell them that I have found the bloodline of the Northern Witches."

………………

this moment.

Xiao En mobilized all his personal connections, he wanted to face the mastermind of Su En's Mind Flayer Fleet head-on!

Human beings have been forgotten by this starry sky for too long.

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(Note 1: In the skull farm, the humans and humanoids being cultivated will be tested and measured to assess their total brain capacity. If he ranks in the top 5%, he will have the right to reproduce, which is also used to motivate humanoids to learn more knowledge. Those who are not ranked in the top will be sold to other mind flayers for food, and the bottom 5% will be slaughtered directly.

Note 2: This way of captivity ensures that only the smartest humanoids can continue to survive. The humanoids here have a perception and intelligence that is 1d4 points higher than ordinary people, up to a maximum of 20. But unfortunately, none of them can leave the ranch, because in the process of artificial breeding, the rebellious spirit has long been eliminated in them.

Note 3: The Mind Flayer controls the path to advancement. Humans who are found will be killed and eaten directly. They want to cultivate ordinary people with an intelligence of more than 18 points. Eating highly intelligent humanoids can speed up the advancement and evolution of the Mind Flayer. Top geniuses with an intelligence of 20 points will be sent to the Mind Spire of the Great Mastermind.)
(End of this chapter)