Harem Reborn

I was a bit peeved that I didn't increase my Mobile Lair bar, but I floated on. Dansei was right, I would just have to trust in my love of the random to get me through this. I turned the third corner, and the place was crawling with little black beetles, everywhere again.

I just fired off the seventh Random Ray eyestalk while turning to "run" for the hills. I was having no part of those bugs! Floating for not, they were on the roof and had a hundred and ten percent chance to fall on me. Nope, not today satan!

[Lava Grenade Ray] Activated!

I was outside of the range and I had caught all the bugs! I turned back to see what was happening and all the bugs were gathering to a single black rock with brilliantly glowing red cracks. The rock was starting to shake and get brighter, and I could see heat waves start to radiate off it. 

Suddenly, the bugs started to pull away, and then scurry faster. The rock exploded, spilling out impossible amounts of molten lava. The bugs on the ground were instantly devoured by the cascading gouts and waves of burning rock. The bugs on the walls and ceiling fell and died in small pumps of black bits.

[Mobile Lair Creation] 50% Complete!

[Negative Energy Cone] Activated!

There was a slight haze along the edge of my vision, but only for my main eye, and nothing else had changed. I opened up my attacks, and I now could use Sleep Ray, but only on a single target, and only once every minute. Still, it was something helpful. Almost like a kill spell if no one ever wakes them up, but what was up with my wave vision one my center eye?

'This will be your trump card. As long as you look at a creature, it can't regenerate. Then when it dies, if you are looking at it with that eye, it will come back to life under your control.' -Dansie.

Woah! That's pretty intense! I could have had an army of bugs! The spell was done, and it was like nothing had ever been in the tunnel, and I could clearly see another turn up ahead. This was a pain, but it was all leading up to something that I had originally planned for. So, I just needed to keep pushing and leveling up my lair, but that took all of what I had killed so far.

I started to float forward at top speed, the average speed walk. Could I get a speed boost? No, Dave, you are the floating undead eye of destruction! You only get slow-rolling chaos! 

I wiggled my eyestalks threateningly to no one, and then let out a whistling sigh through my mass of jagged teeth. I was just coming up to the corner now and I slowed down getting to the corner. I poked an eyestalk around the corner to see what I was dealing with.

From what I had learned about the Beholder, it was a creature that was immensely paranoid and created from dreams. They always planned ahead and took out many different types of contingency plans to prevent them from being killed. I couldn't play chess in the third dimension, little lone the fourth, so I had to just try and be crafty. 

My average eleven intelligence must be the work of that hair-brained Reginold! Dammit! Twelve manticores were waiting in the hallway, but they were too far away for me to be able to start killing, but I had number seven, so I fired off the Random Ray.

[Frost Dragon Egg Ray] Activated!

No ring came up this time, but a ten-centimeter-tall frosty egg shot halfway down the hall. When it stopped, it exploded in a puff of frost blueish white smoke filled the area. I wasn't sure if I should run or not, but then a frozen solid manticore flew out of the mist and smashed on the ground, then two more.

I quickly came out and looked at them, using my Telekinetic Ray to smash into the other two. All there exploded on impact into black bite, but then the stone turned to dirt and three undead manticores pulled themselves out of the dirt. The smoke was clearing but the area, but now it was covered in ice.

The nine remaining manticores all rushed on paws, scorpions' tails waving behind them. My three waited, and then just before the group hit the ice. I sent my three forward, and I followed at a distance, waiting for the inevitable to happen. 

It was like watching a pile-up of cars in the winter, the claws did nothing, this was Dragon Ice. The stuff was hard as diamonds and closer than the surface of the moon, or at least that's the way I remember making it. 

The first one went down, and then it was like dominos after, each tripping over the last, and the second they fell down, they started to freeze to the ice. The first six made it off the ice, but the other three weren't so lucky and were frozen to the ice at an unavoidable pain staking frost-burning death. The other six were set upon me there and I used the Disintegration Ray on one, then charmed another while putting one to sleep that was trying to circle.

As the three undead servants cleaned up the last of them, the three on the ice disappeared, and dirt replaced the ice, and three more manticores crawl out. I commanded them to just to the other side, and the dirt stayed where it had crawled out so the others could cross. After six more puffs of black bits, I had a small force of minions.

These would be no match for dragons, but they could be a start! I would collect an undead army of monsters to get the girls back! The real question was whether or not they would want to even come with me, The Floating Eyeball of Destruction, and my undead army, hehe!