23 Detour

In the rather large cage I had fought off Zombies who are just rabid and the vamp speed Inferius. Using my soul sight has adjusted my normal eyes to see mana flow. I have come across a couple lightning runes which had an electric vibrations around the runes. A wind slash down the middle breaks the rune allowing me to copy the rune. The runes gave off a darker side to lightning, guessing that the rune was carved with evil intent making it a cursed lightning. Following the cave i came to door which is locked magically. Not finding a key I imagined an RPG arc and explosion bombarding the door. As a bullet size flame hits the wall a violent explosion destroys the door but the lock remained attached to the frame. Inside the room had cages along the two sides and a door at the end. Looking inside the cages were empty besides for handcuffs.

The door out of the prison had another magic lock but pushing my mana into the lock I had to push the mana into the lock which is Egyptian designed with pins on the top. Once I lifted the 4 pins the door unlatches and opens, it was different from alohamora as I made streams of mana as the standard spell fills the lock for easier locks and later levels require more wand movement to move the mana filling the lock.

Upon entering the next area I had to rethink my choices, in the next room was a collection of friendly creatures. Their was cubes of gelatin that moved ever so slowly. One of the cubes had been cut in half as 6 HagWitches are eating the jelly. In the jelly is chunks of meat and in one of the slices has a small person inside. Acting quickly I snipes 4 Hags with a wind bullet and the other 2 dropped to the ground causing my bullet to be absorbed by a slime. Using my mana I picked up the 2 hags in a choke hold, keeping them at a distance as they smell like trolls and parts of their bodies are rotting. With a snap of my hand they are dead as I search for info on where I am. In a corner of the cave the hags had bedding piled together and 2 chests. There is a chair and desk which doesn't smell like the hags but rather a man. Walking up to the slime I stick my hand in grabbing the small creature and pulling it out. The creature is a house elf, that's still alive but rather weak.

I lay him on the mats as I focus on the two chests. The left one is magically locked as the right isn't. They look exactly alike so using magic I opened the right chest. Upon the door opening a tongue shoots out of the top. Small legs pop out of the mimics body. Using telekinesis I hold the mimic and with my other hand I used wind like a power saw, cutting through the longer side. Dropping it to the ground small gold coins fall out of the mimic along with a snaped wand. Unlocking the second chest I found a collection of wands and a books. The top ones give off an evil aura and the lower ones are primarily Roman battle magic tomes. I already have the Roman battle magic but if they put notes it would help with learning. Placing the normal books in my expanded pouch I opened the skinnier book. Within were notes on different procedures done by an evil wizard. The man had created all the creatures I had killed. The hags are witches who had malace, ate human flesh and used dark magic. With that they gained longer life's and speed. The biggest problem was that they all went mad unable to converse with anyone besides the other hags. The slimes are used to destroy organic materials, this could be handy for toilets.

By the desk was a smooth wall with a rune on the wall above the chests. Placing mana into the rune a door appears on the smooth wall. Entering the next room I find a large circular cave with a crystal above the center that shines a white light. In the middle is a stone building built like fort manned by skeletons. Some of the skeletons hold a wand with a crystal in the end. The crystal in the wands appear to pull in mana automatically. Wind bullets destroyed the skeleton heads causing the bones to fall apart. I had to block a few arrows but vampire speed let's me catch a standard arrow. The wands only shot a standard fireball or stone bullet but each wand could only do one. Upon entering the stone building I could feel an extension rune as the interior room was a massive room lined with glass tubes filled with different creatures. There are humans, goblins, trolls, undead and even chimeras of multiple types filled the glass tubes. Getting to the center I find a humanoid octopus disecting a centaur on a stone table. Upon hearing my footsteps the mind flayer had already seen me.

Nothing in his hands he sat on his chair looking me in the eyes. Was a man with an octopus looking head, his skin has turned blue as the tenticals look like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean. He spoke first saying "So you fell in my trap but I don't need any humans. I have already grown tired of mortals. Since you got past my skeleton golems you must not be weak. Let me see your memories." Before I could do anything a massive probe smacks my occlumency shields. Knowing DND monsters Mind Flayers have mental affinities, the Flayer kept pounding my shields as each attempt fails I have to strengthen my shields allowing him to take steps toward me. Between an attack I shot a wind bullet at the Flayer causing him to lose his connection. Before he can target me I vamp speed behind him and force choke him. Before he dies I used a probe he had sent to follow the source. This gave me access to his mind as he had weak shields as he passed out.

While in his mind I was shown clips of his mind on a projected screen. I saw when he was a young boy who wanted to be a Roman mage. The fall of Rome caused him to flee the church who had called mages devil worshippers. I saw clips of him turning the witches into hags and them losing there sanity, the girls were his friends. I saw his dream to master death and revive his mother. He studied multiple animals to create a body for his mothers soul. Then I saw a memory of him creating a horcrux as he meant to make a phylactery but he didn't know you had to died to create one. Horcrux attach your soul to an item and using a murdered soul as fuel to remain on earth. I watched him do various rituals which helped him transform his body. After learning and copying some of the memories into my mind computer. I placed them under locked file. Finished with my brain hacking, I burned the Mind Flayer to ash. Upon death his soul disconnected from his body and a wraith became tethered to an orb he had in the room. The wraith spoke with a raspy voice about how he had became truly immortal. Pulling the orb to me I breathed fire turning the crystal to plasma and cutting his connection. In soul sight I could see a portal vacuum up his soul that had been torn.

Walking back to the house elf I placed any valuables in my extended bag that I emptied before collecting plants. I had a couple of darker books for my library and many standardized magic books. Money and other ingredients like inferi powder were collected as well. Upon seeing the house elf he was awake but still weak. He spoke up saying "I am weak, master no longer connected to Ari. I need mana to heal, can you be my new master." Looking at the elf with sould sight I could see that his soul is compressed, then I could see that he had a small core that had a donut shape with a hole through the middle. Placing my hand on his heart I push mana in slowly until his body began to bulk up with my mana feeding the creature. A darkness clouds the house elf soul and it looks like a chain around the soul hands. After 10 minutes the house elf was fully healed and his body had grown in size looking like a small body builder.