Arcane Journey

Chapter 193 Wind Djinn

There was a whirl...

After a slight trance, Brian opened his eyes, looked up, and a city that had long been in ruins appeared in front of him.

The wind-eroded surfaces of once-grand stone buildings jut out of the sand like rotting teeth, and the remains of ancient streets poke out from under the sweltering yellow sand, snaking through crumbling walls and fallen buildings. Ruins.

The cold wind horn resounded throughout the desert, and the whistling of the wind quickly turned into a mournful cry, as if from a tortured soul.

Ahead of them, Brian saw and heard a sandstorm spinning in place like a giant dome in the center of the ruined city.

"here it is……"

The golem stretched out its arms, pointing bewilderedly at the desert, as if wondering what to do next.

"Put it away for now." Brian glanced at the golem and confessed to Hellist beside him.

After all, this golem is the key to them opening the treasury of the stars. If it is destroyed midway due to poor protection, it will be very depressing.

However, to his surprise, Helliste did not respond to his words. Only the golem turned around and looked at him suspiciously, as if saying: Why did you put me away?

Brian subconsciously glanced at Hellist, and found that she was standing against the wind, her eyes were looking into the distance, her dress and cloak were fluttering, and her shiny silver-white long hair was fluttering with the wind.

Under the cold moonlight, her skin is like snow, her eyes are like pools of clear water, and when she is looking forward, she has an elegant and noble temperament, which makes people feel ashamed and dare not desecrate her.

"What's wrong with you?" He reminded her softly in her mind through the spiritual connection established by the two.

"It's okay..." Helisite came back to her senses and gave him an apologetic look, "What did you just say?"

"Put this golem away, we are about to go in." Brian repeated what he had just said.

Helliste nodded slightly, raised her slender hands, and waved her sleeves, the golem with question marks all over its head disappeared immediately.

"Are you still thinking about what happened just now?" Seeing the golem disappear, Brian asked.

When they were going to follow the golem to explore the floating city of Azuma, he didn't let the old dragon turtle follow him, but asked him to return to Mokou Town ahead of time with a letter of his own.

Before leaving, the old dragon turtle suddenly took out a turtle shell, wanting to divination the future for them.

The old dragon turtle proudly said that this ancestral tortoise shell was left by one of his ancestors who had lived for tens of thousands of years. Every ten years, he could divination for anything without any cost. Gua.

He claimed that in order to understand the divination of tortoise shells, he even went to the eastern continent of Karatu and learned from alchemists or ascetics for hundreds of years.

Faced with this situation, Brian naturally left this rare opportunity to Helisite.

And this Psychic did not exceed his expectations at all, choosing to divination the future for the small world they left.

Facing his question, Helisite nodded slightly, and responded to his question with silence.

"Then have you figured it out?" Brian took off his hood and straightened his slightly messy hair.

"Understood...but I don't quite understand." Helisite said truthfully, parting her tight lips.

"This is understandable. After all, the old dragon tortoise's way of divination was passed down in the ancient eastern country." He thought for a moment and said to her:
"You should know that the divination culture in ancient eastern countries has a long history. Some alchemists or natural practitioners used signs in the natural world to make judgments about celestial phenomena, climate, hunting, nomadism, where to follow, right and wrong, etc. in their interactions with the natural world. In various forms, to seek help from the will of the gods in the dark.

However, natural omens are not common and must be tested in an artificial way. Over time, the use of occupants as an intermediary to carry out conscious communication between humans and gods, and use certain omens to predict future good and bad fortune .Thus, divination came into being.The most important thing is that this country pays attention to: it can only be understood but not expressed in words.Therefore, the divination information is difficult to understand in most cases. "

"And the old dragon tortoise's divination shows: the sky can be mended, the sea can be filled, the Nanshan can be moved, the sun and the moon have passed, which means that they cannot be recovered..."

Seeing Helisite cast an interested look at him, he continued, "It means that you can mend the sky, fill the sea, and move mountains, but the past time can never be brought back, so You must cherish the moment."

"Don't you understand?" He looked at Helisite's thoughtful face and made a final question.

In fact, he could feel that Helisite had already understood the meaning, and the reason for this was mainly because he wanted to know his own opinion on this sentence.

"I already understand." Helisite met his gaze and nodded slightly.

"Just understand." Brian turned to look at the ruins in the distance and the raging sandstorm.

"Brian, I suddenly feel..."

Looking at his back, Hellist looked hesitant, walked up to him, and said in a soft tone, "How to fuse the fifth psicrystal, and I also found a way to fuse the sixth one." some clues."

After finishing these words, a blush quietly floated across her beautiful face, which was very eye-catching under the cold moonlight.

Brian, who had already turned around, naturally didn't notice the change in Helliste. After listening to her words, he was stunned, and instantly understood the meaning of her words, and smiled and said his guess, "Sixth The personality fragment is related to the small world."

In his impression, until her own rebirth, Hellist did not fuse the personality fragments of the remaining two psicrystal servants.

He was very happy when he thought that she would be able to practice this psionic secret technique to great success in the future.

"Yes." Hellist, who regained her composure, looked at Brian with a strange look in her beautiful eyes, and then nodded slightly.

"Then I'm relieved." Brian looked relieved, staring at the sandstorm in the ruins, "Have you noticed that the sandstorm here looks very strange."

He saw a sandstorm in the shape of a dome, about 400 feet across, swirling around the ruins.

Purple lightning flashed in the storm, and the howling sound was deafening. The washed bones were scattered on the ground below, and the stones of the nearby ruins were also dilapidated in the face of the never-ending wind.

"I noticed." Helisite observed the surrounding situation and said thoughtfully, "The sandstorm here looks like it deliberately wrapped up the ruins of the floating city."

"Indeed." Bryan nodded. "If my expectations are correct, this place should be a sandstorm area deep in the Standing Stone Plain that no one dares to step into."

"Harris, I suspect that there is a djinn-like existence that is secretly manipulating everything." He looked at the psion next to him, "If we don't drive it away, it may be difficult for us to enter this ruin. There's no way to detect them."

Genies are born from the fusion of the souls of intelligent beings with the primordial matter of the Elemental Plane.

Only on rare occasions does this elemental-infused soul coalesce into a manifested form and become a genie.

They don't usually have any connection to the soul that makes them up, though.

For the life force that comes from this is only the parts that build itself, and form the form and gender appearance of the genie, and occasionally inherit a prominent personal characteristic or two from it.

Although genies have the form of humanoids, they are actually elemental spirits with physical forms.

They do not mate with other genies, nor do they reproduce genies, so all newborn genies result from a fusion of spirit energy and elemental power.

Although some giant spirits who are more influenced by their own mortal souls may choose to breed with mortals, such children are still very rare.

"If there really is a djinn nearby..." Helliste's beautiful eyes flashed for a moment, as if thinking of something, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "I can try to summon it."

"Then give it a try." Brian gave her a surprised look, not expecting her to have this ability.

After thinking about it carefully, he immediately understood the reason.

After all, djinn are known for their mischievous humor and friendliness to mortals.

Among the different genies, the wind genies also feel that the fire genies and water genies are arrogant and indifferent to them, and even openly despise the earth genies, and will fight if they disagree.

The most important thing is that the djinn believe that the master-servant relationship is an arrangement of fate, and no one can escape the hand of fate.

Therefore, of all the genies, the djinn are the most vulnerable to enslavement, although they do not enjoy such treatment.

Djinn see their slaves as servants worthy of mercy and protection, and will not even be separated from them.

Of course, mortals who want a short-term service from a djinn can also beg with exquisite gifts, or bribe and flatter them with tribute.

However, some powerful mages are not used to these problems.

They don't use red tape to coax them at all, but summon and bind the djinn to serve themselves, and even imprison it with magic to do some indescribable things.

If Brian activates the magic net on the seventh floor, he can also use some kind of summoning medium to cast the "Level [-] Monster Summoning Technique" to summon the djinn from the elemental plane.

If the djinn were on the material plane, relatively speaking, it would be much easier to summon.

He saw Helisite take out a stick of incense that shone with magical aura, and lit it.

As the Xiaoxiao smoke rose, a faint fragrance began to emanate from the air.

I can't tell what it smells like, but it smells like a clear mind, a bit like an auxiliary spice for wizards when they prepare to memorize spells.

Helliste let the ignited incense hang in the air, and murmured a summoning spell.

"Buzz!"

In an instant, a radiant summoning circle appeared in front of the eyes of the two, and the light became more intense as the incense burned rapidly.

The moment the incense burnt out, the powerful aura of alien creatures permeated the surroundings.

"Incarnation of the wind, heed your call..."

With an ethereal and distant voice, the summoning circle disappeared, and what appeared instead was a giant wind vortex with a size of 20 feet.

The wind vortex twisted and rotated in the sand and dust, and gradually, a vague face with no gender could be seen inside.

Its eyes are condensed by blue wind, sometimes calm, sometimes irritable and anxious.

It turned out to be the lord of the wind djinn in the legendary field.

Feeling the energy of the wind element blowing his clothes and hair fluttering, Brian showed a look of shock on his face.

At the same time, he began to wonder if the djinn lord was the helper of the blue dragon lich who occupied the ruins of Azuma.

Just when he was deep in thought, the wind vortex floating in the air instantly turned into a tall noble woman with blue skin, long blue hair and a tall figure.

She was suspended in mid-air, sizing up the two of them with a pair of haughty and keen black eyes.

"Djinn, you are blocking our way."

Helisite raised her chin lightly, stared at the djinn lord with cold eyes, and said flatly, "You have received my tribute, you should know how to do it."

"You were brought here by the sapphire guards. I have no reason to prevent you from entering Azuma City." A woman made of cyan wind silk, her slim figure glowed with soft light, her voice was cold and erratic.

"However, this city has been occupied by a blue dragon lich. Due to the restrictions of the ancient covenant I signed with Grand Arcanist Opus, I cannot step into the city."

Brian was taken aback, and immediately sent a word to Hellist through voice transmission through his mind.

"Then what is your mission?" Hellist paused and asked again.

"The Grand Arcanist Opus entered eternal sleep in order to get rid of the curse of the Netheril Empire, and his sarcophagus is stored in the treasury of stars." The djinn lord said:
"My mission is to guide those who are destined to enter this city, open the treasury of stars, and awaken the great arcanist who has fallen into eternal sleep."

"It seems that you have disappointed the sleeping Grand Arcanist." Helliste calmly commented.

"Indeed, 300 years ago, I was tricked into being qualified to enter the city by a blue dragon lich." The djinn lord said with shame on his face:

"However, the thief's conspiracy was discovered by the sapphire sentry. I am very grateful to you for finding the missing sapphire sentry and escorting it here."

After finishing speaking, her luminous slim figure bowed deeply to the two of them.

"Didn't you say that due to the restrictions of the ancient covenant, it is impossible to step into the city of Azuma." Brian found a loophole in the words, "Then what form will you help us open the treasure house of the stars and awaken The sleeping Grand Arcanist."

"You're right. Due to the restrictions of the ancient covenant, I really can't step into Azuma City."

The djinn lord looked at him cautiously, "The only thing I can do to help you is to hand over a magic scroll that transcribes the wish spell that the great arcanist gave me before he fell asleep, and put it into your hands."

Hearing that it was a scroll of wishing, Brian immediately understood that this scroll should be the way to awaken the great arcanist.

However, in his impression, the sleeping Grand Arcanist didn't seem to be resurrected.

After thinking carefully for a moment, he transmitted a few words to Helisite who was beside him through telephony.

"Obviously." Helliste said to the djinn lord according to his instructions, "If we wake up the sleeping Grand Arcanist, your mission will be completed, right?"

"Exactly." The djinn lord admitted frankly.

"The purpose of our coming here is for the treasury of the stars." Helisite said softly, "It's not to help you regain your freedom. Besides, why should we help you wake up the master here."

"..." The djinn lord was at a loss for words for a moment, not knowing how to refute.

"In this case, I will abide by the ancient covenant and never let you step into Azuma City." The words of the djinn lord suddenly turned cold, and the howling whirlwind quickly circled and danced around her slim figure.

"You are not my opponent."

Helisite said in a cool voice, "We can help you regain your freedom, but the premise of all this is that you need to serve us. Otherwise, I can raise your hand and kill you."

As soon as she finished speaking, her aura suddenly changed, and the suddenly opened spiritual energy field shocked the djinn lord back again and again, and the circling whirlwind also collapsed in an instant, revealing a large piece of delicate blue skin.

"We will not sign an ancient covenant with you like the Grand Arcanist, or seal you in a bottle."

In this tense atmosphere, Brian came out in time and said to the djinn lord:

"You can return to your elemental plane of wind, but when we need to summon you, you must come to the material world as quickly as possible and obey our orders, that's all, isn't it too difficult for you?"

The djinn lord gave Bryan a suspicious look.

When she watched Helisite's icy eyes and the powerful force field emanating from her body, she knew that she was invincible, so she chose to submit, "I agree to the condition you proposed."

At the same time, the sandstorm that filled the ruins gradually subsided.

"A wise choice." Brian smiled slightly, signaling for Hellist to relax.

Being able to summon a djinn lord in the legendary domain at any time is of great help in the early stage.

Of course, the premise of all this is to open the great arcanist's treasury of stars.

After receiving the scroll of wishing from the dwarf lord, he and Helisite continued walking towards the depths of the ruins.

When they found the gate leading into the depths of the ruins, they immediately saw two sandstone-carved sphinxes crouching on granite pedestals, blocking the way.

Most importantly, around the two sphinxes, the pale humanoid skeleton is half buried in the sand around the base.

Sphinx, also known as Sphinx.

In the sacred compartment, they guard the secrets and treasures of the gods, and calmly look at every team that comes in front of them.

Adventurers who come to the Sphinx, whether in search of the treasures of the gods, or for forgotten secrets such as powerful spells, artifacts, or magic doors, must accept the guardian's test to determine their qualifications.

Creatures who choose to face the test of the Sphinx are doomed to face death, and only those who are qualified enough can survive, and the rest are destroyed by it.

"It seems that there are still hidden things in this treasury of stars that the gods consider worthy of protection. They even sent two sphinxes to guard it. No wonder the blue dragon lich who broke into this place has not succeeded so far." Looking at the two sphinxes, a man and a woman, Brian signaled Hellist not to move forward.

It is said that Sphinxes are high-level priests created by the gods. Wherever Sphinxes appear, the secrets and treasures they guard are under the protection of divine power.

So, when adventurers fail the sphinx test, access to the object or secret may disappear, or be made unobtainable in some way.

Even if the sphinx is attacked and defeated, the adventurer cannot learn the secrets sought, and is not even considered an enemy by the deity who appointed the sphinx as its guardian.

Brian couldn't help but secretly regret why he didn't pay too much attention to what happened here, so that he didn't even know which god sent the two sphinxes.

In this case, he could only bite the bullet and go up, choosing to accept the test of the Sphinx.

Besides, with Helliste's thigh, he wasn't worried that the two sphinxes would kill him if the test failed.

Bryan gestured for Hellist to go to the sphinx with a male face.

Because in his impression, male-faced sphinxes represent courage and courage, and their tests are usually a battle or some kind of challenge.

Seeing Hellist disappear amidst the sphinx's roars and roars, he knew that this powerful psion had most likely accepted a challenge.

He wasn't worried at all about this.

And he came to the Sphinx with a female face.

Because they represent knowledge and learning, they usually ask riddles to secret seekers, or reveal riddles to test each other's wisdom.

When Brian approached the range of the sphinx with a female face, a crisp voice sounded in the depths of his heart:
I fork like a snake letter

I ignite the blast of thunder

When I appear, the storm follows me

break the darkness and meet my passion

What am I?
…………

"lightning!"

Hearing the riddle given by the other party, he relaxed and answered her riddle confidently.

Then, the female sphinx was silent for a moment, and as expected, the familiar crisp voice came again in his mind:

She was round, now flat as a board

Altar of the Wolf Lords
Jewels on black velvet, pearls in the sea
Unchanging and changing again, never ending

what is she
…………

"moon!"

After a little thought, Brian answered the second question, and then he only needed to answer one more question to complete the Sphinx test.

no need to call

no need to drive

we show up at night

dissipate during the day

what are we?
…………

"Star!" Brian easily answered the third question.

At the same time, Helisite's figure also appeared out of thin air, and walked to his side with light steps.

Apparently, she also passed the test of the Sphinx.

The two of them stopped hesitating and walked towards the depths of the ruins from the path made aside by the two Sphinxes.

Vaguely, he felt that the sphinx with a female face added a blessing to him.

(End of this chapter)