Arcane Journey

Chapter 198 Blue Dragon's Treasure

Brian waved his sleeves, and he used the teleportation spell to transfer all the mountain of treasures to a mansion in another dimension that he had obtained in the dark region.

Not only did he plunder the fallen treasure until there was not a single copper plate left, he also went to the dracolich's lair above and searched it carefully before walking down satisfied.

After all, the blue dragon among the five-color evil dragons is known as a 'gem hoarder'. Even after being transformed into a lich, their preference has not changed.

Although blue dragons collect anything that looks valuable, gemstones are especially preferred among them. They consider blue the most noble and beautiful color, so they are eager for sapphires, and they favor jewelry and magic items that use this decoration.

The most important thing is that the blue dragon will bury its most precious gems deep in the sand, and only hide some slightly lower-priced accessories in quicksand pits within sight, so as to deal with and exclude possible thieves .

Therefore, when Brian flew to the collapsed lair of the blue dragon and searched carefully, he found treasure chests buried deep in the sand.

Inside the box, there are all kinds of precious stones such as bechuri gemstones, clear blue emeralds, blue diamonds, brilliant blue tourmalines and so on.

What really moved Brian was that he found a whole box of star sapphires in a treasure box about [-] centimeters in size.

When he was about to open the treasure chest, if it wasn't for the prudent habits he had developed over time, he had given himself a lot of buffs and magic in advance, and he might have been cursed by an evil spirit hidden in the treasure chest.

However, even though he was cursed, Brian still thought it was a good deal.

After all, star sapphire is the most precious and valuable gem among sapphires.

Compared with ordinary sapphires, this gemstone is not as clear as expected, but there are six or more white starbursts in the center of the gemstone, just like sparkling stars, so it got its name.

The magical starburst inside the gem is due to the optical properties of the mineral crystal and the mutation of the free magic elements, giving it the characteristic of accelerating the speed of magic power condensation.

Under normal circumstances, wizards generally like to inlay this kind of gemstone on their staffs to speed up the concentration of magic power and increase the speed of spell release.

And the masters of the wizard tower prefer to use this kind of gemstone as the return point of elemental energy.

The high-end wizard tower is not completed once it is built. It is like decorating a circuit for a new house. It needs to set up various energy runes and magic circles that connect to the element pool in each room.

Because star sapphire usually has an even number of terminal starbursts inside, most of them are six, and the number will become more if it is older.

The more starbursts there are in this gemstone, the more energy circuits the element pool can supply to the entire wizard tower.

There is no doubt that the greater the number of stars, the stronger the characteristics of the gemstone and the higher its value.

It is said that in the sapphire mine, only one star sapphire can be found for every one hundred sapphires.

From this we can see how precious this gemstone is.

Among the fifty starlight sapphires that Brian obtained, half of them had more than six starbursts. It can be said that when he was building the wizard tower, he would have a mouthful of blood.

In addition to these gems, he also found a lot of good magic equipment.

Possessing strong mental power and high-level "knowledge (mystery)" skills naturally allow him to easily identify the function and efficacy of each piece of equipment.

Although the quality of these magic equipments is mainly excellent, most of them are useless to him, but one or two of them are very applicable.

First of all, it is the only cloak in this pile of magic equipment that has reached the quality of purple and excellent.

Brian took out the cloak he had just obtained, and checked its properties:
Star Curse Cloak +3
Type: Cloak

Quality: Purple Excellent

Aura: Strong prophecy aura

Equipment effect:

1. Star Protection: The wearer can activate the cloak arbitrarily, turning it into a shimmering piece of equipment composed of countless fine stars, which can make the wearer immune to non-magical weapon attacks, and any hit The wearer's nonmagical weapons and projectiles transform into harmless flashes of light, destroying them.

Note: Magic weapons and projectiles are not destroyed by contact with the Star Charm Cloak, but each time they are hit by such weapons, the wearer can make a Reflex save. Takes only half damage from attacks.

2. Constant Divine Guidance: When the wearer puts on this cloak, he will permanently gain some kind of unpredictable divine power infusion. This power will make the damage you cause, the immunity judgment you suffer, or the magic effect you release, All increased by 10%.

Note: If it is a night with stars, the effect of constant guidance is doubled.

3. Star divination: When you wear this cloak, can see the night sky and wear a hood, you can cast star divination once a day without consuming any spell slots or providing materials for it.

Note: When you do this, the predicted result will appear in front of your eyes in a visual effect that only you can see:

Meteor Zero: It indicates that there is no obvious difference between good and bad results.

A shooting star: indicates bad results.

Two shooting stars: It indicates that the result has both good and bad aspects.

Three Meteors: Foretells good results.

Explanation: This cloak is made of a special silk thread that is sensitive to magic power. If the spell you cast contains speech components, some shimmering spells will overflow on the cloak, but it will soon disappear. will fade away.

When you cast a spell of [-]st level or higher, you can change the appearance of the cloak as well as its color and material at will.But no matter how its appearance is modified, it will always be a cloak, and its weight will not be changed.

Some bards and druids or mages adorn this robe in creative and colorful patterns and colors.And some priests are very happy to embellish this robe with the stigmata of their gods.

Note: When you wear the hood of this cloak, creatures with darkvision cannot see through this darkness, and cannot see your face clearly. They can only see the deep darkness and starry sky under the hood, while you Normal vision is possible.

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Brian looked at the cloak with satisfaction. Its original appearance was a dark purple hooded cloak trimmed with silver, showing tiny stars in the dim hall.

Although this piece of purple-quality magic equipment does not have any offensive spells and attributes, Brian can feel that whether it is star protection, constant divine guidance, or star divination, it will play a role in his future days. To a great effect, and even let him continue to use it.

Then, without further hesitation, he directly took off an ordinary black cloak made by psionic secondary creation, and put on this piece of equipment.

Among spellcasters, the traditional wide-sleeved robe is the most popular style, because there are many hidden pockets in the wide sleeves and the inside of the robe, so that you can easily get the magic items or casting materials you need .

After all, most of the space equipment does not automatically appear in one's hand with a single thought. In the magic battle that races against time, it is impossible to have so many opportunities to mobilize mental power and quickly take out the items you need.

In this case, it is naturally the most effective way to put items within easy reach.

Of course, although a few space equipment have such an effect, the selling price can make most wizards flinch.

Obviously, they all know how to choose between an ordinary robe and expensive space equipment.

But Brian couldn't get used to this kind of clothes that made him feel a little tight. Wearing the loose robes on his body, whether he was fighting or walking, he always felt uncomfortable.

Therefore, he likes the clean attire of ordinary adventurers the most, and then wears a cloak, which can be put on at any time to make himself inconspicuous.

He looked at the style of the cloak and the dark purple magic fabric, and nodded in satisfaction.

Immediately, with a thought, all the light and conspicuous patterns of the equipment were hidden, and it became an ordinary cloak again.

After tidying up, he looked again at a rare item in this harvest that he thought he had more.

Brian looked at a seemingly inconspicuous piece of charcoal in his hand, and checked its properties:
forge sparks
Type: Wonder

Explanation: This piece of charcoal is covered with a thin layer of blue ash and hosts a fire spirit, which feels like it is emitting a lukewarm heat.

When the charcoal is placed in the flames, a blue flame ignites from the charcoal, the fire spirit residing in it appears, and all flames within 5 feet of it are extinguished by the fire. The genie manipulates into a magical flame.

When the flame on the charcoal is extinguished or doused, the fire spirit returns to the charcoal until it is set in flames again.

If the charcoal is removed from the flame, the fire spirit moves with the burning charcoal and burns for up to 1 minute.

A fire spirit prefers to reside in a hearth or campfire, and she can fill up to 5 cubic feet of space with magical flames.

A fire spirit's magical fire has the following properties:
This magical flame cannot be blown out by strong winds.

This magic fire does not produce smoke unless you tell the fire spirit to make her smoke... the fuel used to maintain this magic fire burns twice as long as normal

All food cooked with this magical flame will use the most suitable heat, unless you tell the fire elf how ripe you want it to be or burn it directly...

In addition, when you use the fire spirit's magical flame as a heat source, you have advantage on glasssmith's tools, blacksmith's tools, repair tools, or cooking checks, and there is a certain chance that when you use the tool, you will consume The time is cut in half.

Intelligence: A forge spark is considered a lawful neutral intelligent magic item. A fire elf has an Intelligence of 1, a Wisdom of 6, and a Charisma of 1. She has darkvision and hearing out to 60 feet and is immune to fire damage. She does not Speaks, reads, but understands Common and Ignition.

Personality: The fire elf in the forge sparks likes to stay in places such as furnaces or bonfires. She will strictly control the size of the fire to prevent the flames from spreading uncontrollably. Magical flames do not spread naturally, and she knows all fuels well to use them reasonably to keep them burning. She also likes helping others do things like cooking, forging iron, lighting, etc. When she is in a good mood, she will There were sporadic harmless sparks.

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Brian put away the unexpected item.

From the introduction of the equipment, it can be seen that this piece of smart charcoal is more inclined to be obtained by professionals who are good at crafting or cooking.

So when he found this piece of charcoal, he already had a good idea in his mind.

That is to be handed over to the gray dwarves of Aldus King City. With this intelligent flame, the red dragon Argotus, the ignition tool dragon, will be completely liberated, and he does not need to find another red dragon egg. It hatched and replaced the work of the red dragon.

Moreover, since the end of the battle with Shade City, the deep king of the gray dwarves has learned that the city of the drow is being ravaged by demon lords. The newly appointed deep king has begun to hint at him, trying to be like the stone giant , Surrender to yourself.

After all, the exit of the gray dwarf's Aldus King City to the surface world is in the Mokou Mountains, which is very close to Mokou Town.

Of course, Brian knew very well what the gray dwarves were thinking. It was nothing more than fear that the demon lords would set their sights on their city again when they were ravaging the Underdark.

For this situation, he is naturally happy to see it happen.

You know, if he was asked to use rational words to evaluate the work efficiency of the dwarves, he would be more inclined to this group of gray dwarves who were spoiled by mind flayers and had a gloomy and cautious personality.

Brian planned to talk to the deep king of the gray dwarves when he returned to Mokou Town.

Because if you want the gray dwarves to join you, you must at least change their camp from lawful evil to lawful neutral.

He didn't think about it any more, and put away the spark from the forge.

In fact, in addition to these two rather good pieces of equipment, there are several other pieces of magic equipment, including a very interesting weapon.

Pleasant spur +2
Type: long whip

Quality: blue extraordinary

This magical weapon has a maximum of 3 charge charges, and at dusk every day, the consumed 1-3 charge charges will be randomly restored.

While you wield this whip, you can expend 1 charge to make an attack against a ally within 10 feet of you.

Teammates who are attacked can get the following two benefits:
1. In the next 10 minutes, the attributes of the attacked teammate will increase by 3 points each in terms of physique, strength and agility.

2. Until the end of the battle, when making an attack roll, attribute check or immunity check for the first time, an additional 1d4+2 bonus will be obtained, and the resulting value will be added to the check result.

3. Teammates who are attacked will have their own stamina consumption halved within 30 minutes, and the wounds drawn by the whip will gradually increase the pain, but they will not die as a result.

Note: This magic whip was once used by a unique (shaking S) succubus, her favorite catchphrase is: "Hey, you will work hard~" @^_^
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Seeing the attributes of this piece of equipment, Brian couldn't help recalling some interesting things, and couldn't help showing a smile.

At this moment, the surrounding air suddenly distorted, and space fluctuations appeared like ripples.

Brian quickly put away the long whip in his hand, and followed the source of the fluctuation.

As expected, he saw that the blue dragon lich's huge body was sealed in a silver-white essence similar to 'amber' by Helisite, and fell into a stagnant space.

Through the silver-white essence, one can clearly see the trace of fear left on the dracolich's skin-tightened face, as if seeing something terrible.

At the same time, Helliste, a Psychic in white dress, floated down from mid-air like morning mist and landed in front of him.

Brian met her beautiful eyes and stared at the expression fluctuations in her starry eyes that came from the depths of her heart and belonged only to her.

At this moment, he suddenly understood why it took so long for Helisite to deal with the dracolich in the astral space.

Obviously, in order to exceed her own requirements, she used the "extraction technique" to completely seal the huge body of the blue dragon lich.

Although the "extraction technique" is a sealed psychic power, the prerequisite for its use is that the enemy must lose all mobility and cannot afford any resistance.

"Thank you for your hard work." Brian said to the psion next to him.

Helisite nodded her head slightly, her eyes drooped slightly, and she stood beside him quietly.

"There is one more thing I need you to help me with." Brian glanced at the blue dracolich, took out a sheepskin scroll with a map and a gem, and said to her:
"Help me go to the location marked on the map to get something. It is an ancient tomb. I have also made detailed notes on the location of the item and how to obtain it. With your current strength, you only need to use this tomb to store the location. If the gem is teleported there, it can be easily obtained."

When Hellist heard the words, her slender eyelashes stood up one by one. She glanced at the sealed blue dragon lich, a strange color appeared in her eyes, and she said in surprise, "So you have been prepared for a long time."

"Indeed." Brian handed the item to her, and said with a smile, "After all, I have fought this dracolich before, so I naturally know his details."

He stared at Helisite's beautiful face. Her skin was as beautiful as snow, like a beautiful elf made of jade, with a faint fragrance, like orchids and musk deer, intoxicating the soul.

Although her face looked to be about 20 years old at most, the elegant and noble temperament she exuded vaguely made him unable to feel any blasphemy.

"I'm going to trouble you again this time."

However, while Brian was talking, he still couldn't help holding her slender jade hand, the smooth and cold touch reminded him of the communication between the two in the sea of ​​spiritual consciousness.

"…I'll be right back."

Helisite seemed to realize something, avoided Brian's scorching gaze, and withdrew her tightly clenched little hand without a trace.

She regained her composure, and immediately activated the gemstone in her hand. Her graceful figure was immediately wrapped by a beam of light from the teleportation circle, and she gracefully disappeared in place.

Seeing the psion disappear, Brian felt empty even though he knew she would be back in just a few moments.

After realizing his problem, he let out a laugh, and turned his gaze to the dracolich Kritzka.

He is still very familiar with this dracolich. After all, he is the most famous dracolich in the Ennook Desert, and he is also nicknamed by their player community: Capital Dragon.

The blue dracolich Kryzka, centuries ago, before he transformed into a dracolich, was a very crazy blue dragon in his prime.

His favorite thing to do is to prey on the salt caravans that pass through his desert domain in the Ennook Desert.

Those who ran caravans and salt mines continued to seek ways to destroy the dragon, until one day a party of adventurers hired by the owner of the mine found Krizka's lair and slew him.

Just when everyone thought the dragon had been wiped out, he appeared as a dracolich and attacked a large salt mine in the desert, killing its owner and taking over the mine.

Then, Krizka, who turned into a dracolich, quickly realized that the mine was the source of wealth, so he didn't destroy it, but continued to operate, day and night to extract the maximum profit from the mine.

In order to gain wealth, Krizka knows that he has to manage the board and lodging of the workers, but due to his greedy personality, he begrudges every copper coin spent, so he tries to generate the maximum profit with the minimum investment, such as using a lot of undead labor.

But the working speed of the undead creatures was not enough to satisfy him, and he found that some living workers were necessary, because when the salt was transported to the market, the skeleton soldiers would not be able to sell it.

Every three months, the dragon checks production and income, and then makes adjustments to his labor force, such as intentionally picking and killing some workers whose performance is not up to standard in order not to pay wages, and transforming them into skeletons.

If he was particularly displeased with the outcome, even his followers and subordinates would be woeful.

Despite this management method and the protection of the Dragon Cult, Krizka still strives to keep a low profile.

He likes to spread rumors that he was killed by adventurers who attacked him in his lair, and through his eighth special subordinate - the first seven were all killed by him because of their performance, a succubus disguised as a human Operates a mine.

This succubus from the bottomless abyss pretended to be the leader of 'killing' the blue dragon lich, defrauding the trust of adventurers and players to facilitate business with the outside world.

Following the instructions of the Dragon Worship Cult, the dragon guarded the ruins of the floating city, and then spent most of the day focusing on the business of the mine.

It was also the salt mine he ran and the stingy approach to his subordinates that allowed Brian to obtain such a rich treasure when he sorted out the spoils.

Brian walked up to the dracolich and pointed at the crystal.

Accompanied by a wave of spiritual energy floating past, the silver-white crystal melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Brian stopped the fusion until the head of the dracolich was exposed.

"What else do you want to say?" He looked at the dracolich who was slowly regaining consciousness.

"Do you know why I've been staying here?"

Trapped in the crystal, the dracolich was silent for a long time, then looked at the surrounding situation, and found that the female elf who sealed her was no longer here. The soul fire in the deep eye sockets flickered, and she suddenly lowered her face and begged for mercy:

"Master Lord of Mokou Town, as long as you are willing to let me go, I will offer you the power of the legendary Netherese - such as eternal life, unimaginable wealth, mastery of magic. Otherwise , Without my guidance, it is impossible for you to open the treasury of stars, because only I have the clue to open the treasury."

"You mean the golem that was chased away." Brian said flatly, with a look of complete disinterest.

Hearing this, the dracolich froze on the skin-tightened dragon's face with an apologetic smile, and then threatened viciously:
"Very good, Lord of Mokou Town, right? I remember you. You must know that I am a Lich with eternal life. As long as you can't find my phylactery, you can't kill me. If you don't let me go, when I recover my strength, I will definitely lead the Dragon Worshipers to conquer your territory."

"Then I welcome you to come." Brian said indifferently, "Unfortunately, you have no chance to see it."

The dracolich was stunned, and was about to curse, when suddenly the air twisted, and Herister's figure appeared out of thin air.

When he saw a small bronze treasure chest engraved with runes floating around this cold-looking elf, fear floated in his eyes, and he said in a trembling voice, "You...you...you...how do you know me? The hidden location of the phylactery."

Brian didn't bother to talk to him. Amid the dracolich's desperate roar and begging for mercy, he sealed his phylactery through "extraction".

As the dracolich's phylactery was completely devoured by the silver-white essence similar to 'amber', the dracolich's voice stopped abruptly, its head tilted and there was no sound, and the dancing soul fire in its eye sockets was also extinguished.

"You are planning to make him a dragon skeleton golem." Herister guessed Brian's thoughts and asked softly.

"That's right." Brian nodded slightly, and then waved his hand, bringing his complete dragon body into another dimension.

"But..." Hellist said hesitantly.

"You want to say that I'm desecrating the corpse." Brian said what she hadn't finished, and said with a smile: "I have always believed that as long as the sharp blade can kill the enemy, why should I care about the forger? You can't even believe me."

"That's not true." Helisite shook her head slightly, and said worriedly, "Did you forget that little devil familiar who defected?"

"It was just an accident." Brian looked embarrassed and emphasized firmly.

"Actually, it's not impossible to make a dragon skeleton golem."

Helliste's quiet and beautiful eyes flickered a few times, she thought about it for a moment, and said to him, "Your psionic proficiency is in the field of creation, and I happen to have a dragon skeleton golem here that can combine with an astral construct." method, do you want to try it?"

"Of course we have to try. Why didn't we mention such a good method earlier."

Hearing this, Brian's expression flashed with joy, and then he said: "Then don't waste time, let's recruit the golem first, let's take the things from the treasure house of the stars, and come back to Mokou Town with me .”

(End of this chapter)