Arcane Journey

Chapter 200 Arcane Runes
The red sun is scorching, and the yellow sand is thick.

Outside the ruins of the floating city Azuma, a tall and straight figure appeared. He was wearing a dark purple robe and a dark red mask shaped like a horned skull.

Standing in front of the gate deep in the ruins, he bowed slightly to the two sphinxes carved from sandstone crouching on the granite base.

"Praise the God of Knowledge, and may the benevolent Oghma grant us the knowledge we each seek." There was a trace of piety in the steady words of the masked figure.

After speaking, he walked towards the depths of the ruins.

"It is good to pursue knowledge."

At this moment, a steady and powerful voice came from the howling wind:
"But do you know what knowledge is? Knowledge is truth. The purpose of our pursuit of knowledge is to understand the world and understand these truths, not to use them for personal desires."

The sudden sound made the masked figure startled slightly, he turned around slowly, and followed the sound.

Through the gap in the mask, he saw a figure standing on a high wall not far away.

This is an elegant gentleman wearing a black cloak. On his left chest, a unique pattern consisting of three mountain peaks and a moon-like silver ball is embroidered with gold and silver thread.

Shadow Prince Brennus Tanshul.

After recognizing the identity of the unexpected guest, he slightly squinted his eyes, and his eyes became playful.

He didn't speak, just stood there quietly facing the howling yellow sand.

"Welcome to the Desert of Enook, Your Excellency Dragon Whisperer Severin Syrain."

The Yinhun Prince bowed gracefully to the other party and smiled, "I'm very sorry, the leader of the Dragon Worship Cult, this barren land has nothing to entertain you, only the scorching sun and the sky full of yellow sand, are you satisfied?"

"So, you have been waiting for me here for a long time?" The leader of the Dragon Worship Cult looked at Prince Yinhun meaningfully and said slowly.

"If it's just a coincidence, do you believe it?" Breners said calmly:
"Young adventurers trampling the ruins and bones of the Empire, picking among our ashes, seeking lost treasure, if the tragic death of so many innocents had to be used to create ruins for posterity to explore .So, maybe one day, as the leader of the Dragon Worship Cult, should I also leave something for them when I am dying..."

"You want to say that those who come out to mess around will have to return sooner or later, right?" Severin chuckled, his eyes hidden in the shadow of the mask, but full of vigilance.

His purpose of coming here is only to investigate the situation of the blue dragon lich Krizka.

Because just this morning, he suddenly realized that the mark he left on the corpse of the dracolich had disappeared, and he couldn't contact Krizka.

Krizka's lich corpse was created by him himself. With Krizka's ability and the strength of the dragon body, even if he is facing a mid-level legendary professional, even if he loses, he can easily escape the opponent's pursuit.

However, the real situation was that the imprint of the dracolich's corpse disappeared, and Krizka, who was in charge of guarding the ruins, had no news, which made him feel a little uneasy.

After all, Azuma Floating Void City is hidden in the center of the death sandstorm area of ​​the Standing Stone Plain, and he doesn't think anyone else will find this ruin.

His original plan was to wait for the completion of the research progress of the Longkuang Misuo, and then start to pay attention to the treasure house of the stars in the ruins.

But the ghost prince who suddenly appeared in the ruins made him realize that the ruins of the floating city might be noticed by the ghost city.

Have they found the key to open the treasure house of the stars?The leader of the Dragon Worship Cult thought to himself.

"His Royal Highness Prince of the City of Shadows." His eyes flickered, with a playful smile on the corner of his mouth, he changed the subject and said to Breners:

"You just asked me what knowledge is, and you said that knowledge is knowing the world and knowing the truth. Now let me answer your question. In my opinion, knowledge is by no means the purpose of our learning, because the purpose of our pursuit of knowledge is to use knowledge, and use knowledge as a tool to increase our strength and creativity."

"I'm not here to discuss knowledge with you." Breners said in a slightly cold tone:

"The Ennook Desert is the territory of our Netheril Empire. As a descendant of Netheril, I will never allow outsiders to trample on our ruins and search for lost treasures in the ashes of my people. You have touched My bottom line, the leader of the Dragon Cult."

"The lost empire, the descendant of the fallen." Severin said in a mocking tone, "I don't want to fight with you, Your Highness the little prince of the City of Shadows, please step aside."

"It seems that your Dragon Sect is ready to challenge us."

The Shadow Prince raised his hand unhurriedly, and two ultra-small constructs flew out of his cloak, hovering around him, buzzing.

"What if I don't let it?"

The sandy wind lifted the Shade Prince's long black hair and cloak, revealing a shimmering scroll of runes on his back.

It turned out to be the final scroll!
Seeing the scroll that the Prince of Shadows was carrying behind him, Severin, the leader of the Dragon Cult, froze on his face with a smile hidden in the mask.

There are rumors that the secrets of the three creator races are hidden in the final scroll, and it also contains a huge energy.

The final scroll was obtained by Brenas Tanshul, the little prince of the City of Shadows, from the ruins of a city of Sarukh witches that appeared after the melting of the highest glacier.

Severin didn't think that the appearance of the final scroll was a coincidence or an accident, just as he never believed that there was no reason behind the demise of the Netheril Empire thousands of years ago.

Although he dared to bet all his wealth and never believed that this little prince could control the power and secrets hidden in the scroll, he still feared what would happen if he opened it if he really had a bad brain .

In fact, even if the little prince doesn't have the final scroll, he doesn't intend to fight against the people of Shadow City.

The alliance with Haj Horna was only one of the reasons.

The deeper reason is that the expansion of the City of Shadows to the North, the Kingdom of Cormyr, the Valley, and Cormanthor has completely attracted the attention of many forces on the mainland.

Because of this, he was able to carry out the Dragon Queen's plan safely.

What's more, Brenas is also a file scholar who has both divine arts and arcane arts.

He could feel that with his current strength, it was impossible to take down the youngest prince in the City of Shadows and the most favored son of the High King quietly and quickly.

He considered it carefully for a moment, then said slowly, "As expected of the City of Shadows' way of hospitality, let me take my leave."

The leader of the Dragon Cult, Severin Silain, turned and left.

Although he felt sorry for the loss of this ruin, his rational mind made him very clear about what was the most important thing for him right now.

He is a man who knows how to endure.

During the whole process of Severin's gaining status and power, he was able to change from an ordinary soldier to the leader of Dragon Worship Cult, and as a mortal, he became a voter of Tiamat after the five-color dragon. Any favor from Lady Luck.

It was his low-key way of forbearance and cautious style that allowed him to survive until now, and successfully reintegrated the nearly disbanded Cult of the Dragon, overthrowing the prophecies and teachings of the founder of the Cult of the Dragon, Sammaster, and renamed it : Worship the Dragon Cult.

Taking a step back, compared to the great plan of the Dragon Queen, the ruins of a floating city are not worth mentioning at all.

Let's take advantage of those degenerate descendants who are still immersed in the glory of the empire for the time being, he thought gloomyly.

Speaking of the city of ghosts, he couldn't help but suspect that the reason why the group of ghosts who believed in Shar were able to find the ruins of the floating city Azuma was probably because of the last battle with Mokou Town, Haji Horna tracked down Kriz Card trail.

If so...

Severin's expression hidden in the skull mask was as cold as ice.

In order to deal with the Kingdom of Cormyr, Hajhorner is now helping him deal with the female lord who lives in the mage's tower in Araby City.

And with the help of the arcane knowledge of the City of Shades and the help of the red-robed mage, his dragon madness is progressing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He must use this opportunity to make the Hand of the High King in Shade City pay the price.

After all, he is very familiar with the strength of Myrcella Raul, the Duchess of the Kingdom of Cormyr, and he is even a little afraid.

Although she has not been in the legendary field for a long time, only about ten years, this duchess is a legendary super magician.

This is an authoritative profession that researches metamagic expertise to the extreme. As long as she lives deep in the tower and amplifies her supermagic ability to the mage tower, she can be almost invincible.

In the orc war ten years ago, even if the city of Araby was breached, their army still had nothing to do with that mage tower.

If you want him to assist in dealing with Araby City and the female lord who is a super magician, you must make Haj Horner pay the corresponding price.

Severin stopped thinking about it and began to use spells to find an ancient tomb in the Mokou Mountains.

Because the phylactery of the dracolich Krizka is hidden there.

He needs to ask him what happened in the ruins of Azuma, and whether the people of Shadow City can take the things from the treasury of stars.

After locking the location, he immediately recited a spell, and the starlight magic circle disappeared.

In the distance, seeing Dragon Whisperer Severin leave, Ghost Prince Brenus secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

In fact, if he hadn't understood Severin's character, he wouldn't have dared to take the risk of making a bluff attempt.

He was also very worried about causing a conflict with the leader of the Dragon Worship Cult. This didn't mean that he was afraid of the other party, but that he was worried about making enemies with the Dragon Worship Cult and affecting the plans of the Lost Lady.

After all his father had been strict about letting them wait and watch, and he'd been doing really well.

In fact, even if he didn't emphasize it, he always did it.

Although he and his two older brothers were in charge of Silvermoon City in the Northland, he was an archivist and a historical researcher. Like De Sud, he had never participated in any plans against Silvermoon City. .

Otherwise, the ancient silver dragon would not have found a chance to appear in Mokou Town and beat Hajhorner to the point of embarrassment and escape.

Because for Brenas, compared to destruction and war, he is more inclined to go into and out of the territories of various civilizations to study their rich knowledge.

For him, knowledge is like a vast starry sky. Although it is impossible for him to master all knowledge, he regards the learning of knowledge as his lifelong pursuit.

It was precisely because of his hobby that he accidentally met the lord of Mokou Town in the Sage's Library in Silvermoon City, and because of this, his identity was discovered by the other party, which almost killed him in Silvermoon City.

Of course, this encounter also brought him a blessing in disguise. Following in the footsteps of the lord of Mokou Town, he found the ruins of the floating city of Grand Arcanist Opus.

Recalling that he had been in the academic center of Azuma City and listened to the courses of Opus, Breners couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In his gradually vague impression, this authoritative arcanist of the creation school was not only a great educator, but also a pioneer who tried to change the plight of the empire through reform.

It is a pity that his ambition was not completed before the destruction of the empire.

Being able to see the former city again, Breners has mixed feelings in his heart.

He waved his hand, put away his construct and the final scroll, and hid his aura.

Because he came here secretly following in the footsteps of the lord of Mokou Town, in order to prevent himself from being noticed by the lord of Yinyue Town, he tried his best, and even borrowed it from his father at the cost of watching the final scroll. A piece of legendary equipment.

His purpose of following the lord of Mokou Town was not malicious, just to know the location of Azuma City.

After all, he had already learned a lot of detailed information about the lord of Mokou Town through his own investigation and from Dessode's daughter, Krisanna.

As it turned out, his guess was right.

Seeing his way of casting spells, Brenas clearly felt that the opponent was different.

Ordinary spellcasters, even ghost mages, use the communication magic net or the shadow magic net to condense magical energy and release spells.

But this lord of Mokou Town was not like that. He gave Breners the feeling that he had a complete miniature magic net, and he could easily complete the spell without using the energy of the magic net.

Spellcasting off the grid would be appropriate or well-researched for most legendary spellcasters.

But it is rarely used unless it is absolutely necessary.

And he began to doubt the other party's identity through the spellcasting method of the lord of Mokou Town.

Who would have thought that it would be okay if he didn't investigate, after learning the detailed information of the other party, he was really shocked.

What made him feel the most unbelievable was what kind of letter the lord of Mokou Town sent De Sude, telling him to give up everything in the City of Shadows and stay away from this place.

Moreover, the other party's true identity turned out to be from Harua, the magic kingdom in the southernmost part of the mainland, which meant that the lord of Mokou Town, like him, was also a descendant of the Netheril Empire.

Therefore, he became very interested in this Mokou town lord who would not hesitate to keep silent after finding out his identity in Silvermoon City.

The reason he has been waiting here is to communicate with him.

At the same time, in the depths of the ruins of Azuma City.

Although Brian obtained the inheritance of the treasure house of the stars, he did not return to Mokou Town with Helliste immediately, but stayed in the demiplane left by the great arcanist.

The reason for this is mainly because after reading the spell "Origin of the Material World" recorded in the book left by the Grand Arcanist yesterday, he repeatedly deduced it, and unexpectedly discovered that through a certain method, this Only square-sized worlds are taken away.

So after he expressed his thoughts to Helisite, the empathetic psion readily agreed, and was following the method he taught her to obtain the origin seed of the demiplane.

After all, after obtaining the seed of this world, he can refine it to become his own small plane, and at the same time, he can avoid the collapse of this half-plane.

Then, he called up his system bar, ready to upgrade his level.

From the time he and Helister left Blingdenstone in the Underdark, with the help of a legendary psion who is a free thug, who can control damage well and actively gain experience, his experience gain can be described as fast. Gotta fly.

"Upgrade the Arcanist level!"

"Consume 321000 experience points."

"The Arcanist level has been raised to level 3!"

"The level of the arcane fire has been raised to level 7, and the seven rings have the authority to cast spells off the net."

"Gain arcane energy: 36 points."

"Occupational feature: Arcane Rune."

"Gain the feature of Arcane Fire: Arcane Resonance."

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"Increase Psion level!"

"Consume 130000 experience points."

"Psion level increased to level 12."

"Acquired power points: 20 points, extra power points: 4 points."

"Get free attribute points: 1 point."

"Psicrystals gain a special ability: psychic resistance."

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Seeing that hundreds of thousands of experience wasted once again, Brian couldn't help frowning.

As his level continues to rise, he will need more and more experience in the future, which makes him have to start thinking about whether to go to areas with more monsters in other planes to gain experience.

He temporarily put this headache behind his mind, and began to look at the ability brought about by the improvement of strength.

Seeing the 1 free attribute point he got, he naturally added it to his intelligence attribute without hesitation.

In this case, his intelligence attribute becomes 25 points.

Then, he looked to his arcane fire.

Just as he imagined, since the Arcanist successfully advanced, his Arcane Fire can automatically start high-level spell-casting authority as the level increases.

For him, this is undoubtedly a great convenience for him.

As the owner of the Austrian fire, and he has personally raised it to level 10, he is naturally the most aware of the cost and consumption required to upgrade the Austrian fire.

It's all right now, the goddess of magic waved her big hand, loosened the waistband of her trousers, and opened a small back door for him, eliminating many worries.

Of course, he also knows in his heart that there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world.

Therefore, he kept in mind the last words that the goddess of magic gave him before leaving.

"I wish you always be kind and humble. If you have a chance, please go to Shadow Valley to find a bard named Storm Silverhand."

Brian recalled this sentence, and began to think about when he would meet the Chosen of the Goddess of Magic who lived in the Valley of Shadows.

In fact, even if the goddess of magic didn't order him, he would inevitably have to go to the valley of shadows.

However, now is not the time, we need to wait for the Kingdom of Cormyr to overcome the crisis and civil strife of Dragon Madness.

After all, he also understands the truth of giving charcoal in the snow and icing on the cake.

Brian stopped thinking about it and looked at his newly acquired ability.

[Arcane Resonance (Australian Fire Feature): When you release the same spell, or continuous spells, all of which hit the same target, except for the first spell that hits the target first, the damage caused by all subsequent spells will increase 10%. 】

Seeing the characteristics of this Austrian fire, Brian nodded in satisfaction.

He feels that this feature is completely prepared for the "Mayoufu Micro Meteor", which claims to be able to kill gods.

With his current strength, with the blessing of "Magic Rapid Fire" and "Arcane Twins", he can release nearly a hundred fireballs in an instant. If the damage of each fireball is increased by 10%, the damage caused is still very considerable of.

After possessing this characteristic, he began to feel that he had gone further and further on the path of a fort mage.

Whether it is the professional characteristics of the battle mage, or the damage increase of the arcanist's creation field, all of them are the ability to improve the damage of his evocation school spells.

He looked at the second ability:

[Arcane runes (professional characteristics): Arcanists have mastered the mysterious runes through the study of the color-resistant scrolls. This kind of runes is like a lost text, which can play a unique role in combination. strength.

Arcane runes can have special effects in many ways. They can not only strengthen and make weapons and equipment, but also describe magic circles and create constructs. Many advanced rune combinations can make legendary equipment and even artifacts. 】

After reading the feature introduction, Brian immediately felt the powerful power contained in the thousands of mysterious runes in his mind.

Obtaining the professional feature of "Arcane Runes" is like obtaining a Chinese dictionary. Through his own understanding of them, he can combine these individual characters together to produce unexpected effects.

Most importantly, it can be seen from the introduction of professional characteristics.

If one can understand the meaning of all the arcane runes and research out various advanced rune combinations, it will not be a problem to make artifacts.

"As expected of the knowledge passed down from the scrolls of Nether." Feeling the arcane runes engraved in his mind, Brian couldn't help but whisper to himself.

In his opinion, just passing on these runes, in the research of generations, it is absolutely possible for them to build a glorious kingdom only through the knowledge in the arcane runes.

For example, another remnant of the Netheril Empire, this group of civilians who lived on the surface during the empire and had the lowest status, under the leadership of a great arcanist, established the magic kingdom of Halrua.

To give the most easy-to-understand example, their Chinese characters, 5000-year civilization, and various documents handed down were not all written by those with outstanding literary talents.

If we compare them to rune combinations, most of them are above high level.

Brian faintly felt that the symbolic meaning of arcane runes was too great.

This is completely the most basic thing to establish a magic civilization, and it can even be used as a language and text for communication between spellcasters.

He suppressed the thoughts in his heart and put away the system bar mapped on the retina.

After the arcanist's level was raised to level 3 and the ability to cast seven-ring spells was opened, all the seven-ring spells he had mastered and researched had been activated.

Possessing seven-ring magic is another new improvement to his strength.

For him, he is very good at spells such as banishment, advanced teleportation with no distance limit, alien teleportation for cross-plane travel, force field cage and burst fireball of evocation system.

After the attributes were adjusted, Brian got up from the chair, ready to check the progress of Hellist's demiplane refinement.

As soon as he turned around, he suddenly discovered that this quiet psion, who seemed to not exist, had arrived in the room at some point.

She turned her back to him, and her eyes stayed outside the empty window. She had lustrous silver hair hanging down to her waist. Under the breeze, her dress fluttered and her long hair fluttered with the wind.

Brian coughed lightly, so she turned around and walked over with light steps. As she walked, the graceful curves of her slender legs were faintly visible under the thin dress.

"When was it finished?" He stared at Helisite and asked with a smile.

After finishing speaking, he motioned for her to walk out the door with him.

"Not long." Helisite followed his footsteps and said softly, "I see you are meditating, so I didn't disturb you."

"What's going on outside?" Brian asked again with a look on his face.

"I was going to tell you." Helisite waved her hand lightly, and a psicrystal in the shape of a cross star appeared out of thin air, but was dispersed by her and returned to the astral world.

"You guessed right."

She couldn't help but look at Brian a few more times, and the rippling light in her clear eyes seemed to contain the bright moonlight, "After I completely cut off the connection between the body of the dracolich and the material world, I did attract the leader of the Dragon Cult. come over."

"And then?" Brian asked quickly.

"Brenners Tanshul of Shadow City stopped him." There was a smile in Herrist's beautiful eyes, and her voice was like sweet music.

"Just like what you said, this ghost prince followed the clues we deliberately left and chased after him."

"I'm relieved. To be honest, I'm really worried that he won't be able to keep up with us." Brian looked relaxed and said to Helisite with a smile, "Let's go and meet this guy with me." little Prince."

(End of this chapter)