Arcane Journey

Chapter 122 The Silver Scholar Association
Underdark region, the city of Aldus.

From the moment Brian stepped out of the teleportation circle, hot air and pungent air rushed towards him.

He saw the red-hot steel forged, and a dozen non-stop furnaces, continuously supplying iron, and a group of gray dwarves were banging in the room.

"Gods be merciful, what did you bring me here for?"

After getting used to the dizziness brought by the long-distance teleportation spell, Moon Elf mage Ru Yin looked in surprise at the clanging, hammering and grinding machinery sounds that echoed in the factory, and she said with a pale face, "Shouldn't this be Will it be the city of the gray dwarves?"

"Yes."

Brian nodded slightly, looked at the new deep king Erdi who was coming towards him from a distance, and said to her, "Don't worry, these gray dwarves are all my allies, and the purpose of coming here is to check what I customized for them. products, and what progress has been made.”

"The duergar are... your allies?"

The moon elf mage looked at a group of gloomy bald dwarves in disbelief and came over with a smile on her face after seeing Brian. She was secretly relieved, but couldn't help being curious, and asked, "Customized Is it equipped with weapons?"

She couldn't figure out what the other party's purpose was for inviting her here.

"No, you'll know later." Brian didn't say it directly, but greeted the King of the Deep who came over.

"Your Excellency Brian, I didn't expect you to come back so soon. Is the journey on the surface going smoothly?" Deep King Erdi welcomed him like a bearded relative, shook hands with Brian, and said enthusiastically , "Let's go! Let's have a few drinks first."

"I didn't come here to drink with you." Brian interrupted him with a slightly serious raised hand, "How is the item I need?"

"It was successfully developed yesterday, and I'm waiting for you to come and test it yourself." Shendi Wang heard this and said with a smile, "Let's go, come with me."

Knowing the character of this surface half-elf, he stopped talking nonsense, and immediately led Brian and the two through a wide and tall corridor to a small room.

Brian saw an old gray dwarf in a dirty gray robe and glasses, holding a magnifying glass, studying in a handful of metal dust.

"This is the old patriarch of the Sarosgar clan who has retired for nearly a hundred years. He is the most authoritative master of metal synthesis materials in our clan."

The young Deep Earth King stroked his thick beard and said proudly, "The piece of black metal that Your Excellency gave me was analyzed by this master."

Brian's expression changed, and he walked over immediately.

The gray dwarf old man raised his eyelids to look at the deep-eyed king, and nodded slightly in greeting.

Then, he got up and took out a black wooden box from the counter behind, raised his stiff head, looked at Brian, and said to him:
"It turns out that this piece of black metal was sent by you, Your Excellency. I have to admit that I have studied metal materials for more than 400 years, and I have never seen such an item of unknown origin. Although I can analyze the material of this piece of metal, even Restore it, but the mysterious runes polished on the metal surface, pardon my incompetence, cannot be deciphered at all."

"Otherwise, I might really be able to make exactly the same product." The old gray dwarf said regretfully, "It's a pity, I can clearly feel some mysterious power hidden in this piece of black metal, but it is Cannot be copied."

"You have done a good job, master." Brian complimented and opened the black wooden box in front of him.

In fact, if the black metal mentioned by the old man is called by its scientific name, it should be called stone.

This black stone is a small piece he smashed down from the black pentagonal spire in the vortex tunnel in the city of Aldus. The purpose is to let them help analyze the material for making this stone.

As the other party said, there is indeed a mysterious power hidden inside this black stone.

He had already seen the dilapidated minaret with his own eyes, so he naturally knew that the source of the mysterious power was the obscure runes polished on the minaret's surface.

Although he still couldn't decipher the secrets of the runes with the arcane knowledge he now possessed, it was still possible for someone to help him analyze the production materials.

After all, even if these black stones do not have the power brought by the blessing of mysterious runes, their hardness and guiding properties are still very good.

While he took a fancy to the characteristics of the stone itself, he also considered that if he really mastered the secret of the Nether scroll one day, he might be able to decipher the secret of the black five-sided obelisk by the way.

Because he suspects that this obelisk is likely to be the portal system built by the mysterious law-weaver organization when it tried to colonize the world of Toril.

He stopped thinking about it, looked at the opened wooden box, and saw that it was not a finished product, but a pile of well-arranged production materials.

This is what he specifically asked the King of the Deep to do, so that they only restored the synthetic materials of this stone, and did not make exactly the same item.

He saw that in addition to the largest amount of obsidian and the metal compatibility potion of the gray dwarves, there were also a small amount of gemstones of various colors, fine gold and mithril powder, crystals and things like sediments, and even a few even Strange material that he can't name.

"It seems that your Excellency has also seen it."

The old gray dwarf said, "These manufacturing materials are all related to magic, and after they are fused with each other, not only the hardness has been improved, but the magic conductivity has also been significantly improved."

Brian nodded slightly, agreeing with him.

Of course he knew this, and it was precisely because of the characteristics of these stones that he chose to conduct in-depth research on it.

——"Spiritual Ax and Axe!"

Brian didn't say much anymore, he concentrated his mind, looked at these raw materials, and thought.

Spiritual creation is driven by psionic energy.

All these materials floated in the air, and under the control of his thoughts, they were completely decomposed, gathered together, and finally shaped into a black stone brick similar to a brick.

Brian beckoned, and the heavy stone fell into his hands.

Stone Bricks (unnamed)

special material
Type: Stone

characteristic:
1. Physical effect: The physical resistance points per inch of thickness are 25.

2. Magic effect: This stone has excellent adaptability to magic energy, and has 15% damage reduction for any magic attack.

Explanation: This is a mixture of rare natural quartz, magma, dragon crystal deposits (obsidian) and steel. It has good physical resistance and excellent magical properties.

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After checking the attributes, Brian tried to inject a burst of arcane energy.

A faint magical aura flashed, and a little bit of aura emanated from the pitch-black stone bricks, reflecting his smiling face on the smooth surface.

Seeing this, he immediately noticed that while injecting energy into this black stone brick, it also absorbed additional magical energy from the air.

This also means that when he engraves a magic circle or constant magic on this stone brick, he can get additional buffs.

"The effect is good." He nodded in satisfaction, put it on the table, and said to King Deep, "If a stone brick of this size is made, how much gold coins will it cost?"

He is very satisfied with the product. If the price is too high, he will not be able to promote it.

This is like the reason why in the real world, gold and silver are very conductive, but copper wires are promoted when wires are used in large areas.

The King of the Deep weighed the stone bricks in his hand, looked at each other with the old gray dwarf, thought for a moment, and quoted a price to him, "300 gold coins a piece."

300 gold coins?

Hearing this number, Brian raised his eyebrows.

Although he is not a professional, when he just checked the raw materials, he noticed that the material with the most ingredients is obsidian.

Obsidian originated from volcanoes. It is a natural glass formed after the magma flowing out of volcanic lava cools suddenly. It is an amorphous gemstone.

It is not only a building material that is often used by the most wealthy spellcasters in the wizard community, but also a must-have item for priests of the gods, especially priests of evil gods, to build altars.

On the surface world, a thumb-sized block of obsidian costs around 10 gp.

As for the underground world rich in obsidian, the price will be relatively lower.

Brian can see from the proportion of obsidian materials that the price quoted by the King of the Deep in Aldus City is quite conscientious.

"I accept this price." He nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and said: "If I need a stone of this size of 1 yuan, how long will it take you to complete the project?"

"1 yuan?!"

Hearing the number reported by Brian, Deep King Eddie exclaimed, his eyes widened, and he asked in disbelief, "The stone is on the top, I said, what do you need so many black stones for?"

"Could you be planning to build a wizard tower?" Moon Elf mage Ru Yin's light blue eyes flashed, and she said her guess in surprise.

"That's right, I do intend to use this material to build the wizard tower." Brian said truthfully without hiding anything.

This was a plan he had decided on before returning to the surface.

The wizard tower is also divided into grades and grades.

The materials used to make the junior wizard tower are generally made of marble or granite from the natural world, and then enchanted and strengthened by the owner of the tower in the later stage, and various guardian enchantments and traps are arranged.

Owners who own this kind of wizard tower, their challenge level in the wizard tower will increase by about 3 levels.

The production materials of the intermediate wizard tower are similar to those of the junior wizard tower. The most obvious difference is whether there is a tower spirit.

Because the wizard tower with tower spirit is like a manually driven car, upgraded to automatic driving, the effect is naturally very significant.

Wizards who own this kind of wizard tower can completely complete most of the operations of the tower by tower spirits, and their challenge level will increase by about 6 levels.

The so-called advanced wizard towers are completely separated from the intermediate and elementary levels.

The materials used to make the tower are no longer natural processed products from nature, but special building materials carefully refined by alchemists through various metal materials.

Such a wizard tower, under the strengthening of various buff spells, even if the protective barrier or magic circle is not opened, the strength of the tower itself is enough to resist the nine-ring spell.

In the Arab city of the Kingdom of Cormyr, the wizard tower that has been passed down for thousands of years where the Grand Duchess Myrcella Raul lives is a high-level wizard tower.

Brian once witnessed Arabe City being ridden by the floating city of the Shade Empire. Even though the tower's energy protection force field was broken, it still resisted at least 5 rounds of nine-ring spell meteor burst and stood still.

For tower owners who live in high-level wizard towers, their challenge level will increase by at least 10 levels.

If it weren't for the deterrence brought by this high-level wizard tower, it would be impossible for the grand duchess, who has only reached the first-level legendary level, to hold the northern border of the kingdom for so many years based on the strength of Arabe City alone.

As for the so-called legendary wizard towers, although Brian has never seen their true power displayed with his own eyes.

But at least he knows that the most significant difference between the legendary wizard tower and the advanced wizard tower is whether it has the ability to fly and fight across planes.

In the small world where Brian was reborn, there stood a legendary wizard tower from the Kingdom of Harua.

Unfortunately, when he got the tower, he found that the owner of the tower was dead, and the tower spirit was completely asleep.

To him, it was no different from getting a car without keys, and he could only stare blankly.

Although the floating city in the Netheril period also had the mobility to fly across planes.

But from Brian's point of view, their floating city is more like a movable city than a so-called war fortress.

With the demise of the Netheril Empire and the return of the City of Shadows, these ghost people have developed some fighting methods on how to use the Floating City.

What impressed him the most was the final battle between the City of Shadows and the Kingdom of Cormyr.

Relying on the mobility of the floating city, they broke through the space barrier of Arabe City, flew over the city, and then the high-level wizard towers of the ghost princes, like the turrets defending the city, carried out carpet bombing on the city .

But the flaws are also very obvious. When the Miser Energy Core, the power source supporting the Wizard Tower and the Floating Void City, is destroyed, with the crash of the Floating Void City, all the Wizard Towers built on this basis will also die together.

Therefore, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the Wizard Tower and the Floating Void City.

At this time, Brian already had the legendary soul spar for making tower spirits, and four high-quality elemental energy gems for building elemental pools have also been assembled one after another. What is missing is only high-quality building materials.

If he used this kind of black stone to build a wizard tower, with his current strength, it would be enough to help him resist most of the legendary professionals who tried to break into the tower by force.

The wizard's tower is the foundation for him to gain a foothold in Mokou Town and gradually march towards the Ennook Desert. Naturally, he wants to sit as perfect as possible.

"You don't have to worry about the money consumed." Brian looked at the King of the Deep, "I will pay you everything, I just want to know how many days it will take you to complete the stone with the same specification of 1 yuan .”

300 gold coins a piece, 10000 is 300 million gold coins.

This is not counting a few stones of other specifications.

This cost is a lot of money for most spellcasters, and even a few hard-working legendary professionals.

But for Brian, he alone can afford the cost.

If he hadn't seen through the identity of the silver dragon, he wouldn't have dared to boast so confidently.

Because Yinlong had confessed to him the mission of coming here, and let him know the specific location of his lost companion in the star realm.

This huge expenditure will naturally be settled.

After all, before he left the small world where he was reborn, he had already conquered this low-magic small world, so before he left, he had made sufficient preparations,
For a long-sighted person like him, the embarrassment of lack of money is all within his consideration.

When he was preparing to go to the main material world, in addition to a large amount of fine gold, mithril and precious gems, he also brought a pile of gold nuggets worth several million.

Due to his limited strength, he couldn't use his own space ability to store so much wealth, so his companions helped him keep his small treasury on his behalf.

Now that his companion has been found, his hanging heart is completely relieved.

"Half a year or so." Looking at Brian's confident look, the Deep King suddenly regretted that the price he quoted was too low.

For such a large order, he only made a small fraction of it.

He thought for a moment, and said: "It will take at least half a year. After all, the amount of obsidian is too large. It is impossible to gather all of them at the first time and then melt them together. Its hardness requires at least half a month to open the furnace at a time. You should be very satisfied. Be aware of this."

"Half a year is too long."

Brian frowned, thought for a moment, and said to him, "I need you to complete it within a month. As for the problem of obsidian melting, it's simple. I'll say hello to Argotus and ask him to work hard to solve it." .Other procedures, with so many people in Odus King City, can be done in one month."

"God, let that fat dragon work overtime, please spare me, this overtime pay"

Shendi Wang exclaimed, touched his shiny bald head, and immediately began to calculate in his heart.

He suddenly discovered that if this order made Red Dragon work overtime for a month, the overtime pay alone would make him lose even a beard.

"You don't have to worry about this, I will help you with Argotus, and you don't need to pay overtime." Seeing the worry in the other party's heart, Brian said indifferently.

Under his training for more than a month, Argotus has already touched the threshold of an advanced elemental master. He is currently thinking about how to make a devil training plan for him, so that he can break through this bottleneck in one fell swoop.

Now, the opportunity is here.

"That's fine." Shendi Wang relaxed, and then nodded helplessly.

Although the smelting of obsidian has been completed, other processes still need to be completed by themselves.

This also means that the entire Aldus King City can only give up many orders and devote all its efforts to making this kind of black stone bricks.

"I know that you have a close cooperative relationship with the Sanlin Tower in the surface world."

Brian weighed it in his heart, and said his thoughts to the King of the Deep, "Tomorrow night, I will launch a full-scale attack on the Sanlin Tower in Mokou Town on the surface. I suggest that you seize this opportunity and go underground. The world is coming too."

He didn't continue talking, and let King Shendi taste his words.

In fact, what he wanted to say was that black people eat black people. As for how to get full in a fancy way, it's up to them.

Although the gray dwarves were allies with him, it didn't change the fact that they were in the evil camp. He believed that the deep king must be very happy to do this kind of thing.

So he went on to say: "When I solve the Sanlin Tower Association, I will send a caravan here to discuss with you how to cooperate."

The moon elf mage, who was silent from the beginning to the end, couldn't help but look at Brian more, and his mind quickly thought about other things.

The gray eyes of the deep earth king looked at Brian, and the light of sudden realization gradually emerged. He laughed, stretched out his hand and said, "Thank you for reminding me, I know what to do next. Then, I look forward to starting an underground journey with you." Trade with the surface."

"I hope we have a happy cooperation." Brian smiled slightly, and shook hands with me with strength comparable to iron tongs.

"I ask you to make the 1 yuan stone strictly according to the size of my piece." Then, he changed the subject and returned to the original topic, "My moon elf friend will stay here for a while, Check the quality of each piece until delivery, no problem?"

He knows that the gloomy and rigorous character of the gray dwarves makes the quality of the products they make higher than that of their irascible surface relatives, but these stone bricks are used to build his own wizard tower, and he must strictly control them, and there must be no traces of them. Mistake.

After speaking, he looked at the handsome and beautiful moon elf mage next to him, asking for her opinion.

"No problem." The Deep King reassured him without hesitation, "Your Excellency Brian, don't worry, the products of our Aldus King City are not afraid of quality problems."

"I'm fine. I will earnestly carry out your task until delivery." Moon Elf mage Ru Yin hesitated for a moment, and nodded with a faint smile on her lips.

"Then I'm relieved, let's make this decision." Brian nodded to the moon elf mage, and then looked at the deep king.

Then, after the two discussed the specific details, he took the moon elf mage out of the old gray dwarf's laboratory.

"Your Excellency Brian." When they came to a relatively quiet corridor, Ru Yin stopped him and said in a solemn tone, "I have a request, I don't know if I should say it."

"If you have any questions, just speak up." Brian turned to look at the moon elf mage.

He didn't know much about this new entrant, and the reason why he invited her was mainly because of her status as a mage.

After all, with the establishment of the wizard tower, he needs to recruit spellcasters as much as possible to maintain the operation and daily maintenance of the wizard tower.

"In fact, I am the president of the Silver Scholars Organization."

Ru Yin took out a badge, showed it to him, and said, "The main reason why I chose to help Mr. Graal is to gain a foothold in Mokou Town."

Silver Scholars Association?

Brian glanced at the three connected silver ring emblems on the Ruyin badge, and immediately recalled the information about this organization.

He immediately knew why the opponent's advanced dispelling magic was so skillful.

The Silver Scholars Association is a small organization of spellcasters spontaneously established by a group of spellcasters who specialize in protection, transformation, and conjuration schools.

Their purpose is to promote social development with magical technology.

In fact, there have been many spell-casting organizations with this idea, but they were all defeated by reality in the end, and they couldn't even turn the waves of the long river of history.

As it turns out, this small organization was once stationed in the town of Misty Dale in the Vale.

With the expansion of the strength of the city of ghosts, it was finally forcibly disbanded, and all living beings.

However, their president is not the female mage Ru Yin in front of him, but someone else.

Recalling what happened last night, he realized that the reason why the chairman was replaced was probably because she had already died in the battle last night.

"If Your Excellency allows, I am willing to lead the organization's 23 spellcasters to join you." Ru Yin looked at Brian nervously.

As the president of the Silver Scholars Association, she is naturally aware of the organization's current predicament.

Through last night's battle, the attitude of the richest man in Mokou Town towards him, as well as the communication with the gray dwarves and the fact that the other party will spend huge resources to build the wizard tower.

This series of events made her guess that this half-elf wizard definitely intends to rule Mokou Town.

Therefore, she decided to take a gamble for the Silver Scholars Association, and chose to believe that this half-elf wizard could create an ideal future for her organization.

"Is this the result of your discussion with the organization?" Brian asked instead of directly agreeing.

"No, this is my temporary idea."

Ru Yin said firmly, "I am the president of Silver Scholars. If someone refuses to agree, they can just leave. I will never force them."

"Fine, I accept it."

Brian smiled and stretched out his right hand, "I've heard of the Silver Scholars Association and I know your philosophy, if you believe me, my wizard tower will leave a layer of research space for you. "

Among the eight major factions of wizards, the protection, transformation, and conjuration departments play the role of daily maintenance and maintenance in the wizard tower, similar to logistics.

Originally, he was still worrying about how to perfect the protective circle of the entire tower, strengthen runes and energy link circuits, and even make constructs, etc. after the wizard tower was built.

Now, having this group of spellcasters who are proficient in protection, transformation, and conjuration join in, it's like giving him help in the snow, allowing him to gain a firm foothold from the moment he builds the tower.

"Thank you for your appreciation."

Moon Elf mage Ru Yin held Brian's right hand and smiled, "I suddenly had a hunch that the choice I made today would be the most correct choice I have made in the past hundred years."

"I will try my best not to disappoint your premonition." Brian showed a modest smile, and then said: "Then I leave the matter here to you, and the construction of the wizard tower still needs your attention."

"No problem, I know what to do." Ru Yin nodded with a confident smile.

Suddenly gaining the allegiance of a group of spellcasters, Brian was in a very good mood at the moment. He explained the precautions about the stone with Ru Yin, and without delay, he activated the teleportation spell and returned to the surface.

After all, the Sanlin Tower Society in Mokou Town is about to be eradicated.

He needs to recruit as soon as possible a big shot who can play a decisive role in the plan to eliminate this organization.

This person is the owner of the Salamander tavern, Balleris, whom he asked Silver Dragon to help persuade.

In the game world, after Baleris regained his will to fight, he was not only a variant profession of a paladin, the "Holy Avenger", but also a legendary sword master.

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