Arcane Journey

Chapter 131 Arab City
This is a cat, a cat that can walk upright.

The ancient dragon 'Silver Wing' Diszer Rodden couldn't believe his eyes.

This cute cat is leaning on a dead wood cane that is higher than its own head. It has eyes like black pearls. When the film-like eyelids look at itself, they suddenly droop down and then lift up quickly, blinking and blinking. Mengmeng is extremely cute.

It has golden hair all over its body and looks chubby. From a distance, it looks like a golden pompom.

It also has a pair of clever little ears on both sides of its head. As long as it hears a strange sound, the triangular ears will immediately stand up, and the ear holes will go in the direction of the sound.

Small and straight nose, smooth mouth, white chest, soft feet and golden tail.

The most important thing is that it also has a pair of white gloves and white scarves that envy other cats, because of the existence of these gloves and scarves, it is a little more gentle and cute.

After all, he had heard long ago that the cats with the strongest fighting power usually wear white gloves.

The cat walks upright with a cane and wags its tail, looking very majestic.

For a moment.

Silver Wing fell in love with this chubby cat a little bit, he felt like his heart was going to melt, and he really wanted to hold it in his arms and ravage it.

He must carefully observe the cat's every move and cute demeanor, and when he returns to the Northland, he will take on its appearance, crawl into the arms of the Dragon Queen, and rub his head against her plump breasts to act cute and coquettish.

She will definitely love him to death, at least it can keep her fresh for two or three years.

"This is the mage's tower in Araby City."

The kitten jumped onto a chair, looked at Silver Wing with the look of looking at the shit-shoveling officer, swung its tail, and said arrogantly, "Ben Meow is the tower spirit here, the letter you sent me has already been handed over to you!" Give it to the lady, she wants to see you now, uncle, come with me."

The cat's voice is childish and shrill like a child's.

After finishing speaking, it carried its useless cane, and nimbly jumped to the stairs, wagging its tail, motioning for Silver Wing to follow.

Uncle?

To be called uncle by a little milk cat?
Returning to his senses, Silver Wing looked at the chubby cat depressedly.

At this time, he had already turned back into the bard Ellend Windfall, a handsome half-elf, and in the name of Brian, sent a letter to the female lord of Araby City, Myrcella Raul.

In fact, he thought that the cat was just a magic pet or pet of the owner of the tower, but who would have thought that it would be the tower spirit of the entire tower.

However, this seems too realistic.

He caught up with the cat and corrected it with a smile:
"I'm not your uncle, dear."

"I'm not your dear either, uncle!"

The cat stood on the steps, turned its head to look at Ellende, its long whiskers shook, and said disdainful words in a milky voice.

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Elend didn't know how to reply for a while, so he could only follow the cat's footsteps and walked towards the upper floor of the tower without saying a word.

"Sit down, uncle, what do you want to drink?" The cat jumped onto a chair and looked down at the half-elf poet Ellend.

Elend looked around and found that this was just a simple reception hall.

The interior is warm and comfortable, with elegant khaki-colored patterned wallpapers on the walls, a warm-colored garden oil painting hanging on the most conspicuous position on the wall, and a small and unique musical composition on the dark red shelf at the base of the wall. A gramophone box and several small cat sculptures.

There are two layers of curtains, thick light yellow tassel curtains and white tulle curtains, which can be opened and closed arbitrarily according to the change of light.

The fireplace, though worn, was spotlessly polished, and two new oak armchairs stood close to either side of the fireplace.

The tower was very well lit, and the sun slanted from the windows onto the thick mane carpet and the armchairs, warm and bright.

From the layout of the room, Elend could see that the mistress of the tower was absolutely as Brian said, elegant, noble and beautiful.

Moreover, being called Miss by the cat meant that the female mage was still unmarried, which was a bonus item that touched his heartstrings.

He couldn't help but secretly sighed that this trip was really not in vain, and at the same time, he began to look forward to meeting the legendary duchess for the first time in his heart.

He sat on the chair and said casually, "Whatever."

"There's nothing casual here, uncle."

The cat's two black pearl-like round eyes turned around, and a subtle smirk flashed across it, and said to him, "In that case, then I will bring uncle a cup of coffee."

After finishing speaking, it pointed the crutch in its hand, and a steaming cup of coffee floated out of the wine cabinet in the room, and slowly landed on the table in front of Ellende.

"Are you really a cat?" Elend asked curiously, looking at the cat sitting opposite.

It held its own crutch in both hands, half-sat on the chair, wagged its little tail leisurely, tilted its head and combed the hair on its shoulders with its tongue.

Although it was a tower spirit, he knew that the necessary material for making the tower spirit of the wizard tower was a spar that imprisoned the dead soul of the legendary strongman.

If the original shape of the tower spirit in front of him is really a cat, then its strength in life may have reached the legendary level.

Silver Wing, an ancient dragon, felt a little unbelievable that an ordinary domestic cat could raise its strength to the legendary realm.

"No, I am not a cat." The cat said seriously, "I am an immortal Meow."

"Meow Immortal?" Elend was stunned for a moment, "So, you are still a cat from the East?"

Immortal is the name of some powerful beings in the Eastern Xianglong Empire.

Although Elend had never been to the Eastern Empire, he could occasionally hear rumors about the Eastern Empire in Calimport on the mainland or Skull Harbor in Waterdeep City.

The cultivators there are best at suppressing evils and demon spirits, and even some powerful monks can suppress ancient evils by themselves.

"That's still a cat." Elend said with a smile, "does it make any difference?"

"There's a big difference, the distance between immortals and mortals is a thousand miles away." The cat replied with a serious face, "It's the same as you are not alone."

"Of course I'm not human anymore." Elend finished without thinking, always feeling that what he said was a bit weird.

"Then do you know my real identity?" He hastily added in order to enhance his prestige.

"Are you really not human?" Immortal Meow stroked his beard, intentionally showing a surprised expression, and guessed:

"Then what are you? Strawberry pudding? A bunch of goblins who are hungry and have to mate on a miserable November morning? Or a miller's plump daughter who lost her virginity in the spring? Well, you tell Ben Meow, what the hell are you doing?" What is it? Curiosity made me tremble all over."

Elend looked at the cat dumbfounded, "You have to know, I am an ancient silver dragon among the true dragon clan."

This is the mage tower in Araby City, so he is naturally not afraid of revealing his identity.

What's more, there is still a Taling in the shape of a cat in front of him.

"That's a fat lizard with wings."

The cat seemed to have known his identity for a long time, not only did he not show any surprises on his furry face, he also said disdainfully:

"In the Great Golden Desert at the junction of Kara Tu Continent and Faerun Continent, there is a long masonry wall built by Xianglong people. The mortar for building the city wall is all made from the souls of you big lizards."

"If an ancient dragon like you dares to run into the Great Golden Desert, then you have to be careful."

The cat looked at Ellende, "The Xianglong Empire in the east has professional dragon hunters. The Dragon Hunting Department and Fulong Hall they built were specially born for hunting dragons, and they are designed to kill you fat wings. Lizards, paste your souls on the walls."

"I'm so scared!"

Ellende showed a terrified expression on purpose, and took two sips of the hot coffee calmly.

He feels that although the coffee is very strong in taste, it has very little bitterness and has a refreshing sweetness that remains in the throat for a long time.

Silverwing would bet all the treasures of his lair on the best coffee he'd had in millennia.

"What kind of coffee is this? It tastes so good?" He couldn't help but asked curiously. Before he left, he began to think about whether he should ask the Duchess for some ingredients to make coffee so that his Dragon Queen could taste it too. .

"Cat poop coffee." The cat licking its paws boredly replied calmly.

"Cat poop coffee?" Hearing such a weird name, Elend's eyes widened in confusion.

Although a bad premonition filled his heart, he didn't stop the movement of his hands, and drank the remaining coffee in one gulp.

"That's right, it's cat poop coffee." A cunning flashed through the cat's round black eyes, and it said with a smile in a milky voice:
"Does it taste refreshing and sweet? That's because I just pulled out the brewed coffee beans. Uncle, you are lucky to taste the freshest cat poop coffee."

"puff!"

Ellende felt a discomfort in his throat, and couldn't help but spit out all the coffee he just drank, "Damn it! You...cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough you...you actually gave me a drink"

As he spoke, he couldn't continue.

Because the taste of coffee did not have any peculiar smell, but instead made him feel a burst of vigorous elemental energy gushing out of his body.

This made him realize that this cup of coffee is more like soaking in the energy from the tower's elemental pool.

However, when he met the cat's half-smiling eyes, he suddenly felt that the cat was not cute or cute at all, just like a smirking little devil.

The coffee he drank also made his stomach twitch, and he couldn't help but want to spit it out.

What surprised him the most was that he actually saw a familiar taste in those eyes.

At the beginning, when Brian exposed his identity and revealed his background, he seemed to have this expression on his face.

The majestic ancient dragon was molested by a cat.

Silver Wing felt that his trip to the Ennook Desert was almost ashamed to the north.

It's okay to be molested by a half-elf, even a cat can bully him, and he can't do anything about them.

"Okay, uncle, you've had your coffee too, and I have done my best to entertain guests." The cat waved its white-gloved paw and said to him, "Now, you can go back to Mokou Town There's a errand."

"What?" Silver Wing, who came back to his senses, was stunned again, and looked at the cat suspiciously, "Didn't you say that your lady wants to see me?"

"That's right." The cat nodded as a matter of course, "My cat's owner said she wanted to see you, but she didn't say she wanted you to see her. She has already seen you, so you can go."

Silver Wing took a deep breath and forcibly regained his composure. He suddenly felt that his IQ had been crushed a bit.

"If uncle still insists on not leaving, don't blame me for exposing you." Seeing that the other party didn't intend to move, the cat continued.

"I won't leave, what can you do to me." Silver Wing was unhappy when she heard that, and sat down on the chair again with her buttocks that had just been raised.

Because the last thing he fears is being threatened.

"This year's snowmelt month, I heard that the Countess of Masanbai lost a piece." The cat wagged its tail leisurely, looked at Silver Wing with a smile, and said meaningfully.

"So what, can you prove that I must have stolen it?" Silver Wing said indifferently.

"Then at the Midsummer Festival celebration, you are not afraid that your Dragon Queen will know about your incident with Priestess Suna in Morning Star Town in the Forest of Kings?"

"Stop doing this." Silver Wing said angrily, "My Dragon Queen is very enlightened, she won't care about you for such a trivial matter?"

"Of course I don't care about Ben Meow, but Ben Meow also heard that after you communicated with the priestess of Shuna Church, you let the priestess of Lovita use the whip."

The cat smacked her lips in a humane way, "Tsk tsk tsk, I didn't expect you to have such a special hobby. I saw it clearly in the Mage Tower that night."

There was no blood on Yin Yi's face, "How do you know?"

At this moment, he finally understood why the duchess didn't want to see him.

Then he said angrily: "You little wild cat, watch how I deal with you."

The cat nimbly dodged away, and said with a smile, "It seems that what I said is right, you fat lizard, what did you do, don't you have any clues? Why don't you go away?"

"I'm not leaving today, what can you do with me?"

Seeing that the cute cat became so arrogant, Silver Wing became angry. He sat on the chair with broken jars, crossed his legs, and sang in a slow tune:

"There is a lonely tower in the Kingdom of Cormyr, in the northern city of Araby. Their female lord dare not come out to meet people, she looks as ugly as a toad."

"Meow!"

Hearing the singing, the smiling cat suddenly became furry, and the hairs all over its body stood up like steel needles.

"Dare to play wild in my mage's tower!" The cat slapped the floor hard with its crutches, "Fork this big lizard out for me!"

As soon as the words fell, two constructed golems with chains all over their bodies appeared from the hidden compartment of the room, and with heavy steps, they walked up to Silver Wing amidst the sound of rattling chains.

"It turned out to be a chain golem." Seeing the type of golem, Silver Wing laughed out loud, and he suddenly recovered his nature, and said to the golem with a smile, "Oh oh oh, your chain is long and hard, It must be very comfortable tied up, can you let me touch it?"

"boom!"

With a flash of inspiration, the chain golem suddenly transformed into a tall golem exuding pale golden light. Its fist, the size of a sandbag, hit Silver Wing's handsome cheek head-on.

His body flew out like an arrow from the string, hit the wall fiercely, and slid down the wall like a broken doll.

"I'm going! It turned out to be an adamantine golem in disguise, you little wild cat, why don't you be so shameless."

Silver Wing didn't seem to be seriously injured, he licked a loose tooth with his tongue, and spit out a mouthful of bloody saliva between his cracked lips.

"You guys dare to attack the ancient dragon, are you forcing me to run away?" He grinned and burrowed into a portal that appeared out of thin air, and fled in embarrassment.

Seeing the disappearing silver dragon, the cat secretly heaved a sigh of relief, waved its little paws, and the two golems returned to their original positions again.

With a thought, it stepped on the teleportation circle and appeared at the top of the tower.

"Miss, that fat lizard has been sent away by me."

The cat looked at the owner in the study. She was wearing a mage's robe and her long brown-red hair was loose. She stood in front of the window and looked in the direction of Mokou Town.

"What's the situation in Mokou Town, tell me about it."

"He has captured Mokou Town." The female lord turned her back to the cat, looked at the sky, and said in a soft voice:

"His efficiency is very fast, and his timing is also very accurate. He grasped the gap and contradiction between the Zhentarim Society and the City of Shadows. The paladin has regained his confidence."

"Ben Meow has already said that."

The cat was lying on the carpet, wagging its little tail leisurely, "How can this little girl Sisaiah be a brainless nymphomaniac, you should believe it now. Tsk tsk tsk, your prophecy spells are defeated by a woman's intuition .”

"I think it's better for women to be emotional. Most people say that. Because women like to dream, especially dreams in love. At this time, women will look down on everything for the sake of emotion, give everything, and let emotion overwhelm rationality."

The cat babbled endlessly, "People like you, even me, think they are too different, have no emotion, and lack empathy."

"Don't be too happy just yet."

The female lord interrupted the cat's words, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she analyzed seriously: "Although he has occupied Mokou Town, as long as the City of Shadows is not destroyed, the threat to the Kingdom of Cormyr will always exist. "

"Then this half-elf called Brian, what did you ask that big lizard to give you?" The cat didn't continue to struggle too much with sensibility and rationality. It licked its paw and said to the lord:
"There's no need to worry about Zhentarim's collapse for the time being, but Hajhorner, an old boy, has suffered a dark loss. He will definitely join forces with the Dragon Cult to attack Mokou Town. If you still let it go."

"I haven't left the Mage Tower for too long."

The female lord nodded slightly, with a hint of coldness in her tone, "I'm afraid some people have deliberately ignored my existence, and I just use this opportunity to improve their memory!"

"Tsk tsk tsk woman, what a magical creature you can't afford to mess with."

There was a look of surprise in the cat's black eyes, and he said curiously, "Then how do you plan to help Mokou Town resist the attack of the City of Shadows?"

"Miss, you have to think clearly." The cat reminded:

"This kid has threatened to conquer the entire Ennook Desert, and he has also received the help of an ancient silver dragon. If you don't make a move at this time, I'm afraid it will directly chill his heart. After all, he is guarding Cormyr. The gate of the north, facing the most threatening Netherese remnant."

"Of course I know about this." The female lord frowned and pondered for a moment, "I've already thought of a countermeasure, you send the order to let Marek of the Battle Mage Legion and Purple Dragon Knight Albert take their troops to support Mokou Town .”

"Oh, that's right." Her silver-gray eyes flashed, as if thinking of something, a faint smile floated on the corner of her mouth.

"Let these two people directly swear allegiance to the new lord after they arrive in Mokou Town. Otherwise, I'm worried that the lord will not dare to reuse them. Tell Oubert, the opportunity to regain the family honor and wash away the humiliation, I It has been given to him, and it depends on whether he can grasp it."

"Pledge of allegiance?" The cat lying on the ground stood upright, looking at the back of the female lord in disbelief, "Miss, you are really willing to spend your money, Oubert can say it because of the family, but how do you Even 'Tyrannosaurus' Marek was sent out, this is the No.1 of the Battle Mage Legion who has the best chance to step into the legendary realm."

"A good knife must be used wisely." The female lord smiled slightly and said nonchalantly, "I still understand the reason why the lips are dead and the teeth are cold."

"Cut!" The cat rolled over on the carpet again, wagging its tail leisurely, raised its round head, and said with a smile:

"You are obviously being led by the nose by the other party. You know it's a trick, but you have to jump down. I figured it out. His purpose of letting this fat lizard deliver the letter is clearly to tell you that it doesn't matter if you don't take action." Well, I can still find other allies, so I'm just asking if you're angry?"

The female lord looked calm and indifferent.

She was silent for a long time, looking at the Enook Desert, and said softly with a serious face: "Everything is for the future of the Kingdom of Cormyr."

As night fell, in a magnificent manor in the aristocratic area of ​​Araby City.

Dark, twisted subterranean temple.

Through the dim light, it can be found that there are many evil and weird reliefs carved on the wall, as well as a phantom of a demon shrouded in darkness.

The priest in black robe with purple border sat kneeling in front of the statue, his eyes were tightly closed behind the cold mask.

Standing on the obsidian altar is a handsome black man with a modest temperament, wearing well-tailored and elegant clothing.

Bane, the god of tyranny.

Also known as: King of Darkness.

An evil god with powerful divine power inherited a priesthood from the ancient god Jaeger. Together with the other two gods Baal and Melkor, they are called the Three Gods of Death.

"puff!"

Suddenly, the black-robed priest who was kneeling in front of the statue trembled, and then spewed out a stream of blood, and his whole body seemed sluggish.

"The prophecy has failed." The black-robed priest murmured:
"In Araby City, except Myrcella Raul, no one can interfere with my divine prophecy. It seems that the newly appointed lord of Mokou Town is not as simple as it seems on the surface."

"Damn Angus was killed at this time."

The black-robed priest murmured gloomyly: "Mokou Town can only give up for the time being, but we can use the timing of the Yinhun City's attack to fuel them."

Thinking of this, he immediately got up and walked out of the temple to the hall.

In front of him was a large group of kneeling believers, including nobles, adventurers, and civilians, all of whom were devout believers of the Dark Lord.

The black-robed priest took a deep breath, calmed down the weakness of the failed prophecy, and said to the kneeling believers:
"The great dark lord told us that Cormyr is about to usher in chaos. Now! No matter what method is used! Let us spread hatred, fear, destruction, and conspiracy to every corner of the Cormyr kingdom under the watchful eyes of the dark lord, Destroy those foolish people who refuse to follow the Dark Lord and receive the true great power!"

"Now, let the world follow us and sing the name of the Lord of Darkness—Bane!!!"

"Bane!"

"Bane!"

"Bane!"

All the believers raised their voices, chanting the name of the god hysterically.

Waves of fanatical shouts echoed in the hidden and twisted temple.

(End of this chapter)