Arcane Journey

Chapter 165 The Harper Alliance

On his way to Lirian's residence, Brian passed a treatment room and saw a half-elf passing him head-on.

He stopped abruptly and glanced subconsciously across the room.

Because he found this figure inexplicably familiar.

Recalling the true identity of this familiar figure, he decided to get in touch with him.

So, he quickly found an empty corner, lifted the magic on his body, and swaggered towards the physical therapy room.

These adjoining modeling rooms are dimly lit, each with a bed whose frame can be folded into different positions.

An array of perfumes, essential oils and lotions line the shelves and cabinets, and scented candles fill the room with a pleasant scent.

Brian entered the physiotherapy room, and a male half-elf with an ordinary appearance that could not attract the slightest attention greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Welcome, valued guest, do you need any services? We have haircuts, shaves, waxing or massages here. Which one do you want to choose?"

He wore a plain silk robe with a belt and flat shoes, and spoke very softly.

Brian sat on a chair, looked at the half-elf in a mirror on the wall, and said to him with a smile, "I need a long massage to relieve fatigue, and the longer the better."

"Oh? Distinguished guest, the longer the better, may I ask how long it will last?" Hearing such a strange request from the guest, the half-elf technician was slightly taken aback and said with a soft smile.

"dusk!"

Brian deliberately emphasized his tone, said meaningfully, and then smiled at the half-elf in the mirror.

A hint of inconceivable surprise flashed from the brown eyes of the ordinary-looking half-elf technician. He pretended to be calm and smiled and said, "Dear guest, your request is really very special."

"It's not special, so how can it be called a special service." Brian responded with a smile, leaning back comfortably on the chair, enjoying the technician's massage, and at the same time, he said to the half-elf technician through telepathy through his mind:

"After all, it is very rare for me to have the harpist scout, Your Excellency 'Twilight' Lesen'o Erlanze, serve in person. Do you think so? Don't tell me that you came here to make money to subsidize your family. "

Harper Scout Laysen'o, code-named 'Twilight', is a monk by profession.

He recalled the information about the other party. In the game world, the most commendable thing this harpist scout did was to detect the Dragon Worship and the five-color dragon queen Tiamat in time, and tried to transform his avatar The conspiracy that descended on the main material world.

You must know that this kind of incarnation is not an ordinary incarnation, but an incarnation that carries at least 50% of the power of Tiamat himself.

As a god, even if it only has 50% power, it is not an existence that any high-level legendary professional can touch porcelain casually.

After all, Losander, the Lord of Dawn, only had one ray of incarnation. He drank, pointed, and stared at Sammaster, the founder of the predecessor of the Dragon Cult, the Dracolich, and let him successfully receive the lunch box.

It was the harper scout in front of him who noticed Tiamat's conspiracy in time, and immediately used the evidence he had to travel around the continent, proposing a way to unite all forces to fight against the return of the evil dragon queen.

Among these forces, apart from the Lords Alliance, Silver Federation, Harper Alliance, Five-Color Metal Dragon, Iron Hand Cult, etc. of the good camp, as well as the neutral Emerald Garden and Giants.

He also successfully persuaded such evil forces as the Arcane Brotherhood, the Red Robe Wizards, and the Zhentarim, and even the devils of Baator Hell couldn't bear the loneliness and participated.

Representatives of many forces, under the leadership of Lesen'o, held four "Deep Water Summits" in Waterdeep City, and successfully shattered Tiamat's conspiracy to descend into the incarnation and rule the material world.

In Brian's view, this guy is a replica of "Su Qin" in the Warring States period, and he played the trick of Helian Zongheng clearly.

This is the largest game expansion that Brian has ever encountered in the game world, and almost all the players in the entire Faerun continent are involved in it.

And the fundamental reason why he dared to keep the corrupted red dragon egg was because he knew that Tiamat, the five-color dragon, would rise in the future.

After careful consideration, he planned to pass this big event, and when he failed to descend on Tiamat, he took the opportunity to obtain some original power from her that belonged to the true dragon family.

Therefore, seeing the harper monk in front of him appearing here, while he was surprised, he was also very surprised by the real purpose of the other party coming here.

Admittedly, as a Harper scout, he's a pretty good disguise.

However, as a well-known legendary monk among the players, no matter how well he disguised himself, he couldn't hide from the observation of thousands of eyes. It can be said that his behavior, habits and speech characteristics were thoroughly picked up.

Otherwise, Brian wouldn't have guessed his identity after a face-to-face meeting.

However, he could feel the monk's strength, and he hadn't broken through the legendary realm yet.

Lesenao was slightly surprised when he was directly called out by this stranger.

Then he quickly adjusted his mentality and calmly massaged Brian's shoulders.

As a monk, his massage skills naturally needless to say, and at the same time, he also took the opportunity to ask in a dignified tone through sound transmission, "Who the hell is you? What is the purpose of coming here?"

Obviously, he didn't ask how the other party discovered his nonsense like nonsense.

"I am the lord of Mokou Town." Brian didn't hide anything from the Harper scout in front of him, and inadvertently showed him the purple dragon seal ring that symbolized his identity, and said truthfully:
"My purpose of coming here is the same as yours. On the premise that we have a common goal, I think we can take this opportunity to exchange the information we have, or cooperate to destroy this temple."

As a harpist scout, he would not think that this group of deranged idealists, known as the "Interventionists of the Continent," were really working in the temple to earn extra money.

"It turns out that you are the mage lord Brian of Mokou Town."

Lesenao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, suppressing the other party's doubts about why he was able to see through his identity in an instant, and said to him, "Your Excellency's proposal is very good, I agree."

Hearing that the other party knew his identity, Brian was also surprised. After all, the Northland and the Kingdom of Cormyr were separated by the Enook Desert, and his battle with the City of Shadows had only ended for five days.

It can be seen from this that the intelligence network of the Harper Scout is also extraordinary.

"Then the two of us will each share the information we have." He closed his eyes lightly, put down the folding chair, and lay there.

Next, while enjoying the monk's massage service comfortably, he exchanged the information he had collected with the other party through telepathy.

Through understanding, let him know that the half-elf Lesen'o accepted the commission of his elf friend Severil to find his sister.

After Severil returned to the surface from the Underdark, he inadvertently saw the real vision of his sister who had been missing for many years in a dream, and found that she seemed to be in deep pain, and her face was reflected in a broken mirror.

After accepting the entrustment of his friend, Lesenao came to Silvermoon City by investigating the signs of Severil's activities after he separated from his sister, and then found the Temple of the Lily of Rest.

This makes the half-elven monk Laytheon instinctively suspect that some dark secret is lurking in what's going on in the baths, and poses as a stylist for hire to investigate.

Lysenor saw through the hallucinatory disguise of the hags and their minions.

He suspected clues to Lirian's fate could be found in the sept or the tower, but so far he had been unable to investigate those places, for the minions of the Hag's Coven were keeping an eye on his movements.

After hearing the other party's news, Brian immediately realized that it was the flapping wings of his little butterfly that changed the original direction of history.

If he hadn't helped the golden elf prince Severil who became a marsh bear in the Underdark, the other party would not have returned to the surface so quickly, let alone hired the harpist to scout Lysenau.

"I know where Lirian is." Brian sat up from the couch and said to the half-elven monk.

"That's good, I can create chaos in the bathing place and give you a chance to sneak in." Lesenao thought for a moment, and said his thoughts.

"There's no need to create chaos." Brian vetoed his opinion, "I can sneak in quietly."

After thinking for a while, he added: "You know, the purpose of my coming here is to save my friend, so, when I am looking for Miss Li Ryan, I hope you can help me investigate those who are cursed by the green hag. People, where are they being held?"

"no problem."

Lesenao showed a confident smile, "With the help of the mage lord of Mokou Town, I don't need to pretend anymore. I have already locked several positions in the place of detention. This is a trivial matter for me."

"I hope your work efficiency can be as clean as your words." Brian threw a stone engraved with magic runes to the monk, "This is a communication stone, keep in touch at any time."

Lesenao reached out to take the message stone, and looked at him in surprise, apparently he did not expect the lord to be so well-prepared.

However, when he thought that the other party was a spellcaster, he understood something.

To his surprise, the lord of Mokou Town ran out just after the battle with the army of Shadow City.

Obviously, he is not a safe master.

He secretly put the lord among his key observation objects, then took out a set of adventurer outfits good at lurking from the closet and changed into it, then handed him a token that could dispel Lirian's hostility, and bid farewell to him. Start splitting up.

Brian didn't waste any time, blessed his spells, and walked quietly towards Li Ryan's place of detention.

According to the reminders of the water fairy and the harper scout, he arrived at the abandoned sanctuary hidden behind the bathroom without any danger.

The shrine to Sune, the goddess of love, has fallen into disrepair and has been concealed by overgrown trees and shrubs.

If you don't observe carefully, it is difficult to find its existence.

Brian could tell from the outline of the dilapidated stone building that it must have been a beautiful sanctuary in the past.

Because on the moss-covered stone surface, the carved face of Sune can still be seen.

She stared down at the path where believers should have been walking. The stone door in front of the church seemed to be sealed with some kind of transparent resin, and a line of inscriptions could be vaguely seen on it:
"Welcome, dear, to find your own natural beauty."

There was silence all around, with occasional faint weeping and whispers coming from the sanctuary.

Brian involuntarily raised his vigilance, carefully observing the changes in the church.

He found that the doors and windows of the sanctuary were all wrapped and sealed with an unnatural resin, and with his current ability, he couldn't force them open.

He stood there thinking for a moment, then threw a "dispel magic" at the resin.

As he expected, the resin quickly melted like ice and snow baked by high temperature, turning into puddles of disgusting pus.

The interior of the sanctuary seems to have seen a terrible battle years ago, and then it was abandoned.

The broken benches and cushions were thick with fungus, the four mirrors on the walls were in pieces, and the floor was covered with shards of glass.

A grime-covered statue of Sune stood on the far wall. She might have once been smiling, but now the grime made the goddess look as if she was crying.

Behind the statue, Brian saw a staircase leading down into the darkness.

After observing carefully, he walked down the stairs carefully.

The moment he stepped into the dark and damp stone room, a shadow emerged from the darkness, attacking him with hisses and roars.

"Who?" Sombra's tone carried the purest resentment, "It was sent by the vicious hag to torture me again, die!"

As soon as the words fell, a pale ray containing a strong earth elemental breath shot towards Brian.

Realizing that it was a supernatural spell that could instantly petrify people, Brian, who had been prepared, calmly activated the "dimension jump" and successfully avoided it.

Immediately afterwards, he threw a ball of white phosphorous, and he released the three-ring spell "Flash Explosion", which exploded into a ball of dazzling white light. The existence in the darkness covered its eyes and wailed in pain.

——"Five-ring spell: monster immobilization!"

When the white light dissipated, he took the opportunity to stretch out his finger, and he fixed the original monster in place.

As Brian guessed, the one who attacked him was a Medusa with the ability to petrify. The long pale golden hair wriggled and turned into a group of hissing poisonous snakes, which looked creepy.

"I am not sent by a hag to torture you."

Brian didn't bother to explain, and directly took out the token given to him by the Harper scout, a platinum cross star, "I am your brother Severil, please come here to save you, you should know this token. "

"He has returned from Evermeet and is ready to take over the 'City of Peace' Irranthe."

After thinking about it, he temporarily decided to conceal the news of Saris who had defected to Graz'zt and was killed by him.

"Perkin's Cross?"

Medusa quickly glanced at the token in Brian's hand, her expression dazed for a moment, as if recalling something sad, she muttered to herself, "You were indeed sent by Severil."

"By all the gods, Seldarine, my brothers and sisters have finally returned."

As she spoke, she remembered the sad things, and tears welled up in her eyes.

"Now is not the time to be sad." Brian interrupted her memory with a strong tone, "Tell me what's going on, and how can I get you back to how you were before."

Looking at the miserable Medusa in front of him, he immediately felt that Irranser's Yinge family was simply unlucky to open the door for unlucky mother, unlucky to come home.

The eldest son died inexplicably, and was considered to have colluded with the devil. The eldest daughter was turned into Medusa by the hag, the younger son Severil became the object of rubbing by the mother bear, and the younger daughter became Servants of Graz'zt.

Their father was killed by the elf rebels, and their mother was even worse. It is said that even the family residence was patronized by thieves, the tombs where the ancestors were buried were looted, and the remains were thrown everywhere.

As a result, the whereabouts of the ancestral moon blade of the elf family are also unknown.

Then Brian listened to the dejected golden elf tell his story.

In fact, he really wanted to let her get straight to the point, so as not to waste time, but seeing that the communication stone didn't convey any news, and the family was so miserable, he patiently listened to her tell her own story.

Lirian Silversong used to be the eldest princess of the "City of Peace" Irranser, but she was rebellious because she didn't believe the elven goddess Hanali Celaniel, so she became Sune's pious priest.

Brian had known for a long time that the two goddesses were very good friends on the surface, and shared the Yongjin Pond - a sacred pond.

But in the dark, there is another way. In order to fight whether the elves are beautiful or the humans are beautiful, they fight very fiercely, and often fight brainlessly.

In fact, this is also understandable. After all, these two goddesses are from the chaotic camp, and they are still women, so they understand everything.

For a golden elf to believe in the goddess of love in the human pantheon, this is simply a slap in the face for the elven pantheon.

Not only the gods were not happy, but even Li Rui'an's face-saving old father was also unwilling. In a fit of anger, not only did Li Rui'an get kicked out, but the two Severier and Saris, who were still in the rebellious stage, also followed him. suffer.

Li Rui'an, who was kicked out, did not feel guilty about it, and began to build the Lily Temple of Rest in the Moon Forest, to share her knowledge with others, encourage them, and help them realize their value.

Sadly, her devotion belied the gold elf's own self-doubt - she didn't think she was worthy enough to be priest of a god of beauty.

Ten years ago, the hags used her insecurities to manipulate and corrupt her.

They concealed their true nature, induced the priests to make a dark deal, and bore the corresponding curse.

A year later, Lirian's painting that gave her confidence transformed the elf into a Medusa.

When she tried to fight back against the hags, the hags jointly sealed her in the sanctuary, hoping that the huge mirror in the sanctuary would make her petrified.

Afraid of petrifying herself, Lirian shattered the mirror in the sanctuary and spent nearly ten years of life and torture here.

"How can I save you." After patiently listening to Li Ryan's story, Brian asked, "Is it possible that your curse can be lifted by killing the three hags?"

While she was telling the story, he tried all the spells that resembled dispel magic, but none of them worked.

"No." Lirian shook her head slightly, and the dancing poisonous snake hissed, "You have to go to the hag's lair to find my portrait and destroy it."

Brian nodded thoughtfully, he was a bit clearer about the witch's methods.

At this moment, his communication stone glowed, and he quickly established a link with it.

"Mr. Brian." The other end of the communication stone said, "I have found the girl you mentioned. I checked their curses and found that I need to find the source of the curse and destroy it."

"That's true." Brian said to him, "Ask these cursed people if they have ever been painted by hags. If so, you will find the painting and destroy it , the curse can be lifted."

After a brief silence, a voice came from the communication stone again, "That's right, here I have a tiefling who was cursed as a kobold, claiming that he is the masked lord of Waterdeep City, he knows that the hags will hide the painting Where is he going to take me."

"Woof! I'm not the lord, I'm the masked lord's informant, woof woof!." A shrill voice rushed to speak.

"Very good." Brian ignored those noises and nodded slightly, "In that case, you can go find them without worry, and leave the three hags to me to deal with."

"No problem, just be careful yourself." As soon as the words fell, the communication stone quickly went out.

Brian confessed to Li Ryan, asked some details about the hag, and left the dilapidated church alone.

(End of this chapter)