Arcane Journey

Chapter 223 Agreement with Lady Polaris

A wizard tower without a tower spirit, it has no soul.

If it is said that for a wizard tower, what is the most valuable.

Then, there is no doubt that it is Tarling.

The tower spirit is the core standard configuration of a complete wizard tower, which is equivalent to having both the CPU and memory of the computer at the same time.

Its main function is to be responsible for the normal operation and storage of knowledge in the tower, and to assist the owner in various experiments, similar to the steward of the noble mansion, but more loyal and intelligent than the steward.

However, it is not a constructing creature, but through alchemy, a powerful soul is used as the core, and it is instilled in the wizard tower, so that the entire tower becomes an existence similar to an alchemical creature.

Three days later, when the energy of the elemental pool was full, Brian came to his private laboratory with the prepared soul spar obtained from the floating tomb.

The laboratory covers an area of ​​more than 100 square meters. The walls of the room are engraved with traces of purple-gold crystals, which spread out in an orderly manner like veins, and finally all converge into a hexagram formed by silver plating on the ceiling.

In the position of the window is a small enchanting table, made of crystal as the main body, and hundreds of arcane runes are built with gold inside. On the side is a crystal ball with a diameter of 10 cm placed on the base, which is used to extract energy from the element pool. .

After Brian adjusted his mental power to the best state, he lit an auxiliary soul-inducing incense, and then carefully placed the soul spar in the center of a pre-engraved magic circle on the table.

Then, he immediately activated the crystal ball used to transmit energy, extracted the energy of the element pool, and poured it into the magic circle of the soul spar.

"boom!"

In an instant, the crystal ball spewed out a strong elemental atmosphere due to the excessive energy, and the magic circle where the soul spar was placed also emerged little by little golden light, absorbing the energy of the elemental pool like a whale drinking from a cow.

Under the blessing of majestic energy, the dark blue soul spar began to tremble slightly, as if something inside wanted to break free.

With the infusion of rich elemental energy into the soul spar, Brian also vaguely heard countless ghost-like murmurs from inside the spar.

Facing this weird situation, his expression was as calm and calm as ever, and he didn't have the slightest tendency to stop supplying energy.

In this way, during his long and patient energy transmission, when the energy of the element pool was less than 50% remaining, a cold shiver climbed up Brian's body.

A cloud of faint, cold mist-like energy emanated from the dark blue soul spar.

A blurry phantom gradually emerged, and finally became clear.

"Sad creature! You have disturbed the slumber of Miss Polaris Bliss!" An angry scream broke the silence of the laboratory.

The ear-piercing scream shook Brian's head.

He was very thankful that he had spent so much time meditating to strengthen his ability to control his mind and stabilize his emotions. Because of this, he was able to calmly face everything that happened in front of him.

After calming down, through the faint light of the phantom, he could vaguely see the characteristics of the phantom when she was alive. Her face was covered with disheveled hair, and her slender body was surrounded by flying rags.

The ends of her raised claws are connected to long and curved claws, surrounded by cold negative energy, as if eager to absorb heat and life from the living.

Although her translucent body is slender and graceful, she has a terrifying face beyond imagination, and a bright red tongue and blackened weird teeth can be seen in the distorted lips.

Of course, the scariest thing was her eyes, gleaming with demonic light, full of hatred and destruction, and staring at him motionless.

"Stupid creature, I didn't expect it, I'm back!" The cold wind condensed with negative energy blew across the face, and the wraith's twisted mouth let out a creepy sneer.

"Do you really think I'm dead? Impossible! Poor creature, you have no way of knowing that as long as the soul spar is not destroyed, I will never be destroyed, and you are still stupidly speeding up My awakening. Now, let me drain your life and get rid of this damn bondage forever!"

The ghost released a scream, the sound seemed to come from the bottomless abyss, and the powerful sound wave rushed towards Brian with the force of thunder.

Bryan glanced at the ghost lightly, and raised his hands calmly to prop up a protective barrier to block the sharp spear-like roar.

He already felt that the great arcanist's evil thoughts lost most of his sanity in his first killing, otherwise he wouldn't be able to foolishly talk about his weaknesses.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

The sound waves were like raging tides, each wave stronger than the last, violently beating on the almost invisible force field barrier surrounding Brian's body.

"Shout, continue." Looking at the barrier that splashed a little bit of ripples, Brian looked at the dimly glowing ghost, and a smile floated on the corner of his mouth: "Do whatever you want, here, you are considered a No one will come to rescue you even if you shout your throat out.”

In fact, when he obtained this soul spar, he vaguely guessed this possibility, so when he was preparing to make the tower spirit, he naturally made protective preparations in advance.

Facing this ghost activated by the energy of the element pool again, Brian was no longer as embarrassed as the first time, and his life would be in danger if he was not careful.

"How is it possible?" Ghost looked at the safe and sound Brian, his eyes widened in shock, and screamed, "Why doesn't my attack work on you? Why did it become like this? Why did your strength increase so much? quick?!"

She locked eyes on Brian with eyes full of hatred and anger, suddenly puffed out her chest, her body jerked backwards, then arched like a cheetah, and let out a sharp roar again.

Brian still maintained an indifferent attitude, not paying attention to the ghost's attack at all.

When he first came into contact with the other party, due to his own limited strength, he couldn't completely kill her. Now with the improvement of his strength, there are countless ways to kill her instantly in his mind.

However, he didn't intend to do this, after all, he still had to use this soul spar to make tower spirits.

The best way to deal with Ghost right now is to let her vent the hatred and anger in her heart to her heart's content. In this way, Ghost's good thoughts will lose their rational madness due to evil thoughts, and gradually take the initiative.

This is the gentlest way to deal with it, and it is also the only method that can perfectly preserve the memory of Grand Arcanist Bryces.

Therefore, in Brian's private experiment located on the No. 17th floor of the wizard tower, the screams of evil spirits came one after another, like a gust of wind passing through a canyon, echoing for a long time.

If it weren't for the tight isolation circle in his laboratory, the scream would have spread throughout Mokou Town.

Gradually, as the roar of the ghost became smaller and smaller, and the sharp voice became hoarse, everything was as Brian expected, and he frantically attacked the fruitless ghost, and due to the large consumption of negative energy, the hazy fluorescent light all over his body It also became flickering, as if it would go out at any time.

Seeing this situation, Brian decided to help her, and stretched out his finger, a golden light flashed, and the dejected ghost turned into smoke and dissipated with a 'bang'.

The dark blue soul spar placed on the magic circle shining with golden light on the enchanting table also became crystal clear.

Seeing that the time has come, Brian no longer delays.

With a thought, the arcane fire with blue and white flames slowly floated out of his body, suspended in mid-air.

He quickly controlled the Austrian fire, linking it with the crystal ball that established the transmission channel in the element pool.

——"Soul Resuscitation!"

Then, he raised his hand and pointed at the soul spar in the center of the golden circle, and recited an obscure incantation.

This is the spell he learned from the female lord. When making the tower spirit, it can keep the memory of its life. This is how her cat tower spirit came about.

The only flaw is that the queen of the tower with self-awareness, if she doesn't agree with her master's temperament, she is likely to play a little temper and the like.

In order to obtain the knowledge of the Grand Arcanist, he naturally wouldn't care about these small details.

Just like that, Brian drew out strange dark blue soul power one after another, and the crystal clear soul spar also changed to grayish white at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When the last trace of the force field of the soul was exhausted, the original deep blue of the spar turned grayish white, and finally shattered into powder and dissipated.

The extracted soul power was carefully controlled by Brian, suspended in mid-air.

Looking at the gray-white soul exposed to the air, it seemed that it would collapse at any moment.

Brian quickly manipulated the forcibly drawn soul power, bursting out all the energy of the Austrian fire, turning it into a pale golden light group, and wrapping it inside.

——"Soul Fusion!"

He quickly whispered a spell, and the crystal ball connected to the elemental pool suddenly shone brightly.

At the same time, the entire elemental pool was surging like boiling water, forming a water-blue tornado, which was transmitted to the crystal ball at a dizzying speed along the channel of the crystal scar that transmits energy, and was captured by the crystal ball. Soul absorption wrapped in pale golden light clusters.

The soul wrapped in the golden light group became larger and larger with the injection of countless azure elemental energy, and finally broke free from the shackles of the light group, bursting suddenly, like gorgeous fireworks.

In an instant, countless shining light spots were suspended in midair, like a vast starry sky, and then with Brian's commanding whisper, all disappeared without a trace, as if they had merged with the entire tower.

——"Arcane hub!"

Bryan took a deep breath, resisting the mental exhaustion, activated the characteristics of the Austrian fire, connected to the distant demiplane, injected the majestic energy into the dim Austrian fire, and restored it to a saturated state.

"In the name of the arcane, my servant, I command you to wake up from your deep sleep!"

After the energy was restored, Brian activated the arcane fire, and drank the command spell enough to shock the soul.

"Buzz!"

Time seemed to stop suddenly at this moment.

In an instant, a translucent cloud of arcane energy condensed in the laboratory.

The tumbling clouds turned into a translucent figure at a speed visible to the naked eye.

She was wearing a long lavender dress, the skirt was swaying in the wind, and her beautiful long chestnut hair fluttered in the wind and scattered around her waist.

"Are you Blaise, Ms. Polaris?" Brian said in an uncertain tone, meeting her deep purple eyes.

"If you say yes, then be it. If you say no, it doesn't make sense."

Ms. Polaris smiled slightly, and the elegant figure suspended in mid-air slowly fell to the ground, exuding a strong gentle breath, "We meet again, descendants of the empire."

Sure enough.

Brian looked relieved, just as he guessed, the real Lady Polaris had already fallen thousands of years ago, and this was just her leftover idea.

"I have fulfilled my original promise." He said in a slightly serious tone, "Then, should you also fulfill your responsibilities?"

In fact, as the master of Tower Ling, he can use an orderly tone to instruct her to do things for him, but considering her past identity and role in his future, he feels that it is safer to treat her in a gentle way.

"Ugh……"

The translucent phantom of Lady Polaris flicked her hair, and sighed sadly.

"Actually, what I shouldn't have woken up was my remaining resentment, which violated my self-consciousness and made me appear in the material world in this form."

"Then what are your plans?" Brian asked calmly,
"Since you woke me up and allowed me to appear in this form, I am naturally willing to follow your instructions."

Ms. Polaris recovered from her sorrow, her confused dark purple eyes gradually cleared up, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and a smile appeared, "It's just that I need to understand the world first before I can decide what plans I will have in the future."

"That's no problem." Brian thought for a while, and said to her, "Go to my study, the books there are enough to let you understand the ups and downs of thousands of years of history."

The next day, Ms. Polaris arrived as scheduled.

"It seems that my guess was correct." She said to Brian in an ethereal tone, "The shackles of the magic net still make it difficult for the empire to escape the fate of destruction."

"So, you have already guessed what will happen to Netheril." Brian looked up and looked up at her.

This is understandable, after all, as a grand arcanist of the spiritual school with strength reaching level 35, it is not strange to predict some vague fragments of the future through prophecy spells.

"Then why didn't you try to stop it." He asked curiously.

"If I told you that the magic net might collapse in 1000 years, so you don't need to rely on the magic net, would you really take my words to heart?" Ms. Polaris smiled slightly.

"That's true." Brian was startled, then nodded to express his understanding.

It's like in the real world, knowing that vehicles like cars and airplanes will have certain safety hazards, but no one will choose to give up this convenience, point their hiking skills to the full level, and travel around the world.

After all, even Brian himself had to admit that in the era when the Limonet hadn't been closed, it was really too convenient.

At that time, the Goddess of Magic had a broad mind and was not defensive about the management of the magic net, and the great arcanists were like Wu Dalang drinking milk and doing things with their feet.

It wasn't until the arrival of the year of disaster that the goddess of magic, who had been plucked crazily, realized the seriousness of the problem, so she pulled up a thick skirt to hide her deepest secrets.

"Let's not talk about the past, it's meaningless." Ms. Polaris shook her head slightly and said to Brian:

"Now let me tell you about my plan. Since I have become your tower spirit, there is no doubt that I will serve you loyally and help you manage the tower, and even the floating city that may be built in the future. This is my obligation and responsibility."

Brian seemed to realize something, and listened quietly.

"However, this does not mean that I will confess to you everything I did when I was a Grand Arcanist." Ms. Polaris raised her eyes to look at him, and said in a soft and sweet voice:
"It can be seen that when you were making the tower spirit, you tried your best to keep my original consciousness and memory. It was your kind act that prevented me from becoming an unconscious statue who would only obey the master. Commands, a tower spirit as dull as a golem that casts Constructed Wisdom."

Brian couldn't deny it.

Obviously, if he did, he would lose all arcane knowledge possessed by a level 35 psychic school grand arcanist.

"What's your condition?" He asked curiously.

"I am willing to serve you for 1000 years and give you all the knowledge I have mastered in my life." Ms. Polaris stated her conditions calmly, "After 1000 years, I need you to give me back my freedom, that's all."

"Have you ever heard of 'flesh and blood, mechanical ascension'?" Hearing that the conditions proposed by the other party were not excessive at all, Brian heaved a sigh of relief, and then said with a smile.

"Not sure." Ms. Polaris thought for a moment and shook her head slightly.

"Well, I'll change the conditions." Brian didn't explain anything, "I can give you back your freedom, and I won't even ask for a millennium agreement."

"Then what do you need?" Ms. Polaris blinked her beautiful deep purple eyes and looked at him curiously.

"I need you to join my camp and serve my cause. Don't rush to refuse." Brian raised his hand to interrupt her, and continued:
"The reason why I say this is because I intend to help you find a way to live forever in the mechanical realm of the clock's Nirvana, and become a true form of life."

"If I'm not wrong."

He added at the end, "As a great arcanist of the Psychic School, you must have planned to take this path when you gained freedom after a thousand years."

"It's a good choice." Ms. Polaris didn't keep Brian waiting too long. She stretched out her translucent jade hand and smiled, "I agree with your condition."

"Then wish us a happy cooperation." Brian touched her illusory hand symbolically, and smiled back.

"I have used the time to learn about the history of the world to check your wizard tower carefully." After the pleasant exchange, Ms. Polaris quickly entered the state, "I have to say, the surprise that this tower gave me is still Quite a lot."

"The thing that surprised me the most was the working Miser core..."

While pacing gracefully back and forth in the room, she told Brian the information about the Misser Core.

After listening to Ms. Polaris's narration, Brian finally realized that besides the original energy that connects the magic net itself, the Miser Energy Core is also of great value to energy, including the storage, restraint, and control capabilities of elements or other energies. .

"Its real function is to establish a magic network system in the floating city." Ms. Polaris said:
"Every floating city of the Grand Arcanist has this highly integrated magic network system, and the magic network center of the floating city is an existence we call an 'intelligent master brain', which is like a human being with its own Consciousness and thinking, but it also excludes human emotions and has absolute rationality."

Brian understood what she meant. This so-called "magic network" is similar to a local area network. The network center is like a computer, which can help him analyze and deduce various spells, store a huge knowledge system, and perform various data simulations. And strengthen the defense and attack means of the territory.

"Unfortunately, this Miser energy core is too small." Ms. Polaris lamented: "Even if I weave a magical network system, it can only cover the entire wizard tower."

"Then have you mastered the method of making the Misser Energy Core?" Brian asked.

"The core production secrets of the Mithr nuclear are in the hands of Iolum." Ms. Polaris said:
"Except for the leader of the Xiaduo society in Karthas, who once copied the shadow secret energy core that can be hidden in the human body through the Shadow Demon Net, there has never been any other great arcanist who has not obtained the core knowledge of Iolum. Next, independently research the Miser energy core."

The leader of the Xiaduo society in Karthas is the Supreme King Telamant Tanshul of the City of Shadows, and Brian is quite clear about this.

It is said that the name of Supreme King Telamante Tanshur in Netheril was Xiaduo. Because he studied the shadow demiplane when he was young, no floating city was willing to take him in and support his research.

In the end, Karthus sent charcoal in a timely manner, not only supporting his research, but also helping him establish his own floating city Sultanza, which is now the city of ghosts.

"This is monopoly technology." Brian replied with a smile, "Well, if there is a chance, I will go to Iolum personally."

Originally, he naively thought that he might be able to decipher the production principle of this small Misser energy core. Hearing what Ms. Polaris said, he immediately gave up his research plan.

After all, he didn't have so much time and energy to devote to this research.

"Things are not as simple as imagined." Ms. Polaris sighed.

"This is an era when the magic net is closed. Apart from the Shadow Demon Net of the Lost Lady, I don't think there is any energy source that can support the Mithr energy core based on the standard of the floating city."

"There will always be." Brian was full of confidence in his half-plane, and he changed the subject again:

"Then let's not discuss these issues for the time being. You have also seen my current situation. The City of Shadows has been the biggest threat to me from the beginning to the end. What needs to be done most now is to use your black technology from the time of Netheril. Take it out and strengthen the territory protection for me."

"I'm already thinking about defense." Ms. Polaris nodded slightly, showing a moving smile, "I checked carefully, and the current element reserves of the Wizard Tower can support the energy supply of this defensive weapon."

"What weapon." Brian asked curiously.

"Magic Pulse Cannon." Ms. Polaris replied softly.

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(End of this chapter)