Arcane Journey

Chapter 250 New Threat
Brian was about to leave when a figure stepped on the hexagram and suddenly appeared in the room.

What appeared in front of him was a woman.

A human woman who looks a bit evil, her face is covered with a veil, her pupils are quite seductive, and her outline has a bit of oriental features.

This woman was wearing a thin and luxurious blue gauze dress, revealing her snow-white arms and half of her chest. That dazzling white color would make people feel angry and thirsty just by looking at it.

A head of soft and bright blonde hair hangs straight to the woman's ankles, fluttering like satin in the gentle wind.

The slender waist makes people even want to hold it in their arms.

On her pretty face covered by the veil, there is a perfect fusion of femininity and mature coquettishness, with a mixed, sweet charm like poison.

In any place, she would definitely be the focus of attention in the banquet, and even her master would not be able to take away her brilliance.

However, it is a pity that no one here appreciates these thousands of styles.

Brian had already noticed that on the waist of this woman, there was a delicate gold chain, and a silver disc the size of a coin was suspended from it.

Also on her chest is a sigil, a silver coin facing up, bearing a beautiful female face surrounded by shamrocks.

There is no doubt that this is a priest of Lady Luck.

In fact, even if Brian didn't notice these eye-catching emblems, he could recognize the woman's true identity at a glance.

After all, the most famous deity in Araby City is the goddess of fortune, Timora.

The high priest in charge of the temple of Timola and the lady's hall is the woman in front of him, a messenger of luck.

Not long after the battle ended, the other party arrived late, which was quite intriguing.

However, this is not the case, because when Hajhorner and others invaded the mage tower of the female lord, they had already completely blocked it, and it was impossible to leak any information.

The main reason why he was able to come to support in time was to rely on his own guess, and then let Ms. Polaris use the power of the wizard tower to help him break through the blocked different-dimensional space.

With the end of the battle, the ancient dragon transformed by Severin and Hajhorner were all repulsed by the magic pulse cannon in the sky above Araby City.

Such a big battle has almost alarmed the entire city.

It is reasonable for the church forces of the Temple of Timora to come over at this time, as a staunch ally of Araby City.

Thinking of this, Brian didn't stay too long, but planned to leave directly.

You know, among the gods, there are two goddesses who are the most difficult to provoke.

The first is the goddess of fortune, and the second is the goddess of fortune.

Whether you believe in these two goddesses or not, after seeing their priests, it is best to show corresponding awe.

Because these two goddesses of the chaotic camp are notoriously difficult to deal with, their personality preferences are difficult to judge, and they often like to play pranks, but their religious needs for believers are not high.

In the churches of Lady Luck and Fortune, for example, they preach that there is no discrimination and that all races and genders are equal, and why, in practice, most of the revered clergy are women is unknown.

Therefore, whether in the game world or here, Brian has always kept these priests at a respectful distance.

It is true that if you please the goddess of luck and get her favor, you can indeed make yourself do everything very smoothly in the future.

But when you get the goddess of luck, it means that you are watched by the goddess of misfortune from the chaotic evil camp.

Just like a local rich player he had met before, he used his banknote ability to throw a blessing attribute of "Goddess of Luck" in the Temple of Timora.

He tried to use the wish technique in the Vientiane Impermanence card to perform unlimited free whoring.

At first, it was smooth sailing, allowing him to use the Myriad Impermanence card to rapidly increase his level like a rocket.

As a result, he inadvertently entered his soul and drew a catastrophic void card, which caused the soul in the game world to be imprisoned, and the body was in a state of incapacity, and even the wish spell could not be recalled.

In the end, you can only choose to delete the number and retrain.

Brian never believed that Doom was innocent.

This is no joke.

If it is said that the goddess of luck can let you meet a pie falling from the sky, then the goddess of fortune can let you be crushed to death by the pie.

Brian looked at the priest who looked at the goddess of luck, bowed slightly to show respect, and was about to leave.

And the other party looked at him with eyes full of smiles, and nodded slightly.

This made Brian think that things should be over like this.

Who would have thought that when the figures of the two were about to pass each other, the female pastor suddenly stopped in front of him, stared at him with intriguing eyes, and said slowly: "We meet again, from Mokou Town. Lord Mage, Your Excellency Bryan."

Hearing this, Myrcella, the mistress of the Mage Tower, suddenly became subtle. She immediately greeted him and said to the priest, "Do you know him?"

"Maybe I don't know him." The female priest shook her head slightly, and said to Myrcella in a confident tone, "But I did meet him, and that's why I came here."

Brian, who was on the side, heard the conversation between the two, and his expression was full of doubts.

Because he didn't quite know what the real intention of the other party's "We met again" just now was.

You know, since he traveled to this world, he has never been to the Temple of Timora in Araby City, let alone met the Archbishop.

Of course, even in the game world, he had never been to the Temple of Timora.

Timora is the most famous god in the Kingdom of Cormyr, and she protected the city of Araby during times of turmoil.

It was her efforts that led to a nationwide resurgence of her faith.

Priests of Timorah never charge their visitors any service fees, but most offer offerings, believed to increase their luck.

It was these donations that made the temples of Timora around the kingdom of Cormyr extremely rich.

Nobles, merchants, and adventurers also like to seek the blessings of Timorah before leaving. They believe that without the prayers of the lucky messengers, any major adventure will not proceed.

Brian didn't like it much.

This is like in the real world, a quack doctor has a secret recipe handed down from his ancestors, which claims to give birth to a boy. Once it works, the price is 2000 yuan, and he will be charged after giving birth to a boy.

So the one who gave birth to a girl didn't bother to go to him because she didn't ask for money, and the one who gave birth to a boy happily went to give money.

The doctor took fruit-flavored pills, but at a cost of only a few cents, half of the business could make money according to the probability, and he cheated for many years without incident, and even earned a room full of pennants.

The same is true for the Temple of Timora. Facing the adventurers, businessmen and nobles who prayed for themselves, they waved their little hands and said with a smile: "Go, fate favors the bold."

Those who are successful will therefore believe that they have been favored by the goddess of luck.

In addition to the unlucky ones who will never come back, the losers will also receive comforting words from the priests: "Sometimes the goddess smiles, and sometimes she laughs out loud."

Although mysterious and mysterious luck does exist in this kind of world, Brian, who has always been more pragmatic, never thought of letting himself rely on luck.

"Mr. Bryan." The female priest stared at Bryan, and her delicate voice sounded, "Do you still remember the missionary mage in the Underdark?"

Preaching Mage?

Hearing this sentence, Brian froze in place, looking at the priest of Lady Luck with disbelief.

Out of the corner of his eye, he also noticed that the female lord on the side also looked at her unexpectedly, obviously Myrcella should have learned these things from Sisera.

During his escape journey in the Underdark, he accidentally broke into the ruins of a missionary mage, and in dealing with an observer beholder, he obtained the items left by the missionary mage, as well as the items that he had modified and expanded into magic. The different-dimensional space of the college.

Undoubtedly, the biggest harvest of that time was the forgotten book known as the 'Book of White Whores'.

Without this book, it is impossible for him to master the knowledge in the five Nether scrolls so quickly.

"You cunning guy, even if you divert the dark river, you still can't find the place where Victor guards the treasure, because Victor's master said that only the luckiest people, or those who have been favored by the goddess of luck Only people can discover the place of protection of Victor."

"You couldn't find Victor's guardian place, so you found a little goblin who had been favored by the goddess of luck. This little goblin showed you the way, and only then did you find Victor's guardian place."

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Bryan recalled the words of the funny observer beholder.

Obviously, that's where the problem lies.

If this is the case, doesn't it mean that he accidentally discovered the guarded place of the Observer Beholder in the Underdark Region, and it was the blessing of Goddess of Luck.

This really made him a little hard to accept.

"So, ma'am? What's your purpose here." Brian asked.

Then, he quickly considered for a moment in his heart, and then added boldly: "Thank you for the goddess' favor, and I am willing to return ten times the gold for the offerings given to the goddess. , Lady Luck brought me more good luck."

Maybe fate is doomed, but luck is also an influencing factor.

A piece of good luck may free people from death, and a piece of bad luck may also push them into the bottomless abyss.

While Lady Luck is a cheerful and curious goddess who, even in the darkest times of Havoc, remained cheerful and shy away from overt violence, she enjoyed mischief and ironic justice.

For example: in the year of turmoil, when Timora was in the form of a sage sitting in the city of Araby, he donated wealth so that mortals had the opportunity to chat with him face to face and take pictures.

If he followed his inner thoughts, Brian really didn't want to have anything to do with it.

You must know that in the year before the "Arcane Catastrophe" that horrified the world, there was also a major shock among the gods, which was called: the year of the third blood spatter.

The cause of the whole incident was caused by the goddess of luck, Taimora.

It is said that Tyr, the god of justice, attempted to marry Tymora to restore order and balance to the upper planes.

Therefore, Heim, the guardian god, took the initiative to act as a companion for the chaste love between Tyr and Timora (responsible for delivering love letters and gifts).

Yet in a strange and fateful misunderstanding, Heim was accused of stealing Timorah's heart while passing on gifts and affection for Tyr.

The strict requirements for one's own ideas force the God of Justice to challenge the God of Patronus.

And Haim also chose to accept this challenge due to his own philosophy.

The battle between the two gods for the right to mate, Tyr killed Heim before the gods came to their senses.

Although no one can confirm the final result, the gods still feel that the death of Heim is the black hand of the murder god Cyric, who is behind the scenes.

In terms of their player's version:

Cyric likes Heim, Heim likes Tyr, and Tyr has unrequited love for Taimorrah.

In order to monopolize Heim, Cyric does not hesitate to disguise himself as a woman and become Tymora, provoking the relationship between Heim and Tyre, but he does not want to but self-defeating so that Tyre accidentally kills Heim.

Watching Haim die in front of him, Tyr suddenly woke up: it turned out that Haim was the one he had always loved, and Taimora was just an excuse for him not to cheat himself with the person he loved.

Killing the person he loved the most with his own hands, Tire was so sad that he didn't even want to be a god anymore, so he bid farewell to Io, and before committing suicide, he passed on his divine power to his subordinate god Tom.

Cyric, who also loved Heim deeply, couldn't get rid of sadness and self-blame all day long, and closed himself up because of the pain, and spent the rest of his life in the seal.

The story of Taimora ended in tragedy.

Thinking back to the absurd things among the gods, Brian finally decided to choose to bankrupt the disaster.

Since the other party claimed that he had found the land guarded by the beholders because of the favor of the goddess of luck, he followed the rules of the Temple of Timola and donated his wealth to thank the goddess for her favor.

"No, Lord Brian, maybe you misunderstood me." Just as Brian was about to pay, the priest of Lady Luck raised his hand to interrupt him, and said slowly:

"I hope you can understand that some people are lucky and some people are unlucky, but there are also a few people who can control their own luck, lift the curtain of opportunity, circumstances and chaos, and get a glimpse of the deeper real possibility."

In fact, not only did Brian fail to understand the true meaning of this sentence, but he was also confused.

He subconsciously shifted his gaze to Myrcella beside the female priest, and when he saw the shock in the female lord's eyes, he realized that things might not be as simple as he imagined.

He didn't answer, but just looked at the female priest calmly.

"Tymorrah often said: People should act boldly to be truly alive. In most cases, the courage and determination to take risks are far more important than careful and meticulous planning. Don't hesitate, trust the goddess, Surrender yourself to fate."

The female pastor stared at Brian for a long time, then slowly narrowed her beautiful eyes, her thick eyelashes flickered coquettishly, flashing a shrewd light.

"Believe in the luck you have, you are your own master, the goddess will let you know whether it is luck or bad luck this time. As long as you go forward and work hard to pursue your dreams, the goddess will help you. If you don't have any set goals or direction, and you will soon fall into Beshaba's arms and experience the 'mercy' of doom, which means no mercy."

This time, Brian understood her words.

The meaning between the lines of the female priest is that if she does not get the favor of the goddess, she will experience the goddess of doom.

The Goddess of Misfortune is an evil and willful goddess, not only does not bring good luck, but also has the ability to reduce luck, which can make people unlucky for a long time.

The world is more afraid of this goddess.

Brian is obviously also quite afraid of the goddess of fortune.

He avoided the female priest's seductive gaze, showing a pensive expression.

In his impression, since the destruction of Araby City, the Temple of the Lady Luck has not been spared either.

From then on, when the goddess of fortune and the goddess of fortune fell in love and killed each other, Timora completely fell into a disadvantage and was always passive.

After trying to understand this problem, Brian finally realized why the priest of Goddess of Fortune would suddenly find him when he was helping Myrcella drive away the enemies.

This seems to be the emergence of himself, affecting the changes in the timeline, allowing Lady Luck to find out how not to be suppressed by Lady Luck.

Headache.

After figuring out the ins and outs of the incident, Brian immediately realized that he was inexplicably involved in the love and murder of the fateful twins.

In this case, he could only choose to hug one of the thighs.

"Thanks to the goddess of mercy, I sincerely beg her, and hope that I can get her favor in my courageous pursuit of my dreams." Brian bowed slightly to the female priest, and said respectfully.

The female pastor nodded slightly, suppressing the sadness in her heart, and just smiled.

She moved lightly in lotus steps and came to Brian, the silver pendant on her slender waist made a slight collision sound, crisp and elegant.

A faint scent of pine wood hits, as clean as rain in an autumn night.

Brian resisted the urge to dodge, and stood there a little stiffly.

The female priest raised her hand to remove her veil, stood on tiptoe, leaned forward softly, her vermilion lips parted lightly, her amiability was as blue as blue, and her white teeth were just right.

She kissed Brian's forehead softly, then smiled lightly and said:
"The goddess of fortune has helped you avoid the attention of the goddess of misfortune, Mr. Brian, you have obtained the blessing of the goddess with your sincerity."

The clover emblem worn on the female priest's chest glowed faintly.

It was fleeting, but Brian noticed it.

He thanked him respectfully, and immediately checked his newly acquired ability:
[Blessing of the Goddess of Luck (Special Specialty): When the elements of fate start to work, there will be countless possible outcomes. Gained from exploration to increase the chances of things happening.

You are very lucky, you have received the blessing of the goddess of luck, and your bad luck will not be reduced below the normal level. When triggering any judgment, whether it is attack, dodge, hit, immunity, negotiation, or any other field, You all get a permanent 1-point luck bonus.Anyone attempting to scry, detect, track, discern, monitor, or any other divination domain ability cast on you suffers a -3 check.

Remarks: You have successfully entered the sight of the most capricious Destiny Gemini, please pray for yourself, lucky unlucky one! 】

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Seeing his newly acquired ability, Brian, who was still reluctant at first, called it "really fragrant", but also felt that it was too easy to obtain, and he didn't even have to sacrifice tribute.

This made him realize that this might have something to do with his appearance affecting the future timeline of the Kingdom of Cormyr.

After all, the twins of fate, the goddess of luck and the goddess of misfortune, are the goddesses who are most likely to sense the trajectory of fate.

This time I took the initiative to save the city of Araby, and let the goddess of luck notice something through some mysterious and unknowable means.

In this case, whether it is for her future consideration, or in the love and killing with the goddess of doom, she needs to cover up her own existence so that the goddess of doom will not notice him.

After Brian bid farewell to the female lord, he directly sent spells through another world and went to the demiplane.

Looking at the back of Brian leaving, Myrcella looked at the female priest beside her in puzzlement, and said in a gentle tone.

"Did the goddess send down some oracle, what did you see in him?"

In the disaster that happened in Araby City ten years ago, even the temple of the goddess of luck was burned down. In order to drive away the believers of Bane, the god of tyranny, through bloody rituals, a ray of incarnation descended, the goddess of luck Voters, even at their own expense, drove them out.

It was precisely because of this catastrophe that in the confrontation between the followers of the Goddess of Luck and the Goddess of Misfortune, they fell into the lower ranks.

Therefore, Myrcella was very curious, what kind of future did the High Priest of the Goddess of Luck see in Brian.

"The oracle issued by the goddess showed me that the two giant dragons of the Kingdom of Cormyr died together, and an ancient ruin rose from the depths of the ocean." The female priest walked to the window with light steps, facing the bright sunshine .

"A mage's tower was turned into ruins, tearing a crack leading to Bator's Hell, and the two cities were destroyed by the dark creatures gushing out of the crack."

"These are things that are about to happen and cannot be changed or reversed," she added at the end.

"Then he..." Myrcella asked subconsciously.

"He is 'a man beyond destiny'." The female priest lightly opened her jade lips, slightly saddened:
"His destiny is free, even freer than the gods. As long as anything has anything to do with him, the final result will always deviate from the original track. He is a double-edged sword, and he is the hope of saving the world." Fire, and it may become the sword of disaster that destroys the world."

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After Brian teleported to the demiplane, he went straight to the cave where the genie lived.

Fire elves and earth elves are waiting for his arrival at the gate of the cave.

"Your Excellency, you are finally here."

The earth djinn's voice sounded like a collapsed mountain first: "According to your order, we have captured these two Felin Mokui that look like chrysanthemums."

Entering the cave, Brian followed the line of sight of the dwarf and saw that the bodies of the two Mokui elders were sealed inside the hard stone, with only the two heads of the upper body exposed.

On the surface of their bodies, the burning of the flames, the frostbite of the frost, the cutting of the wind blade and many other wounds are telling him how miserable the two Mokui elders who took the initiative to send to the door were abused by the four giant spirits.

After all, the controller here is Sylvali, the water fairy. In the demiplane, she is like a wizard staying in her own tower. The gods live deep in the kingdom of God, and all laws are controlled by her.

To deal with the two Mokui elders whose strength has not yet fully recovered, it is naturally easy to catch.

"You don't know how excited these two sunflower-like monsters were when they first came here." The fire dwarf's voice echoed in the cave like a bursting fireball.

"After the two of them came here, they held hands and circled around, looking happy like two goblins dancing hula, but we didn't know that we had already restrained our breath in advance according to your instructions, and waited patiently for their arrival."

"Good job." Brian nodded slightly, and came to the two dying Mokui elders.

"Is there anything else you need to say?" he asked.

"Hiss... hiss..." One of the Mokui elders transmitted his weak voice to the depths of Brian's mind through a spiritual connection.

"Despicable descendants of Nether, you obtained the hub of the spell-weaver and activated it ignorantly. Sooner or later, you will be found by the spell-weaver and hunted down to death."

Hearing Elder Mokui's words, Brian showed a look of surprise. This group of ancient alien creatures really knew the secrets about the Spellweaver organization.

"What's so scary about an organization that hasn't escaped the fate of destruction." Brian said deliberately in a disdainful tone, "You can't scare me."

"boom!"

The fire giant hit Elder Mokui's body with a flaming fist, and said viciously, "What the hell are you, you dare to threaten us!"

"Hiss... hiss... hiss..." Elder Mokui cried out in pain, and continued, "The weavers have not been wiped out, and their remaining strength has been hidden in an untouched area of ​​the etheric plane. It's called: Dark Abyss."

"You activate the hub of the spellweavers." He said fiercely, "One day, sooner or later, their survivors will wake up from their slumber and find them here."

Brian raised his hand to stop the genie from punishing him, and looked at Elder Mokui, "I have to admit, your words make me shudder, so we still have a common enemy."

"That's right!... Hiss... Hiss..." Elder Mokui said quickly:

"Our Felin Mokui family was brought here by the spell weavers. Our memory tower has a way to deal with the spell weavers, and even records the secrets of the hub. As long as you are willing to cooperate with me to open the Sharon Forbidden Wall, You can get all these things."

"Sounds very moving." Brian smiled, "But I am quite clear about one thing."

"What do you know?... Hiss... Hiss... Hiss..." Elder Mokui asked.

"The words of Felin Mokui have never been trustworthy." Brian said coldly:

"In order to thank you for letting me know that the spellweaver is sleeping in the 'dark abyss', I will give you a quick death."

As soon as the words fell, he sacrificed the Austrian fire and burned the two screaming Mokui elders to death.

"Target is dead!"

"Extracting soul energy..."

"Acquired experience points: 150000 points!"

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"Target is dead!"

"Extracting soul energy..."

"Acquired experience points: 250000 points!"

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Seeing the experience points he had gained, Brian clicked his tongue secretly, lamenting that he is indeed a creature that has lived for tens of thousands of years, and even has such rich experience points.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that a mass of thick elemental energy had condensed around the two elder Mokui who had turned into ashes.

Then it spread out with a 'bang' and disappeared into the air.

Brian seemed to realize something, and immediately called for Fairy Water Ze.

Just a moment.

Wearing a green dress, Sylvari with loose silver hair appeared in front of him.

With light steps, she happily walked in front of Brian, took his arm, looked at him resentfully with water-like blue eyes, and complained: "Master, you haven't been here for two months. "

"Now is not the time to talk about this issue. Let me ask you, did you feel any changes in the demiplane just now." He asked seriously.

"I feel it, master." Fairy Mizusawa stopped acting coquettishly, her delicate voice was clear and pleasant, "I feel two groups of rich elemental energies blending into the magic pool. These pure energies allow the demiplane to get Significant growth."

"So that's how it is." With Mizusawa Fairy's confirmation, Brian showed a dazed look.

Felin Mokui is a mysterious race that absorbs magical energy to survive, which means that they have tools similar to absorbing magic in their bodies.

Once they die, the tools that store magic will be destroyed, and the magic energy inside will return to the world again, which sounds a bit similar to the 'whale fall' in the deep sea.

If the demiplane is compared to a plant, and the roots connecting the hubs are the casters, then these killed felin magic sunflowers are the fertilizer.

Thinking of this, he realized that he had inadvertently obtained a new method to improve the growth progress of the demiplane.

The only thing that gave him a headache was that following the 'Source Believers Association', the demiplane had another threat from a law-weaver organization.

He can only wait for the end of the war in the Kingdom of Cormyr to check the detailed information about the 'Dark Abyss' demiplane.

(End of this chapter)