Arcane Journey

Chapter 340 Games
Brian followed the path through a grass-covered forest in Shadow Valley, and a small river flowed into his eyes.

Both sides of the river are pebble-covered tidal flats, and the river is cold and sweet. From time to time, wild deer and rabbits can be seen coming out of the woods and running to the river to drink water.

It was dusk at this moment, and the orange sunlight slanted on the earth, making the fields present an intoxicating warm tone.

It has been the second day since Brian rescued the ranger Azara last night. As he expected, after Azara revealed the real Ashaba's pendant as the son of the electorate, the valley Residents of the city responded to his call and joined the struggle to reclaim Shadowvale.

At the same time, armed forces hidden in the dark, Harpist scouts, and elf reinforcements from Comanthor also joined in one after another. The battle lasted from early morning to noon the next day, and finally the occupation army of Shadow Valley and the Dark Trade Network were recruited. The mercenaries and mercenaries are all cleaned up.

With the recovery of the Shadow Valley, the black guard Sai Luer immediately led his Black Hope Legion, preparing to unite with the forces of the Church of Shar and the Drow family hiding in the Shadow Valley. its back.

As a result, a defense battle for Shadow Valley kicked off again.

Brian did not participate in the upcoming battle, because he still had more important tasks to do.

His plan was naturally to take this opportunity to sneak into the lair of the Lich Arokar and destroy the dark ritual of the Lich and Priestess Elsweil tearing the magic net.

Soon, Brian came to a ruin located on a hill in the north of Shadow Valley.

Facing the cool breeze, he can see from a high position, ushering in the short and peaceful Shadow Valley. In the distant field, a few children are playing and playing among the haystacks. Under the warm sunlight, the scarecrow in the field becomes It is no longer scary, but it has added a bit of cuteness.

Thinking of his next dangerous mission, Brian withdrew his gaze, took a deep breath of cold air to refresh himself, and walked towards the ruins without hesitation.

There used to be a ruined ruin called 'The Harsh City'.

In the valley calendar 834DR, the year of the Leaping Lion, an army that called itself "Shining United" braved hardships and dangers to come from afar and built a castle here.

They hope to use this as a base to expel the drow rulers under this land.

Since then, battles have continued on the surface and underground here, and this castle has also been called: Harsh City.

In this way, about 30 years passed, and in the end, in 864DR, the year of fragments, Shining Alliance still failed.

Most of the castle was destroyed by a huge explosion in the final battle, and most of the remaining ruins have decayed with the passage of time.

Today, few visit the long-destroyed ruins, though Zhentarim occupying forces occasionally patrol the site.

In fact, the basement of the castle has long been secretly occupied by the witch Arocar, who quietly built a labyrinthine lich's lair full of dangers.

Brian stepped into the ruins cautiously. He activated the detection magic to find the way to the lich's lair according to the intensity of the negative energy floating in the air.

However, he hadn't carried out a carpet-like search yet, and a thing that surprised and shocked him appeared just like that.

As if he felt the abnormality around him, as Brian raised his head instinctively, he suddenly saw a large cloud that was darker and more oppressive than a dark cloud, and it condensed into shape in an instant, covering the top of his head, turning the hazy sky into a cloud. The light is completely blocked, turning the surrounding into darkness.

Feeling the rapidly dropping temperature, Brian's expression suddenly became highly vigilant.

Although his own space has been completely covered by the "Deep Darkness Technique", but with the legendary blessing of true vision, he can even see creatures hidden in the etheric plane, not to mention the darkness formed by magic .

Obviously, at this moment, he was ambushed by the enemy. Some people had predicted in advance that he would search for the lair of the Lich Arocar, and had set up a trap here in advance, waiting for her to jump into it on her own initiative.

After trying to understand the cause of the problem, Brian calmed down after being a little nervous. After all, he had already anticipated this situation before he set off.

What he was most worried about was that all the enemies were hiding in the Lich's dungeon, using the concealment of the lair and the complex terrain of the dungeon to stop him.

In this case, it is undoubtedly a huge challenge for him. After all, the lair carefully arranged by the lich is absolutely as dangerous as the wizard tower of the caster.

But the enemy stupidly chose to ambush him outside the lair. If it weren't for their inflated self-confidence, then Brian would wonder if their heads accidentally hit the wall of the lich's lair.

"Jie Jie Jie..."

As the shadows shrouded, the densely packed ghost creatures made various sounds: deep or sharp, wailing or howling, and cries of pain or ecstasy, all of them emerged from the cloth like a raging tide Ryan.

Facing this kind of crowd tactics, Brian, a legendary spellcaster, was not afraid at all. With a thought, in an instant, blue and white flames transformed from the energy of the curse fire surrounded his body. All the ghosts within 1 meter from him let out sharp and painful wailing, and dissipated into the air as light smoke.

Immediately afterwards, Brian seemed to have sensed something, stretched out his finger, and a washbasin-sized blue and white fireball formed by the energy of the curse fire, like a fired shell, moved toward a large group of shadow energy with the help of shadow energy. Approaching shadows.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a loud noise, the fireball shining with blue and white flames instantly ignited a raging fire in the shadow energy cloud with the momentum of a prairie fire, dispelling the surrounding darkness at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But soon a huge amount of dark energy that was enough to make Brian feel oppressed, like a galloping horse, rolled over, extinguishing all the burning flames around, and turning it into a deep, cold dark space again.

"Not bad."

Accompanied by the slight squirm of a cloud of shadow energy, a figure in a black robe, holding a staff, and a faint red light in his eyes appeared in Brian's sight, "I didn't expect you to have mastered the spell of the Cursefire so quickly. The manipulation skills are truly astonishing.”

Seeing the logo embroidered on the black robe of the figure clearly: a monocle was placed in the black swirl on the dark orange background, and Brian immediately recognized that the enemy who attacked him was the tenth prince Agrila of the City of Shadows.

In the game world, he hadn't even seen the opponent's real attack. Even the players who joined the Shadow City forces had seen him in public only a handful of times.

Now, the identity of the sneak attacker appeared in front of him.

According to some information he has, he probably knows that Agrila is also a spellcaster of the dual cultivation of Sinnosaur, but unlike Brenas, he is not an archivist, but a part-time priest of Shar.

"It turned out to be you." Surrounded by blue and white flames, Brian looked around vigilantly for possible dangers at any time. When speaking, he tried to calm down his tone as much as possible.

At this moment, he has already noticed that the space here has been blocked, and it is obviously impossible to teleport and escape through normal means.

But this is not a threat to him, after all, he has another profession: Psychic, which is what he can rely on when facing Agrila.

"It seems that you know me, and you must have done a lot of research in advance. After all, a legendary powerhouse like me is an existence that makes the enemy feel afraid at any time." Agrila looked at Brian calmly, using Said in a slightly proud voice:
"However, the only thing that surprises me is that you are so calm when you see me. Even a slightly surprised expression can satisfy my vanity. Why, the young mage lord, tell me Why do I?"

"Could it be that showing a surprised expression can help me increase the success rate of escaping?" Brian knew that the reason why the other party was so stinky was nothing more than deliberately delaying time and brewing some means to deal with him.

He secretly prepared the spell, and said in a relaxed tone, "If this is the case, the next time I see you, my jaw will definitely drop. What do you think?"

"It's not good." Agrela snorted softly, and then sneered, "Because you don't have another chance."

After the Shadow Prince finished speaking, his phantom suddenly disintegrated and disappeared without a trace.

And his real body outside the shadows has already taken out the magic staff inlaid with the magic crystal, and is calmly preparing his own spells.

Seeing the disappearing Agrila, Brian instinctively felt that this shadow space shrouded in darkness became more and more oppressive. It was obvious that the other party was probably preparing some powerful spells.

And as the shadow space became more and more dark and depressing, even making people a little breathless, Brian also noticed that the purple dragon seal ring he was wearing was also heating up as the space changed.

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly became aware of the shadow energy behind him, which suddenly became denser. In the tumbling black cloud, there was a sharp sound of breaking through the air and a powerful force.

Obviously, Agrila was not the only one who ambushed and attacked him here.

——"Arcane Sequence!"

Brian didn't turn around, but just watched the surrounding environment vigilantly. The staff slammed towards the ground, and the enhanced version of the Stone Wall spell that he had set in advance in the arcane sequence was fully activated.

Behind him, a series of solid walls emerged out of thin air, blocking him tightly and escorting him without leaving a single gap.

The tumbling shadow energy turned into a strong warrior in black armor. He was like an arrow flying from the string, rushing towards the rising stone wall like a bamboo at a dizzying speed.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

Accompanied by the sound of dozens of rocks breaking, all the fireballs attached to the shattered stone wall exploded, engulfing the attackers behind them in a sea of ​​flames.

At this moment, Brian didn't have time to check who the attacker behind him was, and immediately met another dense cloud of shadow energy on his left.

As soon as he raised his staff, he was startled to see that in the tumbling shadow energy, a rainbow sword energy condensed by dark energy shot up into the sky, and slashed down on him with a fierce momentum.

Terrible energy roared in, and Bryan passed a will immunity test on the spot. If it wasn't for his high will attributes, he would definitely be intimidated by the sword energy and let the opponent strike him.

This made him instantly recognize that the enemy attacking him was definitely Prince Oripa of the City of Shadows.

If the ghost of an inaugural sword master is really smashed firmly on the defensive force field by the opponent, he will definitely die on the spot.

——"Madunkin's disintegration technique!"

Brian didn't dare to be careless, he held his breath and concentrated, and when the howling sword energy was approaching, he stretched out his hand without hesitation, and a faint golden light appeared in the dark space, instantly locking onto the sword energy that came out of nowhere.

Accompanied by the surrounding space, bursts of subtle, shattering sounds resounded. This frightening sword energy was shattered into pieces with a bang, and dissipated in the air, revealing a handle full of darkness. Rune's Nether Ancient Sword.

"How is it possible, why can his cracking technique defuse my attack?"

The seventh prince Oripa, who showed a thin figure, was shocked to see a tiny crack appear on his "goddess", and his dark face was full of heartache.

However, at the moment when he lost his mind, the shadow sword master known as the strongest glass man had been seized by Brian to counterattack, and the "Meteor Burst" in the legendary staff was instantly activated by him.

Four meteorites burning with raging flames, trailing a trail of thick smoke, smashed towards Prince Yinhun.

"Get out of the way!" Behind Brian, the second prince Yada, who just broke free from the shackles of the flames, hurriedly shouted at Oripa.

The Seventh Prince, who came back to his senses, broke out in a cold sweat, and promptly activated the shadow shuttle feature of the ghost, turning into a tumbling black mist and disappearing.

"Boom!"

Four meteorites fell to the ground like meteors, and there was an earth-shattering sound. The terrible explosion completely reduced the entire ruins to ashes.

Seeing the Prince of Shadows dodging away, Brian secretly thought it was a pity.

If one's spell hits the opponent, it can definitely kill him instantly.

And the reason why his disintegration technique can defuse the opponent's attack, and even leave traces on his natal weapon, is also due to the gift from Azuth, the mage god.

The hidden attributes of these two legendary spells made his disintegration, disintegration, and dispelling magic spells all have a faint divine power attached to them, which could cause unexpected effects.

As the Seventh Prince avoided Brian's magic attack in time, in another dark corner, three sharp arrows lingering with countless shrieking dead souls shot out of the air, wrapped in the wailing of the dead souls, and shot towards Brian. .

The mournful wail of the dead soul pierced into Brian's mind like a sharp arrow, and all the psychic barriers he had blessed in advance bounced back.

——"Advanced protective arrows!"

Facing the three sharp arrows piercing through the air, Bryan moved his mind, and a polyhedron diamond-shaped barrier glowing with a cold light enveloped him.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!..."

Accompanied by three crisp sounds, the sharp arrows were all deflected and shot into the distance.

But to Bryanton's surprise, the countless dead souls on the sharp arrows all adhered to his defensive barrier, sending out a steady stream of psychic attacks.

In the blink of an eye, he felt that his spiritual barrier was obviously beginning to dim.

He activated his teleportation trigger without hesitation, trying to forcibly escape from this space blocked by the ghost princes.

A magic circle shining with psychic brilliance emerged.

Immediately afterwards, in the space shrouded in shadow energy, dense black mist suddenly emerged, turning into a net of darkness, completely covering Brian.

At the same time, the attacks of the second prince Yada and the seventh prince Oripa came one after another, with powerful forces, they slashed on Brian's body almost at the same time.

"Crack..."

As the layers of the protective barrier shattered, the moment Brian's body touched the blade, it turned into a bit of mist and disappeared, leaving only a yellow oak leaf, which slowly fell to the ground.

"Huh?" Seeing this situation, Agrela, who had just raised a smile on the corner of his mouth, frowned suddenly. He forcibly stopped the legendary spell he was about to complete, stretched out his hand, and pointed at the withered yellow that fell on the ground. The oak leaves flew to his palm.

"It's careless, he actually has a flash, no wonder he dares to look for Arocar's lair alone without any fear."

Agrela stared at the oak leaves and muttered to herself, "I thought that by blocking the teleportation space of arcane and psionic powers, I could completely kill them with legendary spells."

As a spellcaster, he naturally knows how difficult it is to kill a wizard whose strength has reached the legendary realm.

What's more, the opponent is still a legendary psion, so in order to prevent Bryan from escaping his soul after being killed and being reborn through cloning or psychic star realm, he carefully prepared a soul-grabbing magic circle for the opponent.

If he had successfully released his legendary spell in the previous battle, not only would he be able to kill the opponent completely, but he would also be able to obtain the arcane knowledge stored in his mind, as well as the mysteries about the curse fire.

Obviously, he failed.

"What is this leaf?" Second Prince Yada came over and asked.

"It looks like... the means of the forest goddess." Agrela glanced at the veins on the leaves of the tree, threw them away, and said in a flat tone: "Obviously, this kid has a helper."

"Then what should we do next?" Yada asked for his opinion.

"Don't worry, he can't escape my palm."

Agrela calmly took out a dark orange lens, put it on her right eye, stared thoughtfully at the space coordinates where Brian disappeared, and said with a murderous intent: "Since he wants to play with us If it’s the same game, then I’ll play it with him.”

"Notify Lamorak." He gave Yada an order, "Let him open the Eye of Arcana in the Floating Void City, set up the astral vascular system leading to the Valley of Shadows, and make every effort to prepare for remote support."

This is the purpose of letting Lamorac, the sixth child, sit in the floating city, to prevent such accidents from happening.

(End of this chapter)