Arcane Journey

Chapter 346 Mystra's Blessing

Two tall stone pillars enclose a fine gold gate engraved with runes on the stone wall of the incomparably huge tunnel, and there are also carved reliefs with serious expressions on it.

On the left door is a young and beautiful maiden, while on the right is a wrinkled, weather-beaten middle-aged woman.

A small bell made of unknown materials and a fist-sized hammer hung in front of the door.

"We've been exposed." Brenners said to Bryan after inspecting the temple of the Lost Lady, "I can feel the magic fluctuations emanating from the temple, obviously Eswell's men are ready and waiting for us arrival."

"Then what are you waiting for, just break in."

Brian frowned. His keen sense of magic made him feel that the ceremony inside the temple was on the verge of success.

Even the free magical elements in the air began to become more and more irritable.

As the witch Arokar who was killed by him said, the magic net of this land has been polluted, and any spell used here will affect itself.

Although Brian used his arcane fire instead of the magic net to release the spell, the closer he was to this temple, the more frightened he felt that the arcane fire in his body was overflowing uncontrollably Out of arcane energy.

This is not good news.

Because if he stays here for a long time, the result will be that the energy of Austrian Fire will be exhausted, making him unable to release any spells.

"I think so too, let's get started." Brenners apparently also noticed this situation, and he summoned his two fist-sized constructs in advance, making them shine with light blue light, surrounded by around yourself.

Then, he said to Brian with a solemn expression, "Come and break the door, I plan to give a small gift to a group of lurkers in the temple."

Brian nodded slightly, quickly recited a spell, and then stretched out his finger. He released the nine-ring spell "Maduncan's Disintegration" that burst out with destructive energy. At a speed visible to the naked eye, he brutally smashed the All the restrictions were crushed, and then the solid door was turned into the most primitive material form and dissipated in the air.

At the same time, the spell of the ghost prince Brennus has also been prepared.

I saw the two constructs surrounding him flashing a faint milky white light, and then at a dizzying speed, they turned into two streamers of light and rushed into the hall of the temple where the gate was broken.

Accompanied by the dazzling white light bursting suddenly in the blink of an eye, the entire hall of the temple was shone as spectacularly as if dozens of suns had fallen here.

The scorching heat gushed out from the gap in the temple, and Brian vaguely saw that dozens of priestesses in purple robes, whose strength was around the middle and low ranks, burned to death in the sudden burst of terrifying light. In the mournful wailing, he was reduced to ashes.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Brian and Breners came quietly into the hall where the thick smoke was gradually dissipating under the light of the magic circle.

Brian, who has real vision, took a quick look around and found that the hall was dug in hard basalt, facing the entrance, and a shimmering wooden screen leaned against the opposite stone wall.

The screen is carved with three female figures standing under the starry sky, but it looks rough and unfinished.

There is a small door on each wall on the left and right, and a large double-leaf door on the west side.

If he expected correctly, the large double-leaf door on the west side is the area leading to the priestess Elsweil's ritual.

With the sudden appearance of the two, the survivors in the hall also hid or hid, or even showed up on their own initiative, and took action with super high efficiency.

Directly in front of Brian's line of sight was a woman with pale complexion, with fanaticism and anger shining in her dark purple eyes.

This priestess, whose strength has obviously reached the legendary realm, is wearing a long purple lady's coat on top of the black plate armor engraved with runes, holding a mace and an adamantine demon that shines with dazzling brilliance. shield.

On both sides of the priestess, summoned from the Burning Hell, two McGloth demons with six insect limbs were staring at them with red eyes that could not blink.

These two strong McGloth demons are like personal guards, holding a large metal trident in each of their two paws, ready to fight.

At the same moment, a tall and thin man emerged from the darkness of the hall.

He wielded a long sword and a shield, and wore a breastplate of mithril gleaming black, a deep purple cloak, and a helm with sharp teeth.

His red hair was tied into a braid, and he had a malicious sneer on his face, looking at Brian and Breners with disdain.

"For the glory of the lost lady, stop them!" The tall dark guard shouted, and a deep purple energy suddenly burst out from his body.

And the wooden screen in the hall, which shone with faint light, also seemed to receive a response from the black guard, and even shone with a little golden divine brilliance.

The bright light reflected the three female figures standing under the starry sky engraved on the screen, as if they were alive, as if they could walk out of the screen at any time.

Out of the corner of Brian's eyes, he glanced at the unfinished screen. There was no doubt that the statue of the Lost Lady Shar was engraved on the screen, which made his expression unconsciously solemn.

In this short moment, he discovered that the progress of the pollution of the magic net in this land has been further deepened. If the two cannot stop it as quickly as possible, it is really possible that the priestess Ace Vail's plan worked.

Accompanied by the shouts of the black guards, in the corridor on the second floor of the hall, dozens of well-equipped fighters and more than a dozen priests of Shar appeared in unison.

These warriors and priests all held crossbows with a icy luster, and the crossbows with the magic-breaking properties that most dreaded spellcasters had already been filled by them.

"Clang!"

The black guard raised his long sword aloft, and roared from the helmet with sharp teeth: "This is a blessed sanctuary protected by the lost lady. Anyone who dares to violate it will suffer God's punishment and curse!"

As soon as the words fell, he took the lead in attacking, and with the roar, the dark aura around him frantically gathered around his body like a real thread, and then turned into a light and shadow, and rushed towards Brian.

The moment the Blackguards launched their attack, Brian had already prepared in advance.

Before the opponent got close, he activated his enhanced version of the arcane energy storm. Under the blessing of curse fire and psychic powers, he displayed a terrifying energy storm, and instantly rolled the charging black guard up to the ceiling, and fell down hard.

While resisting the black guards, the roaring storm also swept away all the demon-breaking crossbows fired by the warriors and priests in the corridor on the second floor.

——"blasphemy!"

At this moment, the priestess, who was directing her two guards Magloth to attack Brenas, seized the opportunity and used her best attack method at Bryan.

In an instant, Bryan felt this terrifying evil force crazily eroding towards his mind, and in the blink of an eye dense numbers of test data appeared in his system bar.

He got rid of the dazzled feeling brought by the blasphemous words, and without hesitation activated the feature of "Tianjieshan Blessing" "Barrier of Goodness", so that bright sacred light surrounded him.

Immediately afterwards, his bright eyes, illuminated by the divine radiance, suddenly locked on the priestess, giving her the most vicious counterattack.

——"Chaos Mantra!"

Accompanied by a nearly invisible terrifying energy, the body of the priestess froze suddenly, and her pretty face suddenly became distorted in pain, and then she held her head in her hands and groaned in pain.

This powerful mantra attack even affected the black guard who had just fallen to the ground from mid-air, struggling hard to get up from the ground.

Out of the corner of Brian's eyes, Bryan noticed that Breners had controlled the two powerful McGloth demons attacking him, and even controlled two constructs, like two bombers, towards the soldiers on the second floor of the hall And priests, attack.

He didn't dare to waste time, and was raising his staff, ready to cast an attack spell, to clean up the enemies in front of him, but suddenly found that the unfinished screen burst out with golden brilliance again.

Where the radiance full of divine energy shines, the black guards and priestesses who are suffering from the chaotic mantra are immediately healed and become alive and well.

——"Binding Slash!"

Accompanied by a loud shout, more than a dozen dark purple energy chains erupted strangely from the black guard's long sword, shooting towards Brian like a volley of sharp arrows.

——"Storm of Vengeance!"

The priestess also took this opportunity to recite a few syllables in a deep voice, and then a large group of terrifying black storms condensed in the sky above Brian, wrapped in lightning and thunder, making a heart-shaking sound.

Bryan was instantly shaken by the roar of thunder, like the cicadas in midsummer, echoing for a long time, he immediately stabilized his mind, calmly propped up an elemental shield for himself, and blocked the second round of lightning and the third round of the revenge storm. One round of strong acid, followed by a dozen rounds of violent wind, rain and frost.

Then, while resisting the spell attack of the Vengeful Storm, he drew the sword of the star that was haunted by chaos and cursefire energy.

A flash of blue-white light flashed, and more than a dozen dark purple energy chains galloping forward were all cut off by Brian's sword.

Then, he immediately activated the flash technique, and disappeared within the envelope of the revenge storm.

As soon as Bryan appeared from the magic circle, the black guard and the priestess had already blessed all kinds of buff magic, holding the flashing sword and shield, and rushed towards him together.

Apparently, when they realized that divine spells could not cause effective damage to Brian, they tried to prepare to use purely physical attacks to deal with him.

At this moment, a fist-sized ball of incandescent light suddenly landed between Brian and the black guard.

With a bang, the entire hall of the temple turned white, and even Brian was affected by it and fell into a state of blindness for a while.

Breners, who had already cleaned up the surrounding soldiers, appeared next to Brian. He did not immediately choose to attack the enemy, but glanced at the screen in the distance, and said solemnly to Brian: "As the magic net is continuously Almost all of the believers of the Lost Lady have established links with the Shadow Demon Network, and under the protection of the Shadow Demon Network, it is very difficult for us to completely kill them."

"So that's it." Bryan showed a look of surprise, and then muttered to himself: "Is this going to delay the rhythm?"

"I'm afraid there are other meanings here." Brenners shook his head slightly, and quickly transmitted to him: "Since these believers have been completely bound to the Shadow Demon Net, from the moment they are killed, It will be turned into energy that pollutes the magic net, accelerating the completion of the Elsweil ceremony."

"Hold the two of them, I'm going to look for Eswell now." Brian was shocked when he heard this, and as expected, as most of the fighters and priests were killed by Breners, the surrounding magic elements once again become more confusing.

"Be careful yourself." Braines hesitated and agreed to Brian's proposal.

Seeing Prince Shame nodding, Brian no longer hesitated, and immediately quickened his pace and left the battlefield in front of him.

After he blessed himself with various protective magics, he kicked open the large double-leaf door on the west side, and entered the deep darkness without hesitation.

To his surprise, he managed to find the place where Priestess Elsweer held the ceremony of tearing the magic net at almost no cost.

A silence reigned over the great room, or shrine.

Two dim candles by the door illuminated the room with a faint green light.

The floor and walls are made of black, purple and blue tiles in a dazzling swirl pattern, and six black marble columns with golden lines support the entire room.

Brian headed straight for a passageway to the northeast that was concealed by a black curtain.

After lifting the black curtain made of some unknown magic thread, he saw a podium at the far end of the room.

On the podium stands a large statue, which is the 'Night Dancer' image of the lost lady Shar in the physical plane: a beautiful woman with a veil, holding a dagger in each hand, wrapped around her chest, and the feet of the statue On the stone platform in front of it are engraved arcane symbols.

Brian looked at the arcane symbol thoughtfully, carefully mobilized the arcane energy, and injected it into the symbol.

A scene that surprised him happened.

With the faint magical aura of the arcane symbols flashing, a stone door rose from the wall behind the statue of the Lost Lady.

The ease of cracking the method to open the secret room made Brian feel hesitant in his heart, but when he thought of the surrounding magic elements that were obviously more chaotic than the hall, he finally risked his life and went in bravely.

Appearing in Brian's line of sight was a large cave comparable to a football field. The ground was covered with a layer of smooth basalt slabs, and the arrangement was very smooth.

Naturally formed rough stone columns still serve as pillars to support the ceiling overhead, and there is a 10-meter-wide sunken pit in the center of the cave.

Dozens of iron cages hung in the hollow, each containing a gaunt and emaciated spellcaster in tattered robes.

A mass of living darkness pulsates and shrinks in the middle of the pit, snake-like shadowy tentacles chained to the poor people above.

The creatures in the cage were all lying down, their eyes were distracted, the corners of their mouths squirmed slightly, and they were chanting something over and over again.

Undoubtedly, the spellcasters in front of him are exactly the same as what Brian encountered in the ancient black dragon Despear in the Dark Canyon. The only difference is that the scale here seems to be larger, and the number of spellcaster slaves is also more. .

In the dark canyon of the shadow plane, the ancient black dragon failed to succeed because of his destruction.

But unfortunately, this time they succeeded.

Brian was shocked to see that the big pit in the room was gradually expanding the area of ​​the dead magic area as the ceremony progressed.

Brian could even clearly feel that the magic net in the distant void was being torn apart bit by bit.

If this terrible ritual cannot be stopped, everything here will continue to grow until the magic net of the entire world is destroyed.

Most of the cave has been completely covered in a real dead magic area. Unlike the current situation where the magic net is weak around the valley, spells, spell-like abilities and magic effects that are not from the shadow magic net are completely prohibited here.

However, for some reason, Brian was able to try to drive the magic of the magic net in this area.

This made him instantly realize that this was definitely related to the kiss that Helen, the eldest sister of the Seven Northern Sisters, gave him before disappearing.

Because when he rescued Azara from the dungeon, the other party claimed that he could clearly feel the silver fire energy from Helen.

"Finally here are the guests." A priestess who was facing the terrifying vortex rising from the huge cave slowly turned around. This was a beautiful lady with a pale complexion and long, smooth black hair. A pair of black eyes are full of aura.

She was wearing a richly decorated ancient full body armor, the armor was gold and black interlaced, looking graceful and elegant.

In addition, she is holding a scepter made of fine iron, with a snake carved with its mouth wide open and teeth exposed.

Obviously, this person is the high priest Eswell Graycastle who presided over the ceremony of tearing the magic net.

"I have been waiting for you for a long time, the messenger of the mysterious lady." The priestess said with an unconcealable fanatic tone: "Praise the lost goddess who hides all secrets, I always insist that such a great ceremony should require an audience to witness the whole process .”

Hearing this sentence, Brian's expression sank, and he looked at the priestess with a confident and confident look. He faintly felt that he seemed to be late.

"Now, come and witness this greatest moment with me!"

Little by little, the divine radiance emerged, and the golden light began to emanate from Elsevier's body. Her black hair was faintly shining, and the golden and black criss-cross armor was like a shadow emerging from the brightest light. eye-catching.

With her slowly opening her arms, her noble, mysterious and graceful body slowly lifted into the air and rushed towards the vortex in the huge cave.

"Eswell, you bastard who believes in Shar bitch, you are willing to die yourself, don't take me to be buried with you!" At this moment, the snake head on the priestess' scepter sprayed a cloud of black mist, The soul of the witch Arokar floated in the air, and cursed at her.

"Everything I do is for the glory of Miss Lost." The priestess remained unmoved, letting her body float into the vortex, and said devoutly and fanatically, "Anyone's sacrifice is worth it..."

"Fuck you, it's worth it, I don't want to, Shar, you are a bitch, why should you sacrifice my life." The witch roared hoarsely, with deep fear in her eyes.

Seeing this, Brian finally realized the seriousness of the problem. He took out the Archmage's staff without hesitation, and immediately cast the legendary spell "Luxury Dispel Magic".

However, what shocked him was that before the spell was released, he was backlashed by a chaotic energy that was huge enough to suffocate him. Feeling wrapped up, difficult to get up.

"Stop making ridiculous struggles." The priestess looked at Brian with mocking eyes, and without hesitation took the soul of the Lich Arokar, and threw them into the vortex above the huge cave together.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by bursts of trembling bangs, the vortex rolled like boiling water, and blue and white energy instantly surged around the bodies of dozens of spellcasters imprisoned in the iron cage, rushing towards the vortex frantically.

These poor spellcasters could only hold on to the bars of the cage in despair, looking at their bodies with horror on their faces, and turned into a skinny mummy at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The situation on Brian's side was not optimistic either. The moment the last caster was sucked dry, he could clearly feel that the entire cave was completely enveloped by the energy of the Shadow Demon Net.

Under the influence of the Shadow Demon Net, he was unable to release any arcane, spell-like, supernatural abilities, or even psychic powers, and even the arcane energy in the arcane fire in his body was passing away at a speed visible to the naked eye Lose.

He raised his head, and was shocked to see a cloud of dark purple mist, which was expanding towards the surrounding space at a slow speed.

For some reason, he almost instinctively believed that this dark purple cloud was the manifestation of the Shadow Demon Net in the material world. When the cloud and mist enveloped the entire world, it meant that the Shadow Demon Net had completely replaced the Magic Net. .

"Did it really fail?" Brian looked at the purple cloud that had expanded by a third, and stood there blankly, muttering to himself.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a deep powerlessness. He thought he could prevent this disaster from happening, but who would have thought that he would become the first mortal to witness the disaster.

After thinking about it, it was difficult for him to guess which part of himself went wrong, so that it evolved into this situation.

"No, there must be a solution." Brian's mind flashed, as if he had thought of something, but he didn't dare to confirm it.

At this moment, the last poor victim imprisoned in the cage turned into a handful of gray dust, and he suddenly felt an invisible person appearing near him, causing a kind of puff on his cheek. A violent shuddering feeling.

"As you can imagine, my dear friend, there is still room for redemption."

A gentle voice was like a whisper sent by the breeze, reaching Brian's ears: "Your deeds are commendable, and now there is only one last task left: you must guide the silver fire of Goddess Mystra, so that Repair the scars of the magic net."

"Only in this way can the conspiracy of Shar's followers be completely defeated."

"Can you...can you do this instead of me?"

Brian heaved a sigh of relief, silently looked into the void, and nodded.

Immediately afterwards, he felt that the witch of Shadow Valley poured all his remaining power into his body.

In an instant, a cold white flame burst out from Brian's eyes, hands, whole body, and even the Austrian fire in his body.

The huge and scorching breath rushed forward, washing away the ever-expanding dark purple cloud in the center of the cave.

For a moment.

The shadow and the silver fire fought fiercely against each other. These two terrifying energies were like wild horses running wild, tumbling violently in the void, both wanting to engulf each other.

At this moment, Brian couldn't help at all. He was like an adventurer who watched a scene animation, watching the battle for the magic net between the lost lady Shar and the goddess of magic Mystra.

Until the flame won, the purple vortex disappeared, and all the clouds and mist dissipated, as if being scorched dry by the flame in an instant, Brian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Obviously, Mystra, the goddess of magic, won the battle.

At the same time, Hellen's voice reached his ears again. Although the sweet voice sounded beautiful, like the most beautiful music, it seemed a little weak and contained a certain kind of deep nostalgia and reluctance, "So Just like..."

"Now, I beg you, go to the Realm of the Magic Web, repair the last scars, win this battle for my beloved goddess, and let the glory of the goddess shine on the land full of freedom..."

"My strength has come to an end..."

"Farewell, I am very grateful to you, dear friend..."

After that, the voice of the Shadow Valley Witch faded away, and Brian suddenly felt that she had completely disappeared here.

It was unnatural, and it made him feel that something was missing in his heart.

A system prompt interrupted Brian's deep thinking, and he found that he had acquired a good ability because of this battle:

[Mystra's blessing: You have won the favor of the Shadow Valley Witch. When Shiron injected silver fire into your body, she chose to transfer part of Mystra's special protection to you. The goddess of magic acquiesced to her deeds, and bestow upon you her blessing.

effect:

Bonus Spell: From the list of spells appropriate to the current casting level, choose a spell as a spell-like ability, which can be used once per day, and cannot be changed after selection.

Spell Immunity: Select one spell from the list of spells suitable for the current casting level, and you will be permanently immune to the effects of these spells from now on. Once selected, you cannot change it.

Immunity: Please choose two of aging, disease, petrification, dissociation, poison, and sleep as blessing attributes. 】

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Seeing the written information appearing in the retina, Brian was stunned.

If there is no problem with his memory, the rewards of spells and spell immunity in the blessing are all the characteristics of the chosen ones of the goddess of magic. He did not expect that he could obtain them in this way.

For the time being, he ignored the first two options and fixed his gaze on the third.

Then, without thinking about it, he chose aging and petrification among the "immunity" attributes as his attributes.

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(End of this chapter)