Arcane Journey

Chapter 347 Elf Queen
"Boom!"

Accompanied by the loud sound of the fireball bursting, the raging flames broke the customary darkness of the Underdark region, and a burst of explosive fireballs enough to melt rocks rushed straight into the stalactite pillars where the drow elves were hiding.

Before the vigilant dark elves had time to react, they were engulfed by the burst of flames and turned into ashes.

The scorching flames illuminated the huge and deep caves in the Underdark region red, and at the same time revealed the stunned faces of a group of surface elves who were confronting the drow elves.

Obviously, even this group of surface elves from Cormanthor didn't know who the reinforcements that instantly reversed the whole situation were.

However, soon they had the answer in their hearts.

As the billowing thick smoke gradually dissipated, the figures of Brian and the ghost prince Braines appeared in the sight of these surface elves.

"Where is your leader, Ms. Ilsevery?" Brian looked at an elf captain who was walking over, directly skipped the cumbersome etiquette, and asked straightforwardly.

After he destroyed the dark ritual of the Temple of Shar and successfully prevented the Shadow Demon Net from infecting the Magic Net, he immediately took Brenas, according to the instructions on the map he got from the drow merchant, towards the Twisted Road hidden in the Shadow Valley. Head to the drow base camp at the bottom of the tower.

After all, he still has a more important task to do next, and that is to go to the realm of the magic net and repair the scars of the magic net. This battle of the magic net is the real end.

It is naturally impossible for him to complete this kind of task alone.

From the moment he watched Shar and Mystra's manifested shadows and flames confront each other like a spectator in the temple, he knew that he was at best a useful pawn in this battle However, those who can really turn the situation around are those bigwigs hiding behind the scenes.

Therefore, Brian needs to meet up with Azara and others as soon as possible, and go to Misty Valley together to ask the storm and other voters how to get to the realm of the magic net and how to repair the magic net.

In this way, he and Brenas rushed to the ruins of the former dark elf city at an extremely fast speed.

At this time, after expelling the drow who occupied the Twisted Tower to the ground, the elf expeditionary force originally from Comanthor and the armed forces of the Shadow Valley, took advantage of the victory and pursued them to the Underdark Region, trying to kill the drow who were hiding in the underground world. The threat is completely eradicated.

When Brian and Braines arrived here, what caught their eyes was the fierce battle between the surface elves and the drow elves.

For thousands of years, the struggle between the surface elves and the drow has never stopped, but most of them are small-scale battles, usually the surface elves defend passively, and the drow take the initiative to attack.

However, this time it was directly reversed.

This group of elven expeditionary troops from Evermeet Island came here with the determination to subdue Comanthor, rebuild the former capital of the elven empire, Myth Draenor, and complete the revival of the elven.

Moreover, they were formed by a group of militants in the High Elf Council of Evermeet Island. They ignored the warning of the Queen of Evermeet Island and voluntarily gave up the comfortable life of Evermeet Island, just to restore the former Cormanthor Elf Empire.

After the surface elves successfully expelled the drow elves from the Twisted Tower, they went directly to the underground world without hesitation, and took the initiative to attack the drow elves of the Marimoda family.

Although the number of surface elves is relatively dominant, and there are more elf mages and priests inside, this is the Underdark region, the territory of the drow elves.

The drow elves took advantage of the terrain, causing the counterattack of the surface elves to not be as smooth as expected, and even many teams were wiped out.

After Brian saw it, he couldn't avoid helping them.

With the sudden addition of two legendary spellcasters, the balance of the battlefield that was originally in a delicate situation was instantly broken.

However, Brian didn't have the leisure time to assist the elf army and deal with the drow soldiers hidden in the ruins of the city.

He needs to find the drow mistress of the Marimoda family as soon as possible. Only by killing all these leaders will the battle end quickly.

"Your Excellency the Crown Wearer has gone to the center of the city." After the elf captain finished speaking, he said a few syllables in a deep voice, and guided a clear path for Brian through the illusion created by magic.

Brian nodded slightly, and directly followed the Elf Captain's guidance, opened the portal, and disappeared in place together with the Prince of Shadows.

About ten minutes passed.

Brian and Brenas found a huge grotto with a relatively complete structure in the ruins of Merimidera City, and discovered the place where Azara and others fought with the drow mother.

It is said that thousands of years ago, the drow families of Marimoda used the Twisted Tower of Shadow Valley as an outpost to attack the elves of Cormanthor, and then, due to their defeat, they were exiled. Back to the Underdark and never came back.

In recent centuries, however, the resurgent drow of Marimoda have come to refer to the passages beneath the Twisted Tower as: Anzmar's Folly.

The name derives from the deeds of the previous Matriarch of the Drow, Commander of the Shadowlands.

As the Marimoda family recuperated and recharged their batteries, the clerics of Shar used their diplomatic skills to forge an alliance between the Zhentarim and the Marimoda family.

As a result, the drow were able to establish their new stronghold in the Shadowlands beneath the Old Skull Mountain.

This stronghold gave them a good opportunity to intervene in the war between the elves who rebuilt Myth Drannor and the Gele and Ozkven clans who believed in the masked god Velen.

Under such circumstances, the elf expeditionary force trying to complete the revival naturally regards the drow elves of the Marimoda family as a thorn in their side, a thorn in their flesh, and will never allow them to make trouble in the process of recovering Comanthor.

So the surface elves took the initiative to attack the family resident of the drow in the dark region.

After finding Azara and the others, Brian and Breners did not immediately join the battle, but decided to hide in the dark and observe the situation on the battlefield.

The first thing that caught Brian's eyes was a huge statue and altar of Spider Queen Rose. Above the altar, there was a magical illusion that seemed to be real, and it was endlessly between the giant spider and the beautiful drow woman. , constantly changing, surging out waves of evil energy.

The battle in the distance has obviously entered a relatively stalemate state. The corpses of surface elves and drow elves are everywhere on the ground, and there are traces of bloody sacrifices.

There are not many people left on the battlefield at this moment.

The elf lady named Ilsevery held a sharp sword that even Brian felt inexplicable palpitations, and fought with the mistress of the Marimoda family.

The sword mage Xavieril was entangled by a martial art master of the drow family. As for the opponent of Azara, the chosen one of the forest goddess, it turned out to be the wax melting demon known as Rose's handmaid.

This melting wax demon looks like a pillar covered in yellow ooze, with a malicious single eye on it, the abyssal breath surging from the opponent's expression, and the strength to suppress Azala, let Brian see It can be seen that this melting wax demon is definitely an abyssal demon that has fused the divine power of the spider god empress.

There are only a dozen of such powerful demons even in Rose's Divine Kingdom Deep Pit Demon Net. What he didn't expect was that the mistress of the Marimoda family could summon a demon at a time of crisis. Only.

You must know that only the first families of many large dark elf cities such as Menzoberranzan City or Ancient Orens City are eligible to summon Rose Maids of this level.

However, if you think about it carefully, there is still a certain reason why the mistress of the Marimoda family was able to summon him.

Because the other party is the only surviving drow family in the ruined city of Mere Midra, who shoulders the important task of rebuilding the city and preventing the elf expeditionary force from recovering Myth Dranno, they will naturally get the Queen of the Spider God. extra care.

"Look at that altar." The ghost prince Brenners seemed to have noticed something, looked at the altar thoughtfully, and then looked at the magic phantom above, "The mistress of the Marimoda family looks like I was stalling for time, and took this opportunity to summon some terrible monster."

"This is a dark ritual to summon Balor." After being reminded by the ghost prince, Brian guessed the summoned object of the ceremony in an instant, and then said with certainty: "What did this drow mother sacrifice? Prepare to summon more than three Barlow Balrogs at once."

The reason why he is so sure is because of his curse fire.

After all, he once killed the demon lord Barlow, the King of Balrog, and he is very familiar with the chaotic and violent flame energy of Balor.

"We must stop it as soon as possible." Brian's expression sank, and he said to the ghost prince beside him.

Looking at the direction of the battlefield and Ilsevelli's fiercer attack, he suddenly realized that the two of them were not the only ones who discovered this situation.

Obviously, the future elf queen of Myth Draenor also noticed it, but she was held back by the drow mistress, making it difficult to destroy it.

Although the weapon she holds in her hand is an ancient elven artifact called the Blade of Domination, this weapon is like the moonblade inherited from the elven family. The condition of the blade is to recover Myth Dranno, so the opponent has obviously not fully grown up yet.

"I think so too." Brenners nodded slightly. He stared at the altar and the magic phantom for a moment, then said to Brian, "I'll cover you, you are preparing the legendary spell Great Destruction, only the destructive power of this spell , in order to destroy their summoning ceremony."

Hearing this, Brian immediately came to the release range of the legendary spell, silently took out the staff, and began to prepare the legendary spell as quickly as possible.

Accompanied by powerful spells, murmured from Brian's mouth, and an invisible and terrifying power gradually spread around him.

Although the more powerful spells are, the more they can play a decisive role, but their flaws are also very obvious, that is, the casting speed is too long. After a battle, without the cover of powerful teammates, it is almost difficult to release them successfully.

Moreover, like the release of high-level psychic powers, causing an uncontrollable mist of light to fill the eyes, with the completion of the legendary spell, the condensed power will be too large, so that there will be eye-catching lights in the surrounding air. vision.

So when Brian prepared half of the spell, everyone on the battlefield noticed the strangeness here.

Rose's maid Wa Rong Yao was the first to react.

A red light flashed across her malicious one eye, and then she seemed to sense the target of Brian's attack, and she flew into a rage for an instant.

"If you dare to blaspheme God, go to death!"

An energy ball with a diameter of about one meter, covered with yellow ooze, condensed and formed on the top of the Waxmelt Demon's head, and smashed towards Brian at a fast speed.

At this moment, the ranger Azara immediately seized the opportunity, a large emerald green vine broke through the ground, tightly entangled the wax melting demon, and the sharp sword in his hand was like lightning, slashing across her body. The eye-catching bloodstains made her howl in pain.

On the other side, sensing the roaring energy ball, Brenners, Prince of Shadows, stood in front of Brian without hesitation.

A dark blue energy barrier condensed by two constructs was intertwined with the magical barrier he temporarily propped up, blocking the wax melt demon's hateful blow in time.

"Boom!"

The moment the wax melt demon's energy ball hit the Brenners barrier, an incomparably terrifying energy erupted. The terrifying sound combined with the violent explosion made the huge cave tremble slightly, and the stone pillars hanging from the top of the cave seemed to be falling. It rained down.

"What a powerful energy!" Brenas, who was struggling to resist the attack, stared at the dissipated energy in the air, and secretly sighed in shock, "As expected of the maid of the Spider God Queen."

"Get out of the way!" Brian reminded, and after Brenas got out of the way, he instantly pointed his staff at the magic phantom and the blood-red altar that had erupted with violent flame energy.

"boom!"

The moment the legendary spell was released by Brian, a terrifying energy suddenly permeated the past. The altar exuding flame energy and the constantly changing magic phantom seemed to be frozen in an instant, and it was like a distorted portrait in the blink of an eye. , collapsed without a trace with a 'bang'.

"hateful!!!"

Seeing that the altar was destroyed and the magic phantom of the Spider God Queen dissipated, the anger of the Mistress of the Marimoda family and the Waxing Demon soared to the peak in an instant.

Endless anger was transformed into terrifying energy, and the candle-like body of the roaring Wax Melt Demon began to melt strangely, turning into a khaki-yellow thick liquid that looked like wax tears, merging with Mistress Drow.

A hoarse female laughter burst out suddenly along with the purple light.

Suddenly, an extremely evil energy filled the air.

Mistress Drow, whose whole body was covered in khaki viscous liquid, twisted her long and slender legs in a frantic wriggling, and four pairs of creepy dark red spider legs protruded from them. Her flat belly was even more visible to the naked eye. The speed swelled up, trembling violently, turning into an incomparably huge spider belly.

In the blink of an eye, the wax melting demon and the drow mistress turned into a terrifying half-human half-spider form.

"What the hell is this?" Prince Yinhun asked with a slightly trembling voice as he looked at the monster in his sight that was emitting a strange red light and filled with evil abyssal energy.

At the same time, Azara and the others, who noticed the arrival of the two, became extremely heavy after seeing this terrifying monster.

"Rose's Embrace, the Blessing of the Melting Wax Demon, and the Legendary Hunting Spider Form..." Bryan guessed the three terrifying abilities that the Melting Wax Demon and the Mistress of the Drow displayed consecutively in an instant.

While talking, Brian seemed to have thought of something, and quickly reminded everyone loudly, "Hurry up and activate the spell to protect the mind!"

As soon as the words fell, Mistress Drow took a sharp breath, and suddenly opened her bewitching red lips enough to swallow a head, and then burst into an extremely terrifying scream.

The terrible scream is like a hurricane passing through the canyon. Wherever it passes, the stalactite pillars and rocks in the cave are shaken into powder, and even the air is like the ripples of the lake, splashing out shocking and eye-catching ripples.

Although Bryan had been prepared for a long time, the powerful sound waves and psychic attacks penetrated his protective barrier, causing Venus to pop up in front of his eyes, the veins on his forehead twitched violently, and it was as if a sharp awl had been pierced through his ears, and a piercing sound came from his ears. pain.

Even he, who has the legendary iron will and many psychic protections, has suffered such terrible injuries, let alone others.

What's funny is that the drow martial artist who fought against Severil was the worst, who was turned into a mess by the terrible sound.

Among the crowd, the only one who was not affected in any way was Ilsevelli, obviously it was her ancient elven artifact called the Ruler's Blade that protected her.

The future elven queen of Myth Dranor is wearing exquisite and gorgeous mage light armor, with blond hair flowing on the silver armor, and the whole person exudes an undisguised coolness.

With a flash of cold light in her icy pupils, she instantly held the sword in both hands, surrounded by dozens of thunderbolts, her vigorous and swift body, like an arrow leaving the string, rushed straight to the mistress of drow who had turned into a monster.

——"Ice Rage Explodes!"

Brian immediately suppressed the sequelae of the screaming sound waves, raised his staff and pointed, sharp icicles rose up one after another, turning into cold cages, trapping Mistress Drow in place.

Although Mistress Drow possessed strong resistance and attack power due to the blessings of many divine arts, she also lost her spellcasting ability and some sanity.

So much so that when facing the attacks of Brian and Ilsevelli, instead of dodging, she took the initiative to greet them like a wild beast, hissing and roaring.

At the same time, the preparations for the magic of the Shadow Prince had just finished.

A roar sounded, and flames exuding sacred brilliance fell from the sky, like a waterfall rushing down, ruthlessly washing on the huge body of Mistress Drow.

In an instant!

An energy storm intertwined with frost, flame, and thunder roared and shrouded the body of the roaring Mistress Drow.

The monster transformed by Mistress Drow was struggling violently in the raging energy storm, but she didn't seem to want to fall down at all.

Immediately afterwards, all the people present distanced themselves from Mistress Drow, and released their best attacking spells one after another, attacking the frantically struggling enemies.

Seeing this, Brian's eyes narrowed slightly, and he immediately activated the Chaos Surge and Chaos Blessing features of the Chaos Scientist. A dozen washbasin-sized chaotic fireballs emitting dark purple light all smashed past, making this terrifying energy storm , like flammable dry wood, suddenly rose up.

And Mistress Drow, who was in the center of the storm, also gradually stopped struggling amidst howling in pain, until she turned into a pile of inconspicuous ashes, ending the long and fierce battle.

After the battle, Brian had just exchanged a few words with the future elf queen when he suddenly felt a wave of teleportation energy floating in the air.

Then, the figures of Storm and Simbu, the two electors of the Goddess of Magic, appeared in front of them.

This made Brian immediately realize that the reason why these two people appeared here at this time was probably related to his destruction of Shar's dark ritual.

And the purpose of their coming here is obviously to prepare for going to the Realm of the Magic Web.

It's just that the state of these two people still looks a little weak. Obviously, due to the scars of the magic net, their strength has not yet fully recovered.

Without exchanging too many pleasantries, the leader of the Harper Alliance directly stated his purpose of coming here, "Thank you for your help to bring peace to Shadow Valley again, but there is still one most important task that we need to complete."

"It's going to the realm of the magic net, right?" Ilsevery walked over with a cold expression, and spoke first:

"Before I supported Shadow Valley, Ms. Sirinxi had told me about this. For the revival of the elves, I will follow you to the Realm of the Magic Web and help the mysterious lady repair the scars of the Magic Web."

"Of course I have no problem." Brian answered.

Ever since he came to Shadow Valley, he had roughly anticipated what was going to happen, so he was naturally prepared in advance.

"Sorry, I have other more important things to deal with, so I won't accompany you to participate in this operation." Ghost Prince Brenners gave Bryan an apologetic look.

"Understandable."

Bryan nodded slightly, guessing what the other party's purpose was, and said to him: "Thank you for your assistance this time, Mr. Breners, unfortunately, our cooperation may have to come to an end temporarily, but don't worry, I What I promised you, when I come back, I will help you complete it."

Brenners' goals were Felin Mokui and the restoration of the Ennook Desert, and so did Bryan. It was the same goal of the two that made them work together.

If given the chance, he also intends to ask the other party to accompany him to search for the ruins of the city of Sarukh, one of the three creator races, in the Ennook Desert, and the city known as the "Prophet of the Earth" by the Netherese. Asindo.

"You're welcome." Breners smiled slightly, hesitating for a moment, hesitant to speak, and finally didn't say anything, waving goodbye like a gentleman: "Then we'll see you later."

After finishing speaking, the Shadow Prince was wrapped in the light of the teleportation circle and disappeared.

"It's not too late, we should set off." Storm said solemnly:

"We must go to the realm of the magic net to drive away Laroch and the Benor Lich loyal to him. Only in this way can the scars of the magic net be completely repaired."

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(End of this chapter)