Arcane Journey

Chapter 364 Building a Floating City

Building a floating city is not only a delicate job, but also requires a very long process.

This is not like in the time of Netheril, where you only need to cut off a mountain peak, then inlay a Mither energy core in the center of the peak, and finally build a patchwork of buildings. Basically, a floating city is considered complete.

In Bryan's opinion, this should be the easiest process to build a floating city. For his own floating city, he certainly wouldn't choose to just mess around like that.

After all, the great arcanists of the Netheril period, the original intention of building the floating city was just to prevent the harassment of the evil race orcs on the surface.

It wasn't until the late period of the Netheril Empire, when the great arcanists were involved in various floating cities, that they gradually concentrated their energy on how to make the floating city more powerful and beautiful.

It's a pity that when the Grand Arcanists realized this problem, the empire had already begun to perish.

Otherwise, Brian might be able to use ancient materials and brainstorm to learn from the unique ideas of this group of great arcanists, and contribute to his design of the floating city.

The current him is no different from crossing the river by feeling the stones. He can only use his limited imagination to create infinite possibilities in this magical world.

Fortunately, since he appeared in the main material world, he has been planning in his mind how to build a building that can not only float in the sky, allow ordinary civilians to live in peace, but also travel through various planes, even without any magic. Protection, you can also rely on your own defense to resist the attacks of high-level spells.

Moreover, as a traveler and having seen the development process of modern technology, it is not impossible for Brian to apply this knowledge to the construction of the floating city.

For example, for an aircraft carrier in the real world, after the establishment of the floating city, he can completely convert Haruha's skyship into a fighter-type construction technology, and then assist the floating city in long-range or cross-plane bombing missions during the battle .

Recalling his thoughts about the floating city and future plans in his mind, Brian and the old dragon turtle guided the mountain peaks taken from the Ennook Desert to the demiplane of the beholders.

Since it takes a lot of time to build a floating city, in order to complete his floating city as quickly as possible, Brian almost didn't think too much about it, so he decided to build the location of the floating city and choose the time ratio between this and the main material world. A demiplane of 1:5.

In this case, two years in the outside world is equivalent to about ten years on the demiplane.

Ten years is enough for Brian to build a satisfactory floating city.

The moment he descended to the demiplane with the mountain peak, Brian saw that Myrcella and Elder Haruah Arad had been waiting with their hands for a long time.

He had just smoothly placed this mountain, which was comparable to a city, on the ground, and Victor, the symbolic master of the demiplane, 'Observer Beholder', flew over excitedly.

"Brian, what are you doing?" The Observer Beholder waving its tentacles that danced like snake eyes, exclaimed, "Why do you put such a mountain in Victor's world?"

"Build a floating city." Brian replied casually, and walked towards the crowd.

He has already taken care of the most basic peaks of the floating city, and then he needs to make a detailed division of labor for his existing manpower, so that they can all devote themselves to the construction of the floating city.

"Who are you coaxing?" Victor caught up with Brian's footsteps, and used one of the small eyes on the tentacles to look at the mountain peaks falling on the ground in the distance. The huge one-eyed eyes were full of suspicion.

"Don't think that Victor hasn't checked the information on ancient Netheril. The floating cities that Victor has seen in the book, all of these floating cities are cut in half from the mountain peaks, and then stand them upside down. It’s not like you moved the entire mountain here.”

"Oh, Victor knows!"

All the eyes of the observer's beholder floated past the light without exception, and excitedly floated beside Brian, circling around, "You must not have the ability to cut the mountain in half."

"When encountering such a problem, why don't you ask Victor for help?" He quickly floated in front of Brian, blocking his way, and chattered endlessly:
"Victor is the most perfect creation of the great mistress. This small mountain only needs a dissociation ray from Victor. It is cut in half by Victor like cutting a watermelon."

"My floating city is different from the ancient floating city." Brian said to the beholder, "So, don't bother with the most perfect creation of the Great Mistress."

He really didn't plan to build a floating city like the great arcanist in the Netheril era. In his plan, he was going to start a crazy infrastructure model on the basis of this mountain.

In addition to completely preserving the energy of the mountain's veins and allowing it to have a system for the self-circulation of natural energy, he has to transform all the rest of the mountain.

At the same time of transformation, a large amount of metal materials and obsidian must be used to combine with mountain peaks to build a perfect foundation.

This is like expanding many wide floating platforms around a small island, building tall towers and houses on them, and then these platforms are connected to each other by various bridges, and the mountain peaks that serve as floating foundations also It is Brian's base camp and the core strength and secrets, located in the center of the floating platform.

It is precisely because he has a long-term plan for the floating city that he plans to start construction on a demiplane where time passes slowly.

Of course, there is another function, that is, the secrecy of building a floating city on a demiplane.

After finishing speaking, Brian ignored the beholders and quickened his pace to walk in the direction of Myrcella and the others.

"It's good that you know." Hearing Brian's praise, the beholder thought deeply but nodded narcissistically, then quickly caught up with his footsteps like a fired shell, and continued:
"It turns out that you are planning to build a floating city here. No wonder so many people are sent to Victor's world. Since this is the case, Victor also wants to participate in the construction of the floating city. Brian, you plan to give the Great Mistress For the most perfect creation, what kind of job do you arrange?"

"What kind of job will I arrange for you?" Looking at the very active observer beholder, Brian was about to say, "If you don't disturb me, you will help me the most", when he suddenly remembered that he had once been in the Underdark. A spectacle I've seen before: the Great Crowd Annihilation Field.

The Great Cavern Annihilation Field is a large crack composed of countless tunnels and caves.

This is not caused by natural factors, but by a group of idle beholders who release dissociation rays at the rocks in the Underdark every day when they have nothing to do.

With the passage of time, this so-called largest crack and tunnel maze group in the Underdark was born in such a dramatic way.

Looking at the beholder who volunteered to be an observer, Brian suddenly had a new idea in his heart.

"Of course." He smiled, pretending to ponder for a moment, and when he came to Myrcella and the others, he said to Victor, "I really have a good job here that is perfect for the great mistress. creation to complete."

"What kind of job?" Victor obviously couldn't be immune to Brian's praise, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of job is most suitable for the most perfect creation of the great mistress, Victor."

"Have you seen that mountain?" Brian pointed to the mountain that he placed on the ground steadily, and said to the beholder, "Your task is to use your own dissociation rays to dig out the most Perfect circle and carving."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to Victor, and the Harua mage Arad beside him, said:

"As for how to proceed, you just need to follow his instructions. In this way, after the completion of the floating city, whenever the world looks up to see the most perfect creation of the Great Mistress, the most outstanding work , will involuntarily sigh and praise.”

No matter what kind of beholder it is, there is almost no limit to the number of times they can ray, not to mention that this is an observer beholder whose strength has reached the legendary realm.

So in Brian's view, the other party is simply a natural sculptor, as long as he is coaxed well, he can fully undertake the carving work of most of the magic circles in the floating city.

In this case, the spellcasters in charge of the magic circle only need to polish it after the beholder dissociation rays have passed, and the improvement in work efficiency is still very obvious.

"No problem, you can leave this matter to Victor with confidence." The Observer Beholder patted his head with its tentacles and said confidently.

As soon as the words fell, he was about to pull Master Arad to arrange work for him.

Brian and Allard looked at each other, and told Allard through voice transmission that he would arrange a task for the beholder to polish the edges of the mountain, and the other party happily went to work.

After dismissing the mischievous beholders, Brian straightened his expression, stood in front of everyone, and began to assign tasks to them one by one.

The people in charge of building the floating city this time are mainly Hallua mages led by Arad. The quality of this group of mages with a number of about 1000 is relatively good.

Among them, there are 18 fourth-level spellcasters, about 120 third-level spellcasters, and about 300 second-level spellcasters. Most of the others are around level 3, with the ability to release second-level spells.

Seriously speaking, mage Harua is the main force built in the floating city.

It was precisely in consideration of this factor that Bryan did not hesitate to pay a huge price to let Elder Haruah Arad join him.

Among these prices, in addition to promising Arad to go to the ancient jungle of Chult to explore a lost temple with him at a certain time in the future, he also promised a special item called Artifact of the 'Forgotten Scepter'.

Although the price of this empty check seems high, Bryan feels that it is all worth it. After all, Arad is still a key figure in whether he can successfully enter the Harua Council of Elders.

Of course, in the hands of these people, in addition to the mages of Harua, craftsmen of other races also participated in it.

In order to have a perfect underground secret room inside the floating city, Brian directly requisitioned nearly 500 gray dwarves from the city of Aldus.

Their main task is to create an underground world comparable to surface buildings in the inner space of the floating city.

The mountain dwarves from the Sunset Mountains, some gold dwarves from the Hurek Forest, and a small number of stone giant priests are responsible for the surface construction. Their total number is about 600.

The tasks of these surface dwarves and stone giants are mainly responsible for the construction of the surface, as well as using obsidian and various metal materials to create a solid foundation and floating platforms that surround the floating city like small islands. .

As for Mage Harua and the few mages recruited by the Wizard Tower in Mokou Town, in addition to enchanting every piece of building material in the floating city, they also use spells to assist the craftsmen in their work.

"Under the teaching of Ms. Polaris, you must have thoroughly grasped the knowledge of "Ravebo's Weaving Mystery". Before leaving, Brian confessed to Master Allard, "Then your task is to develop a complete set of protective barriers for the floating city, no problem, right?" "

"Of course there is no problem." Master Arad said:

"I have mastered the mythals and protective barriers in the Netheril period, and I can see from them that most of these mythical knowledge are based on the knowledge of elves, and then researched based on Netheril scrolls. If you can get The elves' knowledge of mystic locks may be able to further enhance the power of the enchantment."

After listening to Mage Arad's analysis, Brian pondered for a moment, then looked at the mage, "Don't worry about the mystical knowledge about elves, I will find a way to get it."

To obtain the mystical knowledge of the elves, there are two channels for Brian, the first is Silvermoon City, and the second is Myth Drannor.

For him, it's not difficult, it's just a matter of time.

"Then I don't have any problems." Master Arad seemed to have guessed that Brian would answer this way, he nodded, then bowed slightly, and turned to leave.

Looking at the busy crowd, who were running towards the mountain in full swing, Brian couldn't help smiling, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.

Among the workers in charge of building the floating city this time, the spellcasters are the most energetic.

Because Brian had promised them that when the floating city was successfully built and ascended to the sky, all mages who participated in it would become the first permanent residents of the floating city.

Moreover, he also promised them that he would provide resources to build their own mage towers in Floating Void City for all spellcasters whose strength reached the fourth-level model and successfully mastered the nine-ring spell.

After all, a complete floating city battle fortress and a fully functional mage tower are indispensable.

In Brian's impression, one of the three creator races, Sarukh, has a very famous city: the ancient city of Olem.

This ancient city existed in an era forgotten by history, and it is also known as the 'City of a Thousand Towers'. It is said to be a city composed of more than 1000 mage towers.

The Earth Prophet Acindor lives in seclusion in the ancient city of Olem. As long as the ghost prince Brenas finds the trace of the Earth Prophet, it is possible to find this ancient city.

After arranging the construction of the floating city, Brian left with Myrcella.

He didn't let Myrcella participate in the construction of the floating city, because she had more important things to do.

That is the research on the magic energy engine and the elemental furnace. If there is no progress in these two researches, it is not a long-term solution for the floating city to only rely on the energy of the demiplane.

After returning to his study on the demiplane, Brian explained a few important matters to Myrcella, and then acted as a hands-off shopkeeper, devoting himself to his own spell research.

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(End of this chapter)