Arcane Journey

Chapter 384
"Sand, sand, sand..."

Subtle footsteps echoed in a secluded and straight dark passage.

Brian, who was alone, was thinking about the prophecy he saw in the vision of Ogasila while walking in the passageway of the ruins of the City of Glory.

More than five hours have passed since he returned to the underground passage from the prophetic vision.

After he told the phantom he saw in detail to Mage Laurian and Prince Brenner, the ghost prince, the three parted ways and acted separately.

As Brian expected, after solving the disaster brought by the Felin Mokui to the Evereska Valley, the elf mages returned directly to the city, and continued to live their isolated life while strengthening the mythical barrier. Life.

As for Brenners, he said that he is more interested in another part of the ruins, so he does not intend to go with him.

In this regard, Brian did not pursue anything.

After all, everyone has their own secrets. As an archivist, Brenner's greatest hobby is exploring ruins and finding lost civilizations.

After finally encountering a floating city relic from the Netheril period, he naturally would not let go of the opportunity to study it.

And Brian happened to have other private matters to do, so after the two agreed on a time to meet, they were busy with their own affairs.

Like the Prince of Shadows, Brian did not leave the ruins of the Glory City, but chose the opposite direction to Brenners to explore the untouched part of the ruins of the floating city.

The reason he did this was not because of his love of adventure, but mainly because he was fighting the Felin Mokui. He didn't know whether it was an illusion or telepathy as a psion. Peep into your own feelings.

Thinking back to the message he had read on a sheet of metal before joining the elf elder, he felt it was necessary to check it out.

Moreover, in the previous illusion, he has already confirmed based on his own calculations that the key item to stop the Lost Lady's plan is indeed a Holy Grail with a sun disc engraved on it.

This made Brian immediately think of the god who fell with the demise of Netheril—the sun god Amaunata.

Although the hint given to him in the phantom was to let him go to the largest library in Faerun - Candlekeep, to find the secrets about the Holy Grail of Amaunata, but now that he has appeared in the floating city that once claimed to be the largest temple of the sun god It is not superfluous to investigate the ruins.

It would be even better if we could find the Temple of Amaunata in the ruins.

As Brian continued to walk forward, he found that rows of connected metal cages gradually appeared on both sides of the passage.

A decaying smell also permeated the air.

Some of these cages were open, and there were no prisoners inside, and some of the cells had locked doors, and there were humanoid corpses or skeletons of other alien creatures lying on the floor inside.

There are also some cells that have collapsed, occupied by a green soil that exudes a strong foul smell, and some plants with strange life grow out of the soil.

After observing for a while, Brian chose to ignore these things and the weird fungi, but walked cautiously towards the end of the passage.

After a while, he saw the change at the end of the passage.

I saw the originally deep and endless dungeon passage, and at some point, a few palm-sized ghost lights floated up, green and faint, dangling around, making one's scalp tingle.

But Brian recognized at a glance that this kind of will-o'-the-wisp has no life at all, it is obviously a purely magical lighting tool, and it is only done to increase the sense of horror and weird atmosphere.

In this way, in the green light of the will-o'-the-wisp, the darkness at the end of the passage was dispelled, replaced by an illusory stone arch made of magic.

"What the hell is this place?" Seeing the door, Brian couldn't help but frowned.

As a legendary spellcaster who has comprehended the laws of space, he could tell at a glance that this arch made of pure magical energy was not a portal leading to other areas.

Originally, after stepping into the dungeon, he instinctively thought that the end was either the study of the master of the floating city, or the laboratory in the mage tower.

After all, during the time of Netheril, archarcanists often set up their laboratories next to the dungeons of the floating city to facilitate their own research.

Generally speaking, the laboratories of great arcanists are not the kind of unusually narrow space filled with utensils that people recognize.

On the contrary, under the premise of having the space folding technology, it is not a strange thing to set up a demiplane as one's own laboratory.

Brian stood there thinking for a moment, and after checking his status, he resolutely walked towards the archway illuminated by the ghostly green will-o'-the-wisp, and then disappeared under the magic curtain.

A gleam of light flashed, and he found himself in a dark underground corridor.

Brian stood in place, and after releasing various types of detection magic one after another, he noticed that no matter whether it was undead, living creatures, or even alien creatures, there were no traces of their activities.

"Could it be that I'm really being too sensitive?" He couldn't help but wonder to himself.

After thinking about it, Brian decided to continue exploring.

Hidden in the darkness, he walked like a wandering ghost among the dense stone footings of the corridor.

Brian found that in this long corridor, there would be a closed door about every ten meters. If you only look at the appearance, there is no difference between each door. The texture details and patterns of ancient Netheril style All the same.

It's a pity that he can clearly feel that the magic energy on these doors made of unknown materials has long been exhausted. If he wants to open them without attracting anyone's attention, Brian is now ability, cannot do it.

Just when Brian was about to make a move, he suddenly saw a door at the end of the corridor flashing a lavender magical aura.

This unexpected discovery made him stunned for a moment, and then walked over cautiously.

As a grand arcanist who has mastered complete arcane runes, Brian easily broke the restriction on the gate in less than a minute.

With a thought, a mass of light blue light gushed out from his fingertips, and silently sank into the rune restriction of the metal door.

Immediately afterwards, all the restrictions on the entire door were activated by him without any surprise.

Along with a layer of dark purple magic curtain emerged on the surface of the gate, and the back curtain slowly separated to the two sides as if welcoming guests, and then the magic door lock "clicked" automatically popped open, and the metal gate of unknown material opened quietly. A five-finger-wide gap.

Looking inside through the gap, you can find that there are oak bookshelves inside, and there are a variety of books on the shelves.

"Sure enough, there are new discoveries." Seeing this, Brian smiled, "This looks like a library."

So, without hesitation, he opened the door and walked in.

To Brian's surprise, in this spacious library room like a palace, the densely piled mountains of materials and books were arranged very neatly, and they were not covered with dust and cobwebs as imagined.

The spells that protect books and materials are still in effect today, and thousands of years later, the writing is still as clear as new.

"It seems that my hunch was right." Looking at the spotless and tidy library, Brian couldn't help but think to himself:

"During the battle with Felin Mokui, someone did secretly observe me. Otherwise, the spell restriction here would not be able to maintain normal operation when the Floating Void City fell and lost its source of energy."

"The master of this floating city is Ellando, the great arcanist." Looking at the densely packed books and materials, he knew that it would take a lot of time to find what he wanted from so many materials.

So, Brian recalled the information about the Floating City briefly mentioned to him by the Prince of Shadows, and then cast a prophecy-type detection spell to start a carpet-like search.

Ten minutes later, Brian finally found the books and manuscripts written by the great arcanist Ellando from the vast amount of knowledge through magic.

Surprisingly, he also found a research note about Felin Mokui and Guangyao City in the notebook.

Before he opened the letter, he clearly felt a heavy sense of history pervading his heart.

Brian immediately cast his reading magic and quickly scanned the contents of the handbook.

"...the third era of the Harptos calendar, the year of famine, the moon of the evening claw."

"Haptos calendar?"

Seeing this, Brian was startled, and then murmured to himself:
"Could it be that... Grand Arcanist Ellando didn't die after he fell in the floating city, and even participated in the rebuilding of the city of Harendas."

Among the inherited kingdoms of Nether, the city of Harendas, it was the last to fall.

According to the records about the city of Harendas in the Crown Hall of Susa City, he learned that there was once an unknown legendary archmage in this city who built his own mage tower here.

Later, the mage's tower collapsed during the battle against the Faerim's Sorrel.

According to records, in that battle, if an ancient altar hadn't appeared above the mage's tower to help humans and elves fight against the Felin Mokui, the city of Harendas would have been flattened by a wave.

At this point, Brian had already roughly determined that Ellando, the great arcanist, should be the mysterious and legendary archmage in the city of Harendas.

Perhaps, from the materials left behind by him, we can find traces about the 'Earth Prophet' Acindor.

So, he started to keep checking.

"Oh, damn it, the Ennook Desert is still expanding, and the wheat fields in Harundas City are about to be swallowed up! There is no land, no food, and a large number of residents have begun to flee. They may flock to the moon sea in the east, Or go to the valley to the south, what should I do?  …”

"Today, the lord of Harendas invited me to a meeting. The elves from the highest forest and the tree people from the grandfather tree were all present, but the final result was not satisfactory, because even the god of nature Xifan The druids in Nas are all helpless against the expansion of the desert. I suggest that the city lord move this city. The fire of Netheril cannot be extinguished. I hope the city lord can calm down and listen to the advice of my old mage... "

"It turns out that the goddess of luck will also take care of the survivors of Netheril. As soon as I returned to the mage's tower, the servant Paralandusk reported a piece of good news to me."

"The activated altar built by a Sharon warlock suddenly appeared, and the location is in the wilderness of the Northland."

"It's a low bridge of wood and rope that spans the bend of the River Raven, where a small new village called Silvermoon was found in Paralandasque... Heaven Ah, this small village, and the Yinyue bridge transformed by rainbow light, let me smell a breath of fate, and the prophecy spell also told me that my premonition was correct. In the future, this small village Will be the jewel of the North.

The altars of Sharon spirits will not appear for no reason. Maybe we can find a way to deal with Falin Mokui from them, so as to save the fate that the city of Harendas will face, and let the fire of Netheril spread like a prairie fire. It is burning in the entire Ainuooke desert, it seems that I have to go out..."

Brian withdrew his gaze, his eyes were full of thoughts, the letter was written here, and it was over.

According to the records of the Crown Hall, this great arcanist named Ellando apparently found a way to fight the Felin Mokui from the Sharon spirit.

Otherwise, in the tragic battle between the United Elves and Felin Mokui, an ancient altar would not have risen from the sky above the mage tower, and finally reversed the situation.

It is a pity that although the situation was reversed because of the ancient altar, the final result was not as good as imagined.

Because with the collapse of the mage's tower, the struggling city of Harendas still did not escape the fate of extinction, and was buried forever in the vast desert.

Brian flipped through another document in the Handbook, and was pleasantly surprised to find that in addition to the research on the Altar of Sharon, there were also methods on how to effectively target the Felin Mokui.

Although he knows that the most direct way to deal with Falin Mokui is to rush into the forbidden wall where the Sharon spirits seal them, and then destroy the memory tower that Felin Mokui regards as a holy place. Like a spellcaster who lost his magic net, he ushered in his doom.

But how to enter the Forbidden Wall, how to face the hordes of Felin Mokui and Mokui Elders, and even the memory tower like a brood, is obviously not clear to Brian, and the letter in the letter The research gave him a better understanding of the Felin Mokui.

He felt that he had mastered a treasure information database, which brought great help to him in how to eliminate the Felin Mokui and how to restore the Ennook Desert.

Brian put away the letter and looked around.

This library is the lifelong painstaking effort of Grand Arcanist Ellando, and most of the recorded materials focus on the study of Felin Mokui.

He intends to take away all the research materials here to prepare for the future against Falin Mokui.

"... What bad idea are you planning, little mage?"

Suddenly, a cold voice sounded beside Brian, and a hot breath gushed out, making him as uncomfortable as being roasted in a raging fire.

"Sure enough!"

Brian's expression was startled, and he flashed instantly to distance himself from the enemy.

He turned around and saw a huge light golden soul body, which had quietly appeared in the library at some point.

The appearance of the soul body caused the surrounding temperature to rise unconsciously.

It has the appearance of a solid dragon, and even the texture of its scales is very clear.

"The ghost of the ancient golden dragon Paralandasque!" Brian calmed down and saw through the other party's true identity at a glance.

(End of this chapter)