Arcane Journey

Chapter 401 The Snake Man's Lair
"Intact Miser energy core? Interesting..."

Brian's expression showed playfulness. He didn't express his inner doubts immediately, but remained silent with a skeptical attitude.

In any case, it is an indisputable fact that Seth, the other avatar of the Creation Snake, is an evil god. Naturally, he will not believe what the other party says casually. He must have his own judgment, otherwise he may be caught After selling it, I counted the money for the other party without knowing it.

"Are you doubting the judgment of an ancient god?" Seth's clone snorted coldly, his old voice still extremely weak:

"That's right. You have to know that when Netheril fell, many floating cities were destroyed due to the collapse of the magic net, which caused the power source Mithr energy core to be destroyed, which caused the unimaginable disaster, but in Netheril Before the fall of Riel, there were still many secret energy cores that were just produced, and before they started to function, the magic net collapsed, so naturally they were preserved."

"That's what I said, and I really can't refute it." Brian said calmly, "But it's not enough to convince me."

In fact, he already believed most of it.

Because the situation like Seth's avatar said has not never happened. When he was in the game world, he heard that in a plot about the Winter Goddess in Icewind Dale, a complete Mither energy core appeared. .

Although without the support of the magic net, the Miser energy core could not function normally, but it was activated by a chaotic magic power, causing it to self-destruct, and the terrifying energy generated almost destroyed the entire Icewind Valley.

After Bryan visited Iolum, the former father of Nether not only gave him a complete set of methods for making Mithr energy cores, but also gave him one that could support the rise of the floating city. The complete Misser nucleus of .

Originally, this secret core was not very attractive to Brian, but thinking that he might face the memory tower of Felin Mokui next, he thought that he might be able to use the power of the secret core to go Destroy the lair of this group of ancient monsters.

And the reason why he didn't immediately agree to Seth's clone's request was mainly because he was wary of what the other party's real intention was to give him the Mither Core for no reason.

Seth's avatar seemed to have guessed Brian's thoughts at the moment, and he said slowly:
"Then let me tell you the truth. Although the snake people in this city mainly believe in the snake god Marshak, I still feel a weak power of faith."

Brian followed in the footsteps of the lizardman chief, while communicating with Seth's clone through thoughts, and said thoughtfully: "So you plan to subdue this group of snakemen and let them switch to your command."

If the other party just came up with this idea, then in the case of reciprocity between the two parties, it is worth his risk to try.

"That's right." Seth clone said sincerely:
"Besides, you are the envoy of Mystra. You have appeared in the Chuertan Peninsula and the Supreme Glacier successively. You are definitely carrying important missions. As for what the mission is, I am not interested, and I don't have the strength to participate in Mystra's mission." Go to the fight with Shar, so I have no reason to frame you.

If you don't believe what I just said, you can arrest a snake man prisoner for questioning, and you can find out the specific situation inside. "

"Okay, I'll trust you for now." Brian nodded slightly.

The other party's words do have some truth.

After all, the Haruha Kingdom is not far from the Chuertan Peninsula. As a clone that doesn't even have a body, the main task right now is to hide in the spiers of the witch to accumulate strength. How could it dare to come out and act like a monster.

Is it because Set, the evil god of the Mulhorand pantheon, can't lift his sword anymore?Or are you not interested in the remaining divine power?

As the two continued to move forward, Brian had clearly noticed the great changes in the surrounding environment.

The first is the air. The wind in the tunnel is always gloomy, blowing on the body is like falling into a bone-chilling ice cellar.

But now, not only is the wind blowing on the face getting warmer and warmer, it even reached the point where it can be called 'hot', and in that wind, there is also a faint smell of sulfur.

The second is the channel.

If only the indigenous lizardman chief could feel the so-called man-made repair marks before, then now these marks have reached the level that everyone can see.

The walls and ceiling have obviously been strengthened, and the floor has become more and more flat, and some ancient patterns and patterns have even appeared.

Bryan felt that this place was becoming less and less like the wilderness or dark regions of the underground world. Instead, it was constantly changing, and it clearly showed the appearance of a magnificent ancient underground city.

And it's not a ruin that has been abandoned long ago, there are still traces of the survival of intelligent civilization in it.

When the two speeded up, turned three corners, and entered an alley that had no natural traces and was completely piled up with heavy stones, Brian could already see that in the small alley less than 100 meters away At the exit of the alley, it is like a wide avenue where many other identical alleys converge.

At the same time, he was also in an area not far away, and suddenly heard some strange words.

The weird conversation was getting closer, but no footsteps could be heard.

In just a moment, the flickering flames first cast several black shadows on the ground, and then completely exposed the true face of the holder to his sight.

This is a different kind of human body and snake tail.

They wriggled and meandered forward on the road, their eyes gleaming with menacing evil spirits, and their hands with sharp claws were clenched with extremely sharp tridents.

There is no doubt that this is the snake man.

The kingdoms have a long history, and they are also cunning and ruthless cold-blooded barbaric races, and this place is obviously a lair of snake people.

The history of human civilization is generally acknowledged to have begun about fifteen centuries ago, though the open areas in the forest were allowed to be cleared and settled by the court of the elves.

This year is known as the "Foundation Year of the Valley". From this year on, human beings began to develop rapidly, and determined the position of the dominant race on the continent of Faerun.

However, the "Valley Founding Calendar" is not the oldest human calendar, and the glorious history of human beings is by no means only 1000 years old.

About fifty centuries ago, in order to resist the attack of orc bandits, seven small fishing villages formed an alliance with each other and declared the establishment of a country named 'Seventon'.

The country was renamed 'Netheril' shortly thereafter, and later changed from kingdom to empire.The great and prosperous era of Netheril, with magical achievements unprecedented and powerful, began, and has continued for nearly thirty centuries.

And the initial year when the seven small fishing villages formed an alliance with each other was the 'Year of Netheril'.

Going back further, 1 years ago was the century of elves.

The five powerful kingdoms of the elves ruled the entire continent of Faerun.

But the country of the elves is almost the same as the country established by humans and other intelligent creatures, and it is also full of various conspiracies and turmoil.

The elven civil war known as the 'Crown War' almost ran through the entire history of the elven kingdom.

And even before the elves, there were several intelligent civilizations called "creative races" that rose in the "Dawn Age" of the Toril world.

Among them, the most powerful is the Sarukh witch.

They are the masters of all scaly races, but not dragon races.

They created all the scaly beings, including the Naga, the Lizardmen, and the Snakemen who most directly inherited the Sarukh lineage.

Today, the kingdoms established by these scaly races have long since disappeared.

And they themselves have largely disappeared.

Only in the southern dense forests and swamps of the Faerun continent, they can still be seen occasionally.

However, when Brian went deep into the depths of the highest glacier canyon to find the lost ancient city of Olem, he never expected that the ruins of another underground city of the ancient Sarukh witchcraft would be discovered here. And the snake people group entrenched here.

Brian still knew about creatures like snake people. Before he set off, he had done his homework in the 'Crown Palace' in Suzal.

I have seen detailed records about some of these reptiles.

Snake people are divided into three types: purebred snake people, mixed blood snake people, and demon snake people who are leaders. The group of patrolling people in front of them now seems to be half blood snake people who are in the middle class and the main members of the ethnic group.

They seemed to be careless, talking to each other as they meandered forward, not paying attention to searching for abnormalities around them.

It seems that the peace that lasted too long has lowered their vigilance, and even patrol missions that are related to the safety of their own ethnic groups have become just routine.

The snake people have their own language, although no one can understand what they say, but the sound is similar to the 'hissing' sound made by a poisonous snake sticking out its tongue, which is creepy.

I saw seven or eight winding snake tails stop swinging at the same time, and more than a dozen bright red lights turned around and looked deep into the alley. The scaly arms raised their weapons and aimed at the seemingly empty darkness. .

As if he sensed the existence of Brian and the lizardman chief in the darkness through the heat, the snake man's forked tongue rushed in and out of his stinky mouth, making threatening 'hissing' sounds.

The cunning and suspicious snake man, once he finds an abnormality, he will never let it go easily and let things go sloppily.

Their snake tails slapped on the stone slabs on the ground a few times, and they were about to jump forward. Suddenly, Brian, who was the first to strike, performed the 'fixation technique', and this group of scaly people who were extremely sensitive to danger The ethnic group was so stunned that they didn't dare to move even half an inch of muscle.

Brian left only one alive, and cleaned up all the other snake people.

Then, he questioned carefully for a while through various manipulative magic, until he could not find any information from the prisoner, then he nodded in satisfaction and stood up, killing the snake man who only wanted to die.

He learned from intelligence that this place is indeed an ancient Sarukh shaman ruins.

This once powerful scaly ethnic group established the underground city they are now called "Sarukda" almost 2 years ago.

In its heyday, the Istofisel Empire had tens of thousands of Sarukh witches and their subordinate slaves living here. Later, with the decline of the Sarukh witches, the city It also gradually turned into ruins.

About twenty centuries ago, a group of snake people wandering in the dark region discovered "Sarukda" and settled here ever since.

The level of civilization of the snake people was originally far inferior to their founding race.

But in the process of exploring and excavating the ruins, they accidentally discovered that there are still a few Sarukh witches left in this city.

Instead of dying, they go into hibernation.

To ordinary snake people, the Sarukh witch is almost equal to the existence of gods.

After temporarily waking up, these "gods" provided all kinds of guidance for their creations, imparted knowledge to the snake people, so that the snake people could survive and reproduce better, and then entered the hibernation state again.

Since then, the snake people have settled down in the ruins, using the technology taught by the Saluk witch to raise many kinds of monsters that also have scales as guards to protect themselves, so their safety can be guaranteed.

Also because of the magic of ancient civilization, the greedy snake people created many powerful weapons, organized them into plundering teams, went to the surface and deeper dark regions to plunder wealth, and even defeated the Egyptian guarding the Grand Canyon many times. As a result, the Sebelizards were able to prosper and prosper.

In the end, Marshak, the god of snake people, noticed this powerful snake kingdom. He took the initiative to lower his avatar, let the leader of the snake people become his chosen people, and then killed the sleeping Sarukh witch, built temples, and established priests. organize.

With the support of the magic of Sa Luke and the god of snake people, the Ethiopian lizardmen are naturally not their opponents, so they can only be forced to the harsh environment of the Grand Canyon and continue to follow their mission.

Now, there are about [-] snake people in the city, scattered around the ruins around the temple dedicated to the snake god Mashak.

In the temple, apart from the most powerful snake priest in this group, it is also the place where the treasure house is located.

"All the problems have been sorted out." Brian communicated with the golden dragon Paralandax through his mind:

"As the other party said, before the fall of Netheril, there were indeed many "Mither Energy Cores" that had just been manufactured, and before they started to function, they encountered the catastrophe that destroyed the entire empire.

This group of snake people must have sent a plundering team to the surface around that time to bring one of the secretar energy cores back to the lair.

But they don't know how to activate it, so the Miser energy core is still silent until today... Of course, this is also a good thing.Once the Enmythorium is activated, it can no longer be moved and closed, and even a terrible explosion is caused by unstable energy.And regardless of anyone, as long as they touch the working Miser energy core, they will be killed immediately.Then we will not have the chance to get this windfall this time. "

(End of this chapter)