Arcane Journey

Chapter 402 Temple
"Now I have believed your words." After communicating with the golden dragon, Brian folded his arms and leaned against the stone wall nonchalantly, and conveyed to the holy emblem through his thoughts:

"What are you going to do now, Your Excellency Seth? There are more than ten thousand such half-human, half-snake monsters, and they are quite troublesome to kill."

"Didn't you say there is an easier way?" He said the ultimate goal.

Although for him, this ancient city of Sarukh witches does not pose any fatal threat, but who doesn't want to save trouble?

"It's really troublesome. But I don't intend to use force to force it."

The old voice of Seth's avatar paused, and said: "I plan to let you disguise yourself as this monster, and then sneak into the temple to confirm the location of Mithr's energy core. If you find it, kill the snake priest in the temple , and then take things out."

"Masquerading as this kind of monster?" Brian kicked the corpse on the ground and asked curiously:

"Can it be done? Even if it can be done, can this group of monsters just watch us move things away? This is a complete Miser energy core, and its weight and volume are beyond imagination."

"Besides, there are still snake voters in this city. If you want to pretend to be a snake, it will be easy to be detected." He added the last one.

"Huh, for you, the transformation magic of mortals alone is naturally unable to escape the detection of the snake people's chosen people, but in front of the great creation snake, Marshak, a poisonous snake, is simply not enough to look at." Seth's clone With a cold snort of disdain, he said to himself:
"You just need to use the "Transfiguration" technique, and then I will use my little remaining divine power to make you evade the detection of the snake people's chosen ones, and make you understand and speak the language of the pretended race.After finding the Miser energy core, I can also use the "shrinking technique" to shrink it, and let you put it in a special magic dimension bag and take it away. "

Brian thought for a while and said, "Then let's decide.

Then, he confessed to the Ethiopian lizard chief next to him: "Let's part here, I will pretend to be a snake man and mix in, and you will be responsible for attracting the attention of the snake people outside, so that they can't get out of it." Focus on the outside instead of the inside, okay?"

While walking, the lizardman chief had already told him how to hide in the snake people group through the location of the ancient city of Olem.

So, even if he is alone, there is no problem.

"No problem, Your Excellency Brian." Regarding Brian's arrangement, the Ethiopian lizardman chief was obviously relieved. Obviously, he was still very afraid of the snake people.

"However, after entering the Snakeman Temple, please follow my instructions for the time being, and never do anything casually."

Just about to prepare for action, Seth's avatar suddenly made this weird request, "This is my only condition, is it okay?"

"Okay, then..." Bryan agreed to his request after thinking about it: "Please start."

After a while, he passed the spell and turned into a snake man.

However, what makes him depressed is that the ability to use the muscles on the tail to manipulate the scales to open and close, so as to move forward and backward freely, is the unique instinct of the snake man.

Although the magic transfiguration technique can change the subject's appearance into exactly the same as that of a snake man, for people who are used to walking with two feet, suddenly want to switch to walking with their tails, both physical and psychological discomfort will be very strong.

Even Brian felt quite awkward because he couldn't adapt to this sudden change.

If you throw him into the snake people immediately, it doesn't take much effort at all, any snake people will immediately recognize that he is a fake.

Fortunately, there is still some time to act as a buffer. As a legendary professional, learning to walk is naturally easy for him.

After paying the price of several somersaults in a row, Brian finally learned to walk like a snake man.

Now he has a scaled tail and arms, a pair of orange pupils and a forked snake tongue.

The clothes he was wearing were also adjusted accordingly with the change in appearance. The cloth that used to be very ordinary had now become the leather armor of the style worn by the snake man patrolling soldiers.

Then Brian picked up the refined scimitar left behind by those unlucky ghosts from the floor and put it in his waist, raised the specially processed trident, meandered side by side and swam out of the alley where he was hiding. Go to the ruins.

The city was built hundreds of centuries ago and once housed tens of thousands of residents. The once-prosperous city now looks like it is full of ruins, devastated, deserted and empty. There are still intelligent races living there.

However, not long after entering the ruins, Brian stopped moving forward.

He saw a few poisonous snakes quietly swimming out of the cracks in the surrounding walls, and then changed from an ignorant beast to a ferocious half-human, half-snake monster.

This is one of the unique talents of the Snakeman, similar to the Magic Transfiguration technique he just cast, but it can only be limited to switching between the two states of poisonous snake and snakeman.

"Quentin, are you back?" As the tallest snake man patrol captain, 'Hiss' stuck out his tongue and greeted Brian.

Even his companions who met each other day and night couldn't find any flaws in his vivid magic transformation, so he asked casually, "Where are Gamul and Dani? Why are you alone?"

"Stone... petrified lizards! Lots of petrified lizards! There are at least seven...seven or eight!"

Bryan's tone appropriately showed the panic and fear that should be expected.

Immediately, he stretched out his trident to show the snakeman patrol captain, and stammered: "We saw it when we were patrolling...in the south. They suddenly rushed out, turning Jiamuer and Dani...all into... Stone. I fought my life to get back."

"Seven or eight petrified lizards? Damn it!" Seeing the trident whose metal parts were completely replaced by gray-white stones from the middle of the spear handle, the snake man patrol leader suddenly became nervous.

In fact, this is the relationship between Brian's intentional use of petrification. Only in this way can he make his lie more true, but obviously the snake man in front of him does not have the ability to distinguish the truth from the false.

The patrol leader cursed loudly: "Damn it, where did they come from? South? South where?"

"Near the tunnel outside the city, they appeared all of a sudden, without any warning." Brian threw out the answer he had prepared in advance.

This is not impossible, because he has checked the surrounding environment a long time ago, and found that in this underground world, which is thousands of meters away from the surface and connected to the dark region, there are still space cracks and many cobweb-like passages.

The appearance of creatures like petrified lizards is a very common thing among snake people.

Sensing the seriousness of the situation, the patrol captain immediately took out a magic whistle from his close pocket and blew it vigorously.

The special ripples that only the scaly people could hear spread from all directions, and within two to three minutes, heavily armed snakeman soldiers appeared everywhere in the ruins.

Obviously, they were well-trained, and they were definitely not ordinary mobs. After seeing five or six snake-man priests appearing, Brian secretly became vigilant.

The patrol captain pulled out his mithril scimitar forcefully, held the shield, and ordered loudly:

"Soldiers from the seventh to tenth teams will go out with me, and the rest of the team will stick to the line of defense and be careful. Bertha, take Quentin to the temple immediately and report this matter to the high priest."

In a short while, the entire snake tribe was busy.

Brian was also led by a snake man named Bertha, and they walked towards the temple together, but to his surprise, this snake man was so different from other snake men that even the snake man hidden in the holy Huili's Seth avatar couldn't help but let out a 'huh'.

You know, the snake people are mainly divided into three classes within the race.

The lowest-status purebred snake people, the middle-class half-blood snake people, and the demon snake people who are the rulers.

The closer in appearance to their reptilian ancestors, the higher their status and power.

Brian had already seen this from the books.

In fact, what he is now has become the appearance of a half-blood snake man.

Moreover, Brian also knew exactly that the purebred snake people and the demon snake people were exactly this, the two extremes of the race, the former was very close to humans in appearance, retaining only a few snake-like characteristics.

The latter is just the opposite, often except for the head or arms, it looks like a boa constrictor through and through.

But Brian never thought that Bertha, who was named by the serpent patrol captain and led him and him to the temple to report to the high priest, would be such a heart-warming woman.

Brian saw a pair of amber eyes first.

They are extremely clear, charming, and clean, clear and calm, cunning and agile.

When the eye waves flow, there are coquettish, provocative, and bearable, indescribably ever-changing, but hidden under this passionate temptation is cold and dark death, patient, sensitive, and vicious.

Because after all, these are eyes that belong to a poisonous snake, not some gentle pet.

Her delicate and smooth skin is not fair, but a healthy light brown color. Her neck and shoulders are soft and soft, her chest is also full and firm, her thighs are round and slender and full of elasticity, but her feet and ankles are so fragile and soft.

But the most attractive thing is her slender and soft waist.

Such a charming and graceful but boneless waist can make a woman truly flexible like a snake when serving a man, bringing the most extreme enjoyment.

But her beauty is by no means weak, but wild.

There was a certain insatiable hunger and hatred hidden between her brows.

Although this almost crazy emotion was well hidden, it couldn't be hidden from Brian. When the four eyes met directly in the air, he was instantly aware of it.

Brian withdrew his gaze from the snake-man girl, followed the example of the snake-man, "hissing" and stuck out his tongue, saying: "What are you still doing, take me there quickly."

He knew that the hierarchical system in the snake people society was clear and strict, and the superiors could order the subordinates arbitrarily, and there was no need to be polite at all.

If you are polite, it will arouse suspicion.

The eyes that seemed hazy because of the previous contact with Brian were instantly hidden.

Bertha raised her hand and brushed her blue hair, which was tied into a ponytail and hung behind her head, like the blue sky on a sunny day, then made a 'please' gesture, and walked to the depths of the ruins first.

"Bertha, what are you doing here?"

Arriving at the gate of the Snake Man Temple, two guards stretched out their tridents to form a 'fork' at the same time, blocking the Snake Man girl's progress, and the tone of questioning was extremely severe.

"The third patrol team has monsters appearing on the way. Except for this soldier, the whole army was wiped out. Captain Conor has led the soldiers there. He ordered me to bring the survivors to the temple and accept the instructions of the high priest. "

Bertha answered briefly and clearly, with a stern expression, and did not react at all to the guard's obviously difficult tone.

Brian noticed that her voice was not as sharp as that of ordinary snake people, but rather hoarse and deep, full of magnetic charm, and her voice was extremely pleasant.

"This snake girl is interesting." The voice of Seth's avatar echoed in Brian's mind:

"Maybe I can try to bring her under my command and ask her to help me replace this snake kingdom. If you do something later, don't kill her."

"As long as you're happy." Brian replied perfunctorily.

"Okay, you two can go in."

The guards withdrew their weapons to get out of the way, and warned: "Low your heads before the God of Serpents, remember to be humble, the high priest and other priests are very busy."

Entering the door is a very huge palace.

This place is different from the outside. There are bright torches everywhere, illuminating the surrounding area as if it were daytime.

In the middle is a huge stone pillar with a radius of more than three meters, supporting the entire hall like the sky.

The front half of the stone pillar is carved into a lifelike statue of a poisonous snake.

Numerous precious gemstones are inlaid for a period of time, making them appear jewel-like and extravagant.

There are all kinds of colorful poisonous snakes entrenched everywhere in the hall, wriggling and dancing, and the dance of thousands of snakes is spectacular, but the unique stench of the snakes is also suffocating.

Among the group of snakes, suddenly there are a few thick figures standing upright, with a strange look in their piercing eyes. From the appearance, they are no different from ordinary pythons except that their bodies are huge and far from normal.

Bertha knelt down on one knee, and Brian hurriedly followed the snake girl's movements to salute.

"High Priest Abuen, Priest Yisuxis, Priest Lisbon, Priest Shala. I'm sorry to disturb you." Bertha stared down at the floor below her without even daring to raise her head, and told the whole story Come.

Things are not complicated, just a few words will be enough.

Standing tall among the group of snakes, the strongest and most human-like head, but already wrinkled, the high priest of the demon snakeman, Abu En, listened to the words with a blank expression, and then asked Brian, " The person concerned' confirmed the process, then slowly nodded and said:

"Petrified lizard? Got it. For the patrol team, it is indeed a dangerous monster that is difficult to deal with. Captain Conor and his ordinary soldiers alone should be very difficult, right, Priest Lisbon?"

The tail was wrapped around the pillar, and the green giant snake with two snake tentacles growing on the left and right sides of the body swam forward and said: "High Priest Abuen, I am here, do you need me to go to support the patrol team?" ?”

"Yes. To deal with the petrified lizards, you are the most suitable. If possible, try not to kill them and capture them alive." High Priest Abuen demanded with his vague voice:
"Although it is a creature from the Underdark, and its intelligence is low. After all, the petrified lizard is also one of the noble scaly races, and has the right to occupy a seat in Salukda."

"Understood the High Priest. On the premise of ensuring the safety of the patrol team members, I will try my best to capture these petrified lizards for domestication." Priest Lisbon bowed his head to High Priest Abuen.

He untied his tail from the stone pillar and quickly swam out of the hall.

High Priest Abuen flicked his tail, turned his head to look at Brian and praised:
"You were able to escape the scene safely after being attacked by the petrified lizard. You did a good job. From tomorrow onwards, you don't have to go on patrol. Let's join the temple guard team. Are there any problems?"

"No problem, of course there is no problem." Brian saluted and thanked the demon snake priests.

In fact, this was really an unexpectedly good harvest, and it facilitated his mission of finding the Misser energy core.

The High Priest of Abuen, however, seemed to be tired. He wagged his tail and ordered them to retreat. Then, with some difficulty, he moved his snake body as thick as a water tank, and climbed onto the bluestone in front of the giant snake statue. Altar, lying down in the most comfortable position.

"Exit for the time being, I already feel that the Mithr energy core is deep in the temple." Seth's avatar reminded.

Bryan nodded slightly, glanced at a small door in the corner of the wall, bowed back respectfully and at the same time as the snake girl, and stepped out of the temple maintaining this posture.

"Help me invite that snake girl." After walking out of the temple, Seth clone said again, "I have something to say to her."

"What?" Brian frowned, and asked directly, "It's already this time, do you still need to hide it?"

"Okay." Seth clone said truthfully:
"I sensed the power of the Sarukh witch in the body of this snake-man girl. I suspect that she has unintentionally absorbed the power of several Sarukh witches who once slept in this city. If so, I will Not only can it make her my chosen one, but it can also help you get the secret energy core hidden in the temple."

(End of this chapter)