Arcane Journey

Brian was quite aware of the theft of the Nether Scroll.

At the beginning, only seven scrolls were lost. This was picked up by the huge group of players when he was in the game world, and they really found five scrolls.

It's a pity that the content recorded in these five scrolls is the last group of "Introduction to Secret Art", which mainly describes the principles and knowledge of artifact making.

You know, this is the most difficult set of scrolls to understand. Before opening its power, you must have the extended knowledge of all other color-resistant scrolls at the same time.

Therefore, even if these players got these scrolls, they were left unused in the corner just like the one Brian got, quietly eating ashes.

From the 'Earth Prophet' Asindo asked Karthus to study the scrolls of Nether and the contents of the lost scrolls, it can be seen that the purpose of the thief stealing the scrolls is indeed ulterior motives.

It is said that these seven Nether scrolls were stolen by an unknown thief who could not even be found by scouting magic.

According to the information that Brian had in the game world, he learned that the nameless thief originally intended to keep the seven scrolls in the ancient ruins of the creator race, but due to some reason, he separated Three of them were placed in the Hall of Mists, under the Grandfather Tree in the Highest Forest.

These three scrolls are what Brian is determined to obtain. After he completes this mission, he will start preparing to go to the grandfather's father, negotiate with the group of treants, and take out the scrolls hidden deep in the ground.

Two more were placed in the Warlock's Tomb, the former lair of Rallock the Lich King, which later became part of the Siennook Desert.

Although Brian knew where the Warlock's Tomb was located in the Enook Desert, with his current strength, he still didn't dare to break into it.

As the former lair of the lich, it is not only filled with huge undead creatures, but also has a crack leading to nowhere, causing a large number of demons from different planes to occupy it.

As for the whereabouts of the other two scrolls, no one knows.

But what is surprising is that the loss of these seven Nether scrolls did not attract the attention of these great arcanists. They finally panicked after losing another 24 scrolls.

Then, after the discussion of the Council of Supreme Mages, most of the great arcanists agreed to send the remaining dozen Nether scrolls to the Floating City in Iolum for safekeeping.

But I never thought that even the only remaining Neise scroll was lost again on the way to send it there.

Being able to steal the Nether scrolls one by one under the noses of many great arcanists, I am afraid that only those gods who have mastered mighty power can do it.

It can be seen that the master behind the theft of the Nether scroll is undoubtedly the ancient god of death Jaeger.

But this is not over yet. After learning that the "Prophet of the Earth" Acindor tried to stop his long-planned plan, Jaeger not only completely disappeared the Nether scrolls that the great arcanists relied on, but even Acindor did not let it go.

In retaliation, Jaeger drove a lich arcanist under his control completely insane, and blew up his floating city with an unknown magical accident.

Then, in this event, He killed another Archmage who had defected to the Earth Prophet without a trace.

And the reason why the great arcanist was killed was mainly because the great arcanist had, with the help of Acindor, researched an effective method on how to fight against Felin's magic sunflower.

It's a pity that it was killed before it could be promoted.

This also directly led to the Earth Prophet's plan to fight against Felin Mokui for thousands of years, so a serious mistake occurred.

To Brian's surprise, although the unknown great arcanist who was mainly responsible for researching the Felin Sorrel was killed by Jaeger, some of his manuscripts recording the research of the Felin Sorrel were accidentally discovered by his apprentices. get.

And this apprentice is none other than Grand Arcanist Ellando.

After he fell in the floating city, not only did he not die, but he also participated in the reconstruction of the city of Harendas.

However, with the destruction of the city of Harendas, Ellando also fell into a state of madness.

Finally turned into an evil shadow creature, with the help of the remaining power of the floating city ruins, killed the golden dragon Parandax who came to explore, and imprisoned the soul of this giant dragon in the library forever, until It was Brian's appearance that saved his ghost.

And after Jaeger solved the threat from the 'Earth Prophet' Acindor, in the year of fatal consequences, he used various means such as threats, instigation and temptation to transform the vast majority of the chosen ones into It is convenient for him to control these great arcanists.

Although among these great arcanists, only Iolum had the will to resist Jaeger's bewitching, but he didn't last long, and transformed himself into a lich in the age of the brain.

Immediately afterwards, Karthus discovered the existence of heavy magic power under the gradual guidance of Jaeger's cycle, which is an important component of Jaeger's magic reformed ascension ceremony.

Then in the year of great courage, all the chosen ones mastered heavy magic power, and Jaeger saw that the time was ripe, and began to make final preparations.

Under Jaeger's design, the dwarves of Eskau City believed that the magic of the chosen ones could prevent the ever-growing desert from encroaching on their city.

Together the dwarves and the laborers of Netheril began to build thirteen redstone spiers, linked to each other by the remnants of the spellweaver's ancient city of Ariel.

During the construction process, Jaeger often showed beautiful pictures to his chosen ones in the form of dreams: With their help, his divine power rapidly expanded, and he became the god in charge of death and necromancy in Faerun. And they will also obtain a fragment of divine power to become an immortal existence.

At this time, the "Prophet of the Earth" Acindor, who had been paying attention to the chosen ones for a long time, finally discovered the identity of Jaeger's behind-the-scenes mastermind, and he decided to destroy Jaeger's plan.

He succeeded in persuading Iolum to reassess the promises Jaeger made to them, and at the same time fueled the flames, driving the already paranoid and arrogant Karthus even more mad, deceiving him that Jaeger's real purpose was to steal their power, not bestow it. Fragments of their divinity.

But most of them have been dominated by Jaeger too deeply, and turned a deaf ear to Acindor's warning-only the sixth, Telamante Tanshul, whose alias was Xiaduo, listened to the warning of the Earth Prophet.

He began to look at Jaeger's 'assistance' with suspicion, and shifted the main field of research to Planeology, which had nothing to do with Jaeger's plan.

Iolum also heeded the warning of the Prophet of the Earth, and gave up his floating city without hesitation, and fled to his residence somewhere in the Underdark region. Karthus, who had fallen into madness, directly refused to leave his floating city and started Researched the twelve-ring spell "Karthus Apotheosis", which caused the destruction of the entire Arcane Empire.

In the year when the magic net was broken, all the chosen ones except Iolum, Telamante, and Karthus gathered in the dwarven city of Eskal under the call of Jaeger.

Since Jaeger's plan has been noticed by the Prophet of the Earth, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, in desperation, he can only forcibly start his long-planned ritual of solidifying divinity in the absence of three people.

At the same time, Karthus also cast his twelve circles spell.

At this time, the Prophet of the Earth was not idle either. He deliberately attracted a group of Felin Mokui to raid Jaeger's casting site, which also interfered with the operation of the ceremony.

In Jaeger's divine fixed words ceremony, the unexpected magic net was broken first, which caused Jaeger's magic ritual to be distorted, and then the spellcasting was forcibly interfered by Felin's magic sunflower, which made the ceremony no longer sustainable. Seven chosen ones died on the spot, leaving Jaeger and the remaining three Grand Arcanists messed up in the wind.

These three were Saragunter Bell, Alyssa Jones, and Ella Linda, who were thrown far away from Netheril by the powerful recoil of magic.

After that, Alyssa and Aila chose other gods as partners to keep the fragments of divine power left in their bodies by Jaeger.

Alysar was in some sense allied with Moander, the god of decay, for many centuries to come, until she was slain after a conflict with the elves of the Wolfwood, now the kingdom of Cormyr.

With the help of the goddess of the moon, Su Lun, Aila expanded her divine power and became a secondary deity worshiped in a certain area.

It is said that on the eve of the erection of the standing stone in the valley, she surrendered her divinity and merged with Su Lun.

Saragunter Bell became a feared assassin who was active in the south of Longhu. After that, he and the other two became companions to find Jaeger, and finally gained complete divinity and became the god of murder. bal.

The fall of Netheril caused Jaeger's followers to split into various factions that were once hostile to each other, and the decrease in believers also weakened his divine power. After this blow, Jaeger completely lost his ambition and vitality.

He was tired of pursuing power and instead sought nothingness, and the teachings changed with his rotten state.

Therefore, when Bane, Baal and Melkor, the former three gods of death, came to the door, Jaeger voluntarily gave up most of his divine power and priesthood.

After listening to the "Prophet of the Earth" Acindor tell him the truth about the demise of the Netheril Empire, Brian was silent for a long time, and then gradually digested the knowledge in these fields that he had never been involved in.

He was originally because of the demise of Netheril, but it was because of Karthus' arrogance. He didn't expect that there were so many secrets hidden in it.

And the manipulator behind all this turned out to be the ancient god of death, Jaeger.

"So, it is very likely that Jaeger, the god of death, really came from the Spellweaver organization, isn't that true?" Recalling the unofficial history of Jaeger that he had inadvertently read in the game world, Brian looked at the silent man with lingering fear. Acindor, waiting for his answer.

Although he was 100% sure of his guess in his heart, he still wanted Asindo to admit it himself.

"That's right." Asindo nodded slightly, as if sighing, "Jeg the Death God may have been the last survivor of the Spellweaver organization."

"Perhaps? In the end?" Hearing the other party's answer to his question in an uncertain tone, Brian raised his inner question again, "Does this mean that there may be other survivors in the Spellweaver organization?"

For some reason, when he mentioned this matter, he suddenly recalled the obelisk made of unknown black steel standing in his half-plane.

It was the mysterious power of this obelisk, as well as the racial characteristics of Fairy Mizusawa, that allowed him to master the ability to escape from the magic net and cast spells with the help of the magic hub.

If there are really other spellweavers still alive, does it mean that they have been aware of the existence of the demiplane from the moment they activated the Obelisk.

If that's the case, wouldn't he be in trouble?

After all, this obelisk is a magical artifact made by the Spellweaver organization when it conquered the multiverse.

Each time they conquered a world, they built an obelisk on that world, and these towers were then connected to each other through a complex system of portals.

In other words, if his conjecture is true, it may be a matter of time before the survivors of the spellweavers find their demiplanes.

"I don't know too well." Just when Brian was secretly worried, Acindo spoke. He slowly shook the skull that seemed to be about to fall to the ground, and said in a low voice:

"According to unreliable sources, there are indeed very few spellweavers alive, and they should be hidden in a demiplane called 'Dark Abyss'."

The dark abyss of the etheric plane?
Brian looked surprised.

He still knows a little about this demiplane.

This is a demiplane that is constantly collapsing, and it is also a demiplane that will always be in a state of collapse.

Don't ask what the hell is going on, because even the most knowledgeable scholar can't answer this question.

Still, some intrepid travelers have made it here.

They point out that the time and space at the core of this demiplane, and the collapse at the edges, are somewhat balanced.

Therefore, the time and space here became similar to the main material plane, so that the fate of not being completely destroyed was maintained.

If you enter the etheric membrane of this demiplane, you will find that there are black stones in all directions around you.

If you observe carefully, you can also notice that there are many caves and tunnels filled with air all around. This place is quite suitable as a slum, at least it will not be more uncomfortable than the 'cage'.

The inner wall of the cave exudes a faint light, and various mysterious plants grow. They are arranged extremely neatly, and the tunnels are also connected to each other among these caves.

If you go deeper, you will notice the agitation and distortion of the ether in the etheric membrane.

It will soon become extremely difficult for people to act, because the etheric membrane here has become unstable, and even some twisted etheric membranes may shatter and disappear in an instant.

Legend has it that some travelers found two stone statues engraved with mysterious words in the cave deep in the demiplane.

One is engraved with 'time' and the other with 'space'.