Arcane Journey

Chapter 170 The Supreme Palace
The Supreme Palace in the east of the city is the administrative center of the whole city, and also the administrative center of the disbanded Laluia Kingdom. Helisite lives in this tall and thin tower-like building.

At this moment, Brian and she are standing on a castle with a towering spire.

The castle is built of stone, with a layer of white marble on the outside, jagged wall buttresses and beautifully carved unicorn heads.

The two were about to walk, when a sound of hurried footsteps quickly approached, a dozen elite palace guards wearing distinctive silver-plated armor, holding uniform standard spears, rushed up the tower from the stone steps.

Seeing this group of menacing silver knights rushing over, Brian instantly understood what caused it.

Like the purple dragon knights and battle mages of the Kingdom of Cormyr, Silvermoon City also has elite troops, guarded by silver knights and silvermoon mages.

If Bryan's expectations are correct, in the Supreme Palace of Silvermoon City, in addition to a tall tower called 'Moon Shield' where Helisite lives in the center, there are also four towers where mage guards live in the southeast, northwest and corners. Mage Tower.

At the same time, even the armory and residence of the silver knights are fully equipped.

The supreme palace, which is so heavily guarded, is very sensitive to teleporters who do not have enchantment marks on their bodies.

The moment Brian was teleported to the Supreme Palace led by Helliste, the mage guards on duty noticed something strange and sent a message to the Silver Knight.

The fundamental reason why it is so sensitive is that Silvermoon City is protected by a world-renowned barrier, which is a permanent magic field based on a 'mystery' device.

'Mythlock' is a very powerful magic in the world of Toril. It is a structure that constrains and shapes the magic net at a specific location.

They are sometimes powerful enough to distort or rewrite the rules of magic, even affect reality, and they are also specific fields that bind permanent cascading magic defenses and effects.

'Mystic' dates back to its original use, as the term was used to describe the high magical operations used to protect ancient elven cities.

Later, the interpretation of Mystic was extended to cover all similar protective measures, including the huge floating city of the lost 'Netheril', the guard barrier of 'Silvermoon City', and guards like 'Candlekeep', etc. Small-scale, yet powerful magical measures for the safety of important locations.

Even the "Maze City of Leylines" in the underground of Waterdeep City, its multi-layered protection and effects are considered by some people as mystic locks.

Most mythals are defensive in nature, designed to limit the types of magic allowed within a controlled area, and the most common restrictions involve teleportation and conjuration magic.

In fact, in many ways, a mythal is not like a spell or a magic item, but like a living magical creature that can grow and grow or weaken, take damage and die.

Myths can sometimes heal themselves. The Myths of Silvermoon City reopened at Moonbridge when Mystra returned.

Each activated mythal has one or more synchronous effects. These individuals can ignore the restrictions on casting spells in the mythal, can directly target the effect of the mythal, and even teach others the corresponding skills to use the secret of the mythal. .

The enchantment of the Supreme Palace is based on a mystic, and this kind of device is already an extremely rare existence.

The boundary of the outer barrier is located 1000 yards outside Silver Moon's latest city wall. The barrier is spherical in shape, extending upward into the air and downward deep into the ground, like a transparent sphere, enveloping the entire city.

The boundary of the inner barrier is located a dozen feet outside the walls of the Supreme Palace and the Court of Stars, surrounding these two buildings.

Although Brian is a spellcaster who is proficient in magic circles and enchantments, he has never mastered the knowledge of mythos before his rebirth.

Now, Helliste has become the administrator of Silvermoon City, and with her help, he can check or research knowledge about mythos.

"Who dares to break into the Supreme Palace!"

Accompanied by a cold shout, the menacing silver knights surrounded Brian and Hellist at the fastest speed.

Bryan followed the voice and found that the leader was a handsome half-elf man with long silver hair, and his eyebrows were somewhat similar to the deceased Supreme Lady Alustriel.

Elastre, the elect of the Goddess of Magic, had many children besides the other six of the Seven Sisters.

Most of these children have different fathers, but there are 12 male half-elf children with the surname Elasme, which means silver moon in the evening in Elvish language. In the ancient elf tradition, orphans will be named after their birthplace.

They have the same father, an elf lord who once helped Alustriel gain elves' support in the expansion of Silvermoon City, but he was later killed by orcs.

And the commander of the Silver Knights in front of him is one of the 12 children. He is called Methema Ailasemei, an arcane knight whose strength has reached the legendary realm.

He was the previous lord of Silvermoon City, and was replaced by the 'Silvermoon Dragon Queen', Vera Marrades due to his straightforward style.

After all, seriously speaking, the entire Silver Moon City belongs to the private domain of the Golden Dragon couple, and they naturally have this right.

It is only because of the lazy personality of the giant dragons that they need a spokesperson to manage Silvermoon City.

As for whether Methema has any complaints after being replaced, Brian can't tell in the game world. He only knows that the other party has pursued Hellist crazily for many times, which is dubbed by Helister's fans and players: Silver Moon City The licking dog is filial, licking and filial.

After all, in the entire continent, there are only a handful of players who can truly be called "true goddesses", including Hellist of Silvermoon City and the duchess of Araby.

The standard for this so-called 'true goddess', apart from her looks, is that she is single, has no dating history, and has no chaotic private life.

This standard directly wiped out almost all female gods.

Although the private life of the supreme lady Alustri was very chaotic, and she had given birth to nearly a hundred children in hundreds of years, but if you regard her as a man, you will naturally understand the reason.

This is why only men are allowed to open the harem, but women are not.

Brian stopped thinking about it, and looked at Methema with great interest. Facing the crowd's siege, he was actually not nervous at all.

As he expected, when the group of silver knights saw Helliste's face clearly, they immediately lowered their spears one by one and lined up to bow their heads in salute.

"Ms. Moon Whispering, who is this?" Methema looked at Brian suspiciously.

"You guys back down." Hellist didn't have any extra words, but just said to everyone in a cool voice.

No matter in the game world or now, Hellist has always been in Brian's impression that she is a beautiful woman with a scary rationality.

In the small world, together with her, he has experienced the massacre of Abrera, helped the mad Amethyst dragon regain his sanity, explored the ruins of the Essebra Desert, eradicated the evil wizard organization "Pale Scepter", and During the Battle of the Storm Islands and the recovery of Longshou Port, the number of times he saw her smile was one of the few, and he didn't even pretend to speak to anyone.

Of course, this also includes himself.

The root cause of this situation is that she has practiced an extreme personality duplication technique called "Secret Method of All-Spirit Manifestation".

She had to make herself rational in order to suppress her split personality.

Of course, the split personality also allowed her to master the six domains of psions.

In a low-magic world with limited strength, it took a long time to suppress the possibility of split personality almost perfectly.

Brian learns from Hellist's inadvertent tip.

She has perfectly integrated the four personalities, and if she can complete the fusion of the remaining two, her strength can reach the peak of mortals: the high legend.

In this way, six high-level psicrystal servants can be summoned at the same time, and six nine-level abilities can be released instantly.

However, in Brian's memory, this city lord who didn't show up often, never broke through that hurdle until he was reborn.

Methema glanced at Brian again, and then led her subordinates to retreat in an orderly manner, and the Supreme Palace also restored the previous order.

"I don't see how you can manage Silvermoon City in an orderly manner." Brian walked side by side with Helliste and said with a smile.

"Silvermoon City is protected by an enchantment, there are mage guards and the Silver Knights, as well as a city hall organization composed of polymaths."

Helliste glanced at him, and said softly to him, "I only need to let a psicrystal who is the best at management sit in the Supreme Palace to review documents every day, or ask me for opinions. It's still very easy."

Brian could feel that when he met Hellist this time, his tone of speaking to him became much softer, and he even looked into his eyes, and occasionally a smile appeared.

"It's no wonder that the Silver Moon Dragon Empress dared to defy all opinions in the Silver Moon Council and let you, an outsider, be the lord." He looked stunned, "So it's because of your ability."

"That's right." Helisite seemed to recall something interesting, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth involuntarily.

"Someone wants to see me, Brian, come with me to the Silver Throne." Suddenly, she received a voice transmission from the psicrystal, looked at Brian, and asked for advice: "Is that okay?"

"If I'm not mistaken, the person is probably not you, but me."

Brian confidently expressed his guess, "And I also know that the person who saw me was the 'Thundermaster' Tern Hornblade."

A strange look flashed across Helisite's eyes, and she nodded immediately.

She led Brian down the tower, along the silver staircase, to the greeting hall for visitors, and made a gate full of silver guards.

Then Brian followed her down a long corridor.

Just like in the game world, there are steel golems standing on both sides of the corridor.

They seemed lifeless, but when Brian passed by, he felt a palpitating danger emanating from these statues.

At the end of the corridor is a luxurious arch. The magic curtain is like a waterfall, flowing between the arches. Helisite walked to the arch, stretched out her white palm, and stroked the curtain. It was flowing endlessly. The purple light immediately converges and disappears.

Seeing this scene, there was a hint of surprise in Brian's eyes.

Of course, he wasn't surprised by the way the other party opened the curtain, but by the magical energy she emitted when she opened the curtain.

"So, you have mastered the means to convert psionic energy into arcane energy." He couldn't help but ask inwardly of curiosity.

This principle is nothing more than using the power of the mind to mobilize the magical energy in the air for its own use.

In this way, they can activate psionics to use magical equipment, or resist spells that psionics cannot resist.

This ability is still very useful for spellcasters who do not have both arcane and psionic specialization.

"I learned it in the floating mountain range of Ms. Vera Marrades." Helisite said to him, "I didn't expect that nothing can be hidden from your eyes."

After listening to her explanation, Brian showed a clear look.

Because in the floating mountain range of the Dragon Queen, there is an artifact that guards, and it is not surprising that Helisite can master this ability.

When they stepped into the hall, Brian saw a figure in purple mage robes, holding a staff with amethyst inlaid on the top, who had been waiting for a long time.

'Thundermaster' Thon Hornblade.

The supreme mage of Silvermoon City is also the leader of the mage guards, an archmage whose strength has reached a medium legend.

At the same time, he was also the last lover of Alustriel. After the death of the other party, he willingly helped Madam Supreme to be the lord of Silvermoon City. After 100 years of management, he gave way to Methema.

"Is something wrong?" Henry asked.

"Yes, Ms. Moon Whisperer."

This tall, thin, middle-aged mage with a silver-white beard looked at Brian with a pair of shining eyes, and said in a calm magnetic voice:

"Hello, Mr. Brian from the Kingdom of Cormyr, I have already heard about the turmoil just now. In order to show our sincerity in Silvermoon City and prevent further misunderstandings, please keep this item away."

After speaking, he was about to throw a shiny silver, diamond-shaped chest badge to Brian.

"Master Tenn." Helisite raised her slender hand and stopped her, with a hint of displeasure in her cold tone, and deliberately emphasized: "Brian is my best friend."

Tern stared blankly, looked at Brian carefully, and then reluctantly handed over a silver badge with a shield-shaped mark.

Brian naturally knew what it was, so he accepted it unceremoniously.

This is the enchantment mark of Silvermoon City. After possessing it, one can enter and exit the city's mysteries unimpededly without sending an alarm or being intercepted.

According to the information, there are four types of enchantment marks in Silvermoon City, from the primary unicorn mark, to the intermediate diamond mark, the advanced shield mark, and the topmost six-star mark, which currently has less than ten.

The high-level shield mark in his hand has given him the right to go to the Sage Library to read books at will, which belongs to the treatment of high-level leaders.

"Mr. Brian."

Mage Tenn went on to say, "The battle between the Kingdom of Cormyr and the City of Shadows has spread throughout the Northlands, and it is also the battle with the heaviest losses among the ghost mages so far. I am very happy to meet the commander of this battle. I hope we Happy cooperation in the future.”

"Thank you for your generosity, Mage Tenn." Brian shook hands with the other party and said with a smile, "I will remember it in my heart."

He knew that apart from Helliste, the biggest factor in making a legendary mage give face like this was the Kingdom of Cormyr standing behind him.

After all, he ruled Mokou Town, which was the only way to pass through the Ennook Desert, and he firmly grasped the trade route between the Northland and the East.

"Then, farewell." Master Tenn glanced at the two of them, turned and left.

"Actually, you don't need to be so indifferent and alienated to your subordinates." After Master Tenn left, Brian and Helliste chatted while walking: "After all, these people are your right-hand men."

"No." Helisite shook her head slightly and sighed softly: "They are just a tiny existence in the vast world, and they are an inconspicuous role to face in a busy life. My psionic secrets cannot let me Too much contact with people."

Hearing the other party say such cold words, Brian couldn't help asking curiously, "What about me? Am I also an inconspicuous existence in your eyes?"

"No." Helisite stopped, turned around and looked at him for a long time, and said in a soft tone with a serious look:
"You're different from them, Brian. Although one flower withering can't ruin the whole spring, and one setback can't ruin the whole life, but in my eyes, the falling of a star is enough to dim the whole starry sky."

There was a fleeting sadness in her eyes again, like the shining starlight under the heavy ice.

"I lived in the dark like a dead body for too long, until a faint starlight came through, and it shone on me like the hope of my life."

There was a trace of inexplicable fear of the unknown in her voice: "This is also the warmth that I have never experienced before. Maybe this world is not as bad as I imagined, just like a dim star, one day it will shine brightly, free Shuttle in the universe. And you are the star that guides me in my life."

Brian froze in place, he could hear the sincerity in the other party's words.

But at this moment, the frighteningly rational Lord of Silvermoon City, Hellist, once again presented him with an unimaginable weakness and sadness.

"Do not worry."

As if his arms were uncontrollable, he held her seemingly weak body in his arms, feeling the delicate body in his arms changed from stiffness to softness, and he promised her, "Just like what I said last time , I will definitely save our small world and bring you back to the distant world of Atas."

He knew that when he said this promise, it meant that his future was a vast multiverse, and the world of Toril was just a grain of water compared to it.

Although the greatest sorrow in life is to be born in mediocrity and die in mediocrity.

But Brian is a person who is not willing to be mediocre.

Even if he is just a fleeting dust in the fireworks, he must do his best to create his own brilliant life and bloom his own brilliant fireworks.

After all, he also longs for the height of "pickable stars", and also likes the leisure of "dark fragrance floating moon dusk", and even more praises the heroism of "laughing up to the sky and going out, how can I be a fluffy person".

Even if he is the dust of the multiverse, he must be the most dazzling one.

"I believe in you." Hellist didn't break free, she quietly leaned against Brian's arms, listening to his rhythmic heartbeat, showing a comfortable smile.

Then, she seemed to think of something, and said to him worriedly:
"Bryan, do you know? During the time you disappeared, I tried to return to our small world from the star realm, but every attempt failed, as if it had completely disappeared."

"Don't worry, it's because of the magic net." Brian frowned and pondered for a moment, obviously he didn't expect this to happen.

He patted the elf in his arms, pretending not to care, and said to her, "I know what to do, just leave it to me to save the world."

Because of the magic net, the solution is naturally very simple, that is, ask the goddess of magic to open a small stove to help him repair the magic net in the small world.

As for what to say to move this goddess, he already had a rough plan in mind.

In this case, he will inevitably go to the Valley of Shadows.

"Well, I see."

For a moment, Haliette nodded like a good girl, and before Brian didn't know it, she broke free from his arms again.

"That's right." She smiled at Brian and said softly:
"Your Atas psychic talent has not been fully awakened. I have prepared the materials for you in advance. You should rest for a night first, and I will hold a baptism ceremony for you tomorrow."

As time went by, Brian returned to the room Hellist had placed for him.

He looked out of the window, the bright moon was filled with a quiet atmosphere, the stars dotted the night sky, and the sky and the earth were filled with a fresh atmosphere.

A gust of wind blew, woke up the insects on the tree, and also blew away the haze in his heart. He couldn't help smiling, full of confidence in the future

(End of this chapter)