Arcane Journey

Chapter 189
The Ernook Desert is divided into three different regions. The Standing Stone Plain is one of the three major branches of the Ernook Desert. The northern dwarves call it: the Land of Broken Dreams.

To the north is the High Glacier, and to the south is the sandy land known as the Sword Desert.

The area is often battered by strong winds, resulting in little water, oases and trees, and gravel and jagged rocks everywhere.

In fact, there are few plains here either, most of which rise as plateaus above the sandy deserts to the south.

The wind sculpted these rocks into pillars, spikes and other strange shapes, so that there are cliffs, cracks and rubble everywhere.

Unlike the Sword Desert region to the south of the Ennook Desert, the Netherese did not establish many settlements here before the fall of the Netheril Empire and the formation of the desert.

As such, there aren't many ruins or buried treasure either.

However, the land was rich in mineral resources, and it was here that the Netherese first discovered the Kalindar Stone.

Brian was recalling the information about the Standing Stone Plain while facing the raging strong wind and the wind and sand that could obscure his vision.

The dry air made every breath he took hot and unbearable, with the smell of the scorched earth, and the scorching sun of the desert made him a little bit unable to open his eyes. Even with the blessing of protective magic, he still felt The heat is trying to squeeze every bit of water out of your body.

"This area is really weird."

Helisite wiped the sweat from her smooth and jade-like forehead, and said to him, "The further north I go, the more I feel the weakening of magic and spiritual power in this area."

"Because the pain left by Felin's magic sunflower on this land has not fully recovered so far. The chaotic magic energy was absorbed by the scorching sun and shone on us again. The protective spells will be affected more or less. influences."

Brian shook off the dust on his cloak, stroked a strand of sweat-wet hair from his forehead behind his ear, and said with a smile, "If we had known earlier, we should have set off at night, at least we wouldn't have to suffer from the scorching heat." suffering."

"I once heard you mention something inadvertently." Hellist put up a spiritual energy barrier for the two of them again, "Did you say that you want to restore this desert to its original state?"

"Indeed." Brian did not deny, "If there is a chance, I will do it."

In fact, someone is already doing it.

Among them are the druids of Emerald Court, and the most active in this matter is High King Telamant Tanshul of the City of Shadows.

But he has worked hard for nearly a hundred years. In addition to the improvement of the area on the edge of the desert, the central area like the Standing Stone Plain has become more serious, and even the air has gradually begun to fill with a chaotic magical energy.

According to his speculation, the fundamental reason why the High King wanted to assist the lost goddess Shar and let the Shadow Demon Weave completely replace the Demon Weave was to use the power of the Shadow Demon Weave to restore the trauma of the Ennook Desert.

"To manage this desert, I'm afraid it's not as simple as I imagined."

Helisite quietly released a detection of spiritual energy, a pair of beautiful eyes shining under the scorching sun looked around, and sighed softly, "I can feel that there is a mysterious power hidden deep in the desert, which is Constantly absorbing the life of the land, this feeling is like…”

"Like the Sun Mage in the world of Atas?" Brian said his guess.

"That's right." Helliste nodded calmly, as if she had been immune to his occasional shocking quotations.

"In this case, then I should try it even more."

Brian lifted his hood and exposed his slightly messy hair to the scorching sun, feeling the heat of the wind blowing on his face. He said in a casual tone, "If this desert can be cured, maybe To be able to find out how to restore the world of Athas."

When Helliste heard this, the beautiful face covered by the shadow of the hood froze for a moment.

She fixed her strange eyes on Brian's back facing Kuangsha.

For a moment, she suddenly felt that his figure became a little more majestic in her mind, as if he was gradually growing into her reliance.

Recalling the details of how the two of them got along, she couldn't help being surprised and unbelievable by her own thought, and then quickened her pace to follow.

Naturally, Brian didn't know that his few casual words had already made people look at him with admiration.

His words seemed to be careless, and the tone of his speech seemed to be mentioned casually, but in fact, this was indeed an idea he had long ago.

After all, he already had an idea in his mind on how to govern the Ennook Desert.

The most direct and effective method is nothing more than to eliminate the Felin Mokui, and he just happened to know the location of the memory tower buried in the deepest part of the desert, called the 'Grave of the Felim Mokui'.

Of course, with his current ability, it is definitely impossible.

Unless his strength reaches the high level of legend, otherwise, he will never touch this taboo power.

As for why he came up with the idea of ​​restoring the Ennook Desert, the reason for this is that besides his own willingness to not be too repulsive, it is also an invisible responsibility for him.

In the game world, his strength is limited to medium legends. Naturally, he still has a little experience on how to break through high-level legends. He has even heard a little about the unknown realm above high-level legends that no mortal has ever touched.

It is said that there is something like 'cause and effect' involved in this.

Based on this uncertain news, he can also understand why the Supreme King of the City of Shades is so obsessed with rebuilding the Arcane Empire.

Undoubtedly, the reason for this cannot be anything. It is our duty to rebuild the glory of the Arcane Empire! ' and other slogans that make young people's blood surge.

As a remnant of Netheril, High King Telamante has spent thousands of years, and the blood in his heart may have been worn out long ago, so he speculated whether it was related to some Cause and effect, or it is related to improving one's own strength.

When the two were about to reach the cliff-covered Longbei Ridge along the sand dunes, a group of uninvited guests jumped out of the deep-buried sandstorm and blocked their way.

"Human flesh? It turned out to be fresh human flesh!"

Five humanoid creatures with spikes on their backs, like rhinos walking upright, hissed and roared excitedly from their mouths full of fangs,

Drops of mucus oozing from the gaps between the teeth dripped and evaporated on the hot surface.

"This is a supernatural human-eating monster." Brian quickly told Helister the information about the human-eating monster through a mind link.

Psychophers are furious hunters that haunt the desert. These dangerous and vicious humanoid monsters prefer to prey on intelligent creatures.

They fully enjoy the process of torturing, killing, and devouring these creatures. Their desire for human flesh will even go deep into the settlements of the Bedai barbarians at all costs.

They look like a hulking, two-legged, lizard-like humanoid monster, a cross between a rhinoceros and a spiny beetle, with thick, horned plate armor lining the top and back of the head, and at the nostrils. There is a protruding thick horn in the middle.

Since the height of a full-grown psychic monster can reach more than 5 meters, and the challenge level is about 12, far exceeding many giants, so Brian judged from the size of the five monsters that appeared that this should be a family of five .

Faced with this situation, he naturally unceremoniously chose to do it directly.

Before the supernatural human devourer took the lead in attacking, Brian's Mayoufu Micro Meteor was the first to ignite the encounter.

Accompanied by bursts of brilliant cracking sounds, the smallest of the five human devourers wailed and fell into a pool of blood. Its hard body surface was covered with more than a dozen blood holes, and the blood flowed down.

"Kill! Fresh human flesh! I will smash their bones and drain their marrow!"

Seeing the death of the human devourer, the remaining four human devourers uttered a harsh word, roaring and pounced on them.

The two largest trolls met Hellist, while the remaining two charged directly at Brian.

——"Psychic explosion!"

——"Spirit piercing!"

In an instant, with the bright light shining in the wild scarlet eyes of the superhuman phagocytologist, Brian suddenly felt a throbbing pain in his brain.

However, to understand these monsters that can release psychic energy, he was naturally prepared for a long time ago, and he added the fifth-level ability "Steel Tower of Will" for himself in advance, successfully withstood their spiritual attacks.

——"Six-ring spell: dissociation!"

——"Arcane Twins!"

Brian used the teleportation spell to distance himself from the two trolls, and then stretched out his finger. Two dark green rays shot out from his fingertips, and shot at the two trolls respectively.

—— "Any Door!"

A human devourer reacted very quickly, activating the spell-like spells it could use at will, and dodged in time.

Another troll who reacted slower was just about to escape when it was hit in the chest by a green ray.

Terrible green energy spread across its carapace like maggots attached to its bones, disintegrating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The tearing pain caused the phagocytologist to scream, pure fear flashed in its scarlet eyes, and it continuously cast various protective powers in a panic, trying to stop the evil spirits brought by this terrible spell. The pain of near destruction.

——"Supernatural ability: Ice breath!"

Another troll that escaped the disintegration ray stood on the sand dune, took a deep breath, and spewed out a large cloud of frozen aura that shone crystal clear in the scorching sun, and swept towards Brian.

Brian unhurriedly propped up an elemental shield for himself against ice damage.

Then, he locked his eyes on the Human Eater who was hit by the disintegration technique, but relied on his strong physique to not collapse in an instant.

——"Sixth-level ability: energy barrage!"

I saw his eyes narrowed slightly, and the void around the human devourer seeped out streams of terrifying ectoplasmic energy, turning into countless tiny blue and white arcs, drowning the horrified and screaming human devourer in the air without any wind pressure. in the explosion.

"Target is dead!"

"Extracting soul energy..."

"Acquired experience points: 7000 points!"

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With the Troll dead, Bryan's next attack came in seconds.

——"Level [-] ability: crystal thorn!"

A stream of ectoplasmic energy seeping out from the void turned into more than a dozen crystal tentacles covered with thorns, tightly entwining the other human phagocytologist, making crackling sounds.

The sharp spikes pierced into the crevices of the Human Devourer's carapace skin, and then became longer and thicker at an extremely fast speed, continuing to spread towards its soft flesh and blood, causing it to howl in pain.

It wanted to break free with its own strength, but found desperately that the harder it struggled, the more painful the spikes pierced into its body.

——"Mayoufu Micro Meteor!"

Brian filled the spell-casting materials in a leisurely manner, raised his finger, and pointed the muzzle of the flame-spewing gun at the struggling troll, submerging it in the bursting flames instantly, contributing a good fortune to him. experience of.

Seeing that the enemy had been eliminated by himself, he quickly checked the battle on Helisite's side.

It was discovered that the two adult supernatural monsters attacking her had been turned into clear crystals by Heliste through the sixth-level creation system supernatural ability "crystallization".

Although they hadn't died yet, their crystallized bodies had become extremely fragile. Two flaming arrows from him took their lives and contributed nearly [-] experience points to him.

After the battle, he took Herister up a sand dune and looked out into the distance at a rocky cliff covered with many small holes that served as entrances.

"Where is that place?" Helliste asked, and said her guess, "I feel that mountain is like a living body."

"Your feeling is not wrong, it is indeed a complete living body." After Brian finished speaking, he immediately activated the flying technique, and flew to the rocky cliff together with Helliste.

The two walked lightly to the vicinity of the cave entrance. The surroundings of the cave were decorated with many colorful stones and plants, which looked bright and bright.

At this moment, doll-like spirit bodies flew out of it, surrounded the two of them like a group of curious babies, and kept asking weird questions.

"Humans, where did you come from?"

"What are you doing here? Are you lost?"

"Wow, this beautiful sister's dress is so beautiful!"

"The hair looks so smooth, can you let me touch it?"

"Can you sing? Do you have any delicious snacks?"

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These are a group of animated dolls only 20 centimeters tall, they wear outlandish masks, have long limbs and wild hair.

Cowardly spirits, an elemental spirit that can be found all over the world, these gentle creatures are close to nature and are humble guardians.

"Hello, darlings of nature, cute little spirits." Brian smiled kindly and said to the chattering little guys:

"The purpose of my coming here is to find a dragon tortoise named Ogrul. If you are willing to help me lead the way, these delicious snacks are all yours."

After speaking, he took out a food box filled with various pastries and handed it to this group of lovely natural spirits.

Immediately, this group of lively and cute little dolls, like bees seeing a flower, started looting.

"I know where Grandpa Turtle is, I'll take you there." said Qiyun Aling, who was the first to snatch a piece of mung bean cake from the food box.

"Is he a good guy?" Another little guy looked at him suspiciously, staring at the small eyes circling around in the mask.

"Miss is so beautiful, how could she be a bad person." A little guy from the Appearance Association sat on Helisite's shoulder, nibbled a piece of cake, and retorted.

"But...Grandpa Turtle said, the more beautiful the lady is, the easier it is to deceive people." Another little guy argued.

"Yes, yes, Grandpa Gui also said that the dragon turtle soup is delicious."

"I don't care, we have already eaten their snacks, so we must promise to take them to see Grandpa Turtle."

"Why are you looking for Grandpa Turtle?" Qie Yun Ling, who got out of the food box, stretched out his small head and asked curiously.

"I heard that your Grandpa Turtle is trapped here, and I'm here to help him escape." Brian stated his purpose with a sincere face.

"See, he even knows that Grandpa Turtle is trapped here. I've said it all, they are so handsome and beautiful, they must be good people."

The little guy from the Appearance Association took out two crayfish from the food box, and said to everyone confidently, "It's fine if you don't want to take them, I'll take them."

"What's going on here." Helliste cast her inquiring gaze on Brian and asked, "Didn't you say you wanted to find a golem with amnesia here? What's the matter with the dragon turtle?"

"The Dragon Turtle named Oglul is a desert sage who has lived for thousands of years."

Following the guidance of Qiyun Aling, Brian explained to Helister, "It's not that you can't sense the specific location of the golem, I suspect it was hidden by him."

(End of this chapter)