Arcane Journey

Chapter 231 Higher Creation
Brian sat alone in his study, softly glowing from a magic desk lamp at his elbow.

After an unknown amount of time, he put down the book in his hand, rubbed his temples wearily, called up the system bar, and with a thought, he began to improve his professional level:

"Upgrade the Arcanist level!"

"Consume 364000 experience points."

"The Arcanist level has been raised to level 4!"

"Gain arcane energy: 38 points!"

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"Increase Psion level!"

"Consume 156000 experience points."

"Psion level increased to level 13!"

"Acquired power points: 21 points, extra power points: 4 points."

"Acquired a seventh-level ability: mass ectoplasmic cocoon."

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With the promotion of the two professional levels, Brian suddenly felt a majestic life energy rushing through his limbs and veins, which swept away his fatigue from the past few days.

It can be seen from this that with the continuous improvement of his own level, his life energy, mental power, will, tenacity, reflection and many other attributes are all increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His current strength is a level 10 battle mage advanced to a level 4 arcanist, and a part-time level 13 psion.

Although he was still a Tier 13 hero, his Challenge Level was as high as around [-].

With his current strength, as well as the flexibility of arcane and psionic cooperation, even in the face of an adult dragon, he has the confidence to be a dragon slaying warrior.

After all, with the blessing of psychic powers, he can easily avoid the most troublesome and dreaded Longwei of the real dragon.

Just relying on their dragon breath, magic spells, and powerful bodies, they did not pose any threat to him at all.

After all, in the professional group of giant dragons, ordinary giant dragons can be regarded as half-baked warlocks and fighters with strong physique and flying ability at best.

However, facing spellcasters whose strength has reached the legendary realm, it is more difficult to fight. If you are a little careless, you don't even have a chance to escape.

It's not that his spells can't cause fatal damage to these legendary spellcasters, but the legendary spellcasting expertise possessed by legendary spellcasters, as well as the endless levels of immunity or spell immunity barriers, at his current level of strength, it is enough Make him feel hopeless.

Although he has many powerful characteristics and specialties, there is also the ultra-small magic net like Austrian Fire that allows him to continue fighting for a long time.

But as long as Brian thinks about his opponents in the next few years, he will understand that with his current strength, even if he is promoted to the legendary realm, it will be difficult to touch those old monsters who have lived for thousands of years.

This is like other people's struggle for thousands of years, why lose to him a traverser who has only practiced for a few years.

In this case, he can only rely on his own ability to give full play to his advantages and surpass them.

Moreover, although his current strength is only around the third level, as a former legendary professional, he already knew how to break through the legendary realm.

This advantage allows him to not be stuck in the bottleneck for several years when the experience meets the upgrade requirements.

Recalling the major events that happened in the next few years, Brian knew very well that if he could not raise his strength to the legendary realm, he would face demon lords and incarnations of evil gods, ancient sleeping demons, powerful liches, etc. , in front of them, he is at most a soy sauce, or cannon fodder.

This always makes him involuntarily raise a sense of urgency to improve his strength as soon as possible.

However, his calm and rational mind also made him very clear about the path of going too far. In addition to improving his strength as soon as possible, he must also spend a lot of time consolidating the newly acquired strength.

It was also for this reason that he did not go to the inner or outer plane like a madman, killing monsters frantically to gain experience points.

In his plan, when to upgrade to what level, he has already listed it clearly.

If there were no accidents, his cyclical and gradual strength improvement speed allowed him to deal with most difficulties.

He didn't think about it anymore, and continued to focus on his attribute bar, adapting to the changes brought about by his level up.

Seeing that the improvement of his two career levels did not bring any characteristics to him, Brian was not surprised, and immediately took out a thumb-sized dark blue crystal.

Through the psion's psionic detection, he deciphered the information stored in the blue crystal's imperceptible inner light.

This is a high-level spirit stone, and only psions can decipher its mysteries through spiritual energy.

This high-level spirit stone, which stores power information, was left to him in advance by her when he and Helisite parted ways.

It has to be said that this Psionist is very thoughtful, and he can be called a qualified Psychic Evangelist.

The purpose of Helister's doing this is to facilitate the learning of high-level psychic powers when his psion's professional level increases.

And there are not only seventh-level abilities stored here, as long as his strength meets the requirements for learning, eighth-level and ninth-level abilities can also be quickly mastered through this spirit stone.

He didn't hesitate anymore, and immediately immersed his spiritual power in the spirit stone, looking for the seventh-level ability he needed most right now.

About half an hour later, Brian opened his eyes, his submerged consciousness left the Spirit Stone, and then solemnly put it away again.

Learning psychic powers was smoother than he had imagined. Although this feeling was not as good as Helliste's sea of ​​spiritual knowledge, it did not have any sequelae.

In the spirit stone, he has learned a total of eight abilities. This does not mean that Helisite only masters these eight seventh-level abilities, but is limited by the spirit stone. In terms of cost performance, it is the most cost-effective ability.

They are: teleportation redirection, energy conversion, energy claws, energy waves, soul-hunting, personal mind barriers, psionic phase gates, and super-frequency blasts.

Looking at the details of these abilities, even Brian himself had to admit how important they were to him.

For example, the "Teleportation Change" that forcibly changes the position of the enemy's teleportation spell. With this ability, he doesn't have to worry about the enemy slipping away in front of him through the teleportation spell.

There is also a defensive ability "Energy Transformation". As long as it is an attack with elemental damage such as fire, acid, lightning, ice, etc., he can use "Energy Transformation" to back it up to the opponent.

At the same time, there are three relatively good attack abilities: energy wave, energy claw and overfrequency blast.

Among these three attack abilities, Brian is most optimistic about "Overclocking Blast".

This is the ability of the mind enchantment system, and its main function is to strike the enemy mentally and spiritually, which is the so-called brain.

Although Brian is proficient in the creation department, he has also dabbled in the abilities of the mind enchantment department, and it is relatively easy to use.

For example, the first-level ability "Mind Stab", the third-level ability "Mind Blast", and the seventh-level ability "Overclocking Blast" he just mastered. These three abilities have the same effect.

The only difference is the amount of power caused. If "Mind Stab" is compared to piercing the enemy's brain with a needle, then "Mind Blast" is a hammer that hits the brain hard, and "Over Frequency Blast" ", similar to dozens of hammers, attacking the brain of the enemy with a rhythmic frequency, and the damage caused can be imagined.

The most important thing is that most of the psychic powers are released instantly through the sight.

This also means that when Brian confronts the enemy, when the opponent is not prepared for psychic powers, he suddenly releases the "overfrequency blast", which can completely turn the tide of the battle.

Of course, this is a miraculous effect that the enemy can receive without knowing that they have the Psion class. For melee classes and semi-casting classes, the effect is quite significant.

As for the magic equipment carried by a wizard whose strength has reached the legendary realm, let alone the triggered chain defense spell, it is enough to cause headaches.

After all, wizards who can successfully reach the legendary realm, when facing enemies, most of them will consider this situation and bless themselves with mind protection spells.

To reverse the situation of the battle through "Overfrequency Blast", he needs to remove his constant or pre-applied mind-protection buff spells.

After leveling up, Brian took out a gold-plated spell book and placed it in front of him.

With the faint aura of the spell restriction flickering, he raised his hand and canceled the above restriction.

Mother has no doubts that this spell book is the 'Book of the Forgotten' that he obtained in the mansion of the missionary mage, which can be used for free spells.

Since he had encountered few high-level spellcasters and did not dare to take risks to challenge legendary spellcasters, this spell book was not in vain except for the legendary spell of a mind flayer lich. Whoring to.

On the contrary, another powerful ability of the spellbook, "hidden knowledge", was brought into full play by him.

Because this ability allows him to put any books or scrolls that record arcane knowledge into the spell book, guide the hidden power in the book, and enable the holder to understand these obscure mysteries at a faster speed. Knowledge comes together.

From his arrival in the Underdark until now, Brian has come into contact with a total of five Nether scrolls, except for the introduction to arcane arts that recorded "energy", "destruction" and "killing" obtained in the floating mausoleum, which he understood in advance outside.

Back and forth, he obtained from the female lord of Araby an introduction to arcane arts that recorded "hidden" and "confuse", a sheet of magic creation that recorded creation spells and a sheet of higher creations, as well as a sheet from the Grand Arcanist. A high-level creation scroll about construction knowledge obtained by Floating Void City.

There is no doubt that these Nether scrolls have been penetrated by him through the "Hidden Knowledge" of the Book of the Forgotten in the time he spent more than a month.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have accumulated the experience points to improve his professional level so quickly.

In the remaining four Netherchrome scrolls, the arcane introduction of "hidden" and "confusing" is recorded, so that his spell identification has been improved by 3 levels, his knowledge (mystery) has been improved by 2 levels, and his spell immunity has been improved. 1 level enhanced.

Recording the magical creation of the creation spell, his craftsmanship (alchemy) has been raised from the original level 21 to 23, and the two advanced creation scrolls have allowed him to acquire an additional new skill: craftsmanship (advanced creation).

This unexpected surprise was something Brian had never thought of.

[Craft (advanced creation): Creation is the most mysterious and great field of creation in the multiverse. It is mainly divided into three categories: natural creation, divine creation and magical creation.By deciphering the knowledge in the scrolls of Nether, you understand the mysteries of higher creations. It not only includes the manufacture of magical constructs, but also records the secrets of creating living objects and intelligent objects, and even the way of creating and destroying dead magic areas. .For arcanists who have mastered this skill, every time the level of "advanced creation" increases, the experience value consumed to manufacture any magic item will be reduced by 1%, and the health value of any magic construct or other construct will be +1, and the magic resistance will be increased. +1, physical resistance +1, damage dealt increased by 1%. 】

This is not a feat, but a character skill similar to Craft (alchemy).

Brian's level 23 alchemy, in addition to improving the efficiency of making magic items, has the ability to make legendary equipment and legendary creatures.

However, his newly acquired craft (advanced creation) is a skill that can increase or decrease the effect of the skill as the level increases.

This extra ability really surprised Brian, and he sighed inwardly: It is indeed an encyclopedia that claims to integrate the magic system of the multiverse.

By interpreting the two color-resistant scrolls that record high-level creations, his skill level can be raised to level 3. This shows that if all the 10 high-level creations and 10 magical creations in the color-resistant scrolls are fully integrated, his skills can be improved. The skill level has been raised to level 20.

In this case, the buff effect obtained by the skill is very significant. Just 20 points of physical resistance and magic resistance are enough to make most people despair.

Of course, the premise of all this is that he can collect all the Nether scrolls.

Seeing that the skill was only level 3, Brian clearly felt in his heart that this skill might not be as simple as level 20.

Take, for example, the last group of categories in the Nether Scrolls: Arcanums.

This set of Nether scrolls provides the principles of artifact creation.

It is the most difficult to understand, and an extended knowledge of all the other Nether scrolls is required before its power can be unlocked.

To put it simply, only those who have thoroughly studied the introduction to arcane arts, magic creation, advanced creations, and plane mechanisms are qualified to be exposed to the mysteries.

Thinking of this, Brian looked at a background specialty "Arcane Inheritance" that he had obtained after reading the first Nether scroll.

As he expected, the special ability in the background specialty gave him the ability to perceive the falling scroll of color resistance.

This ability has been increased from the initial range of 33cm to about 10 meters.

Obviously, this ability will greatly increase the range of perception as the number of color-resistant scrolls obtained increases.

This is the capital for him to collect all the Nether Scrolls. After all, the Nether Scrolls cannot be destroyed. As long as they still exist in this world, he has the opportunity to collect them all.

Brian put away the Book of the Forsaken and the Nether Scrolls, and the four Nether Scrolls he deciphered flooded his mind with a huge amount of arcane knowledge.

This situation is like, although he has a stomach enough to digest any food, but the digestion speed is so slow that he is a little unbearable for a while, and there is a dull pain in his head from time to time.

time!

Brian instantly realized what he needed most right now.

This made him can't help but recall what happened during his nearly one-month retreat.

Due to the offset of the timeline, he realized that he could not passively follow the plot line, so in order not to destroy his plan, he arranged many countermeasures in advance.

He asked the ranger Puranda to take his token to the Kingdom of Harua to obtain a group of spellcasting troops for himself.

Although he has already established a magic academy, it will take at least three years to cultivate his own spellcasters, so he naturally can't wait any longer.

He also asked Obert, the leader of the Purple Dragon Knights, to bring the battle mages to station in the dark forest in advance, the purpose of which was to gain a firm foothold.

In this way, when the demon lords ravage the Underdark, he can take the opportunity to seize most of the areas and resources of the Underdark.

At the same time, he made another backup, and this candidate was Prince Brenas from the City of Shadows.

He asked the stone giant priest to hand over the token of going to the Inscribed Valley to Brenas, and asked him to help him find Iolum in the Underdark region and ask for the details of the Mithr energy core.

Since he learned from Ms. Taling Polaris the true function of the Misser Energy Core and that it can be connected to a demiplane for energy supply, he instantly realized that if he mastered the production method of the Misser Energy Core, he could completely use it It is improved to be similar to various power sources such as the CPU in a computer, the engine in a car, and so on.

This is no less than the changes brought about by the invention of the steam engine in the real world.

During this month, in addition to reading the four Nether scrolls, he also produced a legendary power golem with the assistance of Ms. Polaris.

The golem has been enchanted and assembled, and it is waiting for him to perform the activation ceremony tomorrow.

In order to resist the Dragon Worship Cult's Dragon Madness Rebellion and Shadow City's denial, he also arranged for the casters of the Silver Scholars to erect sixteen spell turrets on the city wall.

The only pity is that the production progress of the magic pulse gun is less than one-third.

As the most powerful magic technology product during the Netheril Empire, even under the guidance of Ms. Polaris, it still takes a lot of time to process complicated processes such as smelting, enchanting, and engraving.

The fundamental reason is that this pulse gun is not a real-world cannon product, but an attack method similar to a super-large magic circle that condenses energy.

This super-large magic circle must cover the entire wizard tower, and it also needs to cooperate with the magic network of Mither's energy core, so the production progress is very slow.

Bryan can only pray that it will be completed when the enemy fully attacks.

"After all, there is still not enough time." Brian couldn't help talking to himself.

If he has enough time, he can digest the mysterious knowledge he deciphered from the Nether scroll and turn it into the power to arm himself.

"Ms. Polaris." When mentioning the time, Brian suddenly thought of a way, and quickly asked, "Do you know of any spells or different dimensions that can slow down the flow of time."

She is the tower spirit of the wizard tower, as long as she doesn't deliberately shield her, she can hear everything she says.

If he had this kind of extra-dimensional space, he would be able to give himself more time to consolidate his strength and study magic, and even cultivate magic apprentices more quickly.

"Time, even in the time of Netheril, is strictly controlled by the gods." Lady Polaris appeared out of nowhere in a tight dress and bare feet. She looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, sitting on a high On the high bookshelf, she stretched out her slender waist with a curvy figure, then swayed her beautiful snow-white legs and said with a smile:
"It's not impossible to create a different-dimensional space that slows down the flow of time, but with our current capabilities, I'm afraid we can't make it yet."

"Is there no other way?" Brian asked directly, too lazy to look up at her.

"Yes." Ms. Polaris replied with a smile:

"The premise is that you need to find a beholder whose strength is in the legendary field. The beholder is a materialized alien creature. A powerful beholder can materialize the different-dimensional space you want through thinking."

A powerful beholder?
Brian frowned. In his impression, he only knew that this kind of beholder could be found in Leyline Lost City in Waterdeep City.

He did know a beholder named Victor in the Underdark.

It's a pity that this guy ran away after completing his mission and went to a place called 'Wisteria Valley'.

After thinking for a while, he finally gave up on looking for the beholder and could only pay attention later.

Then, he got up and walked towards the portal of the wizard tower.

It has been more than a month since the demiplane's ceremony was successful, and he needs to check the progress of the fusion between Mizusawa Fairy and the demiplane.

It's something he does every day.

(End of this chapter)