Arcane Journey

Chapter 251 Level Up and Nine Ring Spells

The refreshing candle was dying in a pool of candle tears, and the morning light penetrated through the gaps in the shutters and shone into the house.

Brian fell asleep at work.

The books and scrolls on the table were piled up like a mountain. He spent half the night in the other-dimensional mansion of the missionary mage, found them in the dusty library, and brought them back himself.

Among the books left by missionary mages, there are many rare works on science, occult and alchemy, as well as some books on planes and summoning strange creatures.

What Ru Yin said was right, these books were subject to powerful magical restrictions, and unless they were destroyed, they could not be taken out of the bookshelves.

It was also for this reason that he almost exhausted his own arcane energy before successfully unlocking one-third of the books in the library.

What makes him quite depressed is that the knowledge of making magic gauntlets that the missionary mage was once proud of has also not been obtained.

As for one of his goals, knowledge about the 'Dark Abyss' demiplane, naturally nothing was obtained.

If Felin Mokui didn't lie, even he himself had to admit that the remnants of the spellweavers sleeping in the dark abyss were indeed a greater threat to him than the source cultists in Sigil City.

That's why he hurried back to his wizard's tower before the war was completely over, looking for information about the 'Dark Abyss'.

Who would have thought that even the preaching mage, in his books on the knowledge of the etheric plane, still did not mention any information about the 'dark abyss'.

This made him subconsciously think that the Mokui elder was probably lying.

But out of careful consideration and for the safety of the demiplane, Brian still didn't dare to ignore this news easily.

He knew in his heart that the treacherous elder Mokui deliberately mentioned information about the weaver to himself, and his intention was by no means as simple as it seemed on the surface.

You must know that the reason why the Felin Mokui appeared in the world of Toril was because of the enslavement organized by the law weavers. This is like the West selling black slaves to the American continent in the colonial era.

There is also an indelible animosity between the two.

He rubbed his forehead, and forced himself to raise his spirits, knowing that no matter how anxious he was at the moment, it would be of no use if he could not find relevant information.

After all, there is very little information about the organization of the weavers. They have been asleep for tens of thousands of years. Even if Elder Mokui's words are true, it is absolutely impossible to find him so quickly.

This means that he still has some development time.

strength!

Thinking of this, Brian stopped thinking about it and began to check his own state.

Looking at the experience points he had gained in the territorial defense battles in the past few days, he pondered for a moment and decided on his own upgrade method.

"Upgrade the Arcanist level!"

"Consume 481000 experience points."

"The Arcanist level has been raised to level 6."

"Gain arcane energy: 45 points."

"Get free allocation attribute: 1 point."

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"Upgrade the Arcanist level!"

"Consume 585000 experience points."

"The Arcanist level has been raised to level 7."

"Gain arcane energy: 50 points."

"Acquire the professional feature of the Arcanist: Extraordinary Creation!"

"The level of the arcane fire has been raised to level 9, and it has obtained the authority to cast spells with the 9th ring off-network."

"Acquired the characteristic of Arcane Fire: Arcane Mastery!"

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[Extraordinary creation (professional feature): You will devote your whole life to the arcane research in the field of creation, and finally get a great discovery: every tiny part of the spell contains the truth of magical creation.Each spell is to pull out the invisible but ubiquitous original magic power, interweave it and fix it into shape, and create something unique to oneself from nothingness.With your in-depth study, you gradually understand that Arcane is an independent magical effect, a reshaping operation on the magical energy permeating the multiverse, and a magical creation that is closest to the essence of the universe, which makes your Spell knowledge and power are getting stronger and stronger, and these creative talents are the dreams of those spell users who simply can't achieve it.

Effect: When you use Create Water, Fire Wall, True Creation, Eternal Illusion, Create Half Plane, etc., and many other school spells related to the field of creation, the effects of all of them will be increased by 50%.

Remarks: This feat is the pre-requisite feat of Legendary Creation. 】

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Arcane Mastery: A spellcaster who has mastered this ability can alter the basic form of a spell element, such as changing a 'fireball' to deal cold damage instead of fire damage.

Remarks: This ability only applies to spells with strong acid, cold, fire, electric shock or sonic property descriptions. The casting time and energy consumption are not affected in any way. The caster must decide whether to change and the changed elemental form before casting the spell.

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Seeing the two newly acquired abilities, Brian nodded in satisfaction.

The job characteristic of "Extraordinary Creation" didn't seem to increase his spell damage at all, but it increased his spell effect by 50%.

The so-called spell effect specifically refers to the duration and range of influence of the spell after it is released, which is equivalent to the similar effect of obtaining the metamagic specialties "Spell Delay" and "Spell Expansion" at the same time. The main improvement is still relatively large.

It can be seen from this that every professional characteristic of an Arcanist is fully worthy of the cost of spending double experience to upgrade his level.

And Ao Huo's ability "Arcane Control" directly made his spells very flexible.

"Arcane Mastery" combined with "Arcane Shaping", the former freely adjusts the arcane elements, while the latter shapes the shape released by the spell at will. This is simply the fundamental manifestation of spellcasters' proficiency in arcane arts.

Brian turned his attention to the newly acquired 1 free attribute point, and naturally added it to his intelligence attribute without hesitation, which became the current 26 points.

At this moment, his intelligence attribute of 26 points has surpassed most of the legendary spellcasters. Whether it is the damage of spells or the countermeasures against the enemy's spells, the advantage of high intelligence will be fully reflected.

The fundamental reason why he temporarily gave up raising the level of the psion is to obtain the spellcasting ability of the nine rings as soon as possible.

With the cooperation of the Arcanist's professional characteristics and the Austrian Fire characteristics, with the nine-ring spell, his strength can definitely be greatly increased.

He has already mastered many powerful spells such as the famous meteor burst, time stop, and magic Duncan's disintegration in the nine-ring spells. When fighting, he can directly release them instantly through spells. .

Just imagining that gorgeous scene is shocking.

Ever since Brian fought against legendary professionals such as Haj Horner, he has clearly felt his strengths and weaknesses.

His advantage is naturally the ability to cast spells without the limitation of spell slots, as well as specialties and characteristics that enhance spell damage such as spell sharpening, sharpening enhancement, and arcane burst.

At the moment when the battle begins, he can pour out all the spells he preset in advance through the arcane hub, magic rapid fire, arcane twins, and arcane sequence.

This kind of violent and gorgeous attack, even a legendary professional, is likely to be taken away by him if he is negligent.

The flaw is also quite obvious, that is, the strength is too low, without the support of strong legendary professional characteristics and legendary specialties, many low-level spells cannot show their power, and the control and mind-affecting spells are even more unbearable to look at.

Compared with those spellcasters and liches who have lived for thousands of years, this is indeed his most fatal shortcoming. It is like opening a new game. Others have played it for two or three years before he started to create an account. To catch up with their progress, the only shortcut is krypton gold.

In the Mage Tower in Araby City, the reason why he was able to temporarily suppress the three legendary professionals with his unstoppable spells was that they had no chance to cast high-level spells.

The fundamental reason is the blessing of the super magician Myrcella's cooperative super magic, and the super magic circle activated by the tower spirit.

Otherwise, with the frequency with which he cast spells, he would have died on the spot with a headshot due to the sequelae of soul shock.

For example, with his current ability, it takes 17 points of arcane energy to release the nine-ring spell normally, and at least 25 points to release the nine-ring spell through the metamagic specialties "Spell Empowerment" and "Instant Spell".

This means that with his state of mental strength, each time he releases a spell, he mobilizes 17 points of arcane energy, which is the safest way to cast spells.

If the arcane energy exceeds 17 points, it will produce a fatigue state similar to mental tremors. In layman's terms, it is overload.

This state will prevent him from continuously overloading arcane energy in a short period of time.

Forcible actions will damage the mental strength of the light ones, and even reduce one's own intelligence attributes, or die on the spot with a headshot.

Moreover, the more arcane energy mobilized at one time exceeds 17 points, the longer the mental tremor will last, which is similar to the need to switch to CD after the magic is released in online games.

Of course, this shortcoming can be completely made up for by the cooperation of a super magician.

Under the mutual relay between the two, it just made up for the vacancy of his conversion to CD.

This is also the fundamental reason why he was able to suppress the three legendary spellcasters with his own firepower.

As the level increases, after mastering the nine-ring spellcasting ability, the difference between him and legendary professionals is only legendary spells and legendary specialties.

In the battle between spellcasters, there is no absolute advantage, and legendary spells are equivalent to nothing.

Because most powerful spells take a long time to prepare, unless you have a helper, the enemy can't leave you with such a long time.

For example, in the astral battle between him and the mentor of Shadow Demon Net, the legendary spell released by the other party seemed to have a very fast casting time, but the continuous damage caused was not even as good as the eight-ring spell.

The legendary spell of Shadow Demon Wang's mentor is a control spell, and it needs certain conditions to be triggered before it can burst out with powerful power.

Then, Brian began to adjust and adapt to his new state as he did every time he upgraded his level, so that he could calmly deal with sudden situations.

About ten minutes later, his student Sissy walked in with a battle report.

The two students he recruited half a year ago, moon elf mage Oranke, are fascinated by constructed creatures and mechanical puppets, just like a pervert who sees a beautiful woman.

Except for his summons, or assigning tasks, Oranke was almost immersed in the construction workshop of the wizard tower, studying these constructions.

Moreover, Oranke also created the first drone puppet with autonomous consciousness through the activation ceremony of the Grand Arcanist's "Golem Manual", which was inseparable by him as his own magic pet.

The girl named Sissy in front of him, as Brian expected, besides learning the magic of the Psychic School from Ms. Polaris, she has relatively strong management skills.

Even Argotus, the most arrogant red dragon in Mokou Town, was visibly weaker when he saw her.

Now, she has become a qualified little secretary, making Brian's lord offline, and the implementation is very smooth.

"Teacher, the battle in Mokou Town is over." Sissy put the battle report on the table in front of Brian, "According to your request, I have prepared a detailed report, please check it."

Brian nodded slightly, and picked up the battle report, which recorded the details of the battle, as well as losses and gains.

Five days have passed since the ancient red dragon invaded.

These five days have been extremely difficult for everyone in the territory.

After all, war cannot avoid death. It is obvious what death will bring.

Even so, the civilians and soldiers in the territory of Mokou Town rarely complained.

Because they are all eager for military pay, military exploits and promotion. In the state where various positions in Mokou Town are gradually saturated, war is the only means of promotion.

No one is willing to give up the opportunity to join the army. All civilians dream of sending themselves or their sons to the army in Mokou Town in exchange for a chance of promotion.

This is their only hope, to join the army of Mokou Town, be promoted to sergeant, become a free citizen of the territory, enjoy the rights they deserve, and then become a professional soldier. free citizens.

Only free citizens enjoy the right of residence in Mokou Town, obtain the basic education that allows them to stand up, and have the opportunity to learn magic.

Obviously, these civilians who got rid of their slave status are far more eager for war than real knights.

After all, in the past six months of development, the number of citizens in Mokou Town has reached nearly [-], and its town size can be called a city.

The five villages around Mokou Town have also gradually expanded to the size of a small town, accommodating nearly 8000 civilians.

Among these populations, the vast majority are the absorbed Bede barbarians, and a few are some freed slaves from Cormyr who have been accepted through the relationship of the female lords.

Even in this war, even the middle and low-level spellcasters recruited by the wizard tower actively participated in this territorial defense battle.

Because compared to staying in the tower to copy scrolls, make magic potions, enchant equipment, and assemble mechanical puppets, fighting is the fastest way to earn points.

This group of spellcasters who signed the contract knew that only by raising their authority in the wizard tower to a higher level could they gain access to profound magic knowledge.

Obviously, in the orderly promotion system, most people with ideals want to join the territorial system.

Brian began to look carefully at the detailed report made by Sissy.

The enemy attacking Mokou Town did not come from the city of ghosts deep in the desert, but the goblin frontier to the west of the town. This was an enemy that was completely beyond his expectations.

The Goblin Borderlands is located in the west of the territory of Mokou Town, sandwiched between the Far Sea Swamp and the Ennook Desert, it belongs to a wild land that has not yet been touched by civilization.

There are cliffs, swamps, low hills, thorny bushes, open grasslands and caves everywhere.

It is said that before the Netherese Empire appeared, the Goblin Frontier was once a powerful kingdom established by the goblins, and some remaining fortresses can still be seen today.

The region is home to various humanoid races, including orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, kobolds, gnolls, hill giants, cyclops, ogres, and orcs (orc-ogre hybrids), among others.

The only ancient goblin fortress city called Gwochu is located in the goblin border wasteland, and is jointly controlled by large tribes such as ogres, gnolls, orcs, and hobgoblins.

In Brian's impression, this place is a place of chaos.

The evil humanoid tribes killed each other, and the Bedai barbarians occasionally came here to fight the autumn wind. It was impossible to pose any real threat to the surrounding civilized areas.

This group of humanoid creatures in the chaotic and evil camp couldn't even be busy with their own battles, so they didn't have the mood to invade other places. I'm afraid that as soon as they left, they would be successfully stolen by other tribes.

Therefore, he hardly paid much attention to this place.

Who would have thought that in this turmoil, the main force attacking Mokou Town would be the humanoid troops from the Goblin Borderlands, among which the number of gnolls is the largest.

"Sissy, during the defensive battle in Mokou Town, did anyone notice a special gnoll?" Brian asked thoughtfully while looking at the battle report in his hand.

"Yes, teacher." Sissy said without thinking:

"During the battle, they found a kind of gnolls with glowing red eyes and pitch-black skin and manes. There were not many of them. They were mainly in charge of commanding the gnoll troops. It was Balleris who first noticed something was wrong, and then Let Argotus fly over and kill them."

As if she felt that her explanation was not too detailed, she walked up to Brian, flipped through two pages of the battle report, and pointed out with her small hand the picture drawn by magic on it.

Abyss Gnoll!
Brian realized the seriousness of the problem, because the abyss gnolls belonged to the terrible product of Yeenoghu, the demon lord of the bottomless abyss, the king of gnolls.

"It seems that Yeenoghu, the king of gnolls, is focusing on the surface and trying to rule the goblin frontier. This is most likely caused by the instigation of Graz'zt, the dark monarch." He guessed the reason for the appearance of the abyss gnolls. reason.

After all, he stole a red dragon egg from Graz'zt that is full of potential, even enough to help the demon lord change the situation in the bottomless abyss in the future.

As the most devil-like demon, Graz'zt will never let it go.

Bryan guessed that Graz'zt might have promised something to the King of Gnolls, Tie Hanhan. One sent demon-born assassins to attack his wizard tower, and the other tried to conquer the goblin frontier, posing a threat to his territory.

"I didn't expect that I would inexplicably provoke a demon lord again." Brian sighed helplessly.

Although the strength of the wolf man race is generally not strong, there are a lot of them. Under the premise of sufficient food, they can even directly transform captive hyenas into challenge level 2 wolf men through some terrible rituals.

Moreover, the greatest wish of Yeenogu, the King of the Wolf Man, is to let the Wolf Man rule the material world, and it would be terrifying to go crazy.

"You tell Balleris." Brian said to Sissy, "Let him send a few scouts to infiltrate Gewoqi and closely monitor the actions of the wolf man tribe."

"Yeah, I see." Sissy quickly took out her notebook and wrote down his words in a small notebook.

Then, Brian looked at the battle situation in Fort Watch.

Fort Watcher is located at the junction of the Horn of the Storm Mountain Range and the Marsh of the Far Sea. With the existence of this fortress, large-scale orcs and lizardmen will not be able to successfully invade his territory.

When the fortress was completed, he arranged for more than 500 mountain dwarves who were in charge of the construction to live here, and sent a thousand-man army to assist in the defense, which belonged to a military fortress.

In the defensive battle against the lizardmen and orcs, it went very smoothly, without any mistakes in the middle.

The only thing that caught Brian's attention was a group of undead creatures called 'Death Screamers' from the deep sea swamp.

This made him realize that an ancient elf relic hidden deep in the swamp of the far sea, and some terrible things sleeping in the ruins of the glass palace, might have begun to wake up.

Dozens of centuries ago, the star elves lived in the depths of the Far Sea Forest, which is now the Far Sea Swamp.

Facing the Netheril invaders who continued to colonize the ancient forests along the coast of Wizard's Bay, the star elves decided to withdraw from the main material world.

Then, the familiar scene appeared again.

Deep in the forest the High Elf mages built a palace of glass and a network of stone rings covering the entire forest.

They then run an extremely powerful high elf spell through these steles.

If this spell is successful, most of the elves will leave the main material world and come to a country called Hildyu.

A beautiful and mysterious demiplane, eternally illuminated by the twilight of the stars.

However, in the course of the ritual, a high-level star elf mage named Morel Duskwalker, out of desire for corruption and power, attempted to control all star elves.

When vying for the supreme control of the demiplane, this high-level star elf mage even used evil power to fight against other high-level mages.

Unsurprisingly, an accident occurred.

The ceremony of the high-level star elf mage, in the process of fighting, tore an unknown demiplane, and the terrible corruption energy poured out from the crack, and all the star elves known as "singing magic masters" were all transformed into A 'Death Screamer' filled with the power of death.

Obviously, this group of 'death screamers' has begun to gradually wake up from their slumber.

"Teacher, after the battle, Commander Salo has taken the tiefling magician to the depths of the deep sea swamp to find out why." Seeing the picture of Brian staring at the 'Death Screamer' for a long time, Sissy It is appropriate to add a sentence.

"I see." Brian nodded slightly and said, "If the two of them come back, let me know as soon as possible."

As far as he knows, although the high-level star elf mage's ceremony failed, resulting in the demise of the entire race, it was by no means a complete failure. The glass palace deep in the deep sea swamp hides a half-person leading to the country called 'Hildeyou' face portal.

With the strength of Salo and that magician, it is not difficult to find the portal without all the 'Death Screamers' waking up from their slumber.

Among all his subordinates, the dragon warlock Salo has the strongest utilitarianism.

Although he was well aware of this, he didn't say anything more because of it.

After all, as long as the other party doesn't do anything detrimental to the territory, it's not a bad thing.

In other words, if it weren't for his utilitarianism, the army in Mokou Town would not have been formed so quickly, and even among the adventurers, a group of professionals with strength above the second level had been selected to train a team of A garrison camp of about 500 people.

Speaking of Salo, Brian thought of the magician who followed him.

He had seen the tiefling magician who took the initiative to seek refuge with him and whose strength had reached the legendary realm. The other party gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember who it was.

This was the first time he met someone he couldn't see through.

Then, Brian turned his gaze to the report on the last battlefield.

Three days ago, among the orc tribes, the orc army headed by the dragon taming clan broke through the dangerous rock castle in the Horn of Storm Mountain Range.

The fall of this military fortress caused the orc army to march straight in, and almost ransacked five villages and towns in his territory.

Only then did everyone realize that the purpose of the orcs and the lizardmen from the swamp in the far sea to attack Fort Watch was just to make a fuss.

Fortunately, in the east of Mokou Town, the consul from Tivanton, a lycanthropist and tiger man of the tiger race, led the army to provide timely support. Amid the bombing of more than 200 mechanical puppets and drones, , successfully recaptured the fortress.

In the game world, Tivanton was the first to bear the brunt of the Red Dragon Rebellion, and even their consul died in the rebellion.

It was also for this reason that his Purple Dragon Knight leader, Obert, succeeded in becoming the ruler of Tifington.

But it was different now. After Bryan occupied Mokou Town, the enemy's attention was all shifted from Tivanton to him.

So much so that in this turmoil, Tiffany was unscathed.

Therefore, after Brian helped Myrcella drive away Hajhorner and the others, he immediately suggested to her that the defenders of Tifington should come to support him.

"Give this letter to Balleris." He handed the letter he had prepared in advance to Sissy, and said, "Let him arrange for someone to deliver it to Kuteste, the consul of Tiffanyton."

In Brian's impression, if Shar, the Lost Lady, wants to replace the Magic Net with the Shadow Demon Net, at least two large cities need to be sacrificed.

Only by turning the cities of the material world into places shrouded in shadows and transforming enough shadow creatures can a crack be torn in the magic web.

The capital of the Kingdom of Sembia and Tiffanton of the Kingdom of Cormyr are just at the node of the magic net, so it is the best choice.

In his letter, he explained in detail the hidden location of Shar's temple to the consul of Tiffanton. As long as the other party follows his instructions and uproots the power of the temple, the crisis is likely to be resolved.

Speaking of letters, Brian couldn't help but think of the ranger Puranda who went to the Kingdom of Harua.

It has been more than half a year, and according to the normal itinerary, it should have arrived long ago.

However, he has not received any magical messages from the Kingdom of Halrua so far.

The fundamental reason why he is so eager to get the support of Mage Hallua is that he is worried about Hajhorna's failure this time. In order to attack Mokou Town, the Ghost City directly drove the floating city that was salvaged by Falling Star Sea to the top of his head.

With the help of mage Hallua, it is not impossible for him not only to stop this attack, but even to seize control of the floating city and take it as his own.

Ever since he gained a firm foothold in Mokou Town, he has been working on the idea of ​​a floating city.

After all, this floating city is the city with the most complete overall structure preserved except for the ghost city. As long as it is modified and strengthened on the basis, it can be used by oneself.

Watching Sissy leave with the letter, Brian continued to look up the information on 'Dark Abyss'.

After an unknown amount of time, the buzzing sound of the teleportation circle came in front of his eyes, interrupting his concentration.

He immediately realized who could teleport to his wizard's tower without hindrance.

Brian got up from his chair and greeted him.

The female lord of Araby City suddenly came to him at this time, which made him faintly have a bad feeling in his heart.

He looked at her, she was still as beautiful as he remembered.

She raised the hood of her cloak, and the sun shone like gold on her long brown hair, but her face was pale, and her eyes were like pools of shadow.

"I'm really sorry, Brian, to disturb you at this time." There was a hint of sadness in the female lord's soft voice, "I brought news about the city of Suzal... and Hesaiah."

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(End of this chapter)