Arcane Journey

Chapter 284
The moon is about to be full, and the night sky is clear.

Yada, the ghost prince standing on the wall of the floating city Saxros, saw the snow-capped mountains of Thunder Peak, cold and desolate, but beautiful under the moonlight.

The top of the mountain is covered with silvery white moonlight, like a row of jagged sharp teeth, while the foothills and lower hilltops are hidden in the shadows.

It is very close to the sea, and you only need to move your eyes to the south to see the Sea of ​​Falling Stars, because the city of Sacross is docked at an altitude of 3000 meters above the city of Sergante.

But the Prince of Shade cannot see the sea, and the Lady of the Lost casts a dark veil across the sky, blocking his view.

The city of ghosts, Sultanza, was closer to the sea than Sacross, but he still couldn't smell the sea.

In the past, it was called 'Dry Sand Bar', a basin extending tens of kilometers in all directions, and it was also a saline-alkali zone extremely lacking in water.

With the return of the City of Shadows, his father, High King Telamante, cast a powerful magic "Marvin's World Weaving Technique", creating a land that stretches for thousands of years on the most barren land in the history of Toril. The Sea of ​​Shadows in square kilometers.

The lake there is clear and cold, surrounded by dark clouds all year round.

The city of ghosts, Sultanza, is docked above the Sea of ​​Shadows.

How to use the power of magic to transform nature was an important research direction of the great arcanists during the Netheril Empire period.

Among all Grand Arcanists, Marvin the Grand Arcanist is the best in this regard.

And the "world weaving technique" developed by him can be regarded as the pinnacle of the Netherese in the transformation of nature.

This spell is also the only two spells known as 11-level magic in the empire period.

After the City of Shadows returned to the material plane, in the plan of the eldest prince Ruivalan, he originally planned to unite with the members of the Church of the Lost Lady, and supplant the Supreme King Telamante, so that the followers of the goddess can take control of the Floating Void City.

But when his father successfully performed "Marvin's World Weaving Technique", Rui Valan gave up this long-planned plan without hesitation.

The kinslayer will be cursed forever, Yada thought.

The Shadow Prince turned around, brushed aside the hair in front of his eyes, and looked down at the floating city of Sacross, which was salvaged from the Sea of ​​Falling Stars.

The city of Sacross is mainly divided into two parts. A huge mountain that has been cut is turned over to form a whole. In the center of the city, there is a small round hill with a flattened top and a deep shadow temple.

There is a [-]-meter-high ghost tower on both sides of the shadow temple.

The outer city is located at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by stone walls densely covered with dark runes. The outlines of the arcane academy, alchemy workshop, blacksmith shop and many other ruins inside are still preserved to this day.

When Yada led the ghost mages to dive into the seabed, many coral reefs and sahuagin coral fortresses grew in this floating city.

Their attack destroyed all the coral fortresses, including the shark-god Sekora's underwater temple, leaving only the silt and sahuagin corpses.

The only thing left is 44 megalithic ribs protruding from the ground, like huge white tree trunks.

Seeing them, Yinhun Prince Yada couldn't help his heart beat faster.

It is said that this is the skeleton of the last sea dragon in the world, and it is the most powerful legendary creature born in the sea.

It feeds on sea monsters and dragon turtles, and can swallow entire islands in anger.

However, Sekola, the shark god of the sahuagin, descended in person and killed the sea dragon. The spokesperson of the material world of Sekola, the high priest of the proud shark tribe, turned its bones into fossils, so that the sand of later generations The Huayu people will always remember the deeds of the shark god Sekola.

The ribs of the sea dragon became the beams and pillars of the temple of Sekola, and its mouth was used as the altar of the shark god.

The Shahuayu clan of the Sahuagin ruled Sacross for two thousand and seven years. Yada recalled the history told to him by the little Brenners who was also an archaeologist.

The sahuagin were enemies of the sea elves and fought against the disciples of the Storm God. They not only ruled the Starfall Sea, but also ruled the surrounding rocky land.

This group of murlocs, known as the 'Deep Sea Devils' by the coastal residents, wore robes woven with seagrass, and the teeth of the giant sea dragon were carved by them into the holy emblem of the shark god Sekola.

But that was thousands of years ago, when the sahuagin straddled fog-shrouded coasts and endless ocean swells, the blood-chilling ominous bass that was their hunting horn, their plunder and swell. The call to battle.

The sahuagins were built on the walls of the palace of flowing water in Sacross, covered with brocades woven of silver seaweed. Sahuagin warriors gathered around a huge starfish-shaped table to enjoy the gift of the sea, and even their seats They are all made of mother-of-pearl.

However, this is all gone, the glorious days of the sahuagin are gone, just like the Netheril Empire once was.

It's time to end all this, it's time to start again, Yada thought.

This ancient and solid floating city was built by the great arcanist Saulund. After thousands of years of precipitation, it was discovered by his youngest brother Brenas, and they captured it from the sahuagin.

The current owner of the Floating Void City already belonged to the Tanshul family, Yada, the ghost prince, would not let it be lost from his hands, nor would it crash in front of him.

If the Floating Void City is really destroyed, he will also accompany him, with a sharp sword in his hand and a smile on his face.

The cold sea breeze blew in front of him, and the ghost prince standing on the city wall paused, and immediately felt a kind of boundless cold, bit by bit desperately drilled into the gaps in his armor.

He didn't even know when he hadn't felt this kind of cold, it seemed to reach into his bones, every bone seemed to be brittle from the cold.

This made him immediately realize that when he was fighting Brian in the Temple of Shadows, due to his negligence, the sequelae of being hit head-on by a death-type legendary spell had not yet disappeared.

"It's just a spellcaster who has just stepped into the legendary realm, so why is his attack so weird." The ghost prince thought to himself, he gritted his teeth, a trace of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his whole body was shivering due to the bone-piercing cold.

"This mage lord of Mokou Town...I'm afraid he won't be so easily forced to death by himself."

Thinking of this, Yada seemed to recall something.

He endured the damage from being washed away by the death energy, and after releasing the divine spell to relieve the pain, he quickly activated the teleportation circle and appeared in Lamorak's Shadow Tower.

Lamorac's laboratory.

Yada saw that the sixth eldest brother was studying a baby aboleth swimming in a huge glass bottle on a table full of experimental vessels.

"How are you doing what I asked you to do?" Yada said to Lamorac in a cold voice.

Lamorak and Matik are in charge of deploying the defenses of the floating city of Sacross.

The former is a representative of the neutral faction in the City of Shadows, while Matik is his father's man. The purpose of doing this is nothing more than to maintain the balance of power.

But Yada didn't like Lamorak, the sixth child, on the contrary, he was more inclined to his fifth brother, Dessoud.

De Soud's wisdom and keen insight can always help him solve problems and troubles that he can't handle.

In Yada's impression, his father, the Supreme King Telamante, once admitted that among his many brothers, the two most likely to break through the high legend were De Sud and Brenas.

"You have no right to order me to do anything, Yada." Lamorac replied without raising his head, "You know, just now, I faced a voter of a mysterious lady, the leader of the Harper Alliance , in order to hold back this powerful lady, lest she cause trouble in the Floating Void City, do you know how much pressure I was facing at that time?"

"Yes, you don't know at all." He raised his head, his face haggard as if he hadn't rested for months, and he was playing with a jawless skull in his withered hands, "And now, my dear brother, you You actually want me to face the demon lord of the bottomless abyss, you must think too highly of my strength."

Yada remained silent and did not reply.

What Lamorak said was unreasonable. After all, when they went to seal the underground ruins of the demon lord together, no one except his elder brother Ruivalan could withstand the blasphemous words of the demon lord, and even followed them to the All priests and warriors died under the devil's mantra.

The most important thing was that they couldn't kill him. Rui Valan was also worried that due to the intense fighting, he would accidentally destroy the ley line magic circle that the great arcanist Saulund was proud of.

This is the main reason. This set of Earth Vein Array system that has been preserved to this day also has a very considerable increase in the energy conversion of the Stone of Shadow Demon Net.

As for his purpose of asking Lamorac, it was nothing more than to let him check for himself what happened after Brian entered the underground space.

As the saying goes, 'you have to see people when you die, and you have to see corpses when you live'.

Feeling the powerful force of death washing over his body, his instinct told him that this mage lord in Mokou Town would not be killed by the demon lord so easily.

"I'm not asking you to check it yourself, Lamorac." Yada said, "I just want you to use the observation eye of the Shadow Tower to carefully check the specific situation of the underground space."

"I will do as you command, dear brother." Lamorac rubbed the skull in his hand with his fingertips, and said solemnly:
"But it's not yet. After all, it is not an easy task to let reconnaissance magic penetrate the fog of the ley line magic circle. Don't you see? I'm very busy, and you have disturbed a mage who is doing research very much." Long time, life is precious, but that's no reason for us to waste it."

The kinslayer will be cursed forever, Yada thought.

"I don't want to talk nonsense with you here." Prince Yinhun restrained the killing intent in his eyes, snorted coldly, and said in a mocking tone:
"Because every time you put on a smart and thoughtful face, it's all bullshit. You look like a clown compared to De Soud at this point."

When the pain was mentioned, Lamorac couldn't help but twitched, and said with a smile:
"You are right, my dear brother, but you must also understand that some people's fate looks gorgeous on the outside, but hides a terrifying essence, because they don't even know what they have done, and they have already let the The bloody claws reached out to them."

Yada naturally heard the true meaning of the other party's words, but he didn't care. In his opinion, Lamorac's mockery was just a joke.

He clearly knew that in the shadow plane in the early days of Netheril's demise, his sixth-ranked brother was the first to take the initiative to accept the ghost transformation ceremony.

"The purpose of doing this is to consider the safety of the floating city."

Yada didn't want to talk nonsense with him, and realized that because of the next words, the other party might find a chance to ridicule him, so he also said bluntly:
"I witnessed with my own eyes that the leader of the Harper Alliance left Sacross, and I also saw the shadow incarnation of the Lost Lady chasing and killing the other three, but I can't guarantee that those who fall into the sealed place will definitely die under the hands of the demon lord Hands. After all, it is the place where the Stone of the Shadow Demon Net and the Earth Vein Circle are guarded, if..."

"If you're a fart! It seems that you have been frightened by the little lord of Mokouzhen." Lamorac interrupted his words, and really did not forget to mock him:
"It can be seen that his spell has already made you tremble with fear. It was your mistake and your negligence for not killing him yourself. Since it was your negligence, why didn't you go and see it yourself?"

"Aha! I understand, you are afraid, right? But, you don't have to worry, because I understand the situation of the underground space, and I personally strengthened the magic circle inside, I can assure you." He stroked the magic circle in his hand. Skull, with a confident smile on his haggard face, "Let me believe that the little lord survived, I would rather believe that Sacross crashed!"

As if responding to Prince Shade's words, the entire tower suddenly shook slightly, and the baby aboleths swimming around in the huge glass bottle also showed a panicked expression and kept hitting the bottle with their heads.

The expressions of the two ghost princes changed.

Lamorac's smile froze on his haggard face. He quickly waved his hand, and a cloud of black smoke spewed out from the skull he was playing with.

The smoke floated in mid-air, turning into a ring, and the inside showed the overall picture of the floating city Sacross.

"Boom!"

The roaring explosion sounded like thunder, and the entire floating city began to vibrate violently, as if falling into the end of the world.

At the same time, the two saw a tumbling mushroom cloud bursting out of the cracked ground and rising slowly. The ring-shaped and strange clouds in the night gave people an extremely shocking feeling, full of a sense of destruction.

At the same time, the Shadow Temple also collapsed and shattered at a speed visible to the naked eye under the scouring of the mushroom cloud, turning into ruins.

The terrifying energy gushing out from the ground seemed like dozens of volcanoes erupted at the same time, and the raging energy storm began to wreak havoc, destroying everything in its way.

Soldiers on patrol were blown away by the burst of energy, and priests who hadn't had time to escape from the temple evaporated instantly.

Exclamations and screams resounded throughout the Floating Void City, even if Yada was standing on the high tower, he could hear it clearly.

Obviously, this terrifying destructive energy not only destroyed the Shadow Temple, but also destroyed the entire Floating Void City's ley lines and the Stone of the Shadow Devil's Net, including the protective magic circle of the Shadow Tower.

"Sakros is dying..."

Looking at the scene in front of him, the image of himself fighting the mage lord in Mokou Town and the scene of the other party falling into the abyss emerged in Yada's mind.

He couldn't help but secretly regret why he didn't drag his seriously injured body to take the risk of going to the devil's sealed place to check it out.

He didn't choose to escape, but sighed softly, then closed his eyes in despair, as if quietly waiting for the final blow to end his life.

"I knew it, fuck it! I've never had any luck."

Lamorac's complexion changed drastically, and he jumped into a rage. Because he was too excited, he couldn't maintain his original appearance, and suddenly showed his original shape.

These are two blood-red eyes wrapped in a thick black fog, and a black skeleton with only a beating black heart left in the chest cavity.

"I've never had any luck. Just after I got control of the Floating Void City, something like this happened. I even had to pay for my own Shadow Tower."

A glass bottle containing baby aboleths was taken away by Lamorac out of thin air. While quickly gathering the research items in the laboratory, he said cursingly, "Damn it, what's going on, such a powerful destruction Energy... it wouldn't be the King of Balor who was killed, right?"

"Are you kidding, it's impossible! It's absolutely impossible!"

His body, with only bones and eyes left, was tumbling violently in the thick fog floating in the air.

"How can a spellcaster who has just advanced to the legendary level kill the demon lord Barlow the king of flames!? This is absolutely impossible!!!"

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Under the bright moonlight.

Brian looked at the two corpses on the ground, his expression became extremely gloomy.

After killing Balor the Balrog King, he immediately broke through the fog in the underground space and appeared at the meeting place that he had negotiated with the others in advance.

However, an accident happened.

All that was waiting for him was the storm and two corpses, and there was no figure of the drow girl Santilla.

At this moment, he saw that the storm on the side had opened his eyes, and quickly cast a puzzled look, and asked, "How is it? Can you find out who did it?"

"I went back to what happened here before." The leader of the harper stood up slowly, sighed, and there was a touch of sadness on his beautiful face, "The picture is very blurry, it looks like a dark dancer."

"Dark Dancer?" Brian frowned.

It is said that when Shar, the Lost Lady descended into the physical world, she took two distinct forms: Nightsinger and Darkdancer.

Nightsinger was dressed in a loose black robe, with a black feather mask on his face, and dense black feathers flowed from his face into the depths of his hood.

The Night Singer didn't speak. When she spoke, what came out of her mouth was a song full of sadness and loss.

In contrast, another form of Shar's avatar, the Dark Dancer, appears wearing minimal clothing.

The dark dancer has a beautiful and graceful dancer's figure, and her clothes can only slightly conceal her slightly shiny black jade-like skin.This woman dances in captivating roundhouse steps, 'persuading' mortals to adore her with her alluring provocative gaze.

"You mean..." Brian didn't continue, because he felt that this guess was hard to convince even himself.

Since the 'Arcana catastrophe' subsided, the rules among the gods have undergone tremendous changes.

The most profound impact on the material world is that it is difficult for the gods to let their incarnations with divine power come to the material plane.

It is also for this reason that Tiamat, Queen of the Five-Color Dragon, put in so much effort to let the members of the Dragon Cult hold a powerful ceremony on an unprecedented scale, trying to make her incarnation come to the material world.

If this plan is really successful, then the incarnation of Tiamat will be invincible in the material world, and it will be easy to conquer the world.

Therefore, he really couldn't believe what kind of huge price the Lost Lady, Shar, would pay for her incarnation.

After all, in the ten years in the game world, he has never heard of such a thing.

Even the City of Shades and the Church of Shar were overwhelmed by the elves of Myth Draenor and the chosen ones of the Goddess of Magic for a period of time, which caused the scarred magic net to be repaired, so that the plan to replace the magic net with the shadow magic net was announced Bankruptcy, none of the incarnations of the Lost Ms.

"Yes."

The soft words of the storm shattered Brian's last hope of luck. She looked up at the bright moonlight, let the cold moonlight scatter on her graceful figure, and said softly, "Indeed The Dark Dancer avatar of the Lost Lady."

"What's the situation?" Brian asked in a daze. "How did Miss Lost bring her incarnation to the material world?"

Feng Feng raised his slender jade hand, waved it lightly, and an invisible barrier wrapped the two of them inside, and replied solemnly, "Sword of Killing God."

Killing God Sword? ! ! !

Hearing these words, Brian's face changed drastically.

As a player who is familiar with the history of the country, how could he have never heard of the legend about the 'Sword of Killing God'.

This matter must start with the saint catastrophe.

In the year of turmoil, a large-scale catastrophe broke out in the material plane. Many gods were knocked down by the "God of God" Io and appeared in the form of saints.

And one of the masterminds was the three gods of death in the evil camp at that time.

In order to avoid the danger of the saint's catastrophe, Mask, the god of thieves, turned himself into an artifact, which is the god-killing sword mentioned by the storm!
The sword fell into the hands of the then mortal Cyric, the god of murder who is now sealed away because of his madness, and the maker of the Cyrek.

In the year of turmoil, Cyric, who was still a mortal, used this sword to kill Baal, the god of slaughter among the three gods of death.

After that, Sk, the god of thieves, betrayed the phantom girl Laila to Cyric, so that the murder god won the phantom priesthood.

Also mentioned when Brann rescued the Ranger Azara, the Book of Shire was first used as a test on Lord Bozor of Zhentil Keep.

But Mask, the god of thieves at the time, just pretended to be the lord, and thus read the book instead of him.

The "Book of Siri" successfully weaved a web of lies in Mask's consciousness, so that the God of Thieves had to give up part of his divine power (conspiracy priesthood), and then successfully escaped.

This is not over, this god of thieves who likes to die has provoked the "chaos dog" Kozef, a dog that can bite off the arm of the mighty god Tyr.

It is also for this reason that the world thinks that the God of Thieves has long since fallen.

"Mask, the god of thieves, is not dead." Storm said the doubts in Brian's heart.

"In the process of the Chaos Demon Dog chasing and killing him, in order to survive, he voluntarily gave up his priesthood of stealing and thieves. On the physical plane."

"You mean..." Brian suddenly realized, and subconsciously expressed his guess, "The Lost Lady obtained the divine power of the Godslayer Sword, which gave her the strength comparable to the incarnation of a god in the material plane."

But there is a problem that he still can't figure out, that is why in the previous life in the game world, he has never heard anything about the 'Sword of Killing God'.

Is it because...

Brian looked startled, the truth seemed to be getting closer to him.

"Probably that's what it means." Storm nodded slightly, then shook his head again, "According to my guess, there should be many restrictions. As for the specifics, I don't know."

"I understand." Brian nodded slightly, asking solemnly.

"So, I'm very curious, what kind of agreement was secretly reached between the dark girl Eilistraee and the goddess of the moon, Su Lun, so that Ms. Lost would not hesitate to use this hidden power to kill her reincarnation."

Obviously, the reason for this situation is because of Santilla.

After all, in the game world, until Brian crossed over, this drow girl had never awakened her divine blood.

But in this real world, due to the influence of the spider God Queen Rose's magic weapon Kirashar Rose and him, she awakened early, so that she was noticed by the Lost Lady.

In other words, the entire incident was entirely caused by Brian.

At this moment, he can only secretly hope that the missing Santilla can escape the pursuit of the Lost Lady.

When the two were on the demiplane, he had personally heard Santilla claim that Corellon, the lord of elves, would not let her die so easily.

"It was guessed by you."

The leader of the Harpist gave Brian a surprised look, then smiled helplessly, and said to him, "As the initiator of all events, you have the right to know these things."

"terrible!"

Just as she was about to speak, her expression changed suddenly, and she said to Brian, "I received a summons from Simbu. She was ambushed by Rui Valan. Let's help her escape first."

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High King Terramante emerged from the dark void.

Unimaginable magical energy overflowed from his raised palm, and in an instant, the crumbling floating city of Saxros, which was about to crash, was gently placed on the open ground.

The ten-ring spell "Protic's Peak Turning" during the Netheril Empire.

as usual.

The High King of Shade City wears the ancient and traditional black armor that symbolizes the dominion of the Netheril Empire, with a dragonwing cloak, fixed-style gauntlets, and dark purple robes.

His personal signature: a lion-like creature with dragon-like wings, outlined in black on a blood-red background.

The ghost prince Yada looked at the Supreme King Telamante Tanshur who turned the situation around, his father, with a complicated expression.

Although the floating city was saved, their losses were still very heavy.

The Shadow Temple built for the lost lady Shar bears the brunt, the entire Shadow Demon Network system collapses, and countless priests die.

This heavy blow was enough to put all their next actions on hold.

Looking at the Supreme King Telamante falling down from the sky, Yada found that his expression was sluggish, his breathing was a little short, and even the eyes that made him dare not look at them looked a little dim.

This made him realize that something, or a fierce battle, might have happened when the Supreme King left the Realm of the Devil's Web.

Subconsciously, he groped his hand to the hilt of the sword, and then gently moved it away.

The kinslayer will be cursed forever, Yada thought.

Whenever he recalled this sentence, he couldn't help but think of his long-dead mother.

This sentence was the last sentence his mother left to their brother before she died.

It was these words that sounded like an alarm bell, so that the twelve ghost princes in Sultanza City would not kill each other no matter how much they hated each other.

Even after dozens of centuries have passed, Yada, Prince of Shadows, can still vividly remember those beautiful memories hidden in the deepest part of his heart.

But his mother died in an assassination, and all the doubts point to his father, the High King Telamante Tanshul of Shadow City.

Even if Breners, the most beloved of their brothers, asked about the cause of his mother's death, his father never gave them an accurate answer.

"Don't follow your brother's path, Yada."

High King Terramante's voice was as soft as a spider's, so that he had to listen quietly, "I warn you that from this day forward I will not bear it any longer."

"Even if you are right." Yada plucked up the courage to look directly into the eyes of the High King, as if wanting to see through the most real thoughts deep in his heart:
"The cycle of night has stopped, and I will also serve the Lost Lady. If you want her to get help in the next war, fully implement every plan of the goddess."

"The Lost Lady has never cared about ancient empires and noble blood, she values ​​ability above everything else." He continued, "For a strong man like you, when the Lost Lady rules the world, anyone will bow to you."

"If you need help, I believe Rui Valan is being punished, Yada." Under the bleak moonlight, the High King stood with his hands behind his back and said calmly:
"He's gone mad, he thinks he's going to end the world, his mind is tossing and turning in the cage that the Lost Lady prepared for him, and he's only dreaming of darkness and endings, and suffering for it."

"If you don't want your child to suffer, you should do everything you can to help the Lost Lady."

A wave of anger welled up in Yada's heart for no reason, but he didn't vent it on the next words. Whether it was because he didn't dare or because of other reasons, even he himself didn't know.

"I've always been angry that you didn't really dedicate yourself to your faith in the Lost Lady, how could you have ended up in this situation if you were fully assisting our plan."

"Perhaps." The High King shook his head slightly, his calm voice revealed an unprecedented seriousness and dignity:

"I have fulfilled my promise to the Lost Lady. This is my last shot. I hope you can keep in mind: the future is invisible, tomorrow is unknown, but fate is fixed and cannot be changed."

Magical energy flowed, and the High King disappeared into nothingness.

Gazing at the disappearing figure of the Supreme King Telamante, Yada, the Prince of Shadows, suddenly had a premonition that this might be the last time he would meet his father.

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(End of this chapter)