Arcane Journey

Chapter 400 New Miser Energy Core
The moment Brian showed off the holy emblem of Seth, a pale golden light of divinity suddenly lit up, dazzling like a corona in this dark canyon.

Accompanied by the thin breeze blowing Brian's disheveled hair, invisible auras of divine aura, centered on his body, spread aggressively.

In the blink of an eye, the group of Ethiopian lizardmen who were trying to surround Brian had fear appearing in their cold pupils shining with light red blood, and they ran away in panic like headless chickens, and even went astray. A few lizardmen were too flustered and caught off guard. They hit the hard and cold rock wall on the spot, fainted on the ground, and were trampled to death in the end.

And those Ethiopian lizardmen who were further away and were dodging from both sides and swooping down continuously also turned around and fled under the influence of the holy emblem.

"I'll go, it's a shame that the effect of this holy emblem is so good." The idea of ​​the golden dragon Paralandasque raised doubts to Brian.

Brian stood motionless on the spot, staring at the black Ethiopian lizards who were fleeing frantically in front of him, and nodded in sympathy, then put away the holy emblem, and said, "This effect is indeed beyond my expectation. , it seems that we need to catch a prisoner and ask for clarification."

As he put away the holy emblem, the invisible ripples disappeared without a trace, and those fleeing Ethiopian lizards seemed to wake up suddenly, their bodies paused, and then gradually recovered.

In just a moment, at least thousands of Ethiopian lizardmen ran over aggressively, completely blocking the road through the depths of the canyon.

Although the function of the holy emblem has long since disappeared, the group of lizardmen looked at Brian with a hint of fear hidden in their eyes, so that they did not dare to act rashly.

Just as Brian was thinking about how to communicate with them, there was a commotion behind the lizard crowd, and then an elder lizardman who was obviously different from other lizardmen, dressed in plain cloth and slightly hunched, came from the crowd to help him The parting road came slowly.

This may seem like an ordinary old lizard man, but Brian saw the vicissitudes and wisdom in his sharp and cold pupils. The most important thing is that the top of this lizard man elder's walking stick is still entangled. Black engraved small snake.

This is the emblem of Seth, the Sarukh witch god, which is exactly the same as the holy emblem in Brian's hand.

"Be careful, this lizard man's strength is not simple." Golden Dragon reminded Brian solemnly, "His strength is at least above the medium legend, and it is very likely that he has inherited some of the legacy of the Sarukh witch. "

"I know it in my heart." Brian nodded slightly, looking calmly at the elder lizard man who came over, he didn't speak immediately, but chose to remain silent.

"Adventurers from the outside world."

The elder lizard man kept a certain distance from Brian, then stopped, and actually said to him in a proficient continental lingua franca:
"I am the chief of the Ethiopian lizard people. I don't know how you found this place, but if you go further, it will be my family's forbidden area. If you are stubborn and try to set foot on my family's forbidden area, then... we This group of forgotten people will let you see the power from ancient times."

"Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!..."

As soon as the words fell, countless Ethiopian lizardmen raised their weapons and made blood-chilling hisses.

"I have no malice." Faced with this situation, Brian said calmly, "On behalf of the ancient god Seth, I came to find the sleeping place of the Sarukh witch. If you don't believe me, just look up. Look at this holy emblem."

When Brian showed his holy emblem cautiously, the Ethiopian lizardmen who had experienced fear all showed nervous expressions, and some of them with low psychological endurance even turned around and fled.

However, this time they were obviously overly nervous, because Bryan had no intention of activating the remaining divine power of the Holy Emblem.

As Brian showed off the holy emblem again, everyone could clearly see the emblem above without the light of divinity.

Immediately afterwards, the entire canyon fell into a long silence, only the whistling of the occasional passing hurricane.

"You... are you the spokesperson of the Creation Serpent?" After a long silence, the Ethiopian chief asked in a low and complicated tone with his cane tightly clenched in his haggard right hand.

"It's not." Brian put away the holy emblem and confessed:

"I am his employee, and it was under his guidance that I successfully crossed the Ennook Desert and found this place. Moreover, your creation snake told me that the ancient city of Olem is hidden here. Thousands of years have passed, and it is time for the witches of Isto Sefifer to wake up, and let the gift of the ancient gods cover all the scaly races."

"We Ethiopian lizardmen have finally waited for the great creation snake... He really hasn't forgotten us." Hearing this, the Ethiopian lizardman chief murmured to himself with a slightly lost expression.

Immediately afterwards, he leaned on his cane and knelt down on the ground with a pious expression. All the lizardmen behind him also put down their weapons one after another, following the example of the chief, and neighing in a low voice.

Said to Brian, "The mission of my Ethiopian lizard clan is to guard the gate of the ancient city of Olem. Since you are the messenger of the creation snake, you should be entertained by us. Please."

"There is no need for entertainment." Brian said coldly, "My task is just to spread the word, since you no longer doubt my identity, then take me to the ancient city of Olem."

"No problem, please come with me, Your Excellency." The chief of the Ethiopian lizardmen stood up and motioned for Brian to follow him to their settlement.

Soon, under the leadership of the lizardman chief, Brian came to a huge cave hidden deep in the canyon.

The lizardman chief raised his cane, like a great jumping god, cast an ancient witchcraft spell, opened the magic mechanism on the wall, and a bronze door exuding a sense of vicissitudes of history emerged.

As the door was slowly pushed open, what appeared in Brian's sight was a staircase as deep as it seemed to have no end.

So, under the leadership of the lizardman chief, the two passed through the living area of ​​the Ethiopian lizardman's lair along the endless stairs, going up and down among the various ancient fortifications, interspersed left and right.

To Brian's surprise, although the Ethiopian lizardmen live in seclusion in the underground tunnel deep in the canyon all year round and are isolated from the world, they still have the same habits as any other race. In order to protect their property from infringement, even Even the most important roads are full of various traps.

In fact, after walking all the way, in Brian's view, this place is an intricate maze. No outsider can always choose the right path among the countless branches and intersections, as well as the complex tunnels like spider webs.

Obviously, there can only be one explanation for this phenomenon. The Ethiopian lizard's hermitage is also not as carefree as imagined, and they definitely have their own mortal enemies to guard against.

As for what these mortal enemies are, Brian has already seen the corpses of the snake people on the altar of a blood sacrifice.

The torches on the wall are gradually sparse, and the distance is increasing. The further you go, the darker and darker the environment becomes.

Finally, the Ethiopian chieftain led Brian to the end of a narrow passage.

There is no longer any light source here, and everywhere is shrouded in eternal darkness by a deep black mist formed by supernatural abilities, so that Brian has to use the spell that penetrates the magic darkness to see the road in front of him clearly.

"This is the end of my clan's lair." The wise pupil of the Ethiopian sauron chief said with a low voice, "Going forward, there is the outer tunnel, which goes deep into the narrow sea connected to the highest glacier. , you can also enter the Underdark from here."

"Don't tell me that the ancient city of Orem is hidden in the Underdark." Brian looked at the lizardman chief calmly, frowning and speaking out his guess.

"You guessed it right, Your Excellency." The lizard man chief said:

"Although the food and resources in the Underdark are ten times more abundant than those in the canyons of the highest glacier, there are thousands of times more monsters entrenched than the cockroaches in the tunnels. I, the Ethiopian lizardmen, originally guarded the sleeping The area around the ancient city of Olem, but lost to the evil snake people, and was eventually banished to this wasteland."

Hearing this, Brian frowned even deeper, "So, if we want to reach the ancient city of Olem, we need the permission of the snake man."

"That's right." The lizardman chief nodded with embarrassment.

"Then take me there." Brian, who had come to this point and had no turning back, could only bite the bullet and go to the end.

So, the lizardman chief walked to the side of the passage, put his palm into an inconspicuous depression, and activated the mechanism.

Amidst the whirring sound of gears turning, the half-meter-thick fine gold door automatically opened silently, revealing the empty and bottomless external tunnel to Brian.

It was as if the cold wind from the highest glacier was howling in, blowing Brian's messy hair unscrupulously, so that he had to prop up a defensive barrier to resist the bone-chilling cold.

"Let's go, Your Excellency, there is still a long way to go." The lizard man chief held his staff tightly and walked quickly into the tunnel. After Brian came in, he cast the witch spell on a certain place on the wall again, Then it was roughly estimated that it weighed at least dozens of tons, and the magic-immune adamantine gate was automatically closed under the traction of the magic mechanism.

A huge bang was heard far away in the tunnel, and the lingering sound was endless.

Then, the two began to move on.

If they were still within the protective range of the Ethiopian lizardman's lair before, then at this moment they had really walked out of the lair.

The walls and ceiling of the tunnel are made of damp soil mixed with a lot of stones. It seems that as long as the vibration is slightly larger, it is likely to cause a landslide.

However, the ingenious balance between them keeps them in their respective positions, thus constituting a reason enough for people to pass.

There are countless such roads that seem to have been dug out by giant pythons, and their complexity is several times higher than that of the Ethiopian lizard man's lair that Brian just passed through.

Without this lizard chief to lead the way, relying on his own ability, it would take a lot of time just to test out whether the passage ahead is feasible.

The width of the passageway is always changing.

Sometimes it is spacious enough to allow four carriages to drive side by side at the same time, but sometimes it is so narrow that people can only line up in a long snake shape.

The jagged and strange rocks on the side of the road cast various and changing shadows as the light source approaches and departs. Suddenly, it looks like a man-eating monster waiting for an opportunity.

This is not alarmist talk. In fact, there are indeed many kinds of monsters that live underground. They all like to disguise themselves as stones and wait for their prey to throw themselves into the net.

But for the leading chief in front of him, the environment here made him feel like a fish in water, especially his pair of eyes emitting a frightening red light in the dark, all the camouflages were invisible in front of the lizardmen.

Therefore, this dangerous adventure has become very safe in front of Brian.

They kept going for hours, deep into places no human had ever gone before.Except for two or three groups of wandering goblins who were desperately fleeing from a distance, and some rats and bats that jumped around from time to time, I didn't encounter any monsters or dangers on the way.

Unknowingly, the two of them were already at a depth of thousands of meters below the surface.

Even the Ethiopian lizardman chief who has lived in the underground tunnel for many years has gradually become unfamiliar with the surrounding environment.

But he still tried his best to identify the road, accurately judge the direction and position, and lead the expedition team deeper underground.

On the way, Brian took out the holy emblem vigilantly to confirm that they were indeed gradually approaching the target without deviation.

At this moment, the golden dragon Paralandasque, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, "Boy, I've been silent for so long, don't you worry at all?"

"There is nothing to worry about. Can you still take my Austrian fire and run away?" During the journey, Brian communicated with the other party through his thoughts.

After being reminded by the other party, he was really a little confused, so he asked curiously, "Don't tell me, you just fell asleep."

"That's not true." The Golden Dragon said seriously, "Because when you showed the holy emblem of Seth to the Ethiopian Saurus, he sensed that the idea of ​​Seth's avatar seemed to be hidden in the holy emblem, so he secretly confirmed his own. Whether the guess is accurate."

Brian was stunned when he heard the words, and immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, and said in a deep voice, "Then how did you confirm it?"

"It has been confirmed that the other party has indeed left a trace of his thoughts in the holy emblem." Jin Long said in an affirmative tone, "otherwise, the effect of the holy emblem's fear aura would not be so strong."

Hearing this, Brian no longer hesitated, held the holy emblem, secretly injected a little mana, and conveyed to the holy emblem with his thoughts, "Dear Your Excellency Seth, how long are you going to pretend."

"Please don't get me wrong." Sure enough, Seth's weak voice came from inside the holy emblem:
"The purpose of my doing this is to better preserve my divine power. After all, I am just a clone now. It is impossible to expect you to persuade the shaman of Easto Sefifer. This is related to my future."

Bryan pondered for a moment, knowing that it is meaningless to argue with the other party on this issue at this time. After all, he still needs to seek the help of the "Prophet of the Earth" Acindor. He continued:
"But your dishonesty has caused a rift in our cooperation. Do you think I will trust you again?"

"In the Chuertan Peninsula, Wu Ota, the father of dinosaurs, is always watching my every move. I can only choose to quietly leave a trace of my own consciousness in the holy emblem without your knowledge. The goddess Mystra sent you to the tower, so Wuota will naturally not be suspicious."

The weak voice of Seth clone entered Brian's mind:
"Of course, my concealment did offend Your Excellency. Later, we will pass by a snake-man city. This is a group of people who believe in the snake-man god Marshak. You are not their opponents at all. To express my apologies, I will help You pass unscathed through the Snakeman Kingdom ahead, and you have a gift you cannot refuse."

"What gift?" Brian's eyes flickered slightly, but the expression on his face was unmoved.

"A intact Misser energy core." Seth's clone replied slowly.

(End of this chapter)