Arcane Journey

Chapter 408 Volcanic Eruption
Brian didn't let the evil god Seth's clone wait too long. After weighing the pros and cons, he gave the reply as quickly as possible.

"As you wish, Your Excellency Seth." He said with a rather regretful expression, "I entrust you to deal with the incarnation of the snake god Marshak."

After finishing speaking, Brian undid the seal of the snake girl wrapped around his arm without hesitation.

Accompanied by a flash of magical light, the seductive and graceful snake body of the snake girl Bertha appeared in Brian's sight.

"What happened just now?" The snake girl's cold snake eyes flashed a trace of confusion. When she saw the fierce battle scene not far away, her expression changed drastically, and she muttered to herself: "It turned out to be the god of snake people." Marshak's incarnation, what did you do to attract him!"

Brian didn't answer her doubts, but kept urging the Seth clone in the holy emblem through his thoughts.

At this moment, as the battle intensified, the snake pupils of the high priest of the snake man, which were originally full of humanity, had been completely replaced by divine radiance, and the golden light representing the divine power around him was so dazzling that people could not look directly at it.

He just glanced at it, and felt the urge to be crushed by the supreme majesty, and couldn't help but worship head-on, which showed how much pressure the storm and the ancient brass dragon were under.

This also allowed Brian to truly appreciate how powerful and terrifying this power beyond mortals is.

With his current average legendary strength, he can't even resist the aura emanating from an avatar, let alone fighting against the gods, which is simply ridiculous.

"A wise choice." Seeing Brian lower his head, Seth's avatar showed a satisfied smile:

"I told you a long time ago that my purpose is only to restore the former power of the Serpent of Order. I am not interested in the battle between Shar and Mystra. To me, the more intense the two women's quarrel, Attracting the eyes of the gods of the Pantheon as much as possible, the more time I can get to gradually recover my strength.

So, don't worry, although your previous unauthorized actions made me very angry, but I don't care about you, and I will still generously fulfill our previous agreement. "

Facing such sincere words from Seth clone, Brian just nodded and did not reply.

If he really believed in the words of an ancient evil god who was old enough to go back to the beginning of the world's creation, he would not be alive now.

Fortunately, I am a little relieved that the help that Golden Dragon Paralandax sought to help him was beyond his expectations.

Without the appearance of the ancient brass dragon, it would be impossible for the entire snake city to be destroyed so badly.

The most important thing is that with the large-scale destruction of the snake-man city by the ancient brass dragon, he unexpectedly discovered that this ancient city that once belonged to the Sarukh witch was actually located on an underground volcano that had not yet erupted.

This unexpected discovery can be said to have made him think of how to target the snake people and even destroy the city without thinking.

After all, destroying as many snake people here as possible means that when Seth's avatar regains control of the city, he will gain more faith.

At that time, it will be slower for him to recover his strength.

Only in this way can Brian feel at ease.

Because although Seth's avatar trying to control the ancient creator race, the Sarukh, seems to have no threat to him, he deeply understands that once this group of ancient races return, their primary goal is the Enook Desert .

Even though he didn't know how long it would take until the evil god Seth regained his power, Brian still had to be careful to guard against this enemy who might become a potential threat to him.

He also didn't want to spend a huge price on himself to finally restore the Enook Desert to a result full of natural atmosphere, but in the end it became the wedding dress of the Sarukh witch.

In response to Brian's urging, Seth's avatar thought hidden in the holy emblem seemed unhurried.

Accompanied by a pale golden radiance emerging from the holy emblem in Brian's palm, the snake girl who hadn't figured out the situation suddenly exclaimed that she was captured by an invisible force and was caught in front of Brian.

As if feeling some terrible power, the snake girl Bertha was so frightened that her legs went limp, and she collapsed and curled up on the ground trembling.

At this moment, a ball of light the size of a palm emerged.

With lingering fears in his heart, Brian felt an ancient force rushing toward his face. If it wasn't for his firm will, he might have followed in the footsteps of the snake girl.

He was not the only one who felt this power, but also the fighting storm, the ancient brass dragon and others.

And the one who reacted the most was the high priest of the snake man.

The moment the high priest surrounded by divine brilliance saw the ball of light, fear appeared instinctively in the majestic golden snake pupils.

This fear is like the suppression of the blood of a mouse when it sees a cat.

"Seth?" The high priest of the snake man tremblingly said with an expression of disbelief:
"Impossible, how could you appear here? Didn't your divine power have long been taken by Seth, and even your body was corrupted by the will of the abyss to become a new demon lord? How could you appear here?!"

"This must be an illusion!" A resolute look of anger suddenly appeared in the majestic golden snake eyes of the high priest of the snake man, and he said in a cold voice, "It's just the idea of ​​Dao dying, stop putting on airs in front of me, let me now Look at your hypocrisy!"

As soon as the words fell, Brian suddenly felt a terrible mental coercion, rushing towards him mercilessly with overwhelming momentum.

His defensive barriers and spiritual barriers of psychic powers were instantly crushed like fragile thin ice in front of this coercion.

In an instant, Brian felt that he was lying on the ground as if he was carrying an entire mountain on his back, and then a psychic attack flashed through his mind like a sharp sword.

The sharp stabbing pain made him almost faint on the spot.

——"Psionic Mind Barrier!"

——"True Self-Sculpture!"

——"Distorting reality!"

Without thinking about it, Brian used various abilities to resist spiritual damage one after another, and only then could he barely offset the terrible damage. Then, under the effect of "True Self-Sculpture", he visibly recovered his vitality with the naked eye.

Just when he was secretly glad that he escaped the angry blow of Marshak's incarnation, the snake-man high priest holding a trident had already appeared in front of Brian like a sharp arrow.

"Accept the punishment, Seth, I, the god of snakes, Marshak, is the real snake of the universe!"

The trident, which exudes radiant brilliance and represents divine power, surges with berserk evil energy, and smashes down on Brian's head in such a simple and unpretentious manner.

Seeing this, Brian couldn't help cursing inwardly.

Apparently, this incarnation of the snake god actually regarded himself as the carrier of Seth's avatar.

For a moment, he even planned to throw the holy emblem in his hand directly to Marshak's incarnation.

Of course, he wouldn't do that.

Feeling this unrivaled power, Brian, who frightened himself into place and was unable to move a single bit, managed to regain control of his body from the coercion just now, was no longer as panicked as before.

After calming down in an instant, he knew that with his current strength, he had absolutely no ability to take the blow of the incarnation of the gods.

But as a legendary spellcaster and psion, if Brian wants to survive this kind of attack, it is not impossible.

Such as using abilities similar to cloning and astral species to obtain rebirth, it can be done, but the price paid is too heavy.

In a flash of his mind, Brian was about to forcibly drive the space transfer and mirror image double technique, trying to avoid the fatal blow by chance, when he suddenly felt another powerful force approaching him.

He looked happy, and immediately gave up his desperate plan, and began to secretly accumulate strength, preparing to counterattack Thunder.

Just as Brian expected, at this critical moment, the storm blocked him in an instant.

The harper leader raised his arm, stretched his slender fingers with a dignified expression, and the graceful trajectory of his palm was like unfolding a shield of life. A raging fire that was as pure as Mithril emerged out of thin air. Blocked in front of this deadly trident.

The deadly trident collided with the fire shield transformed from the silver fire through the air, causing it to violently roll and surge like molten silver water.

This is Silver Fire!

A supernatural ability that only the chosen of Mystra, the goddess of magic, can possess.

It does not belong to mortals, but the power of gods. It is the embodiment of the divine nature and will of the goddess of magic. It is naturally no problem to be able to resist the blow of the incarnation of the gods.

"Chosenter of Mystra!" Seeing that his strongest attack was actually blocked by the shield transformed by silver fire, the high priest of the snake man was so angry that the snake letter hissed, and immediately sneered:
"What a hindrance. Even the voters are just mortals. I want to see how you block my next attack!"

In an instant, the divine radiance surrounded by the unmoving trident became brighter, dazzling like a corona in this dark underground cave.

The majestic force wrapped in this terrifying force broke through the silver fire's defense almost effortlessly, and landed firmly on the transformed shield.

"Mystra, my mother!"

The moment the trident exuding divine brilliance collided with the silver fire, the storm, who knew he was invincible, immediately called out the name of the goddess of magic with a loud voice and a pious expression.

Then, he uttered a powerful mantra with all his concentration.

In an instant, two rays of divine radiance representing the Goddess of Magic and the God of Snakeman intertwined together, enveloped the entire treasure house, turned into powerful waves of air, and exploded.

"Boom!"

This earth-shattering roar shook from bottom to top, with the treasure house as the center, spreading unstoppably to the entire ancient ruins.

Immediately afterwards, thousands of hundreds of houses in Sarukhdane collapsed and destroyed in an instant. Numerous cracks bloomed on the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye, and hot waves of fire spread and grow from all directions.

Seeing this terrible scene, the Snakeman and Ethiopian Saurus who were entangled in the ruins had to stop fighting at the same time, each screaming and running for their lives.

Because at this moment, a large amount of scorching lava is like an angry dragon, rolling and gushing out from countless cracks, swallowing everything along the way with an unstoppable momentum.

Until now, most of the uninformed have realized that the reason why this ancient underground city is so warm is that the entire Sa Luke has been built on an underground volcano for tens of thousands of years.

If the volcano that has been silent for hundreds of centuries starts to move again, it will definitely turn this ancient ruin into a forbidden place of death that can no longer accommodate any flesh and blood.

The situation was critical, and the flying ancient brass dragon roared, trying to call Brian and Storm to evacuate from the danger as soon as possible.

However, what the Brass Dragon did not expect was that his loud and high-pitched dragon roar was the last straw for the already crumbling magnificent temple at the center of the earthquake, which was beyond its limit.

In an instant, the most solemn and sacred building in this snake crowd collapsed in response.

Witnessing the destruction of the Holy Land, all the surviving Snakeman soldiers were instantly struck by lightning, leaving nothing but blankness in their minds.

They were only silent for less than half a second, and suddenly they started shouting wildly as if they were collectively crazy, waved their weapons unconsciously, gave up the attacking Ethiopian lizards, and swarmed desperately towards the collapsed ruins.

However, what made them desperate was that before they could take a few steps, there were several gloomy roars like muffled thunder coming from under the temple.

Immediately afterwards, under the eruption of the volcano, tens of millions of bright and scorching lava shot straight into the sky, shining the entire snake city into a bright red.

The sky is full of fire and rain, and while the landscape is magnificent, it also contains endless murderous intentions.

Needless to say, under this sudden catastrophe, no one can be spared. The fiery red dot of death is reflected in the eyes of the serpent soldiers, getting bigger and bigger until it occupies their field of vision of all.

Fortunately for them, it was fate that the serpent soldiers would not be swallowed by the lava.

But they were very unfortunate. Salukda, which had become as scorching hot as a steel furnace due to volcanic activity just now, miraculously returned to normal temperature in an instant, and even evolved to the opposite extreme.

The piercing cold wind howled and swept across the city, causing the blood and brains of the snake people to boil like boiling oil to quickly cool, freeze, and freeze.

Despite the current crisis, the restrictions of the race made them all become lazy, and both their strength and reaction were greatly reduced.

The fire and rain all over the sky turned into bright black hailstones inconceivably, and fell on the snake people's heads indiscriminately, piercing their heads, breaking their bones and limbs, and mercilessly depriving the lives of these cold-blooded reptiles.

At this moment, several black shadows with extremely different sizes broke through the ice from the condensed icy lava in the shape of a lotus, and leaped into the sky quickly, splitting and reuniting like meteors.

The shocking series of explosions resounded in all directions, shaking the ceiling of the large underground cave as if it might collapse at any time.

(End of this chapter)