Arcane Journey

Chapter 412 'The City of the White Tower' Orem
The legend about Orem, the city of white towers, can be traced back to the Netheril period thousands of years ago, and only in this period, there are still some records of this lost ancient city.

In the ruins of the city that was completely destroyed by lava, Brian, under the guidance of Seth's avatar, found a hidden deep underground tunnel through scrying prophecy spells.

While recalling the many unknown secrets about the city that Seth's avatar had just told him, he walked silently along the extremely hot lava tunnel.

About 5000 years ago, the city of Orem was the capital of the creator race, the Isto Sefifer Empire. There are tens of thousands of exquisite and mysterious white minarets in it, which can be described as symbols of magic and art.

However, the destruction of this so-called 'City of the White Tower' was also caused by the Sarukh shaman of the Istosyfefe Empire trying to completely wipe out the Felin Mokui by diverting the Narrow Sea.

With the collapse of the empire, the leader of the Council of Spellcasters in the city of Orem transformed himself into a lich, retreated with the remaining clansmen to the catacombs of the city of Orem, and fell into a deep sleep, secretly accumulating strength, waiting to return .

Of course, during their slumber, they didn't do nothing, but continued to use spells to control the Ethiopian lizards left on the surface, helping them rule and collect knowledge.

But this seemingly peaceful life did not last steadily.

When Felin Mokui, who was hiding in the dark area to recharge his energy, reappeared on the surface, trying to gain control of the territory of Isto Sefifer, the two races rekindled their hatred. In the area, a large-scale war broke out.

The final result was the defeat of many scaly races such as the Sarukh witches of the Isto Sefifer Empire and the Ethiopian lizardmen under his command.

Unable to fight against him, the Saruk witch can only hide in the tomb deeper underground again and continue to sleep.

And with the passage of time, without the support of the magical energy of Sa Luke, the tens of thousands of white pagodas in Olem City collapsed one after another because they could not withstand the corrosion of the years, and were buried in the highest place. Beneath the glaciers, the deepest part of the Narrow Sea in the days of Netheril.

Until this former capital of the Sarukh shaman's empire, it was completely forgotten like this.

Even if some adventurers have discovered the traces of this group of ancient races, they will subconsciously think that this brilliant magical civilization and art is derived from the magical city of an elven civilization in the Arivanda Empire, rather than the legendary creation race.

"Since it has been forgotten, does it mean that there are no Sarukh witches living in this city at all." Brian walked along the winding lava tunnel, expressing his inner doubts, "If that's the case , why are you still so persistent in wanting to go to Olem City."

Although his purpose of coming here was to find the Prophet of the Earth, he was not interested in the number of Sarukh shamans, but after listening to the narration of Seth's avatar, he faintly realized the purpose of this ancient evil god coming here , I'm afraid it's not as simple as just gaining the support of the Sa Luke witch.

"Although this city has been forgotten by most of the defeated Sarukh witches." Seth's avatar told Brian like a wise elder who knew everything:
"However, there are still sixty powerful Sarukh witches who choose to transform into liches, gain eternal life, and continue to guard the ruins of this city."

"Of the sixty Sarukh Liches, 59 will choose to sleep, and one of them will act as the guardian of the ruins, and then the guardian will be replaced every 60 years in a rotation system." He continued:

"The task of this guardian, in addition to protecting the ruins from being invaded and destroyed by alien races, is mainly to collect information from the outside world and enrich his own knowledge reserves, as well as to avoid getting out of touch with the progress of world history until the Sarukh witch is found. A chance to rise again."

Brian nodded thoughtfully. He didn't expect this group of witches to have such a long-term vision and such persistent beliefs. Tens of thousands of years have passed, and they have never given up the idea of ​​rebuilding the glory of the Sarukh witches.

He came back to his senses, activated the flashing technique, crossed a lava ravine that blocked his way, and asked again: "What about the 'Earth Prophet' Acindor? Why did he violate the guardian system and appear in Nai?" On the territory of Cyril."

Apparently, the secret observation of the Sarukh shaman should have been suspended more than 3000 years ago, so long before the Netherese discovered the Netherese scroll from the ruins of Arivanda.

At that time, the guardian of Orem, a Sarukh witch who called himself Axindor, when it was his turn to become the guardian of Orem, he was not loyal to his post, but completely sealed the city of Orem Instead of awakening other sleeping Sarukh liches, he chose to leave this forgotten city alone to show his talents to the emerging human settlement, which is Netheril.

The people of Netheril at that time had begun to learn the magical arts from the elves of Yerlan.

Acindor appeared on the land of Netheril disguised as a mysterious human archmage.

Although he called himself Asin, the Netherese dubbed him the 'Earth Prophet' because his powers allowed him to see what was happening around the world.

The Earthseer, who taught the humans the secrets of the Arcane Arts and appeared to aid them many times over the ensuing centuries, never seemed to age.

His credits include translating numerous Netherese scrolls, exploring the northern Sword Coast, capturing the Well of the Elder Owl, and including among his many prophecies and teachings warning that the Netherese would perish at the hand of Karthus.

Arcindor, the Prophet of the Earth, is last seen, before arriving in the floating city of Karthus, and he also warns the goddess of magic that Mystril is about to face her greatest challenge, which may change the Netherese people's understanding of magic forever. .

Then came the collapse of the well-known magic net, and the end of the magic empire of Netheril.

With the demise of Netheril, the Prophet of the Earth seemed to have disappeared without a word.

Therefore, Brian is also very curious about what role the 'Earth Prophet' Acindor plays in Netheril, and what has he to do with the collapse of the magic net and the demise of the empire.

He would like to hear Seth's answer to this aspect as the former Sarukh witch god.

However, Seth's answer made Brian look disappointed.

"I don't know either." The old voice of Seth clone said slowly:
"At first, I thought that the purpose of Acindor appearing on the land of Netheril was to let the Netherese help the Sarukh witches deal with the Felin Mokui, but until the Felin Mokui began to threaten Netheril In the land of Riel, I have never seen Professor Alcindor teach or even warn any archarcanist."

"Maybe he has some concerns." Brian said thoughtfully, "It was this concern that made him have no time to implement his plan, so he chose to hide directly. Obviously he was afraid of something."

"It seems that you have guessed it." Seth clone said, "That's right, Acindor's concern is the former ancient god of death Jaeger."

"Behind the glory and decline of Netheril, it is absolutely inseparable from the behind-the-scenes manipulation of the ancient death god Jaeger." He said, "Since you are so interested, let me tell you about the unknown history of the past, And my own guesses."

I knew it was related to this guy, Brian thought to himself, and immediately said: "I would like to hear more about it."

Then, holding Seth's holy emblem, he was on his way while concentrating on communicating with him, listening carefully to the evil god Seth telling himself about the unknown history of Jaeger, the god of death, and the early days of Netheril.

Immediately, in the silent lava tunnel, only the slight footsteps of the ghostly Brian were left.

And as Seth recounted the history of the ancient times, Brian gradually gained a deeper understanding of Netheril.

It turned out that thousands of years ago, in order to cultivate his own power and develop his faith in the material world, Jaeger set his sights on the seven fishing villages near the Narrow Sea, which had not yet reached an alliance, which was later Netheril.

As a god, Jaeger easily established his own belief among these primitive people through his own powerful divine power, and cultivated a shaman organization that worshiped him.

Then, he manipulated the orcs to attack these fishing villages. Under the influence of external threats, these fishing villages were forced to unite. The Jege shamans who could use divine magic naturally gained a high status in the new regime. .

When the Seven Towns Alliance was established, the new regime elected a shaman king, the old Nether was the king, and the new country was named Netheril, which means the land of Nether.

Under the rule of the old Nether, Jaeger began to let his shamans establish beliefs and temples among humans, impart knowledge of human undead magic, and tried to create a puppet kingdom that obeyed his own words.

But Jergal apparently forgot that his new human kingdom was located on the border of the Yeerlan elf kingdom.

And how could the elves let a kingdom of undead that symbolizes evil suddenly appear on their borders.

After observing and monitoring Netheril for a long time through prophecy, the elves calmly and rationally made the most correct judgment.

They believe that the best way to prevent this newborn human country from becoming a country of the dead is not to destroy it directly, but to tell them that magic is not just necromancy.

Therefore, as stated in the official history, the elves came to communicate with humans and taught them all kinds of elf magic, making humans realize that necromancy is just a small branch of magic.

It has to be said that this method of the elves was very successful.

As the people of Netheril gained a deeper understanding of magic, their firm belief in Jaeger, the god of death, gradually loosened.

Jaeger, who learned the truth of the matter, was naturally unhappy.

He decided to kill this group of pointy-eared elves who didn't have eyes, got in the way, and didn't obey him.

So, Jergal fanned the flames in the orc tribe again, pulled up a large orc army, and pushed it flat against the elf territory of Yeerlan.

But this time he miscalculated two things:
First, the elves' combat strength was not so weak that they would be easily pushed away by the orcs.

Second, in the face of the same foreign enemy, Netheril and Yeerlan stood more firmly on the same front...

If you fail to make a plan, you have another plan.

Jergal decided to lead the elves to go back to the old way of their own race - that is, to lure them to master too powerful magic, so as to embark on the road of self-destruction.

To this end, Jergal infiltrated the Hall of Mists, the Vault of the Creator Race, and stole the crowning masterpiece of their magical wisdom - a scroll called the 'Golden Snakeskin of the Cosmic Serpent', also known as the Nether Scroll.

These scrolls were then secretly placed among the ruins of the ancient elven empire of Arivandar.

But as always, Jergal dug a hole and buried himself this time.

The archmage of the creator race, the 'Prophet of the Earth' Acindor who happened to be the guardian of the city of Orem, immediately sensed that the defensive spells they set up in the Hall of Mist thousands of years ago had been interfered, and soon Discover the theft of the scrolls and the work of Jergal.

After careful observation of elves and humans, the ancient lich decided to control Jergal's human kingdom for his own use.

As just mentioned, Acindor quickly took on the false identity of a human archmage, sneaked into the Kingdom of Netheril, and began to teach a brand-new arcane system that is completely different from the elf system-given time, this system Will be called the 'Natherian Arcanist System'.

He hopes to use this to make Netheril as free as possible from the influence of the elves and the theocratic control of Jergal, and become his own puppet against Felin Mokui.

And during this period, Jergal didn't find anything abnormal at all.

Because he was busy spreading rumors among the elves——there was an extremely powerful magic sleeping in the ruins of the ancient elf empire, and those who got this magic would win the world, blabla...but the effect was not good.

This means that Jergal still suffered from not taking the culture class, or it may be that he slept for too long and did not investigate the elves in detail.

You know, thousands of years ago, the elves known as the "little master of death" abused legendary spells in the civil war. Some of the high elf magic rituals even possessed multiverse-level interference power, blasting thousands of kilometers without any grass The craters, even the Pangea were torn apart by the magic of the elves.

But now, with the end of the Crown War, they finally got rid of the civil war and completely entered the sage mode to recuperate. The so-called "incomparably powerful magic" is not very interesting at all.

Otherwise, the elves might have razed these seven fishing villages to the ground as soon as they learned that the Netherese were learning evil necromancy, so how could they patiently educate them about magic enlightenment.

However, what is surprising is that although the elves are not interested in the secrets in the magic ruins, the Netherese human students studying magic in the elves' territory are very interested in it.

A human apprentice studying in the kingdom of elves, after hearing the rumors, began to secretly dig the rumored elves' graves, and finally dug out this set of golden scrolls that brought the people of Netheril to a turning point.

After Jergal realized this situation, he was completely dumbfounded: he took this time bomb to blow up the elves, so as not to let them interfere with his control of Netheril, but his subordinates dug away the time bomb. How?
Therefore, Jergal had no choice but to keep his head on running his own church for the time being, and let the old lich Acindor—one of the original authors of the golden scroll—continue to teach him his spellcasting system.

Although Jergal's plan against the elves failed, the only thing that succeeded in his entire plan was that the influence of the elves on humans had indeed declined.

After that, there are three forces of Jergal, the Prophet of the Earth and the elves, all kinds of restraints and manipulations in Netheril...

(End of this chapter)