Arcane Journey

Chapter 101 Ghosts
During the long wait, Brian suddenly found that the figure of the goblin copper block appeared in his sight and ran towards him at an extremely fast speed.

"Didn't I tell you to leave as soon as possible, why are you still here?" He couldn't help being startled, and met the goblin who appeared in doubt, "How is the matter with Jeep going?"

"Don't mention it, it's really what you said, he is completely crazy." Copper Nugget sighed depressedly, and explained the whole incident to Brian in detail.

"It just so happens that there is nothing to do right now, let's go check out the altar built by Jeep." Brian said suddenly on a whim.

Hearing this, Copper Nugget hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.

Work in a while.

Led by the copper block, they came to the location of the jeep altar.

Looking at the tragic scene in front of him and the rancid smell in the air, Hesaiah frowned subconsciously.

As she walked, she accidentally stepped on a dead drow body, and her boots were still stuck in the blood-red bones and clothes.

This made her feel a chill, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

Brian noticed something strange about the sword mage.

With a chuckle, he walked closer, pulled her boots out from between the ribs of the corpse, and threw a cleanser, and said to her, "You wait outside."

Hesaiah hesitated for a moment, met Brian's unquestionable eyes, and finally lost the battle, walking out of the cave alone.

Brian walked nonchalantly among the corpses, and he saw that the remains came from many races, including derro, gnomes, goblins, and a few blind stonemen among them.

Just when he searched fruitlessly and was about to leave, a ghost suddenly emerged from the pile of wreckage, appearing strangely in front of the two of them.

The goblin copper nugget screamed in fright at this sudden scene, hid in the shadows and disappeared.

Brian was just surprised, and then looked at the phantom with interest.

Wraiths are the dead spirits of living creatures bound around a particular place, creature, or object that holds significance for their life.

They are eager to complete a task that was not completed in life. They may seek to avenge their own death, fulfill a vow, or send a message to a loved one.

A ghost may not realize that it has died and go on with its daily life.There are also ghosts who are driven by evil or hatred and refuse to rest until all members of a family or organization are known to be dead.

The surest way to get rid of a ghost is to fulfill its unfulfilled wish.

Or you can use the weakness of ghosts to destroy them more easily.

From the hazy shadow of the ghost, Brian can see that the other party is a female dwarf, with a delicate appearance like a porcelain doll, long brown hair hanging down, eyes shining like black orbs, watching with expectation look at yourself.

"Who are you? Is there any wish that I can help you fulfill?" Brian pondered for a moment, then looked at the ghost and asked.

"Sorry, kind adventurer, for disturbing you."

The subterranean gnome ghost deliberately suppressed his sharp voice full of resentment, and said to him kindly:

"I'm a gem merchant from Blingden Stone City. I was supposed to meet and trade with a gray dwarf merchant at the dark lake pier, but I couldn't find him after waiting for a week."

In the narration of the deep gnomes, the goblin copper block slowly poked its head out of the shadows.

"I found out later that the gray dwarf merchant who traded with me was arrested for selling stolen gems." The ghost blinked and floated in front of Brian, his tone uncontrollably turned into hatred.

"Then I was tricked here by a Dilro dwarf named Gip. He not only killed me, but also brutally mutilated my body and mixed it all into the wreckage of the altar."

Blingdenstone?
Brian frowned. Blingdenstone, once known as the City of Whispering Stones, was a settlement established by subterranean gnomes more than 2000 years ago.

The subterranean gnomes by nature rarely care about history and heritage, so most of the past of this ruined city has been lost with the passage of time.

For centuries, Blingdenstone has maintained an impression of secrecy and isolation from the rest of the Underdark, relying on its intricate terrain and magic.

It wasn't until the deep gnomes offered shelter to an exiled drow ranger that more and more outsiders became interested in their caverns.

In order to avoid the invasion of the notorious drow, the subterranean gnomes abandoned the isolation policy and assisted the dwarves of Mithril Hall to resist the drow invasion from Menzoberranzan.

However, this alliance eventually led to the end of Blingdenstone.

After planning revenge, the drow rehabilitated and rebuilt the army, and immediately dispatched troops to launch frequent attacks on the subterranean gnomes, and then besieged Blingdenstone City with a large army.

As a result, it is conceivable that the deep gnomes cannot compete with the drow army at all.

Thousands of subterranean dwarves were slaughtered. Except for those survivors who fled to Mithril Hall or the surface world, the rest had to be captured by iron chains and returned to Menzoberranzan City to become slaves.

In Brian's impression, after decades, the subterranean gnomes returned here and began to rebuild their city.

The success of their efforts is in sight, but there are still a series of threats hanging over their heads.

Much of the ruined city remains a sealed hazard, its tunnels and chambers blocked by gates or man-made collapses.

The deep gnomes also had to deal with some intruders.

These include ratmen, demented elementals, wraiths, and plague-spreading oozes controlled by the Pudding King, a deep gnome driven mad by the demon lord Jubilex.

He pondered for a moment, and with an idea in his mind, he turned his gaze to the copper block trying to sort out Kip's body.

The sharp copper block immediately sensed his gaze, shrugged helplessly, and stopped arranging the body for Jip.

Seeing the copper block would make him mistaken, Brian chuckled, then looked at the ghost of the subterranean dwarf, and asked, "Then what do you want from us?"

"Well-meaning adventurers, I hope you can help me bring some of the remains back to Blingdenstone for burial."

The ghost of the subterranean gnome floated in front of Brian. Her height only reached the root of Brian's thigh, so she could only raise her blurred face, and pleaded with her fingers: "In this way, my soul can rest in peace. .”

"no problem."

Brian readily agreed, and then said to her with embarrassment: "It's just...you saw it too. These corpses are all mixed together. It's impossible for us to search for these corpses in this crazy and gloomy scene."

"That's it." Seeing Brian's promise, the ghost of the subterranean dwarf was overjoyed at first, and after hearing what he said next, his two slender eyebrows almost knit into a ball.

She was suspended in mid-air and tangled for a long time, as if she remembered something, with a thought, a severed hand floated out from the pile of corpses.

Brian was surprised to find that there was still a ring on the finger of the severed hand, which seemed to be a space ring for storing items.

"A well-meaning adventurer."

The ghost of the deep gnome said, "I can feel the weird magic in the tunnel. These magical energies are gradually wearing down my will. If you can bring some of my remains back to Blingdenstone, the items in this ring , as your reward."

"I can promise you." Brian took the ring on his broken hand, made a thick linen cloth out of thin air, carefully wrapped the dwarf's remains, and said to her:
"But we won't leave immediately. After all, we will return to the surface soon. If I have time, I will help you fulfill this wish. What do you think?"

In fact, Blingdenstone was already in his future plans.

Because the gnomes in this city have developed a gemstone that can store magic, he needs this technology to arm himself.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed so readily at the beginning.

"But." The ghost of the little dwarf began to tangle with his little finger again.

"Let me go, I know where Blingdenstone is."

The goblin copper block glanced at Jeep's body, sighed, and said, "Just treat it as my atonement for poor Jeep."

"Then be careful yourself."

Brian handed the body and the interspatial ring to Copper Nugget, and said to him, "After you go, stay there for now and don't come back. I will go there myself when I finish my work on the surface."

Then, based on the knowledge in his memory, he explained to the goblin everything about Blingdenstone City and the various forces in the city.

"Hey, you should take this thing, I feel a little hot."

After listening to Brian's explanation, Copper Nugget looked hesitantly at the space ring he handed over, not knowing what to do.

"If you don't want it, wait until Blingdenstone and give it to her family as a relic." After Brian finished speaking, leaving the goblin and dwarf behind, he turned and left.

After walking out of the cave, seeing the sword mage following up, he thought for a moment, and said to her, "I'm going to deal with the demon lord's servants now, for the sake of safety, you don't follow up, just wait for me nearby."

"Why?" Hesaiah raised her beautiful eyebrows and said with a little dissatisfaction, "With your own strength, is it really possible?"

"Sometimes, strength is not necessarily needed to solve problems." Brian said to her pretending to be mysterious.

"You don't want to go in the same way again."

Hesaiah stopped talking in time. Although the name of the little devil's master sounds feminine, it doesn't mean that it must be a female elf.

For some reason, whenever she recalled that Brian had deliberately pretended to be confused and touched the sphinx's thigh, she felt a little uncomfortable.

She forced herself to quickly forget about this horrible scene.

"That's not true." Brian smiled and said: "In short, there is no need to fight. If you go, you will only get in the way and affect my plan."

"I'm in the way..."

Hesaiah gave him a depressed look, and guessed, "Do you know this demon servant?"

"Probably." This sentence reminded Brian of some unpleasant memories, and he sighed softly, "However, she doesn't know me."

(End of this chapter)