Arcane splendor begins with the throne

Chapter 191 The Missing Poet

In a quiet room.

Brian sat on a chair, staring at a lavender oval-shaped iron stone floating in front of his eyes. The pen in his hand quickly copied unknown arcane runes on the parchment scroll.

Accompanied by the frequent trembling of the faint magical aura, his deep and focused black eyes gradually turned into a violet color against the background.

After an unknown amount of time, he put down the pen in his hand, raised his hand tiredly, and the floating iron stone disappeared into his pocket.

He propped his hands on the table, frowned, and rubbed his temples on both sides with his fingers, trying to relieve his excessive fatigue from using his brain.

At this time, he suddenly missed Princess Corney a little bit.

If this little princess is here, she only needs to point her little finger and throw a "healing touch" to herself, and her tired spirit will instantly return to a stable and satisfied state.

"It seems that it is still impossible to decipher the operating principle of the Ion Stone."

Brian slowly turned over a stack of sheepskin scrolls in front of him, looked at the esoteric runes he had copied, and smiled wryly.

Iron Stone.

A great product of the age of the arcane empire Netheril.

Although the real creator of these magic items, Arcanist Congeinio Ioan, probably doesn't even have the strength of a quasi-legendary, it is something that all great arcanists are eager to obtain.

After arriving in the city of Abrera, he kept himself locked in the study, trying to understand the mystery of the Ion Stone.

Of course, he didn't intend to decipher the production method of the Ion Stone and copy this magical item. His real intention was just to find a way to recharge it.

After all, the Ion Stone that absorbs spell energy in his hand is not a permanent item. As long as the energy is exhausted, it is no different from an ordinary stone.

It is a pity that he locked himself in the study for seven days, and even copied all the arcane runes revealed in the light of the surging energy of the Ion Stone.

According to his preliminary statistics, he has copied at least nearly ten thousand complex arcane runes in the past few days.

It's a pity that he is like a person who can't understand a foreign language. No matter how much he transcribes, he will naturally make no progress if he cannot understand it.

After all, he never systematically studied this kind of arcane rune.

In other words, he had never seen the magic runes above.

Even when he saw them for the first time, he didn't know them at all, so he could only use his high intelligence attribute to forcefully copy them down with a pen.

Brian's frown did not relax from beginning to end.

He tidied up the messy sheepskin scrolls on the table, sighed, and muttered to himself: "It seems that these arcane runes may all come from the 'Scrolls of Nether'."

The great arcanists of the time of Netheril possessed many strange abilities.

Any wizard is respected not because of their destructive power, but because they possess a huge amount of arcane knowledge.

This is why wizards who are proficient in evocation spells are nicknamed 'evocation barbarians', that is, barbarians among wizards.

Grand Arcanists are different. Their arcane skills are not only reflected in destruction, but they specialize in the three major magic fields of creation, mind and transformation.

The emergence of the floating city is the pinnacle of the creativity of the great arcanists.

The fundamental reason why the Nethers were able to develop such a glorious arcane empire was to obtain the magic knowledge recorded in the Nethers scrolls.

If the scrolls of Nether were not accidentally lost, the glory of this group of great arcanists would never stop at the floating city.

Because this set of scrolls is divided into five groups, each with ten scrolls, the great arcanists in the Netheril period only understood "Introduction to Arcane Art" and "Magic Creation".

"Higher Creation", "Plane Mechanism", and "Introduction to Mysteries" which record the creation principles of artifacts and the secrets of the gods, and the following three sets of scrolls with gradually increasing difficulty, a few great arcanists have only studied a little bit, and they have been lost. .

It is said that every time a Nese scroll is penetrated, his arcanist level will be directly increased by one level.

If someone can study all fifty Nether Scrolls thoroughly, then his arcanist level can be directly raised to level 50.

Undoubtedly, no great arcanist can do this.

Because Nesser scrolls are different from ordinary scrolls, they cannot be viewed directly by sitting there like ordinary scrolls.

Instead, they must be studied and thoroughly read, and the reader must seek out fragments of magical lore in them, which cannot be reproduced in any way.

Even so, they had just mastered the relatively simple "Introduction to Arcane Arts" and "Magic Creation", which were relatively difficult, and they could already raise their level to the level of the legendary Grand Arcanist at level 20.

Moreover, a glorious arcane empire has also developed.

Nai color scroll?

Thinking of this artifact, Brian's eyes lit up.

Because he remembered that in the dark area of ​​the main material world, there was an undiscovered floating city ruin, and one of the whole set of Nether scrolls was actually hidden in this ruin.

Thinking that he would have a chance to get a Nether scroll in the future, he couldn't wait to get out of here as soon as possible.

Although it was too far away for him, at least it gave him hope.

He stared out the window, smiling at his own thoughts and dreams, his frown gradually loosening.

While arranging the sheepskin scrolls on the table, he planned his future plans.

It didn't take long.

The subtle crackling sound echoed in the depths of his mind, as if warning him that someone had passed through the magic restriction he had set in advance.

With a thought in Brian's mind, the door opened automatically, and the dwarf Broto and the dwarf Gerber just walked outside.

Seeing the two people who appeared, he knew that the magic materials he had asked them to collect had probably already been collected.

In this case, he can leave Abreira directly tomorrow, go to the city of wizards, and look for the lost tower of wizards.

Brian nodded slightly, and the two walked in.

"I fuck him!"

As soon as Broto walked in, he started cursing and saying non-stop, "Abrera's Council of Elders, they are simply a bunch of stupid pigs who pee against the wind, they are simply unreasonable..."

"what's the situation."

Brian ignored the dwarf in front of him. He knew that the dwarf in a state of rage would not be able to explain things clearly, so he looked at the relatively silent and calm Gerber.

"We have withdrawn from the Council of Elders." Sensing his gaze, Ge Erbao was silent for a moment, and said slowly:
"The members of the Council of Elders have not given up on their long-planned plan. Of course, it is impossible for them to give up, because they are almost dazzled by the victory. They are still immersed in the wonderful fantasy of the city of Abrera's upcoming independence."

"You know what those old stubborn people said?"

Broto said angrily: "They compare the refugees of Amastacia to a group of pigs, a group of pigs wandering in the yard of the farmhouse. The existence of this group of livestock means profits, pig knuckles, sausages, and bacon. Jane In short, there are many benefits to letting refugees into the city, and we should not pout and complain about the pig manure everywhere in the yard."

"Six copper coins buy a potato, a silver coin buys a small bag of corn, a gold coin is worth half a beef rib or a few scrawny piglets, and there are free labor in various workshops that only focus on food." The dwarf added. .

Are they cutting leeks?

Brian understood their complaints.

War and famine caused many Tasha to flee to the city of Abrera.

For their own benefit and to extract as much money as possible from the refugees, the members of the Council of Elders chose to open the city gates to let the refugees into the city.

On the surface, there is nothing wrong with doing so, at least it can save many victims from starving to death.

But the problem is that Abrera City is a bustling port city, and the resident population is dominated by non-human races.

Bryan shook his head slightly. As Brotto said, the Elder Council in Abrera City's practice of letting refugees into the city was indeed a bit ill-considered.

He didn't dare to imagine the consequences that would be caused by sparks and prairie fires if something went wrong.

"They can do whatever they like, I don't care anyway." Broto replied, "Bryan, our chamber of commerce is already preparing to evacuate."

“Production in the city of Abrera has come to a standstill, and the food situation of the Tasha civilians is dire. Meat, even poultry, is scarce, and fish is hard to catch...Four, potatoes, and beans are also scarce, and the fields are scarce. It was full of withered rose stems."

The dwarf Gerber sighed: "The only thing that is functioning normally is the usury and the soaring prices in Abreira. I wander around the market every day, and the Chamber of Commerce of the Council of Elders is buying and selling from the poor every day. The only thing to accumulate wealth."

"The situation is already this bad?" Brian frowned.

"We came from the north and passed many villages and settlements." Broto said, "You can tell from the number of goblins and the barking of dogs."

"It seems that we have to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible, so... have you collected all the materials I asked you to help buy?" Brian asked after pondering.

He was thinking about how he would solve the problem of facing subjugation if he were the ruler of the Tasha people.

Undoubtedly, this most effective method made him shudder.

"We've got it together." Galbao's answer made him light up, but his next sentence made him very depressed, "But there is a problem with the Star Sapphire."

"Is there no such material?" Brian asked slightly uneasy.

Star sapphire is one of the most precious and valuable gemstones in sapphire.

Compared with ordinary sapphires, this gemstone is not as clear as expected, but there are six or more white starbursts in the center of the gemstone, just like sparkling stars, so it got its name.

The magical starburst inside the gem is due to the optical properties of the mineral crystal and the mutation of the free magic elements, giving it the characteristic of accelerating the speed of magic power condensation.

Under normal circumstances, wizards generally like to inlay this kind of gemstone on their staffs to speed up the concentration of magic power and increase the speed of spell release.

Star sapphires usually have an even number of vertex stars within the interior, mostly six, and with age the number becomes greater.

There is no doubt that the greater the number of stars, the stronger the characteristics of the gemstone.

It is said that in the sapphire mine, only one star sapphire can be found for every one hundred sapphires.

From this we can see how precious this gemstone is.

Because of this, starlight sapphire became a must for him to upgrade the Austrian fire level, and there was nothing that could replace it.

"I saw a star sapphire in the jewelry store. According to the method you taught me, I identified it as a gem with twelve stars." The dwarf looked at him apologetically, "I had already made a reservation, but Someone got there first and bought it at twice the price."

"If it wasn't for Gerbao to stop me." Broto said with a beard and stare, "I would have smashed the shop of that bitch Toba."

"who is it?"

Brian's expression darkened, and he didn't have the time to ask for the specific reason.

Starlight sapphire is the key material for him to activate the three-ring spell, and it is also a very rare twelve starburst, so he must find a way to get it.

Otherwise, if you want to meet the second gem, who knows when you will have to wait.

And it also seriously affected the time when he left the city of Abrera.

If he knew who had snatched this gem, he wouldn't mind going there in person to have a good talk with the other party.

"It's a mysterious witch."

Gerber raised his head, revealing a striking aquiline nose, and looked at Brian strangely, "This witch seems to know you, she told me on purpose, if you want this gem, you must go there yourself, if If she is satisfied, she will even give it to you for free."

witch?

Brian was stunned for a moment, then asked: "What does she look like? What are her distinguishing features?"

At the same time, his mind raced back to every witch he had ever known.

"She used telepathic voice transmission, and I didn't see her at all." Ge Erbao said with a depressed face.

"Okay, tell me her address, and I'll go there in person later." Brian glanced out the window, and the last twilight had disappeared on the horizon.

When Geerbao and Broto left together, he had a thought and used telepathy to summon the familiar who had been waiting for a long time to come in.

"did not find."

The little devil sat carelessly on the books on his desk, and said bluntly: "Brian, I have been searching for seven days, and I have cleared the sewers in Abrera City, but I still haven't found even a trace of Mario. .”

just disappeared?

There was a hint of doubt in Brian's heart.

After the group arrived in the city of Abrera, the satyr poet who had been following them disappeared, as if disappearing out of thin air.

In fact, from the moment he met Broto and his party in the Goblin Wasteland, he had been vaguely aware of something wrong with the poet by virtue of his telepathy activated by his god-like power.

But I can't tell what the abnormality is.

Now, with the sudden disappearance of Mario, his inner doubts aggravated again.

"Actually, I also feel that this half-goat is very strange."

The little devil hesitated for a moment, then scratched his head with his little paw, "I not only sensed the aura from Sigil on him, but also the smell of Bartor's hell."

"So, from the moment you saw him for the first time, you had this feeling." Brian showed displeasure at the little devil's intentional concealment.

"It's just not sure." The little devil didn't care about his expression, and said truthfully: "Now I'm very sure."

"Forget it, just ignore him for now."

Brian got up from his chair, put on a coat, and prepared to go out.

Because he believes that the most important thing right now is to get the star sapphire first.

(End of this chapter)