Dr. Green Dragon

   Chapter 496: The Lost City of Leylines

  For those who don’t know, just from rumors, Skull Harbor is a hellish evil place, and all the inhabitants should be criminals exiled by Waterdeep City, greedily peeping at the wealth of Waterdeep City all the time.

   But, if the truth is here...

  Skull Harbor is located in the Underdark. Naturally, it also has the common characteristics of the Underdark.

  The dark and quiet environment, the mystery and beauty of the fluorescent bacteria, the sinister and magnificent of the strange stone pillars.

  More... It will be named "Port". On the side of this quiet town, there is still an underground dark river flowing through it.

  This is the Suggs River!

   connects the Skull Harbor and the Leyline Labyrinth, and even intersects with the Sea of ​​Swords.

  The third layer of the Leyline Lost City, "Saggs Layer", is more directly named after this river.

   It can be said that it is the existence of this underground dark river, with abundant water resources, that all kinds of prosperity have been born in the underground of Deepwater City, even if this prosperity has some deformities!

   Of course, deformity is not deformity, let’s not talk about it.

   In fact, the "official" position of Skull Harbor, when the "King of Bones" created this underground town, was actually a neutral faction!

   Even now, at least in this town, everything is still in order.

   After all... the thirteen "burning skulls" that may fly across the sky at any time, the only thing they care about is this region, all creatures must obey their rules!

   This "rule"... Even the elder's eye of the Aknanza union silently admitted that his "hands of the eye" would even cooperate to maintain it.

   It is also for this reason that this underground town with a "notorious reputation" has "dirty" transactions going on at any time, but it is undeniable that everything here is also in good order!

  Especially, when the sky above, if there are no "burning skulls" that look extremely evil, if they pass by from time to time, the difference between this place and the normal underground town is not obvious.

   Just like that.

   "It's finally the beginning!"

   A dark castle.

   can be seen everywhere, with an "artistic" atmosphere, or "heroic" temperament, or "learning" extraordinary, or "king" majesty, and "simple" returning to reality, in the castle where countless beholder statues are lifelike.

   suspended above a throne.

   A giant beholder, the main eye is half-squinted and a little lazy, making him look a little old.

  Behind him is a huge magic gate shining with blue electric light. It is only opened from this state... Either it has just performed some teleportation operation, or it has been preparing and can be used immediately at any time!

   In front of him, there is a magical light curtain showing the sky of Skull Harbor in a panoramic view.

  's half-squinted main eyes were looking at this magical light curtain.

   In the light curtain, the sky of Skull Harbor, this moment is extraordinarily peaceful.

  There is no wind, naturally there can be no clouds, and even...the thirteen burning skulls are also gone!

   "Are they interested in Hylast, whether it's the magic of Hylast, or the threat to Hylast..."

   "But I only want 'Landline Lost City'!"

   "With the 'Landline Lost City', there will be no one else who can hinder my plan. Conquering Waterdeep City begins with conquering the 'Lyline Lost City'..."

Thinking of the conquest plan, thinking of those skulls that made him a little bit constrained... This giant beholder, although the main eye is still half-squinted, always a little lack of energy and malnutrition, but there is a fiery fantasies in it. up.

   When it comes to "planning", he is interested now, so he doesn't feel tired!

so……

   "I have to plan the 'plan' to be more perfect first, to better reflect my heroism and wisdom..."

   "In the eye cave..."

   One of the beholder's tentacles turned, and a "telepathic" message was immediately linked to a person outside the castle.

   "Costan, you go to the Eye Cave for me to support Avarina."

   "Bring the 'Magic Eye Guard'!"

   In response to his teleportation, from the hidden places of the dark castle, one after another spherical and tentacled creatures suddenly rose in the air.

As for the person who has been waiting outside, the second hand of the Aknanza trade union, "Kostan Ruhr", who is in charge of the assassination business, is overjoyed in his heart, but his face is still serious and gloomy, and he only bows. : "Yes, great master!"

  Evil Eye Guard, the undead guard directly controlled by the "Eye Demon Master"!

It is his "master of beholders". Over the years, beholder after beholder, whether it is a provocation or challenger, or an accidental encounter, as long as it is a beholder, he has seen it and never let it go. He killed and transformed into a "beholder zombie"!

Although the    beholder zombie is definitely not as powerful as the real beholder, it depends on what it is compared to!

   Especially, there are some of them who wanted to challenge the "Master Beholder"!

   These, although it turned out in the end, they were too arrogant.

   But...the "Been Demon Zombie" they transformed, even he had to shy away from it!

   "Go!"

   "Go from the 'Glitter Gate'!"

  The Eye of the Elder is another "spiritual communication".

The Gate of Shining was built by him himself, or more precisely, it was a remodeled portal that could be directly connected to the "Lost City of Leylines". Even if the City of Leylines prohibited normal teleportation, it couldn't stop his "Shining Gate". door".

  Costain took the order immediately, and arranged it quickly.

   sensed there, quickly gathered in the direction of the "Glitter Gate", and quickly left.

   The half-squinted main eye of the elder's eye looked at the light curtain in front of him again.

   He will have to wait a little longer, and when there is really a result over there, it will not be too late to make a final decision!

  Before that…

   "Continue to improve the 'conquest plan'!"

   "Why don't we just call it... 'March of the Third Eye Demon Empire'?"

   "Wait until Waterdeep is conquered and the 'Third Eye Demon Empire' is established..."

   Countless fantasies bloomed in the mind of the Elder Eye.

   The power of the mind that is too powerful is just madness. His surroundings are also illusory, as if from "fantasy", the picture that is going to "realize" and evolve in essence is flashing in a chaotic manner.

  …

   It was in this elder's eye that he looked at a certain area of ​​the light curtain for the last time.

   Corresponding to this area, the Skull Harbor is the darkest, and there are hidden caves with endless mystery hidden in it.

   "You guys really got involved!"

   "That's why this delusional monster, Aknanza, dares to really oppose us!"

   Surrounded by thirteen skulls burning with green flames, under the ban of countless magical auras, this is a hidden cave that is almost completely isolated from all spaces.

   A Lich with the Eye of the Scarlet Demon Flame Soul, without impatience and anger due to the sinister environment.

   I just looked at the people around me indifferently... I used to be old friends in the early years, but now, after all, I still have to go to the opposite "burning skulls".

"'we'?"

   "Schladin-Mullover, don't forget, we are the real us!"

   "Have you completely forgotten the glory and glory of the Austrian Empire?"

   A skull of green flames, a sardonic mockery.

   "What about forgetting, what about remembering, what passed away will never come back!"

   "You are twisted into 'skulls'!"

   "I also became a 'lich'!"

   "Only those of us are left. The glory and glory of the Austrian Empire has long since passed away in history."

  Some of the past, unforgettable, is the indifference of the lich to emotion, and Shiradin's **** soul eye, after all, still flickered several times, but in the end...there was only a sigh.

   "A coward will be content with peace!"

   "After that catastrophe, for two thousand years, we have been studying the ways to change."

   "Now..."Sargs Floating City" has come to the world again!"

"Hylast and his Leyline Lost City are the last obstacle, as long as he is solved, as long as there are two more 'skulls', the distortion of the magical disaster will be reversed, and all the 'skulls' will get The liberation, the reappearance of the floating city, and the return of the Austrian Empire will truly begin!"

   "Shradin, our people, you must join us!"

   The words of the green flame skull, passionate emotions.

   Disaster can destroy everything, but not their ultimate belief.

  Time can wear away everything but their eternal pride.

   And what he meant...

  Shradin's soul flame was trembling violently for a while.

  Suggs floating city rises again?

   In today's era, is it possible to have this city of arcane miracles?

   But at this time, he completely understood why these people were so eager and so active, they were going to attack his teacher directly!

   The catastrophe of that year, the fall of Suggs Floating City, was not only the Skull Harbor, most of the Leyline Lost City, but also the area of ​​influence of the Floating City.

   Under the influence of the magical barrier of the Leyline Lost City, they can really complete the twisted curse and get a real recovery from the "skull" form, but they can't do the same to raise the floating city!

  Unless... Helast is not here!

   But again…

   The blood light in Shi Laing's eyes flickered violently, but after all... he still shook his head!

   "Even for you, it is impossible to succeed!"

   "The current he...is the Great Arcanist who controlled the floating city back then. I'm afraid only those few can be compared with him!"

   "And, most importantly..."

   looked at the Green Flame Skull, he paused for a while, then said solemnly, "He is immortal!"

  In the early years, he would come here because he found the hidden history of the "Saxophone Floating City" falling here.

   But because of this, he met Helast.

  Hilast's knowledge has completely convinced him. This is a glorious legend in any era, even the era of their Austrian Empire!

   Because of this, he, who was already a legendary necromancer at that time, willingly worshipped Helaster's door and became Helaster's first apprentice.

   Later, while exploring the "Suggs Layer", I met these old friends.

   The relationship at this level is the root of why he can build the "Skull Harbor" here.

   But now...

   "Don't say it's useless."

   "Shradin, what you should decide is to join us, or... choose to be a traitor?"

   Another green flame skull, impatient voice.

   "You should know that since we will launch this plan, we are naturally confident!"

   "What if he's the 'Great Arcanist'?"

   "What if he is "undead" in nature?"

   "As long as the "Landline Lost City" is solved, as long as the "Suggs City" is raised, he will be able to return, and he can only watch us reproduce the glory of the empire!"

   After all, there is still a skull that cares about the past, and, in the plan, this should be the first choice for the fourteenth skull... Another green flame skull, persuading again.

only……

   The look in his eyes changed again and again, but after all...

   Shi Laing shook his head slowly: "Sorry!"

   "Although I also look forward to the reappearance of 'Suggs City', I will not deviate from the teacher!"

   "Also, if you succeed, don't forget Waterdeep!"

   "The Floating City is going to restart, and Waterdeep City will not sit back and watch!"

   After all, Suggs City is now located under Waterdeep City!

   Having said that, the lich sighed silently again, contradicting but not changing his thoughts.

   He has followed Helast for hundreds of years. Although he expected the Austrian Empire to reappear, he was unable to backstab the teacher!

   Not to mention... At least in his heart, he doesn't think these bits can really realize this dream!

Waterdeep City is almost the most powerful city-state in the North, and even in the entire material world. Kelburn and Lyra are not only powerful enough to be comparable to the Great Arcanist, but also have the essence of the elector of the goddess of magic. Has a close alliance with the likes of the Seven Sisters and Minnis.

   The floating city of Suggs really suppressed his teacher. Could it be possible to forcibly lift up against these people?

"Unfortunately!"

   "However, I respect your decision!"

  Among the thirteen skulls, the one who was faintly headed said calmly.

   He could see that although Schradinn did not mean to deviate from Helaster, he also gave up his resistance.

   is pedantic, but…

   In the era of the Arcane Empire, the inheritance of arcanists was the most "simple" model of "arcanist + assistant + apprentice".

   Every apprentice that is successfully cultivated has an incomparably close relationship with the Arcanist.

   Whether it's tradition or emotion, Shi Laing's choice is certainly pedantic, but... he can accept it!

   Of course, being able to accept it does not mean that he will let it go!

   It's about the floating city. Since Shi Laing already knows about it and doesn't want to join it, he can only...

Needless to say, the thirteen green flame skulls moved in unison. In this independent space, a dark sphere that seemed to be inconspicuous, like an incorporeal body, suddenly appeared in the " The head of the "King of Bones".

   However, it seems to be inconspicuous, and there is no terrifying fluctuation.

   But... the moment the dark sphere appeared, before it even really fell, the legendary lich body of the King of Bones was already collapsing directly.

   "Destroy the orb!"

  …

   "The King of Bones has fallen!"

   "It's a pity, it was supposed to be a good ally to solve Waterdeep together!"

   A certain depth of the leyline labyrinth.

   A black-robed lich paused for a moment, looking a little regretful.

   "As soon as the King of Bones goes, the six of the 'Seven' will all have to react, and Helast should be alarmed too!"

   "Just look over there, how many avatars can you contain?"

   Walking with him, another illithid with the breath of death, the octopus-like tentacles were wriggling unconsciously, and the evil cold blue light flashed in his eyes.

  Everything goes according to plan, just see…

   How powerful will the mad mage be in the Leyline Lost City!

   "He'll be pleasantly surprised."

   "After this incident, I will personally lead you to join 'Symbol', the eighth 'Lord of Tokens'!"

   (end of this chapter)