Chapter 82 The story that Calimport and the Blue Dragon have to tell
After a simple wash, Zuo Si had some breakfast and spent some time preparing spells, and then took a luxurious carriage to a hotel with enough space. In front of the four-story minaret.
It is different from the sorceress’s mage tower which looks crowded and narrow.
The one in front of me is obviously more than thirty times bigger.
Judging from the scars and repair marks on the outer wall, it must be at least several hundred years old and has experienced tragic wars.
Especially the huge scratches on the upper level were obviously directly attacked by the dragon.
Ebeny Abo, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately smiled and said hello to Zuo Si who had just stepped out of the carriage: "Welcome! My friend! How about it, this Mage Tower is not bad, isn't it? "
"It's really good. It should be at least two or three hundred years old, right?" Zuo Si asked in an uncertain tone.
"Far more than that!
Did you see those huge scratches on the tower?
They are all medals left behind during the heroic battle in the Year of Dragon Madness (1018 DR) in order to fend off the blue dragon Seferak Tal who flew out from the Great Desert of Karin.
It is said that the invasion nearly destroyed Calimport.
This is why I need you to build a giant energy storage device.
The evil blue dragon will always be the biggest threat to this city, bar none. ”
When saying these words, Ebeni Abo’s tone was unprecedentedly serious and serious.
It can be seen that he is full of hostility towards the blue dragon, a giant beast that ranks second in comprehensive strength among the five-color evil dragons.
After all, Port Calim is located next to the Great Desert of Calim.
The desert is the blue dragon’s favorite environment.
God knows how many blue dragons are hidden in the endless yellow sand dunes.
How many guys who are strong enough and ambitious enough are planning to come to this one of the richest cities in Faerûn to grab a hold of it.
In addition, whenever the "King Killer" appears in the sky of Faerûn, the "Dragon Madness Lock" set by the elves back then will break out.
At that time, all types of dragons will inevitably fall into uncontrollable excitement and mania.
And they will attack all the cities, fortresses, and villages they pass along the way like crazy, and even fight each other until one of them is completely dead.
This kind of collective rampage of dragons will occur locally every few decades on average, and will spread to the entire Faerûn continent almost every three hundred years.
Who would it be, living in a place like Calimport so close to the blue dragon’s habitat, who would be a little more prepared?
"That's it!"
Zuo Si nodded with great understanding.
If it were him, if the rise and fall of the entire family were closely tied to Calimport, he would also want more ways to deal with the blue dragon.
In addition, the turbulent years when the gods descended to the mortal world as saints have just passed, and we are currently in 1360DR.
So calculating the time, this tower has a history of at least 340 to 350 years.
If placed on earth, it would be considered a cultural relic.
However, there are quite a few mage towers like this in Faerûn.
Some older abandoned mage towers can even be traced back to the elven era thousands of years ago.
It is still running perfectly.
These towers that have lost their owners are often the favorite places for adventurers and mercenaries to explore.
The magic items, books, scrolls and materials inside that have not been damaged can often be sold for astonishing prices.
Soon, under the leadership of Ebeni Abo, Zuo Si walked into the interior of the tower and looked around at the large mage tower, looking for any differences with the internal structure of the floating city. The same place, or what different technologies and designs are used. After a while, he discovered that this place, like all large mage towers, recruited and hired a large number of apprentices, as well as low-level mages and warlocks.
They pay for labor, such as copying scrolls, preparing potions, making various magic items, weapons and armor, etc., in exchange for gold coins to purchase more advanced knowledge and magic.
Almost 80% of the secondary magic items exported in Calimport were created by these low-level spellcasters.
Due to the staggering quantity, the price of secondary magic items here is only two-thirds or even half of that in other areas.
Even the famous Red Robe Wizards of Serre cannot compete with it in terms of cost.
Ebeny Ab noticed Zuo Si's reaction and introduced with a smile: "This tower belongs to the Homan family. The blood of the djinn flows in their family, so they are rich in arcane spellcasters. . In almost every generation, at least one or two mages or warlocks emerge. The friendship between our two families has lasted for two hundred years, so I can lease the right to use this place for two hundred years. There are really many families with a long history in Caling Port." Zuo Si sighed slightly.
"Of course! Compared with the upstarts in Neverwinter, Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep, and Luskan in the north, when we Calishites established a huge empire, they didn't even have a There are no decent settlements." Ebeni Abo's tone was filled with pride.
This is also the view of most Calimport residents towards the emerging cities in the north.
In fact, Calishites generally have a sense of cultural and psychological superiority.
After all, the history of civilization on this land is much longer than that of the Netherese Empire, which has been extinct for thousands of years.
When the two walked and chatted to the third floor, Zuo Si finally saw the workshop where various materials were stacked.
In the workshop, there is even a dwarf slave on standby.
This reminded him of the time he lived in the floating city tower.
In the workshop at that time, there were also several dwarf craftsmen who were responsible for helping to create some small parts, tools, or processing some magic metal that was too hard.
Zuo Si once liked to discuss with the dwarfs about metal smelting, mining, segment creation, the order of magic runes, etc.
But unfortunately, when the terrible plague broke out, all the dwarves died within a few days.
Abenny Arbor stopped, pointed to the workshop and said: "All the materials on yesterday's list are here. I have already told the Homan family that you can use the energy reserve at will. I only have one requirement, and that is to create a super energy storage device with a large enough capacity.”
Zuo Silian agreed without even thinking: "No problem! I will give you a satisfactory answer before sunset. But this dwarf is not needed. I am used to being alone."
"Okay. Wait. I’ll pick you up at sunset.”
After that, Ebeni Abo waved to the dwarf slave, and then disappeared with him around the corner of the stairs leading to the lower level.
Seeing the two of them walk away completely, Zuo Si immediately released his detection magic and confirmed that there was no surveillance in the room, and then he began to methodically pack things into the specially emptied satchel.
In the blink of an eye, most of the materials piled in the corner disappeared.
Immediately afterwards, he extracted the reserve energy in the tower, forcibly upgraded his creator career level to LV9, and gained a new ability - [Transformation].
Just like the name.
This ability allows the creator to reprocess existing magic items on hand by consuming specific materials and his own magic power.
It can be used to strengthen a certain magic item, or it can be used to delete useless attributes and curses in some magic items.
But the premise is that the strengthening and transformation cannot exceed the endurance limit of the main material of the magic item.
Otherwise, the entire magic item may cause a violent explosion or energy reaction.
The reason Zuo Si chose to upgrade his creator level first was to use this ability to create a super energy storage device.
At least it was worthy of the preparations made by Ebeni Abo, making him feel that it was worth the money.
After all, shedding wool is shedding wool, and the minimum bottom line and professional ethics must still be in place...
(End of this chapter)