Chapter 73: Clock Nirvana: Mechanical Realm
The third day before the end of the battle with the Fungus Queen.
After resting in the lightless woodland, Brian appeared alone in a strange space.
He looked at the colors that appeared in front of him: gray blue and sunset color, brown red and light green, constantly alternating on the pieces of Zeke wood mushrooms.
The thick and wrinkled roots of the mushrooms are mossy green in the flowing water. The water is slowly blown into gentle whirlpools by the wind, and seems to be blocked and stagnated by rocks, tree roots, and hanging and falling leaves.
He found that there was no clear path in the fungus forest, no direct light.
Only the luminous fungi, lichen and moss are mixed in the wind or under the water, mixed with sunlight and starlight, and blended into a hazy mass like shadow.
The paths under the tall fungus mushrooms surround the mushroom stems and pass through the rhizomes. They never bypass any obstacles, twisting and turning like nerve veins.
The ground is not dry and solid. On the contrary, it is moist and elastic. This is the result of the long and precise death process of life forms and fungi.
On this fertile 'cemetery' grow mushroom trees nearly 100 meters high, as well as countless small mushrooms sprouting.
Brian walked on a path by the water. The water was often obscured by dense luminous moss and flowed very slowly.
When he saw a dimly glowing old man, he stopped.
The old man sat under the umbrella of a Zeke wood mushroom and looked at him.
"Hello, great lord of fungi."
Brian kept a distance from the old man who was so hazy that he couldn't see even a trace of his features, bowed slightly to him and said, A gift.
At this time, the place where he appeared was similar to the mental space of the myconids.
Boslophir, the Lord of Fungi, is the god of myconids and also a god of meditation.
Therefore, He can continue to share His thoughts with Mycoid believers in the material world anytime and anywhere without any warning.
Originally, he thought that the god came as a giant-like mushroom, and then there was a huge mixture of gray-blue mycelium floating around him.
Who would have thought that he was actually an old human being whose face could not be seen clearly.
"A half-elf from the world of Toril." The old man looked up at Brian, "You are the one who helped my people survive a disaster, but you are unwilling to accept my gift, right?"
The Myconid God’s words were very soft, but they made Brian feel an unprecedented sense of oppression.
He forcibly maintained the most skilled calm and composed expression, took another deep breath to calm himself down, controlled his voice, and said without being humble or arrogant:
"That's right. Because I think I have a better choice."
After a brief silence.
The old laughter mixed with the gurgling river water echoed in Brian's ears, with mockery but no malice.
Brian stood there with a calm face.
Although the gift he got from saving the myconids is still very good to him now, but thinking about his long-term plan, he still wants to take the initiative to get something that will benefit him for life.
After all, once you miss something, you will really miss it forever.
“I did promise you, but you also need to understand that promises, sometimes, are just what a liar says to fools.”
After the laughter stopped, the old man continued: "Now, I will give you a chance to make a choice that convinces me. Otherwise, you will get nothing."
Hearing this, Brian Secretly he breathed a sigh of relief.
To be honest, he was really worried that his actions would offend a god, causing the other god to use the excuse of 'greedy' to steal his reward.
After calming down, he thought for a moment and slowly said the idea he had thought about for a long time: "I need to gain control of a small town in the mechanical mirror of Clockwork Nirvana."
< br>The mechanical mirror of watch nirvana.
It is an upper plane with ultimate order.
In the mechanical realm, order is regarded as the highest criterion everywhere.
It consists of completely equal light and dark bands, as well as completely equal heat and cold.
The shape of this plane is like a drop-shaped clock, and it has an obvious tree-shaped domain.
Each law here constitutes an independent gear kingdom, and all operations rotate according to their respective principles.
Each cog operates through huge computational data. Apart from those puzzling legal functions, even the various divine powers cannot understand the functions of these data. [Remarks: "Mechanical Realm - World of Watches"]
The reason why Brian said this was mainly because he took a fancy to a characteristic of the Mechanical Realm.
As an outer plane filled with constructs, gears, and modrons.
When you choose to make a constructed creature here, the time and consumption required, as well as the quality of the product, will be reduced and strengthened to varying degrees based on your recognition of the will of the plane, and you may even receive An additional ability granted by the will of the plane.
It was this characteristic that gave him the idea of establishing a construct production factory in the Machinery Realm.
Of course, there is the most important point.
The characteristics of the mechanical realm are not only mechanical creation, but also a plane closest to the law of time.
Only here can you have the opportunity to explore the most original mystery of time and study legendary spells and fields related to time.
Because Brian's plot is very big, if he wants to gain a foothold in the Machinery Realm and form his own power in the future, he will have to find a god to protect him.
This is like a person with great ambitions who wants to buy a house and take root in a big city. Depending on his personal ability and hard work, he will definitely have the opportunity to complete it.
But if he wanted to buy land to build a force and factory, he would have to establish relationships with the city's leaders.
Otherwise.
Evil gods, demon lords, devil kings, plane business groups, etc., all kinds of monsters and monsters come at all levels and come over from time to time to treat your territory as a dungeon, causing you to lose everything. .
After all, the physical plane is bound by laws, which prevents the gods from coming in their true form, and even incarnation requires a huge price.
As long as he does not seek death and become an enemy of the entire world, he can live happily.
But in a similar outer plane like the Mechanical Realm, there is no such benefit at all. If a true god holds a grudge, it will be easier to kill you than to kill an ant.
Boslophel, the Lord of Fungi, is a god of medium power who lives in the Mechanical Realm.
In the mechanical realm, if he were to protect him, the quasi-god powers and gods from hostile forces would at least be afraid of it and would not dare to do it themselves.
As for those enemies in the legendary realm, once their strength grows and reaches the legendary level, they can basically be dealt with by themselves.
“Just you? A mortal who doesn’t even know what the legendary realm is.”
The old man's words contained the purest mockery, and even the hazy gray-blue light that enveloped him turned into bright red, symbolizing mockery, due to the change in mood.
“That’s right.” Brian said calmly:
“I may not have such a chance now, but what happens in the future may not even be possible by the gods. Accurate prediction. Moreover, if I die before reaching the legendary realm, this condition is equivalent to nothing for you, and there is no loss at all."
"This is not a reason to convince me. "
The Lord of Fungi was silent for a moment, and the hazy color turned into gray-blue again.
"I have consulted ancient classics." Brian had already guessed that the other party would answer this way. He continued to say in a tone that was neither humble nor overbearing:
"Not only do I clearly know the details of the 'Disaster of Tears', but I also I know the ancient history of the Sunless Woodland. When I witnessed the ideology of the Sunless Woodland in the astral plane, I further confirmed my thoughts. As the fungus master of the myconid clan, I believe you must have it. A judgment that is better than that of us mere mortals.”
Brian stopped talking and did not continue.
'The Catastrophe of Tears' occurred at the beginning of the creation of the world of Toril, following the Age of Thunder - "The Birth of the Three Creator Races" and the Age of Dawn - "The Confrontation between Dragons and Giants" The third era: the era of the first prosperity.
This is what happened about 23,000 to 12,000 years ago.
Of course, it can also be called the Elf Era. In this era, with the elves' successive victories over dragons and giants, elven civilization reached its peak in the world of Toril.
Then a familiar scene happened.
Thousands of years have passed, and the elves, as an immigrant race, have long forgotten how the disaster happened in the elven kingdom.
After all, the pain of history will always be gradually forgotten with the passage of time.
These high elves want to use magic in the world of Toril to create an ideal home that can permanently protect themselves.
Subsequently, hundreds of high elf mages whose strength reached the legendary level gathered in the center of the mainland of the world of Toril, in what is now the Kingdom of Cormyr.
They joined forces and jointly arranged a magic circle with a diameter of more than ten kilometers here.
When the power of the spell reaches its peak.
The huge magical energy instantly exceeded the expectations and control of the elf mages.
As the first Elf Mage was devoured by magic and exploded to death, the next few hundred legendary level Elf Mages all suffered the same fate in the following minutes, just like the floating city in Netheril that was tricked into dumplings. fate.
However, this is far from over, something more terrifying happened.
These uncontrolled huge magical energies broke through the sky and attracted a huge comet that fell from the sky.
This huge meteorite fell into the center of the continent. It was like the end of the world. Countless races were completely wiped out, thousands of cities were destroyed, and the four inland seas were smashed and merged to form today's Sea of Falling Stars. '.
With this level of catastrophe, the huge fungal forest in the underground world in the center of the continent naturally suffered along with it.
As part of the incarnation of the Lord of Fungi, the fall of the meteorite directly caused the complete death of the mind body of the huge fungus forest.
It is only now that the lightless forest has gradually returned to what it is today.
In fact, about the ancient history of the Sunless Glades.
Brian guessed half of it based on the knowledge he had, and the other half based on the independent mental space he saw in the astral plane two days ago.
However, he firmly believed that this was definitely related to the ‘Disaster of Tears’.
Perhaps, Brian didn't know the reason why the fungus lord in front of him was unable to interfere with the myconid clan in the material world.
But he knew very well that the other party was definitely thinking about how to restore the Matte Woodland to its huge scale before the 'Disaster of Tears' occurred.
Now, faced with the threat of the fungus queen Zugmoy, this fungus lord who seems to have been fishing for fish cannot leave the myconoid clan who believe in him alone.
After all, as a reborn, Brian knew a lot about what was about to happen.
In the next three years, not only will the Sunless Woodland be devoured by the Fungus Queen, but even the Fungus Forest beneath the High Forest will almost suffer the same fate.
A god with moderate divine power was actually made so embarrassed by a demon lord.
It can be seen from this that the influence of the Lord of Fungi, Boslophel, in the main material world is really limited.
As for what caused it, Brian was not sure.
He guessed uncertainly that it was very likely that the ‘Calamity of Tears’ had damaged his origin, so much so that he had not fully recovered until now.
As a result, my influence in the material world is really limited.
Otherwise, the myconids in the Aphotic Woods would not have been hung up and beaten by an incarnation of the fungus queen transformed from consciousness.
Brian was very sure of one thing.
Driving the Fungus Queen back into the abyss is just the beginning. As the energy radiating from the ley lines gradually increases, she will come back again.
After a long silence, the ideology of the Lord of Fungi slowly spoke, "Your wisdom seems not to be at the same level as your strength."
"This is to me , It’s just a matter of time, after all, I have passed the most difficult road.” After recalling the meaning of the Fungus Lord’s words, Brian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He knew that the other party was interested.
Although he did not express the true meaning of his words, as a god, how could he not hear that he meant to help the lightless forest recover from the ravages of demons and increase the number of myconids? .
However, the fact is that even without the fungus lord, Brian would still find ways to help the myconids.
After all, these mushroom people have no desires and desires, but they are naturally proficient in making magic potions.
Helping the myconids is a low-investment, high-return business for him.
If it weren't for the complex terrain of the Aphotic Woodland, and without the guidance of the Myconids, it would be impossible to enter the core area and not find this place.
I am afraid that this place has long been occupied by the aggressive drow elves and has become a magic potion processing factory.
Even so, the Sunless Woodland has been destroyed and rebuilt countless times in history.
"I believe what you said, and I also believe that you may actually be able to get there." The Lord of Fungi nodded slightly, "So, I can agree to your request."
Listen When the other party agreed, Brian's expression was as calm as ever.
Because from the meaning of the other party's words, he could tell that there was another but.
All agreement was destroyed by a but.
“But I will not help you gain control of the territory of the Mechanical Realm.”
The hazy thought body of the Lord of Fungi continued, “Although my Kingdom of God is far away from Mirrortooth Town, Recently, I will only ensure that you are not threatened by foreign gods, that's all."
"That's enough." Brian nodded in agreement.
The Mechanical Realm of Clockwork Nirvana is a lawful and neutral plane with a strong tendency toward order, so the gods who live here will never actively destroy or interfere with this order.
Brian is still self-aware of this.
So all he needs is for the other party to nod in agreement and give himself a suitable identity.
If his memory is correct, there are five small towns in the outermost layer of the Mechanical Realm, namely: Panzuo Town, Mirror Tooth Town, Crown Watch Town, Ratchet Town and Automatic Town.
"Very good." The Lord of Fungi nodded slightly, with a hint of smile in his old words:
"Your name is Brian, right? From today on, as the Lord of the Myconids, I declare that you will gain the friendship of the entire Myconid clan. I hope you can fulfill your obligations, otherwise, what will you understand? It’s called ‘Promises are for fools’.”
After the hazy mind of the Lord of Fungi finished speaking, he threw an object at him and disappeared.
Of course Brian took the item without ceremony.
This item is only the size of a bottle cap. It is a badge similar to a mushroom cap, with a fungus basket pattern engraved on it. There is also a crystal vial in the basket.
His expression changed and he checked the properties of the item:
Spore Lord's Asylum +4
Type: Accessory
Quality: Purple·Excellent
Attribute: Perception +2
Equipment Effect:
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1. Those who wear this badge can be immune to the influence of any type of spores.
2. This equipment charges 6 times a day. The wearer can consume 1 charge to release stabilization spores, hallucination spores and spore areas.
Stabilizing Spore: Releases a ray-shaped spore cloud. The target must make a Fortitude save. If the test fails, it will fall into a passive state. Note: The passive state is similar to being stunned, except that the target can only perform some actions at this time, which does not include attacks. This is a mind-affecting coercion-type effect.
Illusion Spores: Releases a ray-like spore cloud. The target must make a Fortitude save. If it fails, it will be subject to a powerful hallucination attack. Its effect is treated as a confusion spell.
Spore area: Release dust fungus, filling the ground with spores and thick fungi. Any enemy entering this area will cause the fungi to explode, spewing toxins and a disgusting smell for the enemy. .
Explanation: This is a magical equipment personally made by the Lord of Fungi, Boslophel. It represents the friendship of the myconid clan and is often given to adventurers who are approved by him.
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(End of this chapter)