Chapter 108 Master of Elements
In a hidden cave somewhere in the Underdark.
Many strange scenes are carved on the four cold rock walls, including bones, lava, demons, altars, and the shadow of a demon that seems to be shrouded in darkness.
The light of the luminous fungi refracts through large crystals protruding from the floor, creating a kaleidoscope of colorful patterns on the surrounding walls. All crystals are semi-transparent, but the images seen through the crystal will appear ferocious and terrifying.
The decoration of this cave is more like a drow's city home.
Spider-themed tapestries, fine Zeke wood furniture and racks of expensive clothing abound, but all are old and rotten.
On the decaying benches, there were skeletons wearing robes, and others were shriveled corpses or deeply decomposed corpses.
On the obsidian altar in the center of the cave is a slender figure shrouded in a black cloak.
The figure stood up, with his eyes closed and his arms folded, as if he was meditating or praying.
The smell of blood, sweat, incense and carrion filled the chamber, making the air turbid.
I don’t know how long it took
The evil chant, as low as a ghost, seemed to come from a distant evil plane, shaking the entire secret room with an unhurried rhythm.
A six-fingered palm carved from obsidian, taller than an ordinary human, broke through the dark curtain and slowly rose up from behind the altar in a strange way.
The fingertips of the palms are dancing with the halos of countless red flames.
Under the dim light, a slender figure wearing a black cloak jumped down from the altar.
The slender figure stood in front of the altar, gently taking off his cloak, revealing long bone-white hair, pointed ears and ebony skin.
Without the cover of the cloak, she showed her true face.
This is a female dark elf.
She was seen kneeling deeply on the ground, her hands intertwined on her chest, and she was uttering strange prayers.
As her prayers came, strange echoes came from the hidden stone chamber. Gradually, the darkness became deeper and deeper, and a pair of white eyeballs glowing green seemed to be looking down in the darkness.
The dark elf raised his pointed chin, and with his pupils shining with scarlet light, he faced a shadow emerging in the void.
I saw her slowly stand up and gently raise her hand. The black robe was like running water, slowly fading to her feet along the dark elf's curves and exuding fatal temptation, revealing a Close-fitting white thin coat.
The dark elf slowly turned around and looked at the two male drow elves behind him who were trembling with fear.
She held their hands, whispered a few words, then kissed and hugged them, shaking their loose white hair, and entangled them roughly and wildly.
The long, heavy breathing ends.
The dark elf turned around, leaning against the altar, and handed the two male dark elves two metal whips with many barbs on them. While giving them orders, he raised his hands above his head and pointed towards the ceiling that was emitting a sickly light. He made a pious and fanatical summoning gesture.
"Papapapa"
The two drow warriors reluctantly waved their whips and whipped them towards her body.
Of course, they didn't use any force. The barbs on the whip grazed her slender body softly, leaving no trace.
"Pump harder! Pump harder! Otherwise, wait for death!"
A red tide of anger flashed in the eyes of the female dark elf. Her angry scream was extremely shrill, and her throat made a 'ho ho' sound.
She made the summoning gesture again, and this time the whip finally landed on her 'seriously'.
“Crack!”
When the whip fell, her body twisted and twitched, and her white silk dress tore a big hole.
The dark elf's face was twisted with a smile, and she kept urging.
The two of them struck harder, the whips crackling, and soon, a whip was wrapped around her chest, and with a strong pull, the tight bra broke, and a pair of ebony-colored breasts bounced out happily.
“Crack!”
The next whip left the first blood mark on the dark elf.
Suppressed screams sounded, and she moaned, but kept asking the two drow warriors behind her to be harder.
The two warriors first tentatively and slowly increased their strength, and then with her encouragement again and again, they pumped harder and harder.
Every time the whip was raised and lowered, frightening bloodshot threads were rolled up.
Gradually.
The whip-scarred dark elf is not so much a charming naked woman, but rather a ferocious beast soaked in a basin of blood to describe her current state. image.
I saw her put down her hands and put her hands on her waist, just like the mistress of the family in the Temple of Lolth, giving orders to her slaves imperiously, and motioned for the two drow warriors to come towards the altar. .
Two drow warriors walked over with fear and trembling on their faces.
The dark elf's scarlet and terrifying eyes stayed on them, and the corners of her mouth raised upwards, revealing a strange smile.
A cold light flashed, and two streams of blood splashed.
The drow warrior who walked closer had his throat cut open instantly by a sharp dagger. He fell to the ground with a face of despair, twitched twice, and then died.
As streaks of blood fell on the obsidian altar, a vague aura of darkness began to emerge, eventually converging into a hazy demonic shadow.
"Lord of Darkness, King of Shadows, ebony-skinned Lord of Darkness, great demon lord Graz'zt, grant me your favor!"
The dark elf, covered in blood and flesh, knelt deeply on the ground, breathing hard and praying devoutly.
Graz'zt, Lord of Darkness, is a tall, handsome, dark-skinned demon lord with a strange green light and dark charm.
He wears imperial-like clothing, with pointed ears and yellowish fangs, all showing off his demonic race.
The most amazing feature of Lord Wu An is his six fingers and six toes.
The priests of Graz'zt, also known as the Chosen, are usually women, and the high-ranking priests are all women.
This demon lord loves nothing more than mortals in the material world performing human sacrifices in his name.
At the same time, the lingering and wild sexual intercourse also plays a very important role in the heretical rituals of believers.
As the flames of the brazier surged upward fiercely, a demonic shadow glowing with green light appeared out of thin air.
“Go to the surface!”
The evil voice seemed to come from the distant void, echoing in the secret room for a long time. The demon shadow stretched out his finger, and a surging heat wave appeared out of thin air. A vast desert filled with wild sand.
"In the far north of the Kingdom of Cormyr, I can feel that the thief is about to return to the surface."
"Kill him! Take back the lost red dragon egg and bring it to me, and I will give you what you deserve "Reward!"
The dark elf stared at the picture that appeared out of thin air. When she saw a familiar figure that flashed away, a flash of fear subconsciously appeared in her scarlet eyes.
Then, the fear quickly dissipated and suddenly turned into vicious and twisted ecstasy.
“It turned out to be him.”
Recalling the scenes in ancient Orens city that filled her with fear and frustration, the dark elf suddenly calmed down and showed an evil smile.
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Odus King City, vortex stone tunnel.
When the gray dwarves in the entire city were celebrating the birth of the new king, Brian and Hesiah once again came to the swirling stone tunnel under the derro dwarf slums.
A dense forest of fungi blocked their way.
Fluorescent moss covers the giant mushrooms, bathing the woodland in a glow of yellow, blue and purple. The hazy shimmer makes everything look very dreamy.
“I have asked the gray dwarves to clear the road to the surface.” Brian pointed to a quiet, winding path in the fungus forest and said to Hesiah, “This road will lead directly to The Mokou Mountains on the surface."
Hisaya looked at him hesitantly, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I still don't understand why you don't come back to the surface with me."
"I still have some things to deal with." Brian said to her in a skillful tone, "So I can only ask you to help me go to Arabe City and send a letter to Archduke Raul."
< br>In fact, it’s not that he doesn’t want to return to the surface immediately.
As he said, he did have something to deal with.
First of all, with the end of yesterday's battle, he has accumulated enough experience to upgrade his battle mage level to level 10.
This also means that he has the ability to release fifth-ring spells.
At this time, the first thing he considered was to unlock the five-ring spell of Arcane Fire.
Only by raising the arcane fire to level 5 can he meet the requirements for advanced arcanist.
Therefore, he wanted to take advantage of the rare peaceful period in Aldus King City to collect the materials for improving the arcane fire as soon as possible. It would not be too late to return to the surface when his strength was greatly improved.
Of course, there is another worry that he did not tell the sword mage in front of him.
"Are you afraid of the demon lord's revenge?" Hesaya glanced at him, her eyes flickered, and she expressed the guess she had already thought of.
“You not only ruined Lord Wu An’s plan in Aldus King City, but also stole the red dragon egg that he cultivated at a great cost. I don’t think that Wu An, one of the three giants of the abyss, The monarch will give up. That’s why you plan to let me go back to Arabe City to intercede for you and seek asylum from my sister, Duke Raul. Is that so?”
“Worried about the demon lord’s revenge? It's just one of the reasons." After being read through by this aristocratic lady, Brian didn't have much of a reaction. He said unconcernedly:
"As for seeking asylum from Archduke Raul, you are overthinking it. I am cooperating with her, not unilaterally loyal to her. You must understand this."
Worried about the devil The lord's revenge was just a consideration of his always cautious character. In fact, it was not as Hesiah said, he was so scared that he wanted to seek shelter from others.
After all, Dark Lord Graz'zt's main energy is spent on conquering the bottomless abyss. He is jealous of Demogorgon and tries to unite other demon lords to overthrow each other so that he can obtain demons. The title of the Lord.
Therefore, there are actually very few believers of Grazt in the main material world. Salis, who was originally the spokesperson, can strengthen the power of the church in the future.
Now, he was strangled in the cradle again.
At this time, even if the demon lord wanted to take revenge on himself and take back the red dragon egg that he had taken away, he would not be able to find suitable people so quickly.
What's more, the original power he obtained from the red dragon egg and the succubus has already been sealed by his "extraction technique", so his location will not be detected by the prophecy technique.
Of course, there is another possibility with a small probability.
That is, these powerful demon lords rely on their own divine power to spend a small price to forcibly perform prophecy on the thief to detect some small fragments of the future, so as to judge his next step. ’s foothold, and then prepare an ambush in advance to ambush him.
Therefore, in order to prevent this possibility from happening, Brian decided to stay in the Underdark for a month to stabilize his strength and master the magic to prevent prophecies before returning to the surface.
If the demon lord Graz'zt really thinks highly of him and predicts his position at any cost, then his approach will invisibly avoid a major crisis.
It can also be called: He predicted His prediction.
Because of this, he chose to let Hesiah return to the surface temporarily.
Based on his plan to conquer the Eno Oak Desert, he decided to let this noble lady express her goodwill to the Grand Duchess Myrcella Raul of Arabel City with her intention of cooperation. .
Only with the support of the Kingdom of Cormyr, his progress in establishing a territory and a wizard tower in the Eno Oak Desert will be greatly improved.
Otherwise, as a polished commander, it would take him a lot of time just to find a suitable place to stay.
"Although I don't know what your true intention is." Hesiah flipped the hair in front of her forehead, looked at Brian, shook her head slightly and said:
"But I still want to tell you in advance, my sister Myrcella, she is not only the lord of Arabel City, but also a legendary spell caster who specializes in the prophecy school. She is not so easily moved by the words in your envelope. "
"Of course I know what you said, you just need to send this letter of mine to her." Brian understood the meaning of Hesiah's words, he nodded slightly, and then. He told her:
"This matter will trouble you. After all, you are the only one who often has the opportunity to see this Grand Duchess who lives in a high tower."
He is telling the truth. With his current status, he went there inexplicably. If you are discussing cooperation with a duchess from the Kingdom of Cormyr, you may be kicked out by the guards guarding the door as soon as you speak.
With Hesiah's help, he will save himself a lot of unnecessary trouble and reveal his intentions straight to the point.
He believed that this far-sighted Grand Duchess would definitely consider his ideas and suggestions carefully.
"Listening to the tone of your voice, I feel like you know my sister very well." Hesiah nodded, secretly keeping Brian's instructions in mind, and then asked casually.
"Know?"
Brian shook his head slightly and said with a smile, "It's not really acquaintance. It can only be said that I know her, but she doesn't know me. Besides, in the north of Cormyr, I don't believe there are People don’t even know about the Grand Duchess of Arabe City, the second legendary powerful person in the entire kingdom.”
“That’s true”
Hesayah was relaxed for no reason. He took a breath and smiled at him, "Don't worry, I will definitely complete what you told me. As for you, just stay here and wait for me to come back to pick you up?"
"Well, I'm waiting for you to come back and look forward to your good news."
Brian stared at her reddish face. Because the two of them had just drank some spicy fire moss wine, her delicate face was still a little drunk, so that her eyes looked watery. Slightly smoky, smiling lips, moist and red.
At the moment when Brian was slightly distracted by this, Hesiah suddenly came closer to him, held his face with her cold hands, and pressed her seductive lips deeply against it.
When he came back to his senses, he suddenly felt that the taste of fire moss wine still seemed to remain in her mouth. It was extremely hot, and her tongue was entangled with him like a flame.
Before he was ready to fight back, the noble lady had already moved her lips, looked into his eyes with smiling silver-gray eyes, and whispered in his ear: "This time we are even. "
After saying that, she shook her long reddish-brown hair, turned around and disappeared into the shimmering bacteria.
Brian stared at Hesiah's back, silently reminiscing about the enthusiasm just now, until she disappeared from his sight, then he sighed softly, retracted his gaze, and walked towards the lair of the red dragon Agtus.
As usual.
This bloated red dragon lay leisurely on his hill, flicking his tail in boredom, enjoying the splashing sound of gold coins.
With the gray dwarf prince Erdi becoming the new king of the deep, at Brian's suggestion, the gray dwarves all nominally called this red dragon the behind-the-scenes ruler of Aldus King City.
In addition to being responsible for the daily task of lighting fires, Agatus also has the added responsibility of guarding the gray dwarf city.
"You eat and sleep every day, don't you feel bored after sleeping and eating?" Brian looked at the red dragon lying on the hill and asked with a smile.
“When I’m bored, I can count gold coins.” Agtus raised his eyelids to look at him and said, “Besides, I have never felt boring. I think this kind of life is quite good. "Interesting."
"What are you doing here again?" After thinking about it, Agtus seemed to feel something was wrong. He raised his head and looked at him warily, "Could it be that you want to hit me?" Pay attention to the treasure."
Brian was too lazy to pay attention to him. He found a place to sit down, took out a book that he copied last night, and said to him:
" Young man, I see that you have amazing bones and extraordinary talents. You look like a wizard in learning magic, so I have a spell book here to give to you. Do you want it?”
"Don't do this, I don't care about your crap." Agtus curled his lips disdainfully and complained: "Your messy spells are not as practical as my dragon's breath. I can't learn that thing at all." It’s of no use.”
“If you don’t want to learn it, forget it.” Brian had obviously expected this situation. He put away the spell book and said casually:
“I was planning to transform. I will also teach you the magic, so that you don’t have to randomly transform into other races. It seems that you have no interest in these things, so forget it. The world is so big, and I still have many things. I haven’t seen enough places yet, so I won’t accompany you to count gold coins in this small cave in the Dark Territory.”
“Hey! Brian, wait a moment, don’t leave in a hurry.” Jumped down from the Jinshan Mountain, stretched his neck, stared into the two big bright dragon eyes, and said curiously: "Are you really willing to teach me the art of transformation?"
"Of course, but the prerequisite for teaching you is , you must complete every task course I assign to you." Brian looked at Agtus, spread out the contents of the spell book and let it float in front of him, "Don't refuse in a hurry, it's actually quite simple. , check it out for yourself.”
The knowledge recorded in this book, in addition to the practice methods of the True Dragon Clan's breath expertise, also includes an advanced profession called 'Elemental Master'.
Dragons are creatures made of raw elemental power.
The energy that drives their breath weapon and the essence of the elements that make up the core of their existence, these two powerful forces have reveled in their veins from the moment they were born, otherwise known as talent. ability.
The advanced profession of the True Dragon Clan, the 'Elemental Master', is committed to developing and obtaining perfect and pure coordination with these two powers, so that they know how to control this most powerful bloodline talent.
Any true dragon that has advanced to the level of 'Elemental Master', in addition to mastering many powerful super breath specialties such as Breath Shaping, Breath Amplification, Breath Enhancement, Breath Storm, etc. In addition, it also has professional features such as elemental familiarity, command elements, and energy coordination.
To put it simply, true dragons whose advanced profession is 'Elemental Master' can not only greatly strengthen their breath attacks, but also have the ability to harness the most essential elemental energy, and can even summon it effortlessly. Various elemental creatures from the four elemental planes are produced.
“It doesn’t seem that difficult.” Agatus stretched out his paw and scratched his forehead, stared at the knowledge recorded in the book with his big eyes, and said:
< br>"Brian, do I just need to follow the instructions above when I light the fire and breathe out the dragon's breath every day, like two shallow and one deep, three deep and one shallow, one deep and one shallow, then three deep and two shallow, etc. Then we can complete the training tasks you assigned."
"That's right." Brian nodded slightly.
In fact, these super-breathing specialties are not difficult for Argotus, who has breathed fire on time every day for more than a hundred years.
Because he has laid a solid foundation, he will easily and smoothly master these super breath specialties that focus on dragon breath.
This is like a martial arts practitioner. After spending decades laying the foundation, and then teaching him various fancy skills, he will master them very quickly.
The only difficulty is whether this guy is born with the talent to perceive elements when he advances to the 'Master of Elements'.
“No problem, I can agree to your request.” Agatus nodded and accepted Brian’s books, “However, I have one more request, and you must agree to me, otherwise, I won’t learn anymore.”
“Did you learn knowledge and improve your strength from me?” When he heard what Red Dragon said, Brian suddenly felt why it sounded so familiar. So he replied.
"Of course I learned it for you." The confident Argotus lay down in front of Brian, raised the dragon's head, and said to him:
"You have spent so much effort to collect this kind of knowledge, let me improve Strength is not just so that I can help you in the future. This is the same as helping the gray dwarves light fires every day, and they pay me."
"Since you said it so straightforwardly, I don't have any reason to refute." Brian looked at him and suddenly realized that this red dragon was not as stupid as he thought. "Then what are your conditions?"
"You have to teach me. In addition to the transformation technique, you also need to find me a new dragon egg that can hatch a red dragon girl." Agatus grinned and continued, "In this case, someone will help light the fire for these dwarves. I can regain my freedom.”
“You’re not saying that Red Dragon Girl is related to the happiness of your lower body.”
Brian was a little confused by the other party's words, "Don't you want to have a litter of baby dragons with the red dragon girl and live a life of wife and children?"
"Happiness is happiness, giving birth to baby dragons Forget it." Agatus scratched his head, "When you raise them, you not only have to divide the property, but you also have to find a way to build a nest for each of them to find a wife. Just thinking about it gives me a headache. It’s really not as comfortable as me living alone.”
“This idea of yours is really strange among your dragon community.” Brian was amused by Argotus’s words, and he assured him. Said:
"Don't worry, if I have time, I will help find a red dragon egg to take over your job of lighting the fire. As for you, you can do whatever you want, even in the surface world. I have no right to interfere."
"Since you have decided to learn the above knowledge, then study and practice carefully." After thinking about it, he added: "I will learn it in the next month. I have been staying in Aldus King City. If you don’t understand anything, just come and ask me.”
After saying that, he turned and left.
“Hey, Brian.”
Agotus stretched out his paw and shouted. Seeing Brian stop, he hesitated for a moment and said cautiously: " I would like to ask, did the newly appointed Deep King Erdi propose to kill me?"
"You just need to know that the gray dwarves will not try to kill you again. , as for whether others will kill you, I don’t know.”
Brian turned to look at the slightly nervous Red Dragon, weighed the words in his heart, and said to him seriously: "So, instead of placing your hopes on others, why can't you take the initiative in your own hands? After all, this is a world where the strong is respected."
"Thank you, Brian, I know what to do."
Agotus stared at Brian with bright dragon eyes. He was silent for a long time, and suddenly gritted his teeth, and his heart tightened. The two dragon claws assured him in a rather firm tone:
"From today on, I will spend half of my time counting gold coins and half of my sleeping time on learning magic knowledge. Improve your own strength."
Looking at his determined look, Brian smiled and turned to leave.
As he said, this is a world where the strong are respected. The most important thing for him right now is to upgrade his professional level as soon as possible and unlock the five-ring spell of Arcane Fire.
Only in this way can he return to the surface world with peace of mind.
(End of this chapter)