Chapter 121 Silver Scholars Association
Underdark Region, Aldus King City.
The moment Brian stepped out of the teleportation circle, heat and pungent air rushed towards him.
He saw the red-hot steel being forged, as well as a dozen non-stop furnaces, which continuously supplied iron materials, and a group of gray dwarves were knocking in the room.
"Gods have mercy, what did you bring me here for?"
After adapting to the dizziness caused by the long-distance teleportation spell, the moon elf mage Ru Yin looked at the sonorous hammering and grinding mechanical sounds that kept echoing in the factory. She said with a slightly pale face, "Should this be the case?" Will it be a city of gray dwarves?”
“That’s right.”
Brian nodded slightly, looked at the new Deep King Erdy who was coming towards her from a distance, and said to her, "Don't worry, these gray dwarves are my allies. The purpose of coming here is to check the progress of the products I customized with them."
"The gray dwarves are...your allies?"
The moon elf mage looked in disbelief at a group of gloomy-looking bald dwarves who came over with smiles on their faces after seeing Brian. She secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help but feel curious. Asked, "Customized weapons and equipment?"
She couldn't figure out what the other party's purpose was in inviting her here.
"No, you will know later." Brian did not say it directly, but greeted the King of the Deep who came over.
"Sir Brian, I didn't expect you to come back so soon. Has your journey to the surface been smooth?" King of the Deep Earth Erdy welcomed his arrival as if he were his bearded relative and shook hands with Brian. He raised his hand and said enthusiastically, "Let's go! Let's have a few drinks first."
"I'm not here to drink with you." Brian raised his hand slightly seriously to interrupt him, "How are the items I need made?"
"It was successfully developed yesterday and is just waiting for you to come and inspect it in person." Hearing this, the King of Deep Earth smiled and said, "Let's go, follow me Come.”
Well aware of the character of this surface half-elf, he stopped talking nonsense and immediately led Brian and the two of them through a wide and wide corridor to a small room.
Brian saw an old gray dwarf wearing dirty gray robes and glasses inside, holding a magnifying glass and studying a small amount of metal dust.
"This is the old patriarch of the Salosga clan who has retired for nearly a hundred years. He is the most authoritative master of metal composite materials in our clan."
The young King of the Deep touched his thick bush With a proud look on his face, he said, "The piece of black metal that Your Excellency gave me was analyzed by this master."
Brian's expression changed and he immediately walked over.
The old gray dwarf raised his eyelids and glanced at the Deep King, and nodded slightly in greeting.
Then he stood up and took out a black wooden box from the counter behind him, raised his stiff head, looked at Brian, and said to him:
"So this piece of black metal is yours" Sent, Your Excellency, I have to admit that in my more than four hundred years of studying metal materials, I have never seen an item of such unknown origin. Although I can analyze the material of this piece of metal and even restore it, the metal is. The mysterious runes that are polished on the surface cannot be deciphered by my incompetence."
"Otherwise, I might be able to make exactly the same product," the old gray dwarf said with regret. , "What a pity. We can obviously feel that there is some mysterious power hidden in this piece of black metal, but we just can't copy it."
"You have done a good job, Master." Brian complimented. , open the black wooden box in front of you.
In fact, if the black metal mentioned by the old man is called by its scientific name, it should be called stone.
This black stone is a small piece he broke from the black pentagonal spire in the vortex stone tunnel in King Aldus City. The purpose is to let them help analyze the material of this stone. .
As the other party said, there is indeed a mysterious power hidden inside this black stone.
He has seen the broken spire with his own eyes, and naturally knows that the source of the mysterious power is the obscure runes polished on the surface of the spire.
Although he is still unable to decipher the secrets of the runes with the arcane knowledge he currently possesses, he can still accomplish it by having someone help him analyze the production materials.
After all, even if these black stones do not have the power brought by the blessing of mysterious runes, their hardness and magic conductivity are still outstanding.
While he was interested in the characteristics of the stone itself, he also considered that if one day he really mastered the secret of the Nese Scroll, he might be able to decipher the secret of the black five-sided obelisk.
Because he suspected that this obelisk was probably a portal system built by the mysterious Spellweaver organization when they tried to colonize the world of Toril.
He stopped thinking about it and looked at the opened wooden box, seeing that it was not a finished product but a pile of well-organized production materials.
This is what he specifically asked the Deep King to do, asking them to only restore the synthetic material of this stone, and not to make an identical item.
He saw that among these materials, in addition to the largest amount of obsidian and metal-compatible potions of the gray dwarf clan, there were also a small amount of gems of various colors, fine gold and mithril powder, as well as crystals and similar precipitates, and even a few connected Strange material that he couldn't even name.
“It seems that you have also noticed it.”
The gray dwarf old man said, “These production materials are all related to magic, and when combined with each other, not only the hardness is improved , even the magic-guiding ability has been significantly improved."
Brian nodded slightly, agreeing with his statement.
Of course he knew this, and it was because of the characteristics of these stones that he chose to conduct in-depth research on them.
——"Psychic energy is amazing!"
Brian said no more. He concentrated on looking at these raw materials, and his thoughts moved.
Driven by the spiritual energy of the mind creation system.
These materials all floated into the air, and under the control of his mind, they were completely decomposed, all gathered together, and finally shaped into a black stone brick similar to the shape of a brick.
Brian waved, and the heavy stone fell into his hand.
Stone brick (unnamed)
Special material
Type: stone
Characteristics:
1. Physical effect: The number of physical resistance points per inch of thickness is 25.
2. Magic effect: This stone has excellent adaptability to magic energy and has 15% damage reduction against any magic attack.
Description: This is a kind of material made of rare natural quartz, magma and dragon crystal precipitates (obsidian) and steel. It has good physical resistance and excellent magic guiding properties.
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After checking the attributes, Brian tried to inject a burst of arcane energy.
A faint magical aura flashed, and the dark stone bricks emitted little auras, reflecting his smiling face on the smooth surface.
Seeing this, he immediately realized that while injecting energy into this black stone brick, it also absorbed additional magical energy from the air.
This means that when he imprints a magic circle or constant magic on this stone brick, he can get additional benefits.
"The effect is good." He nodded with satisfaction, put it on the table, and said to the King of Deep Earth, "How many gold coins would it cost to make a stone brick of this size."< br>
He is very satisfied with the product. If the price is too high, he will not be able to promote it.
This is like the reason why in the real world, gold and silver are obviously very conductive, but when wires are used in large areas, copper wires are favored.
The Deep King weighed the stone bricks in his hands, looked at each other again, thought about it for a moment, and then quoted him a price, "300 gold coins per piece."
300 gold coins?
Hearing this number, Brian raised his eyebrows.
Although he was not a professional, when he just looked at the raw materials, he noticed that the material with the most ingredients was obsidian.
Ossidian originates from volcanoes. It is a natural glass formed by the sudden cooling of magma flowing out of volcanic lava. It is an amorphous gemstone.
It is not only a building material often used by the richest spellcasters in the wizard community, but it is also a must-have item for priests of gods, especially priests of evil gods, to build altars.
In the surface world, the price of a thumb-sized obsidian block is about 10 gold coins.
As for the underground world where obsidian is abundant, the price will be relatively low.
Brian can tell just from the proportion of obsidian materials that the price quoted to him by the Deep King of Aldus King City is quite conscientious.
“I accept this price.” He nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and then said, “If I need 10,000 stones of this size, how long will it take you to complete the project?”
"Ten thousand yuan?!"
Hearing the amount reported by Brian, Deepland King Erdy exclaimed, widened his eyes, and asked in disbelief, "The stone is on top, I said, you want What are all these black stones used for?”
“Are you planning to build a wizard tower?” Moon Elf Mage Ru Yin’s light blue eyes flashed and she said in surprise. speculation.
"Yes, I do plan to use this material to build the Wizard Tower." Brian said truthfully without hiding anything.
This was a plan he decided before returning to the surface.
The wizard tower is also divided into three, six and nine levels.
The primary wizard tower is generally made of marble or granite from nature. The owner of the tower then enchants and strengthens it later, and arranges various protective barriers and traps.
For owners who own this kind of wizard tower, their challenge level in the wizard tower will increase by about 3 levels.
The construction materials of the intermediate wizard tower are similar to those of the junior wizard tower. The most significant difference is whether it has a tower spirit.
Because the wizard tower with the tower spirit is like a manually driven car upgraded to automatic driving, the effect is naturally very significant.
Wizards who own this kind of wizard tower can completely let the tower spirit complete most of the operations of the tower, and their challenge level will increase by about 6 levels.
The so-called advanced wizard tower is completely distanced from the intermediate and elementary levels.
The construction materials of the tower are no longer natural processed products from nature, but special building materials carefully refined by alchemists through various metal materials.
Such a wizard tower, strengthened by various buffing spells, even without opening the protective barrier or the magic circle, the strength of the tower itself is enough to withstand the nine-ring spell.
In Arabel City in the Kingdom of Cormyr, the wizard tower that has been passed down for thousands of years where the Grand Duchess Myrcella Raul lives is a high-level wizard tower.
Brian had witnessed with his own eyes that when Arabe City was being bullied by the floating city of the Shadow Empire, even though the energy protection field of the tower was broken, it still managed to withstand at least five rounds of nine-ring spell meteor bursts and remained standing.
For tower owners who live in high-level wizard towers, their challenge level will increase by at least 10 levels.
If it weren’t for the deterrent power brought by this high-level wizard tower, it would have been impossible for the Grand Duchess of Arabe City, whose strength had only reached the first-level legend, to guard the northern border of the kingdom for so many years.
As for the so-called legendary wizard towers, Brian has not personally witnessed their true power.
But at least he knows that the most significant difference between the Legendary Wizard Tower and the Advanced Wizard Tower is actually whether he has the ability to fly and fight across planes.
In the small world where Brian was reborn, there stood a legendary wizard tower from the Kingdom of Halua.
Unfortunately, when he got the tower, he discovered that the owner of the tower was dead and the tower spirit was completely asleep.
For him, this is no different than getting a car without a key. He can only stare at it.
Although the floating cities in the Netheril era also had the ability to fly across planes.
But from Brian's perspective, their floating city is more like a movable city than a so-called war fortress. With the demise of the Netheril Empire and the return of the Haunted City, these Haunted people have developed some fighting methods on how to use the floating city.
What impressed him most was the final battle between Ghost City and the Kingdom of Cormyr.
Relying on the mobility of the floating city, they broke through the space barrier of Arabe City and flew over the city. Then, the high-level wizard towers of the ghost princes were like turrets guarding the city, attacking this city. Carpet bombing of cities.
But the flaws are also very obvious. When the power energy Mysel core that supports the wizard tower and the floating city is destroyed, and the floating city crashes, all the wizard towers built on it will also be destroyed. .
So, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the Wizard Tower and Floating City.
At this time, Brian already had the legendary soul crystal to create the tower spirit, and four high-quality elemental energy gems to build the elemental pool. All he lacked was high-quality building materials.
If he uses this black stone to build a wizard tower, his current strength will be enough to help him resist most legendary professionals who try to force their way into the tower.
The Wizard Tower is the basis for him to base himself in Mokou Town and gradually march towards the Enoch Desert. Naturally, he wants to make it as perfect as possible.
“You don’t have to worry about the money consumed.” Brian looked at the King of Deep Earth, “I will pay you every penny. I just want to know, ten thousand stones of the same specifications, How many days will it take you to complete the project? "
300 gold coins per piece, 10,000 gold coins is 3 million gold coins.
This does not include a few other specifications of stone.
This cost is a huge expense for most spellcasters, and even a few hard-working legendary professionals.
But for Brian, he could afford the cost alone.
If he had not discovered the identity of the silver dragon, he would not have dared to boast so confidently.
Because the Silver Dragon had confessed to him the mission of coming here, letting him know the specific location of his lost companions in the star realm.
This huge expenditure will naturally be covered.
After all, before he left the small world of his rebirth, he had conquered this small world of low magic, so before he left, he had made sufficient preparations,
Like him This kind of person with a long-term vision, the embarrassment of lack of money, is all within the scope of his consideration.
When he was preparing to go to the main material world, in addition to a large amount of fine gold, mithril and precious gems, he also brought a pile of gold nuggets worth millions.
Due to his limited strength, he was unable to use his own space ability to store so much wealth, so his companions helped him keep his small treasury.
Now that his companion has been found, his hanging heart has completely calmed down.
"Half a year and a half." Looking at Brian's confident look, the King of Deep Earth suddenly regretted that the price he quoted was too low.
On such a large order, I only made a fraction of it.
He thought deeply for a moment and said: "It will take at least half a year. After all, the amount of obsidian is too huge. It is impossible to collect them all at once and then melt them together. Its hardness requires at least half a furnace to be opened at one time. Months, you should be very aware of this.”
“Half a year is too long.”
Brian frowned, thought for a moment, and said to him, "I need you to complete it in a month. As for the problem of obsidian melting, it's a simple matter. I can just say hello to Agtus and ask him to help." . With so many people in Aldus King City, you can complete the other processes in a month.”
“Oh my God, please spare me the overtime pay”
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The King of Deep Earth exclaimed, touching his shiny bald head, and immediately started making calculations in his mind.
He suddenly discovered that if this order required Red Dragon to work overtime for a month, the overtime pay alone would cost him even a beard.
"Don't worry about this. I will help you with Argotus. You won't have to pay overtime." Seeing the worry in the other party's heart, Brian said nonchalantly.
Under his training for more than a month, Agtus has reached the threshold of advanced elemental master. He is currently thinking about how to formulate a devilish training plan for him to break through this bottleneck in one fell swoop.
Now, the opportunity has come.
"That's okay." King Shendi looked relaxed, and nodded slightly helplessly.
Although the smelting of the obsidian was completed, they still needed to complete other processes themselves.
This also means that the entire Aldus King City can only give up many orders and devote all its efforts to making this kind of black stone bricks.
"I know that you have a close cooperative relationship with the Sanlin Tower in the surface world."
Brian weighed it in his mind and expressed his thoughts to the Deep King, "Tomorrow night, I will They will launch a full-scale attack on the Sanlin Tower in Mokou Town on the surface. I suggest you seize this opportunity and have one in the underground world."
He did not continue and let the Deep King go on his own. Savor His words.
In fact, what he wants to say is to eat black and white. As for how to eat in a fancy way, it depends on themselves.
Although the gray dwarves are allies with him, this does not change the fact that they are from the evil camp. He believes that the Deep King must be very happy to do this kind of thing.
So he went on to say: "When I deal with the Sanlin Pagoda Society, I will send a caravan here to discuss with you how to cooperate."
On the side, he remained silent from beginning to end. The moon elf mage couldn't help but look at Brian twice, and his mind quickly began to think about other things.
The earth-grey eyes of the Deep Earth King looked at Brian, and a light of sudden realization gradually emerged. He laughed, stretched out his hand and said: "Thank you for reminding me, I know what to do next. So, I look forward to starting trade with you both underground and on the surface.”
“I hope our cooperation will be pleasant.” Brian smiled slightly and shook my hand with a force that was as strong as an iron pincer.
"I ask you to make these ten thousand stones strictly according to the dimensions of mine." Then, he changed the subject and returned to the original topic, "My moon elf friend will temporarily Stay here for a while and check the quality of each piece until delivery, okay?”
He knew that the gray dwarves' gloomy and rigorous character meant that the quality of the products they made was higher than that of their grumpy earth cousins. However, these stone bricks were used to build his own wizard tower, and he had to strictly control them, and there must be no defects. Wrong.
After saying that, he looked at the delicate and beautiful moon elf mage next to him and asked for her opinion.
"No problem." King Deep Earth assured him without hesitation, "Sir Brian, don't worry, our products from King Aldus City are not afraid of quality problems the most."
"That's okay with me. I will carry out your task seriously until delivery." Moon Elf Mage Ru Yin hesitated for a moment, then a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth and she nodded in reply.
"Then I'm relieved, let's make this decision." Brian nodded to the Moon Elf Mage and looked at the Deep King again.
Then, after the two discussed the specific details, he took the moon elf mage and left the gray dwarf old man's laboratory.
"Sir Brian." When they walked to a relatively quiet corridor, Ru Yin stopped him and said in a solemn tone, "I have a request, I don't know whether to accept it or not."< br>
“If you have any questions, just tell me.” Brian turned to look at the moon elf mage.
He didn't know much about this new joiner. The main reason why he invited her was because of her identity as a mage.
After all, with the establishment of the Wizard Tower, he needs to recruit as many spellcasters as possible to maintain the operation and daily maintenance of the Wizard Tower.
"In fact, I am the president of the Silver Scholars Organization."
Ru Yin took out a badge, showed it to him, and said: "The main reason why I chose to help Mr. Graer is to be able to work in Mokou The town has a foothold.”
Silver Scholars Association?
Brian looked at the three connected silver ring emblems on Ru Yin's badge and immediately recalled the information about this organization.
He immediately knew why the other party's advanced dispelling magic was so skillful and comfortable.
The Silver Scholars Association is a small organization of spellcasters voluntarily established by a group of spellcasters who specialize in protection, transformation and conjuration schools.
Their purpose is to use magic technology to promote social development.
In fact, many spell-casting organizations with this concept have appeared before, but in the end they were defeated by reality and could not even make waves in the long river of history.
In fact, this small organization was once stationed in the town of Misty Valley in the valley.
As the strength of Yinhun City expanded, it was eventually forced to disband, leaving all living beings behind.
However, their president is not the female mage Ru Yin in front of them, but someone else.
Recalling what happened last night, he realized that the reason why the president was changed was probably because she had died in the battle last night.
"If you allow it, I am willing to lead all 23 spellcasters in the organization to join you." Ru Yin looked at Brian with a slightly nervous expression.
As the president of the Silver Scholars Association, she is naturally aware of the organization's current predicament.
Through last night's battle, the attitude of the richest man in Mokou Town towards him, as well as the communication with the gray dwarves, revealed that the other party was about to spend huge resources to build the wizard tower.
This series of events made her guess that this half-elf wizard definitely planned to rule Mokou Town.
So, she decided to take a gamble for the Silver Scholars Association, choosing to believe that this half-elf wizard could create an ideal future for her organization.
"Is this the result of your discussion with the organization?" Brian asked instead without directly agreeing.
"No, this is my last minute idea."
Ru Yin said firmly, "I am the president of the Silver Scholars. If someone doesn't agree, just leave. I Definitely not forcing them.”
"Very good, I accept it."
Brian smiled and stretched out his right hand, "I have heard of the Silver Scholars Association and know your philosophy. If you are willing to believe me, my The wizard tower will leave a layer of space for you to study. "
Among the eight wizard factions, the protection, transformation and conjuration systems play a role in daily maintenance and upkeep in the wizard tower. , similar to logistics.
Originally, he was still worried about how he would complete the protective array of the entire tower, strengthen the runes and energy link circuits, and even make constructs after the wizard tower was built. .
Now, with the addition of this group of spellcasters who are proficient in protection, transformation and conjuration systems, it is like giving him timely help, allowing him to stand firm from the moment he builds the tower.
"Thank you for your appreciation."
The moon elf mage Ru Yin held Brian's right hand and smiled, "I suddenly had a hunch that the choice I made today will be the best choice for me in the past hundred years. The most correct."
"I will try my best not to disappoint your expectations." Brian showed a modest smile, and then said: "Then the construction of the Wizard Tower is up to you. You still need to worry about it.”
“No problem, I know what to do.” Ru Yin nodded with a confident smile.
Suddenly gaining the allegiance of a group of spellcasters put Brian in a very good mood at the moment. After explaining the precautions about the stone to Ru Yin, he no longer wasted time, activated the teleportation spell, and returned to the surface. .
After all, the Sanlin Tower Society in Mokou Town was about to be eradicated.
He needs to recruit a big shot as soon as possible who can have the final say in the plan to eliminate this organization.
This person is Balerius, the owner of the Salamander tavern whom he asked Silver Dragon to help persuade.
In the game world, after Balerius regained his will to fight, he became not only a paladin’s variant profession ‘Holy Avenger’, but also a legendary sword master.
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