End of Chapter 186
Various emotions are intertwined in Blingden Stone City: tears of mourning for the dead and cheers of victory celebrations. Everyone, including the underground dwarfs infected with lycanthropy, deeply mourn the memory of a hundred years ago. In the war of drow invasion, thousands of tribesmen died heroically.
Now, as the army of ooze monsters has been wiped out, countless wandering ghosts have rested in peace. Their remains, which have been rotting for nearly a hundred years, are gradually being searched out from various underground tunnels and ruins, and the underground dwarfs are conducting excavations. Traditional burial.
At the same time, all the survivors were cheering for their new leaders, Duobao Digger and his wife, and for the brave rat leader Copper.
Of all the people, Brian and Helister were naturally cheered the most.
Because without Brian's command and the powerful strength displayed by the Lord of Silver Moon City, they would not have been able to easily eliminate the threat of ghosts and obtain the blessing of the Prince of the Earth Element. It would also be impossible for them to face the army of ooze monsters. Then you can do it with ease and minimize losses.
At this point, the names of Brian and Helister will forever be recorded in the books of the dwarf scholars in Bullingdon Stone City.
Celebrations take place throughout Bullingdon Stone, from the underground tunnels to the palaces restored by the spellcasters of Stoneheart.
With Brian's help, Duobao, the leader of the underground dwarfs, and Copper, the leader of the rat men, once again had a night-long interview, and finally formed an alliance to jointly rebuild Bullingdon Stone City.
As for the specific details, he naturally would not ask too much.
I saw the leader of the Stone Heart Garden, the female dwarf mage Lusa Baiyan, like a lively little girl, surrounding Helister, telling interesting stories from the past.
Brian, who always likes to be quiet, said hello to Herister through telepathy, declined the invitation of the dwarf leader, and returned to his room alone.
After all, he has so many things on hand right now, it’s like they’re waiting in a queue, one after another.
After the problem here is solved, he will go to the Eno Oak Desert to find the ruins of a lost floating city.
Although there is no so-called day and night in the dark underworld, Brian can still feel that the night in the surface world is getting darker.
After he returned to the room, he sat on a chair and began to summarize the experiences and gains of Bullingdon Stone City.
With the help of Helister, a powerful fighter, and his careful calculation and preparation, this trip went extremely smoothly.
That is to say, when I faced the Abyss Dread Mage at the end, I made a small mistake because I was overconfident in the damage of "Mayoufu Micro Meteor".
However, fortunately, he was able to get rid of it without any danger.
Because when he was in the game world, he was one of the few players who upgraded the wizard level to the legendary realm.
The biggest disadvantage of a spell caster is that he has to prepare and memorize spells in advance every day, so his ten years of wizarding career have gradually made him develop the habit of preparing in advance.
As the saying goes: sharpening the knife will make you chop wood.
Preparation before doing anything is very important.
Because when doing anything, if the preliminary preparations are done well, the efficiency of doing things will also be improved, and there will be no waste of manpower, material resources and financial resources, let alone an increase in costs. The efficiency of work will not be reduced, and at the same time, one's own safety will be greatly guaranteed.
Brian thought about his harvest this time. In addition to the fifth-level legendary item earth element crystal, he also got the ownership rights of the Kalinda magic stone in the mine veins of the underground gnomes.
Of course, this does not mean that all the Kalinda magic stones in Bullingdon Stone City belong to him, but that the underground gnomes help him mine and process them into finished products, and he purchases them at the lowest price in the market.
At the same time, he also added an item to the treaty. In addition to the primary Kalinda magic stone that can store 1st to 3rd level spells, which can be traded by underground gnomes in small quantities, those with intermediate and high quality, They must be strictly controlled and must not fall outside the market.
This treaty seems a bit unreasonable, but the underground dwarves also know that without Brian, there would be no reconstruction of Bullingdon Stone.
The most important thing is that the dwarfs who once lived in Silverymoon City completely understood the reason when they saw that the Lord of Silverymoon City, Helist, was inseparable from Brian's words.
After all, the leader of the underground gnomes also occupies a position as a member of the Silver Federation. If Bullingdon Stone City wants to rebuild in a dangerous place like the Underdark, they have to rely on powerful forces.
The city lord of Silver Moon City, Helister, was naturally the best choice for them.
Besides, Brian's treaty is not as hegemonic as imagined. All he needs is the Kalinda magic stone in the mine.
Although he purchased it at the lowest price in the market, at this price, apart from the labor and processing costs of the dwarfs, there was still a slight profit.
Brian is very clear about this principle of keeping a thin line in life. I really want to see it in the future. Although he is a little greedy for money, he is not so greedy that he will use any means to obtain all the benefits.
Of course, if these underground dwarfs violate the treaty, then they will have to choose other monopoly methods to safeguard their own interests.
After all, the Kalinda magic stones are the material he must obtain. With these magic stones acting as power sources, he can go further and further on the path of advanced creation.
Then, Brian brought up his system bar and checked it.
I have to admit that with Helister's help, the experience he gained this time was beyond his imagination.
Now his accumulated upgrade experience has reached about 600,000.
Such experience seems to be enough to upgrade his professional level several times in a row. However, while the ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.
Brian has long since noticed that since he successfully advanced to become an arcanist, the upgrade experience required for his arcanist profession has begun to increase exponentially. Coupled with the part-time job he has, he has received a 30% experience penalty. As a result, this seemingly huge amount of experience points is not enough to continuously upgrade the arcanist profession by 2 levels.
For example, under normal circumstances, with his level 11 spellcasting level, it would cost 100,000 experience to upgrade to level 12. Since he is a part-time Psionist and gets a 30% experience penalty, it becomes 100,000 experience plus 100,000*30% experience equals 130,000 experience.
130,000 experience is not unacceptable to Brian, but his arcanist profession is an improved version of a powerful profession, so that if he wants to further improve, the experience required is directly doubled. , turned into 260,000 experience.
The question before him now is whether he should continue to upgrade the level of Arcanist, upgrade the level of Psion, or upgrade his own level 5 spiritual crystal servant who has just been inaugurated as a Soul Blader.
Arcanist is his main profession, so it is natural to upgrade its level, but he does not want the level of Psion to drop too much.
After all, after obtaining the sixth level superpower, the increase in his strength is still very obvious.
For example, he can learn "Psychic Trigger" and "Teleport Trigger" that ignores dimensional anchors from Heliste, allowing him to stand firm against most enemies. The place of defeat.
Brian took out a piece of parchment and after calculating quickly, he finally came up with a reasonably reasonable improvement plan.
Then, he no longer hesitated and began to bring up the system bar, preparing to improve his strength.
“Raise the arcanist level!”
"Consume 260,000 experience points."
"The arcanist career level is increased to level 2!"
"Acquire arcane energy: 32 points."
"Get freedom Attribute points: 1 point.”
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"Raise the Psion level!"
"Consumption of 110500 experience points."
"Raise the Psion profession level to level 11!"
"Psionic points gained: 16 Points, additional psionic points: 3 points. "
"Acquire sixth-level powers: crystallization and advanced psychic craftsmanship."
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After the level upgrade was completed, Brian first allocated the 1 free attribute point he obtained to intelligence, turning it into 24 points. In this case, the damage caused by his arcana and psychic powers The damage and effect have received a new improvement.
Then he looked at his attribute column.
As expected, he did not gain any special abilities when the arcanist level was upgraded this time. He guessed that the arcanist’s professional characteristics would probably wait until he opened the seventh level of the magic network. will be obtained.
However, the arcane energy gained from leveling up still surprised him a little.
Because compared with the spiritual power points, this is equivalent to twice the value. As the magic value for releasing spells, he naturally never has too much.
The most important thing is that after the levels of arcanist and psychic warlock were upgraded, not only did he feel that his mental power had increased significantly, but even the shadows of the stars in the mental plane seemed to condense. A bit more real.
This made him clearly feel that the powerful mental power not only increased the amount of arcane energy he could mobilize at one time, but also shortened the mental tremors caused by overloading arcane energy.
Then, he looked at the remaining 200,000 experience points.
In fact, his original plan was to upgrade the Psion by another level, so that it would be on par with the Arcanist profession.
But the level 12 Psion, apart from extra attribute points, cannot bring him any powerful increase.
After thinking carefully, he decided to upgrade the level of the spiritual crystal servant first.
Just what he thought of, he directly called up his Spiritual Crystal Servant, spending a total of 184,000 experience points to upgrade its level to level 10 in one go.
Unexpectedly, the improvement of the Psychic Crystal Servant did not suffer an additional 30% part-time penalty.
It can be seen from this that with the help of Helister, his spiritual crystal servant is more like an independent individual.
It's no wonder she said that her career as a psychic would make it more difficult to reach the legendary realm.
Because if you want the Psion profession to reach the legendary realm, the first thing to consider is to find a small piece of personality that was lost when making the Spirit Crystal Servant, so that your personality can become complete.
The stronger the independence of the Spirit Crystal Servant, the more difficult it will be to retrieve it.
Brian no longer thought about it. With a thought, he summoned the spiritual crystal servant from the distant star realm to the main material plane. He carefully looked at his masterpiece again, which was a spiritual crystal servant made of a standing cat image and a dark blue crystal shell. The whole thing resembled a modern astronaut, full of futuristic technology.
But what made him depressed was that this little guy was currently suspended in mid-air, standing with his hands behind his back.
The originally made flying sword-shaped astral structure was shrunk to a shape commensurate with its own size, and was carried behind its back, looking like a very unconventional cat sword fairy.
"How is it? Master."
The spiritual crystal servant rolled his bright black eyes, and his voice was as clear and crisp as two crystals gently colliding together, "I suddenly regret it. Well, you shouldn’t have made me like this in the first place. After all, who hasn’t dreamed of being a sword fairy?”
“You should have made me look like a rainbow cat.” The flying sword behind him danced cleanly into a brilliant little sword flower, and said narcissistically:
"I am the heir of the 'Changhong Sword', the first of the Seven Swords. I have inherited the unique skills of the white cat. I am superb in martial arts, strong and brave, resourceful, handsome, and handsome with incomparable courage. The white shirt brings out my personality even more." Temperament. I shoulder the important task of uniting the descendants of the Seven Swords and eradicating the demon sect. In order to reach the other side of my ideal, I will work hard and overcome all difficulties..."
Brian felt a little embarrassed. Not going down.
This is the fundamental reason why he doesn't like to release the Psychic Crystal Servant, because he really sees a part of himself in the Psychic Crystal Servant that is too exaggerated and distorted.
"Are you done with your self-pleasure?" He interrupted with a frown, "You didn't see that I already had a look of disgust on my face, why are you so weak-minded?"
< br>"Master, I advise you to recognize the reality." The Spiritual Crystal Servant put away her long sword, her playful expression suddenly changed into a serious one, and she floated around him and said:
"You have to know that life is about living your original self into what you hate the most. Because time will smooth out our edges, force us to mature, and also force us to put on a mask and live a regular life. . Isn’t the expression of true nature like mine the face you tried so hard to hide behind the mask? I just don’t want you to live as the person who hates yourself. So, it’s not me who has changed, but what you have experienced. There are too many things, most of the time..."
"Okay, shut up"
Brian was too lazy to pay attention to it, and with a thought, he learned what Helist taught him. In this way, the spiritual crystal servant successfully turned into a wooden man who could not move his hands or speak.
Then he began to examine its properties.
After 5 consecutive levels of improvement, the Psychic Crystal Servant has gained many abilities: enhanced mind blade +2, speed of mind movement, enhanced mental strike, enhanced mind blade +2, as well as blade storm and advanced mind. Blade specialization.
The most important thing is that great changes have taken place since he made the flying sword-shaped astral construct the spiritual crystal servant's natal mind blade.
One of the things that surprised even him was that the flying sword-shaped astral structure could change its size freely under the control of the spiritual crystal servant.
The smallest one can be like a needle, while the largest one can be about two meters.
Thinking of this, he unlocked the control of the spiritual crystal servant and asked: "What is the specific situation of your mind blade."
The flying sword-shaped astral construct was initially During the production process, the overall length was only sixty centimeters, but now it suddenly increased to two meters, and he didn't even know it.
"Of course it's the method that Miss Heliste taught me." The spiritual crystal servant restrained himself a lot in his serious eyes, and said honestly:
"She taught me a way to The method of absorbing ectoplasm energy from the astral realm, so I added all the ectoplasm energy I absorbed to my mind blade."
"That's it," Brian said thoughtfully. nodded.
“The beautiful Miss Helist also said...” the spiritual crystal servant continued, “As long as I stay in the star realm and follow the methods she taught me, I will be able to The levels of astral constructs continue to increase upwards. "
Theoretically, astral constructs can be divided into nine levels. As the level increases, attacks can be engraved on them like enchantments. Or defensive psychic patterns.
Brian's expression moved and he waved, and the spiritual crystal servant flew in front of him obediently and placed his mind blade, which was the size of an embroidery needle, in his hand.
Astral Construct
Medium-sized Construct Creature
Challenge Level: Level 10
Original Characteristics: +5 Puncture, +5 Sharpness, +3 Armor Break, +3 Demon Break, +2 Explosion
Attributes: Strength 21, Agility 25, Constitution-, Intelligence-, Perception-, Charisma-
Special abilities: High-speed flight, space sliding, whirlwind attack, power attack, natural invisibility, energy touch
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The challenge level of the astral construct has been increased by 2 levels, and it has also gained an additional +2 explosive characteristic.
This characteristic, combined with the soul blader's spiritual strike, allows the spiritual energy instilled by the blade to produce an explosive effect.
Seeing the properties of the astral construct, Brian immediately realized that Helist had hidden so many personal items for his spiritual crystal servant.
Of course, this is not to say that she deliberately concealed herself, but that he did not notice at all, or care about the changes in the spiritual crystal servant.
"How is it? Are you very touched?" The Spirit Crystal Servant dangled in front of his eyes with an expression that wanted to be beaten, "A young lady as beautiful and considerate as Heliste. , if you don't take her in as soon as possible, you won't have time to regret it when some bastard sneaks away."
Brian heard that the spirit crystal servant's words sounded like he was scolding himself, but he didn't. I have no general knowledge of it.
He suddenly understood one thing without any teacher. The Spiritual Crystal Servant is an exaggerated and distorted part of his own personality. If he can't even accept this bit of ridicule, or dare not face it, , then he will never be able to recover the small piece of personality he lost.
In other words, the Spiritual Crystal Servant you made will have to endure it with tears in your eyes. If you scold it, it is no different from scolding yourself.
However, looking at the attributes of the Spirit Crystal Servant and the Astral Construct, he knew that it was like having an additional helper as a Soul Blader, and the improvement in strength was still very significant.
With Brian's current strength, he is enough to defeat any professional below the legendary realm. Even if he cannot defeat an entry-level legendary caster, there is still no problem in escaping.
But this is not enough for him, Brian thought.
As a reborn person, he knows very well that the strength gap between professionals below the legendary realm may not be so obvious, but it is directly revealed above the legendary realm.
The legendary level is also divided into three parts: basic level, intermediate level and high level.
Seemingly three simple layers, the differences are often very obvious.
In short, the water inside is very deep and very chaotic.
He is very clear that his weakness, apart from his lack of foundation, is that he has too little time to grow.
In this case, let him face a group of lichs who have lived for thousands of years. The attributes of the light panel are page-turning existences. How can he be their opponent?
What impressed Brian most deeply was the duel between the two elders of Netheril, the Lich Larok and the High King of Shade City in the Aenorok Desert.
Originally everyone thought this was just a duel between two high-level legends.
Who would have thought that while these two were fighting, the High King of Shadow City directly moved his floating city over, and Lich Larocque also summoned a steady stream of undead without showing any signs of weakness. The army and the Lich's minions.
A duel between high-level legends has turned into a battle where each other competes for their knowledge.
After all, reaching the legendary realm means that you have begun to come into contact with the laws and original power.
Even if their players have an experience system, each level upgrade is very difficult and requires a lot of time and energy.
So, Brian has long understood that if there is not enough time to upgrade his strength to a high-level legend, if he wants to rely on the strength of a junior legend to deal with high-level legendary professionals, he can only use Use your only advantage to enhance your strength as much as possible.
In the final analysis, his background is too poor. If he is given hundreds of years to develop, he can also reach the height of these people.
Obviously, he has no chance.
Brian came back to his senses and drove the Godly Spiritual Crystal Servant back to the star realm.
Now, his level as a psychic has been raised to level 11, and he has awakened the ability to release level six powers. At this time, he naturally wants to use this time to go to Helister to learn the powers.
Thinking of the strange scenes every time he learned his powers, to be honest, Brian really enjoyed it.
That wonderful feeling... It was as if he had been hiking in the hot desert for more than a month and suddenly jumped into a clear pool of water, which made him completely obsessed with what Heliste had given her. That delightful comfort.
He even began to think about how to find a perfect excuse to make this feeling stay longer.
Brian quickly stood up, ready to put his thoughts into action.
However, the moment he stood up, he suddenly discovered that Helister had been standing quietly behind him like a ghost, as if waiting patiently for him.
"When did you come here?" He was startled, feeling a little guilty for no reason, and asked her pretending to be calm.
Facing her clear and beautiful eyes, he seriously suspected that the other party had probably guessed his general thoughts just now.
This made him feel a little embarrassed inside.
“I just came here not long ago.” Heliste avoided his gaze unnaturally and asked, “Has your strength improved again?”
"That's right." Brian regained his composure, nodded slightly, and said to her: "I was planning to find you."
"The source of psychic abilities stems from long-term strict self-examination and the cultivation of one's own mental abilities. , only by overcoming inner demons and all kinds of unexpected difficulties can we get rid of distracting thoughts in our hearts and grasp the power hidden in our bodies."
Herister walked up to him and looked at him with calm eyes. , said softly, "Brian, the faster your strength improves, the more difficult it will be to advance to the legendary realm. When you have time, you must calm down and follow the method I gave you to consolidate your newly acquired strength. "
"I think so too." Brian took the initiative to hold Heliste's delicate little hand and said seriously:
"Didn't you say that spiritual knowledge is the only thing you can do last time? It is the best environment to stabilize your strength, so I plan to enter your spiritual sea of consciousness to feel the purest spiritual energy, and learn the sixth-level superpowers by the way.”
Hearing this, Herister's pretty face blushed slightly, her long eyelashes stood up, she glanced sideways, and changed the subject a little stiffly, "The matter in Bullingdon Stone City has been settled, where are you going to go tomorrow?" ."
"Standing Stone Plains in the Enook Desert," Brian replied, "Looking for the ruins of a floating city buried in the desert."
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(End of this chapter)