Chapter 191 The Golem with Amnesia
A series of cliffs are covered with various natural caves, which are intertwined with each other to form a maze on the mountain wall.
“300 years ago, a demon who fled here from the ruins of the floating city Azuma used this place as a refuge.” The old dragon turtle led Brian and Helist to a cave, using the old A low voice told the two people:
“Although this is an amnesiac demon statue, as time goes by, this demon statue has carved and painted on it with the help of its intermittent recovery of memories. The story about its master, Grand Arcanist Opas, the phaerim demon, the battle and the treasure trove of Nese scrolls."
"So, the reason why you took the risk is to save this escaped demon. Like being saved from the Blue Dragon Lich, did you predict that it would be the key to helping you escape?"
Brian said thoughtfully, "So you hid it here on purpose, just to wait for the arrival of someone who could help you get out of trouble."
"That's right." The old dragon turtle nodded awkwardly He nodded and said with a smile:
"After all, this demon is the closest partner of the great arcanist Opas. The former floating city of Azuma was the largest academic research center in the entire Netheril Empire. I I don’t believe that someone would lose any interest after knowing these secrets.”
“That’s it.”
Helist, who was standing quietly next to Brian, suddenly answered. "Did you deliberately bring a magic book to the Sage Library in Silvermoon City that the Great Arcanist Opas left behind during his lifetime?"
"Silver Moon City is the 'treasure of the North', a civilized settlement of the good camp."
The old dragon turtle touched his white beard and said calmly: "The world wants to know about the floating city of the great arcanist. I must go to the Sage Library to find this book. This will at least help me filter out people with evil intentions."
Brian glanced at the elf beside him and looked at the old dragon turtle. He smiled and said, "I have to admit that in order to get out of trouble and not let yourself fall into the hands of evil people, your plan was indeed very perfect."
He recalled what happened in the game, and the position of the old dragon turtle was indeed It was accidentally discovered by a group of adventurers when they discovered the books in the Sage's Library. In the end, this news accidentally attracted the attention of the public lord of Waterdeep City, and he was successfully rescued.
It can be seen from this that even without his own participation, this old dragon turtle who is proficient in divination can be rescued by others.
Then, they continued walking deeper into the cave without discussing this topic too much.
“Before the golems came here, these natural caves were occupied by a group of purple insects.” The old dragon turtle said as he led the way, “Except for the cave we are walking in, other places are Turned into ruins.”
Brian looked around. Just as the old dragon turtle said, the terrain around everyone was full of scars left by purple insects, and there were even many complex caves. , destroyed when the Purple Worm carved out its rubble-filled tunnel.
Fortunately, the purple insects here have been cleared away long ago. Otherwise, when dealing with these guys who are good at making tunnels, one must be prepared for the possibility of cave collapse at any time.
When they entered the depths of the cave, Brian saw traces of carved excavations on the walls. Empty wall lamps dotted the walls. Large pieces of plaster were scattered on the floor. The once bright Draw scenes and text.
This tunnel leads to a passage 50 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 20 feet high.
In the dark and damp passage, bats made noisy sounds on the ceiling, the floor was covered with their droppings, and the four walls in the depths were covered with colorful murals.
“The golem that escaped from the Blue Dragon Lich used this place as its own hall to write and record history.”
The old dragon turtle said, “This golem doesn’t know that either. Some parts of the body were broken, and it always recalled past events intermittently, and then forgot all about it the next day, so I suggested to it that it record the things it suddenly recalled. Oh, by the way, the amnesiac demon called this place its Rainbow Hall.”
After listening to the old dragon turtle’s introduction, Brian turned his attention to the brightly colored murals on the walls. superior.
Through a simple detection magic, he unexpectedly discovered that every painting exuded a faint magical aura.
Obviously, the reason why these paintings are still as good as new is due to the magic pigments used in the paintings.
Then he stopped thinking and began to look at the history he wanted to convey in the paintings one by one.
In these coherent paintings, he saw a group of iron golems standing neatly and orderly in a workshop similar to an assembly line workshop, hammering items on the table crazily.
After careful observation, he discovered that these were a group of iron golems engraved with magic runes. Their job was to use their hands to constantly engrav magic runes on the products.
Because it was doing the same job every day, one of the iron golems started to become a little strange. It looked up at the hourglass from time to time. When the charging time was up, it immediately rushed off the workbench and ran out the door.
The iron golem next to it was very curious when it saw this. It found that the iron golem that ran out first had left a shell on its post. It was very confused.
The next day soon came, and the constructed golems arrived at their jobs on time as usual, except for the strange iron golem that had not arrived yet.
Seeing the Iron Golem that had not returned yet, the other Iron Golem began to worry. At the last moment of its preparations, the strange Iron Golem rushed over in time.
In this way, they began the boring work of engraving magic runes again.
Not long after, the strange iron golem stopped working and looked at the hourglass on the wall. It was still half the time to recharge, and its shimmering eyes showed confusion.
A simple painting, but Brian saw in this strange iron golem that it was no longer in the mood to continue working.
It stood there blankly, but when all the sand leaked out of the hourglass, it ran out quickly as if on stimulants.
Another iron golem looked at the iron golem that rushed out, leaving many shells behind. It seemed to be trying to figure out the situation. It followed the shells on the ground to a sewer in the city, waiting for it After reaching the end of the passage, the scene in front of him shocked him.
It saw the strange iron golem holding a net bag, happily playing in the waves. When it returned to the shore, its right hand had been corroded by the sea water and became Rusty.
After a few days, this strange iron golem returned to work again. Its entire body was rusty, and now it could only drag its weak body to its post with difficulty.
Looking at the state of this strange iron golem, another iron golem shook his head. However, this time, this strange iron golem was ready to attack before the sand in the hourglass had finished leaking out. Leave work.
When the other iron golem saw this, he immediately stopped it and told it not to continue playing at the beach. However, this strange iron golem pushed it away as if it was possessed. The iron golem insists on leaving the factory.
This strange iron golem came to the seaside again along the sewer, stood stiffly on the beach, opened his arms, let the waves beat on his rusty body, and enjoyed the impact of the waves.
This time, it never returned to the shore, and only half of its rusty arm was left on the shore.
At this point, this continuous painting comes to an end.
Seeing this, Brian vaguely felt that this was probably the two iron golems that had inadvertently awakened their consciousness. The strange iron golem looked more like it had died. On the road to chasing your dreams.
He laughed, feeling a little incredible, and even instinctively thought in his heart that this was probably the accidental appearance of the amnesiac demon statue due to memory confusion.
Then he continued to look at the next painting.
To his disappointment, the next paintings were not as coherent as what he had seen before, as if each painting represented a different meaning.
From these paintings, he found five pieces of information that were more important for his next adventure.
The first mural depicts three arcanists wearing Netheril-era costumes. They are using various precious materials to add to the body of an iron golem lying flat on the experimental table. .
A bright sapphire is placed in the iron golem's chest. The lower end of the mural also uses ancient inscriptions to mark the names of each arcanist, and there is a larger inscription below the scene. .
The names of the three arcanists translate to Bronn, Karin and Sarissa.
The inscription reads: "Here the trio of arcanists created the Sapphire Sentinels."
Brian discovered that this iron golem was the companion of the strange iron golem.
Obviously, the anomaly in the factory was accidentally discovered by the arcanist, and another iron golem that awakened its own consciousness was re-strengthened.
The second mural depicts the three arcanists handing the strengthened iron golem to an old great arcanist. One of the arcanists also handed over a sapphire fragment. Personally delivered into the hands of the Grand Arcanist.
An ancient inscription bears the name of the Grand Arcanist, and there is a larger inscription below the scene.
The name translates to: Opas, the great arcanist of Azuma City.
The inscription reads: "The Sapphire Sentinel has established a link with the Grand Arcanist Opas of the floating city of Azuma."
The third mural depicts the golem and the Grand Arcanist working together to transfer a golden scroll Put it in a treasure house full of stars. A beam of blue light shot out from the gem on the golem's chest.
There is a description engraved below. The inscription reads: "According to the order of Grand Arcanist Opas, the Sapphire Sentinel opened the treasury of the stars, hid and guarded the Nese scroll. Among them. "
In the fourth mural, the great arcanist Opas and the golden scroll engraved with runes are sealed in a sarcophagus.
The three arcanists who had strengthened the golem cast magic on the great arcanist who had his eyes closed.
Mourners gathered around, small markers marked the names of these characters, and there was a larger inscription below.
The annotation translates to the Great Arcanist of Azuma City and his three students Bronn, Karin and Sarissa.
The inscription reads: "Grand Arcanist Opas entered eternal sleep to escape the curse of the Netheril Empire and sealed himself with the Netherese Scrolls."
The fifth mural depicts a blue dracolich and his army of monsters descending on the ruins of the floating city of Azuma. The dracolich bombards the golem with dark power and throws it into a rift in the sky.
There is a mark on the dragon and an inscription underneath.
The name of Dragon Lich is translated as: Krizka.
The inscription reads: "The Sapphire Sentinel was destroyed in a horrific battle with the dracolich Krizka."
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See Here, Brian completely understood the ins and outs of the entire incident.
He withdrew his gaze and motioned to the waiting old dragon turtle to take him to see the amnesiac demon statue.
This is a tall and burly iron golem that looks like it is carefully crafted from heavy metal.
It sat motionless on the ground, with a vague light emitting from its eyes.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Brian actually saw inexplicable sadness in this vague light.
"Who are you?" He looked at the sad golem, remained silent for a moment, and asked proactively.
"Who am I?" Hearing his voice, the Golem raised his head, and a low and hoarse voice came from his mouth, "Who am I?..."
"I don't know who I am either. ..." It scratched its head in confusion and whispered.
"The core of the soul has been corrupted by negative energy, resulting in the loss of memory." Standing next to Brian, Herister withdrew her detecting gaze and told him what she had detected.
Brian nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and said to the golem, "It can be seen that you are a constructed creature, but you look too strange, because in my impression, constructed creatures are There is no independent thought. "
In fact, ordinary constructed creatures do not have thoughts, but the caster has a nine-ring spell called "Construction Enlightenment" that allows them to obtain it in a true sense. life and independent thought.
However, in order to successfully cast this spell, in addition to consuming a lot of energy (experience points) from the caster, it also requires a very special casting material: the brain of a humanoid creature that has been dead for no more than eight hours.
This kind of enlightenment technique will pass over time. This constructed creature that has been awakened to independent thoughts is also very likely to recall the memories of this humanoid creature's brain during its lifetime. It is even possible to fully awaken. possible.
Brian could clearly feel through detecting magic that the demon in front of him definitely did not gain independent thought through this method.
It can be seen from this that the large section of murals he saw with profound meanings is very likely to be true.
This reminded him of the higher creations recorded in the Nese Scrolls.
Could it be that the great arcanist named Opas has been exposed to research on life creation, he thought to himself.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain how these two demons awakened their independent thoughts.
Brian felt a little incredible about his thoughts. After all, life creations were considered taboo by the Church of the Gods.
"I... don't know why." The demon lowered his head, the light in his eyes dimmed a bit, and there was a trace of sadness in his low and hoarse voice, "I feel that I have lost a lot of memory... ...Lots and lots of...memories...memories..."
"What about your master?" Brian's eyes flickered and he continued to ask.
"Master?" The demon statue suddenly raised its head, and then a trace of confusion and pain appeared in its bright eyes, as if what it had just thought of suddenly disappeared.
"Is your master the Grand Arcanist Opas?" Brian said to the Golem in a gentle tone, "Did he arrange a mission for you to protect the treasure trove of stars?"< br>
He suddenly realized that this golem could survive from the Netheril era to this day, and it definitely had some means of independently absorbing energy.
For a moment, he had the urge to dismantle it and study it carefully.
However, he was quickly suppressed again.
After all, no matter how you look at it, this demon statue is a complete living body, and doing so is no different from dissecting a living humanoid creature.
Although he is also a spell caster, he is not specialized in necromancy and bloodline secret arts, so he will instinctively reject these operations.
"My master... do you know my master?..." When Brian mentioned the name of the Grand Arcanist, the confusion in the golem's eyes suddenly disappeared, and a drop of sad tears suddenly appeared. welling up from its eye sockets.
Seeing this, Brian was moved.
He thought deeply for a moment and said to the golem in a sincere tone:
"Yes, I know your master. After all, I have read all the murals you left on the wall. From these messages, I learned that you are actually the sapphire sentry guarding the treasure house of the stars.
Unfortunately, you lost your memory in the battle with a blue dragon lich that invaded the treasure house. If you don't want your master to be disturbed by the invaders into eternal sleep, take us to the floating city. In the ruins of Zuma, we will help you drive away the Blue Dragon Lich, and you will continue to fulfill your mission of protecting your master."
Although his words were long, he spoke very slowly on purpose. , trying to make the golem understand what they meant.
During the long silence of the golem, everyone cooperated to keep quiet.
After an unknown amount of time, the Golem suddenly raised his head, looked at Brian, and continued to say in a low and hoarse voice, "I'm sorry, I really don't remember what happened before, let alone the floating city Azuma. location.”
It stood up from the ground, took heavy steps, looked at the brightly colored paintings on the wall, unconsciously reached out and touched the portrait of the Grand Arcanist, and said sadly:
"But...my subconscious tells me Me, what you said is true. In fact, I can feel that there is a teleportation circle hidden in my chest. Kind-hearted adventurers, if you believe me, I am willing to open the teleportation circle and go to the unknown together. "
Brian saw that there was indeed a bright sapphire hidden in an 8-inch stone disk on the golem's chest.
The surface of the disk is engraved with a blue circle, with eight golden lines on it, which shine out from the circle like the rays of the sun.
He and Helister looked at each other, and the latter nodded slightly, indicating that there was no problem.
"No problem, we are willing to risk our lives to help you fulfill your wish." Brian's eyes met the confused golem and nodded.
"Thank you so much, kind-hearted adventurer."
The golem blurted out excitedly, and tears of joy welled up uncontrollably in his eyes.
Finally, it bowed deeply to Brian again.
(End of this chapter)