Chapter 192 Wind Djinn
The world was spinning...
After a slight trance, Brian opened his eyes and looked up. A city that had long been reduced to ruins appeared in front of him.
The weathered surfaces of once grand stone buildings stick out of the sand like rotten teeth, and the remains of ancient streets peek out from under the sweltering yellow sand, winding through crumbling walls. and the ruins of the collapsed building.
The cold wind horn resounded throughout the desert, and the howling of the wind quickly turned into a mournful cry, as if coming from a tortured soul.
Ahead of them, Brian saw and heard a sandstorm, spinning in place like a giant dome at the center of the ruins of the city.
"Here is..."
The golem stretched out its arms and pointed to the desert in confusion, as if confused about what to do next.
"Put it away for now." Brian glanced at the golem and told Heliste beside him.
After all, this demon is their key to opening the treasure house of the stars. It would be very depressing if it was destroyed midway due to poor protection.
However, what surprised him was that his words did not receive a response from Helister. Only the golem turned around and looked at him doubtfully, as if to say: Why do you want to put me away?
Brian glanced at Helist subconsciously and found that she was standing against the wind, her eyes looking into the distance, her dress and cloak fluttering, and her long, lustrous silver-white hair flying in the wind.
Under the cold moonlight, her skin is like snow, and her eyes are like a pool of clear water. As she looks around, she has an elegant and noble temperament that makes people attracted by her, ashamed of herself, and dare not blaspheme.
"What's wrong with you?" He reminded her softly in her mind through the spiritual link established between the two.
"It's okay..." Herister came back to her senses and looked at him apologetically, "What did you just say?"
"Put this demon away, we're going to get ready to go in." Brian repeated what he just said.
Helist nodded slightly, raised her delicate jade hand, waved her sleeves, and the demon statue with question marks on its head suddenly disappeared.
"Are you still thinking about what happened just now?" Brian asked when he saw the golem disappear.
When they were preparing to follow the golem to explore the floating city of Azuma, he did not ask the old dragon turtle to follow him, but asked him to return to Mokou Town in advance with a letter of his.
Before leaving, the old dragon turtle suddenly took out a turtle shell and wanted to divine the future for them.
The old dragon turtle proudly said that this ancestral turtle shell was left by one of his ancestors who had lived for tens of thousands of years. Every ten years, he could predict anything without spending any money. Gua.
He claimed that in order to understand the divination method of tortoise shells, he even personally went to the eastern continent of Karatu and studied with alchemists or monks for hundreds of years.
Facing this situation, Brian naturally left this rare opportunity to Helister.
And the psychic did not exceed his expectations at all, choosing to divine the future of the small world they left.
Faced with his question, Helist nodded gently and responded to his question with silence.
"Then have you figured it out?" Brian took off his hood and straightened his slightly messy hair.
"I understand...but I don't quite understand." Heliste lightly opened her tight jade lips and said truthfully.
"This is understandable. After all, the divination method of Old Dragon Turtle has been inherited from the ancient Eastern countries." He thought for a moment and said to her:
"You must know that the divination culture of the ancient Eastern countries has a long history. In their interactions with the natural world, some alchemists or natural ascetics use the signs of nature to make judgments about celestial phenomena, climate, hunting, nomadism, going and following, right and wrong, etc., and seek help in various forms. The will of the gods is unknown.
But natural signs are not common and must be tested in artificial ways. Over time, the use of possessions as intermediaries to conduct communication between humans and gods has emerged. Conscious communication is used to predict future good and bad luck through certain omens. The most important thing is that this country pays attention to: so the information of divination can only be understood in most cases. It’s hard to understand.”
"And the old dragon turtle's divination showed that the sky can be mended, the sea can be filled, the southern mountains can be moved, the sun and the moon have passed, and it cannot be traced back..."
Seeing Heliste offering mercy to him With an interested look, he continued, "It means that you can mend the sky, fill the sea, and move mountains, but you can never get back the past time, so you must cherish the present moment."
"Don't you understand?" He looked at Helister's thoughtful face and made his final inquiry.
In fact, he could feel that Helist had already understood the meaning. The reason for this was mainly because he wanted to know what he thought about this sentence.
"I already understand." Heliste met his gaze and nodded lightly.
"Just understand." Brian turned and looked at the ruins in the distance and the raging sandstorm.
"Brian, I suddenly felt..."
Looking at his back, Helister looked hesitant, walked to him slowly, and said in a soft tone, "How to fuse the fifth Spiritual Crystal Servant, and I also found some clues to fuse the sixth one."
After saying this, her beautiful face quietly revealed A flash of bright red appeared, which was very eye-catching under the cold moonlight.
Brian, who had turned around, naturally did not notice Heliste’s change. After listening to her words, he looked stunned, and instantly understood the meaning of her words, and said with a smile Guess, "The sixth personality fragment may be related to the small world."
In his impression, Heliste did not merge the personality fragments of the remaining two spiritual crystal servants until she was reborn.
He was still very happy when he thought that she would be able to master this secret psychic technique in the future.
"Yes." Helist, who regained her composure, looked at Brian with a strange look in her beautiful eyes, and then nodded lightly.
"Then I'm relieved." Brian looked relaxed and stared at the sandstorm in the ruins. "Have you noticed that the sandstorm here looks very strange."
He A dome-shaped sandstorm, about 400 feet wide, was seen swirling around the ruins.
Purple lightning flashed in the storm, and the howling sound was deafening. The washed-up bones were scattered on the ground below, and the stones of the nearby ruins were also dilapidated in the face of the never-ending wind.
“I noticed it.” Helist observed the surrounding situation and said thoughtfully, “The sandstorm here looks like it deliberately wrapped the ruins of the floating city.”
< br>"Indeed." Brian nodded, "If my prediction is correct, this should be a sandstorm area deep in the Standing Stone Plain that no one dares to step into."
"Herister, I suspect that there are existences similar to the wind djinn, controlling everything in secret." He looked at the psion beside him, "If we don't drive it away, it will be difficult for us to enter this ruins. Do you have any way to detect them? . ”
Djinns are born from the fusion of the souls of intelligent beings with the raw matter of the elemental plane.
Only on rare occasions does this infused soul coalesce into manifest form and become a djinn.
However, they usually have no connection to the souls that make them up.
Because the vitality derived from it is only the parts that build itself, and form the form and gender appearance of the djinn, as well as one or two outstanding personal characteristics that are occasionally inherited from it.
Although the djinn take the form of humanoid creatures, they are actually elemental spirits with physical forms.
They will not mate with other djinn, nor will they reproduce djinn offspring, so all new djinn come from the fusion of spiritual energy and elemental power.
Although some giant spirits who are greatly influenced by their own mortal souls may choose to reproduce with mortals, such children are still very rare.
"If there really is a djinn nearby..." Herister's quiet beautiful eyes flickered, as if she remembered something, and a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, "I can try to It summoned me."
"Then try it." Brian looked at her in surprise, not expecting that she still had this ability.
He thought about it carefully and immediately understood the reason.
After all, sylphs are known for their mischievous humor and kindness to mortals.
Among the different djinn, the air djinn also felt that the fire djinn and water djinn were arrogant and indifferent to them. They even openly despised the earth djinn and would start fighting if they disagreed.
The most important thing is that the djinn believes that the master-servant relationship is an arrangement of fate, and no one can escape the hand of fate.
Therefore, of all the djinns, the sylphs are the most vulnerable to servitude, although they do not enjoy this treatment.
Sylphs view their slaves as servants worthy of mercy and protection, and will even be reluctant to part with them.
Of course, mortals who want to obtain the short-term service of the djinn can also plead with exquisite gifts, or bribe and flatter them with tributes.
However, some powerful mages are not used to these problems.
They will not coax them with red tape at all, but summon and bind the djinn to serve themselves, and even imprison them with magic to do some indescribable things.
If Brian opens the seventh-level magic network, he can also use some kind of summoning medium to perform the "Seventh Level Monster Summoning Technique" to summon the djinn from the elemental plane.
If the djinn were in the material plane, it would be relatively easy to summon.
He saw Heliste take out a stick of incense that shone with magical aura and light it.
As the smoke from Xiaoxiao rises, a faint fragrance begins to emit in the air.
I can’t tell what it smells like, but smelling it makes me feel clear-headed. It’s a bit like the auxiliary spice used by wizards when preparing to memorize spells.
Herister let the ignited incense float in the air and whispered a summoning spell.
“Buzz!”
In an instant, a bright summoning circle appeared in front of their eyes, and the light became more intense as the incense burned rapidly.
When the incense burned out, the powerful scent of alien creatures filled the surroundings.
"Incarnation of the wind, obey your call..."
As a distant and distant voice came out, the summoning circle disappeared, and what appeared instead was a 20-foot-long ball. Giant wind vortex.
The wind vortex twisted and rotated in the sand, and gradually, a vague face with unclear gender appeared inside.
Its eyes are condensed from blue wind strands, sometimes calm, sometimes violent and angry.
It turned out to be the Wind Djinn Lord of the legendary realm.
Feeling the energy of the wind element blowing his clothes and hair, Brian had a look of shock on his face.
At the same time, he began to wonder in his heart whether this Lord of the Wind Djinn was actually the helper of the blue dragon lich that occupied the ruins of Azuma. Just as he was deep in thought, the wind whirlpool floating in the air suddenly transformed into a tall aristocratic woman with blue skin, long blue hair.
She was suspended in mid-air, looking at the two of them with a pair of arrogant and sharp black eyes.
"Djinn, you are blocking our way."
Herister raised her chin slightly, looked at Lord Djinn with cold eyes, and said calmly, "You have received my tribute, You should know what to do."
"You were brought here by the Sapphire Sentinel, and I have no reason to prevent you from entering Azuma City." The woman's slim figure was made of cyan wind silk. The light, the voice was cold and erratic.
“However, this city has been occupied by a blue dragon litch. Due to the restrictions of the ancient covenant signed with the great arcanist Opas, I cannot step into the city even half a step.”
< br>Brian looked stunned, and immediately conveyed a message to Helister through his mind.
"Then what is your mission?" Herister paused and asked again.
“In order to get rid of the curse of the Netheril Empire, Grand Arcanist Opas entered eternal sleep, and his sarcophagus is stored in the Vault of Stars.” Lord Wind Djinn said:
"My mission is to guide those who are destined to enter this city, open the treasure house of the stars, and awaken the Grand Arcanist who has fallen into eternal sleep."
"It seems that you have disappointed the sleeping Grand Arcanist. ” Heliste commented calmly.
"It is true. 300 years ago, I was deceived by a blue dragon lich into being allowed to enter the city." Lord Wind Djinn said with a ashamed face:
"However, this thief's conspiracy was discovered by the Sapphire Sentinel. I am very grateful that you were able to find the missing Sapphire Sentinel and escort it here."
After saying that, her luminous and graceful figure The figure bowed deeply to the two of them.
“You said that due to the restrictions of the ancient covenant, it is impossible to step into Azuma City.” Brian found the loophole in his words, “Then in what form will you assist us? Open the treasure house of the stars and awaken the sleeping great arcane master. "You are right. Due to the restrictions of the ancient covenant, I cannot even step into Azuma City."
Lord Wind Djinn looked at him cautiously, "The only way I can help you is to put into your hands a magic scroll that the great arcanist gave me before he fell asleep."
When he heard that it was a scroll of wishing, Brian immediately understood that this scroll should be the method to awaken the great arcanist.
However, in his impression, the sleeping Grand Arcanist did not seem to have been resurrected.
After careful consideration for a moment, he conveyed a few words to Helister beside him through telepathy.
"Obviously." Heliste said to Lord Wind Djinn according to his instructions, "If we awaken the sleeping Grand Arcanist, your mission will be completed, right?"< br>
"That's exactly it." Lord Wind Djinn admitted frankly.
"The purpose of our coming here is for the Treasure House of the Stars." Helist said softly, "We are not here to help you regain your freedom. Besides, why should we help you awaken the master here."
"… ..." Lord Wind Giant Spirit was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to refute.
"In this case, I will abide by the ancient covenant and never let you step into Azuma City." Lord Wind Djinn's words suddenly turned cold, and the howling whirlwind quickly surrounded her slim figure. Circle and fly.
“You are no match for me.”
Herister said in a cold voice, “We can help you regain your freedom, but the premise of all this is that you need to serve us . Otherwise, I can kill you with just a raise of my hand."
As soon as she finished speaking, her aura suddenly changed, and the sudden opening of her psychic aura shocked the Lord of the Wind Djinn to step back. The swirling whirlwind also collapsed in an instant, revealing a large area of delicate cyan skin.
“We will not sign an ancient covenant that binds you like the Grand Arcanist, or seal you in a bottle.”
In this tense atmosphere, Brian appeared in time , said to Lord Wind Djinn:
“You can return to your wind elemental plane, but when we need to summon you, you must come to the material world as quickly as possible and obey our orders. , That’s all, this isn’t too difficult for you, right?”
Lord Wind Djinn looked at Brian suspiciously.
When she looked at Helister's cold eyes and the powerful force field emanating from her body, she knew she was outmatched and chose to surrender, "I agree to the condition you proposed."
& At the same time, the sandstorm that filled the entire ruins gradually subsided.
“Wise choice.” Brian smiled slightly and signaled Helist to relax.
Being able to summon a djinn lord from the legendary realm at any time is a huge help in the early stage.
Of course, the prerequisite for all this is to open the Great Arcanist's treasure house of stars.
After receiving the wish scroll from Lord Wind Djinn, he and Helister continued walking towards the depths of the ruins.
When they found the door leading to the depths of the ruins, they immediately discovered two sphinxes carved from sandstone crouching on the granite base, blocking the way.
The most important thing is that around the two sphinxes, pale humanoid skeletons are half-buried in the sand around the base.
The Sphinx, also called the Sphinx.
In the sacred compartments, they guard the secrets and treasures of the gods, looking calmly at every team that comes to them.
Adventurers who come to the Sphinx, whether seeking divine treasures or forgotten secrets such as powerful spells, artifacts, or magic doors, must be tested by the guardian to determine their qualifications.
Creatures that choose to face the test of the Sphinx are destined to face death, and only those with sufficient qualifications can survive, while the rest will be destroyed by it.
“It seems that there is something hidden in this treasure house of stars that the gods think is worth protecting, and they even sent two sphinxes to protect it. No wonder the Blue Dragon Lich broke into this place. Still haven't succeeded yet." Looking at the two sphinxes, a man and a woman, Brian motioned to Helister not to move forward.
It is said that sphinxes are high-level priests created by the gods. Wherever sphinxes appear, the secrets and treasures they guard are protected by divine energy.
So, when adventurers fail the Sphinx's test, the path to that object or secret may disappear, or become inaccessible in some way.
Even if the sphinx is attacked and defeated, the adventurer will never learn the secret he seeks, and is not even considered an enemy by the god who appointed the sphinx as its guardian.
Brian couldn't help but secretly regret why he didn't pay too much attention to what happened here, so much so that he didn't even know which god sent these two sphinxes.
In this case, he had no choice but to step forward and choose to accept the test of the Sphinx.
Besides, with Helister's thigh, he was not worried that the two sphinxes could kill him if the test failed.
Brian motioned to Helister to go to the Sphinx with a male face.
Because in his impression, the male sphinx represents courage and courage, and their test is usually a battle or some kind of challenge.
Seeing Helister disappear amidst the roars and roars of the Sphinx, he knew that this powerful psychic had probably accepted a challenge.
He is not worried at all about this.
And he came to the Sphinx with a female face.
Because they represent knowledge and learning, they usually ask riddles to those seeking secrets, or present riddles to test the other person's wisdom.
The moment Brian approached the range of the sphinx with a female face, a clear voice sounded deep in his soul:
I fork like a snake's letter
I ignite The explosion of thunder
As soon as I appeared, the storm followed me like a shadow
Break the darkness and respond to my enthusiasm
What am I?
…………
“Lightning!”
Hearing the riddle said by the other party, he relaxed and confidently answered her riddle.
Then, the female Sphinx was silent for a moment, and as expected, a familiar clear voice came to his mind again:
She was round, now she is as flat as a board
The altar of the fierce wolf lords
Jewel on black velvet, pearl in the sea
Unchangeable yet reborn and changing, never Stop
What is she?
…………
“Moon!”
Brian thought for a moment and answered the second question. Then he only had to answer one more question to complete the Sphinx. X's test.
No need to summon
No need to drive
We appear at night
Disappear during the day
What are we?
…………
“Stars!” Brian answered the third question easily.
At the same time, Helister's figure also appeared out of thin air, walking towards him with light steps.
Apparently, she also passed the test of the Sphinx.
The two of them no longer hesitated and walked towards the depths of the ruins out of the way of the two sphinxes.
Vaguely, he felt that the Sphinx with a female face added a blessing to him.
(End of this chapter)