Chapter 211 Plane Knowledge
The female lord spoke in a very soft tone, but Brian was keenly aware of the hint of firmness revealed between the lines when her lips parted slightly.
This should be the so-called persistence of a spellcaster in exploring the way of arcane magic, he thought to himself.
“Since you have made a choice that cannot be changed, I will naturally not hold any objections.” After thinking about it, Brian said seriously, “However, I hope you can let me go with you. Elemental plane."
"Hey! You're dying."
The ignored cat meowed again, "Didn't you just hear me say how dangerous the elemental plane is? You thought it was a trip. With your current strength, going there would only cause trouble for my lady. It's not like that." It’s impossible to be of any help, you will only be of no help, you know?”
The female lord reached out to stop the cat’s words. She looked at Brian with soft eyes, knowing his sudden request. It's definitely not a spur of the moment, it's most likely a matter of careful consideration.
After all, as a battle mage who can only cast three-ring fireball spells at most, he can return to the surface from the place where many demon lords incarnate in the dark region have descended in less than half a year, and still grow to what he is today. Strength, this is no simple coincidence.
She firmly believed that the words Brian said could not be a decision made by being carried away by passion.
She flicked the cloak around her body, sat elegantly on the bench, smiled at Brian, "I agree to your request, but before going to the elemental plane, I need to ask You have a few questions, let’s sit down and talk.”
Brian didn't shirk, and ignored the cat's arched back and grinning at him. He grabbed its tail, threw it aside, and sat down next to the female lord with a distance of a palm's width.
“We need to go through at least four plane travels next.” The female lord said to him in a calm and elegant voice, “Brian, do you know that there are ways to travel to the elemental planes? What."
After saying that, her eyes stayed on him, and there was a hint of curiosity in her silver-grey eyes.
In her opinion, if this young spellcaster doesn’t even know how to travel between planes, then no matter how well prepared he is and how careful his thinking is, she will never let such a mere Teammates who will hold you back will follow you.
After all, she is not as expert in plane travel as she thought.
"As a plane traveler who makes a living in many planes." Brian chuckled, and naturally understood the intention of the female lord, and said to her:
"They must know how to quickly travel across the planes. If a poor soul wanders between the Burning Hell and the Gray Waste because he doesn't know the shortcut to Casserly, he will never reach his destination.
In fact, there is no. Which outsider would bother a spellcaster with such a trivial matter as crossing the ethereal realm? As travelers who have survived in the planes, they must know about portals, gates, astral tubes, vortexes and other planes. The secret of the passage is the only way to truly explore the planes safely. Of course, no one is born knowing this stuff - most people learn as they grow old. "
" It seems that you really know a lot about foreign knowledge." The female lord smiled and looked at him with interest. "In that case, please explain it to me in detail."
Looking forward. Brian's confident expression as he talked, and she was able to get a conclusion from his few simple words: the foreign knowledge this young spellcaster mastered was likely to be superior to hers.
The cat also lay on the back of the chair and listened carefully.
Seeing this situation, Brian stopped being modest and began to speak in detail about his knowledge of the planes.
Among their player groups, if they want to participate in the war between planes, the first real problem they face is how the characters can travel between the vast planes.
It is obviously not reliable to run from one plane to the next like moving in the wild.
No one can travel to or from the planes by riding, sailing, or flying except through the great ring of outer planes, because this is simply not possible.
In addition, it is impossible for players to walk from the main material plane to the star realm, and a ship that can cross the burning sea in the fire elemental plane must be even more extraordinary!
Even for a plane like Arcadia that characters can travel to by land, its vastness is an insurmountable obstacle to travel.
Therefore, spells, magic items, portals, pots, astral vessels, vortexes, etc. are all necessary tools for their players' adventure groups to travel through the planes.
Travelers from the main material world like to say that their native world is the center of the multiverse.
Although most planar creatures are unwilling to admit this, this statement does have some truth.
After all, it is the only plane that meets both the astral and ethereal realms, so to a certain extent, it is indeed the crossroads of the multiverse.
However, for some reason, the Prime Material Plane is not very open to plane travel.
The adventure team composed of players in the main material world, the efforts made by crossing planes always shock the residents from the outer planes.
This is mainly because people in the main material world do not have the innate ability to travel between planes, but this ability is taken for granted by most plane creatures.
They want to travel to and from the Prime Material Plane, usually with the help of specific spells or magic items, or through vortices and vessels, but they are few in number and not well known.
In addition, some of Sigil's portals lead to the Prime Material Plane.
However, the most common ways to leave the main material plane are astral spells and alien teleportation spells.
The first spell can only project the caster (and the target traveling with him) into the astral plane.
The fastest way to travel to distant planes is the seventh-level spell "Transportation", which allows the caster to skip the lengthy journey through the intermediary plane and reach the destination directly.
This method is more risky, because to a certain extent, the caster's body and soul have reached a certain plane. If the caster is killed, he will be as if he were in the main plane. Just as dead as the material plane.
Moreover, without the induction of special items, the location of the destination reached through "transportation" is also random. It may be a dangerous volcanic pool, or it may also fall into a group of demons holding a celebration party. middle.
In this aspect, the astral spell is more practical. Its function is actually to create a new body for the caster, which allows him to withstand more risks in the outer plane.
If his astral body is slain, his soul immediately returns to his body on the Material Plane.
Although he has saved his life, it will cause varying degrees of soul damage. If the proportion of damage is too large, it is very likely that he will become a blabbering idiot.
The strange thing is that although the etheric realm and the main material plane are also connected to each other, wizards and priests have not yet come up with an etheric version of the astral spell.
The most reasonable conjecture is that because there is no silver thread unique to the astral realm, they cannot create an 'astral spell' that can work in the etheric realm.
In fact, what most travelers from the Prime Material World don't know is that there are other ways to travel to the many planes of the multiverse, and they are available to anyone.
Of course, the premise is that they understand the secrets.
That is the elemental vortex, astral vascular and portal. Plane travel can also be achieved through the color pool, but it can only be used in the astral realm.
Vortexes are passages that directly connect one of the four basic elemental planes (earth, air, fire, and water) to the Prime Material Plane, but using them to achieve plane travel is not easy.
Because on the main material plane, this kind of elemental vortex will only appear in the core area where a certain element is particularly concentrated.
This means that most whirlpools will only open in the centers of specific geographical phenomena, such as active volcano craters, ocean trenches, mountain tops or the deepest mines.
However, the vortex is very stable, and such a large concentration of material rarely changes over a human lifespan.
The astral vascular tube is similar to the wormhole in the science fiction world. It can directly enter a well-shaped channel from the main material plane into an outer plane.
The vascular tubes pass directly through the Astral Plane, where they appear as giant silver arteries.
They wind their way through the Astral Plane, connecting the Material Plane to one of the Outer Planes.
Although the vascular tubes do not appear to move, according to some astral travelers, these vascular tubes are actually constantly twisting, churning and squirming in the astral realm.
Fortunately, the terminals of the tubes have remained largely stable, and in most cases can transport a person close to the destination he or she has traveled via tubes in the past.
In wizard terms, there are vascular vessels that are in the growth stage and those in the mature stage.
The blood vessels in the growth stage are one-way, so it is very likely that something like this will happen: after an unlucky person steps into the blood vessels leading to Baator Hell, he will never come back.
Vascularization in the mature stage is bidirectional, which is very convenient and practical.
But if you think about it carefully, the enemy who is in hot pursuit may follow you all the way.
When Brian and Herlist went to the main material world, they found an astral vascular tube leading to the main material world.
Unfortunately, this vascular tube belongs to the growth period. During this period, they were also hunted down by the Githyanki, known as the ‘Star Pirates’.
If he hadn't made a prompt decision and destroyed this astral vascular, both of them might have died in the astral realm.
Of course, regardless of whether they are in the growth stage or the mature stage, vascular tubes can only take people to the top of a certain plane, but there are also vascular tubes that connect two levels of a certain plane.
The devils cannot directly reach the seventh level of Heavenly Mountain through the astral ducts, nor can they reach the coldest level of Baator Hell.
The act of entering an unknown vascular system for the first time is more like a big gamble.
Because all they know is that this vascular tube can definitely lead to a certain place on a certain plane.
In fact, most vessels tend to dump travelers in some "out of the way" place.
Although it doesn't sound very deadly, in a land where blood sacrifices are common, purgatory creatures are unlikely to be polite to uninvited guests.
The portal is the passage into and out of Sigil.
Compared with vortices and vascular tubes, portals have many advantages. First, a portal can connect to any point on any plane, on any level - always connected to Sigil on the other side.
Stepping into an archway of Sigil, some unlucky souls may find themselves on the 447th floor of the Abyss or the 6th floor of the Celestial Mountains. layer.
Second, the portal does not pass through any other planes.
It is not like a vascular tube, which requires travelers to transit through the astral realm to reach their destination (albeit only in an instant), but directly connects two locations.
Third, the portal is not as inaccessible and dangerous as the whirlpool. If you want to use the portal, you don't have to rack your brains to reach the center of the volcano or the depths of the ocean floor.
Most portals are easily accessible and can be passed through easily, provided they can be found.
Portals may be easy to access, but finding them is another matter entirely. After all, portals don't put tags on their heads.
They don't attract passers-by by shining in different colors or dressing up, and they can't see the destination on the other side through the portal.
They are not magically detectable, but can be discovered with true seeing, although the spell cannot reveal their endpoint.
It is also possible for someone to walk into a portal and have nothing happen, as each portal requires a special portal key.
This kind of key is not an ordinary lock key, nor is it a magic or divine power key.
This is a key unique to the portal - it may be a word, an action or a personal item. The portal will only be activated if the correct key is used.
The portal then glows briefly (in colors such as gold, pink, scarlet, etc.) and crackles like an electrical discharge when the traveler steps through.
These are the plane traveling knowledge that Brian knows.
When the sun disappeared on the western horizon, he finally ended the conversation about popularizing plane knowledge to the female lord.
"So, you know the vortex leading to the elemental plane." The female lord looked at Brian with a strange expression and asked curiously.
Although she is also a knowledgeable and legendary spellcaster, compared to the average age of the spellcasting community, she is still too young, and she has devoted her whole life to the research of super magic. For Brian The plane knowledge explained was an eye-opener.
At least she had never heard of the mysterious knowledge about elemental vortices and astral vessels.
"Indeed." Brian nodded slightly, "In the Standing Stone Plain of the Eno Oak Desert, there is an elemental vortex leading to the wind elemental plane."
After saying that, he Instructing the tower spirit to close the space blocking barrier, he took out a stick of incense that shone with magic light and lit it.
As the owl smoke rose, Brian quickly recited a summoning spell.
“Buzz!”
In an instant, a bright summoning circle appeared in front of two people and a cat. A tall aristocratic woman with cyan skin, long cyan hair, appeared from the gradually dissipating circle.
“Meow!”
The cat screamed, watching the uninvited guest with vigilance, and its murderous little eyes seemed to warn her, as long as she dared to show even a trace of malice , killing it instantly.
The female lord felt the strong energy of the wind element blowing her long shawl hair wildly in the wind, and a look of surprise appeared on her calm and delicate face.
It turned out to be a wind djinn from the legendary realm. She couldn't help but look at Brian more.
Recalling the Lord of Silver Moon City who had returned to Mokou Town with him, she vaguely understood the reason.
"The wind djinn Anakos responded to the call and is at your disposal." The wind djinn laid its eyes on Brian, and its cold voice was distant and distant.
"Anakes, remember our original agreement." Brian looked up at the soul projection of the djinn and said to her.
"As the incarnation of the wind element, we will take seriously the oaths we make with every ally." The voice of the wind giant is still cold and erratic.
"In that case, I need to change it."
Brian pondered for a moment and said: "The covenant we signed before was for a thousand years. Whenever we need to summon you, you must come to the material world as quickly as possible and use soul projection to obey our orders. For us, I'm right."
"That's right," Feng Jingling replied.
"Very good, I plan to..."
Before Brian could finish his words, he was suddenly interrupted by the female lord's psychic transmission.
"You are not planning to let this djinn serve as one of the elemental creatures that activates the arcane vortex of the obelisk." Myrcella said to him.
"Yes, that's what I planned." Brian nodded slightly at her.
“I don’t think this is appropriate.” The female lord objected and said to him calmly:
“Brian, you have to understand that the four elements must be balanced in order to be harmonious. Whether it is the magic circle, the elemental pool, or even the magic network and the four elemental planes, they can only operate according to this balance rule. This also means that if we plan to let this strength. To activate the arcane vortex, a wind djinn who has reached the legendary realm must find another earth djinn, water djinn, and fire djinn that are similar in strength to her.”
In fact, she went to the elements this time. The purpose of the plane is to find four high-level elemental creatures. I have never thought of finding the elemental giants in the legendary realm.
This does not mean that she cannot defeat them with her strength.
The main reason is that the elemental plane is too dangerous, and there is a risk of death every minute and every second. It is impossible to leave enough time for her to deal with the elemental giants.
"Yes, that's what I planned." Brian said nonchalantly, "Any elemental spirit that steps into the legendary realm means that they have mastered the power of the laws of their own attributes and activated the arcane The effect of the magic vortex can be maximized."
"But..." The female lord naturally knew this. She hesitated and was about to speak, but was directly interrupted by Brian.
“I know what you want to say.”
Brian glanced at the patiently waiting Wind Djinn and looked at the female lord, “I also understand what I am doing, and I The reason for doing this is to have absolute certainty.”
"Okay, I believe you once." The female lord no longer hesitated and smiled softly at him.
Brian also responded with a smile of his own. He raised his head and moved his gaze to the djinn suspended in the air, "Anakes, the djinn, I plan to change our thousand-year covenant... "
"I need your body to come to the material world and help me activate a ritual." He expressed his thoughts. "If the ritual is successfully activated, I will give you your freedom and let you leave on your own. "
"Is this true?" Feng Juling was stunned for a moment, then seemed to realize something, and then expressed his doubts cautiously, "I want to know what kind of ceremony this is. "
"In the name of arcana, everything I said is true." Brian said sincerely, "As for the ceremony, it needs to be kept secret for the time being. However, I can assure you that this is true. It’s definitely not a ritual that can endanger your life or reduce your strength.”
"Miss, this guy is too cunning." The cat's voice echoed in the female lord's mind.
“Deliberately put forward such an alluring condition to this beautiful lady Wind Djinn, so that her body can come to the material plane. As everyone knows, if our ritual is really successful, we may want to drive her away. She doesn't want to leave. The wise me seriously doubts that our innocent little sister Xisaiya was deceived by him in the first place. This little girl is almost crippled by him."
Myrcella nodded slightly, selectively ignoring the cat's last sentence, and looked at Brian with a smile on her face.
Obviously, she also agreed with Ta Ling's words.
After all, the giant spirits from the elemental plane are most afraid of having their own bodies appear in the material world. No matter how tempting the summoners put forward, they usually appear in the form of soul projections. .
Otherwise, she wouldn't want to go to the elemental plane in person.
As Ta Ling said, if their ritual is really successful, it means that they have indirectly created a small world equivalent to the elemental plane.
These elemental giants with infinite lifespans, aware of this situation, naturally want to stay and grow together with this demiplane.
Once the will of the plane is born in the demiplane, they will all become god-like beings.
"I can promise you, but I also have a condition." Wind Giant hesitated for a moment and said:
"Thousands of years ago, I signed an ancient covenant with the Great Arcanist Opas, which caused me to stay in the material plane for so many years. Although I returned to my home with your help, my palace has long been occupied by a group of people. The fire elements that sneaked in from the fire elemental plane took over. I need your help to drive away these enemies."
The fire elements that sneaked in from the fire elemental plane?
Brian's eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of some things in his past life memories, and immediately understood what this meant. He looked at each other with the female lord, and when he saw her expression as if she was in charge, Said:
"No problem, I agree to this condition. If my memory is not biased, there is an elemental vortex leading to the wind elemental plane near the ruins of the floating city of the great arcanist Opas. Right?"
"Yes, there is indeed an elemental vortex," the wind giant nodded, "and the location of the elemental vortex can reach directly near my territory."
"Then lead the way," Brian said to her.
Then, under the guidance of the djinn, the cat locked its position and opened an oval portal.
On the other side of the portal, a wild storm is enveloping the yellow sand and roaring.
The three of them no longer wasted time, stepped directly into the portal and disappeared.
(End of this chapter)