Chapter 222 Agreement with Ms. Polaris
A wizard tower without a tower spirit has no soul.
What is the most valuable thing for a wizard tower?
Then, there is no doubt that it is the tower spirit.
The tower spirit is the core standard configuration of a complete wizard tower, which is equivalent to having both the CPU and memory of a computer.
Its main role is to be responsible for the normal operation of the tower and to store knowledge, as well as to assist the owner in conducting various experiments. It is similar to the butler of a noble mansion, but it is more loyal and smarter than the butler.
However, it is not a constructed creature. Instead, it uses alchemy to use a powerful soul as the core and instill it into the wizard tower, thus turning the entire tower into a kind of alchemical process similar to alchemy. biological existence.
Three days later, when the energy of the elemental pool was full, Brian came to his private laboratory with the prepared soul crystal obtained from the floating tomb.
The laboratory covers an area of more than 100 square meters. The walls of the room are engraved with purple-gold crystal traces, spreading out in an orderly manner like veins, and finally converging on a six-pointed star made of silver on the ceiling. Magic circle.
At the window, there is a small enchanting table, made of crystal as the main body, with hundreds of arcane runes constructed of gold inside. On the side is a crystal ball with a diameter of 10 cm placed on the base. to draw energy from the elemental pool.
After Brian adjusted his mental power to the best state, he lit another auxiliary soul-inducing incense, and then carefully placed the soul crystal into the center of a pre-engraved magic circle on the table.
Then, he immediately activated the crystal ball used to transmit energy, extracted the energy from the element pool, and instilled it into the magic circle of the soul crystal.
“Boom!”
In an instant, the crystal ball emitted a rich elemental aura because it was too full of energy, and the magic circle where the soul crystal was placed also emerged with bits and pieces of golden brilliance. It absorbs the energy of the elemental pool like a whale sucking a cow's drink.
Under the blessing of majestic energy, the dark blue soul crystal began to tremble slightly, as if there was something inside that wanted to break free.
As the rich elemental energy was poured into the soul crystal, Brian could vaguely hear countless ghost-like whispers coming from inside the crystal.
Faced with this strange situation, his expression was as calm and calm as ever, and he had no tendency to stop supplying energy.
In this way, during his long and patient energy transmission, when the energy in the elemental pool remained less than 50%, a cold shiver crawled up Brian's body.
A faint, cold mist-like energy emitted from the dark blue soul crystal.
A blurry shadow gradually emerged and finally became clear.
"Pathetic creature! You disturbed the slumber of Lady Brysis of Polaris!" The angry scream broke the silence of the laboratory.
This scream, which was enough to pierce the eardrums, shook Brian's head.
He was very grateful that he had spent so much time meditating to strengthen his ability to control his mind and stabilize his emotions. Because of this, he was able to face everything that happened in front of him calmly.
After calming down, through the faint light of the shadow, he could vaguely see the features of the shadow when he was alive. Her face was surrounded by disheveled hair, and her slender body was surrounded by flying rags.
The ends of her raised claws are connected to long and curved claws, and a cold negative energy aura surrounds them, as if she is eager to absorb heat and life from the bodies of the living.
Although her translucent body is slender and graceful, she has an unimaginably terrifying face, with a bright red tongue and strange blackened teeth visible in her twisted lips.
Of course, the most terrifying thing was her eyes, which shone with demonic light, full of hatred and destruction, and stared at him motionless.
"Stupid creature, you didn't expect it, I'm back again!" The cold wind condensed with negative energy blew in your face, and a creepy sneer came from the ghost's twisted mouth.
"Do you really think I am dead? Impossible! Sad creature, you have no way of knowing that as long as the soul crystal is not destroyed, I will never be eliminated, and You foolishly accelerated my awakening. Now, let me absorb your life and get rid of this damn bondage forever!"
The ghost screamed, and the sound seemed to come from the bottomless abyss, The powerful sound rushed towards Brian with the force of thunder.
Brian glanced at the ghost lightly, and calmly raised his hand to hold up a protective barrier to block the sharp spear-like roar.
He had already felt that the evil thoughts of the Great Arcanist had caused him to lose most of his sanity in his first killing, otherwise he would not have been able to stupidly reveal his weaknesses.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."
The sound waves were like raging tides, each wave stronger than the last, violently beating against the almost invisible wave surrounding Brian. On the force field barrier.
"Shout, keep going." Looking at the barrier with ripples, Brian looked at the dimly fluorescent ghost, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Just use whatever means you have, Here, no one will come to save you even if you shout till your throat is broken.”
In fact, when he obtained the soul crystal, he had vaguely guessed this possibility, so when preparing to make the tower spirit, he naturally made protective preparations in advance.
Facing this ghost activated by the energy of the elemental pool again, Brian was no longer as embarrassed as the first time, and his life would be in danger if he was not careful.
"How is it possible?" Ghost looked at Brian who was safe and sound, his vicious eyes widened in shock, and screamed: "Why doesn't my attack work on you? Why does it become like this? Your Why did her strength improve so quickly?"
She locked eyes with Brian, suddenly puffed up her chest, leaned back suddenly, and then arched her head like a cheetah. , once again let out a sharp roar.
Brian still had a nonchalant attitude, not taking the ghost's attack seriously at all.
When he first came into contact with the opponent, he was unable to completely kill her due to his limited strength. Now as his strength increases, he has countless ways to kill her instantly in his mind.
However, he did not intend to do this. After all, he still needed to use this soul crystal to make the tower spirit.
The best way to deal with Ghost at the moment is to let her vent her hatred and anger to her heart's content. In this case, Ghost's good thoughts will lose her reason and madness due to evil thoughts, and gradually take the initiative.
This is the gentlest treatment method and the only method that can perfectly preserve the memory of Grand Arcanist Brysis.
So, in Brian’s private experiment located on the seventeenth floor of the Wizard Tower, the screams of evil spirits came one after another, like strong winds passing through the canyon, echoing for a long time.
If it weren't for the tight isolation array in his laboratory, the scream would have been enough to spread throughout Mokou Town.
Gradually, as the ghost's roar became smaller and smaller, and the sharp voice became hoarse, everything went as Brian expected. The ghost who attacked frantically to no avail was consumed by a large amount of negative energy. , causing the hazy fluorescence around him to flicker, as if it would go out at any time.
Seeing this situation, Brian decided to help her. He stretched out his finger, golden light flashed, and the languid ghost turned into smoke and dissipated with a 'bang'.
The dark blue soul crystal placed on the magic circle that shone with golden light on the enchantment table also became crystal clear.
Seeing that the time had come, Brian no longer wasted any time.
With a thought, the arcane fire, flashing with blue and white flames, slowly floated out of his body and suspended in mid-air.
He quickly controlled the arcane fire and linked it with the crystal ball that established a transmission channel in the elemental pool.
——"Soul Resuscitation Technique!"
Then, he raised his hand and pointed at the soul crystal in the center of the golden circle, and recited an obscure incantation.
This is a spell he learned from the female lord. When making a tower spirit, he can retain the memory of his life. This is how she got her cat tower spirit.
The only flaw is that if the tower spirit queen with independent consciousness does not get along with the master's temperament, she is likely to have a little temper.
In order to gain the knowledge of the Grand Arcanist, he naturally would not care about these small details.
In this way, strange dark blue soul power was extracted by Brian, and the crystal clear soul crystal also changed from gray to white at a speed visible to the naked eye.
When the last trace of the force field of the soul was drained away, the original deep blue of the crystal had turned into gray-white, and finally shattered into powder and dissipated.
The extracted soul power was carefully controlled by Brian and suspended in mid-air.
Looking at the gray-white soul exposed in the air, it seems that it will collapse at any time.
Brian quickly controlled the forcibly extracted soul power, burst out all the energy of the arcane fire, turned it into a pale golden light group, and wrapped it inside.
——"Soul Fusion Technique!"
He quickly whispered a spell, and the crystal ball connected to the elemental pool suddenly shone brightly.
At the same time, the entire elemental pool was like boiling water, surging crazily, forming a water-blue tornado, moving at a dizzying speed along the crystal trace channel that transmits energy. Transmitted to the crystal ball, it was absorbed by the soul wrapped in a pale golden light group.
The soul wrapped in the golden light group became larger and larger with the injection of countless azure elemental energy. Finally, it broke free from the shackles of the light group and suddenly exploded, like a gorgeous firework.
In an instant, countless shining light points were suspended in the air, like the vast starry sky, and then with Brian's commanding whisper, they all disappeared without a trace, as if they had merged with the entire tower. Come together.
——"Arcane Nexus!"
Brian took a deep breath, resisted the mental fatigue, activated the arcane fire characteristic, connected to the distant demiplane, and let The majestic energy is injected into the dim arcane fire, restoring it to its saturated state.
"In the name of the arcane, my servant, I command you to wake up from your slumber!"
After the energy was restored, Brian activated the arcane fire and drank a command spell that was enough to shock the soul.
“Buzz!” Time seemed to suddenly stop at this moment.
In an instant, a translucent cloud composed of arcane energy condensed in the laboratory.
The rolling clouds and mist turned into a translucent figure at a speed visible to the naked eye.
She was wearing a lavender dress, the hem of which was swaying in the wind, and her beautiful long chestnut hair was fluttering in the wind and scattered around her waist.
"Are you Ms. Polaris, Brysis?" Brian met her deep purple eyes and said in an uncertain tone.
"If you say yes, then so be it. If you say no, it doesn't make sense."
Ms. Polaris smiled slightly, and the elegant silhouette suspended in the air slowly fell to the ground, emitting With a strong breath of tenderness, "We meet again, descendants of the empire."
As expected.
Brian looked relaxed. Just as he had guessed, the real Ms. Polaris had fallen thousands of years ago, and this was just her remaining thoughts.
"I have fulfilled my original promise." He said in a slightly serious tone, "Then, should you also fulfill your responsibilities."
In fact, as a tower As the master of the spirit, he could use a commanding tone to instruct the other party to do things for him, but thinking about her past identity and her role in his future, he felt that it was safer to treat her in a gentle manner.
"Alas..."
The translucent shadow of Ms. Polaris gently lifted her hair and sighed sadly.
"Actually, I shouldn't have woken up. It was my remaining resentment that violated my independent consciousness and made me appear in the material world in this form."
"Then what are your plans." Brian asked calmly,
"Since you woke me up and allowed me to appear in this form, I am naturally willing to follow your instructions."
Ms. Polaris emerged from sadness After recovering, his confused deep purple eyes gradually became clear, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, raising a smile, "It's just that I need to understand the world first before I can decide what my future plans will be."
"That's no problem. "Brian thought for a while and said to her, "Go to my study. The books there are enough for you to understand the ups and downs of thousands of years of history."
The next day, Ms. Polaris arrived as promised.
"It seems that what I guessed was right." She said to Brian in an ethereal tone, "The constraints of the magic network still make it difficult for the empire to escape the fate of destruction."
"So, you have already guessed the fate of Netheril." Brian's expression changed and he looked up at her.
This is understandable. After all, as a great arcanist of the spiritual school with a strength of level 35, it is not strange to predict some vague fragments of the future through prophecy spells.
"Then why didn't you try to stop it." He asked curiously.
"If I told you that the Magic Network may collapse in a thousand years and asked you not to rely on the Magic Network, would you really take my words to heart?" Ms. Polaris smiled slightly.
"That's true." Brian was stunned, then nodded to express his understanding.
This is just like in the real world, knowing that transportation such as cars and airplanes will have certain safety risks, but no one will choose to give up this convenience and maximize their hiking skills. , to travel around the world.
After all, even Brian himself had to admit that in the era before the Magic Network was closed, it was really too convenient.
At that time, the goddess of magic was magnanimous and unprepared for the management of the magic network, and the great arcanists were just like Wu Dalang drinking milk and jumping on his feet.
It wasn't until the advent of the Year of Disaster that the goddess of magic, who was frantically harvesting wool, realized the seriousness of the problem, so she pulled up a heavy skirt to hide her deepest secrets.
"Let's not talk about the past things anymore. It's meaningless." Ms. Polaris shook her head slightly and said to Brian:
"Now let me tell you my plan. Since it has become Your tower spirit, there is no doubt that I will serve you loyally and help you manage the tower and even the floating city that may be established in the future. This is my obligation and responsibility."
Brian. Seemingly realizing something, he listened quietly.
“However, this does not mean that I will confess to you everything about my time as a Grand Arcanist.” Ms. Polaris raised her eyes to look at him and said in a soft and sweet voice:
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"It can be seen that when you made the tower spirit, you tried your best to preserve all my original consciousness and memories. It was your kind act that prevented me from turning into a consciousnessless statue that could only obey its master. The order is as dull as the golem that casts the wisdom-constructing spell."
Brian couldn't deny it.
Obviously, if he really does this, he will lose all the arcane knowledge mastered by a level 35 Grand Arcanist of the Psychic School.
"What are your conditions." He asked curiously.
"I am willing to serve you for a thousand years and give you all the knowledge I have mastered in this life." Ms. Polaris stated her conditions calmly, "After a thousand years, I need you to return the favor. I'm free, that's all."
"Have you ever heard of 'flesh and blood are weak, machinery ascends'?" Brian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the conditions proposed by the other party were not excessive at all, and then said with a smile.
“Not sure.” Ms. Polaris thought for a moment and shook her head slightly.
"Let's do this, I will change the conditions." Brian did not explain anything, "I can give you your freedom, and I won't even ask for a thousand-year agreement."
"Then what do you need? ?" Ms. Polaris blinked her beautiful dark purple eyes and looked at him curiously.
"I need you to join my camp and serve my cause. Don't refuse in a hurry." Brian raised his hand to interrupt her and continued:
"The reason why I say this is because I intend to help you find a way to eternal life in the mechanical realm of clock nirvana and become a life form in the true sense."
"If I didn't expect it, If not."
He made the final addition, "As a great arcanist of the spiritual school, you must be planning to follow this path after being freed after a thousand years."
"It's a good choice." Ms. Polaris didn't let Brian wait too long. She stretched out her translucent jade hand and smiled, "I agree to your condition."
"Then I wish us cooperation. Pleasant." Brian touched her imaginary hand symbolically and smiled back.
"I have used the time I spent learning about world history to check your wizard tower carefully." After the pleasant exchange, Ms. Polaris quickly got into the mood, "I have to say, this tower still surprises me. Quite a lot.”
“The thing that surprised me the most is the functioning Mysel energy core...”
She said to her while pacing back and forth in the room gracefully. Brian recounted information about the Mithron core.
After listening to Ms. Polaris’s story, Brian finally understood that in addition to the original energy connected to the magic network itself, the Miser Energy Core has the ability to store, restrain, and regulate energy, including elements or other energies. This is also its important value.
“Its real function is to establish a magic network system in the floating city.” Ms. Polaris said:
"Every Grand Arcanist's floating city has this highly integrated magic network system, and the magic network center of the floating city is what we call an 'intelligent mastermind'. It is like a human being and has a self. Consciousness and thinking, but without human emotions, have absolute rationality."
Brian understood the meaning of her words. This so-called 'magic network' is similar to a local area network, and the network center is like it. Like a computer, it can help him analyze and deduce various spells, store a huge knowledge system, conduct various data simulations, and strengthen the defense and attack methods of the territory.
"Unfortunately, this Mysser energy core is too small." Ms. Polaris regretted: "Even if I weave a magic network system, it can only cover the entire wizard tower."
"Then have you mastered the method of making the Miser energy core." Brian asked.
“The core production secret of the Mithron Core is in the hands of Iolum.” Ms. Polaris said:
"Except for the leader of the Shado Society in the Karsus Territory, who once used the Shadow Demon Network to copy the shadow secret energy core that can be hidden in the human body, there has never been any other great arcanist who did not obtain the core knowledge of Iolum. Next, we independently researched the Mithral Energy Core.”
The leader of the Shado Society in the Karsus Territory is the High King of the City of Shadows, Telamante Tanshur. This is quite clear to Brian. .
It is said that High King Telamant Tanshur's name was Shado during his time in Netheril. Because he studied the shadow demiplane when he was young, no floating city was willing to take him in. Support his research.
In the end, Karsus gave him timely help, not only supporting his research, but also helping him build his own floating city, Sultanza, which is now the City of Shadows.
"This is monopoly technology." Brian smiled and replied, "Well, if I have the chance, I will go to Iolum personally."
Originally, he naively thought that he might be able to decipher the production principle through this small Mysser energy core. After hearing what Ms. Polaris said, he immediately gave up his research plans.
After all, he didn’t have that much time and energy to devote to this research.
"Things are not as simple as imagined." Ms. Polaris sighed.
“This is an era when the Demonic Network is closed. Apart from the Lost Lady’s Shadow Demonic Network, I don’t think there is any energy source that can support the Myser energy core based on the floating city.”
"There will always be." Brian was confident in his demiplane, and he changed the topic:
"Then let's not discuss these issues for the time being. You have also seen my current situation. The City of Shadows has always been the biggest threat to me. What needs to be done most now is to use your Netheril-era black technology Take it out and strengthen the protection of my territory."
"I'm already thinking about defense issues." Ms. Polaris nodded slightly, showing a moving smile, "I have carefully checked, and with the current elemental reserves of the Wizard Tower, it is quite good. The energy supply that can support this defensive weapon."
"What weapon?" Brian asked curiously.
"Magic Pulse Cannon." Ms. Polaris answered softly.
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(End of this chapter)