Chapter 230 Higher Creation
Brian sat alone in the study, with a magic desk lamp beside his elbow emitting soft light.
After an unknown amount of time, he put down the book in his hand, rubbed his temples tiredly, brought up the system bar, and with a thought, began to upgrade his professional level:
"Upgrade the arcana. Master level!"
"Consumption of 364,000 experience points"
"The level of the arcanist has been increased to level 4!"
"Acquire arcane energy: 38 points!"
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"The level of the psion has been increased!"
“Consumption of 156,000 experience points.”
"The Psion level has been increased to level 13!"
"Psionic points gained: 21 points, additional psionic points: 4 points."
"Acquired seventh-level power: mass ectoplasm Cocoon.”
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With the two professional level improvements, Brian suddenly felt a majestic life energy flowing through his limbs and veins, making him feel uncomfortable for days. The fatigue was also swept away.
It can be seen from this that as his own level continues to improve, his life energy, mental power, will, tenacity, reflexes and many other attributes are increasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
His current strength is a level 10 battle mage advanced to level 4 arcanist, and a part-time level 13 psychic.
Although he is still a third-level hero, his challenge level is as high as about 13.
With his current strength and the flexibility of the cooperation between arcane magic and psychic energy, he is confident to act as a dragon-slaying warrior even when facing an adult dragon.
After all, with the blessing of psychic powers, he can easily avoid the most troublesome and feared power of the real dragon.
Their dragon breath, magic-like skills, and powerful bodies alone did not pose any threat to him.
In the final analysis, among the professional groups of dragons, ordinary dragons can at best be regarded as half-baked warlocks and warriors with strong bodies and flying abilities.
However, facing spellcasters whose strength has reached the legendary realm, it is more difficult to fight. If you are not careful, you will not even have a chance to escape.
It's not that his spells can't cause fatal damage to these legendary casters, but the legendary spellcasting expertise possessed by the legendary casters, as well as the endless layers of immunity or spell immunity barriers, with his current The level of strength was enough to make him despair.
Although he has many powerful characteristics and expertise, as well as the arcane fire, a super-small magic network that allows him to continue fighting for a long time.
But whenever Brian thinks about his opponents in the next few years, he understands that with his current strength, even if he is promoted to the legendary realm, it will be difficult to confront those old monsters that have lived for thousands of years.
This is like someone else's thousands of years of struggle, why should they lose to him, a time traveler who has only practiced for a few years.
In this case, he can only rely on his own abilities and give full play to his advantages to surpass them.
Moreover, although his current strength is only around level three, as a former legendary professional, he has long known how to break through the legendary realm.
This advantage allows him to not be stuck at the bottleneck for several years when his experience meets the upgrade requirements.
Looking back on the major events that will happen in the next few years, Brian is very clear that if he cannot upgrade his strength to the legendary realm, he will face demon lords and incarnations of evil gods, ancient sleeping demons, powerful lichs, etc. , in front of them, he is at best a soy sauce, or cannon fodder.
This always makes him involuntarily feel a sense of urgency to improve his strength as soon as possible.
However, his calm and rational mind also makes him very clear about the path of going too far and not doing better. In addition to improving his strength as quickly as possible, he must also spend a lot of time consolidating his newly acquired power.
It is precisely for this reason that he did not go to the inner or outer planes like a madman to kill monsters crazily to gain experience points.
In his plan, he had clearly listed when and what level he should upgrade to.
If nothing unexpected happens, his cyclical and gradual improvement in strength will allow him to cope with most difficulties.
He stopped thinking about it and continued to focus on his attribute column, adapting to the changes brought about by his level up.
Seeing that the improvement of his two professional levels did not bring any characteristics, Brian was not surprised and immediately took out a dark blue crystal the size of a thumb.
Through the psychic detection of the psion, he deciphered the information stored in the blue crystal's imperceptible inner light.
This is a high-level psychic stone. Only psychics can decipher its secrets through spiritual energy.
This high-level psychic stone, which stores superpower information, was left to him by Herister in advance when he and Heliste parted.
It must be said that this psychic is very thoughtful and can be regarded as a qualified spiritual evangelist.
The purpose of Helister's doing this is to facilitate the learning of high-level psychic powers when her career level as a psychic warlock increases.
And not only does it store seventh-level powers, but as long as his strength meets the learning requirements, eighth- and ninth-level powers can also be quickly mastered through this power stone.
He no longer hesitated, and immediately immersed his mental power in the psychic stone, looking for the seventh-level power he needed most at the moment.
About half an hour later, Brian opened his eyes, his immersed consciousness left the psychic stone, and then he solemnly put it away.
Learning psychic powers went more smoothly than he imagined. Although this feeling was not as good as Helister's spiritual consciousness, it did not produce any sequelae.
In the power stone, he learned a total of eight powers. This does not mean that Helist only mastered these eight seventh-level powers, but that due to the limitations of the power stone, she deliberately Select eight abilities that are the most cost-effective for him.
They are: Teleportation Redirection, Energy Transformation, Energy Claw, Energy Wave, Soul Conjuration, Personal Mind Barrier, Psychic Phase Gate, and Overfrequency Explosion.
Looking at the detailed information about these abilities, even Brian himself had to admit how important they were to him.
For example, "Teleportation Direction" forcibly changes the position of the enemy's teleportation spell. With this ability, he does not have to worry about the enemy slipping away in front of him through the teleportation spell.
There is also a defensive ability "Energy Conversion". As long as it is an attack with elemental damage such as fire, acid, lightning, ice, etc., he can use "Energy Conversion" to counterattack the opponent.
At the same time, there are three relatively good attack abilities: energy wave, energy claw and overclocking blast.
Among these three attack abilities, Brian’s most promising one is “Overfrequency Explosion”.
This is the ability of the mind enchantment system. Its main function is to strike the enemy mentally and spiritually, which is the so-called brain.
Although Brian is proficient in the creation system, he is also involved in the psychic enchantment system, and he can use it relatively smoothly.
For example, the first-level ability "Psychic Stab", the third-level ability "Psychic Explosion", and the seventh-level ability "Overfrequency Explosion" he just mastered. What are the functions of these three abilities? are the same.
The only difference is the power caused. If "Psychic Stab" is compared to piercing a needle into the enemy's brain, then "Psychic Blast" is like a hammer hitting the brain hard. , and "overfrequency blast" is similar to dozens of hammers, attacking the enemy's brain with a rhythmic frequency, and the damage caused can be imagined.
The most important thing is that most of the psychic powers are released instantly wherever you look.
This means that when Brian is dueling with an enemy, when the opponent is not prepared for psychic powers, he suddenly releases "Overfrequency Explosion", which can completely turn the tide of the battle.
Of course, this is a miraculous effect that the enemy can receive if they do not know that they have the Psion profession. For melee professions and semi-casting professions, the effect is quite significant.
As for the magic equipment that a wizard like that has reached the legendary realm, let alone the triggering chain defense spells, it is enough to give people a headache.
After all, most wizards who can successfully reach the legendary realm will take this situation into consideration and add spiritual protection spells to themselves when facing enemies.
In order to reverse the situation of the battle through "Overfrequency Explosion", he needs to remove the mind-protecting buff spell that he has applied constantly or in advance.
After leveling up, Brian took out a gold-plated spell book and placed it in front of him.
Accompanied by the faint flicker of spell restriction light, he raised his hand and canceled the restriction above.
Mu Yong questioned that this spell book was the 'Book of the Forgotten' that he obtained in the mansion of the preaching mage, which allowed him to obtain spells for free.
Since he encountered few high-level spellcasters and did not dare to take risks to challenge legendary spellcasters, this spell book not only allowed him to obtain the legendary spells of a mind flayer lich for nothing, None of the other spells were in vain.
On the contrary, it was another powerful ability of the spell book, "hidden knowledge", that he made full use of. Because this ability allows him to put any books or scrolls recording arcane knowledge into the spell book, guiding the hidden power in the book, allowing the holder to understand these obscure mysteries at a faster speed. Knowledge is integrated.
From the time Brian arrived in the Underdark until now, he has come into contact with a total of five Nese scrolls. Except for the arcane introduction to "energy", "destruction" and "killing" that he got in the floating tomb, he understood it in advance. outside.
He successively obtained from the female lord of Arabe an introduction to arcana that recorded "concealment" and "confusion", a sheet of magical creation recording creation spells, and a sheet of advanced creation, as well as A high-level creation scroll about construction knowledge that he obtained from the Grand Arcanist's Floating City.
There is no doubt that these Nese scrolls have been penetrated by him through the "hidden knowledge" of the Book of the Forgotten in more than a month.
Otherwise, he would not have accumulated the experience points needed to upgrade his professional level so quickly.
The remaining four Nese scrolls record the arcane overview of "hide" and "confusion", which improves his spell recognition by 3 levels and knowledge (mystery) by 2 levels. , and spell saving throws have been strengthened by 1 level.
The magical creation that records creation spells has raised his craft (alchemy) from the original level 21 to level 23, and the two advanced creation scrolls actually allowed him to gain an additional new skill: craft (advanced creation).
This unexpected surprise was something Brian never expected.
[Craftsmanship (Higher Creation): Creation is the most mysterious and greatest realm of creation in the multiverse. It is mainly divided into three categories: natural creations, divine creations and magical creations. By interpreting the knowledge in the scrolls of Nese, you understand the mysteries of advanced creation. It not only contains the creation of magical constructs, but also records the secrets of creating living objects and intelligent objects, and even the methods of creating and destroying dead magical areas. . For arcanists who have mastered this skill, for each level of "Higher Creation", the experience points consumed to create any magic items are reduced by 1%, and the health of any magic constructs or other constructs is +1, and the magic resistance is increased by 1. +1, physical resistance +1, damage caused increased by 1%. 】
This is not a specialty, but a character skill similar to craft (alchemy).
Brian's level 23 alchemy, in addition to improving his efficiency in making magic items, also gives him the ability to make legendary equipment and legendary constructed creatures.
But his newly acquired craft (advanced creation) is a skill that can have extremely significant gain or debuff effects as the level increases.
This additional ability really surprised Brian, and he sighed inwardly: It is indeed a large encyclopedia that claims to integrate the magic system of the multiverse.
By interpreting two Nese scrolls recording advanced creations, his skill level was raised to level 3. This shows that if all 10 advanced creations and 10 magic creations in the Nese scrolls are integrated, , which can increase his skill level to level 20.
In this case, the gain effect obtained by the skill is very significant. Just 20 points of physical resistance and magic resistance are enough to make most people despair.
Of course, the premise of all this is that he can collect the scrolls of Nese.
Looking at the skill that was only level 3, Brian clearly felt in his heart that this skill might be more than level 20.
For example, the last group of categories in the Nese Scrolls: Arcanum Discourses.
This set of Nether scrolls provides the principles for artifact creation.
It is the most difficult to understand. Before opening its power, you must have the extended knowledge of all other Nether scrolls.
To put it simply, only those who have thoroughly studied the introduction to arcana, magic creation, advanced creation and plane mechanisms can be qualified to access the exposition of arcana.
Thinking of this, Brian looked at the background expertise "Arcane Heritage" he had obtained after reading the first Nese scroll.
As he expected, the special ability in his background expertise gave him the ability to sense the whereabouts of the Nese Scroll.
This capability has been increased from the initial range of 33cm to about 10 meters.
Obviously, this ability will greatly increase the range of perception as the number of color-resistant scrolls obtained increases.
This is his capital to collect the Nese Scrolls. After all, the Nese Scrolls cannot be destroyed. As long as they still exist in this world, he has the opportunity to collect them all.
Brian put away the Book of the Forgotten and the Nese scrolls, and the four Nese scrolls he interpreted flooded his mind with a huge amount of arcane knowledge.
This situation is like, although he has a stomach that is enough to digest any food, the digestion speed is so slow that it is a little unbearable for him for a while, and there is a dull pain in his head from time to time.
Time!
Brian instantly realized what he needed most right now.
This made him recall what happened during his nearly one month of seclusion.
Due to the shift in the timeline, he realized that he could not passively follow the plot line, so in order to prevent his plan from being ruined, he arranged many backup plans in advance.
He asked Ranger Puranda to take his token to the Kingdom of Halua to obtain a group of spell casters for himself.
Although he has established a magic academy, it will take at least three years to cultivate his own spellcasters, and naturally he cannot wait any longer.
He also asked Obert, the leader of the Purple Dragon Knights, to take the battle mages and station them in the lightless woodland of the Dark Region in advance, with the purpose of establishing a firm foothold.
In this case, when the demon lords wreak havoc in the Underdark, he can take the opportunity to seize most of the areas and resources in the Underdark.
At the same time, he made another backup, and this candidate was Prince Brainas from the City of Ghosts.
He asked the Stone Giant Priest to hand the token of his journey to the Engraved Valley into the hands of Brenas, and asked him to help him find Iolum in the Underdark, and ask for detailed information about the Myser Energy Core.
Since he learned from Ms. Taling Polaris about the true function of the Mysel Energy Core and that it can be connected to the demiplane to supply energy, he instantly realized that if he mastered the production of the Mysel Energy Core The method can be completely improved into various power sources similar to the CPU in a computer, the engine in a car, etc.
This is no less than the change brought about by the invention of the steam engine in the real world.
In this month, in addition to interpreting the four Nese scrolls, he also created a legendary level power golem with the assistance of Ms. Polaris.
This golem has been enchanted and assembled, and is waiting for him to perform the activation ceremony tomorrow.
In order to resist the Dragon Worship Rebellion and the counterattack from the City of Shadows, he also arranged for the spellcasters of the Silver Scholars Association to erect sixteen spell turrets on the city wall.
The only pity is that the production progress of the magic pulse cannon is less than one-third.
As the most powerful magical technology product during the Netheril Empire, even under the guidance of Ms. Polaris, complicated processes such as smelting, enchanting, and engraving still took a lot of time.
The fundamental reason is that this pulse cannon is not a cannon product like the real world, but an attack method similar to a super-large magic array that condenses energy.
This kind of super-large magic circle must cover the entire wizard tower, and it also needs to cooperate with the magic network of the Myser Energy Core, so the production progress is very slow.
Brian can only pray that it can be completed when the enemy attacks in full force.
“In the final analysis, there is still not enough time.” Brian couldn’t help but mutter to himself.
If he has enough time, he can digest the arcane knowledge he interprets from the Nese scrolls and turn it into the power to arm himself.
"Ms. Polaris." Speaking of time, Brian suddenly thought of a way and asked quickly, "Do you know of any spells or different dimensions that can slow down the flow of time?"
She is the tower spirit of the wizard tower. As long as she doesn't block her deliberately, she can hear everything she says.
If he had this kind of extra-dimensional space, he would be able to have more time to stabilize his strength and study magic, and even train magic apprentices faster.
“Time, even in the days of Netheril, is a realm strictly controlled by the gods.” Lady Polaris, wearing a tight dress and bare feet, appeared out of thin air. She looked only fifteen years old. Six years old, sitting on a high bookshelf, stretching out her slender waist, shaking her white legs, and saying with a smile:
“I want to create a different-dimensional space that slows down the flow of time. It's not impossible, but with our current capabilities, I'm afraid we can't make it."
"Is there no other way?" Brian didn't bother to look up at her and asked directly.
"Yes." Ms. Polaris smiled and replied:
"The premise is that you need to find a beholder with strength in the legendary field. Beholders are embodied alien creatures. A powerful beholder can Realize the extra-dimensional space you want through thinking."
A powerful beholder?
Brian frowned. In his impression, he only knew that this kind of beholder could be found in Leyline Maze in Waterdeep City.
He did know a beholder named Victor in the Underdark.
Unfortunately, this guy ran away after completing his mission and headed to a place called 'Wisteria Valley'.
After thinking for a moment, he finally gave up on looking for the beholder and could only pay attention to it in the future.
Then, he stood up and walked towards the portal of the Wizard Tower.
More than a month has passed since the demiplane ritual was successful, and he needs to check the progress of the integration between Mizusawa Fairy and the demiplane.
This is what he does every day.
(End of this chapter)