Chapter 249 New Threat
Just as Brian was about to leave, a figure stepped on the six-pointed star array and suddenly appeared in the room.
A woman appeared in front of him.
A human woman who looks a little evil. Her face is veiled, her pupils are quite tempting, and her outline has some oriental characteristics.
This woman is wearing a thin and luxurious blue gauze dress, revealing her snow-white arms and less than half of her chest. The dazzling white color will make people feel their blood pumping and their mouths dry just by looking at it. dry.
A head of smooth and bright blond hair hangs straight down to the woman's ankles, fluttering like satin in the gentle wind.
The slender waist makes people want to hold her in their arms.
Her beautiful face covered by a veil perfectly blends feminine softness and mature charm, with a mixed charm that is as sweet as poison.
In any place, she would definitely be the center of attention at the banquet, and even her owner would not be able to take away her brilliance.
However, it is a pity that no one here appreciates these thousands of customs.
Brian had already noticed that there was a delicate gold chain on the woman's waist, with a silver disc the size of a coin hanging from it.
There is also an emblem on her chest, which is a face-up silver coin with a beautiful female face surrounded by clovers.
There is no doubt that this is a priest of the goddess of luck.
In fact, even if Brian didn't notice these eye-catching emblems, he could recognize the true identity of this woman at a glance.
After all, the most famous deity in Arabe City is Taimora, the goddess of luck.
The high priest in charge of the Taimora Temple and the Lady's Pavilion is the woman in front of him, a messenger of luck.
Not long after the battle ended, the opponent arrived late, which was quite an intriguing feeling.
However, this is not the case, because when Hadjhorna and others invaded the female lord's mage tower, they had completely blocked it and could not leak any information.
The main reason why he was able to arrive in time for support was to rely on his own guessing, and then let Ms. Polaris use the power of the Wizard Tower to help him break through the blocked interdimensional space.
With the end of the battle, the ancient dragon transformed by Severin and Hadjhorna were all repelled by the magic pulse cannon in the sky above Arabe City.
Such a huge battle almost shocked the entire city.
It is reasonable for the church forces of Taimora Temple, as die-hard allies of Arabe City, to rush over at this time.
Thinking of this, Brian did not stay too long, but planned to leave directly.
You must know that among the gods, there are two goddesses who cannot be easily provoked.
The first one is the goddess of misfortune, and the second one is the goddess of luck.
Whether you believe in these two goddesses or not, after meeting their priests, it is best to show corresponding awe.
Because these two goddesses from the chaotic camp are notoriously difficult to deal with, their personalities and preferences are difficult to judge, and they often like to play pranks. However, their demand for religious believers is not high.
For example, in the churches of Lady Luck and Lady Misfortune, they preach that there is no discrimination and that all races and genders are equal. As for in practice, why are most of the distinguished clergy women? It’s unknown.
So, whether in the game world or here, Brian has always kept a distance from these priests.
It is true that if you please the goddess of luck and get her blessing, you can indeed make everything you do very smooth in the future.
But when you get the goddess of luck Qingmei, it also means that you are being watched by the goddess of misfortune from the chaotic evil camp.
Just like a wealthy player he met before, he used his money ability to create a blessing attribute of "The Goddess of Luck is Blessed" in the Taimora Temple.
He tried to use the wish spell in the Wanxiang Impermanence card to carry out unlimited prostitution.
At first, it was smooth sailing, allowing him to use the Wanxiang Impermanence card to rapidly increase his level like a rocket.
As a result, he inadvertently entered the soul and drew a catastrophic void card. As a result, the soul in the game world was imprisoned, the body was in a state of incapacity, and even the wish spell could not be recalled.
In the end, the only option was to delete the account and practice again.
Brian never believed that Lady Doom was innocent.
This is no joke.
If the goddess of luck can make you meet a pie falling from the sky, then the goddess of misfortune can let you be smashed to death by a pie.
Brian looked at the priest who looked at Lady Luck, leaned slightly to show respect, and prepared to leave.
The other party also looked at him with smiling eyes and nodded gently.
This made Brian think that the matter should just be over.
Who would have thought that when the two people were about to pass each other, the female pastor suddenly stopped in front of him, looked at him with intriguing eyes, and said slowly: "We meet again. Here we go, Lord Brian of Mokou Town.”
Hearing this, Myrcella, the mistress of the mage tower, suddenly became subtle. She immediately came over and said to the priest. , "Do you know him?"
"Maybe not." The female priest shook her head slightly and said to Myrcella in a rather confident tone, "But I have indeed seen him, and that's why Here it comes.”
Brian on the side heard the conversation between the two, and his expression was full of doubts.
Because he didn’t quite know what the other person’s real intention was when he said ‘we meet again’ just now.
You know, since he traveled to this world, he has never been to the Taimora Temple in Arabay City, let alone meet the archbishop.
Of course, even in the game world, he has never been to the Temple of Taimora.
Temora is the most famous god of the Kingdom of Cormyr. She protected the city of Arabe during turbulent times.
It was her efforts that led to a nationwide resurgence of her faith.
The priests of Taimora never charge any service fees from visitors, but most people provide offerings, believing that it will increase their luck.
It is these donations that make the temples of Taimora around the Kingdom of Cormyr extremely wealthy.
Nobles, businessmen and adventurers also like to seek Taimora's blessing before leaving. They believe that no major adventure will be carried out without the prayers of the lucky messenger.
Brian didn't have a good impression of this.
This is just like in the real world, a certain charlatan has a secret recipe passed down from his ancestors, which is said to be effective for the birth of a boy.
So the one who gave birth to a girl didn’t bother to go to him because he didn’t ask for money, while the one who gave birth to a boy happily went to give him money.
The doctor brought fruit-flavored pills, which only cost a few cents. According to the probability, half of the business would be profitable, but he had been cheating for many years without incident and earned a room full of banners.
The same is true for the Taimora Temple. Facing the adventurers, merchants and nobles praying for themselves, they waved their little hands and said with a smile: "Go, fate favors the bold."
Those who are successful will therefore believe that they are favored by the goddess of luck.
Except for the losers who will never come back, those who survive will also receive comforting words from the priests: "Sometimes the goddess will smile, and sometimes she will laugh out loud."
Although Mysterious luck does indeed exist in this kind of world, but Brian, who has always been more pragmatic, has never thought of letting himself rely on luck.
"Mr. Brian." The female priest looked at Brian and said with a sweet and beautiful voice, "Do you still remember the preaching mage in the underdark area."
The preaching mage?
Hearing these words, Brian froze in place and looked at the priest of Lady Luck with disbelief.
From the corner of his eye, he also noticed that the female lord on the side also looked at her unexpectedly. Apparently Myrcella should have learned these things from Sisera's mouth.
During his escape journey in the Underdark, he once accidentally broke into the ruins of a preaching mage. After dealing with an observer beholder, he obtained the items left by the preaching mage, as well as the items that had been left by the preaching mage. He modified and expanded it into an extra-dimensional space of the Magic Academy.
Undoubtedly, the biggest harvest of that time was the forgotten book known as the 'Book of White Prostitution'.
Without this book, he would not have been able to master the knowledge in the five Nese scrolls so quickly.
“You cunning guy, even if you change the course of the underground river, you still can’t find the place where Victor protects the treasure, because Victor’s master said that only the luckiest people, or Only those who have been favored by the goddess of luck can discover Victor’s guardian place.”
"You couldn't find Victor's guardian place, so you found a little goblin who had been favored by the goddess of luck. This little goblin led you, and then you found Victor's guardian place."
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Brian recalled the words of the amusing observer.
Obviously, the problem lies here.
If this is the case, doesn’t it mean that he accidentally discovered that the place guarded by the Observer’s Beholder in the Dark Territory was blessed by the Goddess of Luck.
This was really hard for him to accept.
"So, ma'am? What is your purpose here." Brian asked.
Then, he quickly thought about it in his mind for a moment, and then added bravely: "Thank you for the goddess's care, and for the offerings given to the goddess, I am willing to repay ten times the gold. I humbly offer the offerings, I hope that Goddess of Luck will bring me more good luck in my future journeys.”
Perhaps fate is doomed, but luck is also a factor.
A good fortune may save a person from death, and a bad luck may push him into the abyss.
Although Lady Luck is a cheerful and curious goddess who remains cheerful even during the darkest days of the Saint's Catastrophe and is unwilling to engage in overt violence, she does enjoy mischief and ironic justice.
For example: During the Year of Turmoil, when the saint form of Taimora was in the city of Arabe, he donated wealth so that mortals could have the opportunity to chat and take photos with him face to face.
If he followed his inner thoughts, Brian really didn't want to have anything to do with it.
You must know that a year before the 'Arcane Catastrophe' that shocked the world, there was also a major shock among the gods, which was called: the year of the third stream of blood.
The whole incident was caused by Taimora, the goddess of luck.
It is said that Tyr, the god of justice, tried to form a marriage with Tymora in order to restore order and balance to the upper plane.
As a result, the patron god Heim took the initiative to provide companionship for the chaste love between Tyr and Tymora (responsible for delivering love letters and gifts).
However, a strange and fateful misunderstanding occurred, and Helm was accused of stealing Tymora's heart while delivering gifts and affection to Tyr.
The strict requirements for his own ideals force the God of Justice to challenge the God of Guardian.
Heim, on the other hand, was also forced by his own ideas and chose to accept this challenge.
The two gods fought for mating rights, and before the gods came to their senses, Tyr had killed Helm.
Although no one can confirm the final result, the gods still feel that Helm's death is the black hand of Cyric, the god of murder, and is behind it.
Using their players’ version:
Cyric likes Heim, Heim likes Tyr, and Tyr has an unrequited love for Taimora.
In order to dominate Heim, Cyric even disguised himself as a woman and transformed into Tymora to instigate feelings between Heim and Tyr. However, he failed to do so and Tyr accidentally killed Heim.
Seeing Heim die in front of him, Tyr suddenly woke up: It turned out that Heim was the person he had always loved, and Taimora was just an excuse for him not to marry the one he loved and deceive himself.
Killing the person he loved most with his own hands, Tyr was so grieved that he no longer even wanted to be a god. He bid farewell to Io, and before committing suicide, he passed his divine power to his slave god Tom.
Cyric, who also loved Helm deeply, could not get rid of his sorrow and self-blame all day long. He closed himself up due to pain and spent the rest of his life in a seal.
This story that started because of Taimora ended in tragedy.
Recalling the absurd things between the gods, Brian finally decided to choose to spend money to eliminate disaster.
Since the other party claimed that he found the place guarded by the beholder because of the blessing of the goddess of luck, he would follow the rules of the Taimora Temple and donate his wealth to thank the goddess for her blessing.
"No, Sir Brian, maybe you misunderstood me." Just when Brian was about to pay, the priest of Lady Luck raised his hand to interrupt his move and said slowly :
“I hope you can understand that some people are lucky, others are unlucky, and a few people can control their own luck, lift the curtain of opportunities, circumstances and chaos, and glimpse deeper. "
In fact, not only did Brian not understand the true meaning of this sentence, but he was also confused. He subconsciously shifted his gaze to Myrcella next to the female priest. When he saw the shock in the female lord's eyes, he realized that things might not be as simple as he imagined.
He didn't answer, but looked at the female priest calmly.
"Temora often said: People should act boldly to truly live. In most cases, the courage and determination to take risks are far more important than careful and precise plans. Never hesitate. You must believe in the goddess and leave yourself to fate."
The female priest stared at Brian for a long time, slowly narrowing her beautiful eyes, her thick eyelashes flickering in a charming way, flashing a hint of wisdom. Aura.
“Believe in the luck you have, you are your own master, and the goddess will let you know whether this time is good luck or bad luck. As long as you move forward bravely and work hard to pursue your dreams, the goddess will help you. If Without any set goal or direction, you will quickly fall into the arms of Beshaba and experience the 'mercy' of doom, which means no mercy."
This time, Bushaba. Ryan understood her words.
What the female priest means between the lines is that if she does not receive the favor of the goddess, she will experience the goddess of misfortune.
The Goddess of Misfortune is an evil and willful goddess. Not only can she not bring good luck, she also has the ability to reduce luck and can make people unlucky for a long time.
The world is more afraid of this goddess.
Brian is obviously also quite afraid of the Goddess of Doom.
He avoided the seductive gaze of the female priest and looked thoughtful.
In his impression, since the destruction of Arabe City, the temple of the Goddess of Luck has not been spared either.
From then on, when the goddess of misfortune and the goddess of luck fell in love and killed each other, Taimora was completely at a disadvantage and was always passive.
After thinking about this problem, Brian finally realized why the priest of Goddess of Luck suddenly came to him when he was helping Myrcella drive away the enemies.
It seems like his own appearance has affected the changes in the timeline, allowing the goddess of luck to find a way not to be suppressed by the goddess of misfortune.
Headache.
After clarifying the ins and outs of the incident, Brian immediately realized that he was inexplicably involved in the love and death of the fateful twins.
In this case, he could only choose to hug the thigh of one of them.
“Thank you to the benevolent goddess. I beg her devoutly, hoping that I will be favored by her in my courageous pursuit of my dreams.” Brian leaned slightly towards the female priest and spoke respectfully. say.
The female pastor nodded slightly, suppressed the sadness in her heart, and smiled.
She moved lightly and came to Brian. The silver pendant on her slender waist made a subtle collision sound, crisp and elegant.
A faint scent of pine wood came over me, as clean as the rain on an autumn night.
Brian resisted the urge to avoid and stood slightly stiff.
The female priest raised her hand to remove her veil, stood on tiptoes, leaned forward softly, her red lips parted slightly, as gentle as orchid, and her white and white teeth were revealed just right.
She kissed Brian gently on his forehead, smiled Qiaoran and said:
"The goddess of luck has helped you avoid the attention of the goddess of misfortune. Mr. Brian, you can use your own His sincerity was blessed by the goddess.”
The clover badge worn on the female priest's chest glowed faintly.
Although it was fleeting, Brian still noticed it.
He thanked you respectfully, and immediately checked his newly acquired abilities:
[Blessing of the Goddess of Luck (Special Expertise): When the elements of fate begin to take effect, There will be countless possible outcomes, which are not something that can be explored, but are content to be obtained through this kind of biased and careful exploration, in order to increase the probability of things happening.
You are lucky to have been blessed by the goddess of luck. Your misfortune will not be reduced below the normal level. When any judgment is triggered, whether it is attack, dodge, hit, save, or negotiation, In any other field, you can permanently gain a 1-point luck bonus. Anyone who attempts to scry, detect, track, clairvoyance, spy on you, or use any other ability in the prophecy domain against you will suffer a -3 penalty.
Note: You have successfully entered the sight of the most capricious twin of fate, pray for yourself, you lucky unlucky guy! 】
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Seeing his newly acquired ability, Brian, who was originally reluctant, exclaimed 'really fragrant', but also felt that it was too easy to obtain it. , not even a sacrifice or tribute.
This made him realize that this might be related to his appearance affecting the future timeline of the Kingdom of Cormyr.
After all, the twins of destiny, the goddess of luck and the goddess of misfortune, are the goddesses who are easiest to sense the trajectory of fate.
This time he took action to save Arabe City, and Goddess of Luck noticed something through some mysterious and unknown means.
In this case, whether it is for the sake of her future or in her love affair with the Goddess of Misfortune, she needs to cover up her existence so that the Goddess of Misfortune does not notice him.
After Brian said goodbye to the female lord, he directly went to the demiplane through the alien teleportation spell.
Looking at Brian's leaving back, Myrcella looked at the female priest beside her in confusion and said in a gentle tone.
"Did the goddess send some oracle? What did you see in him?"
In the disaster that occurred in Arabay City ten years ago, even the temple of the Goddess of Luck was burned down. In order to drive away the believers of Bane, the god of tyranny, through bloody rituals, a ray of incarnation of the Goddess of Luck was dropped. The voters even expel them at the expense of themselves.
It is precisely because of this disaster that the goddess of luck and the followers of the goddess of misfortune fell into the inferior position in the confrontation.
So, Myrcella was very curious about what future the high priest of the Goddess of Luck saw in Brian.
“The oracle given by the goddess allowed me to see the two giant dragons of the Kingdom of Cormyr die together, and an ancient ruin rise from the depths of the ocean.” The female priest walked to the window with light steps. , welcome the bright sunshine.
“A mage tower opened a crack leading to Baator Hell in the ruins, and two cities were destroyed by the dark creatures that emerged from the crack.”
"These are things that are about to happen and cannot be changed or reversed." She made the final addition.
"Then him..." Myrcella asked subconsciously.
“He is a ‘person outside of destiny’.” The female priest opened her jade lips lightly, with a hint of sadness:
“His destiny is free, even more so than that of the gods. Freedom, as long as anything has anything to do with him, the final result will always deviate from the original trajectory. He is a double-edged sword, which is both the fire of hope to save the world and the sword of disaster that may destroy the world. ”
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After Brian teleported to the demiplane, he went straight to the cave where the earth djinn lived.
The fire djinn and the earth djinn were waiting for his arrival in front of the cave door.
"Your Excellency, you are finally here."
The earth giant's voice sounded like the collapse of a mountain first: "According to your instructions, we have put these two chrysanthemum-like Felin Mo Kui has been caught. "
Entering the cave, Brian followed the sight of the earth giant and saw that the bodies of the two Mo Kui elders were sealed inside the hard stone, with only the upper body exposed. Two heads.
On the surface of their bodies, many wounds such as the burning of flames, frostbite from frost, cuts from wind blades, etc. were telling him how miserable the two elders Mo Kui who came to him had been tortured by the four giant spirits.
After all, the person in charge here is the water fairy Sylvari. In the demiplane, she is like a wizard staying in her own tower. The gods live deep in the kingdom of God, and she controls all the laws.
It is natural to deal with the two elders of Mo Kui who have not yet fully recovered their strength.
"You don't know how excited these two sunflower-like monsters were when they first arrived here." The fire djinn's voice, like an exploding fireball, echoed in the cave.
"After the two of them came here, they held hands and walked in circles, looking as happy as two hula dancing gnomes. Little did they know that we had already followed your instructions, restrained our breath in advance, and waited patiently. Their arrival.”
"Well done." Brian nodded slightly and came to the two dying Mo Kui elders.
"Is there anything else you need to say?" he asked.
"Hiss...hiss..." One of the elders of the Demon Kui transmitted his weak voice to the depths of Brian's mind through a spiritual connection.
“Despicable descendants of Nese, you have obtained the Nexus of the Spellweaver and activated it ignorantly. Sooner or later, you will be found by the Spellweaver and hunted to death.”
< br>Hearing Elder Mo Kui's words, Brian showed a look of surprise. These ancient alien creatures really knew the secrets of the Spellweaver Organization.
"What's so scary about an organization that hasn't escaped the fate of destruction." Brian deliberately said in a disdainful tone, "You can't scare me."
"Bang!"
Fire The giant spirit struck Elder Mo Kui's body with a flaming fist, and said viciously, "Who the hell are you, how dare you threaten us!"
"Hiss...hiss ...Hiss..." Elder Mo Kui cried out in pain, and then continued, "The Spellweavers have not been exterminated, and their remaining strength is still hidden in an untouched area of the etheric plane called: the Dark Abyss. "
"You activate the Spellweaver's Nexus," he said harshly. "Sooner or later, their survivors will wake up from their slumber and find themselves here."
Brian raised his hand to stop the earth giant from punishing him, and looked at Elder Mo Kui, "I have to admit, your words frightened me. So, we still have a common enemy."
" That's right! ...Hiss, hiss, hiss..." Elder Mo Kui said quickly:
"We, the Felin Mo Kui clan, were brought here by the Spellweavers, our memory tower. It has methods to deal with the Spellweavers and even records the secrets of the Nexus. As long as you are willing to cooperate with me to open the Forbidden City of Saron, you can get these things."
"Sounds very touching." Bu. Ryan smiled, "But there is one thing I am relatively clear about."
"Clear what?... Hiss... hiss... hiss hiss..." Elder Mo Kui asked.
"The words of Felin Demon Kui are never worthy of trust." Brian said coldly:
"In order to thank you for letting me know that the Spellweaver is sleeping in the 'Dark Abyss', I will give you You can die happily."
As soon as he finished speaking, he used the arcane fire to burn the two screaming elders.
"The target is dead!"
"Soul energy is being extracted..."
“Gain experience points: 150,000 points!”
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“The target is dead!”
“Soul energy is being extracted...”
"Experience gained: 250,000 points!"
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Seeing the experience points he had gained, Brian secretly smacked his lips, sighing that he was worthy of being a creature that had lived for tens of thousands of years, and even had such rich experience points.
At this moment, he suddenly discovered that a thick ball of elemental energy had condensed around the two elders who had turned into ashes.
Then the ‘bang’ sound spread and disappeared into the air.
Brian seemed to realize something and immediately called the Water Fairy.
Just a moment.
Sylvari appeared in front of him wearing a green dress and long silver hair.
With light steps, she happily walked up to Brian, took his arm, looked at him resentfully with her water-like blue eyes, and complained: "Master, you two Yue is not here anymore.”
“Now is not the time to talk about this issue. Let me ask you, did you feel any changes in the demiplane just now?” He asked seriously.
“I feel it, Master.” Fairy Shuizawa stopped acting coquettishly and spoke with a clear and melodious voice, “I feel two masses of rich elemental energy blending into the magic pool. These pure energies , allowing the demiplane to grow significantly.”
"That's it." After receiving confirmation from the Water Fairy, Brian looked astonished.
The Phaylings are a mysterious race that absorb magical energy to survive, which means that they have tools similar to absorbing magic in their bodies.
Once they die, the tool that stores magic will be destroyed, and the magic energy inside will return to the world again, which sounds a bit similar to the 'whale fall' in the deep sea.
If the demiplane is compared to a plant, and the roots connecting the hub are the casters, then these killed phaerinns are fertilizer.
Thinking of this, he realized that he had inadvertently obtained a new method to improve the growth progress of the demiplane.
The only thing that gave him a headache was that after the 'Founder Believers Society', there was another threat from the Spellweaver organization in the demiplane.
He could only wait for the war in the Kingdom of Cormyr to end and check out the detailed information about the demiplane of the ‘Dark Abyss’.
(End of this chapter)