Chapter 383 The Ghost of the Ancient Golden Dragon
"Sand, sand, sand..."
Subtle footsteps echoed in a secluded and straight dark passage.
Alone, Brian was walking in the ruins passage of Glory City while thinking about the prophecy he saw in Ojasla's vision.
More than five hours have passed since he returned to the underground passage from the prophetic vision.
After he told the wizard Laurian and the ghost prince Brainas in detail about the vision he had seen, the three of them went their separate ways and acted separately.
Just as Brian expected, after solving the disaster caused by the Felin Demon Sunflower in the Everriska Valley, the Elf Mage returned directly to the city, strengthened the Mystery Barrier, and continued to live. leading their lives of isolation.
As for Brenas, he said that he was more interested in another part of the ruins and did not plan to go with him.
In this regard, Brian did not ask anything.
After all, everyone has their own secrets. As a dossier scholar, Brenas's greatest hobby is exploring ruins and finding lost civilizations.
After finally encountering the ruins of a floating city from the Netheril era, he naturally would not miss the opportunity to study it.
Brian happened to have other private things to do, so after the two agreed on a time to meet, they went about their own business.
Like the Prince of Shadows, Brian did not leave the ruins of the Glorious City, but chose the opposite direction from Brenas to explore the untouched parts of the floating city ruins.
The reason why he did this was not because of his love for adventure. It was mainly because during the battle with the Felin Demon Kui, he did not know whether it was an illusion or the telepathy of a psion. There is always a feeling that someone is watching me secretly.
Recalling the message he had seen on a metal sheet before meeting the elf elders, he felt it was necessary to check it out.
Moreover, in the previous vision, he had already confirmed based on his own calculations that the key item to stop the Lost Lady's plan was indeed a Holy Grail with the Sun Disk engraved on it.
This immediately reminded Brian of the god who fell with the destruction of Netheril - the sun god Amaunata.
Although the reminder given to him in the vision was to go to the largest library in Faerûn, Candlekeep, to find the secrets about the Holy Grail of Amaunata, but at this moment he has appeared in the place where the sun once claimed to be located. It is not redundant to investigate the ruins of the floating city, the largest temple of God.
It would be even better if we could find the Amauna Tower Temple in the ruins.
As Brian continued to walk forward, he discovered that rows of connected metal cages gradually appeared on both sides of the passage.
A rotten smell also filled the air.
Some of these cages are open, with no prisoners inside, and some cell doors are locked, with humanoid corpses or the skeletons of other alien creatures lying on the floor inside.
Some cells collapsed and were occupied by a kind of green soil that exuded a strong foul smell, and some plants with strange life grew out of the soil.
After observing for a moment, Brian chose to ignore these things and the weird fungi, and instead walked cautiously towards the end of the passage.
After a while, he saw the changes at the end of the passage.
I saw a few palm-sized will-o'-the-wisps floating in the originally deep and endless dungeon passage. They were green and faint, dangling around, making people's scalp numb.
But Brian recognized at a glance that this kind of will-o'-the-wisp was not alive at all. It was obviously a pure magical lighting tool. It was only done to increase the scary and weird atmosphere.
In this way, in the green light of the will-o'-the-wisp, the darkness at the end of the passage was dispelled, replaced by an illusory stone arch made of magic.
“What the hell is this place?” Brian couldn’t help but frowned when he saw the door.
As a legendary spellcaster who understood the laws of space, he could tell at a glance that this arch made of pure magical energy was not a portal to other areas.
After entering the dungeon, he instinctively thought that the end was either the study of the master of the floating city or the laboratory in the mage tower.
After all, during the Netheril era, the great arcanists often set up their laboratories next to the dungeons of the floating city to conduct their own research.
Generally speaking, the laboratories of the great arcane masters are not the extremely narrow spaces filled with equipment that people think of.
On the contrary, with the space folding technology, it is not strange to set up a demiplane as your own laboratory.
Brian stood there and thought for a moment. After checking his own condition, he resolutely walked towards the archway illuminated by the green will-o'-wisps, and then the whole person disappeared in the magic curtain.
A flash of light flashed, and he found himself in a dark underground corridor.
Brian stood there and after releasing various types of detection magic one after another, he noticed that there were no traces of their activities, whether it was undead, living creatures, or even alien creatures.
"Am I really too sensitive?" He asked himself doubtfully.
After thinking about it, Brian decided to continue exploring.
Hidden in the darkness, he walked like a wandering ghost among the dense stone footings of the corridor.
Brian discovered that in this corridor, about every ten meters, there would be a closed door. If you only looked at the appearance, each door would be the same, with ancient Netherese-style texture details and patterns. All are the same.
Unfortunately, he could clearly feel that the magical energy on these doors made of unknown materials had long been exhausted. He wanted to open them without attracting anyone's attention. Even with Brian's current ability, he can't even do it.
Just when Brian was about to take action, he suddenly saw a door at the end of the corridor flashing with a lavender magical light.
This unexpected discovery made him stunned for a moment, and then he walked over cautiously.
As a Grand Arcanist who mastered complete arcane runes, Brian easily cracked the restriction on the door in less than a minute.
With a thought, a ball of light blue light emerged from his fingertips and silently disappeared into the rune restrictions of the metal door.
Immediately afterwards, all the restrictions on the entire door were activated by him as expected.
As a dark purple magic curtain emerged on the surface of the door, the rear curtain slowly separated to both sides as if welcoming guests, and then the magic door lock 'clicked' and automatically popped open. The metal door quietly opened a five-finger-wide gap.
Looking inside through the gap, you can find that there are oak bookshelves inside, and the shelves are filled with a dazzling array of books.
"Sure enough, there are new discoveries." Seeing this, a smile appeared on Brian's lips, "This looks like a library."
So, he opened the door without hesitation and walked in. What surprised Brian was that in this library as spacious as a palace, densely packed mountains of materials and books were arranged very neatly and were not covered with dust and cobwebs as expected.
The spell to protect books and materials is still in effect today. Thousands of years have passed, and the handwriting is still as clear as new.
"It seems that my hunch is right." Looking at the spotless and tidy library, Brian couldn't help but think to himself:
"In the battle with the Felin Demon Sunflower, Someone has indeed observed me secretly, otherwise, the magic restrictions here would not have been able to maintain normal operation even after the floating city fell and lost its source of energy.”
"The owner of this floating city is the great arcanist Ellando." He looked at the densely packed books and information, knowing that it would take a lot of time to find what he wanted from so much information.
So, Brian recalled the information about the floating city that the Prince of Shadows briefly mentioned to him, and then cast a prophetic detection spell and began a carpet-like search.
More than ten minutes later, Brian finally used magic to find the books and notes written by the great arcanist Ellando himself from this vast amount of knowledge.
Unexpectedly, he also found a research note on the Felin Demon Sunflower and the City of Glory in the manuscript.
Before he opened the manuscript, he could clearly feel the weight of history filling his heart.
Brian immediately cast his reading magic and quickly browsed the contents of the manuscript.
"...The third era of the Haptos calendar, the year of famine, the moon of Dusk Claw."
"The Haptos calendar?"
See Here, Brian was stunned, and then murmured to himself:
"Could it be said that... the great arcanist Ellando did not die after the floating city fell, and he also participated in Harundas The reconstruction of the city.”
The city of Harundas was the last to fall among the inherited kingdoms of the Nese remnants.
According to the records about Harundas City in the Crown Hall of Susar City, he learned that there was once an unknown legendary mage who built his own palace here. Mage Tower.
Later, this mage tower collapsed during the war against the Felin Demon Kui.
According to records, during that battle, if an ancient altar had not appeared above the mage tower to help humans and elves fight against the Felin Demon Kui, Harundas City would have been pushed flatly.
At this time, Brian has roughly determined that the Grand Arcanist Ellando should be the mysterious legendary Archmage in Harundas City.
Perhaps, from the information he left behind, traces of the 'Earth Prophet' Asindo can be found.
So, he began to continue checking.
“Oh, damn, the Eno Oak Desert is still expanding, and the wheat fields of Harundas City are about to be swallowed up! Without land and food, a large number of residents began to flee, and they may have fled. What should I do to the Moon Sea in the east, or to the valley in the south? ..."
"Today, the Lord of Harundas invited me to attend a meeting with elves and grandfathers from the Supreme Forest. The treants of the tree were all present, but the final result was unsatisfactory, because even the druids of Silvanus, the god of nature, were helpless against the expansion of the desert. I suggested that the city lord move the city. The fire of Netheril cannot be extinguished here. I hope the city lord can calm down and listen to the advice of this old mage..."
"It turns out that the goddess of luck will also favor the survivors of Netheril. As soon as I returned to the Mage Tower, the servant Palalandusk reported good news to me.”
"The Altar of Activation built by a Saren spirit warlock suddenly appeared in the wilderness of the North."
"This is a low bridge made of wood and rope, spanning the At the bend of the Riven River, Paralandusk discovered a new small village called 'Silver Moon'... Oh my god, this small village, and the silver moon transformed by rainbow light. The bridge gave me a smell of destiny, and the prophecy spell also told me that my hunch was correct. In the future, this small village will be the treasure of the North.
The altar of the Saren spirit is not wrong. They will appear for no reason. Maybe we can find a way to deal with the Feilin Demon Kui from them, so as to save the fate that Harundas City is about to face, and let the fire of Netheril burn across the whole of Egypt with the force of a prairie fire. Nook Desert, it seems I have to go out for a trip..."
Brian looked away, his eyes full of thoughts, and the note ended here.
From the records in the Crown Hall, it can be known that the great arcanist named Ellando apparently found a way to fight against the Felin Demon Sunflower from the Saren Spirit.
Otherwise, in the fierce battle between the United Elves and the Felin Demon Kui, an ancient altar would not have risen from the sky above the mage tower, finally turning the situation around.
Unfortunately, although the situation was turned around due to the ancient altar, the final result was not as beautiful as imagined.
Because with the collapse of the Mage Tower, the struggling city of Harundas still did not escape the fate of destruction and was buried forever in the vast desert.
Brian looked through another document in the codex and was pleasantly surprised to find that in addition to the research on the Saren Spirit Altar, there were also methods on how to effectively target the Felin Demon Sunflower.
Although he knew that the most direct way to deal with Feilin Mokui was to rush into the forbidden wall where the Saren spirits sealed them, and then destroy the memory tower that Feilin Mokui regarded as a holy place. A group of ancient monsters will die like a spellcaster who loses his magic network.
But how to enter the forbidden wall, how to face the hordes of Felin Demon Sunflowers and Magic Sunflower Elders, and even the memory tower like a nest, Brian obviously doesn't know much about it, and the contents in the handbook Research gave him a better understanding of the Felin Demon Sunflower.
He felt that he had mastered a treasure trove of information, which would be of great help to him in how to destroy the Phaelin Demon Sunflower and how to restore the Eno Oak Desert.
Brian put away the note and looked around.
This library is the life-long effort of the great arcanist Ellando, and most of the recorded information is mainly about the study of the phaerim magic sunflower.
He plans to take away all the research materials here to prepare for dealing with Feilin Mokui in the future.
"...What bad ideas are you planning, little mage?"
Suddenly, a cold voice sounded beside Brian, and a hot breath spurted out, making him feel as if he was being heated in a fire. It feels uncomfortable to be roasted.
“It’s here indeed!”
Brian looked startled, and instantly used a flash technique to distance himself from the enemy.
He turned around and saw a huge pale golden soul appearing silently in the library at some point.
The appearance of the soul body caused the surrounding temperature to rise slowly and unconsciously.
It has the appearance of a solid dragon, and even the texture of its scales is very clear.
"The ghost of the ancient golden dragon Paralandusk!" Brian calmed down and saw through the other party's true identity at a glance.
(End of this chapter)