Chapter 411 'City of White Tower' Orem
The legend about Orem, the City of White Tower, can be traced back to the Netheril period thousands of years ago. Only during this period, the There are still some records of this lost ancient city.
In the ruins of this city that was completely destroyed by lava, Brian, under the guidance of Seth's clone, used a prophecy spell like detection to find a deeply hidden underground tunnel.
While thinking about the many unknown secrets about the city that Seth's clone had just told him, he walked alone along the extremely hot lava tunnel in silence.
About 35,000 years ago, the city of Orem was the capital of the creator race Istosefifer Empire. It has tens of thousands of exquisite and mysterious white spiers. It can be said to be a symbol of magic and art.
However, the destruction of this so-called "City of White Towers" was also caused by the Saluk witch of the Istosefifer Empire trying to completely eliminate the Phailin witch by changing the course of the narrow sea.
With the collapse of the empire, the leader of the caster council of Orem City transformed himself into a lich, retreated with the remaining tribesmen into the catacombs of Orem City, and fell into a deep sleep. Secretly accumulating strength and waiting for return.
Of course, during their slumber, they did not do anything. Instead, they continued to use spells as the master messengers behind the scenes to control the Ethiopian people remaining on the surface, helping them rule and collect Knowledge.
But this seemingly peaceful life did not last smoothly.
When the phaerinn, who had been hiding in the Underdark to recuperate his energy, reappeared on the surface, trying to gain control of the territory of Istosefifer, the two races had a new grudge. The second time in today's world A large-scale war broke out in the Aenook Desert area.
The final result was the defeat of many scaly races such as the Saluk witches of the Istosefifer Empire and the Essebiliers under their command.
Unable to fight against it, the Saluk Wuhu could only hide in the tomb deeper underground again and continue to sleep.
As time went by, without the support of the magical energy of Saluk Witch and Snake, the tens of thousands of white towers in Orem City finally collapsed one after another because they could not withstand the corrosion of time. , and was buried under the High Glacier, the deepest part of the Narrow Sea during the Netheril era.
Until this former imperial capital of Saluk Wu Hui was completely forgotten.
Even if some adventurers have discovered the traces of this ancient race, they will subconsciously think that this splendid magical civilization and art originated from the magical city of an elven civilization in the Irevanda Empire. Rather than the legendary creator race.
"Since it has been forgotten, does it mean that there are no Saruk witches living in this city at all?" Brian walked along the winding lava tunnel and expressed his inner doubts, "If that's true, , why are you so persistent in wanting to go to Orem City?”
Although he came here to find the Earth Prophet and was not interested in the number of Saluk witches, after listening to the game. Si's clone's narration made him vaguely realize that the purpose of this ancient evil god's coming here was probably not just to gain the support of Saluk Wuhu.
“Although this city has been forgotten by most of the defeated Saluk witches.” Seth’s clone told Brian like a wise elder who knew everything:
“ But there are still sixty powerful Saluk Liches who choose to transform into lichs, gain permanent life, and continue to protect the ruins of this city."
"These sixty Saluk Liches have. Fifty-nine lichs will choose to sleep, one of them will act as the guardian of the ruins, and then the guardian will be replaced every sixty years on a rotational basis." He continued:
"The mission of this guardian, in addition to protecting the ruins from being invaded and destroyed by aliens, is mainly to collect information from the outside world and enrich its own knowledge reserves, and to avoid being disconnected from the process of world history until the Saluk Witch is found. A chance for the witches to rise again."
Brian nodded thoughtfully. Unexpectedly, these witches had such a long-term vision and their beliefs were so persistent. Tens of thousands of years have passed and they have not given up. The idea of over-recasting the glory of Saluk Wu Hui.
He came back to his senses, activated the Flash Technique, crossed a lava ravine blocking his path, and asked again: "What happened to the 'Earth Prophet' Asindo? Why did he violate the Guardian The system appeared in the territory of Netheril.”
Obviously, this secret observation of Saluk Wu Hui should have been made more than 3,000 years ago, so long ago that the people of Netheril had not yet practiced it. The Nether Scroll was discovered in the ruins of Arivandar and was discontinued.
The guardian of Orem at that time, a Saluk witch who called himself Asindo, when it was his turn to become the guardian of Orem, he was not loyal to his position, but Orem City was completely sealed, no longer awakening other sleeping Saruk Liches, and chose to leave this forgotten city alone to show off his talents to the emerging human settlement, Netheril.
At that time, the people of Netherese had begun to learn the art of magic from the elves of Erlan.
Arthindor appeared in the land of Netheril disguised as a mysterious human archmage.
Although he calls himself Ashin, the people of Netherese grant him the title 'Seer of the Earth' because his powers allow him to see what is happening around the world.
The Earthseer taught humanity the secrets of the Arcana and appeared to aid them many times over the centuries, never seeming to age.
His exploits include translating numerous Netherese scrolls, exploring the northern Sword Coast, capturing the Well of the Old Owl, and including in his many prophecies and teachings warnings that Netherese would pass through Karthus lead to destruction by his own hands.
The last appearance of Earthseer Arthin'dor, before arriving at the floating city of Karsus, warned the goddess of magic Mythril that she was about to face her greatest challenge, which may forever change the Netherese people's understanding of magic. .
What followed was the collapse of the well-known Magic Network, and the demise of the Netheril Magic Empire.
With the demise of Netheril, the Earthseer seemed to disappear without a trace.
So, Brian is also curious about what role 'Earth Prophet' Arcindor plays in Netheril, and what role he has in the collapse of the magic network and the demise of the empire.
He would like to hear the answer from Seth, the former Saluk God of Witches and Snakes.
However, Seth's answer made Brian look disappointed.
“I don’t know either.” The old voice of Seth’s clone said slowly:
“At first, I thought that the purpose of Asindor’s appearance in the land of Netheril was to Let the Netherese help the Saluk witches fight against the phaerim, but until the phaerim began to threaten the lands of Netherese, I never saw Althindor teaching or even warning any of the great arcanists. "
"Maybe he has some concerns," Brian said thoughtfully. "It was this concern that made him choose to hide before he could carry out his plan. Obviously, he was hiding. What are you afraid of?"
"It seems you have guessed it," Seth's clone said, "Yes, Axinduo's concern is the ancient god of death, Yeager."
"Behind the glory and decline of Netheril is absolutely inseparable from the behind-the-scenes manipulation of the ancient death god Yaeger." He said, "Since you are so interested, then I will tell you about the unknown history of that person. And my own guess."
I knew it was related to this guy, Brian thought to himself, and then said, "I'd like to hear the details."
Then he held the game. Si's holy symbol, while rushing on the road, he concentrated on communicating with his thoughts, and listened carefully to the evil god Seth telling him about the unknown history of the death god Yaeger and the early days of Netheril.
Suddenly, the only sound left in this silent lava tunnel was the faint footsteps of the ghostly Brian. As Seth's avatar recounted the history of ancient times, Brian gradually gained a deeper understanding of Netheril.
It turns out that thousands of years ago, in order to cultivate his power and develop his faith in the material world, Yeager set his sights on the seven fishing villages near the Narrow Sea that had not yet formed an alliance, which later became Netheril.
As a god, Yeager used his powerful divine power to easily establish his own faith among these primitive people and cultivate a shaman organization that worshiped him.
Then, he controlled the orcs to attack these fishing villages. Under the influence of external threats, these fishing villages were forced to unite. The Yergo shamans who were able to use divine magic were naturally integrated into the new regime. Obtained a high status.
When the Seven Towns Alliance was established, the new regime elected a shaman king, Old Nese as king, and the new country was named Netheril, meaning the land of Nese .
Under the rule of Old Nese, Yeager began to let his shamans establish beliefs and temples among humans, teach humans the knowledge of undead magic, and try to create a puppet kingdom that would obey his words.
But Jergal apparently forgot that his new human kingdom was located on the border of the Ellan Kingdom of Yeerlan.
How could the elves allow a kingdom of the dead, symbolizing evil, to suddenly appear on their borders?
After observing and monitoring Netheril for a long time through prophecy, the elves calmly and rationally made the most correct judgment.
They believe that the best way to prevent this new human country from becoming a country of the undead is not to destroy it directly, but to tell them that magic is not just necromancy.
So, as stated in the official history, elves came to communicate with humans and taught them various elven magics, making humans realize that necromancy was just a small branch of magic.
It has to be said that the elf's method was very successful.
As the Netherese people gain a deeper understanding of magic, their once firm belief in the death god Yegger has gradually loosened.
After learning the truth of the matter, Jaeger was naturally unhappy.
He decided to get rid of this group of pointy-eared elves who were blind, obstructive, and disobedient to Him.
So, Jergo fanned the flames of the orc tribe, raised a sizable orc army, and pushed across the elven territory of Erlan.
But he miscalculated two things this time:
First, the elves' combat power was not so weak that they would be easily pushed away by the orcs.
Second, in the face of the same foreign enemy, Netheril and Erlan stood more firmly on the same front...
If one plan fails, another plan will be made.
Jergo decided to guide the elves to go back to their own race's old path of seeking death - that is, to lure them into mastering too powerful magic and embark on the path of self-destruction.
In order to achieve this goal, Jergal sneaked into the Hall of Mists, the secret vault of the creator race, and stole the highest masterpiece of their magical wisdom - a scroll called the 'Golden Snake Skin of the World Serpent', which is also the Nese Scroll.
Then, these scrolls were secretly placed in the ruins of the ancient elven empire Irevandar.
But as always, Jergal dug a hole and buried himself this time.
The archmage of the creator race, the 'Earth Prophet' Asindo, who happened to be the guardian of Orem City, immediately sensed that the defensive spell they set up in the Hall of Mists thousands of years ago was under attack. intervened, and soon discovered the theft of the scrolls and Jergal's doings.
After carefully observing the elves and humans, the ancient lich decided to control the human kingdom of Jergal for his own use.
As just described, Arthindor quickly assumed the false identity of a human archmage, sneaked into the Kingdom of Netheril, and began to teach a new arcane system that was completely different from the elven system - given time, this system It will be called the 'Nese Arcanist System'.
He hopes to use this to make Netheril as free as possible from the influence of the elves and the divine control of Jergal, and become his puppet against the phaerinn.
During this period, Jergal did not notice anything unusual at all.
Because He is busy spreading rumors among the elves - that there is an extremely powerful magic sleeping in the ruins of the ancient elven empire, and whoever gets this magic will win the world, blabla... But the effect is not effective.
This means that Jerge still suffered the disadvantage of not taking cultural classes. It may also be that he has been sleeping for too long and has not conducted a detailed investigation of the elves.
You know, thousands of years ago, the elves known as the "little masters of seeking death" abused legendary spells in the civil war. Some of the high elven magic rituals even had multiverse-level interference power, blasting thousands of kilometers without any vegetation. craters, and even the Pan-Ancient Continent was torn apart by the magic of the elves.
Now, with the end of the Crown War, they finally got rid of the civil war and completely entered the sage mode to recuperate and recuperate. The so-called 'incredibly powerful magic' has little interest at all.
Otherwise, the elves would have razed these seven fishing villages to the ground as soon as they learned that the Netherese people were learning evil necromancy. How could they have the patience to provide them with magic enlightenment education? .
However, what is surprising is that although the elves are not interested in the secrets in the magic ruins, the Netherese human students studying magic in the elves are very interested in it.
A human apprentice studying in the Elf Kingdom, after hearing this rumor, secretly began to dig graves at the rumored Elf graves, and finally dug out this set of gold that brought the Netherese people to a turning point. reel.
When Jergal realized this situation, he was completely stupid: he took this time bomb to blow up the elves and prevent them from interfering with his control of Netheril. As a result, his men actually dug up the time bomb. How to fix it?
So, for the time being, Jergal had no choice but to run his own church and let the old lich Asindo - one of the original authors of the Golden Scroll - continue to teach his spellcasting system.
Although Jergal's plan against the elves failed, the only successful point in his entire plan was probably that the influence of the elves on humans has indeed declined.
After that, there are the three forces of Jergal, the Earth Prophet and the elves, all kinds of mutual restraints and tricks in Netheril...
(End of this chapter)