Chapter 431 Observation and Guardian of Orem City
In the dim underground tunnel, Brian's whole body shone with a faint light, making him look like a phantom as he kept walking forward.
While following Seth's instructions, he headed towards the interior of Orem City while listening to him tell him about the information about the Saluk witch python.
“Even the wizards whose strength reaches the legendary realm will have their lifespan run out one day.” Seth’s old thoughts sounded in Brian’s mind:
“The vast majority of strength On the eve of the demise of the empire, the powerful wizards were not worried about dying in the long river of time. After all, recovering the empire was an extremely long process, and they had to be prepared for such a long-term struggle. Therefore, these sixty-six legendary wizards decided to fight. Ranran chose to transform into a lich, and his purpose was to wait for the opportunity to let the glory of the creator race reappear in the material world. ”
"So you are so sure that these witches will help you, right?" Brian asked curiously.
He originally thought that after Seth's series of plans completely failed, the first thing he thought of was to choose to return to the Wuji Spire and continue to wait patiently.
I didn’t expect that the other party would go with me to see the ‘Earth Prophet’ Asindo.
Isn’t He afraid of these witches and monsters dealing with Him?
This point makes Brian really confused. After all, when he was fighting the witch, he had vaguely understood that the most important part of Seth's return plan was to completely control this group of living creatures. Thousands of years of Saluk Lich.
Now that the plan failed, the first thing he had to do was not to leave as soon as possible to avoid suffering the wrath of Wu Hui. Instead, he did the opposite and continued to follow him, trying to convince him with his sharp tongue. They help themselves.
Obviously, this is too hard and I want something soft.
"How will you know if you don't try it?" Seth snorted and retorted, "I will never let go of any method that can help me restore my divine power, even if the success rate of this method is low. It’s trivial, so I’m going to try.”
In fact, He tried to persuade Saluke Wuhui to help him, which was just one of the purposes of following Brian. His other biggest purpose was to check the numbers. The sixty-six Saluk Liches who have been living here in seclusion for ten thousand years, how many of them are still alive until now.
Although these lichs rely on the innate ability of reptiles to sleep, they only need to fall asleep to block the inherent madness of undead creatures like lichs and prevent their consciousness from being gradually corroded.
But tens of thousands of years have passed, and Seth does not think that all lichs can survive it. You must know that even his servants, the lichs whose bodies were destroyed by Brian, paid a heavy price to remain conscious. , survived to this day.
Of course Brian didn't know that Seth was still thinking so much in his mind, or that after learning that the other party no longer posed any threat to him, he simply didn't bother to guess about the other party's things that had nothing to do with him. True intentions are irrelevant.
"You are quite persistent."
He just laughed, said something casually, and continued to move forward.
After a while, he found that he had reached the end of the tunnel without knowing it.
What appeared in front of him was a wall covered with various lifelike murals from the period of the creator race, most of which were reptilian scaly creatures.
He raised his staff, pointed at a more eye-catching Saluk shaman on the mural, and then recited a spell quickly.
In an instant, the Saluk Wu Hui mural shone with a pale golden light, creating ripples like water waves and spreading towards all the surrounding murals at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In a trance, Brian seemed to feel an aura of vicissitudes of life and desolation coming towards his face. The images and backgrounds on the mural seemed to have come to life, appearing in front of him in an impressive manner, making him feel like himself. It is within the territory of the creator race from ancient times.
Just when he wanted to take a closer look at the surrounding environment, his expression suddenly stopped. This feeling was as if he was clearly having a realistic dream, but was awakened by an external force without any warning, so that After he regained consciousness, he seemed confused.
Brian looked shocked, and quickly activated various psychic powers to defend himself. After dispelling the unknown force that affected his thoughts, his mind became clearer.
Then he saw that the mural in his sight had long disappeared without a trace, and was replaced by a magic curtain that was condensed from dark blue energy and looked like a substance.
He held his breath and concentrated, using the detection magic of prophecy, trying to observe what was hidden behind the curtain.
However, what disappointed him was that the moment his mental power came into contact with the curtain, it was immediately rebounded back, as if giving him a warning, making him feel a faint sting in his mind. .
Fortunately, the damage was not serious and it had no substantial impact on him.
"Don't waste your efforts anymore." Seth's old thoughts sounded just right in the depths of Brian's mind:
"All the magic circles here are built with the mysterious magic ball as the core. You attack This magic curtain means that it is attacking the core of the mysterious orb. It is impossible to crack it. It is better to walk over honestly. "
When the mysterious orb was mentioned, Brian suddenly thought of it. With a question, he asked again, "Didn't you say before that your lich servant was not one of the sixty-six Saluk witches? Then why was she able to mobilize when she was fighting with me? The power of the mysterious sphere. "
"This starts from the fact that Asindo did not abide by the agreement to protect Orem City and chose to leave Orem City privately when he became an observer and guardian. "
Seth said to Brian without concealing it, "This servant of mine is the witch of the Mershock Empire. On the eve of the empire's demise, he also chose to transform himself into a lich and shoulder the responsibility of She embarked on a great mission to restore the empire. In order to resist the erosion of the Lich's crazy will, she deliberately asked a great sage from Mershok to seal herself in a thick amber coffin and hide it in my temple. "
"Later, the empires established by the three major creator races perished one after another. Even my temple was destroyed in the passage of time, and this temple containing the lich coffin was also not spared. It was destroyed by the Chultan Peninsula. The snake people who had already taken refuge in the evil god Seth discovered that these snake people originally planned to sacrifice the body to Seth, but I accidentally discovered it and used my divine power to wake her up from her long sleep. She killed the attempt. After sacrificing his own snake man, under my guidance, he went to the Narrow Sea, which is now the Supreme Glacier. When Asindor left Orem City, he took his place with the help of my divine power."
“When Netheril was destroyed, Arthindor secretly controlled the Netherese people to help him regain the creator race. After his plan failed, he was disheartened and returned directly to Orem City and fell into "Obviously, before Asindo fell into sleep, he didn't know that someone had taken this opportunity to take his place as an observer and guardian, right?" Brian expressed his guess, "Perhaps you used your divine power to cover up the traces of the witch, making Asindo mistakenly believe that Orem City has not changed at all since he left."
< br>"Your guess is right." Seth admitted frankly, "As you said, Asindo did not notice that someone had taken his place, and did not even wake up the new observer, so he directly He fell asleep."
"That's it." Brian looked surprised when he heard this. This can also explain why this man in the field of great arcanist after the demise of the Netheril Empire. , the Earth Prophet who played a decisive role disappeared inexplicably. It turns out that there are still so many secrets hidden in it.
This also means that the battle with the witches and demons that I just had, accidentally forcibly awakened the sleeping Saluk lichs, and actually helped them by accident. No wonder Seth was so angry.
After Brian sighed secretly, he stopped talking, raised his feet, and walked in without hesitation.
The moment he stepped into the magic curtain, Brian felt as if he had entered some kind of mysterious time and space tunnel. Time seemed to be passing rapidly around him, twisting and disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This strange situation did not last long before he came to the ruins of a solemn underground city.
The city that appeared in front of him was a complete ancient ruins, with white spiers rising from the ground, all shrouded in a soft and warm light, so that Brian didn't even feel that he was underground. The depths of the cave are as dark and damp as the dark elves, and more like a surface ruin bathed in soft sunlight.
Because there is no darkness as imagined here, all corners are shrouded in the light cast by countless white spiers.
Furthermore, as a race from the ancient times, the Saluk Wu Hui did not have the atmosphere of primitive barbarism here. Instead, it gave him a sense of history that was as heavy and vicissitudes of life as an ancient library.
A breath of profoundness and grandeur, even if he didn't consciously feel it, he felt that they were already rushing towards him. Even the golden dragon Paralandax couldn't help but sigh.
It can be seen that this is simply a living history.
About 37,000 years ago, the glaciers melted, the oceans retreated, and dry land emerged from the water. A long ice age ended, and recorded history began.
In the ancient times before the separation of the continents, the continents later known as Faerûn, Karatu, Maztec and Zakara were just part of the supercontinent called Meru Robros. However, none of the dozen or so common races currently living in the various kingdoms appeared in this distant era.
There are no civilized races on the continent of Meru Robros - elves, dwarves, halflings and gnomes, and barbaric races - goblins, orcs, ogres and their relatives have never appeared.
Although humans had been born during this period, they were extremely primitive, no different from apes, using simple tools and living in caves.
This is the Age of Thunder, which belongs to the Elvish language of Aqua-Tel Quesser, which means: the race before the people, which is the legendary creator race.
And Brian never expected that in his lifetime, he would be able to witness the ruins of a complete city in ancient times. Orem City was called the "City of a Thousand Towers" and was one of the three creator race empires. The capital of the Isto-Sefifer Empire.
This city has experienced the battle between dragons and giants in the Age of Dawn, from the Age of Ancient Thunder, to the prosperity of the Elf Empire, the decline of the Crown War, and the founding era that marked the rise of all humanoid civilizations.
Finally, as the kingdoms of elves and dwarves declined, humans rose and dramatically dominated the magnificent era of Toril.
The powerful mechanical empire Imaskar, the arcane empire Netheril, Calimshan, Mulhorand and Unther, Zhamdas, Narfell, etc.
Brian, who gradually came to his senses, no longer wasted any more time. He ignored the open traffic road ahead, fixed his eyes directly on the most glorious palace in the center of the city, and walked straight over.
As the center of the entire city, this tower, also made of white marble, is undoubtedly very conspicuous.
It is bathed in countless colorful and jumping demonic fires, and the ambilight projected on the surroundings is like a dream.
Without any obstruction, Brian easily walked along the white marble steps into the spacious and bright hall of the tower.
The layout of this hall is obviously telling him about an ancient era that has long disappeared in the long river of time.
Dozens of tall marble columns lead directly to the hall. The white marble surface is carved with countless gilded etchings that snake upward, like a woven magic rope, passing through each jade gemstone with spiral veins.
And in the deepest part of the hall, stands an alexandrite that shines with soft brilliance.
This bright gemstone is intricately carved into a giant claw that pushes upward, looking like the paw of some kind of reptile.
A throne surrounded by three carved jade snakes is located exactly in the center of the scale claws.
What surprised Brian was that on the seat surrounded by jade snakes, there was a skeleton whose whole body had fallen apart.
This obviously rotten skeleton was shrouded in a tattered gray robe.
When Brian's eyes fell on it, he found that the skeleton was squirming at a slow speed.
Then under his gaze, the scattered bones and joints automatically spliced together one by one, supporting the broken gray robe.
With the rattling of ancient bones, a cracked and extremely weathered skull slowly floated out from the collar of his robe.
When it landed tightly on the neck of the skeleton, two dim soul fires suddenly appeared in the empty eye sockets.
The skeleton stared at Brian with empty eye sockets. It had no lips, and the mouth full of teeth cracked weirdly due to the smile. It said in a hoarse and stiff tone:
"Welcome to Orem City, we have been waiting for you, you can call me: Guardian and Observer of Orem, or...if you like...you can also call me 'Earth Prophet' Asindo .”
(End of this chapter)