Chapter 435 The Truth
Brian is quite clear about the theft of the Nese Scroll.
At the beginning, he only lost seven scrolls. These were picked out by the huge group of players when he was in the game world, and they actually found five. .
Unfortunately, the content recorded in these five scrolls is the last group of 'Introduction to Secret Techniques', which mainly describes the principles and knowledge of making artifacts.
You must know that this is the most difficult set of scrolls to understand. Before opening its power, you must have the extended knowledge of all other Nese scrolls.
Therefore, even if these players obtained these scrolls, just like the one Brian obtained, they were left idle in the corner, quietly gathering dust.
From the 'Earth Prophet' Asindo asking Karthas to study the Nese scroll and the contents of the lost scroll, it can be seen that the thief's purpose of stealing the scroll does have a deep meaning.
It is said that these seven Nese scrolls were stolen by an unknown thief that even the great arcanists could not find through detection magic.
According to the information Brian had in the game world, he learned that the unknown thief originally planned to keep these seven scrolls in the ancient ruins of the creator race, but for some reason As a result, he placed three of them in the Hall of Mist, which is under the Grandfather Tree in the Supreme Forest.
These three scrolls are what Brian is determined to obtain. Once he completes this mission, he will start preparing to go to his grandfather's father, negotiate with the group of tree people, and take out the scrolls hidden deep underground.
Two more were placed in the Sorcerer's Tomb, the former lair of the Lich King Larok, which later became part of the Western Oak Desert.
Although Brian knows where the Warlock's Tomb is located in the Eno Oak Desert, with his current strength, he does not dare to break into it.
As the former lair of the Lich, it was not only filled with huge undead creatures, but there was also a crack that led to nowhere, causing a large number of evil spirits from other planes to reside inside.
As for the whereabouts of the other two scrolls, no one knows.
But what is surprising is that the loss of these seven Nese scrolls did not attract the attention of these great arcanists. It was not until twenty-four more were lost that they finally panicked.
Then after deliberation by the Supreme Mage Council, most of the great arcanists unanimously agreed to send the remaining dozen Nese scrolls to the floating city of Iolum for safekeeping.
But I never thought that even the remaining Nese scroll would be lost again on the way to the destination.
Being able to steal the scrolls of Nese one by one under the noses of many great arcanists is probably something that can only be done by those gods who have great power.
It can be seen that the person behind the theft of the Nese Scroll is undoubtedly the ancient god of death, Yeager.
But it was not over yet. After learning that 'Earth Prophet' Arcindor was trying to stop his long-planned plan, Yeager not only made the Nese scrolls that the great arcanists relied on disappear completely, but also Arcindor None of them were spared.
In retaliation, Yeager drove a Lich Grand Arcanist under his control completely crazy, and destroyed his floating city through an unknown magical accident.
Then, in this incident, He killed another Grand Arcanist who had taken refuge under the Prophet of Earth without leaving a trace.
The main reason why the great arcanist was killed was because the great arcanist had already developed an effective method to fight against the Felin Demon Kui with the help of Acindor.
Unfortunately, it was killed before it could be promoted.
This also directly led to the Millennium Plan of the Earth Prophet to fight against the Felin Demon Kui, so there was a serious flaw.
What surprised Brian was that although the unknown great arcanist who was mainly responsible for researching the pharynx was killed by Yeager, some of his manuscripts recording the research on the pharynx were accidentally discovered by his apprentice. get.
And this apprentice is the Grand Arcanist Ellando.
After he fell in the floating city, not only did he not die, he also participated in the reconstruction of Harundas City.
However, with the destruction of Harundas City, Ellando also fell into a state of madness.
In the end, it turned into an evil shadow creature, and with the help of the remaining power of the floating city ruins, it killed the exploring golden dragon Paralandax, and imprisoned the dragon's soul forever. In the library, it wasn't until Brian's appearance that his ghost was rescued.
After Yeager dealt with the threat from the 'Earth Prophet' Asindo, in the Year of Fatal Consequences, through threats, instigation, temptation and other means, most of the ritual candidates were transformed into Lich, in order to facilitate his control of these great arcane masters.
Although among these great arcanists, only Iolum had the will to resist Jaeger's bewitchment, he did not last long before he transformed himself into a lich at the age of the brain.
Immediately afterwards, Karsus discovered the existence of heavy magic power under Yeager's step-by-step guidance, which was an important component of Yeager's magic-modified version of the ascension ceremony.
Then in the Year of Great Courage, all the chosen ones mastered heavy magic, and Jaeger saw that the time was ripe and began to make final preparations.
Under Jaeger's design, the dwarves of Eskau believed that the magic of the Chosen Ones could prevent the ever-expanding desert from encroaching on their city.
Dwarves and Netherese laborers began working together to build thirteen redstone spiers, connected by the remaining magic of Ariel, the ancient city of the Spellweavers.
During the construction process, Yeager often showed beautiful pictures to his chosen ones in the form of dreams: with their help, his divine power expanded rapidly, and he became the master of death and death in the entire Faerûn. Gods of spiritual magic, and they will also obtain a fragment of divine power and become immortal.
At this time, the 'Earth Prophet' Asindo, who had been paying attention to the chosen ones for a long time, finally discovered the identity of Yeager's mastermind, and he decided to destroy Yeager's plan.
He successfully persuaded Iolum to re-evaluate the promise Yeager gave them, and at the same time added fuel to the fire, making Karthus, who had become paranoid and arrogant, even more crazy, deceiving the latter that Yeager's real purpose was to steal them power, rather than granting them fragments of divinity.
But most of them have been too deeply dominated by Jaeger and turned a deaf ear to Asindor's warning - only the sixth one, Telamante Tanshur, who goes by the pseudonym Shado, listened to the earth The prophet's warning.
He began to look at Yeager's 'aid' with suspicion, and shifted the main area of research to plane science that had nothing to do with Yeager's plan.
Iolum also listened to the warning of the Earth Prophet and gave up his floating city without hesitation and fled to his residence somewhere in the Underdark. Karsus, who had fallen into madness, simply refused to leave. In his floating city, he began to study the twelve-ring spell "Karsus Apotheosis" that caused the destruction of the entire arcane empire.
In the year when the Demonic Network was broken, all the chosen ones except Iolum, Telamante and Karsus gathered in the dwarven city of Escaul under the call of Jaeger.
Since Yeager's plan has been noticed by the Earth Prophet, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, he had no choice but to forcibly start his long-planned ritual of solidifying his divinity without three people. .
At the same time, Karthus also cast his twelve-ring spell. At this time, the Earth Prophet was not idle either. He deliberately attracted a group of phaerim magic sunflowers to raid Yeager's spellcasting site, which also interfered with the operation of the ritual.
During Yeager’s divine landline ceremony, first the unexpected magic network was broken, causing Yeager’s magic ritual to be distorted, and then the spellcasting was forcibly interfered with by the Felin Demon Sunflower, causing the ritual to Unable to hold on any longer, the seven chosen ones died on the spot, leaving Yeager and the remaining three great arcanists messy in the wind.
These three people are Saragunter Bell, Elissa Jonnis and Ella Linda. They were thrown far away from Netheril by the powerful magic recoil.
After that, Elisa and Ella chose other gods as partners to keep the fragments of divine power that Yeager left in their bodies.
Elisa was allied in a sense with Moandor, the god of decay, for many centuries to come until she was eliminated after a conflict with the elves of the Wolf Forest, now the Kingdom of Cormyr. kill.
Ella expanded her divine power with the help of Suellen, the goddess of the moon, and became a secondary deity worshiped in a certain area.
It is said that on the eve of the erection of the standing stone in the valley, she handed over her divinity and merged with Selun.
Saragant Bell became a feared assassin active south of Long Lake. After that, he and two other people became companions and found Yeager, and finally obtained the complete god. Sex, becoming Baal, the god of murder.
The fall of Netheril caused Yeager's followers to split into various factions that were once hostile to each other. The decrease in followers also weakened his divine power. After this blow, Yeager completely lost his ambition. and vitality.
He was tired of pursuing power and instead pursued nothingness, and his teachings also changed with his ruined state.
So when Bane, Baal and Melkor, the three former gods of death, came to visit, Jaeger voluntarily gave up most of his divine power and priesthood.
After listening to the 'Earth Prophet' Arthindor tell him the truth about the demise of the Netheril Empire, Brian was silent for a long time, and then gradually learned about these things in areas that he had never touched before. Knowledge is digested.
He was originally worried about the destruction of Netheril, but it was due to Karsus' arrogance. He didn't expect that there were so many secrets hidden in it.
The manipulator behind all this is actually the current ancient god of death, Yeager.
"So, it is very possible that the Death God Yeager really comes from the Spellweaver Organization, is that true?" Recalling the unofficial history of Yeager that he had inadvertently read in the game world, Brian He looked at the silent Asindo with lingering fear, waiting for his answer.
Although he was already 100% sure of his guess, he still wanted Asindo to admit it personally.
“That’s right.” Asindo nodded slightly, as if sighing, “Yeager, the god of death, may have been the last survivor of the Spellweaver organization.”
“Perhaps? Finally?" Hearing the other party's uncertain answer to his question, Brian once again asked his inner question, "Does this mean that there may be other survivors in the Spellweaver organization?"
For some reason, when he mentioned this matter, he suddenly recalled the obelisk made of unknown black steel standing in his demiplane.
It is the mysterious power of this obelisk and the racial characteristics of the Water Fairy that allow him to master the ability to break away from the magic network and use the magic hub to cast spells.
If there are other Spellweavers still alive, does it mean that they have been aware of the existence of the demiplane from the moment they activated the obelisk.
In this case, wouldn't he be in trouble?
After all, this obelisk is a magical artifact created by the Spellweaver organization when it conquered the multiverse.
Every time they conquer a world, they will build an obelisk in that world, and then these spiers will be connected to each other through a complex system of portals.
In other words, if his conjecture is true, then it will probably be a matter of time before the survivors of the Spellweaver find their demiplane.
"I'm not sure either." Just when Brian was secretly worried, Asindo spoke. He slowly shook the skull that seemed to be about to roll to the ground, and said in a deep voice:
" According to unreliable sources, there are indeed very few Spellweavers alive, and they should be hidden in a demiplane called the 'Dark Abyss'."
The dark abyss of the etheric plane?
Brian looked surprised.
He still knows something about this demiplane.
This is a demiplane that is constantly collapsing, and it is also a demiplane that is always in a state of collapse.
Don’t ask what is going on, because even the most knowledgeable scholars cannot answer this question.
However, there are still some brave travelers who have arrived here.
They pointed out that time and space at the core of this demiplane, and the collapse at the edges, were balanced to a certain extent.
Therefore, the time and space here became similar to the main material plane, thus maintaining the fate of not being completely destroyed.
If you enter the ether membrane of this demiplane, you will find that there are black stones in all directions.
If you look carefully, you can also notice that there are many air-filled caves and tunnels all around. This is quite suitable as a slum, at least it will not be more uncomfortable than in a 'cage'.
The inner wall of the cave exudes a faint light, and various mysterious plants grow there. They are arranged extremely neatly, and tunnels are also connected to each other between these caves.
If you go deeper, you will notice that the ether of the ether membrane is agitated and distorted.
It will soon become extremely difficult for people to move because the ether membrane here has become unstable, and even some twisted ether membranes may shatter and disappear in an instant.
Legend has it that some travelers found two stone statues engraved with mysterious words in a cave deep in the demiplane.
One piece is engraved with 'time' and the other with 'space'.
(End of this chapter)