Chapter 177 The 43rd piece of knowledge! Candlekeep Path
Ooze Pit.
It is said that this ghost place was filled with a pool of God's blood, so that for hundreds of years, a super huge ooze monster would appear every once in a while, but fortunately the ooze monsters are all here It has little intelligence and rarely leaves the active area. It is not a particularly difficult monster to deal with.
At this time, on the edge of the pit, a team of five people was moving forward cautiously.
“Those kobolds know how to choose a place.”
A bald man with demonic features looked around, touched his bald head and said: "Although this ghost place is dangerous, as long as you can avoid the blood mud monster, you don't have to worry about other evil things nearby."
Akdina Du'a walked at the end of the team, holding a secret map in her hand, with a skull emblem marked on their location.
——Sacred Blood Devourer [Super Giant Mud Monster] [Elementalization] (Strength Unknown)!
After marking the skulls on the secret map, Akdina looked around vigilantly and said: "Stop talking nonsense."
"Hurry up and find the entrance to the kobolds' lair. .”
Along the way, they marked three skull marks. This symbol has a special meaning. It generally refers to legendary monsters with a creature level of 20 or above. If the target is suspected of possessing the corresponding domain law, a symbol will be engraved under the skull. A bloody emblem.
This represents the existence of the lord level.
These monsters will have to be eliminated one by one in the future. If they want to regain the material plane, they must clean the courtyard first.
A faint sound of barking came.
Akdina Du'u was instantly alert and turned her head to look near a dark tunnel. She saw a funny dog head sticking out, its skin covered with fine scales. After discovering their group, , the kobold ran wildly into the cave in an instant. After a while, a kobold dragon warlock standing nearly 1.5 meters tall appeared outside the mine.
——Dejin-Dragonblood [Dragon Vein Warlock].
Since a kobold bard named Durkin became famous in Waterdeep City, many kobolds have given themselves the same name. You don’t need to pay too much attention to the names of kobolds, because most of them have Similar names, born too fast, die too fast, some kobolds don't even have names.
"You are finally here."
Dejin-Dragonblood came out holding a black staff. It was a low-level sealed object. The Kobold section It was estimated that some powerful monster was killed in time, and it said in a barking dragon language: "The cubs are starving."
Dragon-veined creatures are promoted very quickly, and they inherit part of the dragon's talents. , extraordinary relics can be eaten raw directly.
Dejin is a Dragon Vein Warlock of Extraordinary Level 7. Behind him are two kobold commandos, and further away are kobold lurkers, but their strength is far weaker than it. The promotion of kobolds can be achieved quickly through the dragon's gift, and they also have a unique dragon vein ritual to awaken the bloodline power by praying to the dragon. However, there are not many legendary-level kobolds in the entire multiverse. The further their bloodline goes, the harder it is for them to be promoted.
Akdina Du'uo took out two dimensional bags, placed them directly in front of the kobold Dragon Vein Warlock, and said in a solemn voice: "The food is inside."
"Master's New order."
"Let you move in this direction, there will be your new settlement there."
Dejin-Dragonblood took the map, glanced at it, and pondered. After a moment, he said: "We will set off in five days. Some of the cubs have just hatched and they need some time to grow up."
These kobolds are basically in a free-range state.
It’s not that Xiao En can’t afford to raise him, it’s just that supplies were really scarce at first, but the free-range kobolds are different from the captive ones. The free-range ones will be promoted to more kobold professionals, while the captive ones will be promoted to more professional kobolds. They are basically pure slaves. The kobold race relies entirely on the dragon genes in its bloodline. Without external threats and oppression, the quality of the kobolds will be quite poor, and it will be difficult to produce more dragon-veined warlocks from them.
After three months of free rein, this kobold tribe has expanded to hundreds of people, and another dragon warlock has appeared.
The population surged so much because they annexed a free-ranging kobold tribe.
It only takes three days for a kobold egg to hatch here. On the day of hatching, the kobold can walk and run. As long as there is enough food, it can reach a height of eighty centimeters in a week at most. After one month, he will have very weak combat power, which is probably equivalent to that of a fifteen or sixteen year old child. They are born with some racial skills (mining and digging +5). Mining and burrowing are almost instinctive for them, and they can also master more advanced skills by learning from other kobolds.
For a long time, the battle between kobolds and goblins was because the kobolds had better equipment and had a certain advantage, and they could forge weapons and armor themselves.
There is a very small chance that they will genetically return to their ancestors and appear as the legendary 'dragon-forged kobolds'.
That is, the kobold who awakens to become the alchemical path.
For Xiao En, the value of dragon-forged kobolds is far greater than that of dragon-veined warlocks, because their forging ability is comparable to that of dwarf craftsmen. However, since the end of the Dragon Court era, dragon-forged kobolds were genetically atavistic and born. There are fewer and fewer people.
But it's worth a try, as long as one dragon-forged kobold appears, more will appear in a steady stream.
Akdina Du'u nodded slightly and said: "Have you encountered any trouble recently?"
Dejin Dragonblood thought for a while and said: "Those ooze monsters are stupid and can't be found at all. As long as we are here, other monsters will not come near here."
"But our scouts have discovered some weird bugs recently."
Insects?
Akdina Du'u said with a solemn expression: "What bug?"
Dejin Dragonblood recalled: "They are very big beetles. They seem to be able to draw nutrients from any substance and reproduce very quickly. Our scouts have discovered their eggs. These monsters killed an underground shadow." Strange."
After that, it drew a pattern of a larvae on the ground and said: "This is their larvae, the whole body is pale, and the eggs are parasitic on the corpses of other creatures."
< br>Zerg? !
Akdina Du'u asked seriously: "Is there a corpse?"
Dejin Dragonblood nodded and said: "I asked the cubs to send them over, and the larvae were almost killed. They ate.”
After a few minutes.
A pale larva was sent out, more than ten centimeters long. Akdina Du'a took a look at it, took out a special alchemy object, activated it, closed her eyes and telegraphed mentally: " Lord Xiao En."
"The Kobold discovered an unknown Zerg."
She reported everything she knew. About ten minutes later, Xiao En's deep voice passed through her heart. The message rang out: "Tilbana Zerg."
"One of the Zerg branches."
"It should be from other worlds. I will send people to pay attention to this matter."
That meteor shower dropped not only dragon eggs, but also some strange things.
The Tilbana Zerg are a branch of the ancient Zerg. They are parasitic insects that reproduce very quickly. They do not have particularly powerful insect combat units, but they have strong survival and adaptability. They can reproduce a large number of larvae from just one corpse, and these larvae will hatch quickly and advance into the forms of fighting beetles, killer bugs, sleepy bugs, egg-laying bugs, etc.
After leaving enough food for the kobold tribe, Akdina Du'u and others quickly left.
They are going to the deep mines to meet with the monster trading group formed by Quin-To and others. Currently, the Worm Nest is actively expanding externally, and the worms are digging deeper underground. According to the current progress of excavation, it may not be long before they encounter evil things deep underground.
at the same time.
In the distant Tower of Knowledge, Xiao En’s figure is sitting on the right side of a long table. Surrounding him are scholars wearing various robes. They are generally older. The youngest one also has a middle-aged face, Xiao En is the only young person inside.
A small number of sages appear in the form of projections, but their bodies have not come here.
This is one of the inheritance places for the path of knowledge.
However, because the power of the path of death is so strong, many geniuses on the path of knowledge have switched to the path of death, so that their strength is far inferior to other paths. The decline of the path of knowledge is inseparable from the Candlekeep in the spiritual world, because a lot of the mysterious knowledge left over from the Dark Age is sealed in the Candlekeep.
However, there are so many indescribably powerful illusions there that even legendary powerhouses find it difficult to penetrate deep into them, and ordinary spellcasters cannot even think of reading the ancient secret volumes sealed in Candlekeep.
"Ancient Elf Magic" and "Golden Scroll" are both sealed in the deepest part of Candlekeep.
The path of death and the path of knowledge have a trade-off relationship.
Because strictly speaking, the path of death can be regarded as the necromancy school among the eight major schools of magic, while the path of knowledge is the other seven schools besides the death school.
1V7. The necromancy faction almost crushed the other magic schools.
Necromancy is not popular in the Tower of Knowledge. The most powerful school of magic is the 'conjuration system'. Those who tend to study necromancy in depth have basically switched to the path of death. under his command.
The core members of the Death Path are necromancers, death knights, undead kings, etc. Most of them will be transformed into undead templates in the later stage, and those spellcasters will eventually become corpse witches and lichs.
The core members of the Path of Knowledge are wizards, warlocks, magic swordsmen, etc. Basically, the racial template rarely changes. They have unique advancements for knowledge sages and dossier scholars, which is one of the most important hidden promotion paths. He is a 'Candlekeep Scholar', but because Candlekeep has not been able to enter for hundreds of years, this has resulted in the Candlekeep Scholar's promotion path being interrupted.
Because the "Scroll of Darkness" cannot be obtained, there is no way to study dark knowledge, and the inherited profession "Dossier Scholar" that originated from the ancient elves cannot continue.
This is like a incomplete secret book of martial arts.
You can practice the techniques of the Path of Death all the way to Demigod, because someone has already opened up the path before, but for the promotion route of the Path of Knowledge, no matter which secret you are, you have to face the ancient evil level. If you can't get the corresponding skills, you will be stuck at a bottleneck.
The decline of the path of knowledge is not only due to the blindness and ignorance shrouded in the grotesque kingdom.
There are many warlocks here, and ambitious wizards have set their sights on being promoted to demigod lich because the upper limit of the path of death is higher.
Xiao En came here this time to discuss matters regarding the ‘Candle Keep’.
Candlekeep.
A legendary place that cannot be circumvented no matter how you move in the spiritual world. Its birth originated from a place with the same name in a different world. It is also the place where the son of the god of killing grew up. The adoptive father of the son of the god of killing is Zhu. Fort Scholar. Before the Dark Age, a powerful alien soul created Candlekeep to preserve the mysterious knowledge he collected about the alien world, and even sealed many ancient elves' spells. This alien soul was a scholar from Candlekeep. At that time, dozens of powerful spellcasters joined forces to open up Candlekeep, hoping to preserve knowledge in this way.
But then an accident happened, knowledge was activated, and indescribable illusions were born, and they became the masters of Candlekeep.
This is equivalent to cutting off the inheritance, making it difficult for others to enter and read the ancient secret scrolls.
And if you want to be promoted to Archmage through the wizard path, you also need a lot of mysterious knowledge sealed in Candle Keep. Without opening Candle Keep, many advanced professions other than basic professions will be difficult to open.
"The remnants of Cathay are attacking the Land of Chaos."
Above the long meeting table, an old man with a white beard sweeping the floor glanced across the crowd, his eyes stayed on Xiao En for a moment, and said slowly: " They have broken through the elemental chaos."
"They have established an outpost."
"We can't wait any longer."
A lot of great things have happened during this time. .
The great druids of the natural path opened the dream forest, and extraordinary beings of other paths can enter that plane through dream rituals. The shamans in the northern ice field are looking for the ancient spirit. Xiao En is not sure what it is specifically. It should be a kind of existence similar to being born and raised on the earth, a embodied consciousness of the concept of nature. In the country of mountains in the south, the earth prophets of the highlanders have found the remains of the fallen gods, or they have known where they are for a long time, but they have not started digging until now.
The laws of the real country are slowly assimilating with the weird country. The great era has quietly begun. If you don’t want to sit still and wait for death, you must take the initiative.
The Tower of Knowledge has been trying to take back Candlekeep for nearly a thousand years.
Xiao En was invited to participate in this meeting of the eight major schools. On the one hand, he is strong enough and a half-dimensional mage is definitely qualified to sit at the conference table. On the other hand, it is also because he represents Lady Hecate, the sages of the Tower of Knowledge seek help from the demigod of death.
The long conference table.
The eyes of several great sages fell on Xiao En, but Xiao En remained silent, just stroking the ring he was wearing with his fingers.
A Ring of the Witch King represents the authority of Abyss City.
A lich ring represents the person on the path of death.
After a long time, Xiao En pondered for a moment and slowly said: "If the Tower of Knowledge is going to take back Candle Keep, the teacher will provide certain assistance."
"But what happens after opening Candle Keep? ?”
"Who will deal with the Lord of Darkness? Those crazy and twisted ancient scholars, are they all angelic beings now? Do you all here have a way to deal with them?"
"And the great detective-Mo Tillion, Blade Dancer, Soul Eater Lord, Twilight Scroll, Iron Maiden, etc."
"These indescribable illusions are not so easy to deal with."
Shawn. What has been cleared up for a while is the distortion of flesh and blood, but besides that there is also the indescribable illusion and the hatred of the world.
The indescribable illusions are all in the spirit world, and they are also the most difficult type of monster to deal with.
Ms. Hecate’s meaning is simple, it’s okay to fight, but Path of Death can only provide partial assistance. They still need to clean up the mess internally, and they can’t spare any time to fully attack Candlekeep. If it is a forceful attack, attacking Candle Keep is no less difficult than conquering a kingdom of God. There are at least a dozen evil beings with angelic qualities, countless indescribable illusions, and the souls of wizards who have gone crazy on the path of knowledge.
The leader of the old man was silent for a moment, stared at Xiao En and said slowly: "What does Ms. Hecate mean?"
Xiao En said calmly: "Steal!"
< br>In front of the long table on the right side of Xiao En, the projection of a scholar said: "How to steal? Who can steal?"
Xiao En shook his head and said: "I don't know."
"But you must at least find a legendary thief with shadow and theft fields first. We can help attract the enemy's attention and divert some of the illusions, but if you want to sneak into the depths of Candlekeep, only the top rogues can do it. ”
You must be at least a level 25 or above rogue, a high-level legendary destiny powerhouse, with the domain of shadow and theft, to be able to steal the Dark Secret Scroll from Candlekeep.
The sages present looked at each other and frowned in thought, wondering if there was such a legendary thief among their acquaintances.
Xiao En stood up calmly and said: "If you can find a suitable candidate, then we will discuss the next plan."
"Otherwise."
"Now is not the time to open the Candle Keep."
Of course Xiao En also wants the mysterious knowledge in the Candle Keep, but the problem is that there are too many indescribable illusions sealed in it. After the law of knowledge is completely activated, the Candle Keep The castle is full of monsters and monsters.
He walked all the way out of the tower.
After leaving the tower, Xiao En gently wiped the Lich Ring on his finger and said silently in his heart: "Teacher, the matter is done."
A moment later, A calm female voice sounded: "I know."
Xiao En turned around and looked at the tower behind him, put on his black cloak, and walked towards the library in the distance. He came to the Tower of Knowledge this time, partly because of Ms. Hecate’s mission, and partly because of Came here to study.
The eight major schools of magic for casters, except for the Necromancy School, the other seven schools are all inherited here.
After all, Xiao En is not a real necromancer. He can learn most of the knowledge from Ms. Hecate, but the focus is still on the necromancy school. He himself is a caster of the general school, that is, he does not have Any specialized faction, so he must complete the mysterious knowledge of the eight major factions.
The more knowledge, the better.
Xiao En's destiny path is, on the one hand, spreading knowledge, and on the other hand, accumulating knowledge himself. The latter is even more important than the former.
He was short of one last chance to visit the realm of 'knowledge'.
Xiao En had a strong feeling at this time that when he completed the road of destiny, he would probably see his 'acquaintance' again.
Because it always wants to 'eat' Xiao En's brain.
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(End of this chapter)