Arcane Journey

Chapter 108 Master of Elements
In a hidden cave somewhere in the Underdark.

There are many strange pictures carved on the cold rock walls on all sides, including bones, lava, demons, altars, and a phantom of a demon that seems to be shrouded in darkness.

The light from the glowing fungus is refracted through large crystals protruding from the floor, creating colorful kaleidoscopic patterns on the surrounding walls.All crystals are translucent, but the images seen through the crystals will appear hideous and terrifying.

This cavern is decorated more like a drow's city dwelling.

Spider-themed tapestries, fine zek wood furniture, and expensive racks of clothing abound, all of which are old and decayed.

On decaying benches sat robed skeletons, others shriveled corpses, or carcasses of deep decay.

On the obsidian altar in the center of the cave is a slender figure covered in a black cloak.

The figure stood up, eyes closed and arms folded, as if meditating or praying.

The smell of blood, sweat, incense, and rotting flesh filled the chamber, making the air stale.

I do not know how long it has been
The obscene chants, as low as ghosts, seemed to come from a distant evil plane, shaking the entire secret room with an unhurried rhythm.

A six-fingered palm carved from obsidian, taller than ordinary humans, broke through the dark curtain, and slowly rose from behind the altar strangely.

The fingertips of the palm danced with countless halos of red flames.

Under the faint light, a slender figure in a black cloak jumped down from the altar.

Standing in front of the altar, the slender figure gently took off the cloak, revealing bone white long hair, pointed ears and ebony skin.

Without the cover of the cloak, she showed her true colors.

This is a female dark elf.

I saw her kneeling deeply on the ground, her hands crossed in front of her chest, and she uttered strange prayers.

As her prayers echoed strangely from the secret stone room, the darkness gradually became deeper, and a pair of white eyeballs glowing with green light seemed to be looking down in the darkness.

The dark elf raised his sharp chin, and with his pupils shining with scarlet light, he faced the void and a phantom appeared.

She stood up slowly, raised her hand slightly, and the black robe, like flowing water, slowly faded to her feet along the dark elf's curvaceous body exuding fatal temptation, revealing a close-fitting white thin dress.

The dark elf turned around slowly, looking at the two male drow trembling with fear behind him.

She took the hands of the two of them, whispered a few words, then kissed and hugged them non-stop, shaking the loose white hair, entangled with each other roughly and wildly.

The long, heavy breathing ended.
The dark elf turned around, leaned his back against the altar, and handed two whips to the two male dark elves, metal whips with many barbed spikes on their bodies. While giving them orders, he raised his hands above his head, facing the sickly glowing ceiling. Made a pious and fanatical gesture of summoning.

"clap clap"

The two drow warriors waved their whips reluctantly and lashed at her.

Of course, they didn't use any force, the barbs on the whip softly grazed her slender body without leaving any marks.

"Pump hard! Pump hard! Otherwise, you will die!"

An angry red tide flashed in the female dark elf's eyes, her angry scream was extremely shrill, and her throat made a 'hohoho' sound.

She made a summoning gesture again, and this time the whip finally landed on her body 'seriously'.

"Snapped!"

When the whip fell, her body twisted and twitched, and a big tear was torn in the thin white silk dress.

The dark elf's face twisted into a smile, and she kept urging.

The two hit harder, the whip crackled, and soon, a whip wrapped around her chest, and when she pulled hard, the tight corset was broken, and a pair of ebony plump boobs happily bounced out.

"Snapped!"

The next whip left the first bloodstain on the dark elf.

A suppressed scream sounded, and she moaned, but kept asking the two drow warriors behind her to be more ruthless.

The two fighters tentatively increased their strength slowly, and then under her encouragement again and again, they pumped harder and harder.

Every time the whip is raised and lowered, there are terrifying bloodshots.

gradually.
The whip-scarred dark elf is not so much a charming naked woman, but a ferocious beast soaked in blood to describe her image at the moment.

She put her hands down and folded her hands on her waist, like the mistress of the family in the Rose Temple, giving orders to her slaves domineeringly, and signaled the two drow warriors to come to the altar.

Two drow warriors walked over with fear and fear on their faces.

The dark elf's scarlet eyes rested on them, and the corners of her mouth turned up in an odd smile.

A cold light flashed, and two streams of blood spattered.

The drow warrior who came close had his throat cut open by a sharp dagger, and fell to the ground with a face full of despair, twitched twice, and died.

As streams of blood fell on the obsidian altar, a faint dark aura began to emerge, and finally gathered into a hazy demon phantom.

"Lord of Darkness, Lord of Shadows, Lord of Darkness with Ebony Skin, Great Demon Lord Graz'zt, grant me your favor!"

The bloody dark elf knelt deeply on the ground, panting hard while praying devoutly.

Graz'zt, the Lord of Darkness, is a tall, handsome, dark-skinned, demon lord with a dark charm and gleaming green eyes.

He wears regal attire, pointy ears and yellowish fangs, all showing his demonic race.

And the most amazing feature of Lord Wu'an is his six fingers and six toes.

The priests of Graz'zt, also known as the Chosen, are usually women, and the high priests are all women.

This demon lord prefers mortals of the material world to perform living sacrifices in His name.

At the same time, lingering and wild copulation also occupies a very important position in the heretical rituals of believers.

As the flames of the brazier leaped fiercely upwards, a phantom of a demon glowing with green light emerged out of thin air.

"Go to the surface!"

The strange voice seemed to come from the distant void, echoing in the secret room for a long time, the phantom of the devil stretched out his finger, and a large desert filled with heat waves and mad sand emerged out of thin air.

"In the northernmost part of the Kingdom of Cormyr, I can feel that the thief is about to return to the surface."

"Kill him! Take back the lost red dragon egg and bring it to me, and I will give you the reward you deserve!"

The dark elf stared at the scene that appeared out of thin air, and when she clearly saw a familiar figure that flashed away, a touch of fear subconsciously floated in her scarlet eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the fear dissipates quickly, turning suddenly into vicious and twisted ecstasy.

"It was him."

Recalling the scenes of the ancient Orens city that filled her with fear and frustration, the dark elf suddenly calmed down and smiled evilly.

…………

Odus King City, vortex tunnel.

When the gray dwarves in the whole city were celebrating the birth of the new king, the figures of Brian and Sisaiah once again came to the vortex tunnel under the slums of the Dilro dwarves.

A thick forest of fungi blocked their way.

Luminescent ground moss covers the giant mushrooms, bathing the woodland in yellow, blue and purple glow, filling the hazy shimmer and making everything look very dreamy.

"I have asked the gray dwarves to clear the road to the surface." Brian pointed to a quiet and winding path in the fungal forest, and said to Hesaiah, "This road will go directly to the Mokou Mountains on the surface. "

Hesaiah looked at him hesitantly, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I still don't understand why you didn't come back to the surface with me."

"I still have some things to deal with." Brian said to her in a skillful tone, "so I can only ask you to help me go to Araby City and send a letter to Grand Duke Raul."

In fact, he didn't want to return to the surface immediately.

As he said, he did have business to attend to.

First of all, with the end of yesterday's battle, he has accumulated enough experience to raise his battle mage level to level 10.

This also means that he has the ability to release five-ring spells.

At this time, the first thing he considered was to unlock the five-ring spell of Arcane Fire.

Only by raising the Austrian fire to level 5 can he meet the requirements of an advanced arcanist.

Therefore, he wanted to take advantage of the rare peaceful time in Aldus King City to gather the materials to upgrade the Austrian Fire as soon as possible, and it would not be too late to return to the surface after his own strength was greatly improved.

Of course, there was another worry that he didn't tell the sword mage in front of him.

"Are you afraid of the revenge of the demon lord?" Hesaiah glanced at him, his eyes flickered, and said the guess he had already thought of.

"You not only destroyed Lord Wu'an's plan in the city of Odus, but also stole the red dragon eggs he cultivated at a great price. I don't think that Lord Wu'an, one of the three giants of the abyss, will let it go. Therefore, You are planning to let me go back to Araby City first, intercede for you, and seek the asylum of my sister, Duke Raul, is that right?"

"Worry about the demon lord's revenge is just one of the reasons." After being seen through by the noble lady, Brian didn't have much reaction, he said not too much:

"As for seeking the asylum of Grand Duke Raul, you are thinking too much. I am cooperating with her, not unilaterally loyal to her. You must figure this out."

Worrying about the revenge of the demon lord is just a consideration of his always cautious character.

In fact, it was not as Hesaiah said, he was already scared to the point of wanting to seek shelter from others.

After all, Graz'zt, the dark lord, spent most of his energy on conquering the bottomless abyss. He was jealous of Demogogan, and tried to unite with other demon lords to overthrow them and earn himself the title of demon lord.

Therefore, there are actually very few believers in Graz'zt in the main material world. Saris, who was originally the spokesperson, can strengthen the power of the church in the future.

Now, he was strangled in the cradle again.

At this time, even if the demon lord wants to take revenge on himself and take back the red dragon egg that he took away, it is impossible for him to find a suitable man so quickly.

What's more, he obtained the original power of the red dragon egg and the succubus, which had already been sealed by him with the "extraction technique", so he would never be able to detect his location by the prophecy technique.

Of course, there is another possibility with a small probability.

That is, these powerful demon lords rely on their own god-like power to forcefully cast prophecy on the thief at a small price to detect some small fragments of the future, so as to judge his next step, and then advance Get ready to ambush him.

Therefore, in order to prevent this possibility from happening, Brian decided to stay in the Underdark region for a month first, stabilize his strength, and master the magic of anti-prophecy before returning to the surface.

If the demon lord Graz'zt really thinks highly of him and predicts his position at any cost, then his approach is equivalent to avoiding a major crisis invisibly.

It may also be called: he foretells his foretelling.

Because of this, he chose to let Hesaiah return to the surface for the time being.

Out of his plan to conquer the Enook Desert, he decided to ask the noble lady to express his kindness to the Grand Duchess Myrcella Raul of Araby City with his intention of cooperation.

Only with the support of the Kingdom of Cormyr, his progress in establishing the territory and wizard tower in the Ennook Desert will be greatly improved.

Otherwise, it would take him a lot of time just to find a suitable foothold with him as a polished commander.

"Although I don't know what your real intentions are." Sisaiah brushed the hair on his forehead, looked at Brian, and shook his head slightly:
"But I still want to tell you in advance, my elder sister Myrcella, she is not only the lord of Arabian City, but also a legendary spellcaster who specializes in the School of Prophecy, she is not so easy to be taken lightly by a few words in your envelope. Impressed."

"Of course I know what you said, you just need to deliver my letter to her." Brian understood the meaning of Hesaiah's words, he nodded slightly, and instructed her:

"This matter will trouble you, after all, you are the only one who has the opportunity to see this grand lady who lives deep in the tower."

He was telling the truth. In his current capacity, if he somehow went to discuss cooperation with a duchess of the Kingdom of Cormyr, he might be thrown out by the guards as soon as he spoke.

With the help of Hesaiah, he will save a lot of unnecessary trouble out of thin air, and express his intentions straight to the point.

He believed that this long-sighted grand duchess would definitely consider his thoughts and suggestions carefully.

"Hearing your tone of voice, I feel that you seem to know my sister very well." Hesaiah nodded, keeping Brian's instructions in mind, and then asked casually.

"know?"

Bryan shook his head slightly and said with a smile, "It's not considered acquaintance, I can only say that I know her and she doesn't know me. Besides, in the north of Cormyr, I don't believe that no one will even the Grand Duchess of Araby City, The second legendary powerhouse in the whole kingdom doesn't know about it."

"That's true."

Hesaiah breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, and smiled at him, "Don't worry, I will definitely complete what you told me. As for you, just stay here honestly and wait for me to come back to pick you up?"

"Well, I'll wait for your return and look forward to your good news."

Brian stared at her reddish face, because the two of them had just drank a little pungent fire moss wine, her delicate face was still a little drunk, so that her eyes looked watery, The microstrip is smoky, and the lips with a smile are moist and red.

At the moment when Brian lost his mind because of this, Hesaiah suddenly leaned in front of him, holding his face with cold hands, and deeply impressing his seductive lips.

When he came back to his senses, he suddenly felt that the taste of moss wine still remained in her mouth, which was extremely hot, and her tongue was entangled with him like a flame.

Before he was ready to fight back, the noble lady had already moved her lips, staring into his eyes with smiling silver-gray eyes, and whispered in her ear: "This time we are even."

After speaking, she shook her long reddish-brown hair, turned around and disappeared into the shimmering flora.

Brian stared at Hisaiah's back, silently reminiscing about the enthusiasm just now, until she disappeared from his sight, then sighed softly, retracted his gaze, and walked towards the lair of the red dragon Argotus.

as usual.

The bloated red dragon lay leisurely on his own hill, flicking its tail boredly, enjoying the sound of splashing gold coins.

With the gray dwarf prince Eddie becoming the new king of the deep, under Brian's proposal, all the gray dwarves called the red dragon the ruler behind the scenes of the city of Odus in name.

In addition to being responsible for the daily task of lighting the fire, Argotus added another responsibility of guarding the city of the gray dwarves.

"Don't you feel bored after eating and sleeping every day?" Brian looked at the red dragon lying on the hill and asked with a smile.

"When I'm bored, I can count gold coins." Argotus raised his eyelids to look at him, and said, "Besides, I've never felt bored. I think this kind of life is quite interesting."

"What are you doing here again?" After thinking for a while, Argotus seemed to feel that something was wrong, raised the dragon's head, and looked at him vigilantly, "Could it be to catch my treasure's attention?"

Brian didn't bother to talk to him, so he found a place to sit down, took out a book that was transcribed last night, and said to him:
"Young man, I see that you have amazing bones and extraordinary talents. You look like a wizard who learns magic, so I have a spell book here for you. Do you want it?"

"Don't come here, I don't care for your crap." Argotus curled his lips in disdain, and complained: "As far as your messy spells are concerned, it's not as good as my dragon's breath. I learn that thing at all. It's of no use."

"Since you don't want to learn it, forget it." Brian obviously expected this situation a long time ago. He put away the spell book and said casually:

"I originally planned to teach you the art of transfiguration. In this way, you don't have to change into other races casually. It seems that you don't seem to have any interest in these things, so forget it. The world is so big, I still haven't visited many places, so I won't accompany you to count gold coins in this small cave in the Underdark Region."

"Hey! Brian, wait a minute, don't rush away." Argotus jumped down from the golden mountain, stretched his neck, stared at the two bright long eyes, and said curiously: "Are you really willing to teach Am I transfigured?"

"Of course, but the premise of teaching you is that you must complete every task course I assign to you." Brian looked at Argotus, spread out the contents of the spell book, and let it float in front of him, "First Don’t rush to refuse, it’s actually quite simple, check it out yourself.”

The knowledge recorded in this book, in addition to the practice method of the breathing specialty of the real dragon family, there is also an advanced profession called 'Master of Elements'.

Dragons are creatures of raw elemental power.

The energy that drives their breath weapons and the core elemental essence that constitutes their existence, these two powerful forces, have reveled in their veins since the moment they were born, which is the so-called innate ability.

And the advanced profession "Element Master" of the True Dragon Clan is dedicated to developing and obtaining perfect and pure coordination with these two forces, so that they know how to control this most powerful bloodline talent.

All true dragons who have advanced to the level of 'Master of Elements', in addition to mastering various powerful super-breath specialties such as breath shaping, breath extension, breath enhancement, and breath storm, etc., are also familiar with the elements. , command elements, and energy attunement class features.

To put it simply, true dragons whose advanced occupation is "Elemental Master" can not only greatly strengthen their breath attack, but also have the ability to control the most essential elemental energy, and they can even summon All kinds of elemental creatures from the four major elemental planes are produced.

"It doesn't seem that difficult." Argotus scratched his forehead with his paws, stared at the knowledge recorded in the books, and said:
"Bryan, do I just need to practice according to the instructions above when lighting fire and breathing dragon's breath every day, such as two shallow and one deep, three deep and one shallow, one deep and one shallow, three deep and two shallow, and so on. Complete the training mission you assigned."

"That's right." Brian nodded slightly.

In fact, these super breathing abilities are not difficult for Argotus, who has been breathing fire every day for more than 100 years.

Because he has already laid a solid foundation, when practicing these super-breathing specialties mainly based on dragon breath, he will easily and smoothly master them.

This is like a person who practiced martial arts. After spending decades laying the foundation, when teaching him all kinds of fancy skills, he will master them very quickly.

The only difficulty is whether this guy is born with the ability to perceive elements when advancing to the level of 'Master of Elements'.

"No problem, I can agree to your request." Argotus nodded and accepted Brian's book, "However, I have one more request, you must agree to me, otherwise, I will not learn. "

"Is it for me to learn knowledge and improve your strength?" Hearing what Red Dragon said, Brian suddenly felt why it sounded so familiar, so he replied.

"Of course I learned it for you." The righteous Argotus lay down in front of Brian, raised the dragon's head, and said to him:

"You spent so much effort to collect this kind of knowledge, and let me improve my strength, isn't it so that I can help you in the future. This is the same reason as I help the gray dwarves to light fire every day, and they give me rewards."

"Since you've said it so bluntly, I have no reason to refute it." Brian glanced at him, and suddenly realized that the red dragon was not as stupid as he imagined, "Then what are your conditions?"

"In addition to teaching me transfiguration, you also need to find me a new dragon egg that can hatch a red dragon girl." Agtus grinned, and then said, "In this case, someone will replace me to help These dwarves light a fire, and I shall be free."

"Didn't you say that the red dragon girl paper is related to the happiness of your lower body."

Brian was a little confused by the other party's words, "Don't you want to have a litter of baby dragons with the red dragon girl, and live a life of wives and children?"

"Happiness is happiness, just give birth to baby dragons." Argotus scratched his head, "Raising them, not only have to divide the property, but also find a way to build nests for each of them and find wives, just think about it , it gave me a headache, it's really not as comfortable as me living alone."

"Your idea is really strange in your dragon group." Brian was amused by Argotus' words, and he assured him:

"Don't worry, if I have time, I will help find a red dragon egg to replace your ignition work. As for you, you can do whatever you like. Even if you die on the surface world, I have no right to do it." put one's oar in."

"Since you have decided to learn the above knowledge, then study and practice hard." After thinking for a while, he added: "I will stay in the city of Aldus for the next month, if there is anything you don't understand, just come here Just ask me."

After saying that, he turned and left.

"Hello, Brian."

Argotus stretched out his paws and yelled. When he saw Brian stop, he hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously: "I want to ask, did the newly appointed King of the Deep Earth, Erdie, propose to Kill me?"

"You just need to know that the gray dwarves won't have any ideas about you in the future. As for whether other people will kill you, I don't know."

Brian turned to look at the slightly nervous Red Dragon, weighed the words in his heart, and said to him earnestly: "So, instead of pinning your hopes on others, why can't you hold the initiative in your own hands? After all, this is a world where the strong are respected."

"Thank you, Brian, I know what to do."

Argotus stared at Brian with his bright dragon eyes. He was silent for a long time, then he gritted his teeth suddenly, and he clenched his two dragon claws tightly, and assured him in a rather firm tone:
"Starting today, I will spend half of my gold coin counting time and half of my sleeping time on learning magic knowledge to improve my strength."

Seeing his resolute look, Brian smiled and turned to leave.

As he said, this is a world where the strong are respected. Right now, the most important thing for him is to improve his professional level as soon as possible and unlock the five-ring spell of Austrian Fire.

Only in this way can he return to the surface world with peace of mind.

(End of this chapter)