Arcane Journey

Chapter 181 Earth Element Crystal

The earth-yellow cloud that turned into Oremok's disaster disappeared, and Brian's eyes quickly locked on the dying Prophet of Earth Element.

——"Energy missile (flame)!"

I saw the staff in his hand pointing at the Prophet of the Earth Element, and the energy seeping from the void was transformed into five bullet-sized orange-yellow flames, which hit the opponent's body, exploding gorgeous magical flames.

"Target is dead!"

"Extracting soul energy..."

"Acquired experience points: 40000 points!"

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Seeing the experience points gained, Brian was relieved. After all, he was still afraid of this irrational prophet from the beginning to the end. If she accidentally cast the "earthquake technique", it would be troublesome.

However, from this aspect, it can also be seen how strong Psion Helliste's control over power is. Knowing that there is a certain risk, she still dares to throw it out from the astral plane with confidence. .

The purpose of doing this is just to facilitate his final harvest.

For this situation, he couldn't help but wonder where to find such a good teammate.

If he had such a teammate by his side for half a year, he would even have the confidence to break through to the legendary realm.

"Is the battle here over?" Helliste, who was wearing a white dress, floated from mid-air like the morning mist and landed in front of him.

"Not yet." Brian met her gaze, staring at the kind of emotional fluctuations that came from the depths of her heart and belonged only to herself.

Of all the people he knew, Hellist had been in contact with him the longest.

Even so, he never revealed the secrets of his system to her, but she is a psion, and what she is best at is detecting the true thoughts in a person's heart.

Brian sometimes even has an illusion that the two often look at each other, and she can instantly understand the meaning.

Therefore, when this understanding Psion fought with him, she would always let him harvest the lives of monsters intentionally or unintentionally, unless there were any accidents.

But he simply pretended to be ignorant and confused, and tacitly did not mention these things.

It was as if he had vaguely guessed Helisite's true identity and origin, but it was a reason why he never took the initiative to ask.

"You use the detection ability to search." He looked around, his eyes wandering on the wall from time to time, and finally said to Helisite, "I suspect that there is still a secret room here."

Helisite nodded slightly, closed her eyes lightly, and opened her spiritual power field in the prophecy domain, covering the entire spacious room, searching for any details.

After about ten minutes, she slowly opened her eyes, frowned indistinctly, and looked at Brian, "There is nothing unusual."

"Impossible." Brian frowned, thought for a moment, and then said: "Check carefully again, there is definitely a secret passage hidden here, and my information cannot be wrong."

"Okay." Helisite nodded slightly, and her quiet expression became dignified.

With a thought, a psicrystal wrapped in silver light appeared, suspended in mid-air like a crescent moon.

She ignored the psicrystal, but took out a shimmering crescent moon pendant hidden in the collar, exposed it to the air, and hung it on her chest.

Seeing the pendant, Brian instantly realized that this Psionist was about to get serious.

Like his ancient ring, her new moon pendant is also an ancient equipment, and it is also an equipment that activates all three ancient rituals.

These two pieces of ancient equipment are all inherited from the world of Atas.

As the crescent moon pendant and the psicrystal erupted with ripples of silver light spreading throughout the secret room, Brian could clearly feel that when the light floated over his body, there was a kind of undressed standing The illusion in front of the other party.

Fortunately, this feeling comes and goes quickly.

About 2 minutes later, Helisite put away the psicrystal, put the pendant back into her collar, and pointed to a spider-themed tapestry on the wall.

With a light tap of her white fingers, the tapestry and the wall it covered suddenly shattered and disappeared without a trace, revealing a cave the size of the tapestry.

Seeing this situation, Brian clicked his tongue secretly.

There is obviously a very secret secret passage behind the tapestry. According to normal logical thinking, the way to open the secret passage is obviously to find the mechanism or key in the room.

However, this psion who is proficient in the field of prophecy does not play his cards according to common sense at all.

After she locked the direction of the secret passage, she directly chose the simplest, most violent, and most practical method to complete this exploration mission.

Psychic dissociation!
Brian guessed how Helliste had just destroyed the secret passage.

The effect of "Psionic Disintegration" is the same as the six-ring spell "Disintegration" of the evocation school, which completely disintegrates objects or creatures, leaving only slight traces of dust.

It was the first time he had seen such a powerful dissociation technique like Helliste's.

"You can go in." Helliste turned her quiet eyes to Brian, "I have cleaned up the magic traps and restrictions inside."

Brian nodded slightly, then immediately turned and walked towards the secret room.

The moment Helliste looked at him, he saw a slightly playful smile in her clear beautiful eyes, which she had never seen before.

Apparently, she might have guessed a rough idea of ​​what happened to her just now.

This made him realize that this was probably a good sign, because her cold personality seemed to have begun to slowly change.

When the two walked into the dark secret room, Brian discovered with the help of the soft light emitted by the light technique that the walls of the mine were smooth and even reflected magical light, and it did not look like it was dug out by gnomes.

So after receiving approval from Helisite, they walked about more than 50 meters in the mine, and clusters of crystal veins appeared in the corner not far away, exuding a seductive light.

"The elements here are very chaotic."

Helliste stopped and motioned to Brian not to walk around casually. After a careful inspection, she said to him, "I suspect that there are some terrifying existences sleeping deep in this natural mine."

"Don't doubt it, because what you said is absolutely right." Brian gave her a positive look, and began to inspect clusters of crystal veins.

He saw that the gemstones in the mine were all natural and exquisite in appearance, and there was no need to dig down the veins to process the raw ore.

As expected, among these clusters of crystal veins, there are indeed some gems that look like black rocks.

Brian took out a black rock the size of a fingernail, and examined it carefully before his eyes.

He could clearly feel the amazing magic power contained in it, but because of the disorder of the elements, the magic power inside made him dare not call it out easily.

In fact, this black rock block has another name: Kadarin magic stone.

The source of this magic stone can even be traced back to one of the three creator races, the Sarukh witches, which is the secret of their first discovery of these ores.

However, it was Netheril, the arcane empire, that was finally carried forward.

Decades of centuries ago, a miner of the Netherese discovered the magic stones of Kalinda, and their function was revealed by the grand arcanist Elolian.

The Kalinda magic stone can absorb spells intact, and shatter after being thrown, releasing the spell intact.

When these rare and fragile gems first appeared, their base price was as high as 20000 gold coins, but after their mass popularity, their base price began to plummet.

Magic stones are mainly divided into three grades: low, middle and high, which can store spells of one to three rings, four to six rings, and the most precious seven to nine rings.

Arcanists during the Netheril period liked to imbue Kalinda magic stone with offensive spells, such as fireball or meteor burst.

Generally speaking, this kind of magic stone is more suitable for ordinary people to use than spell scrolls. Just like throwing grenades, it only needs hands.

Of course, even the lowest-level magic stones are not affordable by ordinary people.

This Kalinda magic stone vein hidden in the depths of the Blingden Stone City mine is the fundamental reason why Brian came here.

Although he didn't know much about the reserves of the ore vein, at least he knew that the ore vein showed no signs of drying up before he was reborn.

As for the reserves of ore veins in this world, it is impossible to use the modern theory to judge.

After all, this is a world with magic. While many rich resources are being mined, they will also grow under the influence of magic.

It is said that in the Silver Age of Netheril, a huge mine called Dekent was so rich in reserves that it took the empire to mine it day and night for thousands of years before it was exhausted.

One of the purposes of this trip has been accomplished, and Brian secretly relieved himself, because the ownership of this mine vein was mentioned in the terms he and the underground dwarves made.

The Kalinda magic stone cannot be used directly after being mined, it also needs a step of purification and cutting process by alchemists.

This inevitably requires him to cooperate with these gnomes.

"Let's go."

He didn't linger too much here, turned around and looked at Helisite who was so quiet beside him as if she didn't exist, and motioned her to continue walking towards the depths of the mine vein.

In fact, the Kalinda magic stone is not only found in this secret vein, it can also be mined in other places in the mining area, but it is not as rich as here.

Following in the footsteps of Helliste, he walked through the winding tunnel for about half an hour. Brian's amazing intuitive perception ability gradually made him aware of an inexplicable sense of oppression.

This feeling is like my heart is being pressed down by a stone, heavy.

It looked like a giant sleeping beast, inadvertently revealing its majesty.

And the deeper you go, the more you can feel that will.

At the same time, his breathing gradually became heavy, as if he had encountered the sequelae caused by the failure of the save, the natural ability of the real dragon family, the dragon's majesty.

He couldn't help being secretly startled by this negative state.

Just when he was about to be unable to hold on any longer, a cold and soft hand stretched out silently and held his hand tightly.

Brian suddenly felt a cool spiritual force along his palm, seeping into the depths of his soul, and the oppressive feeling quickly receded like a tide, allowing him to regain control of his body.

He glanced gratefully at Helliste, who gave him a small, reassuring smile.

Soon, they continued to walk deep into the mine along clusters of colorful crystal veins, and finally saw an altar made of obsidian at the end.

There are more than a dozen earth elementals standing on both sides of the altar. They guard the altar like statues, like a pair of prism-like pupils with multiple facets. Scarlet light.

Brian judged from the size of the earth elementals that there were two elder earth elementals, three giant earth elementals, and the rest were super-large earth elementals.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is not this group of earth elements, but a crystal ball emitting earthy yellow light placed in the center of the altar.

This is an earth element spar whose quality has reached the fifth-order legendary, and it is also Brian's last goal when he comes to Blingdenstone City.

In fact, the reason why the energy of the elements here is chaotic, so that the proper balance is broken, the fundamental reason is this earth element spar.

It is said that the evil prince Oremok from the Elemental Plane of Earth inadvertently noticed the Kalinda magic stone deep in the mine veins of Blingdenstone City in the material world.

In order to achieve a new breakthrough in his own strength, he secretly dispatched a weak clone to secretly lurk here to set up an altar, silently absorbing the energy of the Kalinda magic stone mine.

The energy absorbed and transformed by him was finally condensed on the obsidian altar in the form of earth element spar.

When the quality of this spar reaches the second-class artifact, it is time for this evil prince of earth elements to harvest the fruit.

However, what he didn't expect was that as the quality of the earth element spar broke through to the legendary quality, the energy of the originally balanced four elements of earth, wind, water, and fire in the air became unbalanced, resulting in elemental disorder.

After realizing this problem, Olemok, the prince of the earth element, used the method of "Olemok disaster" to divert the attention of the subterranean gnomes, making them mistakenly think that this is just an unpredictable supernatural phenomenon.

Who would have thought that Blingdenstone City of the subterranean gnome was breached by the drow elves and turned into ruins, and his altar was discovered by a drow priestess, who was aware of this secret.

As a result, the priestess was transformed into an evil Prophet of the Earth Element, completely losing her sanity, carrying the cloud of Oremok's disaster, doing evil everywhere, making people mistakenly believe that the Prophet of the Earth Element is the real behind-the-scenes Big boss.

As everyone knows, Oremoke, the prince of the earth element, has been secretly hiding and developing in secret, just to absorb the power of the Kalinda magic stone and break through the quality of the earth element spar to a second-class artifact, so that his strength can be further improved.

Seeing this, Brian was secretly glad that he had pulled Hellis over, otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to find the location of the altar.

After all, in the game world, after the player group kills the evil Prophet of Earth Element and the Oremok Calamity, it is considered as a successful completion of this task.

However, to the surprise of everyone, including the subterranean dwarves, five years later, the Prince of Earth Elemental finally completed his long-planned plan and successfully raised the quality of the Earth Elemental spar to a second-class artifact.

He absorbed this incarnation of power and slaughtered Blingdenstone City. If the main god of the dwarves, Gal Gold, hadn't appeared in person, the rebuilt city would have suffered a second demise.

"You have attracted the attention of the earth elementals, I will go and take that spar away."

Seeing that the elders of the earth element, the giant earth element and the super-large earth element had locked the two of them, Brian confessed to Hellist in a dignified tone.

The elder of the earth element belongs to the earth element creature whose strength has reached the legendary realm, and also has a powerful ability to cast spells.

If he couldn't hold back these two legendary earth elemental elders, Brian would have no chance to take the spar at all, and he might even die because of it.

"Then be careful." Helliste nodded slightly, her quiet eyes narrowed, becoming more dignified than ever before.

Immediately afterwards, all six of her psicrystal appeared, suspended in midair.

——"Ninth-level ability: tornado storm!"

Helisite's eyes narrowed slightly, and the moment she locked onto the group of earth elemental creatures, her six psicrystal suddenly burst into dazzling brilliance.

In an instant, the streams of thick celestial energy permeated from the distant void were all transformed into swirling air currents, forming a series of slender whirlwinds, whistling and circling out like wild snakes dancing wildly.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

The soaring tornado raged like a series of explosions. The moment all the super-large and giant earth elements touched them, they were directly swept into the air, smashing their thick bodies to pieces.

Although the two earth elemental elders propped up a thick earth-yellow protective barrier for themselves in time, they only persisted for a few seconds before collapsing and their bodies were thrown upside down by the roaring tornado.

Brian calmly observed Hellist and her six psicrystals who were maintaining the tornado, as well as the two earth elemental elders who were trapped in the tornado.

"It's now!"

He seized the opportunity in an instant, activated the teleportation spell "Dimensional Leap", appeared in the center of the bright secret room, and locked his eyes on the element spar emitting earthy yellow light.

Although the treasure was at his fingertips, he didn't put it away immediately, but threw out detection magic in a calm manner to check the specific condition of the earth element spar.

The information obtained through the detection of magic immediately made him break out in a cold sweat.

Because this earth element spar itself has nearly a hundred times the gravity, if he reaches out to touch it directly, he will definitely be crushed to death by the nearly a hundred times the gravity.

Thinking of this, he immediately called out his arcane fire, and controlled it to explode into a brilliant blue-white flame, temporarily suppressing the light of the earth element spar.

Immediately afterwards, he activated the powerful dispelling magic attached to the ancient ring.

When a star-like shimmer of light emanating from Bryan's ring enveloped the earth element spar, there was a sound like a mechanical spring unwinding.

Seeing this situation, he was overjoyed, and quickly took this spar into his dimensional space.

"Bang! Bang!..."

At the same time, with the disappearance of the earth element spar, the bodies of the two earth element elders who were suppressed by Helisite suddenly stopped, like deflated balloons, which were suddenly shattered by the tornado.

"Rumble..."

When the treasure was in hand, Brian was about to signal Helisite to leave, when the whole secret room shook violently as if there was an earthquake, and the gravel on the ground was also bouncing.

Brian suddenly remembered something, and a look of horror appeared in his expression, and he quickly shouted to Helisite: "Go!"

Unfortunately it was too late.

A mass of khaki-yellow light suddenly burst out from the obsidian altar, and quickly condensed into a 20-meter-tall earth element creature made of rock and crystal.

"Damn thief!!!"

The deafening roar of the earth element creature was like a mountain collapsing, the entire secret room shook violently, dense cracks appeared on the mirror-like walls.

Its thick and burly body shone with the luster of mica, and its obsidian-like eyes showed cracked marks due to anger.

"Hold me tight!"

When Herrist saw the enemy appearing, her face changed suddenly, she grabbed Brian's hand, and tried to escape by teleportation.

Before her psionic teleportation spell could be activated, however, she was hit by a flash of mica burst from the bodies of the angry earth elementals, forcibly interrupting their intentions.

"This is the incarnation of Oremok hidden in the altar." Brian calmed down and said quickly, "Even if you run away, it's useless. His strength is not that strong, so keep him here."

Hearing this, Helisite quickly adjusted her state, controlled the six psicrystals, and simultaneously burst out seven shots of the ninth-level ability "tornado storm", rolling towards the incarnation of Oremok.

The expression of the prince of earth element changed, and he quickly propped up a god-like barrier for himself, isolating all seven roaring tornadoes from his body.

"Damn thief!!! You can't escape!"

He coldly locked on Brian's body like shattered obsidian pupils. With a roar, the roaring air waves rolled in, condensing into substance.

Bryan propped up the protective barrier, struggling to block the roaring air waves from the incarnation of the earth elemental prince.

He quickly said to Helisite, "Attack him with all my strength, and I will interfere with his actions."

Helisite nodded solemnly, and the crescent moon pendant hanging on her chest suddenly erupted with an astonishing burst of spiritual energy, frantically converging on her six psicrystals, and seeping out a huge star from the distant void. Mass energy poured into the roaring tornado.

Suddenly, the seven tornadoes raging on the incarnation of the prince of earth elements suddenly became real, like seven berserk dragons, violently lashing at his god-like barrier.

Seeing this, Brian took out the earth elemental spar he had just obtained without hesitation, and under the angry gaze of the earth elemental prince, he suddenly threw it at his body.

"Do not!!!……"

Seeing that the treasure he had spent dozens of centuries to condense was about to be destroyed, the Prince of Earth Elemental let out a hoarse roar, and the entire secret room was shaken to the point of rumbling and flying stones.

He wanted to try to stop it, but unfortunately, because of losing control of his emotions, there was a vacancy in the divine-like barrier that was maintained. Helliste caught the opportunity and crushed it instantly.

Immediately afterwards, terrifying tornadoes roared and swept the body of the Prince of Earth Element into the air, like fallen leaves in a strong wind.

Seeing this opportunity, Brian used the telekinesis ability of the Arcane Hand to promptly retrieve the earth element spar that was about to touch the tornado.

Afterwards, he directly activated the two skills "Magic Rapid Fire" and "Arcane Twins", and used the newly acquired "Spiritual Casting" feature to suddenly burst out hundreds of fist-sized fireballs, drowning in the earth elemental prince's body. on the avatar.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

Bolides exploded gorgeous magical flames in the violent tornado, and immediately interweaved into a flame storm composed of psionic energy and arcane magic.

"Despicable mortals, dare to steal my achievements, you just wait for me, I will come back!!!"

The incarnation of the Prince of Earth Element left a harsh word, and disappeared in place with an unwilling roar.

"Target is dead!"

"Extracting soul energy..."

"Acquired experience points: 100000 points!"

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As soon as he succeeded in making up the knife, Brian heard Hellist beside him suddenly let out a light breath, and her tight body suddenly softened, leaning against him, giving him a warm feeling. Feel.

"My energy control is not bad." Helisite leaned in his arms, looked up at him, a faint smile appeared on her pale face.

Hearing this sentence, Brian immediately understood why he successfully made up the knife.

However, he knew that now was not the time for emotion.

He didn't dare to waste time, quickly waved his hand, and took away the earth crystal nucleus left by the earth elemental creatures after their death.

Then, a portal was opened, and before the entire chamber of secrets collapsed, Helisite disappeared together.

(End of this chapter)