Arcane Journey

Chapter 187 End
Various emotions are intertwined in the city of Blingdenstone: the tears of mourning for the dead and the cheers of victory. Everyone, including the subterranean gnomes infected with lycanthropy, deeply mourns the war that thousands of drow invaded a hundred years ago. A tribe who sacrificed heroically.

Now, with the army of ooze monsters wiped out, countless wandering ghosts are rested in peace, and their corpses that have rotted for nearly a century are gradually being searched out from various underground tunnels and ruins for traditional burial of subterranean gnomes.

At the same time, all the survivors were cheering again, for their new leader Duobao Digger and his wife, and for the heroic Ratman leader Copper.

Of all the people, the ones who received the most cheers were naturally Brian and Helliste.

Because without Brian's command and the powerful strength displayed by the Lord Silvermoon, it would be impossible for them to solve the threat of ghosts without any effort, get the blessing of the prince of earth elements, and it is even more impossible for them to face the army of ooze monsters. Then do it with ease and minimize the loss.

So far, the names of Brian and Halisite will forever be recorded in the books of the dwarf scholars in Blingdenstone.

Celebrations take place in every corner of Blingdenstone, from the underground tunnels to the palaces restored by the spellcasters of Stoneheart's Garden.

Under the lead of Brian, Duobao, the leader of the subterranean gnomes, and Tongban, the leader of the ratmen, had another night-long interview, and finally formed a covenant to jointly rebuild Blingdenstone City.

As for the specific details, he naturally wouldn't ask too much.

Seeing the leader of the Stone Heart Garden, the female dwarf mage Lusa Yuyan, surrounded by Hellist like a lively little girl, telling interesting things about the past.

Brian, who always likes to be quiet, greeted Hellist through telepathy, declined the invitation of the dwarf leader, and went back to his room alone.

After all, he has so many things on hand now, as if they were waiting in line for him, one after another.

After the problem here is solved, he will go to the Enook Desert to find the ruins of a lost floating city.

Although there is no such thing as day and night in the dark Underdark region, Brian can still feel that the night on the surface world has gradually deepened.

After he returned to the room, he sat on a chair and began to summarize the experience and gains of Blingdenstone City.

With the help of Helisite, a powerful thug, coupled with his careful calculation and preparation, the trip was extremely smooth.

That is, when facing the Abyss Fear Phagocytosis at the end, because I was too confident in the damage of "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor", a small mistake occurred.

However, fortunately, he solved it without any risk.

Because when he was in the game world, he was one of the few players who raised the wizard level to the legendary realm.

The biggest disadvantage of a spellcaster is that he has to prepare and memorize spells in advance every day, so his ten-year career as a wizard has gradually formed the habit of preparing in advance.

As the saying goes: sharpening a knife is not the same as chopping firewood.

Preparation before doing anything is very important.

Because to do any thing, if the preparatory work is done well, the efficiency of doing things will be improved, and it will not cause waste of manpower, material and financial resources, let alone increase costs, and work efficiency will not decrease. , and at the same time have a great guarantee for their own safety.

Bryan recalled his harvest this time. In addition to the fifth-tier legendary item, the earth element spar, he also got the ownership of the Kalinda magic stone in the mine veins of the underground gnomes.

Of course, this does not mean that all the Kalinda magic stones in Blingdenstone City belong to him, but that the subterranean gnomes help him mine and process them into finished products, and he buys them at the lowest price in the market.

At the same time, he also added an item to the treaty. In addition to the elementary Kalinda magic stones that can store 1st to 3rd level spells, which can be traded in small quantities by underground gnomes, they must strictly control the quality of mid-level and high-level magic stones. cannot be left out of the market.

This treaty seems a little unreasonable, but the subterranean gnomes also know that without Bryan, there would be no reconstruction of Blingdenstone.

The most important thing is that those dwarfs who used to live in Silvermoon City, saw that the owner of Silvermoon City, Hellist, was inseparable from Brian's words, and they completely understood the reason.

After all, in the final analysis, the leader of the subterranean gnomes also occupies a position as a member of the Silver Confederation. If Blingdenstone City wants to rebuild in a dangerous place like the Underdark, they have to rely on powerful forces.

Hellist, the lord of Silvermoon City, was naturally the best choice for them.

Besides, Bryan's treaty is not as overbearing as he imagined, all he needs is the Kalinda magic stone in the mine vein.

Although he bought it at the lowest price in the market, at this price, excluding the manpower and processing costs of the gnomes, there is still a little profit.

Brian is still very clear about the truth of being a human being, but he really wants to see it in the future. Although he is a bit greedy for money, he is not greedy enough to take all the benefits by any means.

Of course, if this group of subterranean gnomes violated the treaty, he would have to choose other monopoly means to safeguard his own interests.

After all, Kalinda magic stones are the materials he must obtain. With these magic stones as power sources, he can go further and further on the road of advanced creation.

Then, Brian called up his system tray and checked it.

He had to admit that with the help of Helliste, the experience he gained this time was beyond his imagination.

Now his accumulated upgrade experience has reached about 60.

So much experience seems to be enough to raise his professional level several times in a row, but the ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny.

Bryan had noticed long ago that since he successfully advanced to become an Arcanist, the level-up experience required for his Arcanist profession began to increase exponentially. Coupled with the part-time job he had, he got a 30% experience penalty, As a result, this seemingly huge experience value cannot continuously upgrade the Arcanist profession by 2 levels.

For example, under normal circumstances, with his spellcasting level of level 11, he would need to spend 12 experience to upgrade to level 10. Since he worked as a psion, he got a 30% experience penalty, which became 10 experience plus 10 * 30% experience is equal to 13 experience.

13 experience is not unacceptable to Brian, but his arcanist profession is an improved version of a powerful profession, so that if he wants to improve further, the required experience is directly doubled to 26 experience.

The question before him now is whether he should continue to increase the level of the Arcanist, or the level of the Psion, or improve himself, the Soulknife who has just taken up the job, and the level 5 psicrystal.

Arcanist belonged to his main profession, so it was natural to increase its level, but he didn't want the Psion's level to drop too much.

After all, after obtaining the sixth-level ability, the increase in his strength is still very obvious.

For example, he can learn "Psychic Trigger" and "Teleport Trigger" that ignores dimensional anchors from Helliste, allowing him to be invincible in the face of most enemies.

Brian took out a piece of parchment, and after fast calculations, he finally came up with a reasonable promotion plan.

After that, he stopped hesitating and started to call up the system bar, preparing to improve his strength.

"Upgrade the Arcanist level!"

"Consume 260000 experience points."

"The professional level of the Arcanist has been raised to level 2!"

"Gain arcane energy: 32 points."

"Get free attribute points: 1 point."

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"Increase Psion level!"

"Consume 110500 experience points."

"The professional level of Psionic Warlock has been raised to level 11!"

"Acquired power points: 16 points, extra power points: 3 points."

"Gain sixth-level powers: crystallization, psionic high-level supernatural work."

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After leveling up, Brian first allocated 1 point of free attribute point to his intelligence, making it 24 points. In this way, the damage and effects caused by his arcane and psionic abilities gained a new level. promote.

Then he looked at his attribute bar.

As expected, he didn't gain any special abilities when the Arcanist level was raised this time. He guessed that the professional characteristics of the Arcanist would probably be obtained when he opened the seventh layer of magic net.

However, he was a little surprised by the arcane power gained from level up.

Because compared with the power point, this is already equivalent to twice the value, as the mana value for releasing spells, he will never be too much.

The most important thing is that after the level of the Arcanist and the Psion was raised, not only did he feel that his mental power had improved a little, but even the phantoms of the stars on the plane of mind seemed to be solidified a bit.

This made him clearly feel that the strength of his mental power would not only increase the amount of arcane energy he could mobilize at one time, but also shorten the sequelae of mental tremors caused by overloading arcane energy.

Then, he looked at the remaining more than 20 experience points.

In fact, his original plan was to upgrade the psion to another level, so that he could be on par with the arcanist profession.

But the level 12 psion, apart from extra attribute points, can't bring him much powerful growth.

After thinking about it carefully, he still decided to raise the level of psicrystal first.

As soon as he thought of it, he directly called out his psicrystal, spent a total of 184000 experience points, and raised its level to level 10 in one go.

Surprisingly, the promotion of psicrystal did not receive an additional 30% multi-job penalty.

It can be seen from this that with the help of Helliste, his psicrystal is more like an independent entity.

It's no wonder that she said that her psion profession would make it more difficult to reach the legendary realm.

Because if you want the psion profession to reach the legendary realm, the first consideration is to retrieve a small piece of personality that was lost when making the psicrystal, so as to complete your personality.

The more independent the psicrystal is, the more difficult it will be to retrieve it.

Brian didn't think about it anymore, he summoned the psicrystal servant from the distant star world to the main material plane with a thought.

He carefully looked at his masterpiece again. It was a psicrystal composed of a standing cat image and a dark blue crystal shell. The whole resembled a modern astronaut, full of futuristic sense of technology.

But what made him depressed was that this little guy was currently suspended in mid-air, standing with his hands behind his back.

The original flying sword-shaped astral construct was also shrunk down to a shape commensurate with its own body size, and it was carried behind its back, looking very unsuitable for a cat sword fairy.

"How is it? Master."

The psicrystal rolled its bright black eyeballs, and its voice was as crisp as two crystals gently colliding together, "I suddenly regretted it a bit, you shouldn't have made me like this in the first place, after all, who doesn't have a personality Sword fairy dream."

"You should make me into the image of a rainbow cat." The psionic servant pulled out the flying sword behind his back, danced a beautiful little sword flower neatly, and said narcissistically:

"I am the descendant of the 'Changhong Sword', the head of the Seven Swords. I have inherited the unique skills of the white cat. I am superb in martial arts, strong and brave, resourceful, handsome, handsome and incomparable. The white shirt complements my personality. Temperament. I take on the important task of uniting the successors of the Seven Swords and destroying the Demon Cult. I will make unremitting efforts in order to reach the other side of my ideal, strengthen my will and overcome all difficulties..."

Brian blushed for a while, he couldn't bear to listen.

This is the fundamental reason why he doesn't like to release the psicrystal, because he really sees a part of himself that is too exaggerated and distorted in the psicrystal.

"Is it over?" He frowned and interrupted its words, "Didn't you see that I already showed a look of disgust, why am I still so blind."

"Master, I advise you to recognize the reality." Lingjing put away the long sword, his playful expression suddenly changed into a serious expression, and said floating around him:

"You have to know that life is to live the original self into the way you hate the most. Because time will smooth our edges and corners, forcing us to mature, and also forcing us to wear masks and live a well-regulated life .Isn’t the expression of my true nature the face you tried to hide under the mask at the beginning? I just don’t want you to live as the person who hates yourself. So, it’s not that I have changed, but what you have experienced There are too many things, many times..."

"Okay, shut up."

Brian didn't bother to pay attention to it, and with a thought, he successfully turned the psicrystal into a wooden man who couldn't move his hands or speak through the method Hellist taught him.

Next, he started checking its properties.

With five consecutive levels of improvement, the Psionic Crystal has gained many abilities: Enhanced Mind Blade +5, Mind Speed, Enhanced Mind Strike, Enhanced Mind Blade +2, and Blade Storm and Advanced Mind Blade Specialization.

The most important thing is that since he made the flying sword-shaped astral construct the psicrystal servant's life blade, great changes have also taken place.

What even surprised him was that the flying sword-shaped astral construct could freely change in size under the control of the psicrystal servant.

The smallest can become like a needle, while the largest can become around two meters.

Thinking of this, he released the control of the psicrystal, and asked, "What is the specific situation of your mind blade?"

The overall length of the flying sword-shaped astral structure was only [-] centimeters in the initial production process, but now it suddenly increased to [-] meters, and he didn't even know it.

"Of course it's the method Miss Helliste taught me." The psicrystal restrained a lot in his serious eyes, and said honestly:
"She taught me a way to absorb astral energy in the astral world, so I added all the absorbed astral energy to my mind blade."

"I see." Brian nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this.

"The beautiful Miss Helliste also said..." The psicrystal continued, "As long as I stay in the astral world and follow the method she taught me, I can make the astral construct Levels continue to break through upwards.”

Theoretically speaking, astral constructs can be divided into nine levels. As the level increases, it can be like enchanting to describe the spiritual lines of attack or defense.

Brian's expression changed, and he waved his hand. The psicrystal flew to him obediently, and put his mind blade the size of an embroidery needle in his hand.

astral construct

medium construct
Challenge Level: Level 10

本体特性：+5穿刺、+5锋锐、+3破甲、+3破魔、+2爆破
Attributes: Strength 21, Dexterity 25, Constitution-, Intelligence-, Perception-, Charm-
Special abilities: high-speed flight, space sliding, whirlwind attack, violent attack, natural invisibility, energy touch

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The challenge level of the astral construct has been increased by 2 levels, and it also has an additional +2 explosive characteristic.

This feature cooperates with the spiritual strike of the soul blade, which can make the spiritual energy infused by the blade produce a blast effect.

Seeing the properties of the astral construct, Brian suddenly realized that Hellist had hidden so many private goods for her psicrystal.

Of course, this doesn't mean that she deliberately concealed herself, but that he didn't notice at all, or cared about the changes that happened to the psicrystal at all.

"How about it, aren't you very touched." The psicrystal dangled in front of his eyes, showing a look of beating, "A beautiful and understanding lady like Helliste, if you don't treat her Take it as soon as possible, and wait until some bastard sneaks away, and it will be too late for you to regret it."

Bryan could hear the psicrystal scolding him inside and out, but he didn't have the same knowledge as it.

He suddenly learned something without a teacher. The psicrystal is an overly exaggerated and distorted version of a small part of his personality. If he can't even accept this ridicule, or dare not face it, then he will never It is impossible to get back the small piece of my personality that I have lost.

That is to say, even the psicrystal I made by myself can endure with tears in my eyes. If you scold it, it's no different from scolding yourself.

However, looking at the attributes of the Psionic Crystal Servant and the Astral Construct, he knew that this was like having an extra helper for the inaugural Soulknife, and it was still very significant for the improvement of strength.

With Brian's current strength, he is enough to beat any professional below the legendary realm, and even if he is unable to beat the rudimentary legendary spellcaster, there is still no problem in escaping.

But it wasn't enough for him, Brian thought.

As a reborn person, he is very clear that the strength gap between professionals below the legendary field may not be so obvious, but it is directly revealed above the legendary field.

The legendary level is also divided into three parts: elementary, intermediate, and high.

It seems that there are three simple layers, but the gap is often very obvious.

In short, the water inside is very deep and very chaotic.

He is very clear that besides his lack of background, his weakness is that the time to grow is too short.

In this case, let him face a group of liches who have lived for thousands of years, and the attributes of the light panel are all page-turning existences. How could he be their opponent.

What Brian was most impressed with was the confrontation between the two elders of Netheril, the Lich Lalock, and the High King of the City of Shadows in the Ennook Desert.

Originally, everyone thought that this was just a duel between two high-level legends.

Who would have thought that when the two fought, the High King of Shade City directly moved his floating city over, and the Lich Laroque also summoned a steady stream of undead troops and Lich's subordinates without showing any weakness.

In this way, a duel between high-level legends turned into a battle to shake each other's background.

After all, reaching the Legendary Domain means that one has already begun to contact the laws and original power.

Even if their players have an experience system, each level up is very difficult and requires a lot of time and energy.

Therefore, Brian has long understood that when there is not enough time to upgrade his strength to a high-level legend, if he wants to use the strength of a junior legend to deal with a high-level legend professional, he can only use his only advantage. To increase strength as much as possible.

In the final analysis, his background is too poor. If he is given hundreds of years of development, he can also reach the height of these people.

Obviously, he didn't have the chance.

Brian came back to his senses and drove the nagging psicrystal back to the astral world.

Now, his psion level has been raised to level 11, and he has awakened the ability to release sixth-level abilities. At this time, he naturally wants to use this time to go to Hellist to learn the abilities.

Thinking of the strange scene every time he learns the ability, to be honest, Brian really enjoys it.

That wonderful feeling... It was as if he had trekked in the hot desert for more than a month, and suddenly jumped into a clear water pool, which made him completely infatuated with the pleasant feeling that Helisite gave her. Refreshing.

He even started to think about how to find the perfect excuse to make this feeling last longer.

Brian stood up quickly, ready to put his thoughts into action.

However, the moment he got up, he suddenly found that Helisite had been standing quietly behind him like a ghost at some point, as if she was patiently waiting for him.

"When did you come here?" He was taken aback, felt guilty for some reason, and asked her pretending to be calm.

Meeting her clear beautiful eyes, he seriously suspected that the other party might have guessed his general thoughts just now.

This made him feel a little embarrassed.

"It's not long since I came here." Hellist avoided his gaze unnaturally and asked, "Have you improved your strength again?"

"That's right." Brian regained his composure, nodded slightly, and said to her, "I was planning to find you."

"Psychic energy originates from long-term strict self-examination and the cultivation of one's own spiritual ability. Only by overcoming demons and various unexpected difficulties can one get rid of distracting thoughts in one's mind and master the power hidden in one's body."

Helisi stepped up to him, stared at him with quiet eyes, and said softly, "Bryan, the faster your strength improves, the more difficult it will be to enter the legendary realm. You must calm down and follow the method I gave you to consolidate the newly acquired strength."

"I think so too." Brian took the initiative to hold Helliste's delicate hand, and said seriously:

"Didn't you say last time that the sea of ​​spiritual consciousness is the best environment to stabilize your strength, so I plan to enter your sea of ​​spiritual consciousness to feel the purest spiritual energy, and learn the sixth-level ability by the way."

When Hellist heard this, her pretty face blushed slightly, her slender eyelashes stood up, and she turned her eyes across, and changed the subject a bit abruptly, "The matter of Blingdenstone has been settled, where are you going tomorrow? .”

"The Standing Stone Plain in the Enook Desert." Brian replied, "Go and find the ruins of a floating city buried in the desert."

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(End of this chapter)