Throne of Magical Arcana

The cave was dark and dark, with only the faint light from the fluorescent moss dotted around, making it almost impossible to reach out. However, Lucien has the moonlight bloodline and has dark vision. As long as there is no light at all, he can see clearly.

In the dark and deep pupils, Angeus' spiritual body was reflected. It was like a candle that had run out of tears, wobbly and finally extinguished.

"The lord is back from recovery?" Lucien repeated in a low and dignified tone, which was the most impressive memory of Angeus's anger.

Accompanied by this sentence, its emotions fluctuate violently, full of reverence, piety, excitement and joy.

"A change has really occurred in the depths of the Necromancer Realm... Is it that the truly immortal existence is about to be revived?"

Of course, Lucien would not think that the "Lord" that Angus spoke of was the God of truth in the church. He must be the object of worship of these high-ranking undead in the Necromancer world, but is this "Lord" the true God, or is he similar to It is unknown whether the existence of the ancestor of vampires, Etna, is a fictitious symbol representing some kind of change in the Necromancer world.

Without the ability to manipulate souls and memories like the master of undead, it is absolutely impossible to get all the details from the "mind" of high-level undead. None of his memories can be read. The only thing that is certain is that great changes have indeed taken place in the depths of the Necromancer world. If it is allowed to develop, very bad results are likely to occur in the future.

The acquisition of this information dispelled most of Lucien's doubts about Rhine, but he still had the attitude of doing it if he could, and not forcing it if he couldn't. After all, he was only a high-level magician. It is too reluctant to enter this kind of legendary event that seems to be able to overturn the world. If the danger is too great, it is better to take the risk and submit it to the highest jury. There are seven great arcanists and eleven legendary magicians on it. A lot of peace of mind.

"This high-level undead turned out to be Felipe's summoned creature. Hey, he still doesn't know the weirdness of the undead world and his contracted creatures..." Lucien shook his head with a smile, except for the message of "the master has returned from recovery". Angeus' deepest memory is laughing at Felipe's arrogance and stupidity, and cursing another high-level undead named Adol to be purified by the God of Truth and tortured to death by a legendary magician.

Thinking of this, Lucien couldn't help but sneered in his heart, "The pale hands seem to know the existence of the Necromancer Realm, but they concealed this information and wanted to explore by themselves, but unfortunately they seem to be used by the high-level undead. cheated."

"If this task is not completed, find a way to attract the high-level undead hidden in the pale hand, and expose the existence of this strange world to the rest of the magic council, so as to unveil its veil. But if you do this, you will offend the Lord of Souls and the demigod lich to your death, so don't take such a risk if there are other ways to go."

Of course, comparatively speaking, it is much safer than Lucien directly reporting the situation during the meeting of the Supreme Jury.

Slowly clenched his right hand, a bright flame silently burned in Lucien's palm, completely burning away the dust left by Angeus's spirit body, and then Lucien carefully cleaned up the traces of the nearby battles, so as not to It was tracked down by other high-level undead in the Necromancer world.

After doing all this, Lucien continued to move toward the depths of the ground with the help of the "peeping magic eye" for pathfinding and vigilance.

In the darkness with flickering lights, Lucien walked for more than ten minutes on countless forked roads. Gradually, the air became a little warmer, and the sound of the rushing river flowing in his ears could be heard.

Knowing that he was approaching the underground city of the dwarves, Lucien became more and more cautious, carefully turning the fork in the road, his eyes suddenly brightened.

This is a huge passage, seven or eight meters high and twenty or thirty meters wide. The ground and the walls on both sides are covered with large gray stone bricks. A deep black stone pillar stands in the center, supporting the top, dividing the passage into There are three, and at a glance, it gives people a grand and shocking feeling. The dwarves have dug such a huge tunnel underground, what should their city look like?

According to historical documents, the ancient dwarves did not know much about magic, nor did they have strong blood!

Pieces of fluorescent moss are growing wantonly on the ground and on the walls on both sides, reflecting the passageway with a dim blue light, in a trance, hazy, it seems that a corpse will crawl out at any time, a ghost will float out, full of Quiet and eerie atmosphere.

After carefully exploring with the peeping magic eye, Lucien stepped into the passage. The sound of footsteps was unusually slight, but it was clearly audible. Da da da, da da da, the echoes vented in the passage, empty and deserted.

After controlling his body, Lucien sped up, the sound of footsteps disappeared, and the whole person flew up without leaving the observation range of the peeping magic eye.

On both sides of the passage, there are two black metal rails, which seem to be used for the passage of special vehicles for transporting goods. Lucien quickly moved forward along them, and soon vaguely saw the exit of the passage.

Lucien subconsciously slowed down and was on guard, but from the news from the peeping magic eye, he could see that there was a dead building complex in front of him, which was located in a huge artificially transformed cave.

The rock walls or stone pillars deliberately left to support the roof of the cave naturally divided the cave into more than ten blocks. The tall stone houses were either collapsed or overgrown with weeds, overlooking the streets that had no owner for thousands of years.

What makes people palpitating is that there are metal pipes connecting these stone houses. They protrude from any part of the house, meet in the huge metal pipes on the roof of the cave, and then extend to the sky above the tall buildings with countless chimney-like things. Then climb up and plunge into the top of the cave, not knowing where it leads.

Walking on the dead and cold street, Lucien saw familiar metal objects such as bearings, springs, pistons, and gears on the ground from time to time, as if he had returned to the earth and entered a machinery factory.

A faint light flashed in the black grass ahead. Lucien bent down and picked it up like an archaeologist. It was a huge steam rifle the size of a bazooka. Although the gear structure was rusted and corroded, it could still be seen They are complex and exquisite, and they are also connected to a half-human-sized steel high-pressure steam backpack.

Caressing the cold and rusty gun body that was about to break off, Lucien sighed softly, because this represented the disappearance of an ancient civilization.

Before the development of human beings, the dwarves who were good at craftsmanship invented various steam engines and established a brilliant steam civilization.

Compared with their small stature, just one airship seems to cover the sky, the steam engine ship sailing on the Storm Strait and the endless ocean, and the terrifying cannon that can hold several people, all kinds of powerful The steam rifles, the iron and steel smelting factories and the machinery manufacturing factories that spew black smoke like monsters are all so huge, as if they were specially made for giant dragons.

The dwarves have no in-depth theoretical guidance, and only rely on the summarization of smelting and manufacturing talents and experience, they miraculously and slowly developed the steam civilization. With the knowledge of various mechanical forging and design, even the legendary alchemist Claude Si improved the magic steam train and the airships used by the Church and the Magic Council. Some of the structures refer to the heritage of the dwarves, but they are driven by magic and divine power, and the giant airships, steam Trains became normal size, more practical and cheaper.

It's a pity that this civilization has been lost. If it wasn't for the records in the High Arcane and Magic Library, Lucien would have no way of knowing about it. Even Lazar, a knowledgeable magician who grew up in the Magic Council, would never have known about it. I have heard that it is believed that humans were the first to invent steam trains and use them to transport goods. Of course, the magic steam train was indeed the first invention of Cross.

Since there is no such person as Douglas to raise deafening questions, the steam invention of the dwarves has stagnated after reaching a certain stage, and the periodic expansion of magical creatures in the dark mountains has taught them blood lessons. These terrifying high-level Creatures are completely different from the middle and low-level magical creatures they bullied before. They simply cannot fight against them with steam rifles and giant ship cannons. In less than 20 years, the once glorious steam civilization retreated underground.

But the underground is not suitable for the development of steam civilization, coupled with the existence of many monsters and hunters, after experiencing the era of dragon rule, natural elf civilization, and the rise of werewolves, probably in the early days of the ancient magic empire, steam civilization completely disappeared. The dwarves left on the ground have been transformed by crazy magicians to have blood power and spiritual power, and re-develop the country.

But compared with the past dwarf civilization, they are fundamentally different, although they are equally good at smelting, and it is equally easy to give birth to master alchemists.

"If you don't have the power to protect your own civilization, you can only perish in the long river of history. Except for knowledgeable magicians, long-lived vampires, giant dragons, etc., who remembers them?" Lucien sighed softly, feeling rather complicated .

The water of the long river of history seems to be clear, but under its water surface, it is unknown how many brilliant civilizations and powerful figures have been submerged.

Putting down the huge steam rifle, Lucien continued walking, bending down from time to time to pick up the relics of this lost civilization, including silver coins with strange patterns of hammers and gears, "Elementary Mechanical Blacksmithing", "Steam Rifle Manufacturing Method", " Detailed Explanations of Several Steam Engines, Anatomy of a Steam Engine Ship, and other dusty and nearly decaying dwarven books, as well as various mechanical creations full of unique styles.

"It's a good thing that the dwarven script is better preserved. Today's dwarf language is not much different from these scripts." Lucien flipped through a few books and saved them in the soul library as usual.

After walking in the "Lost Civilization" for a few more minutes, Lucien saw a huge metal "golem" lying on the ground, half leaning on the tall factory building, so he stopped and carefully observed its exposed internal mechanical structure .

"Golem", the last sustenance of the dwarves of the steam civilization.

They wanted to create this powerful weapon of war to defeat the terrifying magical creatures, but unfortunately the slow golem failed to do what they wanted and failed miserably. Instead, it inspired the later magicians and developed all kinds of powerful golems.

Suddenly, a sharp sound fed back into Lucien's soul, and the crystal ball in his hand suddenly dimmed.

A peeping eye has been killed!

Whoooo! There was a cry that sounded like weeping, and the sound of footsteps so dense that it made one's scalp numb came from afar.

Lucien raised his head and saw thick pale tentacles protruding from a factory building in the distance, and then a disgusting monster came out.

Its upper body is like a plump old woman, fat and ugly, its two small slit-like eyes are shining fiercely and fiercely, and the huge naked breasts are densely covered with black and white eyes, while its lower body is like a white octopus, with outgrown growths. Tentacles with suction cups one after another.

"Nest mother"!

This is the horrible and disgusting "nest mother".

One can produce tens of thousands of fallen monsters, and if there is not enough food, the fallen monsters will devour each other or develop towards the ground.

Under its call, a tide of fallen monsters poured in from all directions, and the number was already hard to count. There were even many archers and talented warlocks who could attack from a distance.

Lucien raised his right hand and stroked the badge on his chest. Immediately, a crystal halo seemed to spread towards the surroundings, and soon developed to a range of 500 meters.

A terrifying blizzard blew up, and frost condensed on the bodies of the fallen monsters, and then fell apart under the strong wind like ice sculptures falling to the ground.

As soon as the bone arrow shot from a distance entered the range of the halo of ice and snow, it froze into layers of ice and fell to the ground powerlessly.

The incoming missiles, spider webs, rays and other spells were either directly crushed by the blizzard, or they were disturbed so that they missed the direction.

Lucien moved forward quickly, and the halo shifted as he ran wildly. The tall buildings of the dwarves were frozen by frost one after another, and pieces of fallen monsters fell to the ground like grass caught in a strong wind.

The nest mother sensed something was wrong, stretched out her tentacles, and began to climb and jump. Acid, cobwebs, and mist sprayed out of her dense black and white eyes.

But these supernatural powers solidified and fell to the ground as soon as they entered the range of the frost halo, shattering into powder.

A few seconds later, Lucien caught up with the nest mother, and its movements immediately became sluggish, as if its tentacles had been frozen into ice.

At the same time, under the action of the blizzard, scars were frozen and cracked on its body, and the black juice turned into ice as soon as it flowed out.

Pa, thirty seconds later, the struggling nest mother was completely shattered.

When Lucien stopped running wildly, the frost halo effect disappeared, and the entire dwarven city was covered with frost, black and white, and became empty and silent again.

"This magic clears the field really well, but it's easy to accidentally injure teammates." Lucien nodded and shook his head lightly.

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After searching for more than ten minutes, Lucien finally found a space node in a hall of the dwarf city.

It turned out to be a distorted crack in space, surrounded by things like magic circles and altars clumsily arranged by the dwarves.

"It seems that at the end of the steam civilization, the dwarves began to learn from magical creatures like humans, but under the influence of 'inertia', the effect was not great." Lucien sighed again, witnessing the loss of civilization, the knowledgeable Arcanists always have complicated feelings.

After carefully looking at the clumsy magic circle, Lucien took out the materials and re-drawn and engraved it again. At the same time, he was worried, whether he would get lost in the turbulent space when entering a different dimension with this kind of magic circle?

Like the alien space occupied by the Magic Council, there are nine-ring magic "gates from other worlds" near the nodes, which can facilitate the stable exchange of a large number of people and materials, and the worst node teleportation array that uses space gaps is at least It belongs to the middle level, so, seeing this seemingly low-level clumsy magic circle, how could Lucien not be a little worried.

After studying it carefully and confirming that the space gap is stable, Lucien took out the materials himself and rearranged the node teleportation array. At the same time, he was thankful that he had foreseen the occurrence of this worst case.

This arrangement lasted for three full days. Lucien got up and moved his body, and then put layers of defense on himself, because he didn't know what happened to the opposite side after the teleportation, and Rhine hadn't used it for hundreds of years. past this node.

Get ready, Lucien stepped into this alien space once occupied by dwarves but soon conquered by vampires - "Night Plateau"!

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