Throne of Magical Arcana

The grand and solemn voice and the dreamy and magical city made the dwarves deeply shocked. What they saw and heard was the first encounter in their lives. Even if they imagined it, they had never imagined such a scene.

The tall buildings of tens of meters make them feel dwarfed; the lights like stars make the city look vast and vast; all kinds of magical things are far more exquisite and complex than steam civilization.

Facing such a city and all the dreamlike things, Harold and other dwarves have a feeling of being humble and insignificant standing in the boundless starry sky.

This is like the awe they felt for the splendid civilization when they first heard about the steam civilization.

This is the power of civilization.

After staying for a long time, the Great Elder woke up with a start, his heart trembled, and he knelt down on the ground, ignoring the hotness of the yellow sand, and prostrated:

"Great god of steam, your country is the residence of the gods, and your country is the ultimate steam."

Called back to the soul by the prayer of the Great Elder, Harold and other dwarves knelt down devoutly in front of the city that seemed to be the incarnation of the kingdom of God, and prayed:

"Your gift is as vast as the sea, and your majesty is as heavy as a mountain."

The sacred and solemn voice sounded again:

"If you are not of the same way, you must not show my name in front of others."

The Great Elder was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted, leading Milna and other dwarves to meet: "If you are not a fellow, you will not tell the holy name."

The voice that seemed to come from the sky continued:

"Anyone who turns his back on me will be swallowed by steam."

The dwarves who had been prepared replied: "Whoever turns his back on the glory of the Lord will be swallowed by steam."

The voice became ethereal:

"For my servant, for my family, and no longer be a slave to others."

The dwarves said in unison: "Your glory will not be desecrated!"

After several consecutive questions and answers, the voices in the sky gradually disappeared. Suddenly, Harold saw the city in front of him expand, turning into countless bubbles and rushing towards him and the others.

In the "bubble", the strange vehicle made of steel is getting bigger and bigger, more and more transparent, revealing the complex and exquisite structure inside, revealing the core machine composed of pistons, bearings, etc., which is different from the steam engine, and various Mysterious and mysterious pattern.

In the "bubble", the steel monster bird also became larger and transparent, exposing the neat rows of seats inside, and exposing the precision machinery and pipelines covered by the steel.

In the "bubble", the general structure of many buildings such as high-rise buildings, factories, chimneys, roads and bridges emerges little by little.

...

Dazzling and dizzy, the dwarves like Harold and Quiggins felt like they were about to explode. All of this was so complicated that they couldn't understand it!

The bubbles turned into clusters of light spots and crashed into their arms, and everything in front of them rippled like waves and began to shatter.

"This is what you want to get, and the rest must be found with strength, courage, persistence and meaninglessness." The grand and vast voice seemed to ring in every dwarf's ear.

The Great Elder did not forget to lead the dwarves to pray in a trance:

"Respect your holy name, practice your way, and you will surely establish your kingdom on earth!"

The Yellow Sand Desert was completely shattered, and Harold and the others felt dizzy and fell into a deep sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, they woke up slowly, opened their eyes, and found themselves in an underground cave that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

"What happened?" The Great Elder looked blankly at the altar in front of him, which seemed a little weird.

Harold was in a daze, looking strangely at the thick book popping out of his hand.

He had just learned dwarf characters from the Great Elder for two years, and it was very difficult for him to recognize the complicated words on the cover:

"Elementary Mechanical Forging".

"God, the god of steam has really descended!" Harold blurted out excitedly.

The other dwarves also found the books in their hands. They were taken aback by Harold's uncontrollable volume, and then burst into tears, crying for the first light of dawn in a dark and desperate life.

At this point, their "memories" came back to their minds:

I waited for the dwarf rebels to accidentally discover this cave where the steam civilization worshiped the gods, so they used it as a hiding place and resumed the worship of the gods. Today, Harold accidentally let the vampire Tess, Galata and others were embellished, and many of their compatriots were killed by them.

Just when he was in despair, the altar suddenly lit up, and the gods descended, purifying Tess and the others instantly.

Then, the "God" guided himself and others into an underground palace, a palace carved with murals of dwarves. After pushing open the gate of the palace, they saw a desert of yellow sand.

After trekking hard and suffering countless hardships, I and others finally saw the unimaginably miraculous city in the oasis deep in the desert—"Atlantis", the heaven of the god of steam!

The Great Elder Augustus, who felt that his memory was very confused, sighed: "It turns out that the underground palaces, murals, deserts, oases, and Atlantis are all scenes that the great god of steam let our souls see, not the real ones. thing."

In this chaotic situation, most normal people who know magic will suspect that their memory has been tampered with, but they who have just experienced a "miracle" and opened their hearts take it for granted.

Sometimes, a kind of illusion magic does not work, the only thing is whether it will work.

Just like the cursed eye Atlante wrote in a certain paper: "As long as you find the loopholes in your mind, even without illusions, you can make people produce false memories!"

"No, Great Elder, that's the real thing, it just exists in the Steam Heaven!" Kuggins, the combat leader of the Dwarf Rebel Army, objected loudly, "One day, we will let the Lord's way be practiced on the ground!"

Harold recalled "Atlantis" and suddenly became dumbfounded: "I always thought that the steam giant city with many mechanical products was the most grand and shocking city. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, it would There is a city of miracles beyond imagination like Atlantis!"

"Every piece of machinery and every detail in it is so magical, it's like the steam invention has been developed to the extreme, no, it has completely surpassed the steam civilization." A dwarf said like crazy.

If it was normal, the other dwarves who worshiped the ancient steam civilization would definitely laugh at him, mock him, curse him, and even beat him up, but now, almost all the dwarves couldn't help but nodded quietly. Not only because it was the heaven of the God of Steam, but also because of what I and others witnessed.

A dream city!

Harold's expression became excited, and he clenched his fists: "Atlantis, Atlantis, my goal is to build an Atlantis on the ground, which can have half of its magic, no, three Just a fraction of it!"

"I will never forget the brilliant lights of the 'galaxy'." Milna said as if dreaming, "It's a pity that I couldn't see the structure of the 'giant metal flying arrow'."

"Yes, it's a pity..." All the dwarves looked very disappointed, yearning for and fearing the weapon that seemed to be created by the gods to destroy the world. At that moment, it seemed that a new sun was born!

"Besides, the memory of other structures is very vague..." Harold was a little frustrated, but he quickly cheered up, "We have to lay the foundation first!"

He raised the book in his hand, and then saw a piece of parchment mixed with the book in confusion.

Pulling out the parchment, he found that it was a contract, stipulating the contract that promised everything in the dream.

"The great god of steam issued an oracle to let us follow the principle of 'equivalent exchange', which is an important creed in the kingdom of steam and machinery." The Great Elder felt the hint of the god, said excitedly and excitedly, and then he did not hesitate. He hesitated to sign the contract.

Harold and the others had no doubts about the god of steam who had saved themselves and others and owned the city of miracles "Atlantis", and signed a contract with the Great Elder. And for them, the most important thing is the last clause of the contract: "In the near future, the pious dwarves will be reborn, and will leave the night plateau and stay away from the slavery of vampires."

With a flash of light, the contract took effect. Lucien, who was invisible outside the crypt, nodded slightly, turned and left.

After the illusion ended, I spent a lot of effort to transfer them to the underground cave discovered by the "secret eye" without disturbing anyone, and then confused their memory order and fabricated a little guided false memory, so as to To avoid the problem that I have not enough ability to weave real memories.

But if they are convinced of this memory, after a period of time passes, it will be difficult to tell the truth from the fake!

The Yellow Sand Desert and Atlantis were simulated by Lucien using the five-ring illusion "mirage" performed by Aferris' blood. The specific blueprints are some big cities on the earth. As for the vague details such as mechanical structures It is mixed with many magic symbols. Even if it is discovered by a legendary magician in the future, it will at most think that this is the ultimate in the popularization of magic alchemy products, and it is the future of my own imagination.

After leaving the underground cave, Lucien's face gradually became serious, because from the dwarves' "open heart" narration, it can be known that the two dead vampires were the wife and housekeeper of the nearby lord Count Vlad, especially the female dwarf vampire, She is also Count Vlad's favorite bride.

"Ordinary vampires disappear when they disappear, but the disappearance of these two vampires will definitely make Vlad furious. We will investigate to the end. With the connection with his descendants, the familiarity with the territory and the keen sense of high-level vampires, It is possible for him to discover the location of the underground palace and the space node."

"This matter has to be dealt with."

Lucien walked towards the castle where Earl Vlad was.

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The next day, when the position of the constellations changed and morning came, the dwarven coolies began to work again under the whip of several other supervisors.

The overseers didn't care about the fact that the wife and the housekeeper didn't return overnight. The "deputy housekeeper" had already explained that they had found the traces of the dwarf rebels and were pursuing them. It is normal for similar things to take two or three days .

In the basement of the dark castle, surrounded by layers of dark magic circles, there is a blood-colored coffin, with thick black air emerging from it from time to time.

This is the place where the vampire count Vlad sleeps and heals his wounds, and it is the control core of the entire castle.

Whenever Vlad fell into a deep sleep, he would fully open the magic circles and traps around the basement to prevent the vampire enemies from sneaking in and killing them.

According to Vlad's boast, the defense of the core of his castle took thousands of years to lay out. Even if the vampire marquis or duke came, it would be absolutely impossible to break through the magic circle without disturbing him. Only the strongest can break through after a long time, which can be called a model of defense.

Therefore, in comparison, the attack power of this core defensive circle is quite insufficient.

The means of contacting Earl Vlad in the basement is in the hands of Mrs. Tess, the steward of Galata, and the other two vampire brides.

It seemed that the best way to assassinate Earl Vlad was to forge information and use the remaining two vampire brides to lure him out.

However, if they cannot be quickly killed or trapped and slowly strangled, the life-saving and escape abilities of high-level vampires are amazing, and everything will be exposed at that time.

Moreover, an ancient blood count who had participated in the Dawn War and survived was definitely not a fool who would be deceived by others. A slight loophole could be easily spotted and used in reverse.

This is an operation that has no room for failure.