The ether passage looks very long. In fact, it only took Gavin three steps to reach the witch's cabin. This is due to the plasticity of consciousness in the ether plane. The laws of physics are very vague here, but consciousness becomes omnipotent here. , can shape everything. As long as you are strong enough, you can even become the God of Creation, creating an etheric half-plane where everything is created by you.
Filancini's hut looks like a hut on the outside, but the interior space is much larger than expected. It has a multi-story structure with spiraling stairs. It is a mage tower.
This situation is not unique to Filancini’s Magic House. Most of the mage’s mage towers have immaterial spaces. It seems that not doing so would not be enough to show the strength of the mage tower, but it is indeed easy to use. Many thieves who go to the Mage Tower to steal or abandon the Mage Tower often fail due to their past conventional experiences. They are lucky to miss the treasure. Many of them even die without knowing how.
Therefore, even if many mage towers have been abandoned for hundreds of years, they have never been thoroughly explored - spellcasters with this ability often look down upon them, while those who want to explore do not have this ability.
At least Gavin won't explore a dangerous mage tower or dungeon for a treasure whose existence is unknown. With this time, he might as well think about leading his own army to eat up that valuable territory and plunder it. The loot can be dozens of times the output of a mage tower or dungeon, not to mention the follow-up value, unless the matter itself coincides with one's strategic goals, such as exploring and attacking the dwarf statue city.
And at his level, he no longer needs to take action on some things. If he directly delegates tasks or places a bounty through the contribution system, countless people will rush to do it for him.
After entering Filancini's magic house, Gavin's attention was immediately attracted by the thing in the middle. It was a half-person high platform with a huge magic book placed on it. The entire page was covered with It is cut from a piece of calf hide. If you stand it up, it will be enough to be as tall as half a person. The thickness is also amazing. Especially the writing is golden yellow. There are countless snake-like characters written on it. It doesn't need to be With magic identification, just by seeing them for the first time, you can be sure that they possess powerful and magical magic.
Gavin couldn't help but lost his voice and said: "This is the Nese Scroll! A magic book made from the Nese Scroll!"
He used an affirmative sentence instead of a question sentence. Now he finally understood why Filancini was so wary and why a legendary red-robed mage was worried about her magic book. It was not just because she held Netheril. The magic book, but what she holds is the Netherese Scroll, the core secret of the rise of the Netheril Empire.
The Netheril Empire started out as an alliance of fishing villages around the Moonsea that had to unite in order to survive, and was just one of many intelligent races.
His real rise began with obtaining the scroll of Nese.
The Nese Scrolls were created by a Saluk witch organization named Betis. They took the countless primitive magics given to them by the Serpent of the World, wrote them on the Serpent of the World's golden snakeskin, made them into scrolls, and then spread and taught them. The purpose of giving other intelligent life forms is to study the different forms displayed by different intelligent races using primitive magic, and this happened 30,000 years ago.
The Saluk Witches are the first intelligent civilization on the planet Toril. They are also called the snake god race, the creators of scaly creatures, and one of the five ancestral races. They created and transformed the snake people and lizard people. , Nagas and six-armed snake demons, these scaly races of different shapes, are designed to serve themselves.
Since the Saluk witch has a variety of appearances, some look like the snake-hating man that the snake man strives to imitate, and some look like a six-armed snake demon whose upper body is a human and the lower body is a snake, and some even have wings, so, As a result, these scaly clans now claim that they are the final direction of evolution, and the others are deformities.
In fact, the ultimate evolutionary goal of all the scaly clan is to become a Saluk witch.
To this day, the Saluk witches themselves have become part of history, not to mention the civilization they created. Only a handful of Saluk witches have survived in hidden corners, but the civilization they created has become a part of history. The Golden Scroll, the Nese Scroll, has been passed down to this day and plays a pivotal role in the history of the planet Toriel.
Five thousand years ago, a Saluk witch named Athindor transformed into a human archmage and appeared in front of the Netherese people. He translated the Netherese scrolls for them and granted them the most powerful gift. Primitive magic skills clicked the fast-forward button for the entire empire, allowing them to run wildly on the road of magic exploration and create a series of brilliant achievements, including the energy core that allowed the floating city to rise, the Nese Dense Core, which was also Io's. It was created by Lem when he was studying the scrolls of Nese, rather than his personal achievements, so it is called the Nese Secret Core, not the Iolum Secret Core.
Although there are thirty-two volumes of Nese scrolls, and the one in front of you is just one of them, the value contained in it is immeasurable, at least it is at the level of an artifact. The thirty-two volumes combined will be the supreme artifact.
Who is Filancini?
The person who can hold the scroll of Nese is by no means an ordinary legendary arcanist.
Unintentionally, he discovered a gold mine beyond his imagination.
"Yes, this magic book is made from a scroll of Nese, and it's called the Scroll of Iolum." Since Filancini let Gavin enter her mage tower and saw this magic book, I have no intention of continuing to hide it.
"Scroll of Iolum? Don't tell me that Grand Arcanist Iolum is your teacher!!!" Gavin's voice couldn't help but raise three bars of his voice.
There is no way, Iolum is too famous in Toril. He is the greatest great arcanist in the Netheril Empire. His birth is regarded by later generations as a symbol of the rise of the Netheril Empire. , just by creating the first Nese Dense Core and raising the first floating city of Sinlenar, it was enough for him to be engraved in the history of Toril civilization and never be erased.
Not to mention, his series of achievements in arcane arts made arcane arts more popular among the people, he founded a series of arcane arts academies, trained a large number of low- and intermediate-level arcane magicians, and gave Rising Floating City a mass base. ——Do you think a great arcanist and a group of warriors who know nothing about magic can raise the floating city?
Each floating city is a huge air battleship that can not only fly in the sky, but can even enter other planes. To operate it, a large number of spellcasters must cooperate.
The reason why there is no force that can raise the floating city now is not only because of the fault in the manufacturing method, but also because of the lack of a sufficient foundation of spellcasting people. Even the current mage kingdom Halua, compared to the Netheril Empire at its peak, not only has The national strength is less than one tenth, and the popularization of magic education is less than one percent.
To put it bluntly, the prototype of the mage system engraved on the magic web was created by Iolum, but his most talked about spells are two legendary spells - Iolum's Immortality and Netherese Dragon Transformation.
Netherese Dragon Transformation is as simple and straightforward as its name. It allows the caster to transform into a dragon. It not only has an appearance, but also has a series of special and supernatural abilities possessed by the dragon, such as a fierce momentum, and For example, dragon breath, etc., even some of the dragons whose personalities and temperaments are somewhat similar to those who transform into dragons, truly transform into dragons.
It is said that in order to study this spell, Iolum dissected dozens of dragons of different races alive, ranging from young dragons to ancient dragons. At the same time, he was labeled as the most hated human by the metal dragon and the colorful dragon. The Netherese Dragon Transformation Spell is regarded as a spell that blasphemes the dragon. Once it encounters the user of this spell, not only the colored dragon will launch an unprovoked attack, but the metal dragon will also launch a direct attack with a high probability.
Because this spell touches the sacred and inviolable status of the dragon, if the dragon wants to grow to the ancient stage, it must live for at least a thousand years, while human spellcasters only need hundreds or even decades to possess and transform into a dragon. After matching the life dice, a legendary spell can do this. If everyone can transform into a dragon, where will they, the real dragons, be?
Due to the unremitting efforts of all the dragons, the art of dragon transformation in Netheril was lost. At least in the entire continent of Faerûn, no one dared to publicly claim that they mastered the art of dragon transformation in Netheril.
Iolum's immortality spell is one of the best choices for those short-lived races who pursue immortality. With this spell, Iolum has lived for more than three thousand years. As a human being, this is the most precious thing about this spell. The method of immortality for liches and vampires requires changing the nature of one's race, requiring the abandonment of many things (such as human emotions), and carrying serious curses (such as vampires' fear of sunlight and bloodthirsty addiction).
It's just that this legendary spell didn't spread at the beginning. Apart from Iolum himself, only one other person could use it, his close disciple Taborah. Legend has it that she used this spell to massacre an illithid city called Ai thousands of years ago. Lintao City.
Iolum's magic book is most likely to record these two legendary spells.
This also explains why Filancini, as an arcanist, knows so much about arcanists and helped Gavin build a powerful arcanist soul tower.
Because the advanced profession of Olympus was created by Iolum in the later stages of his life. Because of this incident, he offended the entire illithid race to death, and eventually died at the hands of the illithids.
"I did not have the opportunity to listen to the Grand Arcanist's teachings." Filancini denied, "But my professional inheritance is indeed related to him. He is my teacher's teacher."
"Teacher's teacher?" Gavin's eyes lit up, "Your teacher doesn't know how to do Tabora, right?"
Tabora is Gavin's backup choice for the path of the Ospian Master. It is only a few hundred kilometers away from here, in a market town and village called Bagwit Hotel.
The reason why she was originally listed as a backup choice was not because she was not strong enough. On the contrary, it was because she was too powerful. She was an old monster who had lived for nearly two thousand years. In order to avenge Iolum, she killed The terrifying presence of a large mind flayer city, an event that gave her near-eternal life.
Even if a tree lived for two thousand years, it would become extraordinary, let alone a great arcanist who had the most powerful power two thousand years ago.
Gavin was afraid that when he was in front of the other party, all his secrets would be hidden.
But as his strength gradually increased, Gavin found that his original worries were unnecessary. At the level of these old monsters, none of them had traveled to other planes. It is estimated that the so-called sons of planes have seen a lot. For them, they are just a variable in Toril, representing a possibility. Before they grow to have matching strength, they are nothing. They will not go on a killing spree because of this. If If they do this, the entire Toril will be killed by them first.
Even through the veil of mist, Gavin could clearly feel the tangled aura exuding from Filancini, and finally nodded and said: "Yes, my teacher is Iolum's last student Tabora Madam, as for other things, you should not ask any more questions, and you are not allowed to go to my teacher for help and inform me of my current situation. If you dare to do this, you will never see me again."
Since Gavin knew Tabora's name, it meant that he knew her whereabouts, so Filancini naturally wanted to eliminate this possibility.
"Understood." Gavin wisely chose not to ask further questions. It was obvious that there was something wrong with the relationship between master and disciple. It was a serious kind. It was not hatred. What he felt from Filancini was more Guilt and guilt, since he opened up the special perception ability of drinking with friends and improved the use of negative energy, his perception ability in this area has become very strong.
"Let's start analyzing the dream spell." Filancini obviously didn't want to get too entangled in this matter and directly changed her attention.
As she spoke, she had already walked to the Scroll of Iolum. With the infusion of her magic power, this large and amazing magic book started to turn automatically. The magic words on it seemed to come alive, and they started to read one after another. It surged out from above and was suspended directly above the magic book.
As Filancini quickly fiddled with her slender fingers, these magic runes were disassembled into magic rune formulas of different lengths, many of which were very similar to first- and second-level spells.
After Filancini dismantled it like this, a complex five-ring dream spell became very simple. Gavin only needed to forcefully remember these basic magic rune formulas and low-level spells that he had mastered. Just sort them in order, and shorthand is what he is best at now. This is the most intuitive benefit brought by super high intelligence.
Obviously, Filancini is not as simple as preparing a five-ring dream spell, but dismantling and reorganizing it on the basis of it, integrating the concept of constructing the Dragon Oak Dreamland and some basic operating data she just got from Gavin. Build your own dreamland.
Filancini's dreams are just software. Her Mage Tower and the Scroll of Iolum will provide hardware support. The process of analyzing the dream spell is also the process of initially building her own dream.
In the end, not only was the scroll of Iolum flashing with a large number of magic runes, the entire magic house lit up, and magic runes emerged from the masonry one by one. As the order of these magic runes changed, Adjustment, the positions of these masonry also began to change and adjust.
Naturally, the mage towers of the mages cannot be made of ordinary masonry. If there were any, it would only be a stone tower where a mage lived, and it would not be qualified to be called a mage tower.
Since anything that can be named a mage tower, every brick and stone that builds it must have been enchanted by the master of this mage tower, and has basic magic runes engraved in it. When these bricks and stones are arranged and combined, the structure When building a building, it is not surprising that various special abilities and magical abilities are activated.
And this is just the lowest mage tower. In order to make their mage towers have inexhaustible energy, those powerful mages often go to various elemental planes to capture various powerful elemental creatures. , and then use it as the core to build a magic-draining array in your own mage tower, drawing far away the elemental power of the inner plane for your own use.
This is the reason why the masters of those mage towers have been dead for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years, but their mage towers are still in operation and various powerful magic traps are still in effect. If there is no external damage, theoretically Yes, such a mage tower can exist forever.
The most advanced mage tower, like Filancini's Magic House, not only has the above two functions, but even its own components can be adjusted to a certain extent according to the wishes of the master tower owner, thus producing various different effects. Special ability, and such a mage tower is usually rare.
Because the energy core supporting this kind of mage tower is usually no longer various imprisoned elemental creatures, but various more unique and powerful existences, such as artifacts.
The energy core of Filancini Mage Tower is the Scroll of Iolum. As the reorganization continues, a huge suction force is generated, and countless ether mists are forcibly absorbed by it and become part of it.
In the past, the etheric mist trapped this mage tower like an invisible chain, but now the situation is completely reversed.
I don’t know if it was Gavin’s illusion, but most of the power of the fog that originally enveloped Filancini was abruptly extracted. There were originally countless layers of veil between the two, but now it has become only a thin layer. The kind that can be broken by poking, which in turn arouses people's desire to pry and see the true appearance behind it.
Unfortunately, by the time Filancini finished reorganizing her mage tower, the last layer of gauze-like mist was still thinning instead of completely disappearing, and she was unable to get her wish to see the true face of the legendary arcanist. Gavin did not feel too upset or disappointed. If the problem of the fear demiplane was so easy to solve, it would not have a bad reputation in Faerûn for so many years. However, Filancini's condition shows that, This time they have found the right direction, but their current strength is still too weak to break this bondage.
I have recovered from my cold, so I took the opportunity to take a break, and now I am trying to save the number of manuscripts I have saved.
I found that if I save a lot of manuscripts, it will be less likely to be discarded. Once my manuscripts are too low, it will easily break! !
Hey, hey, hey... Man has fallen! !
After taking leave, I feel a little useless. I have been so lazy these days that I don’t want to move at all.
(End of chapter)
