Arcane Journey

Chapter 40

"Little Mushroom Head, I'm actually curious, how did you escape from the hands of the Dark Elf and the Purple Worm at the same time."

In the deep tunnel, the goblin copper block who was leading the way at the front glanced back at the mycicle larva held in Brian's arms, and through the established spiritual link, asked curiously, "Are you also the daughter of the goddess of luck, Timorah?" believer?"

Brian looked curiously at the ball-sized mycocarp larva in his arms.

There is no way, as a mushroom man, his moving speed is too slow, in order to speed up the process, he can only hold him in his arms and hurry.

Hearing the copper nugget mention Timora, Brian couldn't help recalling some interesting information about the goddess.

Goddess of Luck, Taimora.

A graceful, benevolent, friendly goddess who holds all good fortune in her hands.

The reason why she has a large number of believers all over the mainland can be attributed to two points:
First of all, because her priesthood includes "timeless escape" and "accidental lucky discovery", many fledgling adventurers choose her as their faith, hoping to get more good luck and the consequent wealth and fame.

However, the second reason and the most important point is that Timora came to the city of Araby in the Kingdom of Cormyr during the turbulent years.

And also built a "lady's hall" in the local temple, and sat in the city to openly accept the worship of believers.

In that turbulent year when the magic frenzy was out of control and it seemed that the gods had abandoned mortals, Timora's coming in the form of a saint and what he did after that not only calmed the panic-stricken hearts, but also let everyone know There are still gods who care about their mortal followers.

It's the comforting attention that comes with this desperate moment, and the ability to speak directly face-to-face with the exalted Goddess in person, that has drawn her a huge following of new believers (fans?)

Of course, the goddess is not just anyone who can see it.

If you want to meet the goddess and chat with her face to face, you must first donate an appropriate amount of wealth.

It is said that some nobles even competed for bids because of this system, just to become the first believer to meet the goddess today, and blindly believed that the person who first met the goddess of luck could bring good luck.

There is a kind of meaning of competing to catch up early on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and vying to get the first stick of incense in the temple.

Because they also believed that this would bring good luck for a whole year, this directly led Buddhist temples around to seize business opportunities and successively auctioned the right to offer the first stick of incense, which was unprecedentedly grand.

In fact, in Brian's original world, he didn't know whether the so-called "luck" was a visible and tangible thing.

But in this multiverse with gods, he deeply understands that the hidden attribute of 'luck' also affects every aspect of a person.

If you get the favor of the goddess of luck, you can indeed make everything go smoothly for a period of time in the future. Even if you open the "Vientiane Impermanence" card, you have a high chance of getting the sun, moon and stars.

Bryan also heard that after a local rich player got three chances to flip the Impermanence card, he immediately came to the city of Araby in the Kingdom of Cormyr, and used his banknote ability to smash a blessing attribute of "Goddess of Luck" in the temple of Timora.

It was this blessing that made him lucky to turn over the moon card with three wishes, the star card with 2 free attributes, and the sun card with 50000 experience plus a random piece of magic equipment.

As a result, the other party was still not satisfied, and wanted to have an infinite set of dolls.

He used the wish technique to get three more chances to turn over the Impermanence card.

Then, as soon as it was sent into the soul, a catastrophic void card was drawn, which caused the soul in the game world to be imprisoned, and the body was in a state of incapacity, and even the wishing technique could not be recalled.

So in desperation, he could only gather his friends and try to go to the place where the soul is imprisoned to rescue him.

A group of people came to a grove where souls were imprisoned.

Suddenly, everyone was dumbfounded.

Because the caretakers turned out to be five legendary druids who chatted and spanked all day, and then these players were accused of breaking the balance, and they all became the fertilizer of the grove
Likewise, pissing off the goddess of fortune, who is the opposite of luck, can even keep you unlucky for a long time.

Therefore, these two goddesses are more of a kind of awe to Brian, and he never thinks about provoking them.

After all, the camps of Lady Luck and Lady Fortune, one is chaotic good and the other is chaotic evil.

Those with the attribute of 'chaos' almost all belong to the existence of special brain circuits, and no one can guarantee that they can figure out their temper.

This is true for mortals, let alone those gods who have lived for an unknown number of years, and have never seen such a big storm, and the gender of these two gods is still female.

However, Brian can tell from the fact that this little copper goblin can mix so well in the Underdark.

In addition to being a weird and unpredictable advanced professional ghost dancer, the opponent's luck attribute is definitely not low.

Otherwise, it is impossible to live to this day.

This made him involuntarily want to keep this little goblin by his side.

"I'm also very curious about how you escaped from the purple worm and the drow." Brian withdrew his thoughts, used his mind link ability, and answered in agreement.

The fungus larva Teemo lifted his little mushroom head, looked at Brian, and said happily, "It's a spore cloud that I sprayed out that can emit a sweet aroma, attracting purple worms and underground monsters. "

A spore cloud of monsters?
Brian glanced at him unexpectedly, a mushroom man larva had already mastered this ability.

As far as he knew, the function of this spore cloud was not as simple as gathering monsters. Its real usage was similar to the sandalwood used by wizards in meditation, and it had the effect of calming the mind.

It can be seen from this that this little guy is very talented, no wonder he can resist the corruption of his mind.

Time to study it, Brian thought.

Immediately afterwards, he immediately noticed that Teemo was eager to demonstrate, he was startled, and quickly stopped his death-defying behavior.

"Then why did the drow capture you?" He asked again before the goblin could speak.

"Do you still need to ask? It must be eaten." Copper Nugget quickly answered the question, winking at little Timo funny.

"Mushroom heads in the dull forest are delicacies in the ancient city of Orens, especially mushroom larvae like Teemo, who are the most popular. Make him a drow mushroom steak, and serve it with drow's special incense. Eating it with vinegar is delicious and chewy, just like eating a unicorn.

I've also heard drow mushroom steaks are a favorite of Shannasa, the beholder tyrant in Waterdeep.Oh, by the way, if you have the chance to taste this delicacy, be sure to read the label of balsamic vinegar carefully, after all, Zhuoer likes to mix poison in the seasoning. "

"Not at all!"

Timo glared at the copper block ferociously, and explained to Brian, "Our mushroommen in the Sunless Forest can use their special abilities to make various magical potions from the mushrooms we grow. The dark elves want to make us The territory of the United States has become their back garden for making potions, and they have never given up on this idea."

"So, your uncle Uzib was corrupted by the dark elves?" Brian asked curiously.

"I don't know that."

Timo shook the umbrella-shaped little mushroom head, and said worriedly, "Although I resisted the rotten spores sprayed out by Uncle Uzibo, I can clearly feel that this is a kind of poisonous spore that is more terrifying than the dark elves." power is corrupting them."

"Could it be a demon from the bottomless abyss?" The copper block stopped, turned and looked up at Brian.

"Very likely." Brian nodded thoughtfully.

Speaking of the corrupted mushroom people and their so-called "Madame", it reminded him of the grand arcanist Blaise who was awakened by radiant energy.

This made him realize that the subtle influence of the Underdark definitely came from the spider wizard of the ancient city of Orens.

It is the consequence of his activating the radiant energy of the earth's veins.

If the normal timeline is followed, it will be three years later that many incarnations of demonic monarchs will appear.

That is to say, the energy radiated by the leylines will explode completely after three years
Thinking of this, Brian secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

His only goal now is to return to the surface to develop, while studying Mithr energy core and Nether scroll, building his own wizard tower, and brushing monsters at the fastest speed to improve his level.

He didn't want to participate in this chaos when he was so weak.

After all, to face the abyssal demon with his current strength is just a soy sauce existence.

"Wait a moment!"

At this time, the goblin leading the way suddenly stopped with a solemn expression.

Seeing this situation, Brian also stopped.

Obviously, something had alarmed the little guy.

He saw the copper block walking by the stone wall, and put his ears on it.

"Melee."

After a while, the goblin pointed to the stone wall and whispered, "The tunnel is nearby."

Brian also came to the goblin, put his ear on the stone wall and listened intently.

Although his senses were keen, he was not as familiar and sensitive to the vibration of the rock as the copper block, and could only hear the vague vibration.

"Who are they?" he asked.

"Many, there are the sounds of boots and monsters." The goblin replied solemnly, "It's in the tunnel not far ahead, on the way we must go back to Fansi Trail."

"That means the two tunnels will cross." Brian frowned and asked again, "Can we find a way to avoid it."

The copper block turned to look at the stone wall, and after a while, he replied in an affirmative tone, "The two tunnels converge not far ahead, and then extend straight forward. It is impossible to avoid it."

"If I'm not mistaken, that tunnel leads to the ancient Orens city and the dark frontier, right?" Brian was silent for a while, looked at the mycosis larva in his arms, and expressed his guess.

"That's right." Copper Nugget nodded slightly, "What do you want to do?"

"Go to the fork first." Brian said, "Let us know what they are doing before making a decision."

The goblin copper nugget guessed his intention, shrugged indifferently, and continued to lead the way.

They soon came to an oval cave.

There is another tunnel here, and from the deep tunnel, Brian heard the vague clash of sharp blades and the roar of beasts.

He and the goblin continued to move forward, and when they were about to approach, they quickly hid in the shadow of the cave, secretly checking the battle situation ahead.

"It's a dogfight."

Seeing the situation ahead, Copper took a breath, "Marsh bears, drows, kuo-toa murlocs, Dilro dwarves, humans, orcs...Tymora, why did the abyssal demons come to join in the fun? .”

"It's a big fight."

Brian forcibly pushed back the little mushroom head that the curious baby poked out, not intending to let him watch the bloody scene, and said to Copper Nugget, "There are at least four forces mixed together."

"The drow and the swamp bear are in one group, and the orcs and demons are in one group." Copper Nugget said his judgment, "The rest should be runaway slaves. Eh! Strange, those two A swamp bear and two drow got into a scuffle anyway."

"Protect him, I'll go over and brush some. I'll join in the fun."

After seeing the situation clearly, Brian threw the little Timo in his arms to the copper block, and followed the shadow of the stone wall, and touched it silently.

(End of this chapter)