Arcane Journey

Chapter 71 Battle of the Star World

Brian opened his eyes and found himself floating in the boundless silver sea.

Soft gray clouds moved slowly in the distance, and strange bands of black light writhed violently in the air, the two ends too far away to be seen, and the middle writhing violently like a rope rolled under a child's fingertips.

He lowered his head, wanting to see what was supporting his body, but he only saw his feet stepping into the void, surrounded by a strange pearl-like sky.

The astonishing sight in front of him made him subconsciously take a deep breath, and then he felt that his lungs were filled with something sweeter than air.

This sweet taste unexpectedly did not make him feel like vomiting or drowning, but he has completely adapted to the environment here.

He also found that he had completely adapted to such a simple breathing movement.

"Sure enough." Brian suspended in mid-air, nodded thoughtfully.

He had long suspected that the so-called ideology of the Dull Woodlands originated from the astral world.

Now, looking at the familiar scenery in front of him, it really confirmed the guess in his heart.

The Astral Plane is a vast silvery sea, within which there is no distinction between upper and lower, gray and white bands of light constantly rolling like distant stars.

At the same time, it is also the kingdom of spirit and dreams.

Most of the travelers who travel here will arrive in the form of out-of-body souls.

Being out of body is a wonderful feeling.

A friend of Brian who helped him embark on the path of psion, taught him the ability of "astral travel" and took him to experience this wonderful feeling many times.

If not, they would not have ventured through the astral world to reach the main material world.

Although this is not the first time he has tried to project his soul out of his body, every time he uses this ability, he will clearly feel the soul's strong sense of weightlessness.

Losing the shackles of gravity, he, who descended to the astral world in the form of projection at this moment, feels light and light, like a feather.

However, he quickly adapted to the environment here, and began to move around here flexibly.

at this time.

A silvery light, like a cloudy dawn, spread around him, illuminating a strange realm.

Bryan found himself floating in a swirl of colored swirls of silvery smoke.

"Brother, your spirit has been linked to the ideology of the Darkwood." Timo's voice echoed deep in his mind:

"The Fungus Demon Queen is on her way with her entourage, preparing to hold a demon ceremony. Now you need to get ahead of them, find the ideology of the Sunless Forest, and prevent the situation from spreading."

"I see." Brian responded from the bottom of his heart.

Immediately afterwards, he clearly felt a kind of spiritual 'traction', which made him unconsciously drift towards the colorful vortex in the silver mist.

If his expectations are correct, the destination of the vortex should be the independent spiritual space where the ideology of the matted forest is located.

So, instead of resisting this 'pull', he allowed this force to take him towards his ritual form in the Sunless Woods.

At the same time, with a thought, the psicrystal quietly appeared in front of him, suspended in mid-air, shining with a faint blue light.

"Master, you're finally willing to let me out." The moment the Psicrystal appeared, he turned around excitedly in front of Brian, stretched out the cat's head, and said:

"Great, you have come to the astral plane, did you know? For psions, the astral world is their favorite battle ground. By the way, what are you planning to do here?"

Of course Brian understood the meaning of the psicrystal's words.

Since the Astral Plane belongs to the realm of thoughts and dreams, and psions major in spiritual energy.

This also means that when psions step into the spiritual realm of the astral world, they will gain unique advantages.

So, from the moment he stepped into the astral world.

His power points began to skyrocket, at least doubled.

This feeling seems to have untied some kind of shackles, forcibly breaking free from the shackles of matter, allowing him to come into contact with the most primitive and essential energy.

If the wizard's magic comes from the magic net, then the psionic power of the psion undoubtedly originated from a spiritual kingdom like the astral world.

At this time, he stayed in the astral plane, just like a wizard in the deepest part of the magic net.

Because the spiritual energy here is so rich that it looks like gaseous rivers, allowing him to call it at will when he raises his hand.

This is also the reason why many psions who are proficient in the teleportation system often like to take the lead in pulling the enemy into the astral world forcibly when fighting.

Brian briefly explained his purpose to the psicrystal, and immediately shut it up, and hurried on his way obediently.

In the sea of ​​silver fog.

After an unknown amount of time, Brian finally discovered a large group of fungal creatures and spores forming a weird team, like ghosts, gliding forward without a sound.

This made him realize that the team ahead was definitely Zugmoy, Queen of the Fungus Demon.

With a thought, he mobilized a little spiritual energy to speed up his pace.

With gradually approaching.

Through the thin silver mist, Brian saw from a distance that there were mushroom people of various sizes appearing in his line of sight, jumping crazily in front of a group of huge live mushrooms while walking.

They also carried a nest of moss-covered mushrooms, on which sat the Queen of Fungi.

Since this is just her ideology, Brian is naturally not afraid of her direct threat.

He saw Zugmoy wrapped in mold and mushrooms woven into a grotesque wedding dress.

Human figures loomed behind her, tufts of glowing lichens and swollen fungi following her like a bridesmaid, with veils and strands of lacy mycelium.

When her followers drop these items, the Fungal Queen rises, dominating all creatures around her.

"My fiancée"

She intoned, and the meaning was clear: "I'm here at last."

Brian, who was hiding in the dark, followed the other party's gaze.

Sure enough, I saw a distant floating object, which seemed to be a hemisphere. I didn't see its true shape until it rotated slowly.

It was a gigantic skull missing the jawbone, formed of some pale rock.

Roughly the size of a hill, the skull is covered in lichens and extensive mold, a color similar to green algae on the plane of the material.

Through the hollow eye sockets of the skull, Brian could see that its hollow interior was filled with a dizzying variety of giant fungi.

There are also numerous tendrils and tentacle-like growths that reach out and intertwine to form a castle-sized brain-like fungus suspended in the center of the open space.

When Brian stared at the brain-shaped fungus in the upper skull, he suddenly felt strongly the soul of the matted woodland.

At the same time, a set of data also jumped out of his system panel:
"Contacting source energy."

"Successful contact with source energy!"

"Trying to establish a connection with the source energy"

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Seeing the prompt on the system panel, Brian immediately figured out the reason.

Before his soul projection, the spores that Teemo sprayed on himself, in addition to being able to live in harmony with the mind body of the matted forest, may also play a role in establishing a connection with the independent spiritual space where the mind body is located.

If the connection is successfully established, it means that you can directly mobilize the purest source energy of the spiritual space.

In this case, the amplification effect of his spiritual spells will be greatly improved.

Obtaining the increase in source energy can even give him the strength to fight against the spiritual body of the fungal queen Zugmoi not far away.

After all, the incarnation of the fungal queen is only formed by a consciousness.

Now, in the spiritual space of the astral world, except for using mental attacks, she can hardly exert any ability inherited from her body.

This is the root cause of Brian's fearlessness.

"Sure enough, none of the gods are fuel-efficient lamps, especially those of the lawful neutral and absolute neutral camps. This seems to have been calculated in advance."

Brian secretly evaluated the fungi master that the mushroom people believed in.

He faintly felt that it was probably not a coincidence that he met Teemo on Fansi Trail, but was deliberately arranged under the influence of certain existences.

This reminded him of a history about the fungal forest.

The Fungi Forest, also known as 'Araumeco', is the largest known home and sanctuary of the mycotic species.

It is a monstrous colony of fungi with a single consciousness, on a scale as large as the supreme forest of the surface world.

The elves believe that the fungal forest 'Araumek' was created by magic from one of their many ancient empires, the Aryvandar Empire.

Originally, Brian believed in this news.

After all, in the history of elves, any wonders and wonders in the mainland seem to have something to do with them.

However, when he really saw the ideology form in front of him from the lightless forest, he was connected to the source energy of this independent space.

Only then did he realize that the formation of the fungal forest was by no means as simple as the elves said.

This self-conscious fungal forest is likely to be an incarnation left in the material world by the god Bosi Lofeel that the mushroom people believe in.

As for the dark woodland, the same is true.

After all, before the elves retreated, the kingdoms of Comanthor, Valley, Sambia, and Cormyr were all covered with dense forests and belonged to the elves.

And the location of the matted woodland happened to be in the underground world of the Kingdom of Cormyr.

It can be seen from this.

The once-lightless woodland is definitely a single body of consciousness larger than the fungal forest.

It's just that for some reason, it may be that the deadly behavior that the elves love to see caused a big explosion, which led to the decline to this embarrassing appearance.

Otherwise, the conscious body of the matte forest would not have such an independent spiritual space and rich source energy on the astral plane.

Not to mention let the fungus demon queen Zugmoi be targeted, trying to devour it and strengthen her own strength.

No wonder the fungus lord promised himself benefits in advance, Brian thought.

With his personality, if the other party didn't give them anything, he was asked to help them without knowing what was going on, and if he was caught unintentionally, he might really be able to leave on the spot.

After all, what he is most upset about is being plotted against by others inexplicably.

Remembering that the Lord of Fungi would bestow upon himself a gift from the Mechanic Realm of Clockwork Nirvana.

Almost without thinking, he thought of something that was most useful to him.

He felt that after the task was completed, maybe he could have a good talk with the other party and take the initiative to fight for it.

At this moment, Brian received another system prompt:

"The source energy connection is successful!"

"You have temporarily gained the ability to mobilize source energy!"

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Immediately afterwards, he clearly felt a surge of spiritual energy rushing through his body.

This magical feeling, as if any energy around him can be mobilized with his thoughts.

This increased his confidence in facing the fungal queen.

"Who!?"

A voice suddenly called out from the bottom of his heart.

Apparently, the fluctuations generated by connecting the energy of the source matter made the fungus queen aware of his existence.

"Who dares to disturb my scheduled wedding?"

The Fungal Queen turned around and looked in the direction where Brian was hiding.

The spores and tentacles around her erupted from the surface of her body, and the eyes filled with death breath shone with inhuman anger.

"Go and wake up the ideology of the Sunless Woods."

In the face of the threat of the demon lord, Brian, who had a reliance, maintained an unprecedented calmness, and gave instructions to the psionic servants beside him, "I'm here to stop her and delay time."

The spirit crystal servant heard the words, a space slipped and disappeared in place.

At the same time, all the fungus around the fungus queen rushed towards him.

Brian sneered and quickly fought back.

On the astral plane, his psionic spells didn't require any preparation at all, they were all released instantly according to his thoughts.

The moment he turned his gaze to the enemy group.

——"Mind stabbing!"

A sharp thorn descended from the sky, piercing one of the fastest mushroom man fiercely, mercilessly crushing its projected body and disappearing.

This is where the physical world differs from the astral world.

In the main material world, the "mind stab" he releases will only act on the enemy's mind, and it is impossible to stab the enemy's body in the form of energy.

But on the astral plane, which is similar to mental space, it is like being in the depths of a person's heart.

This kind of psionic attack acting on the mind naturally changes into an attack method in the form of energy, which is simple, direct and deadly.

——"Psychic explosion!"

——"Mind stabbing!"

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With the fall of the first fungus, under the continuous increase of source energy, Brian narrowly avoided the frenzied tentacles of the fungus queen, and at the same time, let his eyes flash with deadly lights. With the cold light of supernatural power, the fungus people collapsed and died one after another.

In the blink of an eye, only the fungus queen Zugmoi was left alone among the surrounding enemies.

The fungus queen was surprisingly furious that the enemy in front of her had wiped out her subordinates so cleanly.

"Humble mortal, seek death!"

She gave a cold shout, and the huge spiritual energy rushed towards him with a thunderous force.

—— "Level [-] ability: Shockwave!"

Unmoved, Brian stretched out his right hand calmly. Instead of choosing to defend, he pointed at the Queen of the Fungus Demon and slammed his palm.

This ability is similar to smashing a heavy hammer deep in the enemy's mind, but in the astral plane, his ability is blessed by the purest source energy.

Thus, it became a shock wave in the true sense.

A dazzling light wave as thick as a bucket emerged from the palm, cutting through the silver mist like a sharp arrow, and instantly collided violently with the berserk energy gushing out from the fungal queen.

"boom!"

The two energies collided together, and a deafening explosion erupted in the void of the silver sea.

Seeing that his attack was effective, Brian, who was forced back by the blast, took a deep breath.

He mobilized his power points, raised his hands as quickly as possible, crossed his wrists, palms facing outwards, aiming at the body of the fungal queen Zugmoi, and used the same move again.

In an instant, the surrounding source energy began to frantically rush towards Brian's body, converging into his crossed palms.

"boom!"

A beam of energy light with a diameter of more than 5 feet, exuding a dazzling white glow, rushed towards the fungal queen.

Sensing the dangerous energy fluctuations, fear floated in the angry eyes of the Fungal Queen.

She raised her palms and drew an energy barrier to block the light wave.

The violent collision made her take three consecutive steps on her hind legs, barely stopping the turbulent momentum of the light wave.

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work."

Seeing that his attack was blocked, Brian shook his head slightly, and gave up his plan to kill her.

Then, he immediately adjusted his plan, preparing to pin his hopes on the ideology of the dark woodland.

However, his attack did not stop because of this.

Because he knows very well that the best defense is offense.

Only by continuously bombarding the fungus demon with his own attacks, taking advantage of her illness to kill her, and making her overwhelmed by the crazy attacks, without a chance to fight back, can the psicrystal win the opportunity to awaken the ideology of the dull forest land. Chance.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Under the boost of source energy, Brian kept a long distance from the fungal queen, preventing her spores and tentacles from touching him, and then continuously released energy shock waves to blast her body.

This was the richest battle of all the battles he fought in his life.

Because after being connected to the source energy of this independent spiritual space, he almost has a steady stream of power points to vent his attacks on the fungal queen.

Looking at Zugmoy's embarrassed resistance, Brian couldn't help but recall the players' ridicule about the bottomless abyss:

When the strength allows, be sure to visit Shadella (the residence of the Succubus Queen) as a kiln, and Sindra (the residence of Mrs. Fungus) as a botanical garden.

"Boom!"

Another fiery shock wave blasted towards the fungal queen.

This time, the incarnation of the demon lord who was struggling to resist was unable to dodge in time, and was blasted firmly on the distorted face.

Seeing the scorched face of the Fungus Demon, Brian was not only unhappy, but his complexion became a little ugly.

Facts have proved that whether they are mortals or female demons, they care very much about their own face.

He saw the crazy demon lord scream angrily, the tentacles around him twisted wildly like the snake on Medusa's head, and the whole person's momentum changed suddenly, as if the real demon lord had descended.

——"Star Barrier!"

Bryan gathered the surrounding source energy at the fastest speed, and released a thick force field energy enchantment for himself.

"boom!"

The attack of the Fungus Queen's hatred erupted, like a majestic thunder, slammed into the barrier that Brian held in front of him, and exploded loudly.

Brian, who was hit by the impact, felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if he had been hit by a battering ram, and his weak body instantly flew backwards.

This soul projection almost collapsed due to this attack.

When he raised his head with difficulty, he found that the body of the fungus queen, transformed by spiritual thoughts, also dimmed a little with the blow of hatred.

This made him secretly relieved.

"Master, I have awakened the ideology of the Darkwood." At this moment, his psicrystal slipped through space and appeared in front of him in time.

Beside him, there is also a sphere exuding gray-blue light.

Obviously, the other party was the mental body that was almost married by the fungal queen.

At this moment, Brian naturally didn't have time to think about how to get on the ball if the fungus queen really married the ball.

After he felt the message sent from the mind body to the depths of his mind, his expression turned cold, he suppressed the pain in his chest, crossed his wrists, and released a powerful shock wave to the fungal queen again.

The moment the surging white beam of light shot out, the gray-blue light ball instantly blended into it.

This dazzling beam of energy pierced through the silver sky amidst the terrified scream of the fungus queen Zugmoi, crashed into the body projected by her soul, and collapsed without a trace.

"Target is dead!"

"Extract the target's soul energy."

"Acquired experience points: 15000 points!"

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PS: The first order is 492, although it has not reached 500, but this time the results are obviously much better than the previous two books, and I hope it can be maintained.

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