Arcane Journey

Chapter 77 Brian's Secret Weapon
"Is it very close to the dark lake?"

Brian put his hand on the stone wall of the tunnel, and while he concentrated on feeling the faint tremor, he said to the Kou Tao murloc monk not far away.

This monk murloc was also the largest among all the kuo-toa murlocs Brian had seen.

His skin was rough, his extremities were covered with conspicuous tangles of muscle, dotted with the scars of battle and training, so that he was almost as ugly as a corpse that had been dead for a week.

Brian has no doubt that the opponent's fighting skills are far superior to ordinary kuo-tao murlocs.

It's just that he couldn't imagine that the other party turned out to be a murloc who advocated pacifism.

This made him realize that this murloc might be hiding some ulterior secret.

"At least 5 kilometers away." The murloc monk stared at two protruding silver-black eyes, and replied in a slow tone.

The two independently focused eyes of the Kuu Tao murlocs have extremely sharp eyesight. They can see any moving creature or object, even if the other party is invisible, spirit body or astral things. Able to hide from their eyes.

Brian nodded thoughtfully, and stretched out his hand to signal everyone to stop.

Because he judged from the surrounding rock surface.

The road they are taking at this time, in the past years, countless underground races have dug mines in this area, almost digging away all valuable things.

Looking at the traces on the rock walls, he could even imagine that these underground races touched all the rock walls with greasy sweat, and also destroyed the possibility of any other ore being formed.

The color of the spacious oval-shaped tunnel is more like a dry earthy brown. Although this is a very suitable underground passage in the Underdark region, it can be seen from the traces on the ground that few people use it now.

It is said that when the ancient race created the dark lake, they also inadvertently brought in the evil murloc race, the kuo-toa, which allowed them to take root in every corner along the shore of the dark lake, often robbing the passing travelers.

"Let's go." After observing for a while, Brian signaled everyone to continue walking forward.

As a result, the murloc monk who was leading the way was the first to walk in the front row, followed by Goblin Copper Nugget and Dillo Dwarf Jeep two steps behind.

Under Brian's secret instructions, Copper Nugget and this enthusiastic Dillo dwarf are inseparable, and they are so familiar that they are even shorter than each other when they go out to pee.

"Did you find something wrong?"

Sisaiah, who was walking in the last row, walked side by side with Brian, looking at his slightly dignified expression, she asked him through magic voice transmission.

"Be vigilant," Brian said to the sword mage. "My instincts are rarely wrong."

Hesaiah nodded confidently, and inadvertently moved his right hand to the hilt of the sword hanging on his slender waist.

Afterwards, everyone was speechless all the way, and walked for about half an hour in the tunnel filled with morbid light. Soft sand began to appear on the hard ground, and their footsteps stepped on the sand, making creaking sounds.

Bryan looked around at the environmental features of the surrounding Underdark and recognized that they were very close to the Dark Lake.

He frowned and pondered for a moment, then found a triangular area composed of three stalactite stumps, and signaled everyone to take a rest.

"We walked about 3 kilometers and arrived at our destination."

The murloc monk not far away had no intention of stopping. He looked at Brian, carefully preventing the echo of his words from spreading far away, and said:
"There is a fork in front of you. After passing the corner, go straight along the passage on the right, and you will be able to reach the largest Kou Tao murloc town along the shore of the dark lake. We have been very lucky after walking so far, but we still have to"

"Boom!"

A cracking sound rang in their ears, interrupting the monk's voice, echoing for a long time in the wide tunnel.

Everyone was taken aback by the movement, and even Brian instinctively raised his head to look at the top of the tunnel.

The goblin copper block quickly grabbed the lighting stick emitting soft light in his hand, cutting off the radiation of light, and instantly plunged the entire tunnel into darkness.

"Could it be." The Dilo dwarf whispered hoarsely, "Could it be another purple worm or abyssal demon, I"

"Hush" the copper nugget whispered, "No, I think it's more like"

"Boom!"

There was another bang, and a smell of rock cracking and lightning filled the tunnel.

lightning?

Brian glanced at the sword mage beside him in the dark, and immediately thought of what race could naturally release lightning magic.

lightning?Rock cracked?
At this moment, Brian suddenly realized what this meant.

"earthquake!"

The goblin copper block obviously also reacted, and shouted loudly to the Dilo dwarf beside him, and disappeared into a shadow.

The murloc monk heard the goblin's shout behind him, and quickly ran towards the front of the tunnel.

Jeep the Dillo dwarf nimbly jumped over a large rock blocking the road, landed on the soft rock debris, staggered and almost fell, and after stabilizing his body, he continued to run wildly without looking back.

Brian unhurriedly stretched out his hand and pointed in the darkness. Under the illumination of a simple trick, the dark tunnel became extraordinarily bright.

——"Psionic arbitrary door!"

Looking at the bright light shining in the distance outside the tunnel, he concentrated his mind, and with a thought, he pulled Hesaiah beside him into the portal and disappeared.

"Boom!"

The moment the two left, there was a third explosion, louder than the previous two.

Dust and stone chips rustled from the ceiling of the cave, and the shadow cast by the light spell twisted and jumped on the shaking rock wall.

The earth roared torn apart, and the roaring sound seemed to fill the entire world.

The stone walls of the cave rippled as if the calm water surface was broken, the stones cracked, and the dust with debris spurted out from the cracks, and large stones fell from the rock wall.

The air was filled with a terrifying smell of rock fragmentation, and the rustling dust formed groups of thick fog.

Vaguely, Brian also smelled some other smells, heavy humidity, the smell of dead fish, and rich mushroom bushes.

When he felt the smell of fish getting stronger and stronger, a large group of Kou-tao fishmen appeared from the darkness and surrounded the five of them.

This is a group of about [-] or [-] kuo-tao murloc troops.

Their body surface is covered with turquoise hard scales. On their short, stooped but extraordinarily strong bodies, there are thick limbs, and between the sharp claws, there are duck-like webs.

Although they have human-like bodies and limbs, they have a bullet-like fish head and piranha-like sharp fangs protruding outwards, making them look extra ferocious.

The kuo-toa are ancient sea-bottom humanoids with evil personalities and ferocious tendencies.

They once populated the shores and islands of the surface world.

When humans and other surface groups drove the kuo-toa to the underground world and let them live in madness and darkness for generations, they never returned to the sun.

"Hello, my people, may I ask which tribe you are from?" The murloc monk stepped forward slowly, looked at a group of vicious little murlocs, and said calmly, "I am from."

However, before he finished speaking, the monk responded with a whistling harpoon.

The harpoon skimmed narrowly over the monk's bullet-like head and slammed into the far stone wall behind her.

"Blood and death, dedicated to the father of the deep sea!"

The three Kou Tao fishman priests with shells hanging around their necks raised their scepters at the same time and roared wildly: "They are sacrifices to the father of the deep sea, catch them all!"

Almost as soon as the words fell, all the Kou Tao murlocs brandished harpoons, pincers or spears and rushed towards them.

This time, Bryan noticed that the murloc monk who likes to preach peace the most did not choose to evade, but directly used his bare hands and took a stance to meet the attack of the Shangkou Tao murlocs first.

I saw him leaning over to avoid the swing of a pincer stick with the top designed like a crab claw, and hit Kou Tao murloc in the abdomen with his palm.

Immediately, relying on the talent of the race's slime, he clings to the target and leads him to leap forward, performing an acrobatic roll in the air, and the moment he falls to the ground, he lands a second punch.

Blood splattered and bones shattered.

Kou Tao murloc warrior fell to the ground on his back, tumbling wildly, tightly covering his bloody face with both hands, struggled a few times, and died.

It wasn't until the death of Kou Tao murloc that Brian realized that this murloc warrior was a Kou Tao supervisor.

In the Kou Tao murloc's rank division, apart from the high priest and whip bearer, the most powerful group of non-caster murloc fighters, with an average challenge level of around 7.

He saw the murloc monk put his hands together and bowed slightly to the corpse.

Then, the tangled fish leg kicked towards the ground, turning into an afterimage, like a fired bullet, and met the second Kou Tao fishman without warning.

——"Soul Palm!"

——"Duqi Strike!"

—— "The Gale Combo!"

——"Shock Fist!"

In the blink of an eye, the four Kou Tao murloc warriors fell to the ground and died in the shadow of the monk's fist.

It wasn't until the three Kou Tao murloc priests unleashed magic spells that the powerful offensive of the monks was slowed down.

Looking at the murloc monk's fierce fighting appearance, Brian couldn't help recalling the opponent's previous performance, and a sentence came to mind unconsciously: only weak externally, and heavy punch internally.

While paying attention to the fight between the murloc monks, he was not idle.

With the blessing of the arcane gauntlet, he can release a ring of spells in an instant by raising his hand.

Work in a while.

There were five Kou Tao murlocs holding harpoons and pincers before they rushed forward, but fell under the baptism of arcane missiles, so that for a while, no one dared to attack again.

Obviously, although the number of these Kou Tao murlocs is large, their strength is not as strong as imagined.

Even the three murloc priests who lead them are at most around level 5.

During the melee, Brian saw that among his unreliable teammates, the goblin copper nugget disappeared into a shadow as usual.

The Dilo dwarf, who used a short sword, used his own tricks to get entangled with a Kuu Tao fishman, and it was hard to tell the winner.

Hesaiah's rune sword slashed outward like a storm, and every time the sword slashed out, it would cause bursts of screams.

The lightning crackled and jumped, and the blade tore through the air, sending out bursts of sharp whistles.

The Kou Tao Yuren swarmed to the ground like harvesting wheat, one after another fell to the ground and died.

The strength displayed by Sisaiah made Brian dare not throw spells casually, for fear of accidentally hurting her jumping figure.

at this time.

He suddenly felt a dangerous wave of magic gathering crazily, and this familiar energy reminded him of the previous scene of the cave collapse.

——"Arcane counter!"

He used his countermeasures almost without thinking.

As a light blue magic network barrier appeared in front of his eyes, a beam of lightning shining with blue and white light crashed towards him.

The blue and white lightning beam fell into the magic net, struggled like a fish in the net, then suddenly turned the gun head, blasting at the three Kou Tao murloc priests who were holding hands and circling at a dizzying speed.

This is the racial talent of the kuo-tao murlocs. As long as the kuo-tao murlocs become priests or whip bearers, as long as they hold hands and circle together, they can create powerful lightning energy to attack the enemy.

"boom!"

But after being successfully countered by Brian, the reentrant lightning beam exploded again, instantly killing one of the Kou Tao murloc priests who was caught off guard.

While the two murloc priests were still shocked by the power of magic, the fireball that Brian had prepared followed closely.

The two flustered murloc priests were screaming, blasted into the sky by the explosion of the fireball, and fell heavily to the ground, lifeless.

The huge movement caused by the fireball naturally alarmed everyone around in an instant.

Seeing that the three priests leading them and one Kou Tao supervisor were all killed in battle, the remaining Kou Tao murlocs left their opponents and turned around and ran away.

"It's not that easy to leave!" Hesaiah shouted coldly, ready to release the black cloud that had accumulated on the Thunder Gauntlet.

"Let me come."

The moment she raised her hand, Brian came over and pressed her hand down again.

"Have you heard of "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor"? "He looked at the nine fleeing Kou-tao fishmen, and said to the sword mage beside him with a smile.

Ma Youfu Micro Meteor?

When Hesaiah heard the name of this spell, he couldn't help but look at Brian in shock, and subconsciously said, "Do you know this spell?"

"Of course, today I will let you see what a real "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor" is. "

Brian patted his dimensional bag, took out an item, and looked at the nine kuo-tao murlocs who were about to disappear from his sight.

The legendary "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor" also has a more popular name: the three-ringed god-slaying spell.

As a wizard who is proficient in the evocation school, Brian naturally managed to master this spell.

The reason why this three-ring evocation spell is called: God Slaying Spell is not because it really killed a god.

The main reason is that someone used it to kill a legendary lich, and this lich was still killed by a challenge by leapfrogging.

"Ma Youfu Micro Meteor" became famous because of this, and almost became the number one challenge spell among low-level spells.

Although its damage is not enough for a god.

After all, from the perspective of damage, this spell is not even comparable to the damage of a fireball.

But "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor" has a very special feature, that is, it is a magical creation, it is regarded as a +5 magic weapon, and it is the only magic that is not immune to divine power shield or law barrier.

To put it simply, its damage is real damage. No matter how high your resistance is, you will be forcibly deducted 1 point of blood when you are hit.

Because of this, the "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor" can almost break through most defensive armor.

Therefore, for Brian, the greatest significance of this spell is to break the defense.

Whether it is a dragon, a demon, a devil, or a powerful legendary lich, the real damage caused by "Mayoufu Micro Meteor" cannot be ignored.

Perhaps this kind of damage will be greatly reduced in various reductions, but in the words of their players: as long as you dare to show your health bar, God will kill you.

As you can imagine, if hundreds of thousands of people cast "Mayoufu Micro Meteor" at the same time, even if it only causes 1 point of damage, it is not something a legendary powerhouse can resist.

Of course, this kind of grand "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor" scene is probably difficult for any force except their players.

Under Hesaiah's expectant eyes, Brian stopped ink, locked on the figures of the nine fleeing kuo-tao murlocs, and directly took out a 92-type pistol from the dimension bag.

That's right!

You are not mistaken, Brian is holding a pistol in his hand at this time.

Moreover, the barrel of this pistol is still made of pure gold, which shone with a golden luster in the dark environment.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Then, he pulled the trigger without hesitation, eight gunshots were fired in a row, and fist-sized fireballs spewed out from the barrel of the gun one after another, trailing flames, and precisely hit the body of the Kou Tao murloc.

While the fireball left blood holes on their hard scales, it suddenly exploded violently like a grenade, blowing the eight Kou-tao fishmen to death.

Seeing the results of his experiment, Brian nodded in satisfaction.

Since his Austrian Fire was upgraded to level 4, the first spell he activated from the Austrian Fire was Mayoufu Micro Meteor.

With the activation of this spell, he successfully mastered it. After he learned the fourth-level power yesterday, he immediately took out a large pile of gold coins and steel, and used these raw materials to make a pistol for himself.

The reason why the "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor" can be shot from the barrel is mainly because this third-ring spell has been improved into a fourth-ring evocation spell with the assistance of the system before he was reborn.

Ma Youfu Micro Meteor (Evocation, Transformation)

(alchemy, contraptions, flames)
Rating: 3
Components: Speech, Gesture, Material

Duration: Special

Saving Throws: None

The caster creates miniature fireballs in his hands, the number of meteors is his own level*1, and this energy creation is regarded as a +5 magic weapon, which can cause penetrating and explosive damage to the target.

Casting materials: Beads made of saltpeter and sulfur with pine tar added.

Note: When casting this spell, the caster must launch it from a small hollow tube made of pure gold.

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From the introduction of "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor", it can be seen that there are many conditions for the release of this spell.

In addition to the necessary incantations and spell gestures, beads made of saltpeter and sulfur with pine tar added, and an expensive gold hollow tube need to be prepared in advance.

When casting the spell, these small beads must be stuffed into the hollow tube, and then fired at the enemy.

Does this scene look familiar?

So, after Brian mastered this spell, he began to think about how to get rid of these complicated steps.

Finally, after spending a lot of time and experience in research, he finally found a solution and raised the level of this spell to the fourth ring.

Although the difficulty level has been raised to the fourth ring, the power of the spell has not increased much.

The biggest change is that these beads made of saltpeter and sulfur added with pine tar, under the surge of magical energy, when they are transformed into micro meteors, they can be stored in his special bomb instead of being released immediately. folder.

In this way, when he needs to use it, he can launch it directly in the form of a pistol.

The only flaw is that he cannot reuse this spell before the micro meteors are launched.

Otherwise, with sufficient financial resources, Brian could even form a micro-meteor troop.

If anyone is not pleasing to the eye, just give him a shooting star to wash his face, even if it is a god, you have to avoid it for the time being.

Although it cannot be popularized, it can at least be regarded as his most powerful trump card.

Even in the face of an adult dragon, if you can't kill him with a single shuttle, you can stun him directly, and even run away with your tail between your legs in fright.

Therefore, Brian is quite satisfied with this. After all, his pistol is filled with bullets that can force even a god to cause damage.

As for why this low-level spell would cause damage to God.

According to research, the source of "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor" is that after the young wizard Ma Youfu created Ma Youfu's acid arrow, when he used the acid arrow, he accidentally reversed the spell and injured himself, resulting in disfigurement.

In order to restore his original handsome appearance, Ma Youfu decided to pray to God, hoping that God would grant him a miracle.

On a starry night, the young Ma Youfu came to the top of a hill, facing the dark blue night sky, and called out the name of God over and over again.

Unfortunately, however, a god heard his call, but the god immediately realized that it was a wizard and not a believer or priest who called him.

Seeing this, Ma Youfu was very anxious. In his desperation, he knocked on the broken gong five times, making a sound of "Dangdang Dangdang", and then began to sing a moving song to express his grief, "Only You ..." (For details, please refer to "A Chinese Journey to the West")
But I didn't expect this move to anger God, God thought in his heart, this little wizard with only level 5 dared to despise himself like this!

So God smashed the stars in the night sky to the ground to punish Ma Youfu for his reckless behavior.
The final result is predictable.

Ma Youfu was crushed to death on the spot, but fortunately, with his persistence in magic, at the last moment of his life, he recorded the process of casting the spell, leaving this great legacy to the wizards of later generations!

So the three-ring spell Ma Youfu Micro Meteor was born.

"Why is your release method of "Ma Youfu Micro Meteor" so peculiar. Seeing the eight dead Kou Tao murlocs, Sisaiah gasped and couldn't help asking.

Her surprised eyes wandered over the strange equipment in her hand from time to time.

Goblin Copper Nugget and others also turned their attention to the things in Brian's hands.

"Because I researched it myself."

Brian reloaded the magazine and cast the four-ring spell "Mayoufu Micro Meteor" again to activate the bullet inside, and then solemnly stored it away for emergencies.

"But didn't you notice?" Hesaiah went on, "You missed an enemy."

"I missed that on purpose."

Brian looked in the direction where the last Kou Tao murloc was escaping, "I'm just a little curious about the origin of this group of murlocs who believe in the father of the deep sea."

The voice just fell.

"Crack!"

The figure of Kou Tao murloc who was about to disappear was suddenly struck by a blue and white lightning, and he fell to the ground dead with a howl.

at the same time.

Brian saw a larger group of Ku-toa murloc troops appearing in their line of sight.

(End of this chapter)