Chapter 177 The rd Knowledge! Candle Castle Path
Deep pit of mud.

It is said that a pool of god's blood fell in this ghost place in the past, so that over the past few hundred years, a super huge slime monster would appear every once in a while. Fortunately, the slime monsters have no intelligence and rarely leave their activity area on their own initiative, so they are not particularly difficult to deal with.

At this time, at the edge of the deep pit, a team of five people was advancing cautiously.

"Those kobolds know how to choose a place."

A bald man with demonic features looked around, touched his bald head and said, "Although this ghost place is dangerous, as long as you can avoid the bloody mud monster, you don't have to worry about other evil things nearby."

Akdina Du'er walked at the end of the team, holding a mystical map in her hand, with a skull emblem marked on their location.

——Divine Blood Devourer [Super Giant Mud Monster] [Elementalization] (Strength unknown)!
After marking the skulls on the secret map, Akdina looked around vigilantly and said, "Stop talking nonsense."

"Hurry and find the entrance to the Kobolds' lair."

Along the way, they marked three skulls. This symbol has a special meaning. It usually refers to legendary monsters above biological level 20. If the target is suspected of having the corresponding domain law, a bloody emblem will be engraved under the skull.

This represents a lord-level existence.

These monsters will have to be cleared out one by one in the future. If they want to retake the material plane, they must clean up the courtyard first.

A faint sound of dog barking was heard.

Akdina Du'er became alert instantly and turned her head to look near a dark tunnel. She saw a funny dog ​​head sticking out, its skin covered with dense scales. After discovering them, the dog-headed man instantly ran into the cave. After a while, a dog-headed dragon warlock who stood nearly 1.5 meters tall appeared outside the mine.

——Dejin-Dragonblood【Dragon Vein Warlock】.

Ever since a kobold bard named Dekin became famous in Waterdeep, many kobolds have given themselves the same name. You don't have to pay too much attention to the names of the kobolds, because most of them have similar names. They are born too quickly and die too quickly. Some kobolds don't even have names.

"You are finally here."

Dejin-Dragonblood came out holding a jet-black staff. It was a low-level sealed item. The kobold must have killed some powerful monsters during this period. It said in a barking dragon language, "The cubs are starving."

Dragon vein creatures advance very quickly, they inherit some of the talents of dragons, and can eat extraordinary relics raw.

Dejin is a transcendent level 7 dragon vein warlock. Behind him are two kobold commandos and further away is a kobold lurker, but their strength is far weaker than him. The promotion of kobolds can be achieved quickly through the dragon's gift, and they also have a unique dragon vein ritual, which awakens the power of blood by praying to the dragon. However, there are not many legendary kobolds in the entire multiverse, and it is more difficult to promote their bloodline as they advance.

Akdina Du'er took out two dimensional bags and placed them directly in front of the kobold dragon vein warlock, and said in a serious tone: "The food is inside."

"The master's new order."

"Let you migrate in this direction. There will be your new settlement there."

Dejin-Dragonblood took the map, glanced at it, and said after a moment's silence, "We will set out in five days. Some of the cubs have just hatched, so they need some time to grow up."

These gnolls are basically left to roam free.

It's not that Xiao En couldn't afford to support them, but the supplies were really scarce at the beginning. The free-range kobolds were different from the captive kobolds. The free-range kobolds would be promoted to more professional kobolds, while the captive kobolds were basically pure slaves. The kobold race relied entirely on the dragon genes in their blood. Without external threats and oppression, the quality of the kobolds would be quite poor, and it would be difficult to produce more dragon vein warlocks from them.

After three months of free range, the ogre tribe has expanded to hundreds of people, and another dragon vein warlock has appeared.

The population exploded so much because they annexed a free-range tribe of kobolds.

Kobold eggs can be hatched in just three days. Kobolds can walk and run on the day they hatch. As long as they have enough food, they can grow to a height of 5 cm in a week at most. After a month, they have very weak combat power, which is roughly equivalent to that of a - or -year-old child. They are born with some racial skills (mining and digging +). Mining and digging are almost instinctive for them. They can also learn more advanced skills from other Kobolds.

For a long time, the battles between ogres and goblins were all because the ogres had a certain advantage because they were better equipped, and they could forge their own weapons and armor.

There is a very small chance that they will revert to their ancestral genes and give rise to the legendary 'Dragon-forged Dog-headed Man'.

That is, the kobold who awakens to become an alchemical path.

To Sean, the value of the Dragonforged Kobolds far exceeds that of the Dragon Vein Warlocks, as their forging abilities rival those of Dwarf craftsmen. However, since the end of the Dragon Court era, the number of Dragonforged Kobolds born from genetic atavism has been decreasing.

But it's worth a try. As long as one dragon-forged kobold appears, more will appear in an endless stream.

Akdina Duer nodded slightly and said, "Have you encountered any trouble recently?"

Dejin Dragonblood thought for a moment and said, "Those slime monsters are stupid. They can't find us at all. With them around, other monsters won't come near here."

"But recently our scouts discovered some strange bugs."

insect?

Akdina Duer said with a serious expression: "What kind of bug?"

Dejin Dragonblood recalled, "They are very large beetles. They seem to be able to absorb nutrients from any substance and reproduce very quickly. Our scouts have discovered their eggs. These monsters killed an underground shadow monster."

After that, it drew a larvae pattern on the ground and said, "This is their larvae. They are pale white and their eggs are parasitic on the corpses of other creatures."

Zerg? !
Akdina Duer asked seriously, "Is there a body?"

Dejin Dragonblood nodded and said, "I asked the cubs to bring it over. The larvae were almost eaten by them."

A few minutes later.

A pale larva was sent out, more than ten centimeters long. Akdina Duer took a look at it, took out a special alchemical artifact, activated it, closed her eyes and telepathically said, "Lord Xiao En."

"The Kobolds have discovered an unknown species of Zerg."

She reported everything she knew, and about ten minutes later, Xiao En's deep voice sounded through telepathy: "Tilbana Zerg."

"One of the Zerg branches."

"It should be from another world. I will send someone to keep an eye on this matter."

That meteor shower brought down not only dragon eggs, but also some strange things.

The Tirbana Zerg is a branch of the ancient Zerg. They are parasitic insects that reproduce very quickly. They do not have particularly powerful insect combat units, but they have strong survival adaptability. They only need one corpse to reproduce a large number of larvae, which will hatch quickly and be promoted to combat beetles, killer beetles, sleepy beetles, egg-laying beetles, etc.

After leaving enough food for the ogre tribe, Akdina-Du'er and others left quickly.

They were going to the deep pit mine to join the monster merchant group formed by Quin-To and others. Currently, the worm nest was actively expanding outward, and the worms were digging deeper underground. According to the current progress of digging, it might not be long before they encountered evil creatures deep underground.

at the same time.

In the distant Tower of Knowledge, Sean was sitting on the right side of a long table. Around him were scholars dressed in robes of various colors. They were generally older, and the youngest had a middle-aged face. Sean was the only young man among them.

A small number of sages appeared in the form of projections; their real bodies did not come here.

This is one of the places where the path of knowledge is passed down.

However, because the power of the Path of Death is too strong, many geniuses of the Path of Knowledge have switched to the Path of Death, making it far less powerful than other paths. The decline of the Path of Knowledge is closely related to the Candlekeep in the spirit world, because many mysterious knowledge left over from the Dark Ages are sealed in the Candlekeep.

However, there are too many indescribable and powerful illusions there, so that even legendary masters find it difficult to penetrate into it, let alone ordinary spellcasters, who can forget about reading the ancient secret scrolls sealed in Candle Castle.

The Ancient Elf Magic and the Golden Scroll are both sealed in the deepest part of Candlekeep.

The path of death and the path of knowledge are in a relationship of one increasing while the other decreases.

Because strictly speaking, the Path of Death can be regarded as the School of Necromancer among the eight schools of magic, while the Path of Knowledge refers to the other seven schools besides the School of Death.

1V7. The Necromancer faction almost crushed the other spell schools.

In the Tower of Knowledge, necromancy is not popular, and the most powerful school of spells is the 'Department of Conjuration'. Those who tend to delve into necromancy have basically switched to the Path of Death.

The core members of the Path of Death are Necromancers, Death Knights, Undead Kings, etc. Most of them will be transformed into undead creature templates in the later stages, and those spellcasters will eventually become corpse wizards and liches.

The core members of the Path of Knowledge are wizards, sorcerers, magic swordsmen, etc. They rarely change their racial templates and have unique advancements for knowledge sages and archivists. One of the very important hidden promotion paths is the 'Candlekeep Scholar', but because Candlekeep has been inaccessible for hundreds of years, the promotion path for Candlekeep Scholars has been interrupted.

Because the "Book of Darkness" could not be produced, there was no way to study dark knowledge, and the inherited profession of "Archiver" originating from the ancient elves could no longer be continued.

This is like an incomplete manual of martial arts secrets.

The skills of the Path of Death can be cultivated all the way to Demigod, because someone has already paved the way before. However, the promotion route of the Path of Knowledge, no matter which secret you follow, you have to face the existence of ancient evil creatures. If you can't get the corresponding skills, you will be stuck at the bottleneck.

The decline of the path of knowledge is not simply due to the blind stupidity that shrouds the weird kingdom.

There are many warlocks and ambitious wizards here, all of whom have set their sights on becoming demigod liches because of the higher upper limit of the Path of Death.

Xiao En came here this time to discuss matters concerning 'Candle Castle'.

Candlekeep.

A legendary place that cannot be avoided no matter what activities are carried out in the spirit world. It was born from a place of the same name in another world. It is also the place where the God of Slaughter grew up. His adoptive father is a scholar of Candlekeep. Before the Dark Age, a powerful soul from another world created Candlekeep to preserve the mysterious knowledge of the other world he collected, and even sealed up many spells of the ancient elves. This soul from another world was a scholar from Candlekeep. At that time, dozens of powerful spellcasters joined forces to open up Candlekeep, hoping to preserve the knowledge in this way.

But then an accident happened, knowledge came alive, and unspeakable illusions were born, and they became the masters of Candlekeep.

This is equivalent to cutting off the inheritance, and it will be difficult for others to enter and read the ancient secret scrolls.

Moreover, if a wizard wants to be promoted to a great wizard, he also needs a lot of mysterious knowledge sealed in Candlekeep. If Candlekeep is not opened, it will be difficult to unlock many advanced professions other than basic professions.

"The remnants of Zhendan are attacking the Land of Chaos."

Above the long meeting table, an old man with a white beard and mopping the floor glanced at everyone, his eyes lingered on Xiao En for a moment, and he said slowly: "They have already opened up the elemental chaos."

"Established an outpost."

"We can't wait any longer."

Many great things happened during this period.

The archdruids of the natural path opened the dream forest, and the extraordinary people of other paths can enter that plane through dream rituals. The shamans of the northern ice fields are looking for ancient spirits. Xiao En is not sure what they are, but they should be a kind of existence similar to being born and raised by nature, a conscious embodiment of natural concepts. In the southern mountain country, the earth prophets of the highlanders have found the remains of the fallen gods, or they knew where they were a long time ago, but they have not started digging until now.

The laws of the real world are slowly assimilating with the weird world. A great era is quietly opening. If you don't want to sit and wait for death, you must take the initiative.

The Tower of Knowledge has been trying to retake Candlekeep for nearly a thousand years.

Sean was invited to attend the meeting of the eight major schools. On the one hand, it was because he was strong enough and as a mage with a half-plane, he was definitely qualified to sit at the conference table. On the other hand, it was also because he represented Lady Hecate, and the sages of the Tower of Knowledge hoped to get help from the demigod of death.

At the conference table.

The eyes of several great sages fell on Xiao En, but Xiao En remained silent, just gently stroking the ring he was wearing with his fingers.

A ring of the Witch King, representing the authority of the Abyss City.

A lich ring, representing the status of the path of death.

After a long time, Xiao En pondered for a moment and slowly said, "If the Tower of Knowledge is ready to retake Candlekeep, the teacher will provide some assistance."

"But what happens after you open Candlekeep?"

"Who will deal with the Lord of Darkness? Those crazy and twisted ancient scholars, are they all angels now? Do you have any way to deal with them?"

"There are also the Great Detective - Morty Lane, Blade Dancer, Soul Eater, Dusk Scroll, Iron Maiden, etc."

"These indescribable illusions are not so easy to deal with."

What Xiao En has been cleaning up during this period are the deformities of flesh and blood, but in addition to that, there is also indescribable vanity and the hatred of the world.

The indescribable illusions are all in the spiritual world, and they are also the most difficult type of monsters to deal with.

Ms. Hecate's meaning was simple. We could fight, but the Path of Death could only provide partial assistance. They still had to clean up the mess inside and had no time to attack Candlekeep. If we had to attack by force, the difficulty of attacking Candlekeep would be no less than that of conquering a kingdom of God. There were at least a dozen evil creatures with the status of angels, countless indescribable illusions, and the souls of crazy wizards from the Path of Knowledge.

The old man in the lead was silent for a moment, staring at Xiao En and said slowly: "What does Ms. Hecate mean?"

Xiao En said calmly, "Steal!"

At the long table to Xiao En's right, a scholar's projection asked, "How to steal? Who can steal?"

Xiao En shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"But you must first find at least a legendary thief who possesses the domains of shadow and theft. We can help attract the enemy's attention and divert some of the illusions, but only the top-level wanderers can sneak into the depths of Candlekeep."

Only a wanderer of at least level 25, a high-level legendary destiny master with the domains of shadow and theft, can steal the dark scroll from Candlekeep.

The sages present looked at each other, frowned and thought, wondering if there was such a legendary thief among the people they knew.

Xiao En stood up calmly and said, "If you can find the right person, then we can discuss the next plan."

"if not."

"Now is not the time to open Candlekeep."

Xiao En naturally also wanted the mysterious knowledge in Candle Castle, but the problem was that there were too many unspeakable illusions sealed inside. After the laws of knowledge were completely activated, Candle Castle was full of monsters and demons.

He walked all the way out of the tower.

After leaving the tower, Xiao En gently wiped the lich ring on his finger and said silently in his heart: "Teacher, it's done."

After a moment, a calm female voice sounded: "I know."

Sean turned around and looked at the tall tower behind him, put on a black cloak, and walked towards the library in the distance. He came to the Tower of Knowledge this time, partly because of Ms. Hecate's mission, and partly for further study.

Of the eight major spell schools for spellcasters, except for the School of Necromancer, the other seven schools are all inherited here.

After all, Sean is not a real necromancer. He can learn most of the knowledge from Ms. Hecate, but the focus is still on the school of necromancy. He himself is a spellcaster of the general school, which means he has no specialized faction, so he must complete the mystical knowledge of the eight major schools.

The more knowledge the better.

Xiao En's destiny is to spread knowledge on the one hand and accumulate knowledge on the other hand, and the latter is even more important than the former.

He still had one last chance to visit the realm of 'knowledge'.

Xiao En had a very strong feeling at this moment that when he completed his destiny path, he would most likely see the 'acquaintance' again.

Because it always wanted to "eat" Sean's brain.

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(End of this chapter)