One Sneeze Destroys A Magical Civilization

Chapter 200 An Interesting Story of Shui Shui City

At night, the lobby on the first floor of the Wandering Artist Hotel was full of seats.

Whether it's the militiamen who have been patrolling and standing guard outside all day, or the passing merchants, or the farmers who have nothing to do in the slack season, they all gather here to have a drink at this moment, listening to the lame groaning on the stage. The troubadours played country tunes and talked about recent news and anecdotes.

Since there are no other entertainment activities other than human creation on weekdays, and the speed of information transmission in Faerun Continent is very slow, so the unique tavern culture here has been formed.

A large number of locals and foreigners habitually exchange information in taverns or hotels, and regard the stories and experiences told by others as a kind of entertainment.

Interested people will get the information they need from it.

Of course, as an audience, it is also the most basic rule and common sense in the tavern to invite the storyteller and the informant to have a drink.

Right now, Zuo Si is constantly buying wine for an adventurer who claims to have just come from the northern city of Waterdeep, and then listening to this guy's boastful talk.

"Dear South, listen to me, Waterdeep City is not as good as the rumors outside.

Especially the port area is like a huge garbage dump, filled with the disgusting smell of rotten fish and shrimp.

And in all kinds of low and disorderly buildings, there are countless gang members and criminals hidden.

Even the port area of ​​Amn, which is controlled by the shadow thieves, is many times better than the port area of ​​Waterdeep City. "

This thirty-year-old man named Imogen raised his head and took a big gulp of spirits, his tone full of naked disgust and disdain for the port area of ​​Waterdeep City.

Of course, this is not how he himself feels.

It's the unanimous evaluation of all the people in the tavern who have been to Waterdeep City.

Some guys even think that the reason why the situation in the dock area is out of control is that those mentally retarded lords of Waterdeep expelled the Shadow Thieves, causing the originally well-regulated underground gang to become more violent, bloodthirsty and chaotic.

Although the officials of Waterdeep City have been bragging about how enlightened and advanced their system is, even commoners have the opportunity to become lords and participate in the management of the city.

But in fact, the serious consequences of this kind of "closed room politics" are far more than it seems on the surface.

However, considering that the whole of Faerun is like a huge "social experiment field", there are almost everything from the most primitive tribal system to countries like Amn and Sembia that are close to the mercantilism and capitalist oligarchy system of the Age of Discovery .

Some places practice slavery, some places practice tyrant dictatorship, some places are enlightened monarchy, and some places are controlled by spellcasting organizations.

Therefore, the secret lord system in Waterdeep City does not seem to be so unacceptable.

At least compared with Calimshan, which practiced slavery, it is definitely much more advanced and civilized.

"If it's really so chaotic, how can commercial ships ensure the safety of their cargo?" Zuo Si asked with great interest.

Imogen grinned and replied: "Of course, it is necessary to pay a part of the protection fee according to the rules of the gang, and then the goods can be safely transported out of the dock, sent to the commercial area or the southern caravan area, and then enter the logistics network inside the city .

In order to save this money, many people even cross the dock area directly, use small boats to send goods ashore near the southern city gate, and rent local caravans to transport them into the city.

According to my observations over the past two years, the number of ships docked at Waterdeep City Wharf is getting smaller every year.

If those shitty lords don't do anything, it's only a matter of time before the docklands are completely abandoned and turned into a criminal's paradise.

In addition to the dock area, Leyline Lost City and Skull Harbor are also huge hidden dangers.

One night just half a year ago, a large group of monsters suddenly rushed up from below for some unknown reason, and attacked hundreds of houses in an instant. It is said that two or three hundred people were killed in their sleep. I was also one of the witnesses. "

Speaking of this, Imogen's eyes obviously became full of fear, he quickly raised his glass and drank all the remaining wine, and even his breathing became short of breath.

Moreover, Zuo Si noticed that his hands shook slightly involuntarily, which obviously belonged to a strong stress reaction.

Fortunately, after a while, the man calmed down, pointed to the scar on his cheek near his neck and continued: "Can you believe it? I was lying in the lounge of the Crawling Spider Tavern in Waterdeep City, with my arms around me. A cutie sleeping in a sexy black bodysuit and dressing herself up as a drow.

But who knows, when I opened my eyes, I found that the little cutie in my arms turned into a real dark elf at some point!

That sinister whore is holding a dagger to my neck, the front end has even stabbed in.

If I hadn't reacted fast enough to kick her away, I would probably be lying in the coffin like those unlucky ones who died, turning into a rotten, smelly, maggot-covered corpse in the cemetery.

Whenever I think of this brush with death, I can't help but shudder. "

"So...you don't like cute dark elves anymore?" Zuo Si joked with a half-smile.

"Hahahaha! That's right! After this incident, I found that I was fascinated by the dark elf-style waitresses at the crawling spider tavern. , you will never have even the slightest thought in that regard."

Imogen laughed out loud at himself, not at all angry at being teased.

Just the opposite!

Every time he thinks about it, he feels how stupid he was back then.

"Bartender, another drink for this friend of mine."

Zuo Si casually threw a golden "dragon" into the bar.

The thin bartender caught it with one hand very skillfully. After feeling the weight and color, he immediately showed a satisfied expression. He picked up a bottle of medium-to-high white wine in the store, and immediately filled Imogen's empty glass.

Due to its close proximity to Waterdeep City, the currency used here on Dagger Bank is basically the official minted currency of Waterdeep City.

Among them, copper coins are called "Jianzi", silver coins are called "Suizi", silver and gold coins are called "Sambar", gold coins are called "Dragon", and platinum coins are called "Sun".

In addition, Waterdeep City also minted two special currencies.

One of them is the "Thor", a brass coin with a round hole in the middle of the square, also known as "Tor", which is officially worth two gold coins "Dragon".

But once it leaves the sphere of influence of Waterdeep City, this kind of credit currency, which is given value by the power of the government, is immediately worthless.

In contrast, the Bay Moon, another palm-sized crescent-shaped platinum coin, fared slightly better.

It may be that it is a platinum coin, and the middle and sides are also inlaid with a large proportion of gold and silver.

Therefore, the value stipulated by the Waterdeep City government is fifty gold coins, but it can also be worth two gold coins in other places.

Since the Council of Dagger Beach gave 300 gold coins to Waterdeep City for helping to solve the attack of the Lizardmen tribe, Zuo Si spent the money quite generously.

He even invited everyone in the tavern to drink several glasses of strong stout for four copper coins a cup, and he seemed to have become the most popular person here, bar none.

You must know that for those militiamen and farmers with low salaries, they are only willing to drink this kind of "good wine" with a very high alcohol content during the holidays.

On weekdays, I usually drink a cup of bitter beer.

How about the taste...

Just smelling it made Zuo Si feel a little nauseous.

Picking up the glass and taking a sip of the "expensive" white wine worth one silver coin, Imogen tentatively said in an uncertain tone: "Sous, if you don't mind, can you tell me why you are going to Waterdeep City?" Is it? To go to the academy there to learn knowledge, magic and fighting skills? Or to visit relatives, or to open up a family business?"

"No, not at all. I just want to buy a house in Waterdeep City as a foothold, and go to see the famous Leyline Lost City with my own eyes." Zuo Si smiled and said the purpose of her trip.

First buy a house, and then set up a coordinate teleportation point in the basement of the house.

In this way, he can easily travel between Waterdeep City and Askatra.

In fact, according to the original plan, there will be such a place in Baldur's Gate.

It's a pity that it was finally ruined by the stupid and arrogant actions of the Dukes of Baldur's Gate.

but it does not matter.

He believes that it won't be long before these guys will pay for their actions.

"Going to the Lost Land Leyline? My God! Are you...are you crazy?"

Imogen opened his mouth wide in unbelievable shock.

Because even he would not dare to enter what Elminster called "the place where adventurers become famous and the largest hero's tomb in Faerun".

Although there have been many stories in Waterdeep City who made a fortune after entering the Lost City of Earth Leys.

But more are nameless adventurers who never came back after entering.

Only the luckiest, most powerful, smart people who can control their greed will have a chance to come back alive from the huge maze with priceless booty.

Zuo Si shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly: "Don't worry, I'm not going in to explore in depth, I'm just going around the shallow layer twice to see it."

Hearing these words, Imogen heaved a sigh of relief, stroked the two mustaches on his lower lip and said, "It's not too dangerous if you only walk around the shallow layer.

I recommend you enter through the entrance of Dunan's Yawn Gate Inn.

Because there are often adventurers coming in and out, the monsters and traps in a large area have been cleared.

One thing to keep in mind though, is never to stay in this hotel.

Because every time monsters from the Lost City on the ground flock to the surface and cause chaos, the first batch of unlucky ones are always the residents of Dunan Hotel.

Many people were brutally and mercilessly killed even in their sleep. "

"Thank you for your advice, I will be careful."

Zuo Si raised the cup as a gesture, then raised her head and drank the goat milk inside.

Yes, he drank pasteurized milk in the pub, not alcoholic beverages.

Zuo Si vowed never to drink any kind of wine produced on the continent of Faerun ever since he accidentally saw how the farmers in Dagger Beach processed all kinds of grapes and wheat under the direction of the winemaker.

Because he has confirmed with his own eyes that those responsible for trampling on the grapes are not "beautiful girls" at all.

Not even women at all!

It's just a group of men who haven't even washed their feet and smell of sweat all over their bodies.

After all, stepping on grapes is a physical effort, and women will be exhausted after a long time.

And there's a lot of mess that gets mixed in with the pedaling.

For example, all kinds of bug corpses, foot skin, fine hair, dandruff, cow dung, bird droppings...

Because the brewing process is primitive and there is no hygienic concept, the taste of wine in different places is very different.

In addition to the influence of climate, land, water quality and grape varieties, these "additives" are also one of the very important reasons.

After getting the information she wanted, Zuo Si sat in front of the bar in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel and chatted with Imogen for a while, then found an excuse and turned back to the guest room upstairs.

As soon as he walked in the door, he saw a steady light cluster appearing on Isadora's hand.

Zero ring trick [Light Art]!

no doubt!

This means that the girl has passed that hurdle and officially became a real mage apprentice through learning.

"Sous! Look! I succeeded!" Isadora raised the light ball in her hand and shouted excitedly.

"Good job! Just right, I have a book here that is very suitable for you now."

With that said, Zuo Si took out "From Apprentice to Mage, Tricks You Should Master" from the satchel and handed it over.

It can be said that in The Apprentice, there is no other book that can compare with this one.

Because by learning a large number of zero-ring spells, apprentices can have a more intuitive and keen understanding of the magic of the eight factions.

And according to your interest in certain factions and the deviation of your perceived magic net, you can finally choose the most suitable specialization faction when you become a formal mage.

"thanks!"

Isadora hugged the heavy and thick book in her arms, with excitement and joy in her eyes.

Of course, what excites the girl is not the books, or the knowledge and spells recorded in them, but the fact that Zuo Si gave her the "gift" herself.

"You're welcome. I'm looking forward to the day when you can become a master of psionic arcana and double cultivation." Zuo Si smiled and helped the girl to stroke the hair hanging from her ears and encouraged her.

Isadora solemnly promised: "I swear, it won't be long before I can provide some help in battle like Davidian and Huntington."

Hearing this sentence, the dragonborn knight couldn't help but responded with a smile: "No, Miss Isadora. With your current ability, you can also play a big role in many battles. It's just that the master doesn't care. I hope you are in danger, so you are not allowed to face those too powerful enemies."

"That's right! With Miss Isadora's mental interference and control, my arrows can often be shot more accurately." Archer Huntington also added.

Because the summoned creatures of the [Soldier] category tend to have the strongest obedience and a character of loyalty to the planeswalker.

Therefore, both of them are full of affection for this girl who is willing to dedicate everything to Zuo Si without reservation.

"Thank you for your affirmation! I will work harder in the future!" Isadora blushed when she was praised.

Through her innate psychic powers, she could clearly feel that Davidian and Huntington were not trying to be polite, but were recognizing themselves from the bottom of their hearts.

This makes the girl who has been living in the darkness and malice of adults since she was a child feel a little warmth for the first time.

In this way, with joy and satisfaction, Isadora quickly got into bed, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

From the slightly raised corners of her mouth, it was not difficult to see that she was having a sweet dream, not a horrible nightmare like before.

Compared with girls who are a little sleepy, Zuo Si, who has an adult soul, has always had a very regular sleep time, that is, eight hours a day, no more and no less.

Especially after gaining divine power and becoming a voter, even if you don't sleep for a long time, you won't feel the slightest fatigue.

So sleep has long been a "ritual" that is simply used to restore spell slots, not to satisfy physiological needs.

What's more, due to the recent rapid increase in the level of arcane spellcasting, there are a lot of four-ring and five-ring magic that take time to learn, and super magic skills-spell potentiation and spell ultimate effect also need to be practiced repeatedly.

This inevitably creates a feeling in Zuo Si that no matter how much time there is, there will never be enough.

Likewise, he is increasingly able to understand mages who transform themselves into liches.

Compared with the long-term magic learning and research that often takes weeks, months, or even years, the lifespan of human beings in mere decades is too short, and the body is too fragile.

Even if he could avoid the explosion, random teleportation, soul stripping and other terrible disasters caused by the failure of the experiment, he would die suddenly due to fatigue if he was a little careless.

In contrast, a lich who is an undead creature has no such troubles at all.

And compared with the esoteric knowledge and magic power, those low-level desires of human beings are really nothing to mention.

It's no wonder that the Entanglement Talisman can make so many talented mages voluntarily transform themselves into liches with just one "Book of the Dead" and join the organization as one of them.

If he hadn't ignited the spark to become a planeswalker, or hadn't gained the power to become a Chosen, Zuo Si wasn't sure if he would have ended up on the same path.

But now, he had a better choice, so he naturally looked down on Lich, an undead creature with huge flaws.

Taking advantage of the time before going to bed, Zuo Si learned another five-ring magic [Bigbai Protective Palm], and used the mana harvested from killing lizardmen during the day to make this magic into a LV3 card.

Its effect is to create an invisible palm about three meters in length and width, and it always floats beside the caster, shielding it from enemy attacks.

Because it is a pure force field protection, it is very similar to [Wall of Force].

Not only can it resist almost all forms of physical attacks, but it can also block the impact of magic missiles, the ring of rams, and the touch of various incorporeal creatures.

But the difference from [Wall of Force] is that this palm can move freely within tens of meters according to the needs of the caster.

This also means that Zuo Si can completely hit the [Bigby Bodyguard Palm] on the enemy's face as a means of surprise attack, and then cooperate with the [Force Wall Technique] to pinch the opponent back and forth to forcibly block the opponent in place.

In addition, the five-ring magic [destruction weapon] is also very practical.

It can make melee weapons gain amazing positive energy in a short period of time, instantly destroying those undead creatures that are not strong enough.

Similarly, the five-ring magic [resurrection of the dead] also allowed Zuo Si to obtain the first spell that can truly "resurrect the dead".

However, it is limited to those who died not long ago (each casting level is extended by one day), and the body is well preserved, and has not been desecrated by any evil magic or negative energy.

Moreover, the resurrection process must obtain the consent of the target soul, otherwise the spell will fail.

If the soul is destroyed or imprisoned, neither can be revived.

In addition, this divine spell cannot resurrect undead creatures, constructed creatures, elemental creatures, alien creatures, and people who have died of death.

Most importantly, each casting must consume a flawless diamond worth more than five thousand gold coins as a casting material.

Its high cost alone determines that ninety-nine percent of ordinary people will never enjoy it.

But no matter what, Zuo Si is still very interested in this resurrection magic that can bring the dead back up.

He even specially selected six or seven diamonds from his gem bag that could be used as materials for the [Resurrection of the Dead] spell, and planned to try it himself if he had the opportunity.

When the time came to around ten o'clock in the evening, he reluctantly closed the spell book, lay down on the bed and began to rest.

In the early morning of the next day, Zuo Si led people to say hello to "Duke of Dagger Beach" Pyle Screaming who was leading people on patrol, and then took a ferry to the north bank of the Drimbier River.

As for the carriage that is not convenient to get on the boat, it is directly carried by the ten-meter-high giant stone element.

Anyway, for this big guy weighing dozens or even hundreds of tons, the river water just five or six meters deep just overflowed the waist, so it wouldn't cause much trouble at all.

After reaching the opposite bank, Davidian immediately harnessed the horses and galloped north along the road.

Since the north of Dagger Beach is already within the sphere of influence of Waterdeep City, there are hardly any bandits and monsters along the way.

But when passing through the Adipu forest, he accidentally encountered a magical creature with the head of an owl and the body of a bear—the owl bear.

It is said that the creature was originally a crossbreeding of an owl and a bear by a mad mage using powerful transmutation magic.

Due to their ferocious, aggressive, and violent temperaments, encounters with them in the wild can have quite dire consequences.

But in Zuo Si's eyes, this is just another "cute" little pet.

He directly asked Isadora to control the owl bear with spiritual power, and then made it into his favorite summoned creature card.

Faerun's "Pokémon Master" collection illustration +1.

Counting this one, as well as the four-ring and five-ring magic cards produced in the recent period, the number of cards held by Zuo Si has reached an astonishing one hundred and twenty cards.

Taking advantage of the distance from Waterdeep City, he directly summoned "Inheritance" to check his task bar.

[The total number of cards held has reached 120 (rewarded with a chance to draw a card, completed)]

[Create five treasure cards (rewarded with two chances to draw cards, completed)]

[Collect at least five advanced professions and corresponding knowledge related to mages in the current world (rewarded with two chances to draw cards, completed)]

Counting the one given when the number of cards held reached one hundred, now there are six more chances to draw cards.

With some anticipation and apprehension, Zuo Si activated the card draw wheel again.

In the blink of an eye, six new cards appeared in his palm.

[Magic card: Galloping Earth], LV5 red card, can trigger magma eruption in veins at the location designated by Planeswalker, causing a large-scale and indiscriminate flame attack on all surrounding creatures.

Costs ten red mana or generic mana to use.

If you pay an additional six points of red mana when using it, then all creatures summoned by red cards within the area will have an additional three points of strength, agility and constitution.

[Magic Card: Meteorite from the Sky], LV6 red card, can summon a flaming red meteorite with a radius of 50 meters to fall from the sky and hit the designated location, causing impact damage and fire damage at the same time.

To use this card, you need to pay fifteen points of red mana, or fifteen points of universal mana.

[Creature Card: Giant Lava Elemental], LV5 red card, summons a huge elemental creature with a height of more than ten meters and a body made of hot and flowing magma to serve the planeswalker.

Costs ten red mana or generic mana to use.

[Magic Card: Armed with Earth and Stone], LV4 green card, can cover any designated target with hard stones and vines, making it temporarily become a half-element and half-construct form, not only increasing its size, but also Also gain strong physical and magic resistance.

To use it costs seven green mana, or seven universal mana.

[Creature Card: Plate Armor Crusher], LV7 green card, summons a Zendikar Plate Armor Crusher that is almost the same size as the Oran Rido-headed Dragon to serve the Planeswalker.

This is a giant creature with a lizard-like appearance but with six legs. It is covered with hard scales and barbs, and even the enchanted siege crossbow cannot cause even a little damage to it.

Under the same volume, the Plate Armor Crusher is twice as heavy as the Oran Lido-headed Dragon.

With its own weight, it can jump to create small earthquakes while trampling any enemies in its path.

Nothing can stop a Plate Armor Crusher running at full speed, even the city gates and walls will collapse the moment they are hit.

Moreover, the Plate Armor Crusher is completely immune to all charms, mental disturbances, and mind control.

To use it costs twenty-five green mana, or twenty-five universal mana.

[Magic Card: Strong Growth], LV3 green card, can give the target creature the growth of two size units and age groups, and at the same time obtain the corresponding basic attribute, vitality and natural weapon enhancement, until the creature dies or cancels the summoning.

To use this card, you need to pay five points of green energy, or five points of universal energy.

"Good guy, red and green are divided equally. Almost all the cards come from Zendikar. It seems that the owner of the legacy has indeed been to that dangerous world, and should have stayed there for a long time." Zuo Si stared at the card in his hand Six new cards muttered to themselves.

Especially the Plate Armor Crusher, definitely not inferior to the Oran Lido-headed Dragon.

Although the growth rate in the late stage may not be as good as that of the Oranli multi-headed dragon, which can expand infinitely with the increase of land cards, it has definitely reached the level of "behemoth".

In addition, the three cards [Meteorite from the Sky], [Purging Earth] and [Giant Lava Element] can be used at the same time to form a combo, which is absolutely powerful enough to instantly cause devastating damage to a large number of enemies.

As for [Strength and Growth], it can even be used in conjunction with the Olan Li multi-headed dragon to double its power.

However, compared to these magic cards and creature cards, Zuo Si hoped to draw a few "land cards".

Because the world of Zendikar is a typical "metamagic" world.

Its abundance of energy and mana may be many times stronger than that of the Toril planet where the Faerun continent is located.

At least the floating city of Netheril's magical civilization needs to rely on legendary alchemy creations like the "Core of Mythra".

The world of Khazendikar, like mountains floating in the sky, sea water falling from the sky, and ancient trees and elemental creatures activated by powerful mana, can be seen almost everywhere.

The overflow of magical energy makes it possible to produce high-level legendary land cards above LV7 in any place.

While Zuo Si was rubbing his chin and thinking about how much mana the land cards from Zendikar could provide him, the three tasks on the top of the task bar had been updated.

[The total number of cards held has reached 140 (a chance to draw a card is rewarded, the current number of cards currently held: 126)]

【Explore and enter a new world (rewards two chances to draw cards)】

[Create a unique spell and make it into a card, the level must not be lower than LV5 (reward three chances to draw cards)]

no doubt!

With the continuous improvement of power, "Legacy" has begun to remind Zuo Si through missions, don't always stick to learning other people's knowledge and magic system, it's time to create some spells of your own.

But the problem is that the level of LV5 is really a bit high.

Judging from the fact that five-ring magic can only reach LV3 or LV4, it is likely that at least one seven-ring magic must be created to barely meet the requirement.

He himself doesn't know the seven-ring magic yet, so how could he create it.

As for the abilities of the chosen ones, they were all bestowed directly by the goddess of poison and plague, Talona, ​​through divine power.

Zuo Si is just a simple user, and can't understand it at all, let alone make cards.

"Master, Waterdeep City has arrived."

David An, who was driving the carriage, suddenly turned around and reminded him.

moment!

Through the window, the three people in the carriage all saw the spectacular scene of queuing up for inspection ahead.

The long line has been lined up from the city gate opposite the bridge to the other side of the bridge across the river, almost a few kilometers.

Most of them are wagons full of food and various goods.

In addition, convoys, business travellers, and adventurers came out of Waterdeep City in endless streams.

Looking towards the mouth of the sea through the solid stone bridge built with magic, you can vaguely see many merchant ships docking at the river bank, and then use small boats to transport the goods to the shore bit by bit, and then hire caravans to transport them in by land. In the city.

Everything was exactly as described by Imogen.

Zuo Si hurriedly put away the "inheritance", opened the car window and looked outside, watching this quite spectacular scene with great interest.

You must know that in Askatra, the capital of Amn, due to the extremely developed sea and river transportation, after the merchants arrived in Cremur, without exception, they would switch to ships with cheaper transportation costs.

Therefore, although the area around the city gate is also very lively, there is absolutely no such a long queue.

A few guys who looked like businessmen dressed up tried to bribe the guards to let them jump in the queue, but they were caught by the captain wearing the holy emblem of justice, and now they had to pay the fine in desperation, and had to return Re-queue to the end of the line.

Unlike Amn, where money is omnipotent, Waterdeep City at least has laws and axioms on the surface.

Therefore, bribery here is basically no different from courting death.

To be honest, Zuo Si really admired these people, who were obviously dressed as Amn merchants, for daring to break the rules and order in front of a follower of the God of Justice, Tyr.

Thanks to such a small amount of bribery, according to the law of Deep Water City, only a small fine needs to be paid.

Otherwise, they all have to go to prison for two days.

"Is this the famous Waterdeep City?" Isadora's eyes sparkled with intense curiosity.

Zuo Si smiled and nodded: "Yes, this is Waterdeep City. How is it? Which one do you think is better than Askatra?"

The girl held her chin in thought for a few minutes, and quickly replied: "I think Askatra should be better. Because everything looks messy here, as if all kinds of people from south to north gathered together A hodge-podge."

Hearing this comment, Zuo Si immediately couldn't help laughing: "Hahahaha! Very accurate description.

To some extent, Waterdeep City was originally a hodgepodge, there were no so-called people from Waterdeep City, and all the settlers had migrated from other places.

Although the secret lord system has been established in the last few hundred years, in fact the real power is still in the hands of those guilds and nobles.

Chaos, contradictions and conflicts are the eternal theme of this city.

But at the same time, it is this open and inclusive political attitude that has attracted a large number of talents to Waterdeep City.

Especially the large number of high-level spellcasters and the electors of the two goddesses of magic.

With them, there is prosperity and stability in Waterdeep City today. "

"You mean...the magic power in Waterdeep City is very powerful?"

Isadora is obviously very smart and picks up the subtext right away.

"That's right. Waterdeep City has one of the most powerful organizations of arcane spellcasters in the world.

Amn's masked mages are nothing compared to them.

That's why I'm going to buy a house here and build a stable teleportation point.

At that time, if you need some rare and precious spell-casting materials, or want to copy and buy advanced magic scrolls, you can instantly cross the distance in space to save a lot of time. "

After all, Zuo Si stood up and got off the carriage, canceling the summon of the giant stone element.

He had been sitting in the car for too long, and he wanted to get down for a walk to stretch his muscles and get some fresh air.

Isadora and Huntington quickly followed.

The three of them stopped and went with the carriage like this, and it took about an hour before they finally arrived at the entrance of the city gate for inspection.

Since there was only one carriage, and nothing was carried on it, the guards glanced at them and waved them into the city.

Just passing through the city gate, at a glance, there are densely packed warehouses, cargo depots, carriages and busy people on both sides of the road.

This is where more than 70% of the goods in Waterdeep City are transported and transferred.

Therefore, the noise and noise along the way were endless, which made Zuo Si, who likes to be quiet, feel a headache.

Just as he was planning to go to the Binhai District or the North District of the city and find a hotel with a better environment to stay in first, a young man wearing a mage's robe and looking only fifteen or sixteen years old suddenly blocked his way.

"Good afternoon. Are you the elector of the Goddess of Poison and Disease, Mr. South?" the young man asked cautiously.

"I'm."

Zuo Si bluntly gave an affirmative answer, and at the same time secretly wondered how he had been recognized so quickly since he had just arrived in Deep Water City.

"Great! My mentor, Your Excellency Kelben, I hope to invite you to his mage tower as a guest."

The young man expressed his intention without delay.

"Kelben Black Rod?"

Zuo Si was a little taken aback at first, but soon realized that it might have something to do with the card he handed to Elminster last time.

After hesitating for a moment, he immediately responded: "No problem, please lead the way, I also want to meet your mentor."

"Please follow me. The Black Rod Tower is a little far from here."

The boy politely made a gesture of please, and then walked in the front to lead the way.

You must know that the streets of Waterdeep City are not as carefully and detailedly planned as Askatla, all kinds of messy alleys and alleys are spread across every corner of the city like spider webs.

Even locals can be killed for accidentally wandering into some dangerous places, not to mention foreigners who come for the first time.

However, by virtue of her photographic memory, Zuo Si still clearly remembered every place she visited along the way.

When they arrived at the famous "Black Rod Tower", they had almost traversed two-thirds of the urban area.

Since Kelben arrived in Waterdeep City relatively early (1150DR), his mage tower is located quite well, not in the noisy urban area, but in the middle of the relatively quiet coastal area and the castle area.

Without saying a word, the boy stepped forward and opened the door at the entrance, and walked straight into the hall on the first floor.

Immediately afterwards, he pointed to the stairs leading to the second floor and said: "Your Excellency Sous, you and your followers and companions may have to rest here for a while. Because my mentor only wants to see you alone."

"Wait for me here for a while."

Zuo Si gave David a wink.

The latter understood, and immediately pulled the reluctant Isadora to sit on the sofa, and began to taste the tea and snacks on the table.

Zuo Si walked up the stairs with the boy. Finally reached the room near the top of the tower.

As soon as he crossed the threshold, Zuo Si immediately felt that the room was filled with powerful and astonishing magic protection. It is estimated that magic below the third ring would not be effective at all.

In the room by the window, stood a man with gray hair and beard.

He looked to be between fifty and sixty years old, but he didn't give people a very old feeling like Elminster. Even the wide robe couldn't conceal his strong muscles and physique.

In fact, none of the voters of the Goddess of Magic has a poor physique.

Even a very old Elminster would reveal his muscular body when he took off his clothes.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and the boy next to him finally said, "Teacher, I brought you to meet the guests."

"Good job. I don't need you here for the time being, go get busy."

Kelben waved at his apprentice.

As the sound of boots on the stairs faded away, the room fell silent again.

Neither Zuo Si nor Kelben intended to speak.

Just the opposite!

They are all looking at each other's energy fluctuations, as well as the magic items they wear.

For mages, this is the first and most important step in getting to know each other.

Because other things may be covered up by lies, but magic never lies...

(end of this chapter)