One Sneeze Destroys A Magical Civilization

Chapter 82 The Story Calimport and Blue Dragon Have to Tell

After a simple wash, Zuo Si casually ate some breakfast and spent a little time preparing spells before taking a luxurious carriage to the gate of a four-story steeple.

It's different from the sorceress's mage's tower, which looks crowded and narrow.

The one in front of me is obviously more than thirty times bigger.

Judging from the scars and repair marks all over the outer wall, it should be at least a few hundred years old, and it has experienced tragic wars.

Especially the few huge scratches on the upper floor were obviously directly attacked by the giant dragon.

Albenny Abo, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately smiled and greeted Zuo Si who had just stepped out of the carriage: "Welcome! My friend! How is it? Isn't this mage tower not bad?"

"It's really good. It should have a history of at least two or three hundred years?" Zuo Si asked in an uncertain tone.

"Far more than that!

Do you see those giant scratch marks on the tower?

They are all medals left in the Year of Dragon Madness (1018DR), in order to resist the blue dragon that flew out from the great desert of Kalin-Sephiraktar, the medals left in the heroic battle.

It is said that the invasion nearly destroyed Calimport.

That's why, I need you to build giant energy storage devices.

The evil blue dragon will always be the biggest threat to this city, bar none. "

When he said these words, Ebene Arbor's tone was unprecedentedly serious and serious.

It can be seen that he is full of hostility towards the blue dragon, which ranks second in comprehensive strength among the five-color evil dragons.

After all, Calimport is located next to the Great Karim Desert.

And the desert is the blue dragon's favorite environment for activities.

God knows how many blue dragons are hidden in the endless yellow sand dunes.

And how many guys who are strong enough and ambitious are planning to grab a hand in this rich city, one of the best in Faerun.

In addition, whenever the "Kingkiller Planet" appears in the sky of Faerun Continent, the "Dragon Mystique" set by the elves back then will break out.

Dragons of all kinds will inevitably plunge into uncontrolled agitation and mania at that time.

And they will crazily attack all the cities, fortresses, and villages they pass along the way, and even fight each other until one of them is completely dead.

And this kind of collective rampage of giant dragons will come to a local area every few decades on average, and it will spread to the entire land of Faerun almost every three hundred years.

May I ask who, living in Calimport, a place so close to the blue dragon's habitat, would not make a little more preparation?

"I see!"

Zuo Si nodded in understanding.

If it were him, if the rise and fall of the entire family were closely tied to Calimport, he would also want more means to deal with the blue dragon.

In addition, the turbulent year when the gods came to the mortal world in the form of saints has just passed, and it is currently in 1360DR.

So calculating the time, this tower has a history of at least 340 to 350 years.

Putting it on the earth is definitely a cultural relic level.

However, in Faerun Continent, there are quite a few mage towers like this.

Some older abandoned mage towers can even be traced back to the age of elves thousands of years ago.

It is still in perfect operation.

And these high towers that have lost their owners are often the places that adventurers and mercenaries like to explore most.

Magic items, books, scrolls, and materials that have not been damaged can often be sold for astonishing prices.

Soon, Zuo Si walked into the interior of the tower under the leadership of Albenny Abbe, looking around at this large mage tower, looking for any differences from the internal structure of the floating city, and then Or what different technologies and designs are used.

After a while, he found that like all large mage towers, a large number of apprentices, as well as low-level mages and warlocks were recruited and hired.

They pay for labor, such as copying scrolls, preparing potions, making various magic items, weapons and armor, etc., in exchange for gold coins to buy more advanced knowledge and magic.

Almost 80% of the lesser magic items exported by Calimport are produced by these low-level spellcasters.

Due to the astonishing quantity, the price of lesser magic items here is only two-thirds or even half of that in other regions.

Even Searle's famous Red Robe Wizards Guild couldn't compete with it in terms of cost.

Ebene Able noticed Zuo Si's reaction, and introduced with a smile: "This tower belongs to the Homan family. Their family has the blood of the djinn, so they are rich in arcane spellcasters. Almost every generation , at least one or two mages or warlocks can emerge. The friendship between our two families has lasted for two hundred years, so I can lease the right to use here."

"Two hundred years of friendship? There are quite a few families with a long history in Calimport." Zuo Si sighed slightly.

"Of course! Compared with the upstarts in Neverwinter, Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep, and Luskan, when we Calishites built a huge empire, they didn't even have a decent settlement. .” Albenny Arbor’s tone was full of pride and pride.

This is also the opinion of most Calimport residents on the emerging cities in the north.

In fact, Calishites generally have a sense of cultural and psychological superiority.

After all, the history of civilization on this land is much longer than the Netheril Empire, which has been extinct for thousands of years.

When the two walked and chatted to the third floor, Zuo Si finally saw the workshop where various materials were piled up.

In the workshop, there was even a dwarven slave standing by.

This reminded him of the time when he lived in the tower of the floating city.

At that time, in the workshop, there were also several dwarf craftsmen who were responsible for helping to make some small parts, tools, or deal with some too hard magic metals.

Zuo Si once liked to discuss with the dwarves about metal smelting, mining, segment making, and the order of magic runes.

But unfortunately, when the terrible plague broke out, all the dwarves died within a few days.

Albenny Abbe stopped, pointed to the workshop and said, "All the materials on the list yesterday are here. I have already told the Homan family that you can use the energy reserve at will. I only have one request, that It is to create a super energy storage device with a large enough capacity."

Zuo Si agreed without even thinking about it: "No problem! Before sunset, I will give you a satisfactory answer. But this dwarf is not needed, I am used to being alone."

"Okay. I'll pick you up at sunset."

After all, Albenny Able waved at the dwarf slave, and then led him to disappear at the corner of the stairs leading to the lower floor.

Watching the two walk away completely, Zuo Si immediately released the detection magic to confirm that the room was not under surveillance, and then began to methodically pack things into the specially emptied satchel.

In the blink of an eye, more than half of the materials piled up in the corner disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, he extracted the stored energy in the tower, abruptly raised his creator career level to LV9, and obtained a new ability - [reform].

Just like the name.

This ability allows the creator to reprocess the existing magic items on hand by consuming specific materials and their own magic power.

It can be used not only to strengthen a certain magic item, but also to reduce the tasteless attributes and curses in some magic items.

But the premise is that the strengthening transformation cannot exceed the endurance limit of the main material of the magic item.

Otherwise, the entire magic item may cause a violent explosion or energy reaction.

The reason why Zuo Si chose to upgrade the creator level first is to use this ability to create a super energy storage device.

At least he was worthy of the preparations made by Albenny Arbor, which made him feel that it was worth the money.

After all, the wool is the wool, the bottom line and professional ethics are still required...

(end of this chapter)