The Rise of the Cemetery

"It's not us..." The mind flayer elders exclaimed one by one, and more frequent mental fluctuations criss-crossed one after another, and they were all baffled by what happened before them.

This leftover magic hall has been tested and analyzed by successive mind flayer elders for hundreds of years, and they believed in their hearts that it was just an ordinary meeting place during the Arcane Empire period, and no special arrangements or mechanisms were found at all. But what happened before my eyes today has subverted the past cognition. Something mysterious is happening, and it's going on in a way they don't know, don't understand.

The mind flayer elders, who were only interested in new knowledge, immediately sent out all the records of these changes in their own unique way, and kept them in a secret place, waiting to be slowly deciphered later. But now, their eyes are all on the origin of the turmoil, the three-story building occupied by the undead forces.

This time without everyone's urging, the mind flayer elder Celerwall consciously explained some things that could be explained.

"It was an arcanist's arcane laboratory, and there were not many valuable things in it, so after the test, it was used as Elder Campa's residence..."

The mind flayer elder Campa took a step forward, and when he began to speak by vibrating the air with the unique mouthparts of the race, the underground lingua franca with a "hiss" accent was hoarse, dry, and painful to the eardrums, but Inexplicably felt the coldness that penetrated into the bone marrow.

Elder Campa's dead white eyes without pupils swept across the many spellcasters of different shapes in the hall, and the six tentacles did not even tremble at all: "It seems that our thinking is about to be subverted. These magic circles left over from the Arcane Empire period It exists in a form that we cannot understand, and there is no sign of any element gathering on it, so it has completely concealed our detection and perception. I have lived in it for nearly a hundred years and have not found any special places until... ..."

That's right, it's really an extremely hidden and weird magic circle! This idea emerged in the hearts of everyone present at the same time. If they didn't know nothing, how could the mind flayers add this complicated and useless psionic circle to it?

The huge blue magic circle floating in the sky has already dyed its color all over the ruins, and it extends out of the ruins in a specific order, with the tendency to include the entire giant cave.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is... this is..." Dark Mage Gogan moaned in a trembling voice, unable to utter that special word.

"The planes overlap!" The great elementalist Chrissick completed the sentence for him, and there was a strange color in the depths of the bright pupils.

The shock was shocking, but invisible orders were sent out from the hall in their own ways, and sent to different team commanders, so various small movements began to appear continuously. Human mages, drow mercenaries, and mind flayers all began to anticipate the changes that might happen next and made different preparations in advance. Although the undead in the distance are everyone's common enemy, the alien races close by are not necessarily reliable allies. When there are real changes, everything depends on oneself.

Just as everyone was waiting eagerly, a huge black mouth suddenly opened in the space above the Mystic City, and the torn edges were jagged and twisted like huge fangs. This huge mouth is opened wide, spewing out filth like a real evil monster... But it is not mucus, toxin or stomach acid, but a more terrifying darkness.

The entire giant cave was forcibly frozen at this moment, and all creatures in it lost their grasp of body, consciousness, time and space, and were ignorant and ignorant. And the darkness spewed out from the giant mouth of the sky is like a huge brush, erasing all the extra colors in this still space, leaving only the deep, rich and substantive darkness.

As the huge space was filled with darkness, an unprecedented relaxation and indulgence flooded the hearts of all living beings. No one knows what happened outside, but this unprecedented tranquility and freedom made everyone intoxicated. At this moment, all the knowledgeable spellcasters can't help but start to doubt their own direction. Is it right to continue to explore the outside world and rely on external things? Why do they ignore the inner strength of creatures?

This feeling is especially strong in many mind flayers. Many mind flayers can't help but fall into deep thinking, fully enjoying the unlimited and unrestricted thinking.

"This is not the main plane!" Many spellcasters at the level of great mages had this realization in their hearts. On the main plane where Klein Continent is located, under the suppression of the laws of the plane, the thoughts of creatures will never be so free and unlimited. Only when they break away from the suppression of the main plane, the sudden expansion of thoughts will give people a sense of self-infinity Great alienation.

After an unknown period of spiritual adaptation, all creatures opened their eyes and stared blankly at everything around them.

It is no longer the darkness of nothingness. Looking around, in the infinite distance in the distance are bright stars that flicker and disappear. Compared with the past, although these star lights are still far away, they feel much closer than before. As the stars flickered, they illuminated the path under their feet, and it turned out to be a translucent, smooth floor.

Standing in place and looking around, there is a splendor of starlight up and down, left and right, front and back, as if he was suddenly embedded in the depths of the void, slowly drifting and migrating with the sea of ​​stars and stars.

The abnormal state of the infinite starry sky caused everyone to be in a state of mind, and it was difficult to control themselves. In the end, it was the high-level spellcasters who took the lead in recovering their minds, brought the scattered thoughts back to the tiny individuals, and awakened them in a state of trance one by one with mental vibrations. many of his subordinates.

All of a sudden, a huge wave of exclamation and astonishment swept through this interstellar cemetery that had been silent for thousands of years.

A goblin who had come to his senses looked at the almost transparent black starry sky under his feet with fear, not daring to move a step, for fear that if he made a mistake, he would fall into this inexplicable starry sky world. At a certain moment just now, it was still intoxicated and enthusiastic about merging with the infinite starry sky, but once awakened, it showed extreme fear of the infinite starry sky.

Still a bold tauren, he lightly tapped the translucent floor under his feet with the huge battle ax in his hand. A crisp sound of "ding", accompanied by splashing sparks, frightened all the creatures who witnessed its movements into cardiac arrest. Such a thin and transparent floor is definitely not strong. If this reckless bastard breaks it, everyone present will really be buried in this endless starry sky cemetery.

All the creatures held their breath and waited for a few seconds, only to find that the transparent floor under their feet was safe, and not even a scratch was found where the tauren giant ax fell.

Everyone's minds immediately became active, and they took out their weapons and began to carefully knock on the floor under their feet. At the beginning, they were handled with care, lest they would destroy this exquisite place if they were not paying attention, but as the strength increased, everyone found that the floor under their feet was not so thin, it was simply the hardest special magic steel in the world, even if they smashed it with all their strength Don't even think about leaving half a trace.

As a result, all kinds of deafening knocking sounds came and went, and some powerful fighters could even be seen arousing their combat skills, laughing wildly while vigorously smashing the floor under their feet. The dazzling glare of various combat skills and the huge roar filled the eyes for a while.

"Stop! Stop!..." The words of the archmage's mind-shaking words instantly echoed in the minds of every nearly crazy creature, and finally awakened their spiritual light again.

"It's weird here! It always involuntarily draws the creatures' minds into the endless void, and makes people do all kinds of crazy moves in a daze!" The great elementalist Chrissick said loudly with lingering fear, attracting people around him nod.

"Does anyone know where this is?" a human archmage asked loudly, unable to hold back the surging passion in his heart.

"Starry Sky Laboratory!" Gogan's cold and deep voice sounded, filled with infinite emotion.

It turned out that this was the famous starry sky laboratory in the period of the Arcane Empire, a special demiplane floating in the endless void.

According to legend, this is the first step taken by the Arcane Empire to explore the endless outer space, and it is also the most solid step. Transform a huge demiplane into a special arcane laboratory, use it to observe and explore the endless void world, and use it as a transit point and outpost for external expansion.

Although in the middle and late stages of the Arcane Empire's external expansion, with the continuous emergence of new footholds, its role has been reduced, but the symbolic significance for the Arcane Empire is still huge, so it was transformed by some nostalgic Grand Arcanists into A unique starry sky laboratory.

This starry sky laboratory was originally anchored somewhere on the main plane. But on the eve of the collapse of the Arcane Empire, amidst the unscrupulous mutual attacks of gods and great arcanists, this legendary starry sky laboratory also suffered heavy losses, dragging its broken body and silently disappearing into the endless void.

Unexpectedly, really unexpected, there is still a special magic circle left behind in the Mystic City where the Mind Flayer is located, which can communicate with the Starry Sky Laboratory! It's a pity that it was "coincidence of planes" and not "space teleportation" that brought you here this time.

The technique of overlapping planes can temporarily overlap the area where Mystic City is located with the legendary starry sky laboratory plane, allowing everyone to see the mystery and magnificence of the infinite starry sky. But the existence of all these requires a huge amount of energy support. Once the energy of the magic circle running the plane coincidence technique is exhausted, everyone will be thrown back to the original area.

Therefore, the time they can explore and search for this starry sky laboratory is very limited, but to what extent it is not within their grasp at all. They only know that it must be related to the giant magic circle that suddenly appeared in the city of Mystery.