"Huh?"
⊙﹏⊙‖∣°
"Isn't this the ruins of Dolumbud's hanging city?"
(°ー°〃)
When she walked through an underground passage in front of her, when everything suddenly became clear, and when she saw the red scenery and the suspended islands suspended in mid-air by huge chains, Annie still didn't know where she was.
?
"I came here when I was catching fat tangerines!"
(^～^;)ゞ
"But the location seems to be different..."
(′～`●)
That’s right!
Last time, Annie saw this place when she woke up!
She still remembered that at that time, Tibbers was so lazy that he stood motionless on the edge of the cliff of a collapsed bridge. If she hadn't woken up in time, Uncle Edkin and the others would have lost at least one person.
two?
Anyway, those idiots who are not smart enough to pretend to be dead in time, don't have a wand of teleportation to use to escape, and don't turn into birds and fly away, are definitely in danger.
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"Yes, this is the ruins of the Hanging City of Dorumbude. You should have come to another area here, on the other side."
"Most of the dungeons under the Sword Mountain Range are connected. This is not surprising."
"but!"
"This is also one of the lairs of the ancient black dragon lich, the powerful mage and the archmage Dogothos!"
"Maybe……"
"Dear Queen Neverwinter, you can go back and ask the red dragon you captured, ask Nahibchard, and ask why it appeared here at that time?"
After saying that, the mysterious mage who was still wearing a hood prepared a few spells first, and then when everything was ready, he did not even say hello to Anne, but turned around and walked slowly forward.
"Ask Fat Orange?"
く(＾_)ゝ
"Why ask it?"
(゜-゜)
"It is currently going to the Swamp of the Dead and Leilon Town with Uncle Hunk to investigate the Cyre conspiracy!"
(ˉ▽￣~)嘁~~
Annie curled her lips, indicating that she didn't want to go to the fat orange to ask such boring questions.
What's more, it doesn't matter why the other party came here. What's important is that Anne only knows that the other party was beaten badly by her Tibbers and then surrendered. Now the other party is not Hibberchard, but her.
Our fat orange, a domestic neckless dragon!
"Hello!?"
(｀)/
"What kind of Lich Dragon are you here to find?"
(Д≡д)!?
As she spoke, Annie began to look around.
"Why didn't anyone see anything?"
(σ-`д)
Anyway, compared to the 'fat orange' neckless dragon at her house that has lost any freshness, Queen Anne is obviously more interested in seeing what the so-called Lich Dragon looks like and whether it is similar to
Is it similar to the undead dragon like the frost dragon in the world of Azeroth?
Then again!
This time, in addition to coming mainly to play and join in the fun, she also had to clear out the undead monsters in the town of Fandulin and the dwarf whose name she had forgotten. Since there is an undead lich here,
Dragon, there is no doubt that those undead souls who ran out to cause trouble must be the other party's men. Then, as long as she gets rid of the Lich Dragon, everything will be solved?
As for whether those undead are in the same group as the Lich Dragon that is about to appear, that doesn't matter.
Because she, Queen Anne, thinks they are a group, then they are, or not!
"No need to look for it."
"He will come out on his own."
After walking a few steps forward, the strange mage suddenly stopped and turned to look at Anne hesitantly and asked with a strange expression:
"Forgot to ask..."
"You should know the origin of Dogothos, right?"
Smiling ferociously, the man with a shriveled face continued to speak in that hoarse, low voice.
"I do not know!"
(ω`)
"People are so good, why do they need to know about it?"
()
That’s right!
Annie said that she had not been in this world for a long time. She had been wandering around with Uncle Edkin and the others, looking for some messy and useless things, and only after accidentally winning the city of Neverwinter was she able to
I started walking around the city of Neverwinter by myself. It was only the second time I came to this dungeon. How could I know those random names the other party said?
She didn’t know about ‘Dogosos’ or something like Dogao, but she knew about rice cakes and so on, and had eaten a lot of them.
"Ah!"
"Too!"
"Although Dogothos's dark ambitions have been spreading, adventurers and other self-proclaimed righteous guys rarely know of his existence. If they don't know of his existence, how can they attack him?
Or will he seek his destruction?"
Having said this, the weirdo sighed and stepped forward in no hurry.
"Although there has been a lot of gossip about him spreading throughout the world of Faerun, some people, or non-human beings, and her voters don't want him to be destroyed so soon."
"Hmph!"
"They need his existence, his experiments and his inflated ambitions to fuel the growth of the Magic Network!"
"A disgraceful, hypocritical and self-serving bunch!"
As he spoke, the weirdo seemed to have a schizophrenia, and began to curse and curse in front of Anne with a ferocious face and a low tone.
Of course, it was not Anne who was being cursed and cursed by. I don’t know who it was.
"??"
()
Seeing this, Anne did not make any comment.
She just stood so quietly and listened to the other person's words that seemed to have some origin, even though she had long seen that the other person was schizophrenic and had a twisted mind.
After all, it doesn't matter who the other party is. She doesn't care about that. She just needs someone or someone who is not a human to guide her. As for anything else, it really doesn't matter, and it has nothing to do with what she is about to do.
It doesn't matter what you do.
"do you know?"
After venting like talking to himself for a while, and then slowly recovering, the weirdo gradually calmed down and once again smiled sarcastically at Anne who was listening and scolded a certain dragon:
"He has actually been active in the black markets of Waterdeep City, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter City and West Comb, and has purchased large quantities of spells, magic items and various items that may be used as spell-casting materials."
"Of course, he went to those places by projecting a clone."
"Hmph!"
"Doomsday crawler..."
"I think, as the Queen of Neverwinter, you should have read the relevant abnormal reports given to you by those spell casters and marketing managers, right?"
As he spoke, the other party suddenly asked Anne.
In this world, strategic materials such as spells, magic items, and various items that may be used as casting materials are purchased in large quantities. If the Queen of Neverwinter does not know about such things, then the other party is definitely not a qualified ruler.
"have no idea!"
╮(╯▽╰)╭
"Maybe?"
(〃'▽'〃)
"But people never read boring reports like that!"
()hey-hey!
Unfortunately, Anne gave the stunned opponent a negative answer, and she did not feel ashamed at all and openly admitted the fact that she was a vegetarian and not doing her job properly.
Come to think of it!
From the first day she took office as the Queen of Neverwinter, she couldn't wait to find someone to help her take care of the Neverwinter City. In the end, she successfully won over the only paladin she knew at the time, Henk and Uncle Edkin.
thieves, and she has just ignored them since then. How can she know what problems there are in the black market in Neverwinter?
In fact, let alone the black market, she doesn't even care about problems at the dock or in the city!
As for the matter of Fandulin and the lost mine this time, let alone mention it. If it weren't for the right opportunity, even if someone reported it, she would ruthlessly throw it aside and ignore it, and then sit and wait for Uncle Henk or Uncle Edkin.
Will you deal with it after you come back?
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"..."
After receiving Annie's confident answer, the man's already ferocious and shriveled face seemed to become a little duller. After a while, he shook his head and sighed:
"All right!"
"that's not important!"
"Let's continue talking about Dogothos..."
"As we all know, he is ambitious and cunning. He always prepares a large number of spell slots. Even if he cannot be defeated, he will escape in time. He is very difficult to deal with!"
"so……"
"Queen of Neverwinter!"
"How are your spells and spell slots prepared?"
In this way, after giving a brief introduction to the general situation of Dragon Lich Dogothos, the weirdo suddenly spoke to Anne in a sinister tone and asked cautiously.
"Spell slot?"
=('ヮ'=)
Anne was stunned at first, as if she didn't know what the 'spell position' the other party meant.
But soon, she quickly understood what the other party meant as she hurriedly thought about the whole world.
It turns out that when magicians or other spellcasters in this world cast spells, they cannot avoid one important thing, and that is - the magic network!
The principle of casting spells in this world or other worlds is simply that the caster uses powerful intelligence to understand and build a spell model that can accommodate energy, and then combines it with various strange materials to combine the world between heaven and earth.
The energy or own magic power is introduced into the model to charge, thereby releasing the spell.
In the past, before Annie was eight years old, when she cast spells other than fire and shadow spells, she probably followed the same routine.
In short, it is very cumbersome and requires a large amount of basic knowledge reserves and reading a large number of magic books. Even if you can reach the level of instant casting after being proficient, the process of building models is still indispensable.
After a certain level, the complex calculations of building a model can be instantly turned into some kind of instinct of the body.
Of course, Anne definitely doesn't need that now.
Now her understanding and release of magic have long gone beyond what ordinary people can understand. Even the so-called 'gods' in this world are far beyond their reach. There is no doubt about that!
However, other mages, at least the mages in this world, and even the gods still need to use that method to build a spell model that can accommodate energy, and then use it with various strange materials to introduce the energy between heaven and earth into
The complicated process of charging the model to release the spell.
Because of this, that process requires a very extraordinary intelligence, and then to memorize spell models that are more complicated than the computer-constructed 3D modeling in the technological world, and to successfully use mental power to outline them bit by bit!
And that complicated and exaggerated calculation process is probably the reason why her little bear Tibbers has always been called a fool by her and cannot successfully cast any spell, right?
Anyway, Annie knew that her little bear could only use physical attacks and the innate Shadow Flame to burn, but other than that, there were no other means.
(…)
(￢￢.)
(Tibbers said: What's so great about being able to do magic? Whether it's this world or countless other worlds, except for a certain bad little master, if he doesn't run away, fly, or flash when he's face to face, he can't beat him.
There is not a single mage who can defeat it! Even though Uncle Xiong doesn’t know magic, he is still so annoying that he beats all the mages, big and small, crawling all over the floor!)
Otherwise!
The difficulty in constructing a spell model lies in the fact that the energy between heaven and earth is very complex, with many elements. Each spell has a fixed proportion of elements added, which is equivalent to a potion prepared in a chemical experiment. Once it fails, it will easily explode and burn, and the spell will be cast.
Kill them yourself, that is, magic backfires!
But now, in this world, with the existence of the Magic Network, those problems no longer exist.
The Magic Network has greatly lowered the threshold, allowing mages to become qualified spell casters without high intelligence, like that idiot Uncle Simon?
Because, there are all kinds of extremely complicated spell models in the magic network, just like the computer network in a certain earth world, it has long ago stored movies, pictures and music with an unimaginable capacity on the network.
As for wizards (or keyboard warriors), they can memorize spells (download songs, pictures and movies) through the magic network with just one click every day. This is also the reason why wizards need to prepare spells every day.
At that time, you only need to use magic to activate it, and you can directly build the spell model and enter the ready state. When it is used, you only need to recite a spell to release it directly (just like clicking it with a mouse or finger)
Play some downloaded files or links).
It can be said that the magic network is a completely standard and fool-like network, which saves mages a lot of energy and time, and they can successfully become a spell caster without the need for extraordinary intelligence.
Of course, its shortcoming is also obvious, that is: it can no longer access the origin of the spell.
What's even more frightening is that the memory spell model is only a superficial memory, and will disappear along with the spell after it is released, making it impossible for you to truly master it.
At the same time, once the magic network collapses, most mages will be like some keyboard warriors whose mobile phones have no signal or data traffic, and will no longer be able to "online" or cast spells (playing those big and small movies).
But that's not even the worst!
The worst thing is: those mages who rely on magic nets to cast spells and filter magic power have limited spell slots every day. Even the so-called greatest mages will be limited by the 'spell slots' thing, and then
Only a certain number of spells can be cast every day, and once the spells are used up, you have to wait until the next day to recover the consumed spell slots, which is the CD?
Moreover, Annie also discovered that someone seemed to have set certain restrictions on the magic network, blocking the so-called 'tenth ring' and above spells and classifying them as taboo. Once used or attempted to be used, special attention will be paid?
Of course, the above information was only what Anne had seen roughly. As for whether there were any errors or omissions or more specific details, she didn't pay much attention at all! After all, that method of casting had nothing to do with her, and she didn't need it at all.
Magic Network, so naturally I didn’t learn more about it.
Anyway, according to Annie's own understanding: the Magic Network is roughly equivalent to the power grid in the earth world. The wizards, that is, users need certain conditions and permissions to apply for pulling wires and installing electricity meters into their homes. Then the Magic Network (power grid) also controls users at the same time.
They have implemented certain restrictions, stipulating how many kilowatt-hours of electricity can be used per person per day. Users of different levels have different upper limits on electricity consumption. Once exceeded, power will be cut off, even if the user still has money (magic power)
It doesn’t work at all?
"??"
"Queen of Neverwinter?"
Seeing Annie suddenly start to mutter and ponder something stupidly, the man waited for a while, and then urged with some dissatisfaction.
"ah!"
(⊙o⊙*)
"No, it's nothing. I was just thinking about something..."
(*)
Anne, who woke up with a start, first responded with a sneer, and then smiled heartlessly and said:
"Anyway!"
()
"There's no problem with spell slots or anything like that, just don't worry!"
(ˊ〇ˋ*)
If possible, Annie really wants to say: The way she casts spells is similar to the way of magic + her own model construction. There is no need to go through the magic network of this world, and there are no restrictions on boring spell slots at all!
In addition, her magic power is endless and has no upper limit, and her recovery power also has no upper limit, so her 'spell slots' can theoretically be said to be endless!
And similarly, there is absolutely no so-called 'ten ring' limit when she casts a spell. The power depends on her mood!
"So……"
"Will you act accordingly later?"
After saying that and nodding, the weirdo planned to turn around.
"etc!"
o(*^*)o
"I'll tell you first!"
(^▽^)
At this time, seeing the other party preparing to open the book, Anne quickly called out to the other party and added:
"They will only help you fight that Lich Dragon. They won't help you with anyone else!"
(゜▽＾*)
Then, under the doubtful gaze of the other party, Anne pointedly reminded.
"..."
Obviously, the other party was not stupid. He seemed to understand something of Anne's meaning and frowned slightly.
"very good!"
"Then it's settled."
Then, the weirdo didn't say anything more, he just smiled dryly and contemptuously.
Then, when he turned around, he used something similar to Simon's teleportation staff, and disappeared in a flash.
When Annie raised her head and looked into the distance, she saw that he had appeared on the largest suspended island in the distance.
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Chapter completed!