Arcane Journey

Chapter 19 Spider Transformation Wizard
Eight creepy long legs, eight
Tapping the stone, ticking, ticking, tapping, tapping. Quietly tapping.

This was the first horrifying sight that Brian, who was lying on the ground, raised his eyelids.

He shook his head, suppressing the churning in his stomach.

Just now, he jumped into a bottomless dark crack.

At the moment when time seemed to freeze, he was about to give up and use the teleportation scroll that Santilla gave him, but he was finally brought here by a teleportation circle.

The fear of falling, coupled with the dizziness of the teleportation circle, he really didn't want to experience it again, just imagining it made his stomach twitch again.

He quickly stretched out his hands to support the cold rocky ground, and stood up.

"I'm very sorry."

A hissing voice sounded, "It was my negligence that made you fall longer, please don't worry, this feeling will fade away soon. Of course, I will also consider this situation and optimize my teleportation spell Repercussions for the guests."

Just as the other party was talking, Brian had already got up, and the dizziness was gradually receding.

He found himself in a small, dark, sealed stone room.

On the only stone table in the room, there were incense burners, books, magic scrolls, crystal balls, a pile of metal utensils used for spell experiments, and some unknown animal mummies.

The speaker was wrapped in a black robe, his face was hidden behind a twisted and terrifying mask of ebony color, and eight softly tapping spider legs proved that the other party was a spider elf.

"Hello, Your Excellency the Spider Wizard." Brian stretched out his arms, bent his elbows, folded his palms up and down in front of his chest, and bowed deeply.

Although his tone of voice was as calm as his eyes, his slightly trembling hands revealed the uneasiness in his heart.

A muffled laugh came from the mask.

"It turned out to be a half-elf from the surface, which is interesting. Then, before we trade, I ask you to relax. I risked my identity to save you, not to destroy you again."

Brian watched him, deliberately vigilant, and said tentatively, "So, I'm safe now?"

"You can think so." The spider wizard gave a strange low smile again, "After all, here, as long as I want, even 'she' can't notice."

Brian wisely didn't mention who that 'she' was.

"Half-elf from the surface, not only do you know how to contact me, but you are also able to find this place yourself. I don't think it's a coincidence." The spider wizard whispered: "I'm curious, what exactly are you relying on?" .”

"Darkness is not necessarily an abyss, it may also be a ladder of assistance." Brian took a deep breath and said the words he had been brewing for a long time.

After all, he knew the person in front of him quite well.

As one of the most powerful wizards in the ancient Orens city, the spider wizard hides his strength behind his carefully cultivated crazy reputation and his fanatical dedication to Rose.

But these are just illusions.

In fact, he hated Lolth's tyranny and chaos, and believed that the twisted and cruel drow shaped by Lolth should become a truly noble group.

The spider wizard not only hated what Rose did to him, but also hated Rose for making the drows into a vicious, evil, hateful, and ruthless tool.

He believes that the drow were once a noble race of surface elves, civilized and compassionate, before they were driven into the Underdark.

But they are ensnared by Rose's web of lies, and they become depraved and never satisfied.

For the Spider Queen, teasing the drow was nothing more than a cruel and repeated game, which she had mastered.

Therefore, the spider wizard has always been moving towards the great goal of liberating the drow family from the manipulation of the ruthless and grotesque goddess of chaos.

Rose, the spider queen, fell asleep for a short period of time.

The city of Ancient Orens was wiped out by the incarnations of demon lords as dungeons, and it was completely destroyed in the end. It was at the hands of this crazy spider wizard in front of him.

After Brian finished speaking, he quietly maintained his silence and waited patiently.

The spider wizard was silent for a long time, interest and confusion appeared in his smoky eyes, and he looked at him carefully, whispering softly, "I'm more curious, how do you know these things."

"On the face of the kingdoms, under the great light."

Facing the doubts of the other party, Brian had already responded. He pretended to be pious and replied, "A promised land is waiting for you to return to the surface peacefully, bathed in the sun again, the place where the trees and flowers grow .”

"The dark maiden has always lived in my...belief." He paused for a moment, and made a final addition appropriately.

A long silence fell.
Silence is like a giant beast lurking in the shadows, hiding a suffocating depression.

The eight long legs of the lizard wizard knocked on the floor, sending out a creepy echo, like the heartbeat of a beast, hitting the silent rock, ticking, and falling into the icy underground lake in the Underdark.

I do not know how long it has been.

The suppressed laughter that broke the silence came from the mask again, mocking but harmless, "So, you are a wanderer."

In order not to reveal even the slightest flaw in himself, Brian nodded calmly.

The so-called 'Wanderer' is the name given to itself by believers who lost their gods after the fall of the Dark Maiden.

In addition to guarding and searching for the last wandering temple, their duty is to wait patiently for the resurrection and return of the dark maiden Eilistraee.

And the reason why he dared to pretend to be a Wanderer to communicate with this crazy spider wizard was mainly because in the secret organization of Wanderer, the ancient city of Orens would convey the message that this wizard expressed to the 'Wanderer' bona fide.

All the 'wanderers' who come here use a special connection method to contact the spider wizard, and they will attract the attention of the other party.

When the time is right, he will also give needed assistance.

In other words, when Brian asked the halfling servant to do him a small favor, he had already attracted the attention of the wizard.

But he couldn't guarantee that the other party would provide him with assistance, so he simply found the secluded place of the spider wizard.

Of course, this is not free.

He had to provide an action that could plunge the city of Ancient Orens into chaos for a short time, or news that the arachnid wizard thought was of high value.

If he is very satisfied, those who provide information will also receive generous rewards.

Because for a lizard wizard, if any of the plots of the priestess of Lolth can be thwarted without being noticed, he will stop at nothing to do so.

Facts have proved that this news is true.

In this case, a bold attempt suddenly appeared in Brian's mind.

He thought, since he has the ability of foresight, why not take advantage of this opportunity and play a big game.

If his idea is exactly what the terrorist wants, then he will naturally be rewarded by the legendary wizard.

"Very good." A soft smile came from inside the mask, and he reached out his hand to signal.

"Please sit down, according to the rules I made, before we trade, I have to show you something, maybe you don't want to see it, but the purpose of my doing this is just to let you understand, I am not a rumor as horrific as described in

The so-called rumors are that many people believe that the spider wizard is the most notorious and mysterious and crazy wizard in the ancient Orens city.

It was rumored that his strength was surpassed only by his zeal in serving Lolth, which was matched only by his madness.

But judging from his every move, Brian knew that the wizard in front of him was neither crazy nor like Rose's most devout believer.

The wizard said no more, and reached out to take off the ebony mask.

Brian greeted him curiously.

What he saw in front of him was not a face.

Instead, dense mold covers the face, like mycotoxins growing on moldy bread.
In a trance, the dense mold transformed into countless squirming tiny spider legs, terrifying and disgusting.

Brian looked startled, and quickly activated his psychic powers to dispel the fear in his heart and the discomfort in his stomach, and then forcibly turned his face away.

A wisp of cold sweat slipped silently from his forehead.

At this time, he was really glad that he was not a patient with trypophobia, otherwise, he would have been frightened directly if he had not had a heart attack.

Even so, he forcibly mobilized his psychic powers to manage to stabilize his mind.

After the mask was put back on, Brian mustered up the courage to look up, pretending to be surprised and asking, "This is."

It is said that, in his youth, the Arachnid rejected a priestess who, in a rage, tore open his face and injected a caustic distillate of spider venom into the wound.

His face was thus reduced to a purple, swollen ruin that looked like fungal growth.

Then she transformed the unrecognizable young man into a spider elf, imprisoned in her room, and used it as her own personal slave to wreak havoc and torture.

It was a long time before he found a chance for revenge.

His vengeance was undoubtedly fatal to the priestess who captured and tortured him.

He fled into the wilds of the Underdark, vowing to return only if he possessed enough magic to gain a foothold in the cruel city of Orens.

Just 20 years later, the Spiderman is back.

He won't say where he went or how he got his magic and powers.

When he returned, he was an accomplished wizard, and had proved himself by defeating three wizards from the College of Warlocks at the same time, at the pastime of the matriarch of a noble family.

"I let 'her' down once, and that's the price I paid." There was a long sigh in the suppressed mask, followed by a low sneer, "but there won't be a second time."

Brian didn't answer knowingly.

As a reborn person, he knew that the power of the spider wizard actually came from his almost crazy loyalty to Rose.

"For us drow, to provoke 'her' openly, besides death is to be spidered." His whisper slowly became sharper, "If you want to defeat 'her', you can only do so when you belong to 'her'." 'In the game, slowly from a pawn to a real game player.

So, I avoided 'her' scrutiny by posing as a faithful believer.But few people know that even when I pretend to submit to 'her', I am against 'her' all the time.

I used the power that 'she' gave me to turn against 'her'.To do so, one must be very cunning and patient.This process may take hundreds, thousands of years. But slowly but surely, I firmly believe that I can gradually neutralize 'her' control of the drow race. "

"You intend to overthrow the chaos of 'her' by serving 'her'." Brian said slowly.

"That's right." The spider wizard nodded slightly, "Once the right opportunity comes, I will definitely spare no effort to make a move."

"Okay, this is the end of our small talk, otherwise it will affect my precious time serving 'her'." He raised his hand and interrupted what Brian was about to say, and said softly:

"Tell me your purpose. I can help you escape from the city of Ancient Orens, and even open the portal to send you out of the underground world. Moreover, as a wizard, I also have mastered the magic spells that are amazing to any spellcaster. The magic knowledge of temptation and my lifelong research. So, I am curious, what kind of equivalent exchange can you bring me?"

"Not only do I know the news about the high-level artifact 'Qilashar Rose'." Brian raised his head, met the wizard's smoky eyes, and said calmly, "I also know that tomorrow is the once-in-a-thousand-year event in the city of Orens." Founding Festival', so."

He smiled slightly and paused appropriately, just to give the other party enough time to think about the 'suspense'.

Silence fell again.

At this moment, the air seemed to freeze in the closed stone room.

Only eight creepy long legs, eight
They rattled on the stone, tick, tick, tap, tap. Excited rhythmic tap.

(End of this chapter)