The mage arrives

Gordon had also imagined what the mysterious master who lived underground looked like, but he never expected that the other party was actually a pair of armor.To be precise, it was a full-body mithril armor that only officers could equip during the Sun Elf Empire period.

Smooth shell, exquisite craftsmanship, ubiquitous details, complicated hollow decoration, leaf-shaped armor... This is the most typical elf-style armor.

However, this armor was not worn by anyone, and there was nothing inside it, and the empty eye sockets of the full-face helmet made people feel hairy when they looked at it.

"Hello, outsiders, I haven't seen a creature for a long time, well, I mean, a real intelligent creature." The armor spoke.Surprisingly, its voice is not as cold and harsh as metal, but a mature and soft baritone, lacking in cadence and ups and downs, but still pleasing to the ear.

"Hi, I'm Jill Phoenix." The lady with two ponytails said first, she glanced at the mage beside her, and continued: "This is my companion, Gordon Freeman, I'm very glad to be here As a guest, we would like to thank you for taking us in.”

"You're welcome." The armor mage nodded, "My name... what is my name? Sorry, time is the most unsolvable poison, it has corroded my memory and made me forget what my name is. Call me the Armor Mage. That's what the last visitor called me 400 years ago."

Gordon and Jier looked at each other, unexpectedly this guy even forgot his own name.It seems that its mental state is not very good.

Through the conversation just now, Gordon secretly observed that he was basically certain that this armor mage was the owner of the diary he read last night.The Sun Elf officer named Auston.

He should have fused his soul into this armor through some kind of transmutation spell, becoming a constructed creature.

As for why Auston gave up his **, Gordon is not clear.Perhaps he had been badly injured in the war and had to, or simply in pursuit of a long life.

Longevity is the tireless pursuit of countless intelligent creatures, and they are even willing to devote their entire lives to it.

In the world of Telos, gain long life.It's not too difficult - of course, the premise is that you have strong strength or profound arcane attainments.

Similar to Oston, the soul is fused into metal objects such as armor, or simply transformed into a semi-constructed body.It's just one of the less brilliant ones.

What is more familiar to the public is the transformation of liches.

After becoming that kind of powerful undead.Not only can obtain nearly eternal life.Also has a strong body.As long as no one destroys his phylactery, a lich can be said to be immortal.

However, although the Lich is powerful, not to mention the extremely difficult transformation process with a high failure rate and side effects, just talking about the phylactery has many disadvantages.

In front of the legendary mage who is really proficient in the divination school of magic, the phylactery of those weak liches.The location can be easily calculated by the prophecy spell.Because of this reason, the phylactery was seized by others, and then became a slave lich, there are countless.

Plus, even if the enemy doesn't use spells to find the phylactery.Certain unexpected situations can also cause the Lich to encounter unexpected disasters.

There was once a lich who thought he was smart, picked up a pebble at random by the river near his residence, and made it into his phylactery.Then he threw the phylactery on the riverbank, mixed with countless other pebbles.

Doing so can indeed make it difficult for divination school spells to detect the location of the phylactery.The lich lived safely for 200 years.But then, one day, two sorcerers who usually disliked each other had a duel on that secluded river beach. As a result, the Lich suffered an indiscriminate disaster. Liju hit...

Thus, the smart lich disappeared into the world together with his phylactery.

Lich transformation was invented by a mage proficient in necromancy in the early days of the Netherdulan Empire in the third era.In the beginning, there were indeed many mages who chose to become liches in order to prolong their lives.However, in the eyes of the grand arcanists, this method cannot be used on the table after all.Later, as the magic empire's arcane research deepened, several great arcanists finally jointly developed a new spell: the Netherdulan longevity technique.

So far, as long as he has learned this spell and does not die unexpectedly, the mage can have a nearly eternal life and maintain a human form of life-of course, there are very few mages who can really live for thousands of years.After all, even if you can resist time and aging with the longevity technique, it is difficult to completely resist the enemy's hidden arrows and sharp blades.

Although the Netherdulan longevity technique has long been lost after the fall of the magic empire, Gordon felt that he had better take this path if he wanted to have a longer life in the future.Transforming into a lich, or becoming a constructed creature like Oston in front of him, is not a good choice.

Although he has forgotten his name, this armor mage remembers certain things very clearly. It continued: "The last time someone came here was more than 400 years ago, at the beginning of the fourth era. That mage came from A principality called Xialia. He said that fierce wars are taking place on the continent, and countless lords and kings want to destroy the enemy and expand the territory. Now, what does the continent above my head look like?"

Gordon said: "Jier and I come from the Platinum Empire Freyton, one of the two most powerful empires on the mainland, and the final winner of the great melee war among the nations at the beginning of the Fourth Era. Another comparable country that is hostile to Dundon is the Black Dragon Empire Northengard."

"Oh, Freddon...Norsengard...didn't expect that these two countries that believed in the platinum dragon Bahamut and the five-color dragon god Tiamat would finally rise. It's really unpredictable. But No matter how powerful an empire is, there will always be a day of collapse, just like the Sun Elf Empire or the Netherdulan Magic Empire back then."

The voice of the armor mage is like a gurgling river of history, echoing in the deep and quiet underground laboratory.

After a short silence, the armor mage asked again: "In the past few hundred years, which famous spellcasters have appeared on the mainland, how many powerful arcane organizations have been established, or is there any legendary mage who invented new magic spells? What about the powerful magic spell? Both of you are spellcasters, so you should be familiar with the news in this regard. This is the reason why I met and talked with you, not those two people."

"Uh... Should I say that mages and mages have a common language?" Gordon thought to himself.

Next, Gordon and Jill told the armor mage what they knew about mages, arcane arts, and spell-casting organizations from the beginning of the fourth era.

After an unknown amount of time, the curiosity of the armor mage who had lived in the underground fortification for hundreds of years was finally satisfied.

"Well, I really didn't expect that so many things have happened in the past 400 years. It seems that the new era will be more exciting than the third era when the Sun Elf Empire and the Netherdulan Magic Empire competed." Armor Mage Nod the "head" and make a creaking sound.

He asked again: "By the way, why did you two come to this ruins? Although there are a lot of gold and silver wealth buried here, it may not be enough to attract a mage to come here to take risks."

Before Gordon could stop her, the quick-talking Jier had already said, "We came to the Danzig ruins to find the legacy of the Sun Elf archmage Aravi Shengyang."

Gordon regretted not telling Jill what he had found before coming.Alavi Shengyang obviously has an unknown relationship with the armor mage Auston in front of him.If the two sides are enemies, then things will be troublesome.

It seems that whatever Gordon is afraid of, things will develop in that direction.

When Jier heard the name "Alavi Shengyang", the full body armor of the Sun Elf Mithril in front of him suddenly made a loud clanging sound, and the entire body of the armor mage trembled.

We often use the term "shaking with rage" to describe a person who is in a state of extreme anger.Although the mage in front of him was just a constructed creature, Gordon felt that it was expressing anger in the same way as a human being.

"Ah, Alavi Shengyang! That cruel executioner, that lunatic!" The armor mage's voice suddenly turned cold, and became as piercing as a long knife sharpened.He suddenly let out a cold and maniacal laugh with a metallic taste: "Hahahaha, you two idiots, actually want to get some 'inheritance' from Alavi Shengyang! You are lucky to not be hunted by Alavi's little pets, but If you want to seek the inheritance of that evil mage, you will lose your most precious wealth instead!"

The armor mage waved his hand and issued an order to expel the guests: "You go. The visitor 400 years ago was also a mage. He also wanted to get the inheritance of Aravi Sun. You are as stupid as him! I want to continue the experiment. For Delia, I have persisted for more than 1000 years. My revenge is about to begin!"

Ji'er didn't know why her words made the armor mage so excited, and she froze in place, at a loss for what to do.Gordon pulled her back and said in a low voice, "Let's go."

Then, the two left the gloomy laboratory and returned to the residential area by the same route.

"What happened between this armor monster and Master Aravi Shengyang? Why is it so angry?" Ji'er was puzzled.

"Maybe it has something to do with its former wife. You see, it even forgot its own name, but it still remembers the names of Alavi Shengyang and her wife Delia." Gordon said.

He is still not clear about the past between the armor mage and Aravi Shengyang.But one thing seems certain.That is the legacy of Alavi Shengyang, and those Sun Elf tablets, it seems that it is not as simple as he thought. (To be continued..)