Chapter 673

Underdark.

The sound of killing in the cave gradually subsided, and the town under the mage tower was full of corpses, paved all the way from the city gate to the passages in four directions, and the blood stained the mushrooms on the field.

The souls of more than 2,000 slaves were all absorbed, even though they were consumed by Rennes, they gradually increased to more than 2,300 grids.

At this time, the time for Ren's mirror image came, and it disappeared into thin air.

Raistlin's mirror image lasted longer for three minutes, and opened a series of random doors, allowing his teammates to enter and reach the top hall of the mage tower.

Until now, they didn't see the real body of the beholder elder.

Barack circled around the beholder's corpse, his face was full of disgust, he pinched his nose and said, "This thing looks too disgusting!"

Izzet said with a smile: "The elder beholder is already better-looking than ordinary beholders. It has a layer of horny armor. It doesn't have greasy skin exposed like ordinary beholders. It has a mouth full of venom and doesn't smell so bad."

"Well……"

Barack took a few steps away, "However, it is very powerful, and it has controlled so many slaves. If I was the only one facing it and was besieged by the slave army, I would probably have to escape for my life."

"No matter how strong he was, he was easily beheaded by Rennes." Dawnsos admired.

Athena looked at Raistlin, concern in her eyes.

She knew that Renn had returned to Glamorgan, and the soul contract sensed that Renn had just undergone a soul transformation. He had been promoted to a high-level legend, and his strength had increased a lot.

Raistlin gave the giantess a slight nod, reassuring her.

"Now?" Barack asked. "What do we do next?"

"Of course it is to control this mage tower."

Raistlin replied as he walked to the console in the middle of the hall, reached out and pressed the crystal orb on it, injecting a bit of mana.

Immediately, the control orb was activated, and a stream of information was transmitted to his mind.

This information includes a lot of content about the mage tower, including a tower log, which is written in high elven script.

Raistlin scanned it quickly.

Sure enough, the founder of the mage tower was not the beholder, but a drow mage named "Kwesason" who started building it more than 600 years ago. Kevisassen is a nineteenth-level mage. He has been stuck in the bottleneck for hundreds of years, but he can't even master the first nine-ring spell, and he hasn't even made any progress.

To be promoted to an archmage needs to build three models of nine-ring spells, and he has not mastered even one, let alone three.

This made Kevisassen very desperate for a while.

Later, he accidentally obtained an ancient book from the third era, which originated from the ruins of an elf city in the New World. It recorded a method that could help build spell models through the mage tower, which not only improved efficiency, but also increased some Success rate.

So Kvethassen searched for a place to build the tower in the upper Underdark, and finally chose this cave.

Building a mage tower is not easy and requires countless resources and manpower.

The resources in the Underdark region are poor and the struggle is endless. Kevisasson is fighting alone. He widened the cave and spent more than sixty years to collect enough resources to build the main structure of the mage tower bit by bit, and then It takes thirty years to arrange the rune circle in the tower.

Kevisasson named this mage tower "The Obsidian Tower".

The Obsidian Tower is half shorter than a normal mage tower, only over 130 meters high, and its internal space is only one-third of a normal mage tower.

Even so, Kevisassen spent more than 30 years and failed to complete the arrangement of the magic circle of the mage tower.

The biggest problem is the lack of alchemy materials.

Many materials are very scarce in the Underdark, or even non-existent. Kevisassen had to go to the surface to collect them, or go to the human kingdom of the Old Continent to disguise his identity to buy them.

After nearly a hundred years of hard work, the rune circle of the Obsidian Tower was only about half completed.

Kvethasson's tower journal ends here.

The last piece of information about him was that he went out to collect a batch of important magic alloys. He didn't say where he went. In short, he never came back.

Seeing this, Raistlin couldn't help feeling secretly.

The lines in the tower log revealed Kwesasen's desire to be promoted to the archmage. This drow mage is a lonely explorer on the road of magic. He has no moral bottom line and cruel methods. They are merciless, and treat the slaves they control as tool people, without any kindness.

What he does has only one goal, and that is to be promoted to the Archmage.

But he failed.

Raistlin guessed that when he went out that time, an accident happened to Kwesasen, and he was most likely dead. Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible for him to give up the Obsidian Tower that he has poured his heart and soul into for a hundred years.

After the disappearance of Kevisassen, the Obsidian Tower was silent for more than three hundred and forty years.

It wasn't until decades ago that an ordinary beholder broke into the cave, discovered the unfinished mage's tower, and took it for himself.

This beholder used the Obsidian tower to become a legend and become the elder beholder.

Then, like Kvisassen, it enslaved the underground creatures through the mage tower, built a slave army, occupied the territory, expanded its power, let the slaves collect resources, and continued to improve the tower. However, the magic knowledge of the elder beholder is far inferior to that of the former master, and the strength is even worse by several levels. After decades of tossing, he has only completed very few rune circles, and has made little progress.

The beholders have left a plethora of entries in the tower's journal, hundreds of times more than Kvethasson's.

The big part is that it flatters itself, praises itself.

Raistlin was speechless after watching it, and had a deep insight into the narcissism of the beholder, so he skipped over and didn't look at it.

In addition to the information of the two tower owners, the log also contains the effect of the magic circle that the Obsidian Tower has completed, its protective barrier, the spells that can be cast, the functions of each building in the tower, and so on. And, as long as you use the high elf runes to leave a spiritual imprint in this crystal orb, you can become the new owner of the Obsidian Tower.

Raistlin lifted his spirits.

A wizard tower is right in front of you, and there is no spellcaster in the world who will not be tempted.

Even though Ren already has a mage tower on his own, he doesn't think there are too many mage towers. What's more, the Obsidian Tower was specially built to assist in the construction of the nine-ring spell model. I don't know the effect yet, so it's worth a try!

Kevisassen never seemed to think that he would lose the Obsidian Tower, and he left a rune circle in the crystal orb to assist in promotion.

This huge and complicated rune circle looks very ancient at first glance, and it came from the high elves.

Raistlin judged only by feeling that the magic circle had an effect!

Kevisassen is only half completed and must be combined with the entire mage tower to activate it. The remaining half requires alchemy materials worth about four million gold shields.

This is an astronomical amount of wealth for others, and many alchemy materials cannot be bought with money.

But to Raistlin, it was nothing more than a trifle.

According to Ren's instructions, all the materials can be collected within two months, and no one else needs help in arranging the rune circle. Raistlin can do it by himself. He casts the mirror image technique every hour, twelve mirror images work together, the work efficiency has been doubled, and he can perform the real mirror image technique once every seven days, and the efficiency has been improved again.

Raistlin estimated that he should be able to complete the project within half a year!

It is definitely worthwhile to spend four million gold shields and half a year to perfect the Obsidian Tower, as long as it can speed up the efficiency of building three nine-ring spells.

"Raistlin, what's the matter?"

Seeing that Raistlin put his hands on the crystal orb and didn't speak for a long time, Barack couldn't help asking.

"fine."

Raistlin let go of his hand, and briefly told his teammates about the origin of this mage tower, but did not reveal about the rune circle that assists in the construction of the nine-ring spell.

"Master Kevisason!" Izzet exclaimed.

"You know him?" Raistlin asked.

"Yes." Izzet nodded lightly, and said, "Master Kvethasson, like me, was born in Menzoberranzan, the largest city of the dark elves. He was once the most famous man in Menzoberranzan." One of the legendary mages in the world, with profound strength and profound magic knowledge, no less than the archmage, but he disappeared hundreds of years ago, so he went to the upper floor to build the mage tower."

The dark elf's eyes showed a bit of regret, "The Obsidian Tower has been abandoned for so many years, so it can be seen that Master Kvisasson has failed and even died."

The teammates thought so too.

It is absolutely impossible for the caster to give up his mage tower, either because he lost his freedom or lost his life.

Raistlin said directly, "I want to control this mage tower."

Without waiting for his teammates to respond, he proposed a plan for distributing the loot: "The value of the Mage Tower is extremely high. If I control it, I will no longer participate in the distribution of other loot. There are a batch of treasures in the middle warehouse of the Obsidian Tower. The gold, alchemy materials, and weapons and equipment collected by the demon through slaves, I use the alchemy materials, and convert them into equivalent gold shields and share them equally with you, and I don’t want any magic equipment.”

Izzyt, Barack, and Daunthos looked at each other, vaguely guessing that Raistlin might have concealed some information.

But besides Raistlin, there is no one better suited to master the mage tower.

Only the caster can control the mage tower, and they can only stare blankly. Moreover, Ren and Raistlin were the main force to break through the mage tower this time. They just killed the slave army, and they could do it only with the mirror image of Ren and Raistlin, and they didn't need help at all.

Even if Raistlin took the mage's tower by force without consent, they would have nothing to say.

"Can."

Izzet agreed immediately.

Barack and Downsos followed suit, and Athena would not have any objections.

Raistlin didn't say much, and immediately pressed his hand on the crystal orb again, using his mana to condense a line of high elf runes. He muttered the incantation, and the orb immediately responded, emitting bursts of strange magical brilliance.

The entire Obsidian Tower trembled slightly, and the rune circles inside and outside the tower were flowing with energy.

It lasted half a minute.

By the time the tower's trembling ceased, Raistlin had become its new master.

He has established a connection with the crystal orb, and knows the situation of the entire mage tower well. When he is in the tower, he can mobilize the energy of the tower to cast spells and perform various operations with a single thought.

This crystal orb is not only the control core of the Obsidian Tower, but also a superb magic item.

Through it, the master of the high tower can release the nine-ring mind control technique, control the mind of the target suppressed in the tower, and make it his own slave. Of course, performing mind control will consume a lot of energy in the tower, and the target's rank must be lower than your own, and the number is not unlimited.

The stronger the master of the Obsidian Tower, the more slaves he can control.

The Elder Beholder enslaved more than a dozen legendary low-level slaves and dozens of high-level extraordinary people with the help of the Mage Tower. Through these powerful slaves, it controlled more slaves and expanded its territory outward.

So when the beholder is killed, mind control fails, and the army of slaves collapses.

"Successful?" Athena asked.

"Yeah." Raistlin smiled, "I'm already the master of this Obsidian Tower." While speaking, he raised his hand and opened the portal in front of his teammates, "Let's go to the warehouse."

Go through the portal and instantly arrive at the storage room in the middle of the tower.

A burst of golden light shone into the eyes, almost dazzled everyone, and then gasped, their faces were full of shock.

"Praise the sun!"

Barack shouted loudly.

Izzet and Daunsous were not keen on wealth, but they were also shocked by the sight in front of them.

Countless amounts of gold are piled up in front of you, all of which have been smelted into gold nuggets, stacked neatly like a high wall, and it is difficult to estimate its value.

And that's just part of the treasure in the warehouse.

In addition to gold, there are also a large number of magic alloys, such as mithril, fine gold, meteorite iron, etc., as well as colorful gems and crystals, which are filled with more than a dozen large boxes. More alchemy materials were placed on shelves one by one, classified into categories, and there were at least a hundred kinds of organs cut from minerals, plants, and monsters, which was dazzling.

In addition, there are pieces of magic equipment, various weapons and armor, staffs and wands, jewelry amulets, etc., there are about twenty or thirty pieces.

So much magical equipment put together is quite spectacular.

"Oh my God……"

Barack's eyes were straightened, and he couldn't help muttering: "The dragon's treasure is nothing more than that, how much are these things worth?"

"About 1.7 million gold shields," Raistlin replied.

The teammates cast surprised glances, and he explained: "This beholder has a hobby of collecting treasures, and he will count them every day and record them in the tower log. It has collected decades of wealth, most of which are here, only A very small part is used to build the mage tower."

There were other words that Raistlin did not say.

Although there are many treasures, the most valuable ones are gold, gemstones, and alchemy materials. The quality of those magic equipment is very average, not even an epic one.

Magic items are the scarcest thing in the Underdark, and epic gear doesn't fall into the hands of beholders.

So it did not have luxurious equipment in the previous battles.

However, the wealth of 1.7 million gold shields should not be underestimated.

After being surprised, Izzet and Downsos quickly recovered their composure, but Barack could hardly move his eyes away. Even though he was a legendary high-level transcendent, he had never seen so much wealth in his life.

The Holy Gun Ranger looked at Raistlin, and asked with a timid expression, "Raistlin, you said that all these treasures will be shared equally among us?"