Chapter 682

"Gotham?"

Everyone thought about it for a while, but they didn't understand what it meant.

As an archmage, Kui Lu is knowledgeable and proficient in more than a dozen languages, but she can't remember which allusion it came from. She couldn't help asking: "Does this name have any special meaning?"

Ryan almost didn't laugh out loud, but he explained with a serious face: "Gotham is a slang term in my hometown, which means 'the folk customs are simple'. I hope that after the city of Shield Island is built, the residents of Gotham can love each other , form a good social atmosphere, and nurture many talents in a good environment."

"What a wonderful wish!"

Kui Lu's eyes lit up, and she said happily: "If this is the case, then it will be the most ideal home for Elise's followers, and I look forward to realizing it one day."

Izzet also showed longing on his face.

"We'll all see."

Ren nodded, satisfying his bad taste, and quickly changed the subject: "I just hired a dwarven engineering team and am building a school for combat wizards, which will be completed soon. I will talk to them again at that time Contract, ask them to build Gotham in the New World."

"It would be great!"

Both Kuilu and Izzet were very happy, Ren's work was so efficient.

Ren was a little tired and rubbed the space between his brows a few times.

He has a lot of things on hand now, and now he wants to build a city, and the workload has more than doubled. Building a city is completely different from a school or a fortress. The amount of work differs by dozens, or even hundreds of times. The pre-planning alone takes several months, which is pretty fast.

Also, it is unknown whether the dwarven engineering team will take over the project.

Traveling to the New World, which is tens of thousands of miles away, is extremely dangerous and involves a large amount of work. Various complicated factors must also be considered. The contract amount involves tens of millions of gold shields, and negotiations alone will take a long time.

Such a big matter is not in the hands of the dwarven engineering team.

Maybe, he will go to the highest mountain himself.

Advance planning, terrain survey, fund mobilization, building materials preparation, personnel arrangement, etc., as well as the most important traffic issue. How to send so many people to the New World, including the Dwarf Engineering Team and the Extraordinary Legion, at least two or three thousand people, it is impossible to all go through the ultra-long-distance teleportation array, right?

The transportation cost of personnel alone is unaffordable, let alone the transportation of building materials.

"Don't be too happy too early, we have a lot of things to do." Ren expressed all these concerns, and both drows expressed their understanding.

Kuilu also understands how difficult it is to build a city, and said: "Ren, you can do it according to your own progress, and let me know before starting work. I can use this time to bring brothers and sisters in the drow cities of the Underdark Assemble and join the ranks of construction."

"Elise's followers will not sit back and enjoy, and will definitely put in all their efforts for their new home."

The beautiful face of the Moon Dancer is full of sincerity.

"Can."

Ren was very satisfied with Kui Lu's statement. He touched his chin and said, "I expected to start work in half a year, so you can recruit people according to this time."

"Half a year?" Kui Lu nodded, "Enough."

Ren couldn't help but glanced at her.

Just now, Kuilu said that she only learned about her party a few days ago, and rushed to Menzoberranzan immediately but was in vain, asked Tiberon, and then caught up, and ran to the front to wait.

Now, she can guarantee to contact drow in each city within half a year.

You know, there are more than a dozen drow cities in the Underdark, distributed in the upper and middle layers, and the combined area is equivalent to half a new continent. Takes a lot of time.

This means she has a way of moving quickly in the Underdark.

"Ms. Kuilu, how did you get ahead of us?" Ren didn't want to beat around the bush and asked directly.

The beautiful female drow smiled: "I have my own way."

"Can you say it?" Ren asked: "Our destination is the lower-level illithid city Elaento. If we can arrive as soon as possible, we can save more than half a month of time."

"Are you going to Elaine Tor?"

Kui Lu was surprised. After getting a positive answer from Ren, she thought for a few seconds, and a thin booklet appeared in her hand. It was only a dozen pages thick and looked very old, with shabby scrolled footers that had obviously been looked at a lot.

"The dark region goes deep underground, and most of the space is occupied by rocks and soils of inestimable weight. They distort this space and affect the accuracy of teleportation spells. The farther the distance, the greater the deviation, and teleportation accidents will occur if you are not careful. Killed on the spot."

Ren is also very clear about what she said.

Long-distance teleportation in the dark region is a big problem. Even if you explore the way by opening the portal, the success rate is extremely low. Hundreds of times may not be able to complete it once, forming a stable portal.

As Kui Lu spoke, she opened the booklet in her hand.

Ren saw that it was filled with lines of rune codes, and it would stop every few lines. It looked very complicated, like a heavenly book.

Ordinary people may not understand what is written here, but he recognized it at a glance.

This is the teleportation beacon!

Kui Lu smiled proudly: "However, it is actually possible to teleport in the Underdark, but it needs the assistance of precise teleportation beacons. In order to facilitate the passage in the Underdark, I spent hundreds of years traveling through most of the Underdark, Find more than 500 stable positions in space, and bury a guide stone containing a teleportation sign in each position."

"The guiding stone is like a road sign, guiding us to teleport."

"As long as you master the signposts in each guide stone and connect the landing points at both ends, the teleportation will become very safe, and it is almost impossible to make mistakes."

"Even if there are some errors, it will not be life-threatening."

"Some guide stones are very close, while others are far away, and they are not fixed. The guide stones I arranged cover 70% of the known area of ​​the Underdark, mainly on the upper and middle layers. You can choose the closest teleportation Beacon, cast a teleportation spell to reach the designated location, and then go to the next location."

Ren and others were extremely impressed when they heard this. This is definitely a genius idea.

But it also takes a lot of time to complete. Those guide stones alone are worth a lot, and only an archmage who is proficient in teleportation can do it.

More than 500 guide stones form a huge teleportation network. Mastering this network will allow you to travel unimpeded in the Underdark!

Its importance can be imagined.

Ren could use the mutated mobile phone to copy the booklet that recorded the teleportation sign without anyone noticing, but he didn't do it.

Plagiarizing other people's years of hard work, this kind of thing can't be done by yourself.

Kui Lu turned the pages of the book and continued: "Eleento is located in the lower part of the dark region. Its location is very remote, and most people have never heard of it. However, you are lucky. I went there many years ago and set up a A guiding stone, wait for me to find it."

"Yes."

She quickly found the result she wanted, and after quick calculations, a smile appeared on her face: "Use my guide stone to teleport twelve times, and you will be able to reach that location, which is only half a day away from Elaine."

"Great!" Izzet was overjoyed.

The teammates are also very happy. After more than 20 days in the Underdark, they are already tired of the dark underground world and just want to end and leave early.

Kui Lu looked at Ren, "Shall I take you there, or tell you the teleportation markers along the way and go by yourself?"

"Madam, please give us a ride." Ryan replied immediately.

He really wanted to get these teleportation beacons, but not in this way of taking advantage, and it was not very useful to get only twelve teleportation beacons.

If you want to take it, you have to get it all, and you have to get it in an open and honest manner.

"good."

Kui Lu was very satisfied with Ren's sense of humor. She put away the books and looked around, "If everyone has had enough rest, let's go now."

Wren stood up, saluted her, and brought Raistlin back.

Seeing Raistlin's appearance, Kuilu couldn't help shaking her head in admiration, "It's really a magical clone spell, it can switch positions instantly at such a long distance."

There was some curiosity in her eyes, and she asked, "Can you tell me what kind of spell it is?"

"Sorry, ma'am." Raistlin declined.

Kui Lu was a little disappointed but understood, so she stopped asking and raised her hand to cast a spell. A burst of magic light lit up in front of her, quickly forming a portal.

She walked in first.

Raistlin and his teammates followed into the portal and found themselves in a dark cave, in a remote corner of the cave.

The all-seeing eye looked down, and found a silver rock along the weak magic fluctuations.

It was cast into a regular multi-faceted cylinder, about the size of a skull, with arcane runes engraved on the surface, and a fine magic circle penetrated deep into the interior.

This should be the guiding stone.

The entire guide stone was buried half a meter underground. As the portal closed, the magic fluctuations quickly subsided, without revealing a trace of breath, as if completely integrated into this void. Moreover, it automatically absorbs weak energy from the void, so it does not need to be maintained as frequently as the teleportation array, which saves money and labor, and can last for at least hundreds of years, or even one or two thousand years.

"What a brilliant technique!" Raistlin exclaimed secretly.

According to his knowledge, he had never heard of the guide stone before. It was either Kui Lu's original creation, or she was the chosen one of the goddess of magic and was taught by the goddess.

On the surface, guide stones are naturally not needed.

But in the outer plane and the bottomless abyss, the space in many areas is as unstable as the Underdark, and even the inability to teleport is the norm. In those environments, guiding stones are also useful, and the formed teleportation network has a very high strategic position.

In the future, it will be exchanged from Aoi Road for the method of making guide stones!

Kui Lu flipped through the sign on the booklet and opened the portal again.

Each teleportation point has a guide stone, which is hidden underground and is extremely difficult to find. The space in the area where the guide stone is located is very stable. The range of this stable space is very small. On the surface, it is no different from the surrounding area. The search process is no different from finding a needle in a haystack. It can be seen how much effort Kuilu has spent on this.

Raistlin judged from Kuilu's portal that the teleportation distance was long and short, irregularly.

Once, twice, three times...

Kui Lu kept opening the portal, allowing everyone to quickly cross the void.

Not long after, the twelfth teleportation was completed.

Everyone appeared in a hot cave, hundreds of meters in front of a river of lava, a series of bubbles emerged from the dark red magma pool, the hazy air was full of toxic sulfur smell, within a few seconds It was so hot that I was sweating all over my body.

"Here we are."

Kui Lu stretched out an ice shield to insulate from the heat, and said: "I don't have many guide stones in the lower dark area, there are only more than 30 guide stones in total, this is the closest one to Elaine, and it only takes half a day's journey to get there. "

While she was speaking, she also blessed everyone with the blister technique, which made them feel much more comfortable.

"Thank you ma'am for the transmission," Raistlin thanked.

"a piece of cake."

Kui Lu waved her hand, and then her expression became serious, "I don't know much about the illithid city, but judging from the illithids I have encountered before, they are definitely evil creatures, full of malice towards outsiders."

"Their origins are very mysterious, one of the greatest mysteries of the Underdark."

"As far as I can judge, illithid cities are far more dangerous than drow cities. If there is no reason to go, I advise you not to take risks."

The Moon Dancer is kind.

She pinned her hopes on Ryan to build Gotham City, and she didn't want to see Ryan fail, and Izzet and these people died for no reason.

The teammates looked to Raistlin.

They still don't know why Rennes is looking for the city of spirit suckers.

Raistlin pondered for a while, and now he didn't need to hide anymore, and said truthfully: "There is a demon soul I need in the illithid city, and I must get it."

"What demon soul?" Kui Lu asked.

"I can't be sure, but more than 90% of them are the masterminds of the illithids." Raistlin didn't say anything, so he couldn't say that this was the information he saw from the divination.

"Illithid Mastermind!"

It was the first time for the teammates to hear about this creature, and they didn't understand what Ren wanted its demon soul for.

"You're trying to get the mind of the Illithid Mastermind." Kui Lu was very surprised, obviously she knew what the Illithid Mastermind was, she shook her head and said, "The Mastermind is the core of the Illithid society, controlling the activities of the entire group, The level and promotion of spirit-controlling monsters. If you want to get the mastermind's demon soul, you have to face the attacks of all the spiritid monsters it controls, do you know how dangerous it is?"

"I know." Raistlin nodded.

Seeing that he didn't change his mind, Kui Lu reminded again: "There may be holy spellcasters in the illithid city, and those psions are no less powerful than archmages."

Raistlin understood her kindness, "I will act cautiously, and will not let everyone take risks, and I will face it alone at critical times."

"Are you alone?" Kui Lu looked him up and down.

Raistlin said flatly, "I have the will to truth."

Kui Lu's expression froze for a moment, then she suddenly shook her head, "No wonder you are so confident, the will to truth is indeed the nemesis of mind spells, then I can rest assured, let's go."

Everyone was puzzled by what she meant.

"Since we're all near Elaineto, I'll go with you." Kui Lu smiled brightly, "It just so happens that I've always been curious about the cities of illithids, so I'll take this opportunity to see them."

Yizit and the others were extremely happy. It would undoubtedly be much safer to have an archmage with them.

Raistlin was instantly confident.

With Kuilu's strength, this time the goal of obtaining the mastermind of the illithid is stable!