Master of Spells from Faerun

Chapter 28 Leyline Lost City
Everyone in the Dragon Gun Adventure Group found Dunan, the tavern owner, a middle-aged man with a big belly and a long sword pinned to his waist.

"Welcome~ Adventurers, are you ready to start your legendary experience in the legendary Leyline Lost City! You only need a gold coin to get there through this shaft."

When Dunan saw the crowd, he began to yell loudly. Since he opened this tavern many years ago through the huge wealth he collected from the Lost Leys, he has been lying down to make money at the entrance of this shaft all these years.

The paladin was heartbroken when he heard it. One gold coin per person, five people plus the copper furnace cost six gold coins, but as the captain, he still took out five gold coins: "Six people, boss."

Dunan happily reached out to take the gold coin, put it in his mouth and bit it, then waved his hand, and let everyone tie a rope and send it down one by one.

"Under the mountain", the first floor.

This is the safest place in the entire Leyline Lost City. Even though some sporadic monsters raid here through various portals from time to time, the hard work of adventurers over the years has kept this place in a safe state most of the time.

The place where everyone is now is the ruins of the former Arcane Academy.

Many years ago, this place was once the legendary mad mage--the disciple of Helast Black Robe, the metal mage Trobriander and another disciple Mulla co-founded the Arcane Academy.

At that time, many mages came here especially to try to study in this arcane academy, but it is a pity that there is no free pie in the sky. The apprentices who study in this arcane academy do not have a long life, and they are basically consumables.

Later, after the metal mage left, the half-scorpion Mulla went to the depths of the Leyline Lost City to help his teacher resist the harassment of the drow elves, and the arcane academy was abandoned since then.

However, adventurers have used the ruins here as an underground market, and many contraband items that are not dared to be sold on the surface exist here.

Imrik and his party walked in this market. The streets were full of vendors of various races, and there were even evil races such as drow and gray dwarves.

Walking here, Imrik seems to have returned to the slave gathering in Dragonblade Castle. You must know that slavery is strictly prohibited in Waterdeep City, but under the light, there must be darkness. The Leyline Lost City with underground rivers leading to various places is the best place to trade slaves.

Therefore, the market is full of all kinds of slaves.

Adventurers are basically existences with low moral standards, so the passers-by are not surprised, only Jerome, who is morally obsessed with cleanliness, looks angrily while walking.

"Relax, Jerome, don't make trouble." Imrik saw Jerome's uneasiness, and comforted him.

He didn't want to offend a large group of slave traders before reaching the second floor.

"Hey, Master Mage, do you need a guide to introduce this place to you and your teammates?"

At this time, a gray dwarf nearby saw that it was the first time for everyone to come, rubbed his hands and said greedily.

Imrik stopped in his tracks, took out a gold coin and looked down at the black dwarf: "Yes, if you are satisfied, this gold coin will be yours."

Seeing the gold coin, the gray dwarf said excitedly: "Of course, of course, dear mage, this is the first floor of the Leyline Lost City, and the fixed portal leading to the second floor is located in the ruins of the Arcane Academy, just 500 meters ahead.

In addition, there are several portals on the first floor in the east and north, but the rules of these portals are still unclear. They open and close sometimes, and the places they teleport to are different each time.

Therefore, I suggest that you use fixed portals. There are still some short-term resting places for adventurers near the portals on the second floor, but after leaving the portal, the number of monsters gradually increases, because starting from the second floor, monsters will occasionally rush out of random portals on each floor, so it is very dangerous.

Of course, it might be because the powerful monsters are restricted in the depths. The challenge level of the monsters in the first few floors is relatively weak, generally lower than level 9, and most of them are weak creatures such as goblins without professional levels.

Over the years, adventurers have found the addresses of the fixed portals on the first five floors. If you want, I have them here, and you only need ten gold coins. If you don’t have this map, then you have to be careful. You may enter a random portal at any time and be sent to the depths of the ley line maze. There are all kinds of advanced monsters there. "

Domila's eyes widened instantly when she heard that a map cost ten gold coins. She was furious at the gray dwarf's black heart, and her money-hungry character made her unable to accept paying ten gold coins for a map.

But Imrik doesn't care, it's only ten gold coins. For him, he doesn't even bother to bend down to pick them up now, for fear of flashing his waist.

He took out ten gold coins again in exchange for four maps, marking the routes from the entrance to the next floor on the second to fifth floors.

He put away the map with satisfaction. It was not a good deal for him to spend ten gold coins to avoid finding a fixed portal in the underground where there were many monsters.

Everyone continued to walk forward, and when they came to the fixed portal, a rotating prism emitting blue light appeared in front of them.

"Unbelievable, what a perfect creation, not only contains the power of spells, but also has a magical structure that I can't understand." The bard walked forward and observed the portal.

"It's really unbelievable, really interesting." Imrik also observed the magical creation in amazement. He recognized the structure of the portal in front of him. He had seen it in a previous encyclopedia introducing the artificer profession. This seems to be a lost technology. The artificer structure only existed in the Imascar Empire in ancient times.

But what is interesting is that all the portals in Leyline Lost City were built by Helast, using various technologies invented by himself, which is the only one in Faerun.

So, why does a legendary mage who has only survived for 200 years know the technology of the artificer, and it is also the technology of the lost ancient empire?
The black-robed mage thought with great interest.

"Okay, don't study any more, let's go, I can't wait to collect those lovely gold coins!" Domila urged with all eyes shining.

Everyone collectively touched the portal with their hands, a burst of blue light flashed, and they arrived at the second floor in an instant.

The portal on the second floor was in a cave, and the number of adventurers was much sparser than that on the first floor. Only a small number of a dozen or so people looked up at Imrik and the others before continuing to rest.

　After checking the information, it is speculated based on the information that the mad mage will indeed use the technology of Imasca, the ancient magic weapon empire, so why not say it, so as to save readers who don’t understand it from being spoiled, and I will talk about it later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)