Chapter 564 Star Realm Behemoth, Mage Tower (7K)

With Tang Sen's methods, the people on the magic ship didn't even notice that there were three more uninvited guests.

As a result, the magic ship the three of them were traveling on started as usual.

The three of them could see from the window that the Devil's Fortress outside was slowly shrinking, and the blood-red earth was clearly visible.

There are also sporadic devils and demons wandering around the land, and encountering them will inevitably lead to life and death. Of course, overall, this land that has just experienced a war looks desolate.

But soon, the blood-red earth became blurry, and there was a bright light outside the window, and the magic ship was entering the crystal wall system.

Then, silver light appeared, and ubiquitous silver threads began to wander around the three of them. These threads seemed to be pulling Varo's body with some inexplicable pulling force.

However, Tang Sen and Xue Xue were not affected.

"These silver threads are trying to pull me to the main material plane." Varro said with some difficulty: "This is a trouble that residents of the main material plane will encounter when traveling in the astral plane. One of the thresholds.”

He looked at Tang Sen with a surprised look on his face: "I can understand that Xue Xue is not bound. Although he comes from the Dark Area, he is a lich in a strange state after all. But, why are you not bound by the silver cord?"

"I never said that I came from the main material plane." Tang Sen said calmly.

"Okay." Varro grimaced. The silver threads on his body were getting denser and denser, making him almost unable to move. "I'm about to be pulled to the nearest main material plane. If the two casters If you don’t mind, can you cast me a spell similar to the astral survival spell?”

"I have no interest in venturing into a completely unknown world for the time being."

"I have never learned this type of spell." Tang Sen said regretfully.

Varro then looked to Xue Xue for help.

"I seem to have memories of this type of spell." She thought for a moment: "But they are not very important, so the memory is a little blurry."

"Give me some time, I can think of it again, or reconstruct the spell model."

"At that time I had - already -"

Varro's voice began to become slower and slower, and his body even began to become hollow.

At this time, Tang Sen's body suddenly showed a mysterious magical light. The magical light acted on Varo's body, and the silver threads were immediately straightened out, no longer binding Varo like a mess.

"call--"

Varro breathed a long sigh of relief and moved his hands and feet with lingering fear.

"I was almost dragged into an unknown plane." He looked at Tang Sen: "You saved me again, Mr. Tang. But didn't you say you don't know this kind of magic?"

"I really don't know how to do it," Tang Sen said sincerely, "I use the Great Wishing Technique."

"The Great Wishing Spell?" Varro suddenly realized: "Indeed, this spell can completely deal with this situation, and it can even be called a waste."

"Of course, I don't mean to waste it on me. I don't want to die yet." He was a little incoherent, so he simply changed the subject and said: "Not everyone can learn the Great Wish Technique, at least the nine-ring mage I know, As for the legendary mage, there are only a few people who can use this spell. Mr. Tang's attainments in magic are extraordinary."

"It did take me a lot of time to learn this spell." Tang Sen smiled and said, "But it's really useful, isn't it?"

"Except for the fact that the casting materials are a bit expensive." Varro said, "I'm sorry that I don't have that much money. I will definitely compensate Mr. Tang when I get to Faerun."

The casting materials for the Great Wishing Spell are indeed a bit expensive, but it doesn't make much sense to Tang Sen.

He doesn't need casting materials anyway.

Tang Sen looked out the window. At this time, there was already a silver void outside.

This is the astral plane. Although it looks like an empty silver void, anyone who has been here knows that this is actually a very busy place.

The Githyanki live in the Silver Void, their massive fortresses floating in the Silver Void, along with astral behemoths, astral whales, and countless other astral creatures in the Silver Void. Wandering among them.

Of course, as the Devil Duke's map shows, there are more mysterious places in this silver void, floating islands formed by the corpses of ancient gods, forbidden lands created by powerful magic, and the territories of legendary powerful creatures——

Adventurers may encounter dangers that are difficult to resist and die directly here, or they may encounter powerful and friendly gods to help. As for wealth and treasures, as long as you have enough courage and a little luck, there will be no shortage here. of.

This is a realm full of infinite unknowns and the most dangerous place for adventure.

Of course, the purpose of the Tang Sen trio was not to venture into the star realm, but just to hitch a ride.

The mercenaries in the magic ship obviously relaxed after leaving the Endless Abyss. They brought out the wine and food, gathered on the deck, and raised their glasses to the silver void through the transparent magic barrier of the ship. Tang Sen and the other three did not mix in, but caused a lot of discomfort. Necessary misunderstandings and troubles.

After all, those who dare to make a deal with the devil and go to the abyss to work as mercenaries are definitely not mediocre. The weakest among them is above level 15, and the leader is even a legendary warrior——

Fortunately, he was a legendary warrior. If he were a legendary caster, Tang Sen might not be able to successfully hide on the magic ship.

From the few words of the mercenaries, Tang Sen was able to know the destination this time. Just as Varro guessed, the magic ship had no way to reach Sigil City directly through the astral voyage. Instead, it would first go to a transit station called Silver. The place of Star Harbor.

There is a portal leading to Sigil City, and it is also the starting point for adventurers from Sigil City and many other planes to go to the Star Boundary. Entering the Star Boundary is certainly not difficult, but Silver Star Port provides complete adventure-related information. Serve.

Whether it's recruiting companions, selling information, purchasing and repairing weapons, renting magic ships, providing supplies, etc., you can find everything at Silver Star Port.

The magic ship that the three Tang Sens were on was rented at the Silver Star Port.

This journey to the Silver Star Port will probably take more than a month.

The time cost is indeed very high, and it is far less convenient than the portal. These mercenaries just went to Wanyuan Plain to participate in a war, and it took almost three months to get back and forth on the road.

But neither Varro nor Townsend thought there was anything strange about this behavior.

After all, although you can enter the battlefield directly through the portal provided by the devil, how can anyone who is making a deal with the devil not be wary of the devil? Through a portal provided by the devil? Only a novice would do this.

Compared to the unknown danger, the cost of three months seems insignificant. After all, the devil is really generous with money.

Moreover, the navigation routes from the Silver Star Port to most of the outer planes have long been mature, and there will be almost no danger.

The reason why is almost because accidents always happen. Every year, some unlucky people are attacked by giant astral beasts or other dangers that break into the waterway. This kind of thing is uncontrollable after all.

And Tang Sen regretfully discovered that this group of mercenaries seemed to be one of the unlucky ones.

The days of sailing in the astral world are of course boring. Although looking at the silver void and those silver streams outside feels very novel at first, it becomes boring after a long time.

This principle is the same as the mentality of a person sailing for the first time.

Tang Sen is very accustomed to this kind of voyage. He has too many things to do, and there is always not enough time. He always needs to seize every minute. He is happy to end this voyage peacefully.

Unfortunately, when the voyage was nearly halfway, the entire magic ship suddenly became chaotic due to unknown changes.

"It seems that we have found signs of the giant beast in the starry sky." Varro said: "This magic ship is the lowest level of magic ship. Its defense and maneuverability are completely insufficient to resist the attack of the giant beast in the starry sky."

"A giant star beast?" Tang Sen pondered: "I wonder how it tastes."

Although most of the astral behemoths are just huge in size and not stronger than dragons, there are some astral behemoths whose power is comparable to or even far beyond legends.

The mercenaries on the magic ship naturally have abundant opportunities to deal with the giant beasts in the astral world. The only worry is that if the magic ship is damaged, it will be very troublesome not to mention finding a way to return to the Silver Star Port. The cost of compensating the magic ship will also be high. A headache.

"Is it time to think about the taste now?" Varro has become accustomed to Tang Sen's brain circuit: "Well, at least the astral monster sounds much more acceptable than the devil. In fact, this is really Food you would see in the astral plane.”

Tang Sen opened the range of the surgical fruit, and the entire magic ship and a large area around it were included in the range of perception.

Of course, this range is too narrow compared to the star realm.

At least, Tang Sen didn't sense any sign of the astral beast at all.

The mercenaries did not actually see the astral behemoth, but they discovered the special magic power fluctuations emitted by the astral behemoth when it passed by, as well as the stirred silver currents.

"It's not just an astral giant beast. Judging from the silver flow, this is a group of astral giant beasts."

A wanderer stood on the deck and said solemnly.

"Furthermore, those magic fluctuations are too strong. These are not ordinary astral behemoths. Captain, I suggest we take a detour." A spell caster said: "They are probably at least legendary level. The astral beast.”

"I also want to take a detour." The legendary warrior who is the leader of the group said with a bitter face, "But it's not like you don't know where we are now."

"This area is too close to the noisy tunnel. If we deviate from the route here, who knows what we will encounter."

All the mercenaries were silent.

"What should we do? Keep moving forward and meet those giant beasts in the star realm?" A dwarf shouted impatiently: "I'm not afraid of fighting, but I must emphasize that in a place like the star realm, my strength really cannot be used. come out."

"Perhaps it is not necessary to fight." The caster was still carefully sensing the magic fluctuations and said: "I can sense the movement trajectories of these giant beasts in the astral world. They are very fast and neat. They don't seem to be hunting. plan, but on the way——"

"As long as we don't follow their trajectory to pursue them, we shouldn't be so unlucky to encounter them."

The mercenaries breathed a sigh of relief: "In other words, if we continue to move forward, there won't be a large group of astral beasts waiting for us?"

"I'm just speculating." The caster's words were very cautious: "Let the group leader decide what to do specifically."

The legendary warrior scratched his head irritably: "Compared to the interstellar behemoths that I may not encounter, I hate unknown routes more."

"When encountering an interstellar behemoth, the best we can do is abandon the ship and escape. If we leave the route, we may be completely lost. Everyone should know how dangerous the unknown star world is."

"Then continue to follow the route."

"I think our mercenary group has always been very lucky. It is impossible for us to encounter those giant astral beasts."

Just half a day later, the astral giant beast appeared in front of the mercenaries.

The casters and rogues were not wrong in their judgments. These were a group of astral behemoths, and all of them were at the legendary level.

They seemed to be playing around, stirring the silver current, emitting a black mist that almost enveloped the entire front, making the extremely huge figures looming.

"What should we do now?" The wanderer looked at the leader stiffly.

"What else can we do?" The legendary warrior clenched his fists: "Do you think we can defeat these astral behemoths? Run!"

"But. They don't seem to care about us at all." The caster frowned and said: "The giant beasts in the star realm have very strong perception in the star realm. At this distance, they should have discovered us long ago. Moreover, these star realm beasts have very strong senses. The beast exudes evil and has no reason not to attack us.”

"Isn't this good news? Get out of here while they are not interested in us! When they notice us, where will there be a chance to escape?" the wanderer said quickly.

"I was just wondering if these astral behemoths would."

"Don't think about it! Quickly control the direction of the magic ship!"

"Wait a minute -" the dwarf next to him suddenly froze on the spot, "Have you noticed that there seems to be something else in the black mist?"

"Nothing is as important as life. I still have a lot of savings hidden in Sigil City that I haven't spent all yet!"

"No. I really saw it. It seemed like a palace?"

A magnificent palace floating in the star realm. The foundation of the palace seems to be made of pure magic metal, which appears to be extremely flat. Above, in addition to various buildings, the most eye-catching one is an extremely high tower. tower.

One after another, translucent chains extended from the top of the tower and inserted into the bodies of those huge legendary star beasts.

Seeing this scene, both the mercenaries, Tang Sen and Varo looked horrified.

This palace is actually dragged by several such powerful legendary star beasts?

"That seems to be a mage tower?" Varro murmured: "What a grand pomp. Even Elminster has not created such a grand pomp. Whose mage tower is this?"

"Who knows how many legendary mages live in the star world?" Tang Sen looked at the mage tower carefully, and actually saw some styles similar to Netherese on it.

Of course the opponent will not be the Great Arcanist of Netheril, but this mage must have survived for a long time and has studied the knowledge of the Netheril era.

"Captain, are we still escaping?" the wanderer asked hesitantly: "It seems that these giant astral beasts are indeed not in danger. After all, they have been tamed."

"But it's difficult for us to be sure whether the people who tame these giant beasts from the astral realm are in danger." The leader looked solemn: "However, even if there is malicious intent, we probably can't resist and go around."

This time no one objected, everyone was shocked by the palace that commanded the legendary astral beasts.

The magic ship began to sail low-key, passing by the palace and those giant astral beasts.

At this time, all the astral giant beasts suddenly looked at the magic ship.

The pressure exerted by those eyeballs several meters in diameter is so unparalleled that no one dares to move.

"Captain, is this normal? Doesn't it mean they are tamed?"

"Is it too late to run away now?"

In the panic of the mercenaries, all the giant beasts suddenly spoke together, their voices deafening: "We unexpectedly met a rare guest."

"Since we are so destined, please come over and have a chat."

The giant beasts still use common language.

The mercenaries looked at each other.

"Leader of the regiment, seems to be inviting you? Do you know such a person?"

The legendary warrior scratched his hair: "Do I recognize him?"

A colorful ray of light was projected from the mage tower and fell on the deck, forming a translucent shadow.

The phantom's body is radiant, but it has no facial features. There are dense and clearly visible magic lines in its body.

Obviously this is not a living thing, but a magical creation.

Everyone quickly pushed the group leader to the front to face the uninvited guest.

"Well -" the leader swallowed his saliva and said proactively: "Since you are invited, of course I will be happy to attend, but do I need to make any preparations?"

The magical creature ignored him at all, its body floated past him, and then came to the corner of the deck.

"Guest, please follow me."

The mercenaries turned back one after another. In their eyes, that corner was empty.

"What does this mean?" the dwarf whispered: "Is it their habit that they don't like to talk to people?"

"The leader seems a little embarrassed, please shut up."

Among these whispers, a strange voice suddenly sounded from the bed: "Who is your master?"

The mercenaries were suddenly startled, and then they saw three figures suddenly appear in the originally empty corner.

"There are strangers on our ship?"

"When did they get involved?"

"Wait a minute. Then my reward for myself three times every night won't be peeked at, right?"

"No one is looking at your stuff! Wait three times? Forget it, is this the time to worry about this? It doesn't matter at all!"

The mercenaries were filled with doubts, but they did not dare to question due to the shock of the existence behind the magical creations.

"Guests will know the master when they see him." The magic creature said.

As a result, Tang Sen frowned slightly.

When those giant beasts all spoke out, he had a hunch that the other party might be coming towards him. This was confirmed when the magical creation came directly to him.

It's not surprising that his hidden methods were seen through. What's surprising is that a spell caster who is entrenched in the star world suddenly invites him?

Is it kindness? Or malicious?

Tang Sen really couldn't predict it, but it was obvious that he only had two choices.

Either go to the banquet directly, or escape from here now.

Tang Sen prefers the latter. There is no need to take unnecessary risks. Now that he opens the door to the abyss, he can return directly to the abyss. When the time comes, he will find another way to return to Faerun -

Tang Sen had already tried it when he left the Endless Abyss and opened the door of the Abyss again. The anchor point was no longer the demiplane of the Time Dragon, but on the Abyss Plain.

The door opens beyond the abyss and seems to lead only to it.

This is similar to Townsend’s previous prediction.

"Not even showing your face, this is not the way to treat guests." Tang Sen took a step back slightly and stood beside Xue Xue. His consciousness had sunk into the mind space and he was about to summon the Gate of the Abyss. At this time, in front of him, The magical creature suddenly said two words.

Tang Sen's movements stopped.

He looked at the magical creation seriously, then at the palace and the mage tower that seemed to cost countless money.

"This is indeed fate."

He narrowed his eyes: "Then please lead the way."

Colorful light burst out from the magical creation, and its body began to lengthen, and it soon transformed into a rainbow bridge spanning the magic ship and the mage tower. This bridge stood in the silver void, spanning those huge astral giants. The beast looks particularly magnificent.

Varro swallowed and whispered, "Mr. Tang, do you really know the owner of this mage tower?"

"do not know."

Townsend stepped onto that rainbow bridge, "but knew her students."

Just now, the two words spoken by the magical creature were "Tui Xi".

Tang Sen really didn't expect that he would meet the teacher Cui Xi often mentioned in the star realm.

The legendary mage who allowed Trixi to use high-level and even legendary magic scrolls as consumables, and Faerun as a novice village for Trixi to practice.

At first, Cui Xi's description of her teacher was a bit exaggerated. At least Barn didn't believe it that much, but now it seems that Cui Xi's description was still too conservative.

"That spell caster is very strong." Xue Xue took the initiative and said, "Stronger than me."

She looked at the mage tower with an envious expression: "And it's very rich."

"You can be so rich if you want." Tang Sen said casually: "You said she is very strong. How strong is she?"

Xue Xue shook his head: "I don't know, at least I don't think the Devil Duke is strong."

"It seems that only the voice that sounded in my mind when I just left the demiplane of the Time Dragon made me feel more similar."

"You actually compare Rose with her?" Varro took a breath: "Rose is a god! The gap between mortals and gods is not as simple as you think. Maybe it's just between you and them. The gap is too big, so you mix them up."

"Really?" Xue Xue looked at him.

"Isn't it?" Varro was unwilling to be outdone.

"No." Xue Xue said calmly.

"The gap between mortals and gods is indeed very large." Tang Sen interrupted the conversation between the two and said: "This is determined by the nature of spells and divine power."

"However, the gap between the two is not insurmountable. If the spell is powerful enough, it can change the rules. Although there are very few spellcasters who can do this, and not even one can be born in the history of a plane."

Pure spellcasters do not believe in gods because they believe that gods are just more powerful beings who can rival or even surpass gods through spells.

This theory is indeed feasible, and the great arcanists of the Netherese era have confirmed it.

However, the goddess of magic with powerful divine power is not within the range that can be compared with magic means. Therefore, tragedy occurs.

If Alsace had not chosen to target the goddess of magic when he used the Ascension Technique, the outcome might have been completely different. At least, a weak god would not have been able to resist such a powerful spell.

"Elminster also said the same point of view as you." Varro nodded: "However, he quickly realized how difficult it is to do such a thing, and he is the most powerful person in the world. Strong mage——"

"To be precise, he may be the strongest mage in Faerûn and even Toril." Tangson corrected: "The multiverse is very big."

"And he is no longer a pure mage. After all, he is still the chosen one of the goddess of magic. He has the power of the goddess of magic in his body."

"And the one we're about to meet—"

Tang Sen looked at the mage tower that was already very close.

"Mr. Varro, I think you'd better have some respect."

"I'm not sure whether she has a good temper or not, but based on what I know about her students, her personality is obviously different from the ordinary legendary spellcasters we know."

Normal people can't develop a temperament like Cuixi's.

During the conversation, the three finally reached the end of the Rainbow Bridge and stood on a platform in the middle of the Mage Tower.

The Rainbow Bridge re-shaped and closed, and the magical creation floated in front of the three people again.

"No guest has entered directly from here for a long time." After leaving the magic ship, the tone of the magic creature suddenly became less serious and even seemed quite brisk: "After all, those who are qualified to come in from here are in the entire star realm. There are not many, and most of the visitors can't even get close to the mage tower, and can only wait for the master's summons in the surrounding palaces."

"I almost forgot how to get to the living room from this entrance. Of course, this is a joke. I know every corner of the Mage Tower like the back of my hand."

He bowed and said, "I think the master can't wait to see you, guest."