It's the third day since the battle with the Fungus Queen ended.

After resting in the lightless forest, Brian appeared alone in a strange space.

He looked at the colors that appeared in front of him: gray blue and sunset color, brown red and light green, constantly alternating on the patches of Zeke wood mushrooms.

The thick and wrinkled roots of the mushrooms are mossy green in the flowing water. The water is slowly blown into gentle whirlpools by the wind, and seems to be blocked and stagnated by rocks, tree roots, and hanging and falling leaves.

He found that there was no clear path in the fungus forest, no direct light.

Only the luminous fungi, lichen and moss are mixed in the wind or under the water, mixed with sunlight and starlight, and blended into a hazy mass like shadows.

The trails under the tall fungus mushroom surround the mushroom stalk and pass through the rhizome. They never bypass any obstacles, twisting and turning like nerve veins.

The ground is not dry and solid, but on the contrary, it is moist and elastic. This is the result of the long and precise death process of life forms and fungi.

On this fertile 'cemetery' grow mushroom trees nearly 100 meters high, as well as countless small mushrooms sprouting.

Brian was walking on a path by the water. The water flow was often blocked by dense luminous moss, and the flow rate was very slow.

When he saw a dimly glowing old man, he stopped.

The old man sat under the umbrella of a Zeke wood mushroom and looked at him.

"Hello, great lord of fungi."

Brian kept a distance from the old man who was so hazy that he couldn't see his features at all, bowed slightly and saluted him.

At this time, the place where he appeared was similar to the mental space of the myconids.

Boslophel, the Lord of Fungi, is the god of myconids and also a god of meditation.

Therefore, He can continue to share His thoughts with Mycoid believers in the material world anytime and anywhere without any warning.

Originally, he thought that the god appeared as a giant-like mycoid, and then a huge mixture of gray-blue mycelium floated around him.

Who would have thought that he turned out to be an old human being whose face could not be seen clearly.

"A half-elf from the world of Toril." The old man looked up at Brian, "You helped my people survive a disaster, but you didn't want to accept my gift, right?"

The Mycoid God's words were very soft, but they made Brian feel an unprecedented sense of oppression.

He forced himself to maintain the most skillful calm and collected expression, took another deep breath to calm himself down, controlled his voice, and said without being arrogant or arrogant:

"Yes, because I think I have better choices."

After a brief silence.

The old laughter mixed with the gurgling river water echoed in Brian's ears, with mockery but no malice.

Brian stood there with a calm face.

Although the gift he received from saving the myconids was still very good to him now, thinking about his long-term plan, he still wanted to actively strive for something that would benefit him throughout his life.

After all, once you miss something, you really miss it forever.

"I did promise you, but you also need to understand that promises, sometimes, are just words made by a liar to fools."

After the laughter stopped, the old man continued: "Now, I will give you a chance to make a choice that convinces me, otherwise, you will get nothing."

Hearing this, Brian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he was really worried that his actions would offend a god, causing the other god to use the excuse of 'greedy' to steal his reward.

After calming down, he thought for a moment and slowly said the idea he had already considered: "I need to gain control of a small town in the mechanical mirror of Clock Nirvana."

The mechanical mirror of watch nirvana.

It is an upper plane with ultimate order.

In the mechanical world, order is regarded as the highest criterion everywhere.

It consists of perfectly equal bands of light and dark, as well as equal amounts of heat and cold.

The shape of this plane is like a drop-shaped clock, and it has an obvious tree-shaped domain.

Each law here constitutes an independent kingdom of gears, and all operations rotate according to their respective principles.

Each cog operates with huge computing data. In addition to those puzzling legal functions, even the various divine powers cannot understand the functions of these data. [Remarks: "Mechanical Mirror - World of Watches"]

The reason why Brian said this was mainly because he took a fancy to a characteristic of the mechanical realm.

As an outer plane filled with constructs, gears, and modrons.

When you choose to make a constructed creature here, the time and consumption required, as well as the quality of the product, will be reduced and strengthened to varying degrees based on your recognition of yourself and the will of the plane, and you may even receive additional benefits from the will of the plane.

ability.

It was this characteristic that gave him the idea of ​​establishing a biological factory for production of constructs in the Machinery Realm.

Of course, there is the most important point.

The characteristics of the mechanical realm are not only mechanical creation, but also a plane closest to the laws of time.

Only here can you have the opportunity to explore the most original mystery of time and develop legendary spells and insights related to time.

Because Brian's plot is very big, if he wants to gain a foothold in the Machinery Realm and build his own strength in the future, he will have to find a god to protect him.

This is like a person with great ambitions who wants to buy a house and take root in a big city. Depending on his personal ability and hard work, he will definitely have the opportunity to complete it.

But if he wanted to buy land to build a force and a factory, he would have to establish relationships with the city's leaders.

otherwise.

Evil gods, demon lords, devil kings, plane business groups, etc., there are all kinds of monsters and monsters in endless levels. They come over from time to time and treat your territory as a dungeon, causing you to lose everything.

After all, the physical plane is bound by laws, which prevents the gods from coming in their true form, and even incarnation requires a huge price.

As long as he doesn't seek death and become an enemy of the entire world, he can live happily.

But in a similar outer plane like the Mechanical Realm, there is no such benefit at all. If a true god holds a grudge, it will be easier to kill you than to kill an ant.

Boslophel, the Lord of Fungi, is a medium-power deity who lives in the Mechanical Realm.

In the mechanical realm, if he were to protect him, the quasi-god powers and gods from hostile forces would at least be afraid of it and would not dare to take action themselves.

As for those enemies in the legendary realm, once their strength grows and reaches the legendary level, they can basically be dealt with by themselves.

"Just you? A mortal who doesn't even know what the legendary realm is."

The old man's words contained the purest mockery, and even the hazy gray-blue light that enveloped him turned into bright red, symbolizing mockery, due to the change in mood.

"That's right." Brian said calmly:

"I may not have such an opportunity now, but I am afraid that even the gods may not be able to accurately predict what will happen in the future. Moreover, if I die before reaching the legendary realm, this condition will not be suitable for you

, which is equivalent to nothing, no loss at all.”

"That's not what convinces me."

The Lord of Fungi was silent for a moment, and the hazy color turned into gray-blue again.

"I have consulted ancient classics." Brian had already guessed that the other party would answer this way, and he continued to say in a tone that was neither humble nor overbearing:

"Not only do I clearly know the details of the 'Disaster of Tears', but I also know the ancient history of the Awkward Wood. When I witnessed the ideology of the Awkward Wood with my own eyes on the astral plane, I further confirmed the thoughts in my heart.

Thoughts. As the master of fungi of the myconid family, I believe you must have better judgment than us mortals."

Brian stopped talking and stopped talking.

'The Catastrophe of Tears' occurred at the beginning of the creation of the world of Toril, the third era after the Thunder Era - "The Birth of the Three Creator Races" and the Dawn Era - "The Confrontation between Dragons and Giants":

The first era of prosperity.

This is what happened about 23,000 to 12,000 years ago.

Of course, it can also be called the Elf Era.

In this era, with the elves' successive victories over dragons and giants, elven civilization reached its peak in the world of Toril.

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Then a familiar scene happened.

Over thousands of years, the elves, as an immigrant race, have long forgotten how the disaster happened in the elven kingdom.

After all, the pain of history will always be gradually forgotten with the passage of time.

These high elves want to use magic in the world of Toril to create an ideal home that can permanently protect themselves.

Then hundreds of high elven mages whose elven strength reached the legendary level gathered in the center of the mainland of the world of Toril, in what is now the Kingdom of Cormyr.

They joined forces and jointly arranged a magic circle with a diameter of more than ten kilometers here.

When the power of the spell reaches its peak.

The huge amount of magical energy instantly exceeded the expectations and control of the elf mages.

As the first Elf Mage was devoured by magic and exploded to death, the next few hundred legendary level Elf Mages suffered the same fate in the following minutes, just like the floating city in Netheril that was tricked into dumplings.

fate.

However, this was far from over, something even more terrifying happened.

These uncontrolled huge magical energies broke through the sky and attracted a huge comet to fall from the sky.

This huge meteorite fell into the center of the continent, as if it was the end of the world. Countless races were completely wiped out, thousands of cities were destroyed, and the four inland seas were smashed and merged to form the "Sea of ​​Falling Stars" today.

With this level of catastrophe, the huge fungal forest in the underground world at the center of the continent naturally suffered along with it.

As part of the incarnation of the Lord of Fungi, the fall of the meteorite directly caused the complete death of the mind body of the huge fungus forest.

Only now has it gradually returned to its current state of lightless woodland.

In fact, there is something about the ancient history of matte woodland.

Brian guessed half of it based on the knowledge he had, and the other half based entirely on the independent mental space he saw in the astral plane two days ago.

However, he firmly believed that this was definitely related to the ‘Disaster of Tears’.

Perhaps, Brian didn't know the reason why the fungus lord in front of him was unable to interfere with the myconid clan in the material world.

But he knew very well that the other party was definitely thinking about how to restore the Aphotic Woodland to its huge scale before the 'Disaster of Tears' occurred.

Now, faced with the threat of the fungus queen Zugmoy, this fungus lord who seems to have been fishing for fish cannot leave the myconoid clan who believe in him alone.

After all, as a reborn, Brian knew a lot about what was about to happen.

In the next three years, not only would the Lightless Woods be devoured by the Fungus Queen, but even the Fungus Forest beneath the High Forest would almost suffer the same fate.

A god with moderate divine power was actually made so embarrassed by a demon lord.

It can be seen from this that the influence of the Lord of Fungi, Boslophel, in the main material world is really limited.

As for what caused it, Brian wasn't sure.

He guessed uncertainly that it was very likely that the 'Calamity of Tears' had damaged his origin, so much so that he had not fully recovered until now.

As a result, my influence in the material world is really limited.

Otherwise, the myconids in the Lightless Woodland would not have been hung up and beaten by an incarnation of the fungus queen transformed from consciousness.

Brian was very sure of one thing.

Driving the Fungus Queen back into the abyss is just the beginning, and as the energy radiating from the ley lines gradually increases, she will come back again.

After a long silence, the ideology of the Lord of Fungi slowly spoke, "Your wisdom seems to be completely different from your strength."

"For me, this is just a matter of time. After all, I have already passed the most difficult road." After recalling the meaning of the Lord of Fungi's words, Brian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew that the other party was interested.

Although he did not express the true meaning of his words, as a god, how could he not hear that he meant to help the Lightless Woods recover from the ravages of demons and increase the number of myconids.

However, the fact is that even without the Lord of Fungi, Brian would still find ways to help the myconids.

After all, these mushroom people have no desires and desires, but they are naturally proficient in making magic potions.

Helping the myconids is a low-investment, high-return business for him.

If it weren't for the complex terrain of the Aphotic Woodland, and without the guidance of the myconids, it would be impossible to enter the core area and not find this place.

I am afraid that this place has long been occupied by the aggressive drow elves and has become a magic potion processing factory.

Even so, the Sunless Woodland has suffered countless destructions and reconstructions throughout history.

"I believe what you said, and I also believe that you may actually be able to get there." The Lord of Fungi nodded slightly, "So, I can agree to your request."

After hearing the other party's agreement, Brian's expression was as calm as ever.

Because from the meaning of the other party's words, he could tell that there was another but...

All approval is ruined by one but.

"But I will not help you gain control of the Machine Realm territory."

The fungus lord's hazy thought body continued, "Although my kingdom is closest to Mirrortooth Town, I will only ensure that you are not threatened by foreign gods, that's all."

"That's enough." Brian nodded in agreement.

The Mechanical Realm of Clockwork Nirvana is a lawful and neutral plane with a strong tendency towards order, so the gods who live here will never actively destroy or interfere with this order.

Brian is still aware of this.

So all he needs is for the other party to nod in agreement and give himself a suitable identity.

If his memory is correct, there are a total of five small towns in the outermost layer of the Mechanical Realm, namely: Panzuo Town, Mirror Tooth Town, Crown Watch Town, Ratchet Town and Automatic Town.

"Very good." The Lord of Fungi nodded slightly, with a hint of smile in his old words:

"Your name is Brian, right? Starting today, as the Lord of the Myconids, I announce that you will gain the friendship of the entire Myconid clan. I hope you can fulfill your obligations, otherwise, what will you understand?

It’s called ‘Promises are for fools’.”

After the hazy thought body of the Lord of Fungi finished speaking, he threw an object at him and disappeared.

Brian naturally took the items without ceremony.

This item is only the size of a bottle cap. It is a badge similar to a mushroom cap with a fungus basket pattern engraved on it. There is also a small crystal bottle placed in the basket.

His expression moved and he checked the properties of the items:

Asylum of the Spore Lord 4

Type: jewelry

Quality: Purple·Excellence

Attribute: Perception 2

Equipment effect:

1. Those who wear this badge can be immune to the influence of any type of spores.

2. This equipment charges 6 times a day. The wearer can consume 1 charge to release stabilization spores, hallucination spores and spore areas.

Stabilizing Spores: Releases a ray-like spore cloud. The target must make a Fortitude save. If it fails the test, it will fall into a passive state. Note: The passive state is similar to dizziness. The difference is that the target can only perform some actions at this time.

Actions, which do not include attacks. This is a coercion-type effect that affects the mind.

Illusion Spores: Releases a ray-like spore cloud. The target must make a Fortitude save. If it fails, it will be subject to a powerful hallucination attack. Its effect is treated as a confusion spell.

Spore area: Release dust mushrooms, filling the ground with spores and thick fungi. Any enemy entering this area will cause the fungi to explode, spewing toxins and a disgusting smell for the enemy.

Explanation: This is a magical equipment made by the Lord of Fungi himself, Boslophel. It represents the friendship of the myconid clan and is often given to adventurers who are approved by him.
Chapter completed!