Inside the quiet stone house.

Brian returned to the tavern from the red dragon's lair and slowly opened the gold-plated spell book on the table.

With the faint aura of spell restriction, he raised his hand and canceled the restriction above.

This spell book is exactly the 'Book of the Forgotten' that he obtained in the mansion of the preaching mage.

The characteristics of this book, in addition to allowing him to gain free access to any arcane spells researched or proprietary by spellcasters, also have another powerful ability "Hidden Knowledge".

This ability allows him to put any books or scrolls recording arcane knowledge into the spell book, channeling the hidden power in the spell, allowing the holder to comprehend these obscure and arcane knowledge at a faster speed.

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Brian guessed that the reason why this book can analyze arcane knowledge without any obstacles is that the author of this book combines the magic knowledge and experience of many preaching mages, and it is also inseparable from the extraction of the essential energy of the magic network.

It's like you input a huge body of knowledge into your computer and then use a network cable to connect it to the Internet.

When you encounter knowledge that you don't understand, you can use computer searches to get detailed analysis of the knowledge.

After all, the Magic Network is an indispensable element of the entire world. It runs through everything with threads that are difficult to observe with the naked eye. Any spells and arcane knowledge will be invisible in front of the Magic Network.

Therefore, the 'Book of the Forgotten', which has the original power of the magic network, has powerful analytical capabilities.

To put it simply, the ability of "Hidden Knowledge" allows him to quickly understand knowledge systems that take a lot of time to master at the cost of consuming experience points.

For example, there is a Nese scroll in his hand.

If Brian were to study at his own speed, it would take him at least a month to finish reading the knowledge inside.

As for whether it can be mastered, it will take many years of research or experimentation.

But having the 'Book of the Forgotten' is different.

After Brian ended the battle in Kuo-Toa Fishman Town and took the keelboat to the Aldus King City, he spent 20,000 experience points to use the "Hidden Knowledge" ability of the "Book of the Forgotten" to analyze the items in his hand.

Scroll of Resistance.

It only took him five days to fully understand the huge knowledge system hidden in this scroll.

Looking at the spell book that had been analyzed, Brian immediately began to transfer knowledge.

Suddenly, when the huge amount of arcane knowledge poured into Brian's head, it was a bit unbearable for him for a moment, and his head hurt as if it would explode at any time.

Fortunately, this situation only lasted for a moment and then receded quickly like a rising tide.

After waiting for a while, Brian put the Nese scroll stored in the spell book on the table and checked the spell book.

Just as he expected, in addition to a legendary spell that has not yet been analyzed, this magical spell book also contains arcane knowledge about the Nese Scroll.

Brian leaned back in his chair, checking his system prompts while slowly reviewing the huge knowledge system in his mind.

As the outline of the secret arts recorded in the Nese scroll was absorbed by him, he found that he had gained some additional abilities.

"Reading the Nese Scroll is finished!"

"Get the background expertise "Arcane Heritage"!"

"Acquire the personal expertise "Arcane Shaping"!"

"Spellcraft 3, Knowledge (Arcana) 2, Spell Saving Throw 1."

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Seeing these new abilities, Brian's expression changed and he immediately started to check:

[Arcane Heritage (Background Expertise): Magic is wild and mysterious, diverse and practical. Its power prompts mortals who want to master its mysteries to continue research and exploration, and even long for the power of gods to shape reality at will.

In the vast country of heaven, the tradition of learning arcane skills has a long history, and can even be traced back to the time when mortals first discovered the existence of magic. Its complicated study system was gradually transformed into different traditions of thinking and learning, and was passed down forever.

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You have mastered the unique arcane system and basic principles of magic of the Nese Scroll. This rich knowledge system is the basis of magic used by intelligent races developed in the entire world. However, with the loss of the Nese Scroll, the contents recorded in the scroll

The magical treasure was also lost.

From the moment you understand this scroll, it means that you have shouldered a great mission to collect and pass on arcane knowledge.

Gain a special ability: sense the whereabouts of the Nese Scroll.

When a complete scroll of resistance to color appears within 1 foot of yourself, you will have a special telepathic response to it. Note: This ability will be greatly improved as the number of scrolls of resistance to color increases.

Perception range.]

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Looking at this newly acquired background inheritance, although he only gained the ability to sense the scroll of Nese, and the distance was only 1 foot (33cm), Brian was shocked in his heart at this moment.

Just like the introduction of background expertise, from the moment he studied the scroll, he had accepted one of the greatest inheritance missions.

A few seemingly innocuous words made him feel a heavy sense of mission.

He vaguely felt that if he could really collect the Nese Scrolls, he might be able to jump out of the world outside the crystal wall system and witness the truly mysterious and vast multiverse.

"Could it be that since the Nese Scroll was lost, everyone who collects and studies the Nese Scroll will gain this special ability." Brian looked at the golden scroll on the table and whispered to himself.

At this moment, he suddenly believed a legend about the origin of the Nese Scroll.

The knowledge recorded in the scroll is very likely to be a multiverse magic civilization encyclopedia compiled by the "Spellweaver" organization of interstellar colonists in ancient times after integrating countless magic civilizations in the multiverse.

Otherwise, it would not seem to be alive and give him such a heavy mission.

"But the Netheril Empire has prospered for thousands of years through the magical knowledge of the Netherese Scrolls. Why have they never discovered the true secret of the scrolls?" Another doubt arose in Brian's heart.

After thinking about it, he felt that even if he wanted to take the trouble, he probably wouldn't think it through clearly. If he had that time, he might as well read a few more magic books.

Because he had a hunch that as he continued to collect Nese scrolls, this secret would naturally surface.

Then he put away his thoughts about the Nese Scroll and looked at the other expertise he had obtained.

[Arcane Shaping (Personal Expertise): The magic knowledge you master gives you the most profound understanding of the energy shaping magic of the Shaping School. In front of a hundred spellcasters who are proficient in the Shaping School, you

It is also the most outstanding existence.

When you cast a spell guided by energy in the evocation school, you can transform the spell into other new shapes without affecting the spell's damage and characteristics.】

Looking at the introduction to the expertise, Brian finally understood that he did not just need to study a Nese scroll to obtain an expertise.

The main reason why he obtained this expertise is the knowledge recorded in his Nese scroll, which is the magical knowledge about energy, killing and destruction of the Evocation School.

With the two complementing each other, he obtained this ability naturally.

"Arcane Shaping" doesn't seem to be very useful, but Brian knows that the more it does not explicitly increase any damage value or confer other characteristics, the higher its growth potential will be.

Because this expertise is an expertise with a high degree of freedom, it means that he can develop a variety of unique operations through the characteristics of this expertise.

Take the three-ring evocation spell "Fireball" as an example.

Under normal circumstances, this spell is released by a large fireball hitting the enemy group, causing a violent explosion like a grenade.

With the "Arcane Shaping" expertise, he can completely release this fireball in various shapes such as arrows, cones, squares, etc.

Although the damage is still the same, various factors such as flight trajectories and blast points caused by different shapes will produce unpredictable changes.

Brian continued to look at the third ability, which was increased spellcraft and knowledge levels, as well as spell saving throws.

He was not surprised at all by these extra things.

Because the fifty Naise scrolls can be divided into five sets, as long as you have a deep understanding of the knowledge recorded in each scroll, you can gain various additional benefits.

For example, take the simplest introduction to occult arts. If you master all these ten cards, you will not only randomly obtain a powerful professional ability based on your field of specialization, but also increase your own spell recognition to 30 and knowledge (mystery) to 20.

Spell save 10.

From this we can see how many extra powerful abilities he will gain if he deeply studies all fifty Nese scrolls.

However, to Brian at this moment, these things were nothing at all.

Because the most precious thing has already been put into his mind.

In the realm of creation, one of the three major realms of the Arcanist, he has mastered the entire set of knowledge about energy, destruction and killing.

As long as he is given enough time, he can even use this knowledge to develop his own spells.

It's a pity that although he really wants to find a quiet place to digest this knowledge, the current conditions do not allow it.

Only after he has settled all matters in Aldus King City, he will have enough time to think and study how to take his future arcane path.

After a brief moment of contemplation, he heard a knock on the door.

Brian waved his hand and the door opened automatically.

The person who appeared was not the goblin copper block who was tracking the derro dwarves, but the sword mage Hesiah.

Brian nodded slightly to her and saw her walking over with light steps.

"Bryan, is this the Nese Scroll?" Hesiah's eyes first noticed the golden scroll on the table, and there was a hint of surprise in her beautiful eyes as she asked curiously.

"That's right, I didn't expect you to know him too." Brian replied thoughtfully.

In fact, he put it on the table deliberately just to test whether the noble lady recognized her.

After all, the Kingdom of Cormyr's mage tower technology is relatively famous throughout the continent.

Therefore, he seriously doubted that the Kingdom of Cormyr, especially the Grand Duchess Raul of Arabel City, had mastered the knowledge about the scrolls of Nese.

Otherwise, how could their mage tower have the strength to compete with the Yinhun people? Even the Yinhun City Lord would not dare to easily set foot in the scope of the mage tower.

Unfortunately, until the city of Arabe was destroyed, he had no chance to access the core secrets of the Mage Tower.

"Of course I know him." Hesaya thought for a moment, his eyes flickered twice, smiled at him, curiously took the scroll into his hand, looked at it, and said: "To be precise, I have actually seen this kind of scroll with my own eyes."

After Brian heard this, he glanced at the other party calmly, only to find that the aristocratic lady had deliberately kept it secret and stopped talking.

He knew that Hesiah was probably waiting for him to take the initiative to change his words, and it was very possible that he even took the opportunity to put forward a few conditions.

He thought about it and decided to keep her words in his mind for the time being. When he had time, he would think of a way to get the matter about the Nese Scroll out of her mouth.

"If you are ready, let's set off." He put away all the scrolls and spell books and said to the sword mage.

He has already taken care of the cute and cute red dragon Argotus. He only needs to convince the stone giants in the Smoky Quartz Cave, and they can go directly to the Deep King's residence to watch the gray dwarf prince perform a righteous act of annihilation.

In this case, his underground adventure will come to an end.

Therefore, he can still figure out which is more important.

After saying these words, Brian stopped talking, got up and walked outside the house.
Chapter completed!