Chapter 82: The Story Calimport and the Blue Dragon Have to Tell
After a simple wash, Zuo Si had some breakfast and spent some time preparing spells, before taking a luxurious carriage and arriving in front of a four-story spire.
It's different from the sorceress's mage tower, which looks crowded and narrow.
The one in front of us is obviously more than thirty times bigger.
Judging from the scars and repair marks on the outer wall, it must be at least several hundred years old and has experienced tragic wars.
Especially the huge scratches on the upper level were obviously directly attacked by the dragon.
Ebeni Abo, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately smiled and said hello to Zuo Si who had just stepped out of the carriage: "Welcome! My friend! How about it, this Mage Tower is not bad, isn't it?"
"It's indeed good. It should be at least two to three hundred years old, right?" Zuo Si asked in an uncertain tone.
"Far more than that!
Did you see those huge scratches on the tower?
They are all medals left behind during the heroic battle in the Year of Dragon Madness (1018 DR) in order to resist the blue dragon Seferak Tal flying out of the Kalin Desert.
It is said that the invasion nearly destroyed Calimport.
This is why I need you to build a giant energy storage device.
The evil blue dragon will always be the biggest threat to this city, bar none."
When saying these words, Ebenezer's tone was unprecedentedly serious and serious.
It can be seen that he is full of hostility towards the blue dragon, a giant beast that ranks second in overall strength among the five-color evil dragons.
After all, Calimport is located next to the Calim Desert.
The desert is the blue dragon's favorite activity environment.
God knows how many blue dragons are hidden in the endless yellow sand dunes.
How many people who are strong enough and ambitious are planning to come to this one of the richest cities in Faerûn to grab a hold of it.
In addition, whenever the "King Killer Planet" appears in the sky of Faerûn, the "Dragon Madness Lock" set by the elves back then will break out.
By then, all types of dragons will inevitably fall into uncontrollable excitement and mania.
And they will attack all the cities, fortresses, and villages they pass along the way like crazy, and even fight each other until one of them is completely dead.
This collective rampage of giant dragons occurs locally once every few decades on average, and affects the entire continent of Faerûn almost every three hundred years.
Who else, living in a place like Calimport so close to the blue dragon’s habitat, would not be a little more prepared?
"That's it!"
Zuo Si nodded with great understanding.
If it were him, if the rise and fall of the entire family were closely tied to Calimport, he would also want more ways to deal with the blue dragon.
In addition, the turbulent years in which the gods descended to the mortal world as saints have just passed, and we are currently in 1360DR.
So calculating the time, this tower has a history of at least 340 to 350 years.
It is a cultural relic on earth.
However, there are quite a few mage towers like this in Faerûn.
Some older abandoned mage towers can even be traced back to the elven era thousands of years ago.
It is still running perfectly.
These towers that have lost their owners are often the favorite places for adventurers and mercenaries to explore.
The magic items, books, scrolls and materials inside that have not been damaged can often be sold for astonishing prices.
Soon, under the leadership of Ebeni Abo, Zuo Si walked into the interior of the tower and looked around the large mage tower, looking for any differences in the internal structure of the floating city, or whether it was different from the one in the floating city.
What different technologies and designs are used?
After a while, he discovered that this place, like all large mage towers, recruits and employs a large number of apprentices, as well as low-level mages and warlocks.
They paid for their labor, such as copying scrolls, preparing potions, making various magic items, weapons and armors, etc., in exchange for gold coins to purchase more advanced knowledge and magic.
Almost 80% of the secondary magic items exported from Calimport were created by these low-level spellcasters.
Due to the staggering quantity, the price of secondary magic items here is only two-thirds or even half of that in other areas.
Even the famous Red-robed Wizards' Guild in Serre can't compete with it in terms of cost.
Ebeni Ab noticed Zuo Si's reaction and introduced with a smile: "This tower belongs to the Homan family. The blood of the djinn flows in their family, so they are rich in arcane spellcasters. Almost every generation,
At least one or two mages or warlocks can emerge from every place. The friendship between our two families has lasted for two hundred years, so I can lease the right to use this place."
"Two hundred years of friendship? There are really many families with a long history in Calimport." Zuo Si sighed slightly.
"Of course! Compared with the upstarts like Neverwinter, Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep, and Luskan in the north, when we Calishites established a huge empire, they didn't even have a decent settlement.
." Ebeni Abo's tone was full of pride and pride.
This is also the view of most Calimport residents towards the emerging cities in the north.
In fact, Calishites generally have a sense of cultural and psychological superiority.
After all, the history of civilization on this land is much longer than that of the Netherese Empire, which has been extinct for thousands of years.
When the two of them walked and chatted to the third floor, Zuo Si finally saw the workshop where various materials were stacked.
In the workshop, there is even a dwarf slave on standby.
This reminded him of the time he lived in the floating city tower.
In the workshop at that time, there were also several dwarf craftsmen who were responsible for helping to create some small parts, tools, or processing some magic metal that was too hard.
Zuo Si once liked to discuss with the dwarfs about metal smelting, mining, segment creation, the order of magic runes, etc.
But unfortunately, when the terrible plague broke out, all the dwarves died within a few days.
Abenny Arbor stopped, pointed to the workshop and said: "All the materials on yesterday's list are here. I have already told the Homan family that you can use the energy reserve at will. I only have one request, that
It is to create a super energy storage device with a large enough capacity."
Zuo Silian agreed without even thinking: "No problem! I will give you a satisfactory answer before sunset. But this dwarf is not needed. I am used to being alone."
"Okay. I'll pick you up again at sunset."
After saying that, Ebeni Abo waved to the dwarf slave, and then disappeared with him around the corner of the stairs leading to the lower floor.
Watching the two of them walk away completely, Zuo Si immediately released his detection magic, confirmed that there was no surveillance in the room, and then began to methodically pack things into the specially emptied satchel.
In the blink of an eye, most of the materials piled in the corner disappeared.
Immediately afterwards, he extracted the reserve energy in the tower, forcibly upgraded his creator career level to LV9, and gained a new ability - [Transformation].
Just like the name.
This ability allows the creator to reprocess existing magic items by consuming specific materials and their own magic power.
It can be used to strengthen a certain magic item, or it can be used to delete useless attributes and curses in some magic items.
But the premise is that the strengthening modification cannot exceed the endurance limit of the main material of the magic item.
Otherwise, the entire magic item may cause a violent explosion or energy reaction.
The reason why Zuo Si chose to upgrade the creator level first was to use this ability to create a super energy storage device.
At least the preparations made by Ebeni Arbo made him feel that it was worth his money.
After all, shedding wool is shedding wool, and the minimum bottom line and professional ethics must be maintained...