Nessus Floating City, the headquarters of the Dragon Cult of Time and Space.

This is a giant city suspended in the sky above the sea. The huge and magnificent floating city blocks the sunlight and casts a faint shadow outline on the blue sea, which rises and falls with the ripples of the sea.

Just today.

The floating city of Nessus is lively and prosperous as never before.

Spellcasters whose bodies were wrapped in elemental aura arrived from all over the floating city of Nessus.

At this time, people were coming and going in the streets in the floating city, and most of them were gathering towards a majestic dragon-shaped temple.

The whole body is made of silver-white strange metal, and the magnificent temple takes on the shape of a dragon. It is the church headquarters of the Space-Time Dragon Sect set up in this floating city. Since the once-a-decade Divine Grace Ceremony is about to begin, there will be people from all walks of life.

Spellcasters come to participate.

During the charismatic ceremony.

The eternal dragon believed in by the Dragon Cult of Time and Space will descend into an incarnation and bestow blessings on the devout believers it chooses, allowing them to gain more powerful magical abilities related to time.

Most of the spellcasters who came to the floating city of Nessus just watched the fun.

After all, it is relatively rare for a god to appear. Even if you don't believe in gods, you can still gain some knowledge through this.

In contrast, the members of the Time and Space Dragon Cult participated in the Divine Grace Ceremony with a fanatical and pious attitude, eager to gain the attention and favor of their own divine master, and to obtain unique time magic.

As for these outsider spellcasters who have no faith.

When the Time and Space Dragon Cult holds a divine grace ceremony, it does not exclude spellcasters from observing the ceremony.

Every time after the Divine Grace Ceremony, when they see the true form of the Eternal Dragon, some spellcasters who are captured by the divine power will abandon their original ideas and turn to the embrace of the Eternal Dragon, joining the Time and Space Dragon Cult.

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Naturally, the Time and Space Dragon Sect would not refuse such a good thing.

In addition, due to the influx of a large number of outsiders, it will inevitably lead to a mixed situation, allowing some unscrupulous elements to mix in. In the past, organizations such as the Dragon Witch Cult and the Dragon Worship Cult came to cause trouble and damage.

However, because the Time and Space Dragon Cult has a close relationship with the Nether Empire and is protected by the Great Arcanist in the Floating City, and the church itself is quite powerful, it will not be afraid of these possible threats.

Among the three Nether religions, the Time and Space Dragon Cult is the smallest.

Far from being comparable to the Holy See of Death and the Magic Temple.

However, any intelligent being who understands the origin and history of this church will not look down upon it in any way.

at the same time.

In the floating city wrapped by the flowing wind and floating clouds, a young man with long silver-gray hair shawl and a profound temperament is strolling on the street. On his handsome and steady face, a pair of platinum-gold eyes seem to be looking at the stars.

The shattered light is impressive and hard to ignore.

The floating city is the kingdom of arcanists and the territory of spellcasters.

If you fire a fireball into the crowd here, you can explode a bunch of spellcasters. Spellcasters who have high status in other places can be found everywhere in the floating city.

Therefore, every pedestrian here has his or her own characteristics.

but.

Even though there are people coming and going around and the population is dense, strange people can be seen everywhere.

Even in such an environment, the silver-haired young man still stood out like an open flame in the darkness, with a unique temperament that frequently attracted the attention of nearby spellcasters.

It was Garen who was going to the headquarters of the Dragon Cult of Time and Space.

Behind Garen, Amber was one body behind, respectfully following Garen's steps, and introducing various situations here to Garen in a low voice.

"............During the divine grace ceremony held once every ten years, the Eternal Dragon, no, the false god pretending to be you, will appear."

Amber quietly glanced at Gallon's back, with admiration and awe on her face, and said.

"Ceremony of Divine Grace?"

"It seems that I arrived at just the right time."

Garen smiled slightly and slowly and orderly mixed in with the crowd, moving towards the headquarters of the Space-Time Dragon Cult.

In the process, he stopped in front of each magic shop with some interest, while listening to the conversations of the spellcasters around him. Through the situation of this floating city, he observed the prosperity level of the Nether Empire today.

Garen soon had a clearer understanding of the Nether Empire at this time.

Under the protection of the God of Death and the Goddess of Magic, the Nether Empire has developed steadily over the past four thousand years.

Although there are no explosive spells, various new spells are emerging one after another, and the division of arcane spells is more comprehensive. Some miniature magic network cores can be seen everywhere, and they are even used to provide energy for magic crystal lamps.

Due to the existence of immortality and the protection of the God of Death for his homeland and his kind.

The number of great arcanists in the Nether Empire has accumulated over time, and many top arcanists at the semi-god level have emerged, with strength that is not weaker than the former king of arcanists.

There are no less than 5,000 floating cities in the Faerun continent alone.

This means that there are at least 5,000 arcanists with a biological level of thirty or above.

Moreover, the glory of the Nether Empire left Faerûn a thousand years ago and shined on other main material worlds and even the outer planes, plus the Nether floating cities in other main material worlds...

.........The power of this empire is difficult to estimate.

"The Nether Empire in this time and space is probably not weaker than the Alphatia Empire."

"It can be called a super magic empire."

"It is extremely rare in the entire multiverse to develop to this extent."

Garen was thoughtful.

In his opinion, the comprehensive national strength of the Nether Empire should be almost the same as that of the Alphatia Empire.

However, the future of the Nether Empire is far brighter than that of the Alphatia Empire.

The reason is simple.

The Alphatian Empire has no gods to protect it.

According to Garen's personal experience, when the magic empire in the main material world becomes powerful to a certain extent, if there is not a powerful enough god behind it to protect it, it will definitely lead to irresistible disasters from the gods.

Moreover, often the more powerful the magic empire is, the less willing it is to respect the gods.

No matter how powerful a magic empire is, it can't compete with the power of gods.

When gods are determined to destroy a magic empire, the end of the magic empire is already doomed.

The situation of the Nether Empire is rather special.

Even though most arcanists do not believe in gods, they still have the protection of gods.

And there is not one god, but two gods.

More importantly, neither of these two gods are simple characters.

A goddess of magic who has become increasingly powerful due to the prosperity of magic, and a god of death with special power of death.

The goddess of magic does not need faith. This deity is the mother of magic. As long as the magic is strong, she can have incredible power. Not to mention the god of death, Karl, she is originally a great arcanist known as the light of Nether.

God's original intention was to save Netheril, which was in crisis.

The great arcanists of the Nether Empire are not stupid either.

They received the protection and favor of two gods.

In return, although the Arcanist himself does not believe much in the gods, he is willing to use the influence of the empire to bring the Holy See of Death and the Magic Temple to more and more worlds, making people from other countries become believers in the two gods.

With these two gods as the background, the Nether Empire can continue to grow steadily as long as it does not cause huge disasters. In the future of this time and space, it is possible to become an unprecedented ultimate magic empire.

As he was thinking about it, a strange creature passed by Garen.

Garen paused slightly, looked at the other party with a strange look on his face.

In Garen's vision, there was a very weird and terrifying creature.

The main body of its body resembles a worm, and its brown skin is covered with wrinkles. It also has human limbs, and its head can vaguely see a human face. In its slightly open mouth, you can also see circles of meat grinders.

Like fine sharp teeth.

Such a weird-looking creature appeared in a floating city dominated by human spellcasters, but it did not cause any commotion.

Spellcasters are not surprised by this, and seem to have become accustomed to it.

"Is this a hybrid between a Felin demon and a human?"

After taking a closer look, Garen's face showed a look of astonishment.

When he left the continent of Faerûn last time, thanks to the promotion of Yin Orem, who was both the king of the magic sunflower and the king of the arcanist, the connection between the Nether Empire and the magic sunflower field was getting deeper and deeper.

Got it.

The two powerful races have never known each other without fighting, and now they have become staunch allies.

"In terms of aesthetics, some humans seem to be no different from my dragon clan."

"The Felin Demon Sunflower was born as a hybrid of human beings, and it has both magic-absorbing abilities and good magic talents...it's amazing."

Garen admired sincerely.

Strolling through the bustling streets of the Floating City, Garen saw many new things that were not available in Faerûn four thousand years ago, and he gained a lot of knowledge.
To be continued...