Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 309 The mastermind behind the scenes
Wuermu walked barefoot on the rose-colored cashmere carpet, and the moonlight flowed into a winding silver stream on the top floor of Rosa Castle. His linen clothes were torn by thorns, revealing his scabby knees, but his amber eyes were surprisingly bright.

At the end of the hall, there were creatures as big as mountains. The dust from the dome was vibrating with the air exhaled by the creatures. The beautiful silver creatures were as sacred and noble as shining gems in the moonlight.

"I found a way to control the cursed fire." The boy's voice was mixed with excited crying, like ice melting in early spring.

Nemesis raised his head with a roar of metal friction, and his vertical pupils shrank into two cracks of molten gold in the dark purple chaos: "Oh?"

He looked at the scars on Wuermu's body caused by thorns and felt strange.

"Pain!" Wuermu said excitedly, not caring even though the wounds on his body were oozing blood: "Pain allows me to control the cursed fire. It is afraid of pain, just like me."

Juan Celong looked at him with pity. The boy's subconscious, which he himself was unaware of, had been unfolding before him without reservation.

It was not the pain that helped Wuermu control the cursed fire, but the guilt that faded away in the pain and no longer prevented him from controlling the cursed fire.

But it’s okay, he can now use the power of ulmu.

Whether it was the great arcanists of the City of Ghosts or the Eternal Night Curtain that the queen was planning to build, their special powers would eventually become mere nourishment in the face of the Curse Fire.

But Nemesis still reminded him of his lawful neutrality: "This is just a temporary solution. You will eventually need to face your inner self to truly become one with the cursed fire."

I just don't know if the goddess needs you to reach this level. Nemesis looked at the young Urumu and sighed silently in his heart.

"I know it." Wuermu lowered his head with a gloomy expression and said in a low voice.

The rolling low roar from the scroll dragon's throat shook the air, and its huge and sharp nails approached Urumu, touching his chest with the latter's unreserved trust.

Psychic energy flowed into Wuermu's body like a gentle spring lake, and countless fragments of memory surged in at that moment. Pain, guilt, fear, longing. All kinds of emotions were mixed in Wuermu's heart, burning his heart like a raging flame all the time.

The spiritual power was like a spring breeze, soothing Wuermu's inner anxiety.

The nightmares that had haunted him for seven years—the falling beams, the charred bodies, the guilt gnawing at him in the darkness—suddenly turned to drifting ashes.

"Thank you, thank you." Wuermu said blankly, a tear running down the corner of his eye.

He hadn't felt this way for a long time, that kind of peace of mind where he didn't have to worry about anything and had forgotten the world behind him.

Nemesis hummed lightly and let him leave the room.

After the boy left, he looked at the bright moon outside the window and felt a little nervous.

After arranging for the group of mind flayers to stay, Nemesis returned to the Rosa Castle on the ground. Compared with the dark elves underground, he needed to stay here and be on guard against the attack of the Ghost City at any time.

In the past few days, he has also thought carefully about many things that have happened recently.

Since returning to Sword Coast, coincidences have been happening one after another.

First, a group of adventurers led him into a demiplane that was almost assimilated by the Shadowfall Underworld. Then he found Shana, who had a grudge against the Shadow Alliance.

After that, he came to the desert and encountered Ulm again, as well as the ghost city that coveted Ulm.

Now, the Curtain of Eternal Night that the queen wants to build is also a large legendary maze that requires shadow spells to complete.

Nemesis suddenly realized that everything he encountered along the way seemed to have something in common.

That is related to the shadow, or the underworld of the fallen shadow.

His expression darkened, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He always felt that someone was pushing him to do all this. And the mastermind behind this must have some connection with the Shadowfall Underworld.

The goddess of the night - Shar.

This was the number one target he immediately became suspicious of.

This infamous god in the continent of Faerun has always been associated with various labels such as mystery and conspiracy.

Whether it was Him or His followers, they were all good at laying out conspiracies quietly and were able to control the development of the situation without getting involved.

The information Mystra gave him about the City of Ghosts was also the reason why he suspected Shar.

The ancient floating city that once believed only in the arcane, now has almost everyone as a believer of Shar.

He didn't know what Ulm's true identity was, but Mystra must have had some purpose in allowing it to exist on the continent of Faerun.

The goddess of darkness seemed to have grasped the essence of Mystra's unwillingness to take Ulm away, and sent her fangs to capture the boy.

Nemesis thought hard, but always felt that something was missing.

He believed that the Dark Night Goddess must have some purpose, and Mystra's plot must be related to the Dark Night Goddess's purpose.

But when he thought about it carefully, he didn't think it was Shar who pushed him along the way.

Because if Shar really wanted to capture Urumu, how could she let an irrelevant scroll dragon get involved.

And what about Mystra? If it was She who was guiding him step by step to get closer to the boy and protect him.

The motivation seemed to be right, but Nemesis always felt that something was odd.

The goddess of darkness, Shar, is almost the most powerful being in the entire Shadowless Underworld. Even if we look at the entire multiverse, there is almost no one who can surpass her in the power of shadow.

The memory inheritance of the Tome Dragon spans the multiverse, and it is clearly mentioned that the belief in "Shaar" is widely spread throughout the main material plane.

The Night Goddess is completely different from the other native gods of Faerun. She is a god whose faith truly spans the multiverse.

Although the demiplane he entered at the beginning did not belong to the Shadowless Underworld, it was almost completely transformed into shadow.

If Mystra's hand really went deep inside, why couldn't the other party notice it?

After all, Shadow is Shar's domain of ministry. It's as ridiculous as if Shar secretly reached into the magic web while Mystra still knew nothing about it.

So, was it a coincidence that I entered that demiplane? Or was it Shar who was secretly pushing it?

No. Wrong.

Nemesis' eyes lit up and he suddenly thought of a third possibility.

If there was a god whose duties overlapped with Shar's and whose strength was not much behind Shar's, it would be very likely that he would be able to hide it from Shar.

Stealth, magic, living in the shadows
Nemesis suddenly thought of an existence.

The main god that the legendary lich Arthurek has been searching for, the master of all mysteries who mysteriously disappeared - Vecna!

(End of this chapter)