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Less than half a minute later, another gemstone also shattered into powder.

Just when Zhang Cheng began to suspect that there was something wrong with the description in the note, the last corpse began to decompose rapidly, emitting a foul smell.

At the same time, the diamond serving as the phylactery also began to emit a brilliant magical aura...

"Oh?! One succeeded!" He raised the gemstone in his hand, with a playful expression on his face.

"Master...Master! You created a lich?" Xini's eyes widened, and her tone was full of unconfident exclamation.

You must know that Akram Gris tried to transform himself into an undead form a few years ago, but for some reason he chose to give up at the last moment. This is no secret within the Arcane Brotherhood.

But right now, there is someone who succeeded on the first try. Although two of them failed, the success rate of one-third is definitely enough to make those old mages who are about to end their lives muster the courage to fight to the death.

"Don't make such a fuss, it will take six days for me to be sure if it's really successful." Zhang Cheng shrugged his shoulders with a light smile.

In fact, the reason why he was able to concoct the potion of undead life all depended on the alchemy stone brought from the magic earth.

It was this stone that helped him complete the most difficult part of the potion, which was the transformation process from life to death.

"Congratulations! I think as long as this news is disclosed, many old mages will be willing to offer their loyalty to you in exchange for the opportunity to transform themselves into a lich. Oh, by the way, there is a soldier guarding the city gate who used to be the The sorcerer Dandiba, he hopes he can have the opportunity to serve the new Lord of the North Tower..."

4 Chapter Forty The Legend of Mithril Hall

"Hello, honorable Lord of the North Tower. My name is Gildan, and it is a great honor to be received by Jin." The low-ranking officer wearing Luskan-style armor immediately touched his chest with one hand bowed.

As an ambitious middle-aged man, he knows very well where the real power of this city comes from. It is neither the great commanders who usually pretend to be superior, nor the pirate alliance that comes and goes like the wind, but this city. The "Stone Tree" tower stands on an island in the estuary.

A wizard with powerful magical power can give orders to the commander and the pirate alliance just like a servant.

So far, no one has dared not to carry out the instructions given by the arcane brothers, even if these instructions will cause them heavy losses.

So he is eager to please the wizard who has the supreme power in Luskan in exchange for his higher power and status in the military system.

Zhang Cheng sat on the chair, looked him up and down, and asked after a while, "Then tell me, Gildan, what kind of service did you provide Dandiba before?"

"It's intelligence, my lord. My eyes are all over Luskan, and I can quickly recognize and monitor people who enter the city from land or sea. In fact, I was following Dan Di According to Ba's order, secretly observe a group of adventurers from Icewind Dale. Among them are powerful barbarians, skilled dark elves, irascible dwarves, and an interesting halfling." Gildan carefully described own value.

Because before he entered this room, he had already been warned by Xini, and he didn't dare to play the usual little tricks at all.

Especially when he learned that the latter had changed from a completely unattractive female apprentice to a stunner who could make all men's hearts flutter under the influence of unknown magical power, his heart was filled with awe and fear.

"Oh? Are you following Drizzt?" Zhang Cheng stroked his chin with great interest.

Undoubtedly, he remembered who the middle-aged officer in front of him who didn't raise his eyes was, and also remembered that at a special moment, it was the man who made the first contact with the famous killer Entreri.

"Yes, my lord. The dead Dandiba thinks that the dark elf hides a powerful magic item, and I have been tracking him down for him." Gildan gave an affirmative answer without thinking.

After all, the previous object of allegiance is dead, and he no longer needs to keep secrets.

"Very good! Continue to help me keep an eye on their movements. If one day you find a man named Artemis Entreri, remember to bring him to me as soon as possible. As a reward, I will give you a A very precious gift." After finishing speaking, Zhang Cheng waved his hand lightly, indicating that the other party can back down.

"Many thanks!"

Although Gildan didn't quite understand what the very young mage was thinking while sitting on the chair, but today's contact was undoubtedly a pretty good start.

Watching the officer disappear at the end of the corridor, Sydney, who was standing motionless, suddenly asked tentatively: "Master, I don't understand. Since the Shard of Magic Crystal is no longer in the hands of the dark elves, why do you still pay attention to the actions of these country bumpkins?" trend?"

"Hehe! Have you heard of Mithril Hall?" Zhang Cheng suddenly asked without thinking.

"The dwarf kingdom that was destroyed in the legend? It claims to store a huge mithril vein like a stream of silver?" Xini obviously heard the legend about the mithril hall, subconsciously frowned.

Zhang Cheng narrowed his eyes and nodded lightly: "That's right! As far as I know, the purpose of Drizzt and his party is to help their friend Bruno the dwarf find his hometown belonging to the Warhammer family."

"I still don't understand! What does their search for Mithril Hall have to do with you? Are you planning to seize this underground mine?" The female apprentice raised her head and glanced at her master out of the corner of her eye.

"Seize? No, I don't need to seize at all. You don't know yet, Mithril Hall has been occupied by a black dragon named Shimmering Shadow for hundreds of years, and the gray dwarves under him have already dug and smelted the inexhaustible and inexhaustible dragon. I just need to wait for them to find the entrance, then take away all the ready-made treasures, and let the gray dwarves work for me." Zhang Cheng didn't mean to hide anything, and said openly what was in his heart plan of.

According to the memory in his mind, he knew that it took more than half a year from the discovery of the entrance of the Mithril Hall to the formation of a coalition force to expel the gray dwarves and restore Bruno's status as the orthodox king.

This also means that before the coalition forces are actually formed and launched an attack, he has enough time to evacuate the underground treasures, and even carry out predatory mining of the entire vein.

With the deadly high-temperature flame of the dragon's breath, it only takes him a few weeks to melt ore that would take years to mine by ordinary means.

"I understand!"

Xini noticed the chilling madness in Zhang Cheng's eyes when he said these words, she resolutely gave up her plan to continue asking, and quickly turned and left the room.

As an apprentice who had tried her best to obtain the title of a wizard, she had already seen the terrifying power and means of this terrifying master who almost changed her own destiny, and there was no luck in her heart.

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At the same time, during the public break on the lower floor of the central spire, Akram Gris's most trusted assistant, Master Jade Fire, has now turned into a cold corpse.

He still had an unbelievably shocked expression on his face before he died, as if he never dreamed that the closest follower of his master would stab a dagger blessed with "elimination magic" into his back, so that he set As soon as the protective magic was triggered, it was dispelled by the power of the enchanted dagger.

"Hmph! As expected, it was a perfect assassination, and Akram Gris was completely unaware of it." One of the masterminds sneered and mocked.

"Don't talk nonsense! Dispose of the corpse quickly! Cheek, we need you to temporarily disguise this guy with a transformation spell for a few days!" Another mastermind quickly issued a series of orders.

"understood!"

The middle-aged man called Chuck didn't talk nonsense, and immediately chanted a spell, and after a while, he transformed into a corpse on the ground.

In order to prevent his flaws from being exposed, he even stripped off the clothes, rings, amulets, and boots from the corpse, and put them on one by one, and repaired the cuts and bloodstains on the robe with magic.

I'm afraid Akram Gris would never have imagined in his dreams that he only got the Magic Crystal Shard in the afternoon, and a conspiracy against himself began in the evening.

But it is a pity that he has devoted himself to controlling the broken magic crystal and researching life-prolonging magic, and he has no spare energy to take care of the turmoil within the organization, let alone know that the main tower has been occupied by conspirators.

In just one hour, those mages and apprentices who were loyal to him were all cleaned up, and replaced with a group of assassins disguised by transformation spells...

Chapter 441 new knowledge, mage level and spellcasting skills

The rebellion within the central spire was so swift and stealthy that most people hadn't even figured out what was going on.

When it was dawn, everything returned to normal, at least on the surface it looked the same as usual.

However, if you count the number of people carefully, you will find that no matter any minaret in the southeast, northwest, part of it will disappear inexplicably. Among them, the North Tower has disappeared the least, and the East Tower has disappeared the most.

And most of these disappeared guys have transformed into another person, staying in the public area of ​​the central spire, waiting patiently for the opportunity to assassinate the leader of the Arcane Brotherhood—Akram Gris.

They obviously knew very well that this old and weak powerful spellcaster would ask his most trusted assistant to send a small amount of food into his private room every once in a while, so he would definitely leave in a few days at least, or a week or two at most. Come out to solve the most basic physiological needs - excretion.

This time happened to be the time when the old mage was weakest, and it was also the best time to launch a fatal blow.

As an artifact with independent thinking and mental detection ability, Clinshinibon undoubtedly sensed all kinds of chaotic and betrayal thoughts, but he didn't remind the holder, instead, he wanted to To see this rebellion come.

After all, for it, Akram Gris, whose lifespan is about to come to an end, is not an easy target to be manipulated at all, so he is eager to replace the next holder as soon as possible, a more ambitious, younger and full of desires. Owner.