Lord of Spells from Faerûn

The next day, Imrik put away [Leomon's hut] after resting.

The three of them passed through the northwest door of the hall. The eternal flame lamps used for lighting behind the door were damaged and all lost their light. Imrik summoned a ball of light, and the three of them climbed up the stairs to the top. .

The top floor of the Tower of Secrets is a very wide hall, and the sign in front of the door reads "Secret Library".

Imrik opened the door, and behind it was a magnificent lobby that occupied two floors. This bright lobby was 40 feet high. The interior walls made of transparent glass extend from the four corners of the room to the center, and the height is from the floor to the ceiling.

There are thousands of small squares on these walls, and there are additional walls branching out with the same squares on them. In the center of the room stood a small marble platform several feet high. Surrounding the platform, the four interior walls terminate with four crystal busts on glass bases.

Imrik excitedly entered each small square, trying to find the mysterious knowledge belonging to the ancient star elves.

Unfortunately, there is a pentagonal gap in the center of each square grid, but there is nothing in the middle. It is obvious that whatever was originally stored here has disappeared.

Imrik walked towards the crystal bust statues at the four corners. These statues all resembled images of old elves.

"This is."

He stroked the forehead of the crystal head. There was a pentagonal gap on the originally smooth forehead. He thought of the same-shaped gaps in those small squares. Apparently things that had appeared there could be placed inside.

Imrik walked to the fourth statue and was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a crystal clear pentagonal transparent gem on the forehead. It seemed that the person who took these gems had forgotten the gem on the forehead.

He stretched out his hand to touch the gem, and a faint light appeared. The entire statue lit up with indigo light, and a complex message was transmitted into Imrik's mind.

It turned out that this kind of pentagonal gem was called [Tears of the King], and Imric remembered that he had seen a description of this extremely rare gem in [Anecdotal Stories from the Faerûn Continent] written by Varro.

The King's Tear is an extremely rare and extremely hard gemstone in Faerûn. It has been proven that this gem cannot be destroyed by a furnace or anvil. This tear-shaped gem is not only crystal clear inside, but also has a smooth surface. It is sometimes called "Frozen Tears" or "Lich's Cry".

Legend has it that they are the crystallization of the tears of the long-dead Necromancer King. Each gem contains some image, either of a person he loved or an extremely horrific event, no matter which one made the king shed tears.

The star elves used some special magic to compress all kinds of knowledge into gems and carried out extremely complex encryption. Unless the gems were placed in the statue in front of them, there was no way to decipher the knowledge without destroying the gems. .

This remaining gem does not record any knowledge about the secrets of magic. On the contrary, it records the truth about the disappearance of the star elves in this demiplane.

In ancient times, the elves were the rulers of Faerun. However, hundreds of years ago, the elves started a great migration that shocked the continent. This was also called the "Great Retreat".

The elves retreated to the elves' hometown [Eternal Meeting Island] on the Endless Sea, and formed an elite army [Phoenix Guards] to help the elven settlements on the continent that were unable to evacuate retreat or gain a foothold.

Thousands of creatures have never been clear about the reason for the elves' retreat. They all speculate that the elves suffered heavy losses due to the dragon attack. Coupled with the rise of humans, the elves sensed the threat and tried to shrink their defense lines and consolidate themselves.

In this gem, as a high elf among the elves, the star elves clearly recorded the real reason for the elves' retreat.

During the thousands of years of elves' history, countless powerful masters of prophecy left various prophecies about the future of the elves, which were bound into a book - "The Mysteries of Tirantir".

In this secret book, a prophecy written by the wise man Galalith Drothe became a crucial factor in the elves' retreat.

This is - [Finale].

"The end is coming,

Come because of seven plagues,

Following the command of his lord,

the scale of proliferation wars,

Only humans stand on them,

Announce with others the coming of judgment,

The world will be reborn in light or darkness. "

The elves are convinced that when the world ends due to this prophecy, the elves will stand on the continent as saviors and turn the tide. However, what makes them unpredictable is that this prophecy actually asserts that humans, who were still weak at the time, will become a crucial factor. important link.

Humanity's attitude towards the so-called "Lord of the Seven Plagues" determines whether the end of the world will be "bright" or "dark".

After reading this, Imrik sneered at this. This so-called "end of the world" still needs a human team. If the end of the world really comes, just think about it and know that human beings cannot stand on the side of the Destroyer.

Imric took off the gem and put it into his dimensional pocket. The prophecy in this gem was too far away from him, and its authenticity was open to question. He seriously doubted that the so-called "end of the world" was just the end of the elves themselves.

[Secret Library] Another door in the lobby opens to a glass trestle connecting another island. This high-altitude glass trestle is like a slide, constantly sliding down to the ground of another island.

The three of Imrik took the glass trestle to reach the third island. Different from the first two islands, the third island was a low glass building.

The low building is an opaque glass dome that rises above the waves of the sea. There are three protrusions on the outside, and the lowest ground platform is connected to the glass trestle at the top of the [Tower of Secrets].

There is a sign with the words "Morrell's Tomb" written on the door of the building, which gives off an inexplicable and cold atmosphere.

According to the orcs, this building is probably a place used by the star elves to perform rituals and bury their dead kin.

After the black dragon took over here, he shamelessly dug out all the corpses of the star elves buried in the building and made his own undead army. The first [Tower of Welcomes] and the undead elves in his lair all came from here. .

A double door opens into a large, dark hall. At the top of the almost invisible dome, a very weak light from another tower barely shines through this transparent dome, while the rest of the room is hidden in shadow. The dim light revealed a grotesque black shadow occupying the center of the room.

"Crack", a sound like the impact of crystals came from the black shadow. Sensing the presence of the intruder, the black shadow moved.