Lord of Spells from Faerûn

Imric did not answer Drizzt's question, for they immediately heard a rough and familiar cry.

"Give me a giant that screams like a pig to kill!" Bruno led a group of people and stood on the stone and shouted.

The enraged dwarves arrived with incredible speed. In less than an hour, Bruno's family gathered and set off after Imric and others. They also kept up with the agile speed of the dark elves.

"It's good to see you," Drizzt shouted as he walked over to the dwarves. He found Bruno looking at the three sub-giant corpses with a cold satisfaction. Fifty livid-faced dwarves, ready to fight, surrounded the leader, accounting for half of the dwarves in the dwarf valley.

"Drizzt," the dwarf greeted in his usual considerate manner. "Did you find the nest?"

Imrik replied from the side: "One mile to the west, don't think of them as a priority. They won't go anywhere else, but they will have guests here today."

"Do those monsters still have reinforcements?" Bruno said.

"Sixty orc reinforcements." Imrik said softly.

Bruno swung his axe. "I can't bear it anymore, I want to chop all those bloodthirsty monsters to death!"

"North and east is the only way," Drizzt reasoned. "Go down the Icewind Pass from somewhere and go around the north side of Lake Dinisha. That's where the giant's lair is."

Imric stood up at this time and said: "It's enough to let Drizzt and Wulfgar follow me. We will deal with those giants. Bruno, you go and kill those orcs. The leader is a troll, make sure you have fire or acid as a weapon to harm it."

After that, Imric told Bruno the route of the Orcs, and the dwarf nodded. Although he wanted to kill the giants, he also knew how disadvantaged the dwarves were facing these giants, so he asked them to deal with the orcs. That's enough.

Drizzt had no objection. For him, the scimitar in his hand was his most trusted weapon. He would use it to kill any enemy. Wulfgar also had no objection. This barbarian boy always had feelings for Imric. A deep fear. Even though he was now his teammate, watching the mage use spells to slaughter those sub-giants who looked extremely strong still brought him some bad memories.

Then the two teams dispersed. Imric caught Drizzt and Wulfgar and disappeared in a flash. Through [Teleportation], the three of them immediately arrived at the location in the memory of the sub-giant.

The giants' lair was an open-air pit, and the ground was covered with sharp stone thorns. Imric stood on the edge of the pit and saw dozens of giants sleeping carelessly on the dirty mud floor.

Imric took out the legendary super-demon bead, and the golden ball of light floated on the mage's chest and emitted a dazzling light. The wind blew inexplicably, and a dim yellow-green smoke appeared in the pit with the breeze, and quickly The spread filled the pit.

[Instant extremely effective and powerful expansion - Death Cloud Technique]. (Extended metamagic can increase the coverage area of ​​the spell. The difference between extreme effect and strong effect is that one doubles the power and the other half the power, so the two add up to three times the original power.)

The five-ring spell that has been strengthened four times in a row and comes with the [Spell Penetration] specialty that Imrik himself replaced showed its power. The huge poisonous fog corroded the bodies of the giants shrouded in it. The giants were awakened by severe pain in their sleep, only to find themselves lying weakly in the yellow-green poisonous mist, vomiting blood.

Wulfgar looked at what he saw in shock. This mage actually killed dozens of sleeping giants with a single spell.

Imrik looked at the corpses scattered all over the field caused by [Death Cloud Spell] and nodded with satisfaction. You must know that if an ordinary mage were to use the metamagic effect he applied to this spell, this five-ring spell would require a seventeenth-level spell. Spell slot to cast! Even if the super magic instant cast without any power bonus is removed, a thirteenth-level spell slot is still needed to release this extravagant [Death Cloud Technique].

Drizzt swallowed and said, "Am I right? This is the Death Cloud Spell? Is the power of a five-ring spell so powerful?"

Imrik chuckled and said, "It was enhanced with a little bit of metamagic skills."

Imric snapped his fingers, and a gust of wind blew away all the poisonous mist in the pit. The three of them jumped down the pit, and were surprised to find that there was a frost giant still tenaciously surviving.

There was malice in the giant's eyes. Unlike his stupid peers, he did not cry out for mercy even though he survived until now.

"You bitch, damn wizard, what tricks are you playing?" The frost giant spit out blood and cursed the black-robed mage weakly.

The sharp scimitar was raised to the frost giant's throat, and Drizzt said coldly: "Tell us exactly what you want to do."

"Then kill me quickly and resolve this matter! I won't let you get what you want." The giant laughed, he really didn't care. "I serve my Master," the giant declared. "It would be honorable to die for Akal Kessell!"

Wulfgar and Drizzt glanced at each other uneasily. They had never seen or heard of a giant so fanatical and blindly loyal to one man. And the sight haunted them. The main reason why the giants cannot dominate the smaller peoples in Icewind Dale is that they do not want to devote themselves to one thing for any reason, nor do they want to follow a certain leader.

"Who is Akar Kessell?" Wulfgar pressed.

The giant smiled evilly. "If you are friends with the citizens of Ten Towns, you will know soon!"

Imrik stood aside silently without speaking, and the power of his mind silently invaded the frost giant's brain.

Level 5 power - mind probe.

This enhanced version of the psychic power of [Reading Thoughts] allows Imrik to see the deepest secrets in the frost giant's heart, even secrets that he himself has forgotten.

He saw that the frost giant was named "Bilin" by his parents when he was born, which represented the meaning of "tyrant" in the frost giant language. He saw that Bilin step by step grew from a weak frost giant to the leader of the frost giant tribe. , show off his power on the tundra, and lead his people to hunt the white dragon.

Then, he saw the deepest memory in the frost giant's heart. He knelt in front of the wizard with black nail polish on his hands. A sparkling purple crystal was suspended in the wizard's hand, and powerful magic power came from the purple The crystals poured out, wiping out all tribes that did not obey his will.

He saw in Bi Lin's memory that the wizard once looked at the purple crystal in his hand and murmured to himself obsessively: "Shattered Magic Crystal"