Lord of Spells from Faerûn

Faerûn, underground.

This is the Underdark, one of the most cruel and cunning places on the planet Toril, where deformed and evil creatures live to avoid the sunlight. The Underdark is populated by the cities and nations of drow, duergar, and mind flayers. It is also home to some of the rarer races, such as beholders and kuo-toa, as well as some intelligent humanoid slaves from the surface.

These evil species fight or trade with each other for resources, magic, and power. When the conspiracy is revealed or a better opportunity presents itself, their alliance will fall apart.

Gnomes, deep gnomes, dwarves, and other neutral or good peoples have enclaves scattered among these hostile city-states, where they maintain isolation or resist intrusions from their evil neighbors.

The entire Underdark is in eternal conspiracy and violence. It is a paradise for criminals, a tombstone for kind people, and the base camp of slave civilization. It can be called the "abyss of the world."

"I'm back to this place again." Imrik sighed and looked at the underground world in front of him.

After falling into the underdark under the Ainook Desert, Imric never set foot in this dark underground world again.

Imric led the green dragon's monster army down the central passage of the Troll's Roaring Forest and arrived in the Underdark.

The passage is surrounded by towering underground mountains. Except for the central passage, there is only one way out, and the rest are cut off by ridges. It is a good place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Imric arranged the magic crystal tower here. Due to the lack of sunlight, all the spells of Clinshinibon cannot be used. In other words, in this underground world, Imric can only rely on himself to unleash the highest power. A seven-ring spell.

"Lord Thor, the monster army has all come down." Okul reported from the side. Since Imric joined, this evil arcane knight has been trying to please the mage and wants to continue in this monster army. Remain a leader.

"Well, count the number of troops." Imrik ordered.

Now this monster army is jointly ruled by Okuer and Banzhui. However, as an organ man without any desire, Banzhui has no idea of ​​leading the army most of the time.

Okul counted the monster army. After Imrik's massacre, there are still nearly 2,400 monsters in the monster army.

Among them, there are 1,600 kobolds, 600 trolls, and 200 stone giants.

As a powerful ancient green dragon, Titanisha, the Mother of Conspiracy, completely looked down on the existence of inferior creatures like goblins. The goblins in the Troll Roaring Forest tried to defect to her many times, but in the end they were buried in the belly of the dragon.

"Send ten kobolds to scout the surrounding situation. I heard that there is a gray dwarf tribe nearby?" Imrik said.

Okul nodded quickly and said: "Yes, sir, the Mother of Conspiracy once sent scouts here and found traces of a group of gray dwarves living around."

"In addition." Okul said hesitantly: "We should send a large number of soldiers to collect food. With so many monster armies here, our food reserves may not be enough. By then, those trolls and giants are likely to eat kobolds to satisfy their hunger. .”

Imrik frowned, then pointed a finger, and a large number of spells were activated from his fingertips.

Three-ring magic - [Food Creation Technique] × 150.

Under Okul's shocked expression, a large amount of food created by divine magic appeared in front of him. [Food Creation Technique] can create enough food for three people per caster level. This kind of food is very nutritious, but tastes bad. It is light and can maintain a shelf life of 24 hours, making it perfect for these cannon fodder monsters.

150 [Food Creation Techniques] produced enough food to feed 7,200 humans, enough to satisfy these monsters.

"Starting from today, their rations will be these. Anyone who dares to complain about eating meat will be killed on the spot. I will provide it every day from now on. If the quantity is not enough, tell me, and I will increase the ration quantity as appropriate." Imrik said coldly. said.

Although he can also summon a Hero's Banquet, which has more sumptuous food, but he does not have time to serve these monsters. The Hero's Banquet requires an hour of eating, and it is simply torture for him to watch these monsters eat for an hour.

A trace of cold sweat appeared on Okuer's face. He knew that although these monsters were carnivores, if he offended the mage, the other party would probably kill the chickens to scare the monkeys without hesitation. For the purpose of the mother of conspiracy, he still had to try his best to keep the monster army. .

After arranging the army affairs, Imric returned to the magic crystal tower without any regrets. He was recently studying a spell related to the path of necromancy [life]. This spell can allow the magic network to assume part of the control. The pressure of the undead allows the mage's caster level to increase the number of undead he can control.

Unfortunately, this kind of spell seems to exceed the scope of a seventh-level spell. Imric is trying to find related expensive gems to see if they can be used as casting materials to reduce the spell's release requirements.

"If this experiment is successful, perhaps a version of the Conjuration system could be developed that applies caster level to the restrictions on summoned creatures."

In the laboratory of the Magic Crystal Tower, Imric was thinking while flipping through the information, looking for suitable gems.

"Obsidian? No. The effect of obsidian is towards strengthening. Black onyx? Well. It seems to be very suitable, but it is too cheap and contains too little energy. It is necessary to add a plurality of casting material frameworks to the spell model and increase the number of black onyx in large quantities. "

Imric looked through "Gemstones and Magic" and found that black onyx has the property of sharing the energy of the dead. This property is very consistent with the concept of magic being used to spread control pressure to the magic network. However, the value of black onyx is too low. Normally, black onyx is only worth 100 gold coins each.

According to Imrik's conjecture, this spell can reach the level of a nine-level spell. Black onyx worth 100 gold coins is far from being used as a spell casting material.

So Imrik began to modify the spell model and increased the framework of spell casting materials to an unlimited limit. This made the spell model more than ten times bloated in an instant, and the casting time was as long as 6 minutes.

Imric took out 2,000 black onyx from the dimensional bag filled with various precious gems, and placed them in the shape of a mysterious magic circle in front of him. Powerful necromantic energy emanated from the mage's hands, and in the magic circle hovering high in the sky, forming a dark necromantic airflow.

Two thousand black agates began to connect their magic powers with each other and resonate. Under the influence of magic, these black onyx floated into the air, and eventually turned into ashes. A powerful necromantic energy rushed into Imric's body, connecting him to the magic network.

"Success!"

Imric opened his eyes excitedly, feeling the power of the spell. The powerful shared pressure effect of the black onyx connected Imric to the magic network. At this time, the caster level representing the magic network also had the ability to control undead creatures. The effect greatly increases the number of undead creatures Imrik can control.

"Let's call this spell - [Immortal General]."

The seventh-level spell - [Undead General] is different from [Undead Lieutenant]. This spell is designed to strengthen the caster himself, thereby increasing the number of undead creatures he can control.

Enhanced by two thousand black onyx, [Undead General] brings extremely amazing enhancements to the caster. The caster increases his caster level 10 times to the upper limit of the life level of the undead creatures he can control.

In other words, Imric's caster level of level 17 (14 + artifact 3) is enough to increase the upper limit of undead summoning by 170 life levels.

This is very powerful because [Undead Lieutenant] can be linked with [Undead General]. After casting [Undead General], the number of undead creatures controlled by the caster level will also increase above [Undead Lieutenant].

In other words, Imrik at this time can control undead creatures with a life level of 202 (32+170) as undead lieutenants, and the number of undead creatures controlled by them is equivalent to 40804 (202×202)!

The Sea of ​​the Undead, and even the undead army that Imrik left in the demiplane today, cannot reach the upper limit of his control.

Of course, to be able to control so many undead creatures, one must have enough intelligent undead creatures to lead them as undead lieutenants.

"What a powerful spell." Imrik looked at the spell model drawn in his hand in confusion. Although the casting materials are quite expensive, the long duration of this spell is 1 hour per caster level, which means that even an ordinary mage can use it. A spell that I will also pursue crazily.

Although two hundred thousand gold coins are extremely expensive, the effect of this spell on the battlefield is simply decisive. As long as there are enough corpses, controlling so many undead creatures is enough to form a crushing sea of ​​the undead.

The development of this spell greatly increased Imric's understanding of the magic network, and he had a hunch that he would be able to break through to level 15 within a year.

Imric stretched, picked up a cup of black tea, sat by the window and stared at the boundless darkness outside the window in a daze. Studying spells would cause extremely serious damage to the mage's spirit. Imric had just arrived in the Underdark. At this time, Imric Ke had stayed in the magic crystal tower for three days without eating or drinking before he completed the research on this spell.

"Lord Thor, we have found the gray dwarf tribe." Okuer came in and said. He has been quite tired these days. Not only does he have to regulate the irritable mood of these monsters because they can't eat meat, but he also has to deal with them. You have to manage all kinds of chores, big and small, at all times.

That damn agency man doesn’t care about anything just because of his name! Okul was quite resentful, but he knew that Imrik was now in charge of the army, and as his cronies, the agency man certainly had more privileges than him.

Imrik nodded, he raised a hand, and the mage's will turned into invisible telepathy through the power of his mind, and he raised a silver mirror in front of Okul.

"Go with 500 troops and recruit them. If they resist, erect a mirror on the earth and my power will extend from it."

The infinite casting distance of the Magic Crystal Tower requires sight. Therefore, for very far away places, the silver mirror that can communicate with the Magic Crystal Tower can be used as a medium to release spells.

Okul held the mirror and felt quite confident. With the power of this mage, he believed that the group of deformed gray dwarves had no power to resist.

but

Thinking of the rumors reported by those kobolds, Okul decided to speak out: "Those kobolds said that there was a power in the gray dwarf camp that made them afraid. They suspected that there was a real dragon behind the group of gray dwarves. existence, at least at the level of an adult dragon."

Imric waved his hand indifferently. He was just an adult dragon. As long as he did not reach the level of an ancient dragon, he was no threat to him.

"Remember, keep the silver mirror, otherwise my power will not be able to reach it." Imric warned.

Okul bowed deeply to Imric, took the silver mirror and walked out of the magic crystal tower. He said to a large number of monster troops in front of the tower: "I need 800 kobolds and 150 trolls." , and fifty giants!”

With many monsters roaring excitedly, Okul set off with an army.

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The gray dwarf tribe is located in the northeast of the valley where the Magic Crystal Tower is located. This is a medium-sized tribe with a population of 1,500.

Steel gall is the leader of this gray dwarf tribe. In this underground world filled with mind flayers and dark elves, steel gall has been struggling with how to prevent his own kind from becoming slaves.

Until he found their backer.

The Great Red Fury—a red dragon in its prime.

Since the gray dwarf tribe became the dependents of the red dragon, they finally got rid of the crisis of survival. Their cruel and cunning character made them join the underground human trafficking business, earning a lot of wealth for their masters.

Unlike the green dragon Titanisha, the strength of this mature red dragon has not reached a level that is enough to look down on everything. Therefore, even if the gray dwarf tribe has a backer, it still carefully survives in a low profile to avoid attracting their neighbors, the group of Attention dark elves in Eredlyn.

When Okul and his army arrived, the gray dwarves were having a celebratory banquet. They had just helped their masters rob the wealth of a large number of passing caravans, and captured a large number of creatures as slaves.

"Invaders!!" The gray dwarves on guard saw the approach of a large number of troops and quickly issued an anxious warning.

Gang Dan, who was changing cups and cups and was caught in a "fun little game" with a strong fellow of the same race, suddenly woke up, picked up his weapon and rushed out of the room. He loudly urged the other gray dwarves to leave the village and be on alert, but did not send anyone to notify the red dragon. , he believed that as the servant of the red dragon, he needed to rely on his own strength to deal with the invading enemies. Unless life and death were at stake, he should not trouble his great master.

Gang Dan was standing on the stone wall at the entrance of the village, looking at Okuer in the distance and the monster army behind him. His heart sank. With so many monsters, I'm afraid there will be a tough battle today, but among those monsters, kobolds accounted for the majority. Most of them, as long as the leading human is killed, I believe they will flee in all directions.

"Gray dwarf, in compliance with the orders of our lord, the Mother of Conspiracy and Lord Thor, I recruit your tribe and surrender under the great dragon wings." Okul looked at the gray dwarf in front of him proudly, holding the hand in his hand. holding an unknown object covered by a black cloth.

The number of casting materials for the Undead General was modified. The original 10,000 gold coins were too cheap and could not achieve such an effective spell, so it was changed to 200,000 gold coins.