Lord of Spells from Faerûn

Imric followed the mycoid and came to a small cave. The mycoid said to him: "This is a gathering place for survivors. Come with me, stranger."

The myconid jumped down. Imrik looked at the deep cave and hesitated. He filled himself with protective spells and jumped down. His intuition told him that this myconid had many secrets to tell him.

After jumping down into the cave, Imric sensed the existence of hundreds of creatures in the cave. They were all short myconids. There were bright luminous gems embedded in the walls of the cave. These myconids were chattering and hugging each other, full of joy. He looked at Imrik with a friendly face.

"Human~Beautiful human~Are you here to save Lulu?" A mushroom-like myconid jumped up to Imrik and asked.

The myconid who came with Imric coughed and said majestically: "Lanlan, I told you that Lulu has been corrupted too seriously. He has completely left Alaumac's mind. outside."

The little mushroom man was dejected. He lowered his head and turned around and said, "Okay. I will miss Green."

He returned to the myconids sitting together and closed his eyes. Imrik felt the power of the soul emanate from the myconids' bodies, and the myconids around him became dejected.

"Group consciousness network?" Imrik narrowed his eyes. He had always been curious about this special ability of the myconids.

Myconids cannot speak. In fact, they are like little mushrooms that have been given life by the [Intelligence Technique]. The way they speak is to use telepathy to simulate sounds in each other's minds.

Not only that, the myconids can also use a special kind of mind spore to link the spirits of their companions together. They can feel each other's deepest memories and feelings. This is why the rest of the myconids are possessed by the one named Lanlan. The myconid's mind was infected.

Most of the time, they will be paired with another kind of hallucinogenic spores to enter the same dream and interact with each other when everyone is mentally connected. This is the main entertainment method of the mycoid society, allowing them to live in this depressing dark place. to take a breather in life.

Myconids are creatures that live in peace with the world and are kind-hearted. The Underdark is probably the ultimate difficulty novice village for them. Gray dwarves and dark elves will try to capture myconids and make delicious mushroom food, and their kind-hearted Their personalities make them extremely easy to trust others.

So gradually, the myconids became less and less interested in leaving the fungus forest. They just wanted to live a peaceful life here, falling into an eternal dream of happiness and playing with their companions.

"Hello, powerful outsider, let me introduce myself face to face. I am the lord of the myconids—Basdia." After the myconid lord drove away Lan Lan, he turned back and said formally to Imric.

Imrik smiled and nodded and said, "Hello, you can call me Imrik."

The myconid lord nodded and said: "Mr. Thor, we are running out of time. The fungus queen's wedding is about to begin."

Imrik said seriously: "Yes, I came here to stop the wedding. However, what I am curious about is why did you know about my arrival?"

The myconid's head was a huge mushroom head. The original gray mushroom head became colorful. He said excitedly: "Of course it was the instruction of my lord Poslovel. My fellow tribesmen all thought that my lord had given up on us." , but I received a revelation from God and knew that there will be a brave man who will save the world of mushrooms! Save the myconids!”

Imrik frowned. He didn't come here just to save the mushrooms. Why did he feel like this god was paying him for nothing?

In this regard, he raised a question: "Then why, the god of the nobles, um, His Majesty Poslovel, didn't take action personally?"

The myconid's eyes dimmed, and he said dejectedly: "My Lord cannot come here. His divine power is prohibited from reaching the world of Toril by a more powerful existence."

"But!" The Myconid quickly cheered up. He looked at Imrik with sparkling eyes and said, "As long as you exorcise the fungus queen and rescue Alaumac, our lord will have the opportunity to link to In this world, he will also give you rich rewards.”

Imric was a little confused. Could it be that the more powerful being who was prohibited from reaching the world of Toril was referring to the legendary god who was not sure whether it was true or not?

Mages are the people with the most cutting-edge knowledge in the entire world of Faerûn, so Imrik has also found clues from some ancient books about the existence of a transcendent being above all gods.

This god named [Io] has no clues in the continent of Faerûn. Even 99.9% of mortals do not know the existence of legends about him. However, many mages have mentioned it in various ancient books. Find the passage that contains information about Him.

It is said that he is one of the reasons why the world of Toril is so coveted by the gods. It is also because of him that the kingdom of heaven has become a crystal wall system full of attention from all kinds of outsiders.

However, regarding the authenticity of the existence of this god, mages all adhere to two schools. One school believes that this god no longer exists, or it is a completely fabricated deceptive teaching of an evil god, or it is an ancient god that has long since fallen. , after all, since human beings have recorded history, there has never been any official historical record or any evidence of the appearance of this god.

The other group believes that this god has always existed, but he has reached an existence beyond the gods, so he does not bother to communicate with the mortal world, just like the relationship between mortals and gods is that of sheep and herders. What is being herded below is the gods themselves.

Of course, only the most deviant mages would think this kind of treacherous idea. In fact, more mages only believed that this god was real, but they were already far away from Faerûn.

At this moment, the myconid said that there was an existence that could prohibit a noble god from projecting power to Faerûn. Imric suddenly thought of the god above the gods recorded in the wild history.

Regarding the reward from the gods, Imrik had to admit that he was moved. He thought that the Lord of the North Wind had casually given him a high-level artifact that could even be hidden from the gods' vision.

So he continued: "In that case, tell me the location of the wedding."

Basdia shook his head and said: "It's not that simple to destroy the wedding. The fungus queen used some unknown means to pollute a large forest. Alaumac has fallen into a deep sleep. If you use violence Destroying the ritual site will only lead to Alaumac's rampage, and even give the Fungus Queen an opportunity to sneak in. Moreover, many of our kind have fallen into the spore infection of the Fungus Queen, but many of them are still They are in a mildly infected state and can be rescued, but if Aromco goes berserk, these myconids will die violently."

Imrik frowned. He didn't expect that Alaumac had been hypnotized by the Fungus Queen to this extent. It seemed that before that, Danifei had provided a large amount of Life Stones to the Eye Mage to contaminate. Forest.

"Then what should I do?" Imrik asked.

Bastiya took out a mushroom that glowed with golden light and said: "This is the divine spore given by our Lord. Eat it, and you will have the ability to touch the deep consciousness of any fungus creature at will. You need to complete it before the wedding." Before, I sneaked into Alaumac's ritual and awakened him. Alaumac's spiritual power is extremely powerful. As long as he wakes up, he has enough power to completely drive the Fungus Queen out of the world."

Then, he said with dark eyes: "As long as you don't destroy the altar, any destructive behavior is acceptable. We don't have the strength to break through the altar guarded by the fungus queen, but you can. The fungus people around the altar are all deeply infected and unable to Don’t be merciful to the rescued infected people, foreigners.”

Imric took the glowing mushroom, and the rich magic power gathered on it emitted an astonishing magical aura, and even had a breath of transcendence.

"This mushroom seems to have grown in an environment of divine power, with a hint of divine power." The voice of the broken magic crystal sounded in his mind.

Imric raised his eyebrows. This was the first time he saw something with the aura of divine power. Unfortunately, there was no real divine power in it. Otherwise, according to the description of the broken magic crystal, even a tenth of a drop would be enough. The entire dark forest was destroyed.

He put the mushrooms away, then asked Bastia about the location of the wedding, and then left the cave.

"Please be careful, adventurers, and please do not harm the myconids outside the sacrificial site. They may still be rescued."

Before leaving, the myconid lord's slightly trembling voice sounded under the cave.

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The territory of the myconids is at the edge of Araumax's body. The seemingly huge mushroom plant is actually quite far away from Imrik. He must pass through the territory of the myconids to reach the core of the fungus forest, Araumax. Around Ke's body, where the wedding was held.

As soon as Imric arrived in the myconid territory, he found that the place was in an unusual carnival.

Magical music sounded in the air, and Zugmoi's courtiers, myconids and their spore slaves danced wildly to the music that only they could hear.

Seeing Imrik's arrival, these myconids with green plaques on their bodies did not show any aggressive tendencies. Instead, they came up and actively invited them: "Humans~humans~ come and join the lady's endless carnival. Let's Let’s sway with the music~”

According to Bastia, in order to trick the myconids into accepting her spores, the Fungus Queen transformed herself into an image that loved music and dancing. This also made a large number of myconids accept her existence and continue to parade, sing and dance. In the process , the Queen's spores are constantly infecting them.

These myconids will enthusiastically invite passersby to join their dance parade, but if you refuse, they will attack you, hypnotize you with hypnotic spores and then join the parade without consciousness.

Imric was already behind these myconids and saw a dozen dark elves and dwarves laughing and dancing in a daze.

Imric ignored them and just walked forward. Seeing that the other party ignored him, the myconids all turned crazy and shouted: "Come and join the ladies' carnival! Humans!!"

They rushed towards Imrik one after another, but their soft bodies could not break through the [Mage Lord Power Armor] on Imrik. Countless hypnotic spores were released by them, but these spores that confuse the mind He is also immune to it.

Imrik looked helpless. In order not to offend the God of Myconids, he had no choice but to ignore the group of mushroom people who were rushing towards him and pulling him. Fortunately, the Myconids were extremely weak in combat and had very little strength, so he just He walked out of the territory with countless myconids hanging on his body.

After leaving the territory, these myconids seemed a little confused. They quickly gave up on Imrik and ran back to the territory to continue dancing. Imrik shook his head and continued walking deeper into the fungus forest. At this moment, he also felt some sympathy for Zugmoi, who actually found such a group of creatures as his subordinates.

Walking inside, the pastel colors of the fungi transformed what he walked through into softly glowing grass. The floor was spongy and exuded a rich green color. Imrik was a little surprised. He originally thought this would be the most polluted place, but he didn't expect that there was no sign of flesh and blood corruption.

Then, Mrik felt the ground beneath his feet move, as if something was moving - many thick, sharp tendrils emerging from the ground. Two scavenger-like creatures emerged from the ground.

The creature bursts like an overflowing grape skin, releasing clear fish scales and a cloud of dust spores. Its deflated body sank beneath the gleaming fungus in front of Imrik.

"What is this?" Imrik frowned. This was a creature he had never seen before. Such an ugly form was not like the existence that nature could produce.

The swollen sacs on these two creatures kept bursting, and spores like dust mist spread out from their bodies. Imric raised his hand to cast a spell. He did not want such disgusting things to come close.

Five-ring evocation spell - [Hurricane Bombardment].

A strong hurricane appeared in Imrik's hand, blasting out like an air cannon, blowing away all the spores, and even the tendril-like body parts of the two monsters connected to the ground were broken by the blow, " Bang!" The ground hit a mushroom.

Imrik continued to raise his hand. He was just about to use [Fireball] to blow up the two monsters, when the voice of broken magic crystals sounded anxiously in his mind: "Don't use fire spells!"

The sound of the broken magic crystal made Imrik's spellcasting movement stunned, and he continued: "I feel that the surroundings are enveloped by some kind of powerful will. This will is extremely powerful, and it hates fire extremely. If you release a fire spell, it will very soon It could trigger an instinctive reaction from the forest."

Imric stopped moving. It seemed that Alaumco's consciousness had not completely fallen asleep. At least he could still fight back instinctively, which was a good thing.

Eight-ring evocation spell [Extremely Effective and Powerful - Bigby's Diamond Fist].

A huge force-field fist that covered the sky appeared above the two monsters, and smashed down like a Buddha's wrathful King Kong.

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