Lord of Spells from Faerûn

The next day, everyone gathered together again, refreshed after a whole night's rest.

"I have to say, those steam baths and soft beds really make me miss city life." Kelanwo said with emotion.

Midnight rolled her eyes at him and said, "Stop being so talkative, saving the world is the most important thing."

"Yes, yes, save the world." Kelanwo looked impatient. Although he was a cold-faced and warm-hearted person, the reason for the curse had made him accustomed to the idea that giving without reward was a sin since he was a child.

Several people came to a huge mage tower, which was Elminster's palace in the Valley of Shadows. The towering white stone wall was engraved with runes drawn by mithril. The huge size was even the same as the [Rugged Tower]. quite.

The servant at the door saw their arrival, learned their purpose and informed the scribe of Elminster: "Mr. Rao, these people have something to discuss with Lord Omar."

A young man with thinned hair to the back of his head and a proud look walked down. He saw several people and said impatiently: "I know, wait here, I will inform the teacher."

The door of the Mage Tower was closed again. The servant at the door looked at the adventurers apologetically and said nothing. Soon, the door of the Mage Tower was opened again, but the news brought by Rao was not satisfactory.

"I'm sorry to bother you, but Elminster is conducting an experiment and you'd better come back later. Disturbing him at a time like this will irritate him easily, you know. So I suggest you leave, unless you Wanting to turn myself into a gadfly, or something unpleasant like that.”

Rao said arrogantly that the experiment was real, but he did not actually consult Elminster. These adventurers would appear in waves every few days, always imagining that they could meet the most powerful mage in the country. , and then there was some unexpected surprise. Elminster usually approached them with kindness, but Rao did not want to add pressure to his teacher.

Rao was about to close the door, but found that something, no, some force blocked the path.

Imrik's hand was emitting the light of blue psychic power, and his huge mental power firmly held the door, and his little remaining patience was exhausted.

Huge psychic power is about to swarm out and completely dominate the brain of the apprentice who has eyes above his head, but at the critical moment, the same psychic power interrupts Imrik, and the master of the Mage Tower is awakened by this powerful psychic fluctuation. .

"Let them come in! Rao, otherwise, old man, I can't stop a powerful psychic from turning you into a fool." A familiar voice came, with a hint of dissatisfaction. He had known that his apprentice had too much It's a lot of thought, but if you offend someone you've never met before, you'll die sooner or later.

Imrik glanced at Rao coldly, and withdrew his strength. Even when beating a dog, it depends on the owner, so it would be better to leave him alive for the time being.

"Stupid guy, open the door quickly. The person standing in front of you is the Lord of the Silver Mirror from Waterdeep City!" The servant of the city lord who followed Imric and others quickly shouted. He didn't want any conflicts to happen and the city lord blame him. Own.

Cold sweat broke out on Rao's face. Elminster's attitude made him know that he seemed to have offended a big shot. He quickly opened the door and smiled flatteringly: "I'm so sorry, sir. It's all my fault. If I had known earlier. I will definitely tell Lord Omar immediately about your identity."

Seeing Rao's completely different behavior, Midnight spat disdainfully and said: "Stop talking nonsense, take us to see Elminster quickly, we have something important to do!"

"Yes, yes, please come with me." Rao nodded repeatedly.

Everyone walked into the mage tower, and a white-bearded sage who was smoking a pipe made of meerschaum was looking at them happily: "We meet again, this one"

The silver-haired mage smiled and said, "Imrik Thor."

Elminster glanced at the silver-haired mage in front of him with a hint of confusion. He naturally knew his name.

"Imric, what's going on between you and these children?" Elminster asked.

"I brought the last words of the goddess of magic Mystra and her token. This is what she asked me to give you, along with her message." Midnight on the side interjected.

Elminster frowned and glanced at her, expressing some doubts. Why didn't the goddess tell him before? But when it comes to the goddess, Elminster cannot deal with it at will.

He glanced around and then said: "Follow me, this is not the place to talk."

After speaking, he led a few people to a small room of more than ten square meters. The floor and walls of the room were engraved with complex incantations, and there was a huge five-pointed star array standing in the center on the ceiling.

Elminster knocked on the wall with a meerschaum pipe, and then all the runes glowed with silver light. He turned around and said: "Now, tell me everything between you and the goddess Mystra, And then told me her message verbatim."

Midnight told everything she saw, even the fact that Mystra was killed by Helm.

"Give me the pendant," said Elminster.

Midnight took off the jewelry and gave it to the sage. Elminster placed the pendant above an amber glass ball and waited for a while, but nothing changed. He held the pendant closer, touching it with the metal star part while trying to stay as far away from his body as possible. The purpose of the glass ball was to shatter when any powerful magical item came close, but the pendant was attached to it and nothing happened.

Elminster raised his head and narrowed his eyes. "It's worthless." He dropped the pendant to the floor.

"There's no magic in this gadget." Elminster kicked the pendant across the floor and it landed in the corner, raising a cloud of dust. “I gave of my time and my patience,” Elminster said, “neither of which should be wasted, especially now when the valley is a mess.”

"But there is powerful magic in the pendant!" Midnight said, "I've seen it, we've all seen it!"

Midnight's conclusive words made Elminster hesitate. Suddenly, he remembered the necklace that the goddess asked him to give to Imric, which also had no mana fluctuations.

He looked vaguely at Imric's chest, but there was nothing there.

"Have you hidden it? Still not wearing it?" Elminster muttered in his heart, which made him begin to wonder if the girl in front of him was also one of the goddess's favorites? But why didn't I receive the message?

As the closest and most powerful chosen one under the goddess, the goddess would tell him almost everything, but he knew nothing about the girl named Midnight in front of him.

Wait, Elminster suddenly felt a pain in his head, and a vague memory seemed to appear, but soon disappeared.

The city lord's servant on the side stepped forward and said: "Elminster, Lord Moglin needs to talk about the defense you have installed in the Craggy Tower."

"Do you want it now?" Elminster said, "Where is he? Bring him in."

The muscles on Huksgaard's face twitched, "He's not here."

"That's a problem, isn't it?"

Huksgaard's face turned red, "He sent me for you, good sir."

"Get it? As if I'm a dog, after all I've done for him!"

"Good Elminster, you know that's not what I meant!"

The Sage thought for a moment, "I guess I'll take a look, but not today. There are certain elements at play there that I need to take a closer look at."

Then he looked at Kelanvor and the three of them and said, "You have all witnessed those strange things that are unknown to everyone. How do you choose when it comes to the defense of the valley?"

The three of them did not move. Kelanvor's eyes turned to Midnight, but the latter avoided his gaze.

"Are you deaf? Will you stay in the valley?

Kelemvor's eyes still did not leave Midnight, her eyes told him that although the agreement with the goddess had been reached, she still had no intention of leaving. Anger rose in his heart and he didn't want to stay, but he couldn't leave Midnight either. "We have come a long way, and now Bane wants our lives. If there is a reward, then I am willing to fight." The warrior finally said.

"You will be paid," Elminster said dryly.

As the silence in the room became unbearable, a cold hand grasped Cyric's heart. Midnight looked up at him, something flashing in her eyes. Cyric thought of that dreamy night in the ice castle and how close they had become during this journey.

"I will fight," he said, and Midnight looked away. "Anyway, I have nothing better to do."

Elminster looked away. He did not ask Imric. The goddess's fall made him consider whether he should tell the goddess about her arrangements for him, but he didn't know much.

"If you don't mind," the silver-haired mage took the initiative to say, his dark pupils looking straight at Elminster like a black hole. "I can also join the defense of Shadow Valley."

Kelanvor and others widened their eyes in surprise. With Imric, a powerful mage joining the team, the war was obviously more likely to be won, but Elminster hesitated.

He sighed and said: "You all go out first, I have something to say to Imrik alone."

Then, under everyone's puzzled eyes, an invisible force pulled them all out, and the door was closed tightly.

"What do you want to tell me? Elminster." Imrik said with a smile. He had actually guessed the other party's intention.

"Did you throw away the necklace given by the goddess of magic?" Elminster took a deep breath. He who had been treating it indifferently seemed to be a different person now.

Imrik took out a necklace with a blue planet on it and said, "This? Of course not."

Elminster nodded and said, "I have something to tell you."

"This necklace is actually something I asked Kelben to give to you," Elminster said and looked at Imrik. He expected to see the other person's surprised expression but found nothing. He couldn't help but mutter in his heart, what a surprise. A boring person.

"Six months before the gods fell, the goddess gave me the necklace. She told me a secret mission and asked me not to mention it to anyone, not even herself."

He looked at Imrik and said word by word: "The goddess asked me to give the necklace to you and do everything I can to protect your safety."

Then, he smiled bitterly and said: "I don't understand the goddess's intention. She can obviously give you powerful power easily and even make you a chosen one. Why do you need to go to the trouble of asking me? Moreover, she even asked me not to tell anyone, even She will never ask me about it again."

He looked at the pentagram on the ceiling in confusion and said: "The goddess once knew everything about me, but now I can't see through her at all. Even the mage named Midnight said that the goddess had been killed. , I have hope in my heart.”

He looked at Imrik and asked with a hint of pleading: "Do you think the goddess is really dead?"