Lord of Spells from Faerûn

"An adult beholder." Imric thought to himself.

The beholder is an eight-foot-wide spherical monster with a large eye in the center and a bloody mouth full of fangs. In addition, there are ten small eyeballs connected by eye stalks all over the body.

The adult beholder is extremely powerful, with a challenge level as high as level 13. In other words, a whole team of professionals with a level of 13 is needed to be completely sure of a successful crusade.

The beholder has ten eye stalks, each with a different supernatural ray: charm monsters, charm people, dissociation, finger of death, fear, petrification, cause moderate damage, sleep, slowness, telekinesis.

Each special ability is very powerful, among which the power of dissociation and the finger of death can kill Imrik instantly, of course, provided that he can hit it.

In addition, the beholder also possesses a powerful ability that can be called the mage's nemesis - the anti-magic field.

In the continent of Faerûn, magic nets exist among all things, but there are many places where the magic nets have been completely destroyed due to battles in ancient times, resulting in magic net-free areas. In such places, spellcasters (except psychics) will lose the ability to cast spells.

The anti-magic field is the ability to artificially turn an area into a magic net-free area temporarily. The beholder's anti-magic field can create a 150-foot-long cone-shaped anti-magic field in front of her huge main eye.

Although the beholder cannot use its eye stems to release ray spells after the anti-magic field is turned on, the beholder's strong physical fitness allows them to tear apart the enemy with their fangs.

The mage thought for a while and decided to go and have a look first. Every beholder has serious mental illness. For Imric, who has psychic powers, there is no chance at all.

Imrik raised his hand and unleashed a psychic explosion full of energy points, shattering the pale man's brain before disappearing into the silver mist.

Underground, the beholder's lair.

The beholder Shannasa is floating above her throne. There is a small fish tank floating in front of her, and there is an ugly black fish in it.

She said gently to Heiyu: "My lovely Hilga, you are so beautiful, stay with me forever, okay."

At this time, a servant ran in and interrupted her relationship with her pet fish: "Great mistress, a mage is here. He said he has the Stone of Gorol."

Zannasa, who was originally angrily planning to use dissociation rays to turn the servant who had disturbed her into powder, heard the Stone of Gorol stop. She rolled her ferocious big eyes and said happily: "Take him." Bring it in! I want to see my baby! If you dare to lie to me, you will all die!"

Not long after, the servant brought back a mage, who was Imrik.

He smiled and bowed to Zanasa and said, "Mighty Zanasa, I have brought you a gift."

Imric took out the Stone of Gorol from his pocket. When the beholder saw the stone, he floated in front of the mage excitedly, snatched the stone away, and looked at it in fascination:

"Oh, my baby, you're back, my gold."

Imric took the opportunity to say from the side: "Great Zannasa, in order to help you get this treasure back, I went through all the troubles, but I finally got it. I believe that only you are qualified to own it. "

Zannasa looked back at the dog-legged mage with satisfaction, and said with a sharp smile: "Oh hahaha, yes, you are right, only I am qualified to own it, I want to return to the treasure house and get it Those lovely gold coins! Oh no. That damn golden dragon! He was the one who blocked me!"

Imric rolled his eyes. It seemed that the beholder had been to the treasure house, but why didn't he succeed? Was it because of the golden dragon?

The golden dragon is one of the giant dragons, the most powerful of the five good metal dragons. They possess powerful physical strength and extremely high-temperature flame breath.

The challenge level of an adult golden dragon is as high as 16. This is without professional level bonus, so it can be said to be extremely powerful.

He organized his language, decided to volunteer, and proposed to help the beholder go to the treasure house to defeat the golden dragon.

This is not because he is looking for death. In fact, as a lawful and good creature, golden dragons will not kill innocent people indiscriminately. On the contrary, evil creatures like beholders are the creatures they want to kill.

If there really is a golden dragon in the treasure house, it is impossible for Imrik to get the treasure without his permission. It is better to deceive the beholder first, use the golden dragon to destroy her, and then see if there is a chance to get the treasure.

Just when he was about to speak, Zannasa suddenly turned her head to look at him and said forcefully: "You! Mage! I order you now to accompany me to the Dragon Coin Treasure House and help me get rid of that annoying golden dragon! "

Imrik thought to himself that before he even made a suggestion, this beholder ordered him unreasonably, so it would save him a lot of time.

He smiled and bowed and said: "Of course, this is my honor, the powerful and beautiful Zannasa."

The satisfied beholder laughed and enjoyed the black-robed mage's praise, but did not notice the strange look in his eyes.

Underground, the dragon coin treasure house.

The beholder led Imrik around the connection between the Earth Maze and the sewers, and finally came to an empty underground cave. In front of him was a magnificent stone door.

The beholder threw a gem and smart light onto the altar in front of the stone door. A flash of physical pain flashed in his eyes, and then he pulled out the eye stalk that was enchanted with slow rays.

"Ouch!" The beholder screamed in pain, cursing the person who designed the mechanism. She had already sacrificed one last time she came here, and it finally grew out, so she wanted to do it again.

Fortunately, as the three keys gathered on the altar, the stone door was opened by some inexplicable force.

"Boom." The heavy stone door slowly opened, revealing an extremely long corridor. Torches made of immortal flames were inserted on both sides of the corridor to maintain the light.

Zanassa couldn't wait to float in, waving her eye stalk to signal Imric to follow.

This treasure house is very large, and the ground is covered with dust. After walking around in circles for a long time, I still haven't reached the place where the dragon coins are stored.

However, looking at the accumulated dust and traces of decay around him, Imrik determined that the golden dragon in the treasure house must be quite old, at least reaching the level of a young dragon, or even an adult dragon.

There is no need to doubt how creatures like dragons can maintain life in this treasure house. Dragons are creatures with extraordinary talents. They can sleep in one place for dozens or even hundreds of years.

Even if they are not sleeping, they are willing to stay in a place full of treasures without going out, even if there is something urgent that affects them.

Humans once had a saying: “A good answer today is better than a perfect answer tomorrow.”

But for long-lived dragons, they will only answer you: "What are you in a hurry for?"

The most important factor in shaping Dragon's perspective and state of mind is time. Dragons have no desire to live for the present; they have a lot of time stretched out before them. They don't worry about wasting time. If dragons have anything in excess, it's time, and they don't care about themselves in a hurry.