"Thank you... thank you... thank you... Lord, for your gift." Esteler stammered in excitement.
No one really has no desires, but most of the time, they are hidden deep in their hearts, as is the case with Estelle.
The suffering she had endured had filled her heart with a longing for power. If she had had strong power, her daughter and herself would not have suffered that tragic fate.
It's just that what she has studied so hard for more than half a year is not as good as Gavin giving it to her with a wave of his hand. If she were left to do it by herself, she would still be able to grow to this level.
Gavin smiled and waved his hand and said: "We are closely connected, so there is no need to say these polite words. You can try and see if you can canonize Ms. Ophelia as the Earth-bound Shadow Knight of this place."
He has clearly sensed that he has obtained the ownership of the Ivanso City Hall, just like the Vizeme Vineyard, and directly opened the branch property panel.
As long as he wants, he can drag it back to the Wezeme Manor and make it part of the manor.
Doing so is undoubtedly a waste of resources, and it is the wisest choice to let it stay where it is and become their new territory.
"Okay." Astaire concentrated on controlling the new ability he had just acquired. After only a few seconds, he shook his head and said, "No, Ms. Ophelia has been blessed with special powers. These two powers are mutually exclusive. , if she does this forcefully, it will only drain her original power out of her body, which will cause serious waste."
"As expected." Gavin was not surprised. This thing will bind the soul, and it must have specificity. It is the kind of method that wants to add multiple special templates to one person to unlock a transcendent or legendary body. It doesn't work, "Where's Ms. Delphine?"
This is also one of the sacred laws of the multiverse. The same magic will cover each other, and the stronger one will cover the weaker one. If you want to use ten or eight brute force spells on one person to make his power exceed hundreds of points, that is impossible. It's possible that no matter how many you cast, only one will take effect, but the duration will increase superimposed.
Hearing this, Esteler tried again, nodded and said, "This is okay. Do I need to be canonized now?"
"Don't do it for now. We can wait until we agree on how to deal with Ivanso before we leave this place." Gavin explained while walking towards the body of the necromancer Arms. This is a big treasure. .
A quasi-legendary mage, especially a devil who has lived for who knows how long, must have a lot of magic equipment.
After a cursory inspection, Gavin couldn't help but gasp despite his wealth. From head to toe, every piece of equipment on Arms was a magic weapon, starting at a minimum of +3.
Many equipments are not a matter of money, but simply cannot be sold on the market. Apart from other things, the crown of wisdom on his head is that Gavin has been coveting it for a long time, but has never had a way to purchase it.
This is a +6 Crown of Wisdom with very simple attributes, allowing the wearer of the synchronization to gain six points of external bonus in intelligence.
If this external attribute bonus conflicts with the intelligence improvement of the mage's spell, only the higher one will take effect.
However, the maximum intelligence improvement is only four points, and this one reaches six points. In addition, it has no time limit and cannot be dispelled with dispel magic, because it is not a true spell effect.
After wearing it, when turning on the extraordinary body, Gavin's intelligence value will reach an incredible level, close to forty points, which is a level that many high-level legendary mages cannot reach.
All abilities related to intelligence, such as the total number of psychic points, the number of spells cast per day, the power of supernatural powers and spells, etc., will be blessed accordingly.
This piece of equipment was placed in the auction house in Waterdeep City, with a price tag of 200,000, and it was gone in seconds.
Another piece of equipment with the highest value is naturally the magic book in Arms' hand, which records at least the nine-ring wish spell and the Banshee's Wail, the eight-ring Bigby Diamond Fist, the seven-ring Death Finger and a series of other types of death. How to cast spiritual magic.
Spells of this level cannot be bought with money, and even apprentices may not be able to learn them, especially necromancy spells. The people who control these spells are either evil people or people with eccentric personalities. He learned skills from people, and was made into a servant of the undead by accident.
The value of this cannot be measured in terms of money. In the hands of many people in need, this is a priceless treasure, and they are willing to pay no matter how high the price is.
Gavin threw the magic book to Daphne with his backhand. Only she can use this thing. Although Estelle now has a higher hit dice and a lot of spell-like abilities than her, it does not mean that she can use it. This needs Put a lot of effort into research.
"Thank you, Lord." Daphne felt like she had found a treasure, and the smile on her face was so sweet that she could shed honey. In her eyes, the value of this magic book is far more than the magic recorded in it. It usually also has Serving as the mage's important experimental notebook, Arms has done a lot of live experiments in Ivanso. There must be a lot of data recorded on it, and the method of refining the deadly poison and bone claws may even be recorded on it.
Even though they kill the Bone Claws very easily, that's because their abilities are restrained. If the Bone Claws are allowed to face those living people, their combat effectiveness is still quite terrifying, and they guard the Giant Plains, which gives them an advantage in this aspect. .
Although Real Shadow and Night Shadow are easy to use, their footsteps are limited to the territory radiated by Vizeme Manor. Unless it is a unique situation like this, there is no way to enter the battle. If they can By refining bone claws in large quantities, they will have a flexible and mobile undead extraordinary corps.
"Research carefully and dig out all the things that can be dug up." Gavin added uneasily, "Some things that are too evil must be reported to me as soon as possible. No random experiments on living subjects are allowed."
"Understood, I know where the bottom line is." Daphne had already figured out the bottom line of the man in front of her and didn't dare to touch it at will.
"That's good." Gavin nodded and fixed his gaze on the staff in Arms' other hand. It was an almost brand-new necromantic staff, made of ebony and one meter long. Eight, there is a skull inlaid on the top, and there are a total of forty-two bullets, which have panic, ghoul's touch, undead immobilization, weak energy, fatigue wave and death circle.
Staffs and wands are two important spell storage tools for spellcasters. Their properties are similar to scrolls, but there are differences in the number of spells they can store.
The scroll can only store one spell at a time, and once it is cast, the scroll is usually burned.
A wand is a small wooden stick ranging from ten centimeters to tens of centimeters. Most of them are made of wood, but some are made of bone. A few are made of metal, ceramics or glass. Many of them are inlaid with gems on one end. Complex runes are carved on the body, and a magic is stored on it. After it is made, it usually has an ammunition capacity of fifty rounds, and each round can cast this spell once.
The most common wand is the fireball wand, which is the most popular equipment in Tethyr. Those battlefield spellcasters are usually equipped with a fireball wand, which is enough for a third-level battlefield spellcaster to cast fifty times. The fireball technique is enough to sustain several battles.
With dozens of fireball wands like this, it's enough to form an artillery team.
The wand has a limitation, that is, its size is too small, and the runes engraved on it can only accommodate spells of fourth level and below.
Normally, wands cannot be recharged. Once the ammunition capacity at the time of manufacture is used up, they will become a regular wooden stick.
There are exceptions to everything. Some wands made of rare materials or methods can automatically absorb magic and recharge. Their value has doubled, usually ten times that of ordinary wands.
The staff is a large-sized wand, just like a spear, except that the head is not a spear head, but an inlaid metal ball or gem, etc. It can be used as a weapon.
Its large size greatly increases the number of spells it can inscribe, and it can usually cast multiple spells. For example, this Necromantic Staff has six spells.
The spells engraved on the same staff must be in a series and powered by the same energy. The spells of treating serious injuries and weak energy spells can never appear on the same staff, because the former uses positive energy and the latter uses negative energy. energy.
This also results in the relatively limited types of staffs. There are only a dozen or so types. The Necromantic Staff is neither the cheapest nor the most expensive. The brand new one in Arms’s hand is worth seven or eight dollars. Ten thousand, due to the use of eight rounds of energy, depreciated to about fifty thousand.
Just like magic wands, most wands cannot be recharged automatically. When used up, they turn into magic sticks. Once there are exceptions, the price is usually horribly high.
This staff was put directly into his backpack. He had not studied necromancy yet. These necromancy spells were all control-based and could increase his tactical options.
Then Gavin opened the portable dimensional hole on Arms' body, and couldn't help but take another breath of air. The wands inside were not in dozens, but in bundles. Half of the dimensional hole was densely packed, and the remaining half was It's all kinds of bits and pieces of spellcasting materials.
Could it be that this guy has the same hamster attributes as himself and likes to hoard things so much?
With these magic wands, it is enough for him to arm the army of conquerors and take their strength to a new level.
Because there are so many wands, there is no way to estimate them at the moment, but hundreds of thousands or even millions are possible.
"What's going on here?" Gavin took out the crystal ball that Arms had shown him before and asked Daphne and the others.
"This is the Eight Ring Soul Imprisonment Technique. All life and form are imprisoned in it. As long as the crystal ball is broken, the people imprisoned in it will automatically escape." Daphne replied, although she can't use it, but She knows all the necromancy spells well, both in terms of names and effects, after all, she is the one who eats them.
"Don't soul-imprisoning spells all use gems?" Gavin had heard about this spell and had little idea of it.
"Many people do like to use gems as a medium for casting spells. Not only is it easier to succeed, but it is also less easy to destroy. To Arms's level, even a crystal ball can be used, and it is easier to set traps." Delphine replied.
"That's it." Gavin nodded and stuffed the crystal ball that imprisoned Grace back again.
Her reputation in Ivansuo is also bad. Yessandra and Fan Ruina hate her to death. Letting her out now will definitely be a big trouble. It is better to imprison her like this and treat her as dead. .
The rest of the equipment on Arms was relatively ordinary and of little use to him, so he distributed it to the six-armed snake demon, Daphne and Estelle according to their suitability to strengthen them. combat effectiveness.
At this point, Arms has been eaten up and wiped clean, and no residue is left.
Gavin turned his head and looked at it, and after making sure that nothing was missing, he said to everyone: "You guys will go back to Misnoel for the time being, I am going to disband this place."
"Yes." Everyone responded in unison.
With just a thought, the entire space is collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and everything here is being transformed into the purest shadow power again.
Gavin did not withdraw his consciousness immediately, but looked at the edge of collapse infatuatedly. There were countless magic runes shaped by the power of mysterious shadows. The composition of these runes was extremely simple, representing water. The four basic elements of earth, wind, and fire, and then when these elements are combined in different arrangements, they form thousands of complex changes.
This situation reminded Gavin of the 0s and 1s in computer programs, which were simpler than this one, but formed endless complex program formulas.
Speaking of which, magic is similar to computer program formulas. Each magic is regarded as a program formula with specific effects, and all spellcasters can be regarded as programmers from another world.
Ahem, stop it, stop it, stop it. This idea is too weird, but once this idea comes up, it won't go away.
From small to large, from this temporary space, you can see that the entire world, and even the entire multiverse, may be built on this foundation - the entire world is constructed of magic runes.
It's just that compared to ordinary magic runes, as the foundation of the world, those magic runes are more complex and have more powerful power. Therefore, people have given them a special name. Rule runes are also called law runes. .
My own field of immortal revenge involves the application of laws, so it is so powerful that even many legends have to stumble on it.
I am currently an apprentice at best, and I can only use the ready-made program formulas mechanically. I have not yet developed my own program formulas. When will that time come, my spellcasting will be ready.
Those collapsed law formulas were far beyond the scope of his understanding. The only thing he could do was to use memory projection to engrave them.
Just because you can't understand it doesn't mean that others can't understand it. I believe that the legendary arcanist Fenicia must be very interested in this. Compared to mages, their arcanists are more orthodox programmers. From the beginning , they studied for the purpose of programming. This was determined by the environment they were in.
The magic network has not yet been established, and all kinds of magic have not been standardized. Most of them are like warlocks who rely on their innate talents to cast spells. Such spell casters are not even programmers, not even proficient in programming. They are computers at best. Users, once there is a problem with the operation of the computer's internal program, they immediately get confused and have no idea how to deal with it. At least the mages also know basic maintenance knowledge such as unplugging and inserting the memory stick and reinstalling the system.
Arcanists were the first-generation programmers and editors of most magic web spells. There was a historical reason why the second-generation magic goddess Mystra was able to build the magic web. Under the barbaric growth of arcanists in the Netheril Empire, magic A basic system had already emerged, and she took advantage of the situation and integrated this system into her own magic network, creating a mage profession that was easier to control.
Since it has become easier for mages to get started with spellcasting, they often rely on ready-made products. As a result, their hands-on ability is far worse than that of arcanists. The development of magic in the entire world has become extremely slow, at least compared to the period of the Netherese Empire. There is a huge gap, especially innovative spells that are very rare. The ability to cast spells that can change the entire world has not been available for thousands of years. Even the old technologies in history cannot be fully explored.
At least such a glorious feat as building a floating city is an impossible task even for the Kingdom of Halrua, which is known as the only orthodox inheritor of the Netheril Empire.
The above is not the orthodox history of Faerûn. It is purely Gavin’s imaginary interpretation that equates the profession of spellcaster with programmer.
There was one missing item when we just took stock. In addition to the material gains, Gavin and the others also had a hidden gain. The total load-bearing points of the Vizeme Manor increased by more than a thousand points. It originally had a total of more than 3,000 points. , when a little added up, it actually soared by one-third, reaching 4,000 points.
Compared with scattered harvests, war comes faster and more violently.
This is only the part of the undead in the undead realm, not counting the part of the undead stationed on the walls of Ivanso and guarding the city hall.
There is basically no chance of harvesting this part, especially the part that faces the Hammer of Justice Paladin. If it is either completely purified or bombed, it is estimated that not even the scum will be left.
Sure enough, when Gavin returned to reality, not only was the battle at the city hall nearing its end, but even the sounds of fighting coming from the direction of the city wall were sporadic, and it was obviously nearing its end.
Just as they had always planned, the special nature of the undead has destined them to rely heavily on high-level officials. When the necromancer as the core leader is killed, the remaining intelligent vassals will disperse in one fell swoop. The undead that came down were a disaster to the ordinary citizens, but to the established and well-trained soldiers, they were nothing more than a plate of food. Even the elites did not need to be sent out, leaving it to the new recruits to practice their courage and skills. What a perfect fit.
Looking around, not only Veranika and Nora, who were leading the charge, had gathered, but Katherine and Carissa, who had launched a surprise attack from the secret passage, were not far away. They were holding an impromptu meeting, apparently arranging troops. Set up a formation and quickly take over the entire Ivanso.
For them, taking Ivanso is just the beginning of the war. There will be greater turmoil waiting for them in the future. What will follow is not only the cities on the Dragon Coast, but also the Kingdom of Cormyr and Sambia. The kingdom will definitely respond.
(End of chapter)
