Gavin drank the wine in his hand and said, "The banquet begins."
With his order, the entire banquet resumed operation, the crowd began to flow and chat, the minstrels began to sing, and the clowns began to perform again.
All of this is sending a message to Gavin, a message of wealth and security.
He knew that everything in front of him was an illusion, but after staying here for a while, Gavin couldn't treat them as mere phantoms, because everything here was so real, not only the feeling of them touching, but also the feeling of them touching each other. Everything they show when you interact with them.
They are living individuals, with their own joys, sorrows, joys and memories, giving Gavin the feeling that everything in front of him is not just a simple illusion, but that he has really traveled through time and space and transformed into Ankh.
Gavin, who has experienced traveling through time, knows that this is impossible.
In Faerûn, time is relatively stable. There are no time-related priests or gods, and time-related magic is rare. Even if there are spells such as time stop, they usually only operate themselves to enter independent time. Tens of seconds or even dozens of seconds on the line.
On the other hand, there are spells such as confinement and time stasis, which are similar to time capsules. They can stabilize a person's state and then wake up again across years, decades, or even centuries.
Strictly speaking, this is not time magic, because it cannot be reversed, nor can it be completed instantly. Except for a very few people, most of the recipients are not willing, but are victims of these spells.
This is more like a reenactment of the situation through the power of magic.
Like all trials, the rhythm was very tight, leaving Gavin a very limited time to adapt to his identity. As soon as he came to the conclusion, there was a huge commotion and exclamation from the other side.
"What is this? Who are you? Why do you do this?"
"Ah...killed someone...killed someone..."
"This is the sacrifice summoning circle, he is summoning evil existence."
"Bone dragon... He is a necromancer, and he is summoning the bone dragon... ah..."
"Ah... I can't move. Help me. I can't move. Who can help me..."
"Dragon breath, strong acid dragon breath, this is not a bone dragon, this is a dracolich transformed from a black dragon..."
"Run away, run away..."
"It will die, it will die..."
"Caped warriors, what are you waiting for? Now is the time for you to step forward and stop him. Don't let them harm our people."
"Hold on, the Lord is on his way."
"The lord is here...the lord is here..."
"Lord, don't come over. This is a trap. This is a trap for you. You will die if you come here. Let's hold them back. You can quickly escape with the people!"
"Lord Anka, don't go..."
Gavin rushed towards the place where the riot broke out without thinking. There were all kinds of shouts along the way. By the time he arrived, the place had turned into a Shura field, a complete one-sided massacre.
The Dracolich that suddenly appeared in the crowd was a terrifying weapon against the ordinary citizens of the valley. Every move he made was full of terrifying lethality.
As soon as it lifts its foot, it can trample a citizen into a pulp.
With just one glare, it can paralyze a citizen and make him unable to move.
Its tail sweep will send countless citizens flying around, either hitting the crowd, knocking down several people, or falling heavily to the ground. Some will be beaten to death on the spot, and some bodies will be severely distorted. No matter where they are, One way, in a short period of time, there is no way to get up from the ground.
The most terrifying thing is its dragon breath, which is like a waterfall tens of meters long and several meters wide, pouring down, and the people inside it let out shrill and desperate screams.
What fell from the sky was strong acid, which was horribly corrosive. Not to mention flesh and blood, even the metal and wooden objects were corroded and soon became riddled with holes.
Whether it's the way the dragon's breath is displayed, or the way the opponent's dragon horns project forward ferociously like a goat, it all proves that the opponent was a black dragon when he was alive.
Different from the black-green rotten water breath breathed out by ordinary black dragons, the dragon breath breathed out by this dracolich is darker, smellier, and more corrosive. Many valley people who were sprayed to death stood up unsteadily. , began to attack his former relatives and friends, because they have now become undead.
In this one-sided massacre, a group of people went against the current and pounced on the raging Dracolich. Even though most of them could not withstand a single blow from this terrifying monster, they still pushed forward one after another, regardless of their own safety.
These people are male or female, old or young, and have different races. The only thing they have in common is that they wear a fiery red cloak. They are the caped warriors of Anka. They are using their lives to fight for Those ordinary valley residents fought for a chance to survive and minimized casualties as much as possible.
Before the transformation, this dracolich had at least reached ancient times, because his size had exceeded the super large size and entered the giant state. Under normal circumstances, only black dragons of this age group would grow to this size.
The Lizard Queen was purely an accident. It is rare to see a gluttonous dragon like her.
The appearance is very similar to that of a black dragon, but there are not many dragon scales and muscles on the whole body. Only a huge skeleton of bones is left, including the dragon wings, and many places that appear to be muscle tissue are nothing but black mist formed by negative energy.
The position of the dragon's eyes flashes with a piercing scarlet light. Whoever falls on it will be involuntarily wrapped in a terrifying cold energy, the kind that penetrates directly into the soul, and the whole body will be paralyzed and frozen in place.
Dracolich, as the name suggests, is a lich transformed by a dragon. It retains most of the dragon's abilities, but also possesses some of the lich's special abilities, such as manipulation of undead creatures, terrifying aura, paralyzing gaze, and paralyzing touch. Undead characteristics, super spell resistance, partial immunity, etc.
This allows them to greatly increase their combat effectiveness without much change in their life dice.
When it comes to Dracolich, we have to mention the Dragon Witch Cult, also known as the Dragon Cult. This church was founded by Sammaster.
He is an extremely talented mage of the same era as the Archmage Elminster. Not only was he once the chosen one of the goddess of magic Mystra, but he was also the lover of Alustriel, one of the seven sisters. However, it didn't take long for the two to fall in love because of their temperament. The disagreement and separation were regarded as the inducement for this extreme genius to leave the embrace of the goddess of magic and join the embrace of immortality.
This genius mage predicted that the continent of Faerûn would eventually be ruled by an immortal dragon with wisdom. Therefore, after years of painstaking research, he created the Book of Dragons, a book that records the method of transforming a dragon into a dracolich. A magnificent work.
The cultists who followed him formed a church organization and called themselves the Dragon Worship Cult.
Because they worship dragons, especially evil dragons, especially immortal evil dragons.
This church is dedicated to persuading the evil chromatic dragons in Faerûn to transform into dracolich and become part of the Cult of the Dragon.
It's just that the progress of this matter has been quite unsatisfactory.
Those intelligent creatures who choose to become lich are often forced to do so.
Their lives of hundreds or even hundreds of years will come to an end in a blink of an eye. When searching for other ways to extend their lives to no avail, they can only transform themselves into lichs.
But giant dragons are different. As long as they are not killed by others, they have a lifespan of at least two thousand years. Death is very far away for them.
Becoming a dracolich will certainly allow these dragons to gain great power in a short period of time, but for those dragons that have not grown to the ancient age, it is tantamount to giving up the normal growth method of a dragon.
For those dragons in their prime, this is not worth the loss.
After all, the transformation of most undead is closely related to their strength in life. You can't expect that an ordinary person can transform into an undead knight or a banshee, and dracolich is no exception.
The Dracolich transformed by an adult dragon and the transformed ancient dragon are definitely not the same concept.
Once transformed into the undead state, it will mean giving up most of the feelings, which is not acceptable to most dragons.
Only those ancient dragons that are on the verge of death, or dragons with special circumstances, consider transforming themselves into dracolich.
Therefore, Dracolichs are only a small part of the dragons that now make up the Dragon Cult. Most of the dragons are still in a biological state. Most of them use lies to exchange for the service and tribute of the cultists of the Dragon Cult. In order to Convincing them to join the ranks of the dracolich, these cultists serve with dedication.
Based on the secret nature of its own development and the solitary nature of those dragons, the Dragon Worship Cult prefers to keep a high degree of secrecy externally. Many people do not know that there is such a powerful cult in Faerûn.
What really made them famous and come to the surface was more than ten years later, when Sammaster tried to find and control the Dragon Madness Mystery Lock, artificially triggering Dragon Madness, and forcing more dragons to transform into Dracolichs. To escape the uncontrollable dragon rage caused by the Dragon Madness Mystery Lock.
In fact, some colorful dragons agreed to transform into dracolichs out of fear of Dragon Madness. Once they fell into Dragon Madness, they would transform into the most brutal killing machines, madly attacking everything around them, including their own bodies. Servants and allies.
These evil colorful dragons are not worried about the disaster they bring to others. What they are afraid of is that they will do stupid things in the process and be taken advantage of and slaughtered by someone with ulterior motives.
Gavin knew a piece of information that many people didn't know. The relationship between the Dragon Worship Cult and Sembia was very close.
The first dragon lich of the Dragon Worship Cult was transformed in the city of Sambia now called Serron City. In the same year, the Kingdom of Jondas rejected the request to establish the city-state of Sambia. The relationship began to deteriorate.
There is nothing wrong with these two things when viewed separately, but when viewed together, they are intriguing.
This is not a coincidence, but the appearance of the Dracolich gave the city lords and lords of the Sambia city-state enough confidence to resist and break away from their original masters.
On the other hand, it was the Dragon Worship Cult that secretly supported the independence of the Sambian city-state.
In fact, the attributes of the kingdom of Sambia are exactly the same as those of the colorful dragons. They have an endless greed for wealth and will do anything for their greed. Moreover, the situation of the young red dragon is not an exception. They are in many places. , all cooperating with those evil colorful dragons.
Among them, the cultists of the Dragon Worship Cult are all adding fuel to the flames.
As for the reason, of course it is to gain wealth. If you want to get close to those dragons and let them use them for your own use, what is more convenient than a large amount of wealth?
As a country with huge wealth, Sambia has always used mercenaries and did not form its own army. This is an extremely abnormal thing in itself. Unless they have a trump card in their hands, they are not afraid of ordinary armies of other forces. invasion, such as the purple dragon army of the Kingdom of Cormyr.
If there is a Dragon Cult with a large number of dragons and dracolich allies lurking behind, everything would make sense.
When Ankar developed rapidly in the valley, Sambia was naturally the one who suffered the most losses. When they found that there was no way to restrain Ankar's development and growth using ordinary methods, they could only send out their own trump card - the Dracolich.
After going round and round, the final cause of Ankar's death was Sambia. It could only be Sambia. The Zhentarim had not yet been established at that time.
With the information belonging to the Dracolich swirling in his mind, Gavin acted without any hesitation and used all his important means at once.
Shadow showdown.
The realm of immortal revenge.
Summon the Shadow Legion.
Summon Wu Liu and activate the complete Wu Liu super state.
The Six-Armed Snake Demon, Daphne, Lizard Queen, Estelle, and Razor Blade were all summoned by Gavin.
Although Gavin is now wearing Anka's face, he is still himself inside, including his abilities.
As for whether they really summoned the six-armed snake demon? Or is everything simulated by illusion based on one's own abilities? You will have to find out after you leave here.
Anyway, all perception and communication are the same as in reality.
"Kulgor, Agatha entangled the dracolich."
"Ophelia, Daphne, and Astaire kill the necromancer first."
Gavin completed the formation in an instant. Those spellcasters were always the priority to be killed. He was not blinded by the power of the Dracolich.
The most dangerous thing is the Necromancer dormant behind the Dracolich. No one knows what other spells he can cast.
Although he knew that it was an illusion and everything was an illusion, everything was so realistic that Gavin had to treat everything as real.
Except for Estelle, who still lacks combat experience, the others are experienced in many battles. They don't need Gavin's command at all, they will make the best choice.
None of them fought with their bodies, all of them were shadows or night shadows.
The ones who are best at dealing with the undead are not the creatures from the upper planes, but the beings who are also undead.
In particular, lichs and banshees, which are undead that rely heavily on negative energy, are easier to restrain.
This battle is a replica of the battle against the evil beast and ghost necromancer in Ivanso.
Not only was the Necromancer extremely aggrieved, but the Dracolich was also roaring with anger, but there was nothing he could do about it. Whether it was a paralyzing gaze or a paralyzing touch, it had no effect on the Lizard Queen and Razor Claws, which were also composed of negative energy. .
Even the most powerful dragon breath attack is almost ineffective, because after transforming into a dracolich, their dragon breath has also changed. It is no longer a chemical reaction produced by the dragon-based tissue of their own body, but a supernatural ability. Use negative energy to simulate dragon breath.
This kind of simulation is difficult to achieve 100%, so the Dragon Lich's dragon breath usually shows a mixed nature, half of which is the original energy attribute and half of which is negative energy impact.
The kind that has been transformed into the original attributes of dragon breath can cause impact damage to the Lizard Queen and Razor Claw.
But that kind of negative energy impact turns into a therapeutic effect when it comes to Ye Ying, who is purely composed of negative energy.
Typical of doing damage while doing a lot of healing, the result is wasted effort.
The situation is mutual.
Most of the special abilities and attacks generated by Dracolich's negative energy have no effect on the Lizard Queen and Razor Claw.
The same Lizard Queen's Shadow Dragon Breath will naturally have no effect.
Therefore, the battle between the three dragons can only be carried out in the form of hand-to-hand combat, occasionally mixed with the spellcasting of the Dracolich, but the effect is minimal, because its spellcasting ability is somewhat similar to a spell-like ability. It is still a relatively limited one, leaning towards the necromantic system. Many of them involve the use of negative energy, and are naturally restricted and cannot be used.
With a series of special abilities restricted, the battle between giant dragons is quite boring. The back and forth is nothing more than pounce, bite and tail sweep.
And their huge size means that they are not good at avoiding and can only fight head-on.
For a moment, there was a bang and black energy overflowing. It looked very powerful, but in fact the damage caused was relatively limited. The pure negative energy body gave them a very strong damage reduction ability.
Any special ability is not without reason, and many have a causal relationship.
This is the damage reduction ability of Yeying, but it is not exactly the same as the damage reduction formed by the absolute protective layer of combat armor.
Those energy bodies that are purely composed of a single energy, no matter how solid the body is, cannot be compared with the material body. It can be distinguished at a glance. The body is filled with a unique state of energy dispersion. For example, those light bodies will The light shines brightly, while spirits such as ghosts are shrouded in black mist.
It's just that the soul has a strong adsorption ability to negative energy. Usually, those negative energies will take the initiative to find them, not to mention that it is a part of their body. The higher the life dice of the soul, the stronger this adsorption ability.
When the attack fell on them, part of the dispersed negative energy was re-absorbed back by the powerful adsorption force, as if part of the damage had been reduced.
Therefore, attacks related to positive energy can not only break the damage reduction on them, but also cause extreme damage to them, because the negative energy is not washed away from them, but neutralized by the positive energy.
When Gavin transformed into the complete Wuliu super state, the fate of Dracolich was already doomed. With just three strikes, the hammered bones flew away with the black mist, paralyzed directly to the ground, and dismantled into skeletons. It was only a matter of time. question.
(End of chapter)
