A sneeze destroys a magical civilization

"Master! The young man named Soth has already started making secret weapons for us."

After Ebeni ​​Arbo returned home, the first thing he did was to report to the "Lord of Symbols" to whom he was loyal.

After Lich Lagon heard this, he immediately nodded with satisfaction: "Well done!

As long as the things produced live up to my expectations, then I don't mind giving him a small gift.

do you know?

With the devices you sent yesterday, our hunting team has successfully rounded up and killed three adult blue dragons, seriously injured and captured an old blue dragon alive.

After losing their incredibly powerful lightning breath, the threat level of these guys plummeted.

You don't even need other talisman masters to take action, just a lich assistant and a few vampires or mummy lords can easily defeat them.

While these blue dragons are no match for the Sharptooth of Ivicora (Anti-Harmony) Sarglan, they give us a good idea. "

"Inspiration?"

Ebeni ​​Abo blinked in confusion.

Although he is one of the few core members within the organization who knows the true identity of the master, he is not the "Lord of Symbols" after all, and cannot understand the way of thinking of these powerful undead spellcasters.

"Yes, inspired."

There was a faint light in Lagun's eyes.

“I realized there was something wrong with the strategy I used to deal with Sarglan Sharptooth of Ivicora (Anti-Harmony).

As an ancient blue dragon, her greatest strength lies in her ability to combine powerful physical strength with lightning breath and spellcasting abilities, and apply them to complex and changeable battles.

Even people like the last emperor of the Xia En Dynasty, Xia En VII, would inevitably suffer in the end.

If it were just a spell confrontation, I would join forces with another Talisman Master and I would be confident enough to suppress the "Sharp Teeth" of Ivycolan LS.

Now, if there was an item that could deal with the threat posed by Lightning Breath that wouldn't be easily neutralized by dispel magic or anti-magic fields, then only physical items like bite, claw, dragon wing slap, and tail sweep would be left. attack.

For most spellcasters, there is nothing easier to deal with than pure physical attacks.

This is why I like this young man.

The energy storage device he created can still absorb and store a large amount of lightning energy even under the influence of an anti-magic force field.

Best of all, we don't have to defeat or kill Evicora (Anti-Harmony) Sarglan "Sharptooth" like Shayne VII did.

Just make sure that she cannot pose a fatal threat to the core members of the organization.

It doesn't matter whether Calimport will be destroyed in her wrath, or whether thousands or tens of thousands of people will die.

remember! The principle of [Entangled Talisman] is to be low-key and confidential, so that no one can know our existence.

In order to do this, anyone but the Lord of the Talisman can be sacrificed, abandoned. "

Obviously, for the immortal Lich, such a "small disaster" can be restored to its original state in at least ten or twenty years at the speed of human reconstruction and reproduction.

As long as [Entanglement Talisman] can continue to hide in the dark and control the entire Calimshan, then everything will not be a problem.

"Understood!"

Ebeni ​​Abo bent down and bowed deeply to his master.

As one of the few true core members of the entire organization, he is very aware of how strict the confidentiality system of [Entangle Talisman] is.

Even ninety-nine percent of the controlled members are unaware that they are actually serving a secret society of powerful undead spellcasters.

Among them are those ancient families that claim to have been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years.

There may not be more than seventy core members like Ebeni ​​Arbor who know the truth in total.

In other words, only a very few close associates surrounding the Lord of Symbols know the name of the organization [Tangled Symbol].

As for the remaining guys who don't even know who they are working for, they are just connected by a huge intelligence network covering the entire Calimshan.

Whether they are adventurers, the ubiquitous merchants, vendors, or the paladins who believe in goodness and order, they often do things for the [Spell of Entanglement] without knowing it.

It is precisely because of the most stringent and extreme confidentiality system in Faerûn that [Tangled Talisman] was able to develop rapidly in the hundreds of years after the unexpected death of the first-generation leader "Reseland of Darkness".

To this day, it has essentially become the true ruler of Calishite.

Guild wars, which seem extremely dangerous to outsiders, are actually just "little games" used by the "Lords of Talisman" to kill boring time.

…

After watching his men leave through the secret teleportation door, Lagon took out a mirror that looked like flowing mercury and touched it lightly with his dry finger bones.

moment!

An image of the tower's workshop appeared on the mirror.

The figure shaking in the middle of the mirror was Zuo Si himself.

At this moment, he has completed the basic structure of a huge energy storage device with a diameter of more than three meters and a height of more than six meters.

The [Transformation] ability is being used to add various materials one by one to maximize the energy storage limit and give it additional magical abilities and attributes.

In just a few minutes, this slightly turbid translucent cylinder began to emit a dazzling arcane aura.

Especially the thousands of magical runes that Lagon had never seen before were engraved close to the center according to certain rules through the thick crystal wall, which made this lich who had lived for more than a thousand years find it unbelievable. .

Because he had never heard of similar methods and techniques for making magic items.

In Faerûn, apart from weapons and armor, slightly more complex magic items are usually made at once.

Unless it is later mutated and damaged due to the influence of some external factors and needs to be repaired, secondary processing and strengthening often means a very high failure rate, and most spellcasters will try to avoid it.

But today, Zuo Si subverted the Lich's perception with practical actions.

[Creator] This special profession from another magical world, its use of magical energy was an eye-opener for Lagon.

What's even more incredible is that he realized that when Zuo Si used this power, he did not draw power from the magic network at all.

Instead, he is manipulating the most primitive and chaotic magical energy according to his own needs.

Normally, this ability can only be achieved by a very small number of advanced spellcasting professions, such as [Arch Mage], [Spellfire Messenger], etc.

"Does he have some kind of special advanced profession that I don't know about?"

Lagon touched his mandible with his other hand, his dry skull face expressionless.

Of course, as a lich whose skin and muscles had long since dried up and rotted, it was impossible for him to have any facial expressions.

But the two points of light in the eyes were flickering violently, showing the unrest deep in the master's soul.

It's a pity that Zuo Si was focusing all his attention on building a giant energy storage device at the moment, and he didn't realize that he had received the attention from the leader of the [Entangled Talisman] organization.

But even if he knew it, he might not have much reaction.

After all, [Entangle Talisman] is too secretive.

His knowledge of this organization was limited to an unexpected encounter in a certain game.

It's not as familiar and understanding as the Harper Alliance, the Zhentarim, the Shadow Thieves of Amn, the Red-robed Wizards, and the Masked Mage.

As for La Gong, the longer he observed, the more he felt that Zuo Si was a "talent" worthy of being recruited.

At least in terms of creating and strengthening magic items, he definitely has talent and creativity that others cannot match.

With his help at his side, the Lich is confident that he can create an amazingly powerful artifact.

Of course, Zuo Si is still too immature at the moment and will need a long period of time to hone his skills.

But that's okay!

As a lich, what Lagon lacks most is patience and time.

He had spent decades and hundreds of years slowly and deeply observing those candidates, just to select and train a qualified "Master of Talisman".

After confirming Zuo Si's potential, the Lich quickly closed the magic mirror and disappeared into darkness.