Broad World

The earliest spell duels can be traced back to when the elves first came to Faerun. These intelligent beings with pointed ears have unparalleled magical skills. Once two mages of similar strength have disagreements, they will hold a spell duel. However, the nature of the elves is relatively peaceful, and generally speaking, they will stop if they break all the defenses of the opponent. It's a bloodless fight, and it's very entertaining to watch.

But it is humans who really carry forward the magic duel. With the opening of the age of Netheril, countless arcanists were born. Their personalities are diverse, fully interpreting the complexity and change of human nature. In order to solve more and more conflicts and contradictions, the archarcanists finally came up with a solution, and that was dueling. Simple and rude, whoever has the bigger fist is right.

However, it is obviously impossible for humans to be as sissy as elves, and it will end without even seeing a little blood. The original rule was that as long as it didn't cause death or disability, the others were free. With the changes of the times, spell duels also broke through the lower limit again and again, until finally it directly became the fate of life and death.

This cruel and bloody cannibalism has cultivated a large number of notorious spellcasters for human beings. Their combat experience is richer, and they are several blocks away from other mages of the same level. In a certain conflict, the elves discovered with horror that the mages they sent were no match for humans at all, and the traditional tactics were almost completely ineffective, almost a one-sided massacre. obviously. Henry belongs to this kind of guy who doesn't bother to say hello to others when he goes out. Although he has experienced quite a lot of battles, he has almost never had a real one-on-one magic duel. But now the opportunity has come, the elemental lich in front of him is obviously not much different from his spellcasting level, about twenty-four to thirty, it is simply a perfect opponent.

Element finally knew that today's matter may only be spoken with fists. According to the rules of magic duels, he first bowed slightly, and then opened a distance of about fifteen meters. The two sides looked at each other like this for a full minute. Immediately afterwards, they nodded at the same time, and the duel officially began.

In order to exercise his ability to predict magic, Henry did not use advanced magic such as "Spell Smash" or "Kelben's Guardian Whip", which can break a lot of protection at once, nor did he use the magician's staff Absorb spells cast by enemies into energy points. Instead, try to identify the spell your opponent is chanting. Then use conventional methods to break. However, the tactics of this elemental lich in front of him are a bit unorthodox. It only blesses itself with a sixth-level magic "protection against magic energy damage", and then activates the ninth-level magic "chain accident". In an instant, three "Abidacci death adjustment techniques" were released. Brown-white mist filled the entire underground hall.

"Damn it! This guy must be a spellcaster specializing in evocation." Henry cursed secretly, and quickly activated the "spell trap" on the magician's staff. I saw a layer of dark blue magic shield covering his body, and all the gas was blocked out.

You must know that some evocation system mages adhere to a principle, that is, you don't need too much protective magic, just enough. But attack spells must be enough. As long as the opponent is forced to be on the defensive all the time, then he can take advantage of his strong lethality. Smash all kinds of energy damage until there is a gap in the enemy's defense, so that the final word can be directly blasted to slag.

have to say. This kind of tactical thinking and the protection system's first turning oneself into an airtight tortoise shell, and then counterattacking when it sees the opportunity are simply two extremes. However, most spellcasters chose the latter without hesitation, and only a very small number of radicals regarded the bombardment and killing style as a classic.

After all, who would not cherish his own life? Although it is very refreshing to blow the opponent into pieces with gorgeous and powerful magic, and the visual effect is quite gorgeous, but this cannot conceal the problem of weak defense and insufficient adaptability. The overall idea of ​​this tactic is to minimize the proportion of spells from other factions, so that evocation magic accounts for more than 70%, because only in this way can high-intensity uninterrupted attacks be guaranteed.

But everyone knows that although every magic is powerful, there are very few spell slots. I remember too many evocation spells, and I definitely can't take into account the defense. In the event of an unexpected situation such as being attacked, such spellcasters basically die very quickly.

Of course, the battle between mages is generally determined by the casting level and spell slot. Whoever has a higher spellcasting level will have an advantage in magic confrontation, and whoever has more spell slots means that he can release more magic than his opponent. Although there are not many high-level mages who were overthrown by low-level mages in history, they all undoubtedly made the mistake of underestimating the enemy.

Just like Henry is currently fighting the Elemental Lich, there will never be any underestimation of the enemy. Because they both know that a small mistake may trigger a chain reaction. Once the opponent takes the initiative, they can only resist passively. Once the protective spells are completely consumed, the fate can be imagined.

The magic duel is still going on. Henry's "Spell Trap" can only absorb up to 30 levels of magic attacks, but the eighth-level magic "Abidacci's Death Tune" consumes 24 in an instant after three bursts. Before the shield was shattered, he hurriedly chanted a spell, and bless himself with two seventh-level magics "Protection from Elemental Damage" and "Spell Reversal" as quickly as possible.

They are the most practical spells in the current state. The protective force field formed by the former can completely resist all elemental attacks. Whether it is magic or non-magic acid, cold, lightning, and flame, they will all be absorbed. According to the one-minute duration of the two casting levels, Henry can be immune to elemental damage within fifteen minutes.

As for the latter, it can reflect twelve levels of unfavorable magic, but it is ineffective against area-of-effect spells like "Fireball" and "Dead Cloud". It can be said that these two magics made more than half of the attack methods of the elemental lich ineffective. After all, most of the large-scale harmful spells are elemental attributes, and as long as the single-target magic does not exceed level nine, it will be rebounded immediately.

The elemental lich also discovered this, and immediately cast a sixth-level magic "see through the shield" in an attempt to strip off the outermost layer of "spell reversal". But unfortunately, it forgot that the "spell trap" was still working. Six levels of magic were instantly swallowed by the blue protective shield, which happened to fully absorb thirty levels of magic attacks, and suddenly released a bright light, all of which poured into the body.

Henry only felt his brain clear up for a while, and the protective magic that had been used just now miraculously recovered a lot. This is the second effect of "Spell Trap", and it is also the most practical point.

You must know that there are very few magic spells that can restore spell slots. There are only "Limited Wishes" at the seventh level, "Melecht's Spell Reappearance" at the eighth level, "Wishing Spell" at the ninth level, and "Spell Trap" at the end. But only the last one can take into account the protection. After all, spell absorption up to 30 levels is not a decoration, at least three or more ninth-level spells can be broken.

Seeing the deflated expression of the Elemental Lich, Henry laughed loudly: "I can't believe that, as a legendary spellcaster, you would make such a low-level mistake. I really don't know how you defeated Kangus back then, Did it die laughingly at the poor acting?"

Faced with such naked sarcasm and sarcasm, the Elemental Lich was obviously very angry, his body composed of negative energy surged up and down, and his two cold eyes shot out a fierce light. "You dare to be disrespectful to us! Well then! I'll let you see the highest achievement of Nisril, the terrifying deep cold. Let's experience the cold brought by the blizzard!" He said he didn't know where to take out He opened a small piece of crystal clear lens that kept emitting cold air to the surroundings, and at the same time began to chant spells loudly as if there was no one else around.

Henry froze for a moment, with an incredulous expression on his face. After he came back to his senses, he rushed forward without hesitation, swung the Archmage's staff and gave him a fat beating. While beating, he cursed: "Kill you idiot! Brainless! Are you just stupid in the coffin! Dare to chant spells without even adding protective magic! Bah! What an insult to the words legendary mage!"

The magician's staff is not an ordinary enchanted weapon. Its enchantment level is even higher than that of the holy avenger, and every time it hits, it will dispel the protective magic on the target. Although the elemental lich is an energy body that can reduce physical damage, it is inevitable that it will be severely injured after being beaten so many times. As for the concentration of casting spells, it has long been interrupted.

After the violent beating, Henry still felt a little puzzled, so he took out the "Day Star" and used the "Yangyan Blast" once a day. Just hearing a loud "boom", the elemental lich was directly killed by the positive energy, leaving no scum left. No way, he was so angry that he was going crazy. This was the first time he saw such a wonderful legendary Lich.

It seems that the spell duel can only go so far. Who made this elemental lich be so stupid, so carelessly preparing legendary spells without even blessing them with protective magic? I don't know if he is really stupid or fake. But that's not important anymore, let's hurry up and look for the phylactery to collect the loot.