Master of Spells from Faerun

Chapter 38 Tower of Order
The Tower of Order in Waterdeep City is located in the center of the North District. This is the headquarters in charge of the circulation of spells throughout Waterdeep City. All mages in Waterdeep City must come here to pay forty gold coins to obtain the qualification to use spells in Waterdeep City.

Imrik came here to buy spells, and to register as a mage. In fact, it was illegal for him to use hinting on Marbury just now.

"Mr. Mage, are you here to register information?" The reception lady in the lobby of the Tower of Order asked the black-robed mage in front of her with a smile.

"Yes, by the way, I would like to ask if you have any spells for sale here?"

The reception lady was overjoyed, and there was a commission for introducing mages to purchase, which was also the source of extra income for most of the reception ladies here.

She said enthusiastically: "Of course, Mr. Mage, after you register your information, I will take you to the trading area of ​​the Tower of Order. You fill in the information first."

She handed out a piece of paper, and Imrik glanced at it. It was probably full of common information such as name, age, and professional level. He wrote it casually and handed it to the other party.

The reception staff couldn't help being surprised when they saw that Imrik had filled in the rank as a fifth-level mage. Even in Waterdeep City, there are very few mages who have been exposed to the third ring, let alone such young people.

She couldn't help being even happier. The higher the level of the mage, the more expensive the items purchased, and the higher her commission, so she happily shouted: "Ruilis! Come to the reception desk, I want to take the customer to the trading area!"

Along the way, the reception lady continued to introduce to Imrik: "There are a lot of spell items circulating in the trading area of ​​the Tower of Order every day. Although our official store does not have so many types, there are common spells. In addition, there are many other individual mages selling stalls here.

If you don’t find what you need, you can look for it among the individual vendors in the trading area. You will often be pleasantly surprised. In addition, counterfeiting and shoddy products are strictly prohibited in the Tower of Order, so if you encounter fraudsters during transactions, you can report them immediately. The Tower of Order will reward you with a reporting reward of [-] gold coins plus ten times the transaction amount in compensation. "

Arriving at the trading area, the first thing you can see is a huge glass door. After entering, there are a variety of goods. If you want to reach the area of ​​individual vendors, you only need to pass through another glass door of this official shop, and you will find the circular long street after you go out.

Imrik planned to take a stroll in this official store first. It has to be said that Waterdeep City is worthy of being the overlord of the Northland. The spell items in this official store are simply dazzling. Imrik used a detection magic casually, and the flashing aura almost blinded his eyes.

For example, in the ring counter, there was a ring shining with a strong red aura. Imrik took a look at it with detect magic, and was frightened.

"Command fire elemental ring", this ring is very powerful, first of all, any creature of the fire elemental plane cannot attack the holder, and cannot come within five feet of the holder, and the holder can charm the other party to work for him, the success rate depends on the charm.

If the creatures of the elemental plane of fire try to attack the holder, they will be punished by powerful rules, such as level reduction, attribute reduction, etc.

Secondly, this ring, like a magic storage ring, grants the holder powerful spell-like abilities:

Constant high resistance to energy damage (fire), burning hands (unlimited times), blazing sphere (twice/day), pyrotechnics (twice/day), wall of fire (once/day), flame strike (twice/week).

Wearing this ring, the holder will be respected by all fire elemental creatures, but the side effect is that it will attract the hatred and disgust of all water elemental creatures.

In order to cast this powerful ring, the mage must spend 20 gold coins to enchant it to make it successfully, and in this official store, the price of this ring is 40 gold coins!
Imrik looked at the ring enviously, and secretly made up his mind that in the future, he would wear four different kinds of command element rings on his left hand.

In addition, there are many kinds of wands, staffs and scepters in the store, especially some scepters, the price is more expensive than the command element ring I just saw!

Imrik casually browsed the counter of wands. For him, whether it is a disposable wand or a rechargeable wand, it is not very useful. What he needs is a scepter that can give the user various abilities.

Especially the most powerful scepter, the high-level metamagic scepter, which allows users to use supermagic feats without the need for ring-raising spells. Each feat can be used three times a day. This kind of scepter can only be made by master-level mages who have intensively researched and crafted scepters. It can be said that there is no market for it.

For Imrik, this kind of scepter is also his need. The characteristics of the endless book can give the holder to use any feat at no cost, but only one can be used each time. If Imrik needs multiple supermagic skills to increase a spell, he needs the help of the supermagic scepter.

Sighing the high price of the scepter, Imrik came to the counter of the spell scrolls and picked them one by one.

Charm Human, yes, fireball, yes, command undead, yes, stinking cloud, yes?
Imrik picked for a long time before finally finding two spells that were not transcribed, the three-ring spell Smelly Cloud and underwater breathing.

These two spells are also considered to be the most popular spells among the three-ring spells. The stinky cloud spell is the spell used by the warlock Calis that day. It summons a large cloud of foul-smelling gas, and the creatures that breathe it will be unable to move due to the smell of the gas.

Another spell is also popular for adventurer teams to buy. It can designate up to ten creatures at one time to have the ability to breathe underwater within 24 hours. It is simple and rude, and it is also the first choice of many sea professionals.

As the level increases, the number of high-level spell scrolls decreases. First, the market for high-level spell scrolls is small, and the profit is far less than that of making low-level spells. Second, the unit price is too high and the cost is too high. Third, due to the principle that mages can copy spell scrolls, most high-level mages are unwilling to leak various rare high-level spells, and they tacitly block these high-level magic knowledge.

Therefore, even in the Tower of Contract, only the spell scrolls of the first to third rings are sold.

After searching all over, he only found two three-ring spells. Imrik could only place his hope in the commercial streets of individual vendors.

He walked out of the official shop, and as soon as he saw it, he found mages wearing mage robes opening small stalls alone and guarding there.

Different from the official shops, compared with the assortment of colorful and gorgeous goods there, the goods in these stalls are not uniform. It can be said that it is completely luck. Imrik even saw a few one-ring spell scrolls in a small stall.

(End of this chapter)