Master of Spells from Faerun

Chapter 44 The Dragon and Gold Tribulation ([-])

A group of city guards swarmed in from the gate and surrounded the crowd. The leading officer stepped forward, and when he was about to order these people to put down their weapons and surrender, he suddenly saw Reina Wujin among the three.

He stopped talking in an instant, he had to be more tactful when facing this son of a famous nobleman in Waterdeep City.

"Hello, I'm Captain Hughestus of the City Guard. We have received a report that someone is engaged in suspicious activities here. I wonder what you are doing here?"

After thinking about it, he pretended not to know Reina, and politely asked about their purpose here.

The disheartened Reina stood up at this time, and he said loudly: "I am Reina Evershine, Daggett Son of Evershine!"

He told the captain what happened here, the other party nodded, and when he was about to speak, the soldier next to him suddenly said: "Head, there are several human corpses here!"

The captain walked over, looked through the corpses, and confirmed that they were members of the Sannasa Guild and the Zhentarim Guild, and couldn't help but believe Reina's explanation.

Apollo stepped forward at this time and said: "Your Excellency, Captain, we urgently need to find Fren who was kidnapped with Reina. I wonder if you can help us?"

Hearing Apollo's plea, the captain thought to himself, since the two big troubles, the Shannathan Guild and the Zhentarim, wanted to destroy each other, why wouldn't he do it?

So he smiled and said, "I'm sorry, the city guards can't help you, it's not within our scope of duty, but I can tell you where to find him, go to the sewer, that's the lair of the Shannasa guild."

Imrik's heart moved when he heard this. The Tengu's muttering to himself seemed to have mentioned the sewer, and he also said to follow the yellow sign.

After the captain finished speaking, he turned to Rainer and said, "Mr. Rainer, since this place is over, do you need us to escort you home?"

Renner nodded, and said to the two of Imrik: "Thank you for your help, if you need anything, you can come to me."

After finishing speaking, he left with the city guards. Imrik said to Apollo at this time: "The sewer may be more dangerous, are you sure you want to continue with me?"

Apollo said with an unconvinced look: "Hey! Don't underestimate me, I am a sixth-level fighter!"

Imrik glanced at him in surprise. A sixth-level fighter can indeed help. It is always good to have melee protection.

"Let's go back and rest for a night, and gather here tomorrow." Imrik decided.

The next day, Imrik came to the entrance of the sewer in the port area. He didn't bring the copper furnace. The overcrowded terrain of the sewer was not suitable for its use.

When he arrived at the location, he found that Apollo was already there waiting for him in the distance. This time, the arrogant warrior changed into another armor. Although he was still all black, he also wore an extra helmet.

"You're finally here! I've been here waiting for you early in the morning!" Apollo complained in an excited tone.

Imrik rolled his eyes inwardly, wondering if it was a wise decision to bring along this brainless warrior who regarded adventure as a spring outing.

The two jumped from the mouth of the sewer well, a foul smell came out, the surroundings were pitch black, and they couldn't see their fingers.

"Darkvision." Imrik released it twice in a row, blessing himself and Apollo with spells.

This second-ring spell can enable people to have elf-like dark vision. Although this vision cannot be seen as clearly as during the day, it can still enable people to maintain sufficient vision in the dark.

The black-robed mage walked deep, and a foot-deep rancid liquid flowed under his feet, splitting into two branches not far ahead.On the wall of one of the tunnels is a small emblem drawn in yellow chalk: a circle the size of a hand, with 10 straight lines radiating from its edge.

Imrik remembered that this was a tattoo on the members of the Shannasa Guild at that time, and this should be the logo in the mouth of the Tengu.

The two walked slowly along the marked passage for an unknown amount of time, and there were constantly marked branch roads in the middle to guide them forward.

After a long time, they came to a fork in the road, where a ladder led to a stone shaft covered with a circular metal cover.

Suddenly, a freezing ray shot towards Imrik from the side with an icy cold air. The mage felt a coolness approaching from the side, and a silver mist wrapped him, and he appeared 30 feet away in an instant.

Imrik, who avoided the attack with a stray step, narrowed his eyes slightly to observe where the attack came from. There was a familiar chalk emblem on the nearby wall. The difference was that this time around the emblem was a spherical, grapefruit-sized creature floating.

Beholder?
The black-robed mage thought silently, this unusual creature made him wary, beholders are very powerful magical creatures, they can release various magic rays through their eye stalks.

But the beholder in front of him seemed to be a little smaller, and there were only four eye stalks on his body.

"It's the gazer beholder." The mage realized in his heart that this small beholder is a manifestation of the beholder's dream, similar to a clone. When the beholder falls asleep, this creature will be born. The beholder can monitor everything in the dream through the eyes of this small beholder.

Compared with the real beholder, this avatar only has four eye stalks, so it can only emit four types of rays, the freezing ray just now is one of them.

Seeing that his attack was in vain, the beholder screamed angrily, and raised an eye stalk again. This time, the eye stalk shot out an invisible force, covering a huge stone next to it.

The stone was lifted by this invisible force and thrown in Apollo's direction.

"Let me go!" Apollo yelled excitedly when he saw the stone flying towards him.

He raised his long sword, took a series of nimble steps, easily dodged the boulder, and rushed to the side of the beholder.

Seeing this brainless muscle warrior approaching him quickly, the beholder couldn't help but shoot out four eye stalks, the rays shot out randomly, the freezing ray brought icy power, the mind ray lifted the object and threw it at Apollo, and the fear ray and stun ray crossed out, trying to control the warrior.

But Apollo shuttled through all kinds of magical powers with a dexterous speed that didn't match his figure, and even rushed to the beholder unscathed.

"Die!" The black armored warrior raised the magic long sword in his hand, and slashed down from top to bottom with great force, splitting the beholder in half.

At the end, he also put on a pose that he thought was handsome, swung a sword flower in his hand, and walked towards the black-robed mage triumphantly.

"The strength is good." Imrik said. Apollo's vigorous figure surprised him. As a fighter, his agility attribute seems to be ridiculously high.

This kind of extremely fast melee class is the nightmare of most unprepared spellcasters, and this beholder died unjustly.

(End of this chapter)