The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 308 The Eternal Undead

William was very greedy for the cloak on Moya's body, his eyes were shining brightly, but it was Moya who was walking in front.

At the beginning, Moya pretended to lead the way, but after a while, he felt cold and cold on his back, and the hairs on his body stood up, as if a beast was following behind and peeping.As he walked forward, the beast also moved forward. When he was fast, the beast followed suit. When he was slow, the beast also followed slowly. Moya felt his calf go weak, and a layer of cold white sweat emerged from his back.

Moya really wanted to look back, but he resisted the urge. Moya had a premonition that if he turned his head, the "beast" would pounce on him and rip his throat.At this moment, Moya had already forgotten to hide his secret. He supported himself with great perseverance and mustered up the courage to move forward. His steps were as light and slow as possible, and the armor no longer made an unpleasant "clang" sound. , as William expected, it is a first-class magic heavy armor with silent noise and light weight.

The avenue leading to the wizard's tower Moya has walked hundreds of times, but he has never felt it is so long and difficult like today. Moya's nerves are getting tighter and tighter. Go on, otherwise I will be forced to collapse and go crazy in the end.

Just when Moya was roaring and preparing to turn around and fight to the death, a sudden voice saved his sanity that was close to losing control.

"William! Mighty Mithr guard warrior, welcome to Sinrenal. We have been waiting for your arrival."

William had never heard such a dry sound, like the noise made by scorched wood rubbing against each other, hoarse and rough.He quickly found the source of the sound. Under the pointed wizard tower made of unknown crystals, a tall figure wrapped tightly in a wide cloak without leaving a single gap stood there.

These people seem to have known that they would come, and they knew their identities very well. William's face turned cold, and he glanced at Palitru, who was convinced that from entering this magical castle to now, this person from The merchant chiefs in Waterdeep haven't had any chance to share their information with each other, unless they communicate silently.

William slowly drew out the Autumn Water Knife, took a half step back with his right leg, put himself in a state ready to explode at any time, and half-closed his eyes to see the figure wrapped in a cloak.

The cloaked man continued in his dry voice, "Relax, little William! We are not enemies and will not interfere with your travels with your family. We just want to see you and ask a few little questions. It's just a problem."

William did not relax his vigilance. He looked around cautiously. Only Moya and two other heavy armored guards were nearby. These three people alone should not be able to stop his surprise attack.William took a few steps forward tentatively, but couldn't help asking in shock, "What are you?"

William suddenly discovered a very shocking fact. There was no breath of a living person in the cloak, but a very weird thing. William didn't know how to describe the feeling, like... like the weathered The rotten eagle slowly dies in the silent night.

The strange thing under the cloak said indifferently: "I am the temporary consul of Sinrenal - the undead of Owo, a lich forgotten by time."

William didn't respond to the answer from the figure in the cloak. He didn't know what a lich meant, let alone what the name Owo Undead meant, but Palitru next to him knew the meaning of the two very well.

There are many kinds of undead creatures in this world, but there is no undead creature that is more mysterious and terrifying than a lich, and it is also more yearning for people who are afraid of death.Becoming a lich is not an easy task, strong strength, sufficiently precise transformation technology, complete materials (including magic materials for constructing the transformation lich magic circle, and a strong enough body that can withstand the erosion of time) phylactery) and excellent luck are indispensable, only those powerful and mysterious archmages and arcanists have enough confidence to successfully transform themselves into another form of life—the undead lich.

As an undead creature, a lich retains all the memories and spells it had during its lifetime (what it wishes to keep) and can research and learn new knowledge and spells at a later time.The root of a Lich is his phylactery, as long as the phylactery is well preserved, even if the Lich itself is destroyed, he can be reborn with the help of the phylactery soon after.

The Undead of Owo represents a powerful Warlock King in the Netheril era (The Warlock King is a special title for arcanists who are powerful to a certain level in the Netheril era, and is generally called the Warlock King The person in question is also the owner of a floating city, or at least they used to be), and it is said that the floating city he controlled also fell in the catastrophe caused by Karsus, but no one knows which one.Owo survived the catastrophe, but did not flee to Halrua like other warlock kings did, but stayed on the edge of the Ennook desert to monitor the Faerun magic sunflower until these terrible A magical creature is defeated and imprisoned by another magical creature.

But Awo Undead is most famous for the two legendary spells he invented - [Aowo Broken Phalanx] and [Owo Broken Soul Art]. 【Ovo Shattered Phylactery】Scatter the Lich's phylactery into multiple objects, or expand the phylactery to cover multiple objects.Thereafter, to destroy the lich's phylactery, the entire set of items that make up the phylactery must be destroyed. As long as one such item remains, the lich cannot be completely killed.

Although the number of phylactery components formed by [Ovo Broken Phalanx] is limited each time, this spell can be cast on a certain phylactery or part of it repeatedly.This makes the Owo Undead the most difficult lich to be completely killed in the multiverse, no one, because no one knows how many times Owo has split his phylactery.

[Ovo Soulbreaker] is a different kind of necromancy.It separates the soul of the chosen victim from the body, the victim's soul dies and begins the afterlife (i.e. the soul goes to where it should go after a normal death), but the body remains alive - with "vegetative" state.The victim's body can be possessed or dominated without hindrance, and retains the physical characteristics and natural abilities of the deceased. If it is not possessed or dominated, the body remains dormant.

This spell can be exempted, but the soul of those who succeed in the exemption will inevitably suffer irreparable damage in some ways, such as no longer being accepted by the kingdom of God they believe in.This is the most heinous curse for some intelligent races-especially the elves.They would rather [Aowo Soul Breaking Technique] successfully work on themselves than face the tragic result of being resisted by the spell - broken faith.

The Undead of Owo does not hide away like other liches to avoid the disturbance and persecution of the living, but walks in the mortal world openly as a lich, which makes his reputation widely known in Faerun.

"You, you. You are the 'eternal undead'?! And what about Councilor Kukan? He." Palitru wanted to ask whether Councilor Kukan, who had a good relationship with him, was a magic puppet controlled by Ovo , but the frightened businessman did not dare to ask after all, because he suddenly remembered a terrible legend.

It is said that a long time ago, the puppet made by the undead of Aowo with [Aowo Soul Breaking Technique] was seen through many times, and the identity of the person who was seen through each time was the one who saw through the previous puppet.So after going on for a long time, no one dared to expose Aowo's disguise, because not only did he have to worry about Aowo's revenge—being turned into the next puppet, but he also had to face other people's suspicions, doubts He may already be Owo's next puppet.

Even if Palitru talked about his loyalty, he didn't want to become the next puppet of Aowo's undead.The merchant leader from Waterdeep City trembled tremblingly: "The great 'eternal undead', we are... for the murder of all the villagers of Emmanla, if you"

"Aymanla was destroyed, of course I know about it. Not only Aymanla, but the other four villages besides Lambert also suffered the same end." Aowo undead said, as if responding to the merchant if.But Palitru felt that the Lich's attention had been on William, and what he said was only for William alone, but he regarded himself as a passerby.This made the merchant leader feel very relieved. For the time being, he didn't have to worry about Aowo making trouble for himself first.

In order not to attract the Lich's attention as much as possible, Palitrut shrank away from William on purpose, and kept his mouth shut tightly, not daring to vent his breath.But the Lich's next words broke the defense of the merchant in Waterdeep City, making him scream involuntarily.

"Ibrando! That dark beast, he and his minions have been wandering around here, and even I can't help but want to take a shot to end his shameful depravity. Fortunately, you killed him in time killed him."

"William! It was you who killed the Holy One of the Cave God. Although you are not the first non-divine being to kill a god, it is still great enough, because you are truly mortal."

William watched the Owo undead boasting of the great significance of killing Ibrando with a blank face, without any excitement, as if the lich was talking about something that had nothing to do with him, which would make Owo His emotions were hurt, if the lich still had feelings.

"William, don't you feel excited?" The Owo Undead deliberately raised his voice, but it was also a little harsher.

But William just looked at him coldly, still maintaining his usual silence, watching Aowo "perform" there calmly, just like watching a funny clown.

(End of this chapter)