The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 317 The Perfect Wand

Iolum laughed and said: "Although I'm not keen on alchemy creation, I have accumulated a large number of small gadgets over the past few thousand years, and keeping them takes up space. You can choose a few more suitable items as rewards. William, don't save me."

William hated secretly, I didn't want to save you guys, but I know almost nothing about the identification of magic items, and it is inevitable to mistake dung for "golden rubbish".He sighed and said: "I know almost nothing about magic items, how do I know what to pay, if only there is someone who is proficient in this area."

Iolum said: "Don't worry, my student Tabari is an excellent monster identification expert, she can help you choose some useful things. Tabari, take Mr. William to my utility room .”

"I am a generous man, strong William, take as much as you can."

Tabari nodded, and led William out of the hall. After passing through a specially set portal, they came to a huge "garbage square".When they saw clearly the hill-like "garbage dumps" in the center of the square, they were stunned. What kind of garbage dumps are these? They are all precious magic items, spells of different lengths, sizes, styles, and materials. Rods, wands, and scepters were thrown all over the floor like rotten brooms, all kinds of enchanted weapons, armor, and robes were mixed in a mess, and there were even more kinds of magical wonders and little things that could not be named. thing.

Even Tabari, who has lived for thousands of years, has to be shocked by the scene in front of him. God knows how many messy little things Iolum has refined and discarded here. Among ordinary people, they are all valuable and sought-after items.

As one of the few top arcanists throughout the ages, there is absolutely no need to doubt Iolum's ability to make magic items. Even the failed and defective products he made casually are rare high-level treasures in the eyes of ordinary mages.

Tabari leaned over and picked up an unremarkable short wooden wand at his feet, gently wiped off the dust on it, and whispered to himself: "Lion's pupil, I never thought that even this type of wand teacher It's all made—"

Although William knew that these things in front of him were precious, he couldn't really understand how shocking they were for the time being.It's like an ancient man who only knows swords, guns, swords and halberds walks into a modern arsenal. Even if you wear out the hype and talk about it, it will not be as impressive as thousands of high-quality steel knives, unless you let him experience it for himself. The power of every modern weapon.

Seeing that Tabari seemed to be very concerned about the humble short wooden stick, William asked casually, "Is there anything special about this stick?"

Tabari raised his eyebrows, and said with admiration: "This is a perfect conjuration wand, it can summon three celestial lions from the source of all beasts to help the summoner fight (similar to eight super conjuration spell [The Lions of the Source of Beasts]), the key is that this pupil of the lion is a magic wand with 150 chances to use it, theoretically it can summon a total of nearly [-] celestial beasts in a short period of time A great pride of lions helps in battle, and that's what makes this wand so precious."

Then Tabari briefly introduced the classification of magic items to William. Magic items can be divided into armor, weapons, potions, rings, scepters, scrolls, staffs, magic wands, and wonders.Magic armor and magic weapons are relatively easy to understand, and magic rings give the wearer magical powers, and are also the most popular, because any creature can wear the ring, and only a very few rings have a limit on the number of times they can be used.

Potions are magical liquids that are used both internally and externally, as well as some smudges and throwable special potions (such as poisons, blazing glue, acid bottles).A scroll is a spell that uses magic to transcribe spells on paper or parchment, and stores spells in written form. The spells on the scroll can only be used once.After use, the text on the scroll will disappear.Basically, scrolls are used much like spellcasting.Magic scrolls and potions are basically one-time consumables.

A scepter is a scepter-like item that has unique magical powers and is mostly unlimited in number of uses, and anyone can use a scepter.A staff is a long wooden stick that stores several spells. There are only a few specific types of staffs, and the caster cannot choose spells to store in the staff.However, if all the spells in the staff are used up, the maker can recharge the staff at a certain cost. In a sense, the staff is a magic scroll that can be reused.

The wand is a magical product that only appeared at the end of the Netheril era.A wand is a small short staff that can cast specific spells and can only store a single spell.A newly made wand can hold up to [-] rounds of ammunition, and every time a round of ammunition is consumed, the stored spell can be cast once, and the wand that runs out of rounds is just an ordinary stick.At a certain period before the destruction of Netheril, this kind of semi-consumable magic items that are easy to make and use was almost all the rage, especially some wands that stored powerful spells, which were simply hostile to Netheril. The nightmare of the readers.

Think about it, even if it is a [Meteor Burst] wand with only ten rounds of ammunition, the lethality caused in a short period of time is definitely more efficient than that of a top-level arcanist, and it basically does not consume the wand user. energy.If a great arcanist is equipped with dozens of powerful magic wands, if he is prepared, he can definitely be called an invincible existence that can block and kill gods and destroy Buddhas.

However, although the wand is easy to use, it requires a magical material called the Kildarin gem.In fact, the Netherese discovered this special gem that can store spells in the early days. The wand was just a derivative of their later research on the mystery of gem magic. "Costless Magic" - quasi-magical items, people don't pay much attention to wands, because it requires a lot of precious Kildarin gems (especially when crafting powerful wands).

In the end, when there was a problem with the Mitherian core, although the people of Netheril paid more attention to the magic wand, it was a pity that the situation was over at that time, and the wise men of Netheril were unwilling to make a mess, and they could not restore the destruction after all. ending.

Although the wand is easy to use, it also has many limitations.For example, a summoning magic wand - a [level one summoning monster] wand that can be used fifty times, each time it can summon a level one alien creature to help the summoner fight.However, if the summoner uses the spell in this wand for the second time while the alien creature summoned for the first time still exists, the alien creature summoned for the first time will be sent back to the source immediately, which leads to the summoning Class wands are the least popular of all wand types.

According to Tabari, it is obvious that Iolum has already solved this problem. Even someone like William who does not understand the true meaning of magic can imagine how shocking it would be if it was spread.

(End of this chapter)