The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 321 The Warlock's Enemy - [Time Copy]

"Minarita you madman! No one will talk to you, not even Tabari! My dear little Tabari, leave this scum of the great arcanists alone, you will get what you want! Damn Yes, that guy in Jotunheim is not a good talker, I hope he won't provoke him too much this time!" The little skull on the counter muttered impatiently.

Yorman Gund is also known as the worldly python. According to legend, the worldly python surrounds the entire Yuktra Hill (also known as the tree of the world). The tree symbolizes "everything", "perfection", "samsara" and "yin and yang". It represents the cycle of phenomena in nature. It is both the beginning and the end, and it symbolizes eternity.It can be said that there is only one giant python in the world, or it can be said that there are countless. They guard the source of the world at the root of the tree of the world.

"...it has no eyes, nor does it need eyes, because there is nothing in front of it. There is no object or sound around it, and time stands still for it. It does not need a digestive system, because it produces neither It is not consumed, all actions are caused by it, and nothing can affect it." - Guardian of the source of the world.

Tabari said with a smile: "I heard that Yorman Gund of Jotunheim is the most persuasive one. A being with wisdom must be easier to persuasion than a beast. I really hope that I can also be like You go to explore Uktrasir, but the teacher has always disagreed."

McNarita interjected: "Don't even think about it! Now it's not like the age of great exploration. Most of our bases in the star world have long been abandoned, and they can't support new adventures at all, let alone the loss of personnel. Little Tabari , With those delusional skills, it’s better to borrow a few spell slots from me, it’s not easy to be an enemy of a warlock.”

Tabari twitched the corners of her mouth, pretending to be very disdainful.

William looked at it strangely, especially the haggard man called Manalita. Although he looked very decayed, it gave William the illusion that a beast was crouching and obscure, because Manalita His blood is too huge, even the strength of Tabari's blood pales in comparison.William asked Tabari in a low voice with some horror: "What are you guys all about?"

Tabari snorted and did not answer, but turned her gaze to Manalita.Because of this tyrannical existence with a haggard appearance, his empty left hand suddenly made a series of complicated gestures, and soon William realized that something was wrong with the surrounding environment.In an instant, he seemed to see Manalita turned into two people, one of them sipped the wine in the silver cup slowly, while the other was still holding the silver cup as it was.

But soon the motionless figure changed a simpler gesture again, and then separated into two figures again, one remained the same, while the other gulped down the wine in the glass, the overflowing wine flowed from his The corner of the mouth dripped, and then the figure who didn't understand split up again. Each time, one figure remained the same, and the other drank the wine in the silver cup in a different way.

It was a very strange feeling. William felt that his perspective seemed to be cut into several parts, like a display screen being evenly divided into several similar but different pictures, but each part originated from A starting point, but it all gives people an illusion of reality.Because when William blinked his eyes hard and looked carefully again, he found that Manalita had kept the original posture, holding the silver cup with one hand, sitting so firmly, the previous "pictures" were all It disappeared without a trace, as if it was just William's hallucination.

But it really happened, the wine in the silver cup is gone, and the Manalita who drank the wine is like an old man who has taken the elixir of rejuvenation, and his body is recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye. , the wrinkled skin rapidly expands inflated, and gradually restores the luster of life, every wrinkle is stretched and smoothed, and every age spot is melted away.

Under William's almost unbelievable eyes, a haggard old man regained his youth and vitality in an instant, and turned into a man in his prime, his skin full of vitality shone with an ivory-like luster.Although the hair on his head did not recover along with it, and he had no hair or eyebrows on his bare forehead, but He was so incredible.

Shocked by the scene in front of him that violated natural common sense, William asked in amazement, "What happened just now?"

"[Time Copy]! A great legendary spell, but it was used by the wrong person in the wrong place." Tabari looked at "diamonds being thrown around like glass beads by the prodigal son" with resentment He replied in a tone, as if McNarita had done something outrageous.

"[Time Copy Technique]?" At this time, William was completely conquered by the unpredictability of magical power, and he muttered to himself: "I never imagined that there is such a great magic in this world, which can actually rejuvenate people. "However, William couldn't see what was wrong with McNarita's use of this spell. Maybe he was a layman and couldn't see the problem.

But Tabari said: "Who told you [Time Copy] can rejuvenate you!? Manalita can restore youth because of drinking the cup of wine brewed from the spring of life. [Time Copy] The effect is another matter."

In the grand cosmology of the world of Toril, there are two supreme forces that are considered unchangeable, namely time and destiny.It is recognized that they can only be influenced, not reversed, all stemming from their "past irreversibility".

Thousands of years ago, there was a Taj called the "Goddess of Fate" in Faerun, but even this Taj could not reverse the changes of fate, but could only exert influence on the microcosm, and this Taj later Splitting into domains ruled by two different gods reveals just the nature of her power - Tymora, goddess of fortune, and Beshaba, goddess of misfortune.

But in the field of time, no god has ever been heard of setting foot in it, and most people even speculate that it is a power that only the Supreme God can touch.But thousands of years ago, a sorcerer-king of Netheril changed the world's perception.The first legendary spell involving the power of time was invented by a human arcanist—[Running Time Footsteps] (that is, [Impermanence Step]).

This spell permanently accelerates the subject creature to perform any action at least twice and up to six times faster than a normal human.For example, people who have been blessed with [Running Time Footsteps] need to complete instant actions. At the moment when ordinary people complete an instant action, the subject can complete up to six instant actions.Because this kind of acceleration is not at the physical level of living things, but because of the change of the flow rate of time.Due to the natural flow of time, no matter how many times the spell is cast on the same target, it will only have the effect of one cast.

Since [Running Time Footsteps] was invented, people began to pay attention to the research involving the field of time, and then appeared a series of [Time Stop], [Advanced Time Stop], [Time Insurance], [Eternal Stasis], etc. The spells involving the speed of time are all based on the theoretical basis of [running time steps].

And the emergence of the spell [Retrospective Vision] caused all the arcane researchers to go crazy. [Retrospective vision] You can watch or listen to what happened in the area in the past period of time, and the richness of details depends on the time span.This is the first spell that involves the existence of the past, and it is also considered to be a sign that can reverse the long river of time, and the inventor of this spell is also the inventor of the first time spell [Running Time Footsteps]— —Manarita is placed high hopes by all arcanists, and is honored as the "Lord of Time".

But to people's disappointment, until the demise of Netheril, Minarita did not create a new spell that could reverse time, and he was also troubled by it, and even fell into depression and decadence, until an accident opportunities in between.

Manalita is one of the few surviving warlock kings in Netheril who survived in the form of humans (most of the other warlock kings were either forced or voluntarily converted to lich form), under the psychological influence of guilt Under such circumstances, he cannot avoid some positive or negative emotions and entanglements unique to human beings.Alcoholism, debauchery, and obsession with sensual enjoyment, the great "Lord of Time" who was revered by the world in the past has gradually degenerated into "a disgrace among warlock kings and a scum among arcanists" in the eyes of ordinary people.

But all Netherese (or friends of Netherese) who have been recognized in some way will be eligible to enter the Warlock's Enemy Tavern and choose a glass of magical wine within the allowed range.There is no doubt that Manalita was a recognized allowee, even if he had fallen, but he was no longer popular at the time.

Once, the tavern of the Enemy of Sorcerers, who could not stand it, only offered Manalita the glass of magic wine he was bound to get, but refused to sell even a single drop of other liquor to the "shame among the warlock kings". "Feeling humiliated" may have been out of helplessness or out of revenge. In short, the people who were on the scene at the time had everything to say about this incident. The understanding of the time spell was used on the glass of wine - [Time Copy].

Manalita drank the cup of magic wine six times in one instant, in six different ways. It was a great moment, representing the emergence of a new time spell.Manalita himself admitted that the reason why he used the time spell was just to taste the taste of fine wine a few times, but this statement was not recognized by people. "Revenge," or any other reason, is much better than this reason for inaction.

What makes most arcanists even more devastated is that since Minarita invented [Time Replication], he has never used this spell on other things except drinking.Every time he goes to the Warlock's Enemy, Minarita will perform drinking under the effect of [Time Copy] once in public.

(End of this chapter)