The knight in the abyss

Chapter 410 Joint Spellcasting
"I'm not that capable yet." Lancelot rolled his eyes, "It's probably something the old elf fiddled with..."

It's not that he can't make this kind of thorny vines, but the scale is only about a hundred feet, which is completely incomparable with the wall of thorns that stretches for several miles and surrounds the entire fortress.

For most of his life, magic was the stuff of fairy tales and folklore, and it wasn't until the elves appeared to the Rebels that he learned that such supernatural powers actually existed.Despite this, magic still maintains a low-key mystery and is never used lightly.

But after coming to the abyss, he discovered that magic is so popular that all intelligent races know the existence of magic, and the knowledge of magic is also widely spread.More importantly, the difficulty of casting spells seems to be much lower, which he himself has a deep understanding of - the elves once taught him a spell to summon war horses, and it took about five tries in his home world to succeed once, half of which The result was a donkey or a camel, and in the abyss he never seemed to fail.

Because the probability of encountering magic in adventures is too high, Lancelow once asked Kara Lin about magic in detail.Although the scholar can only cast three-ring spells at present, he can barely be regarded as a completed apprentice, but his understanding of magic far exceeds his ability to cast spells.

According to Kara Lin, although the effects of spells are ever-changing, the ring level of a spell can be roughly judged based on information such as power, range, casting, and duration.

The lowest level is tricks that can be cast at will, such as the flame arrow of the evocation system, which is as powerful as an arrow shot by a longbowman, and can also set the ground on fire, while the three-ringed fireball technique can create an explosion comparable to that of a longbowman. The stones thrown by the trebuchet.Further up the chain lightning on the sixth ring, its power is almost the same as that of a natural thunderstorm, and when it reaches the ninth ring...

Meteor Explosion, the casting distance is one mile, and several meteors are summoned from the sky to hit the ground. There is no grass within a hundred feet, and all demons below the middle level will die. If you shoot at a medium-sized fortress like Pascole, It is estimated that half of the city wall is gone.

This is still considered to be one of the weakest spells in the nine rings of spells. There is also a complete transformation in the nine rings, which can turn objects into living things (the goal pursued by some mages with special hobbies in their lives); Teleportation and summoning to the otherworldly gate of the Devil Grand Duke and Abyss Lord (but after coming, they will not obey any instructions of the summoner unless they are willing).

Of course, the most amazing thing is the wish spell. This spell can even reverse time and change what has happened to never happened (such as a fatal blow, or a failed confession to a lady), and get something Treasures that have long been lost, resurrect heroes who have been dead for many years, or curse an enemy to die immediately.

However, this spell is not so reliable. If you want to get a lost treasure, the consequence may be to directly teleport you to the current owner of the treasure; Get a living corpse without a soul; and if the object you wish to die is too powerful, this spell will probably teleport you to the future when the multiverse is about to be destroyed, and the opponent is of course already dead, so you see, Wish come true.

It is said that a mage who can use the wishing spell handily will not suffer any big losses when signing a contract with the devil, but this also shows from the side how restrictive this spell is.

It can be seen that even advanced spells have various restrictions: the most powerful spells usually only work on a single target, while the spells that can work on multiple targets are less lethal.According to the power of the wall of thorns, Lancelot guessed that spells with a level 5 or 6 could achieve a similar effect, but the scale of this kind of spell that stretches for miles and encloses the entire fortress is too exaggerated. Even the 9th-level spells don't have such a wide range.

But no matter what level this spell is, its effect is indeed real.There were so many low-level demons that bumped into it, so that the wall of thorns was pushed and rolled - exposing the bottom that was not covered with corpses and the spikes were still sharp, and then more demons bumped into it like this .

In a hall full of mirrors in the main building of the fortress, most of the spellcasters in the defenders gather here.They formed two circles with Great Elder Quirion as the center. Three elf sages with stronger spellcasting abilities were in the inner circle, and twelve weaker apprentices and assistants were in the outer circle. Casting the same spell together.

The old elf in the center of the circle holds a slender wand, like a choir conductor, guiding the arcane energy from different spellcasters, allowing them to resonate and amplify each other, and the final effect is far beyond what each person can do alone. to the limit.

This is a unique joint spell-casting ceremony of the elves.After a serious spell-casting accident more than 800 years ago, the goddess of magic forbade mortal spellcasters to use spells with nine rings or above (Note 1), which caused a lot of trouble to the highly developed elves, so they studied This is a ritual in which multiple casters cast spells together.

It is said that if a spellcaster who can use nine-ring spells is sacrificed during the ceremony, he can even break through the restriction of the magic net and cast ten-ring or even eleven-ring magic.However, the purpose of today's ceremony is only to enlarge the effective range of the summoning thorns spell, so it is not enough for the Elf Elder who has just regained his freedom to sacrifice himself.

The wall of thorns that appeared out of thin air was like a breakwater, stopping the tide-like army of demons.The defenders on the city wall were immediately encouraged. The current wave of attacks did cause them a lot of trouble, but if the demon's follow-up troops could not keep up in time, the defenders would clean up the enemies who had already attacked the city wall. All the superiority the demons have gained thus far at great cost will be lost.

In the mirrors arranged around the room are pictures around the fortress, clearly showing the results of everyone's joint spellcasting.But they just glanced at the scene in the glasses, and immediately began to prepare for the next magic according to the plan in advance.

The devil's reaction was a little slow, but he still responded in time.Several huge fireballs flew towards the plants covered with thorns, as if intending to burn them to ashes.

Unlike devils, demons are not completely immune to the damage of flames. Those demons hanging on thorns and still screaming may be burnt to coke, but are the legion commanders worried about accidentally injuring some low-level cannon fodder?
Of course not, cannon fodder is meant to be sacrificed. As long as the goal can be achieved, does it matter who dies?
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　　Note 1: Interested students can search for the video "Exposing the tenth-level spell in dnd" on station B to learn how Faerun changed from blue bar spell casting to spell slot spell casting.

　　
　
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