Mithril Throne of Forgotten Realms

Red is everywhere.

Red stones, red domes, red water... Even my body is red!

Ever since that day, when I made the decision to become an undead creature, I no longer see the gray world I was familiar with when I was alive, and everything is no longer black and white.

Only red!

But I never regret it.

As long as you can get rid of the fate of hundreds of years, it is worth paying some price, and the fate of those idiots is a proof!Ha ha!

I knew from the beginning that the mind flayers had found this mithril mine, and found my home... no, the home of the weak...

I witnessed with my own eyes the army of mind flayers rushing out of the darkness, ruthlessly plundering the lives of those who used to be my people, using evil magic to turn them into the most loyal slaves, and then wiped out the entire tribe...

The weak deserve no pity.

I've seen the mind flayers drive right in, sweeping away the other intelligent races in the veins, all the way to the central cavern where there are dwarven ruins, centuries old... the Mithril Throne.

Yes, that's right!Mithril Throne!

That is the meaning of my life!As long as I have it, I don't have to stay in this isolated mine until I die; I don't have to bear those entangled and painful memories anymore.

I will have countless powerful demon armies, sweeping across the entire Underdark!The Hearth of Our Lady, Menzoberranzan City, the Drowned Land...all these cities will surrender under my feet!

The red building in front...is the Mithril Throne...

Jie Jie Jie~~ Mind Flayer?It's only suitable for my dessert!These octopus heads who can only play tricks actually want to occupy the Mithril Throne?

I!

Sabak. Brightfin.Will be king forever!

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In fact, Fang Yi is still very interested in the relationship between the female sword saint Atona and Sabak. Everyone has gossip thoughts, not to mention that it is also related to the territorial task in hand, so Fang Yi can't help but not care.

So on the way to the City Lord's Mansion, Fang Yi asked this question very gossip.

However, to Fang Yi's surprise, Atona, despite her previously secretive attitude, actually revealed the whole thing, and explained the whole story to Fang Yi.

While Fang Yilue was a little surprised, he was also deeply surprised by the story that Atona told, and at the same time couldn't help but sigh.

This is a story of heroes and devils.

Sabak, Brightfin.Atona, Brightfin's father.The Lizardman Legendary Clan - Brightfin Tribe is the largest chieftain and also the last one.

The Brightfin Tribe has lived in this mithril vein for hundreds of years, and never communicates with the outside world, nor will they leave their tribal location without authorization.This group of Lizardmen, living with countless sword masters with superb sword skills, has a mission.That is to protect the city in the center of the lake.Guard the Mithril Throne.

As for which generation of patriarchs personally accepted this mission.It was the mission of the lizardman given by the dwarf tribe again, and there is no way to test it.But all the lizardmen in the tribe knew that the island in the center of the lake called the Mithril Throne hid a shocking secret—it could not be destroyed.Someone has to watch over it.

About a year ago, a human mage who called himself a "prophet" came to the tribe.Although the Brightfin Tribe adheres to the principle of "staying at home", they do not reject occasional visits by unlucky outsiders.After all, the lizardmen tribes in the Underdark are rare kind camps that do not reject friends.

But this time the outsider brought a news that shocked everyone.

The mind flayers far away in the Drowning Land have discovered the location of the Mithril vein, and are determined to occupy the Mithril Throne and seize the mysterious accompanying ores under the throne. The attack will start within a week at most!

The lizard people didn't need to pay attention to these hearsay news, because this mithril vein was basically isolated from the outside world.

These people who came to the inside of the mine by chance either accidentally fell into the underground river, or used stone walking techniques indiscriminately, and just happened to come in by blind cats and dead mice. In other words, no one knew the way to enter the Mithril mine.

But soon, the lizard people saw the evidence to prove what the prophet said—that is, the skeleton dwarves.

Unlike Fang Yi and other half-knowledgeable players, as the aborigines of the Underdark, the Brightfin Clan knew these ghostly undead creatures very well.

The skeleton dwarves have no leader and no specific purpose. They just appear randomly in the Underdark and then disappear.There is one exception, that is, once a dwarven monument in the Underdark is attacked or destroyed, these undead warriors will appear immediately, ruthlessly expelling and killing the invaders until the enemy is repelled, or they lose their combat effectiveness.

On the second day after the human mage arrived at the Brightfin clan, these skeleton dwarves appeared in front of everyone and issued a warning to the lizard people who were the guardians.

The invasion of the mind flayers is imminent, and there must be no such thing as a creature more vicious than the Mithril Throne.

Kill them all, or destroy the Mithril Throne.

This is undoubtedly bad news for the Brightfin tribe that has lived peacefully for hundreds of years.

The reason is simple, the only way to deal with mind flayers, and there are hundreds of them, is to organize an equally large army of mages, because only highly intelligent mages have a chance against mind flayers Mind Blast and other mind magic.

The sword masters who rely solely on the long sword in their hands have no room for resistance in front of the mind flayer.

For this reason, Shabak, who was still the patriarch of the Bright Fin at that time, and the prophet finally made a decision that made everyone dumbfounded after a secret discussion—to ask the prophet to help transform the lizardman sword master into an undead creature!

As long as he becomes an undead creature and maintains his sanity in life, most of the mind flayer's spells will not be able to affect the lizardman sword master, and the balance of victory will undoubtedly tilt to the lizardman's side.

Atona was the first to firmly oppose it, because everyone knew that undead creatures were the embodiment of absolute evil, and their reputation was even worse than that of mind flayers!Even if the reformation ceremony is successful, who can guarantee that the simple and kind lizardman will not become more evil than the octopus head under the erosion of the undead forces day after day?

Hearing this, Fang Yi frowned, and suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart.

What a coincidence...

That's right!What a coincidence!

Before the mind flayers invaded, there just happened to be an all-knowing "prophet"-type character who came to warn?Not to mention whether the warnings of those skeleton dwarves were true or false, Fang Yi subconsciously felt that there was something wrong with this human mage.

What makes Fang Yi most uncomfortable is the time - the invasion warning was informed one year in advance, if Sabac had chosen to become an undead creature at that time, then this year...

Sure enough, Atona's subsequent narration also confirmed Fang Yi's guess.

If the appearance of the skeleton dwarves only convinced everyone that the news that the mind flayers were about to invade was true, then the subsequent events had already made the lizard people feel that the crisis was imminent.

One after another, the lizardmen began to find some strange underground creatures around the tribe—with dull expressions, attacking people indiscriminately.Finally someone found a mind flayer with three murloc slaves.

It's less than a mile away from the Brightfin tribe... You know, in this dark region, the nearest mind flayer's lair is Drowning, and it's a week's journey away!

Because of this incident, Shabak finally made up his mind to accept the prophet's spell conversion ceremony together with the most powerful sword master among the other ten tribes, regardless of everyone's obstruction.

The ceremony was unexpectedly successful. Eleven people including Shabak not only retained their original sanity, but also possessed all the characteristics of undead creatures, including immunity to mind magic and most of the adverse effects.

Originally, this was acceptable, because everyone's mission was to protect this place, and they would sacrifice their lives at all costs. Being transformed into a kind undead creature is not so unbelievable.

But then, the nightmare began.

The expected army of mind flayers did not arrive as expected, but what awaited everyone was a palpitating calm.One week, two weeks, one month... As time passed, the several lizardman sword masters who had been transformed into undead also had palpitating changes.

They began to become withdrawn, unwilling to communicate with other people, and their bodies gradually became dry and lifeless.And as the muscles on their bodies slowly fell off, revealing pale bones, the minds of these undead sword masters also began to become confused.

When the Juggernaut attacked civilians for the first time, Sabak just imprisoned the perpetrators, hoping that this was just an isolated incident.But when the ten undead sword masters became insane one after another, Shabak finally realized that something was wrong.

But, it's too late...

Fang Yi knew that the erosion of intelligent creatures by the power of the dead was from the inside out, and the most well-known example was the lich.

When a creature is transformed into a lich, the things that support his activities and thoughts change from food, water, and air to necromancy.Necromantic magic will slowly erode and affect his sanity, and this erosion will accompany the lich's entire long life and never stop.

Therefore, even archmages and arcanists with profound magical powers cannot escape the fate of becoming pure evil creatures in the end, not to mention Shabak, a poor sword master with little magic attainments.

So when Shabak found that something was wrong, "he" was no longer the original "he"—evil replaced kindness, and the destructive nature erased the original sense of responsibility.

All that was left was chaos.

As Shabak's closest person, Atona discovered this danger earlier than others. After unsuccessful persuasion, the female sword master resolutely left the original tribe with the core cornerstone and some tribesmen. (to be continued..)