The Death List Novel - Chapter 673
Chapter 673 Interception (3)
After throwing out the two golden skeletons, Necromancer pulled off a pale purple water droplet from his bracelet and threw it to the ground. A stagnant demonic law order rang out from Aue’s mouth.
The amethyst pendant on the ground shone brightly. Countless elemental crystal lines extended out from the water droplet-shaped crystal, forming a small pentagram magic array on the castle’s garden lawn in an instant.
The spell formation shone with a sparkling light, covering an extremely small area. It was like a semi-circular eggshell that could only envelop Necromancer and his two followers, while the two golden skeletons were isolated from the spell formation.
Although the assassination plan of the Santalin Society seemed perfect, two more escape formations were prepared for the perpetrators.
However, as a legendary expert, Necromancer was obviously more willing to take control of his own fate. Therefore, he had secretly prepared a backhand for himself. Now, it seemed to be necessary.
“It’s a teleportation formation. Stop him!” Seeing this pentagram formation, Great Sage Lenny’s expression sank as she shouted at the few people on the ground. At the same time, a series of magic chants sounded out from her mouth, wanting to interrupt the magic frequency of the teleportation formation.
Toril World was a magical world with an extremely developed magical civilization. It had more than ten complete magical systems, such as Dragon Language Magic, Ancient Elves Magic, Misra Magic Web, faith magic, Nether Scroll magic system, alchemy, magic potions, soul magic, and rare abyss talent and totem magic.
Within these magical systems, there were very few users of the Dragon Language Magic. Apart from some ancient dragons that were sleeping, there were also very few dragon vein mages.
The Ancient Elves Magicians were basically the purest royals and Elders of Fairy Court. Strictly speaking, druid spells belonged to the branch of ancient Elves magic. They could also be said to be the most powerful spellcasters in the Toril world.
In the history of warfare in the Valley Calendar, several calamity-like war forbidden spells were all created by these high-ranking Elves.
As for the magic system formed by the Misra Magic Weave and the Belief God Technique, it was currently the most widely used magic system.
The former was the result of a large number of mid-and low-level magicians abusing magic in recent times in Faylon Continent, causing chaos and rampage in magic elements. The magic goddess Misra had appeared in order to reconcile the chaos in the magic element pool and restrain magicians from abusing magic.
The latter was a blessing spell bestowed upon their followers by the gods of the various divine systems in order to spread their faith and obtain the power of faith.
Until now, no one knew its true origin, and relying on it, an Arcane Empire’s Nether Scroll had risen. Along with the destruction of the Nassenaar Magic Empire, the vast majority of them had disappeared into the long river of history, leaving no fewer than a few pages left.
Only those who had a connection with the Nether Scroll and had advanced in alchemy and magic potions would be able to get a glimpse of the profundity and depth of the magic system.
Soul magic involved a wide range of knowledge, and the main branch was necromancy magic. Originating at the end of the Netheril Orfa era, a large number of high-level and legendary mages began to study this forbidden area in search of a breakthrough in their lifespans.
Abyss Innate Spells were even rarer than Dragon Language Spells. This was a bloodline innate ability left behind by a small number of powerful creatures that had invaded the main physical world from the Abyss Plane.
Totem spells were another rather strange system. It was basically only circulated among the primitive intelligent races such as orcs and trolls. It had both the characteristics of divine arts and the soul system, because most of the orcs and troll tribes believed in their ancestors or some powerful ancient soul.
The spellcasters who were most proficient in using totem spells and displayed a complete system were usually shamans from the orc tribes.
It was precisely because Toril World had so many spell systems that many magical elements were leaked out of the elemental pool of the web. This made the vast majority of high-level magic, especially complex spacetime magic, easily interfered with by wandering magic power from the outside world.
For example, most teleportation spells, material dissociation spells, magic shields, and time spells of mages were extremely restrictive.
If it was a magical world where the laws of the world were extremely simple, it would only exist in the imagination of people, not Toril, a multi-dimensional world where the laws of the world were extremely complex.
The aggressiveness of the mage profession needless to say, but melee defense was always an irreparable weakness. Most instant casting spells were low-level magic, and they had a lot of limitations.
Most high-level mages in Toril would only use their robes and wands to fix low-and middle-level elemental shields and probe spells that automatically triggered. It wasn’t because they couldn’t fix high-level magic shields, but because the elemental structure of high-level magic was too complex. Once the external environment didn’t satisfy the triggering conditions, it would be equivalent to planting a time bomb on their bodies.
Low-level defensive spells combined with various detection spells could actually protect them from being ambushed and instantaneously killed by thieves and assassins, and the rest of the defensive work would be handed over to their followers or other warrior companions.
The higher the magic level, the more stable the magic structure was. Normally, high-level and legendary mages would need to rely on formations and long-term spell chanting to complete a high-level magic. Only in this way would they be able to form a magical structure with stable frequency and reduce the backlash after failing to cast a spell.
Wasn’t the main reason why a legendary mage like Elaszo was so difficult to assassinate because of how strong her defense was? Wasn’t it because a mage’s defense was stronger than a fully armored knight or warrior? Instead, it was a combination of passive detection magic that ensured that she could not be ambushed.
The previous assassination in the banquet hall could put Elaszo in a desperate situation. It wasn’t that she couldn’t detect the assassin, but that the assassin didn’t sneak around at all and attacked in a dignified manner.
As for whether there are legendary spells like Time Stasis or not, of course there are. But in Toril World, you definitely can’t see two legendary mages desperately snapping their fingers on their pocket watches and stabbing each other with short knives.
Legendary mages were also bound by the laws of the world. Even Misra’s voters, Elaszo herself, could only bless her with spellcasting speed, silent chanting, and voter immunity.
The spellcasting acceleration and silent chanting were only aimed at the magic web system. This was equivalent to the Magic Goddess leaving a back door for Elaszo on the magic web, allowing her to reduce the time she needed to cast spells and communication. She was still unable to give her the ability to cast high-level spells instantaneously.
The most abnormal voters’ immunity could increase their lifespan, expel illness, and keep Elaszo young forever, but some of the control spells that were exempted came from the magic web system.
For example, Elaszo was able to avoid the spider web spells of ordinary mages, but Qin Lun sacrificed the spider web spells stored in her gloves, so she could not be immune, because its magic power and spell structure did not originate from the magic web.
The real headache for Legendary Magicians was the Legendary Forbidden Curses they had formed through extensive preparations, auxiliary formations, and long chanting. That was what truly distinguished them from other Legendary Professions.
Lenny was one of Candlekeep’s great sages and eight great readers. Although her combat experience was inferior to other legendary mages, her knowledge of magic was extremely profound. She could tell at a glance that Necromancer’s simple spell formation was the simplest and most stable spell formation, but it was the rare Thomas Plane Corridor.
It is rumored that in the Arcane Age, a legendary mage named Thomas Myr invented this teleportation array.
In fact, this spell formation was only a short-range teleportation spell in its initial stage. Its requirements for magic array enchantment materials were extremely stringent. Only a few large organizations could gather all of them. However, the effects of the spells were only short-range teleportation, so they were not valued very much.
However, as the spell progressed, the high-order magi soon discovered two advantages.
First, it was not a simple teleportation array. Although the distance was very short, the principle was that it formed a plane transmission channel between two points of teleportation. Its structure was fairly stable, and the array would have a medium-strength isolation shield, almost undisturbed by the vast majority of the external environment.
In short, it could ignore the mysterious barrier that enveloped Supreme palace!
Second, it could be engraved on a very small pure magic crystal. Not only was it convenient to carry, it also eliminated the need to temporarily redraw the magic array. In some special occasions, it can play a miraculous role in turning the situation around.
Compared to these two advantages, the deficiencies of the enchantment materials were completely tolerable.
Hearing Lenny’s shout, Idrea was the first to pounce. The two-edged axe that the female knight had inherited from her family had already been lost in the Land of Death. Now, she was holding a giant horse chopper in her hand that she did not know where she had obtained it from.
On her side, Elizabeth’s body also expanded rapidly with a roar, turning into a giant magical bear that pounced towards the flickering magic array. At the other two horns, Mustacha and Rand drew their bows and arrows, while the other threw a lava ball at the formation.
“Bang! Bang!” Along with several slightly different sounds of collisions, Idrya flew backwards at a faster speed than when she was attacking. In front of her, a golden skeleton was still in the high-kicked ox-fork position.
Easten also failed to break through the defense of the second golden skeleton. The giant bear was out of proportion to the skeleton in size. The bear’s paws were wrestling against the skeleton’s hands. Easten, who had turned into a giant bear, was actually pushed back by the brute force of the skeleton, and his hind legs left two deep marks on the lawn.
As for Rand’s lava ball, it collided with the eggshell shield of the formation, turning into flames that filled the sky. The magic shield trembled violently, and the light on its surface flickered, but it still managed to hold on.
Only Mastasia’s piercing arrow was the only effective method in this wave of attacks.
The harpsichord master’s piercing arrow clearly belonged to the type that ignored elemental protection. It directly passed through the magic shield and shot towards Necromancer, who was in the middle of the formation. However, in the end, the arrow was blocked by a follower in front of the mage.
“Keke, these are two legendary warriors who were killed by me and turned into undead puppets. Let them stay and continue to play with you!” Necromancer’s hoarse voice let out an oozing laugh.
The silhouettes of him and his two followers slowly faded away in a flickering halo, and a vortex-shaped space-time passage appeared above the formation.
“It’s too late!” When Hill finally saw this scene, he glanced at Lenny and Linda who were still chanting and his heart sank slightly.
He could make a move. Perhaps the Spiritual Suction Monster’s soul explosion could affect Necromancer and cause the teleportation to fail. But in this way, perhaps the knowledgeable Lenny would be able to see through his bloodline. Spirit Absorbers were not a popular target in the surface world.
Shepherd’s eyes flickered unwillingly for a moment, and his tightly clenched hands finally loosened.
Right at this moment, an intense magical fluctuation spread out from within Supreme palace in a circular arc, sweeping across the entire castle area within the Confusion Lock Barrier.