Chapter 95: Reminiscence
"It's ...... The monster that broke the ice when there was a confrontation between the nobles and the union at Baldur's Gate that year!but、Why is it the image of the god of murder...... Or does it have to be this way?"
Thomas had only seen the Evil Wraith twice before, in the Dragon's Lich's Lair in Comanso and Baldur's Gate, and this time it was also related to Baal, the god of killing.
The evil god in front of him appeared to be a huge humanoid structure four or five meters tall carved from purple-black gems or crystals, and the face carved with the Bar Skull emblem and the grotesque runes all over his body revealed his completely different nature from the golem.
One is driven by murderous divine powers, and the other is an elemental spirit bound by magic.
As a result, some scholars say that this is the prototype of the Golem, although Thomas thinks it may not be true.
From a distance, standing between the evil god and several townspeople were two burly barbarian men. The older man with a gold ring on his head and a two-handed greatsword decorated with gold was none other than the chief of the Deer Clan, Jalond Elkart, and the young man with a sledgehammer was his subordinate, Hagel, who longed for civilized society.
The townsfolk who were protected by them were slightly panicked and tried to enter the house, and the two cautiously tried to outflank the evil spirit, and Thomas cried out in his heart that it was not good.
It's obvious that the Deer Clan in Icewind Dale have never seen something made by the Baal Cultists, and their fighting style is to be indecisive and reckless.
The Barbarian's attack power is strong enough, and it may even break the defense of the evil god and phantom in the normal state, but the mental defense ability is ......
Similar to the previous times, just one glance at Thomas made him feel his body bathed in cold murderous intent, and the blood vessels of his heart rose hot.
The Ranger is very good at resisting spells with toughness or dodging spells with reflexes, but is consciousness ...... It's far inferior to the caster!
It wasn't as dangerous as Medusa or the water goblins, who would be petrified at a close look, and young men were rumored to be blind at the sight of a water goblin, or even die of exaggeration.
And if the evil god phantom wants to affect people's minds, it also needs to take the initiative to attack, which is a world of difference compared to Medusa's gaze.
It is said that the existence of God is so powerful that even the slightest trace can affect mortals.
As it is said (Exodus 19:16-25), "The people could not come to God, lest many of them die." In addition to the restrictions, other priests who were close to God were to sanctify themselves or be killed. Even (Exodus 33:15-23) says that even if a prophet sees the face of God, he will not live.
Even if the Abyss Lord, who is much weaker than the gods, ordinary people or people who are not strong enough will definitely not be able to withstand the madness and terror beyond the limit of their minds when they see it.
But Torrell is a world with a lot of mind-manipulating abilities or spells, as well as a lot of targeted defensive magic and curiosities. The most reliable is the poet's mouth cannon skill that ignores the mental barrier, like an invisibility spell that is better than hiding at first, and it will be completely finished when it encounters the invisible and true gaze.
Unlike the mental attacks of the cattle, the most troublesome thing for the evil god is its power.
Medusa cut the back row can pose a considerable threat to mages or thieves, while warlords and priests are mainly afraid of capsizing in the gutter. However, if you can see through Medusa's disguise in advance and attack before you get into the effective range of the petrified gaze, it will not be a difficult problem to solve.
The evil god phantom is almost as hard as the golem, and it can also enter a defensive stance, and when it is attacked, it will fight back with divine energy.
Combined with the ability to inflate flames and lock morale on the weapons of nearby allies, it can be said to be stinky and hard.
"Strange, doesn't it mean that this thing must use a divine spark? even a little, where did the red robe get the Bal divine power?"
"Since the Duke of Silver Shield is a Bal Chosen One, his corpse may have the divine power of the God of Murder remaining. Before Thomas could remember, Cortana had already called up what she thought was relevant records based on keywords and fuzzy searches, and displayed them in his sight.
"Well, Mina's "History of the Chosen One of Mystra" pointed out that the electors of the goddess of magic may be infused with divine powers as insurance against the unexpected, Rasmoda once mentioned that the red-robed mages who studied how to form divine powers were divided into two project teams: time-travelers and voters, and the Lord of Neverwinter warned me about the disappearance of the corpse of the silver shield and beware of his possible revenge......"
According to Mina, the goddess of magic had deposited about half of her divine power in Azus and the elect as instructed by the god AO, in addition to other backups. So even if it becomes a scar, there is still a way to resurrect it. And other gods, such as Baal and Bane, naturally also prepared various back roads, including the Son of God.
Therefore, Aberdell's death and Baal's resurrection are inevitable by chance.
Thomas stared at the flowers and asked Cortana, who had received his mental instructions, to send her the documents.
As before, there were no words or expressions to respond, and Baihua only chose to use telepathic communication with her ears and tail covered: "We can't risk attacking, the minds of those two barbarians can't withstand the attack of evil gods and phantoms, and it is dangerous to get close to them." ”
The Ranger retracted his mind and leaned over as he watched the material, trying to find a better position to shoot.
As the night gets deeper, the wind and snow tend to weaken, which is not good for the rangers who rely on the heavy snow to achieve a unilateral vision advantage.
Baihua also understood this, and leaned over to move gently in a posture almost parallel to the ground.
Only the dwarf, relying on the fact that it was night, attracted shadow energy to cover himself in the night, and swaggered down the road - it was more difficult for him to carry the wandering sky for protection.
The evil god phantom directly emitted a bloody light from the holy emblem, pasting it on the face of the deer chief. Thomas could see his movements pause immediately, then turned to look at Heigl with a hideous expression.
"Whew, it's fine. Thomas let out a sigh. This disturbing method of disturbing the mind will only last less than a minute, and if the evil god phantom is infused with killing intent in melee combat, it will need to use a high-ring spell to remove it.
"It's not easy to do, Wending, do you have a way?" While speaking to ask the dwarf, Thomas sighed silently to Baihua in his heart:
"It's much better to have holy horses - every time there is such a thing as an evil god and phantom, and after more than a hundred years, are the Balists still dying!"
As he spoke, Thomas glanced at the location of the dwarf hidden in the night.
Barnard had previously used a spell to transform himself into Mina's form, so that even if he appeared, enemies would perceive the Paladin's fangs.
Baihua hesitated: "The barbarians will soon join the enemy, and it is not good for us to fight the two of them and the evil gods and phantoms head-on, withdraw?"
When she felt that the outside force wanted to distort her will, the unpredictable cat's heart and the ninjutsu martial arts she practiced allowed her to be clear and the sky would not fall......
But after fending off a mental attack, it takes time to breathe back and forth, regaining control and adjusting the magical energy in the meridians. Not only the defensive moves, but also the offensive moves.
Although Baihua is proficient in the kung fu of killing, she is still far from the realm of using Qi freely, especially her martial arts and ninjutsu are all won by skill.
After Comanso's first encounter with the Evil Wraire, Thomas was taught that it would take Adamantite or Star Iron to break through the hardness and strength of his body, and that if the monster entered the Divine Defense Stance, the physical attack would be almost completely ineffective!
Therefore, if used as a stronghold defense, the Evil Wraith will be stronger and more reliable than the Dwarven Ancestral Spirit to support allies and interfere with enemies.
But if you're in a moving position like Baldur's Gate was and is now, it's relatively easy to break.
Relatively.
To deal with the evil gods and phantoms, there must be a master who sees the opportunity and suddenly strikes in its moving state to deal great damage. It is difficult for ordinary people and miscellaneous soldiers to break through its defenses, and their minds are too easily affected, even if there are hundreds or thousands of troops, there is basically no possibility of confrontation.
For example, when Comanso investigated the collusion between the dragon lich and the Baal cultists, it was because the team was scattered that there were not enough strong attackers. In the original arrangement, Baihua was used as a hole card, and after she found that the martial arts she used to kill people were ineffective against the evil gods and phantoms, she decisively used the cat's fighting instincts............ Fall back.
- Thomas still suspects that one of the reasons for her dissatisfaction is that her Black Jaguar was repelled by Xiyi and died from a large anteater, but her performance as the third feline is far less amazing than that of the Mountain Lion.
The Elves of Mistror suffered considerable losses due to the disturbance of the minds of the evil gods and the disregard of the flowers, which caused the Commander to be extremely dissatisfied—especially since the Prophecy had previously pointed out that the Human Ranger was related to the disappearance of his scabbard many years ago, even though the Human Ranger was only a newcomer.
Eventually, even the Wood Elves sent by the High Forest lost their confidence, feeling that Thomas, as the "Beast Tamer", was powerless to control the unruly cat.
Just as Thomas felt that he was about to lose his way within the Scouts of the Supreme Forest, a message came from an informant from the Liberation Order of Cell, suggesting that the Lich King might be studying the composition of divine powers.
Rasmoda is the leader of the rebel red-robed mages of the Cell, a thorn in the Lich King's side.
He traveled all over Ferron, calling on the neutral merchant Red Robe Mage to support him in rebuilding the Eight-School Republic, and in various ways to confront the Red Robe Mage loyal to Sazastan, who seemed to Thomas to be like de Gaulle.
For example, when it comes to fighting and destroying the Circle of Death and the Cell's army, which Valinda is in charge of, Neverwinter has received a lot of assistance from Rasmoda.
As a result, the elven scouts of the Supreme Forest launched a surprise attack on the red-robed test base, rescuing many of the traversers, including Kurgal.
"The assault on the test base was very successful, and quite a few traversers were rescued – although they all ended up hitting the streets in a short period of time. What's more, the results of Sazastan's and his subordinates were obtained. ”
Rasmoda and his subordinates quickly cracked the ciphertext:
The time and place of the traveler from Earth tend to be clock-shaped centered on the time and place of someone's youth and activity.
- Like flies and moths, Aberdale, a descendant of Barr, Grian's adopted son!
- Around Sword Bay!
Therefore, the red-robed mages also surrounded Abdel, the son of the evil god and now the Duke of Baldur's Gate, and began to set up and study, and Kurgal was the last flying insect to hit their net recently.
But what she is good at is literature and history, eating, drinking, and having fun, which is not of much use to the red-robed mages who are eager for science and engineering knowledge, so they don't care much about it in their experiments.
At that time, they may not know that their most valuable targets were in the Cat City of Naslake on the Dragon's Coast or the Sun City of Ivantor - not Thomas but Cortana.
Although Ranger admits that his memory is much worse than that of Kurgal, his good memory is not as good as a bad pen, and a bad pen is not as good as a calculating Ji.
On my mobile phone, I store offline data from wikis, "Ideal Country", "Outline" to "Theory of Trust and Continuation", Hardware Handbook, Advanced Mathematics, Data Structures, Databases, Group Theory, Advanced Statistical Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Mesoscopic Physics, ...... But Thomas, who doesn't look at it at all, is a typical squirrel cancer in the advanced stage.
And although Kurgal is a little far from remembering, the books he read when he was a child are still refreshed in his thirties, like a few treasures, and the more he talks, the more energetic he becomes. He often pops up when Thomas is chatting with other people in the group, and pulls the topic to his favorite cuckold topic through side references, such as his favorite Wen Ruian: from Zhao Shirong to Lin Wanxiao to Lei Chun to Zhang Aitian to Xiaodao and Tequila......
While waiting for Kurgal to recover from his injuries, Thomas is surprised to discover that her soul actually belongs to his netizen when he was on Earth, and the two quickly fight hot.
Baldur's Gate was growing so aggressively that it had overtaken Waterdeep or Port Carlin as the largest city in Ferron before Thomas crossed. The reasons for the success are often attributed to mercantile policies, location, and transportation, while others believe that the charisma of Duke Aberdale was the influence.
Thomas, of course, insisted because it had the largest church in Gunde and the technology that the traversers had brought with them.
A long time ago, Baihua once said that the time school of this world believes that time is a dimension: when people in three dimensions move on the time axis, a fate line or world line is formed. When people's timelines come together, they become rivers, and people of high status or charisma, such as generals, kings, or rather, the sons of gods and the dukes of Baldur's Gate, can strongly influence the fate of others.
Perhaps attracted by Aberdell's fame, or perhaps because Chanem wanted to catch a glimpse of the immortal Baldur's Gate series of games that revived the RPG genre, Thomas traveled to Baldur's Gate with other time-travelers, including Kurgal.
But Aberdale has long been tired of the Traveler, and he has seen too many people who want to take advantage of, bluff and even kill him.
According to Hundred Flowers' observations, Aberdale is far less kind to the other travelers than to the commoners, but he is reasonable because of his bold personality, but he is extremely enthusiastic about Thomas, not only caring for the Ranger himself, but also giving him treasures as a gift to the Hundred Flowers and Elena who happened to meet him.
Not only Duke Aberdell, but also Councillor Colon saw Thomas at first sight, as if he were an old friend whom he had known for a long, long time but had lost contact.
Thomas originally looked down on Abbadel very much, and felt that he and other players were showing off their might in the game, but it turned out that the son of Baal and Chanem turned out to be such scum.
Abdelle Adrian (Nesser, Child of Darkness) is just a wretched creature who has been destined to be a pawn of Baal and even Irenikas and Melissand from the beginning.
After so many years in Candlefort, Grean should have let him read "The Story of Destiny Coins", let him rebel against his established fate, and let him choose his own path.
- But he is simple-minded and has well-developed limbs, and he relies on transforming into a killer or a teammate to kill him all the way.
Without Glian, Ammon, Jahira and Sharofok would be a piece of waste, and Thomas even wondered if it would be better if it was Barsazar who survived in the end.
The abbot, who is strong in martial arts and has a strong mind, will surely be able to suppress Baal's resurrection forever, and even if he is old, he can easily win against Wellkang.
After all, it's just a rookie who replaces the player, and I don't know how much it has been weakened.
He thought so, and on that day, it was drizzling.
On the day of Aberdell's death, the Baal followers drew a storm of blood, which eventually turned into a storm of killing.
And Thomas, who later realized that everything was a ploy of the Duke of Silver Shield, took Hundred Flowers and Elena to assassinate. Although he succeeded in killing the Duke of Silver Shield, he was also captured on the spot.
Relying on Elena's identity as a platinum dragon paladin, Mina, who received her notice, finally led a large number of Unicorn Knights to break the siege.
obviously doesn't want to eat Elena soft rice anymore, and obviously thinks that he is a cronie of the unicorn goddess, but in the end, he still has to rely on his ex-girlfriend and the people he despises to save the scene with a group of peripheral characters.
I was so ashamed that I wanted to die.
Then he lost his balance of mentality, and wanted to use the most primitive method to tie up the flowers, but he failed.
And it wasn't until some time had passed, when even the last riot had passed, and even Baihua had left, that Thomas, who had left the scout team and came to Neverwinter, remembered.
- Remembering that his days on Earth are in the past.
Whether it's memories of Baldur's Gate and other games, memories of hometown and family, or memories of the years from not remembering to going to school, all have passed in a hurry.
The years passed like water, and Thomas's youth was only miserable, failed and unwilling in the end.
But life has to go on.
Even in this other world, alone, there are no cats.