"I am not what I used to be" is the motto of most lichs. This is not a philosophical speculation, but simply a fact that the undead creature has broken for itself.

In order to prevent his escape plan from failing, Drow Lich Snead chose to resurrect from the life box immediately after completing his self-destruction.

As a result, he had to suffer the loss of some of his real life stored in the life box, and was forced to degenerate into a half-lich, losing his body and becoming a floating skull.

As soon as he came back to life, he sensed that there were no more terrible nightmarish maggots in his skull-only shell, and his great joy even affected the otherworldly gate spell he had prepared to escape from the abyss.

"Hey, this!"

Suddenly I realized that this spell was activated by a spell scroll that was specially stored in the life box, and it should not suddenly disappear because of my own chanting mistake.

"Anti-magic stance!"

No sooner had he realized what had affected the spell's effect, and the last remaining floating skull of the half-lich was clamped down by a powerful palm.

"Hello, Mr. Lich. Or you should be called a half-lich by now. The blue dragon boy greeted the captive in the palm of his hand.

"How do you defeat a lich? Find his lifebox and shatter it. ”

These are the words he once heard from a rookie girl who likes to play the role of a paladin when he was running a group game. Although it is a rough statement, it can be regarded as a concise point out of the key to solving the problem.

Quiss, who has a lot of experience in running groups, has seen so many undead creatures mixed in the demonic army before, and he has roughly guessed what the guy behind it may be hiding something.

After the battle began, the Blue Dragon Boy finished deploying the battle plan and plunged headlong into the fortress command room, which he had transformed into a spell laboratory.

The lich is preparing for the escape experiment, and Quest is also preparing for the capture experiment.

With a fortress as a base, the spell material resources that Ques can currently mobilize can even allow him to "splurge" a little.

After stacking three stacks of side spells that increased his luck attributes, he used the Limited Wish Spell to summon the Lich's life box into his trap in one go, saving some of the other means and spell materials that he had prepared.

Crates are generally the most well-kept item by the Lich, with only a small chance of being captured by a Wish-type spell.

The last time he wanted to capture the Lich's lifebox was the Demon Lord Worm Tyrant of this plane, but even if he was as powerful as him, he didn't do it.

The footnote of the protagonist of strong luck encountering a bitter life is probably to describe this situation.

The captured Lich Crate was placed in the "Anti-Magical Position" circle that had already been set up, which was the real reason why Sneid's Atlas Gate spell failed.

"You ...... Don't!"

Imprisoned, the drow lich instinctively resisted in a fit of rage.

While the "anti-magic stance" may limit the effects of some spells, it is not absolutely impossible for the Lich to fight back when the skill of manipulating the arcane has become instinctive.

It's just that when he saw that the blade was already hanging less than an inch above his life box, he was as angry as ice, and instantly seemed to be placed under the warm sun.

Anger turned to horror in an instant.

Quest watched the half-lich's reaction with satisfaction, Ogre Blue held the blue dragon boy's adamantite scythe, and he would not hesitate to smash the small box to pieces if the lich made the slightest resistance.

"Now we can talk, Mr. Half-Lich. ”

"Name, place of origin, home address......

......

Sneijder, whose life was threatened, chose to compromise.

After carefully answering the question posed by the hateful human imp in front of him, he tried to lure him:

"Boy, I have to say that you are very well prepared. In this case, even the Lich is helpless.

But you definitely have a need, right?

How about powerful spell data? I can give you a spell book.

Or do you want a ransom? As an old guy with thousands of years of collection, you have to believe that I still have a lot of money......

We can make a trade. ”

"Deal, that's right. But if you still talk with some spells, my friend will make you regret it. ”

Upon receiving the signal, the clever Blues immediately understood Quest's intentions, and he immediately plunged his blade into Sneijder's life box.

"No, no......" Because the lifebox was damaged, Sneijder felt a great pain that was more terrible than Ling Chi, and hurriedly pleaded.

"That's the right attitude to trade. ”

Quest pulls out a contract made from the skin of a demon in the Netherworld—something he's harvested from the "real" Merchant of the Jugros Demon Merchant "Clearance".

Although he lost a lot of soul prisms, as long as he used it properly, he would soon recover the principal, but he didn't expect to use it so quickly.

"Let's sign a labor contract," Quest slowly showed the scroll to the half-lich, "What a bargain it would be to trade a hundred years of labor for freedom." ”

"I want to see the contents of the contract. ”

"Blue ......"

"I'll sign!

Under the "manual" persuasion of Quest, the Lich Snead had no choice but to sign his secret seal on the contract.

Originally, he wanted to do something with the secret seal, but in the end, he reluctantly found out that this damn contract actually had an anti-counterfeiting function. God knows where this damn imp got such a high-level spell creation.

"Half-Lich Mr. Sneider, it turns out that you were once a drow elf in the world of Torrell. Fortunately," looking at the unique arcane sigil symbol of the drow elves signed on the contract, Quis carefully put it away with satisfaction: "Then fulfill your first service now, that undead monster should have been created by you." ”

Walking out of the gate of the fortress's command room with his newly recruited brother and Blue, on the high platform at the door, Quest pointed to a giant monster that could be clearly seen from miles away.

"This is indeed the final product of the experiment I designed, but I didn't preside over the completion of the ......."

Snead, who had become a half-lich, suddenly remembered that when his original lich body was disintegrated by the ritual circle, the evil monster that appeared in that unclear memory was probably the one who continued to complete his own terminated ritual.

Even if he becomes a half-lich, his ability to reason and analyze has not disappeared, but Sneijder is wrong in guessing a little, not "him", but "them".

Just as the ancient Greek philosophers on Earth asserted that "self-consciousness is only an illusion of continuity", this phrase simply sums up the characteristics of their behavior in the case of the new type of Tanari demons, the Calamity.

"Freedom, freedom! How many sins are done in a false way. ”

"The road to conquest is paved with the wreckage of the innocent. ”

"In fifty years of life, is there anyone who does not create a murderer? ”

......

All sorts of whispers continued to emanate from within the wriggling bodies of the Calamity Worms, caused by the pan-consciousness of a small part of the memories and personalities of past lives that each of the Acid Mist Worms that made up its body had awakened after gaining power.

Though the language was chaotic, the instructions they gave to their creation, the Calamity, through psychic communication, were unmistakable.

Attack! Defeat the fortress of the Devil of Batzu!