Chapter 34 Dawnbringer
Dawnbringer +3
Type: Long Sword
Quality: Golden·Legendary
Equipment Requirements: Non-Evil Alignment
Activation method: Mind control
Equipment effect:
1. Weapon characteristics: When grasping the hilt of the sword, you can use mind control to unfold or retract a blade formed by light. The attributes of the lightsaber are: +5 sharpness, +5 magic breaking, +5 penetration, and +3 armor breaking.
2. Sun Flame Sword: The damage type caused by using this sword is regarded as brilliance rather than slashing. When this sword hits a creature of the evil camp, it will cause an additional 5 points of damage. If the target is an undead creature, then The damage is doubled.
3. Advanced evocation aura: You can release "Flame Strike" once a day until the number of times is restored at dawn the next day.
Other unknown abilities (not activated):? ? ?
Description:
The light emitted by the blade is treated as sunlight, and provides 15 feet of bright light and an additional 15 feet of low light. While the blade is extended, you can use an action to increase or decrease the bright and dim light radius by 5 feet each. The upper limit of the light range is that the bright and dim areas are each expanded by 30 feet, and the lower limit is that the bright and dim areas are each reduced by 10 feet.
The Dawnbringer was forged by worshipers of the ancient sun god Amaunator. This was originally just a magical weapon of excellent quality, but after the owner died in battle, it was integrated with the spiritual thoughts left by the owner during his lifetime. As the years passed, it gradually became a truly legendary weapon.
Note: Because the Dawnbringer was left in the Underdark for too long, many of its functions cannot function at all. Priests of the non-evil camp are required to spend an hour every morning. , using the divine power of the domain that one has mastered to warm it. This ritual continues until the holder is recognized by the weapon, and then it can exert its true value and power.
——The existence of Dawnbringer is to bring light to the darkness, allowing the holder to continue fighting against the evil enemies in the darkness.
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Brian observed the lightsaber carefully, and the doubts in his heart were gradually solved.
Finally I understand why the attributes of ‘Dawnbringer’ look so poor, completely unable to match the real legendary equipment.
However, what reassured him was that this was not a damaged legendary equipment.
Otherwise, it would be a shame.
After all, legendary quality equipment is very rare even in the entire material world. It is even so rare that even those powerful legendary professionals cannot guarantee that they will be able to get one.
Even the powerful gods can consume their divine power to mass-produce magic equipment below legendary level, but it is undoubtedly impossible to mass-produce legendary equipment.
If they really have the ability to produce legendary equipment in batches, it indirectly proves that they have the ability to increase the strength of believers to the (chosen) legendary level in large quantities.
Because if the gods want to forcefully create legendary equipment, the amount of divine power consumed cannot be easily afforded by a god.
In more serious cases, it may even directly cause weak gods to face the risk of losing their level.
The reason for this result.
The main reason is that when a piece of equipment reaches legendary quality, it means that the piece of equipment has certain rules and domain power.
This kind of power that can only be mastered by legendary professionals cannot be created by casually consuming a little bit of divine power that is not painful to oneself.
Because they all consume the original power of a god. If compared to a human being, the original divine power is the essence and blood of ordinary people.
Once it is consumed, it must take a lot of time to recover.
The reason why legend is called ‘legend’!
It is not that they are artificially named like this, but behind every piece of legendary equipment, there is a hidden or widely circulated legendary story.
So, the probability of legendary equipment appearing is actually lower than that of professionals who advance to the Legend of Destiny in the material plane.
However, the only advantage of these legendary equipment is that there is no life limit.
As long as they are not damaged or forgotten in an unknown place, they will be passed down forever, and may even become more powerful as time goes by.
Brian retracted his gaze, and with a thought, a piece of intact gold foil paper in the sarcophagus appeared in front of him.
He saw that apart from a thin layer of dust, it was also covered with writing.
Before being driven away by him, the spiritual crystal servant told him that when he took the sword, this gold foil paper was stored with the 'Dawnbringer'.
He also specifically asked him to check it out.
Brian waved his hand, and a simple trick cleared the dust from the gold foil.
After it regained its bright golden luster, I began to examine it carefully:
Netheril Calendar Year 2598. An army of over 3,000 orcs marched east into central Netheril.
Under the command of Lord Bruta of Skamharth, the orc army was divided into eight teams and rushed out of the Legion Mountains of the Gods and surrounded the border city of Shanes.
Offering no opportunity for negotiation, they sacked the city and continued their march westward.
Countless refugees fled south across the Basin Lake and quickly conveyed the news to the nearby city of Andrante, warning Netheril of the invasion.
But what is surprising is that no powerful floating city of Netheril came to support the defense of these ground settlements.
The orcs advanced without any effective resistance until Bruta's army reached the narrow Humeishira Pass in the Polaris Mountains.
The only path through the mountains is hundreds of kilometers long. It is a winding path that is too narrow to allow two orcs to walk side by side.
A dense phalanx of six hundred temporarily organized Netherese warriors stood ready here, blocking the path.
General Martik Stratga, a worshiper of the sun god Amaunata, stands among the soldiers with one hundred of his bodyguards.
Despite the huge disparity in numbers, the Netherese soldiers still stood firm, relying on their superb combat skills and magical support to do their best to slow the advance of the orc army.
Unfortunately, Bruta's entourage included several powerful shamans. They used totem magic to cross the hard granite walls on the side of the path and outflank the Netherese army from front to back.
Although his soldiers were heavily surrounded, General Martik still shouted the name of the raider and attacked bravely and fearlessly.
The orc commander Bruta passed through the dense battlefield and dueled with Mattik in person.
The battle was overwhelmingly outnumbered, and most of the personal guards around Martik were killed or seriously injured, but he still stood bravely and fearlessly, waving the Dawnbringer symbolizing the sun god Amaunata. , accurately throwing out hot magical spells.
As the fierce battle came to an end, Mattik Strutt was finally outnumbered and died fighting. His head was cut off by Bruta and made public.
After paying an extremely heavy price, the orcs seized the trail, but the fierce resistance of the guards delayed their progress, allowing all the refugees from Netheril to escape, avoiding a horrific massacre.
Mattik Stratga and his bodyguards used their self-sacrifice to give countless unarmed civilians a chance to live.
His fearless spirit of self-sacrifice and almost legendary military exploits are like the Dawnbringer in his hands, always bringing light to the darkness and fighting bravely against the enemies in the darkness.
——May the glory of the sun god Amaunata never dim!
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The ‘Battle of Humeshira’ was the last glory of Netheril’s surface army and the beginning of the decline of the divine power.
From then on, the civilians who lost the protection of their vitality completely lost their right to speak freely and became the tools of the great arcanists living in the floating city to extract all resources.
At the same time, this was also the turning point when the great arcanists began to become indifferent to the gods.
As time goes by, the Netherese people's faith in the gods has also been lost at an extremely rapid and irreversible rate, forcing some gods to take measures to preserve their divinity.
So, the great Arcane Empire is not as beautiful as imagined.
For the common people of that era, if they wanted to get ahead, they could only accumulate enough wealth to live in the Floating City through several generations of hard work, or sign a contract of sale and serve in the Floating City for life.
Because only by living in the floating city, their descendants have the opportunity to be exposed to magic education and learn arcane arts. This is the correct way for an ordinary person to become an arcane magician during the Netheril period. Way.
Brian put the gold foil paper recording the 'Battle of Humaihira' back intact into the sarcophagus.
"Priests who are not from the evil camp."
He looked at the 'Dawn Messenger' in his hand, and after considering it for a moment, he promised it, "If there is a chance, I will give it to you. Find a master who is truly worthy of you."
"But the first thing you need to do is to help me return to the surface." After thinking about it, he made the final addition.
“Buzz!”
As Brian finished speaking, the lightsaber in his hand suddenly glowed with dazzling light.
(End of this chapter)