Chapter 271 Anti-Magic Field
"Are you...are you from Waterdeep, or from Menzoberranzan?" Azara, the ranger transformed by the beholder, looked at him in shock and anger. Brian both.
As soon as he finished speaking, all the clothes on the human bodies of the ranger ‘Azala’ and his five attendants fell off and were suspended in mid-air.
Their flesh was like a ball of little people kneaded out of mud, kneaded again by some terrible force, and kneaded into the shape of meatballs.
Immediately afterwards, a surprising change occurred.
These five creepy flesh balls grow tentacles and eyes at a speed visible to the naked eye. These eyes are connected to the flesh balls by tentacle-like eyestalks that are constantly dancing like snakes.
A large mouth full of fangs opened under the meat ball. At the same time, a huge one-eye slowly opened in the center of the meat ball, burning with excited and vicious flames.
"Rekni doesn't care who you are, since you dare to break into Rekni's territory, then let you become Rekni's loyal slaves." A low groan of satisfaction echoed in the hall .
The Beholder Tyrant is suspended in mid-air, with twelve eyestalks wriggling like caterpillars, spinning rapidly and excitedly around his five beholder men.
"If everything goes well, Rekni will control you through the will connected with your will, the mage of Waterdeep City." The Thirteen Eyes of the Beholder Tyrant were greedily locked on Brian. Said excitedly:
"Rekni will eventually reach out to the main material world, to that rich and bustling human city. They are so stupid that they don't realize that they are secretly controlled by Rekni. Waterdeep City, City of Glory, gold coins are in the river of the city The residents here come from the mainland or further away. Each of them intends to make a fortune in this flowing wealth, and even desires more: the power that can be obtained through trickery or brute force. The breath and taste..."
There is no doubt that this beholder tyrant mistakenly thought that Brian was a mage from Waterdeep.
While floating, the beholder tyrant dances its twelve eye stalks, releasing powerful magic, and the fine particles of magic flames fly and rotate with him.
Finally, the shining flame turned into a whirlpool of magical energy.
The vortex exudes terrible energy, as if the surrounding space is distorted by this powerful energy.
The scene was so frightening that the constructed civilians in Wisteria Valley were crawling on the ground and seeking shelter.
They heard various low screams of fear from the surrounding windows, balconies, and corners, mixed with the shaking of the ground, the screams of rocks, and a smooth and bright marble stone wall. It fell completely and slowly and majestically hit the struggling tavern owner's head.
"Boom!"
Along with a loud noise, the terrifying energy condensed into a vortex suddenly exploded.
Brian and Santila felt at the same time that the space around them seemed to be shattered by this terrible explosion.
Immediately afterwards, their eyes went dark, and they felt as if they had entered a huge cave that was silent, empty, and exuding a cold atmosphere.
"Brian, what's going on?" In the darkness, Santila grabbed Brian's hand uneasily and asked with an ugly face.
"This is the supernatural ability mastered by the beholder, folding space and distorting reality." Brian told her not to worry, "Through this ability, he brought us to the beholder's lair that overlaps with the manor space."
“Don’t act rashly.” He reminded the drow girl beside him who was trying to move forward in the darkness, “The beholder’s lair is as scary as the lich’s lair. At this moment, these beholders are definitely like predators. Waiting for us to slowly fall into their trap."
He underestimated the strength of this beholder tyrant, and did not expect that this beholder had mastered such powerful abilities as space folding.
This ability allows their lair to overlap with the space of a seemingly harmless and safe manor. If they encounter an enemy, they will immediately activate the ability to distort reality and replace the space they are in with a fighting place that is conducive to their performance. .
“Do you want to continue walking?”
Brian checked his status, constant protective magic and a series of triggering spells against beholders, as well as teleportation spells for instant escape, Ask the drow girl for her opinion.
After all, this is the lair of the Beholder Tyrant, and the degree of danger can be imagined. He does not want to force anyone to take risks with him.
“Why not keep going?”
The drow girl's blue eyes shone with excitement and eagerness to try, and she said nonchalantly, "In the Underdark, I passed through the mind flayer's city, the two-headed dragon's lair, and even escaped from the dark lake. What's so scary about sneaking into the palace of a Loka fishman and the lair of a beholder?"
"These adventures are all because of the book you gave me that records the knowledge of teleportation spells. ." She held Brian's arm affectionately, and even in the dark, the drow girl's smile still looked so sweet.
“Without this knowledge of magic, I wouldn’t dare wander around in the Underdark, let alone return to myself in an instant before Isatabella, the female spider, discovered that I had sneaked out of the Spider Academy. "
Listening to her series of experiences, Brian smiled appreciatively at her, knowing that the drow girl in front of him was not lying.
He wasted no time, and after casting several of his best protective spells on Santila, he began to lead her deeper into the cave.
Although Santila's main profession is a wizard, Brian, who has already figured out the opponent's details, knows that this drow girl whose timeline was forcibly changed by him has changed from a specialized wizard to a ranger with excellent archery skills.
And her spells are mainly from the evocation school. To use the words that their players like to ridicule, it is: a ranger who cannot cast forbidden spells (legendary spells) is not a good wizard.
Due to the reincarnation of the god, her strength has also advanced by leaps and bounds to the legendary realm.
In the darkness, Brian clearly felt many eyes staring at him and Santila. From time to time in the empty cave, there was a low sound that made people feel their blood running cold. And harsh laughter.
In this damp and cold cave, although he could not see his fingers, for a spellcaster of Brian's level, such trivial things were not difficult for him at all.
Santila, who claimed to have rich adventure experience and was very keen on all kinds of traps and magic, was amazed when she saw him using exquisite spells to carefully handle or avoid all kinds of terrible dangers in roundabout ways, and she put away her Wanting to show off, she followed him obediently.
He and Santila walked along the twists and turns of the tunnel, and soon discovered that an unusual passage started from an arch. In the middle of the top of the arch, there was a person leaning forward, A smiling water fairy statue.
Although this statue does not have the unique dreamy and deadly beauty of the real creature it represents, it still has amazing charm, and the story about it seems to have been passed down for many years.
Brian judged from the astonishing charm faintly exuding from the statue that it represented a certain goddess, possibly Sune, the goddess of love with flame-colored hair.
In addition to its lifelike beauty, this statue must also hide more secrets.
for whoever tried to take it down and move it was dead, torn to pieces, and scattered in the little hall in front of the arch.
The blood-stained stone chisel accidentally dropped by one of them has been left there as a silent warning to future lovers of portable statues who want to break into the small hall.
At this moment, Brian naturally has no interest in this statue. He has already detected through detection magic that this statue not only immobilizes the charm spell, but is also a terrible trap.
Any adventurer who cannot withstand the temptation and tries to take away the statue will die in the trap.
He led Santila to carefully avoid the magic traps arranged around the arch that could kill the two of them, and came to an ordinary tunnel with smooth walls.
As they walked cautiously, the passage quickly narrowed and dropped sharply, turning into a rough tunnel carved out of the cold, damp rock.
In some parts of the passage, endless whispers permeate the air: it seems to be the remnants of loud speeches, distant, indistinct, but not falling into silence or disappearing completely. Even the most attentive listener cannot recognize or understand this intonation.
Brian could feel that these sounds were all mind-affecting magic. If a weak adventurer failed to successfully save, he would be led into various traps without knowing it.
This kind of trick is naturally of no use to the two of them.
Santila, who was full of interest, continued to follow Brian forward. What greeted them in the deepening passage were the grinning skeletons left by their predecessors, and some even bigger ones. , snake-like creature skeletons, and even hidden magic traps in some places.
Brian also saw that inside several deadly nailboard traps, pale bones were still hanging on the sharp-ended, ancient, black tree stumps, tangled with spider webs.
Many years have passed since the last time they fell, piercing through those unfortunate creatures like fangs, and now all that remains are the tangled bones and tendons of the victims, hanging silently There, the blood of life has long since dried up.
It can be seen that few adventurers can go this far in the beholder's lair.
Because they often have to walk for a long time before they may find a broken bone on the ground, or in an inconspicuous corner, broken off and forgotten here.
Obviously, any intruder cannot avoid sacrificing himself to discover new traps after passing through this area full of traps.
Brian and Santila also saw the never-ending gaze of a skeleton that was taller than most humans among the many magic traps that hindered their progress.
The giant's head was lowered and he stared down at the passage. His empty eye sockets shone with a strange light due to the fluorescent worms dwelling inside.
The subtle fluorescence of their slow crawling revealed the secret of the giant's death: in a dark passage not far away, there was a huge stone hanging almost as big as the severed head, with a stone attached to it. The length of the steel thorn is almost the same as the height of most humans, and it shines with cold light.
The thick swinging chains and the belts wrapped around the boulders look extremely strong with the blessing of magical energy.
This hanging stone covered with thorns is like a beholder, almost blocking the entire passage, and swaying slightly with distant tremors and underground breeze from time to time.
"Brian, be careful." Santila held Brian's hand slightly nervously, frowned her beautiful brows, and whispered to him, "This is a giant that mixes a magic circle and a magic trap. If you are not careful, It will even trigger some kind of terrible earthquake, burying us here and completely sealing the way to the depths of the lair."
"I know" Brian nodded slightly, indicating that he had discovered this problem.
As Santila said, he also felt the difficulty of traps and magic circles. Once triggered, it will cause earthquakes, not to mention the earthquake. It is also very likely that the beholder hiding in the dark will seize the opportunity and make a sneak attack. them.
He looked at the giant's head and the huge trap blocking the road. After stopping for a moment to think, his expression moved, and he calmly used advanced dispelling magic and the holy water he carried to make the giant's head glow with fluorescence. It was reduced to ashes in the rising smoke.
“It’s amazing!”
Seeing that the trap was so easily broken, Santila couldn't help but exclaimed: "It only took a high-level dispelling magic and holy water to solve it. Brian, how did you think of it? I just watched it for so long. , and haven’t developed such a simple solution.”
“Intuition.” A faint smile appeared at the corner of Brian’s mouth.
He was telling the truth, he was really relying on his own intuition.
This is not to say that his intuition is very powerful, but because he has seen similar traps in the Leyline Maze City in Waterdeep City, so after careful study, he began to try to break the formation.
Who would have thought that he would actually crack it easily.
Then, he led Santila, whose little eyes were full of admiration, to avoid this huge group of traps and go to the depths of the beholder's lair to detect more dangers.
They soon came to a small hall. Its rough passage dome was penetrated by a thin band composed of fluorescent stones. They penetrated day and night with a faint ruby-like light, reflecting the surroundings below. An old but seemingly comfortable armchair, and several footstools next to it.
Brian saw that these pieces of furniture were arranged beside a side table in the alcove. There were several yellowed ancient volumes randomly placed on the table - most of which recorded various horrific adventure stories. There are also a few, such as 'energetic mage' - and a long strip of knotted human hair decorated as a bookmark.
“Don’t touch anything here.” Brian looked at the inexplicably familiar scenes around him and subconsciously said to Santila, who quickly retracted her hand in fear.
“This seems to be the end of the beholder’s lair. Generally speaking, when lucky adventurers find that there is no one in the chair, they will mistakenly think that they have come to the end of the ruins and get the loot that should belong to them. He even keeps wondering how it appeared here and who is using it. If this adventurer is not lucky enough, or if he is greedy and reckless and breaks anything here, his fate is likely to activate endless. Spell.”
Brian glanced at the faint ruby glow emanating from the ceiling.
His intuition told him that if he dared to touch any items here, these ruby-like things would be activated instantly and emit a lot of energy similar to the beholder rays, drowning him and the others.
There is no doubt that this is a scene that is slightly familiar to him.
He did not hesitate, and cautiously and cautiously led Santila toward the secret passage.
As the two men's vision gradually broadened in the tunnel, they saw many human skeletons floating and hovering forever, as if waiting to rob and tear apart the next living thing.
They wait patiently and become impatient once an intruder steps into their territory.
It was easy for Brian and Santila to deal with this group of skeletons. A few simple range spells could clean them up.
At the same time, Brian also realized that they had reached the end of the lair and were about to see the beholder tyrant hidden in the deepest part.
The skeletons they killed not only tried to use the human sea tactic to consume the adventurers' physical strength, but also served as a warning to the nest owner.
As Brian expected, they turned right along the tunnel behind the bones.
Finally disappeared into a vast and huge cave, big enough to accommodate some towns in the surface world...
In the cave, many eyes flashed suddenly, and a ray of light suddenly flashed in the darkness.
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"
The voice of the Beholder Tyrant echoed in the cave, "You can't come here unharmed, even the scouts of the Harper Alliance are I have never broken into this place."
"Who are you? Are you a mage from Waterdeep City?" He guessed with a slight panic: "Which masked lord are you? People from Halast?”
"That's right! You must be from Halast." The beholder tyrant battled his wits in the air and exclaimed:
"All Rekni's lairs are in accordance with the 18th chapter of Leyline Maze. It was arranged by the Vanrak Abyss on the first floor. Rekni studied under Lord Xingyue for hundreds of years before mastering the method of arranging the lair. Only the people of the King of the Lost City can come here safely. "
After hearing the beholder tyrant's thoughts, Brian suddenly realized why he felt so inexplicably familiar with these traps. It turned out that the problem arose here.
Star-Moon Lord Van Laake is the final BOSS on the 18th floor of Leyline City.
More than a thousand years ago, Van Rack organized an expedition into the dark jungle.
The expedition ended in devastating failure.
When the promoter returned, he seemed to be a pale shadow without the appearance of Van Rucker.
A few weeks later, his father, Lord Andvaren Star-Moon, the family patriarch, died of a strange, debilitating illness that was incurable through magic.
Since then, Shar's followers have been active in the shadows of Waterdeep.
After taking over as the leader of House Star-Moon, Vanrak publicly blamed the temple of Selun and claimed that the temple was responsible for his father's sudden death.
After experiencing a lot of pain, Vanrak secretly sought refuge with Suellen's sister, the Lost Lady Shar, as a dark ranger.
This is a 10-man group dungeon with a challenge level of about 15. Brian has overturned here at least 10 times, so he naturally knows the layout of the Vankra Abyss well.
The main reason why I didn’t recognize it immediately was because the beholder in front of me only grasped the basics of the layout of the lair. The most essential link between the shadow plane, the prison of another dimension and the shadow illusion, I am afraid that only Shar Only believers can learn it.
So, the layout of this lair seemed so nondescript that he didn't notice it immediately.
“You must have been sent here by Halaster!”
The beholder tyrant, who was slightly crazy, turned on the self-destructing truck mode again, "Damn Hellast, Rekni just took away the inherited treasure that belonged to the city of Ortur, and he actually dared to send people to track it here. "
"The inherited treasure of Ortur City? Could it be..." Brian looked surprised, and a hint of joy appeared on his face, because he realized what the item mentioned by the other party was.
Thinking of this, he has decided to kill it no matter what.
"However, you will never have the chance to return to Waterdeep!"
The beholder's voice suddenly became cold and stern, "Because Rekni will keep you here forever, and then change Be like you, go to the Skull Port and wait patiently, find an opportunity to kill Hellast, and then occupy the entire Leyline Maze City! Hahaha..."
"Suffer death, annoying mage from Waterdeep, your adventure game is over!"
The beholder tyrant Rakni jumped up in the air like a wild horse, looking like an ugly star. The fleshy ball-like body was trembling crazily.
Then rolling at an astonishing speed, the twelve eye stalks were all angled like laser guns, stretched out, and shot countless terrifying rays towards Brian and Santila.
At the same time, the other five beholders hovering around him also used their best supernatural abilities: beholder rays!
The six beholders poured out various spells, and the magical flames flickered around them.
——"Charm Ray!"
——"Slow Ray!"
——"Fear Ray!"
——"Paralysis Ray!"
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——"Dissociation ray!"
——"Death ray!"
——"Extreme ice ray!"
——"Blazing ray!"< br>
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In an instant, countless magic rays shot out in all directions from the boiling and rolling eye stalks.
Faced with this situation, as a spellcaster, Brian was naturally well prepared to deal with the beholder ray.
The magical auras flashed brilliantly in the darkness, and the nearly invisible barriers intertwined with the surging arcane energy to form layers of shields.
Suddenly, countless beholder lights like sharp arrows dimmed in the blink of an eye due to the obstruction of the magic shield.
Other rays that were not concentrated on the two people caused spectacular explosions.
Fire and lightning flew everywhere - in one place the rocks melted like molasses and flowed away in a sluggish flood.
"You hold back the Beholder Tyrant, and I will handle the rest." Brian, who had already taken out his staff, immediately told Santila the tactics they had discussed.
The drow girl nodded slightly, jumped into the air, and flew to the top of the cave like an elegant hummingbird.
As she distanced herself from Brian, the Elf Winter Moon Bow in her hand did not forget to hit three cold arrows.
Amidst the buzzing sound of the bowstring, the sharp arrows, carrying bone-chilling energy, galloped towards the beholder tyrant.
The beholder tyrant's attention was instantly attracted. He smiled coldly, and the huge one eye on the flesh ball shot out an almost transparent cone of magic energy at the sharp arrow.
In an instant, all the dissociation magic and frost properties contained in the sharp arrow wrapped in ice energy were washed away.
"Ding! Ding! Ding!"
With three crisp sounds, the sharp arrow hit the beholder's hard skin like a pineapple, leaving only a shallow mark. , then fell weakly to the ground.
Just when the beholder tyrant was proud of his powerful defense, countless green vines like wild snakes suddenly broke out of the hard rock surface, tightly wrapping it inside.
The beholder tyrant remained unmoved and glanced disdainfully at Santila who was casting a spell. The huge one eye of the flesh ball shone brightly like a searchlight.
His sphere, tightly bound by the vines, spun in a circle like a top. All the vines illuminated by the light withered and disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Immediately afterwards, the beholder's twelve eye stalks pointed directly at Santila, shooting out twelve rays of different colors, blasting towards the drow girl.
Santilla was shrouded in the light of the magic circle, dodged the concentrated fire of the rays, took the opportunity to take out a handful of oak fruits from the quiver, and sprinkled them all on the beholder tyrant.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."
The oak fruits were like powerful bombs, drowned in the scorching firelight and explosive sounds by the Beholder Tyrant.
When Santila saw the Beholder Tyrant emerging from the smoke unharmed, her expression suddenly changed slightly.
"The anti-magic field on his one eye can be immune to any spell."
At this moment, Brian's voice came from the depths of the drow girl's mind, "Don't use spells, Attack him with arrows without any magic blessing, drag him out temporarily, and let me deal with him later."
Hearing Brian's message, Santila subconsciously thought out of the corner of her eye. He glanced in Brian's direction.
Just then, he saw a ring on his finger shining brightly, enveloping all the beholders surrounding him. "It turned out to be the Brilliant Evening Star, why did it appear in his hands?" Santila instantly recognized the name of the equipment and murmured to herself in confusion, with a look of surprise and joy in her eyes.
In a moment of confusion, a dozen rays from the Beholder Tyrant had already splashed ripples on her magic shield, and dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
She immediately realized that now was not the time to marvel, and quickly used the ranger's quick reflexes to avoid the beholder tyrant's ray attack while taking out the adamantium arrow and galloping towards the opponent.
——"Rainbow bursts out!"
Seeing that Santila was getting farther and farther away from him, Brian no longer hesitated and mobilized the boiling arcane energy in his body. Through the super magic instant, with his own body as the center, seven flickering lights suddenly burst out, mixed with each other, Colorful and dazzling energy.
The five eye demons stretched out their eye stalks and prepared to release rays. They were caught off guard and were instantly blinded and fell into various negative states.
Seeing this, Brian smiled.
Beholder tyrants whose strength has reached the legendary realm may have a headache when dealing with them, because their strong physique and legendary resistance are enough to exempt most of the negative effects of rainbow-type spells.
But the five eye demons in front of him are different. The various spells he strengthened can be said to have hit their vital points, making them look like five headless flies, waving eye stalks with tears streaming down their faces. , scurrying around in the air, and two even bumped into each other, and vicious curses were heard.
Brian waved his staff and recited a spell quickly.
In an instant, hundreds of fist-sized bolides shone with scorching light. Under the guidance of the staff, they dragged slender tail flames and shrouded the five eye demons.
"Bang!"
A beholder was hit on the spot by two extremely penetrating bolides, and its huge one eye exploded into a ball of brilliant magical flames and disappeared.
“Boom! Boom!”
The two beholders, who were still cursing each other because they accidentally bumped into each other, were shrouded in the flames of dense fireballs. They were like two meat balls thrown into the fire and roasted black. They seemed to be dying, and they were just dead. A matter of time.
The last two beholders did not suffer much damage from the "Rainbow Explosion". In their timely reaction, they activated the anti-magic field spray on their one-eye, avoiding most of the damage from the bolide.
But their eyestalks did not look so lucky. They were all shattered and looked extremely embarrassed.
Seeing this situation, Brian didn't hesitate at all. He rubbed his ring with his thumb and directly activated the other two killing moves.
——"Avando Star!"
——"Silver Starlight!"
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More than a dozen sparkling meteors shot out, submerging the last two beholders in the terrifying whirlpool generated by magical energy. middle.
In only two or three rounds of confrontation between the two sides, all five beholders were killed by Brian.
He did not waste time and was about to help Santila. Suddenly, there was a huge sound of rolling rocks behind him, which quickly attracted his attention.
Brian unexpectedly found himself facing a scaly blue monster that looked like a huge and terrifying crocodile.
I saw it raising its head and observing itself, while a small cluster of jungle-like feet stirred rapidly, carrying its body through the rubble-strewn ruins.
This is a green-footed dragon snake, a man-eating lizard-like creature. Tens of thousands of years ago, when the real dragon and the giant competed, the giant created the monster to deal with the giant dragon.
Brian made a rough judgment and found that the body length of this green-footed dragon snake was about 15 meters, which meant that its strength was comparable to that of a giant dragon in its prime.
“Boom!”
The green-footed dragon snake roared angrily, and opened its mouth to an incredible width as it ran, so that Brian seemed to be facing a huge jaw like a spacious door.
With a forked long tongue twisting and dancing deep in the mouth for a moment, it stabbed towards him quickly, faster than any cheetah could run.
With a thought, Brian avoided the Blue-footed Dragon Snake's surprise attack by teleporting the spell.
——"Supernatural ability: Lightning breath!"
——"Supernatural ability: Lightning ball!"
Several thigh-thick cross lightning bolts and head-sized lightning balls that emitted a smell similar to ozone appeared at the foothold of Brian's spell in an instant.
Brian stood facing the wind, without any intention of evading, and allowed his long hair and cloak to rustle in the storm encircled by the raging lightning.
Seeing this, the blue-footed dragon snake's electric dark purple eyes flashed with joy, and it twisted its body as flexibly as a snake, preparing to pounce towards Santila.
“Boom!”
Along with the popping sound of electric light jumping, Brian’s figure was instantly submerged.
——"Nine-ring spell: Meteor Explosion!"
The moment the Blue-footed Dragon Snake turned around, eight fireballs that looked like small meteorites, trailing rolling burning tail flames, struck without warning. on its fifteen-meter-long body.
The hot fire exploded, and the entire cave, which was as spacious as a town, shook slightly in the violent explosion. The stone chips and vertical pointed pillars on the roof of the cave were flying down like a heavy rain.
The huge body of the Green-footed Dragon Snake was instantly submerged.
However, in the blink of an eye, the Green-footed Dragon Snake rushed out from the squirming pile of rocks, raised its head that was bloody and bloody, and roared angrily at Brian.
——"Level 9 power: Tornado!"
Brian walked out of the smoke and dust, and his deep black eyes suddenly flashed with a star-like brightness.
In an instant, the energy seeping into the void around the Green-footed Dragon Snake formed an angry storm, rolling its huge body high into the sky.
With a thought from Brian, the dragon skeleton demon statue with dark blue crystal luster all over its body flapped its dragon wings, rushed into the tornado, and fought with the green-footed dragon and snake.
Looking at the fight that was a foregone conclusion, Brian quickly turned his attention to Santila.
He saw that the beholder tyrant did not use the ray he was proud of, but danced with the twelve eye stalks, and chased Santila with a grin on his face, trying to decide the outcome through close combat.
This agile drow girl constantly used her body to avoid the bite of the beholder tyrant, and took the opportunity to fight back with a sharp sword that she did not know when she replaced a longbow.
Seeing this, he immediately understood the reason.
With his careful preparation, even if the Beholder Tyrant's strength reached the legendary realm, his rays would not be able to break through their shields in a short time.
The beholder, who exudes an anti-magic force field around his body, also makes him immune to most magic and even psychic powers, so that it evolved into such a battle.
Brian knew that to defeat the beholder tyrant, he had to break his anti-magic field or kill him through pure physical means.
“Get away!” Brian quickly gave an order to Santila through telepathy.
After seeing the drow girl distance herself from the beholder tyrant through dimensional jumping, he immediately stretched out his palm and pointed directly at Rekni in the distance.
——"Level 9 power: reversing reality!"
The spiritual energy surging deep in Brian's eyes turned invisible in an instant, locking the eyes of the beholder tyrant Body.
The pursuing Rekni froze and suddenly stopped, and then the anti-magic force field around him twisted under the surging psychic energy and gradually began to collapse.
“You dare to show off your trivial skills in front of Rekni!” The beholder tyrant snorted coldly, and the huge one eye on his body suddenly ejected a twisting energy similar to Brian’s, instantly resolving this attack. attack.
“Pfft!”
Suffering the energy backlash, Brian felt severe pain in his body, and a soul-shaking tingling swept through his heart, making his throat sweet. , opened his mouth and spurted out blood.
Just as the beholder tyrant said, the "reversal of reality" he cast did seem like a trick to Rekni.
Even so, his goal has been achieved.
Because in the short reversal, the anti-magic force field of the Beholder Tyrant was indeed brought into a state of collapse.
Santilla accurately seized the opportunity that Brian gained at the expense of his own serious injury.
Seizing the opportunity, she quickly replaced her long sword with the Elven Winter Bow, and attached three cold arrows with dissociation magic.
The bow string was like a full moon, and the three sharp arrows were wrapped in a bone-chilling chill as they galloped away.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The first arrow broke through the anti-magic force field of the beholder tyrant that was on the verge of collapse, and the second and third arrows hit his flesh-ball-like body respectively. .
The terrifying destructive energy and severe frost spread towards the beholder's body at an extremely fast speed.
"Damn it! How dare you plot against Rekni!" The Beholder Tyrant roared angrily and said to Brian, "You think you are the only one who has mastered the reversal spell!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Rekni's single eye once again sprayed out twisting and rotating energy, like dazzling patterns, covering his whole body.
The spreading destructive energy and frost quickly stopped spreading, and subsided at a speed visible to the naked eye in the anti-magic force field re-established by the beholder.
"Isn't that enough..."
Brian's pale face changed slightly. This beholder was already more troublesome than he expected.
In the flickering light of the magic circle, he came to Santila and said solemnly, "Get ready to retreat. This beholder is too strong and we are no match for him."
This beholder possesses a force field that is immune to magic and psychic energy. It is simply his nemesis. If you want to deal with him, you can only find physical professionals who are good at melee combat.
He decided that under the current circumstances, it was best to go back and bring in reinforcements.
"Let me try again." Santila shook her white hair that was wet with sweat. She did not take Brian's advice, but put away her longbow and took away her sword again. come out.
The beholder tyrant on the other side had a dozen small eyes on its eye stalks flashing with violent rage, locked on Brian and Santila.
As a giant among the beholders, he also masters various spells that his tribe does not have.
His magic can even rival that of many human mages, which is why he was so rash and conceited.
But in this battle, the beholder tyrant Rekni had thrown countless spells and rays at these humans, but watched helplessly as they were either blocked or bounced back to hit him, but they were unscathed.
It seems that the people of Halast are much tougher and tougher than ordinary mages, he couldn't help but think angrily.
They easily blocked all their magic and seemed completely unable to control their will.
What saddened him the most was that they not only killed his five beholder men, but also killed the green-footed dragon snake that he had raised for hundreds of years.
The anger did not break through Rekni's uncharacteristic reason during the battle. His movements slowed down and finally stopped.
He cautiously floated up a little distance from the ruins, and stopped there, thinking.
Because he wants to silence the murderers who caused all this.
Quiet forever!
At this moment, the Beholder Tyrant charged without warning, roaring straight towards Brian like a shell being discharged.
Seeing this, Brian immediately signaled Santila to start taking action.
Then, he calmly took out an adamantine sword and tried to resist the beholder tyrant's attack.
Because the opponent's body is covered with an anti-magic force field, when his attack strikes in front of him, any magic effects around him will disintegrate in an instant.
In this case, the most effective way is to solve it through physical means.
Brian used his sword skills as a sword master to block the fangs and eyestalks of the beholder.
The sharp sword hit his hard bone armor and sharp fangs, making crisp sounds, and sparks spattered out one after another not to be outdone.
In the rapid and rapid duel, he deliberately thrust his sword straight upward to block the closing mouth, and quickly let go, exiting the range of the beholder's anti-magic field.
The Eye Demon Tyrant roared, biting the adamantine sword with his wide jaws, bending it, and spat it to the ground. He did not forget to shoot a series of Demon Eye rays at Brian.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Brian calmly held up the magic shield to once again resist these deadly supernatural energies.
Santila, who was hiding in the dark and watching, finally seized the opportunity. She swallowed her fear back, raised her head and took a deep breath, blew away the messy hair covering her eyes, and then patted the hilt of the sword hard. , smearing the runes carved on the hilt with the blood flowing from her scarred fingers.
She touched the familiar bumps, slick and sticky with her blood, and nodded slightly with satisfaction.
She turned her head cautiously, facing the violent beholder tyrant, and read two words loudly and calmly.
The sword trembled in her hand, and she suddenly jumped up. She grabbed the hilt tightly and released the power of the rune.
The magic fire shone for a moment and then disappeared without a trace. At the same time, the sword pulled her into the air and dragged her forward.
There was an eerie silence all around.
Santila is invisible now. She knows that her body is jumping into the air, and if there is any deviation in her judgment, she will break her bones and tendons on the wall of the cave, or fall to pieces on the ground. , and this will be a jump with no return.
At this moment, the beholder was excitedly chasing Brian, who lost his weapon, and did not notice Santila. When she appeared from the shining and trembling air and passed over the monster's head, He was still throwing spells and rays in vain at Brian - now!
Driven by Santila's will, the magic power of the rune disappeared immediately, and she found that the tip of her sword was downward and falling rapidly.
She fell straight down towards the round and knobby body, her target was just a little behind the jungle of wriggling eyestalks.
Santila spread her legs with a well-trained movement, and with the blessing of the drow's innate ability "Levitation", she was ready to withstand the impact of landing.
Because she only had a brief moment to attack before the beholder bounced her body away.
With the help of Brian's magic, the soles of her boots were coated with a mixture of stoneclaw pulp and crawling glue, much thicker than what most thieves, miners, or sailors would normally apply.
In her adventures in the Underdark, these spells and alchemical items had helped her safely cross countless rooftops and plank bridges, and if only it could help her this time.
After a solid impact, Santila's boots stuck to the beholder's body. Before she could find her balance, the long sword in her hand had been swung out quickly and then withdrawn.
The sharp sword blessed by his own blood almost pierced the beholder's carapace.
One of the eyestalks beside her twisted and broke off, splattering her with stinging yellow-green liquid. At the same time, the other eyestalk turned towards her, trying to fight back.
Santilla was unmoved. Her boots found a fulcrum in the hollow of the beholder's armor. She leaned forward desperately and used the tip of her sword to pierce the beholder that turned to prepare an attack ray. The eye stalk was swung with all its strength, and the sword was quickly drawn back before the fatal ray of another eyeball was poured out towards her.
The three eye stalks rotated at the same time, like a slowly crawling snake, and the roaring beholder also began to flip up and down, left and right, trying to shake her away.
Santila stabilized her body, remained unmoved, and kicked one of the eye stalks. When she lost her balance, she slashed the other eye stalk with her sword.
As the beholder tyrant shook violently, she fell heavily onto the bone armor of the monster's body, and her arm was entangled by an eyestalk brewing rays.
In this case, she gritted her silver teeth, held the eye stalk with one hand, and thrust the sharp sword into the eyeball that turned around to look, until it reached the sword grid.
“Ah!!!”
As the beholder tyrant cried out in pain, the milky white juice splashed out and soaked her whole body.
Santilla spit out the foul-smelling mucus and slashed the other eye decisively.
“Pfft!”
The sword light flashed, and the eyestalk brewing the ray fell with a sound.
Then, Santila fell down, and her feet were no longer the bony body of the beholder.
The rocks came towards her, and she hurriedly curled up with her sword and tried to roll out.
Unfortunately, it was too late. With a numbing impact, she crashed into the remnants of a stone wall and bounced back helplessly.
Her vision blurred, and the new dampness on her cheeks suggested that she had bitten her lip.
Brian shouted her name, leaped towards her, and at the same time opened his arms to hold her in his arms. He just used the magic shield to block the dozens of beholder rays that were speeding towards her.
“Damn it!!!”
Immediately afterwards, a shrill wail that could pierce the eardrums spread throughout the spacious cave.
If you look closely, you can see that the giant eye in the center of the beholder tyrant Rekni has long shriveled due to rupture, and milky white liquid is slowly dripping from a deep wound on the blind protrusion.
There is no doubt that in this case, the anti-magic field flickering around him also disappeared.
However, the small eyes on those eye stalks were flashing with violent anger.
They stared at Santila and approached quickly.
Obviously, this irrational monster wanted to slam her into the wall and squeeze her life out, or turn over at the last moment and use its sharp fangs, which were enough to kill her. The big mouth she swallowed in one gulp bit her into pieces.
——"Arcana Storm!"
The invisible wind raged out, raising dust all over the sky. The energy condensed from the chaos of the four elemental planes flowed from the cloth like a tide. Ryan's body surged out, like a never-ending roaring storm, sweeping the beholder's balloon-like body straight away.
"Roar!"
At this moment, the dragon skeleton demon statue with crystal luster all over its body appeared behind him, opened its mouth to the eye demon and spit out a bolt of lightning.
Reniko, the beholder tyrant, screamed, a high-pitched, tear-soaked wail, just like the cry of a human woman that Brian had heard countless times, and whirled across the ruins. , lightning was running around on his body.
His eyestalks trembled and twitched intermittently due to spasms, and he hit a tilted stone pillar and fell heavily to the ground.
In the blink of an eye, the dragon skeleton demon statue rushed over and stood on top of him, opening its big mouth to tear off the eye stalks hungrily and ruthlessly.
——"Eighth Ring Spell: Sun Flame Explosion!"
Brian immediately used arcane shaping to shape the flames condensed with violent energy into a sharp sword.
The energy lightsaber, which seemed to be about to explode at any moment, roared and tore through the air, accurately stabbing the beholder's huge single eye that was blinded by Santila, and a dazzling flash of light erupted in his body.
(End of this chapter)