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Asule: "But even if you become a lich, you still retain human bones."
Cloche was silent.
Seeing this, Asule stopped talking about it and changed the subject, asking, "So how did your teacher get away with it? Who killed him? A paladin? Or a priest of Lancelot and Typhon?"
Cloche: "He just sent a message when his body was disintegrating, but he didn't say what happened. The message only mentioned one thing: don't let the king take out the staff that will emit a huge light."
Asule was shocked: "King, humph, this should be the name of the person who killed your teacher. It seems to be the mage who came out of the tower of the legendary mage mentioned in the intelligence. A few days ago, the wolf cavalry was repelled by him with a sun blast.
"It seems that the advantage of the Nine Rings Mage over the Eight Rings Mage is not as great as you describe."
Cloche stroked his chin and thought: "The Eighth Ring is really no threat to the Ninth Ring. After all, as long as the teacher's Divine Might is used, all of them will be frozen and can only watch helplessly as they are killed by the Banshee's Howl."
Asule: "Then why did your teacher get so excited?"
“It may be that the paladin was able to accomplish this with the help of True Seeing, which can remove the invisibility effect provided by the Illusion spell that was automatically activated on the teacher.
"Teacher, each of the three ninth-ring spell slots has a spell. He should not have room for a mental barrier."
Chain Trigger is a ninth-ring spell, so it naturally occupies a ninth-ring spell slot. Divine Power and Banshee's Howl, as the "star spells" of the ninth ring, naturally also occupy a ninth-ring spell slot.
Therefore, Liches cannot wear Mind Barrier.
The mental barrier can prevent spells like True Seeing from seeing through Advanced Invisibility. At this moment, in Krosh's understanding, the teacher must have been immune to the True Seeing spell cast by the powerful spellcaster on the spot, and then hacked to death by the paladin at close range.
Paladins are naturally resistant to enchantment spells because of their strong will - no, it should be said that they are fanatical.
And depending on the god they believe in, a paladin may also have additional resistance to spells cast by undead creatures such as liches.
In addition, the Paladin is an expert in dealing with evil creatures, and the Holy Slash can completely break through the physical resistance of the Lich.
Moreover, the Order of Paladins is generally wealthy, with a large amount of wealth donated by church believers, so the paladins are often very well equipped. Various weapons with "evil-destroying" properties may be standard weapons in the Order of Paladins.
Cloche explained all of the above to Asule in detail.
Asule nodded: "I understand. What you just said is to illustrate one thing. Even if the opponent does not have a nine-ring spellcaster, a thousand-year-old lich can still be killed."
Closh corrected him sharply: "My teacher is not dead! We will start to revive him immediately. He will be back in just two months! If you can break the city quickly and let us harvest enough souls in time, he will come back even sooner!"
The orc overlord said gloomily: "You seem to take the harvesting of souls for granted."
"That's right. My teacher has harvested countless of them. He may be the most evil lich in all of Gralia!" Krosh said this with a crazy, worshipful expression on his face.
Asule: "Your expression right now is probably the same as those fanatical paladins."
Cloche: "What's the problem? A paladin who is fanatical about those hypocritical gods is no more noble than me!"
"I see. Let's get down to business. How long will it take for you to prepare 'that spell'?"
Cloche: "It will only take a week! This is the first legendary spell my teacher developed. He spent fifteen days to cast it and fixed it in the holy object given to us. Once the preparations for the ritual are completed, we can make the unfallen Minos fall completely.
"When the time comes, you...you must not forget your promise to our teacher and massacre Minos with blood!"
Asule remained silent, staring at the Necromancer's face for a long time before he spoke: "Don't worry. I was able to suppress the troops from plundering here, which has already suppressed them to the extreme.
"There are more and more orcs looting in secret now. If I don't release them after we capture the city, my position as overlord might be overthrown."
Cloche nodded in satisfaction: "That's good."
**
Inside the city.
The king was studying the ring seized from the lich while riding Xiaobai to the dwarf district.
Xiaobai was anxious seeing that he had been concentrating on his research for so long.
Because she was carrying the unconscious Elizabeth on her back, if she turned back into a human, she would have to perform the scene of the dwarf dragging the harrow.
So Xiaobai could only shake his head continuously.
The dwarf, who was holding the edge of the basket on Gotrek's saddle, saw this and asked for her: "What is going on? What is that ring?"
When the king was fighting the lich, the others were still controlled by the mighty God, so they didn't know that the lich used the magic on the magic ring.
Wang: "I think this is a magic ring, which stores a daily decree: death."
The dwarf and the elf asked together, "What is that?"
Wang: "A nine-ring spell of the Enchantment system, an advanced version of Finger of Death. The difference between this and Finger of Death is that this does not require hitting the enemy, but will take effect by default once the target is specified. (*)"
Dwarf: "I, it looks good, but this is a lich's equipment. It only has this one function? Shouldn't it have some special effects?"
The king nodded. "It can make the wearer immune to the effects of the Law of Death, but... this immunity is not as good as the anti-death barrier. It is basically better than nothing. The same is true for the lich. After all, a creature that has already died will naturally not die again."
Dwarf: "Then you can give it to one of us. At least it can make us immune to one ninth-level spell."
Savage: "High!"
Just as the dwarf was about to continue speaking, the barbarian pointed ahead and shouted, "Front!"
The dwarf then turned around and said, "Oh, we are here. This is the dwarf city of Minos. Let me get off. We should walk into the city because most of the buildings in the city are very short. Be careful not to bump into each other if you ride in on horseback."
Everyone looked at each other and dismounted together.
**
As soon as we entered the city, someone shouted, "Flint! You bastard! You still owe me nineteen gold coins!"
The dwarf who was speaking was standing at the door of a store at the entrance of the city, holding a large watering spoon in his hand and a bucket at his feet.
Flint: "Old Louis! Why are you still sprinkling water when the army is besieging the city?"
"What will happen if we don't sprinkle water? Anyway, the orcs will be stopped by Minos's high walls this time. The nobles are rushing to buy the scrolls like crazy, because they are afraid of death. Look at you guys, is anyone in a hurry?"
Wang: "Based on my observation, quite a few people are still very nervous."
“Hahaha,” Old Louis laughed, “Humans are a short-lived species after all. Even among humans, the older ones are very calm. And look at us dwarves!”
Old Louis pouted.
Wang Chao looked in the direction of his mouth and saw a group of dwarves sitting under a roadside awning playing cards, with beer in front of each of them.
He asked in surprise: "Wait a minute, with such a powerful enemy at hand, why are the dwarf craftsmen so idle? Shouldn't they be stepping up the manufacturing and maintenance of equipment?"
Old Louis: "That's our normal job. We are not like humans who sharpen their weapons before the battle. All the catapults and ballistas on the Minoan walls are well maintained. As for adding anti-arrow boards to the battlements, or preparing rolling logs and oil pans, these kinds of work don't need to be done by dwarves."
Xiaobai: "Is it because your legs are too short to do it?"
As soon as the words came out, the dwarfs who were playing cards next door immediately stopped their noise and looked over.
Then an impatient dwarf immediately shouted, "Aren't you also a shorty?"
Xiaobai suddenly turned into a giant wolf, as tall as several dwarves.
The wolf opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue like a dog.
Dwarf: "Transformation doesn't count! I can be this tall even with the Human Giant Transformation spell!"
Wang: "I don't think so. The Human Giant Transformation Technique can only increase the size by one size. It's a bit difficult to become taller than Xiaobai."
The dwarves slammed the cards on the table, stood up from their chairs, and picked up the hammers at hand.
Flint hurriedly advised: "We are facing a powerful enemy, don't hurt the peace!"
Old Louis: "You still owe me nineteen gold coins. It's been almost ten years. I thought you were really dead."
Flint: "I'll give it back right away!"
After saying this, he looked at the king eagerly.
Wang took out the dimensional bag.
All the dwarves gasped together.
"Could this be!" Old Louis' hands were shaking, and he stretched out his hand tremblingly, "Infinite Dimension Bag? It's not a good idea to use this to pay off the debt, right?"
Flint: "How can you possibly use this to pay off a debt! Do you think someone with a bag like this would be short of 19 gold coins?"
Wang reached into the bag and pulled out exactly ten gold coins in his palm.
He handed the gold coins to the dwarf and took out nine more.
Old Louis nodded. "It is indeed nineteen gold coins, Flint. Our account is settled. So what are you here for? Just to pay your debt?"
Flint: "No, we have two things. The first is to find a magic weaver."
Dwarves do not call craftsmen tailors, but weavers. In short, in the dwarf worldview, all craftsmen are artisans.
Old Louis: "Have you forgotten what I do? You can just come to me!"
"Come on, you're a brewer!"
"I can also do a little magic knitting. I even knitted a magic scarf that can keep you warm when you wrap it around your neck!"
"Oh," Flint shook his head, "I'm afraid that's a little far from the craftsmanship we need."
"You want to fix something?" asked old Louis.
The king had already taken out the fragment of the sleeve of the lich's robe: "We need to repair this robe."
Old Louis gasped, “Then you can only go to Jenny’s store.”
Chapter 123 Griffins and Wyverns
At the same time, Rosalie was heading to the palace to meet her father, escorted by her brother and a group of paladins.
When the group arrived at the castle courtyard, Emperor Monrovia was already waiting with his ministers.
When Bernard Myhrvold saw that there was no giant wolf in the crowd, he asked in confusion, "Where is the Grand Mage?"
Eowyn looked puzzled. "Sir Mel didn't follow us? If he had, we wouldn't be in such a mess."
Rosalie: "Father, do you mean the king?"
"Of course, there is no rule that there can only be one great wizard." Bernard said, "If everyone in the family's Hall of Glory knew that I did not show courtesy to a powerful person who could destroy the Nine-ring Lich..."
Rosalie: "He won because his opponent was careless. He asserted so himself and decided to run away immediately."
Bernard: "This is the master's humble words. He is not a third or fourth ring wizard at all. My spies clearly saw that he used Tansen Transfiguration, which is a sixth ring spell!"
Rosalie: "That seems to be the effect of the ogre power gloves."
"Did you see that? You have been clearly being controlled by the Mighty God!"
Rosalie hesitated.