Chapter 780: Dragon Lich and Dragon Cult

Gavin drank the wine in his hand and said: "The banquet begins."

With his order, the whole banquet resumed operation, the crowd began to flow and chat, the bards began to sing, and the clowns began to perform again.

All of this, all sent a message to Gavin, a message of abundance and security.

Knowing that everything in front of him was an illusion, but after staying here for a while, Gavin couldn't treat them as simple illusions, because everything here was so real, not only the feeling of them touching, but also everything they showed when interacting with them.

They are living individuals, with their own joys, sorrows, anger, and memories, giving Gavin a feeling that everything in front of him was not just an illusion, but that he really traveled through time and space and became Ankh.

Gavin, who had the experience of traveling through time, knew that this was impossible.

In Faerun, time is relatively stable. There are no priests or gods related to time, and time-related magic is rare. Even if there are spells such as time stop, they usually only operate themselves and enter an independent timeline for a dozen or even dozens of seconds.

There are spells similar to time capsules, such as imprisonment and time stasis, which can keep a person's state constant, and then wake up again after several years, decades, or even hundreds of years.

Strictly speaking, this is not time magic, because it cannot be reversed, nor is it completed instantly. Except for a very small number of people, most of the recipients are not willing, but victims of these spells.

This is more like a scene reenactment through the power of magic.

Like all trials, the rhythm is very tight, and Gavin has very limited time to adapt to his identity. He just came to a conclusion on his side, and there was a huge commotion and exclamation on the other side.

"What is this? Who are you? Why are you doing this?"

"Ah... He's killing people... He's killing people..."

"This is a sacrificial summoning array, he's summoning evil beings."

"Bone dragon... He's a necromancer, summoning a bone dragon... Ah ah..."

"Ah ah... I can't move, save me, I can't move, who's going to save me..."

"Dragon breath, strong acid dragon breath, this is not a bone dragon, this is a dragon lich transformed from a black dragon..."

"Run, run..."

"You'll die, you'll die..."

"Caped warriors, what are you waiting for? Now is the time for you to stand up "When they come out, stop them and don't let them hurt our people."

"Hold on, the Lord is coming."

"The Lord is coming... The Lord is coming..."

"Lord, don't come over, this is a trap, this is a trap for you, you will die if you come over, we will hold them back, you should take the people away!"

"Lord Anka, don't go..."

Gavin rushed to the place where the riot broke out without thinking, there were all kinds of shouts along the way, and when he arrived, it had become a Shura field, a one-sided massacre.

The dragon lich that suddenly appeared in the crowd was a terrifying killing weapon for the ordinary people in the valley, and every move was full of terrifying lethality.

It could trample a citizen into a pulp with just one foot.

It could paralyze a citizen in place with just one glare.

A sweep of its tail would send countless people flying everywhere, either crashing into the crowd, knocking down several people, or falling heavily to the ground. Some were beaten to death on the spot, and some had their bodies severely twisted. No matter which one it was, they would not be able to get up from the ground in a short time.

The most terrifying thing was its dragon breath, which was like a waterfall several tens of meters long and several meters wide, pouring down, and the people in it screamed in despair.

What fell from the sky was strong acid, which was terribly corrosive. Not to mention flesh and blood, even those metal and wooden objects were corroded and squeaked, and soon they were riddled with holes.

Whether it was the way the dragon breath was displayed, or the other party's dragon horns that protruded forward like a goat, it proved that the other party was a black dragon in his lifetime.

Unlike the black-green rotten water dragon breath spewed out by ordinary black dragons, the dragon breath spewed out by this dragon lich is darker and more smelly, and has a stronger corrosive ability. Many valley people who were sprayed to death stood up again and began to attack their former relatives and friends, because they have now turned into undead.

In this one-sided massacre, a group of people went against the current and rushed to the rampant dragon lich. Even though most of them could not withstand a blow under this terrifying monster, they still continued to fight for their lives.

These people are men or women, old or young, and their races are also different. The only thing in common is that they are wearing a fiery red cloak. They are Anka's cloaked warriors. They are using their lives to fight for the chance of survival for those ordinary valley residents and reduce casualties as much as possible.

Before the transformation, this dragon lich had at least reached the ancient age, because his size has exceeded the super large and entered the giant. Under normal circumstances, only black dragons of this age will grow to this size.

The Lizard Queen was purely an accident. It is rare to find a dragon as greedy as her.

The face is very similar to the black dragon, but there are not many dragon scales and muscles on the whole body, only a huge skeleton, including the dragon wings. Many places that seem to be muscle tissue are just black mists formed by negative energy.

The dragon's eyes flashed with a piercing scarlet glimmer. Whoever fell on it would be involuntarily wrapped by a terrifying cold energy, which went directly into the soul and paralyzed and stood still.

The dragon lich, as the name suggests, is a lich transformed from a dragon. It retains most of the dragon's abilities and has some special abilities of the lich, such as manipulating undead creatures, terrifying aura, paralysis gaze, paralysis touch, undead creature characteristics, super spell resistance, partial immunity, etc.

This makes their combat effectiveness increase significantly without much change in their life dice.

When mentioning dragon liches, we have to mention the Dragon Witch Cult, also known as the Dragon Worship Cult. This church was founded by Sammaster.

He was a genius wizard of the same era as Archmage Elminster. He was not only the chosen one of the magic goddess Mystra, but also the lover of one of the seven sisters, Alustriel. However, not long after, the two parted ways because of their incompatibility. This was seen as the inducement for this genius with extreme temperament to turn away from the embrace of the magic goddess and throw himself into the embrace of immortality.

This genius wizard predicted that the continent of Faerun would eventually be ruled by the undead dragons with wisdom. Therefore, after years of dedicated research, he created the Book of Dragons, a magnificent work that records the method of transforming dragons into dragon liches.

Those cultists who followed him formed a church organization, calling themselves the Dragon Worship Cult.

Because they worship dragons, especially evil dragons, especially undead evil dragons.

This church is committed to persuading the evil colored dragons on the continent of Faerun to transform them into dragon liches and become part of the Dragon Witch Cult.

However, the progress of this matter has been quite unsatisfactory.

Those intelligent creatures choose to become liches, often out of necessity.

Their life of a hundred years, or even hundreds of years, will come to an end in a flash. When they have failed to find other ways to prolong their lives, they can only transform themselves into liches.

But dragons are different. As long as they are not killed, they have at least two thousand years of life. Death is a very distant thing for them.

Becoming a dragon lich will certainly allow these dragons to gain powerful strength in a short period of time, but for those dragons that have not grown to the ancient age, it is equivalent to giving up the normal way of growth as a dragon.

This is not worth the loss for those dragons in their prime.

After all, the transformation of most undead is closely related to their strength before death. You can't expect an ordinary person to transform into an undead knight or banshee, and dragon liches are no exception.

The dragon lich transformed by an adult dragon is definitely not the same as the one transformed by an ancient dragon.

Once transformed into the state of undead, it will mean giving up most of the feelings, which is not acceptable to most dragons.

Only those ancient dragons that have stepped into the brink of death, or dragons with special circumstances, will consider transforming themselves into dragon liches.

Therefore, dragon liches are only a small part of the dragons that make up the Dragon Cult now. Most of the dragons are still in the biological state. Most of them use lies to exchange for the service and tribute of the cultists of the Dragon Cult. In order to persuade them to join the ranks of dragon liches, these cultists serve with all their heart and soul.

Based on the secret characteristics of its own development and the solitary characteristics of those dragons, the Dragon Cult tends to be highly confidential to the outside world. Many people don’t know that there is such a powerful cult in the continent of Faerun.

It was more than ten years later that they really became famous and surfaced. Sammaster tried to find and control the Dragon Madness Mystique, artificially triggering Dragon Madness, forcing more dragons to transform into dragon liches to escape the uncontrollable Dragon Madness rage caused by the Dragon Madness Mystique.

In fact, some colorful dragons agreed to transform into dragon liches because they were afraid of the dragon madness. Once they fell into the dragon madness, they would turn into the most brutal killing machines and attack everything around them, including their servants and allies.

These evil colorful dragons are not worried about the disasters they brought to others. What they are afraid of is that they will do stupid things in the process and be slaughtered by people with ulterior motives.

Gavin knows a piece of information that many people don’t know. The relationship between the Dragon Worship Cult and Sembia is very close.

The first dragon lich of the Dragon Worship Cult was transformed in the city of Sembia, which is now called the city of Serron. In the same year, the Kingdom of Jondas rejected the request to establish the Sembia city-state, and the relationship between the two sides began to deteriorate.

There is no problem if these two things are viewed separately, but if they are viewed together, it is intriguing.

This is not a coincidence, but the appearance of the dragon lich gave the city lords and lords of the Sembia city-state enough confidence to let them rebel and break away from their original masters.

On the other hand, it was the Dragon Cult that secretly supported the independence of the city-state of Sembia.

In fact, the attributes of the kingdom of Sembia are exactly the same as those of the colored dragons. They have an endless greed for wealth and can do anything to achieve their greed. Moreover, the situation of the young red dragon is not an isolated case. They have cooperated with those evil colored dragons in many places.

And among them, it is the evil followers of the Dragon Cult who are fanning the flames.

As for the reason, of course, it is to collect wealth, to get close to those dragons, and let them use them for themselves. What is more convenient than a lot of wealth?

As a country with huge wealth, Sembia has always used mercenaries and has not formed its own army. This is itself an extremely abnormal thing, unless they have a trump card in their hands and are not afraid of the invasion of ordinary armies of other forces, such as the purple dragon army of the Kingdom of Cormier.

If there is a dragon worship cult with a large number of dragons and dragon liches lurking behind, everything will make sense.

When Ankh developed rapidly in the valley, Sembia was the one who suffered the most. When they found that there was no way to suppress the development and growth of Ankh by ordinary methods, they could only send out their trump card-dragon lich.

After going around in circles, the final cause of Ankh's death was still Sembia. It could only be Sembia. At that time, the Zhentarim had not yet been established.

With the information about the dragon lich in his mind, Gavin's actions did not hesitate at all, and he sacrificed all his important means at once.

Shadow Duel.

Undead Revenge Domain

Summon the Shadow Legion.

Summon Wu Liu and activate Wu Liu's super-state.

The six-armed snake demon, Daphne, the lizard queen, Estel, and the razor blade were all summoned by Gavin.

Although Gavin now wears Anka's face, he is still himself inside, including his abilities.

As for whether the six-armed snake demons were really summoned? Or is everything an illusion simulated according to his own abilities, we need to leave here to know.

Anyway, all perceptions and communications are the same as in reality.

"Kulgor, Agatha, entangle the dragon lich."

"Ophelia, Daphne, Estel, kill the necromancer first."

Gavin completed the deployment of troops in an instant. Those spellcasters are always the first targets to be killed. He is not blinded by the power of the dragon lich.

The most dangerous one is the necromancer lurking behind the dragon lich. No one knows what spells he can cast.

Although he knew that it was an illusion and everything was an illusion, everything was so realistic that Gavin had to treat it as real.

Except for Estel who lacked combat experience, the others were all experienced and did not need Gavin's command at all. They would make the best choice.

None of them fought with their bodies, all of them were shadows or night shadows.

The best ones to deal with the undead were not those creatures in the upper planes, but the existence of the undead.

Especially the undead such as liches and banshees who rely more on negative energy are easier to restrain.

This battle was a replica of the one he fought against the evil beast ghost necromancer in Avanso.

Not only was the necromancer extremely frustrated, but the dragon lich also roared in anger, but he could do nothing. Whether it was the paralyzing gaze or the paralyzing touch, it was completely ineffective against the lizard queen and razor claws, which were also composed of negative energy.

Even the most powerful dragon breath attack is almost ineffective, because after transforming into a dragon lich, their dragon breath has also changed. It is no longer a chemical reaction produced by the dragon-based tissue of their own body, but a supernatural ability to simulate dragon breath with negative energy.

This kind of simulation is difficult to achieve 100%, so the dragon breath of the dragon lich usually presents a mixed nature, half of which is the original energy attribute and half of which is negative energy impact.

The kind that is transformed into the original attribute of dragon breath can cause impact and killing to the Lizard Queen and Razor Claw.

But that kind of negative energy impact, when it comes to Night Shadow, which is purely composed of negative energy, it becomes a healing effect.

It is typical that you are madly brushing damage while madly brushing healing, but the result is a waste of effort.

This situation is mutual.

Most of the special abilities and attacks generated by the negative energy of the dragon lich cannot be effective against the Lizard Queen and Razor Claw.

Similarly, the shadow dragon breath of the Lizard Queen will naturally not have any effect.

Therefore, the battle between the three dragons could only be carried out in a melee, occasionally mixed with the dragon lich's spellcasting, but the effect was minimal, because its spellcasting ability was a bit similar to the ability of magic, which was still relatively limited, leaning towards the necromancy system, and many of them involved the use of negative energy, which was naturally restricted and could not be used.

With a series of special abilities restricted, the battle between the dragons was quite boring, and it was nothing more than pounce, bite and tail sweep.

And their huge size determined that they were not good at dodging, and could only fight head-on.

For a while, there were bangs and bangs, and black air was overflowing. It looked powerful, but in fact, the lethality formed was relatively limited. The pure negative energy body gave them a very strong damage reduction ability.

Any special ability is not without reason, and many of them are causally related.

The damage reduction ability of Yeying is like this, but the nature of the damage reduction formed by the absolute protective layer of combat armor is not exactly the same.

Those energy bodies composed purely of a single energy, no matter how solid their bodies are, cannot be compared with material bodies. They can be distinguished at a glance. Their bodies are filled with a unique diffuse state of energy. For example, those light bodies will shine brightly, while spiritual bodies such as ghosts will be shrouded in black mist.

It’s just that the soul has a strong absorption of negative energy. Usually, those negative energies will actively find them, not to mention that they are originally part of their bodies. The higher the life dice of the souls, the stronger this absorption is.

When the attack falls on them, some of the negative energy that was dispersed is absorbed back by the strong absorption force, just like reducing some of the damage.

Therefore, attacks related to positive energy can not only break the damage reduction on them, but also cause extreme damage to them, because those negative energies are not dispersed from them, but neutralized by positive energy.

When Gavin transformed into the Wu Liu super-state, the fate of the dragon lich was doomed. With only three hammers, the bones and black mist flew together, and they were directly paralyzed on the ground and dismantled into skeletons. It was only a matter of time.