Chapter 43: Greybeard's Treasure!
Glex City.
This city is not very famous in the Underdark. Compared to this majestic gray dwarf city, people in the Underdark may be more familiar with its lord.
—Greybeard!
This is an outstanding figure that is rarely seen in a century.
There will always be some outstanding heroes in each race, such as Eugene from Orcs, Cui Chuan from Drow, Griffin King from humans, and so on. Greybeard is such a character. He was born in the grass. It is said that his father and mother were slaves controlled by the mind flayer elders. He was controlled and tortured by the mind flayer as an experiment in his childhood. This torture changed his mind, and while inflicting great pain on him, it also advanced him to become a powerful psionicist.
Maybe a little sad.
The fate of the gray dwarves has always been ill-fated. They were enslaved for a long time. Although they resisted and defeated the mind flayers in the end, this tragic history still brought a lot of pain to their race. The minds of many duergar have been so utterly twisted that there are often evil lunatics within this race.
Greybeard is such a product.
But his talent is amazing, and this painful experience finally made him everything!
Graybeard endured the mind flayer's control for a long time, until his power was strong enough, he freed the enslaved duergar, and led them to fight a powerful mind flayer lair.
Greybeard fights to fame!
Not only eliminated this evil mind flayer base, but he also successfully killed those mind flayer elders.
certainly.
The price is also very serious.
Graybeard's mind was severely wounded, and his mind occasionally fell into a terrible state of madness. Two scars were permanently left on the back of his head, which were the wounds left by the mind flayer's tentacles. The elder mind flayer attempted to suck out Greybeard's brain, but did not wait for it to succeed. Graybeard suddenly went berserk and split its head with a battle axe.
Since then, there has been an extra legendary gray dwarf psionic warlock in the Underdark.
Graybeard is not only a legendary level psionicist (professional level 21 and above), but also a level 5 berserker and a level 5 wizard.
I don't know what kind of abilities the mind flayer's torment has brought to him, but there is no doubt that he will be a very dangerous enemy!
Glex City.
This majestic gray dwarf city was dug out directly from the ground. The population here is not very large, only about 10,000 to 20,000. However, there are a large number of slaves of other races here.
This is the tradition of the Underdark.
Any city in the Underdark likes to capture slaves, slaves are free labor and consumables for them.
The duergar city is a bit of a mess.
This is similar to other dwarves, because dwarves like to drink, like to be lively, and like to fight. As long as no one is killed, no one cares about being beaten up when drinking in a tavern. Most dwarves are thick-skinned and thick-skinned. Fighting is nothing serious at all, Sauron just passed by a tavern and saw a drunk gray dwarf being thrown out. The products in the Underdark region are quite rich, and relying on the weapon trade for the gray dwarves to live a relatively healthy life, and Sauron knows that Glex City is actually very rich.
the reason is simple.
There is a mithril vein here!
Thinking of this, Sauron couldn't help but looked up at the castellan's fortress in the distance. There is a furnace erected there, and a dazzling fire can be seen from a distance.
The fire here has not been extinguished for more than ten years!
About ten years ago, the gray dwarves in this city discovered a mithril vein with a large amount of storage in the process of mining minerals. This is an astonishing amount of wealth, and if it is leaked out, it may even attract a frantic attack from the drow elves. So the ruler of Glex City [Greybeard] blocked the news for a while. And restrain all the gray dwarf artisans who know the truth and prevent them from leaving. Since then, the furnace fire in Glex City has never been extinguished, and Greybeard is using these mithril ore to forge a powerful piece of equipment.
An artifact-level mithril chain mail!
Mithril production has always been very low. Moreover, refining is also quite difficult. Even if Graybeard controls a mithril vein, he has only recently completed the production of this piece of equipment. [Remarks: The mithril chain mail worn by Frodo in the Lord of the Rings is almost equivalent to a dwarven kingdom's hundreds of years of reserves. 】
Greybeard's ambitions are still great.
Multiclasses as a spellcaster and fury fighter. He has always hoped to display his strongest strength!
but.
This situation is difficult to achieve in ordinary circumstances. Because if he casts a spell, he cannot penetrate armor, and if he penetrates armor, there will be a very high chance of failure in casting.
Plate armor has a 80-90% chance of failure, half body armor has a 60-70% chance of failure, chain mail has a 40-50% chance of failure, and even leather armor has a 20-30% chance of failure. «out.
Once the spellcasting fails!
It is directly to suffer the backlash of the spell, which can be understood as transferring the damage of the spell to oneself.
so.
Few spellcasters know how to cast spells while wearing armor, and it was because of this that Sauron never even wore leather armor.
This is a birth defect.
Graybeard faced the same problem as Sauron. No matter what, he couldn't bring out his strongest strength. If he wanted to cast spells, he couldn't penetrate armor, and if he wanted to fight in close combat, he had to rely on powerful equipment for protection. To this end, Greybeard expended a lot of energy to solve the problem. He defeated the mind flayer lair, gained the knowledge of an ancient empire from it, and finally found a little direction.
Mind Flayer Empire!
An ancient ruined interstellar empire!
The mind flayers have also created a brilliant psychic civilization. Their innate psychic power (called [ghost energy] during the mind flayer empire) has established an interstellar empire that spans many planes of the star sea.
This empire may have a higher civilization than the Githyanki, and it is estimated that the Thorium Age has not yet begun.
The evil nature of mind flayers brings their destruction.
This ancient empire did not leave too many clues, and just disappeared into the star realm sea. It is said that the destruction of this empire was related to a kind of star realm behemoth that could never be killed in the star realm.
even!
In the Thorium Age, the [Apotheosis Art] that seized the divine power of the Goddess of Magic, the materials needed were also related to this star beast.
This is how the mind flayers went into decline.
Today, the mind flayers of many planes have almost degenerated into primitive races. They simply rely on their innate psionic abilities to fight. Research on knowledge has long been stuck in a bottleneck. This is how Graybeard got a little knowledge from the mind flayer's lair, some very ancient psionic knowledge, and he planned to use psionic energy to enchant the mithril chain mail to completely eliminate its interference with the casting process.
According to the original history, he succeeded in the end!
and.
The time period is now.
The entire Glex City is very tightly defended, and Greybeard has been preparing for this for more than ten years. Now that the artifact is about to be completed, I'm afraid he will be even more careful.
Sauron's disguised gray dwarves aroused the guard's alert before they approached.
However, he pretended to be passing by, and walked directly near the city lord's mansion. The guards in this area were quite strict, and Sauron found at least a dozen patrols with his god-level perception.
And that's not counting the enemies lurking in the dark!
In the place where the fire of the furnace was lit, Sauron could sense a wave of psionic energy, as if there was a magic trap inside.
"It's a little tricky."
Sauron also had a slight headache at this time. But soon he thought of a way.
He plans to upgrade to another level!
As his strength became stronger and stronger, Sauron needed more killing experience to upgrade his professional level. At his current level, relying on professional level alone could no longer increase his combat effectiveness too much.
Almost all abilities are comprehensive, and the combat power of the god template is more important.
This is a watershed.
Only when Sauron's professional level is raised to level 30, or even level 40 or above. Only then will he clearly feel that the power of the professional level has gradually caught up with the power given by the god template.
Sauron currently has nearly 2.3 million killing experience stored!
These killing experiences are only enough for him to increase the professional level of the Arcanist by one level, but it allows him to increase the professional level of the Thief by two levels.
The killing experience required for thieves promotion is much less!
A row of data appears in front of you:
"The thief profession has been raised to level 9."
"Gain 45 (agility value 36 + (intelligence 27-10) * 0.5) skill points, HP increased by 15 points (professional life 6 points + (physical constitution 27-10) * 0.5)."
"You gained a specialty point!"
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"The professional level of thieves has been raised to level 10."
"Gain 45 (agility value 36 + (intelligence 27-10) * 0.5) skill points, HP increased by 15 points (professional life 6 points + (physical constitution 27-10) * 0.5)."
"You got a free attribute point!"
………………
no doubt.
Sauron added the free attribute point to agility. At this moment, his agility value has reached 37 points.
As for this specialty point, Sauron has almost nothing to think about. He directly chose the passive ability [Legendary Reflection].
"Legendary Reflection [Epic Specialty]: You have an unimaginable reflection ability, which allows you to gain an additional 4 points of reflection bonus when facing any attack, whether it is a magic attack or a physical attack. The The ability can be superimposed with any reflection feat. It automatically replaces the effect of [Lightning Reflection], and any dodge ability will get an additional bonus!"
"Finally completed!"
After obtaining this legendary feat, Sauron couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.
Legendary dodge, legendary reflection, legendary combat skills, epic agility, proficient in reflex dodge, proficient in intuitive dodge, rolling dodge, flexible movement...
Except for [Sixth Sense], which is the most difficult to obtain, Sauron almost used up all his Passive Dodge specialties.
"It's just the [sixth sense]!"
Sauron looked at his attribute page and couldn't help but shook his head and sighed. If the rogue's evasion expertise is all used up, using a digital analogy, the evasion value will be superimposed to more than 95%!
certainly.
Reaching such a high level requires the [Sixth Sense] feat or the [Super Sixth Sense] feat.
Soren isn't doing it right now.
If all the dodge feats are calculated numerically, his current dodge value should be around 75-85%, and the powerful agility provides an additional dodge bonus. If he completes the special ability of [Sixth Sense], then his dodge value can almost certainly reach more than 95%!
Basically dodging to this extent, physical attacks are basically not a problem, and he can even dodge magic attacks.
"Sixth sense!"
"How can a rogue acquire the specialty of the sixth sense? There is no way to train this thing!"
Sauron looked at his special abilities, and then focused on other aspects.
as far as I can tell.
Sauron's dodge ability should be the top in the material plane, and looking at the multiverse, there shouldn't be much higher than his dodge ability.
It is too difficult to superimpose to the limit, and there is no need to put too much energy on it for the time being.
Because combat power is not only reflected in dodge!
"Sneaking is currently 415 points."
Sauron quickly focused on his stealth. The purpose of his trip was to steal rather than fight, so he devoted all his skill points to stealth without hesitation.
The basic skills have reached his current level, and it is very difficult to improve by himself.
Currently, it can only be improved with skill points.
As if reaching a certain critical point, when Sauron's stealth skill increased to 500 points, the space around him seemed to be slightly distorted, and then returned to normal.
The power of shadows!
When Stealth broke through the critical line of 500 points, Sauron seemed to disappear.
No.
He didn't disappear, and he didn't even enter the stealth state.
Sauron still stood where he was, and others could see him with their naked eyes. But what was different from before was that Sauron could be seen, but not felt.
All breath is gone.
There is almost no way to feel his existence in any way. The 500-point stealth has reached an unimaginable level. Even the gods can hardly detect Sauron's existence.
"Finally, a basic skill has been raised to 500 points."
Sauron sighed softly, and then disappeared in place without any traces, and he couldn't detect any changes, as if he didn't exist at all.
500 basic skills is a watershed.
Any basic skill reaching this level is equivalent to stepping into the [Divine Realm]!
Looking at the entire multiverse, only some old gods can be raised to this level. Even if a mortal is a legendary figure, the limit that can be reached is just over 400 points.
Sauron completely disappeared.
No one can perceive his existence, even the [Lord of Shadows] can hardly find Sauron in a stealth state.
He passed through the protection of the guards like no one.
Sauron quickly approached the location of the furnace fire. All the guards were just decorations for him. The only thing he needed to be vigilant about now was the spell trap.
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