Chess Mage of Faerûn

Chapter 280 Real Vision
Niang Xipi!
The next second, the micro-management master crashed. Among the group of people who had just disembarked from the boat with the drawbridge lowered, a young man dressed as a spellcaster suddenly looked around, took out a pocket watch and examined it for a moment, and then looked suspiciously at the sea where the water elemental was hiding.

"Mr. Howard, is there a situation?"

A middle-aged man dressed in a black robe and armor, who was traveling with them, also looked in the same direction and asked a question.

"My intuition tells me that we are being spied on by some kind of secret trick, and the detection pocket watch confirms my feeling, but..."

The young monk's gaze swept across the sea, but his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Howard, whose innate perception was beyond that of ordinary people, almost entered the temple to serve the Lord of Storms when he was young, but a series of coincidences led him to embark on the path of arcane magic.

Howard's privileged family background, coupled with his own considerable talent, made him a favorite of his tutors throughout his studies. The detection pocket watch in his hand was something he had specifically obtained from them before this trip.

This seemingly ordinary pocket watch can provide the user with two divination spells: detect invisibility and detect knowledge.

The former, as the name suggests, is a basic level two anti-stealth spell, while the latter is more interesting; it is an anti-detection spell.

The caster will open a field centered on themselves, within which any detection spells or magical sensing devices such as the Arcane Eye will be detected and have nowhere to hide.

This item was undeniably practical, especially when combined with Howard's own intuition. It saved him from countless troubles during this training trip escorting his family's trading fleet.

However, it seems that my treasure is not working properly now. Well, it's not that it's not working properly, but the location that is clearly showing a problem is completely normal at a glance, even after using the Invisibility Detection skill.

Howard, scratching his head, naturally didn't understand that the morph spirits' method of lurking was not ordinary disguise or invisibility; rather, their practice of mixing their liquid bodies into the seawater was more of a form of transformation.

If Howard suddenly had a flash of inspiration and used a disguise to identify the disguise, or simply used his real vision to scan the surroundings, he could easily find out the lazy Mr. Zhang.

Unfortunately, Howard, who had only recently begun his apprenticeship and could barely touch the fourth-ring magic network, had no idea when he would master the sixth-ring spell True Sight. Moreover, being used to relying on his pocket watch, he had no chance of preparing to use the obscure spell Disguise.

The world is fair. When you're unhappy, you might as well think about how some people are probably having a blast.

For example, Master Zhang was in a very good mood at the moment. When the young mage's gaze swept over him just now, he thought he had messed up this time. However, since he was remotely controlling the situation under a disguise, he didn't have many concerns.

Then he saw the other side's desperate attempt to escape. Zhang Yuan, who almost laughed out loud, simply manipulated the water creature to circle around the other side's merchant ships to get a clearer view before diving into the lower ocean currents to retreat.

Howard, having firmly established himself on the shore, gritted his teeth, pulled a scroll from his pocket, and suddenly ripped it open!

“Scio, Didici, Pecto (I know, with my heart, I think)”

As the scroll turned to ashes and dissipated, strands of arcane light intertwined and shone above Howard's head, forming an abstract painting of an eye.

Realistic Vision!

To Zhang Yuan's surprise, the other party was so willing to spend money, throwing out a six-ring scroll like that.

Can't be bothered, can't be bothered.

He was planning to pack up and leave, but Howard, who had just used up a scroll of true knowledge, was not about to do so.
"You think you can just leave after offending the Kusapari family?!"

Howard, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, enjoyed a smooth academic journey thanks to his parents' generous sponsorship of arcane arts. Even during his so-called training, as the young master of the family, he never suffered the slightest grievance. The captain of the Radiant Serpent, Lennon in his black battle robes, treated him with the same equal and friendly attitude. You expect him to swallow this insult?

Under the reflection of the true vision, the waters where the Morphlings were hiding were tinged with a dim, ethereal light in the eyes of Howard and his group.

Kusapari and his gang acted decisively, launching a long-range barrage the moment they spotted their target, with a volley of enchanted arrows flying in instantly.

The arrowheads gleamed with a pale blue, cold light; these wealthy and powerful individuals were clearly using arrows enchanted with cold energy.

The mage, who had intended for the water elemental to escape in a wave-like form, inexplicably stopped his actions, leaving the unfortunate water elemental to be pierced by a thousand arrows, while he squinted his eyes, seemingly lost in thought.

While the elemental body of the water elemental can be immune to a certain degree of physical attack, it is by no means immune. Moreover, the frost-like aura carried by the arrowheads freezes and condenses the source water that constitutes its existence the moment it enters the fluid body.

While the power of a single arrow is limited, the cumulative effect eventually caused the entire water-man's body to disintegrate, turning into fragments of ice that were swept into the ocean currents and vanished.

Meanwhile, the core elements that constitute the existence of the chess pieces—the Radiant and the Dire crystals—have silently returned to the void chessboard.

It turned out that when the arrow was about to hit and the chess piece's health was critically low, Zhang Yuan directly canceled the summon and sent it back.

"Is it resolved? What was that thing?"

Lennon, dressed in black, tilted his head and looked at Howard, asking a question.

The latter's expression was somewhat pleased, and his usual pride and confidence seemed to have returned.

"That should be a water elemental, and it should be a water elemental summoned and controlled by the spellcaster."

“How come you see?”

"This godforsaken place gets unbearably cold in winter; the entire port freezes over."

After saying that, Howard made a shivering gesture: "Water elementals aren't ice elves, what are they doing wandering around here?"

Lennon, however, was not as easygoing as the other man. With a somewhat serious expression, he asked, "Did they come specifically for us? Surely not. How often do our fleets come to Luscan? And now someone is waiting for us here?"

“That’s hard to say. Maybe they’re just spying on Luskan.” Howard shrugged, his tone strangely confident. “But I’ve seen through their little tricks. They won’t have the chance to succeed next time.”

next time?

There's no need to wait until next time; Zhang is not one to procrastinate.

The second water creature controlled by Master Zhang is already halfway there, and it is carrying a good thing inside its body.

The reason I let the water elemental be destroyed was to lull the enemy into a false sense of security, at least for a short time, so as to make it easier for the next wave of action.

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