Chess Mage of Faerûn

Chapter 329 Rogue Spells
To be honest, Akram would rather accept the outcome of the other side launching a fierce attack, with his subordinates and assistants being beaten and forced to flee back to the tower in a sorry state.

The fact that the other party didn't take advantage of the situation couldn't be because they were acting out of kindness; they must have had ulterior motives.

Akram's expression was solemn. He gripped the central crystal of the main tower even tighter, and the detection device, operating at full power, scanned all spatial ripples, sub-plane gaps, or dimensional distortions in the vicinity.

Immediately, they gained their information: the true identities of the old headmaster and Tyrandeur were now fully revealed. At the same time, the old headmaster looked towards the main tower, showing no sign of panic. Instead, he chuckled and said to the two disciples:

"We'd better hurry, the hosts probably don't welcome us visitors."

The group nodded without saying a word, but their hands moved a fraction faster.

Beneath their feet was a ring inlaid with a six-pointed star. There were a total of six spellcasters, each occupying one of the corners. Guided by Grimwald in the main position, the flowing magic power converged and merged along the spell circuits, and the energy of each node began to fill up.

A pale purple mist rose and spread, looking as mysterious as a secret realm. However, upon closer inspection, one could see strands of black silk, resembling both lightning and cracks, within the hazy mist.

The black was pure and profound, unlike the coldness of negative energy, but it carried an extremely concentrated destruction and sharpness. The black wisps themselves were not stable, constantly twisting and changing, annihilating and regenerating, as if space had been cut into countless fragments, endlessly rearranging and recombining in chaos.

With just one glance, Akram knew this was a big problem. In fact, even without some advanced magical discernment, one could guess what kind of tricks could be released in a Ring of Law ritual that required a legendary spellcaster to bring an archmage to perform.
Akram, not one to sit idly by and wait for the other to make his move, immediately gave the tower spirit the attack command and then pulled out a golden scroll from his robes with a twitching expression.

There's no way around it; most people wouldn't have the Demonic Disintegration spell, such a good spell for clearing out your family and going bankrupt, hanging on their spell list for no reason.

Using scrolls for spellcasting is already a luxury, let alone using them to cast ninth-circle arcane spells.

With a formidable enemy at hand, this is not the time to concern myself with such matters. My only regret is that I have not yet been able to take that final step. The development of the legendary spell has been underway for several years, but it remains stuck on a draft that is now in its umpteenth version, a draft that I have sworn to succeed this time and never revise again.

The ring spell ritual opposite put a lot of pressure on Akram. This kind of super magic technique with sequence combination is not uncommon. It usually serves only two purposes: either to maximize the effect of a certain spell or to integrate and link several spells together, both of which aim to achieve a spell effect that exceeds the level of the caster.

Alternatively, it could be to assist and simplify the process of the ritual leader performing the spell.

When a legendary spellcaster needs help from others, what will the unfortunate person opposite him face? The answer is self-evident.

Not wanting to be the unlucky one, Akram unfurled the scroll. The somewhat lengthy incantation was compressed into just a few breaths. He then slammed his hand onto the magic projection prism in front of him, and a gray beam representing the Great Disintegration spell shot out from the terminal mirror of the autonomous tower, pointing directly at the ritual barrier.

Almost simultaneously, at the top of the central arcane tower, which resembled a giant tree, a chaotic yet deathly turbulent current was brewing and taking shape. The ever-growing power seemed to be bound by the tree-like launcher, and the moment it broke free would be the moment of its explosion.

The Great Disintegration spell struck the outer barrier of the ritual enchantment, causing protective spells and shields to dissipate and vanish. The power of the Great Disintegration spell was no joke.

However, that's where it ends.

In truth, Akram didn't expect a single Disintegrate spell to do anything to his opponent. No matter how much it was said to break all protective spells, it wasn't absolute. Differences in skill between casters and the counterplay between spells were all factors that had to be taken into account, but he hadn't expected his Great Disintegrate to be blocked so quickly.

One after another, silvery-white orbs of light flew out from around the old dean, swaying with tiny tail-like glows and leaving trails of flowing silver light as they rushed toward the Disintegration spell, which was dissolving and melting the protective spell as quickly as a gray death ray.

The moment the sphere of light came into contact with the gray light, it was as if an asteroid captured by gravity was swirling around and crashing into the latter.

The seemingly unstoppable beam of light now collides with, merges with, and even begins to disintegrate and annihilate itself.

“Elminster Radiant Refining!” Akram gritted his teeth.

This rogue spell invented by the infamous old rogue of Faerûn is indeed very useful, especially in countering some other rogue spells.

This spell will release a number of silver orbs equal to the spellcaster's level, and each orb can capture and absorb the spell effect of one spell level.

This thing also has a famous nickname—spell trap!
To break through this defense, one either needs to be a spellcaster with superior skill, whose defensive spells cannot withstand one's counter-spells and are neutralized before they can be captured or neutralized, or one needs to use targeted spells.

If neither of these two paths works, then the only option is to rely on sheer volume and brute force.

Fortunately, the other members, led by Quelta, cast spells or scrolls, and more than ten spells were launched at the ritual barrier in an instant.

With Grimwald's spellcasting level, only nine of the nearly thirty orbs of light were consumed by the Disintegrate spell, and the remaining orbs were also exhausted in the subsequent defensive defenses.

The pre-set protective barriers collapsed after a while, and for a time, the students of Wudong Academy could only barely withstand the attack by relying on their own triggered defenses.

Seeing that the other party still refused to stop the ceremony, Akram's eyes darkened even more.

Just then, the energy storage of the device at the top of the tower was finally completed. Without the slightest hesitation, with the confirmation of the tower master, the energy flow that resembled both chaos and shadow instantly surged and struck the people in the ceremony.

Anti-magic beam.

This seemingly ordinary attack method usually only breaks through shields and at most creates an anti-magic field. However, when it reaches an extreme level, this power, which has characteristics completely opposite to heavy magic, can even briefly distort and sever the magic network within a certain range, creating a small dead magic zone or wild magic zone.

No matter how terrifying the opponent's carefully planned killing move is, once it is separated from the magic network itself, it is nothing more than a dried-up fish in a dry pond, unable to make a ripple.

How could the opponent possibly withstand this attack, which was launched by drawing upon the magic network and the power of the elemental plane from the mage tower, with only their remaining protective spells?
"This joke is funny," Akram thought to himself, while simultaneously manipulating the tower to further communicate with the elemental realm.

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