Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 24: Instant Power
"No!!" The venom of the scroll dragon made Dericlette lose his mind, and he shouted loudly.

"Lady Akdina will look me in the face as long as I offer her Bricklet!" Dricklet's eyes revealed a dazzling silver light. It was the warlock's strong mental fluctuations that caused a psychic riot.

He looked at his hands with disgust, and said as if analyzing himself: "I hate this dirty body. I wish I could be a dark elf like my mother, but the cruel fate made me become a half-blood goblin bastard."

"Every time I look at Gricket I feel sick. If it weren't for learning psychic powers, do you think I would be with an ugly goblin?"

Dericolaite laughed like crazy, staring into space as if looking at someone: "A beautiful lady like Akdina, even if she is not kind to me, is better than following a goblin!"

Nemesis shook his head, love-brained people are really fatal. This idiot really thinks that a noble dark elf lady will fall in love with a goblin?

Oh no, her mother is a dark elf, that.
Nemesis shuddered at the thought that there was such a heavy-mouthed dark elf.

However, he felt a little regretful when he saw that Dericlette hated Gricket so much. After all, just a few seconds ago, the ugly goblin that Dericlette mentioned had just pleaded with Nemesis for him.

"Did you hear everything? He really hates you." Nemesis smiled and looked behind Dericellotte.

Dericlette froze, and when he turned around he found that Gricket was standing behind him.

Gricket's face was cold. She had desperately run towards this side in order to save her lover from the dragon, but as soon as she arrived, she heard this dog's confession of love to a dark elf and his hatred for her.

"Greg?" Dericlette's angry brain cooled down.

Gricket pulled the corner of his mouth and said sadly: "So you hate me so much."

But then, her expression turned cold again: "Then I will send you to hell. Soon, I will let your goddess go down to accompany you."

Three-ring transformation ability——【Energy Cone】!
There was no spell, no gesture, Gricket simply raised her hand, and the spiritual energy in her body surged out like waves, the elements were distorted, the matter was occupied, and a ball of energy that combined fire, ice, and lightning burst out in a cone from her fingertips.

The elemental wave instantly covered Derecolette, who was unable to react. The last trace of consciousness of the blue goblin before his death was the fear of death and a hint of relief.

"clap clap"

Nemesis clapped his hands and praised, "The spellcasting is very smooth. The power appears immediately like a natural phenomenon. Ms. Gricket, I admire your attainments in psychic powers."

This is the power of psychic powers.

The psion draws upon inner strength and makes it his own. He does not need cluttered materials, difficult spells, or awkward hand gestures.

By simply calling upon a small portion of his psionic energy through conscious thought, he could create fire from thin air, move a boulder without touching it, glimpse a moment in the future, or communicate with creatures miles away.

Powerful punches and kicks, extremely fast speed, no matter how sharp the sword is, they are all eclipsed by the psychic's thoughts.

In simple terms, all psychic powers are instant. A spellcaster who does not prepare for the casting time is the natural enemy of any melee profession.

It is said that wizards who have reached a high level of cultivation can also possess some special means to perform their spells with a technique called [Super Magic], which can also achieve the level of instant spells, but all at a huge price.

Perhaps an ordinary first-level spell, after undergoing [Super Magic], will require the consumption of a third-level, fourth-level, or even fifth-level spell slot as the casting cost.

Of course, even if psychic powers are theoretically instantaneous, mobilizing psychic energy is still a very technical job that requires a lot of experience, and there will always be a gap of a few tenths of a second, or even a full second in the release.

Gricket's [Energy Cone] was released in almost no time, so Dericlet died before he could even react. It can be said that "there is nothing special about it, it's just practice that makes it happen!"

The female goblin cancelled the manifestation of her supernatural power and said with a wry smile, "Please don't praise me. The thought of me begging for him like a fool after receiving your telepathic link makes me want to vomit."

Gricket took a deep breath, her eyes were a little wet, but she raised her head to the sky for a moment and soon returned to normal.

Nemesis nodded secretly. As expected of a psychic spellcaster who cultivated his true self, he was not affected at all. He then said seriously, "You heard it too. The dark elves are coming. They are probably hiding somewhere outside the city, waiting for Dereklet to pass on the message to them."

"I have no objection to you killing Dericolaite. Even if you don't take action, I will make this fool who dares to challenge the majesty of the real dragon suffer a fate worse than death."

"But your actions have disrupted my plan. I was planning to manipulate his mind, give the dark elves outside the city the illusion that I was dead, and then ambush them. Now with Dereklette's death, there is no chance for this plan to be implemented."

Gricket nodded silently, waiting for the dragon's verdict.

Nemesis thought for a while, raised his dragon head and announced: "I know that this city has a reservoir passage leading to the middle area, Gricket. As a punishment, you must lead a hundred-man gnoll army, go around the reservoir to the rear of the dark elves and cut off their retreat."

"If you can come back alive, you will have redeemed yourself. Whether it's the apprentice you trained trying to assassinate me or the crime of disrupting my plan, it will all be forgiven."

“But remember, don’t let any dark elf escape.” The Scroll Dragon warned.

According to Dericlette's memory, Akdina was the least favored lady in the Devereux family. The troops that came to attack the city of Bricolect were her private troops, and their strength was not very strong.

Except Akdina.

Akdina, a ninth-level Storm Dragon Warlock who works part-time as a sixth-level priest, is said to have had her grandmother seduce a powerful adult blue dragon and give birth to the current direct line of the Defoe family, and she was also lucky enough to awaken the warlock's bloodline.

The Volume Dragon was a little timid. He still remembered the thrilling battle with the red-robed wizard. The spellcaster was the opponent he hated facing the most.

"Fortunately, it's just a warlock."

Unlike mages, warlocks can't learn a variety of spells. They can only use those awakened spells that are born with them.

There are almost no warlocks like the Tome Dragon whose bloodline contains a large number of spells, or even all the spells of the two major systems.

Most warlocks can only awaken one or two new advanced spells every two levels, and some warlocks with weak bloodlines will not even awaken more advanced spells!
Of course, the counterpoint to this is that a warlock will have more spell slots than a wizard, and the warlock's spellcasting attribute is charisma, and creatures with high charisma are more likely to appear than creatures with high intelligence, which can also add a lot of spell slots.

Compared to Akdina's warlock level, Nemesis was more afraid of the other party's priest identity.

The so-called priests are professionals who serve gods. They believe in the gods in the sky, and the gods grant them daily divine arts through the magic network.

Priests have fewer spell slots than mages, but divine spells are powers bestowed by gods, and divine spells of the same level are more powerful than spells.

More importantly, there is a small chance that killing a priest will attract the attention of the gods!

Although the gods cannot descend upon Faerun, there are obviously many ways to retaliate against blasphemers. The most common one is to issue an oracle ordering high-ranking believers to assassinate the other party.

Nemesis sighed. That noble was not worth mentioning, but this was probably just the beginning.

The dark elves are attacking the central and northern regions more and more frequently. According to the goblins' memories, Akdina came here by taking a detour through the Twilight Sea.

But if those big cities in the front are conquered by the Dark Elves, I am afraid the Dark Elves will move south in large numbers.

　Killing a god's priest will not definitely attract the god's attention.

　　The gods have tens of thousands of believers, some of whom will even spread their faith across crystal walls and even across planes (for example, Tiamat, the Dark Dragon Queen in the Dragonlance world is her alias).

　　So you can imagine that if you were a god, there would be so much information flowing into you every moment. If you were lucky, you would notice that your priest had died. If you were unlucky, you might not even notice that an entire religion in a world had been slaughtered and half of the churches had been slaughtered.

　　This is also the necessary reason for priests to offer sacrifices to gods and let the gods hear their voices.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)