Faerun: The arcane mage is still too imprisoned.

Chapter 118, Level 7

Elena's eyes lit up: "Really?!"

"Really, don't leave my sight."

"Okay! It's a deal!"

Elena ran off, completely satisfied.

Olaf stood there, his expression complex.

……

The siege began the next day.

The sounds of bugles, war drums, and battle cries mingled together, making people's ears ring.

Elena stood on tiptoe, peering over the city wall, muttering, "Where's that mage? Where is that mage?"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a silvery-white shadow appeared above the city wall.

Elena squinted at her.

The moment she saw it clearly, she was completely stunned.

That face was so exquisite it didn't seem real; long, silvery-white hair fluttered in the wind, and sky-blue eyes were both cold and bright.

Elena stared at that face, her heart skipped a beat.

"It looks so good..." she whispered.

Olaf, who was standing nearby, heard this and his face darkened.

"Your Highness, stop looking, those are the enemy."

……

"Still watching!"

"I'll just take a look..." Elena pouted, but her eyes were still glancing up at the sky.

……

On the city wall, Lance threw two more Lightning Bolts, then stopped to catch his breath. The enemy had retreated again.

"Sending only a small force each time, and this is a siege! Isn't their piecemeal approach just throwing them away?"

Lance glanced at the panel.

Current experience: 2700/6000

"Whatever, this way I'll reach level seven quickly."

For the next four days, the Sassanid army sent more than 10,000 troops to attack the city every day.

Each time, the Sassanid army was routed by Reims, leaving hundreds or thousands of corpses at the foot of the city walls.

Lance's experience points are also increasing.

By the third day, his experience points had reached over 6.

[Used 6000 experience points to level up to level 7!]

You have gained a new class feat: Spell Penetration!

[Spell Penetration: When overcoming a creature's spell resistance, the caster's level roll gains a +2 bonus.]

On the fourth day, Lance learned fourth-circle magic.

With over 1200 experience points, he picked out three useful ones to learn.

[Consumed 400 experience points to learn the fourth-circle spell - Anti-Death Spell!]

【Death Protection: You touch a creature and grant it protection against death for eight hours.】

When the target's health drops to 0 for the first time due to damage, the health drops to 1 instead, and the effect of this spell ends.

When the spell takes effect, if the target is affected by a lethal effect that does not cause damage, that lethal effect is canceled, and the spell's effect terminates.

[Consuming 400 experience points, you have learned the fourth-circle spell – Anywhere Door!]

[Anywhere Door: You can teleport yourself from your current location to any location within 500 meters and arrive at that destination accurately.]

The destination of a spell can be a place you can see or imagine, or it can be a place specified by distance and direction, such as "200 meters straight down" or "300 meters northwest at 45 degrees up".

When teleporting, your personal belongings cannot exceed your carrying capacity. You may also bring a volunteer creature, whose size cannot be larger than yours, and whose personal belongings cannot exceed their carrying capacity. This creature must be within 5 meters of you when you cast the spell.

If your destination is already occupied by a creature or object, you and any creatures teleporting with you will suffer 24 points of force field damage, and the teleportation spell will fail.

[Consuming 400 experience points, you have learned the fourth-level spell – Ice Storm!]

[Ice Storm: Within a columnar area 20 meters in radius and 40 meters in height, centered at a point within 300 meters, rock-hard hailstones pound the ground. Every creature within the area must make a Dexterity saving throw. A failed save inflicts 16 blunt damage and 24 freezing damage, while a successful save halves the damage.]

Hail turns the storm-affected areas into difficult terrain until the end of your next turn.

He originally wanted to learn [Transfiguration] and [Advanced Invisibility], but he didn't have enough experience points, so he had to wait until next time.

……

Day .

As dawn broke, the Sassanid army's bugles sounded again.

Fifteen thousand people came this time.

Lance flew up to the city wall and looked down at the dark mass of people below.

"Here comes another free experience point."

He raised his hand.

This time it wasn't lightning.

The sky suddenly darkened.

Hailstones the size of fists pelted down from the sky, carrying with them icy moisture and covering an area forty meters behind the Sassanid army.

[Fourth Ring Spell - Ice Storm!]

The hailstones made a clanging sound as they hit the helmet, and when they hit the shoulder, they knocked the person down.

Moisture seeped in through the gaps in the armor, making people shiver from the cold.

Cassius reined in his horse, looked up at the dark cloud that was still pelting down hail, and wondered a little.

"A fourth-circle spell?"

"Why did he cast a fourth-circle spell this time? And why this time of all?"

……

Olaf counted in his mind.

Eleven Lightning Bolts and two Ice Storms.

Eleven third-circle spells and two fourth-circle spells.

Including those from the previous days, this mage has cast at least fifty third-level spells, and some fourth-level ones as well.

This mage is completely different from normal mages.

Normal mages will not attack ordinary soldiers and ordinary professionals unless absolutely necessary.

Save your spell slots for unexpected situations, especially against the enemy's mages. Even if you do engage, just throw out a few tricks as a formality; use a maximum of three or four first-level or higher spells.

But what about this guy?

I've been casting third-level spells since day one, dozens of them now, and I've even started casting fourth-level spells. I'm casting them on regular soldiers, on professionals, and on siege engines.

If it weren't spell slots but spell scrolls or something similar, even a mage's resources wouldn't be enough to sustain it.

Why?

Olaf couldn't understand it.

If he is an elite, he shouldn't have so many spell slots.

If he is of the Exemplary rank, he shouldn't only use third and fourth-level spells.

Exemplary rank mages should possess fifth, sixth, or even seventh-level spells.

But he doesn't need to.

He used only two moves: lightning bolts and occasionally an ice storm.

An idea flashed through Olaf's mind.

"Could it be some kind of variant mage class?"

This profession is rare, but it does exist.

If this half-elf is indeed a variant class, then everything makes sense.