Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 293 A balanced battlefield

The Giant Skull Demon is a very powerful legendary demon. This kind of demon only has a giant brain with a face. Therefore, among the demons known for their tenacious physical combat abilities, they are a rare and unique species that can hardly fight with their bodies. , but although they do not have the ability to fight in melee, this does not affect their power at all, because their most dangerous part is. The endless amount of forbidden knowledge in their minds.

Yes, knowledge. Among the demons known for being brainless, giant skull demons are the most alternative type. They are highly intellectual among demons, because such demons will acquire an instinct-like nature after they are born. , this nature is like a mental illness that forces them to spontaneously collect all intelligence in their area. No matter what kind of information it is, valuable or worthless, they want to know.

The existence of this characteristic makes this race extremely difficult to deal with. With their powerful natural abilities and instincts that are weird and abnormal for demons, almost all giant skull demons are forbidden magic masters and explorers in the abyss. , the mobile evil library, the best among them can even be called prophets.

The longer a Giant Skull Demon lives, the more forbidden knowledge he has in his mind, which means he is more powerful. However, even a newly born Giant Skull Demon is definitely not weak. This kind of demon is born with Two very powerful spell-like abilities.

One of them is the [distorted ripples] that the Giant Skull Demon is currently emitting continuously. This ripple looks like a group of irregular transparent solid sound waves, and only the outline can be barely seen, but this attack is not as powerful as it seems. Simple.

This energy wave has a very weird effect. Once hit by this weird ripple, the creature will bear double trauma in terms of body and soul. Most targets will be twisted into pieces before they even have time to react. Meat is a very dangerous attack ability.

Another ability is [Corruption Aura]. Once any creature comes within 60 feet (20 meters) of the Giant Skull Demon, it will suffer corrosion from soul to body. These two attacks either rely on magic protection or Not only can it rely on the spirit and body of the creature itself to carry it, but if the creature cannot carry it through, the power of corruption will turn it into a withered black scum in less than 30 seconds.

"It's really life-threatening. How can a demon of this level bypass the front line of a bloody battle?"

Nohir frowned in the sky. He didn't know why all this happened, but the appearance of a legendary demon on the battlefield below was enough to break the situation that the demon army had finally stabilized. Once the demon's front line fell, , the endless abyss demons will slaughter everyone in the city mercilessly. This is a more unfavorable ending than the devil winning!

"Wait, maybe the situation is not that bad. This giant skull demon definitely did not appear here just now, and during the time he appeared, the devil's front line still did not collapse. This should be enough to show that the devil One side has the means to fight against the Giant Skull Demon."

Thinking of this, Nohill carefully observed the battlefield again. At this time, the small group of demons attacked by the giant skull demon had begun to retreat in an orderly manner. They directly abandoned the section of defense line they were stationed on and began to control it. Nohir understood the devils' plan as soon as he saw the large long-range weapons staying behind.

"So that's it, because of the giant skull demon's irrepressible aura of corruption, every time this demon launches an attack, even his men don't dare to get too close. Taking advantage of this, the demons often only It is enough to deal with the giant skull demon, as long as we can buy time for the demons behind to turn their firepower and use a large number of high-power long-range weapons to push him back. "

The giant-skull demon below naturally understood the plan of these demons, because Nohir guessed it right. He had indeed been forced back many times by the devils with this attack, and just when the giant-skull demon wanted to continue chasing, a A 12-foot-tall (four-meter) humanoid beetle holding a spear suddenly teleported over with a burst of light. The moment he arrived on the battlefield, he suddenly opened his wasp-like beak and spit out a violent blast. The cold current formed a thick ice wall that blocked the giant skull demon who wanted to pursue it. "A Chiru demon!"

Qilu demons, also known as ice demons, are high-level demons. Among the harsh classes in hell, the demons of this race are already considered to be upper-class figures. They are the aristocratic class second only to the hell fiends. All ice demons are often They have a high official position, which directly depends on their high strength and natural magic power.

Just like the common name of this race, the best thing about ice demons is their innate ability to control cold currents. In addition to breathing deadly cold breath, ice demons also have powerful spell-like abilities that freeze enemies with a wave of their hands.

Just with this hand alone, the ice demon can be said to have good combat power, but even so, a mere ice demon cannot stop a giant skull demon for too long.

Sure enough, not long after the battle between the Ice Demon and the Giant Skull Demon, the Giant Skull Demon's unpreventable spell-like ability had already shattered the wall created by the Ice Demon, and then in the next moment, the Giant Skull Demon's huge head suddenly appeared next to it. Hundreds of magic missiles emitting unstable red light were condensed. With a harsh explosion, hundreds of missiles directly hit the ice demon with dazzling trajectories from all directions. This was a seventh-level magic missile. A powerful missile storm!

But the ice demon couldn't bear to show weakness. At the same time, he immediately raised the spear in his hand and swung it violently. A cold wind suddenly blew in the scorching hell, and the cold wind roared and rolled up the black sulfur dust in the hell. Turning it into a black snow storm, it directly exploded most of the magic missiles launched by the Giant Skull Demon.

The red light produced by the magic missile explosion briefly illuminated the battlefield covered by the snow storm for a while, but only for a short while. The ice demon took advantage of the cover brought by the wind, snow and explosion to retreat to a relatively safe area behind, leaving the giant The dissociation rays subsequently launched by the Skull Demon fell in vain, but the remaining magic missiles bypassed the ice storm in an arc range and suddenly hit the retreating Ice Demon.

"Damn it, these two guys are so strong. Although the giant skull demon is obviously better, it seems that the devil is not incapable of dealing with radium."

Nohir looked at the ice demon who was hit by magic missiles and had several wounds on his body, but seemed to be fine. Then he looked at the legion demons who were already adjusting the muzzles and crossbow arrows.

"The legion demons are almost ready. As long as the ice demon can delay for a while, this ice demon should be a legion commander level figure. There are currently eight demon legions on the battlefield. As long as more come, There are several demons at the same level as him, but this giant-skull demon can't make any trouble...he's coming."

(End of this chapter)