Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 525 Attack
With so many people gathered in one place, Noshir couldn't guess what they were doing for the time being. However, since the real boss had not left this place, he would put this question aside for the time being. After all, in addition to Gotash, Xie Nian, and this cult, there seemed to be some unlucky guys who did not belong to either of them.

Relying on the intuitive senses of the Kanoloth demon, Noshir felt the life reactions of a humanoid creature not far away. At this time when all the cultists gathered together, not knowing what they were doing, this unidentified object occupying a single area became too conspicuous in Noshir's eyes.

"Could it be someone unrelated? In a place like this."

Such a thought flashed through Noshir's mind. This place was the highest-level safe house currently kept by Gotash. Generally speaking, a safe house like this would never be open to any customers except its own people.

But considering that the original purpose of this place was to be used as a prison by Gotash, and that it hosted many unfortunate people in the original timeline, this possibility cannot be said to be completely impossible.

"Let's go check it out first. No matter if that person is an unlucky person imprisoned here, or a cult member with other purposes or a mission, this kind of abrupt target is worth checking out first."

With this idea in mind, Noshil quickly took action. The Iron Throne is a deep-sea area at least 800 meters away from the sea level, which means that the environment here is very dim. Except for some magic lanterns distributed in the corridor, there is no additional light in this place. In such a dim environment, Noshil can rely on the special ability of the evil toad demon to reduce his own presence to a minimum, and thus move forward quickly and quietly.

In this way, Noshier quickly found the lone man, and at the first sight of him, Noshier recognized who the unfortunate guy was.

'It is you, Red Hammer.'

Red Hammer, race: dwarf, name: unknown, occupation: inventor. His greatest invention is the giant brass submersible that is currently docked next to the Iron Throne. That big guy is one of the reasons why Noshir still remembers this guy. The other reason is what this guy did.

In the original plot, Red Hammer was dissatisfied with Gotash using his invention to transport prisoners to the Iron Throne, so when the protagonists came to him, he chose to betray Gotash, drove the giant submarine alone, took the protagonists into the Iron Throne, and after successfully rescuing everyone, drove the submersible and led everyone to evacuate safely.

Such behavior has shown that Red Hammer's character is not actually that bad. After all, he is just an inventor. He does not intend to use his inventions to do bad things, but he himself does not have the ability to make the decision. His inventions can only be accomplices to the evil. But when the opportunity to resist comes, Red Hammer does not lack the courage to make changes.

Because of this, Nohill's impression of this guy can be said to be very deep, but the fundamental reason why Nohill has not forgotten this guy until now is actually the fate of this unlucky guy.

In the original plot, the giant submarine invented by Gan Ta caused oil pollution to the coastline of Baldur's Gate, which aroused the anger of Umberlee, the Mother of Waves, a regular sect in Baldur's Gate.

When Red Hammer was about to retire after atonement by sending all the families of Gond's believers back to land, the priests and believers of the Mother of Waves suddenly appeared, took the guy away, and threw him into the sea afterwards.

Such an ending was undoubtedly quite a reversal, and Noshier completely remembered this unlucky guy. And considering his current situation, Red Hammer's luck was as bad as ever.

Noshir chose not to show up, because he didn't want to do anything that might expose himself at this time, so he hid directly outside the cell, and then borrowed the telepathic ability of the Kanolos demon, and learned everything that happened in his mind.

To sum up his experience in one sentence, it is that he was first tricked into getting on board a pirate ship and brought here with Gotash and the others. But when he wanted to return, he was stopped by other cultists and could not go back at all.

Red Hammer didn't want to accept such an arrangement, so he went down to complain to Gotash, but he was put under house arrest before he could even finish his words. Because they still needed Red Hammer to perform daily operations and repair submarines, they didn't abuse him too much, but Red Hammer knew that sooner or later he would be useless.

Because Gotash is also a genius in machinery. When the day comes when he completely masters the craft of the Red Hammer, his death will not be far away. His recent experiences have further verified his idea.

Since the Iron Throne is too remote, the resources here are not sufficient, especially in recent times. The food stored here can only provide the cultists with one meal a day, and the Red Hammer, which has gradually lost its function, has been cut off from food.

Before Noshir found him, he had been hungry for three whole days and had completely fainted from hunger. However, this made it easier for Noshir to operate. While there was no one around, Noshir quickly placed a set of teleportation beacons on Red Hammer. With this set of beacons, Red Hammer could teleport away before he started a battle and made the place completely chaotic.

-

After arranging the red hammer, Noshil quietly came to the room where Gotash and the others were gathered. Because the distance was close enough, the intuitive senses of the Kanoloth demon could clearly show a real-time picture in Noshil's mind.

After seeing the situations in the room, Noshir almost understood what they were doing. They were conducting pre-war mobilization and giving speeches to boost morale. For the current Baner and Baal sects, such actions were actually quite necessary.

After all, the cultists are not fools. Even with their deep faith, they cannot deny their failures in recent times. Their base camp has been lost, and most of their followers are either separated or defeated. For the followers of these two factions, now is a critical moment of life and death, and Gotash's plan means their last gamble.

If even this plan fails, it means that everyone present will face the most tragic death, and after their bodies disappear, their souls will face tragic torture in the kingdom of the two evil gods that will last for an unknown period of time, but is destined to be extremely tragic, because they have disappointed the gods.

The cultists now gathered in this underwater building are already the largest number of men left in this area of ​​the North by the two evil gods. If even this group of men are to die, then for Bane and Baal, unless their beliefs spread again in the North, then for at least the next ten years or so, they will completely lose their influence on the North.

For gods who believe in power, such a blow is enough to be called a serious injury. For these two unlucky people who have just been resurrected recently and whose power has not yet been fully restored, if they don't handle this matter well, they may even die again. After all, these two have many enemies in the God Realm. If they really show signs of decline, there will definitely be gods who want to beat them up when they are down. For this reason, these two gods may have been paying close attention to the actions of these two chosen gods in recent times.

Considering that Raphael could be forced back so easily, and that Noshier himself felt an inexplicable sense of oppression, the word "maybe" can be removed, and this also means that once Noshier takes action, he must be fully confident.

"If I remember correctly, the abilities of Evil Mind and Gortash are Baal's Law of Death and Bane's Hand of Darkness respectively."

"Bane's Hand of Darkness is somewhat similar to my Invincible Iron Hand, but the actual threat level of this thing should be much stronger than the spell attached to my gloves. The actual strength should have reached the range of the Nine Rings spell. It should cause me some trouble, but it is not particularly dangerous. As long as I am given some time, I can destroy all these things. However, Baal's Law of Death is different."

'This ability can forcibly end the life of a creature with less than 150 HP, and this effect can ignore any form of immunity. Although the panel shows that my current HP has reached 483 points, as long as I suffer a fatal injury that is enough to reduce my HP to less than 150 points, I will die completely in that instant, even if my physique has reached an extraordinary level. It is meaningless.'

As Noshir was thinking, he suddenly fell silent.

"...Ah, this, I don't think you need to worry about it."

Nosher, in the form of a nightmare, scratched his head. Ever since his profession level reached 16, he mastered the ability of [Infinite Rage], and gained the power of the Path of the Giant. His strength and physique have become able to soar to the limits of mortals at will, that is, both his strength and physique have reached an outrageous level of 30 points.

In this state, Noshir's already abnormally thin health points will be temporarily reinforced during the period of maintaining the rage. Taking an adult red dragon, the strongest of the five-colored dragons, as a reference, the average health points of an ancient red dragon are 546 points, while Noshir's health points at that time were 783.

This data has surpassed the ancient red dragon by nearly half! In addition to his own high resistance, whether it is physical or magical, Noshier could not imagine anything that could hit him so hard in an instant, unless one of the two gods chose to go down personally. However, even if such an accident really happened, Noshier was still confident that he could evacuate safely.

However, the best approach is of course to eliminate the risks in this regard right from the start. While Gotash was still talking incessantly, telling the remaining cultists about the beautiful vision after the plan succeeded, Noshil also began his own actions.

In the first second, Noshir used the mental connection between the helmet and the controlled creature to instantly allow Mizora, who was far away in the Underdark, to cast a teleportation spell and pull away the red hammer in the cage under the Iron Throne.

At this moment, Xie Nian, who was standing next to Gotash, folding his arms, leaning against the wall, waiting for the show to begin, suddenly frowned, as if he felt something was wrong.

The next second, Noshil, who was outside the room, took out a scroll and activated it instantly. In an instant, everyone in the area felt an incomparable solemnity, as if the air had turned into a entity in that instant, and everyone felt the indescribable palpitations.

Such a significant change instantly aroused everyone's vigilance, but people's reaction speed is limited. Most people are unable to adjust their position well when they are suddenly attacked, so that they can perfectly deal with the sudden attack from nowhere, and it is even more impossible for these tired and exhausted cultists.

In this sudden change, among all the people present, only Xie Nian, Gotash, and a few high-level believers responded in a timely manner.

Those high-ranking cultists who still had some strength took out their weapons in an instant, turned to face the gate, and prepared for battle.

Gotash instantly activated his magic shield, and at the same time took out a heavy crossbow from the space equipment, then quickly made a tactical roll, hiding his figure behind a metal support column.

Xie Nian instantly entered invisible mode, and then wanted to communicate with his father god Baal, praying to him to give him strength. A magic circle representing death unfolded in this place, causing the ungrateful invader to die instantly. However, Xie Nian soon discovered that the thoughts he sent out were like a stone sinking into the sea, with no response and no trace. It was obvious that that thing had cut off the connection between him and his father god.

Xie Nian immediately activated the backup plan, trying to get into the shadow plane so that he could wait for an opportunity in another world, but he still failed.

But Xie Nian was not affected by the double blow in his calm thinking. These two failures also made him understand what the strange feeling before was. It was the space. That strange feeling meant that this space had been completely locked.

But why would that unknown enemy do this? What good would it do him to seal off this space? Except that it would prevent all of us from leaving here through magical means...

The evil thought was suddenly stunned when he thought of this. An explanation that he subconsciously ignored, but now seemed to be the only explanation, quickly appeared in his mind.

"That guy... wants to annihilate us all!"

Yes, this is the only way to explain why that guy did this, because this is the only way to prevent everyone here from escaping.

Without the magical means of teleportation, the only way to leave here is through the submarine docked outside. But before boarding the submarine, they must deal with the intruder in advance, otherwise that guy will never let them leave here safely.

(End of this chapter)