Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 528: The Secret of the Star Realm
Being able to get the Hammer of Orpheus was indeed a pleasant surprise. Noshil checked through the panel and confirmed that this hammer did have the ability to directly unlock Gargauth. Now Noshil only needed to pick up the hammer and tap it lightly, and Gargauth would be released.

This means that in the future battle against the Githyanki, he will get the help of a demigod devil. If Gargauth can really come out to help at this time, no matter how many warriors the Githyanki will send out later, Noshir is confident that he can annihilate them all, but...

Nosher gently brushed the devil's pattern on the shield with his armored hand, and then tapped the surface of the shield with his fingers. He was thinking about whether he should release it at this time, and he soon came up with the answer to this question in his mind, and that answer was - no.

Yes, no, this is the conclusion that Noshir came to after careful consideration. Gargauth is a demigod devil with divinity. This kind of devil in the status of hell is even capable of becoming a grand duke of a certain level in the Nine Hells.

Although Noshir had signed a very strict and unequal contract with him, which allowed him to control Gargauth's every move to a great extent, if Noshir showed any sign of wanting to steal his divinity, Gargauth would certainly try his best to find a way to save himself. Therefore, in order to be able to seize Gargauth's divinity more easily and directly, he would never choose to use the Hammer of Orpheus to directly break Gargauth's seal.

In order to seize his divinity, Noshir had already thought of many feasible ways and planned a series of actions. However, these actions all had an important prerequisite, that is, after Gargauth was released from the shield, its body must be weak and broken enough, so that Noshir could be sure to subdue him in a head-on battle.

But if the seal is directly removed with the Hammer of Orpheus, then Noshir will not be able to achieve this goal. Gargauth will directly appear in the main material plane as a demigod devil. In order to defeat an enemy of this level, even if the opponent is restricted by the contract and cannot fight back, just wanting to escape is enough to give Noshir a headache.

Therefore, Noshir had already prepared a destination for Gargaus. After finishing his business here, he would return to hell again and take the fine gold chain that Noshir had prepared in advance from the hands of Ledros, one of the legendary demons controlled by Noshir, the wingless horned demon.

He would use these chains to bind the shield tightly, and then throw it directly into the deepest and darkest abyss of the Styx, where even the water eel demons dare not go. He would use the water of the Styx to corrode the seal on the shield. In this way, when the seal is loosened enough, Gargauth's power would be weakened to the minimum. When he breaks the seal, he would be trapped by the adamantine shackles, unable to run or defend himself. The devils who died in hell could not be resurrected like they could after dying in the main material plane. It can be said that everything was arranged clearly from birth to death.

Thinking of this, Noshil shook his head unconsciously, as if he was lamenting the tragic fate of Gargaus in the future, but soon, Noshil put away this meaningless emotion.

He did not feel pity for Gargaus, nor was it his turn to feel pity for Gargaus. There was almost no kind-hearted devil in this world, and the path to promotion for every devil was full of blood, conspiracy and fraud. These poor guys simply had their brains beaten up. After meeting this guy, Noshir just felt a little emotional.

Nosher shook his head and thought no more. He waved his hand lightly and put the shield, hammer, and crown back into the space box, leaving only the astral prism in his hand. He opened the panel and began to carefully study the nature of the astral prism through the panel.

"...So that's how it is. It's really a magical creation. The Lich Queen took great pains to make this thing to imprison the Comet Prince." After tossing the Astral Prism in his hand for a few times, Noshil couldn't help but sigh. Through the panel, he already knew the origin and nature of this thing. Generally speaking, the Astral Prism was actually a super-large space trap that the Lich Queen created by relying on astral magic and the seal of the Nine Hells Blood Crystal Stone after she had just betrayed Ghis and after Ghis disappeared.

After Ghis disappeared in Hell, the Lich Queen Vlaakis immediately seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. While Orpheus was trying his best to unite the other tribesmen who were in chaos because of the loss of Ghis, and was unable to take care of himself, Vlaakis suddenly came to his door.

She lied to Orpheus, saying that she had found traces of Ghis, and that Ghis had encountered a powerful enemy on his way back from Hell, and was currently trapped on the corpse of an ancient god floating in the astral realm. He was in danger and in urgent need of rescue.

Orpheus, eager to save his mother, did not have too many doubts. He immediately took his most elite guards and traveled day and night to the ambush site carefully planned by Vlaages and Mephistopheles.

Vlaakis and Mephisto were both highly skilled wizards, and the moment Orpheus arrived with all his elite guards, these two most powerful spellcasters in the world joined forces to cast an incomparably powerful seal.

This seal directly tore off a small piece of the star realm map, sealing all the people in that area into the tiny prism in front of them. Orpheus was given special attention. Not only was he sealed into the star realm prism, he was also bound by the Hell Blood Crystal Stone magic inside.

Under normal circumstances, Orpheus should never be able to escape, but now the situation is different. The panel has revealed the nature of this thing to Noshir, and also let him know how to enter the Astral Prism freely. As long as Noshir is willing, he can now enter the prism and use the hammer he just got to break the seal of Orpheus.

"I never thought that this toy that I would play with in the future talks would have such a great origin. It actually contains a whole small piece of the star realm. How huge is this space? Moreover, this space still retains the unique rules of the star realm. You know, creatures living in the star realm will never age, and this prism still has this function!"

"Based on this alone, the actual value of this thing is already equal to that of a divine weapon, not to mention that there is a corpse of an ancient god who died at some unknown time inside. That is the ancient god. The gods of that era may not be like the gods of today. They should be able to survive for a long time without believers. If I can study this corpse carefully, maybe I can find some secrets of the ancient gods from it, and embark on the path of ascending to become a god without faith."

(End of this chapter)