Equipment Printing School Mage

In short, if you follow the rules of the board game, holding a +5 Holy Avenger, Chanem will gain 100% magic resistance (which can be understood as 3r positive infinite spell resistance), and at the same time distribute 50% of the magic resistance to everyone in the surrounding square.

Also, hostile spells and magical effects cast by spellcasters of a lower level than the chanem have no effect within a 10-foot radius of the chanem.

And the most extreme one: all magic items made by evil means will not be effective.

So, after getting the Holy Avenger, Apodel Adrian's battle went something like this.

After he rushes forward, even if your caster level is much higher than his, you must first try to remove his 100% magic resistance under the sword of a powerful paladin, otherwise all your spells will not take effect directly.

At the same time, all your spellcaster subordinates are equivalent to blank slates in front of the Apodel team and cannot play any role.

Even if you want to use magic items to fight against Apodel Adrian, you will be surprised to find that Apodel wields a +5 two-handed greatsword, wears red dragon scale armor, and has an Ioun stone on his head - while you have blank hands, blank feet, a blank body, and almost a blank head.

Therefore, after Chanem obtained the Holy Avenger, he showed overwhelming superiority against enemy spellcasters. All evil spellcasters died in great frustration and misery, including Erinikas, the final boss of Shadows of Amn.

Therefore, the Holy Avenger is an extremely powerful and outrageous final weapon both in and out of the game.

These characteristics become increasingly excessive as Apodel becomes stronger, as the number of spellcasters with higher levels than him decreases. By the time this book begins, Apodel is already operating with a one-way anti-magic field. This is also why Korhal, the boss of Volume 2, is almost instantly killed when facing Apodel.

Unfortunately, in the third volume, Apodel's Holy Avenger was destroyed - as mentioned before, the Holy Avenger was too strong, and without the Holy Avenger, Apodel's suppression power was greatly reduced.

——Until the end of the previous chapter, the new casting of the Holy Avenger of the Emiya card was completed.

Apodale returned to full health.

****************Gossip Time**********************

Now, let’s get to some relatively private stuff.

——Yes. Of course you can choose your wife in Baldur's Gate 2, but what about the choice in Apodaele?!

He chose to fight Ai Meng Romance! He chose orthopedics!

Mr. Apodel Adrian's wife is his sister Imoen!

In the third volume, Miss Imoen used a long speech to prove that she and Apodale were not biological siblings - that was all to whitewash their behavior, shooting arrows first and then drawing targets, it was nonsense, they were biological siblings.

The reason why Apodale did not break his oath despite all this was because of the midnight special permission.

In fact, neither of them dares to have children and doesn't know how to have them.

So, Mars is actually Apodale's adopted son - although they are his biological brothers by blood.

Secondly, in his own setting, Mars's blood of Bhaal is stronger than Apodel's. Consequently, Mars's unconscious violent tendencies are much more frequent than Apodel's. Unlike Apodel, Mars's paladinhood is entirely based on self-discipline—he has no obsession with becoming a paladin, but rather chooses self-discipline for the sake of self-affirmation.

Therefore, Mars's edge dancing behavior is much more frequent than Apodale's.

However, due to his pride, he actually had a stronger aversion to truly crossing the line than the average paladin. He would never break his oath simply because of a skeptical debate about good and evil. One of his main goals in becoming a paladin was to maintain the status of a paladin. If he crossed the line, it would be like completely wasting all his previous efforts, so he would never break his oath.

Furthermore, the remaining three Sons of Baal had all gained their powers through self-cultivation, unrelated to the Blood of Baal. Thus far, they had never used the divine power of Baal in their bloodlines in battle.

Twenty-six Holy Swords and Arrows

“…Holy Avenger?!”

If a lich has never even heard of the name of the Holy Avenger...

It would be better to smash your own life box.

The name itself is even more intimidating than the glorious sword in Apodel's hand!

When the Holy Avenger is held by a young man, the liches can torture the paladin to death under the suppression of the Holy Avenger.

When the one holding the Holy Avenger is a middle-aged paladin of considerable reputation, a few drops of cold sweat will appear on the shriveled skin of the liches.

When the one holding this holy sword is Apodel, the one who terrifies all evil...

Even if they are liches, there is only one thing they should do and can do now: escape, and only escape.

Maybe their king can still break through Apodel's holy sword, but the other liches can only cheer on the sidelines.

Almost all the liches lost interest in continuing to cast spells and tried to escape backwards in vain: they did not dare to use teleportation to leave immediately because their master was still here.

If you die by the sword, your resurrection will last only a few days. If you dare to escape from the battlefield, you will suffer for more than a hundred years.

They were all slaves of Larloch, and their lives no longer depended on them.

Unfortunately, what sounded behind them was not what they wanted to hear most.

"I didn't have any expectations of you in the first place...but you didn't even notice such a significant event as Apodel's retrieval of the Holy Sword!"

Larloch’s dry vocal cords were almost boiling like magma: “Next time, will you only say that Mystra is resurrected when she comes to me?!

"No retreat—you are liches."

In other words, they must fight until the very end.

The liches finally gave up their last glimmer of hope.

What made them somewhat relieved was that Apodel had no plans to move forward for the time being.

The power of the Paladin is certainly great, but the Holy Avenger still has a disadvantage that is not really a disadvantage: his protection range is not large.

At least, it was far from enough to support him in raising a storm of steel among the liches while protecting his teammates.

However, if he doesn't move forward, the Holy Avenger will be nothing more than a simple shield generator.

Of course, there were ways to bypass absolute magic resistance and penetrate the Holy Avengers, but they were too inefficient. Before the paladins could be drowned in strong acid and hot sand, the light of the Holy Slash would have already bloomed in their skulls.

Seraph is, of course, a powerful angel.

——But, how strong is it?

That was knowledge that had always remained in books and passed down orally. None of them had ever seen a true Seraphim.

In fact, before Zariel, this land had not seen the glory of the Seraphim for thousands of years.

What they were familiar with were nothing more than fakes created by mages who loved transfiguration.

The Seraphic Servant is powerful enough, but not enough to intimidate hundreds of liches!

Thinking of this, the liches almost unanimously shifted their targets to the last person present.

Elturgard could capture Zariel alive. They had faith.

Apodel's eyebrows jumped, and he stopped in his tracks.

Of course he could stride forward - but then Metatron would be completely exposed to the firepower of more than a hundred Nine-Ring Mages.

Even he would have no chance without the Holy Avenger.

It was at this moment that he finally noticed what Metatron had been doing since the beginning.

The quiver at her waist had been emptied at some point, and all the arrows in it fell at her feet.

The bowstring is empty.

And she just pulled the empty bow, chanting something.

—instead of reciting prayers.

But no matter what, the battlefield full of spellcasters fell into an eerie silence.

Each side could be reduced to ashes in an instant.

Everyone stayed where they were or quietly retreated with some inexplicable tacit understanding, chanting spells loudly.

This is a hymn to magic. Whoever stops singing first will be the one whose other side will be killed.

It seemed like some kind of game popular among children, but the prize was the destruction of the other party.

And Larock was in an awkward situation at this moment.

Although Metatron was considered tall among women, Apodel was, after all, a giant of nearly two meters, and with the help of numerous spells, he had already expanded to nearly five meters - his size was enough to easily block his teammates behind him.

Unfortunately, the thousands of years of life of the liches were not wasted - not to mention, they generally ascended to the ninth ring hundreds of years ago and lived at this level for thousands of years. Their familiarity with spells is rarely matched in the world.

The liches' almost bony teeth closed one by one, shaping the magic power first.

Roaring magical energy coalesced in mid-air, and countless dark green liquids converged into a tsunami of strong acid in an instant. The rocks melted away layer by layer under the acid's corrosion, and a foul stench instantly filled the entire cave.

"...!"

Conjuration, Creation subschool, Duration: Instantaneous.

The most special thing about this kind of spell is that its connection with magic only exists for a moment after its creation. After that moment, it is just an ordinary part of the world.

This is also the most common method to break through various magical resistances and anti-magic fields.

Even though Apodel had been mentally prepared, he couldn't help but feel nervous when he saw the ocean of strong acid that covered the sky.

Before coming to the dungeon, he had, of course, put on a full set of protective gear, which could help him withstand the strong acid to a certain extent...

However, the ocean of strong acid before him clearly exceeded this level. If he were to fall into it, he would be burned to charcoal.

...Or maybe I can just ask Emiya to order a set of full-coverage Diggerworm armor later.

Just as the bubbling green ocean was about to touch the two of them, Metatron's recitation ended.

It was as if time had skipped a frame.

The waves that were just rolling and roaring forward suddenly stopped at the same time.

At some point, arrows as numerous as mountains and forests had already reached the front of the waves.

Apodel had seen Metatron attack Milim a few days ago—at that time, she had used the moon rockets Emilia had given her. He had even witnessed Emilia throwing those arrows onto the ground like molten steel.

But he could confirm that at this moment, the arrows used by Metatron were much more powerful than the moon rockets!

Then, it was as if time began to flow again.

The rain of arrows disappeared from Apodel's sight like lightning, leaving only a beautiful afterimage like the blue sky.

The acid sea, which was originally showing its fangs and claws, suddenly had countless holes.

These gaps began to slowly fall from the moment they were created, but before they closed, Apodale captured the scene on the other side of the gap.

Apodale clearly saw ashes floating in the air on one side of the slowly closing hole.

Although Zariel is the Seraph most familiar to the people of Faerûn, she actually does not match the Seraph described in the data.

Zariel is a true warrior, and even divine magic is not something she uses often.

But in the surviving materials, it is claimed that the favorite fighting method of the Seraph God's servants is actually to use their most powerful killing bow to unleash the most powerful killing storm in the world. Even though the two-person-high Dancing Sky Beheading Swords have unparalleled divine power, they still have to be ranked below the Killing Bow.

Or rather, their quivers.

There was nothing special about that quiver.

——As long as the Seraph God draws the bow, the quiver will generate a killing arrow of the corresponding race according to the target, instantly taking the target's life, even if the opponent is an undead creature that has long been dead - that's all.

Apodale clearly captured the scene on the other side of the acid sea.

Each arrow accurately hit at least one lich's eye socket. Most liches were lucky enough to be hit by at least one arrow.

Moreover, the moment the arrows touched the lich's body, the arrowheads burst out with brilliant light.

The light instantly enveloped the lich's limbs and bones, completely engulfing their bodies in the blink of an eye. After the light faded, only a trace of undetectable dust remained.

——They were destroyed.

Or rather, killed.

Even though the lich is one of the most powerful undead creatures in the world, it is still extremely vulnerable to this kind of arrow.

"...Undead Killing Arrow."

Larloch even received more than ten killing arrows. However, these arrows all strangely changed direction at the moment before hitting, and pierced straight through the ground.

4th level protection spell, friendly fire.

The power of the Killing Arrow is extremely difficult to resist, but just make sure it doesn't hit you.

Even Larok couldn't help but lose his voice when he saw the huge pit that suddenly became extremely spacious.

If it weren't for the Holy Avenger, the layers of protection on his men would have been enough to render Metatron's arrows ineffective.

However, as the Holy Avenger was unsheathed, all was over.

He had hoped that the lich's body would be tougher in the face of the killing arrows - now it seemed like wishful thinking.

"...That time, you showed mercy." Larok said dully.

This is naturally not the first time they have fought each other.

"Yes," Metatron replied, "At that time, my mission was simply to confirm whether you regretted becoming a lich."