Chapter 246: Rainwater, Fresh Blood

【Banishment】, 4th-ring Abjuration School.

Its effect is to briefly banish a creature within the field of vision to another plane (Charisma save).

After the duration effect ends, the target will be teleported back to the original spot.

Undoubtedly, this is a spell with extremely strong practicality.

Especially in group battles where the number of enemies is large and there are elite individuals.

Imagine this scene: a well-equipped four-person adventurer team accidentally encounters a difficult monster capable of summoning a large number of "minion-type" little brothers while exploring a dungeon.

Under normal circumstances, the team members need to deal with the encirclement attack of a sea of minions while guarding against the sneak attacks of the elite monster, which is very troublesome.

And if there is a spellcaster in the team who has mastered 【Banishment】, they can directly cast the spell to banish the elite monster from the field.

The teammates then take the opportunity to clear the battlefield.

When the monster returns to the field after the spell effect ends, the original numerical advantage of the monsters no longer exists, the situation reverses, and instead, it is the one that needs to face the encirclement of the adventurers.

There are also some agile groups with combat ingenuity who have developed the usage of casting 【Banishment】 on themselves or their teammates to avoid the huge damage that might be received.

For example, the last dragon breath released by a giant dragon before it dies, or a one-time 【Sunburst】 spell scroll from a wealthy mage.

The special effect of plane travel has allowed this spell to be played out in various ways by spellcasters all over the world after countless years of development and use.

But after all, it is only a 4th-ring spell, which means that at a minimum, only a level 7 mage can memorize the spell model in their brain and list it on the standing spell table.

【Banishment】 of course has its limitations.

Casting time, casting materials, posture, concentration, and other conditions go without saying, which can be overcome by high-level mages just by relying on feats.

And the duration of the spell and the number of targets can be strengthened by raising the ring.

The most critical point is that 【Banishment】 does not possess the ability to permanently teleport a creature to other planes; whether it is one minute or twenty-four hours, the banished target will sooner or later return to the original place.

And the spell does not take effect unconditionally; the subject will undergo a round of Charisma check before being banished, and if they successfully save, the banishment fails.

Therefore, many individuals who use "Charisma" as their main attribute, such as warlocks, or individuals with outstanding Charisma, are rarely affected by 【Banishment】.

With this as a premise, an adult Hong Long, excluding the magic resistance already carried by its scales and armor.

The average Charisma attribute of the population is "21."

Among the six-dimensional attributes, it is second only to the "Strength" and "Constitution" that have become stereotypes in the eyes of the world, which dragons should be powerful in.

Usually speaking, below the legendary level, almost no mage can make 【Banishment】 take effect on an adult Hong Long by normal means.

And even if the luck is good again, and some unlucky Hong Long really doesn't pass the Charisma check...

Then there is a second protective measure.

The innate, against various spell checks that dragons have after reaching adulthood—

"Legendary Resistance."

Capable of forcibly saving against spells that failed the check a certain number of times, with days as the unit of time.

It has to be admitted that creatures like dragons have indeed received special favor from the Creator.

They don't need to fight with the dirty Goblins emitting foul odors in the caves, nor do they need to plow the fields under the scorching sun to fill their stomachs.

Just lying in the nest, sleeping for hundreds of years, and when they come out again, they are already creatures standing at the top of the pyramid on the Star Fall Continent.

Weirouer is a reborn person, it's true, but her professional level right now hasn't exceeded level 5.

She doesn't even meet the casting conditions for the most basic and initial 【Banishment】.

Let alone banishing an adult Hong Long to other planes completely.

In fact, even the her before rebirth—

An academic-school Transcendent Divination School mage who had spent most of her life dealing with various equipment in the laboratory and whose professional level had just reached 15.

Also didn't have this ability.

But right now, this adult Hong Long named "Klaff" had already entered the state of being completely controlled and unable to move, the stiffness before banishment.

As for the reason... naturally, it was one of the trump cards Weirouer had picked up in the process of crossing the long river of time.

A banishment spell named after her, which she herself was incomparably unfamiliar with, and which could ignore resistance and even permanently teleport.

It could be considered that she was carrying the so-called mission of "saving the world." Except for the memories of her previous life, she naturally had trump cards with limited uses.

"Hum boom!"

Accompanied by the violent wind filled with magic particles, under the shroud of the rainstorm, the dazzling magic light erupted in front of her eyes.

The scarlet giant dragon, which was huge like a miniature volcano, still had a pair of fleshy scale wings folded on both sides of its body, but its four sturdy and powerful lower limbs were off the ground under the reflection of the dazzling light, and its entire body was suspended in mid-air.

Xia Nan saw for the first time a touch of human-like fluster and panic in its vertical pupils that were filled with rage like magma.

And not far in front of it, compared to the huge shadow that almost covered the entire field.

Was the rice-white robe swaying violently, and the slender and weak blurred outline under the cover of the clothing.

Her eyes were closed tightly, and the deep chestnut ponytail soaked by the rain was jumping non-stop.

Keeping Weirouer's precautions in mind.

Hum—

A gray-white sword light flashed, and the decapitation longsword had already been unsheathed.

"Pay attention to vigilance!"

Xia Nan whispered coldly, and at the same time turned his back, his pitch-black eyes scanning the surroundings.

The Hong Long was controlled by the spell, and the people who were originally affected by Dragon Might also gradually recovered.

Only hearing a sound of "clatter" in the air.

Daggers, thin swords, and longbows had already been firmly held in the hands of several people.

Dragon Might is a kind of aura deterrence unique to giant dragons; perhaps one would briefly lose the ability to think and act, but it wouldn't be completely ignorant of everything happening in the outside world.

Haian, Wood, and the others certainly heard Weirouer's instructions clearly just now.

Although they didn't know how the other party did it, in the current crisis, there was simply no time to think or ask more.

The moment they recovered their ability to act, they each drew their weapons and guarded her very professionally.

Vigilant against everything around them that might affect the spellcasting.

And it was impossible for everyone not to be nervous; after all, everyone on the field right now clearly knew what would happen if the spellcasting was interrupted...

At that time, the angry Hong Long would definitely burn them all to ashes with its dragon breath.

The pitch-black broken hair on his forehead was soaked by the rain, the corner of his eye was the suspended scarlet body of the Hong Long, and his eyes were fixed on the open wasteland in front of him.

For some reason, Xia Nan suddenly felt a sense of absurdity.

Clearly, two days ago, he was still curled up in the tavern drinking the local specialty Red Scale Mushroom Soup, thinking about whether it would be better to add two more slices of cheese.

Right now, he had to use this body that had just stepped onto the professional path to guard for a spellcaster of unknown strength and an adult Hong Long.

Recalling the previous few trips, which looked like there was nothing special at the beginning, but ended up with all kinds of strange things appearing inexplicably in the end. ===== CHAPTER 247 =====