Chapter 26 Chapter 21 Whenever

Drizzt leaned back on a smooth sloping stone, arms folded behind his head.He closed his eyes, enjoying this unusually warm moment.Even in Icewind Dale in late summer, such warm days are rare.Although far from the entrance of the dwarf mine, Drizzt was not worried about being attacked.Guenhwyvar was sitting next to him, always on guard.Just as Zall was about to fall asleep, he heard a low growl from the panther.Her ears were pushed back to the back of her head. Drizzt sat up, but Guenhwyvar regained his composure, and even began to roll lazily.Drizzt knew that the visitor was not dangerous.Moments later, Katie followed in his footsteps and found him.Drizzt would be very happy every time he saw her.But Drizzt noticed the scowl on her pretty face right away.

She sat down beside the dark elf. "I think we have to tell them." There was no hesitation in her words. Drizzt understood what she was talking about.When they told Bruenor of their adventures, Drizzt was the only one talking, and he alone was weaving the end of that story.Katie was uncharacteristically calm, she couldn't lie to her father.Drow didn't want to lie either, but he didn't know how to explain everything to Bruno.He doesn't want to add unnecessary worries to his friends.Years, maybe even decades, would have passed by the time Errtu figured out a way to get back here.

"Wait a little longer," Drizzt said to Katie. "Why are you waiting?" the woman asked. Drizzt paused—that was a really good question. "We need more information," he explained. "We don't know if Errtu will come back here, or when he will come back. The devil doesn't measure time the way we do. A year, or a A century is not a long time for Errtu. I don't think it's time to warn Bruno and Regis." Katie thought for a long time, "How do you think you can get more information?" "Starbuck Snapfinger," Drizzt replied.

"You don't know anything about her." "I'm going to get to know her now. In fact, I already know a lot about her. Her exploration of the Bomin Valley, and her fight against the invasion of the dark elves in Menzoberranzan City. I believe in her strength and her feelings." Katie nodded.She had also heard quite a few stories about Starbucks.The pastor was a good choice, but there was one thing that bothered Katie.Drow has mentioned this.She sighed deeply.Drizzt knew what she was thinking. "We have no way of knowing how long this will last," the drow ranger admitted.

"Then we are going to guard here for a year?" Katie's voice was quite sharp. "Or a hundred years?" Seeing Drow's painful expression, she immediately regretted her slip of the tongue.Indeed, it was quite difficult for Katie to sit around waiting for months on end for an unlikely demon.But what does this mean for Drizzt?It wasn't just Errtu that Drizzt had to think about, but his father, his suffering father.Every day that passes means that Zach Nafein will be tortured by Ertu again. Katie lowered her head, "Sorry, I didn't think of your father."

Drizzt patted her on the shoulder. "Don't be afraid, I will think of him." Katie's dark blue eyes looked deep into Drow's purple eyes. "We're going to get him back." She firmly said her promise. "And make Errtu pay for his crimes." "I know," Drizzt nodded, "but now is not the time to say it. Winter is coming, and Bruenor and Regis have a lot to do." Katie agreed, and sat back down on the warm boulder.They have to wait forever, and they must never let Errtu do whatever he wants! In the days that followed, the two friends blended into everyday life in Icewind Dale.They worked with the dwarves for a few weeks.Drizzt found a cave to use as a bivouac as he toured the tundra.Katie also spent a lot of time there, with her friend, silently comforting him.

Errtu and the Crystal Shard were rarely mentioned.Drizzt didn't go to Starber either.But Drow did not forget that devil, especially the prisoner in the hands of that devil, he never forgot. Everything is brewing in silence. ※※※※ "You must come out quickly when I call you!" growled the magician, pacing restlessly up and down the room.Compared with the crab demon summoned by him, he has almost no deterrent power.The devil is twelve feet tall and has four arms, two of which end in powerful hands; the other two end in giant claws that can pinch a person in two. "There will be no delay, my companions," continued the magician.The crab devil named Bizmat curled his dog-like protruding lips into a sly smile.The magician, Dusman of Sundabar, was completely out of sorts.He's throwing himself into a silly game with his fellow guildmates.Maybe it was a mistake for him to prepare this magic ring...

"Did I ask you many questions?" Duesman howled at the devil. "I didn't! I asked a few trifling questions, and for that I gave you a lot." "I didn't take the initiative to look for you." When Bizmat spoke, he was still carefully guessing the power of this magic ring.It is because of it that this crab demon is unable to move an inch.If Duesman hadn't prepared the ring precisely, Bizmat would have swallowed him in no time. "But you didn't give me any answers! Now I ask again, you have three hours, and only three hours. During this time, you must give me answers."

Bizmat heard the words clearly and considered their implications carefully.The devil already knew that this magic sealing ring was intact, and it was impossible for him to escape. Duesman uttered seven of his questions, seven of no importance, but obscure.The content of this wizard's guild competition is to find the answers to these seven questions.Duesman's voice expressed urgency.He knew that at least three of his companions had already obtained answers to some of these questions. Bizmat wasn't listening to those questions.He was recalling some news he had heard in the Abyss Demon Realm, it was a message from a tanaron who was much stronger than him.The crab demon stared at the perfect magic sealing ring in front of him.He frowned.Errtu had said that the power of a summoner and this magical bond meant nothing to him.

"Wait!" Bizmat yelled.Although Duesman was very confident in his magic and was in a rage, he took a few steps back before regaining his composure. "It will take me a long time to find the answer you want," the devil said to him. "I don't have much time!" Duesman regained some courage and began to roar angrily again. "Then I can give you an answer." The Crab deliberately hid his malicious smile. "You just said..." "It's not about the answers to those questions," Bizmat explained to him immediately. "I just know who can give these answers - a Baelor."

Hearing this sentence, Dusman's face turned pale.He is not an ordinary magician, his summoning skills are particularly powerful, and he has full confidence in his magic ring.But that's a Baylor!Duesman never thought of summoning this kind of demon king.In the entire universe, there are only about twenty Baylors.They are the highest tanar'ri, the most powerful beings in the realm of the abyss. "Are you scared of Baylor?" Bizmat said sarcastically. Duesman remembered that a summoner must maintain his due dignity in front of the devil, so he raised his head high.The weakness of the mind will inevitably lead to the weakness of the binding magic, which is the creed of the summoner. "I'm not afraid of any devil!" "Then go find your answer from Baylor!" Bizmat said word by word: "His name is—Ertu." Duesman couldn't help taking a step back, but the magician quickly regained his composure.The crab demon gave him Baylor's real name without asking for any price.A tanar'ri's true name is one of his most valuable possessions.A magician like Duesman can use this name to summon and restrain him. "How much are you willing to pay to defeat your opponent?" Bizmat laughed strangely every time he said a word. "Errtor will surely be able to give you those answers." Duesman thought about this for a moment, then stared at Bizmat suddenly.He was still hesitant about calling Baylor.But winning the biennial guild competition for the first time holds a lot of appeal for him. "Let's go!" he ordered the crab demon. "I'm not going to waste any more energy on something like you." The crab demon was delighted to hear this.This is the first time Duesman has declared that he will give up on himself.All along, this magician has become the nightmare of this crab devil.But if the news about Ertu circulating in the smoke and dust of the Abyss Demon Realm is true.Duesman would soon regret his words. ※※※※ As soon as he returned to the Demonic Abyss, the space tunnel immediately closed behind him.Bizmat went straight to a jungle of giant mushrooms, which was the lair of the devil Errtu.Seeing the crab demon approaching him, the Baelor's first impulse was to destroy him.He took Bizmat for an intruder.But after Bizmat told what had just happened, Errtu sat back on the Mushroom Throne, opened his mouth wide, and never closed it again. "You gave that idiot my name?" Errtu asked. Bizmat hesitated, but he could tell there was no anger in Errtu's voice, just hunger. "According to what I've heard..." the crab devil said tentatively.But Errtu's thunderous laughter drowned his voice. "That's good." Hearing Baylor's approval, Bizmat relaxed a lot. "But Duesman is a powerful magician." Bizmat warned him. "His magic sealing ring is perfect." Errtu didn't seem to care about it at all.Bizmat would have liked to repeat the warning.But he could see that Baylor fully believed that he could find flaws in the magic sealing ring that the crab monsters couldn't find.At this moment, Errtu took out a small black box. "There is no perfect magic ring." Baylor said confidently but vaguely. "Come here. I have another task for you. You will guard my most valuable prisoner." Errtu stood up and walked back.Seeing that the hesitant crab demon did not follow, he stopped. "You will be richly rewarded, my general," Errtu assured him. "You will live freely in the Prime Material Plane, devouring countless souls." No tanar'ri can resist this temptation. Duesman's summoning began shortly thereafter, but the summoning was weak.The magician has already used up a lot of energy in summoning Bizmat.Errtu, carrying his cherished locket, answered the summons at once.He entered Dusman's room in Sundabar along the space tunnel.Find yourself standing in a perfect circle of power, as Bizmat warned you. "Close the gate of time and space!" Baylor's roar shook the rock wall. "Buzz will come after me! Fool! You let me go from my servants. Now the beasts of destruction are going to come after me through that gate! What are you doing? Stupid mortals, why do you let so many The abyssal demon entered your layer?" Like all wise wizards, Duesman had already started closing the portal at full speed.Abyss Demon!more than one?No magician, no magic ring can trap a Baylor and more than two abyssal demons.Dussman chanted the mantra, drawing concentric patterns with his arms, and threw various magic materials into the air. Errtu continued to put on an angry and fearful look, and kept looking back and forth behind the magician, as if he was worried about the sudden appearance of the abyssal demon.Errtu needs to close that portal.He knew that all the magic here was about to expire.If the portal still exists, Baelor could easily be driven back to the Abyss. Finally, the gate of time and space was closed.Standing in front of the half-ape, half-dog Baylor Mozu, Dusman at least maintained the composure of a magician. "I summoned you just to..." said Duesman. "Quiet!" Errtu yelled. "You can summon me only because I want to come!" Duesman looked at the monster with strange eyes, and then at his magic ring—his perfect magic ring.He had to believe in his own strength, and he had to think that Baylor was just bluffing. "Quiet!" Dusman also roared.Because his magic ring was perfect, because he summoned the tanar'um in the right way, and because he used the tanar'ri's real name, Errtu had to obey his orders. Baylor really quieted down.He took out a small black box and held it aloft in front of Duesman. "What is that?" asked the magician. "Your end," Errtu answered, and he wasn't lying.Baylor opened the box with a sinister laugh, revealing a blue-black gem the size of a fist.A relic from a troubled time, it contains anti-magic energies.In fact, it is a condensed crystal of death's magical power, one of the most important remnants of the gods' avatars as they roamed the world.When the enchantment box was opened, Duesman's mental bondage to Errtu immediately disappeared.Although the pattern of the Demon Sealing Ring was still perfect, it no longer had any power. Errtu naturally lost all his magical powers, but with a thousand pounds of muscle, he was a mighty beast in his own right. ※※※※ Duesman's fellow magicians had not seen the guildbrother that day.Out of concern for him, they saw a shoe and a spot of dried blood when they entered his private room that night. Errtu had flown northwest with the gem re-enclosed in the enchantment box.His destination is Icewind Dale.Clinshinibon was there waiting for him.He has coveted it for centuries.