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dragon’s crimson neck, ending its life. Before the severely wounded sorcerer could prepare another spell, Becknor thrust his sword into his chest. At that moment, a demonic rohrlog flew from behind the arch dragon and began to dive on him, raising its huge flaming sword. Becknor pulled his sword from the sorcerer’s chest, swung around, and fired a bolt into the half-breed demon’s midsection, sending it cascading off its course from the force of the strike.
    A blue dragon then came out of teleport with a death knight and another Talon sorcerer mounted upon it. Gallanth immediately sensed the danger, disengaged from the spiraling green dragon he had just flamed, and headed toward the blue chromatic. Blue dragons have a limited power of teleportation, so the sorcerer must have helped phase the trio into battle, which was not an easy task.
    Before Gallanth and Jmes could intercept them, the death knight lifted his dark crystal vampire blade and hurled it toward Michenth. Immediately afterward, the sorcerer produced a deadly Orb of Annihilation, a hideous but extremely powerful weapon about the size of a melon. The solid black globe was powered by a large dark crystal and reinforced by numerous death and disruption spells. The orb darted behind the vampire sword, and they both headed directly toward Michenth. Gallanth fired a plasma fireball from his gaping jaws, and a sunburst beam from his eyes that shattered the blue’s magic shield.
    Jmes lifted Kershan, his single-edged mithril sword, with its glowing ruby dragonstone, and hurled it toward the blue. The intelligent sword streamed toward the sorcerer, who pushed the death knight into its path. The sword pierced his reinforced black iron armor and sunk to the pommel guard, and its curved silvery blade emerged from his back and impaled the sorcerer’s shoulder. The death knight grasped the pommel, screaming in pain; blood spurted out of his chest and back, but he could not remove the powerful sword from his armor.
    Unfortunately, the vampire blade found its mark and pierced Michenth’s armored hide behind his shoulder; few blades could penetrate the mithril dragon’s skin. As the arch dragon winced, the black orb exploded just short of the point of penetration of the vampire sword, owing to the Morgathian sorcerer’s injury, which had broken his concentration on the deadly device.
    At the same time, Becknor slew the rohrlog with a final smite from his mithril sword, upon which it exploded in its death throe. Becknor’s sword shielded him and Michenth from that blast, but he was not ready for the sphere’s destructive implosion. Michenth’s magic shield was worn down as a result of his intense battle with Tiamat, which made him vulnerable to this type of attack. The incredible blast knocked him and Becknor unconscious, sending them hurtling toward the ground. If Jmes had not wounded the Morgathian sorcerer, the powerful sphere would have found its deadly mark.
    Gallanth whirled around to head toward Michenth, after finishing off the blue dragon and the injured Talon sorcerer with another blast of his sunburst beam, striking them both and sending them on a death spiral. He roared to get the attention of any gold or silver dragons in the immediate area to come to his aid. His brother, Falcanth, another gold dragon, Eagrenth, and the silver dragon, Talonth, answered the call.
    Just as he was ready to go into teleport to help Michenth, a black nightmare horse appeared out of nowhere, with a drow sorcerer and a hideous flayer mounted on it. The drow fired a sonic blast from his death staff, which hit Jmes’s flying saddle rig. The spell struck its intended target, for Jmes did not have his sword’s magic shield, and Gallanth’s shield was depleted from the intense combat. The flayer then let loose a thought spell that hit Jmes. The gold dragonrider was suddenly racked with an intense pain, as though his head were going to burst, and he immediately fell from