Time Stop ended!
"BOOM!!!!!!"
The power unleashed by fifty spells erupting at once was comparable to a saturation bombardment by a modern artillery force—its visual impact was even far greater than that of artillery fire.
Being struck head-on by eight different schools of magic within three seconds was a nightmare beyond nightmares for anyone!
The more distant orcs watched with their own eyes as a group of orcs was first corroded into heaps of rotten flesh by a "Multiple Acid Arrow," then immediately burned into charcoal by a spray of flames, before being blasted by another frost missile into shattered bones flying everywhere!
Wave after wave of orcs vanished completely beneath the magic without even having time to groan, leaving not even scraps behind!
But while the scene looked terrifying, not that many had actually died—eight hundred at most. The problem was that it could not be viewed that way.
Was artillery powerful? Of course it was! But in every war throughout history, artillery had never killed as many people as bullets did. So why did people fear artillery more than bullets?
It came down to psychology.
Likewise, in Faerûn, did more people die by the blade or by magic? There was no need to think about it—the blade, without question. Yet people still feared magic more.
So although only a handful of people had died from Solam's little display, the shock it dealt the Black Orcs far exceeded the sight of eight thousand casualties! Death by magic and death by blade were both death, but the visual impact was entirely different.
After all, for Black Orcs, dying by the blade was far too common. But magic... Black Orcs had always both revered and despised it. They revered it because magic was simply too mysterious and bizarre to them. As