[@Shadow Dragon]

(We should finish the Polybius arc in maybe 10 - 12 posts in total, so Bloonewb can return after we do the time skip.)

Ophion launched a flare spell, sending it streaking down the hallway. It lit up the corridor, revealing what Polybius looked like all this time: a red-robed dragon skeleton with glowing red eyes in the sockets of his skull. Ophion had imagined that the lich would have appeared decayed after all these thousands of years. Instead, his skeleton and robs looked superlatively clean. Spotless, even.

[color=ed1c24][i]"I must commend the two of you for reaching me. No one else has ever gotten this far in thousands of years. Even if you win, it is all for nothing. Even in this degenerate age, you must surely know about a lich's immortality."[/i][/color]

"Find your phylactery and destroy it, I know. It's probably in these tunnels." That was not what the lich wanted to hear. For the first time, he sounded genuinely angry.

[color=ed1c24][i]"You know, back in my day, that was forbidden lore. You'd have to have been admitted to the absolute highest circles of necromancy to know that. Now, it's- it's common knowledge?!"[/i][/color]

"In the dracon realms, at least. Any child who can read can find it out in any number of books on the subject."

[color=ed1c24][i]"... I feel so old."[/i][/color]