The Swordsman of Faerûn

As the consul of Mirabar, Sunderland Stagrim can be said to be a relatively qualified one, because the consul of Mirabar City does not have much power, and of course he cannot have too much ambition.The decision-making of Mirabar City is made by the Marquis Erastu Larim, and the management is managed by members of the "Yaoshi Council". Although the consul is the leader of Mirabar on the surface, he is actually only in charge of the marquis and the council. Communication between members of the council, planning and consulting on some decisions, and issuing decrees on behalf of the "Yaoshi Council" or the Marquis Erastu.

To put it bluntly, Sunderland is like the liaison and megaphone between the Marquis and the council, the lord's secretary and advisor.Although she is knowledgeable and shrewd enough to support her job, Sunderland doesn't like this position because her temperament is incompatible with the philistines here, but due to family tradition, Sunderland has to accept this job. For this reason, she even gave up her magic research.

Although she was teased by William several times, Sunderland always regarded him as a silly boy from the country, which is why she was deflated repeatedly. ——Women hate women for the simple reason that she wants to have some fun for herself.

Sunderland hated the way it was now, but Ms. Stagrim loved the city.

Old Singers looked at Sunderland who was dressed as a female adventurer in surprise, and said, "Little Sunderland! Why are you dressed like this? Could it be..." The one-eyed dwarf glared at his friend who was deaf and pulled his head. , asked: "Tog! Is this your so-called adventure assistant? Damn it! Is your brain full of stones? The underground tunnel is not a relaxed pillar stone hall (a unique entertainment facility for dwarves, similar to bowling balls) )! Don't want me to agree to you taking her with you!"

Togg was speechless with his head slumped. This strong dwarf with long black beard almost reaching his knees had the urge to commit suicide.As the commander of the Ax of Mirabar and the senior person in charge of public security in the city of Mirabar, he actually took the consul to take risks in dangerous areas alone. This is an extremely bad dereliction of duty. Tearful.

At this moment, Sunderland returned to her usual calmness and elegance. She half-closed her beautiful bright blue eyes and pointed at Elf and Misha who were playing around and asked, "They can all go, why can't I follow?" Adventure?"

Singers said loudly: "Because you are..." The one-eyed dwarf stopped talking. In fact, in the eyes of the dwarves, it is not a big deal for the superior to fight in person. Almost every dwarf leader is a powerful fighter. A battle-hardened warrior.Among the few people, only Togg was qualified to reject the risky move of the female consul in his position. Unfortunately, this poor dwarf had already been persuaded.

At this time, William said: "What we need is a powerful companion! Not... a powerless... drag!" His voice became smaller and smaller, because Sunderland had a meaningful smile Looking at the two little guys, Misha'er's eyes glowed with the horn of Cole on her curly fiery red hair.

Elf was very satisfied with William's remarks, and she proclaimed loudly with a smile on her face: "I am the ranger of the great goddess Melika! The most outstanding moon elf of the Starry Night Tribe!" Of course, "among all the underage elves" this She didn't say the prefix, but it was a very happy thing to be "recognized" by the powerful William.

Misha'er also excitedly waved her small fist and said, "I am great...Misha'er! The most...most...!" The little girl was stuck, and she scratched her ears under the helmet a little embarrassedly. , rolled his big eyes and said, "Mighty William loves Misha the most!"

The brashness of the two little guys made Sunderland lean forward and backward with laughter, and she said to William: "This is what you call a powerful companion? Hahaha!"

A little blushing William said in his heart: Damn it!Do you think I'm willing to take the two of them on an adventure down below where the winter is dark?And it's all to avoid you, an unreasonable bitch!

Of course, this cannot be said clearly, William said: "Let's do this! You can go as long as you prove that you can protect yourself! The premise is that you can't rely on Togg!"

"Really? I just need to prove that I have the ability to protect myself?" Sunderland glanced proudly at Singers, who was nodding repeatedly, and lifted his cloak to reveal his full armor.The delicate silver-white mithril chain mail shirt and straight shiny soft leather trousers set off her stalwart chest and slender thighs full of temptation, which made William's lower abdomen swell for a while; Sunderland's calf was stuck A beautifully decorated dagger, a delicate hand crossbow hanging on a specially made leather belt, engraved with complicated runes, but it is a rare magical weapon, and a delicate small satchel on the belt; Carrying a larger beautiful backpack behind her.Sunderland took out a rapier and a small shield from two small bags, but they were similar to the elf's equipment last time.Next was an exquisite two-foot scepter, a large number of bottles and jars and exquisite leather scrolls, which dazzled everyone.

Elf looked at these things and said in surprise: "Life potion, healing potion, explosive potion, holy water, strong acid, hot glue, antidote, as well as wand, magic scroll, Ms. Sunderland! Did you rob magic items? shop?"

The guilty Sunderland argued with a reluctant smile: "How is it possible? I am the most virtuous female consul in Mirabar! How could I do such an indecent thing! I bought these with money yesterday! Friendship price Hee hee! It’s a friendly price! See what you can use and get more!” At this time, Mr. McGrill, the poor manager of the magic item shop, was leaning on the door of the shop with tears streaming down his face and singing " "Eternal Strange Injustice".

"Then I won't be polite!" Elf, grinning from ear to ear, picked out more than a dozen bottles of potions and put them in her small bag. Two cheeky dwarves secretly stuffed several bottles of potions into their pockets. Here, even Finia took a few bottles of healing potions.The little girl also smiled and took two bottles of bright green life potion, held them in her hands, turned her head and offered them to the only brother who didn't move, and let the old man (soul) who was greatly touched squeeze her tender tender dotingly. Face: "It's really my good girl! I really didn't love her for nothing! Haha!"

Sunderland walked up to William in a swaying manner, and asked with a smile: "Mr. William! Can I participate?" Looking at the crazy nods of everyone else, what else could William say.

When she was about to leave, Sunderland, who had greatly increased her voice, said to William kindly: "Mr. William! Since it's so dangerous down here, I think it's better to keep the two little guys behind!" The favorability of the two innocent little guys has greatly increased, although she has not given up on coveting the corner of Cole.

But William responded with a haha: "Actually, there is no big deal down here! Nothing can hurt them without me! The main thing is to let the two little guys go down to gain knowledge." William said in his heart: Damn!This kind of trick of "building plank roads in the open, crossing Chen Cang secretly" and adjusting the tiger away from the mountain is the rest of my previous life!You really take me for a country bumpkin!

This time the underground journey can be said to be familiar with the road, and with the addition of a powerful dwarf warrior, everyone moved very fast.This time, Singers didn't push the drag bucket any more. William and he explored the way ahead, with the Consul, Phinya, Elf and Misha in the middle, and Torg Danzo Hammer Raider trailing behind.Sunderland took out her exquisite wand, and the gem on the top of the wand emitted bright and soft light to illuminate the surrounding area, and the area covered by the light was larger than the two little guys' shining props combined.

When approaching the last battlefield, the air was filled with the stench of rotting corpses, which made everyone pale. Misha had already put on the mask specially made by William for her, but the smell was still unbearable, and Sunderland even vomited. His face turned yellow.

Except for some small scavenging monsters, William and the others did not encounter too powerful monsters, which confused several people.In fact, this is indeed a normal phenomenon. Except for some unlucky wanderers, the powerful monsters in the underground world have their own sphere of influence.The vast area in this area is divided and occupied by acid monsters and scavengers, and scavengers only dominate a corner by virtue of group strength. This time, all three are dead, and the remaining monsters are difficult to achieve.

When everyone came to the place where Singers and William first dug, they saw a six-foot-square passage appearing on the stone wall. No wonder there were a large number of kobolds here. The knocking sound was the sound of a kobold digging a tunnel, and six feet was the height of the mysterious acid monster, who didn't seem to like to duck down into the ground.Fortunately, the tall Phinya was able to lower his body and forcefully get through, otherwise William and the others would be in trouble.

Passing through a long slanting downward passage, it is a deep natural cave, with stacked stalagmites opposing up and down, and a corner of the mushroom forest full of shadows.A few people carefully passed through a group of chaotic rocks, and then walked down a stone slope tens of meters high, and came to a cold underground stream. In this strange dark area, no one dared to act recklessly.

William snarled at Finia, and the half-giant put down her giant ax knowingly, picked up a big stone from the side and threw it into the stream, "Bang bang!" There was a loud noise, countless splashes were made, and the big stone fell There were several waves of spray in the vicinity of the area, but some unknown underwater creatures were startled away.

"Where should we go?" William asked the old Singers, who is more experienced in underground exploration or one-eyed dwarves.

"Let's go to the kobold's lair! There should be a mining area!" The old dwarf never forgot his mining work.

"But how to track and find such a place?" Togg asked in embarrassment.At this time, Sunderland, who had recovered from the potion she drank, gracefully took out a delicate leather roll from her pocket. She chanted an unknown spell and spread the roll with both hands. The faint blue flames gradually turned into ashes, and the faint blue flames turned into a semi-circular arch, through which a strange dog-like beast appeared in front of everyone, but it was [Dimensional Monster Summoning].

Several people looked at Sunderland who cast the spell in surprise, and the female consul smoothed her hair gracefully, and said with a proud smile, "Don't look at me like that! It's a magic scroll!"

Elf the elf said heartily: Humph!Go to hell!You are just cheating these guys who don't know magic!But since I have accepted your benefits!I won't tear it apart!Ha ha!Elf is very kind!

Chapter 27 Adamantite Ore

Alien Tracking Mastiff, a kind of spirit beast from the upper plane, this small dog is said to have inherited the blood of the ancient God of Destiny's grace, not only has excellent vision and sense of smell, the most peculiar thing about them is that they also have a A strange innate intuition, a gift akin to lucky hunches, makes the Tracker Mastiff an excellent adventure companion.But it is rare to hear that anyone can summon this legendary gift, even most of the most knowledgeable mages have not heard of it, and Elf also does not know it, but this does not prevent her from seeing through Sunderland. Magic scrolls are a trick under the guise.

With the help of the ability to track the mastiff from another world, the group easily found the kobold's lair.

The kobold's cave is in a small crypt far away. Everyone walked for more than an hour (Sunderland's magic timer) to get there. Everyone really couldn't figure out why the kobold ran so far away. Dig that passage, because it's not a rich mineral deposit there, but a kobold lair.This narrow cave, less than three feet high, dug by the kobolds completely restricts the intrusion of all larger monsters or humans except the kobolds. Among the few people, only a little girl can barely climb in, but William will never Will let the little one go on an adventure.

"There's nothing inside! The kobolds have moved away!" Sunderland, who commanded the tracking mastiff to rush in to check, said wrinkling his nose, "Only the passage at the exit is relatively narrow, and the passage inside is wider. We still have to go in ?"

"Of course! I want to see how much good ore those bugs have stolen from me!" The one-eyed dwarf greedily stroked the stone wall at the entrance of the cave. This is an excellent open-pit mine deposit (open-pit?), almost the entire stone wall is made of iron ore. This old guy already regarded it as his own, and rather shamelessly labeled the kobold who previously occupied this place as a "thief".

"But we should inspect the vicinity first. Investigate the distribution of monsters here! This is the first task!" Another dwarf Togg objected, and the two dwarves then quarreled.The others hid aside to watch the excitement, and they almost moved a small horse.Among the few people, Singers came for the ore, because in the underground, as long as there are ore veins near the area where the kobolds gather, this is the consistent experience of the dwarves; Togg is one of the security guards in Mirabar One, he is responsible for the safety of the city; Sunderland is here to experience a life of adventure, and no matter what the outcome, Marquis Erastu Larim will have his due share; William is serving the one-eyed dwarves "wage earners", while the little girls are "groups of relatives and friends" who "eat and drink with public funds" and add soy sauce.

What does it mean to be prepared, old Singers "perfectly" proved this point. The one-eyed dwarf won the quarrel because he brought a pickaxe for mining. The old guy happily dug the hole with the pickaxe Come.

Sunderland is happily running on the dwarf warrior who failed in the quarrel: "You should be ashamed of your blindness and mindless words! Say 'I agree if you bring a mine pick', don't you see the cross The pickaxe is on the old man's back! You should be ashamed!" The female consul's attack made the hammer hammer so angry that his lungs almost exploded.

"That's right! That's right! You should feel ashamed!" Elf, who likes to play pranks, also added oil and vinegar to the side, and Mi Sha'er, who found it funny, cheered happily while waving her small fists.

"Shut up!" snarled the almost mad dwarf, scaring the two little ones away with his red eyes. "Damn it! Little Sunderland! What the hell are you trying to say?"

The female consul covered her mouth playfully and laughed, "It's nothing! I just thought you were funny and wanted to have some fun!" The dwarf, who was stunned by the thunder, only felt his eyes go dark, and he fainted out of anger after roaring.The little girl who was covering her little head and hiding behind William poked her head out secretly, and asked a little puzzled: "Oh! Why is the fat Togg falling asleep?" William laughed loudly.

The old dwarf's digging speed was really too slow. William and the others had eaten twice, and Misha even slept in her brother's arms. The old dwarf was still digging frantically.The old guy wasn't digging a hole at all, but more like digging a hole. The hole didn't open much for half a day, but the entire rock wall was dug in more than two feet, and the ore dug out almost piled up into a small hill.Togg hid on the side and blew his beard and stared at the female consul. Sunderland, who turned a deaf ear to this, occupied the winter wolf skin specially used by Misha, and lay down half-reclined to tease the pet he had summoned. The two little ones The guy looked at it with red eyes and hot hands, drooling, of course it's about the cute pet, don't miss it.

Sunderland smiled and asked with a strange expression: "Do you like it?" The two little guys nodded like chickens eating rice, "Do you want to have one too?" The two of them turned into kowtowers again, "Then—… Sunderland glanced at the two of them with a long voice, and her eyes still fell on the top of Misha'er's head. The little girl immediately hugged the helmet on her head with both hands like a conditioned reflex, and ran back to William's side, the sea blue Looking at his brother with big eyes aggrieved, William helplessly rubbed the little girl's little head under the helmet, pinched her pink face and said, "I really can't help you! Okay! Brother will make a cuter one." I give it to you!" Misha immediately ran back to look at the dog with a smile, ignoring Sunderland's gloomy eyes.

William was really speechless about the "bad" behavior of old Singers. He said to Phinya who was eating bacon: "Finia! Lend me an ax!" He smiled, and picked up the giant ice ax beside him with one hand and handed it over.

"Old Singers! Get out of the way!" William brought the giant ax upside down and came to the cave. He concentrated his legs and swung the ax with both hands. The stone wall containing iron ore was easily split like a large piece of wood. .Then, under the horrified eyes of everyone gasping for breath, William showed people what it means to cut iron like mud. The hard stone walls are like clay sculptures molded from soft mud. There is no spark when a little gold and stone collide.

In nearly half an hour, like a mountain god, William forcibly cut a passage nine feet high, six feet wide, and nearly twenty feet long. Covered in dust and limp, William walked panting Back to the resting point, everyone hurriedly avoided him like a plague god, and Mi Sha'er sat there staring at him with her mouth wide open in a daze.

William, who picked up the water bag and poured it wildly, looked at the evasive crowd, and asked strangely: "What's wrong with you? Is there anything on me?" He casually wiped the plaster two fingers thick on his forehead, He said to himself, "Oh! It's really a bit dirty."

Who cares whether your body is clean or dirty, the guilty Sunderland smiled awkwardly and said, "Haha! Ha ha? It's a bit dirty! Ah! Today's weather is fine! The moon is so round!" The two dwarves and Love Elf also responded with a smirk.What the hell!This is underground!Miss!Where does the weather and the moon come from.

Phinya looked at his ax foolishly. Could it be the legendary artifact?I didn't find out before?William looked at the female half-giant inspecting the weapon with some embarrassment. There were already many scratches on the surface of the axe, and a large number of small gaps on the blade of the axe. The wear and tear caused by not being able to perfectly control his strength, it seems that he still has a long way to go before he can fully recover his strength.

Not to mention that William found a water source to wash off the dust on his body, then ate and recovered his strength, but the stupid Finia walked into the passage with his giant axe, and slammed the ax on the edge of the stone wall with both hands, "Bang bang!" With an ear-shattering bang, the tearful giantess dropped her ax and came out with trembling hands.Hearing that the voice was wrong, William hurried forward to take a look, but it was Phinya's tiger's mouth that was shattered, and his hands were trembling like chicken feet after a stroke. William rubbed the muscles and bones of this silly girl's arms and massaged the acupoints while laughing and crying. While soothing her tendons and activating blood circulation, Finia knelt down and sobbed against the man like a child, but the scene that should have been warm was filled with a slightly sour sense of humor.

Seeing this rather funny scene, the others lost their fear of William, and smiled and pointed at the side. The little girl also ran over and hugged her brother's thigh to join in the fun.

The kobold's cave was narrow on the outside and wide on the inside. After William's excavation, the height of the original cave at this time was close to five feet. Except for Phinya, who was too big, the rest of the people could barely get in.

The gathering place of the kobolds has inherited the tradition of goblins - dirty, messy and smelly!It is true that many things will be much more convenient when there is a mage present. Sunderland used [Wind Breath] to blow out the air in the cave and replace it. Of course, she released the magic under the cover of the scroll.

The kobolds moved away in a hurry, and weapons (kobold type), ore, mining picks, and various living utensils were scattered all over the place.After resting for a long time, William felt that his strength was exhausted. He picked up the giant ax that Finia had dropped. This silly girl may have a broken hand bone and cannot use heavy tools for the time being. Even if she drank the healing potion, the effect was not as good as that of William. The bottle that Elf used for the first time was effective.A gap the size of a fingernail appeared on the blade of the giant axe. William tried to strike where Finia had hacked. As the ax blade touched the stone wall, he immediately felt something was wrong. Suddenly an extremely hard hole appeared inside the stone wall. A hard object blocked the castration of the giant axe.

William immediately held the handle of the ax with both hands, twisted his body, pressed his fingers several times on the trembling handle, and eliminated the trembling force that bounced back, but the bounced giant ax was uncontrollably thrown on the ground, the ax A stone pit about a foot in size was smashed into the hard ground.Just these few movements almost consumed half of William's recovered strength. He wiped the sweat from his brow and looked at Finia's ax with a sad face. .

At this time, Old Singers, who was rummaging through the kobold's ore savings, suddenly held a fist of purple-black ore excitedly and shouted: "My God! Moradin is the supreme! Look at what this is! Togg !William! Look what old Singers found! Ha ha! Adamantium!"

Chapter 28 Dividing the spoils

Fine gold, as one of the hardest metals known in the world, is resistant to high temperature, corrosion, and dissociation. It can burn runes and absorb magic energy. In addition to being too heavy, it is not easy to process, and it is difficult to find these shortcomings. Adamantite can be said to be the best magic metal.The density of fine gold is five times that of steel, its toughness is comparable to that of pure gold, and it is extremely resistant to high temperatures. It cannot be melted even in magma, but it will float on the surface of magma because it absorbs enough heat energy.

The fine gold ore that exists in the natural world of Faerun does not need smelting and purification. Once this purple-gold treasure is dug out, it will be a pure metal with extremely high purity. The key is how to process it into a finished product.In ancient legends, there are only two ways to process and transform fine gold. One is the gastric juice of the super giant deep underground - the earth beast. This monster that eats metal and rock looks like a giant slug A hybrid with a sea turtle, using its gastric juice and a special spell can slightly soften the surface of the fine gold, so that it can be engraved or elongated, but a piece of fine gold the size of a fist must be completely processed into the shape of a long sword , its material consumption is quite astonishing.

Nowadays, the dark elves who use the most widely used fine gold products mainly rely on this method, and the popularity of a drow family's fine gold products also represents the strength of the family. Among them, in the most famous city of Menzoberranzan in the Underdark, The most powerful families even used pure gold to make the fence around the family (of course, there are some reasons for swollen faces to make people fat), which shows the strength of their foundation.

And the other method is just a legend. It is said that the pure gold can be modified and processed arbitrarily by using the divine fire of the god itself, but no one can prove this statement, except the god himself.

However, people's processing and utilization of fine gold was changed in the era of the Great Empire of Netheril. A great genius mage invented a potion. Through this special flux, people can change it by heating like lead and tin. The shape of pure gold will return to the essence of pure gold after it cools down.The birth of flux expanded the scope of human beings’ use of fine gold, which to a certain extent promoted the rise of the floating city, because many important components of the floating city can only be supported by the performance of fine gold.Unfortunately, with the fall of the floating city, the formula for making the flux was also lost. Later adventurers found the incomplete formula in the ruins of Netheril, but this semi-finished product synthesized by the incomplete formula did not have the original auxiliary formula. Flux is so powerful and so expensive.

In the following years, at some point, a new method of using adamantine was born. Through special magic materials, people can combine adamantine and other metals to take advantage of their strengths, and refine a new method that contains adamantine. Most of the excellent properties, but not so heavy and difficult to process the shortcomings of the alloy, but this technology has aroused the hatred of two races, dwarves and gnomes.Most dwarves believe that this method is the patent of the soul forger - Moradin, and passed on to the dwarves through the secret guard under the mountains - Dumathoin, because the first dwarf known to master this technique It is the priest of Dumathoin, and he is the first race to make this adamantium alloy (in fact, adamantine alloy was widely used in Netheril thousands of years ago).

The dwarves think that alloy technology is the spark of wisdom - the magical invention of Gal Flash Gold (the head of the dwarf gods). Unlike the dwarves who process alloys on an anvil, the dwarves prefer to complete the operation in the alchemy laboratory. It was the first race to introduce this technology into the human world (after the fall of Netheril), so some humans believed that dwarf alchemists were the inventors of alloy technology.

As a result, conflicts arose. The dwarves and dwarves, who were originally brothers and sisters, turned against each other. Although the two races were relatively restrained and did not have much fighting, it is true that they have been strangers since then.Of course, there must be other reasons for the two races to turn against each other, but people are more willing (or deliberately) to believe that one formula caused the filth of the two.

Weapons made of fine gold are inherently capable of piercing armor and absorbing magic. Almost no armor (except fine gold itself) can withstand the attack of fine gold weapons, even the thick skin of a giant dragon can easily break through.If it weren't for the high density and heavy weight of fine gold, it would be almost the best material for making armor.

Due to the over-mining of Netheril's great empire, it is now rare to find fine gold deposits on the surface, only occasionally found in the relatively remote underground world, which has made pure gold unpopular in the human world. It is rare and expensive. Now the value of fine gold is about two thousand gold coins per pound, but the auxiliary medicine of the same value will be consumed when it is processed into finished products. If labor costs are added, it will cost at least five thousand gold coins. The most critical point It is pure gold that has a price but is in short supply.

It is definitely an extremely joyful thing to be able to find fine gold in the kobold's cave. Old Singers and Togg excitedly rummaged through the kobold's ore pile, hoping to find more fine gold, It is a pity that they were disappointed. After searching all the ore piles, the two of them did not find the second piece of pure gold. The dwarf sat on the pile of ore in frustration and stared blankly at the fist-sized piece of pure gold. Sunderland and Love Elf also sighed unwillingly.Only Misha'er, who had no idea about fine gold, was squatting beside her, looking at this and that, imitating the others with great interest, and sighing with a sad face. She tried to touch the purple-black ore, but couldn't. Pushed away roughly by the one-eyed dwarf, the little girl squatted on the ground with tears in her eyes.

Because he was concerned about his knife casting plan, William also asked Singers about the metal materials in this world a few days ago, and he was also very concerned about the top metal material such as fine gold.However, he didn't mix with the dwarves to find the kobold's property. Just now, he smashed Phinia's ice giant ax with an axe. William obviously felt that there was a foreign object that was too hard in the stone wall, so he picked it up. The broken giant ax scraped away the rocks and debris around the hard foreign object little by little, and soon a purple-gold scratch appeared on the stone wall—fine gold.

William excitedly scraped away the stone layer around the fine gold, and finally the purple-gold material was revealed. A piece of fine gold raw ore the size of a human head fell to the ground with a "boom", causing the ground to tremble violently.The few people who were startled by the sound of the ore falling to the ground raised their heads and did not come to check. He (she) was still immersed in frustration. Only the little girl ran over, looked at the ore that William was playing with, and said happily "Ah! William! This piece is too big! The bad guy won't let Misha'er touch his little one! Humph! I want to show the cheapskate the bigger one! He's mad at him! Oh! How can I move it?" Don't move! Ah—!" The excited little girl tried to lift the piece of pure gold, but unfortunately she couldn't shake it at all.

Can it not be heavy?Even the fist-sized piece in the dwarf's hand would weigh more than a dozen pounds, not to mention this piece of pure gold that was bigger than his head. William looked at Misha'er who was blushing from trying to move the gold, and laughed. He stretched out his hand to stop the little girl's reckless behavior: "Okay little guy! Don't waste your energy! This little thing weighs hundreds of pounds! Let me do it!"

The little girl gave up her efforts angrily, walked around the pure gold ore, watched her brother pick it up with his hands together, and strode out of the cave with slightly heavy steps.She ran back to the cave with a smile on her face, and showed off to Singers who was trying to dig through the kobold ore again: "Hehe! I told you not to touch it for Misha! Huh! William found a bigger one! It's bigger than your head Big!" The little girl gestured with both hands.

"Let's play! Little one! You can't even lie! If William can find such a large piece of pure gold, I can even get Moradin's war hammer (artifact)!" Togg laughed at the little girl disdainfully.

The speaker was not interested in the listener, and Sunderland suddenly turned his head and stared at the little girl for a long time, an artifact?Isn't the artifact right on the head of this little girl?William can even pick up artifacts in the wild, and other incredible things are impossible.The female consul's eyes intertwined with Elf's, and the two looked at each other for a while, and at the same time screamed, jumped up and ran out: "William! I have a share of the fine gold! Don't take it all!"

According to the unwritten unspoken rules of Faerun's adventure group, regardless of the contribution of each adventure member, each member has a share of the harvest during the adventure process. As for the specific distribution, it is up to the respective leaders and members to coordinate with each other.Occasionally, it is not uncommon to have infighting due to uneven distribution. Of course, once this happens, the team will be abolished, because the entire continent is full of monsters, and the casualties of adventure members are consumed very quickly. No one wants to join this kind of notoriety. Notable groups, including evil races.

Caressing a treasure worth tens of millions, a few greedy guys are drooling and ugly, Sunderland fully shows the true qualities of a consul in a city of trade, arguing with the two dwarves who ran out after the "trophy" in a very unladylike manner Of course, she was not fighting for the interests of the city behind her, but for herself; the elf also screamed and recounted her achievements.

William hugged the little girl and Phinea watched enthusiastically from the sidelines. Excitedly, the little girl played the side drums for Elf who was close to her from time to time. She was deliberately avenging the dwarf's previous rudeness.

At the end of the quarrel, several people quarreled dryly, but there was no result.Sunderland, who was thirsty from the noise and was about to drink some water, noticed William standing beside him and sneered. This cheeky female consul was not at all naive as before. He motioned, and then said loudly with an elegant demeanor: "Stop arguing! William found the item! Of course, Mr. William... decides how to distribute it! Hehe! Mr. William! As a person who has provided you with enough adventure potions Partner, I want to be paid what I deserve! And I am the only one who can find enough flux! Hehe!"

Sunderland's eyes were full of kindness and concern, and William also smiled, but it is unknown what he thinks in his heart.

Chapter 29 Regression and Digressions

William looked at these guys who were dazzled by the temptation of fine gold with a wry smile, and they used all kinds of "coercion and temptation". They were really rich and touching, and even the "loyal and honest" dwarves couldn't resist, or There is no resistance at all, the charm of pure gold is so great?

William was noncommittal about Sunderland's compliment. He actually didn't want to give up this piece of pure gold. He could rely on it for his goose feather knife, not to mention that Phinia's ice ax was also damaged by him. Yes, after removing the consumption of casting the knife, the remaining adamantine should be enough to make a new battle ax for the half-giant.

William yelled several times to stop the quarrel between the four people, and he said with a smirk, "Have you forgotten how this piece of pure gold came from?" William pointed to the cave, "It should be impossible for the kobolds to get it from other people by themselves. Did you move in here?"

The four of them were taken aback for a moment, and followed William's fingers to look at the kobold cave dully. "Holy shit! Arifin (god of elven dexterity and thieves)! Is this an adamantine mine?!" "Oh! Damn it! Those bugs that go to hell! We might be on the upswing! Hahaha! "Four "greedy" guys cheered and ran into the cave, and launched an "attack" on the cave's stone wall.

Singers' pickaxe, Togg's war hammer, Elf's elven rapier (?), Sunderland didn't care to hide her identity as a magician anymore, she took out a simple spell book, and put her The fifth-level spell slot was converted into [Fossil into Mud], which was fired against the stone wall.The fifth-level arcane spells that could originally affect two cubic areas with a side length of twelve feet, because of the existence of iron ore in the stone wall, the effect of the spell was reduced by three quarters, and two mixed streams of sand and stone poured down instantly. , Two potholes of more than three feet appeared on the stone wall.

Sunderland, who blessed himself with [The Power of the Bull], [The Elegance of the Cat], [The Insight of the Owl] and [Dark Vision], is completely like a scavenger rummaging through the rubbish. She rummaged through the fine gold, but the dwarf's torch not far away interfered a lot with her vision. The female archon had to cancel the [Dark Vision], but released two [Light Spells] around her as illumination.A little purple-blue light flashed through her pupils. Sunderland pushed away the ore and sand around her, and a piece of pure gold the size of an egg appeared in front of her eyes. The pure gold was also found by the Archon.

Sunderland's harvest completely stimulated the other three diggers, and several people "attacked" the stone wall even more frantically. Unfortunately, things backfired. The two dwarves failed to find any more gold until they were exhausted. It's "you can't steal a lot of rice", the slender elf rapier not only has no effect on the stone wall, but it was broken into two pieces due to excessive force. The little guy ran back to William with a sad face, holding his beloved weapon with Finia Sad, poor Phinea is "depressed" at his broken axe.

Singers and Torger reluctantly gave up their futile and blind behavior. Sunderland, who did not have the [Fossil to Mud] spell, also stopped tossing the pile of sand and stones that had been rummaged several times. Although the fine gold harvested was not There are many (except for William), but it is a great joy to be able to prove that this is a fine gold associated mine, and everyone has launched a fierce debate on the possession of this mine.

As an outsider, William wisely announced that his family of three would give up the right to distribute the mine. He didn't want to be tied down in the small place of Mirabar, and Elf reluctantly withdrew from the competition.As compensation, the elf received the dwarf's fist-sized piece and Sunderland's egg-sized piece of fine gold as hush money, and the remaining two smaller pieces of fine gold from Sunderland belonged to William and the three of them. The work on the weapons was done by Singers and Togg, while the flux was handled by Sunderland.

In principle, Sunderland, Singers, and Togger will each occupy 30.00% of the mine vein, and the remaining [-]% will be turned over to the "Yaoshi" council as a tax. Of course, if the council doesn't notice it , the [-] percent interest will be used as a source of public expenditure.

As for the lord's decree, "If the capital has a 50.00% profit, it will take risks; if it has a [-]% profit, it will dare to trample on all laws in the world; if it has a [-]% profit, it will dare to commit crimes." commit any crime, and even risk being hanged." Ma Dashen's words are applicable even in other worlds, not to mention this kind of almost costless business.

Excited to find the treasure, a group of people sealed the entrance of the cave, and then cleaned up the monsters near the cave. The two scavengers who survived a few days ago also failed to escape everyone. The "poisonous hands" were taken away by William and others.Before leaving, Sunderland, who had recovered his spell slot, cast [Turn Mud into Stone] on the gravel at the entrance, completely blocking the entrance of the kobold lair and covering it with spells.

The originally boring return trip became brisk because of unexpected gains, although the gloomy and dark underground world always makes people feel depressed and gloomy.When they got back to the ground and looked at the vast sky, everyone felt relieved. William felt that the whole person became cheerful, and the little girl shouted excitedly. The loss of broken weapons.This silly girl has always been worried about the scrapping of the ice giant axe, even if William promised to recast her a new adamantine battle axe, it could not make the female half-giant any less sad, which made the man who was the culprit extremely sad. distressed.

With the fine gold that can be used to cast knives, William began to learn dwarf casting technology from old Singers. In fact, most of Faerun's smelting technology is in the oldest stage of "block smelting", and dwarves are born with great strength. At the same time, he is obsessed with forging, and can almost forge relatively high-quality smelting steel with or without consciousness. Of course, occasionally there are relatively outstanding masters who have mastered the "steel frying method" or "steel pouring method" smelting technology, but these masters rarely pass on the secret skills they have explored for hundreds of years to others, including their own relatives and disciples.

This is not because the dwarves cherish their brooms. They hope that young children can discover these secrets by themselves in their later lives. Being able to discover new metal smelting techniques is the greatest affirmation and encouragement for a dwarf craftsman. The older generation of dwarves does not want to Deprive young dwarf artisans of the joy of watching their children squeal with excitement as they re-invent new methods of smelting.Although the starting point of the dwarf's behavior is good, it does hinder the development of the entire Faerun's smelting level.

Of course, in some mysterious mage towers, the metal smelting technology has reached the atomic level, but this cannot fundamentally solve the overall backwardness of the world's smelting technology.

And compared to improving smelting technology, most blacksmiths are more willing to look for better metal materials, such as fine gold, mithril, cold star iron, etc., only need to spend a little effort to create magic weapons beyond imagination , the premise is that you can play with these special "babies".

This situation also obviously exists in other fields. Taking martial arts as an example, the improvement of martial arts level is mutual.Two people who are hostile to each other, one of them has an advantage because of studying combat skills, the other will be in a disadvantaged position in the battle, and in order to regain the disadvantage, he will work harder to improve his martial arts and even surpass his opponent, while the first one In order to regain the original advantage, people will definitely find ways to improve their skills again, and this is the most direct reason for the improvement of martial arts level.

The main enemies of the warriors of Faerûn are the monsters everywhere.Among all the monsters, humanoid monsters like goblins, kobolds, and jackals, which are about the same size as humans or smaller, are generally in a relatively primitive and barbaric state.Human fighters don't need to study any combat skills when facing them. They can defeat or even crush them as long as they wear better armor, have some combat experience, and even don't need skills.

As for large monsters like ogres and trolls, which are similar to "one power down ten times", it is useless to study even the most exquisite martial arts in a short period of time. With the help of some more ingenious tactical cooperation, or there are simpler and more Direct tactics, such as using magic power, whether it is direct damage attack spells or auxiliary spells to improve the state, are much more effective than spending years or even decades studying martial arts, and of course it saves a lot of trouble.

In fact, as long as they are carefully cultivated, basically most ordinary people in Faerun have the aptitude and talent to become spellcasters, as long as the person's brain is not too stupid.The magic net treats everyone fairly. Except for the obstacles and restrictions deliberately set by the goddess of magic, the real factor that restricts a person from becoming a spellcaster is the problem of resources. The resource consumption of each spellcaster in the process of growth is extremely alarming. of.

To use the words of a comparative society, "productivity determines the relationship of production". Due to the low production level of the whole society, the social resources for the growth of spellcasters are limited. Therefore, in order to make the best use of these limited resources, elite education is absolutely necessary. Indispensably, only those lucky ones with outstanding talents or excellent luck are eligible to grow into powerful spellcasters.

Under normal circumstances, a successful mage will spend most of his time in his mage tower or laboratory, studying the principles and knowledge of arcane or other mysterious fields. Occasionally, due to some needs or interests, he may go to a certain Travel to a different place or another plane.But most spellcasters are in a poor state at the beginning of their growth. Even if his (her) family is a wealthy nobleman, it is difficult to afford the consumption of magic learning period. Therefore, young spellcasters have to travel and take risks. to obtain the resources they need, and some spellcasters will attach themselves to a certain powerful force to obtain the resource support of the other party.

Sunderland is a young mage who is half-attached to Mirabar City. She secretly provides some magic services for the Marquis of Larim, such as influencing the resolutions of certain councilors through [Suggestion]. As for whether she has used magic to influence That's hard to say for the stupid Marquis.

Chapter 30 Forging

Forging iron is not a job that can be solved with a hammer, an anvil, a clamp, and a furnace. The hammers used for forging are divided into sledgehammer, medium hammer, and small hammer. They can also be divided into long hammers and short hammers. The techniques used include light hammer, heavy hammer, flower hammer, side hitting and cushion buckle. The clips for clamping parts include pliers, camera clips, pointed clips, wide clips, large-mouth curved clips and thin-mouth straight clips, and there are also clips for cutting. Various tools such as axes, chisels, and drills are used for Pi pieces.

Blowing wind, burning, forging, burning, forging, William followed Singers to do repetitive work every day. William's unimaginable strength and control ability made the one-eyed dwarf amazed.People with great strength have an advantage in forging, but not people with great strength will be able to forge good things. What is more important for a good blacksmith is the unity of hands and eyes, and the ability to use force freely. Hands are patchwork.For an ordinary apprentice, no matter how talented he is, he must accumulate years of experience to become an excellent blacksmith before he can learn something. For a dwarf to become an excellent blacksmith, his long lifespan is also an important factor. factor.But William broke common sense. He can almost perfectly control his muscle strength. He only needs to practice three or five times to control the force of the beating and the drop point of the hammer.

Singers, who was guided by a small hammer in one hand and a small hammer in one hand, his heartbeat rose and fell with William's heavy hammer. The red rough billet was smashed, flattened, and flattened by the hammer. Splash around.The skin of the iron billet is stacked and peeled off layer by layer, and the whole piece is getting smaller and denser, and the purity of the metal is getting higher and higher.Some people think that the density of iron parts will become higher and higher after being forged. In fact, this conclusion is not completely correct. The iron ore contains a lot of impurities inside, and the density is low. During the forging process, the impurities are gradually eliminated, and its density It is indeed getting bigger and bigger, and gradually approaching the density of pure iron (of course it will never reach the level of pure iron, this is a process problem), and the iron parts with higher metal purity can be forged again without any impurities. Expelled, but a large amount of surface iron material will be gradually oxidized and peeled off, resulting in waste of iron material.

Sunderland has been collecting fluxes for smelting adamantine through various channels during this time, and Togg is also preparing various other necessary materials, including the needs for adamantine mining in the future.If they want to fully process the harvested fine gold, they need a lot of flux. In fact, there is a large amount of flux in Mirabar, but these fluxes belong to the alchemists under the Marquis of Erastu. De Lan didn't want to expose the existence of the adamantine mine, so she couldn't attract the Marquis' attention on it.Fortunately, as the consul of a trading city, she knew many existences with such things in Sunderland, and she also had a good friend in the alchemist group of the Marquis—the dwarf Nanfedo, a northerner One of the most famous alchemists in the world.

Sunderland has sent secret orders to chambers of commerce in other places through magic, but it will take at least a month to get them.During this period of time, William practiced forging skills with the dwarves during the day, and learned Elvish language with Elf at night. Of course, Finia and Misha were also indispensable. This is not unconditional. A new adamantine rapier.

The elf language is long and reserved, and it is tactful and rapping when spoken. With various high and low tones, it is almost like singing. It makes people dizzy to learn. Among the three, Misha is the fastest learner, and William thinks he is very good at it. It's hard work, but because of Finya's foil, he doesn't look too ashamed; the worst thing is Fenya, a female half-giant who doesn't speak very fluently in the language, let her learn to speak the more eloquent elf language. It's a little too difficult to be human.But William insisted on asking Finia to study with him, ignoring the poor girl's sad eyes. As a time traveler, he fully understands the importance of knowledge. The half-giant can understand the words of the elves, understand the words of the elves, and read the books of the elves.

Compared with the complex pronunciation of Elven language, Elvish script is much simpler. As a kind of script that combines letters and pictograms, it is not much more difficult to learn than foreign languages ​​in previous lives. To make the Elvish pronunciation so complicated.

More than a month has passed, and the fluxes and other auxiliary powders in the nearest areas have been received, and the deliveries from places a little further away will arrive one after another.William's forging skills are already extremely superb, especially his conscious folding and forging, and the hundred-forged rapier he forged made old Singers full of praise. This rapier with beautiful cloud patterns on the blade has become El Fu's collection.The materials are almost ready. William has temporarily finished his study of Elvish language and is ready to formally start the fine gold forging.