The Swordsman of Faerûn

The girl transformed into a monster was quite surprised by William's sudden departure. She looked at his leaving back with curiosity in her eyes, but William also sensed a hint of malice in it.

William left the formed house and walked through the ruins again. What made him feel a little stressed was that more monsters jumped out of each ruin to attack him.

They came forward almost frantically to die, and many of them even deliberately bumped into the knife edge, as if they just wanted to die under William's knife.And with the killing of these monsters, the ruins that William walked through quickly recovered into a slightly complete building at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Through the halo of the crystal phoenix, William discovered that these restored buildings are not simple. It should be said that their essence is not simple buildings, but terrifying monsters that are sleeping soundly.Although William didn't know what these monsters were, he knew very well that it was not a wise thing to wake them up.

He continued through the ruins of the roadblock and came to a towering hall, which was the only slightly complete building that William had seen here.

This is a temple.

According to the emblem of the god enshrined inside, it can be judged that the identity of the owner of this temple is Galacus, the main god of war and looting god of the former Netherian pantheon.

The sigil is a pinwheel formed by five black, curved arms, spinning counterclockwise, each ending in an identical sword.

Temples of Galacus are not uncommon on the Material Plane, but are relatively rare here.William suspected that there was a terrible opponent hidden in it, as well as Qiu Shui Dao's sword spirit.

Sure enough, when William stepped into the temple to leave his post, he immediately found the trace of Qiu Shui Dao Ling, or a guy with black hair and black eyes, whose appearance was very familiar to William.

It can be said that after getting up every morning in the previous life, the figure William saw in the mirror—he had seen it tens of thousands of times.

The image shown by Qiu Shui Dao Ling is actually the appearance of William in his previous life.

Of course, Qiu Shuidao looked rather embarrassed now, because he was captured by the enemy and was being burned on a black flame.

When William appeared, Qiu Shui Dao Ling's "fake Chen Jinyang" couldn't help showing a happy smile.At the same time, the masters of this temple also discovered William, the uninvited guest, and they immediately surrounded him brandishing their weapons.

The blood sacrifice, the plundering lord, and the favored leader represent the three identities of the believers of the looting god, and they are also a manifestation of their strength.

A blood priest brandished a scythe and rushed towards William, but he killed him casually. It felt as simple as killing an ant.And the body of the blood priest who was killed quickly turned into a cloud of dim light and merged with the temple.

The plundering lord was a swordsman in heavy armor, and he rushed towards William, trying to kill the uninvited guest on the spot with excellent skill.Unfortunately, its wish did not come true.

However, William didn't get entangled with his opponent. Instead, he swung the autumn water knife and split the opponent's weapon and armor in half, and then the dead plundering lord also turned into black light and merged with the main building.

The favored leader of the last action, it clapped its hands and exclaimed: "What a formidable opponent! William, I am very optimistic about you. You should become the chosen one of our Lord and spread the glory of the God of War!"

William sneered, "Unfortunately! I don't like being someone else's slave, but I want to disappoint you."

The favored leader held a pair of scimitars and began to circle William. While looking for an opportunity to attack William, it said with regret: "A sad news! William, you should understand that refusing me is equivalent to choosing death. !"

As it spoke, it recited a spell, brushed a layer of golden-blue luster on each of its scimitars, and then it brandished the scimitar and rushed towards William.

With a burst of crisp metal clanging, Qiu Shui Dao and the machete collided dozens of times almost continuously, and the fine gold saber did not cause any generational crushing on the enemy's weapons, but rather seemed to be evenly matched.

[Touch of fine gold], so that the utensils can be as indestructible as fine gold products within a certain period of time.William had long heard of the reputation of this spell, but unexpectedly saw the true face of this spell here.

Originally, William could wait for the spell attached to the enemy's scimitar to fail before doing it.However, with his keen perception, he knows that this is definitely not the time to be handsome and willful. If the battle is delayed, some unfriendly things may happen.

He controlled the saber and chopped at the enemy randomly, but unfortunately the effect was minimal.But fortunately, this is not the end, but a trap.

William suddenly dodged a flying kick, which directly kicked the favored leader out, and then he immediately chased after him, preparing to kill the enemy.

The favored leader, who lost his balance, tried his best to block the attack, but failed to protect himself after all, and was slashed on the head by William.

The death of the favored leader was more dramatic than that of its two companions, for the entire temple trembled.

However, William rushed up to the altar seat in a few steps, freeing Qiu Shui Dao Ling from being imprisoned.Dao Ling looked a little sane, but he was a little tired after living alone for many days.

Dao Ling said: "It's terrible! William, these guys actually want to suck my brains!! Fortunately, I'm not a real human being, they can't suck anything at all."

William appeased Dao Ling, then held Autumn Water Knife with one hand, vigorously shook Da Sophilia who was hiding inside, and then let Dao Ling, who was almost impatient, go back into Qiu Shui Dao.

It didn't end there though, as the Trembling Temple awoke and a terrifying behemoth was activated.Da Sophilia, who had just been kicked out of Autumn Water Knife, didn't care about pursuing William's brutal behavior, and shouted in frustration: "Idiot! Why did you wake up the shape-shifting monster? You have to know, William! I hate it the most. What I want is this kind of big guy who can only fight by instinct!"

William jumped out of the temple in a few steps, in fact, he escaped from the huge mouth of the giant beast. After he landed, he looked back, only to find that the temple giant beast did not chase after him, but turned his eyes to other people. The sleeping architectural behemoth I.

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Da Sophilia was very upset, including William violently driving her out of the shelter-Chun Shui Knife, and killing the believers of the God of Looting who did not play cards according to common sense.

Killing the believers of the gods in the territory of the gods is obviously a rhythm of deliberate death. Da Sophilia can hardly believe that a normal person has the courage to do such an extremely rebellious thing.

Of course, regarding this point, it can only be said that Sophilia didn’t know William too well, not to mention killing a few believers, he even twisted the thin neck of God with his own hands in God’s residence (temple). He had communicated with a certain god on the altar without cover, and even chopped off the god himself.

As a man from China, a soul who has personally experienced the baptism of the tide of the times, William's soul can be said to be born with a brand of will that despises all authority. Shi sympathy.Although William respects ghosts and gods, he will never blindly worship and believe in ghosts and gods. If you really want to provoke him, you will have to draw a knife against his mother!

So after lighting a fire, William found what he wanted again, and he ran away without hesitation.William ran very fast, with a distance of several feet in one step, but his gait was calm, but it gave people a sense of sassy walking on the wind.

But Sophilia turned into a springbok with the upper body of a human, and started to jump and run after William.

Da Sofilia, who looks like a half-human springbok, needs to run hard to keep up with William's speed, which adds a little spice to her unhappiness.She yelled angrily, "Stop it! Brainless William, but you run so fast!"

"Da Sophilia, don't follow me anymore!" William turned his head to slander others, but kept walking, quickly passing through one ruin after another. Of course, this did not allow him to avoid the trouble of being attacked by shadow monsters. Because when these monsters attack people, they can't dodge at all, they can only resist or parry or fight back, so he always has to cut back a few times to get out of trouble.

Of course, what made William scratch his head was another trouble in his ear. If he hadn't had some moral bottom line as a constraint, he might have cut it off long ago.

"Oh! What a ruthless man! Call me my dear lady when you need me, and turn your face away when you don't. William William, poor fellow, do you need me to remind you, without my help , you never want to escape from this illusion." The springbok girl murmured in William's ear a little thoughtfully.

William slashed a few more shadow monsters with his knife, then stopped, watching the nearby ruins quickly form a fairly complete courtyard.He stood in front of the courtyard door, looked at Sophilia, frowned and asked, "What do you mean by that? Are you trying to say that I'm trapped?"

Sophilia bounced around William twice, saying: "The core element of this illusion is illusory, so everything you see with your eyes is not real, just like I stand in front of you, The appearance of me you see is just your imagination, it is unreal. But you don't know anything about my real appearance."

Looking at the small and exquisite springbok girl, William said with flickering eyes: "You mean, what I see now is a fake?"

Da Sophilia said with a smile: "This is just a false form of me, a special model that has been transformed from the desire in your heart. I know your reputation and preferences, William. If you want, I will Maybe it can help you relieve the pressure, I remember that you should like the false happiness derived from the auxiliary function of reproduction."

Speaking of which, Dasophelia is like an unscrupulous female gadfly, eager to touch men.William fled to avoid the harassment of the half-human springbok. He sneered and said, "Don't take me for a fool, Da Sophilia! Even if everything in front of me is false, when I kill them, what happens The damage is real. I am curious, if I kill all these monsters, what kind of consequences will it cause?!"

"Kill them all? Huh? What nonsense are you talking about! Just rely on that crystal bird in your hand?" the springbok girl laughed.

William finally confirmed one thing, the guy in front of him was not really Da Sophilia, something f*ckingly wrong.What he relies on has never been a crystal bird, although this item is indeed a bit... William lowered his head a little, but found that the crystal phoenix in his hand had changed its appearance, and a snow-white long snake with wings was entwining his hand. Spit letter.

William felt a chill in his heart, but he closed his eyes directly. He closed his eyes and said with a sneer, "Since you are determined to seek death, don't blame me for being cruel."

Speaking of which, William directly launched his most vicious and brutal killing skill - [Soul Storm].Immediately, a terrifying wind of death spread rapidly with William as the center.

All the surrounding buildings, ruins, and monsters and ghosts hiding in them were all overshadowed by this terrifying wave, and they were collapsing at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.

William opened his eyes again, only to find that he was not in a world of city ruins at all, but in a strange hall.In the very center of the hall was a pool of fleshy slime that looked disgusting on the outside, but was actually even more disgusting on the inside. William and countless people surrounded this pool, and each was trapped in a unique coffin-like fleshy cabin.

Apart from William, among these people, there are obviously a few faces that are not so unfamiliar, including Da Sophilia.Of course, at this time, Dasofelia was in a deep sleep state, frowning beautifully as if he was having a nightmare.As for the rest of the people, they were the original forms of those false characters that William had contacted and even killed just now. Of course, they were dead at this moment.

These people or non-humans obviously died from William's [Soul Storm], and their foreheads were even blown from the inside out.What is even more frightening is that half of a tadpole-like loach-like thing was exposed at the wounds of these people.

These ferocious insect beetles also died from William's [Soul Storm].

William's vigor shook, and he condensed all the strength in his body, struggling to break free from the coffin-like vessel that imprisoned him.He turned around the hall a few times, and then found that they were in a magic spaceship moving at high speed.The point is that this spaceship has lost control. At the end of the hall, several octopus-faced monsters also fell to the ground. It seems that they are the owners of this spaceship.

William walked up to Da Sophilia who was the only one who was still alive, and he beckoned Qiu Shuidao.Not long after, Qiu Shui Knife suddenly broke through the wall from somewhere in the magic spaceship. He held the sharper Qiu Shui Knife, ready to attack the girl's coffin-like cage.

Of course, if he tilted his hand a little bit and stabbed this woman abruptly, it would be very maneuverable. The key lies in William's mood.

Did he stab this woman once, or several times?

But before William could decide what to do, Dasofelia opened her eyes. She looked around in surprise, and then couldn't help screaming, "Why did I get on the mind flayer's spirit-eating spaceship?" ? My God! Will I be parasitized!"

Then she looked at William who was standing next to him with a knife in his hand, and said with a bit of flaunting, "William, I dreamed about you just now!"

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William glared angrily at Da Sophilia, who looked a bit rough, what a stupid woman!Don't you see that you are in danger? !

He sneered and said, "Da Sophilia, don't pretend to be stupid! Now you have fallen into my hands. If I wave the knife in my hand like this, you will be completely hiccupped!"

Da Sophilia asked back seemingly puzzled: "William, why did you kill me? Is there a deep hatred between us?"

"There is no hatred, but there is resentment!" William gritted his teeth and said, "Before you deliberately lured me into the nest, exiled Qiushui Daoling, and threatened me to go into a dangerous situation to do things for you..."

Dasofelia blinked and interrupted: "Just for this, are you going to kill me?"

"I..." William wanted to say yes, but the subconscious in his heart made him unable to say it. When did he become so restless and irritable, and killed so indiscriminately!

Thinking of this, William was startled. He finally realized that something seemed to have affected his mind.

It's not that William has never encountered an existence that can affect people's minds, but it is the first time that a big girl can get on the sedan chair in a situation like today where he can be recruited silently.

He turned his head and looked around in shock, but he didn't find anything for a while.

William lowered his head and whispered to Sophilia: "There is something affecting my mind here, can you know what it is?"

Dasofelia was also shocked when she heard the words, she turned her head and looked around a few times, and finally cast her gaze on the pool of fleshy mucus in the middle of the hall, and said almost without thinking: "It's that thing! The central brain pool of the mind flayer! If I guessed correctly, He should be influencing you. However, what have you done so that the mind flayer brain pool, which almost never takes the initiative to cause trouble, is specifically targeting you?"

Indeed, the mind flayer's brain pool hides the biological mastermind and the secret of reproduction exclusively for the mind flayer family. Under normal circumstances, even if their territory is captured, the brain pool will not take the initiative to provoke trouble, and even lie flat In order to deliberately allow the invaders to destroy the brain pool.

It is definitely an extremely rare special case for William to be actively interfered with by the mind flayer's brain pool.

So Sophilia was very curious, what kind of outrageous things did William do to provoke the Mind Flayer Brain Pool to take the initiative to attack him.

William felt a little innocent, and he didn't do anything, didn't he just release a [Soul Storm], why did he make the other party anxious? !

In fact, at this time, William already understood why the mind flayer's brain pool suddenly went mad at him uncharacteristically. After all, the gift of knowledge from the aboleth in William's mind was not entirely a decoration, and there were still some reliable things in it.

The reason for this still starts with the reproduction method of mind flayers.

Mainstream scholars of Faerûn and even the outer planes have long considered mind flayers to be hermaphroditic, parthenogenetic creatures.But what William described in the hidden knowledge obtained from the aboleth's memory bank was not the case.

After seemingly reliable research, ordinary scholars believe that each individual mind flayer can lay eggs twice in a lifetime, and each time it will produce a sticky egg sac, which contains thousands of eggs, all of which are made with the aid of a mind flayer. The viscous secretions of the inner demon stick together.These egg sacs are placed inside the brain pool. After hatching for a certain period of time, countless mind flayer tadpoles emerge from the eggs and fall into the brain pool to live. After a long period of growth and development, they finally transform into capable A mind flayer tadpole that possesses the body of an intelligent creature.

Mature mind flayer tadpoles undergo a metamorphosis by implanting a fully developed tadpole in the ear of a helpless humanoid with the help of an adult mind flayer.

A mind flayer tadpole will burrow into a victim's brain, quickly eating its gray matter and replacing it with its own filthy tissue.Under its influence, the tadpole will fuse with the uneaten lower brainstem of the victim, obliterating all remaining personality and soul. When these things have completely disappeared from the body, the mind flayer tadpole will use it as its own body .

In fact, William knew from the memory of the bottom demon fish that all the above-mentioned studies were actually wrong, or they were just an appearance that the mind flayer wanted people to see.

The real subjects of mind flayers are not actually their octopus-head individuals, but their master brains hidden in their brain pools.The mind flayer's master brain is actually a multi-dimensional consciousness. They are hidden in the World Wide Web formed by countless brain pools. All mind flayer tadpoles and adult mind flayers are actually just their external plug-ins.

Mind flayer tadpoles provide positioning and linking functions, while octopus-head individuals are like prosthetics commanded by remote control, but this remote command is an instant immersive control, just like our fantasy of manipulating game characters to play virtual senses The game is the same.

The multi-dimensional consciousness body in the mind flayer master's brain has multi-threaded immersive operation capabilities, and it is almost flawless.It can be said that any individual mind flayer that hatches from a brain pool is an external control of the master brain in that brain pool.

As long as any one of these controls still exists, even if the master brain in the brain pool is destroyed, the multidimensional consciousness body in it can be temporarily transferred to the individual mind flayer as the control. Of course, in this case, the consciousness of the mind flayer The ability of the body will be limited to a certain extent, but the ability of the mind flayer individual (control) as the load will be greatly enhanced.

When the opportunity is right, the mind flayer carrying the multi-dimensional consciousness body will find a safe and secret place, rebuild and generate a new brain pool and master brain.

Therefore, if you want to kill a real mind flayer's multi-dimensional consciousness, you must first kill all the intelligent creatures (that conform to the mind flayer's transformation control) on the planet where the mind flayer's brain pool is located. To operate is to destroy the planet.

Of course, the mind flayers in this situation will not sit still, they will take the specially built spirit devouring spaceship and run ahead of time to find a way out to the world of new intelligent creatures.

In the period before reaching the world of new intelligent creatures, the interdimensional consciousness of mind flayers is undoubtedly the most vulnerable, because their pendants are almost always placed in the open.

At this time, the mind flayer tadpole possessed by intelligent creatures (not yet metamorphosed) will suppress his metamorphosis period, ranging from one day to several decades, and will not proceed to the next step until he is sure that he has regained a stable environment .

The problem now is that William happens to be on a spirit devouring spaceship of the mind flayer that is fleeing, and his [Soul Storm], a large-scale indiscriminate attack, directly destroys the brain pool of the mind flayer in front of him. All the pendants (tadpoles and metamorphoses) were wiped out.

What kind of hatred and resentment is this?You, an ignorant and vicious upright ape beetle, actually want to break my foundation, and let the devil live? !This is the greatest resentment of the multi-dimensional consciousness hidden in the mind flayer's brain pool at this moment.

He urgently needs to quickly deal with the two unstable factors in the nest, and then quickly find a place to re-produce and load the pendant.

However, neither William nor Dasofelia are easy to mess with. As soon as William woke up, he immediately saw through the essence of the brain pool, because he had the correct answer in his hand.

But Sophilia knew how to engrave the correct answer into the answer sheet. She shouted excitedly: "William! Throw the Wheel of Order into the brain pool, and then use your knife to smash it!"

William looked down, only to find that the crystal phoenix reappeared in his left hand, which was originally empty, but a small piece of jade-white scale appeared on the abdomen of the phoenix.

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Seeing the sudden appearance of the scales, William suddenly thought of a white figure, the magical existence that matched the temperament of the white lady and almost squeezed him dry.

He suspected that the guy who was not a son of man should have done something to his body. This is a man or a ghost plotting against him. From time to time, there will be some entertainment programs. Although the experience of the program is quite good, but!

Do I want to lose face as a dignified man? !How can he be calculated and rubbed by others at will!

An inexplicable anger rose again in William's heart, he felt very uncomfortable now, and wanted to beat someone to the flesh!Killing people who want to be bloody and stabbed!

All right!The damn mind flayer brain pool is interfering with his thoughts again!

With a calm mind, William threw the phoenix crystal in his hand into the pool of his brain, and then he poured the anger in his heart into the sword, and swung the knife towards the greasy, colorful pool of flesh and blood.

Accompanied by a light "boo", an invisible shield covering the brain pool was broken, and then William received a wave of consciousness that made the brain tremble: "Why? The dimensional transmission will fail! Can be on top! What is interfering with **? No! How can there be a fire of origin energy! And the wheel of order?! You bitches don’t want to use ** to recast the psionic order chain!"

However, as a scorching flame ignited from the brain pool, the wave of consciousness instantly became weak.The existence that should be the multi-dimensional consciousness in the brain pool of the mind flayer intermittently whispered to William: "Young...human...be careful! Everything...is...false! The truth...makes...crazy !Order...chaos...breeds...despair!"

An incomprehensible sentence, obviously digging holes for people.

William couldn't help sighing, he hates troubles, he just wants to live his leisurely life peacefully and cleanly, and occasionally he can't be too idle to fight small fights, explore small adventures without danger, etc. Isn't it more fragrant than being involved in conspiracy and calculations such as intrigue and betrayal of interests? !

The flames derived from the cursefire seeds were extremely powerful, especially since it escaped from William's control and spread rapidly in an almost savage growth posture, devouring the entire spirit devouring spaceship in a short period of time.

The cursefire flames did not harm William, and certainly did not cause any harm to Sophilia.It "holds" the spirit devouring spaceship like a burning firebird, rushes through a shattered void, and then appears in the boundless sand sea.

The moment the huge spirit devouring spaceship entered the boundless sand sea, it began to rapidly turn into crystal dust, so that when they landed, William and Sophilia could only stand on the sand without any shelter.