The Swordsman of Faerûn

Rabbi, who had already been entrusted with an important task by William, was suddenly speechless. He found that the damn dwarf's excuse was so reasonable that people couldn't pick a thorn.And this greedy dwarf also said that he will not force the lord to pay this unnecessary money.

William smiled darkly, and he said: "Dwarf Bonog Steelfoot, in the name of the only local lord, I warn you about one thing, if you dare to ask anyone in my territory for a commission Residents or passers-by, if you collect or even plunder even a copper coin, I will kill you!"

ah?Both the dwarves and William's subordinates were frightened by William's words, and some even felt that their lord seemed a little unreasonable in their hearts.

Regardless of other people's thoughts, William continued: "Bonog Ironfoot, do you think I don't know your little thoughts? You didn't come here to ask for money at all, but to defraud me of a legal card. Permission to plunder! I'm afraid you are not fighters fighting for Daggerdale, you are a gang of robbers, a gang of thieves who roam the wilderness!"

William's judgment completely frightened everyone, including the dwarf and his accomplices. The dwarf screamed: "No! You are slander! Human lord! You just want to renege on your debts! Dishonest human lord! You Want to taste my axe? Know that dwarves' axes are not for display!"

William sneered, not to mention that these guys are probably a group of speculators, even if they are really a group of "noble" allies, he still has to suppress them.

It should be noted that public security is the top priority for anyone who wants to restore production and order in the ruins.

If William really admits these speculators, then there will inevitably be more imitators, and even some daring guys will use this as an excuse to go directly to looting houses to search for people's wealth, and when they are caught, they will be pushed again and again. Five or six, put the shit bowl on that dead man Randall Moon, then William's next plan to revive the local people's livelihood will be greatly compromised.

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From the vandal's point of view, righteousness is a pasting paper that can be broken with a single poke, a talisman that deceives the ignorant, and a chicken feather that drives the righteous to make arrows.

Therefore, these days, when a bandit has learned to use righteousness and use justice, then he is a rogue bandit who is about to succeed.

Of course, if a bandit was brainwashed and counter-accused by Dayi, then he must be a fake bandit.

Bonog Steelfoot, the dwarf, now wishes he was a fake bandit, because he saw the last guy he wanted to face—a warlock, even if the warlock was just a weak-looking human girl.But just watching a flurry of fireballs blast from her hands, incinerating a horde of goblins and their ogre companions into torches scurrying across the ground, sent shivers down the spines of the dwarf and his teammates.

No one likes to be covered in a big fireball, and of course Bonog and the others don't like to be covered in a lot of big fireballs. It's not because they are timid. People's chaplains or warlocks suffer.

The relaxed performance of Feniya chopping down the three trolls and then lighting the monsters' remains with torches also made the robbers who were still sober become more obedient.

As a result, the dwarf and his companions seemed reluctant to directly give up the plan to claim the remuneration owed by the former lord, but they nervously proposed an exchange condition: as compensation for their abandonment of their rights and interests, William, the new The lord must hire them and provide them with enough food and drink every day.

Well, that's what Bonogue and his cohorts are after all.

Because being a robber is the most hopeless choice these days, do you think you can enjoy the loot with peace of mind after robbing a ticket?Friends, look to the sides and back, the small bone plate of the goblin, the big fangs of the orc, the hard skull of the ogre... remember!You are just a praying mantis catching cicadas, but the titmouses behind you are enough to form a reinforced company.

In order to eliminate the number of bandits in the wilderness, William reluctantly accepted the dwarf and his companions, and assigned tasks to these defectors according to their race and ability.

The migration of large groups of people is not a simple matter.A group of 600 people in total, with carriages dragging supplies in the middle, pulled into a nearly 200-meter-long team, and there were old people, women and children, and the road was really not easy to walk, even if it was a year-round businessman. The avenues of the team are mostly overgrown with weeds, and the dirt road is full of potholes, so the speed of travel is naturally not fast.

The team walked for nearly a day, but only a little more than half of the way. This is the result of most people's physical strength improving to a certain extent after several days of cultivation and meat supplements.

Camping in the wild, an adventure team with only a few people and a migration team composed of hundreds of civilians are two completely different concepts.For a large group of people, camping in the wild is definitely an indispensable university question.William didn't have such strategic talents under his command, and even he himself was just a half-baked guy who knew a little bit about it.

According to the super-simplified version of the current camp in his previous life, William set up a simple camp in an open space.He placed the four-wheeled carriage at the very core of the camp, where all the children and some women were arranged. Most of the people rested around the carriage, and a fence similar to a fence was surrounded outside. A lot of bells were tied, and a bunch of bonfires were lit every ten steps in the open space outside the fence.

Some experienced hunters and rangers also set a lot of crude traps in places with weak defenses.

William even placed an even number of sentries in each direction to stand guard against possible raiders.Including himself sitting on the roof of the carriage, serving as the last warning.

William's camp had many loopholes, but it barely resisted the invasion from the ground.The guards had already killed many courageous monsters and snoopers while walking during the day, making the remaining monsters feel a little scared about the camp, but they still sent many goblin cannon fodder to scout the way.

It should be said that the goblins are very talented in sneaking. The best of them can even hide from the eyes of the sentries, sneak into the fence, and then touch the bell, and be shot and killed by the rangers' random arrows.

However, the security measures designed by William can prevent the ground, but not the sky.The sky of Faerun is more dangerous at night than during the day, and many flying monsters who like to hide in the dark will take the opportunity to run out to do wild things.

Monsters such as vampire bats, vampires, ghosts, and night shadows all like to come out to look for food at night, and their favorite prey are adventurers camping in the wild, especially the migratory team under William. The favorite, after all, there are more prey to attack, and it is easier to succeed.

The first to hit the autumn wind is the vampire bat.

They are a kind of mutated bats, with a head like a child's face, they eat the blood of all kinds of living things, and they can even sense bleeding wounds ten kilometers away.It is this special ability of vampire bats that makes them the best scouts and pets for vampires. Generally, where vampire bats appear, there are always those fallen blood nobles.

Speaking of vampires, we have to mention the origin of Dagger Valley.This is a taboo that all the aboriginal residents of Dagger Valley are reluctant to mention. If the former clerk Levi was not eager to express himself to the new lord, in order to make up for the sin he and his son had offended William's family before, I am afraid he would not Tell William such a local secret incident.

Dagger Valley was called Happy Valley at the earliest time. People here lived a rich and happy life. They enjoyed wonderful music and art, and various unique delicacies. Even Lierla, the goddess of joy, referred to Happy Valley It is regarded as his plan for the kingdom of God on the earth on the main material plane.

This is when all of this came to an abrupt end in a horrific and cruel vampire invasion event, the peaceful and fun-filled life was completely broken, countless people died under the fangs of vampires, and more people died. Under the claws of the vampire's newly transformed minions.

In this invasion, there is an extremely horrifying situation. The slaves transformed by vampires are all children of Happy Valley, and all the children. Therefore, most of the humans killed by these seemingly weak vampire slaves are their close relatives. It was an unbearable blow to the people of the region.

Many people who were not strong enough could not bear the psychological blow and tragically ended their lives.And more people who chose to live used sharpened wooden stakes to crucify their own children who had become undead creatures.

After the vampires disappeared, there was no more happiness in Happy Valley, and people always had a gloomy face. They regarded this history as a taboo, and gave up the name "Happy Valley" until the Tethyama dwarves later The arrival brought prosperity and wealth to this valley, and gave this place the name "Dagger Valley".

Although countless years have passed, and even the former dwarf kingdom of Tessama fell under the sweep of monsters such as orcs and ogres, the locals of Dagger Valley have never forgotten their hatred with vampires. Legend has it that the leader of the vampire invaders was sleeping in a corner around Dagger Valley.

The people of Daggerdale long for vengeance, but worry about waking up the terrifying undead monsters and causing another terrible catastrophe for themselves.

Of course, although these vampire bats came silently, William, who was sitting on the roof of the carriage shed as the last line of warning, was not a decoration, they could not hide from his perception, so these poor monsters were named by him in midair , became the first crash victim.

Later, some human-faced owls also came to secretly join in the fun. Human-faced owls are a kind of monster with a human-faced vulture body. They like to plunder the cubs of humanoid creatures for food. Occasionally they will also beat halflings, gnomes, goblins and other small creatures. The idea of ​​a sized humanoid.These evil monsters finally fell under William's strong bow and iron arrows.

The most dangerous visitor is a terrifying dark shadow monster. It is like a huge bat made of pure darkness. It moves across the night sky in an invisible posture. The attenuation of starlight caused by the figure passing across the stars, but he thought it was just an illusion of his own eyes and ignored it.

This terrifying monster is Winged Nightshade, a powerful undead blend of equal parts darkness and pure evil.Nightshades are the shadows of extremely strong-willed and evil mortals, usually found in the deepest recesses of the Shadowfall, and are heralds of death and misery.When Nightshade appears somewhere on the main material plane, it means that a large-scale death event is about to occur or has occurred nearby.

But this Flying Wing Yeying is very smart, or all Yeying is very smart. It sensed that William was not easy to mess with, so it just took a walk in the sky and left in a hurry.

After that, nothing happened overnight.

In the early morning, the aroma of the stew made everyone's mouth water, especially Bonog and others who had just started working. Their eyeballs jumped out of greed, and their saliva flowed into a stream uncontrollably.

No way, because of the fear of the monsters' invasion, no one had time to eat a hot and full meal last night. At most, they could eat jerky with a mouthful of hot soup.

A bowl of rotten stewed meat almost made everyone swallow their tongues. The dwarf and his teammates couldn't help but rejoice that they followed the right master this time.

After breakfast, some food prepared for noon, and enough boiling water, the migrating team started on the road again.Although there were still some disturbances along the way, everyone finally arrived at Waterfall Town in the afternoon.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is not Waterfall Town, but Dagger Falls not far from Waterfall Town.For a long time, William wondered about one thing, how stupid the builders of Dagger Falls were to build a town in front of a waterfall, and how they could stand the huge noise of the waterfall on weekdays.

Only now did William realize that it wasn't that the first residents of Falls were stupid, but that he didn't understand the actual situation.

The drop of the Dagger Waterfall is high enough, but the water flow is not so large, and the terrain here is very strange. The bottom of the waterfall is not a deep pool, but a beach surrounded by rocky cliffs on both sides. Part of it is bound by tidal flats and cliffs to the lower reaches of the Tessa River. The sound of the water standing on the top of the waterfall is almost the same as listening to the sound of ordinary waterfalls standing ten miles away.

But that's just one non-negative reason Falls was built here.

When the water of the Dagger Falls falls, it will form a water curtain at the half waist of the waterfall. Behind the water curtain is a stone passage connecting the two sides of the Tessa River. This passage can pass both people and animals, as well as vehicles. .

That is to say, people and goods crossing the river can reach the other side of the river smoothly without changing the means of crossing the river.

The Dagger Waterfall Town is just located at the node where the Water Curtain Passage and the North Shore Commercial Road intersect, thus reaping the benefits.When the Dwarf Kingdom of Tessama was prosperous, the town of Dagger Falls prospered through this trade route called the Road of Tessama, and they made a lot of wealth from it.

So much so that the king of Tethama had to lament that out of every two gold coins the dwarves worked so hard to earn, one was snatched away by the thief lord of Dagger Valley and his subjects.

In order to extract more toll taxes, the original lords of Dagger Valley even planned to build a satellite city of Dagger Falls Town on the other side of the waterfall. Unfortunately, with the decline of the Taisiama Kingdom, the twin city plan was shattered.

All that remains of the towns on the south bank are ruins and a few indestructible structures, such as the Sheriff's Tower and the Shrine of Lathander's Light.

In contrast, the towns on the north shore are much more complete, but the current state of the city is not very good.Waterfall Town, which has just experienced flooding, has more than half of its stone city walls collapsed, and many houses have also been washed and collapsed a lot.The streets and alleys of the city are full of silt and various aquatic plants and dead trees. The pickled town is full of fishy smell.

This town is obviously not suitable for living, at least for a long period of time, otherwise the people who live in it will be sick or infected, and may even be attacked by the monsters lurking in it and die.

But the vast majority of locals obviously don't want to give up their original homes. Even if William forcibly suppresses and relocates to other places, there is no guarantee that some people will sneak back to live in the old house.

To put it bluntly, the superior geographical location of this town makes people unable to give up, especially those smart people who understand its value.

Since moving places is likely to cause public anger, William will naturally not be too stubborn and insist on going his own way to ask for trouble, but he will not let these stupid guys who are eager to go home do their own thing.

William's prestige is still very high now, when he was still a short distance from the town, he shouted to stop those townspeople who wanted to leave the team and go home, and then he pointed to Waterfall Town and said: "My people! As your lord, I warn you that this town is now a dead place. It is full of toxins that cause disease and plague, and there are all kinds of monsters and demons lurking. Do you really want to plunge into it? And be devoured by those monsters?"

A group of refugees suddenly went into an uproar. They were either terrified, or half-believing, discussing and arguing with each other. Although many people thought this was just an unfounded worrying statement, no one dared to rush home recklessly.

Several prestigious representatives of public opinion, who were also temporary security officers appointed by William, approached their lord, and one of the oldest said: "I salute you, Your Excellency the lord. Are you sure that what you just said is true?" is that true?"

William said displeased: "You should trust your lord! Of course I will prove to everyone later that everything I said is true."

Chapter Fifty-seven: The city fox and the rat on the edge of the celestial phenomenon of flames

William dismissed the doubtful representatives of the public opinion. He felt that these temporarily appointed security guards were a bit of a dead body. Their job should be to appease people. What they should do is to maintain the order and stability of the team, not at this time. came to question their lord.

To put it bluntly, these people have no sense of responsibility and a sense of justice at all, and their first consideration is not the life and death of the big guys, but their little broken family that they are reluctant to part with.

William ordered a group of people to set up camp two kilometers away from the outer wall of the old town. This time, his requirements for the protection of the camp were much stricter than last time.They felled trees to make walls, built watchtowers and gates to isolate the village, and put all the antlers outside, as if preparing to fight an offensive and defensive battle.

When night came, a warm bonfire was rekindled in the newly built camp. Stewed meat, which was not very delicious, was still the first choice for most refugees, but some people were a little unwilling to eat, and their expressions were complicated. Looking at the towns in the distance, there is always a feeling of worrying about gains and losses.

This time William personally arranged for the guards on duty, because he had expected that there would be people who couldn't bear the temptation of something in the town, someone, or something, or some kind of feeling that was hard to let go.

William strictly ordered the guard Captain Baird and the dwarf Gimmel Durind who were in charge of the night watch, that no one who returned from outside the camp after nightfall would be allowed to enter the camp, including those they were most familiar with and closest to, including William's family members. .

Of course, Misha'er and the others definitely wouldn't go out for a walk in the dark night, and those guys who took the initiative to call the door must have turned into evil spirits from seductive little sluts with malicious intentions.

In order to prepare for the next day's work in advance, William opened the door of flames to the world of flames. I have to say that this is really a very useful talent.

The territory belonging to the flame lord named William is still as lively and noisy as ever, and countless newly recruited flame creatures are dancing around the flames like a ghost!

A huge dragon burning with silver flames, her limbs, head, tail, and even wings were pierced by huge copper nails, and then they were hung by thick fire copper and steel chains in the raging flames that soared into the sky. With the torment from Tianwei.

If it was just these, William would only be a little stingy, but not too angry, after all, whose subordinates have not yet understood that the leader's will is wrong.However, when a certain flaming red dragon circled around the sleeping silver dragon, and wanted to do something shameful with some malicious intentions, even the dragon gear was exposed, what a big deal! A pillar, William absolutely can't bear it.

Nima!The little silver dragon is the pot in my bowl, so how can you covet it like a fire-breathing reptile? !

So William didn't care about 21, and directly pulled out the Latis' gun whose blade almost turned into a jagged one, and then the human gun merged into a flame ray, and the guy pierced through the red on the brain of that worm. Dragon brain melon seeds.

Accompanied by the shrill roar of the dragon, the rogue little red dragon was thrown on the black obsidian rock by William's brains, and then under the gaze of a large number of strange and angry eyes, he stepped on the still twitching He shouted angrily, "Who is the leader here? Where is that bastard Tuermu? Where did he go?"

A flame dragon in heavy armor came out from the pile of monsters. It held a door-sized sawtooth flame knife and roared angrily: "This is the territory of the great flame lord William! Damn fire bastard, you Kill the noble Flame Holder—His Majesty Folgalad Greatlance! Death will be your only end!"

William sneered, and pulled out three cursed fire phoenixes from the flaming sky, and then merged with his elemental body. Almost in the blink of an eye, the old hen turned into a duck.

William turned into a flaming giant with a height of hundreds of meters. He roared with a roar of thunder: "Reptiles! This is my territory! This is my territory! I am William!!! Stupid dragon cubs, how dare you If you want to invade my prey on my territory, you are asking for your own death!"

The flame dragon that popped out is also a majestic person with a height of nearly ten feet, but when it faced the terrifying power of a super giant flame lord hundreds of meters high, it was directly frightened and peed, and it was still incontinent. The kind that piss and poop.

The Flaming Dragon Man collapsed limply in his own defecation, terrified and just wanted to pass out, but it's a pity that the Dragon Man's tough nerves prevented it from enjoying the lying down that scaleless mortal beings would have. Ping skill - fainted from fright.

But more flame miscellaneous soldiers all chose to vote with their knees and heads in the face of William's terrifying flame incarnation. They stuck their knees and foreheads firmly on the hot rocky ground. Words of two things.

None of the flame creatures dared to stab at this time, which made William satisfied but worried.Without him, today he can deter these miscellaneous fish with his own power, and tomorrow another strong existence can still pull these wall grass away according to the law. It seems that Tuermu will discuss how to strengthen his elemental army in the future The problem of ideological construction.

There was such a terrifying movement here in Lieyantianxiang, Turmu, who ran wild and ran wild, quickly came back. He first saw the corpse of the flame red dragon Fulgalad being dissected by a group of dragonmen, His complexion couldn't help but change.

But when the face of his master appeared in sight, Tuermu's old face immediately blossomed into a flower.The Elder Fire Djinn jumped up and down in front of William like a kid who just ate candy, flatteringly said: "Master! This old slave just conquered a tribe of flame giants for you!" , and there will be at least two dozen strong flame giant warriors joining your ranks."

William frowned and said, "Is that all?"

Turmu said with a shy face: "There are still some female flame giants and giant cubs, but they can only be regarded as useless burdens. This old slave is going to dispose of these garbage!"

The lines between William's brows deepened, and he asked in a concentrated voice, "How are you going to deal with it?"

Tuermu smiled brightly, and said: "The weak and mutilated ones are killed directly, and the rest are sold as slaves to those plane merchants."

William said coldly: "Old Tu! I think you are more suitable to be the lord of this place than me! Why don't you just kill me or sell me as a slave!"

Tuermu was terrified and didn't even dare to say anything.

William sighed: "If those giants are willing to serve me, then their relatives and family members are naturally ours, how can we cruelly divide their ethnic group!"

Tuermu first glanced at the dragon corpse that had been cut into large pieces of flesh and blood, trembled involuntarily, then bowed and said yes.Then he asked whether other groups of submissives were also dealt with in sequence?

However, William said: "Under normal circumstances, it should be handled according to this, but there are countless strange things in this world, and there may be special circumstances. Let's talk about it at that time."

Chapter Fifty-Eight: Ox, Ghosts and Snake Gods Under the Burning Flame of the City ([-])

As a slave who was forcibly subdued, how could Tuermu not know the true nature of his master?Of course he knew that William was a righteous man who insisted on justice and kindness even more firmly than a paladin. He was a true knight, those knights who truly possessed the eight virtues thousands of years ago.

These performance-like behaviors of the elders of the fire elves are actually showing the essence of their leader to the newcomers. This is a lord with a kind attribute. Those with a mind and lofty ideals should hurry up and bring their own food to join!Even those who have no brains, when the men come to the door to ask for it, they should be quicker when they abandon the shot, so as not to cut off the head too quickly.

When Tuermu learned that the beautiful girl Yinlong who was tied up by them was the lord of his family, the Elder Huojin really broke out in hot sweat, and he was so scared that he hurriedly released the leader of the big sister Yinlong. Come down, but was rejected by William.

Well, the little girl Xieren is a bit cruel to offend the big boss. If she really wants to let her go and slip out, maybe she will cause some terrible trouble again.

It's better to tie it up, it's better to tie it up!To be honest, playing this kind of play of Hanging Prisoner Silver Dragon is really a little inexplicably exciting!

At the end, William seemingly casually asked, "If I killed that fire dragon, it won't cause you any trouble, right?"

Tuermu shook his head like a rattle, and quickly said: "No, no! Master, in fact, I have long thought that the reptile with wings is very unpleasant, but I have been worried that killing it will affect the master's plan to expand its strength. , so you didn’t take action to deal with it, and now you can help the old slave deal with this trouble in advance, which is perfect.”

"Very good!" William nodded in satisfaction, and continued: "I think those dragon people are quite good, but I don't know if their loyalty can be guaranteed. Tuermu, can you help me solve this matter? ?”

Tuermu immediately said: "Master, your vision is really good! Those dragonmen are all descendants of dragons bought by the red dragon Fulgalad from the subsidiary plane. They are born heavy armored fighters. Their courage and fighting spirit are almost They are all unbelievably perfect. Of course, they have a pretty good reputation for loyalty. They rarely betray customers or run away. The premise of all this is that you have to provide them with enough supplies, enough More food and drinking water is the best reward for them to work hard. In this regard, Dragonborn is definitely not as good as serious flame cubs, and flame cubs basically bring their own dry food, so there is no need to consider logistics issues at all."

William shook his head and said, "Shallow! Old Tu, you only see the logistical problems of Dragonborn, but you don't see their own unique value. Recruiting people! Give me a lot of Dragonborn, I want Form an army of heavily armored dragonborn. Believe me, they will become the most important pillar of combat power on the battlefield."

Indeed, these dragonmen or dragon descendants have their own natural dragon scales, and their defensive power is not inferior to even the best plate armor of humans. This is the case that they have not been equipped with foreign objects. The infinite guy is equipped with a layer of metal forging armor, which is equivalent to a super can in double-layer heavy armor. Without a suitable can opener, these hard guys can't be pulled out.

William could already imagine what a huge wave it would cause when he put such a super-abnormal heavy armor force on the battlefield.

William also asked Tuermu some preparations for the war, and he wanted to make a rainy day for the future army against Santilburg.It is said that the flame giant tribe newly conquered by Turmu provided them with a batch of useful fire dwarves, which greatly strengthened the weaponry of William's team.

Of course, this is not the purpose of William entering the world of flames today. Whether it is to kill the Mr. Fire Dragon who can't control himself, or to visit the imprisoned silver dragon, including the decision to recruit the Dragonborn Legion, it is just incidental. The original purpose was to find some fire experts to help purify the polluted town of Dagger Falls.

In this regard, Tuermu strongly recommended to William a little monster at the bottom of the flame world - the fire boy.Huotong is a kind of flame creature about the size of a three-year-old human cub. It looks like a walking human-shaped magma. Their personality is as naughty as the cubs, and they like to play with fire unscrupulously.