The Swordsman of Faerûn

The commotion of the lycanthropes was quickly subsided, and then a lycanthropist who looked as majestic as a lion stood up and shouted to William with a roaring voice: "Humans from the plains! Why does the richest land on earth invade our barren hills and hills?! Can’t those lands that can feed ten children not satisfy your greed?”

William really wanted to say "Under the world, is it the land of the king", but this sentence is not suitable for this place, and it even attracts ridicule.He said: "A group of blood-sucking monsters are doing all kinds of evil in my town and have committed numerous crimes! My people and I came here to hunt down those damned vampires and their evil undead servants.

Beastmen, please step aside, or I will destroy you as the accomplices of those demons! "

But the lycanthropist laughed and said: "You are dreaming, cunning human lord. The lycanthrope is the most loyal and reliable subordinate of the great King of the Night. Not only will we not let go, but we will fight with you! We are from the hills!" Master, we are the strong shields of the kingdom! We will tear your throats like wild beasts and devour your internal organs!..."

Just as this lycanthropist was eloquently expressing his affectionate declaration of battle, another lycanthropist whispered to his companion: "Stop talking, idiot! We want these humans to retreat, not intentionally provoke Provoke them to fight."

Then the previous lycanthropist finally realized that his performance had gone too far, and he quickly made amends: "Lords of humans, as long as you are willing to retreat to the plain, we will not attack you."

This time, William could see clearly the sternness of the lycanthropy, so he no longer entangled with the other party in words, but directly opened the gate of flames, and summoned the recharged cursed phoenix to appear in the In this world.

These curse-fire phoenixes are so eye-catching that all prying eyes are attracted, including of course those lycanthropes who are in panic.

William didn't talk nonsense, and directly used a small hill behind the lycanthropy as the center of the nuclear level, released a curse fire phoenix, and then triggered the big mushroom cloud technique.

The big mushroom cloud during the day is much more spectacular than at night. It also starts with a super bright light that can blind your eyes, and then the sound wave of the explosion, the shock wave of the explosion, swept everything inside the area with a sweeping momentum.

William's men all jumped into the trench to avoid the damage caused by the explosion.And those lycanthropists jumped into the tunnel impatiently, waiting for the judgment from fate.

The damage caused by the big mushroom cloud technique is really terrifying. Even if many of William's men have experience in evasion, they can't stop them from making mistakes and getting injured.

Of course, those lycanthropes who were closer to the explosion point were even more miserable.When they dug the pits, they only dug according to the experience of digging dungeons in the past, but they did not consider the situation of being collapsed by the shock wave, so that many lycanthropes were buried in the soil.

When faced with a desperate situation, all lycanthropes immediately turned into ferocious animals to save their lives. Although they looked miserable, the injuries they suffered were not too serious. What was really serious was that their hearts were completely broken.

The explosion came and went quickly. When William walked out of the ditch, he found a group of ferocious-looking animals lying down on the land swept by the shock wave. bowed his head and bent his knees to the lord of men.

William stood in front of the lion-faced lycanthropy, looked at him meaningfully, and asked, "Lycanthropy, do you still want to fight with my troops?"

The lion-faced lycanthropist shook his head like a rattle, and said: "We are not stupid, how can we fight against an opponent we cannot fight! We are willing to submit to you, the lord of human beings, as long as you are willing to treat us fairly , we are willing to fight for you."

William smiled. This is the nature of lycanthropes. It's not the first time he has encountered such things. The last time he encountered them were very cunning.

Because lycanthropes are always excluded and discriminated against by normal humans in plain areas suitable for farming, they often choose to live in remote areas and jungles where ordinary people are inconvenient. For example, monster forces such as the Dark Hills Kingdom are also frequented by many lycanthropist tribes. The power to rely on.

All the choices made by the lycanthropes are for the survival and reproduction of the group, rather than obstinate allegiance to a certain person or monster.For these unique groups where humanity and beasts coexist in the body, William still maintains enough tolerance. After all, their nature of seeking refuge in the monster kingdom is still different from those of real people—traitors seeking refuge in monsters.

William gathered some strong lycanthropist warriors to join his team to serve as death squads and cannon fodder, and they wanted to prove their worth in the upcoming battles.

Although the monster kingdom in Dagger Hills is known as a kingdom, there are not many large-scale underground towns, or it should be said that there is only one real underground city, and the rest are just some small villages or dens that are not large-scale.

After dealing with the lycanthropes, William and the others marched all the way, but never encountered any large-scale resistance.Only the gathering points of monsters along the way were found, and the docile and harmless ones were preserved.Those guys who don't look good at first glance, and some lycanthropes who are not clean and are actively acting are torn to pieces.

The excessive performance of the lycanthropy even aroused a sense of crisis in William's elite team, so they couldn't help but join the ranks of besieging the monster village.

When a group of man-eating monsters who were about to flee were besieged and killed by the crowd, William ordered the big guys to stop the attack, and they began to set up camp for the night.

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Following the primitive jungle hunting rules is the prevailing standard of conduct in the Kingdom of Darkness.

In the dark of night, dozens of bonfires were lit, and the lycanthropists sat around the bonfires. Although the power of the sacred dwelling made it difficult for them to maintain a normal body shape, many of them had faces with many features of beasts, but they were not Prevent them from turning the joy in their hearts into singing and dancing.

After all, the Dagger Hills at night are dangerous hunting grounds. Even the lycanthropes who live in this area all year round will be afraid of the darkness and shadows here, because many monsters will not treat them just because they are loyal to the Kingdom of Darkness. Show mercy.

But today, they can hide comfortably in the camp of the Holy House, listening to the demons dancing in the dark world outside, howling wolves, howling apes, crying ghosts, howling owls, these sounds that made them terrified in the past, but now they are falling asleep Best accompaniment.

Of course, the most gratifying thing for the lycanthropists is that there are a few idiots wandering around anxiously outside the camp. As the saying goes, there is only harm when there is a comparison, and there is also an unreasonable sense of superiority.

The corpse king Pasanus, the demon Hathaway, and two unlucky ones who couldn't enter the camp on their own, were kept out of the camp by the divine power. Without William's invitation, no one would even think of crossing the threshold.

This kind of result made the demon Hathaway very dissatisfied. In her opinion, she should lie comfortably in the arms of the master and enjoy the comfort, instead of standing alone with a few idiots outside the camp and blowing the cold wind.

The irritable demon quickly vented her dissatisfaction on the fellow sufferer next to her. First, she tore into pieces the new pair of membranous wings grown by the corpse king Pasanus, and Pasanus even Don't even dare to let go of a fart.

For the corpse king, as long as the core of its brain is not damaged, the rest of the body can be destroyed at will without feeling distressed.Its behavior of lying flat made the demon who wanted to vent his dissatisfaction very boring.

So Hathaway set her sights on the other two unlucky ones.One of them was a strong lycanthropy, but when Hathaway attacked him, she found that this guy with a big cat head didn't like melee combat, he was always wandering around trying to harass the demon with spells.

Then Hathaway noticed that the direction of the palm and back of this lycanthropist was opposite to that of a normal person (equivalent to having a right palm on the left hand and a left palm on the right hand). The demon finally understood the identity of this guy. Evil Beast Ghost, a monster recognized as the incarnation of evil.

If the devil is evil for the sake of order, and the devil is evil for the sake of destruction, then evil beast ghosts are purely evil for the sake of evil.They are masterminds of sinister plots or leaders of terrifying cults, capable of melee combat yet disgraceful, able to use magic yet naturally resistant to it.

In short, evil beast ghosts are extremely awkward and twisted existences.It is definitely not a good thing for such a guy to appear beside William. Although the demon is not a loyal creature, it does not prevent her from showing her value in front of her master.

Hathaway revealed her original demon form, a distorted figure of a monster that blended with each other—extremely beautiful and extremely ugly, a pair of broken membranous bone wings trembled slightly, and four ferocious and vicious thorns However, it attacked the evil beast and ghost like a poisonous snake.

Although the evil beast ghost was shocked by Hathaway's real appearance, it was not a weak person. With the help of the phantom tactics that the evil beast ghost was best at, its real body just turned over and jumped a few times, and avoided Heather. Wei's attack.

The evil beast ghost already understood that it could no longer hide itself in the lycanthropy colony as before after revealing its identity, and this evil monster immediately started to retreat.

The Evil Beast Ghost decided that when it escaped from here, it would bloodbath the lycanthropist tribe that had provided it with a hidden identity. Don't ask the Evil Beast Ghost why it had such an idea, it did evil for the sake of evil.

However, when the evil beast ghost avoided Hathaway's pursuit for the second time and was about to turn around and leave, a vicious attack suddenly broke through its defense, cutting deep wounds on the evil beast ghost's legs. The two wounds even severed the tendons in the evil beast ghost's legs.

The evil beast ghost screamed, and suddenly looked back to see the attacker clearly, but saw a beautiful fallen angel with a pair of black wings flapping behind it, looking at it with a slender machete and a smile. The last unlucky guy who didn't enter the camp of the sacred residence was also a Pleasure Demon.

The evil beast ghost gritted its teeth and screamed: "Devil! I have no grievances with you, why did you attack me?"

The Joy Demon smiled and said: "I can't help it! Poor big cat, I want to find a job with the lord, but unfortunately I don't have any acquaintances to recommend me, so I can only recommend myself and make a little achievement in advance to win over the lord." family recognition."

The devil, who is no less beautiful than a demon, smiled and said in a begging tone: "Big cat, for the sake of my job hunting, can I ask you to die immediately?!"

The devil uttered the most vicious curse in the gentlest tone, and the evil beast ghost couldn't help but cursed: "Birdman like a crow! Damn hell bitch! I curse you! I swear, I will kill you with my own hands!" I will chop off your wings, tear your skin apart, and throw your residue into the eternal abyss of death!"

Evil beast ghosts are not afraid of death, because they don't really die.When an evil beast ghost is killed, its soul will endure days, months, years or even ten years of torment, and then it will be reincarnated in a certain place in the mortal world.The reborn evil beast ghost will fully restore its previous health, memory and abilities, and will continue to seek revenge for the enemy who killed it in its previous life.

It's just that the mortal world is so vast, and there are more similar worlds outside of Faerun. It may be difficult for an evil beast ghost who wants revenge to find the one from the previous life when he is killed next time. The enemy, but the target of revenge in the previous life will be replaced by the enemy in this life.

Such desire for revenge accumulates repeatedly, but it makes the evil beast ghost get deeper and deeper on the evil road. It is said that if an evil beast ghost can complete a revenge, then its life essence will be greatly sublimated, but this point There are no confirmed rumors.

The evil beast ghost whose legs' movement ability has been severely damaged can no longer evade attacks from devils and demons in time.The four tail thorns of the demon pierced through the internal organs of the evil beast ghost, including the heart, while the joy demon chopped off the evil beast ghost's head with a single knife.

The two witches completed the cooperative kill with almost tacit cooperation, but they did not feel sorry for each other because of this. Instead, they immediately opened up like two fighting cocks, and they were hostile to each other, which meant that they were going to fight.

Heretics are more hateful than heretics!

As demons and demons belonging to the same evil camp, the existence that makes them hate the most is not the Heavenly Mountain forces of the good camp, but the opponents who regard each other as evil heretics.

Whenever the devil meets the devil at any time, anywhere, there will always be a life-and-death battle. Of course, the first to provoke the war is mostly the devil who succumbs to emotion. Only then will the cunning devil take the initiative to provoke trouble.

Even though the demon is a different kind of demon who is more capable of using brains, Hathaway still wants to kill the demon in front of her, because she feels that the cabbage in her vegetable field is missed by pigs.That's right, from Hathaway's point of view, the criminal-looking Pleasure Demon in front of her is a sow who misses her master's juicy cabbage.

Therefore, the demon, who thought her sphere of influence had been violated, looked at each other with the devil for a few times, and after a few eye contact, she immediately launched an attack on the devil who wanted to die.

To humans or other adversaries, dementors can be creepier and more difficult to deal with than pleasurables, though they are nearly as difficult to deal with.But when there is a battle between the Demon and the Demon, the Demon will inevitably be at a disadvantage. This is because the most powerful evil tricks of both sides are difficult to affect the very similar opponents. In the end, the battle can only be returned to the same The two evil beauties do not like the savage slashing at each other, but the Pleasure Demon with a more perfect body structure has a lot of advantages in this respect.

Of course, under normal circumstances, this kind of battle between the two evil beauty representatives is extremely rare. They will even consciously avoid direct encounters with each other, and then use tricks to cause trouble for the opponent, such as hiring a team of righteous warriors To hunt the target—they'll delight in the beautiful irony that a group of good men unknowingly go out to end evil, but they're themselves serving a greater evil.

The reason why Hathaway dared to challenge the Pleasure Demon, which she obviously couldn't fight against - because she was killed back to the abyss spring twice in a short period of time, the strength of the Pleasure Demon was greatly weakened. An opponent who is also difficult to gain the upper hand - but because she has a master.

As the saying goes, beating a dog depends on the owner.A dog with an owner to rely on is also the most arrogant. Hathaway thought that she could use William's hand to get rid of this scourge in front of her.

It's a pity that Pleasant Demon is even better at using her brain than Deterred Demon, and her mission also makes her sober enough.As a result, Hathaway was like a foolish knight who was overwhelmed, constantly attacking the Pleasure Demon, but was constantly being teased and defeated.

In the beginning, William was more concerned about his demon servants. When Hathaway suffered a loss under the hands of Joy Demon for the first time, he couldn't help but want to do it. After all, under normal circumstances, the devil will never show mercy to the devil's subordinates. .

However, after watching two or three rounds of the battle between the two females, William temporarily let go of his thoughts. He was sure that the devil had no intention of killing Hathaway, only the paranoid servant of the devil was persistent.

Just when William was about to take a rest, his heart suddenly moved, and then he saw a shadow flying in the distant night, an evil life surrounded by a cold aura, carrying a humanoid thing, flying all the way to Fall outside the camp.

When the visitor landed, William finally saw clearly the appearance of this visitor who was exuding an inexplicable chill.This is an undead monster that makes people feel chills from the bottom of their hearts. The blue flames are burning at the positions of its eyes that no longer exist. It can be seen from the gold thread embroidery and the style of the robe that it was once an extremely luxurious and luxurious thing.

Lich, the most powerful, fearsome and dangerous existence among undead creatures.A lich is a high-level undead creature who is good at casting spells. It is a real top-notch master of necromancy. It is usually a mage or a warlock, and some are priests.They use their magical powers to prolong life in unnatural ways, and they also take pride in escaping their mortal fate by turning themselves undead.

As many seasoned adventurers tell novices, it's hard to come across a creature more terrifying than a lich.

William also didn't like to fight against the Lich. God knows how much pressure he was under when he encountered those old bones of Netheril. If some old guy hadn't given him a cup of magical Drinks, William's confidence as a living person may have been destroyed by the shadow of the undead, but this is the truth that he only realized when he was pondering the power of the mind recently.

William felt inexplicably afraid of his ignorance and fearlessness at the time.

This cold lich threw a stiff corpse on the ground. Everyone who noticed the visitor took a closer look, but found that the owner of the corpse was an elf with a complexion as pale as snow. Many people even recognized it. Her identity, however, was the older sister of Cheval Starcloak, the elf Hagui (a derogatory term for mortals who worship vampires) who fled with other imprisoned monsters.

"No! Iljana! My sister!" The half-elf protector Cheval screamed and was about to rush out of the camp, but William grabbed her by the shoulder to stop her irrational behavior.

William secretly glanced at the "corpse" of the elf. He could feel that the vitality of life was still hidden in this corpse-like body, but it was extremely obscure, making it difficult for people to detect it from the outside. That is to say, William's sensing ability was amazing, so Just discovered something.

William looked at the Lich, pretending to be ignorant and asked: "Your Excellency brought such a dead body here to demonstrate to me?"

The lich's voice was hoarse, like the rubbing of old sawtooth teeth, and said: "No! If this bug hadn't said that she had a rather famous master, she wouldn't even be worth being turned into a resuscitated skeleton! William, Xeon warrior among human beings, do you think this bug has any value?"

William's face was slightly cold, and he said: "That's right! This elf is doing something for me, she is very valuable to me. Lich, when you kill her, it means that there is hatred between us.

I will definitely avenge my people! "

But the Lich said indifferently: "I have my own name, Lord William. You can call me Komat Soulcaller, and there is no need for hatred between us over a bug!

William, do you have to destroy the dark kingdom of vampires? "

William sneered and said, "My territory cannot accommodate a nest of monsters that harm the residents!"

The Lich nodded imperceptibly, and said: "Stupid human beings, the ordinary desire for power will only wear down your strong body and will to fight. I must remind you that if you don't run fast enough, you may be very fast. There's no chance of killing any maggots from the kingdom of darkness."

William instantly understood that the vampires were going to run away!

Chapter Eighty-Third: A City Without Bloodshed

But there is one thing that William doesn't quite understand. Why did this lich inform him and show his favor?It shouldn't be so. Liches are very proud undead creatures, and they are also very utilitarian. They will never come to William for no reason, unless it has other requests.

William walked out of the camp step by step with firm steps, and came to the lying corpse of Irgana Star Robe, picked her up with a hook on his toes, and hugged her casually, but looked at the Lich not far away, Said: "You worry too much, Your Excellency. I'm curious, what kind of relationship do you have with those vampires, but you came here to stand up for them?"

But the lich looked at the stiff elf and said, "I thought you would say that this meat worm is worthless."

William sneered: "Then you cut the flesh and bones in front of everyone, and transformed into a howling undead?"

Lich Jie Jie laughed loudly, and said: "Sure enough! We guessed correctly! You are really a prophet! Jie Jie Jie! No wonder you have always been successful in the past two years, whether you are a mortal, a monster or a descendant. The incarnations of the gods (here, this lich is not the truth of the coming of the gods), are all crushed in front of you!"

"William, stop playing knights and castles (similar to our pretend play) with these little mortals! Come to us! Let's do something big!"

William shook his head with a sneer, and said, "I think you should soak yourself in the urine! Lich! Don't say I'm not a prophet. Even if I were, I wouldn't cooperate with you ghosts!"

The Lich said indifferently: "Young man, you still don't understand the fragility and impermanence of life. When you are old and weak and your eyes are dim, you will truly understand a truth, how wonderful it is to break the boundary of death. one thing.

At that time, I am afraid that we will cry and beg us to cooperate with you. "

William laughed mockingly: "Then you just wait, and I'll talk about it when I'm old and frail."

But the lich couldn't help being stunned. It really wanted to give this arrogant human being a [Finger of Death], let him go to the underworld to sober up, and learn some clever speaking skills.

But the Lich couldn't do this, and it didn't want to continue talking nonsense to William, so it said, "William, I come from a great and ambitious sect—the Cult of the Dragon Witch. I was entrusted by an old friend of the church, Send you some words."

"—William, young friend! I thank you for saving Shiron, my girl! For saving me from spending the rest of my life in regret. At the same time, I hate you for ruining my revenge plan , Let my years of hard work always fall short when I am about to achieve it, but fortunately this time I succeeded!

I just have one request, William, and it's about Heron, and I know you can save her.I hope that before you and I meet, please don't let the normal Sieren appear on the main material plane—"

The words conveyed by the Lich were a bit out of date, but it also allowed William to sort out one of his guesses. The danger Helen encountered before was indeed not an accident, but someone was targeting her, and this person had a lot to do with her. close relationship.

William tentatively asked: "Mr. Lich, can you tell me who is the person who asked you to bring the message?"

The Lich said: "I can't say, William. But you can use your prophetic ability to guess for yourself."

William bit his cheek and frowned, "I don't guess! I don't have the prophetic ability!"

The Lich shook his withered head and said, "Do as you please! Young man, I'm leaving!"

William shrugged and said regretfully, "I thought there would be a conflict between us!"

The lich flipped his shriveled tongue and said, "Only a fool would think of fighting a cheat like you! I don't want my body, which I have used for hundreds of years, to be scrapped in this place. By the way, the vampires of the Vampire Kingdom It has nothing to do with the Dragon Witch Cult, if you encounter them in the future, don't show mercy."

William said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will definitely not show mercy!"

The lich turned around and drifted away like a floating cloud. Only William transformed the energy of the curse fire into vitality and injected it into Irjana's body, slowly returning the dead elf to normal.

The elf who woke up pushed Cheval who was holding her and was crying bitterly, and said to William with a bleak face: "Your Excellency, I am sorry that I have failed your trust!"

William squatted quietly, sighed and asked, "What happened?"

Irjana said with a sad face: "When we arrived at the night city of vampires, we quickly gained the trust of vampires, and we even contacted a group of partners with a heart of resistance. But when that terrible After the undead monster appeared, everything changed."

William questioned, "You mean that lich, Kormatt Soulcaller?"

The elf shook his head in horror and said, "No! It's another more terrifying existence, a monster that can read people's hearts and control thoughts, and it even eats people's brains!"

"It controlled my thoughts, suppressed my will, and snatched all the secrets from my brain. If it wasn't for that lich to stop me, I'm afraid that my brains would be sucked by that monster like my companions."

It seemed that the elf had suffered a lot of fright and was in an inexplicable state of panic. William ordered the guardian Cheval to pour a bottle of standard holy water for her sister, and then recruited the demon to cast [blessing] on the elf And [Stable Mind] magic.

[Blessing] has the ability to double the courage of the subject and resist fear. It can be used with holy water to maximize the effect of the spell.And [Stable Mind] can eliminate the target's overly violent mood swings, and has an effect similar to that of tranquilizers.

Demo is indeed a professional who specializes in deceiving and corrupting the forces of the temple. The pseudo-magic magic she uses is almost the same as the real positive energy magic, and the effect of the magic is flawless.

The elf Irgana Star Pot immediately recovered her calm, but the miserable look on her face was still difficult to get rid of.At this time, the Pleasure Demon who had been hiding aside to watch the excitement suddenly stood up and said, "Your Excellency, perhaps I can relieve the nightmare in this poor elf's heart for you."