The Swordsman of Faerûn

William's last sentence was addressed to the third troublemaker, the one who asked about the representative's status.This third troublemaker is just a human being, with big arms, a bald head and a scarred face, and a face full of flesh, the standard template for a whole gang of thugs.

The man with the face of a gangster was shocked when he heard the words, and hurriedly asked, "Why?"

William grinned and said: "The establishment of any country or city is infiltrated with the blood and life of the builders. And when they are conquered, they all use blood and life as sacrifices to complete the transformation of belonging.

So any conquest achieved without bloodshed must also be false, mutilated, and incomplete. "

The half-devil reacted immediately and exclaimed, "You...you want to kill us? No! You can't do that!"

William said to himself: "I ordered the selection of representatives. In other words, their existence represents my will. When you oppose the identities of the representatives, it means that you are challenging my prestige as a lord." .”

The troublemaker in the shape of a scar-faced thug said anxiously: "No, no! Sir, we have no intention of challenging your authority!"

William said in harmony: "I know that you don't have such thoughts for the time being, otherwise you would not be arrested when you make trouble, but would be executed on the spot. But this is not the reason for me to let you go, because your unintentional mistakes made The prestige of the conqueror has been challenged. I need to use your blood to warn those ambitious people who have evil intentions. If they want to take the lead, they must be mentally prepared to be killed.

Stop howling!Don't think that I don't know, based on what you have done before, killing you ten times is more than enough! "

Then these troublemakers were chopped off by soldiers from Waterfall Town in front of the high platform, and became a warning sign in the hearts of the aborigines in the night capital.

William stood on the bloody high platform and said loudly to everyone: "When the lord makes a decree as the rule of this city, you'd better abide by this rule! Otherwise, these idiots who defy the rules will become yours. example!"

William is well aware that what he is doing now is going backwards from a historical point of view, but he has to do it again.The reason is very simple. He is trying to delegate certain powers to the lower-level people, but at this stage, the political wisdom of the lower-level people is not up to standard. It is not an exaggeration to say that morality is not worthy.

If he really relaxes the control, God knows what incredible things these short-sighted guys will do.Therefore, he had to use strong means to draw a red line for these guys, so that they could wake up a little bit when they were confused.

As for the following discussion between the representatives of the people and the conquerors headed by the lord about the future of the Night Capital, it can be said that it was carried out in a warm but not intense atmosphere.

William had planned to abolish the city of Night City, but Night City was not a qualified city in terms of economy or security.

The surrounding area of ​​Jianqiu Mountain is basically rocky hillocks, which are not suitable for local agricultural development.

If you want to transport food from the outside, the distance to the Dagger Valley Plain in the west is far away, the road is rugged, and the transportation is extremely inconvenient. Going east to the Shadow Valley is nearly half the distance, but the residents of the Shadow Valley are more xenophobic, and the reclusive bosses are more There are many, importing food from here is easy to get stuck, and it is not easy to annex it.

Zhentil Castle gathered forces and launched countless attacks on Shadow Valley, but never took advantage of it, which shows how difficult Shadow Valley is.

The security of the Night City is also very problematic. There are many passages leading to the Underdark region on the bottom floor of the Night City. Some of these passages are well known, while others are extremely secretive.Drows, gray dwarves, and even the more frightening mind flayers have built cities or lairs underground not far from the night city, and there are countless other underground monsters that can threaten the residents of the night city .

To completely eliminate these safety hazards will definitely require a long and arduous protracted battle. For William and his subordinates at the current stage, this is definitely a deep pit and quagmire that cannot be avoided.

However, even if the night city has such and other problems, no one or non-human is willing to abandon her, no one else, for all intelligent life, a city with a civilized atmosphere is really too precious, let alone the night city The beauty of the capital is definitely a ceiling-level existence in the city of Faerun.

However, just as William was discussing with his people about the appropriate handling of the Night Capital, the Valley of Shadows in the east of the Night Capital fell into chaos of blood and fire.

A large number of monsters from the Night City and even the entire Dagger Hills poured into the fertile Shadow Valley like a tide. These monsters range from weak goblins to powerful undead, cyclops, trolls, etc., which can be said to be varied.

Those fences and walls that guarded against wild beasts could not withstand the attacks of monsters at all, countless farms and cottages were breached, and residents were killed and even eaten by monsters.

Soon the bronze bell representing the signal of the enemy's invasion was rang, and countless men ran out from their own or other people's homes. They took up swords, bows and crossbows, and gathered together to meet the invaders.

But when they saw the overwhelming army of monsters, all the people felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, and the fighting spirit in their hearts was immediately extinguished, and many people's weapons even slipped from their hands without knowing it.

"Mamma Mia! Is...is this the end of the world?"

There is no way, there are too many enemies, so many that people are completely desperate to the extreme.

Suddenly, a clear singing sounded in the crowd, accompanied by the clash of weapons and armor, a warm feeling rose in the hearts of the listeners.As the singing became more and more passionate, people's will to fight was also ignited. They picked up their weapons again, clenched their swords and shields and prepared to meet the impact from the monsters.

The singer also revealed his figure at this moment, but it was a heroic lady wearing exquisite elven mail armor and a flame-shaped headband.She has a tall figure, long silver-white hair, leaning on a beautiful long sword, and looks at the army of monsters proudly.

This is Shadow Valley Town, the political center of Shadow Valley. It has tall walls and strong houses. The residents with high martial arts skills have defeated the invaders from Zhentil Castle countless times.But today, these former warriors didn't even dare to rush out of the castle to save the villagers who were being slaughtered by monsters, and could only passively accept the survivors who fled.

Because Shadow Valley is relatively small, the towns and cottages in Shadow Valley are relatively concentrated, and neighbors can see each other through walls and fences.So people can clearly see the victim who was attacked, and the victim can also see the "indifferent" soldiers hiding on the wall of Shadow Valley Town before the victim died.

The silver-haired female warrior looked at the raging monsters in the distance, her eyes were burning with anger, she really wanted to order the soldiers around her to rush out to save the innocent people who were being slaughtered, but she knew very well that doing so would only make people behind her die. towns followed suit.

However, the silver-haired female warrior couldn't stand it anymore after seeing another family driven out of the cottage was massacred by a group of monsters, including two innocent children.

She drew out the sword in her hand, and the sword was shining with magical aura.The silver-haired female warrior raised her long sword and shouted loudly: "I am the storm! The harp player! All high-level harp players, follow me out of the city to save people!"

Many people responded loudly.

The silver-haired female warrior, who called herself Storm, waved her hand and made a fly gesture, and then she soared into the sky like a bird, and then swooped down to a place where another family was being slaughtered.

Brave father and boy with long swords and shields trying to fight the monster, protecting the mother and younger children behind them.But like praying mantises blocking the shaft of a car, they were soon torn apart by the superior number of monsters. The father fell under the fangs and claws of the monsters, while the weaker boy was played by the monsters like cat and mouse play.

And the boy's mother and young siblings are on the verge of a tragic end.

Although the arrogance of the monsters was annoying, it also gave Ms. Storm a chance to rescue her. She quickly launched a surprise attack from the air, and started with [Monster Hold].

All the monsters around this poor family suddenly stopped all their movements at the same time. They maintained their posture at that moment like sculptures, and then they were quickly slashed and killed by the female swordsman who descended from the sky.

The women and boys who survived the catastrophe cried out in joy and joy: "Ms. Storm! Help us!"

[Monster Immobilization Technique] couldn't fix the monsters farther away. When the storm killed the monsters who lost their resistance, those monsters that were not affected by the spell immediately found her, and then they howled and rushed up.

The Storm Maiden only had time to shout to the boy and his mother: "Run! Go to the town!" before they had to charge against the monster.

Lady Storm first charmed a giant beast to become her helper, then she hacked another ogre to death with a sharp long sword, and she killed three armed goblins. Cowards, vermin in the wild, are now more aggressive than the bravest warriors, and they pose a greater threat to the female warriors than those savage giants.

If it wasn't for the many protective equipment on Storm's body, and the energy of magic made the goblin's weapons helpless, she might have been injured already.

Countless monsters make the female warrior invincible, but at this time, the female warrior of the storm is full of remorse. If she can learn a few more large-scale destructive spells on weekdays, why is she facing these huge monsters at this time? There is more than enough heart but not enough strength.

She glanced back to see that the rescued family had been secured by Harper members who stormed out of town later.So Ms. Storm no longer entangled with these monsters in front of her. She used gestures to launch another spell, and then disappeared out of thin air, and then appeared in another place where there were fewer monsters.

The Stormtrooper casts a spell again, and a celestial being answers her, a unicorn bursting from the void.

She rode the unicorn and began to clash among the monsters, looking for possible survivors.Ms. Storm saved four families, and twice as many lonely survivors, and then in another direction, a powerful wave of energy erupted from the south of the Old Skull Mountain, which represented the strongest force in Shadow Valley, and a huge explosion The sound spread in all directions.

A worry rose in the heart of the Storm Warrior, although she knew that this worry was unnecessary, because after all, there lived the most powerful old man in the world, as long as the old man didn't want to be killed, there were very few people in this world Can threaten his life, including the gods.

But the Storm Warrior still couldn't help worrying. She really wanted to rush there to have a look, and even fight side by side with him. She couldn't help but muttered in her heart: "It would be great if Hellen was here!"

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Among the seven silver-haired sisters, there is no weak one, but if the fighting power of the seven of them is ranked, Hiron, Laila and Simbu were the top three 100 years ago, but then Laila encountered bad luck and was killed by the Lord of Death. Melkor's horned crown confuses and controls, but his combat power is greatly attenuated.

Today's Seven Sisters should be dominated by Simbu, Hellen, and Alustri, but Alustri and her two powerful sisters are not at the same level in terms of actual combat ability.

Simbu is a natural martial artist, no matter it is a single fight or a group fight, this woman is a top fighter, her life is a life of fighting, when there is no fighting around her, then she is not preparing for a fight, Just on the way to battle.

But Xillen is a master of torture, her spells can destroy an army, and she transformed into a dragon can fight the strongest behemoths.A long time ago, Shillen's personality was as crazy as Simbu's now. The century-old struggle between her and her sister Lila once dominated the changes in the entire Northland until Shillen was defeated by her titular mother, Ms. In the hands of Terra, the former crazy witch has gradually restrained her edge.

It is said that the Goddess of Magic took advantage of the tragic decisive battle between Hellen and Lila, and then took the opportunity to sneak attack on Hellen who had exhausted all his spell slots, but this was not confirmed by the two parties involved.

However, many people have indirectly demonstrated this rumor from two aspects.One is that Hieren himself has been crazily chasing the secret technique of changing dragons for a period of time. Even without the assistance of spells, the giant dragon is still one of the most powerful creatures under the starry sky.Apparently, Hillen was chasing a way to maintain his own high-end combat power even without the blessing of spell slots.

The other one is related to the rumors about Simbu.

This is a well-known story.Once, Simbu fell in love with a young red-robed sorcerer's apprentice in Searle, but was separated by the master's teacher, a woman who regarded her apprentice as her own private possession, a master of illusion.

When Simbu, who was in a rage, was about to use spells to destroy the entire kingdom of Cyre as revenge, Mystra, the goddess of magic, appeared.This pair of magic mother and daughter fought fiercely in the planes for more than a month, and finally Xinbu was defeated, and thus became the chosen one of the goddess of magic.

Compared with the fiasco of Xillen, who was not much weaker than Simbu, it is obvious that Xillen, the eldest sister, was decapitated by her mother with residual blood.

Hillen is the weapon of mass destruction in Shadow Valley, and it is a conventional type, while Elminster is a seemingly indifferent hermit (in fact, he is concerned with greater things), so when Hillen lacks When it was in place, there were loopholes in the defense work of Shadow Valley that were hard to cover up.

But it is said that in a windmill south of the Old Skull Mountain in Shadow Valley, Elminster the Great Sage is using the power of the magic net. The destructive spells, [Pyroblast], [Serial Lightning], [Ice Storm]... The violent magic power killed countless monsters, but also made more monsters gather under the old skull mountain.

They stared eagerly at the seemingly inconspicuous windmill, ready to deal a fatal blow to the spellcaster hiding inside.

There is a saying that goes well, as long as there is enough cannon fodder, legends can ride whatever they want.

There is a limit to the number of times a spellcaster can cast a spell, but the number of monsters is far beyond the limit that any spellcaster can deal with. The power of [Extremely Effective Sun Flame Blast] has almost reached the limit that this spell can achieve, even if it is Perhaps the top legendary spells are nothing more than that.

As soon as this spell was cast, at least hundreds of monsters were directly burned to ashes, and several times as many monsters were burnt and burned. The huge casualties deterred countless monsters, but more and more powerful monsters turned their attention to here.

Elminster has a tenacious heart and will. He has faced more dangerous situations than this one, but there is an inexplicable uneasiness in the heart of the great sage. The tide of these monsters is too sudden.

Under normal circumstances, there are signs of any kind of monster wave. No matter whether the cause is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it is impossible to appear so suddenly.

This made the Archmage couldn't help but think of the several earth-shattering explosions in Dagger Valley to the west two days ago, the shocking scenes, the mushroom cloud full of destructive beauty, can be clearly seen even in the Shadow Valley tens of kilometers away .

At that time, Elminster talked with a few friends about his worries about Dagger Valley, and he mentioned William, the new lord of Dagger Valley. After all, Shadow Valley is the stronghold of the Harper Alliance, and as one of the Harper's background power, Elminster's knowledge of the surrounding area was as good as any intelligence master.

The Harpers were not at all optimistic about William's act as the lord of Dagger Valley. In their view, becoming a qualified lord is not an easy task. It is not something that someone can do with only bravery or fighting spirit .

In the eyes of most people in Faerun, to be a qualified land manager requires not only talent, but also inheritance.

So a proverb that is basically recognized by the general public appeared.

The proverb says: No matter how bad the aristocrat is, he knows how to govern his territory better than the smartest pariah.It even became an unspoken rule recognized by the entire civilized world for a time.

Elminster's conversations with his friends were similar to complaints, which could not have had any influence on world affairs.But it couldn't stop Elminster from among the audience who had a little guy with grass in his heart.

Isabella, the mischievous wind pony foal, was once the friend and pet of William's family.The little guy is now more than a year old, but his size has not grown at all. What she misses most is the days of adventure with the William family, and of course her older sister, the grown-up wind horse Lucini.

Isabella was very clever, and when she and her sister were coaxed away from the Williams, they knew their fate at once.

For a free horse, becoming someone else's mount is the beginning of losing oneself.

Isabella kept in mind her sister's warning to her before parting: don't grow up!Isabella!

Under normal circumstances, a one-year-old Wind Horse foal should be at least twice the size of a three-month-old foal, but Isabella used her own magic power to restrain the growth of her body.

Of course, her childish behavior is very ridiculous in the eyes of Helen and others. After all, the growth of the wind horse cannot be restricted when it reaches its age. Instead, it will become more excellent because of its unique growth process.

Isabella's concern and nostalgia for William was unprecedented. She knew that he was a very capable and intelligent human big man.

He could tolerate all her little pranks, generously gave her delicious gems, and drove away those horse monsters for her, and he didn't have so many evil intentions in his heart.Of course, that playful little human—Misha'er is also very good. At night, they can even share a big soft bed covered with a warm goose down quilt; they can also play together during the day.

Isabella wanted to go to William, but she didn't dare to act rashly, because the little guy had tried many times before, and every time he had just escaped from the "cage"—the Twisted Tower where Hellen once lived was an important thing to her. A cage - Sheeren and her badass friends will recapture her, and then Sheeren will punish her slightly, like a mild electrotherapy.

Of course, Isabella didn't know that this was an indispensable step for a high-level horse trainer in human society to tame the wind horse. its wild.

The so-called taming, to put it bluntly, is the real reuse of Stockholm Syndrome. Perhaps the people of Faerun do not know the definition of the term Stockholm Syndrome, but it does not prevent them from exploring similar empirical laws in the actual production and life process.

If Helen is still there, it may be that Isabella still can't give birth to a real desire to escape.However, Helen is not at home, and the pony wants to rob the house, and it is hard for anyone to stop him.

In the past few days, Isabella has been following that tall and big human old man, a human being who is also very intelligent.The old man was also very indulgent to Isabella. When the little one sneaked out to play, the old man would pretend not to see her and let her play in the valley.

Isabella is very smart. She quietly expands the range of her playing area intentionally or unintentionally, but whenever she has played enough, Isabella will run back obediently. The cautious psychology accumulated from failure also has the intention of the little guy to use psychological tactics to deliberately paralyze the human old man.

Of course, this little thing's small thoughts and small calculations, in Elminster's view, are like the cunning of a child, and it can always make an old bone who has lived for several centuries feel the beauty of that innocent childlikeness.

Looking at the cubs of the Wind Horse who are leisurely and cautious, Elminster can always recall the days when he met and lived with the six young sisters. At that time, the six little annoying spirits were comparable to the Wind Horse The cubs are more than a hundred times harder to deal with, those are really nostalgic days of daddy!

However, when countless monsters poured into Shadow Valley, wantonly destroying towns and cottages, and slaughtering innocent lives frantically, Elminster no longer had the heart to pay attention to little Isabella's little plan.With the help of his mage tower disguised as an old house, he kept casting lethal spells on monsters, and occasionally blessed the fleeing local residents with auxiliary spells such as [sole oil].

One of the biggest advantages of the mage tower is that it allows the caster to have a turret that can cast almost unlimited spells. For example, a first-level mage tower allows the caster to use the first-level spells without being restricted by the number of first-level spell slots.

Of course, the consumption of magic materials during the casting process is unavoidable. The firepower duration of a mage tower is directly proportional to the amount of magic consumables stored in the mage tower.Any kind of magic consumables are not cheap, whether it is beeswax, feathers, pure water, or other magic materials.

It can be said that maintaining the operation of the mage tower is an extremely costly luxury project.

Legend has it that during the construction of some legendary mage towers, an element pool will be specially opened to link the elemental plane. When the caster releases spells with the help of the mage tower, elemental substances will be extracted from the element pool to replace ordinary magic. consumables.

There is such a pool of fire elements in the old windmill in Ilmister, which allows him to slaughter monsters with spells to his heart's content, but he doesn't have to worry about going bankrupt due to overcasting.

But when Elminster was slaughtering monsters, little Isabella slipped into her den, picked out two inconspicuous little stones from a pile of gems, and used pink and tender little He rolled his tongue, put it in his mouth, and then wandered around in the mage tower pretending to be nonchalant.

The Mage Tower of the Great Sage is not full of dangerous traps like the Mage Towers of other legendary mages. It is characterized by camouflage and concealment.If a person who doesn't know the truth walks in here, you will definitely think that you are standing in an old windmill. You can even grind a few bags of oats with the millstone driven by the windmill by yourself, and harvest a pile of high-quality oat flour.

If little Isabella came to the side of the fire element pool disguised as a fireplace inadvertently, she looked around thieves. The old human man was hiding in the attic on the top floor of the windmill house and killing all directions. Trembling through the crack of the door, he peeked out at the monsters, but the scribe Hai'ao was holding a dagger and watching the monsters eager to try (the two characters should be one person).

The big and delicate eyes of the Wind Horse cub showed a humane smirk. She spat out the two stones she held in her mouth into the fireplace, looked around guiltily, and walked away whistling as if nothing had happened.

Little Isabella ran to her own dedicated entrance and exit passage, a little nervously waiting for what was about to happen.Soon, Elminster's surprised voice sounded in the windmill, and the old mage shouted: "How could this be? Who is interfering with my spellcasting? Oh! Damn it! Hao, are you going into the fireplace again?" Lost something?"

Haou hurriedly left the crack of the door, screaming with aggrieved face: "I didn't! Old man! I didn't do anything! Really! Hai'ao can testify!"

Speaking of Haou looked at his partner pitifully, Haio joked, "No! He did it! Great sage, I saw him peeing into the fireplace last night!"

Haou was furious. He rushed forward to teach the bad-hearted scribe a lesson, and hurriedly explained: "I didn't! I peed under the windmill last night! I didn't even touch the fireplace!"

Just when several people were quarreling, little Isabella activated her [Invisibility] ability, and quickly rushed out from the dedicated passage. At the same time, she left a heartfelt message to the old mage:

"Naughty big old man! Throwing things in the fireplace was my fault! Hee hee hee! Isabella is free! Isabella is going to see Big William! Hee hee hee— "

"Come back, little guy! It's dangerous outside!" Elminster yelled worriedly.

The little thing left behind a series of laughs, and then stomped away amidst Elminster's shouts.

The wind horse foal was running heartily in the air, the surroundings were indeed very dangerous, there were many flying monsters circling in the air, I believe that if the little guy showed his figure, he would never have a good fruit to eat.

For example, those nasty human-faced vultures, they like to attack the cubs of all kinds of magic horses, such as the wind horse and Pegasus.

With the ability of invisibility, little Isabella flew towards the western sky with all her strength.She knew she had to leave this monster-infested land before she could stop and breathe.

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The first Night City Discussion Conference finally came to a successful conclusion amidst cheers.

The meeting established William, the lord of Dagger Valley, as the leadership core, the elf Irjana Starcloak as the CEO of the Night City, the dwarf Bonog Steelfoot and the corpse king Pasanus as the public—the security guard A top-level leadership framework for captains and vice captains.