The Swordsman of Faerûn

And Bonog Steelfoot is a confidant worthy of his trust. Although this dwarf has a special background, he is very optimistic about William.Because Bonnog is a dwarf with a bottom line in life, and he has flexible means, just like his first encounter with William, do you think that Bonnog's team really wants to seek the legal right to rob civilians?Stop messing around, if they really can do this kind of thing, Bonnogue's players won't be so skinny and almost out of shape.

These guys are actually turning a corner to touch the porcelain of William, the new lord.

This is a talent who has the ability to sit on one side. In comparison, Baird may be more loyal than Bonog Steelfoot, but Baird's overly calm personality makes him less flexible. He might not be as competent as Bonnog as the captain of the guard in such a place where ghosts and monsters are rampant.

Of course, this is just William's personal opinion. The specific situation depends on Bonogue's actual performance.

The reason why William mainly focused on meritocracy in the distribution of power in the Capital of the Night, and then considered loyalty, in fact, to put it bluntly, he didn't think much of the Capital of the Night.

if I get it I am lucky, but if not, it is fate.

Iljana and the dwarves have done a good job, even if William is lucky, if they really don't do well, turn the night city into a mess, or even lose their land and life, William will regret it at most, and then come back Clean it up.

If he put Baird, the most loyal dog under the lord's flag, to the capital of the night for training, if he were to be lost here, wouldn't William have to regret it several times!

In fact, when it comes to employing people, our nation is the one that has the most say.

Our ancestors spent 5000 years trying almost all the employment strategies that human beings can think of, such as ranking seniority, rewarding merit, meritocracy, eclecticism, and talent without virtue. , Virtue without talent, and the beautiful expectation of having both ability and political integrity. The various advantages and disadvantages of this are clearly recorded in our history books and books, and permeate every aspect of our lives.

So when we deal with anything with a public heart, we can always make the right choice.

The CEO of the Night City, Iljana, is responsible for all the government affairs of the Night City. Of course, she must first select some officials from the local representatives to form a management organization that is accountable to her CEO, no matter what this organization is called The cabinet, the council, the government council or other names represent that the local people will become the main force that actually manages the city.

What, you said, why don't people from the night capital lead the night capital?Come come come!Come out and take a couple of steps, my Qiushuidao wants to date your brain, um, the more intimate one, if you can go on to the third step, maybe we can have a further discussion with each other.

There is also the issue of population diversion in the capital of the night, mainly those who have just been freed from slavery. William issued an injunction as a lord. Unless there are special circumstances, the vast majority of these people (mainly humans, Elves, dwarves and other intelligent races) will relocate to Waterfall Town.

However, there are still quite a few people who don't want to leave the Capital of the Night. Some of them really have nostalgia for the Capital of the Night, but some of them who are not very law-abiding covet the representative selection system here.Even a slave who has just climbed out of the muddy pit has the ambition to become a master.

William couldn't deny the choice of these people, but when a bold guy tried to incite more people to stay to serve as his pawns, William mercilessly suppressed this guy who thought he was too smart .

When William transformed from a wandering adventurer to a lord, the education he had received in the past seemed to have suddenly revived from the depths of his mind, and many seemingly long-forgotten knowledge were vividly remembered.

Of course, this is actually the echo of memory brought about by William's increasingly powerful spiritual power.

William remembered a sentence he heard when he was in school. For the ruling class, the population is the greatest wealth and resource.Obviously, he took this sentence as the truth. For William, the lord of Falls Town, these hundreds of newly freed slaves from the Night City are undoubtedly a wealth that is more valuable than any gold and silver treasures.

With the addition of this group of people, the population of Falls Town will be greatly expanded and the local human resources will be enriched. Moreover, these newcomers are like a group of catfish that have just entered the pond, and will make the original Falls Town conflicted by living resources. The antagonism between the local faction and the foreign faction has been torn and shattered.

Of course, the Night City is no longer called "Night City", and she has a new name - Dusk Town.In fact, the name change of the town was not written by William, but the first decree issued by Iljana Starcloak, the first CEO of Dusk Town, exercising her CEO power.

Her move to change the name of the town has been unanimously approved by almost all residents. The reason is very simple. Most of these people were oppressed at the bottom of society in the former night capital. Monsters, but not theirs.

Only by abandoning the past of the night capital, the remaining Dusk Town truly belongs to these new residents.The population of Dusk Town is relatively small, with a total of more than 200 people. Most of them are mixed blood of humans and monsters, and a small number are slaves such as humans and elves who refused to migrate.

There is also a group of residents with a smaller number. They are real monsters, but they also enjoy the rights that the residents of Dusk Town should have.However, they also need to contribute their own strength to this town, build the town, and protect the town.

Soon after, William and most of his elite team members escorted a relocated population of nearly 500 people on their way back to Dagger Falls.

However, a 12-member elite team was left to the new captain of the Dusk Town Guard, Bonog Steelfoot, and they will be the basic base of the future Dusk Town Guard.

Don't look at how easy it seemed for William and the others to cross the hills and ridges, but they brought nearly [-] oil bottles on the way back, and the speed of the team inevitably slowed down.

At the end of the day, William and the others only walked through no more than three hills, and the straight-line distance was even less than ten miles.If you go at this speed, not to mention returning to Dagger Falls, even if you want to get out of Dagger Hills, this team will have to walk for ten days and a half months. Totally bankrupt.

The reason why this road is so slow is that a large part of these slave-born migrants are relatively weak. The long-term cruel life and malnutrition have made these people extremely weak, and it is difficult for them to adapt to the long-term trek. You have to take a break after two steps.

Before departure, William divided these people into groups in advance, but the way of grouping was just to count the heads, without considering the physical condition of each person.

William knew that he couldn't rush on the road like this, otherwise he would be able to reach Waterfall Town in the Year of the Monkey!So he regrouped these people. According to the physical condition of each person, one group was for the strong, another group was for the ordinary people, and finally those who were weak were grouped into the last group. point.

Next, William assigned different tasks to each group, and the strongest group with the fewest number would be the pioneers. William asked them to clear the way across the mountains, build a camp every [-] miles, and then set up camp to rest.Such a strong group can walk out of Dagger Hill in only three days, and can even leave three camps and a simple passage for the follow-up team.

Next is the ordinary group as a support force. The number of people in this group accounts for a quarter of the entire team, and it is also the most important labor force of the entire migration team.

The ordinary group was divided into three small groups, each with nearly 40 people. Their task was to build bridges along the road opened by the strong group, and leave a small group to work every time they encountered a difficult hurdle. Then build another camp every fifteen miles.

As for the weak group at the end, they can't lift their hands or shoulders. They just need to stride forward along the road opened by the first two groups, and when they arrive at the ground, they can check in with their bags. Of course, most of them don't have any bags. Can carry.The members of the weak group who live in the camp have nothing to do. Unless they are really weak and difficult to get up, most of them will do some work within their ability after eating thick porridge, such as weeding the camp, modifying the ground and Walls and more.

The mutual cooperation between the ordinary group and the strong group, together with the ending of the weak group, is enough to establish a smooth road, with a high-standard and simple passage for a camp every fifteen miles, so as to connect the town of Dusk with the outside world. communicate.

Normally, if William wants to develop such a passage, he must organize a large amount of manpower and material resources in a costly manner, and then follow the labor efficiency of this era (out of the rejection of fatigue, people will inevitably grind their hands) , It is possible to open up the road if we die on a monthly and yearly basis.

This is the case when the old road of more than ten miles west of Dagger Hill was built.

But no one expected that this time, because of the opportunity of population migration, William would forcibly open such a simple road from the depths of the dagger hills full of hills and valleys.It is conceivable that if this simple road is successfully cut, then the resources and land of the entire Dagger Valley will be revitalized. As for the rest, widen and strengthen the roadbed, and transform this simple road into a permanent one, the latecomers You only need to follow the steps step by step, and there is no need to cut through thorns and thorns.

In order to make this simple passage a real blood vessel of the territory, William took out holy nails fired from most of the sacred soil, turning every camp along the way into a veritable holy residence.

For an ordinary lord, this is the real big deal.What is a sanctuary? A sanctuary is a fortress of civilization. Are you making a fuss if your family is so reckless in the wilderness doing wholesale repairs?

Because every once in a while, William will use the energy of the curse fire to replenish the vitality of most members of the weak group, coupled with a fairly sufficient diet, the people in the weak group are recovering health quickly, almost within two days , there are many people whose physical strength has almost reached the minimum standard of the ordinary group.

These grateful people organized spontaneously, the weak rushed on the road, and those with more physical strength collected wild fruits and vegetables along the way, hunted animals, and supplemented food consumption.

Indeed, for the entire team, food was the most important thing.Without food as a supplement, all William's ideas and arrangements would be lofts in the sky, which would be difficult to support.

But when it comes to grain, the valley is the most fertile and productive grain-producing area on the entire Faerun continent.Valley is not a place, but a general term for a certain area, just like we say Northeast China, North China, and Jiangnan.

The Valley is not a country, but a loose alliance composed of a series of geographical regions such as Shadow Valley, Dagger Valley, Scar Valley, Farming Valley, etc., and dozens of small city-states, as we said Same as the EU.

What is surprising is that almost all of these city-states are known for their high grain yields. Even the kingdoms of Cormyr and Sembia, which are adjacent to the Valley Alliance, or Hantu, which is across the sea from the narrow Dragon Bay, are all It's hard to find grainlands so good that every one of them covets the territory of the Valley.

Under the watchful eyes of these impoverished countries, the entire valley alliance has been continuously eroded and occupied by foreign enemies (such as Tesen Valley), and internal conquests have also continued (such as the capture of Battle Valley, Feather Valley, and Farming Valley by Scar Valley in the past two years). There are only a dozen independent city-states left in the valley.

There is no shortage of food in the valley, and there would not even be a lack of food in the dagger valley if it hadn't been for a great flood that disrupted the order of life in dagger valley.But now William is really short of food. Before he came to wipe out the Dark Kingdom, he had already arranged for the smart Rabiel to go to Shadow Valley to buy food as a representative.

However, due to the wave of monsters caused by William's sweeping of the dagger hills, it is clear that Rabiel's food shopping trip is somewhat uncertain.However, William was not worried about this, because he had already faintly felt that there seemed to be a big gift bag waiting for him to open nearby, which would greatly alleviate the current food crisis faced by the territory.

Of course, although William believed in his hunch, he would never just wait for the pie to be delivered to his door.After he sent Misha'er and Miluna to Waterfall Town on the Pegasus Mozi to send a letter back, he let them cruise around on the Pegasus, looking for unusual places around.

But it is said that there is a spring valley five miles south of the dark town, where there are countless clear springs, which converge into streams, and then into rivers. Another river originated in the middle of the Mokou Mountains and runs through the southern end of the Dagger Valley. Together, they form the source and branch of the Asaba River that runs through the entire valley.

When William stood at the outlet of the river in the spring valley, looking at the gentle water flow, he felt that his big gift bag should be on this river.

William flew back to the camp where the weak group camped, but found that the whole camp was beaming. After asking, he found out that the hunting team had caught several big guys, five fat cave bison.

This is the large beast that the Minotaurs in the Underdark love to tame most. Each adult cave bison can weigh two thousand to three thousand pounds (about one to one and a half tons).

However, although this kind of cave bison has a standard bull head and a pair of rear hooves, their body shape is very similar to that of a gorilla, with a pair of sharp clawed arms that are much longer than the hind hooves.

Of course, the biggest contributor to being able to hunt the cave buffalo is Phinea. This woman has a unique talent in hunting, and she is also quite crazy. Almost every cave buffalo has its neck broken by her.

Standing in front of one of the cave bison corpses, William frowned. Then he opened the bison's belly and internal organs with a knife, and dug out a dirty little thing from the bulging stomach.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and the little thing seemed to be woken up. She secretly opened her light blue glazed eyes, looked at William in horror, and then burst into tears with a cry. He also rubbed the bison's stomach juice, blood and other filth on William's body desperately.

-------------Chapter Dividing Line---------------

Little Isabella has never experienced any setbacks since she was born in the womb. She thinks that her greatest misfortune is to be lured out of the sight of the big William's family by two wicked guys with gems, and then kidnapped to Unfamiliar shadow valley.

Little Isabella did not miss her older sister Lucini.First of all, Lucini voluntarily left with a bad-hearted guy. This is an automatic choice made by an adult wind horse, and a cub like Little Isabella is not qualified to intervene.

Furthermore, the little guy has many older sisters, and Lucini is just one of them.

But today the little guy encountered a tragedy that was enough to leave her with a psychological shadow for the rest of her life.The Wind Horse cub has a strong life-saving ability. Whether it is her intelligence or her invisibility ability, little Isabella can walk in the wild with ease.

But this time the little guy met a falcon with the talent of [Eye of Reality]. This kind of falcon usually belongs to some powerful rangers.In order to avoid being chased by this difficult and deadly falcon, the little guy had to find a hole in the ground that could accommodate him.

Then little Isabella realized that she had slipped into the huge mouth of a terrible monster.And how could the monster refuse this kind of stutter that was automatically delivered to its mouth? The cave bison didn't even chew, and swallowed it into its stomach in one gulp.

Staying in the monster's stomach is definitely a nightmare experience. The frightened little guy still doesn't understand what despair is. She just closed her eyes forcefully, let the wind force wrap herself up, and waited anxiously. Pray for a miracle to happen.

Then a miracle really happened, a gust of cold wind woke up the little one who was a little confused, she opened her eyes a little scared, and then saw a familiar face—William.

Isabella had dreamed countless times of the big William, and then woke up every time she tried to talk to him.This time the little guy still thought she was dreaming, and she didn't even dare to speak, always worried that William would disappear as soon as she spoke.

She just cried aloud with aggrievedness, while crying, she wiped the dirt on the big man's body, the smelly bison's stomach juice and blood, turned the beautiful fur of the wind horse cub into a rag that just wiped the bottom of the pot .The little guy played tricks like this, but he pinned his grievances on it, expressing his yearning for the big guy in a mischievous way.

William, however, was full of black lines because of this little thing. At this time, Isabella did not have the demeanor of the ultimate cute creature at all. At this time, she was even worse than a dog who had just crawled out of a stinking ditch. To be bad.

If he didn't feel that this little thing was related to him, William might have slapped this extremely dirty guy into a pulp.

William pinched the back of the little thing's neck in a bit of irritability, and shouted displeasedly: "Hey! You little dirty thing, have you wiped enough?"

A soft voice sounded from the bottom of William's heart: "Not yet! I still have to rub a lot on William's body! Yeah? You talked? William, you actually talked?"

Judging only from the way he spoke and his voice, William had an extremely familiar feeling.Impossible, beautiful foal - Isabella!How could the once intoxicating cute thing be this dirty little dog in front of me?

For a split second, William even thought he was being hinted at by an illusion.

But little Isabella didn't have so many thoughts. At this moment, she only had one thought: This is true, the big man in front of her is actually real!I finally found Big William!

Then this little thing immediately plunged into William's arms with a more ferocious cry and a very ferocious charge!She let out a scream like a puppy, which was the real voice of a cub of the Wind Horse, and she kept saying in William's mind: "William! William! William! Isabella! Miss you! Miss you so much! Isabella thought I’d never see you again! Woohoo! Big William, why did you come here?!”

William pinched the little guy with four little hooves, and asked with a look of suspicion: "Are you really a little windy horse—Isabella, my little Sha'er's best partner?"

Isabella screamed a little angrily, and said, "Of course I am the beloved Isabella! Big William, have you forgotten me? Isabella is so angry It's over!"

William pointed to the filth on his body, and then deliberately mocked: "Look at your sloppy appearance, how can you not have one ten-thousandth of the beauty of our once beautiful cute creature! Little thing, are you kidding?" ?”

The little pony finally realized how ugly her filth was, she began to scream in panic, and kept spreading her inner thoughts around: "It's over! It's over! Isabella is dirty! Water! Water! Where is the water? I want to take a bath! I want to wash ten times, a hundred times! Woooooo! Where is the water?"

William said to the little guy: "I know where there is water, come with me!" After saying that, William got up and flew to the south with a trail of flames, maybe he also had to wash the dirt on his body.

The little pony flew into the air slowly, and then galloped in the air as if stepping on an invisible road, slowly flying in the direction William left.

When little Isabella spent nearly a quarter of an hour rushing to the spring valley, she found that William was already soaking in the water. When she saw the crystal-clear spring water, she immediately cheered and plunged her head into the water .

Fire creatures hate or even loathe water, including many pyromancers.But William was an exception. He liked water, whether it was rain from the sky or running water in the river, it always made him feel sentimental.

Of course, it does not mean that William has shielded his nature of the fire lord. His fire essence still hates any fluid or non-fluid water (some extreme fire magicians will even refuse to drink water, which is essential for life, because they hate water. ).

It's just that when William was soaked in water and enjoyed the feeling of being soaked, he felt that he was living more like a human being than a monster.

Besides, the foal's bath is quite interesting. The gastric juice of the bison in the cave has the characteristics of glue, which is extremely sticky and sticky. Once it sticks to the body, it is generally difficult to wash it off with water.

One of the great tricks of the cave bison is to spit out its own gastric juice to attack the enemy.

However, this did not bother the little guy. After swimming in the water for a while, he rushed out of the water and paced in the air three feet above the water.

After a while, a refreshing chill spread out from the little guy's body, covering her body with a layer of salty frost, and even the spring water below showed signs of freezing.

But little Isabella's figure also grew up without a sound, from a small dog to the size of an adult goat.But the frost flowers attached to the little guy's body surface were like shattered ice crystals, falling from her body surface together with dirt.

The body of the foal, which had been filth removed once with frost, was much cleaner, and the handsome appearance of the cub of the Wind Horse could already be vaguely seen.The little guy calmed down the chill that permeated his whole body, and plunged into the water again to soak.Then he came out of the water, releasing the chill to bless his body surface with frost flowers, and then the little guy shrunk in size again, blasting out another group of frost flower shattered crystals.

Repeatedly, little Isabella finally got rid of all the dirt attached to her body, and became that dry, clean, cute, cute little wind horse cub with flowers blooming again.

William soaked in the icy cold spring water, looked at the cub of the Wind Horse meaningfully, and said, "Little Isabella, you have grown up!"

Little Isabella was startled, and argued with a guilty conscience: "How is it possible? I haven't grown up at all. If you don't believe me, look at me..." The little guy turned his head to look at his flowing short mane, but immediately Reining in his figure, he turned back into a small and exquisite dog that can be carried as a pet.

The little guy came up to William, wandering in circles on the water like Deng Ping crossing the water, she asked cautiously: "Big William, I really haven't grown up, don't you want to ride me too? I'm too old Little, I can't carry you on my back!"

William suddenly became inexplicably happy. He shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't worry, I already have my own mount, a majestic black pegasus. Misha misses you very much, little Isabella. Go on Don't make her very sad when you left without saying goodbye this time, and you missed a bowl of rice for many days, saying that it was for you to eat."

The little guy said angrily: "Isabella didn't leave without saying goodbye! It was the bad guy who tricked me and took me away!"

William has already guessed who the bad guy the little guy is talking about, but he is very angry with Hellen in his heart. You are a top regional big shot, who secretly abducted the ignorant and cute pet of young children, and even put The blame was thrown to another poor elf, do you think you are ashamed?Can't drop the price?Shame on you?

Of course, William didn't express his emotions on his face at the moment. He said: "I just heard that Helen said that you and your sister went to the High Forest with Elf Starry Night. Could it be that she lied to you?"

Isabella jumped violently on the water twice to express her displeasure, and she said, "It's not that idiot Irv! It's the bad Heron, and there's an even worse guy, a guy named Black Rod." The human bad guy, he confused my sister Lucini, and they lied to me together! Then I was imprisoned by Shiron in a place called Shadow Valley, there is a high tower, and there are several terrible human bad guys .”

While one person and one horse were talking leisurely, there was a sudden melodious sound of bagpipes in the distance, accompanied by a cloud of fog spreading in the river.

The spring valley is a very flat small valley. The deepest spring water beach extending throughout the valley area is only a little more than one meter deep, and most of the small rivers flowing out of the valley are shallow water flows that are not as deep as knees.Normally, this river meandering through the hilly area is not suitable for shipping, because the river not only lacks water, but also has large terrain drops in many areas, and the current is turbulent, so it is not suitable for boating.

But the scene on the water at this moment directly broke the perception of ordinary people. Countless decorated ornate, or hideous flat-bottomed keel boats were floating on the water.

At this moment, only the gentle breeze is blowing slowly, but the three masts of this long series of large ships are full of sails, like a strong wind blowing, and they are galloping upstream in the river.

William was not only surprised by these obviously unreasonable sailboats, but what attracted him even more was the pockets piled up on the deck of the ships, which were all high-quality food.

However, the three-masted sailboat was floating forward on the water like a ghost ship. William did not see any crew members working or working on it. man.

William told Isabella to hide quickly, and he himself restrained his energy and blood, reduced his vitality to the minimum, and then found an inconspicuous spring puddle, and hid in it by holding his breath, while his Attention has been on these sailing boats.

But it is said that these sailboats have exposed keels, which literally means the support frame built by the bones of giant dragons.The not-so-small hull is full of cargo, but it can gallop on the water like an empty hovercraft, and it can run automatically without wind, which is very enviable.

And when these sailboats passed through the waterway one by one and entered the spring valley.The man standing on the figurehead as an attachment jumped out of the boat, stood on the only dry piece of ground in the valley, and chanted a few spells towards the boats.

Then these ships began to shrink rapidly, and soon turned into small model ships the size of a thumb, including the cargo on board.

Soon, the spring valley was filled with various miniature ship models.

The pale man pulled out a box from nowhere. After opening the box, there were countless grids inside. There were all kinds of glass bottles stuffed in the grids. Of course, it might as well be called a crystal bottle.

The pale man dipped the crystal bottle into the water, then lifted it up to look at the sky, and then clapped his hands in satisfaction.William also saw the change, a certain model ship actually appeared in the middle of the crystal bottle half filled with water.

The pale man stuffed the crystal bottle containing the model ship (or rather a shrunken three-masted sailing ship) into an empty compartment, then he took out another bottle and continued to load the miniature ship model.

The operation of these three-masted sailing ships being turned into miniature ship models and then packed into glass bottles, although extremely abnormal, is magical.

William looked greedily at the box containing the ship model bottle. He thought it was a set of treasures with unique strategic and tactical value, which would be very helpful to his future plans, so he decided to put this Get all the treasures in the set.