The Swordsman of Faerûn

The team for the Misty Valley was assembled at an unprecedented speed. For some reason, every link was smooth and a bit abnormal. Whether it was personnel selection or material preparation, it was always perfected at a rapid speed.

Although Storm Silverhand has been swaying in front of William, trying his best to persuade him to give up his hostility to Misty Valley, but it failed to bring even the slightest delay to the expedition team.

Every decision William made and every government order he implemented gave Phinea (let’s call it Phinea) a sense of intoxication, limited by (real) Phinea’s thinking ability and She sometimes finds it difficult to understand some of William's unconventional decrees, but often these unique practices can always bring unexpected results.

Gradually, whenever William made a resolution that she couldn't understand, Phinea always felt confused, even if she couldn't understand the true meaning of it temporarily.

William personally led the expedition to set off. They were disguised as the Mist Knights returning from victory, and they took three warships from the Misty Valley and all the small boats that the Shadow Valley could collect (they will be used to load future spoils. ——grain), formed a long fleet down the river.

This time, Feniya did not go out with the team. As the lord's wife on the bright side, she took the place of William in the Valley of Shadows and guarded the inheritance that would belong to her children in the future.

And the three little girls went out with the ship. According to William, he wanted to train them to become female generals who could be independent in the future, but Phinea readily agreed to this.

However, there is a vast virgin jungle between the Shadow Valley and the Misty Valley. If there is no direct flight connection from the Asaba River, it is almost impossible to travel between the two. , almost no other effective channel can be found.

Of course, if one has the ability to fly, the sky is a more convenient channel than the river.

At night, on a small boat of the expedition fleet, William, Storm, Dove, and Charlotte are hiding in the cabin for a secret meeting.William said with a cold face: "Ms. Storm, I have had enough of acting. I hope your plan can be really effective, otherwise I will use my own way to save people."

Charlotte said: "Human boy! You don't know that terrible guy. Not to mention how difficult it is to locate an existence on the etheric plane, even if you find it, once the other party notices it, you will never And don't even try to get back who you want."

William took a deep breath and suppressed the impatience in his chest. How could he not understand the importance of it? If he hadn't been worried about being a rat, William would have killed him with a knife, but there are always things in this world that are not just relying on Quacking random killing can solve it.

Whenever William tried to hack the impostor, the warnings from his senses reminded him that he was killing Phinea.Therefore, even though William has the strength to slay gods and demons, tear apart giant dragons with his hands, and has countless secret knowledge in his mind that ordinary people cannot touch, he is still powerless.

Fortunately, William once heard Helen tell a little secret that there is a shapeshifter named Charenty in the Valley of Shadows, and William also suspects that the counterfeit next to him may be a similar existence.

When he actually met Charlotte and learned the secret of the spirit world shapeshifter from her, he suddenly realized that his caution was right.

It turns out that every time the spirit shapeshifter disguises himself, he will use his special ability to control a target creature in his image, and bring him back to the secret room of his home on the etheric plane, and the two parties will reach an exchange of identities.These disguised prototype creatures will not suffer in this transaction, but will get some coveted rewards, including but not limited to wealth, treasures, power, knowledge, and even a piece of memory.

But for those who are attracted but unwilling, the spirit shapeshifter will use the natural ability to erase all the relevant memories of the other party, and then send them back to the original place, as if nothing happened.

And those who agreed to the deal but backed out halfway, their fate is not so good.Because the mystery of the soul is involved in this transaction (some precognitive spells and abilities cannot see through the disguise of the spirit world shapeshifter), these defaulters will automatically lose their soul ownership, and they will be sold as slaves to the outer layer existence of planes.

The outer plane is so vast, if the real Feniya is really sold, it will be ten thousand times more difficult for William to find her than to find a needle in a haystack.

But this kind of thing is difficult for William, but it is not too difficult for some people.

The storm said in a low voice: "Everyone, I will repeat this plan to hide the sky and cross the sea again. On the surface, Charlotte will disguise herself as William and be responsible for commanding the expeditionary force to attack the Misty Valley. I will act as a supporter of the Misty Valley and delay the expedition fleet. Steps. William, you and Dove need to go deep into the unknown to rescue Elminster, remember only the old man knows how to navigate in the etheric plane, he is your only hope."

William hesitated for a moment and said, "I will do my best to rescue Elminster. But I have a question, what happened to Misha, has she been transferred as well?"

Charlotte said: "That child is real, but she was first selected by that bastard from outside, but the child did not agree, although her memory has not been replaced, but her memory has been tampered with, which is a bit wrong It couldn't be more normal. Don't worry, after the guy from the spirit world is expelled, the child will naturally return to normal."

The anger in William's heart became deeper and deeper. He gritted his teeth and said, "Ms. Storm, I hope you don't lie to me. If my wife can be successfully rescued this time, I will give everything I have to repay you." .But if you just use my words, you will gain one of the world's most terrible enemies, even if you are Heron's sisters."

Storm forced a smile and said, "William doesn't have a foolproof plan in this world. I can only say that besides Elminster, it's hard for you to find another person who can help you."

Dove stepped forward and shook William's palm, and said solemnly: "Mr. William, I will accompany you all the way. If there is any discrepancy, believe me, I will use my life to make up for you."

It turned out that William, Storm and others also reached a cooperation plan similar to a transaction. First, William was the main force to go to the alien plane to rescue the exiled Elminster, and then they used the alien world located in the outer plane to rescue the exiled Elminster. The big portal goes to the Wuji Peak in the outer domain, and finally directs the etheric plane through the Wanxiangmen system of the imprint city of the capital of ten thousand gates, capturing the etheric drifter where Phineya's real body is (also the home of the alien shapeshifter).

It is not difficult to find Elminster. There is a unique inner connection between the magic voters. Only some secret rituals are needed. Storm and Dove can easily locate the old mage. The key is who to send to find him return.

Now is the era of magic disappearing (this has happened more than once in history), all spellcasters have basically become a dish, but now only those strong fighters who have truly achieved great power Only then are you qualified to run out.

And William is undoubtedly the one with the most potential among all the qualified characters. Not only does he have extraordinary combat power, but he is also endowed with a super-authorized omnipotent spell position. Storm and others can't imagine it. Besides this one, where else could they find a more suitable warrior for adventure.

You said why you didn’t turn to Miluna for help, but the reason was Misha’er. This little girl’s memory has been modified. Once Miluna uses any spells related to the outer plane, the little guy will be affected by some mysterious power. The brain will make a change, and the fake Phinea on the other side will respond.

Therefore, Miluna needs to help William isolate Misha'er's sense of plane-like spells, and she can't get away for the time being.

The boat carrying William and others secretly left the main fleet. They boarded the river bank in the dense jungle, came to an altar that had been prepared, and waited for the arrival of midnight.

The spell slot mechanism of the caster is a very peculiar existence. Any spell caster can only use a limited number of limited spells in a day.Within 24 hours of a day, no matter whether you have used up the rated number of spells for the day or not, your spell slots will be refreshed and restored at the last midnight.You can neither overdraw spellcasting, nor will the spell slots not consumed in the previous 24 hours be accumulated the next day.

Based on the unique mechanism of spell slots, many spellcasters have also realized a spellcasting method similar to a card bug. When they need a large number of spell slots to do certain things in a short period of time, they will choose to use them before midnight. It's time to use up the spell slots of the day, and then wait for a while, after midnight, the new day's spell slot quota will arrive, but they can continue to enjoy the second round of spell casting.

And what William and the others are doing now is the same routine.After all, William only has one universal spell slot, and if he wants to locate Elminster and go to his location to rescue him, he needs to consume at least two spell slots.

A quarter of an hour before midnight, the storm greeted everyone and said, "The time is up. William, Dove, get ready, we are about to start."

William didn't know the spell to be cast, but with the help of the unique knowledge of the magic elect and the magic altar set up in advance, William could smoothly cast this powerful spell used to build the plane channel.

As a portal was opened in the center of the altar, the endless scorching breath and unpleasant sulfur smell came from the other side of the passage, making people's noses itchy.The storm probe looked at the scenery on the other side, then turned back and said: "Bad news, the other side is the eternal and desolate scorching hell. William, Dove, you have to be careful, the environment there is very harsh, I suggest that you first Put on your spiked boots first."

William has heard of the Scorching Hell, which is a terrible plane composed of four huge super active volcanoes with a diameter of 10,000+ kilometers (in fact, there are more small volcanoes, because the void of the Scorching Hell is infinite ), not to mention the deadly volcanic gas and terrible temperature, any creatures who set foot in the scorching hell have to face a very serious problem. The terrain here is basically a volcanic slope, and they have to pass a lucky enough balance Test (climbing identification), those who pass can stay in place in a climbing posture, while those who fail will fall into the vast expanse of super volcanic magma and be burned to ashes like falling off a cliff.

Therefore, some experienced planar adventurers invented a sharp weapon for walking and trekking in the burning hell - spiked boots.Common spikes use steel nails, but this kind of spike shoes cannot be used for walking on the steep volcano slopes of Jiaoyan Hell for a long time, because the high temperature underground will soften the steel nails.

By the way, the surface of this scorching hell is very strange. Touching the surface with normal hands or feet will only make people feel a little hot, but it is still tolerable (similar to the touch of fifty degrees water temperature).But once a foreign object such as a sword or a steel nail is inserted below the surface of the ground, the temperature there is enough to burn copper and iron.

The spiked boots worn by William and Dove are naturally not ordinary high-end products. The nails are derived from high-temperature-resistant materials deep in the flames of the volcano. These spiked boots are called Scorched Hell Heels, also known as Volcanic Walking Boots.

A few minutes later, at one o'clock when the two Feren days were separated, William's omnipotent spell position was restored. He solemnly said goodbye to Storm and the others, and then grabbed Dove's arm, and the two exchanged words. Relying on it, he activated the plane walking technique.

When they poked their heads out at one end of the Jiaoyan Hell, they found that there were countless grotesque beings crouching around the landing point, yelling and screaming at the plane channel frantically, and William and Dove felt their heads were getting bigger.

Of course, those monsters didn't want to eat these two fresh meat delivered to their door (and some greedy guys were not ruled out), they wanted to leave this terrible plane through this sudden plane passage.

Of course, William would not do what these monsters wished. After all, it is a very taboo behavior to open a plane portal and send a large number of monsters to cross boundaries.

After he and Dove fell to the ground, the plane channel was immediately closed.

The sharp spikes pierced the rock wall, and a fiery stream of fire spread out from the ground, but the boots tanned with dragon skin protected the soles of the owner's feet, but William and Dove had to bend down to fight against the seemingly A little tilted gravity.

Those monsters who went mad because the channel of the plane was closed quickly found William and Dove, and they rushed angrily at the two new uninvited guests, of course, they launched the charge in a climbing posture.It's just that these monsters were so excited that many of them broke off the ground, and were dragged into the boundless volcanic crater by gravity, howling.

The rest of the monsters still charged towards the two of William unaffected, but their movements were much more careful.

Dove looked at the number of scary monsters a little worriedly, and then said to William with a simple expression: "William, you go first, I will hold them back!"

William smiled lightly and said indifferently: "Why are you going?! These monsters with no eyes should be the ones to go!"

Then, under Dove's worried eyes, he threw his Autumn Water Knife.

However, Qiu Shuidao flew obliquely for a while in mid-air as if bent by some force, and then quickly regained his balance.

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Qiu Shui Dao was like a free fish swimming among the monsters. Each of its attacks was like scraping, leaving only a shallow wound on the monster's skin, but the results were unexpectedly fruitful.

The reason is only that Qiu Shui Knife's unique soul-cutting property will cause pain far beyond normal physical injuries to the victim.Those unlucky ones who were filled with all their thoughts by the sudden pain forgot the environment they were in. They were caught off guard and involuntarily relaxed their grip on the steep ground, and then they were like abandoned Stones generally fall, and magma may be their only destination.

There were also monsters with a stronger will that withstood the severe pain. They didn't fall for the time being, and they still rushed towards William and Dove fiercely.It's a pity that when William controlled the Qiushui knife to carry out continuous scraping attacks on them, they finally fell down the endless slope and became rolling stones on the hillside.

Not all the monsters saw the scene of William and Dove descending from the teleportation channel. It should be said that most of them did not. They were curious why there were so many idiots playing death roll and express fall in that area. Is the lunatic who knows nothing will come to Jiaoyan Hell to make trouble?

If one wants to live a long time in this land of Jiaoyan Hell, the most important thing is to have too much curiosity.After William cleared all the silly monsters in his sight under Dove's horrified and inexplicable eyes, the surrounding finally became quiet.

Those surviving monsters with winks looked at the two uninvited guests, William and Dove, in fear. Of course, their gazes more often fell on the "swimming fish" circling around William agilely. It can be called a nightmarish psychic sword.

William smiled at Dove, and then the two of them stepped on the trampling ground, passed through the terrified monsters, and climbed in a certain direction.

On the way, Dove whispered: "William, you... your fighting methods really opened my eyes. I only heard Helen say that you are an invincible warrior, but I didn't expect you to be a master of psionic power. "

William replied while walking: "I'm afraid you misunderstood, I am not a person who is good at using psionic power. Besides, can psionic power still be used at this time?"

Dove was surprised and said: "Oh! I forgot that the magic net has been disconnected, so you don't use psionic energy to drive your 'flying knife', then how could your knife fly by itself?"

William smiled and said, "This is my own secret, I don't want to tell you."

Dove snorted "stingy" like a girl, and then the two met a strange guy head-on. It was a monster with an insect face, but walked upright like a human being in a loose robe.

The monster greeted the two humans enthusiastically, of course it was a real greeting, not in a violent way.The monster first spoke to William and Dove in an uncomfortable-sounding language, but William couldn't understand what it was saying.

Dove whispered: "It's a yugoloth demon, and it is speaking to us in purgatory language. Unfortunately, I have not learned purgatory language specifically. It would be great if Simbu or Il were here. They are more proficient in this evil language. foreign language."

The monster—the yugoloth said a few words in Purgatory, perhaps because he found that the two of William hadn't responded, and immediately changed to another language, with a long tone and a wide range, which made people feel confused. a feeling of.

Dove said again: "This time it's Dragon Language. This guy is playing tricks on us, and he has a bit of malicious intentions."

Of course William knew that this yugoloth demon had bad intentions, not to mention that his spiritual perception had been reminding him of the strong malice accumulated in this monster, but William knew much more about the name yugoloth demon than normal people .

The ancient degree of this race can even be traced back to the birth of the first generation of creator races, the predecessor of the Yugoloth Demon, also known as Banaros, and they were almost at the same time as the first generation of creator races with scales (reptiles) born.According to the classification of biology, the earliest Banaros can be regarded as a humanoid evolutionary species of arthropods, such as the Mantis Man and Formian Ant Man, etc. can be regarded as the remaining branches of this race.

Different from the later prosperous and multiverse of the scaly race, when Banaros was about to enter the era of great interstellar development, a trend of thought that pursued racial perfection unexpectedly emerged among the main race, and this should have been in the history of civilization. Banaros, who was supposed to have a place and qualified to be the sixth creator race, was taken off the track of race development.

The main body of Banaros metamorphosed into yugoloths, and their minds became extremely strange. They believed that they were created by the original primordial force.

According to the banned yugoloth scripture "The Book of Forsaken Demons":

In the beginning, all existence was just a chaotic mass, with only the forces of the original origin galloping freely.

Each Force desperately seeks dominance, and the struggle between them warps and deforms the landscape of existence.Good and evil wrestle, law and chaos wrestle, and the neutral force is caught in the middle, contested by other parties.

However, the balance of power between them is too great, and no one side can gain the upper hand in the process of confronting the opponent.

As a result, the force of law combined with good and evil respectively, and the force of chaos was also concocted according to law, and the war entered a new stage.Combined, their strength has increased, but they are still tied, and the war continues in this stalemate.

Finally, they called a truce.

Because they realize that such a fight can only be for nothing, and that something new must break the deadlock.So they created their own minions--creatures that could serve them as well as take part in major battles as their surrogates.

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The extreme Banaros believe that one of the original forces created Banaros, and their strengths are incomparable wisdom and cunning minds.And the only value of their existence is to find a way to let their master (the force) win.

These depraved yugoloths believe that the perfection of the yugoloth race was once stained by the dirty hands of law and chaos. As long as they strip off the essence of order and chaos they have, what remains is the purest original. gift of power, and they will become perfect again.

In reality, it's just a horrible hoax.The so-called perfected yugoloths are just a group of poor creatures whose creative talents have been taken away. After all, they lost the qualification to re-climb to the top of the intelligent race, and can only shrink like scum in the scorching hell. own dream of perfection.

It is said that there are sixteen classes in the social structure of yugoloths, but apart from a few yugoloths that show up more, few people can distinguish the types of yugoloths from other classes.

But judging from the current style of the yugoloth, it should have a higher status in the social system of the yugoloth, because it is said that among the previous classes of yugoloth, the higher the status The yugoloth's body and behavior characteristics tend to be more like humanoid creatures. As for what the higher-level yugoloth's form looks like, it is unknown.

Yugoloths are born with telepathic abilities, and they can communicate with any creature with the ability to communicate without barriers.The yugoloth in front of him deliberately greeted William in a language that the two of them could not understand, instead of communicating telepathically, but it was just doing bad things.

Holding the autumn water knife, William asked in the lingua franca of the main material plane: "Your Excellency of the Perfect Clan, why don't you talk to us telepathically?"

The yugoloth demon suddenly showed a look of enlightenment, and it was really hard for it to show such a rich expression change with a bug face.

The yugoloth also said in a common language: "It turns out that you are guests from the main material plane, and the top of the volcano (the name of the yugoloth's name for Jiaoyan Hell) welcomes you. It's lucky, this is Nanasoro before hearing about it. Two days ago, a damn Nicaros demon (a kind of Yugoloth demon) picked up an old man from the main material plane, and made a small fortune because of it. It seems that Nanasoro is also going to be big today Make some money."

William smiled and asked, "Is your Excellency so sure that you can beat us?"

Nanasolo said with a sly smile: "Among all the guests from the main material plane, powerful psykers (meaning spellcasters) will always be the most awe-inspiring existence for Nanasolo, but it's a pity that now The entire top of the volcano has become a dead magic area (referring to the area where magic cannot be used and cannot be connected to the magic net), those fearsome guys have become toothless tigers, and Nanasolo can no longer feel Frightened.

If you are psykers, then Nanasolo will entertain you well, and feel the joy of torturing a big man by the way.And if you are not psykers, Nanasolo doesn't have to worry about you. "

Indeed, due to the addition of environmental terrain, basically any outsider will be suppressed in melee combat when facing the local yugoloth.

William nodded in agreement, and said, "What you said is very reasonable, Mr. Nanasolo. By the way, I heard that one of your race made a small fortune two days ago. I'm curious. How do you make money in such a desolate place?"

Nanasolo pointed to the small burning blood moon in the black high sky with his arthropod-like arm, and said: "There is a very big market in the Crimson Country, where you can buy any Things, of course you can sell anything, including Nanasoro himself. Also, don't compare rude guys like Nicaros with Nanasoro, Nanasoro is a higher Utroth Demon (Super Roth Demon)."

William patted Dove, who was a little impatient, and continued: "Okay, Your Excellency Nanasolo. Did that lowly Nicaros demon make his fortune in that market?"

Nanasolo said: "Of course not. If that idiot dares to enter the market, then it will become someone else's goods. The luckiest thing about that bastard is that it met a trustworthy big devil on the way , the great devil generously paid the reward and bought the prey from the main material plane."

William pretended to be vigilant and said, "Nanasoro, don't you also want to sell our siblings to that big devil?"

Nanasolo smiled dryly and said, "Nanasolo, although I really want to do that, it's a pity that the big devil has already visited the creeping city. Before he leaves the moving city, anyone who wants to find the big devil The yugoloths traded by the devil can only wait."

William turned to Dove and said, "Look, we have found the trace of the old man. Next, we will go find the big devil and rescue the old man."

Dove nodded happily and said, "William, I didn't expect you to be so cunning. Fortunately, I have always been worried that you would only use violence to solve problems."

"Huh? Ma'am, are you underestimating me?!" William said pretending to be very unhappy.

Seeing William and Dove frolicking there like no one else, Utros Monasolo felt as if he had been insulted, and he said angrily: "You two idiots! Didn't you see that Master Nanasoro is here? I said, are you stupid! Master Nanasolo is not a generous and benevolent yugoloth, I will take you to the market and sell you to those devils as slaves."

Dove said with a smile: "Uncle Nanasolo, but the two of us want to go to Creeping City."

Nanasolo refused mercilessly: "No, we are going to the market in the Crimson Country. Grandpa Nanasolo has the final say here."

William clenched his fists loudly, and said with a smile, "Master Nanasolo, it seems that the two of us have to discuss it. Who has the final say here."

Then one person and one yugoloth had a warm and friendly exchange with each other. After William broke off 80.00% of the limbs of Uncle Nanasoro's body like breaking sugar cane, Mr. Nanasoro finally knew He gave up his insistence and handed over the choice of the path to two humans from the main material plane.

Of course, this does not mean that Master Nanasoro has resigned to his fate. Yugoloth is famous for its wisdom and cunning.When the two of them were walking on the road together, Uncle Nanasolo, who was acting as a guide, tried several times to guide the team to certain dangerous areas.

However, this human man from the main material plane is terribly vigilant. He always leaves the dangerous situation in time before the danger comes, and then uses his fist to roughly comfort the sincere Mr. Nanasoro, and then the big guy walks on again. the right path.

But in the dungeon of a huge city that was separated by countless distances, the old mage Elminster was lying on the ground with bruises all over his body, dying. When I got up, I was about to die.

A handsome devil next to him said to another big devil like a giant: "My lord, this human being is being tormented by a terrible energy, and his physique obviously cannot bear the burden of this force, unless he can become more powerful." Be strong, otherwise no one will be able to save him."

The big devil looked at Elminster solemnly, with obvious hesitation on his face, but he quickly made a decision and shouted: "Prepare to pray for the altar, this slave can't die yet, I want to Squeeze enough wealth out of him to recover my loss."

The handsome devil looked at its owner in astonishment, then curled his lips involuntarily, and said in his heart: "Hehe, I still want to make up for the loss. I'm afraid the more you invest, the greater the loss! This time it's good, even the precious [Da Qi] Are you willing to throw the wish technique into it? Are you afraid that you won’t go bankrupt fast enough? Well, this time I’m afraid I have to change the master to serve again.”

Even though the devil's servant has so many psychological activities, he has to obediently prepare for the great devil to save Elminster's altar of prayer.

You ask why this big devil is so willing to invest in saving Elminster, of course it is because he sees enough benefits.