The Swordsman of Faerûn

Elminster immediately summoned everyone else, including Foxis and his Shadow Spirit companion, ten people (Shadow Spirit) prepared to fight together to survive.

However, the sudden and earth-shattering explosion made a group of people desperate. With the help of the magic protection cast by the old mage desperately, they finally survived the terrible impact.

However, most of the snow peaks were also thrown into the cold world.

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The lair of the spiritual skinchangers is not a simple castle, but a super warship beyond ordinary people's imagination.This super battleship can freely travel through the etheric plane full of etheric fluid, just like a mud drill that can travel through the depths of a swamp.

Of course, if not necessary, the lairs of spirit world skinchangers will generally choose to temporarily stop in a suitable place, and build a scene that imitates the main material plane. For example, the Lord of Many Faces docks his lair in I found a place close to the ice plane, and constructed Phinea's favorite ice and snow scene in the Northland.

William, who had already been completely enraged, did not hold back at all this time. When he retrieved Phinea, he immediately unleashed his most terrifying ultimatum - [Nuclear Phoenix].

For ten weeks, the mighty power of the fire phoenix directly tore half of Laprous' lair into pieces, and the remaining half was thrown into the ice plane.

The Ice Plane is a derived plane of the Water Elemental Plane. To be precise, this is the side elemental plane formed by the superposition of water and air.The part near the water elemental plane presents the landform of floating ice sea, while the area near the air elemental plane is mostly a floating terrain full of holes, icicles, ice bridges, and ice caves.

The severe cold is naturally accompanied by strong winds, which makes the environment of the Ice Plane extremely harsh. This is the home of ice crystals and snowflakes, and endless severe cold fills every corner of the entire plane.However, this does not mean that the ice plane is a forbidden area for life. Although this plane looks empty, it is not barren.

Whether it's the vast ice field, the undulating snow-capped mountains and glaciers, or the mysterious and gloomy frozen forest, or the endless sea of ​​ice, there are countless strong lives.

Among the various ice-type creatures, ice elemental bodies and snow elemental bodies are the two most common types of ice elemental creatures, but not all of them.There are also many ice subspecies of flesh and blood, such as winter wolves, ice bears, snow deer, etc., and of course frost giants and white dragons.

The Ice Plane not only overlaps with the Water Elemental Plane and the Air (Wind) Elemental Plane, but also connects to the No. 20 three-layered ice hell in the abyss—the Frozen Ruins (also known as the Frozen Wilderness).

And the demon lord Kostchurch, who controls the frozen ruins, is a fanatical frost giant conqueror. He desperately hopes to recruit all the frost giants in the world into his command, instead of letting those "lost" frost giants "Blinded" by Solem, god of the frost giants.

Therefore, Kostchurch always organizes his berserk army to launch wars of aggression against the frost giant tribes in various planes.Under normal circumstances, Kostchurch is more willing to plunder the main material plane and the frost giant tribe in Joseph's Garden.Because the frost giants of the ice plane have their own leader, the ice lord Hironax is also an ambitious lord.

But now that the magic net is disconnected, Kostchurch can't use the portal to send his army to other worlds, so he can only go to the ice plane to plunder the frost giant tribe without a transition.

Just when Kostchurch led his army composed of frost giant barbarians, frost mages, ogre barbarians, white dragon beasts and some war beasts, he attacked a frost giant castle and almost killed most of them. At the time of the rebels, the sky of the ice world was torn apart.

Endless material fell from the sky, like meteorites falling on the endless ice field.For Kostchurch's abyssal army, this is undoubtedly a real disaster that fell from the sky. Most of the soldiers who were going to enjoy the joy of looting after the victory were killed in the terrible impact and collision, and those who survived They were all terrified, screaming and running wildly in the ice and snow, and then buried their little lives in the deadly cold.

Angry Kostchurch smashed all the ice and snow and soldiers blocking the way with a huge warhammer. He roared unwillingly at the cracked sky, and then saw a huge thing like a mountain come out of the crack, Then he rushed to the area where Koschurch was located.

This time the angry lord finally woke up a little bit, cold sweat broke out from the ugly giant's forehead, and then turned into ice chips and fell on the ground.He also screamed and rushed into the distance, like a raging savage bull, smashing all obstacles along the way, no matter if they were His soldiers or lifeless icicles and snow nests.

It wasn't until William blew up Laprouse's lair that he realized that he had done a stupid thing.He made a mess of the surrounding environment, the raging shock wave and violently turbulent etheric fluid forced him to enter the ice plane with Phinea.

The good news is that the old mage seems to have entered the ice plane, and Elminster is the only reliance for William and Phinea to return home.

In addition, even if William reopened the gate of flames, he and Phinea would only be sent to the world of flames, but they would not be able to return directly to Faerun.

Of course, if all the roads are exhausted, William can also learn the [Transfer from another world] spell, and use the universal spell slot once a day to open the door to the main material world for himself.It's just that this method is relatively unreliable, and it can only be regarded as a method of no solution.

The reason is very simple. If a human wants to learn a certain spell on a different plane, especially the relatively high-end teleportation spell [Transfer], it is basically equivalent to a person living in Africa who cannot buy a boat ticket. Going home, I had to go to the tribe of black buddies to learn airplane piloting skills, and then drive a plane home.

First of all, on most inner and outer planes, it is difficult for you to find a place to learn spells, and many places are deserts of knowledge.Another thing is that even if William is really lucky and happens to learn the spell of [Transfer from another world], by the way, he has to ignore the question of whether his learning ability is sufficient. How to locate the coordinates of Faerun's plane is also a big problem. Inexperienced, he still can only continue to rely on luck to find his way home.

In general, the old mage is the only hope for William and his wife to return to Faerun.

William spread his flaming wings and held Phinea trembling in his arms. The two slowly landed on the icy plain covered with ice and snow. They nestled together and hid in a snow pit, avoiding Laprous The terrible impact of the hive hitting the icy ground.

When the surrounding environment finally settled down, and the snowflakes fell one after another under the strong wind, William and his wife climbed out of the snow pit. They identified the direction, and planned to find a foothold to rest before going to find the old mage. whereabouts.

It's a pity that fate did not give William and the others a chance to breathe. Accompanied by a burst of malicious scolding and scolding, the sound of many chaotic and heavy footsteps reached the ears of William and the others from a distance.

William and Phineya looked up in the direction where the sound came from, only to see several half-grown frost giant boys and girls running towards this direction, but behind them was a terrifying and ugly giant.

This giant is more than fifteen feet tall, almost taller than the two Phineas. He has well-developed muscles and horizontal wrinkles, wrapped in dirty fur, and holds a huge steel war hammer in his hand. , erupting with deadly violence and evil.

This giant could have easily chased the frost giant's children, but he didn't do that. He was like a cat teasing its prey, deliberately creating an atmosphere of despair for these poor children, forcing them to run away, but everyone Any child who couldn't run and stop would be smashed to death by this cruel giant with a hammer.

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Kostchurch has many evil interests, and the nightmarish shadows that haunt the lives of young frost giant children is certainly one of them.

When the demon lord spread his evil in front of William, his fate was basically sealed.

In fact, when this group of desperate frost giant children spotted William and his wife, they couldn't help feeling a little hopeful.

Of course, no one would think that these two strangers who suddenly appeared could stop the angry lord's footsteps, but whether these two people could slow down Kostchurch's footsteps, or they could escape with him, let this desperate team Expanding the scale is enough to give these innocent young frost giants a little more comfort than nothing.

Phinea is not an idiot with a strong head. If she was alone, she would never do something stupid like challenging a super giant (any giant taller than twelve feet can be counted as a "super").But now that William was by her side, Feniya was much braver. She glanced at William subconsciously, then swung the ice battle ax twice, and rushed straight to face the angry lord.

By the way, Feniya's usual Thunder Frost is not with her, but is left in the hands of the impostor on the main material plane. Now she uses the Frost Battle Ax instead, which is in the Frost Giant's hands. A common commodity among barbarians.

When Kostchurch found Phinea's figure, he couldn't help but twitched his nostrils like a sinkhole, and shouted with a smile: "Oh! What a familiar smell! Look at the great His Majesty Kostchurch What did you find?! The blood of the old gray hand! I actually saw the child of the old gray hand! Hahaha! Spit on this blood that deserves to be cut off! The reptile of the old gray hand! Are you ready to bear your most desperate and cruel fate? ?”

There was a reason for Kostchurch's anger at the old greyhounds.As we all know, Kostchurch always likes to organize large armies to invade other planes to plunder the frost giant tribes. Their evil army is very powerful and difficult to encounter opponents, but it does not mean that they are really impossible to encounter.

And the old gray hand living in the spine of Faerun's world is undoubtedly a strong enough opponent.When he was young, Old Greyhand O'Muer was a well-known frost giant hero. He had great ambitions and sophisticated methods, but his luck was not good or bad.

However, it is said that once the old gray hand gathered the frost giants and their servants from the spine of the world, forming an army capable of destroying the entire civilized world, preparing to establish a great empire in the north dominated by the will of the frost giants.

After hearing the news, Kostchurch prepared to take the opportunity to say "the mantis catches the cicada, the oriole follows".He intends to secretly dig out the old gray hand's lair when the old gray hand and his army go out to fight, and take the opportunity to take the old gray hand and his army for his own use.

It was a coincidence that these two armies with different thoughts collided with each other on the expedition day they had planned.The Kostchurch army, who was about to take out their homes, just ran into the old gray hand army that was attacking head-on, and then a shocking encounter broke out between the two sides at the edge of the Northland.

The war was fought so darkly that the whole of the civilized world of the Sword Coast panicked and wept at the might of these two dreadful armies.

In the end, the old gray hand and his army of frost giants finally won the war, after paying a terrible price.The army of Kostchurch's invasion of the main plane was wiped out, and the angry lord was spared. After the war, the frost giant army on the spine of the world could no longer support the plan to attack the Northland because of too painful losses. He could only hastily retreat to the depths of the Spine of the World to recuperate.

Although the ambition of the old gray hand died halfway, his prestige resounded throughout the giant world, and at the same time he suffered the hatred that Kostchurch could not let go of.

This hatred not only stems from the fact that he was defeated by the old gray hand, but also from a series of follow-up problems caused by this fiasco.

Kostchurch is a vengeful demon lord, though he prefers to think of himself as the king of the frost giants.

When Kostchurch suffered a disastrous defeat in front of the old gray hand's army, he returned to his lair in the abyss alone and immediately organized a stronger evil army, preparing to fight back to the main material plane to regain his position.

Then the Wrathful Lord suffered an even more disastrous defeat.

Kostchurch has an archenemy, a mighty Ethic hero from the celestial realm, Gyon Hawev.The two sides are in the same situation, and often lead their respective armies to engage in fierce battles.

And Kostchurch has always had the upper hand in this kind of battle, and he even captured Geyong Hawev's most powerful assistant-Jershy Kogur, a female warrior who also has the title of Valkyrie.Koschurch forcibly killed her and deliberately left evidence for this criminal act. A girl with both Koschurch and Jerschkogul's blood was also Koschurch's only biological daughter.

There is a reason why Koschurch was able to suppress the army of the Ethorns. This is not because he is really that powerful, but because of Koschurch's unknown past.

Kostchurch was originally a human (although he didn't want to admit it), with twisted limbs and a deformed face, his inherent ugliness disgusted the entire tribe, especially when Kostchurch began to treat When the opposite sex sprouted, he was ridiculed and humiliated unprecedentedly, and then exiled to the wilderness.

With unprecedented hatred and anger, Kostchurch encountered an extremely evil existence in the wilderness - Baba Yega.Koschurch's distorted ugliness in the eyes of normal people is extremely unparalleled beauty in Baba Yega's eyes (while Koschurch's aesthetics is still normal), and then the two sides have been in that relationship for a long time.

During this period, Kostchurch resisted fiercely, but his arms could not hold back his thighs. He was finally tamed on the surface, and of course more hatred and anger accumulated in his heart.

When Kostchurch claims to return to the tribe of his birth for vengeance, Baba Yega prepares a gift for his "prince".

A set of skulls inside a ring.

The outermost and largest one is the skull of a frost giant, which contains an ogre skull, a human skull, a halfling skull, and the innermost one is a quasai skull (something like It is based on the famous Arabic dish roasted camel).

Inside these skulls lies a black diamond that can hide the soul of a mortal within.

When Stchurch hid his soul in the black diamond, his body became no longer afraid of any blows, and his essence became a demon.

With this terrifying gift, Kostchurch was almost invincible. He returned to the tribe that abandoned him and destroyed it. He brutally killed the woman who had laughed at him, and then became the new king of the tribe.

As time passes, Kostchurch's tribe grows, unleashing evil and terror on the world around him, and he never seems to grow old.However, his anger is growing day by day, and both his mind and his body have been completely controlled by hatred.

Kostchurch's body also gradually changed, and his ugly body continued to grow, first becoming the size of an ogre, then reaching the size of a giant, and then he became even stronger.

Kostchurch and his evil tribe have finally attracted the attention of the heavens, and the hero Gyon Harvey from the Ethic clan tried to encircle this evil existence with her righteous army.

But even if the legions of the heavens are enough to suppress the evil tribal army, no one can restrain the leader of Kostchurch, who always uses Wushuang on the battlefield, making all opponents helpless (during this period, the unlucky Jershkogur Captured by Kostchurch and then what).

When Kostchurch unexpectedly suffered a disastrous defeat under the hands of the old gray hand, he immediately organized an army to launch revenge.It's just that Kostchurch led his even larger army of Avengers, who had just set foot on the land of the main material plane (Yasuna's childhood calamity happened during this period), before he had time to start his army, he had already been peeping in the dark for a long time The powerful Geyong Haweifu immediately led the celestial army to dig out the defenseless lair of the angry lord.

In this battle of digging out the house, Gyung Hawev rescued the captured partner Jeersh Kogul, and discovered the secret of Koschurch's invincibility. They immediately transferred their troops and completely surrounded Koschurch. Killed on his way back in a hurry.

It's a pity that Koschurch is already a real demon lord at this time, unless his body is killed in the abyss, Koschurch will not be really killed in other worlds.

However, Kostchurch was exiled in the abyss, unable to set foot on the main material plane for 100 years.

Old Gray Hand Omar is definitely high on Kostchurch's hate list. He desperately wants to avenge everything related to Old Gray Hand. When he breathed out, he immediately fell into a berserk state.

Kostchurch swung his huge warhammer angrily, and slammed it heavily on the ice and snow, setting off a terrible ice storm and earthquake.

Feniya jumped high without fear, and slashed at the super giant's head with the ice battle ax in both hands, and then she was smashed away by Kostchurch's hammer.

William covered his face in despair.

Silly woman!What you are holding is not Thunder Frost, you are foolish enough to fight such an opponent who is not easy to provoke at first glance, don't you have a brain? !

Phineya struggled to get up from a pile of crushed ice, looked down at her broken jaw and twisted tomahawk, but she couldn't help feeling frustrated.

She glared up at Kostchurch, who was roaring towards her, and screamed, "William! Someone beat your mother-in-law!"

Ok!This stupid girl finally learned a great summoning technique - calling William.

William is on call!

Accompanied by a blazing slash soaring into the sky, Kostchurch stopped in a bit of embarrassment. Flame damage was his weakness, but in this extremely cold ice plane, where did the blazing attack come from? !

Kostchurch couldn't help looking at William, who was only slightly higher than his knees. Could it be this humble human being who did it?

"So you're weak! That's easy!" William looked at Kostchurch's body that had been ablated by the flames, but he couldn't help feeling inexplicably happy in his heart.

In fact, as a flame lord, William felt quite uncomfortable with the environment of the ice plane. Even if he contained the essence of the flames deep in his body, retaining only the characteristics and appearance of a human being, he still felt uncomfortable with this world full of ice. I feel extremely bored and depressed by the world of frozen snow.

This made William always want to destroy something as a way of venting, and Koschurch, who came to his door, was undoubtedly a good target.

However, unleashing a flaming attack in such a cold environment will cause double consumption, so William, who has a very calm fighting will, decided to make a quick decision.

He casually threw away the Shadow Spirit Scimitar that had been ablated due to excessive heat, and drew out his own autumn water knife.William stepped lightly on the hard and slippery ice surface, but left deep footprints on it. The whole person rushed past Kostchurch's feet like a shadow, leaving a mark on the demon lord's leg. made a deep cut.

The severe pain made the angry lord couldn't help roaring, and he couldn't help but kneel down on the snow.

William continued to drag the knife and rushed towards Kostchurch, unexpectedly, the demon lord swung a huge warhammer with one hand in unbearable pain, and swept towards William.

William, who seemed to have nowhere to go back, knelt on his knees, and fell on his back, sliding and kneeling to avoid the enemy's sweep, and slipped under Kostchurch.

And at the moment when the two sides passed by each other, William raised the autumn water knife in his hand and cut open Kostchurch.

Then William beheaded Koschurch, who was in extreme pain, and let his incomplete demon essence return to the bottomless abyss.

At this moment, all Kostchurch soldiers wandering in the ice plane sensed the failure of their king. These evil soldiers who were wantonly burning, killing, and looting immediately fell into panic, their morale plummeted, and they all left Cruel abuser turned cowardly fugitive.

The residents of the Ice Plane didn't realize what happened at first, they only saw that the terrifying and cruel demon soldiers suddenly stopped attacking, and then turned their heads and ran away.That was until some brave frost giants fought back, capturing some of their enemies and torturing them for information about Kostchurch's defeat.

Afterwards, the great counterattack of the ice plane began.

Countless residents of the Ice World were organized to form a huge Frost Army.Under the command of Hironax, the lord of the ice world, they counterattacked towards the frozen ruins.

This is a vast war with an unknown duration. Countless soldiers either voluntarily or were organized voluntarily to form loose legions.

William and Phinea also joined the war involuntarily. Although their husband and wife were the ones who defeated Kostchurch, no one else knew this fact, except for a few young frost giant children.

These children were asked by William to stop spreading the matter. Of course, in exchange, these children became Phinea's personal guards.

This is the tradition of the frost giant family. A frost giant child who is strong enough is eligible for a guard team composed of other young frost giants (in the eyes of other frost giants, Phinea is still an underage frost giant).

Of course, one more thing to note is that the frost giants have another tradition that is opposite to it.

A frost giant cub that has lost its parents will generally become a slave to an adult frost giant in exchange for the qualification that he (she) can survive under the protection of the tribe, until the cub becomes an adult and completes a so-called free trial. Refined Hunt - Frustrated by its master, a frost giant slave must hunt a powerful prey (such as a young white dragon or arctic mammoth) and deliver it to a failed master (who may be dead) in exchange for its own freedom of.

These two opposing traditions form an irrepressible contradiction.

As the leader, the twin giant child must accept the challenge of those greedy adult frost giants. If he (she) wins the challenge, then the cub leader can maintain the status quo of himself and the guards.On the contrary, they will all be divided up as slaves by the adult frost giants.

When William and Phinea led a cub army composed of juvenile frost giants who had lost the protection of the tribe, when they set foot on the frozen ruins, they and their subordinates had become the stars of the entire expedition.

Not only because Phinia preserved one of the traditions of the frost giant tribe, sheltering a group of frost giant cubs who should have become slaves of the tribe to form an army.

They even defeated countless adult frost giants who wanted to jump out to make a profit.

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Even a minor frost giant is a good addition to combat power, let alone a slave.

Countless greedy adult frost giants challenged Feniya one after another. They all eagerly hoped to gather this juvenile army composed of countless frost giant children. myself.

But when these wishful thinking were cut off by William's blade, they realized that some advantages are not as easy to take as they seem.

In fact, these are just an embellishment of the Great Crusade of the Frost and Cold Army. The military strength that gathers the entire world is enough to destroy any overreaching resistance. Even William can only obey this kind of power.

Of course, William and Phinea were not alone. They met the old mage, Dove and others, but these unlucky guys appeared in the Frost Army as captives and slaves of an Ice General.

In fact, the same is true for William. In the Frost and Cold Army, only creatures of the cold type are eligible to be the leader. Someone like William who does not have the slightest cold factor in his body is only qualified to serve as a lowly servant.

William's ostensible identity is Feniya's servant, but this false identity does not affect William's troubles in the Frost Army.