The Swordsman of Faerûn

Of course, William didn't want to clean up this monster den once and for all. That's not how to build and develop an area. Sometimes problems don't need to be dealt with as quickly as possible.

As for why William didn't hurry home to see his wife and sister, this was the old mage's suggestion, and it was also William's own choice. Storm Silverhand would lead people to deal with the spirit world shapechanger and take him away as William's enemy. she.

On the one hand, the identity of the shape-changer in the spirit world will not be directly exposed, and it will not attract the attention of the same kind of shape-changers in the spirit world, and it will also keep the secrets and safety of some people related to this matter, such as Ms. Charlotte.

To put it bluntly, the spirit world skinchangers also have backgrounds in the multiverse, otherwise they, a group of fraudsters messing around in various planes, would have been surrounded by righteous people long ago.

Of course, this does not mean that the spirit world skinchangers can do whatever they want, they have a unique racial behavior logic criterion judgment, the specific content is basically difficult for outsiders to know the details except the spirit world skinchangers themselves.

However, the great things that William and the others have done, such as stealing her spring water without telling the spirit world skinchanger himself, and demolishing her tower, although it has already severely damaged the power background of this spirit world skinchanger, as long as Without unmasking her on the spot, the spirit changer's companions would have no reason to retaliate.

Because for an individual skinchanger in the spirit world, a successful reenactment of life is even more important than any power, wealth or even so-called companions.

The two, William, worried that if he saw that Xibei guy, he might not be able to help but slash her with a knife, so he simply kept out of sight and out of mind, and let the silver-haired sister and others deal with it.

William wandered around in the Spider Nest Forest, killing one spider monster after another from time to time. Even though the roar of a giant dragon came from the shadowy valley town more than ten miles away, William never left the Spider Nest Forest. Looking over there thoughtfully.

When he came near a woodland with strange stone accumulations, he found traces of humanoid creatures.

Four rare forest deer were brutally killed on an altar in a clearing.Forest deer are the traditional companions of the forest moon elves, just like humans are to cats and dogs.

Generally, forest deer live near the tribe of the moon elves, and will never appear in the spider's nest forest.

Besides, apart from humanoids, very few monsters would kill their prey but not eat it. Instead, they would disembowel and dismember their prey like a ritual.

There is no doubt that there are evil people making sacrifices to evil.

William inspected around the sacrificial site carefully, but found a cave leading to the ground. Although the entrance of the cave was well concealed, it couldn't be hidden from William's eyes. He could easily see that the cave was It was artificially modified and excavated.

It seems that there are enemies from the underground, and William just knows that there is an evil humanoid creature living in the dark world underground, and likes to mingle with spiders, dark elves, or drow.

William didn't intend to go to the underground world to make troubles. It's not the time for him to go out, but this doesn't prevent him from sending some warmth to the dark elves and even the spiders in the forest, such as making underground mushrooms once.

Without the old mage by his side, William could only use the once-a-day chance to open the Flame Gate, which forced him to stay in the Spider Nest Forest until midnight.

As soon as the spell slot was recovered, William immediately opened the flame channel, and then the old mage and Selena reached Faerun without any difficulty, and William also summoned a cursed fire phoenix.

The old mage firmly opposed William's act of using the cursed phoenix to enlarge the mushrooms. After all, the lethality of this move was too great, and its lethality was simply stronger than the top spell [Meteor Burst] that spellcasters could legally use. ] It is countless times more terrifying. Although the release of this over-limit spell-like spell will not cause damage to the stability of the magic net like normal top-notch spells, the old mage still raised objections to William.

William didn't take the old mage's objection to heart, but he didn't detonate the cursed phoenix either, because William thought of an idiom to raise the bandit's self-respect.

It is said that with the support of the old mage and his party, it is foreseeable that the process of William's unification of the valley should be smooth, but after unifying the entire valley, William's life may not be so easy.

He and his territory will definitely be feared or even hostile by many forces and organizations from the outside and even from the inside. This is absolutely unavoidable for a new big kingdom.

To break through this predicament, there are nothing more than two ways. One is to become friends with those opponents (that is, to learn Ermao), but it means that William has to give up a lot of persistence and bottom line. He will definitely not choose this way.

Of course, beating up all the opponents is also an option. For example, William’s family members in his previous life used this method, but this method is a last resort choice, and William will not take that step.

In this way, it is a very good choice to find yourself a public enemy that everyone recognizes, and then let yourself become the opponent of this public enemy, so as to create a situation where you are mired in the quagmire of confrontation and unable to care for others.

And the evil drow from the Underdark is undoubtedly a good Kou, and William decided to raise them well.

Of course, not planning to level the Underdark with the Mushroom Technique does not mean that William will do nothing. He transformed the energy carried by the Cursed Phoenix into high-temperature flames, melted the entrance cave of the Underdark, and temporarily closed it Get up, lest those cute little Kou Kou come out to make trouble anytime soon.

William's "obedience" made the old mage very satisfied, and he even looked forward to William's unification of the valley and becoming the new king of the valley.

After all, it is a pleasure for anyone to have a wise and obedient king friend.

What?You say people will change their minds when they gain power?I'm sorry, in the eyes of the old mages, William's becoming the king will not bring much improvement to his strength and status. It should be said that the unified king of the valley is more likely to become a burden and constraint on William.

After all, no matter how you look at it, William has no potential to become a tyrant.

With this knowledge, the old mage immediately began to actively contact his friends, and at this time, information about Shadow Valley and Misty Valley quickly came to William through the old mage.

During the period when William left Faerun to save the real Phinea, there were many "riots" in Shadow Valley, and many "opponents" began to jump out against William's rule. They ambushed patrols and kidnapped officials. It is to make "Phiniya" who is left behind suffer a lot.

This pretender had to follow the real Feniya's character design, carrying an ax and leading people around to suppress the rebellion, put out fires, and rescue the hostages, without even having time to pay attention to the "battle situation" in Misty Valley.

What's more funny is that in these "riots" one after another, there were hardly many victims. Only the furious spirit world skinchanger hacked to death a few unlucky "thugs" with Thunder Frost.

Then just yesterday, another riot attracted nearly Jadesli pretenders and her suppression team. The mobs ambushed them with superior force, the suppression team was defeated, and the false pretender took the identity of Phinea captured.

That's right!These so-called riots and ambushes are pre-prepared fake scenes, which are used to distract the attention of the spirit world's skin-changers. Not knowing the truth, they thought they were really rebelling against the rule of the people of Dagger Valley over Shadow Valley.

Since these "actors" are all members of the Harper Alliance and its friendly organizations, they were instructed during the course of the action to "convince and educate those deceived accomplices and save their souls from repentance. The most important thing is to educate a few times" action plan, so the actors are more measured in their actions.

Even if the spirit world skinchanger caught a few unlucky guys and used his innate ability to read their memories, he didn't find anything wrong. He just attributed this abnormal phenomenon to the enemy's woman Zhiren.

Of course, there are also spirit world shapechangers imitating Phinea's thinking mode, and being biased by the stupid woman's elm head has something to do with IQ, otherwise, relying on the intelligence of the spirit world shapechangers themselves, I am afraid that something is wrong. .

The final ambush was led by a group of masters from the Harper Alliance. In order to ensure safety, they used several quasi-legendary fighters, even including two adult dragons, and then the poor pretender was caught. .

The next thing is the information from Misty Valley. After two days and one night of water voyage, William's expedition team successfully arrived at the Ashaban Beach in Misty Valley and successfully completed the landing.

However, the expeditionary force temporarily led by Storm Silver Hand and Charenty lost a small battle near a small village outside the town of Ashaban Beach, and then relied on the village wall and the remaining Misty Valley who came to encircle and suppress The knights confronted each other.

Until yesterday, the expeditionary force re-launched a counterattack against the Misty Valley Knights, but secretly sent an elite squad to infiltrate the town of Ashaban Beach, and successfully captured the Supreme Councilor of the Misty Valley. The knights were negotiating. According to the old mage, perhaps they might use this to subdue the entire Misty Valley without bloodshed.

William was noncommittal about this, and after thinking about it, he said to the old mage, "Old man, where are Phineya and her frost giant cubs?"

The old mage took a look at William in surprise, and then said, "On Thunder Peak in the south of Misty Valley, there is alpine snow that never melts all year round. The climate and environment are very suitable for the life of frost giants. But it is said that on a high mountain in Thunder Peak There lived a group of evil cloud giants, and perhaps they might be a threat to the frost giant children your wife brought back."

William sneered in his heart, but said in his mouth: "I am also a little worried about Phinea and the others. How about this, let your people bring Thunder Frost, and I will bring Thunder Frost to Phinea directly. As for the hand of Shadow Valley Tail, let the old man handle it."

The old mage was delighted again that William did not care about power and politics. He asked curiously, "William, how are you going to deal with those cloud giants?"

William said coldly: "It's fine if those idiots are sensible, otherwise I don't mind killing them all!"

The old mage said insincerely: "William, as a lord, it is better to be tolerant sometimes."

The smile on William's face was very bright, and he said: "I know, old man. If those cloud giants are willing to obey, I will treat them kindly."

So the two looked at each other and smiled, and then began to prepare for the next parting ways.

The old mage summoned a peregrine falcon with magic, and let it bring a message to the people of Shadow Valley.The peregrine falcon's speed was very fast, and it didn't take long for a giant dragon to emerge from the eastern jungle of Shadow Valley, and flew over the spider's nest forest at lightning speed.

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This is a giant dragon with bronze-colored scales and a sharp blade-shaped head bone plate. When its huge body slid over the treetops of the Spider Nest Forest, the violent wind it set off broke many weak branches and trunks, and the fallen leaves were even worse. It's like rain.

The old mage released a rainbow of seven colors into the sky, but it provided the coordinates for the giant dragon.

Surprisingly, although the giant dragon made a lot of noise when it landed, it didn't cause much damage to the forest.

Think about it, a giant beast that is almost as majestic as the blue whale, the largest mammal in William's previous life, performed the most standard gymnastics prince landing in the jungle. The visual sense is even more outrageous than an elephant dancing ballet.

The soft landing of the giant dragon in front of him is undoubtedly rare among the vast majority of giant dragons who act carelessly. At least William had a good first impression of this giant dragon.

After the dragon landed on the ground, it retracted its wide wings a little, and then said quickly in an unexpectedly enthusiastic tone: "It's a pleasure to meet you, old skull (another nickname for the old mage). I heard that you and Ben That bastard got into a fight, that's a big anecdote, I'm curious if you gave Ben a hard time. By the way, yesterday we also teamed up to capture a half-giant, the giant who didn't grow up The cub is really difficult, especially her weapon, which is a powerful magic weapon. I was cut off a toenail by it. It was an unfortunate experience. Old mage, do you want it? I can sell it to you cheaper."

This giant dragon chattered fast, making people feel like a gossip who couldn't stay idle, and his mouth was so broken that it was shocking.

Pointing to the giant dragon, the old mage said to William: "William, this is Othorgram, Dove's good friend, a kind and easy-to-talk brass dragon, or an energetic adventurer? Live in the Mokou Mountains to the west."

The old mage pointed to the mountains to the west of the Spider Nest Forest, and then introduced the identity of William to the brass dragon, saying: "Oser, this is William, the new lord and king of the future valley, and also the owner of Thunder Frost Axe." Master's husband."

The brass dragon looked at William with its huge eyeballs, and said with feigned surprise: "Oh! Really? This is really unfortunate news. Presumably, William, you want to get that magic battle ax very much, so that you can entrust your love to your wife. Miss it. In fact, I am willing to fulfill your thoughts. After all, compared to a foreign object, beautiful love is more cherished.

Of course, you have to understand that this tomahawk is always hurting everyone who dares to hold it, including me, who also suffers from cramps in my toes from the nasty electric shock.Maybe you should pay some compensation or something. "

As the giant dragon spoke, he took out a roll of animal skin from between his toes, and gently cut open the animal skin with the tip of his toenails, revealing the contents inside. Isn't it Phinea's Thunder Frost? !

Phinea has been annoyed countless times that she lost the Thunder Frost to the spirit world skinchanger. As her husband and weapon giver, William is of course obliged to help his mother-in-law get the Thunder Frost back.

He stepped forward and grasped the battle axe, letting the thunder and freezing air contained in it rub against his arms, King William the dragon asked: "Mr. dragon, what do I need to pay in exchange for the thunder frost? "

William was already mentally prepared. If the giant dragon dared to speak loudly, he wouldn't mind turning into a debater and convincing the opponent with his fists and sword.

Fortunately, the brass dragon is not a greedy creature. The giant dragon said without hesitation: "I want a thousand pounds of the fattest fresh meat, and there is not enough fresh meat to reward you, human lord, don't you want to take me away?" Treasures obtained through hard work."

William can't be dealt with by this brass dragon all of a sudden. Dude, do you just specify the price so casually?Don't you wake up now!

William cast his eyes on the old mage, who shrugged and said, "I said before, Oser is a good old dragon, he always does some ridiculous things, but kindness is his constant excellent quality. "

How much is a thousand pounds of fresh meat? Three to five live cows or other animals of similar quality can basically meet the requirements of the brass dragon, but it is indeed a bit difficult in the spider nest forest, because there are already few animals in this forest. You can see a larger beast.

But this is not a problem for William, because in the wilderness of Faerun, all kinds of large wild animals and monsters are the most indispensable. As long as William thinks, let alone a thousand pounds of fresh meat, even if the number is increased by ten times, he It can also be done easily, the difference is only in the problem of killing more and killing less.

William knew that spider meat was also a food rich in protein, nutrition and energy, especially some spider monsters in the Spider Nest Forest, whose size was even bigger than a horse, each of which could almost provide as much food as a steer. of high-quality protein.

Although this kind of slimy protein is not very suitable for the recipe of the brass dragon Othorgrama, it can attract some special predators.For example, the spike-mouthed monster that likes to eat liquid food, and the shark-lizard beast that is good at diving.

Spike-mouthed monsters are strange beasts with needle-like mouths similar to mosquitoes. Their favorite thing to do is to inject their own paralytic toxin into the body of arthropods, and then slowly suck the tissue fluid in their bodies.

More than 60.00% of the body tissues of spider monsters are protein liquid similar to egg liquid, so they are also one of the favorite prey of the nail mouth monster.

The shark lizard beast is a kind of shark that can swim in the water like a shark, surfing freely in the mud, and even rocks can hardly stop the shark lizard beast.However, in a rocky environment, the shark lizard's sneaking speed is only one-tenth of the normal speed (it will also cause a lot of movement), and like a human diving, it will suffocate after a long time.

The size of these two monsters is not small, especially the shark lizard beast, which is called a land shark, is comparable in size to a whale shark, and its meat is even more fat and fatty, which is the best delicacy.

William first hunted down a few goat-sized nail-mouthed monsters in the Spider Nest Forest to serve as the brass dragon's dessert, and later he ambushed and killed an adult shark lizard in a depression, but the brass dragon He and the old mage couldn't help calling him good luck.

The brass dragon who felt that he had taken advantage of it even gave William an exquisite lucky sword.

Although William didn't lack weapons, he still gladly accepted the gift of the brass dragon. He felt that this dragon with a broken mouth was worth dealing with.

After bidding farewell to the old mage and the brass dragon, and leaving Selena as his liaison officer, William left the Spider Nest Forest with Thunder Frost, and rushed to the south of Misty Valley with [Rocket Flight].

Misty Valley is easy to find. Starting from Shadow Valley, you only need to go down the Asaba River to see the next riverbank valley with a city, which is where Misty Valley is located.

However, William did not follow this simple way to find the way, but he needed to go around a long way. He had a more direct and faster way to find the way - relying on his own perception.

Starting from the Spider Nest Forest, William went straight all the way south. He first passed through a fissure valley, then crossed a low hill full of various ancient tombs, and a road that was slightly visited by people, and then a rolling hill appeared in the In William's sight.

Thunder Peak, as the name suggests, is a mountain where thunder can often be heard.

Leiming Peak is not a single mountain peak, but a series of mountain ranges connected by snow peaks into the clouds.In the depths of the Thunderpeak Mountains, annual eruptions of destructive storms and thunderstorms ravage the surrounding region, so much so that many cloud giants regard Thunderpeak as the earthly palace of Manor, the evil cloud giant god, and place their lairs in these perennially accumulated above the snowy peaks.

Not only cloud giants, Thunder Peak is also a favorite habitat of many giant dragons, especially evil dragons. They will often build dragon lairs on certain unowned mountain peaks, and some will also build small dragon kingdoms .

There is no doubt that Phineya is a qualified thug, but she is definitely not an excellent leader. The only thing that leads the team alone is very shocking. If it is not for the experienced ice general Ka With Eoyi serving as advisor and assistant, it was really hard to predict how bad things would be for Phinea and her warband of frost giant cubs.

After all, surviving alone and a group of people in the wilderness are definitely two completely different concepts, especially in a strange wilderness.

Ever since Phineya and her group passed through the portal and came to a certain place deep in Thunder Peak, they did not find Dove at the place where they landed. Phineya thought that Dove was lost, but she didn't know The woman from the Yinshou family is also a powerful spellcaster, and she combined her own teleportation spells to go directly to where she wanted to go when she was teleporting.

After searching unsuccessfully for Dove's whereabouts for a while, under Kaoyi's persuasion, Feniya had to start thinking about a group of frost giant cubs under her hand, because they had encountered danger many times.

If the frost giant is the representative of the most evil reputation among all giants recognized by ordinary people, then the cloud giant is definitely the most authoritative and dominant existence in the minds of all giants.

Cloud giants are the largest of all conventional giant races. Their body size is generally two-thirds higher than normal frost giants, and some cloud giants are even twice as tall as frost giants. It is said that they have never grown up Cloud giants are less tall than those under eighteen feet (which makes one shudder to think).

It can be said that cloud giants look down on almost any other branch of giants except for another relatively taller relative of storm giants.The cloud giants consider themselves above all giants, with the exception of the storm giants - they admit that they are equal to themselves - although the storm giants may not think so.

So when the cloud giants found out that Phinea and the others were a small team composed of almost all frost giant cubs, they were a little shocked and confused at first. It's not too far away.

Of course, the cloud giants were not afraid of the frost giants, they were just surprised at how those cold guys dared to invade the territory of the "Lord of the Clouds", are they crazy to want to be slaves? !

The class stratification in the giant's pedigree is as clear as that of a certain third brother's family, but it has a unique logic of power.When a cloud giant commands a lower-level giant (such as frost giant, fire giant, stone giant, etc.), unless the commanded giant thinks it has an advantage in individual strength-and this advantage is the most intuitive The best judgment is the comparison of body size, generally he will not disobey the opponent's order.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some giants who are full of resistance or overconfident in their own strength will reject the status quo of being enslaved, and then they have to defeat the upper-level cloud giant through battle, otherwise he may be killed directly.

And it gets interesting when two tribes of giants of different ranks meet.

The leader of the next giant tribe will bear the greatest pressure in the conflict between the two tribes, because his choice and ability will determine the outcome of his tribe in this conflict.

For example, Phinea is the leader of the frost giant cubs, if she directly chooses to give in and surrender when facing the cloud giants, then she and all the frost giant cubs will become servants of the cloud giants.

But if Feniya chooses to resist, then any cloud giant individual is not qualified to order the frost giant cubs under Fenia's hands before defeating Feniya, the premise of course is that these cubs will not leave Fei Niya. When Niya looked at her, she was alone.

Now Feniya is fighting against the enslavement from the cloud giant. Since she encountered the first greedy and evil cloud giant, Feniya has basically spent the past few days in battle.

This kind of battle between two different giants has an extremely strict tradition to follow, and Feniya knows it very well.Of course, it's not that Phinea values ​​the tradition of giants, but that she has a definite example to learn from.

Feniya's grandfather——Greyhand Omiel, the recognized king of the Felun giant clan.The great leader of the frost giants is a living legend. He has defeated the leaders of countless tribes of frost giants who refused to surrender, as well as demon lords and evil gods.However, what fascinates Lao Huishou's relatives and people most is the story of Lao Huishou defeating a whole tribe of cloud giants.

The cloud giant is a mutant species of the cloud giant. It is at least ten meters tall and can be regarded as a type of titan.Every cloud giant can basically be regarded as a demigod, and the leader of the cloud giant that was defeated by the old gray hand even reached a height of 30 meters.

The old gray hand defeated them one after another, and finally defeated the leader of the giants in the sky after a bloody battle.Then the old gray hand formed an alliance with this Titan giant by virtue of its record and personal charm, and it was with the support of this powerful titan ally that the old gray hand made the demon lord Kostchurch encounter its first ever battle fiasco.

The glorious deeds of the old gray hand were widely circulated among his tribe and subordinates. As a relative of the old gray hand, Fenya had heard about it more than once from her mother Yasuna and her subordinates, and she had many details about it. Even familiar.

Facing the provocation of the cloud giant, Feniya is naturally not to be outdone. In this regard, she has a glorious family tradition and William's precepts and deeds, but she has a psychological advantage that others cannot understand when dealing with large enemies.

Feniya was recalling the process of the old gray hand defeating the Titans that her mother and the tribe had said, while responding to the challenge of the cloud giant.

Speaking of which, Feniya no longer has any psychological burden on Yasuna's betrayal. She thinks that she has punished herself and redeemed William with self-exile (exile is the most common punishment method used by giant tribes. ).

Phinea sees the deal with the spirit world skinchanger as punishment for her own exile, but she suffered from missing William, and left William a replacement so that William would not be affected.When William personally appeared in front of Feniya and took her back, it meant the end of this exile, and Feniya's self-punishment was successfully completed.

This is Phinya's divine logic, she doesn't know how much psychological shadow area her stupid operation has left on William.

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