The Swordsman of Faerûn

The owner of the city once placed high hopes on this castle for military defense purposes, and formulated a comprehensive city defense construction plan, but the long-term calm made the implementation of the plan not very firm.

After all, Gaoyue City rarely encounters wars, and the city's history is relatively short (less than 300 years), so Gaoyue City's city walls are not perfect, and construction projects are often stagnant.Compared to building towering stone walls, half-elves actually prefer to go into the jungle for wild adventures.

So when more than 20 cloud giants stood in front of the city wall that was almost as high as them, none of the guards of Gaoyue City could stand still.

As for the appointed agent left by the lord of the Deep Forest Valley when he left with his troops, the high-ranking mage Rountitz sent his female apprentice to secretly leave the north to go to the Shadow Valley to inform the lord Selmen Ulas of the imminent disaster in the Deep Forest Valley. , while walking out of his mage tower, and came to the city wall to face those terrifying giants.

He hoped that through negotiations, the impending disaster of Deep Forest Valley and Gaoyue City could be saved.

Normally, this is not a good idea.However, the old mage didn't think that he was old and temporarily lost the ability to cast spells. He could rely on other means to deal with the giant in front of him, except his own lips and tongue.

Moreover, the handsome and well-proportioned figures and appearance of these cloud giants were also one of the reasons why Lauentates chose to negotiate.Perhaps in his opinion, a handsome (giant) person should be easy to talk to.

The old mage stood on the highest point of the city wall, looked straight into the eyes of a cloud giant, and said loudly: "Son of the Lord of Storms (the title of the current leader of the giant gods, Stromuz)! Why did you come to Inrur? Your territory? Princess Shenlin once made a peace agreement with you, and we have never been short of the tribute presented to you!"

It turns out that when the first lord of the Deep Forest Valley, Inluel Aluasher, established the city-state, he had made an agreement with the giant leader on Thunder Peak that the Deep Forest Valley would pay tribute to the giants as a price, in exchange for the giants' unconditional love. Invasion of the territory of Deep Forest Valley.

The appearance of the giants means that the original agreement has been broken, and now the people in the deep forest valley are facing the most dangerous situation in history.

The cloud giant who was questioned by the old mage asked in confusion: "Is there any? Have we made an agreement with you little human beings?"

Seeing that the giant seemed a bit unintelligent, Lauentates suddenly had some hope in his heart, so he said firmly: "Of course! Mr. Huge. When the Deep Forest Valley was established, our half-elf leader Inrul Ms. Alluasher once made a blood alliance with your leader, and used half of our annual land output in exchange for the protection of your giant family!"

To save money and avoid disasters, this old mage is very shrewd in his calculations. As long as these giants do not cause much damage, no matter how much property they lose, it will be cost-effective for the people in the deep forest valley.

However, the cloud giant that this clever mage faced was not one who could really make decisions.I saw the giant scratching his scalp with a palm like a big bucket, and then said: "Little human with white hair and white beard, I have a very regrettable news to tell you, and your little one. We changed The new leader, I'm afraid she won't recognize your agreement, maybe unconditional surrender is your only choice."

An ominous premonition suddenly appeared in Loentates' heart, and he asked tremblingly, "Mr. Giant, can I meet your new leader?"

The cloud giant said indifferently: "Of course, Chief Phinea and Chief William will be here soon, and you can offer your loyalty to them."

Soon Lauentates saw a group of figures approaching from a distance.

Walking in the front were four strong female cloud giants, all of whom were close to eighteen feet tall and had looks and figures that would make most women feel ashamed.

The four female cloud giants worked together to lift a huge shoulder chariot, which was made of huge logs, and its weight and size were amazing, but these four cloud giant maids could carry it forward with ease.

Sitting on the shoulder chariot were William and Phinea. Behind the shoulder chariot was a cub battle group composed of frost giant cubs and cloud giant cubs, and several female cloud giants were guarding the surroundings. .

Kaoyi's emotions are getting richer and richer, and at this moment she has some taste, and she also wants to sit on the shoulder chariot and cuddle up to William.It's just that the cloud giant's maid refused to serve her. Compared to carrying a sedan chair for an irrelevant ice creature, they would rather be punished by the two leaders, William and Phinea.

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The prophet of Gaoyue City, the spell advisor Rountitz, never expected that the giant leader who appeared in front of him was actually two human beings—Phenia sitting on the shoulder chariot was not tall, so the spell advisor didn't take the first look. Recognize Phinea as a half-giant.

This was very different from the meeting scene with the leader of the giants that Lauentates had envisioned.

There is a saying that traitors are more hateful than enemies!

In the eyes of Lauentates, William and his wife are traitors among human beings. They actually drove them to destroy human territory, which is simply bad.

The four cloud giant maids raised the shoulder chariot so that the chassis of the shoulder chariot was almost level with the highest point of the city wall, and William could stand on the shoulder chariot and look down at the mage advisor Loun Tates. Make the steps, walk up to the city wall and talk to the mage advisor face to face.

However, as a polite visitor, William chose the latter. He stepped down from the chariot step by step, walked to the top of the city wall, and looked at the angry Lauentates.

Lauentates glared at William angrily, and began to accuse: "Your Excellency, no matter why you came here, you should not instruct a group of giants to destroy the homes of ordinary people!"

William frowned, and said: "Old man! Since my giant servant entered the territory of the deep forest valley, he has not killed a human being, destroyed a house, or robbed a domestic animal! So for you I will never accept the accusation!"

Lauentates froze for a moment when he heard the words. He really hadn't checked how much damage these giants had caused. He just took it for granted that wherever giants appeared, destruction, looting, and death were inevitable.

Although Lauentates would not completely trust what the strange man in front of him said, he would not deceive himself in this regard, um, he should be an honest young man who is easy to dismiss.

The mage consultant quickly stabilized his mind, and then said: "Young boy. Even if you restrain these giants, the nature of giants is always cruel. You brought them near our human cities, but they are still a threat." ah!"

William couldn't help laughing angrily when he heard the words, the old man was a little smug!Almost as hideous as old mage Elminster.

William laughed and said: "I came here to get some things, and I also want to say something to the people here, so that they can accept a fact. And these giants are used to ensure that no one will object when I take things, talk When people listen carefully, and willingly accept a fact."

Lauentates' complexion suddenly became ugly, and of course he understood the meaning of the person's words.

Lountitz gritted his teeth and asked, "Who are you? What do you want to get from us, and what do you want to say to the people here? What kind of facts do you accept?"

William sneered: "Old man! Who are you? Are you making decisions for everyone in this city?"

Lawn Taitz coughed a bit angrily, and then said: "I am the magic consultant of the legal lord of the deep forest valley, Selemen Ulas, and the owner of the tower of Law Entaiz. Although I cannot replace Lord Wulas to decide The fate of the whole city, but it still helps people make some promises."

William's heart was moved when he heard the words. He had heard from the old mage Elminster that Lauentates was the real backbone of the Deep Forest Valley and his most powerful helper in gaining the right to rule this place.

William said: "I am William, the current lord of Dagger Valley and Shadow Valley, and the future king of the Valley Kingdom. Now I want to conquer Deep Forest Valley and become the new owner here. Mr. Launtates, you and the people of this city are ready to How to choose? Surrender or resist?"

Lawn Taitz shuddered when he heard the words. As a senior participant in the mage gathering in the Sword Coast region, Lawn Taitz had a deep friendship with Elminster, the great sage of Shadow Valley. Of course he knew that there was a young The lord is rising in the north of the valley, and even two days ago he received a tip from the Harper Alliance that Shadow Valley has fallen, and.

Lauentates was worried about whether the expedition of his lord and student Lord Salmen Ullas was a well-designed hoax (Lauentates was Ullas' literary tutor).

Now, when William brought the giant army to his face, Lauentates finally felt hopeless. He knew that he was powerless to save the ending of Deep Forest Valley.

But the old mage consultant still has a chance to save the fate of his students.

Lauentates asked in a deep voice: "Your Excellency William, if we choose to resist, how will you treat the people in Deep Forest Valley?"

William said coldly: "Those who follow me will prosper, and those who oppose me will perish. Anyone who resists being called a soldier under my rule will be killed. Of course, if there are people who do not want to be ruled by me, they can choose to leave early. It's not impossible to allow it. But there is a premise, before I enter the city's walls."

Lauentates couldn't help but sighed. The conditions William promised seemed benevolent, but the core was extremely cruel.To put it bluntly: If you don't want to join me, you can choose to leave, but if you dare to fight directly with force, then don't blame me for killing them all.

If this set of methods were placed in William's previous life's hometown, it would basically be a joke.

Who doesn't understand the principle of encircling three ques and one?

Attacking the city is the bottom, attacking the mind is the top, but who in the old family is not half a military strategist? !

That is to say, in Faerun, where the concept of war is relatively rough, William's little tricks may make people feel at a loss.

William said to Lowntaitz: "Old sir, I will give you and the people of this city a day to think about it. I will not set foot on the walls of this city until the sun rises tomorrow morning. But when When the sun rises, whether you choose war or immediately, I will not show mercy."

Lountitz said in a difficult way: "Your Excellency William, you have left us too little time. It is impossible for us to make a decision in such a short time. Please give us three more days!"

The old guy was still dishonest, William couldn't help laughing, and said: "There is no more time! Mr. Launtates, if it weren't for your relationship with the great sage Elminster, I wouldn't even have an hour I won’t let you stay either! If I directly order the cloud giants under my command to attack the city, how long do you think your city walls can last?”

How long can the walls of Gaoyue City last under the impact of more than [-] heavily armed cloud giants? In the eyes of the old mage consultant, let alone a day, as William said, it will not take an hour.Perhaps only one charge from the giants is needed before Gaoyue City will fall.

Without the regular army of the Sword of the Deep Forest Valley, relying on the lack of training of the militia alone, I am afraid that they will not even be able to stand firmly in front of two dozen giant invaders who are nearly twenty feet tall, let alone fight bravely.

After issuing the war ultimatum, William returned to the shoulder chariot, and was carried by the cloud giant's servants to an open space outside Gaoyue's city wall to set up camp, and the giant siege brigade also retreated.

For the purpose of training the team, William asked the cloud giant siege brigade and the frost giant cubs to cut wood and dig soil together to build a camp.This made all the giants a little uncomfortable. In the past, how could they be so particular about spending the night in the wild? !

Even for more experienced adventurers, it is nothing more than building a few more bonfires and making a few early warning traps.

It's a pity that William is the real talker, no matter what he says, the giants have to follow, and they have to implement it to the letter.

It has to be said that giants are good at engineering. Whether it is digging soil or cutting trees, their efficiency is not much inferior to those of William's previous life's construction machinery. Soon an unreasonable garrison camp was built.

Perhaps in the eyes of experts, the camp built by William and the others had many shortcomings, but no matter what, it provided a fairly stable camping place for everyone.

Wangwang's bonfire was lit, and William used the omnipotent magic bit to open the cold demiplane of Kaoyi, and brought out a lot of huge beef and a lot of delicious wine from it.

For most giants, starvation is a survival instinct.Even if it is a cloud giant who is wise enough and powerful enough, it is very common for him to be hungry and full on weekdays. Being able to eat large pieces of meat and drink in large bowls is definitely a fairy-like day for any giant. It would be impossible for someone to exchange the throne of a giant.

This is the status quo of the race of giants. Under the premise of not having enough to eat, all ambitions and dreams are just vain.

There is a good saying: Giants will never be slaves unless they are in charge of food and shelter.As long as the food is good enough, goblins can also be employers.If you don’t believe me, look at the ogres. As a member of the giant species, they are often abducted by goblins with food and used as thugs.

When night fell, all the giants were sitting around the bonfire, each holding a half-roasted half-baked ox shelf, gnawing extremely vigorously. Among them, the few cloud giants who performed better during the day were still eating. Each received half a barrel of fine wine as a reward.

What kind of cloud giant is considered a good performer?Of course, it is a giant that can execute William's orders as reliably as possible. It should be noted that giants are huge in size and crude in nature. Even the smarter cloud giants will inevitably violate William's orders intentionally or unintentionally during the course of action.

For example, when they see wild animals or livestock raised by farmers on the way, they always want to hunt or plunder something to feed themselves; when they encounter farmland and wheat fields, giants always want to live in these neat looking places. Rolling and playing on the "flat ground"; seeing a human house, I always want to play with "building blocks" like a bear child...

There are countless similar situations. If William didn't insist on suppressing them, the entire deep forest valley would have been tossed into ruins by these giants.

To be honest, what William said to Lountetz on the city wall was similar to what Qiu did not commit, and there was a lot of water in it, but William made some compensation to those victims afterwards.

For how to control giants, William has some experience, after all, he knows a lot about giants.Whether it's the frost giant on the Spine of the World, the frost giant in the abyss, or the cloud giant on Thunder Peak, William discovered a lot of things after touching them.

In the eyes of ordinary people, giants are subject to strength and might.In fact, this is right or wrong. Giants obey the strong, but there must be a premise that they cannot go hungry.

The starving giant disowns all his relatives.

So William wanted to gather these cloud giants for his own drive. Although powerful power was essential, the more important thing was to feed these big guys.

Take the four female cloud giants carrying shoulder chariots as an example. They were once the relatives of the wives and concubines of the leader of the cloud giant tribe.Normally, not to mention being William's servant, it's good not to directly attack and kill his big enemy.

But when William promised them to eat meat every day, and the four of them could share a barrel of fine wine as a reward for the meal, all the female cloud giants almost stopped killing each other, and even the serious male cloud giants were a little bit ready to move .

Therefore, even if the giants occasionally made some small mistakes, William did not dare to deduct their stutter at will. These guys really dared to rebel for a stutter.

And fine wine, which can only be regarded as a luxury, has become a sharp weapon for William to train these big men.

A dinner was not peaceful, and many cloud giants who did not get a share of the wine could not restrain their greed, and always wanted to snatch it from those lucky guys according to their old habits, and then these unruly guys It was strongly suppressed by William.

After a meal, all the cloud giants finally fully realized that their little human leader was the most powerful of them all.

Have you ever seen a little human being can beat a cloud giant like a rush?Have you ever seen a human who can break the arm of a cloud giant with one punch, and kick a cloud giant that weighs nearly a ton with one kick?

The shy cloud giant next to William can tell you secretly with certainty that they have seen and felt it with their own eyes.

No matter how William and his giants frolicked in the camp, when the sun was about to rise the next day, all the giants had already stood in front of the walls of High Moon City.

Strangely, there were no defenders on the walls of Gaoyue City, and the whole city was so quiet that it was a bit confusing.

William looked at Dongfang's already exposed sun face, waved his hand and said, "Break through the city wall! Let's enter the city!"

But seeing the two tallest and strongest cloud giants swinging a giant hammer each, they slammed at the nearly six-meter-high gate wall of Gaoyue City, and with a few loud noises, the city wall was smashed open. The door was shattered into pieces of wood all over the floor.

The streets of Gaoyue City are not narrow, but Yiyun giants can only walk in single file, but if there are more than one parallel, they may bump into the buildings on the side of the road.

This also means that it is inconvenient for a huge four-person carriage to enter the city, but William is not a person who always shows off his prestige and pomp, and he is not a faint emperor.

So the shoulder chariot was left on the city wall, but William walked on the streets of Gaoyue City with everyone.

In the Moonrise Tower, the black-walled castle belonging to the lord of the Deep Forest Valley, the old mage advisor, Lauentates, was arguing with a group of high-level figures in Gaoyue City. , Most of the time he can only act as a listener, and the real debaters are the high-ranking priests from the Leaf of Study, the representatives of the farmers and the officials of the city council.

In fact, most people don't agree to surrender directly. Although they are afraid of giants, they haven't really faced them in person after all. These people still want to fight to preserve their wealth and status.

Just accompanied by the sound of rumbling footsteps, although these debaters did not see it with their own eyes, they immediately understood the fact that the giant had entered the city.

Then, when the roof of the Moonrise Tower was lifted by several giants, everyone, even the most rebellious ones, were scared.

The first eighty-one chapters to overcome another valley ([-])

The surrender of the people in the deep forest valley is expected. The people in this area are not very stubborn and tough. Of course, the premise is that you have to respect their customs and accommodate their mixed-race identity.

As we said before, most of the people here are some kind of elf-human hybrid, and these half-elves are always discriminated against in other regions.

Of course discrimination is different from discrimination.Because half-elves have the blood of elves and humans, they can be said to have the strengths of both. They have both the elegance and longevity of elves, and the intelligence and changeability of humans.

Therefore, when they walk among human beings, what they reap is the discrimination brought about by the envy and jealousy of human beings.The elves are a kind of discrimination similar to disgust and pity.

Sensitive half-elves are almost at a loss for either kind of discrimination.

Only in Deep Forest Valley and even High Moon City can the half-elves here feel the joy of being respected.Half-elves accounted for almost [-]% of the total population of the Deep Forest Valley. The [-]% ratio seemed small, but the success rate of half-elves was too high, even so high that all humans and elves were speechless.

To give a very simple example, in terms of the awakening of extraordinary professions, the success rate of human beings is about [-] to [-]%. That is to say, for every ten human beings, about one or two human beings can become respected big shots, and the rest Eight or nine of them can only become farmers or some handicraftsmen who plan in the soil.

The half-elves are just the opposite. Ten half-elves can basically awaken six or seven extraordinary professionals. Even the unawakened half-elves have mostly become highly skilled craftsmen and even artists.

In terms of racial influence alone, half-elves almost occupy a dominant position in the social system of Deep Forest Valley.Therefore, William showed enough respect and kindness to the half-elves in Deep Forest Valley. He appointed two highly respected half-elves to act as the local political officers and sheriffs, and entrusted them to recruit extraordinary professionals to form the guards of Deep Forest Valley. .

Although the half-elves who were forced to surrender did not have much loyalty to William, they still carried out William's orders to the letter, and soon a team composed almost entirely of half-elf rangers and bards was assembled .

Some human farmers are not very willing to submit to William, because they know how difficult it is to serve giants, and they worry that William will deliberately exploit farmers who have enough food in order to serve those terrifying giants.

No one is willing to give up their own interests, especially for humans who are famous for their greed and "stupid short-sightedness (from the evaluation of the elves)".

By the way, a little knowledge point, farmers are not equal to farmers, it should be more appropriate to call them landlords, although some farmers will also plant their own labor, but most farmers will hire some part-time workers during the busy farming season Raiders and mercenaries help with the work.

right!You read that right!An adventurer's career not only includes swords and distance, but more often has to work hard for a living.This is why mercenaries who are farmers are often more popular.

Just two days after William declared his rule in High Moon City, a group of farmers secretly assembled a group of mercenaries and gangsters, trying to fight him by occupying the village on the edge of the deep forest valley near the Setheron valley.

Perhaps in the eyes of these farmers, perhaps William was too busy consolidating his rule in Gaoyue City to take care of them.Or if it was time to be crusaded, they would pass through the Siren Valley and go to another valley. It is impossible for William to deal with them at the risk of offending the military power at the other end of the Siren Valley—Bow Valley Let's go stragglers.

It's a pity that William has never cared about the winks of any valley city-state, and he is not interested in stabilizing the situation in Gaoyue City. William knows very well what the basis for his unification of the Valley Alliance is.

He led his giant battle group to appear in the border area of ​​the deep forest valley almost as if descended from heaven, easily broke through the village occupied by the farmers, and killed all the rebels in the village on the spot.

Of course, those mercenaries who surrendered on the spot and the innocent people who were coerced were lucky enough to save their own lives. Only the rebellious farmers belonged to the unforgivable people.

There were [-] rebellious farmers in total, eight of them stayed behind in the border village, were caught by William, and then executed on the spot, and three of them went to Bow Valley at the other end of Setheron Valley to seek foreign aid.

Bow Valley is a well-known autocratic city-state in the Valley Alliance, where three guys with mysterious origins (known as the Three Swords) rule there in a military dictatorship.Regardless of Gonggu's small size and population of less than 10, its military strength is second to none in the entire Xingxinghai region.

Thanks to the long-term dedicated military development of the Three Swords, Bow Valley has the largest heavy armored cavalry in the entire Jianwan area. Three times the number of auxiliary soldiers) are invincible, and Bow Valley can even suppress the neighboring big country Sembia, forcing this merchant country to pay tribute to them.