The Swordsman of Faerûn

During the period of the great migration of the elves, while the population of edelweiss deer in the Comanthor forest declined sharply, the number of various local beasts and predators increased rapidly, making the entire Comanthor forest almost become A bloody arena where demons dance wildly.

Not to mention those domesticated animals that have no ability to survive and resist, even the elves themselves have a large number of clansmen buried in the belly of wild beasts.

In today's Comanthor jungle, there are only some elves near the gathering area, and there are still edelweiss barely surviving and multiplying under the protection of the elf rangers.

As a Harper intelligence officer who hides his identity, Captain Hilgert Reddings knows one thing very well. When he sees an edelweiss deer in the jungle, it means that the elves are not far away, which makes this The captain was very disturbed.

In fact, Captain Reddings no longer cared whether William could survive in the elves' territory, especially after seeing William beat an owl bear to death with one punch.

He was more worried that those innocent elves would be brutally treated by the fierce king of the valley.

As Master Lu Xun said, sometimes what you are afraid of will come.

A velvet deer cub the size of a lamb appeared on the trail among the trees. It bounced like a cute forest elf, and its pink and white appearance was really cute.

Not to mention those girls who naturally like such small things, even rough men like William have the idea of ​​holding them in their hands and caring for them carefully.

Misha'er and Sailuer looked at each other, then cheered and rushed towards the little thing together. Of course, they didn't forget to take Miluna to share this opportunity to play together.

Ever since the accident that caused a certain boss to ascend to immortality, Miluna has become a silly girl, and now she is like a child with an IQ of only three or four years old, who knows how to drink water when thirsty, and to drink water when she is hungry. He eats, begs for people, and likes to play some simple games.

William felt that the child's mind needed a new development, just like a newborn child.So William asked the other two little girls to take Mi Luna with them most of the time, no matter what they did.

Because this will greatly accelerate Xiaomi Luna's mental growth.

The cub of edelweiss looks smart and cute, but when it faces the capture of three little hunters, it is almost cuter than the silly roe deer in William's previous life.

When Misha'er and the others gradually approached, even if the cubs spotted them, they turned a blind eye and let the hunters approach them.It wasn't until the two sides were almost within reach that the little deer boy suddenly jumped up like he had just woken up from a dream, avoiding the three of them by several meters, and even surprised Misha'er and the others.

Perhaps aware of the danger, the little deer boy ran away, turned a corner after running a dozen steps and continued running, ran another dozen steps, continued turning a corner, and ran again... Finally, after turning around, this little thing turned around again. He ran back to the side of the three little girls.

Little Luzai didn't realize that he was a bit self-inflicted until he was three or five steps away from the little girls.It hurriedly spread a pair of front legs to act as brakes, so that its entire front belly lay on the ground, and it slid directly to Miluna's feet in a funny posture, and finally stopped.

William had seen stupid ones, but never seen such a stupid little thing.

Perhaps the little deer boy also realized that he had done a stupid thing. It turned over and jumped, then lay on the ground holding its breath, and pretended to be a dead body foolishly.

The funny behavior of the silly and cute little thing made almost everyone present couldn't help laughing, and many people couldn't help laughing.

Misha'er, half amused and half angry, pinched the cub's head and scolded with a smile: "What a fool! How dare you play tricks on us? Look at how stupid you are pretending to be dead! Stupid thing... ..."

Misha'er was talking vigorously, but Miluna, who was only three or four years old, suddenly hugged the soft body of the edelweiss deer cub, and snatched it away, while little Celur on the other side wanted to touch it When she picked up the little thing, Miluna turned around and hid, almost like a baby fighting for a toy.

William looked at the childish interaction between the three little girls, but showed a comforting smile like an old father.

William could laugh, but Captain Hilgart Readings couldn't. He knew very well that where there were edelweiss cubs, the Elven Woodland Watch patrols were not far off.

Sure enough, not long after, accompanied by the clear sound of the deer, two adult velvet deer appeared in everyone's sight, together with an elf riding on the back of the velvet deer, a man and a woman dressed in auspicious clothes A ranger of the general jungle hidden armor.

The two elf rangers suddenly saw a large group of humans appearing in the jungle, especially what they were doing with the cute edelweiss deer cubs, and they were shocked immediately.

The elf man immediately drew a loud arrow from the quiver on his back, stretched his bow and shot it high into the sky.The other female elf bent her bow and set her arrow, aiming at Xiaomi Luna, who was holding the cub of the edelweiss deer.

Evelvet deer cubs are very precious, not only because they are cute, but also because these cubs have strong medicinal value, and they are the youth among the elves—an indispensable source of material for potions.

What is Youth - Potion?This is a secret medicine unique to elves, which can keep the drinker's body active for a long time.

For example, an elf can survive naturally for 400 years. When she (he) lives to 250 years old, the body will begin to show the traces of time, gradually aging, old-fashioned, chicken-skinned and gray-haired, withered appearance, Finally, in an ugly form, it reaches the key point of life and dies in the dust.

However, the potion of youth can keep the elf in the best condition before it dies naturally. Even an aging elf who is 80 years old will maintain the level of youth in terms of appearance and physical strength. (Only at the last moment of the body's death, the curse of aging will return to the life that violates nature)

When it comes to human beings, it is equivalent to a dying old man who is eight or ninety years old, but still has the body and energy of a 90-year-old boy.

Although youth—the potion cannot make people live forever, but the effect of "immortality" alone is enough to make all intelligent creatures who are extremely afraid of the passage of time go crazy.

In the most glorious era of the elves, youth—the elixir was almost the social welfare treatment of most elves, so that many intelligent races thought that the elves were a family of immortals in the early days.

Of course, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, especially the long-lived but emotional race like the elves, it is easy to have some unexpected strange things.

There was a period of time when an anti-youth movement with the purpose of "abandoning the evil youth-the potion and returning to natural aging" suddenly started in the society of elves.

At that time, countless elves were bewitched by this irrational movement, and then fanatically participated in it, eventually causing fatal damage to the elves' civilization.

It was not until later that people discovered that the driving force behind this movement was a terrifying evil god—Moander, the God of Corruption.After that social turmoil, the super-high welfare of the elf society has been cut in half. At least the output of youth—the potion can no longer supply all elves. Only certain powerful politicians and elves who have made great achievements are eligible to enjoy this "precious "The secret medicine.

Being able to turn the necessities that are standard for everyone in an all-elf society into a luxury that can only be enjoyed by a few people, Moander is definitely the most resentful evil god of any elf with a brain, there is no one.

It was also from this time that those elves who could not get the ration of secret medicine began to frantically use other means to find the path of eternal youth and even immortality, including but not limited to vampirization, necromancy, and demons or devils and other methods. Some alien creatures cooperated and so on. Since then, an era of elves dancing with demons has come.

In the society of elves, youth—the formula of the potion is almost public, but it is extremely difficult to prepare it. The problem of materials is one aspect. The poor preparation efficiency and low output are almost the most difficult problems to solve.

However, this does not mean that the elves gave up their youth-the potion. On the contrary, they pursued the secret medicine even more frantically, and even developed some unique alternatives for this purpose-such as a kind of life that only appeared in the elf forest. spring.

The spring of life can ensure that the old elves who drink it will maintain the effect of youth-potion within the forest area to which the spring water belongs. If they leave the forest, this effect will disappear quickly.

If there are old elves who really need to leave the forest, they can drink the real youth-potion to ensure that they will not be plagued by the curse of aging time outside the forest.

During the great migration of the elves, the elves in the Comanthor jungle were the most evacuated. They even gave up and sealed up the most prosperous city in the history of the elves (in Faerun).One of the more important factors is that the fountain of life in the Cormanthor jungle has become very unstable, and even this instability cannot be changed by manpower.

The elves staying in the Comanthor jungle are living a very difficult life. On the one hand, they are short of manpower, and they do not even have the qualifications and authority to use many of the facilities left behind after the main elves' population retreated.

On the other hand, the harm from some hostile forces or monsters makes them exhausted.Among them, the reduction of the edelweiss population is a dilemma that the left-behind elves have to face.

The blood of young edelweiss deer is one of the ingredients for refining the potion of youth, while adult edelweiss can provide the elves with a lot of meat, high-quality fur, and animal-powered mounts for transportation in the jungle.

So when the elves saw a group of humans grabbing the cubs of the velvet deer, they immediately became nervous.The female elf draws her bow and arrow and is about to shoot Xiaomi Luna directly.

It's a pity that with William by his side, the elf's actions will not only fail to save the little deer, but will cost his own life.

William's probe actually directly caught the arrow shot by the elf, and then threw it back suddenly, the castration was even three points more violent than the elf's bow.

It's just that what William didn't expect was that the blow he was determined to win failed to kill the violent elf.Of course, it wasn't that the female elf was so powerful, but that the emerald green feathered arrow dissipated automatically on the way back.

Even so, the female elf was still taken aback. As an excellent shooter, she knew very well that if the arrow hadn't disappeared halfway, she might have been killed by the opponent.

A mere human just throws it at random, and the power of the arrow is even more powerful than the arrow she shoots with the bow. How is this possible?

The female elf even thought that she might have been deceived by an illusion.

Unbelievably, she pulled out another arrow and shot it again, but this time the target was William.When the female elf was shooting an arrow, she opened her mouth and said in Elvish language: "I don't believe you can throw it back! Human!"

However, William took the arrow lightly and threw it back, all in one go.

This time, everyone noticed the different kind of battle going on, including the male elf who had just shot the arrow.The arrow dissipated into nothingness again as expected, but it was much closer to the female elf, and it was only a short distance away from hitting her.

When the male elf saw it, he stretched his bow and set an arrow and wanted to get involved, but was stopped by the female elf.

"You are using a physical arrow. Once the opponent captures and reflects it back, we will die!" The female elf first persuaded her companion, and then said to William in common language: "Human beings are amazing! Emily admires you very much." ! But Emily needs to verify whether you are strong enough!"

Then the female elf jumped off the back of the adult velvet deer, stepped back a dozen steps, opened a further distance from William, opened the elf bow in her hand, hit the four arrows directly and shot, and then she Four more shots were shot, and four more... In the blink of an eye, the elf actually shot a rain of arrows. Surprisingly, all the arrows pointed at William, and none of them deviated.

Everyone watched this sudden contest in horror, and no one dared to disturb it.

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Although the rain of arrows is urgent, William is not afraid.

Not to mention that the rain of arrows shot by the female elf on the opposite side staggered back and forth, and there were differences between them. William could deal with it calmly.Even standing up and resisting, William's force, power, and strange skills can be dealt with indifferently.

Of course, William wouldn't use his body to resist the opponent's rain of arrows. Even if he couldn't kill anyone, it would be embarrassing to be shot in a hedgehog outfit, wouldn't it?

He waved his hands directly, and his fingers seemed to turn into countless finger shadows, like a pianist playing the piano, rebounding the flying arrows as keys.

This time, William mainly focused on breaking moves, and did not pursue the lethality of throwing back arrows.

a time.

The front arrow rebounded and hit the back arrow, and the broken beads flew all over the sky.

The incoming arrow rain seemed to hit an invisible curtain wall, scattered in front of William, and then turned into nothingness.

The elf shot so many arrows, she couldn't even count them herself, but she couldn't hurt William in the slightest. If she hadn't used a special arrow, she might have been killed by the opponent's arrow throwing back.

To be honest, the female elf has been active for more than 200 years, and has never seen another human or elf who can do this kind of thing.Not to mention receiving arrows with empty hands and throwing them back, even if there are weapon masters who can call arrows with weapons, Emily has never seen a few.

Emily already understood that the human being in front of her was a real master, the one as tall as the sky.

Advent of the gods is not a well-known street news, but a secret that is only circulated in the circle of top bosses and specific figures. Generally speaking, the news of the elves staying in the Cormanthor jungle is relatively lagging, so Emily is not She would doubt whether William was the incarnation of some god, but she was sure that this strange man must be a very remarkable figure.

So after testing William's strength, she actually directly abandoned the bow in her hand, and then came to William with her bare hands raised flat, palms up, knelt down on her knees and stroked her chest, and said, "Excuse Emily for your helplessness." Offend you, strong man from beyond the jungle. Shall we hear your great name?"

William wanted to directly kill this female elf who attacked a few little girls as soon as she came up, but just seeing her respectful manner, William was really embarrassed to do it for a while, he said: "I am the lord of the valley, this The king of the land, William. Elf, your arrow just now is very strange, it just disappeared."

Emily pulled an emerald green leather quiver decorated with green vines from her back.The quiver was about a foot long and half a foot wide. It was covered with the pattern of an eagle spreading its wings. She held it in both hands and handed it to William, saying, "It's this! The most respected elf mage of the previous generation, the Immortal—— Ample quiver made by Nestaril himself."

A quiver of abundance provides its bearer with an unlimited supply of crafted arrows of all kinds.When the holder reaches into the abundant quiver, his inner desire will make the quiver immediately produce the desired type of arrows, an unlimited amount of wooden arrows, steel arrows, alchemy silver arrows and cold steel arrows. Can create five adamantine arrows.

All arrows dissipate into nothingness as soon as they hit a solid object (whether it was the intended target or not).

In other words, William's reaction speed was fast enough, and he could even throw those arrows back before they had time to dissipate.

William picked up the quiver, stretched out his hand to draw it out, and pulled out an arrow carved from hardwood. Even the arrow feathers were carved so lifelike, as if they were real feathers.

Then William tried steel arrows, alchemy silver arrows, ice steel arrows, and fine gold arrows in succession, and they were exactly as the female elf said.

William was very pleased with the ample quiver, whether it was for his own use or as a gift to one of the three little maids.

So William said directly: "Ms. Emily, you recklessly attacked me and my little girl. This is an unforgivable evil. But in view of your sincerity, I decided to forgive you mercifully, and The price of forgiveness is this quiver. Now it is mine!"

The female elf said in a feeble voice: "No! You can't do this, Your Excellency Human. That is the treasure left to me by my ancestors, and I can't lose it..."

William sneered, and shouted: "I know you have something to ask of me, elf girl! Asking for help must be like asking for help! You do it as soon as you come up, and you don't want to give anything outside of yourself as compensation. I really think you are only relying on your mouth Can you erase the conflict between us?"

Emily was about to say something more, when the sound of footsteps and wings beating the air suddenly came from around her.Then countless elves jumped out from the surrounding trees or bushes, some of them were riding adult edelweiss deer, some were prancing back and forth in the treetops, and some elves were riding Pegasus on the treetops circling.

These elves, male and female, each armed with sophisticated weapons, confronted William and his party in a semi-surrounded posture.Because the guards under William were not for nothing, when they heard that they had discovered the enemy's movement, they had already made the fastest response. Several of the human guards directly raised their shields to protect the three little girls. Niya even stood in front of the little girls with a battle ax in hand.

William couldn't help laughing after seeing the elves who were tensely confronting each other.Without him, although the weapons and armor worn by these newly emerged elves are very sophisticated, they themselves are not very good.

At least half of the elves have relatively green faces, and anyone can tell they are still underage children just by looking at them.

As for the other elves, most of them are relatively ordinary. At least according to William's perception, their qi and blood are decaying, and their breath is turbid. They should be ordinary elves with no major abilities, and they are far worse than those elves that William saw in Plowing Valley. up.

Emily was not happy when she saw these fellow clansmen who came to support, but she shouted anxiously: "Stop! Put away your weapons, my clansmen! These humans are not enemies, on the contrary, They are our hope!"

It seems that Emily has a high reputation among her clansmen. At least following her order, the elves who came to help quickly put away their weapons and loosened their bowstrings. The soaring Pegasus knight also landed in an open space. Get down and run through the forest like a normal elf knight.

Soon the tense atmosphere dissipated, but William smiled and said to the female elf: "Ma'am, please forgive me for not knowing your identity. Maybe you are facing some difficulties, but why do you think I will help you?" ? I don't owe you elves anything."

Emily crossed her hands and performed an elf ritual to show her respect for William, and then said: "I am Emily Corona, the manager of the Sierra Tree, a stayer of a dilapidated noble family. Mr. William, you Claiming to be the owner of the valley, the king of the land, if that is the case, you should not refuse to help us. Because we are also part of this land, and helping us is equivalent to helping yourself."

Emily went on to say: "Mr. William may not know what difficulties we have encountered. You should know that if we elves want to gain a foothold in the dangerous jungle of Cormanthor, we cannot do without a precious spectacle—the radiance pool..."

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The Radiant Pool is a magical source of water that can be a pond, a well, or a puddle.

The energy-rich pool water produced by the Radiance Pool has many characteristics. For example, it can be used as a minor healing potion, heals minor injuries, and can replenish physical strength. Aging, forming an effect similar to that of youth—a potion.

There is only one thing, the effect of the various qualities contained in the water of the pool of brilliance has a specific range.When each pool of radiance is born, it will form a specific energy radiation circle. When it is in the energy radiation circle, the various characteristics of the water in the pool of radiance will take effect.

And once the pool water is taken out of this radiation circle, it will become ordinary clear water.

The birth of each pool of radiance is a godsend to the elves, because it means that there can be an additional standard elf community, providing a truly elegant living environment for the elves.

The elves born and raised in the elf community can even have a longer lifespan, instead of only living for four hundred years.It's just that compared to the population of elves, the position that the pool of radiance can provide is a drop in the bucket.

It is no exaggeration to use the phrase "Success is also a pool of glory, and failure is also a pool of glory" to describe the civilization of elves as a race.

It is precisely because of the various characteristics of the pool of radiance that it has created a kind of inequality in the elf society.

When this kind of inequality forms a certain class division and confrontation over time, violent conflicts and divisions will erupt. For example, the reason why the "Crown War" that caused the decline of elf civilization is so tragic and long is that the glory of The competition for the dominance of the pool is one of the major incentives.

Of course, what makes the elves feel ashamed and annoyed the most is that the pool of radiance is an extremely monkey version of the elves' imitation of the eternal gold pool, an artifact of their civilization, and with the passage of time, they have lost most of the relevant information and information. Technology can only be maintained by metaphysics.

However, the human great arcanist, relying on the study of the principle of the pool of radiance, has developed an even more astonishing branch of technology - the secretar energy core.

This irrefutable fact can be said to have deeply hurt the sensitive and fragile self-esteem of the elves.

Different from the secreter energy core attached to the more secure and stable magic net source energy channel to filter and suck the energy in the chaotic sea (which makes them more susceptible to the magic net), the Radiance Pool is directly connected to the energy source, which makes this magical Mana creations are more likely to attract the prying eyes of some dangerous existences.

For example, some strange creatures on the alien plane can easily locate the energy channel of the pool of radiance through certain means, and then use this channel to illegally invade the main material plane.

The group of elves in front of William was facing exactly such a situation. The pool of brilliance they had - the Tree of Serra was occupied by a strange existence from another plane.

It was a terrifying, parasitic horror monster, and any elves possessed by monsters would age at a hundred times the normal speed.

The elves of Cormanthor are no strangers to this monster, because they just expelled this monster just a year ago.But that was only possible with the support of magic, bringing together almost all the high-end combat power (including Elminster) of the Harper Alliance and Comanthor's left-behind elves.

Now, due to the disconnection of the magic net, the descending of the gods (potential impact), and the occupation is not related to the fate of the entire Comanthor elves. Little Pond of Radiance.

Not to mention whether the elves can muster enough combat power to fight against that terrible monster.

Even if the monster doesn't invade, this pool of brilliance won't last long, and it's not a wise choice to waste the elves' background for such a small place.