The Swordsman of Faerûn

According to common sense, this tree will grow and proliferate extremely quickly, just like a banyan tree, it will change from a tree to a forest.

But the Sierra tree did not follow this rule. Instead of growing taller and thicker, this giant tree with magical power began to explode from the inside out.

The Sierra tree is nearly a hundred feet high, and pieces of bark and trunk are like decayed sawdust shavings. They fall off from the huge mountain trunk and fall to the ground, almost forming a mountain of sawdust.

At this time, a strange gust of wind piercing the forest suddenly blew, and the sawdust, which was almost piled up in a mountain bag, was blown profusely like sand and dust, and soon spread to the entire forest.

The reason why this forest-piercing wind is strange is because the Serra tree is located in the depths of the eastern jungle of Comanthor. The so-called forest-piercing wind is theoretically difficult to appear, and this sudden forest-piercing wind is quite strange. Although it is not big, the duration is extremely long, and there is a posture of swearing not to give up until the accumulated sawdust is blown away.

In fact, the sawdust that fell from the Sierra tree was not useless. The woody debris of the holy oak tree was a very useful material for magic enhancement, and the dead branches and debris that fell off naturally were the best.

Every pound of ground ground from the dead branches of the naturally fallen holy oak (weir tree) can be exchanged for almost double its weight in gold in the human world.

For most elves, as long as a holy oak tree grows normally, it is equivalent to harvesting a natural wealth gold mine.

In fact, due to the natural vitality of weir trees or holy oaks, they rarely shed their branches naturally. Even if the holy oak trees grow to the giant city model, their naturally produced dead branches and leaves can hardly meet one-tenth of the market demand. one.

However, artificially plucked (including any interference with the formation of dead branches) or sun-dried holy oak powder, its efficacy is greatly inferior to that of the naturally shed version, and the price is also very different.

This also gave birth to a unique counterfeit industry of holy oak powder, of course, this is not the focus of our attention.

The point is that William used the life force transformed by the curse fire energy to urge the holy oak tree. Although the holy oak powder it produced was better than the unscrupulous natural version of the holy oak powder, it was also much better than those artificially produced inferior products.

Originally this was an astonishing amount of wealth, but with this gust of wind, except for a small amount of powder that was intercepted by experienced elves in advance, most of it was scattered into layers of dense forest.

Of course, William is not paying attention to this heart-wrenching news. What he cares more about is the newborn holy oak tree. It is thick, hard as crystal, and clusters of green buds grow on the antler-like canopy, which looks like a work of art carved out of huge jasper.

What really surprised William was not the change in the shape of the holy oak tree, but some kind of fluctuation inside the trunk of the holy oak tree, as if some kind of strange life was being bred in it.

When William's body touched the emerald tree, he heard a unique voice from the bottom of his heart: "Father who can walk, Sera greets you!"

William asked in surprise, "Who is talking?"

The voice replied cheerfully: "It's Sera! Sera is a nymph! My father! It is you who gave birth to me with life (energy)! Praise you, great father."

Then William saw that a certain part of the trunk of the holy oak tree became transparent, revealing a cavity in the center of the trunk similar to a culture chamber, in which a unique human-shaped embryo was suspended, which looked like a vine. Like a woven doll, mysterious and beautiful.

But William only looked at it for a while, and the tree trunk returned to the color of emerald jade, and naturally the scene inside could no longer be seen.

When William told the elves about the abnormality of the holy oak tree, most of the elves didn't know the reason for the change, but the three fools who were listening were surprised and praised William's good luck again and again.

It turns out that what is being bred in the holy oak is a strange magical life—the tree nymph, also known as the forest fairy.This kind of life is a natural elf with unique talents and characteristics, and even people in some places worship them as gods.

The most interesting thing is that the tree nymph can combine with any intelligent creature (not necessarily human-like), and breed offspring without reproduction-isolation, which is different from the dryad.

Dryads are another kind of elves born from ancient trees. Many times it is difficult for people to distinguish them from tree nymphs, because dryads are as beautiful and graceful as tree nymphs.

It's just that the dryad likes to lure those humanoid creatures, and some exchanges between the two parties can't produce results. It can only be regarded as a friendship hobby.

According to Sanyu, the elves were originally an extraterrestrial race from a world outside of Faerun. Sailing, almost lost the ability to reproduce.

However, the existence of the native tree nymphs in Faerun helped the elves who had just arrived to solve this fatal problem.

The tree nymph has a lifespan comparable to that of a giant dragon, and its vitality is strong (you know), which is of great significance to the continuation of the elves. As long as the elves still have certain abilities, then the tree nymph as the recipient will be It can be born for you to see (Note: Tree nymphs only have female gender).

For the elves (nobles), the existence of a tree nymph can greatly expand the population quantity and quality of the family, which makes the tree nymph occupy a high position in the culture of the elves.

For some reason, the elves hid the stories that had to be told between the tree nymphs and the elves, but the tradition of the elves calling themselves the children of the forest survived.

There are gossips that the current mistress of the Seldarine pantheon, Angress, the goddess of life of the elves, was formed by the aggregation of three tree nymphs and the children of tree nymphs.

Perhaps there are still secrets about the tree nymphs in the upper echelons of the elves, but these elves of the tree of Sera know nothing about it.Emily Corona, who is a descendant of nobles, may know some rumors, but as a woman of the Corona family, she can't use it even if she has a tree nymph by her side, unless she can give birth to a son.

Emily did not show too much attention to the existence of tree nymphs, but instead proposed to follow William to the northern Moon Sea for adventure.

As for the remaining elves, they had to rebuild their villages not far from the Sierra tree. Even if there was no holy oak tree as the cornerstone of the town, the elves still had the ability to build tree houses on ordinary trees.

What's more, wherever the tree nymphs are born, they will generally evolve into a beautiful fairy forest, which is a truly blessed place free from beasts and monsters.

Soon, William returned to the Chasing Spray with his family and companions, accompanied by five more elves, including Emily Corona, two elf warriors, and two elf Pegasus knights.

As a result, William's team has become relatively bloated, including three little girls, Phinea, Kaoyi, the Three Fools, twelve human guards, and twelve warriors headed by Carinola Bicamus. Monk guards, five elf guards headed by Emily Corian, and three flying horses headed by Mo Xiao.

Such a large team was enough to make the guards of a town feel threatened, and the deck of the Chasing Spray began to become more crowded, because counting the sailors who operated the ship, the crew of the two-masted sailing ship was almost full.

By the way, in order to reduce the load on the ship, William had already dragged the trophy dragon corpse into the flame world for storage, but this operation of his made Hilgert Reddings and others an eye-opener.

When the ship entered the Rhys River, which connects the Sea of ​​Moon and the Sea of ​​Falling Stars, Captain Reddings became rather nervous and nervous.

The Rhys River runs through a dense forest to the east of the Comanthor Jungle. Although it connects the two waters, the hydrological condition of this river is not very good.

The Rees River is basically composed of several connected swamp lakes and corresponding waterways, so the surface of the Rees River looks very wide in many cases, but there are only some relatively narrow areas where boats can actually sail. Most of the water surface is A mudflat that can cause ships to run aground.

If the Chasing Spray was really stuck in it, it would be a real call to the sky, and the land would not work.

This is not the most dangerous, what's more terrible is that many swamp creatures like to hide in the swamp and play ambushes, especially the swamp lizardmen are the greatest threat to passing ships, almost every boat crossing the Rees River has to go through at least one fierce fight In order to leave smoothly, of course, the premise is to win the battle.

No one likes to be shot by the bone arrows and javelins of the swamp lizardmen who don't know what toxin or filth. For this reason, Captain Reddings even pulled up a hard sail between the two masts as a cover.

It's just that this cautious captain still couldn't escape the bad luck of being set on fire. If William wasn't by his side, he might really be in bad luck.

The Lizardmen are indeed very smart. They know that the experienced captains or first mates are the core of the passing ships, because only these people are familiar with the hydrology of the Rees River. As long as they are killed first, those ships and their prey will basically never again. There is no escape.

Stranded in the swamp and tidal flats is their only end, and then there is a happy hunting time for lizards.

William easily knocked down the javelins and darts fired from the water, while the ship's archers began to fight back.The elves with outstanding archery skills shot and killed at least six enemies, half of which came from the handwriting of Emily Corona. I have to admit that this elf does have a few tricks.

As for the harvest of other shooters, it is a bit unsatisfactory.

It's just that the elf's excellent record was not praised by Captain Reddings, and his face became even uglier, even a little annoyed.

William was keenly aware of the problem, and he asked, "Your Excellency, but is there any problem that we don't know about?"

Reddings said with a gloomy face: "The swamp lizardmen here have a strong sense of revenge, they lost at least half a dozen of their adult tribe just now, and they will definitely not let it go.

Mr. William, we will soon reach a shallow water beach with winding waterways, where the speed of the Chasing Spray will become extremely slow, and we even need to use clumsy oars to move forward.

I'm worried that those lizardmen will gather a large number of people to intercept us, and that will be our nightmare. "

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Mishen Beach, a marsh tidal flat overgrown with reeds and cattails.

But if a ship wants to cross Mishen Beach, it has to choose to enter at low tide, and walk slowly along the twists and turns of the waterway. When it reaches two-thirds of Mishen Beach, it has to stop the boat and wait for the sea to flow back into the Rees River. The tide rises, and then take advantage of the rising tide of the river to forcibly cross the remaining tidal flats, so that they can pass smoothly.

During the period of time when any ship is struggling in the Mystic Shoal, it is basically a nearly fixed live target, and it is also a real hunting ground for the swamp lizardmen to harvest their prey.

The swamp lizardmen are very smart. They will test the ships that are about to enter the net in the swamp area in front of the God's Beach. If the leader of the ship is a novice (killed by concentrated fire) and rushes into the God's Beach without thinking, then they will The ship will be harvested unceremoniously.

If the people on board are veterans (resisting concentrated fire), and the defense force is relatively strong, then when the ship enters the Mystery Beach, the Swamp Lizardman will only extort some supplies and let it go.

Of course, if the defense on the ship is relatively weak, the swamp lizardmen will still harvest their prey without hesitation.

There is one type of ship that the lizardmen cannot tolerate, and that is the scaleless and hairy land creatures on the passing boats that cause serious damage to the lizardmen.The swamp lizardmen of all tribes will unite, desperately round up these perpetrators, kill them in the most brutal way and sacrifice them to the god of the swamp lizardmen.

There is no doubt that the Chasing Spray has become a thorn in the side of the swamp lizardmen, a thorn in their flesh.

When the ship approached the range of Mishen Beach and the entrance could already be seen with the naked eye, William and his party saw circles of ferocious-looking marsh lizards standing on the side deck of the ship.

Without any scruple, they glanced at the Chasing Spray and the humans standing on the deck with cruel eyes, and then jumped into the tidal flat waterway to swim away.

Captain Reddings bit his teeth and said to William: "Your Excellency William, maybe we should retreat! There are too many swamp reptiles, and it is difficult for us to survive their siege."

William didn't answer, because everyone knew that retreating was not a very good idea, unless it was the rainy season.

Two Pegasus knights rose into the air, relying on the advantage of flying to carry out aerial reconnaissance on Mishen Beach. Of course, the results brought back did not make people happy.

The reconnaissance report from the Pegasus Knight stated that at least six to seven hundred adult swamp lizardmen gathered in Mishen Beach, and their figures were scattered all over the beaches and reeds in Mishen Beach, waiting to chase the arrival of the Spray .

Faced with the news brought back by the Pegasus knights, most of the people on board turned pale.

There are six or seven hundred adult swamp lizardmen, let alone in the swamp where the lizardmen occupy the home terrain advantage, even on ordinary flat ground, if human beings want to defeat them, they can't gather three to five hundred well-trained and brave people. Warriors are also uncertain.

Now that the swamp lizards are occupying the Mishen Beach, if they go to war directly, even if they organize an army of 5000 humans, they will end in a disastrous defeat.

It is not a good thing for a ship traveling in the waves to return halfway on the established route.This is not only reflected in the loss of ships or damage to reputation, but also has a deeper meaning.

There are several gods related to the sea and navigation, the most famous of which is the goddess of the sea, Amberley, and of course, the god of sea battles Wilkul, whom William had just dealt with not long ago, and other gods related to the sea.

Among all these gods, there are those who favor good and order, and those who favor evil or chaos, but without exception, they cannot tolerate any cowards who do not have enough courage to give up halfway on the voyage.

Even if there are mountains of knives and seas of fire and raging wind and waves ahead, you can hide, avoid, and bravely rush in to fight to the death, but you can't turn around and retreat, otherwise you will definitely encounter bad luck and die the next time you sail.

Of course, if you don't sail in the future, there is nothing to say, and the God who manages the ocean will naturally not come to land to trouble you.

It needs to be added here that the situation of turning around and returning home for other reasons is not included.

For example, due to some urgent or specific reasons, you have to return to the place of departure or the place of passage.Generally at this time, the operators of the entire ship (captain and sailors) have to offer sacrifices to the ocean gods they believe in through a specific ceremony in order to obtain the understanding of the gods.

For Captain Hilgart Reddings, the decision to turn around and head back was a difficult one.

He loves the ocean, is addicted to sailing, and is a born wave man.

Hilgert is very clear that his retreat will either bid farewell to the sea and linger on the land for the rest of his life, or he will completely return to the sea on the next voyage.

However, now that Captain Reddings' ship is responsible for more than 50 lives, and Ms. Hellen is entrusting him, how can he not make the most painful choice.

William certainly doesn't know the taboos of sailing, but he can see the struggle in Captain Reddings' heart. William has never been a person who likes to force others to make things difficult for him. If he doesn't have to watch a good man waste his time there, how could it be me? The behavior of the people of the generation.

So William patted Captain Reddings on the shoulder, and said loudly: "No need to turn around! I'll clear the way for the big guys, you just need to go straight ahead at the maximum speed! It's just a group of crawlers in the mud! What's the matter?" worried!"

At this moment, not only Captain Reddings, but also all the sailors and guards, and everyone who didn't know William's true background all looked at him with a look of foolishness.

In the land of Faerun, it should be noted that groups of intelligent creatures are even more terrifying than the most ferocious monsters, even a group of goblins, because wisdom represents the unknown and accidents.

Perhaps under certain conditions, a certain caster's spell can wipe out hundreds of people at once, but if he is really going to fight against hundreds of people, it is the wisest choice to run away in advance.

Even if Elminster gets shot in the gut with a dagger or a crossbow bolt, he'll have to burp.

Those who haven't seen William's real battle scene can't imagine how he will fight and defeat hundreds of swamp lizardmen waiting in full force.

Will William need to fight the lizardmen?

To be honest, he really didn't need it. It could even be said that William didn't pay attention to these robbers blocking the way.

What William really cared about was another matter, the navigability of the Rees River.

The Rees River connects the Sea of ​​Moon and the Sea of ​​Falling Stars, while the Taisha River, which originates from the Dagger Valley, flows into the Sea of ​​Moon, and the Asaba River, which also originates in the Valley of the Dagger, flows into the Sea of ​​Falling Stars around half of the valley.

If this string of water areas is completely and effectively connected, then the transportation of the entire valley will basically take shape.The Valley Kingdom that William is building has its own arteries, and he no longer has to worry about being played like a monkey by people (or gods) like Anka, the cloak king.

The amount of water in the Rees River is not small, and the area is wide enough, but the depth of the river bed is not enough. Large areas of tidal flats and swamps are simply a nightmare for boaters.

If you want to dig and dredge the Rees River, it is simply a fantasy to rely on manpower, not to mention that several nearby countries and city-states simply cannot gather such a huge manpower. Even if they can, they must have enough material resources and wisdom. Conquer this bend in the river.

Of course, it is possible to achieve things by relying on extraordinary power, but look at the circle of crooked melons and dates around the Moon Sea, who is willing to waste their precious spell slots and spell-casting materials for such irrelevant mundane things? Isn't it good to do research on towers and castles and play routines?

Not to mention self-serving evil wizards, not even Elminster would want to waste his spells clearing the way for profit-seeking merchants and rough sailors.

That is to say, William, who has received nine years of compulsory education in his previous life, understands the underlying logic of civilization and society, and has a dragon-slaying outline, is willing to bend down and use his mighty power to build infrastructure.

William has many ways to dredge the Rees River. Among them, the most sound and light effect is undoubtedly the big mushroom card map editing technique, which is large and powerful, and can meet the needs of several aspects at a time.

It's just that the power is a bit too much, and it's not very friendly to the surrounding flowers and plants. It is estimated that there will be some environmentalists who like to complain.

The more critical problem is that it is easy to take people and boats on one's side into it.

It is also a good way to find a giant as a long-term worker, but it is a bit far away from the water and it is difficult to quench the thirst.

After a little thought, William decided to use the least effective method.He still remembered that in his previous life, there was a rather outrageous animation, which belonged to Xiaojiaodan's family, and the people in it often cut the sea with a knife, and split the air with a sword.

Although the story is rather ridiculous, William is really envious of that kind of talent that splits mountains and seas. Who doesn't practice martial arts without dreaming of martial arts and fairy tales!

Now that William has some capital, he feels that he should reproduce the ability to slash everything.

Bricks fly with great power, and weapons are big... As long as the energy output can keep up, who can't split a river!

Open the gate of flames!

Summon the Cursed Phoenix!

Energize the whole body!

Standing on the figurehead at the bow of the ship, William held the Autumn Knife high. At this moment, he was like a small human-shaped sun, emitting a dazzling light enough to blind people's eyes!

Can really flash blind!Anyone who dares to peek will burst into tears!

William resisted the bursting energy overflowing in his body, and stood firm with T-steps, rooting the old tree, but the tens of tons of Chasing Spray leaned forward.

He opened his eyes wide with anger, poured all the energy in his body into Qiu Shui Knife, and shouted in a rather sloppy voice: "Rage Flame Breaks the Waves! Let me open it!"

Immediately swing the knife forward!

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