The Swordsman of Faerûn

But seeing a beam of energy beam suddenly emanating from one point, like a star destroyer in the sci-fi era radiating destruction towards the earth, the terrible torrent of flames tore through the air, evaporated the river, tore the riverbed, and then disappeared at the end of the jungle.

The countless silts that had silted up the Rees River, as well as the surrounding river water, animals and plants, all disappeared, and large swaths of water poured into it like a big river breaking its embankment.

The bright flames hovered over the chasing Spray like a red mist, then turned into a human figure again, and landed on the watchtower above the mast.

He built a canopy in front of his eyes with his palms, raised his eyes to look into the distance, and said to himself indifferently: "Oh! It seems that I missed it! Sure enough, standing on the boat is not as stable as standing on the ground."

William's deflagration blow was really ferocious, not to mention the earth-shattering sound and light effects, just looking at the huge chasm that was forcibly opened on the beach that originally belonged to Mishen Beach is enough to illustrate the horror of this blow.

The figurehead, which was the first passive stress point other than William, even cracked directly from the keel of the bow and shattered into a pool of rotten wood chips.

It was also because of the overwhelmed figure of the bow that William's slashing finally deviated from the planned direction, but it deviated from the direction of the Rees River by a small angle, which caused William's attack to fail to completely break through the Mystery Beach. , but opened a new artificial river bend into the jungle on the west bank.

The Chasing Spray, which was pushed by the violent reaction force, suddenly backed up for a while, and everyone on board, whether they were standing or sitting, were shaken greatly without exception.

As for William, who was the direct recipient of the reaction force, the result was even worse. The impact he received was no less than the terrible pressure he had suffered when he fell from a high altitude.

Fortunately, these terrible impacts were first filtered by the autumn water knife as the energy carrier, and William was not forced to disperse the original body like the orbital skyfall, but he also had to become a steaming flame stream in time to eliminate it harm.

At this time, most of the people on the boat looked at the new ravine that was being filled by the river water with horrified eyes.No one can keep calm in front of William's mighty power, which is almost like cutting mountains and seas, including Phinea and the three little girls, and those who have never seen William in the big mode dropped their jaws into the infinite bottom of the abyss.

The sailors chasing the Spray, the monks in the escort team, and the elves from the Tree of Serra all suffered visual impacts that ordinary people could not bear.

Of course, now is not the time to be in a daze. The Chasing Spray is being pulled by the current to move towards the new gully that has appeared ahead. The level of the gully is quite different from the normal water level of the Rees River. It is not safe for the ship to rush directly into it.

Captain Reddings soon woke up from his sluggish state. He ordered the sailors to let down the sails and drop the anchor, and at the same time arranged for the crew to prepare to activate the paddle mode to resist the dragging force of the rushing water.

The reason why Captain Reddings asked to lower the sails was because of the high-temperature airflow caused by William's blow, which made the sails bear the wind direction that the Chasing Spray could not bear.

With the efforts of the sailors and some of William's guards (acting as oarsmen), the Chasing Spray resisted the impact of the current. They chanted, stopped the ship at a slow water bay near the shore, and waited The water of the Rees filled the gully that William had cut.

At this time, no one will worry about the so-called Mystic Beach terrain, nor worry about the threat of the swamp lizards.Because all of this has been completely dissipated invisibly with William's earth-shattering blow.

No one would care about how many of the six or seven hundred swamp lizardmen survived the sudden attack.No matter how much or how little, people will no longer be afraid. Even if it is ten times more, it may not be enough for Mr. William, right? ! ——This is the unanimous thought of all the crew and passengers of the Chasing Spray.

It has been half a day since the water surface of the Rees River became stable again. The gully opened by William has become the most perfect channel in this river. It's okay to run around in it.

The only problem is that this perfect channel is a bit short, only one or two kilometers in length, and it deviates from the main channel of the Rees River.

This also means that the access to Mishen Beach has not been completely opened up, and William needs to start another big move. Of course, this is not difficult, it just takes time.

Let's say that there is a small port town, Yulin Town, where the Reese River and the Moon Sea meet.Yulin Town was first established by elves, and it got its name from the lush elm forest surrounding the town.

Because of the navigation needs of the Rees River, and not far from the entrance where another river, the Dusapo River, flows into the Moon Sea, the early Yulin Town used to be quite prosperous.However, as many towns along the coast of the Moon Sea gradually became chaotic and cruel, cruelty and barbarism began to threaten the direction of Yulin Town. In the end, the town was destroyed by a group of pirates and mercenaries.

There have been countless good or evil adventurers trying to rebuild Yulin Town, but most of them died halfway due to various reasons.

Until the last century, the Zhentil Fort people finally established a new fort on the old site of Yulin Town through a certain way of turning left and right.

At this time, in the deep water area outside the port of Yulin Town, countless heavily armed warships were moored, and more ships and soldiers were gathering here.

Most of their ships and soldiers did not come from Zhentil Keep, but followers of the holy war who heard the call of Bane, the god of fear.

The fiasco in Shadow Valley didn't bring Bane down. On the contrary, he has become stronger because a former ally joined his team, Melkor, Lord of the Dead.

What Melkor brought to Bane was not just an ally of the Holy One, but also a new hope for him, the hope of wielding power like a normal god.

With the help of an artifact, Melkor prepared an immortal body for Bane.

On this day, in every corner of the whole world, countless assassins and killers who once and still believed in Melkor are dying silently, no matter whether he (she) is doing nothing leisurely or quietly The execution of the killing work, all ended their lives in the same way.

There was no sign, no trauma, and no pain. Their souls, with the fear before death and the desire to live, integrated into the artifact brought by Melko.

Melkor is a versatile god, quite good at making all kinds of artifacts and wonders.He once created an artifact called the "Crown of Horns", which imprisoned the soul of the silver-haired witch Laila who almost dominated the Northland, causing the Northland to become a chaotic land of disputes again.

The artifact that fused the souls of countless assassin believers turned into a huge divine power golem, and when Bane's divine nature entered this divine power golem, he felt quite satisfied with the mighty power of the kingdom of God.

"Go to Tanris! Kill Tom's big cat! Then, get back my slate of destiny!"

It's really hard to determine whether Bane's decision is based on arrogance, or far-sightedness.Bane believed the information about the location of the Tablet of Fate brought by Melkor without hesitation, and resolutely went to the battlefield in order to defeat the saint known for his loyalty and courage.

A three-masted sailing warship sailed through the only remaining Mishentan Bay area with difficulty. When the warship entered the new river channel opened by William, it became agile.

Near the mouth of the fork in the dense forest, the Chasing Spray is hiding here.Captain Reddings stood on the lookout looking at the warship, and shouted in surprise: "That is the most powerful warship of the Zhentils—the Sharp Silver! Where is it going?"

The Sharp Silver is a magical sailing warship built entirely of holy oaks—that is, weir trees. It has unparalleled suppression power on the Moon Sea.

Usually, the Sharp Silver is only moored in the port area of ​​Zhentil Castle as a strategic force, or occasionally cruises along the periphery of the Moon Sea, but never crosses the Rees River to the southern Sea of ​​Falling Stars.

Captain Reddings thought about the reason for the sharp silver's sudden southward movement and its impact on the surrounding areas of the Sea of ​​Fallen Stars, while William paid attention to the huge golem standing on the deck of the sharp silver, or it is more appropriate to call it a super mecha .

As the name implies, this is a golem mech.

During the time William worked for Dasophelia in the Chaos Narrows, he had seen many similar golem mechs, and even personally fought and killed a big guy.

At this time, the golem mech parked on the deck of the Sharp Silver is not even a serious conventional weapon among those golem mechs, it can only be regarded as a small gadget.

But there is no doubt that when this golem mech appears on the land of Faerun in the present world, it can basically be regarded as a super-standard invincible killer.

With his rich experience in defeating it, William is not without methods to deal with this kind of super-standard combat power, but he doesn't think it is necessary for him to fight against it. William is not a defender of the world order. As long as the other party doesn't come to provoke him, he can Too lazy to be nosy.

The Sharp Silver hovered in the new river channel area for a while, and it seemed that the captain of the warship was somewhat puzzled by the changes in the river channel. However, with a thunderous roar, the Sharp Silver directly hoisted the fast sail and headed south.

However, William vaguely saw a corpse being thrown into the Rees River from the departing Sharp Silver, as if it had been thrown out as trash.

Captain Reddings looked at the Ruiyin going away, and sighed worriedly: "I didn't expect the Shockers of the Moon Sea to leave the Moon Sea. I don't know how big a storm they will cause in the Falling Star Sea!"

William shook his head and said, "Your worry is a bit unnecessary, Captain Reddings. The sky is falling and there are tall people holding it up. There are so many powerful states in the south. No matter how powerful the sailing ship is, there are still some opponents to deal with them. As the saying goes A tiger can't beat a pack of wolves, but a single boat can't make waves."

While the two were talking, three flying horses flew over from the northern sky, and they were the knights under William's command returning from scouting.

When the Pegasus rider passed over the mast, Emily jumped off Mo Xiao's saddle and landed lightly on the edge of the watchtower. William helped the female elf to eliminate the inertia of her fall , allowing Emily to stand still easily.

Since Miluna lost her mind, William stopped using Misha as an aerial scout.Without Miluna's help, it would be difficult for Misha alone to fight against those dangerous spells and abilities, and those (spells) are also the most threatening to the sky scouts.

It's not that William doesn't have qualified guards to serve as new scouts, but relatively speaking, the elf girl's talent is better, so Emily becomes the scout rider to replace Misha.

Misha'er felt a little resentful about this, after all, she was the kindest knight princess of William's family!Why was a guy with long ears replaced by a guy? !

Mo Xiao, who was already empty of his saddle, circled around the outer side of the chasing wave, only to see a petite but extremely nimble figure jumping out from the deck and climbing onto the Pegasus's back.

With a long hiss, Mo Hao flapped his wide wings and soared upwards, soaring into the sky again.

Misha'er patted Mo Xiao's neck, but the Pegasus returned to the observation deck on the top of the mast and circled around as if it understood.

Misha'er shouted at her brother angrily: "William, next time you should send me to carry out the mission! Look, how perfectly Mo Xiao and I cooperate!"

Speaking of one person and one horse doing several rather difficult rolling movements in mid-air, William's eyebrows twitched!

William reprimanded pretending to be angry: "Mi Sha'er! If you don't hurry down, I will make you unable to touch Mo Xiao's finger for the rest of your life!"

Misha'er regained control of the Pegasus and regained her balance. She made a face at the smiling Emily, and then controlled Mo Xiao to fall on the deck of the Chasing Spray. After all, both the Pegasus and the knight who had just returned from a mission needed Sufficient food and rest, even Mo Zi is no exception.

After a playful episode, Emily said to William: "Your Excellency William, I have brought a piece of unfortunate news. In the northern section of the Rees River, near Yulin Town, a terrifying fleet is gathering, at least Two hundred fully armed warships and tens of thousands of soldiers are ready to go.

If our ship goes north, it will run into them head-on. "

William asked with a smile: "Emily, you think we can't fight them, don't you?"

Emily smiled slightly and said: "I'm not sure, my master. Your power is as unpredictable as a god, but there are too many enemies, and I'm not sure that you can completely destroy them."

At this time, Captain Reddings asked with a serious face: "Ms. Emily, can you confirm the origin of that fleet? There are more than 200 armed warships, even if all the warships in the entire Moon Sea are gathered together, it is almost the same. Some?!"

Emily nodded and replied: "That's exactly what I want to say, Captain Reddings. That's exactly the strength of most of the warships that gathered the entire Moon Sea. The scary thing is that they are following the same flag, Fight for the same beliefs.

They are all fighting for the Lord of Darkness! "

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Now William and his party are facing a big problem. There is a huge fleet blocking their way, and the fleet is coming towards them. Even if William and the others abandon the ship directly, the problem of that fleet will still not be solved. .

The Moon Sea Fleet headed by the Zhentil Fort people was not organized to put on airs. If they really crossed the Rees River and entered the Sea of ​​Fallen Stars, they would definitely drink blood and eat flesh. Several coastal port towns, such as Genggu Town and Scar Valley Town, will inevitably suffer first.

It is said that when the sky falls, there will be a tall man holding it up. Although William doesn't know much about the countries and city-state forces around the Sea of ​​Falling Stars, he knows that if the huge fleet standing in front of them really rushes into the Sea of ​​Falling Stars, No one can withstand it at all, and no one will go hard, including the Kingdom of Sambia, which started with sailing.

This fleet is not the same concept as the Ruiyin that rushed past earlier. Although the Ruiyin is strong, it basically can't make a big deal with that battleship alone, including the divine power golem carried by the Ruiyin. The thing is indeed very strong, but no matter how strong it is, there are special existences to deal with it. The opponent of a god is always a god, so William will not run out to disrupt the situation.

But for the fleet gathered in Yulin Town, unless William himself took action, I am afraid that there really is no other big and tall man who can stand up to the momentum.

William is not a pure mindless warrior, he also has his own strategic plan.In his plan, when the Valley Kingdom is fully established, shipping will be the most important artery driving the development of the Valley, which is a hundred times more important than the channel repair plan that the Valley is currently implementing.

Speaking of the Chidao repair plan, in fact, William directly used the development experience of his hometown in his previous life. "If you want to get rich, you must first build roads." "The premise of development is transportation." These are all truths that have been verified by practice .

Not to mention the ingenious political strategy of the ancient ancestor dragon and the first emperor when he kneaded the ruling power of different regions and different customs.

The book is the same text, the car is the same track.

Repair the Chi Road and open the Lingqu.

William admired and imitated it, of course the imitation was general rather than specific implementation.The Qin law is notoriously strict, and William's foundation in the valley is shallow, so he couldn't learn it even if he wanted to.

He upholds the strategy of shocking them with power and anger, and enticing them with benefits, and implements strict rules and lenient treatment in management.

Replacing punishment with labor, replacing relief with work, and driving development with infrastructure.

These policies do not seem gorgeous, but they have brought a unique stream of fresh air to the city-states in the valley that have just been conquered.Even in the most rebellious South Bow Valley and the most complicated Eastern Yotsuya, people behaved very tame. No one expressed opposition or confrontation to the new ruler. There may be some complaints, but the overall level of the valley is unprecedentedly stable and peaceful. unity.

The construction of the Chidao is conducive to the stability and unity of the valley, but it is difficult for the valley to achieve real development. After all, no matter how well the Chidao is repaired, it is still limited by the means of transportation, unless William can develop a steam engine, or come up with a magical version rail transport.

But the shipping in the valley is by no means inferior to the invisible railway. If the three rivers and the two seas can be completely connected, the future prospects of the valley will definitely fly to the sky.

The premise of all this is that William and his Valley Kingdom can completely subdue or even eliminate the sea forces in the two major sea areas of the Moon Sea and the Falling Star Sea, allowing themselves to occupy an absolute dominant position.

Obviously, the current Lunar Sea Fleet is the first stumbling block that William needs to conquer.

To remove this stumbling block, William seems to have a lot of means to use, whether it is using [Nuclear Phoenix] or [Raging Flame Breaking the Waves], in the final analysis, the power brought by the curse fire is enough. , Of course, it is also inseparable from William's development and application of cursefire.

In this world, William is not the only person (or other existence) who possesses the power of cursefire. For example, in a tavern in the deep forest valley, there is another girl who is born to use cursefire.

But it is unique to be able to use the curse fire as a tactical nuclear peace tool like William, at least no one in the main material world has been able to do it.

And to deal with a large fleet composed of a large group of classical sailing warships, fire attack is undoubtedly the most effective way.

If it's done well, William doesn't even need to use the massively destructive move of [Nuclear Phoenix].

Fortunately, William's plan soon got a chance to be realized.

The Moon Sea Fleet assembled in Yulin Town did not make William wait for too long. It seemed that under the order of some kind of existence (guessed from the scouts), they quickly set sail and rushed into the In the waterway of the Rees River.

By the way, the sailors chasing the Spray salvaged a corpse from the Rees River. According to Captain Reddings' identification, the deceased should be the former captain of the Sharp Silver, Baloriel Roberts, an experienced pirate. King and slave owner.

Captain Roberts is known for being cold-blooded and cautious. He is smart, brave and decisive in combat.

Later, Captain Roberts accepted the recruitment of Manson, the chief boss of the Zhentarim Society, because Manson gave him a super battleship made entirely of holy oaks—that is, weir trees—the Sharp Silver.

Baloriel Roberts is one of the most important confidantes of Archmage Manshoon, and his main duty is to lead the Sharp Silver to maintain the Zhentil Castle's dominant position in the Moon Sea.

The sudden death of Baloriel Roberts is undoubtedly good news for the Harper Alliance, which is almost completely opposed to the Zhentarim, but it is not known why this evil leader was killed.

Of course, these issues are not what William needs to consider. His main task now is to burn the large fleet of the Moon Sea that entered the Rees River.

Before the fire started, William first rode Mo Xiao to personally inspect the target on one side. Hundreds of two-masted or three-masted sailing warships slipped away at the entrance of the Rees River and the Moon Sea, although they were not comparable to those giant steel ships in the previous life. Power, but the momentum is not small.

During the investigation, William discovered that there is a tributary confluent in the north quarter of the middle section of the Rees River. Although most of the river condition of this tributary is still dominated by swamps and tidal flats, it may give William His plan to burn enemy ships created a tinge of uncertainty.

After consulting the two elven Pegasus knights who came to investigate together, and learned about the situation of the tributary of the Lys River, William decided to act according to the original plan.

Boating on the Rees River at night requires sufficient care. Many times passing ships will choose to temporarily stop overnight, especially when two or three hundred large ships flood into the waterway of the Rees River, night sailing becomes a more dangerous choice.

Therefore, as it gradually penetrated into the waterway of the Rees River, the topographical interception of the tidal flat and swamp area gradually divided the Moon Sea Fleet into several disconnected segments.

And when a huge flame gate appeared from the void, and several burning phoenixes rushed out of it, only a small number of crew members of the ships gathered together were aware of the crisis.

William's plan was very successful, at least initially.The flaming phoenix didn't even need to make any movements, it only needed to brush its body over those ships, and almost everything that could burn, such as wooden decks, masts, cables, sails, etc., ignited a raging fire.

Although hundreds of armed sailors and soldiers were stationed on these ships, they had no choice but to scream and jump into the icy Rees River one by one in the face of the sudden flames, otherwise they could only wait to be burned to death by the flames. coke.

William's target was a ship rather than a person, so he didn't care much about the enemies who jumped into the river to escape.He manipulated the curse fire phoenix to rush all the way along the Rees River, burning ships when encountering ships, and destroying ships when encountering ships. Almost overnight, he burned the entire Moon Sea fleet in sevens and eighties, leaving only The vanguard of a small fleet near Mishen Beach has not been affected yet.

It wasn't that William was merciful and let the other party go, but that the vanguard fleet composed of more than a dozen ships was not easy to deal with. They unexpectedly used magic to defend and counterattack, and the Cursed Phoenix, which had been fighting fiercely all night, was not easy to deal with. But the energy attenuated is only the size of a horse, and the remaining energy is hard to cause much damage to the opponent.

Of course, the crux of the problem is not the remaining dozen warships, but the magic they use.

William is very sure that the magic net is still disconnected, and his [Flame Gate] and a series of flame abilities are still severely suppressed.

It's a bit unreasonable that these people can use spells, and it seems that they are not limited in number of times.

Fortunately, William is also a person who knows how to be unreasonable. He enriched the energy of the Cursed Fire Phoenix and exploded directly on the water near the opponent's ship.

The waves created by the flame explosion directly overturned a brig in the deep water area of ​​the Rees River, and the remaining ships were also smashed to pieces by the shock wave, and several of them were stranded on the shallow water.

At this time, William's purpose is not to destroy the ship, but to create chaos so that he can take the opportunity to touch his tongue.

The so-called "touching the tongue" is a jargon, and the real meaning is to capture prisoners to torture intelligence.

"Touching the tongue" is also a commonly used tactic in the mercenary world, but the final torture process is a bit inhumane. Of course, this mainly depends on the degree of cooperation of the captured tongue, and it is also related to the moral level of the torturer.