The Swordsman of Faerûn

The resettlement of the survivors of Yulas almost made William forget his original intention of coming here. It was not until a group of reckless cultists rushed out of the ruins of Yulas that William realized the significance of this trip to Yulas.

The cultists of Yulas are divided into many factions, including the terrestrial remnants of the corrupt god Moander, the undead servants of the evil Lord of Bones, and the demagogues of some outsiders.

These evil existences entrenched in the abandoned city of Yuras and became the actual controllers of this land. Even the outpost soldiers sent here by Zhentil Castle had to act according to their faces.

Apparently, William's large-scale construction of a camp not far from the ruins of the old city of Yuras was not allowed by the cultists. After gathering enough manpower and material resources in the camp, they will be thrown away in one pot to reap the most luscious fruits.

The first wave of attacks on William's camp was a group of local creatures bewitched by demons and strange monsters from other worlds, including goblins, ogres, some orcs, and mindless humans. , shadow giant spiders, chokers and other evil monsters.

In fact, these monsters did not pose much challenge to the camp's defensive facilities. After all, although the camp's defensive buildings are simple, people's defensive weapons are sharp enough, even if the armored monster is covered with a carapace comparable to fine steel armor. The monsters even can't stop the triangular pyramid arrow made of fire copper steel.

And sufficient arrow reserves allow the rangers and archers in the camp to shoot and shoot as much as they want.

So the first wave of offensive from the cultists was repelled with almost no effort.This victory almost made all the survivors of Yulas couldn't help cheering, and even a large part of them burst into tears. Without him, they were suppressed too hard by evil monsters in the past.

After repelling the first wave of monsters, William didn't want to wait for the enemy's next attack. He wanted to launch a counter-surprise attack against the monsters in the ruins to wipe out the enemy's vital forces as much as possible.

Most people have no objection to this, but many local people who know the situation in the city have put forward different opinions on the selection of targets for the anti-raid.

Some people hope that William can lead people to counterattack the former Yulas City trade area, which has the most abundant resources and wealth in the entire ruins. As long as they capture it, they can harvest a batch of valuable spoils.

There are also people who hope to attack certain temples, they hope to rebuild the local Good God Church, and provide religious comfort for people's lonely and bitter hearts.

Some people even hope that William can lead people to capture the original castle of Lord Yuras, where the outpost troops of Zhentil Castle are currently stationed.The rationale is that the lord's fortress is stronger, and if people can enter that castle, the security will be improved even more.

William was quite speechless about this, and Ma Di probably thought the same way back then!I was so stupid that I sent the three or four hundred people in my family into the Jedi as targets.

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In the south of Faerun, where the extraordinary profession of monks first flourished, there is a saying that monks cannot wear thick leather or metal armor by nature, otherwise their professional abilities will be restricted.

Even many monks believe in this so-called taboo.

For this, William can only say, a group of brainless fools, fooling people to the point of limping their own people!

In William's opinion, there is no one in this world who is more suitable for wearing armor than monks, especially those who wear heavy armor.

Compared with other melee professionals, monks have greater strength (diamond body), stronger endurance (walking like flying), and can wear heavy armor without being affected. Converted to game terms, wearing armor is not restricted by attribute penalties (This characteristic of the monk must be cut off in the game, otherwise it will destroy the balance too much).

In the era of great prosperity of monks in Karatu, armored monks have always been the most restricted, because this thing is too fierce.When a great warrior monk wearing three layers of heavy armor faced an ordinary human army, it was definitely not a joke. It really happened, and it didn't happen once or twice.

To give a simpler and more direct evidence, one of the signature stunts of monks since ancient times is the armor-piercing attack formed by [Duqi Strike] and [Penetration Strength]. An excellent monk can even break the armor without damaging the outer armor Under the circumstances, directly kill the person inside the armor.

In the social environment where monks dominated the mainstream in ancient Karatu, the opponents of most monks were generally only monks themselves. Why did they develop this set of stunts and use it as a signboard passed down from generation to generation? The reason is that as opponents The monks are armored.

And now there is such a unique decree on the continent of Karatu that has been recognized by the whole society - [Karatu Monk Armor Ban], it is precisely because of the people of Karatu's fear of the extraordinary profession of monks wearing armor, It is also the greatest affirmation of the armored monk.

When the inheritance of the monks fell to the southern region of Faerun, these downcast outsiders knew very well that they had to hide their clumsiness if they wanted to gain a foothold in the local area. Suspicion, the result is definitely not very good.

This leads to the lie that such a monk is not suitable for fighting in armor.

There is a similar story in Shaolin Temple in William's previous life.

Many people know that Shaolin Temple has always had the legend of "Eighteen Bronze Men Town Zen".

These eighteen bronze men are indeed true.

It is rumored that the Eighteen Bronze Men practiced bronze statue skills, and they needed to smear the skin with refined copper powder every day to temper their muscles and bones. After these monks practiced copper skin and iron bones, they looked like real bronze statues. Gotta be successful.

Of course, this so-called copper-skinned and iron-boned bronze statue skill must be nonsense. If anyone really practices it, he will be disabled if he doesn't die.

The real Eighteen Bronze Men are not like that at all.

The origin of these eighteen bronze figures comes from the allusion that the thirteen stick monks rescued the King of Qin in the early Tang Dynasty.

This allusion happened during the war of King Li Shimin of Qin against Wang Shichong, a warlord in Luoyang, Henan.

To sum it up in one sentence, "Three thousand mysterious armors fought against the tiger prison, and captured two kings in one battle."

The so-called Sanqian Xuanjia is the most elite army of the direct descendant of Qin Wang Li Shimin, an invincible army that truly created the mythical record of "Three Thousand Breaks Hundred Thousand".

It is said that in this epic battle, as the commander-in-chief of one side, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, encountered crises several times.At the most dangerous time, he was besieged by thousands of enemy troops in Beimang Mountain, and there were only a dozen Xuanjia guards around him, and the main body of these Xuanjia guards was the so-called Thirteen Stick Monks.

Of course, these so-called stick monks are not real monks, but tenants belonging to Shaolin Temple. Relying on their familiarity with the local terrain, they finally protected Qin Wang Li Shimin to return to his camp safely.

After the war, in order to reward these warriors, and also because of some religious factors, the King of Qin named these people Zen monks.

These town temple monks have the right to wear heavy armor and eat meat. Buddhist monks mostly have gold and bronze, so town temple monks are mostly equipped with heavy metal armor made of bronze.

Because the ancient emperors often banned armor, and hiding armor privately was equivalent to rebellion, so the control over the establishment of armor was extremely strict.The heavy armor of Zen is made up of eighteen collars, so it is often called eighteen bronze men.

When the eighteen great monks wear bronze heavy armor and hold heavy weapons such as whips, maces, hammers, and flails made of wrought copper, forming an army formation, even if you Bodhidharma is alive, the Buddha will have to kneel down and sing conquest when he is reborn.

Since the Tang Dynasty, in order to eliminate the suspicion of later generations of the court, the legend of the Eighteen Bronze Men has evolved into another form, but the core inside has never changed.

Obviously, the monks of Faerun are more suitable to serve as armored soldiers than those great monks in William's previous life, because they really possess extraordinary power.

The twelve monk guards, each wearing a finely crafted forged armor made of fire copper steel, coupled with fine steel weapons and shields, looks even more Iron Man than Iron Man.

I have been with William for a month, and even had many contacts during the period. These monks with limited levels are no longer what they were at the beginning. The two highest-level female monks, Jiali Nora Bicamus and another young lady named Eve Xiaoge, their strength has almost reached the level of a real senior monk (monk level 9+).

Of course, these two female monks are also the two most beautiful.

William can only say that he just made a mistake that all men make, that's all.

As for why other monk guards are still at the level of quasi-senior monks (monk occupation 7+).

William said that the first thing to do is to get close to the water, but it's not that he deliberately favors someone.

For these monk guards who were just junior rookies more than a month ago, this speed of improvement is already against the sky.

When they were asked to wear full-body forged armor that almost protected their buttholes, many people actually opposed it. However, their arms could not twist their thighs. Who could really resist the order of William, the real super thigh.

Dare to be disobedient?The two female monks who "benefited" the most will smash the idiot's head first.

That's right!These two female monks, who are the most beautiful and have received the most "benefits", have now become William's most loyal little fans. Even Carinola, who has a special background, has really jumped back. This girl At the most emotional moment, Er'er completely opened up her little secret to William.

Now William only needs one order, and this Carinola will definitely not hesitate to put her secret superior—the Sune House in Udulin, the capital city of Sembia, a missionary and chicken—house function in The emerging temple of oneness was razed to the ground.

Of course, the premise is that Jialinola has this ability.

Today's Jialinola and Eve Xiaoge will never allow anyone in the monk guards to be suspicious of even the most unreasonable orders of William. They are like the most devout fanatics, and they regard William as the only warrior. The god of monks, even though William denied this statement several times, it was still difficult to reverse their paranoid cognition.

When the monks put on the heavy armor, their abilities are really amazing. They are more determined than warriors, more agile than rangers, and more alert than thieves. They are definitely the most perfect heavy armor warriors.

Looking at the eyes of those guards looking at the heavily armored monks, one can understand that there is a certain reason for the monks to hide their ability to wear armor on weekdays.

However, William armed a group of 70 warriors selected from the survivors of Yulas with good weapons and armor to form a strong team of more than 12 people, including 30 monks in charge of wearing heavy armor. There were nearly [-] fighters, some of the rest were thieves who were good at finding ghosts and paths, and more were rangers who were good at archery and hunters and archers who had not yet started supernatural.

At its peak, Yulas City had a population of nearly [-] to [-], and it was a veritable big city (as far as the territory of Faerun was concerned), so the area of ​​its ruins was naturally not small.

William never thought that he would be able to clean up the ruins of the entire city in one day. After summarizing the knowledge and advice of most of the local survivors, he first chose a place as their first attack site.

The cemetery of the dead existed earlier as a public cemetery for civilians in Yulas City.Before the fall of Yulas, the bones of thousands of Yulas people who died in bed were buried here, so there are many dead spirits in the cemetery.

The reason why William chose this place as a breakthrough was not only because of the superior geographical location of the Cemetery of the Dead, which was adjacent to the city wall of Yuras, making it easy to enter and exit, but also because it was the base camp of the Bone Cultists.

The Bone Cultists are a branch sect formed by some paranoid followers of Melkor, the Lord of Bones. One of the most shocking things this sect has done is to trick the Northland witch Lyra Silverhand into wearing a special suit made by Melkor. Malevolent Artifact - Crown of Horns.

Before Lyra found the Crown of Horns, the artifact, forged by the craftsman Tribe of Netheril, Lord of Bones, lay buried in a crypt beneath the graveyard of the dead in Yulas.

In Faerun, the birth of dead creatures does not apply to all corpses. The corpses and souls of those who have really died or other creatures cannot be transformed into undead, but they can form the most suitable environment for undead to live.

Therefore, most cities in Faerun have such a unique habit. They will choose a remote place in the city as a public cemetery for those who have died, while other dead people will be buried outside the city. .

As long as this kind of public cemetery is not destroyed, it will automatically attract wandering ghosts in the city, and people in the city only need to clean up the undead in the tomb every once in a while to ensure that the whole city rarely happens. Disaster of the dead.

Back then, the Skeleton Cultists hid the Crown of Horns under the public cemetery in Yulas. One of their purposes was to use the breath of the local dead to conceive the artifact. As for other plans, they naturally included plotting against the silver-haired sisters. It was Lady Lyra Silverhand who fell into the trap.

Of course, the cemetery of the dead in the ruins of Yulas no longer has the crown of horns. The thing was taken away by the black rod Kelben Olosan and crushed, and the fragments were sealed in Kelben's black rod tower.

However, after the city of Yulas was broken that year, a large number of tens of thousands of people and creatures who died in battle and were killed here were transformed into undead creatures. They usually hide underground in the cemetery of the dead. Cultists manipulate and direct.

If William hadn't cleared out this den of the undead before attacking the ruins of the inner city of Yuras, it would be easy to be cut off by the army of undead commanded by the Skeleton Cultist.

At that time, William himself had nothing to do, but the people under him couldn't bear this kind of blow.

Of course, William didn't have other ways to deal with this nest of undead, but sometimes it's better to use a little stupid way.

When Yulas was breached that year, the main body of the city wall of Yulas did not suffer too much damage, so when William entered the ruins with the first team to attack the ruins, he had to start from the original city gate of Yulas. Enter.

The team led by William is quite a lot, including the elf Emily Corona and her two compatriots, six armored monk guards, six heavy armor guards, and a dozen or so most experienced adventurers. Yulas Remnant Warrior.

Everyone is fully armed, warriors wear heavy armor, hold sharp weapons (or blunt weapons) and heavy shields, archers wear mail armor, carry metal pulley bows, and also hold long swords and round shields in their hands , Pathfinder thieves wear leather armor and soft-soled boots.

Relying on the Yulas survivors' familiarity with the terrain, they quickly bypassed the ruined streets and came to the gloomy cemetery of the dead.

The cemetery of the dead was originally surrounded by a defensive wall, but now most of the walls have collapsed, so a group of nearly 30 people easily entered the cemetery.

The situation in the cemetery of the dead is quite uneven. Almost every corner that can be seen by the naked eye is covered with the bones of the dead. All kinds of human bones and skeletons can be seen everywhere.

When strangers like William and the others set foot here, many dead bones began to squirm, and they combined into incomplete skeletons, stumbling towards these flesh and blood creatures.

To be honest, the general deterrent effect of undead creatures like skeletons is far greater than their combat effectiveness. Seriously speaking, a farmer in the countryside can knock down several elementary undead skeletons with a dung fork, but many farmers will die when they see these undead monsters. , but often did not dare to resist because of too much fear, and eventually died in the hands of these weak chicken-like monsters.

For example, among the people brought by William, most of the fighters from the survivors of Yulas were a little timid, and a few timid guys couldn't even hold the weapons in their hands.

However, the soldiers from William's escort group were much calmer. They lined up almost without thinking. After asking William for instructions, the leading soldier rushed into the group of skeletons with five companions.

Relying on the heavy armor protection on their bodies, they ignored the attacks of the undead skeletons, and directly swung their weapons to fight hard, beating these seemingly pitiful monsters to pieces.

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For warriors in armor, undead skeletons are undoubtedly extremely easy to deal with. No matter whether they are chopped with knives or axes, or smashed with hammers and sticks, they can be killed in pieces and their bones are scattered.

Of course, to deal with these weak undead creatures, blunt weapons such as hammers and sticks are obviously more effective.After all, the weakness of undead skeletons is not very obvious. They don't have the real vital points like normal creatures. They need to completely smash all the intact bones to completely silence the dead bones infected by the breath of the undead.

As a result, although these undead skeletons seem to be weak, it takes a lot of effort to completely eliminate them.Fortunately, with William's guards performing at the beginning, the Yulas remnant fighters stabilized their emotions, and most of them finally dared to attack these undead monsters.

Soon they mustered up their courage and rushed up one after another, fighting hard against the swarming undead monsters.Although the strength of the fighters of the Yulas survivors is quite uneven, what is needed at this time is not so much strength, but a sufficient number of people.

Speaking of which, archers and thieves are quite useless for heroes at this time, because the damage of arrows to undead skeletons is really limited, and the stealth and detection abilities of thieves are not very useful against undead creatures. After all, most undead creatures Their visual abilities are similar to infrared visual effects, no matter how the thieves hide, it is basically useless.

The only thing they can do is to follow behind the soldiers, and take a claw hammer to carefully go through the dead bones that have not been completely destroyed, so as to prevent these immortal dead bones from reassembling and recovering.

In fact, normally, even if all the dead bones of the undead skeletons are smashed, there is no guarantee that these dead bones will never be revived. Perhaps the Skeleton Cultists only need a small necromancy spell to reshape them (refer to broken bones into whole bones), which are then assembled into new undead creatures.

In order to completely eliminate undead creatures, there are generally three methods. One is to smash the dead bones of the undead creatures and expose them to the sun.The second way is to soak in holy water rich in positive energy; the last is to use [Undead Dispel] and evocation spells to deal with it.

This is also the reason why William first attacked the cemetery of the dead. The vitality of undead creatures (if they have life) is too tenacious.

Perhaps most undead creatures are not very capable of attacking fortifications, but they are difficult enough to make many warriors who are not determined enough lose their fighting spirit.

Fortunately, the magic net is currently disconnected. Because the Skeleton Cultists cannot use spells and did not show up to command, they cannot truly display the tenacity of undead creatures. This makes the fighting process of the soldiers somewhat cumbersome, but the prospect of victory But they can be seen and touched, and their morale is not worrying for the time being.

Only the six armored monks headed by Eve Xiaoge were a little upset, because William did not send them to fight, but stayed by his side as a reserve team.

Once there is something wrong with the fighting warriors, the armored monks can just step up and take over the front line.

Some people may ask, why didn't William take action against these garbage-like undead creatures? !If he made a move, he would be able to take away all the monsters in one wave without thinking about any problems at all.

Efficient and worry-free, how good it is!

The problem is that William can take care of everything here. When the Valley Kingdom really establishes political power, facing the problems and crises that occur all over the country, can he continue to be alone.

Even if William has a strong sense of responsibility and can rely on the power of magic to travel around and solve problems for the kingdom, how many nails and problems can he stand alone.

You know, Anka, the invincible king of cloaks back then, was played to death like this.

Therefore, if William wants to sit comfortably in the position of the future King of the Valley, he has to make arrangements in advance, at least to cultivate a group of capable thugs to suppress various places for him.

Of course, this so-called "suppression" is not to suppress the common people under the rule, but to protect them from those evil monsters and evil mages.

This is also the mainstream status quo of the kingdoms and city-states in various parts of Faerun. Even the most brutal king knows how to protect the people under his rule so that they can pay taxes safely, otherwise he can only be an independent husband in the true sense.

Originally, when he was in the South Valley, William hadn't thought much about it, but after walking around the waterway on the Chasing Spray, he finally figured out one thing.

As the saying goes: a single tree cannot make a forest, and a single man cannot make a gang.

Regardless of whether William wants to be the king of the Raoshizi Valley or not, at least he doesn't want to be a reviled foolish king, so if he wants peace in all directions, William has to recruit talents and cultivate talents so that he can better manage the valley.

Otherwise, why would he release the wife Xi Lun for reuse? It must be known that Xi Lun is the most talented king among the silver-haired sisters, and she is absolutely top-notch in terms of strength, brains, and prestige.

William released Sheeren and gave him a heavy responsibility, in order to use her ability and influence to make a good start for the future of the Valley Kingdom.

Without further ado, let's get back to business.

However, Eve Xiaoge was a little impatient to see a group of "outsiders" show off their power in front of William.In the view of the female monk, anyone who did not take the path of a monk and converted to William was considered an "outsider".

The female monk Eve is eager to show off her talents in front of William, because she is different from Galinola, who was born in the Sune Order and took the way of entertaining people with sex.

But Eve was born as an orthodox monk. Even though she has some unclear relationship with William, she doesn't want to rely on this relationship to gain a foothold beside William. Eve has the pride of an orthodox monk. She wants to use her talent to prove to William that she is definitely not just for nothing.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Eve Xiaoge just wanted to be jealous of Jialinola.