The Swordsman of Faerûn

Then, it was the human oolong moment that all Ethiopian sand lizards loved to see. Large groups of ferocious thorn bushes emerged in the middle of the human battle formation, and the flexible and terrifying ghost thorn vines rolled up many people who were caught off guard. The dense poisonous thorns on the ground made these victims scream, and their faces turned blue and purple at a speed visible to the naked eye, which was the poison of the ghost thorns at work.

The human beings who were not affected by the ghost thorns hurriedly fled in all directions. They have cooperated with Baldr countless times, and they are well aware of the characteristics of the ghost thorns. Before the vitality of the seeds is exhausted, they will continue to grow and expand.

As a result, the human battle formation was shattered, and the Ethiopian sand lizards, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, immediately rushed forward with cheers.

Chapter 63 The Fall of Ping'an Town

Human beings who have escaped the protection of the battle formation are completely like a plate of bean sprouts in front of the Ethiopian sand lizards who are good at chaotic warfare, and they have almost no ability to resist.Of course, there are also a few hard bones in it, such as the mayor Irsa, the dwarf Badr, and two non-staff members, the barbarian Googul and his warrior companion, the unlucky guy whose limbs have mutated.

William didn't inflict any permanent damage on Googul's arm, he just temporarily shook the orc's numb tendons with dark force, and he only needed to rest for half a day to fully recover.

At this time, Gu Guer became extremely brave, he completely let go of his fighting instinct, and endless anger boiled and burned in his chest.Googul held a double-sided wheelaxe in one hand, but he didn't use it as a weapon, but as a shield. Occasionally, he slapped a guy on the head of the rushing Ethiopian sand lizard, and killed the sand lizard. People's skulls were smashed to pieces.Googul's most used way of killing is to strangle the enemy with his free hand. Even if the Ethiopian sand lizard's neck is covered with scales, under the brutal strangulation technique of the barbarian, it can only kill the enemy. Can drink hatred and die.

As for Googul's warrior companion, it's not so wonderful. He is not suitable for the current fighting style due to his partially mutated body. Although this warrior killed two reckless sand lizards with his rich experience, he soon He was injured because of an inexplicable mistake, and finally when Sanyu passed by him, he relieved the soldier's pain with a light swing of the machete.

Badr was the first to attack Sanyu first, and it was the same during the chaos.When the battle line was broken, the dwarves hated Sanyu deeply. It was the strange tricks of this mantis monster that made him a sinner of the whole town.When Sanyu killed the mercenary warrior, Baldur smashed the sand lizard who was attacking him with a wooden hammer, and then roared towards Sanyu with his stubby thighs.

Sanyu's figure suddenly flashed, and he appeared behind the dwarf as if teleporting, and then he retracted the knife.Looking at Bader still striding forward without stopping, but his face became distorted, and then he started to bleed blood all over his body, and he turned into a blood man before he ran far, and then the wooden hammer fell to the ground, The person also knelt down on the ground and gradually lost his voice.

Sanyu glanced back, it didn't expect the bark armor on the dwarf to be so strong, his lore just now should have cut the opponent into pieces, but he met the bark armor. The resistance turned into the effect of Ling Chi's bloodletting.

As a barbarian, Googul's anger is not just an emotion, but the ferocity aroused by a predator in a desperate situation, and when this ferocity meets an irresistible opponent, the wild intuition from the original instinct makes him Immediately made the most direct choice - turn around and run away.

This move of the half-orcs was beyond everyone's expectations. After all, in the perception of ordinary people, the barbarians are a group of reckless men who dare to charge the dragon, and they are tough men who don't know what to fear.

Relying on his strong physique and explosive power in a violent state, Googuer ruthlessly bumped away the Ethiopian sand lizards and humans blocking the way, and ran away like a mad bull. His running speed was so fast. So fast that no one can catch up.

Ilsa is a human who resisted to the last moment. He is strong, tall, experienced, has an unyielding fighting will and excellent skills, but the torture of time prevents him from fighting fiercely all day like when he was young. In the end, Ilsa Ersa couldn't even lift his usual war hammer, and could only fight with a light and sharp short sword. Even this kind of weapon, which he usually regarded as women and children, now It also feels like a heavy hand drop.

But Ilsa still relied on accurate steps to dodge the attack of an Ethiopian sand lizard, and then stabbed the dagger into its eye, but he no longer had the strength to pull the dagger out, nor was he able to go Avoiding the dying counterattack of the Sand Lizard, he could only welcome the arrival of the last moment with a bit of bewilderment in despair.

However, the expected Sand Lizard counterattack did not come. When Ilsa came back to his senses, he found that the Sand Lizard with the dagger in his eyes had already been cut into several pieces that were still slightly twitching. .

Ilsa raised his head and met Shang Sanyu's eyes. He looked at the mantis monster with cold eyes, and couldn't help asking, "What kind of monster are you, Bichi?"

Sanyu said indifferently: "Warrior who is heading towards the end, although your era has come to an end, but your fighting spirit will turn into my merits and become my help to return to the peak!"

Ilsa woke up suddenly. He suddenly remembered a legend he had heard when he was a child, and asked anxiously, "You... are you the legendary salamander demon?"

Sanyu nodded in agreement, then took out something and poured it on Ilsa's body, Ilsa yelled in horror: "No! I'm just an old and crippled person, and I don't meet the salamander demon's hunting standards! Why are you……"

Sanyu took the opportunity to pour a bottle of potion into Ilsa's mouth, and said at the same time: "At first, you could only barely meet my hunting standards. I would never look at you at other times. But now, I am chasing after you." Hunting a big enemy, an opponent that I can't underestimate even in my prime, in order to catch up with him, I can only harvest as much trash as you can!"

Ilsa's face was blood red, whether it was because of Sanyu's words or the effect of the potion.

Sanyu pressed his palms on Ilsa's head and face, and then Ilsa's body started to burn, and the flames were burning all over her body. Ilsa wailed and uttered the final curse: "Salamander devil! I curse you !Curse you in the name of my ancestors! You will die at the hands of your archenemy! Ah—”

As Ilsa's body turned into a pool of ashes, Sanyu's dark skin began to show a little light color. He shook the ashes on his hands and said regretfully: "It's a pity! This guy's color is too bad , can’t keep his head!”

At this time, there was no human being alive in the town, and there were no women or children here, because Ping'an Town was a functional adventure outpost, and its main function was to accept business travelers and adventurers traveling on the black road.

And the Ethiopian sand lizards also suffered heavy casualties, only a few lucky guys were left standing. Sanyu took another look at the sand dunes outside the town, and then told the Ethiopian sand lizards: "You are here Clean up the battlefield, I'll hunt down that escaped human!"

Speaking of Sanyu, he walked briskly to the town.

Chapter 64 You lied!mr william

The wild intuition gave Googul the escape direction with the greatest chance of escaping—the sand dune where William's family stopped.The half-orc continued to drive violently, and cleverly circled half a circle at the bottom of the dune, and then stopped on the back, collapsing on the sand like mud, half-dead, relieving the sequelae of continuous berserk.

William glanced at Googul, and couldn't help sighing secretly, a very clever and decisive guy is worth saving.

Since the appearance of the Ethiopian sand lizardmen, the half-elves have been in a state of shock. At first, Willalmo even thought about going down to help the people in the town resist the invaders, but after seeing the presence of the old god William After one glance, he had no choice but to give up this unreliable thought embarrassingly.

Of course, what horrified the half-elf even more was that the battle situation in the small town took a turn for the worse in the blink of an eye, and was directly defeated by three or two blows. He watched helplessly that the town he had lived in for nearly 20 years was destroyed, and he got along day and night. The neighbors and drinking friends also died one by one, which inevitably gave birth to sadness.

Although the residents of the town were not considered good people, if they were divided into camps, they could basically be classified into the evil camp, but the half-elves had been with them for a long time, and they still had some feelings after all.

So when Sanyu, the mantis monster, stepped on the fine sand and came to the sand dune, Willalmo couldn't help pulling out his long sword, shouting angrily and rushing down the sand dune.William couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, he's also a no-brainer, don't you look at the strength gap between the enemy and us, didn't you see just now that this guy directly smashed the human battle formation? !

Of course, William didn't care about the half-elf's lingering affection for the townspeople, and even admired it a little, because it meant that Willalmo was still a little human, so don't worry about him being a white-eyed wolf, at least better than That Pumos of the Tanshuls is much better.

It was impossible for William to watch Willalmo go down to die. He turned his head and ordered Yasuna and the others, then lightly kicked the fine gold war spear stuck in front of him, and his figure slid along with the big gun like a big bird. Usually, after a few vertical jumps, he jumped off the sand dune, and would catch up with the half-elf who was attacking Sanyu.

Speaking of which, as Willalmo, the son of the supreme city lord Alustriel, his abilities are not weak, at least he has more rules than those adventurers who are born in the wild.However, what he was facing was a member of the most outstanding elite group of fighters that the entire world had accumulated over millions of years, not to mention a half-elf, even ten more would be like delivering food.

Willalmo shouted a jump and before he hit the ground, Sanyu's scimitar was wiped towards his neck like a ghost, and the half-elf's eagle eyes could see clearly, he couldn't escape this fatal blow, only I can silently say in my heart that my life is over.

The half-elf was waiting to die with his eyes closed, but the expected blow of the owl's head did not come. There was only a crisp sound of the collision of weapons in his ears. When he opened his eyes, he saw two figures fighting with swords and guns In a group, it was William who came in time to break Sanyu's attack with a blow, and then forced Sanyu to make up for the loss of resistance with continuous attacks.However, they didn't really engage in a life-and-death struggle, they just tried to check each other's moves, and then they retreated to stop fighting.

Sanyu drew his two swords together, and said coldly with his unique voice: "William, you shouldn't disturb me to kill the prey!"

William laughed and said, "No way! He is my current partner, I can't just watch you kill him!"

Sanyu snorted coldly, which meant that he accepted William's excuse, but it stared mercilessly at the half-elf for a while with its compound eyes, and complained: "It does have a pair of good eyes, but its strength is too weak to be worthy of your identity! Lord William!"

William just smiled and didn't respond. Instead, he pretended to be ignorant and asked, "Your Excellency Sanyu, you came here without wanting to fight. Could it be that you want to chat with me when you have nothing to do?"

Sanyu said: "I originally wanted to hunt down a fish that slipped through the net, but since he ran into your defense circle, I will leave it to you to deal with it. What are your plans next? Continue to walk along the oasis chain?"

William didn't hide anything, and replied: "No, I will rest here for a few days, then go to the Standing Stone Plain, and follow the black road to the east of the Great Sand Sea."

The reason why William did not hesitate to say his next course of action was because he knew very well that the connection of [Death Revenge] would make the concealment behavior of both parties meaningless.If the two shield each other's whereabouts, they will gradually choose to approach each other unconsciously, just like there are two roads in front of you, one is away from each other, the other is closer to each other, and you don't know which one is , but under the influence of some unknown mystery or fate, you will definitely subconsciously or accidentally choose the approaching road.

If William and Sanyu disclosed their whereabouts to each other, the influence from fate would be minimized, and they could even consciously avoid each other.

Sanyu also stated his future plans without hesitation: "I will take the sand lizards along the oasis chain to hunt down the strong human beings, and then go to the highest glacier to hunt down dragons and giants. Today, one year later, I Will be waiting for you in the Ezehart Mountains."

"Is it the Ezehart Mountains? Where is it?" William was not very proficient in the geography of Faerun. Of course, ninety-nine percent of the people in Faerun knew nothing about the geography of the continent they lived in.

Sanyu said tirelessly: "Through the Standing Stone Plain, further east is the Mirror of Eta (wasteland), and to the north of the Mirror of Eta is the Ezehart Mountain Range."

William nodded and said, "Don't worry! As long as there is no accident, I will definitely go to the appointment on time." The half-elf who has been acting as a transparent person is extremely curious at this time, and he really wants to ask William and this terrible mantis monster What kind of agreement was there between them, just looking at the appearance of the two dangerous guys, he didn't dare to speak anyway.

Sanyu nodded and said: "Okay! William, but if you fail to show up by then, I will bring the battle group to find you!" After speaking, the mantis monster turned and left.

After Sanyu walked dozens of steps, William shouted behind it: "Brother Sanyu, don't forget to clean up the town before you leave. You see, you're bloody. I'm worried that my sister will sleep at night. It's a nightmare!"

Sanyu, who was walking unhurriedly, couldn't help but staggered, and he didn't respond to William, but just quickened his pace and ran away as fast as being chased by a dog.

At this time, Willalmo Kolaski, who couldn't hold back his curiosity anymore, leaned up to William like a pug, and asked anxiously: "Mr. William, Mr. William, what is the origin of that monster? You and What agreement does he have? What kind of relationship is there between you?..."

William raised his palm to stop the half-elf from asking, and said coldly: "Mr. Will, you ask too much! This is not something you can relate to. Take everything you have seen and heard today into your heart, and treat it as Nothing ever happened! Believe me, this is the best option for you!"

Willalmo said anxiously: "But! Mr. William, that monster and its claws killed the entire town! It will kill more people in the future!"

William shook his head and said, "How big is the bowl and how much food is eaten. I know how much I weigh. Will, even if that person wants to wash the whole world with blood, I can't control it!"

The half-elf pointed at his falcon-like pupils, and said angrily: "No! You are lying! Mr. William! I can see clearly that that monster is very afraid of you! You are the only one here who has the ability to stop its evil deeds !"

Chapter 65 Why is my house full of idiots?

William didn't expect the half-elf to be so serious. He sighed and said, "Mr. Will, it's not that I don't want to take care of it, but I really can't take care of it! The things involved here are very complicated and terrible. I can't give it to you." You reveal too much."

Willalmo refused to buy it, and he said angrily: "These are all excuses! Mr. William! This is just an excuse for you to escape! You are making excuses for your cowardice! You just watched that monster slaughter humans, isn't it Doesn't conscience ache?"

William is really a little angry, this guy is looking for trouble!He grabbed Willalmo's collar, lifted the half-elf up with one hand, and scolded face to face: "You bastard! Do you really think I can't be squeezed by mud?! Don't I want to care?" ? There are a lot of fucking strong opponents on the opposite side, and I can't stop it even if I cut it into three pieces! Besides, I have family members who need to protect! Tell me, you idiot, how can I manage it?!"

Willalmo was so dazed by William's squirt that he couldn't even remember to wipe off the saliva sprayed on his face. He murmured blankly: "I...I just...just want to Help those desert herdsmen, they are living too hard."

William let go of the half-elf and let him sit on the sand. He picked up his steps and walked towards the sand dunes. After walking a few steps, he turned around and shouted: "Idiot! What are you doing here? Go back to eat! There will be another one later!" The guy needs to be dismissed!"

Willalmo was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses. He finally found the problem on his face, quickly wiped it with his sleeve a few times, then picked up the long sword he had dropped, and hurriedly chased after it , but this time he is much more honest, as well-behaved as a shy little daughter-in-law behind William.

Sure enough, he's a bitch, he doesn't listen when he speaks in a friendly voice, he has to be taught a good lesson before he can obey!

Back on the top of the dune, Phinea and the others had already let go of their cheeks and started eating. William also sat around in front of the reheated stew pot, picked up a rib and handed it to the half-elf, and said, "I heard that the elf They are all vegetarians, I don’t know if you are the same?”

Will took a bite of the ribs, chewed and swallowed carefully, and said carefully: "Don't believe that kind of rumor. It's all nonsense made by the elves themselves. They don't want to eat meat, but they don't want to eat outside meat. meat. In the kingdom of elves, elves generally raise a kind of fey fowl from the goblin wilderness. The flesh of this kind of fey creature will naturally emit an inexplicable aroma, which is very popular among elves. Especially a A goblin with a swan's body and a human-like child's face is most sought after by elf nobles!"

William suddenly felt that the meat in his hand was not tasty, and he asked a little bit in response: "Are those goblins stupid?" William's words actually meant that those goblins with humanoid children's heads are not thinking the beast.

Will sighed and said, "No! Those goblins are very smart, and even have their own language and poetry (culture) like humans and elves. Their singing is beautiful and kind."

William couldn't eat meat anymore, and he asked with a frosty face: "Are those goblins allowed to be raised and slaughtered by elves?"

The half-elf secretly picked up another rib, and then said seriously: "Mr. William, there is one thing you don't understand. Any life will undergo a change when it enters the Fairy Wilderness. People with kind hearts will become extremely beautiful, while those with evil hearts will become extremely beautiful." It will become ugly and inexplicable, those elves are naturally close to beautiful things, they don't know, or they don't guard against, there is another kind of disguise artifact in this world-【Agatha's Mask】."

William is no stranger to Agatha's Mask. There was an imitation of the elf Elf back then, and the little guy cheated William by wearing it.

Will said: "Some elves and nobles discovered the true function of this treasure. They established strongholds and cities in the Fairy Wilderness, secretly hunted those precious fairies, and even stole their cubs and brought them back to the main material plane to raise them. .”

William suddenly came to his senses, and he said angrily, "Will! What does your nonsense talk have to do with me?"

Will smiled and said: "There are two main meanings. One is not to trust the elves too much. Among them, the kindness is really kind, and the evil is also vicious. It is unbelievable that this race tends to go to extremes. Another That is, I apologize to you for my capriciousness just now, but I understand your thoughts, after all, you are also powerless."

William said angrily: "You bastard! After all, you still don't want to give up, do you? Use aggressive tactics for me. Forget it! Just treat me as a bad luck reminder to meet such a fool like you!"

After speaking, William stood up, and suddenly shouted towards the back of the tent: "That big ugly guy over there! Do you want to come over and have some broth together?"

Then I saw the half-orc Googol turning out from behind the tent with a smirk on his face, and approaching William and the others, he said in a low voice, "I! Googol! Thank you! You! Human! Help!"

William shouted angrily: "Straighten your tongue for me before you speak! Do you really think I'm a fool? How can you, an old fritter who has been on the black road for such a long time, be unable to speak well?!"

Gu Gu'er covered his forehead with an awkward smile, and said, "I know you are a powerful guy! If you hadn't blocked me, I might have been killed by that grasshopper-headed guy."

William sighed, damn it!None of this group of guys who have been wandering all over the place for many years is stupid, so why are they full of stupid girls and girls who have no brains?Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Phineya and the two little guys who were gulping their mouths.

William took a heap of jerky from his supply stock and dropped it into the stew pot, letting the warm broth soften them. These were the goblins' meals.

Gu Guer was not too polite, and when he picked up the pot, there was a gust of wind and clouds, and the posture of eating raw made the mother and daughter of the frost giants who were good at dry food dumbfounded.

After the half-orc ate ​​all the food, he reluctantly put down the stew pot. He said to William with a grateful face: "Thank you for your hospitality, kind sir. If there is anything that needs to be done by Googol, Googol will be obliged .”

William nodded and asked, "Googuer, where are you going next? Are you also going to cross the Standing Stone Plain?"

Gu Guer shook his pig-like head like a rattle, and said with lingering fear: "No! I will never enter the Standing Stone Plain again in my life. I want to go west. Gu Guer heard that the city of deep water on the west coast is It's a big city, Googul wants to try his luck there."

William grabbed his fine gold war spear, and let Qiu Shuidao swim by his side, he said, "That's fine! Googul, come with me to the town, and meet that Mr. Mantis, Sanyu. "

Chapter 66 I'm really not a bosom sister!

The half-orc shook his head quickly, and shouted anxiously: "No! I won't go! Gu Guer will never want to see that ant's head!"

The half-elf Willa next to him gloated and corrected: "It's the head of a mantis, Mr. Googol. Can't you orcs tell the difference between a grasshopper, an ant, and a mantis?"

Orcs and elves are born to die, and this hatred will continue even in their hybrid descendants.In Faerun, the mixed blood of elves and humans is more common. Although the mixed blood of elves and dwarves or halflings is relatively rare, there are not no cases, but you will never see the existence of mixed blood of elves and orcs.

Googul, the half-orc, stared at a pair of bull's eyes (literally) and snorted: "In my opinion, the head of an elf boy is no different from that of a bug!"

William didn't care about the hatred between the elves and the orcs. He stared at the orcs and asked, "Are you sure you don't want to go?"

The half-orc continued to shake his head and said, "I won't go if I'm killed!"

William persuaded again: "You don't need to do anything if you go, I just talk to that guy for a few words."

The half-orc still stubbornly refused to accompany him, William sighed, and his face was a little ugly.As the saying goes, good words are hard to persuade a damn ghost, but what William wants to save is the future of the half-orc Googol, because he also has a little responsibility in it.

It is said that Googul and his adventure team had gone through untold hardships to pass through the Standing Stone Plain, but when they encountered William's family, the whole team was immediately torn apart. The priest who was the core of the team was killed on the spot, and the wanderers in the team Fleeing, the warrior mutated into a half-disabled man, and he himself was temporarily crippled by William. This tragic and bizarre experience made the half-orc, who was originally a rock-solid will, involuntarily fall into confusion and self-doubt.

And just under this state of confusion and self-doubt, the half-orcs were forced to get involved in the fierce battle with the Ethiopian sand lizards led by Sanyu in the town.The tragic death of his comrades-in-arms and the rapid defeat of the battle completely turned the confusion in Gu Guer's heart into fear. This is undoubtedly devastating to the half-orcs who rely on swords for food. If he cannot solve the source of fear in his heart, not only will he Only Gu Guer's strength will not improve any more, and even his current combat power will be greatly reduced.

If you want to overcome fear, you have to face it directly. As long as Googol dares to stand in front of the source of fear—the Three Fools, perhaps you don’t need to fight or defeat it (of course Google can’t do this), but everyone If he can leave alive and intact, the fear in his heart will be greatly reduced, and after a little rest, basically nothing serious will happen.

However, the half-orcs didn't understand William's painstaking efforts, and William would not rush to force it.

I've already given you a chance, but you didn't grasp it yourself, no wonder I, Mr. Chen. ——This is William's idea, he just wants a clear conscience.

Holding a spear, William went to the small town alone, with the Qiushui knife hovering beside him, and had a meeting with the mantis monster who hadn't left yet.William didn't mention what he said to San Yu after he came back, he just said that the member of the Salamanders would no longer hunt and kill the strong human beings on the Oasis Chain. Not a word will be revealed.

So there was nothing to say all night, except that the half-orcs and half-elves were a little bit at odds.

In the early morning, William and his family returned to the town. Sanyu and the remaining Ethiopian sand lizards had already left last night. Before leaving, they cleaned up the town and took all the corpses away. After leaving, only a little blood was absorbed by the dry sand and turned into dark spots like stains. Of course, the smell of blood was still relatively strong.

Most of the buildings in the town are still relatively well preserved, and the water source is still clean. This is also the agreement between William and Sanyu. Otherwise, the Ethiopian Sand Lizard will definitely set fire to all the buildings before leaving and temporarily pollute the water source. It is a real destroyer, and generally the polluted water source is not suitable for human consumption, but it is nothing to the tenacious sand lizard.

The half-orc only stayed for a day before leaving on a sand camel. With sufficient supplies, he embarked on a journey to Waterdeep City to find his dream.

After confirming that there were no potential safety hazards in the town, all the relatively intact buildings became the place for Misha and Miluna to explore and hunt for treasure.Regardless of the tiredness of the journey, the little ones enthusiastically broke into every house like little robbers, opened every cellar, and then rummaged through boxes and cabinets, emptying out all the things they thought were treasures or interesting.

I have to say that the residents of Ping'an Town still have something. The little girls make new discoveries almost every time, so that in the end, even Yasuna and Finiya are envious and join the ranks of treasure hunting with great interest.

All kinds of gold and silver coins, jewelry and utensils, some strange objects, exquisitely crafted swords and weapons that look like works of art, gorgeous clothing, armor, and many scrolls, books, etc., most of which are not visible Stolen goods, I think the people who came to this small town did a lot of crimes in the past.

It can only be said that the extermination of this group of evil guys is not a bad thing for the passing business travelers and adventurers on the entire black road.

William and the half-elf were unmoved. Of course, William just didn't want to spoil the fun of his family. After all, he has the sincerity and awareness as a cheating tool. Treasure hunting is similar to finding things in his own home, which will be a great blow Expectations and surprises for the little ones.

The half-elf Willalmo had a hard time facing the evil deeds of his former companions. Although he also knew the real business of his neighbors, and even personally participated in many robberies and killings, of course those were all him (for hostile organizations such as the Zhentarim Society) ) purposeful action.On weekdays, most of the half-elves pretended to be deaf and dumb with an ostrich mentality, but when these stolen goods were presented together, the half-elves could no longer turn a blind eye.He is well aware that almost every piece of stolen goods represents the loss of an innocent life and the occurrence of a crime.

Seeing that the little girl and the others gained more and more, Willalmo's condition became worse and worse. He couldn't sleep all day and all night, and he saw those tragic souls coming to claim his life almost as soon as he closed his eyes. His face began to haggard, thick dark circles appeared on his bloodshot eyes, and his spirit became in a trance.