The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 326
When William was still spending time with Tabari and a group of old guys in Maddalena, Lambert, tens of kilometers away, had a different scene.

As a subsidiary village of Maddalena, people in Lambert, Emmanla and the other four villages and towns don't know the true inside story of their main town. A mysterious unknown mage, who has a weird temper. He (or she) allows outsiders to enter Maddalena, but no one can stay there overnight. It is said that anyone who violates this rule will be turned into sand by the unknown mage. Tuatara.However, the "unnamed mage" has many "apprentices". These "apprentice mages" often enter six villages and towns to solve some problems for the villagers and provide some magical services, such as healing injuries, purifying water sources, and so on.

I have to talk about the bad taste of those old things in Sinrenal, a group of old monsters standing at the apex of the pyramid of power, all of them are comparable to gods, but they always like to pretend to be fledgling apprentices and run out Charming.

The "Member of Kukan" that Palitru said was one of the twenty so-called "Mage Apprentices". They were very respected among the villagers. them.Because most of these villagers are Netheril, they are not as afraid of rejecting magic as outsiders. They respect those who can use magic, especially Netheril's arcanists.

You must know that in the era before the rise of Netheril, human beings were just an extremely inconspicuous one among hundreds of intelligent races. One of the enemies, Jeresh Kronomanthel (a talented arcanist in the early days of Netheril, whose talent was even greater than that of Karsus later, when defending Illusk at the time Was ambushed by the orc gods, and died of serious injuries a few years later), Iolum, Owo the Undead, Karsus, these outstanding arcanists made great achievements in the battle and created a great reputation. They are The pride in human epics, the nightmare on the road of blood and tears of alien races, their achievements overwhelmed the gods, and their vicious reputation shocked all planes, and they were honored as "Warlock Kings" by the world.

Anyone who knows the past history always has an indelible reverence for the "King of Warlocks", and the titular lord of the Lonely Wasteland, Morisa, the granddaughter of the undead Owo, often visits Maddalena openly, and occasionally visits Go around any of the six villages and towns. Although this hideous witch is not friendly, it makes the people of the six towns excited every time.The relationship between this cold old witch and Netheril is well known, and her madness and arrogance are also well-known, but people find that Morisa is always very respectful and polite when facing those "mage apprentices" , which can't help making them wonder about the identity of the unknown mage.

Therefore, compared with the humans in other places, Nasir in Six Towns always has a strange sense of superiority, and the residents of Lambert are especially obvious on this point.Lambert is the last gateway to the Great Desert of Enook. Usually, there should be an "apprentice" of an unknown mage here, but that "apprentice" hid in the first time a big fireball appeared in the sky. Maddalena, which has been making the residents of Lambert feel a little uneasy for nearly a month.

This morning, the halfling rogue brought back sad news of Aymanla's fall. Terrified, Taron claimed that the murderers were a group of terrible giants, and because of the bragging nature of halflings, he told them The number of groups of "giants" is exaggerated tenfold.Although many people know that halflings are unreliable in their speech, after all, in the eyes of halflings, the size of human beings can also be regarded as "giants", and halflings think that only halflings are normal, but the news brought back by this little thing is inevitable. This caused panic in the whole village.

Chaos began to appear in Lambert's meeting place. Some ignored the news brought back by Talen, thinking that the halfling was just talking big to please the public; some thought that spies should be sent to investigate Emmanra again; The few less courageous who offered to seek refuge and help in Meda Dalai were the butt of ridicule by the others.

Lambert's leader, Snowlear, was also not sure whether he should believe the big-mouthed Talon, he hesitated and said: "You have to go to Emmanra again. I can't be sure whether what I said is true, You'll have to bring back definite evidence that you're telling the truth. Of course I'll send someone else with you, Baum."

Far from wanting to face the fear of the unknowable again, the timid halfling interrupted, screaming, "No! I'll never go back there again! That's two dozen (a dozen equals ten Two) dreadful giants whose waist is higher than your shoulders and whose tomahawks are wider than your door! I will never go to Emmanra—”

Now Lambert's spies are a bit understaffed. Before that, they not only sent Tarun to visit Emmanra, but also sent more spies to the other four towns, and Tarun was the fastest to come back among the five batches of spies. .

Not everyone in Faerun is qualified to be a spy or a rogue, because the most important job of a rogue is not their combat effectiveness, but their excellent survivability. A rogue must learn to survive in a harsh environment. Amongst horrific monsters, horrific monsters, and ferocious enemies, you can ensure that you can come back alive, followed by some simple intelligence collection and analysis capabilities.Speaking of which, the survivability of the halfling rogue Taron can be regarded as the best in the entire lonely wasteland. Even a group of sand wolves (the most cunning and difficult predators in the Ennook desert area) can survive within tens of kilometers. Surrounded by him (except for tracking prey), he was able to escape unscathed, but this coward's intelligence gathering ability is absolutely scum.

Snowlear is not a decisive enough person, he hopes that Tarun can take a reliable villager to go to Emmanla again.But when Talen refused to go out to investigate the news again, Snowler began to be in a dilemma. At this time, he missed the "Mage Apprentice" who was resident in Lambert. He can easily solve it.

After some deliberation, Snowler decided to send a villager to Maddalena to explain the situation and ask for some advice.However, not long after the villager set off, the second group of spies rushed back. They brought back the news that Patty was destroyed and the dead villagers were eaten by unknown monsters, which made Snow Lear terrified. , he again sent two villagers to Meda Dalai, this time to ask for reinforcements.

Snowler has never felt so irritated, especially with a chattering little man in his ear, and Talen has been bragging and enriching his experience: "... I have never met such a strong And cruel giants! There are three dozen of them! Their knees are higher than the bridge of your nose, and the giant axes they wield are as big as your houses." The villagers listened to his bragging with great interest, and looked worried whispers.

Then the third and fourth batch of spies came back with bad news, and the villagers of Lambert became more and more panicked.When the fifth and final spies brought back news that the last town had been destroyed, Snowrel, terrified, decided to take all the villagers to Maddalena for refuge.

(End of this chapter)