The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 33 Undercurrents in the Shadows
It is definitely an extraordinary honor and symbol to have a high-ranking dragon of the good alignment settle in the city, which represents the recognition and attention of the entire main material plane for the city.For example, the Ms. Amandro Nirazzo who lives in the City of Skillful Hands, and the most famous city of glory in the Northland is home to at least three high-ranking dragons. Only the rich pearl can be protected from the blatant invasion of evil beings from all planes, but can only subvert and seize power secretly by means of conspiracy and tricks to support agents.

And these unspoken rules are only known to some powerhouses and a few high-level officials of the city-states. Therefore, the hostile lords on the main material plane will only dare to launch real siege wars against these protected famous cities if they find enough high-level power to match.Lady Sunderland Stagrim happens to be one of the only elite in Mirabar who has heard of these rules.

The next day, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden took the recovered Dwarf King Bruno and his party to bid farewell to Mirabar City and continued on the journey home of the dwarves. Before leaving, Drow made a special trip to find Chen Jinyang to say goodbye His affection for this gentle elf man increased greatly, and he promised that if Zall needs Chen Jinyang's help in the future, he can come to Mirabar to find him. Except this time, Chen Jinyang still has family members who need to be resettled.

The thrilling mercenary life and the precarious years of fleeing in the previous life left a deep imprint on Chen Jinyang's soul.After nearly half a year of adaptation and recuperation, he has begun to look forward to the life of an adventurer described by the mercenaries in this world, especially when the future of the two little guys has been roughly arranged.Chen Jinyang watched with disappointment as he rode on a fast horse and gradually went away to the Mithril Four Heroes. The mutual trust between the four made him greatly envious. Chen Jinyang believed in power, but he was not superstitious. A strong and well-coordinated team is extremely terrifying .

When he saw the giantess standing quietly behind him, Chen Jinyang couldn't help showing a happy smile. At least now I have a trustworthy companion, although her strength is not so satisfactory.Standing silently for a long time, Chen Jinyang turned around and prepared to return to the new residence: "We are going back! Phinya!" Hearing this, Phinya followed the man closely with a giant ax on her back. This giant girl would never stay away from her at any time. own weapon.

The work of escorting the convoy has come to an end for the time being, and the Mithril Four Heroes have also left. Apart from waiting for the Huber family to complete the rest of the transaction, Chen Jinyang basically has nothing to do. He has been studying general at Ms. Sunderland for the past two days. There are three more observers beside the two little guys in Chinese. "Knowledge is power", this famous saying that was almost smashed in the previous life is indeed reasonable. Except for Misha'er who is a regular learner, Alos and Finia were dragged by Chen Jinyang. One is the moon elf girl Elf Xingye who still does not give up on the so-called "treasure of the dragon". Became the little girl's "mortal enemy" by her side.

Although there are many and unpredictable languages ​​in the world of Faerûn, there are six kinds of written characters here. They are Common Language, Elvish Language, Dwarven Language (Giant Language), Dragon Language, Celestial Language and Purgatory Language.Take the most widely spread lingua franca as an example. If the lingua franca is compared to Chinese characters, then the spoken language of the lingua franca is equivalent to Mandarin Chinese, while the languages ​​of Aglalend, Aizedo, and Jondas are all different. The regional language is similar to the Sichuan dialect, Hokkien dialect, Northeast dialect and other local dialects in Chinese.Therefore, adventurers who travel around often encounter some helpless situations. A farmer in a remote area can understand his lingua franca, but he can't figure out that the farmer's local language is Monk Zhang Er.

This kind of characters similar to alphanumeric codes makes people scratch their heads. Chen Jinyang and others learned it very hard. After a few days, he couldn't help but ask: "Your Excellency, this so-called general character ?”

The female consul, who was frowning and teaching hard, lightly stroked the hair hanging on her forehead, showed a charming face and said with a charming smile: "Mr. William is too polite! Just call me Little Sunderland! Hee hee——" Chen Jinyang was a little embarrassed by the female consul's almost molesting and seductive actions, he looked back at Finia who was fidgeting and scratching her head while learning the words, and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, she is really a simple little girl.

Chen Jinyang absent-mindedly continued the question just now: "Miss Sunderland! This kind of writing is so complicated to learn. Is there any special method to speed up the learning efficiency?"

The beautiful female "teacher" said with a smile: "Of course - yes! Hehe!"

Chen Jinyang and other "stupid students" were overjoyed when they heard the words, and asked in unison: "What's the special method?" Suddenly there was an extremely arrogant laugh behind them, and they turned their heads to see the elf girl who was very proud. , all gave her the back of the head with disdain.

Sunderland also smirked a little triumphantly and said, "The special method is to learn Elvish language first!" The laughter behind him became even more arrogant, I'll fuck it!No wonder the little elf girl is so proud, but what does learning common language have to do with elf language.

Fortunately, Sunderland answered the questions in the hearts of several people in time: "The characters of the common language are changed and extended from the elven characters (the relationship between the common characters and the elven characters is a bit like the relationship between simplified characters and traditional characters in Chinese. Of course, the former The difference between them is much more complicated), and only with the help of the grammar of elven script can one read common script; compared with common script, most people are more accustomed to using elven script to write notes. Only the officials of our human countries and cities tend to Use common characters, but this cannot conceal the convenience of using elven characters! Only specially trained clerks can read and write accurately and fluently using common characters. There are even 'language proficiency', 'transcription skills', and 'tongue skills' Mysterious magic can allow an illiterate farmer to read and write all kinds of advanced books fluently. Mr. William should know more about these magic knowledge than me!"

Damn it!How could I know these crazy things!Chen Jinyang said angrily, "According to what you said, we only need to learn elf characters! But what kind of nonsense have you taught these days? Are you playing tricks on us?"

The female consul, who was questioned and accused, defended in a low voice: "You said that you want me to teach human language and writing! Who can I blame?" Of course, the shrewd Ms. Stagrim also admitted in her heart that out of respect for Chen Jinyang's entry into the city, There are also some small revenge thoughts in the intimidating behavior, but only a little bit (the woman draws a small gap with her slender fingers).

"From now on, you only need to teach elf characters! But in the future, if there is any common sense that I don't know, I hope the beautiful Miss Sunderland will remind you in time!" Chen Jinyang, who felt that he lacked common sense, seemed to be wrong to blame the female ruler. Officer, quickly put on an apologetic expression.

Sunderland pretended to be nonchalant and said: "If you want to teach reading and writing in Elvish, then Mr. William has hired the wrong person!" Wrong person?Following the playful eyes of the female consul, several people looked at the elf girl who was smiling extremely arrogantly with embarrassment. "Wa hahaha--!"

At this time, in a corner of the Northland, a mysterious conversation is going on:

"Have you found them?" An elegant and deep female voice.

"It's been found! They had a misunderstanding with our family's food convoy, and they were delayed in Mirabar for a few days!" This is an old man.

"Misunderstanding? Why did they go to Mirabar?" the woman asked with some concern.

"Don't worry! The 'Yaoshi' council didn't realize their threat for a while! But this time the dwarf king was seriously injured by a strange little guy."

"Strange guy?" The woman wondered, recalling which famous young strong men in the Northland could knock down the dwarf king.

"Hmm! The boy who was originally a fool suddenly became a powerful warrior, even able to kill a fish-eating crocodile and a dog demon with his bare hands." The old man showed off without any hesitation.

"The dog demon? You mean the dog demon?" The woman's voice instantly became high-pitched.

"No! Oh! By the gods! Send down a thunderbolt to kill this shrewd woman! I'm talking about trolls! Not dog demons!" The man hastily denied it.

"You're talking about a dog devil!"

"It's not a dog devil! It's a troll!"

"Okay! Let's stop this meaningless argument! How is your contact?" The woman gave up the argument and changed the subject.

"I have already contacted Nesmai and Yata, but both of them refused. Noisy Water City has also sent people to contact, and it is estimated that there is not much hope. After all, no one has mentioned the Mithral Hall for many years, and it is rarely returned. Someone remembers it." The elderly man's tone was a little frustrated.

"But this is the only way to break the monopoly of Mirabar, and the forces from the dark forces have already begun to infiltrate the mining center of the Northland. We must speed up the implementation of the plan!" The woman said extremely firmly.

"I know! Dear lady! But Shimmer is too powerful for ordinary people, are you going to deal with that dragon of darkness yourself?"

"No! I can't convince the rest of the Alliance to allow me to leave the city alone! This time I'm going to seek help from afar - one of my sisters will come to help as soon as possible!"

"That's great! But can the dark elves find their way to Mithral Hall?"

"Don't worry! I have already asked the old dragon who lives in Hermit Fort, and he has promised to give proper guidance when the time comes. After all, the shadow dragon, the evil neighbor, Lao Ye, is also very displeased! Oh! That's right! That strange one How did you deal with the dog demon killed by the little guy?" The woman who was talking turned her head and asked inadvertently.

"The dog devil has been taken by us! Damn it! You lied to me? Sly woman! Shameless liar! No dog devil! No weird little guy! Nothing! Damn it!" Once again, the old man who leaked his words was completely out of order. I'm angry.

(End of this chapter)