The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 348 Sleeping Ancient City and Guards
William can hardly imagine that there is such a strange and strange city hidden in this dark underground.Different from any architectural style in William's cognition, this is a city composed of countless rings and pipe-shaped buildings. Constant new life.

This is an underground city full of weird contradictions.The buildings here do not have portals like human buildings, but spiral cones, like blooming snake buds.

William knew of a northern earth snake.In autumn, they bury their eggs in the soil before hibernating to survive the cold winter.Every spring and summer, the snake eggs will grow bright red pillars from the soil like plants, like unopened flower buds, and the young snakes will crawl out along the hollow passage of the "flower buds".

Most of the prominent places of the buildings here stand a statue that looks like a lizard man.The faces of these statues are slender compared to the Sebes lizardmen, with multiple arms, or four, or six, extending from the body like a snake.

William's pupils shrank suddenly, and his eyes swept across the cold statue.On the arms of these statues, most of them hang a human (humanoid) head.Most of the skulls have long since rotted away, leaving only dry and incomplete skulls; and there are also a small number of skulls that should have been hung not long ago, and they are still rotting and deteriorating. William even found one that was dripping. fresh human head with blood.

William approached the bleeding head, and the owner of the head should be a man in his prime, his hideous face was covered with faint scars, his cheeks were tense, his steel teeth stood out, and his bloodshot eyes glared. Open wide, it seemed that he was full of anger when he was dying.

Although William is not a professional forensic doctor, he has been licking blood all year round. He has seen many dead people, and he has little experience in judging corpses.

He pinched the dead man's cheeks and the muscles at the broken neck, feeling very tough. The owner of this head should be an extremely strong person. Combined with the dense scars on the face of the deceased, the head owner should be in a fierce fight The man who was directly beheaded and killed, the grim expression frozen on his face just showed this point.

The deceased should have been a powerful warrior or samurai who was used to fighting. Although any accidents may happen on the battlefield, if an experienced fighter can be directly killed in a frontal fight, the opponent must be extremely brave and fearsome. exist.

The streets of the city are covered with thick gray-black debris deposits, and footsteps make a crackling sound when they step on it, giving people a very crispy feeling.How could William fail to recognize that the thick sediment under his feet was the bone powder after calcification and erosion of animal bones.

However, William's heart began to chill, reaching freezing point, as if all the heat had been compressed and condensed, like a volcano accumulating strength, waiting for the moment when it erupts suddenly.

If all the bone meal here belonged to human beings, William really couldn't imagine how many human bones would be needed, and how many years of devastation would be required to form such a deposit of corpses that almost covered the entire city.

Although he couldn't see any living beings for the time being, William's heart was tense, and almost any disturbance might trigger his violent counterattack.

But William searched the entire city, and found no signs of life activities. This city of bones, full of dead silence, seems to have been abandoned by time and history.

Of course, it was always difficult for William to relax his nerves. His keen perception kept reminding him that here was a deadly Jedi.

William didn't want to stay in this eerie ghost place any longer, he was going to leave here and find a way back to the ground.It's just that this seems to have triggered some kind of defense mechanism in the city.Soon, this city of death showed William its dangers—the skeleton guard, a bone giant more than ten feet tall, made of bone powder that covered the entire city street as a material.

These huge skeleton guards, wielding huge weapons that are also condensed with bone meal, walking among the ruins of the forgotten city, suddenly look very bluffing.

William was a little worried at first, but when he easily smashed a skeleton guard who was twelve feet tall and held a huge ax and a large shield the size of a city gate, into a ball of scattered bone powder, Although I am grateful for these ostentatious big guys, I am also quite disappointed.

Perhaps, when the bone meal covering the entire city was still an unweathered skeleton, the giant skeleton guard composed of evil negative energy and hard bones was indeed an extremely powerful guardian.It's just that they can't resist the invasion of the magic power of time after all, the long time is enough to turn the hard bones into crisp bone meal.

Every movement of these huge skeleton giants will cause a large amount of bone powder to fall off from the body and the weapons in their hands.Even William didn't need to do it himself, the skeleton guards patrolling around dissipated and disappeared by themselves, and turned into deposited bone powder all over the ground again.

The disappearance of the skeleton guard does not mean the crisis is over, on the contrary, it is the beginning of William's nightmare.

A mummy in the usual sense is a dead body that has been specially embalmed.The ancients firmly believed that after death, the soul would not die, but would still be attached to the corpse or statue.Therefore, some noble people will be made into mummies after death, as a hope for the immortality of the dead, among which the mummies of ancient Egypt are the most famous.

William was no stranger to mummies. In his previous life, no matter whether it was an official museum or an underground black market for cultural relics, there was no shortage of such valuable artificial mummy.

But Faerun's mummy is a bit scary.As soulless undead created by necromantic magic to guard cemeteries or mysterious ruins from infringement, although mummies have lost most of their power and knowledge during life, they are able to spread the deadly putrefaction virus to the living.

But what William has to face is the mutant among the more terrifying mummy guards, the giant mummy leader created by using the body of a dying giant warlock or priest as material through extremely evil blasphemy rituals.The leader of the mummy is a powerful undead with wisdom, not only retaining most of the knowledge and power of his life, but also strengthened in the carrion virus.

It has a giant body shape, a chain armor belt woven of bronze as a shroud, and holds a huge asylum mace. It exudes a frightening and desperate atmosphere. Just by looking at its appearance, you can tell that it is extremely difficult to mess with. exist.

Although William was brave enough, he scratched his head at this terrifying monster.The loss of Qiu Shui Zhan Dao greatly reduced his combat power, especially when facing such a huge undead with almost no obvious fatal weaknesses in his body, William felt like a mouse pulling a turtle - helpless.

(End of this chapter)