The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 473 Laughing wildly in hell on earth
Calimport, one of the oldest cities that still exists on the land, although she has suffered more disasters than any other city in the world, because she has existed for a long time, she has never been cut off The vitality it deserves.

The history of Calimport can even be traced back nearly 1 years ago.In ancient times, the Calimshan region was basically covered by the great forest of Kortomor, and giants and elves fought endlessly for the dominance here, until the powerful Wind Djinn card that crossed the boundary from the elemental plane of wind Lin brought his tribe to this hot and humid green land.

The djinn and their human and halfling slaves established a city in a port area on the northern shore of the Shining Sea. For the next 1000 years, they slaughtered giants, hunted elves, drove out dragons, and ravaged the land. The forest created the predecessor of Calimshan - the Calim Empire.

The arrival of the fire dwarf Mennon broke the dominance of the djinn in the Calimshan region. The two giant races and the empires they founded had Calimport and Menon as their cores, and they fought against each other for hundreds of years. The Karin Desert is a derivative of their battle.Until the leaders of the two giant spirits were sealed together by the human slaves who could not endure the war and the alien elves, then the alliance of humans and dwarves worked together to expel the remaining giant spirits, thus announcing the end of the era of the giant spirits' rule.

In the next seven to eight thousand years, the ruling power of the Calimshan region changed frequently. Humans, dragons, strange monsters (mostly beholders), elves, orcs, etc. appeared one after another. , wrote a tortuous and bizarre epic for the history of Calimshan, especially Calimport.

Standing on a high place outside the city, you can see three quarters of Calimport.

The distribution of her city area is like a huge concentric scroll, the core essence of which is the residential area of ​​Calimport and even the entire Calimshan ruling class, where there are majestic and luxurious palaces (this thing blocks Another quarter of sight), the bustling arena, gorgeous high-end shops and auction houses, and a small number of luxurious villas.

Circling from the core area is the essence of Calimport. There are a lot of exquisite residences and bustling shops everywhere. Most of the people living in this area are permanent residents of Calimport, and they are all those with relatively high status. part.They can be big merchants, independent ship owners, various officials and generals, as well as local big landowners and so on.

Beyond the elite area is a mixture of the port area and the civilian area, which is said to be because they are one.Calimport does not have a special city wall. In fact, the original old city wall separates the core area and the elite area, and the residents of the elite area use thick houses to separate them from the civilian area.

There are not only local poor permanent residents, but also foreign businessmen and adventurers. It can be said that dragons and snakes are mixed. The gang and the city guard are the direct managers of this area.There are not only luxurious mansions like palaces and fortresses, but also many lanes full of dilapidated huts beside the mansions.

All kinds of crude bazaars, shops, inns, taverns and private slave markets are numerous, and killers, beggars, prostitutes can be seen everywhere.

There is a wider area outside the civilian area. A large number of temporary tents are densely packed like mushrooms on the mountain after the rain. All kinds of livestock, livestock and poor children are rolling in the mud pit.

Walk into Calimport along the avenue that runs through the city. Whether it is William or the four friends of Mithril Hall, they have never encountered such a dirty and smelly city from the Northland. The air smell in the sewers of any city in the Northland Compared with this place, it can be regarded as a fresh and pleasant clean place.

Hot, humid, foul smelling, clouds of mosquitoes and parasites all over the sky, bare-bottomed children with swollen stomachs due to long-term hunger crawling in the mud, near the stinky gutters on both sides of the avenue, there are many people who are dying The rotting corpses, the corpses of children and adults, are basically the kind of poor people who have extinguished the last spark of life tormented by hunger and poverty.

"When Glutton mentioned home, he never mentioned these sights," Bruenor murmured, and pulled his cloak over his face to avoid the bad smell. "How could he miss this place?"

"This is really the best city in the world!" Shali Dalib, who was the guide, raised his hand for emphasis, and said with airs.

Wulfgar, Bruno, and Catti-brie all cast disbelieving glances at him, but William felt murderous intent towards the indifferent native.

William was shocked again. Although he has experienced many tragedies, he has also witnessed the tragedies on the black land in his previous life, but it is undeniable that the world over there is getting better little by little. There have been many twists and turns, but the trend of civilization development has not changed.

But today, William felt he was stepping into a veritable hell on earth.

When outsiders like them appeared, whether it was mosquitoes or those poor children who still had a little desire to survive, they couldn't wait to surround them, and they or they wanted to get some food to fill their stomachs.

William shattered the swarm of mosquitoes with invisible fire. In fact, he was not afraid of any poisonous insects. "A feather can't be added, a fly can't fall, people don't know me, I only know people", what William is talking about is the current state.

He was about to take out the food that had been saved for the past two days from his fire spirit armband (Turmu's mark) and distribute it to these poor children. Unexpectedly, the guide Shali Dalib swung his whip directly, and he While beating those poor children, they yelled and cursed loudly.

A child with a body as thin as a skeleton but with a big belly was slapped in the throat on the spot. Before he could even scream, he fell down in the mud and was trampled by other children, making no more sound.

Like an enraged lion, William suddenly grabbed the back of the guide Shali Dalib, his fingers sank into his flesh and blood like iron pincers, grabbed his spine, and lifted him up to the sky.The unbearable pain made the guide howl like a beast. He didn't even know what happened, but he saw the sky in the blink of an eye, and his back seemed to be torn apart.

Although the four Mithril friends were very angry at the cruelty of the guide Shali Dalib, they never thought that William would attack him directly. They all stared at William in surprise, with the same expression of disbelief.

The furious William didn't directly kill the guide Shali Dalib. Direct death was too merciful for this cold-blooded guy.He directly crushed a section of Shali Dalib's spine, and then threw him into a stinky ditch beside the road after he passed out in pain. I believe that those local people who are so poor that they are dying will definitely give this The guy in the robe and the gold jewelry took a rare trip from hell.

Those hungry children are very good at watching the limelight. When William made a move, they avoided it with a wink. This kind of infighting scene is common in Calimport. It is wisest to avoid beggars on the street. Of course, whether you can find some leftovers later depends on your luck.

William didn't care about Drizzt's strange gazes. He took out a half-roasted iguana from the fire spirit armband, and was about to call those children to come to get food. A car pulled by four sturdy horses The gold-painted carriage suddenly passed by behind, and they rushed into the group of beggars at a high speed, and crushed them mercilessly, leaving only blood and broken limbs on the ground.

William looked at the gold-painted carriage going away. The gorgeous carriage fence was full of slaves, letting the food in their hands fall into the mud.

He laughed like no one else was there, laughing so wildly, so unscrupulously, tears flowed from his laughter.

Bruno and the others were also stunned by the tragedy in front of them. They were angry, they roared, and Catti-brie even cried bitterly. They wished they could catch up and smash the carriage that caused the accident, and beat up the owner of the carriage. But when William When they laughed wildly, their expressions finally changed drastically, and they all looked at this man with a very abnormal expression with complicated expressions.

Drizzt murmured with a pale face (curious that his face could be seen white): "I thought Menzoberranzan City was the worst city in the world, but today I know that hell also exists in world.

In Menzoberranzan, even the weakest dark elves have some means of protection, their families, their friendships, their innate abilities can all be relied upon.But look at these poor people in Calimport, look at their children, they are completely helpless and have no future. "

Drizzt didn't understand that Menzoberranzan City was not much better than Calimport, because what he saw was only the dark elves as the ruling class, and those low-status slaves and servants were even worse than what he saw. What I saw was countless times more miserable.

Seemingly kind-hearted Catti-brie was shedding tears as she checked to see if there were any children alive in the pile of flesh and blood, and her friends also went to help one after another, except William.

He had had enough of laughing, and glanced at the onlookers around him. They were all poor and miserable people in poor clothes. They looked at what was happening coldly. There was no anger, no sadness, only heart-shattering emotions. Numb and dull, many of them even stared at William's feet, where the iguana meat fell into the mud. They stared greedily and crazily at the meat, expecting the outsider to leave quickly.

William sneered, and stomped on the iguana meat, and saw that half of the cooked meat was directly blown into pieces, mixed with mud and splashed around (can you guess what he did), making the crowd full of anticipation The voyeurs were disappointed, and even many people showed a fierce look on their faces, but they quickly disappeared.

William walked briskly, walked up to Drizzt and the others with a smile on his face, and said, "Stop messing about here, and save the people you really want to save! By the way, I'm afraid I'm going to be separated from you, I friends."

Catti-brie, covered in blood, said angrily, "We are not your friends! You are a cold-blooded villain, a merciless villain!"

Bruno brandished his ax and shouted: "Go away! Damn bastard! Otherwise I can't help but chop your skull off!"

Wulfgar held the two dying injured children in silence, only Drizzt looked at William sadly, wanting to say something but couldn't speak.

William didn't care about the rudeness of these people. He turned around and took a few steps like dancing, but suddenly turned around and said, "Your rescue is meaningless. What they need is not pity, but a flame, a A prairie revolution—the fire of death."

Then William strode away without looking back.

When he left, his face was as cold as a rock, and his eyes were as cold as the eternal ice on the highest glacier.

(End of this chapter)