The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 495 No Money?You can make a contract without money!
Ordinary people, no one can imagine that in the civilized world, there are thousands of secret puppets hidden in this great desert.

Secret puppets are very valuable. Basically, the annual income of a wealthy city-state may not be able to match the value of a complete secret puppet. The key is that there is no market for this stuff, and there are very few finished secret puppets flowing into it. transaction channel.

The reason lies in the difficulty of making secret puppets. First of all, it is the level of materials. Every time a qualified secret puppet is made, a large amount of soft rare alloy is consumed, and the cost in this regard should account for at least half of the total value of the entire secret puppet. Left and right, and then a master-level construction craftsman is required to process the secret parts, and then at least a quasi-legendary-level arcanist (single occupation level 18+) will perform construction and enchantment, and then put on the corresponding humanoid skin (the style can be Reserve).

At this time, the assembled Secret Puppet is already considered a qualified trading product. After the transaction is completed (or kept for personal use), the Arcanist has to sacrifice part of his energy (equivalent to experience points) to hold an awakening and activation ceremony for the Secret Puppet. And set allegiance goals for it.

In this way, a complete Secret Puppet was born.

Right in front of William, dozens of complete or broken secret puppets were placed there, silently sending out an "invitation" to him: Come and pick me up, we are very valuable.

In fact, William didn't know the actual value of Secret Puppet very well, and no one would tell him directly how much a Secret Puppet could sell for.William's judgment on the value of this thing comes from two aspects. One is the special ability possessed by secret puppets, whether it is a hidden disguise or some special jobs that can be performed, all of which explain the high added value of this thing. content.

Then there is William's judgment based on certain commonsense socioeconomic conditions.In the land of Faerun, in fact, gold and silver coins, which are generally used as general equivalents, do not occupy a dominant position. What people really value are the most basic things, such as food, salt, copper and iron ore and their additional products, cloth, etc. A series of basic social goods, these are the real valuable things.

For example, in Waterdeep City, one gold riel can buy more than 20 pounds of wheat, but a thousand gold riels cannot buy [-] pounds of wheat, because no one dares to sell it to you without official permission, and vice versa is also like this.

There is such an unspoken rule for mercenaries in most parts of the Sword Coast:

A small lord in the suburbs may be willing to pay five hundred gold riels to hire you to help his territory eliminate a group of monsters.

One of the taboos is that you must never ask the lord to pay the basic materials of the same value as the adventure reward, such as food, salt, etc., even if the lord offers it voluntarily, because it means that the lord does not want to pay at all. You don't get any reward, but want to kill you and your companions directly.

Under normal circumstances, those despicable and poor lords who are not very particular will deliberately sell you a lot of hard bread at the price of ten gold liels per pound to fill the empty warehouse. As a smart mercenary at this time, it is best to choose Choose wisely.

Still, you'll end up with some gold in your pocket in the end.In a word, earning money by being a mercenary can't make a fortune. Only by exploring and hunting for treasure can you get rich overnight.

Closer to home, steel and steel products such as swords and armor are very valuable, and relatively more advanced metals and their products are also more expensive than steel, and the flexible metal alloys used to make marionettes undoubtedly belong to this category.

By the way, the softness of this metal alloy is really comparable to the softest flesh on a human body, so many people suspect that this thing may be cut from the succubus in the abyss.

William had already learned from Tabari that the secret puppet Amim had also betrayed him, and he turned back to the female Arcanist and asked, "Ma'am, do you still take back these guys?"

Tabari immediately understood what William meant, and she said: "These secret puppets are no longer usable, they must be completely destroyed. I know what you want to do, but I don't recommend you to do it, because their cores have been destroyed. Infected by the omnic queen of the machine world, if you don't want to encounter another betrayal from the marionette, it's best to stay away from them."

Isn't this the magical version of Mechanical Crisis? After hearing this, William immediately gave up his plan to pick up the wreckage of the secret puppet.It didn't take long for the guys who dealt with the recovered secret puppets and their wreckage to come. They were also a group of puppets, but they were not metal puppets, but a group of flesh and blood golems that exuded a disgusting smell. They seemed to be filled with rotten meat. The mummy of my son is hideous and terrifying.

The bodies of these fleshy golems, which are similar to undead zombies, come from the unfortunate lives buried in the Standing Stone Plain, and they will also be thrown into the incinerator for complete destruction together with the recovered secret puppets and wreckage.

William was very curious about the existence of these flesh golems, but at this time he had no time to pay attention to these stinky guys, because the prelude to Miss Jinlong's contract ceremony was over.At this time, she was holding a huge golden leather scroll in her front paws, and happily called William to complete the signing ceremony of the guardianship contract.

In fact, the process of the ceremony is not complicated. In summary, there are only three steps: to determine the identities of the two parties to the contract, to explain the rights and obligations of the two parties to the contract, and finally to reach the contract ritual procedure.

The identities of the two parties are well established. One is the golden dragon Kakudni Nymira, a young female golden dragon from the secret realm of Taoyuan; the other is the human William, a powerful human warrior, godslayer, and enemy of the salamanders.

However, in the description of the rights and obligations of both parties, some of the clauses made William finally understand why there are so few dragon knights in the world.In terms of jurisprudence, knights and dragons are relatively equal, and both parties have the obligation to protect the other party with their lives without compensation, and without proper reasons, neither party may refuse any reasonable request of the other party, such as the distribution of wealth, A need for some indescribable behavior, etc.

There is a very terrible supplementary clause here, which is for female giant dragons.If after the conclusion of the contract and before the natural death of the knight, the female giant dragon no longer has any infidelity with any third party, then after the knight's death, all the physical wealth left by him will belong to the female giant dragon.

If the female dragon still gave birth to the knight's own blood during this period, then the knight's title, territory, power, and even the country (if the knight is a king) will all belong to the female dragon.Even if the knight has another heir, this situation cannot be changed, which means that the other heirs of the knight will not have any inheritance rights.

By the way, a piece of secret knowledge, the actual owner of the Silvermoon Federation in the Northland is actually a female ancient gold dragon named Vera Marandes, and the famous Supreme Lady Alustri Silverhand is actually just her agent People, many high-level figures in the Northland know this.

However, few people know the source of the jurisprudence of Vera Marandes ruling the Silvermoon Federation, although when asked, she always said that she inherited another Ivan who once ruled the southern part of Silvermoon City. The legal right to rule of the red dragon queen Mellow Garland of the Lutheran city-state.

In the last period of her life, the Red Dragon Queen received help from the female Gu Jinlong, um, she used magic to suppress the pain of the dying red dragon, allowing her to leave peacefully in the last time of her life. Before he died, he declared that he would give the land to Gu Jinlong.

This kind of argument is actually untenable. He cannot give the Silver Moon Dragon Queen such a stable right to rule.The real fact, but the female ancient golden dragon has been hiding it very well, is that the last king of the Silver Moon Federation was a dragon knight when he was alive, and his guardian dragon was the female ancient golden dragon Vera Mar Lauders.

William felt a sense of suffocation coming from his previous life. Although he hadn't really experienced it, he had often heard about it. Its scientific name was bronchitis.

Well, Empress Zetian of the Tang Dynasty is smiling at you.

William looked sadly at Miss Jinlong who seemed to be impatient, and asked weakly: "Ms. Song Windsor, can I still refuse this contract?"

Miss Jinlong raised her eyebrows, and said decisively, "You want to repent? Hoho! It's too late! The Nine-faced Dragon God Aiou is watching us. If you dare to refuse the contract, it is tantamount to blasphemy. The Dragon God will Curse you to become a mangy kobold, do you want to try it?"

William was stunned immediately, you guys are too skinny.Turn me into a mangy doghead?Who wants to be that stupid thing? !
He forced a smile and changed the subject: "Nine-faced dragon god Aiou? It seems to have the same name as the king of gods in the human world. Is there any relationship between them?"

Miss Jinlong smiled proudly: "The nine-faced dragon god represents nine kinds of existence, and the king of gods in the human pantheon is one-sided existence."

William intentionally showed a look of surprise. In fact, he knew more than Miss Jinlong. After all, he had a huge knowledge base from the aboleth.

After establishing the rights and obligations of both parties, the next step is to complete the ritual procedure and obtain the blessing from the dragon god.

I saw William sitting on the forehead of Miss Jinlong's giant dragon, holding the protruding golden dragon horns on both sides with both hands, and following the dragon's words, the huge golden scale scroll turned into a ball of golden brilliance, William and Miss Jinlong were all enveloped, making them melt into a whole in the light cocoon.

William only felt as if he had been soaked in a hot spring, his whole body was warm, as if a kind of heat had penetrated his skin and melted into his limbs and bones.

Suddenly, with the sound of a long and vast dragon chant, William woke up from his intoxication. He felt that his body seemed to have been strengthened a little, but it was not obvious (William's background was too strong), and he also got Some special abilities.

But before William could study these abilities, the golden dragon under him drove him off the dragon's head.Miss Jinlong turned back into the golden elf state of Ge Windsor. She grabbed William's arm and shouted impatiently: "Hurry up! Hand over all the magic gold coins you hid, and I will sleep on them in the future."

William thought for a while, rummaged through the Fire Spirit Armband, and found a dozen Nether gold coins from it. These were the Fire Spirit Armbands he accidentally brought in when he was randomly picking up corpses in Calimport. Inside, if Ge Windsor didn't ask for it, he really couldn't remember it.

Ge Windsor looked at the dozen or so gadgets in William's hands, and her nose was almost twisted. She grabbed the man's neck and yelled viciously: "Hand over all the gold coins on your body to my old lady! "

William took out all the gold coins on his body again. There were quite a lot of circulating gold coins from Waterdeep City, and there were dozens of them piled up in piles. Xiang'er, compared to Nether gold coins, it is almost worthless.

She slapped off the gold coins in William's hand, and asked angrily, "What about your magic gold coins?"

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