The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 632
From the vandal's point of view, righteousness is a pasting paper that can be broken with a single poke, a talisman that deceives the ignorant, and a chicken feather that drives the righteous to make arrows.

Therefore, these days, when a bandit has learned to use righteousness and use justice, then he is a rogue bandit who is about to succeed.

Of course, if a bandit was brainwashed and counter-accused by Dayi, then he must be a fake bandit.

Bonog Steelfoot, the dwarf, now wishes he was a fake bandit, because he saw the last guy he wanted to face—a warlock, even if the warlock was just a weak-looking human girl.But just watching a flurry of fireballs blast from her hands, incinerating a horde of goblins and their ogre companions into torches scurrying across the ground, sent shivers down the spines of the dwarf and his teammates.

No one likes to be covered in a big fireball, and of course Bonog and the others don't like to be covered in a lot of big fireballs. It's not because they are timid. People's chaplains or warlocks suffer.

The relaxed performance of Feniya chopping down the three trolls and then lighting the monsters' remains with torches also made the robbers who were still sober become more obedient.

As a result, the dwarf and his companions seemed reluctant to directly give up the plan to claim the remuneration owed by the former lord, but they nervously proposed an exchange condition: as compensation for their abandonment of their rights and interests, William, the new The lord must hire them and provide them with enough food and drink every day.

Well, that's what Bonogue and his cohorts are after all.

Because being a robber is the most hopeless choice these days, do you think you can enjoy the loot with peace of mind after robbing a ticket?Friends, look to the sides and back, the small bone plate of the goblin, the big fangs of the orc, the hard head of the ogre... remember!You are just a praying mantis catching cicadas, but the titmouses behind you are enough to form a reinforced company.

In order to eliminate the number of bandits in the wilderness, William reluctantly accepted the dwarf and his companions, and assigned tasks to these defectors according to their race and ability.

The migration of large groups of people is not a simple matter.A group of 600 people in total, with carriages dragging supplies in the middle, pulled into a nearly 200-meter-long team, and there were old people, women and children, and the road was really not easy to walk, even if it was a year-round businessman. The avenues of the team are mostly overgrown with weeds, and the dirt road is full of potholes, so the speed of travel is naturally not fast.

The team walked for nearly a day, but only a little more than half of the way. This is the result of most people's physical strength improving to a certain extent after several days of cultivation and meat supplements.

Camping in the wild, an adventure team with only a few people and a migration team composed of hundreds of civilians are two completely different concepts.For a large group of people, camping in the wild is definitely an indispensable university question.William didn't have such strategic talents under his command, and even he himself was just a half-baked guy who knew a little bit about it.

According to the super-simplified version of the current camp in his previous life, William set up a simple camp in an open space.He placed the four-wheeled carriage at the very core of the camp, where all the children and some women were arranged, and most of the people rested around the carriage, and a fence similar to a fence was surrounded outside. There are many bells tied to it, and a bunch of bonfires are lit every ten steps in the open space outside the fence.

Some experienced hunters and rangers also set a lot of crude traps in places with weak defenses.

William even placed an even number of sentries in each direction to stand guard against possible raiders.Including himself sitting on the roof of the carriage, serving as the last warning.

William's camp had many loopholes, but it barely resisted the invasion from the ground.The guards had already killed many courageous monsters and snoopers while walking during the day, making the remaining monsters feel a little scared about the camp, but they still sent many goblin cannon fodder to scout the way.

It should be said that the goblins are very talented in sneaking. The best of them can even hide from the eyes of the sentries, sneak into the fence, and then touch the bell, and be shot and killed by the rangers' random arrows.

However, the security measures designed by William can prevent the ground, but not the sky.The sky of Faerun is more dangerous at night than during the day, and many flying monsters who like to hide in the dark will take the opportunity to run out to do wild things.

Monsters such as vampire bats, vampires, ghosts, and night shadows all like to come out to look for food at night, and their favorite prey are adventurers camping in the wild, especially the migratory team under William. The favorite, after all, there are more prey to attack, and it is easier to succeed.

The first to hit the autumn wind is the vampire bat.

They are a kind of mutated bats, with a head like a child's face, they eat the blood of all kinds of living things, and they can even sense bleeding wounds ten kilometers away.It is this special ability of vampire bats that makes them the best scouts and pets for vampires. Generally, where vampire bats appear, there are always those fallen blood nobles.

Speaking of vampires, we have to mention the origin of Dagger Valley.This is a taboo that all the original residents of Dagger Valley are reluctant to mention. If the former clerk Levi was not eager to express himself to the new lord, so as to make up for the crimes that he and his son had offended William's family before, I am afraid he would not Tell William such a local secret incident.

Dagger Valley was called Happy Valley at the earliest time. People here lived a rich and happy life. They enjoyed wonderful music and art, and various unique delicacies. Even Lierla, the goddess of joy, referred to Happy Valley It is regarded as his plan for the kingdom of God on the earth on the main material plane.

This is when all of this came to an abrupt end in a horrific and cruel vampire invasion event, the peaceful and fun-filled life was completely broken, countless people died under the fangs of vampires, and more people died. Under the claws of the vampire's newly transformed minions.

In this invasion, there is an extremely horrifying situation. The slaves transformed by vampires are all children of Happy Valley, and all the children. Therefore, most of the humans killed by these seemingly weak vampire slaves are their close relatives. It was an unbearable blow to the people of the region.

Many people who were not strong enough could not bear the psychological blow and tragically ended their lives.And more people who chose to live used sharpened wooden stakes to crucify their own children who had become undead creatures.

After the vampires disappeared, there was no more happiness in Happy Valley, and people always had a gloomy face. They regarded this history as a taboo, and gave up the name "Happy Valley" until the Tethyama dwarves later The arrival brought prosperity and wealth to this valley, and gave this place the name "Dagger Valley".

Although countless years have passed, and even the former dwarf kingdom of Tessama fell under the sweep of monsters such as orcs and ogres, the locals of Dagger Valley have never forgotten their hatred with vampires. Legend has it that the leader of the vampire invaders was sleeping in a corner around Dagger Valley.

The people of Daggerdale long for vengeance, but worry about waking up the terrifying undead monsters and causing another terrible catastrophe for themselves.

Of course, although these vampire bats came silently, William, who was sitting on the roof of the carriage shed as the last line of warning, was not a decoration, they could not hide from his perception, so these poor monsters were named by him in midair , became the first crash victim.

Later, some human-faced owls also came to secretly join in the fun. Human-faced owls are a kind of monster with a human-faced vulture body. They like to plunder the cubs of humanoid creatures for food. Occasionally they will also beat halflings, gnomes, goblins and other small creatures. The idea of ​​a sized humanoid.These evil monsters finally fell under William's strong bow and iron arrows.

The most dangerous visitor is a terrifying dark shadow monster. It is like a huge bat made of pure darkness. It moves across the night sky in an invisible posture. The attenuation of starlight caused by the figure passing across the stars, but he thought it was just an illusion of his own eyes and ignored it.

This terrifying monster is Winged Nightshade, a powerful undead blend of equal parts darkness and pure evil.Nightshades are the shadows of extremely strong-willed and evil mortals, usually found in the deepest recesses of the Shadowfall, and are heralds of death and misery.When Nightshade appears somewhere on the main material plane, it means that a large-scale death event is about to occur or has occurred nearby.

But this Flying Wing Yeying is very smart, or all Yeying is very smart. It sensed that William was not easy to mess with, so it just took a walk in the sky and left in a hurry.

After that, nothing happened overnight.

In the early morning, the aroma of the stew made everyone's mouth water, especially Bonog and others who had just started working. Their eyeballs jumped out of greed, and their saliva flowed into a stream uncontrollably.

No way, because of the fear of the monsters' invasion, no one had time to eat a hot and full meal last night. At most, they could eat jerky with a mouthful of hot soup.

A bowl of rotten stewed meat almost made everyone swallow their tongues. The dwarf and his teammates couldn't help but rejoice that they followed the right master this time.

After breakfast, some food prepared for noon, and enough boiling water, the migrating team started on the road again.Although there were still some disturbances along the way, everyone finally arrived at Waterfall Town in the afternoon.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is not Waterfall Town, but Dagger Falls not far from Waterfall Town.For a long time, William wondered about one thing, how stupid the builders of Dagger Falls were to build a town in front of a waterfall, and how they could stand the huge noise of the waterfall on weekdays.

Only now did William realize that it wasn't that the first residents of Falls were stupid, but that he didn't understand the actual situation.

The drop of the Dagger Waterfall is high enough, but the water flow is not so large, and the terrain here is very strange. The bottom of the waterfall is not a deep pool, but a beach surrounded by rocky cliffs on both sides. Part of it is bound by tidal flats and cliffs to the lower reaches of the Tessa River. The sound of the water standing on the top of the waterfall is almost the same as listening to the sound of ordinary waterfalls standing ten miles away.

But that's just one non-negative reason Falls was built here.

When the water of the Dagger Falls falls, it will form a water curtain at the half waist of the waterfall. Behind the water curtain is a stone passage connecting the two sides of the Tessa River. This passage can pass both people and animals, as well as vehicles. .

That is to say, people and goods crossing the river can reach the other side of the river smoothly without changing the means of crossing the river.

The Dagger Waterfall Town is just located at the node where the Water Curtain Passage and the North Shore Commercial Road intersect, thus reaping the benefits.When the Dwarf Kingdom of Tessama was prosperous, the town of Dagger Falls prospered through this trade route called the Road of Tessama, and they made a lot of wealth from it.

So much so that the king of Tethama had to lament that out of every two gold coins the dwarves worked so hard to earn, one was snatched away by the thief lord of Dagger Valley and his subjects.

In order to extract more toll taxes, the original lords of Dagger Valley even planned to build a satellite city of Dagger Falls Town on the other side of the waterfall. Unfortunately, with the decline of the Taisiama Kingdom, the twin city plan was shattered.

All that remains of the towns on the south bank are ruins and a few indestructible structures, such as the Sheriff's Tower and the Shrine of Lathander's Light.

In contrast, the towns on the north shore are much more complete, but the current state of the city is not very good.Waterfall Town, which has just experienced flooding, has more than half of its stone city walls collapsed, and many houses have also been washed and collapsed a lot.The streets and alleys of the city are full of silt and various aquatic plants and dead trees. The pickled town is full of fishy smell.

This town is obviously not suitable for living, at least for a long period of time, otherwise the people who live in it will be sick or infected, and may even be attacked by the monsters lurking in it and die.

But the vast majority of locals obviously don't want to give up their original homes. Even if William forcibly suppresses and relocates to other places, there is no guarantee that some people will sneak back to live in the old house.

To put it bluntly, the superior geographical location of this town makes people unable to give up, especially those smart people who understand its value.

Since moving places is likely to cause public anger, William will naturally not be too stubborn and insist on going his own way to ask for trouble, but he will not let these stupid guys who are eager to go home do their own thing.

William's prestige is still very high now, when he was still a short distance from the town, he shouted to stop those townspeople who wanted to leave the team and go home, and then he pointed to Waterfall Town and said: "My people! As your lord, I warn you that this town is now a dead place. It is full of toxins that cause diseases and plagues, and there are all kinds of monsters and demons lurking. Do you really want to plunge into it , and then be swallowed by those monsters?"

A group of refugees suddenly went into an uproar. They were either terrified, or half-believing, discussing and arguing with each other. Although many people thought this was just an unfounded worrying statement, no one dared to rush home recklessly.

Several prestigious representatives of public opinion, who were also temporary security officers appointed by William, approached their lord, and one of the oldest said: "I salute you, Your Excellency the lord. Are you sure that what you just said is true?" is that true?"

William said displeased: "You should trust your lord! Of course I will prove to everyone later that everything I said is true."

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(End of this chapter)