The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 650
Even a scrap of paper has its place to play a role, not to mention a sect with a complete philosophy that can be logically self-consistent.

As I said before, William doesn't like the sect of the Spring and the Goddess of Peace, because the foundation of this sect's philosophy is incomplete, but this does not prevent William from using it, such as letting them go to the registered abnormal biome Spread the teachings.

Of course, the construction of fountains and the sacred circle is only an introduction to the contact between the two parties, and the deliberate embarrassment of Aidala and others by the demon is the beginning of mutual temptation between the two parties.

The day after Aidara's unhappy meeting with William, a disturbing rumor began to circulate in the camp.It is said that there is a terrible demon lurking beside the lord, and this cunning demon is trying to confuse the lord.

Hathaway's identity was not an untouchable secret in the camp. Many people knew that she was a demon. When this rumor started to spread, some insiders began to feel uneasy.

So they began cascading with each other, and in a short time three representatives were chosen to try to raise their concerns to their lord.It can only be said that William's previous intimidation methods were relatively effective. At least these people temporarily did not have the active idea of ​​evading the lord or helping the lord to "clear the king's side".

In the face of the representatives' admonishment, William acted very sagely and wise. He received them cordially and listened carefully to their opinions and concerns. He even called back the demon in front of these representatives. Hathaway strictly ordered her to follow Aidara's side every step of the way, and she was not allowed to set foot in the lord's tent without being summoned.

William vaguely explained Aedara's identity to the representatives, claiming that she was a high-ranking powerhouse whose personality was close to that of a god. In the past, it could usually be understood as a demigod who had not completely completed the transformation of divine power. Now it is used to refer to a saint. Not bad.With such a big shot watching the demon Hathaway next to him, no one thought anything could go wrong.

The representatives left the lord's tent contentedly, not only because of the lord's explanation, but more importantly, the lord's attitude towards them, the admonishers, just as the saying goes, a leader who humbly accepts advice is popular wherever he goes.

Not to mention the praise and recognition of William from the people under his command, when the construction of Falls Town was on the right track, William was quickly separated from the complicated affairs.

A capable team was assembled, including the powerful Baird, the dwarf Bonog Steelfoot, the half-elf guardian Cheval Starcloak, and of course Phinea and two little girls.Celur also wanted to participate, but William ruthlessly rejected her, because the little guy couldn't sit firmly on Mo Xiao's saddle, which made the somewhat competitive little Celur very unhappy.

Bonog Steelfoot was also very unhappy, and of course it was none other than his adventure companions.

The work-for-work policy formulated by William set relatively generous salary standards. Its purpose is to help people who have become impoverished by the floods to get rid of poverty as quickly as possible, which makes stable urban construction Work has become a good job that almost everyone flocks to, which not only absorbs most of the labor force in the camp, even the guards in charge of security secretly go to work as brick movers when they are not on duty.

Those adventure partners of Bonog have also become glorious brick movers. The tragic adventure experience made these poor people no longer want to follow the former adventure leader to go to the wild to suffer and suffer, including the dwarf of Bonog. same idea.

The dwarf Kimmel Durind did not join this team either. As William's most trusted "person of his own", he wanted to stay in Falls Town to represent William to exercise part of the lord's power of attorney.

This team, which can be called the most elite combat force in the entire camp, was assembled. Its main function was to supplement William's personal combat power and solve some things that were not easy for him to deal with alone, such as before. The work of cleaning the battlefield in Lathander Light; perhaps the possible future refugee escort work also needs their help.

In this team, the two little girls are undoubtedly the more prominent stars, because they have their own means of transportation. Misha'er is wearing the Seven Wind Feather Armor, and there is also a Pegasus Mo Xiao who can ride. Of course, she and the little girl The partner Miluna is also responsible for the air reconnaissance mission of the whole team.

Miluna has a fairy cloak with a constant [Feather Fall], which allows her to act as a Pegasus rider with Misha'er most of the time, and sometimes she will drive a cloud car on the ground.

But it didn't take long for Miluna to lose the right to use the cloud car, and of course the ownership was still hers.

But it is the think tank of the elite team - Cheval Xingpao believes that the cloud car with excellent cross-country ability has certain strategic value, such as carrying the logistics materials of the entire team, transporting injured people, etc., even if the number of cloud cars If there are enough, and the speed is faster, it has great value as a legion-level transportation mount.

Of course, William knows the value of the cloud car. To be honest, he really regrets it now. He regrets why he didn’t search for this thing more in Calimport. You must know that such a cloud car cannot be said everywhere on the streets of the core area of ​​Calimport. They were all, but they were not rare items. At that time, William didn't know the value of this item. Except for picking up one as a loot, almost all the rest were smashed and burned by the violent guys of the Flame Legion.

Apart from Calimport, perhaps only the home of the djinn - the Air Elemental Plane, can find a similar cloud car.

William was riding an ordinary war horse, which was the only mount in the entire team besides the Pegasus Mo Xiao.Originally, William didn't want to ride a horse, but everyone agreed that the lord's trip must be dignified, such as riding a horse, or accompanied by a waiter.

Maya who wanted to be a waiter was driven back by William, and riding a war horse became his inescapable privilege.Theoretically, the Pegasus Mo Xiao is the mount that can best demonstrate the majesty of the lord, but since they need to go on dangerous wild adventures, people have fully demonstrated their pragmatism, and no one has mentioned the Pegasus.

The former female sorcerer apprentice Diya became the driver of Yunche, but now Diya is a qualified junior mage. She acts as the deputy of Cheval Starcloak in the team, serving as a supporter for the entire team when necessary. Provides magical support.

Diya is also a little unhappy, because the half-elf protector always likes to usurp her hand job. In fact, most of the elite team members want to do it. After all, driving the cloud car is so much fun.

William and the others explored the Dagger Hills area on the south bank of the Tessa River.

The Dagger Hills occupy almost two-thirds of the entire Dagger Valley. It is an undeveloped area composed of various hills and mounds and some small valleys. There are lush vegetation and a variety of species, including various ferns and trees. Forests, thickets and thorny grounds, and host a large number of different kinds of animals.

Also due to the complexity of the landforms in this area, it has become a habitat and hunting ground for wolf monsters, vampires, owlbears, lycanthropes, and even beholders.

All in all, Dagger Hills is pretty much a stronghold for monsters.

It is not that the people of Dagger Valley have initiated the development of the hilly area. After all, the land here is equally fertile, but that was a long time ago. With the invasion of Zhentil Castle, Dagger Valley has been unable to continue to support the reclamation area. So much so that the land they once developed was re-occupied by monsters and bushes and thorns.

William and his party are walking on the road developed by the predecessors. This road that once carried the blood, tears and hope of the former Dagger Valley people is now mostly infested by several special thorns, which are as tough as steel wire. General toughness, spikes containing plant toxins, and relatively strong fire resistance, at least ordinary bonfires and burning fires are hard to deal with them.

Moreover, these thorns grow extremely fast, and in some cases, they can even occupy a large piece of farmland in just one night.

It is this unique plant that turned the dagger valley people's land reclamation into a ridiculous and sad tug-of-war. The high cost made the lack of support from the rear, and the pioneers faced various monsters After all, they had no choice but to withdraw from this area sadly.

These thorns also plagued the elite team under William, making their progress somewhat difficult, even with special druids opening the way ahead.A veteran druid, Conger Wolf Soul, who has studied plants, claimed that these thorns are not a product of nature, but a magical creation mixed with evil forces.

William believed the druid's words. He took out a bottle of high-concentration holy water, or should be called holy oil, and poured some holy oil on the thorns, but unfortunately there was no reaction.

This was a bit embarrassing, and William stared at Conger Wolf Soul with strange eyes, motioning him to give himself a reasonable explanation.

Conger's mind is also a little dizzy, lord, that's what I said, you are really a needle!You said it was a mess, didn't you? !

It's a pity that Mr. Druid is not a quick-spoken person. He opened his mouth but didn't know how to respond to William. On the other hand, Cheval Starcloak cleverly relieved the embarrassment for the two of them.

The star robe said: "Your Excellency, the evil power in the eyes of druids is not the same as the evil power in our usual cognition. For all the children of nature (here refers to druids, rangers and others who maintain the harmony of nature) For natural sect priests, heterogeneous), any force that causes damage to and distorts nature is an evil force, even those evil druids who also use the power of nature also fall into this category."

William finally understood that the evil that Druid spoke of was the definition of all actions that disturbed nature, not the attributes of those powers themselves.

He glanced at Kanger Wolf Soul and said: "Don't talk about 'evil' and 'evil' in the future, talk about things when you have something to say, and talk about problems when you have problems. Druids are about seeking truth from facts. What is the meaning of slogans that are not there!"

A few words were irritating, but Kang Geer's face was swollen, and his eyes were red, that is, the guy's full beard, which made it impossible to see the change in his face.

William continued: "Conger, since you said that these things don't come naturally, then tell us, where are the problems with these thorns."

When it came to the druid's professional issue, Conger immediately restrained the embarrassment in his heart. He said: "These are mutated plants produced by the force of nature. For example, this one is called iron wire thorns. Their vines are more The steel wire is even tougher, it cannot be cut by a knife, and it is difficult to break by an axe, but it is often used by many high-level druids to bind the enemy's assistants. This kind is sleeping thorns, and its thorns have a unique The toxin, the person who is pierced will soon fall into a coma.

This kind of dark brown thorn is called Fire Trapped. It is a variant of a plant that grows in volcanic areas. It has excellent flame retardancy and heat absorption properties. General natural flames will not burn it to death, but will stimulate the trapped Fire thorns grow rapidly.

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Conger's knowledge about thorns is indeed clear and clear. He knows almost all natural or unnatural plants here. According to Congel, among the monsters that drove the pioneers back, there must be one or even several evil ones. Druids exist.

For this news, William felt a little inexplicable anger.The predecessors cut through thorns and thorns to open up a homeland for future generations. The hardships involved need not be repeated, but those so-called evil druids scrambled to help monsters counterattack the human race's pioneering area. This is obviously the kind of Picking up the bowl to eat, putting down the chopsticks to scold your mother is a shameless act.

The reason for saying this is because it involves a characteristic of druid inheritance.Druids are called the children of nature. In fact, they cannot live alone in a circle outside of civilized society. They wander on the fringes of society. They need to be close to nature, but they cannot open the shackles of civilization. It is a relatively contradictory existence.

There is no need to say much about being close to nature, the key is the fetters of civilization.This is the rule that any druid has been taught in the early days of his inauguration. Druids cannot forget their own civilization attributes.There used to be a group of druids in history. They gave up their civilization marks and completely integrated themselves into the embrace of nature. They thought they could use this to grasp the true meaning of natural power. Then they became owl bears, and again The one that can't be changed back.

Any druid who has forgotten his own civilization imprint will inevitably end up as a natural monster, without exception.Therefore, the druids who have basically achieved something are all born in relatively strong and advanced civilization groups, such as humans, elves, dwarves and other civilized races.

Obviously, those evil druids who helped the monsters drive away the pioneers of Dagger Valley did something very unreasonable. Proper people - rape, elves - rape, dwarves - rape.

William couldn't bear the obstacles blocked by these thorns any longer. He rolled up his sleeves and opened his palms, turning half of his arm into a pillar of flame tens of meters long. The temperature reached a high temperature enough to melt steel and rocks, and then he controlled the pillar of fire to sweep over the thorns. Whether it was iron wire thorns, poisonous thorns, or fire-resistant thorns, they all turned into scorched ashes in an instant.

William's way of opening the road is indeed faster, but it leads to a sharp increase in the drinking water consumption of the entire team.Even if the members of the elite team stayed far away, they still had to endure the high temperature and residual heat. They were sweating profusely so that they had to replenish a lot of water, especially Phiniya.

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