The Swordsman of Faerûn

The ship in a bottle is an ancient magical ship, which means a ghost ship in a bottle.

It is said that after an ordinary ship has experienced too many adventures, some mysterious characteristics may be born. When the ship encounters some kind of misfortune and is in danger of being damaged, the crystal of the contract is engraved with a certain seal. If the bottle makes a connection with it, the ship has the potential to become a ship in a bottle.

The ghost ships we usually call are actually ships in a bottle. They come and go without a trace. In fact, it's not that they disappear, but they return to the crystal bottle.When we are attracted by a huge ghost ship that should have disappeared, and then we are surprised that it disappeared suddenly, who will pay attention to a small glass bottle that floats and sinks in the water.

The ship in a bottle has extraordinary characteristics similar to undead, and it can be strengthened to a certain extent with powerful extraordinary biological bones. practical operating experience.

Whether it is used in military affairs, commercial transportation, or collection, the ship in a bottle is of high value.However, it is difficult to promote this thing in large quantities. The reason is that qualified body boats are hard to come by. Of the one hundred new boats that have just left the factory, there may only be ten lucky enough boats to survive until they are given a real name. degree of number.

The so-called giving a real name means that when a ship has experienced enough adventures, it is recognized for a certain quality, and then it is called a unique nickname.

For example, a certain battleship "Xuefeng" that is famous for its Tianke teammates, "Xuefeng" is only her initial name. After she completed a series of "brilliant achievements", she "distributed "Cursed Snow Wind" is the ship's true name (if she is so named at all).

If the characteristics of a truly named ship match its name and continue its glorious adventure, then the ship itself may be born with real mystery, and she has the right to become a true ship in a bottle. qualifications.

It is not easy for the ships that have been truly named to go to the last step. They are more likely to be specifically targeted during the next adventure and become wrecks sleeping peacefully on the bottom of the water.Basically, it is considered extremely lucky that one of the ten named ships survives until its birth is mysterious.

It is precisely because of this fatal probability that the ship in a bottle has become a luxury toy that only longevity species can afford.And in this regard, vampires are also the most enthusiastic, because vampires are afraid of running water. They can fly, but they cannot cross the river from the air.If you want to cross the river, you can either be taken by someone or take a boat. Of course, if there is a bridge, you can do it. I would like to warn some guys who like to run around. The bridge is also the place where you are most likely to encounter vampires.

Most of the territory of Faerun is wild. When a vampire encounters a certain wild river on his way, he is likely to be in a situation where there is no way to see the village or shop behind him, and there will be no pedestrians or bridges for him. With help.

At this time, a boat in a bottle that can be carried with you is undoubtedly the best tool for crossing the river.

The 87 ships in bottles captured by William from Viscount Moen are the accumulation of the entire vampire kingdom for nearly a thousand years, and they are also their most important strategic carrier. Enron took root in Dagger Valley and radiated its tentacles throughout the valley.

However, the arrogant upper echelon of the Vampire Kingdom did not pay too much attention to these magical magic ships, otherwise Viscount Moen would not be able to easily borrow them from the capital of the night.

William felt that his harvest this time was definitely a heifer's upside down, not to mention the inestimable value of this batch of ships in a bottle, just the food that the fleet was fully loaded was enough to make him laugh out loud.

There are 87 three-masted magic ships, each with an average load of about [-] tons. Of course, in order to store the magic ships loaded in the crystal bottle without destroying the ship in the bottle, the actual load of these ships is only One-tenth of the theoretical load.

But even so, William was very satisfied.

Nearly a thousand tons of grain!Even if the people in Falls Town and Dusk Town opened their stomachs to eat, it would be enough for them to eat for two or three years. From then on, William no longer had to worry about the food in the territory.

Of course, these grains cannot be stored on the magic ship in the bottle for too long, even overnight, because the magic ship in the bottle will automatically swallow and assimilate all foreign objects on the ship.

However, the magic ship in the released state does not have this problem.

After all, a vampire is a kind of invisible monster. Once its identity is revealed, it will always attract many demon-killing and moral defenders to hunt down and kill it.Therefore, when they are sailing, the first consideration is always safety. Keeping the ship in a bottle can be put away at any time is absolutely essential for the vampires escorting the fleet.

For example, Viscount Moen neglected to be vigilant against danger, and ended up losing money and ghosts.After draining all the information from the vampire, William directly drove a nail into Viscount Moen's face, and burned the heinous vampire into a pool of ashes and sprinkled it into the valley.

The death of Viscount Moen did not cause any disturbance in William's heart, but the little pony Isabella, who had eavesdropped on a lot of secrets, ran to William's side and asked curiously: "William Boy, didn't you promise that bad guy to let him go? Is it really good to kill the other party in such a treacherous way? Do you feel uneasy about your conscience? "

William said with a solemn expression: "For the heinous things this guy has done, letting him die so happily is the greatest kindness to him! Hmph! When a man acts, he should do something and not do something! If I really Only by being pedantic and letting go of this bastard will I really feel bad conscience!"

"That's right! Where did you learn these ghost things, you little bastard? It's treachery and conscience. Is this something you should consider as a horse?" William frowned and stared at the pony foal.

Little Isabella said indignantly: "It's those bad guys who play the piano in Shadow Valley! They always whisper these in my ears. Sometimes I can't answer, and they deliberately deduct my rations!"

Vampires can't maximize the carrying capacity of the ship in a bottle because of their own safety considerations, but as a human, William doesn't need to worry about these.

He released the magic ships one by one according to the incantations engraved on each crystal bottle, but the area of ​​the spring valley was limited, and at most a dozen magic ships could be parked there.In fact, if it is not for the magic ship, there is no need to consider the waterline, and there will never be a problem of running aground. Even a ship cannot stop here.

William recruited more than a dozen powerful dragonmen from the world of flames as porters, and concentrated all the goods loaded by the ships in bottles on the eight largest magic ships, and all the remaining empty ships were put away. , stored in a box.

Nearly a thousand tons of grain are all high-quality oats. Although this stuff is not as good as wheat in terms of taste, it is better in terms of nutrition.However, in Faerun, oats are more often used to feed horses. This is also an excuse for vampires to buy food. After all, food for humans and feed for livestock, these two goods are of great concern. Are not the same.

Due to various reasons in history and reality, the war or hostile relationship between the city-states in the valley today and with forces outside the valley is quite tense. The major trump card of the foreign strategy of the city-states in the valley is to control the export of grain. Just like a certain oil organization in William's previous life controlled oil exports.

As we all know, the land in the valley is very fertile. As for how fertile it is, it is hard for those who don't know the details to imagine.Take oats as an example. In William’s previous life, even with all kinds of scientific farming techniques, plus the advantages of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, etc., the yield of oats per mu is generally about [-] kilograms, basically Five hundred catties is a bottleneck.

In most areas of the valley, the yield per mu of common oats can reach [-] kilograms, and in some intensive cultivation areas it can even reach over [-] pounds per mu, while the yield of higher-yielding wheat is generally two points per mu of oats. About five times.

This is a scary number, and some people may disagree. After all, these are two different worlds, so let's compare them horizontally.

In the entire continent of Faerun, except for the golden fields near Waterdeep City, you can no longer find any grain-producing areas that can rival the land of the Valley.

Needless to say, the golden field is a BUG.Ordinary Faerun area grows grain, and the yield of oats that are extensively planted and harvested is generally [-] to [-] kilograms per mu, and the yield per mu of wheat generally follows the multiple of [-] times.

As far as the yield per mu has reached the level of industrial modular agriculture in a world that is proud of science and technology, it can be seen that the valley is extraordinary.

Of course, we can give another example, the chronology of world history by the mainstream civilization of Faerun, in which the reclamation of valleys by humans is an extremely important node, and even in some objective and authoritative historical recorders, this node is regarded as the historical era The zero-point coordinate reference of , and the beginning of a new era.

People usually refer to the valley reclamation day as the first year of the valley calendar, and the time William and others are at now is converted to [-] years of the valley calendar.

Isn't it just a group of desperate human beings who ran to the valley to reclaim wasteland and farm?How could it have such a big impact?This involves the real origin of the valley.

Let me talk about the origin of the Valley Reclamation Day. More than 700 years ago, the valley and its surrounding forests were the area ruled by the elven kingdom Comanthor.

Later people migrated here from various places and settled on the edge of this vast forest.Soon countless human farms and villages appeared on the fringes of Cormanthor.Of course, Comanthor is unwilling to let humans set foot in this god-given land of honey. They have fought with human migrants for hundreds of years, but the elves only admit the fact of the conflict in the last 200 years, that is, The period from 200 BC to the first year of the valley calendar.

Altargrim, King of the Elves (Wearer of the Crown), foresaw that if they continued to fight against the large number of human immigrants, they would eventually suffer disaster, so he set out to formulate the elves and valley dwellers of the forest empire Cormanthor. (that is, the valley people we know later) the valley treaty.

Together, human and elf mages erected a standing stone at the center of Cormanthor to symbolize the unity of the two races, human and elf.In return for a promise not to continue cutting down the core woodlands of Cormanthor, the ancestors of the Valemen received permission from the elves to settle on the edges of those forests where no giant trees grew.

The day when the standing stone is erected is the beginning of the Yuan point of the valley calendar.

Since then, the relationship between humans and elves has become a recognized example of friendship throughout the world, just like the unbreakable friendship between the great fair eagle and John Bull.

But William knew a secret from ancient times. This valley, including the core woodland of Comanthor, was once the origin of human ancestors.In the era of the most glorious creators of human beings, human beings have secretly transformed this ancestral land beyond ordinary imagination, making this piece of land that once nurtured the ancestral line of human beings, but became barren and bad land due to over-exploitation, quietly. It has transformed into a real honey-flowing fertile soil.

One of the key problems is that this fertile ground does not work for all races.Only humans standing on this fertile soil can bring out the extraordinary of this land, while other races, including elves, can only enjoy the achievements of this land.

To put it simply, humans planted crops in the valley, and they would get super harvests; while elves or others existed here to plant crops, but they could only reap harvests equivalent to barren land.

In the most glorious time of ancient human beings, the ancestors of human beings sealed off this rural ancestral land that was being transformed. Time made it look like a virgin forest, and then it was stolen by the elves who later established the Kingdom of Cormanthor.

As the saying goes, if you have food in your hands, don't panic in your heart. As long as there is this fertile soil of "his poison, my honey", human beings will never have to worry about the survival and reproduction of future generations, unless someone can completely wipe out the entire human race in one go. extinct.

As far as William knows, there are still many lands in the world that are similar to valleys left by human ancestors, some of which have been developed and utilized, such as the initial area of ​​the Netheril Empire; Still sleeping in the corner of the civilized world, quietly waiting for later humans to wake up.

Of course, the reason why I said so many digressions is to illustrate one thing, food is the foundation of the people in the valley.Only with food can we support the population, and with the population can we have everything.For the land of Faerun, the valley is equivalent to the Baier Qin Pass in ancient China. It is the foundation of the real king and hegemony, the career of the emperor.

This is also a major reason why William restrained his prodigal nature and didn't mind being the lord of Dagger Valley.After all, all the men who have come out of the Chinese civilization, who hasn't had the ambition of a prince and general?
After harvesting this batch of extra grain, William finally had the real capital to start a business.He immediately told the migrating people to stop their progress and go to the spring valley instead, clearing roads when encountering mountains and filling ditches when encountering ravines. She asked these people to open up a real broad road in the rugged hilly land.

Of course, William is not incapable of directly transporting these grains back. Whether it is the fire spirit armband in his hand, or using a transfer station in the flame world, he can easily transport the thousand tons of grain back.

However, many things in this world are not the most suitable as long as they are done easily and efficiently.