The Swordsman of Faerûn

Hats off to you!Dear Lord of Daggerdale:
First of all, congratulations on your legal acquisition of the dominion of the god-given land of Dagger Valley, which is a great responsibility and honor.

As your neighbor, I want to inform you of a dreadful event.My domain is under attack by a horde of demons and monsters, there are too many of them, my soldiers are exhausted, there is not enough strength to protect my people, they are being slaughtered.

Believe me, if these monsters breach my fortress, cut off my head, and kill my people, they will not hesitate to rush into your territory and continue to do what they are doing to my territory and my people All in all, you certainly don't want to see this kind of tragedy happen on your territory.

My dear neighbor, in the past, my ancestors fought side by side with the people of your land against the evil invasion from the north.Now is the time for our generation to fight shoulder to shoulder.

My people and I would be grateful if you would send an army to Shadowdale to help us fight the enemies of man.

My dear neighbor, if you are willing to lend a helping hand, please do so quickly!MY soldiers are bleeding and MY people are dying.

your friendliest neighbor

Rightful Lord of Shadowvale
Huxgaard Moglin
May the gods who are watching us in heaven bless us!
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This is a call for help from Shadow Valley.

After Xieval Starcloak finished reading the letter written in beautiful elf artistic style in front of everyone, everyone present fell into deep thought.

To be honest, the relationship between Dagger Valley and Shadow Valley has not been very good in recent decades.

This is due to the fact that the two sides encountered different situations when they were simultaneously attacked from Zhentil Fort in the past 30 years.For Dagger Valley, the Zhentil Castle directly launched a military attack and successfully exiled the then lord Randall Morn.

On the other side, the Shadow Valley was infiltrated by spies from Zhentil Castle, and the most successful spy even succeeded in taking the position of the Lord of Shadow Valley, and worked against it for as long as six years.

So when Dagger Valley encountered the threat of war, Shadow Valley at that time not only chose to stand by, but even deliberately cut off the foreign trade channel of Dagger Valley.

When the situation in Shadow Valley was brought out of order, Dagger Valley had already fallen, but the people of Dagger Valley will always remember the people of Shadow Valley's falling into trouble.

Of course, those big figures who were full of hatred for the people of Shadow Valley are basically dead now. Although the current Dagger Valley officials don’t hate Shadow Valley so deeply, they must be made to bleed and sacrifice for the people of Shadow Valley , really few people are willing to do it.

But the one who can really make the decision now is William, their powerful new lord.In front of this unparalleled lord, few people dared to go against his decision.

Seeing that everyone was silent and no one was willing to express their opinion, William felt a little disappointed.well!The people here are really hard to impress, we don't expect you to produce outstanding figures like Zhuge Wuhou and ghost Guo Fengxiao, even Wei Zheng who is tough and dares to speak!

In desperation, he could only open his mouth and said, "Everyone, what do you think about the request for help from the Lord of Shadow Valley?"

The dog leg, former clerk, and now the acting clerk of the public security team, Levi, hurriedly stated: "My lord, we will follow all your decisions! Your will will be the only guiding light for all of us!"

Flatterers!This is the only evaluation of Levi in ​​everyone's mind.

William is also a little annoyed by this capable flatterer, damn it!Just when I wanted to brainstorm ideas, you came up to make trouble. Do you really think I'm a boneless idiot?

William opened his hand and pointed to the outside, and said angrily to Levi: "Get out! Go and manage the refugees who are being registered, and then send them to the construction site of Dagger Hill and hand them over to the administrator Sophie Manaso. If There was an accident, see if I don't peel your skin!"

Levi left with a smile, not paying attention to the Lord's scolding.Because he knew that as long as he didn't make a principled mistake, Lord William would never hurt him. This is a hero who truly possesses the spirit of a king.

What Levi wants is to move forward and make his life more glorious.But it's been hard, and he's made it harder than anyone else, and the reason is that his big, flimsy yordle bastard, whose misdeeds in the Frontier Woods have left the Levi family in the A very bad impression was left in the heart of the lord.

However, the former clerk did not despair, he had a very reliable plan.Of course, it's not about being a flattering minister. This kind of role is simply unacceptable in front of a real king.Levi's plan is to show his ability to the lord, so that he can become an indispensable and capable minister under the lord's command.

——The reason why Levi behaved so vulgarly this time was that he was hiding two inhuman thoughts, one of which was to test Lord William to see if he was as wise as he judged. Obviously Levi's judgment was not wrong.

Of course, this is just a passing purpose, Levi's real purpose is to target his colleagues.

As long as William's power begins to expand, talented people from all walks of life who want to make a difference will inevitably gather under William's command like crucian carp crossing the river. Among them, there must be many outstanding people whose abilities and talents surpass Levi's. exist.

But Levi will never regard these people as his opponents, because it is difficult for them to threaten Levi's position under William, because he is a veteran, the first group of veterans to follow William, he and the same period This group of people will be the foundation of William's entire career.

In this way, it becomes clearer who Levi's opponent is, it is these colleagues in the town of Dagger Falls today.It can be said that whoever can stand out from this group of people and become the leader of the veteran faction is qualified to occupy a place in the future hegemony of the lord.

So Levi's flattering words are actually deliberately putting eye drops on the big guys.Well, we have expressed our determination to His Excellency the great lord, I see you fellows—how dare you make a different sound!

After Levi left cheerfully, no one really dared to express their opinions.No way, since the rebels were executed at the execution ground, Lord William's power has become more and more frightening, that bastard Levi sang a disgusting high-profile, if anyone present expresses an opinion, it's okay to agree with the Lord's mind If it's the opposite, then some people have to think about it carefully.

Of course, there are also some people who hold that more things are worse than less things. After all, it is up to the lord to decide whether to save Shadow Valley. That damn flatterer is not a son of man. Lord William decides.

William actually hoped that someone would stand up and express his opinion at this moment, even if he refuted Levi's flattery.However, his subordinates were all dumbfounded and pretended to be dead, so he had no choice but to ask questions first.

William asked: "Baird, how many soldiers can we use now?"

Baird, who had just returned to Falls Town with William, immediately replied: "Your Excellency, there are 130 nine armed soldiers in Falls Town, of which 47 members of the elite team stayed in Dusk Town and the Infrastructure Camp. 54 low-level soldiers (referring to quasi-professionals who have not yet completed the extraordinary awakening) are serving as public security teams in towns.

There are only 38 soldiers we can really deploy at any time. "

William nodded. He was very satisfied with Baird's serious and responsible attitude. This is indeed a good general seedling.He asked again, "Lethera, how are our food reserves?"

Another Cleric Woking with crystal eyes and a bookish face stood up and replied: "Your Excellency, taking advantage of the timing of the salmon migration season, we have organized a fishing team of more than 300 people. , nearly [-] pounds of standard fish can be harvested every day (referring to after cleaning the internal organs), but our daily fish consumption is also about [-] pounds.

The harvest of our hunting team is better than nothing, and the stock of dried meat has dropped to a dangerous level, which is not even enough to support the food consumption of the entire town for three days.

We have even less corn in stock, less than ten thousand pounds in all, and porridge is now considered a luxury in Falls.

Your Excellency, the salmon migration season is now coming to an end, and the harvest is expected to be greatly reduced in the next few days.And the food we have accumulated is no more than 20 pounds. If we can't find more food sources in the next two months, or the caravans buy back a large amount of grain, we will face serious problems in the next winter. food shortage crisis. "

William nodded to indicate that he already knew the food stock situation.

Woking's priests are all born businessmen. They are good at mathematics. Of course, most of them can barely calculate the mathematical problems of the water pipes entering and exiting the reservoir. They can also be regarded as relatively excellent logistics managers in the entire human society of Faerun.But recently the priests of Woking are at a loss because their goddess has disappeared.

It's not the kind of situation where the saint is cut off from the believer because he descended to earth, but the real disappearance.

As we all know, Woking Church is a faith organization that focuses on business activities, and the most important thing in business is the timeliness of information.The Woking Church has a wireless telegraph-like communication system based on the magic net level, which allows most believers of the Woking Church even if they temporarily cut off the connection with the goddess when the saint comes into the world, they can still They never fell into panic like other believers in the church, because they could know the existence of their own goddess in time through the communication of magic telegrams. After all, the female saints who came to the world still interacted with some believers.

But this time none of the Woking temples received any reports of the goddess' whereabouts.Therefore, in order to retrieve the missing goddess, most of the Woking priests began to join local forces in various places, hoping to use secular power to help them expand their search area.

Pastor Woking of the William family joined the management of Falls Town under this background. Even William has to admit that the pastor of Woking is really useful, at least he no longer has to personally calculate those cumbersome things for a group of subordinates. math problem.

William swears that after some affairs are straightened out, he will promote mathematics courses in all children's schools established in the territory, so as not to be pissed off by a group of idiots who can only count with their fingers.

Of course, food is the real top priority. If the food problem is not resolved, it is inevitable that people's hearts will fluctuate.So in order to appease everyone, William immediately told everyone the good news that he had harvested nearly a thousand tons of oats.

In fact, most of the people present already knew this news. After all, William did not issue a password-locking order, and Cheval Starcloak, Baird and others who came back with him did not specifically keep this news secret. I told my acquaintances.

However, due to the short time, the news has not really spread.When the news came out of William, it was officially confirmed. Even though many people had known about it in advance, they were still too excited.

With enough food, people's hearts will be safe.

Next, William did not directly say anything about the rescue of Shadow Valley, but gave instructions on two other matters that were almost decrees.One is to mobilize manpower to go to the infrastructure camp of the Dagger Hills, and gather manpower to develop and transform the roads in the hilly area. Here William focuses on the spell support of the casters, after all, they represent the cutting-edge technology of the entire human world.

Originally, William was a little worried about how many people would be transferred to the south. He was worried that those who were transferred would resist.After all, there are good towns where you can live and work. Even if most of the buildings in the town are still under construction, who would want to eat dirt in the ditches?

Even if he can compulsorily promulgate a government order, I am afraid that not many people will be willing to drill the ravine.

But what William didn't expect was that the number of people who were willing to sign up to go south almost brought the construction work of the entire city to a standstill.And the reason for this result is extremely speechless, even for a bite of oatmeal.

Since the people of Falls Town have followed William, the new lord, it can be said that they have a lot of fish and meat every day, eating meat until they are full, and eating fish until they vomit.On the contrary, barley rice and oatmeal porridge, which were regarded as lowly food by most people in the past, have become delicacies that everyone craves.

This cannot but be said to be a great irony.

When people in a city heard that they could have endless oatmeal to drink when they went to work in the south, everyone's heart was moved. For this mouthful of food, they vowed to go deep into the hills and talk to those terrible people. The monster performs a veneer dance.

Of course, how to balance the distribution of manpower to the south is a matter that the government officials in Falls Town, headed by the dwarf Kimmel Durind, need to consider and worry about, and William is not going to get involved in the details.

As for another matter, there is hardly any basic talent in Falls--education.Of course, this matter cannot be rushed for the time being. William only asked the big guys to make preliminary preparations, such as a census to find out about children of a higher age, recruiting suitable teachers, site selection and construction of schools, and preparation of related materials, etc.

Two major events were arranged, and William dealt with some miscellaneous chores for the string, and finally talked about supporting the Shadow Valley.

William said: "This time the lord of the Shadow Valley sent a letter of appeal for help. We must not turn a blind eye to it. After all, any of our foreign exchanges in the future will inevitably happen-intersection with it. Standing by and doing nothing will only make us lose in the entire Valley Alliance." Morally, this is what we should avoid.

Of course, because we have just escaped from the natural disaster and have not had time to recover, we want to send out an effective army-team, but we are powerless.After all, sending a small team of only a few dozen people will not help the matter, but will cause our people to die in vain. We can't take our own lives to waste in vain for an illusory aid, that's something a fool would do. "

The big guy William said was so excited that he couldn't help himself.Yes!Your lord is really good!We have finally met such a caring and caring lord in our life, a passionate and knowledgeable lord.

Nothing to say, resolutely obey any decision of the lord.

However, it seems that what the lord said is a bit wrong. Should he send someone to Shadow Valley or not?Forget it, take care of him!How about what the lord says!
Of course, William didn't just talk about the wheels, he said: "This time I am alone, as our reinforcement in Dagger Valley, go to Shadow Valley to support!"

what!Everyone was shocked when they heard the words, Your Excellency, what are you talking about?

William didn't care about the ups and downs of his subordinates, he continued: "Although I was the only one who went to support, it represented our true sincerity. You think, as the lord, we went to battle in person, and there was a disaster that just happened. The people of Shadow Valley must not be able to say anything!"

A new official who didn't know William yet said frankly: "Your Excellency, not to mention the danger of you going to Shadow Valley alone, even if you do go there, it will help you." What's the matter?"

However, William said proudly: "I can be worth a thousand!"