The Swordsman of Faerûn

William didn't have a deep understanding of the human groups in Creeping City. He just felt that this suffering group seemed to have a unique charm that attracted him, so he couldn't help but want to gather them up and protect them.

For a long time afterwards, William thought that this incident was caused by his excessive sympathy.It wasn't until a long time later that William (or the scholars under him) penetrated the mysteries of the swarm intelligence system and realized that this happened not because of someone's sympathy, but because of something deep in human genes. The sublimation of a collective consciousness.

Because of the extremely difficult environment, this group of humans in Creeping City burst out the most powerful potential of the entire human race-the spirit of unity and sacrifice.This allows this group of human beings to maintain the best side of the human race even though they are deep in the endless hell.

These people are united as one, impartial and selfless, everyone has given full play to their own subjective initiative, all for the survival and continuation of the entire population, this beautiful vision fills everyone's subconscious, and then gathers into an unstoppable force Power source.

This cluster source power will subtly lead this group to explode with astonishing potential—if their development is not interrupted by irresistible forces.

This potential is manifested in reality that this human population will inevitably produce a large number of talents like a blowout, heroes will be everywhere, and eventually an earth-shattering hero will be born to lead this population out of the predicament and usher in a new life.

Or this human population may be destroyed by some irresistible enemy in the process of revival and growth, but in a place like Jiaoyan Hell, which is not the home of human beings, this possibility is extremely likely.Under the crisis of this objective existence, the cluster source power will subconsciously call for those strong external (human) support, which is what we often call the savior theory.

Of course, the premise is that there are indeed individuals with the qualifications of the savior in the entire pan-human race, otherwise the subconscious call of the swarm intelligence to the savior is just a lament before destruction.

There is no doubt that William is a human being with the qualifications of a savior, and his shoulders are strong enough to carry this burden, so he is inevitably subconsciously influenced by the human clusters in Creeping City.

However, this kind of influence is not absolute, and everything depends on the mind and concept of the affected person.If William believes that this group is worth saving, and he is willing to make sacrifices for it, and proves that he has this ability, the two parties will naturally hit it off; Nothing binding except upon his conscience.

In fact, in the current Jiaoyan Hell, William is not the only one who has the potential to be called (the savior). The old mage he came to rescue also has a very hard shoulder and can also shoulder the responsibility of the savior.

Obviously, Yin Erminster was not moved by the name of the savior. After all, in his long life of more than 1000 years, the old mage had already assumed similar responsibilities countless times. …

It can be said that Yin Erminster has been numb for a long time. He no longer has the heart to continue to bear this burden. As the saying goes, the world is sinking and all living beings suffer. Left endless regret and guilt, which is one of the reasons why this old mage, who is known as the great sage, has lived in shadow valley all year round.

When William and his subordinates of the Flame Legion began to clean up the battlefield, people hiding in the surrounding houses like piles of rubble came out of their homes one after another.They came to William's side spontaneously, helped to cut up the tentacles and tentacles that fell on the ground, picked up the lost items, and then sent them to William by category.

These people are dressed in rags, their faces are disheveled, and they obviously live a very poor life. Even though there are piles of fresh meat (from the tentacles of the snail shell floating ship) and treasures and supplies everywhere, when they helped William pack up the spoils, they did not hide even Every penny, this alone made William feel inexplicably fond of them. These people are really good, and they are all the best sharpshooters.

The humans in Creeping City are basically young people and half-grown children (referring to the kind of teenagers who can already help with work, such as the little thief girl), they almost support the backbone of the entire human group , and then supplemented by a few elders as brains, of course the real majority are those young children who have no ability to feed themselves.

As for the vast majority of serious adults, looking at the main targets in the cargo compartment of the snail shell airship, we can see that most of them have become the targets of being captured and plundered by foreigners.

In fact, the population rescued from the airship is not only humans, but also a series of races such as orcs, dwarves, half-blood elves, etc. Obviously, there are also gathering areas of these races in a nearby area.However, among these humanoid races that were not captured by monsters, most of them are young adults who have just grown up, or relatively thin adults, which is obviously different from the situation of humans.

William soon learned that the floating ship's real name was the conch ship, and it was originally a magical ship that belonged to the illithid family, but it was captured and transformed by the Lich from the fallen illithids. The disabled product is far less powerful and firepower than the original conch shell ship.

The liches of Lone Hope and the illithid hordes living here work hand in hand, and they cooperate with each other to grab poll taxes from the underprivileged races of Creeping City.

The so-called poll tax is to plunder and hunt a certain number of adults of the target race. The basis for judging this adult is not based on age, but the size of the head that the adult prey should have. In this regard, illithids are the most professional. And the error rate is surprisingly low.

Moreover, the spirit suckers even have a special tool-the skull ruler, which is used to measure whether the captured prey is qualified.

And these captured prey will be divided between the liches and the spirit suckers. The brains of the prey belong to the spirit suckers, and the remaining bodies will become the material for the liches to make undead.

In the face of the plunder of monsters, the older adults in the human race always stand up and sacrifice themselves, leaving a chance for their younger companions to survive. This tradition of radiating humanity originates from several This benevolent human world was broken and plundered by the army from Jiaoyan Hell. Many human slaves brought to Creeping City became the main population of the human gathering area for various reasons. …

At the same time, in order to save her family who was robbed here, a kind-hearted strong man sneaked into the Creeping City after several twists and turns. Her rescue was unsuccessful, but she left the most precious inheritance of faith for the entire human race.

Of course, the human race, which has experienced countless times and hardships, still maintains a nearly selfless tradition, but this tradition has reached the verge of collapse.The reason is very simple. The adult backbone individuals are attrition a lot, and the young people are hard to support. Moreover, other races around them often take advantage of the fire, which makes it more difficult for the entire human gathering area to live.

So when William revealed that he wanted to take over this human race, people accepted his leadership almost without hesitation.

Seventeen humans, thirty half-breed elves, thirty dwarves, and thirty hobgoblins were rescued from the cell of the modified conch shell ship. Obviously, if William did not intervene, there would be at least thirteen more unfortunate ones. Humanity suffers.

After these captives were released, the hobgoblins peeped at the human gathering area maliciously, especially the trophies stacked next to William, which made them mad with envy.

The half-blood elves showed some hesitation, while the dwarves huddled together and watched with cold eyes, and some of them were full of greed and malicious eyes.

However, the figure of the fire giant made the dwarves a little panicked. As an enemy race carved in their blood, the relationship between dwarves and giants is not just as simple as enemies. Although dwarves hate giants extremely, the chances of them being enslaved by giants It is also far larger than other races.

The rescued humans stood together with more humans. They took up crude weapons and resolutely stood between William and the hobgoblin, which deeply moved William's heart once again.

Of course, William didn't need the protection of these poor but brave humans. He smiled at Dove, and then, holding a spring knife in his hand, he crashed into the group of hobgoblins like a raging buffalo. Several strong hobgoblins were knocked down. With broken tendons and bones, he flew out screaming.

Just as William set off a frenzy of flesh and blood among the hobgoblins, Dove also rushed up with a wave of [Azure Fury], and then those adult humans who were a little dazed, and then even those underage cubs rushed forward screaming. go up.

However, these "warriors" with high morale basically didn't catch any heads, including Dove who only picked up the heads of two fleeing hobgoblins.Because half of the hobgoblin was slaughtered by William in almost a few breaths, and then the rest fled directly, and were driven out of the human gathering area by a group of people like ducks.

The remaining half-breed elves and dwarves offered William their willingness to surrender and become slaves without hesitation. After all, in Jiaoyan Hell, life is more important than freedom.However, the [-] dwarves were handed over by William to the fire giants. Most giants are very professional in managing dwarves.

However, William, the half-breed elf, was handed over to Dove for management. After all, Dove's Elvish language was even worse than Common Tongue. This alone gave her a great advantage. Of course, Dove and the other silver-haired sisters and the elves The relationship is indeed unusual. …

Tentacles (called snail feet) cut off from conch ships are good meat for the people of Creeping City, but the taste of this thing is really not very good.After they were roasted, the former leader and elder of the human gathering area in Creeping City, two ladies who should be regarded as young girls in Faerun dedicated the first bite of meat to William, which was the handover of power from the old leader to the new leader. Rituals are perhaps the simplest and gentlest way of handing over power among all intelligent groups.

William just took a bite of the snail meat, but it felt like he was biting an aging and decayed rubber tire. There is a lingering smell of carrion, which makes people want to vomit.

William swallowed a mouthful of meat with difficulty, and then gave the rest to the little thief who was kneeling beside her. The little girl didn't care about the bad taste of the food, and ate it hungrily.

Of course Little Thief has a name, and her name is Selena Steele.

Steele is the name of one of the two original chief elders. The duties of these chief elders are not only to control the ethnic group, but also to bear the responsibility of procreating offspring. Any female human being who has entered the childbearing age is eligible to become a new Elder (after she gave birth to a healthy child).

There is not no delicious food in the crawling city, such as a huge worm called a fire dragon. They are real indigenous monsters living in magma and rocks. It is said that the meat of this worm is even better than chicken meat They are fresh and tender, but they are very dangerous in themselves. Cuts are always traveling in groups in the magma, and it is very difficult to capture them successfully.

After everyone was full, William began to fully understand the detailed current situation of the area he took over, and the results he got were definitely not optimistic.

Humans have five gathering areas in Creeping City, and the conch ships of liches and illithids will come to plunder the population once a year. Each time there are [-] adults, the conch ships will take turns to search in the five gathering areas. If you catch enough, go away, if not enough, go to the next gathering area and continue to catch.

Humans are fine here. Every time the five gathering areas gather people together, they can barely support it. The gathering areas like elves, dwarves, hobgoblins, and orcs are not so united. I don’t know how many gathering areas are due to population raids. Excessive and ruined.

However, what Creeping City lacks most is foreign slaves and prisoners of war. Almost every day, thousands of prisoners of war of various races are brought to Creeping City from other worlds. Whenever a gathering area is destroyed, there will be new ones. Filled in by freed slaves.Then form a new aggregation area.

However, warlike races like hobgoblins and orcs will attack, kill and plunder other groups around them after the conch ship is "taxed". suffer from it.

After thinking about it for a while, William decided to gather all the humans in the five gathering areas and build a strong castle in this city as a shelter, while he needed to kill those who had malicious intentions towards humans. To warn the monkeys, to ensure that they will not attack the human race when William is away.

And the monkey chosen by William already has a target, such as Guwang City is a good target.I believe that throwing a few nuclear-level fireworks every day should make most of the idiots in this world a little smarter.

By the way, William has to talk to General Jiao Yan again, such as setting aside a concession area for him, and getting consular jurisdiction should not be too difficult.