The Swordsman of Faerûn

William looked up at the buttress of the portal, only to see a strange colorful embossment appearing on the originally glorious stone wall at this moment.

This floating wither has a very special shape, half of it is a beautiful angel shape, with a sacred wing, half of a pure face and radiant skin, while the other half of the body presents an ugly side, yellow-brown Crusty skin, ferocious claws, a ferocious half face, and a distorted bat wing, these two forms representing different extremes are unexpectedly combined almost perfectly to form a distorted existence.

William looked up at the floating wither that was almost alive on the buttress, and asked, "Are you talking?"

"Yes." Fuyou said with a sad face: "Save me! Kind person, I was abandoned by my mother when I was born, but my father tortured and killed me even more cruelly, and made me In eternal pain there is no release."

William asked thoughtfully: "You say you are a desperate soul, what proof do you have?"

Hearing this question, Fu Qiao couldn't help being stunned, how to prove that he is a desperate soul, this is a bit embarrassing for him.

The old mage next to him was also choked by William's question. They thought that with William's temperament, after hearing the frivolous complaints, they would definitely not stand by and watch. Who would have thought that he would not play cards according to common sense.

That buoyant was silent for a while, and said again: "Human, I don't know how to prove myself, but I can tell you about my past. My mother is a Valkyrie from the heavens. Beautiful, but in a battle between good and evil, she was unfortunately defeated and captured by an evil demon lord. The demon lord raped her, and then I was born.

I have faced misfortune since I was born. My mother refused to nurture me and denied my real name. She called me Caesthunster, which means twisted chaos..."

Faye Caesdonst tells her tragic past in an emotionless tone, as if she is not telling the story of herself, but an irrelevant passer-by.

Of course, the experience of the daughter of the angry lord Kostchurch is indeed tragic, and it makes people feel very uncomfortable after hearing it. William is also willing to shed a sad tear for her, but that's all.

To put it bluntly, this poor man is an unfortunate offspring of war and hatred. Similar situations exist not only in Faerun, even in the era known as "humanities and charity" in William's previous life.

It's just that the situation of the child of the angel and the devil is more special.

William said: "Poor friend, I sympathize with your misfortune. But I don't know how to save you. Maybe you should seek help from other more capable people instead of me, an ordinary mortal."

However, Fucai Caisi screamed: "It's you! It's you! They all say that you are the only one who can save me, and you won't lie to me!"

William couldn't help narrowing his eyes, and asked in a concentrated voice, "Who? Who said I could save you?"

Fucai Kaisi covered her face with her hands, and pretended to be crying: "No! I can't say it! I promise not to betray the identity of the person who pointed me out to anyone. However, I can't lie to you either. .Good people, I can't say that."

Of course, it's impossible for Fuzhuo to really cry, she's just putting on a show.

William didn't mean to embarrass Caius, he looked back at the old mage and Brunhilde, and said, "Tell me, who gave her the idea."

The old mage looked at William's almost cannibalistic eyes, and said a little ashamedly: "It's not me. Although I also sympathize with this poor soul, but it's not enough for you to completely offend a real devil because of her." Lord."

Yin Erminster really thinks so, the soul in front of him is part of the devil no matter what, and the devil's affairs have nothing to do with him, the Archmage of Faerun. Faerun is already messed up, and he doesn't want to let his anger out. The lord's attention was drawn to his hometown.

Brunhilde responded without shame: "I said it! William, this child has been a tragedy since birth. Although her bloodline inherited from the heavens was polluted by evil, it still belongs to the heavens. She should not have suffered such a tragic eternal fate. And since abandoning this child, Jershkogul has been haunted by regrets, she should not have abandoned this poor child."

William sneered, and said, "To be honest, don't perfuse me with such nonsense!"

vulgar!Brunhilde glanced at William, then took a deep breath, and said: "Caies's soul has both the sacred nature of the heavens and the chaotic nature of the abyss. Her existence (sacrificed here) Make this portal connecting Joseph's garden and the abyss indestructible.

Joseph Garden cannot close the portal from the other side, and can only passively suffer from the attacks of the angry lord day after day. So far, it is unknown how many residents of Joseph Garden have been killed by the brutal army of anger.

It is the duty of every Celestial Warrior to neutralize the threat to this portal.As a Valkyrie, since I am standing in front of this portal, how can I turn a blind eye.

William, you are a kind warrior, and you have the ability to dispel the curse fire of this portal array. If you can help the heavens dispel this source of threat to the safety of Joseph's Garden, the Heroic Legion of Joseph's Garden will be very happy. Happy to form an alliance with you. "

William hadn't answered yet, but the embankment on the buttress screamed like it was about to collapse: "No! No! No! Caies didn't say anything! Caies didn't betray the kind people! The kind people already know Good hearted person, it wasn't Caius who told you! Caius is not an informer! Mom! Don't abandon Caius! Caius didn't tell you! Woooooo!..."

William looked up and took another look at Fade, only then did he realize that this poor soul was not normal, she was actually a lunatic with a lack of sanity, a pitiful creature whose reason had indeed been destroyed by despair.

William sighed, and said, "Brünnhilde, if you don't know how to act, don't teach others to speak. Sometimes talking too much can easily backfire."

What William said was what he had said when Fucai and Caius stopped him earlier, which were obviously not words that a soul with a mental problem could say.

"How can I save this poor soul?" William asked.

Brunhilde and the old mage looked at each other, and the old mage said: "This poor soul has been sacrificed to the existence in the dark, her essence no longer belongs to the world, and she has a trace of immortality." , so it cannot be destroyed by conventional means, including those destructive spells.

Even the portal has indestructible properties due to its association with the essence of this immortal soul.In a sense, this portal is equivalent to a real artifact.

We can't destroy the artifact here, but we can take her away, take away the part of the portal that is connected to Caius's soul, and then find another way to destroy it, so that Caius' soul can escape The bondage of the portal.

Of course, it's up to William that you use the cursefire to temporarily destabilize the portal before we can move it. "

Cursed fire is the most primitive power in this world. It can even affect the stability of the artifact. It is naturally possible to deal with a portal that is similar to the artifact, but William always feels that the old mage and others are hiding something from him.

In fact, for William, helping Caius free from eternal pain is more important to him than removing the source of the threat for Joseph Park.

So he pointed to Fu Jiao who had been muttering to himself and asked, "Can this poor soul be freed?"

The old mage sighed and said: "Every time the portal is opened, it is a tear to Cai's soul, which is enough to destroy the spiritual pain of any soul.

Originally, under normal circumstances, only one large-scale teleportation is needed, and Caies' soul will be torn into two different essences, transforming into a pair of good and evil twins.

And this is also an excuse for the demon lord to trick the original Caius into accepting the sacrifice. "

At this moment, Kaiser suddenly interjected: "Papa said that as long as Cais is obedient, he will make Cais look like mother likes, so that mother will come back to accept Caies."

The old mage looked at William's calm and inexplicable expression, and continued: "But the sacrifice made Cai's soul immortal, and every time her soul was torn, it would recover again, and she couldn't get rid of the intact state." The state of being sacrificed.

Unless she can find a way to undo the sacrifice, or take back the ownership of Caius's soul from the existence in the dark, otherwise she will still not be able to obtain real salvation, and her soul will not be able to return to the sea of ​​souls. "

"Then what can you do?" William asked.

The old mage shook his head and said, "I don't. But I think you have, because you have changed your soul affiliation, and more than once."

William wanted to say, I have a fart way.But after all, he still kept his mouth shut and didn't say it out. Instead, he thought about it silently for a while, and then asked, "What should we do when we go home?"

The old mage said: "This portal can normally open an absolutely safe fixed-point coordinate transmission once a day. Of course, it can also open several unstable plane transmissions with the destination as Joseph's Garden. However, today's fixed-point transmission has been used. If William, if you want to take everyone back to Faerun safely, you'd better wait until the portal is restored tomorrow before leaving."

Waiting once a day is actually the recovery period for Caius after her soul is torn apart.

William nodded and said: "Then leave tomorrow. However, we have harvested a lot of spoils in the town of the frost giants in the abyss, and we need your help to open the demiplane for transporting materials."

The old mage said happily, "I'm happy to help."

In this way, the problem on the portal side was temporarily resolved, and William, the old mage and others returned to Utgard Town, where a mountain of loot was waiting for them to deal with.

But Brunhilde didn't go back, and with another shriek from Fade Kais, she went to Joseph's Garden through the portal.

Ka'eyin's storage demiplane is an extremely large ice peak platform, its area is comparable to a medium-sized city, and it is easy to carry the spoils of Utgard Town.With the help of the old mage, it took William and the others a whole day to barely move the more valuable harvest.

If it wasn't for William's eagerness to return, they might have to dig up the town of the abyss frost giant. After all, any objects in the abyss can be brought to the main material plane, which is basically a more valuable foreign world. thing.

Of course, the premise is that you can bring it back.For other planes, the plane of the abyss is a world that only eats but does not eat. The demons will desperately prevent any creature from bringing the material belonging to the abyss out of the abyss.And those alien creatures who are not infected by the power of the abyss can leave smoothly, of course, there is a greater possibility that they will be made things difficult by the demons guarding the portal.

The souls infected by the power of demons can leave the abyss freely, because their destination is destined to belong to the abyss, but their bodies cannot leave, and the bodies they use outside the abyss are the power of the abyss to infect the outside world. Substitutes for the material reorganization of the world.

It can be said that every invasion of the abyss army, whether successful or failed, is an expansion of the abyss in terms of territory.Only hell does not eat the domineering laws of the abyss, which is why the abyss hates Bator hell more than the opposite heaven.

It is said that when William transported the booty of Utgard Town to the demiplane of Kae Yin, all the demons in the entire frozen ruins got a hint that in the direction of Utgard Town, There are all demonic creatures that must be eradicated.

In fact, this is the feedback from the will of the abyss to William's theft of materials from the abyss.

Not only the real demonic creatures, but also everyone around William. When night fell, everyone felt inexplicable whispers.

Catch the person who stole the material, seize the half-plane of Ka'eyin, and then get the rich reward of the will of the abyss, these are the bewitching words that come to mind in everyone's heart.

It's a pity that everyone under William participated in the transportation of the loot, which made everyone a thief in the eyes of the abyss, so the so-called bewitching words became a joke.

After all, no matter how stupid a person is, he would not exchange his own life for the so-called "reward of the will of the abyss".

Of course, it is not without being seriously affected. Some cubs from the Frost Giant tribe from the frozen ruins have lived here for a long time, and their bodies and souls are inevitably infected by the power of the abyss. Their "betrayal" of the abyss is naturally It incurs punishment, as long as they stay within the radiation range of the will of the abyss, these children will become extremely weak.

However, this didn't really bother William. Although the temperature in the flame world made the frost giant feel uncomfortable, it was at least much better than these children being tortured by the will of the abyss.

The next day, when William and his party headed for Stoddt's Gate with the lightly armed frost giant cub army, flying demons began to appear in the surrounding sky one after another. The team marked as Demonic Enemies by Will attacks.