The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 749 Returning to Faerun
The area where William landed from the teleportation passage was a vast and inaccessible forest. Ancient trees surrounded by several people can be seen everywhere, but it lacks all kinds of animals, birds and beasts that should be in a normal jungle. Instead, there are many broken spider webs hanging in the forest. Between the branches and the tails of the trees, this place is filled with a kind of frightening and gloomy meaning.

William didn't know exactly where he was, but when he climbed to the top of a big tree and looked around, he saw the rolling mountains in the west of this jungle - the Mokou Mountains.

William was very impressed with the terrain and shape of the Mokou Mountains. He recognized the eastern boundary mountains of the Ainuooke Great Desert at a glance, and he also confirmed his landing location, which should be around the Shadow Valley. in a valley forest.

With the appearance of a large number of spider monsters, William has almost guessed where this forest is based on the geography and humanities of Shadow Valley and Dagger Valley that he knows.

Spider's Nest Forest, a dark jungle frightened among Shadowvale natives and passers-by alike, is home to spiders, venomous and non-venomous, overrun and nearly extinct The food chain ecosystem of the entire forest has been destroyed, but a new ecological balance has also been formed.

Not all spiders like to prey, and there are also spiders that eat plants. Although there are not many types, when a large number of jungle bottom animals and insects are hunted and killed by spiders, these herbivorous spiders suddenly become incredible. The speed spread in the spider nest forest, and then they became the diet of other carnivorous spiders, supporting the spider ecosystem of the entire forest.

With such changes in the Spider Nest Forest, it's hard not to suspect that they are related to a certain evil god named spider in the abyss.

William killed many spiders who wanted to hunt him, which made more spider monsters start to gather around him.

Of course, there are not only spiders in the Spider Nest Forest, there are also many monsters that like to live with spiders, or eat spiders as food, such as crustaceans and it monsters.

William showed no mercy to these monsters. Although they didn't pose much threat to him, they were deadly killers to ordinary people in Shadow Valley.

In particular, the Spider Nest Forest is just stuck at the junction of the southward intersection of Shadow Valley. The northern road that runs through the valley and the western passage of Cormyr, and the section from Shadow Valley Town to the shadow rift in the south of Shadow Valley, is under pressure almost all the time. Harassment and attacks by monsters from the Spider Nest Forest.

For William, if he wants to build the Valley of Shadows well, the threat of the Spider Nest Forest must be removed. Although he is not here to clean up the Spider Nest Forest, since he is already here, William will come whenever he wants to , then by the way, check it out and find out the details of this place.

Of course, William didn't want to clean up this monster den once and for all. That's not how to build and develop an area. Sometimes problems don't need to be dealt with as quickly as possible.

As for why William didn't hurry home to see his wife and sister, this was the old mage's suggestion, and it was also William's own choice. Storm Silverhand would lead people to deal with the spirit world shapechanger and take him away as William's enemy. she.

On the one hand, the identity of the shape-changer in the spirit world will not be directly exposed, and it will not attract the attention of the same kind of shape-changers in the spirit world, and it will also keep the secrets and safety of some people related to this matter, such as Ms. Charlotte.

To put it bluntly, the spirit world skinchangers also have backgrounds in the multiverse, otherwise they, a group of fraudsters messing around in various planes, would have been surrounded by righteous people long ago.

Of course, this does not mean that the spirit world skinchangers can do whatever they want, they have a unique racial behavior logic criterion judgment, the specific content is basically difficult for outsiders to know the details except the spirit world skinchangers themselves.

However, the great things that William and the others have done, such as stealing her spring water without telling the spirit world skinchanger himself, and demolishing her tower, although it has already severely damaged the power background of this spirit world skinchanger, as long as Without unmasking her on the spot, the spirit changer's companions would have no reason to retaliate.

Because for an individual skinchanger in the spirit world, a successful reenactment of life is even more important than any power, wealth or even so-called companions.

The two, William, worried that if he saw that Xibei guy, he might not be able to help but slash her with a knife, so he simply kept out of sight and out of mind, and let the silver-haired sister and others deal with it.

William wandered around in the Spider Nest Forest, killing one spider monster after another from time to time. Even though the roar of a giant dragon came from the shadowy valley town more than ten miles away, William never left the Spider Nest Forest. Looking over there thoughtfully.

When he came near a woodland with strange stone accumulations, he found traces of humanoid creatures.

Four rare forest deer were brutally killed on an altar in a clearing.Forest deer are the traditional companions of the forest moon elves, just like humans are to cats and dogs.

Generally, forest deer live near the tribe of the moon elves, and will never appear in the spider's nest forest.

Besides, apart from humanoids, very few monsters would kill their prey but not eat it. Instead, they would disembowel and dismember their prey like a ritual.

There is no doubt that there are evil people making sacrifices to evil.

William inspected around the sacrificial site carefully, but found a cave leading to the ground. Although the entrance of the cave was well concealed, it couldn't be hidden from William's eyes. He could easily see that the cave was It was artificially modified and excavated.

It seems that there are enemies from the underground, and William just knows that there is an evil humanoid creature living in the dark world underground, and likes to mingle with spiders, dark elves, or drow.

William didn't intend to go to the underground world to make troubles. It's not the time for him to go out, but this doesn't prevent him from sending some warmth to the dark elves and even the spiders in the forest, such as making underground mushrooms once.

Without the old mage by his side, William could only use the once-a-day chance to open the Flame Gate, which forced him to stay in the Spider Nest Forest until midnight.

As soon as the spell slot was recovered, William immediately opened the flame channel, and then the old mage and Selena reached Faerun without any difficulty, and William also summoned a cursed fire phoenix.

The old mage firmly opposed William's act of using the cursed phoenix to enlarge the mushrooms. After all, the lethality of this move was too great, and its lethality was simply stronger than the top spell [Meteor Burst] that spellcasters could legally use. ] It is countless times more terrifying. Although the release of this over-limit spell-like spell will not cause damage to the stability of the magic net like normal top-notch spells, the old mage still raised objections to William.

William didn't take the old mage's objection to heart, but he didn't detonate the cursed phoenix either, because William thought of an idiom to raise the bandit's self-respect.

It is said that with the support of the old mage and his party, it is foreseeable that the process of William's unification of the valley should be smooth, but after unifying the entire valley, William's life may not be so easy.

He and his territory will definitely be feared or even hostile by many forces and organizations from the outside and even from the inside. This is absolutely unavoidable for a new big kingdom.

To break through this predicament, there are nothing more than two ways. One is to become friends with those opponents (that is, to learn Ermao), but it means that William has to give up a lot of persistence and bottom line. He will definitely not choose this way.

Of course, beating up all the opponents is also an option. For example, William’s family members in his previous life used this method, but this method is a last resort choice, and William will not take that step.

In this way, it is a very good choice to find yourself a public enemy that everyone recognizes, and then let yourself become the opponent of this public enemy, so as to create a situation where you are mired in the quagmire of confrontation and unable to care for others.

And the evil drow from the Underdark is undoubtedly a good Kou, and William decided to raise them well.

Of course, not planning to level the Underdark with the Mushroom Technique does not mean that William will do nothing. He transformed the energy carried by the Cursed Phoenix into high-temperature flames, melted the entrance cave of the Underdark, and temporarily closed it Get up, lest those cute little Kou Kou come out to make trouble anytime soon.

William's "obedience" made the old mage very satisfied, and he even looked forward to William's unification of the valley and becoming the new king of the valley.

After all, it is a pleasure for anyone to have a wise and obedient king friend.

What?You say people will change their minds when they gain power?I'm sorry, in the eyes of the old mages, William's becoming the king will not bring much improvement to his strength and status. It should be said that the unified king of the valley is more likely to become a burden and constraint on William.

After all, no matter how you look at it, William has no potential to become a tyrant.

With this knowledge, the old mage immediately began to actively contact his friends, and at this time, information about Shadow Valley and Misty Valley quickly came to William through the old mage.

During the period when William left Faerun to save the real Phinea, there were many "riots" in Shadow Valley, and many "opponents" began to jump out against William's rule. They ambushed patrols and kidnapped officials. It is to make "Phiniya" who is left behind suffer a lot.

This pretender had to follow the real Feniya's character design, carrying an ax and leading people around to suppress the rebellion, put out fires, and rescue the hostages, without even having time to pay attention to the "battle situation" in Misty Valley.

What's more funny is that in these "riots" one after another, there were hardly many victims. Only the furious spirit world skinchanger hacked to death a few unlucky "thugs" with Thunder Frost.

Then just yesterday, another riot attracted nearly Jadesli pretenders and her suppression team. The mobs ambushed them with superior force, the suppression team was defeated, and the false pretender took the identity of Phinea captured.

That's right!These so-called riots and ambushes are pre-prepared fake scenes, which are used to distract the attention of the spirit world's skin-changers. Not knowing the truth, they thought they were really rebelling against the rule of the people of Dagger Valley over Shadow Valley.

Since these "actors" are all members of the Harper Alliance and its friendly organizations, they were instructed during the course of the action to "convince and educate those deceived accomplices and save their souls from repentance. The most important thing is to educate a few times" action plan, so the actors are more measured in their actions.

Even if the spirit world skinchanger caught a few unlucky guys and used his innate ability to read their memories, he didn't find anything wrong. He just attributed this abnormal phenomenon to the enemy's woman Zhiren.

Of course, there are also spirit world shapechangers imitating Phinea's thinking mode, and being biased by the stupid woman's elm head has something to do with IQ, otherwise, relying on the intelligence of the spirit world shapechangers themselves, I am afraid that something is wrong. .

The final ambush was led by a group of masters from the Harper Alliance. In order to ensure safety, they used several quasi-legendary fighters, even including two adult dragons, and then the poor pretender was caught. .

The next thing is the information from Misty Valley. After two days and one night of water voyage, William's expedition team successfully arrived at the Ashaban Beach in Misty Valley and successfully completed the landing.

However, the expeditionary force temporarily led by Storm Silver Hand and Charenty lost a small battle near a small village outside the town of Ashaban Beach, and then relied on the village wall and the remaining Misty Valley who came to encircle and suppress The knights confronted each other.

Until yesterday, the expeditionary force re-launched a counterattack against the Misty Valley Knights, but secretly sent an elite squad to infiltrate the town of Ashaban Beach, and successfully captured the Supreme Councilor of the Misty Valley. The knights were negotiating. According to the old mage, perhaps they might use this to subdue the entire Misty Valley without bloodshed.

William was noncommittal about this, and after thinking about it, he said to the old mage, "Old man, where are Phineya and her frost giant cubs?"

The old mage took a look at William in surprise, and then said, "On Thunder Peak in the south of Misty Valley, there is alpine snow that never melts all year round. The climate and environment are very suitable for the life of frost giants. But it is said that on a high mountain in Thunder Peak There lived a group of evil cloud giants, and perhaps they might be a threat to the frost giant children your wife brought back."

William sneered in his heart, but said in his mouth: "I am also a little worried about Phinea and the others. How about this, let your people bring Thunder Frost, and I will bring Thunder Frost to Phinea directly. As for the hand of Shadow Valley At the end, let the old man take care of it."

The old mage was delighted again that William did not care about power and politics. He asked curiously, "William, how are you going to deal with those cloud giants?"

William said coldly: "It's fine if those idiots are sensible, otherwise I don't mind killing them all!"

The old mage said insincerely: "William, as a lord, it is better to be tolerant sometimes."

The smile on William's face was very bright, and he said: "I know, old man. If those cloud giants are willing to obey, I will treat them kindly."

So the two looked at each other and smiled, and then began to prepare for the next parting ways.

The old mage summoned a peregrine falcon with magic, and let it bring a message to the people of Shadow Valley.The peregrine falcon's speed was very fast, and it didn't take long for a giant dragon to emerge from the eastern jungle of Shadow Valley, and flew over the spider's nest forest at lightning speed.

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