The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 777 Please Call Me Tactician ([-])
The Illusion Goddess really didn't want to leave her den, but William stared at her with the handle of a knife, which filled Leila with panic.

There is both panic about her secret being discovered, and worry about William's reputation as a god-killer. Leila is not a god who is good at fighting, but in the battle for the throne of the God of War for more than 1000 years, Leila secretly helped Tempus, using false illusions to make Tempus's supposedly defeated army win in unimaginable fashion.

Of course, Layla also received a reward for this, a part of the strategy priesthood - the trick priesthood.However, Layla almost never revealed this secret to the outside world, because she knew that Carrigos was not easy to mess with, especially behind Carrigos there were many allies left over from the Netheril era.

If it was just a battle for the throne between Carrigos and Tapas, no one else had the right to intervene, but if Layla's extra intervention was exposed, some old antiques would definitely not spare her lightly.

Now that William brings up such a topic, it is obvious that he knows something, and it may not only be William, maybe there are some predators hidden behind William that have not yet surfaced.

Goddess Layla showed an awkward smile like crying, and begged: "Your Excellency William, I really can't leave here, my people need me. If I leave with you, what will they do?"

William sneered and said: "Ms. Leila! Don't pretend to be pitiful here, I don't like you. Do you think you are the only one who leaves? Don't worry! You and your believers will not be separated, they will be with you Get out of here, leave everyone alone! How about it, don’t you feel very surprised?!”

Leila said with a mournful face: "There are no surprises, only shocks! William, I am willing to leave with you, please let the people here go, okay?"

William stared at the goddess with idiotic eyes, and said, "Are you stupid? If you are the only one who leaves, believe it or not, the Tempus army can kill all the people here as soon as we leave."

Leila was startled. Indeed, the relationship between her and Tempus was not as good as it used to be. Tempus never even cared about her from the beginning. The strategy priesthood of Erbajing is a top priesthood that is enough to be crowned with a powerful divine power.

Especially when Leila heard that recently Tempus was planning to give the other half of the priesthood of strategy——the priesthood of strategy and planning to a little bitch from Tethyr who likes to wear red armor. This is absolutely unbearable!
Leila immediately decided to turn against the water. She wanted to beat Tempus hard, and then let him know what would happen if he ignored her.

That's right!Layla, the goddess of illusion and trickery, changed her mind almost in the blink of an eye. Not only did she no longer resist William's invitation, she even offered to help, so that William wondered if the goddess had some tricks.

How does a goddess win the trust of a mortal? Then carry out a negative distance between the soul and the Naha. The two sides meet frankly and exchange opinions and gifts without reservation, just like the negotiation between William and the Goddess of the Earth in the barn .

Leila really wanted to have an in-depth negotiation with William, but William was not very forceful at this time.

The divine power of the earth entangled in William's body has not disappeared, he is not very interested in it for the time being, and the goddess of illusion and tricks does not dare to forcibly break the divine power of Tangia on William's body, but Leila has confirmed the fact that William's death is true. He hid the boss, no, Tang Ti'a, the old Bi who likes to grow vegetables, showed his whereabouts.

Leila is not in a hurry to leave her mark on William's body. She has enough patience. What she needs to do now is to cooperate with William's people to take away the villagers of Heibaqiao Village. Originally, this is not an easy task. Work, after all, the villagers of Heiyuqiao Village are all residents of Lingyu Valley, and they naturally resist moving to other valley city-states, especially the messy place of Battle Valley.

Fortunately, most of the people in Heibaqiao Village are Layla's believers. After all, these mortals are not so bold as to disobey the will of God.
the point.When the goddess sent down the oracle, people finally left their homes reluctantly.

Apart from looting the food in Heiyuqiao Village, William didn't do more damage to the village. He just helped Leila make the temple look like the Lathander Temple, but inside it was the Temple of Illusions and Tricks A strategic demolition was carried out and one of Layla's relics was taken away.

Another sacred object of Layla is none other than the black rope bridge erected on the Asaba River—the Black Feather Bridge.The Black Feather Bridge is a sacred object blessed by Leila's divine power. When people crossing the bridge walk on the Black Feather Bridge and feel frightened, the sacred blessing contained in the Black Feather Bridge will confuse pedestrians with illusions, making them think What I am in is not a precarious rope bridge, but a solid earth.

Just such a bridge, which not only has the illusion to confuse people, but also realizes the benefits of tricks to calm people's hearts, it can be said that it takes care of the priesthood and power of the illusion goddess, it is simply the best divine power practice for Leila Implements.

In a word, this bridge is very important to Leila, the goddess of illusion. If possible, she would like to hang it on her waistband all the time.

It's a pity that the reason why this black-feather bridge is used is to take advantage of the local terrain. If passers-by don't want to be trapped in the Asaba River, they must find a way to cross the river by boat, or they have to use this black-feather bridge to cross the river.

It can be said that it is the terrain around Kuroba Bridge that created the Kuroba Bridge of the Goddess of Illusion.Since Layla came to Faerun, in order to protect her core asset, she could only hide and live in seclusion in Heibashi Village.Now she left with William, but she couldn't care less about anything else, she just wanted to tear down the rope bridge and take it away.

William naturally refused to do such a thing of demolishing bridges and structures. He persuaded the goddess of illusion: We are only retreating temporarily this time, and it is not that we will not come back in the future.Your cable bridge is not a gold or silver bridge, if you just leave it like this, no one will touch it, and who will make plans for it if you are free!If someone really damages your bridge, at worst, after the war is over, I will build you ten new ones!
Leila, who was originally somewhat reluctant, immediately changed her mind after getting William's guarantee. She no longer cared about her precious bridge, but came up with some other ideas.

For example, I found an opportunity to destroy the Black Feather Bridge secretly, and then asked William to pay her ten more rope bridges with the same power.You must know that the Asaba River stretches for thousands of miles, and the terrain similar to the Black Feather Bridge is not limited to this place. In the past, the power of the Illusion Goddess has declined, and the right to use those treasure places cannot be obtained.

Now?Can't say it can be considered!

Even with the support of the goddess Layla, the project to relocate the entire Heibashi village lasted for a full day and night.By the evening of the next day, there was no longer a single resident in Heibaqiao Village.

In the middle of the night, the village was as quiet as a land of the dead, with almost no people at all.The reason why it is almost said is that there is a group of mice—the moonlight mice running out from nowhere in an endless stream, and started a carnival in the empty village.

Then the originally quiet village suddenly became noisy and lively.

But soon the carnival of the Moonlight Rats was interrupted.

A group of cavalry holding torches galloped from the southeast of Heibashi Village at a slow trot speed.These knights came to the closed log gate at the entrance of Heibaqiao Village. Some of them sat on horseback and shouted at the door for a while, but no one inside would respond to them.

Seeing these people wasted a lot of saliva but no one answered, they heard a lot of noises inside, just because the people in this village despised them, but the knight who called the door was extremely annoyed.

Several leading cavalrymen discussed with each other, and then one of them uttered a whistle, and a dozen of them each held a circle of rope, threw it out one by one and put it on the top edge of the wooden door, and then they tied the other end of the rope to the saddle , Urged the horse and pulled it back.

More than a dozen horses exerted their strength together, only a loud click was heard, and the gate in Heiyuqiao Village, which was nailed with more than a dozen thigh-thick tree trunks, was directly pulled from the gate wall, and the wooden bar on the top gate was even more so. It was broken into several sections.

After the gate of the village was opened, these cavalrymen shouted loudly and chorused a few times, the content was roughly words to encourage morale, such as grabbing money, food, and women, and then everyone in the entire cavalry team screamed strangely, rushing to urge The horse rushed into the village.

All of a sudden, there was an uproar of voices and horses neighing like a tide.

But when these cavalry rushed into the village, they didn't see even a single person, only countless big rats running around on the street, and some rats even grabbed small needle-like daggers with their front paws like humans , Standing on the heights of the houses and screaming at them.

Moonlight Rat Plague!There is no bitch in the south!

This was the first thought that came to the hearts of all the knights. The knights in front hurriedly reined in their horses and tried to turn around, but the knights behind continued to slam into this side without knowing it.

On weekdays, the Moonlight Rats looked like normal rats, but on a full moon night, these rats would become extremely terrifying.You can imagine a mouse the size of a football, whose brain has become no different from that of a normal human, and whose strength is no less than that of a normal human. It can jump several meters at a time, just like a flea, and its temperament is even more cruel.

A single moonlight mouse under the night of the full moon is enough to become a little monster that can kill tigers and leopards. The key is that this thing still lives in groups. Once it appears, there are hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of moonlight mice. Round Night is enough to wipe out even a medium-sized town.

It just so happened that tonight was the night of the complete full moon, and it was also the most ferocious and bloodthirsty day of the month for this group of moonlight mice.

But these cavalrymen who had just broken into Heiyuqiao Village just now felt that they and their party were really unlucky, so why did they plunge their heads into the deadly rat hole.

These people now have a doubt that they don't have time to think about right now, that is, where are the local residents?

But who cares!Now these knights just want to rush out of this village.

Some people may ask where these moonlight mice come from, but in fact these little things are kept by the goddess of illusion, Layla, in the false temple of Lathander to intimidate people. This woman is not so kind at all. The presence.

When Leila left, she asked if she wanted to take these little things away, but William refused after thinking about it. Not to mention the uncontrollable nature of the Moonlight Mouse, the two kittens of William's family were It is impossible to agree to him raising this thing.

The Moonlight Rats were indeed difficult to deal with. They were like bouncing fur balls, constantly pounced on the cavalrymen and their mounts.Whenever the Moonlight Mouse got close, it would definitely grab and bite crazy output, even if it was attacked by those knights, it would not hesitate.

The horses neighed, the knight howled, accompanied by countless screams and screams, some unlucky knights lost their mounts, because those war horses reacted more directly to danger, they directly got rid of the knights and ran away up.

The knights who still had mounts turned their horses' heads in a panic and ran desperately on the streets of Heibaqiao Village. From time to time, some knights fell off their horses and were buried in a pile of rat mounds by a bunch of mice, and some war horses fell on the ground. The ones on the ground are then eaten by the Moonlight Rat together with the knight on the horse.

William took a group of fifty Mist Knights and stayed not far from Heibashi Village.Originally, he planned to kill those Moonshine Rats by himself, but on a whim, he didn't execute it for the time being. Only then did he see the tragic end of that poor night cavalry team.

Not even half of the knights could escape from Heibashi Village alive, and of course slightly more horses escaped alive.

These knights had already driven the road in the middle of the night, and it can be said that they were exhausted. This time, they suffered such bad luck again, of course, it was really worse. Not only did they suffer heavy casualties, but they also lost most of their weapons. Fighting weapons are not very handy when dealing with Moonlight Rats, and they even get in the way, so almost everyone discarded them when they fled.

Then, when these knights who survived by chance looked at each other and were at a loss, they didn't find a cavalry who had been waiting for a long time to work and surrounded them at some point.

These cavalry from Feather Falls did not have the courage to resist, but their horses were already exhausted, their people were hungry, and they had no suitable weapons in their hands. Whether they wanted to fight or escape, it was difficult to carry out, so they could only obediently dismount and surrender. Just bind.

For William's cavalry, tonight is definitely a magical night.

They watched a spectacular battle between man and mouse. Although many of them did not witness it with their own eyes, it did not prevent these fog knights from letting their imaginations fly in their hearts.Then they ambushed the enemy under the leadership of their own leaders, and almost effortlessly wiped out the knights from the city-states in the eastern valley.

Especially after the Mist Knights screened the identities of the captives, they all admired William.The Mist Knights knew these captives quite well. The cavalry who rushed into Heiyuqiao Village were not mediocre, but the remnants of the elite cavalry under the command of King Rashan two years ago.

Although most of these cavalry from Scar Valley lost to the Misty Knight in the last battle, it is undeniable that they are really hard to mess with. The Misty Knight's victory was extremely difficult and dangerous.

Unexpectedly, this group of opponents who had caused headaches to the Mist Knights in the past had such a miserable end tonight.

(End of this chapter)