Warlock Royal Family

The Apennines are the natural backbone of Italy. They are in the shape of a giant arc, starting from the Cadibona Pass near the Maritime Alps in the northwest, and extending as far as the Egadi Islands in the west of Sicily) with a total length of about 1,400 kilometers.

Bounded by the north-south Apennine Mountains, the western coastline north of the Republic of Florence belongs to the Liguria Republic, and the east of the mountains is Palma Modena, which belongs to the Church of Rome, as well as the Principality of Ferrara and some other miniature city-states.

The main body of the middle section of the Apennines is the natural border between the Republic of Guria and the Church of Rome. The mountains themselves occupy a large area, and most of the important mines belong to the surrounding powers.

There are also many mines with scarce output and relatively low value belonging to small monasteries and similarly barren towns. In theory, most of these monasteries and towns belong directly to the Church of Rome. In fact, many years of scramble and chaos have caused many small monasteries to actually control the local power. Although the former Martial Pope Julius II greatly expanded the territory of the Church of Rome, including Parma and Modena are his political achievements.

But in fact, even for these two important cities, the power exchange following the pope's election is now in the hands of a certain cardinal, and the position of the hereditary mayor of his family has re-formed a new semi-du li country.The mountain territories with lower importance are even more intertwined with each other, and there is no stable political entity.

The boss Ladislaus and Silica who fled from the city of Liguria plunged into the Apennines in this way. Although the avenue on the coastline has countless advantages, these advantages are more beneficial to the pursuers. Escape from the Ligurian Republic was obviously impossible.

On the edge of the mountains, there are also many roads that have been used since the ancient Roman era more than a thousand years ago. These roads connect various towns and villages. They are still the economic artery of Italy, and the road network was built in the heyday of the ancient Roman Empire. , complex, extending in all directions, all the way to the same end in Rome.

After Ladislaus left the city of Guria at night, he acted overnight, and did not immediately supply supplies on the second day. The horses originally carried the spare horse feed, and the people could rely on Ladislaus for a day. Level arcane steel internal organs, there is not much risk for them to eat some common wild fruits.

Traveling day and night until they left the coastal plains, they entered the last plain town - Apple Town, for supplies. Even the boss Sirica with rich experience in field survival and a 9th-level warlock entered the mountains in autumn and winter without proper consideration. The preparation is also a suicidal act.

Although Italy has many commercial city-states that are very prosperous in the whole of Europe, even in the whole world, most of their trade methods are by sea. The trade on the Apennine Peninsula is not very special because of the confrontation between the city-states and the war for hegemony of the French Holy Roman Empire. thriving.

This small town located between the two commercial giants of Liguria and Venice is considered the last important supply point before entering the mountains, and there is still no shadow of Liguria and Venice at all.

With a population of less than [-], they naturally live in the intersection of two ancient Roman avenues. There is no plan, and the houses are uneven. There are only decent buildings on both sides of the ancient avenue.

The fugitive duo took advantage of the dawn to sneak into a tavern that occupied a good location on the side of the avenue. The boss, who was closing and preparing to reopen at night, wanted to prevent them from entering. After seeing the boss Silica made a special gesture, Immediately continue to install the closed door panels, and at the same time greet your family to receive guests.

Don't get me wrong, this is not an intelligence station that sends messages to Vienna or Madrid day and night, no matter how powerful an empire is, it is impossible to invest in intelligence in the countryside, so the few spies are concentrated in the cities, and more concentrated in the palace. middle.

This is the stronghold of a small gang of thieves who secretly worship Shar, the lady of the night. Although Cyric is undoubtedly the most powerful god in the entire continent, his dominance stems from the murder, lies, conspiracy, Fraud, illusions, and mergers - the priesthood of "Secret Room Politics". Politics is the most advanced means for us humans to solve the most complicated problems. Ri" name, but also because of the political involvement, it is necessary to carry out some superficial beautification. Some low-end businesses that originally had great advantages for Cyric were gradually eroded by some other competitors.Although the actions of the monarchs of various countries to fight for power have continuously sent divine power to "Dark Ri", those criminals who are purely on the level of public morality often no longer worship Him. For the needs of the overall strategy, Cyric and His The spokesperson, the Pope of Rome, basically adopts a natural attitude towards this small interest. After all, Cyric is already the most powerful universal belief, and it is necessary to wash away the traces of the past, at least Can't be too blatant.

Ladislaus has dealt with the worshipers of the Lady of the Night more than once in Liguria City. Although they have a bad reputation among high-level players---politicians, the scandals they spied on did help Ladislaus Sri Lanka controlled several MPs.

Perhaps out of the expectation of further expanding the transaction, or out of the consideration of connecting with the warlock royal family, Ms. Shar's main agent in Italy decided to provide Ladislaus with their stronghold near the city of Liguria. Under the circumstances today, Ladislaus decided to use this relationship.

Boss Silica asked the tavernkeeper to take care of the two tired Hungarian horses, feed them the best oats and salt, and buy two more horses for carrying supplies, and a lot of supplies.

Ladislaus rejected the room offered by the boss's wife, and released a steel viscera to Boss Silica again, grabbed a handful of gold coins and threw it to the boss, and fell asleep on the stage of the tavern with his clothes on. It took less than 2 minutes Just started snoring.

The boss of Silica, who was also extremely exhausted, didn't sleep as well. After the boss took the gold coins and left to gather supplies, he got off and took out a bottle of wine from the counter, and ate the leftover bread from yesterday brought by the proprietress.

After 12 hours, Ladislaus, who saw him wake up naturally, confirmed that his body had been refilled with arcane power and he could cast spells again.

Sirika's boss just climbed onto the platform where the owner had just slept and got up to rest.

The tavern owner has bought two pack horses worth 12 talers, food, water, tents and other travel supplies for the other 5 talers.

While Ladislaus was inspecting the supplies, the proprietress had already brought up a portion of freshly made veal and pasta. Although everything was fine with Mr. Silica just now, Ladislaus brought himself a piece of prudence. Steel offal, refusing the proprietress's offer to drink, tucked down a half-pound of veal and double pasta.

1st-level arcane iron guts grants a creature a +4 circumstance bonus on Fortitude saves against all poisons.

In the past, the young master Gladislaus felt that the arcane technique was completely useless, but it was really useful to the fugitive Ladislaus today.

After confirming to the boss that there is no place to buy magic potions in the local area, Ladislaus paid the boss a total of more than 50 thalers of Louis gold coins in return for horse supplies and a light crossbow, as well as some local silver coins. Dislaus didn't bring many silver coins with him, and Shar's believers who run the ** naturally have the means of exchange.Although the boss earned at least 20 Thalers, now is not the time to save money.

Just as Ladislaus was thinking about his next move, there were already drinkers beating on the door and asking to open it before evening. A middle-aged man who was extremely tired and decadent seemed impatient to get himself drunk, Siri The card boss has woken up and signaled the boss to open the door normally to keep everything normal on the surface. Anything normal can make the pursuit more difficult for the pursuers, so the boss Sirika who only slept for less than 3 hours still reluctantly signaled to Ladislaus that he could Leave immediately to avoid being seen by too many people.

Ladislaus, who had recovered his arcane skills and had the power to protect himself, decided to let him rest for a while, so the two went out through the back door and entered through the front door like ordinary customers. Merchant is still very common, so it didn't attract much attention.

After sitting in the corner again, Ladislaus let Boss Silica rest in his seat for a while, and at the same time began to look at the customers who entered the tavern one after another.

The tavern was apparently also a local intermediary.So Ladislaus decided to see if he could hire a suitable guide. After all, the Roman road was built 500 years ago. Even if the gods once gave grace, the unmaintained part is now nothing like the wilderness. It's different.