Mithril Throne of Forgotten Realms

The entire Smugglers Bay is surrounded by layers of rock walls. If you want to enter the bay, you can only take a boat through the narrow strait on the east or wind your way down the path from the top of the cliff. It is the latter.

The sky had completely darkened, and Fang Yi followed Taylor, groping his way down the winding path on the rock wall.The stone steps are only about two feet wide, with an uneven rock wall on one side and a cliff hundreds of feet high on the other.

Fang Yi took advantage of the faint moonlight to glance down, the light ring on the pier was dimming and brightening, like a lone star in the distance, and the dark sea water was like a big ball of oil constantly surging, making the People have a heavy sense of oppression.Fang Yi leaned back, shook his confused head, took a deep breath, and kept encouraging himself in his heart: I am not afraid of heights, nor water, nor heights...

"Fang Cuan, follow up," Taylor noticed that the thieves behind him had stopped, and quickly turned back to wave to Fang Yi, "Follow up, there are guards ahead, don't get too far away from me!"

Fang Yi supported the rock wall with his hands, took a few breaths, and waited for the dizziness to pass before taking another step.I said in my heart to be steady, the storms and waves have come, but I can't dedicate my first time here.

Although the path is steep, fortunately, the sea breeze blowing over the cliff became less and less as it went downhill. Fang Yi and Taylor spent more than half an hour, and encountered two secret whistles to check on the way, and finally succeeded. After walking the cliff path, Fang Yi stepped on the ground, and his heart was finally relieved: Why didn't I feel so comfortable walking on the ground before?

I couldn't see the ground clearly from above, but now I observe the buildings on the ground up close.Fang Yi quickly became suspicious.

"Taylor, you smugglers built these yourself?" Fang Yi walked through the large and small stone forts on the shore like a horse, looking at the stone fortresses built by the mountains and made of huge rocks in front of him. , asked Taylor.

"Of course not," Taylor laughed, and followed Fang Yi's gaze to look at the buildings at the bottom of the cliff, "If we had the strength, we would have directly challenged Ximen Port and the pirates on the Pirate Islands. Oh, why are you so sneaky~”[

"So someone built this place before? Can you tell me something about this place?" Fang Yi's curiosity suddenly arose.Such a hidden place will never be designed for no reason in the game.Since it wasn't built by these smugglers, it might be a place with its own history, called a ruin for short.

"You adventurers are always interested in these things, don't worry. Let's find a place to rest~"

talking.Taylor and Fang Yi had already arrived near a pier.Fang Yi observed the surrounding terrain with the light of the torch, and it should be the small pier he saw on the cliff.Taylor took Fang Yi straight around the pier and came to a brightly lit two-story building on the shore.

This was the first inhabited building that Fang Yi saw after coming down.It seemed to be a tavern or an inn or something. There was a wooden sign above the door with a badly embroidered iron bar, which rattled and rattled in the breeze. On it was written a few crooked words - Smugglers Tavern.

Taylor opened the door directly, and a huge sound wave rushed towards his face. The lively level in the tavern was far beyond Fang Yi's imagination, forming a strong contrast with the quiet bay outside.

Most of the people in the room were dressed as sailors, drinking, chatting, fighting, and lying on the floor sleeping soundly, drunks who didn't feel their feet being stepped on.The chaotic and familiar scene in front of him reminded Fang Yi of those taverns in Calimport that he had been to. They really resembled each other~

Taylor came directly to the bar, threw a drunk sailor to the ground, and just hugged another big guy who was sleeping on the ground, Fang Yina smiled, and quickly sat down before the other drunk fell on the seat. up.

"Two bottles of rum!" Taylor yelled at the busy waitress at the other end, and then smiled at Fang Yi next to him: "How about it, this place is much more lively than the tavern in Swordfish Village Bar?"

Fang Yi nodded with a smile. After entering the tavern, Taylor kept smiling, obviously enjoying the atmosphere here.Perhaps the sailors who have been drifting at sea all year round will like this rare relaxing and lively atmosphere~

"In the entire Smugglers' Bay, the only building that we smugglers built ourselves is this tavern." Taylor patted the tabletop of the bar counter that had been polished to a smooth surface, showing a look of nostalgia, "This picture The table was made from the same oak tree that Abby and I cut together."

"So, those stone fortresses and this pier existed when you arrived here?" Fang Yi's heart was moved when he heard Taylor's words, "How long ago was that?"

"That's right, that's something that existed here. It was about thirteen or four years ago." Taylor scratched his head and thought for a while, a little unsure. At that time, there were only a dozen people on our ship, while the other party had four or five ships, and there were about a hundred sailors alone. If we were overtaken, we would only have a dead end."

Taylor took the two bottles of rum brought by the waitress and filled them up for himself and Fang Yi. He impatiently drank a glass first, showing a satisfied expression, "We are desperate. There was a narrow waterway, so I drove a boat in and found this place."

"This small pier, and these stone castles, including the path we came down from, already existed when we first came here more than ten years ago, but obviously no one has been here for a long time. The wood is rotten and out of shape. We repaired it later."

Fang Yiting's eyes lit up, and he lamented Taylor's good luck back then, while thinking about the history of this smuggler's house: How could there be so many stone fortresses with such obvious defensive properties in such a place? It looks like what pirates did~ Could this be the lair of ancient pirates? [

Seeing Fang Yi's expression, Taylor immediately guessed what Fang Yi was thinking, and smiled, "Don't think about it, Fang Fang. I know you adventurers are interested in adventure, but we have found this place for more than ten years~ I turned this place upside down, except for the murloc cave in the southwest corner, the other places are full of rotten stones. Thinking about the days when we rummaged around here, it’s really..."

Hearing this, Fang Yi's mind immediately came alive, and quickly poked Taylor who was drinking rum with his arm, "Hey~ Taylor, do you know when our ship will arrive?"

"...Not sure, I arrived on a ship yesterday morning, and the sailor said that there seems to be a storm in the sea north of Xingmu City. Judging by the rain yesterday, it will take a day's work. If it is fast, it will have to be tomorrow afternoon. Here it is."

"Oh~" Fang Yi looked at the dark night outside, and said to Taylor, "I want to walk around, how about we meet here tomorrow?"

Taylor had a wine glass in one hand and a wine bottle in the other. He was clearly out of shape. After thinking for a while, he said, "Okay, be careful. But with your skills, you might be able to break into that murloc's lair~"

Yesterday, Fang Yi showed his might at the pier of Swordfish Village, attracting almost all the NPCs and players in Swordfish Village, and the well-informed Taylor was of course no exception.Seeing Taylor raise his glass to himself, Fang Yi smiled modestly, and two large wooden glasses filled with rum collided with each other with a bang.

An hour later, Fang Yi staggered out of the Smugglers Tavern.

This group of people is really... enthusiastic~ Fang Yi couldn't help shaking his head and smiling wryly when he thought of the situation in the tavern just now.

Just now, when Taylor was happy with the drink, he grandly introduced his daughter, Mia's savior, Fang Yi, to the sailors in the tavern.Before Fang Yi could react, he was surrounded by a group of strong men, and all kinds of malt wine, rum, etc. were poured into Fang Yi's glass without money.

That is to say, there is a time limit for the drunken simulation in the game, otherwise I would have to sleep until tomorrow night, Fang Yi shook his dizzy head, thinking so.

In the quiet Smugglers Bay, there is only the sound of waves crashing on the rocks, and even the most common seagulls have returned to their nests to rest.Fang Yi hid his body under the cloak, and while observing the surrounding situation, he gradually moved away from the still noisy and lively tavern.

Now that this insignificant place has been turned upside down by Taylor and his team, there is no need to waste time searching in a large area.Taking advantage of the faint moonlight, Fang Yi went directly to the southwest corner of the bay through the messy reefs and the sandy beach among the rocks.

Murlocs are distributed in various regions of Faerun Continent, ranging from ten-level sahuagins to mutant murlocs with legendary levels.With an unknown purpose, these creatures continuously flooded onto the land from the water systems in various parts of the Faerun continent, causing a lot of trouble to the residents near the sea - and also brought a lot of experience to the players .

Therefore, players like Fang Yi are no strangers to murlocs. All murlocs have enhanced dark vision, and the range of vision at night is almost 100 feet. Therefore, after vaguely seeing the hole under the rock wall, Fang Yi cautiously entered a stealth state.

Fang Yi stopped at the entrance of the cave, grabbed a handful of soil on the ground, and twisted it with his fingers—the sand mixed with mud was in line with the life habits of the murlocs, but... where are the sentinel soldiers?

After lighting a torch, Fang Yi listened to the inner ear of the cave, making sure that there was no sound inside, and then slowly groped into the depths of the cave. After walking for nearly a minute, he did not see the murloc.

Until he bypassed a boulder in the cave, the light of the torch shone on a black thing in the gap between the boulder and the cave wall. Fang Yi walked in carefully and frowned, and pulled out the dagger at his waist with a sound .

The corpse of a murloc.