The Swordsman of Faerûn

Of course, it doesn't mean that William's strength has been suppressed, but that he is still not used to this kind of suspended combat.If he fights in a down-to-earth place, he can beat the opponent's shit out.

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The seventh heavy blow of the leader of the apostles of the astral world sent William flying horizontally again, and his whole body crashed into the Angel Reef Castle, which was strictly guarded by the apostles of the astral world, like a shot put.

The invincible performance of the female leader won the cheers and praise of all the apostles of the star world, and they all shouted a resounding name: Brunhilde!Our Valkyrie!

Brunhilde is the name of the leader of the Star World Apostle. Although she is indeed very powerful and seems to be suppressing William at the moment, the Star World Apostle with the title of Valkyrie knows very well that all her attacks are actually not No harm was done to William.

Through six consecutive almost head-to-head attacks, Brunhilde has roughly figured out the general situation of the opponent.That human's psionic body is not as strong as ordinary people, which means that the other party's will is absolutely beyond ordinary people's imagination.

And that human's combat skills are equally astonishing. He always uses the most ingenious way to remove the huge power contained in Brunhilde's attacks, making his attacks always futile. Fortunately, he is in the star realm Well, Brunhilde doesn't need to worry about the consumption of physical strength. If she is on another plane, she really has to worry about whether she will be reversed and counterattacked by her opponent because of wasting physical strength in vain.

Brunhilde raised her great hammer, greeted the cheering troops, and then sparked even more wild cheers, which made her fighting spirit burn irrepressibly.

She roared her warhorn and rushed into Angel Reef with her warhammer in hand. Then with an angry scream, Brunhilde flew upside down from the castle at a faster speed.

William was carrying a large hammer he picked up, and stood frivolously at the gap in the castle wall, glaring coldly at the star apostles.This is the gap in the city wall that was torn apart by the Githyanki's battleship guns, and it is also the path William was shot into before.

After flying for a long distance in an unbalanced state, Brunhilde finally stabilized her figure. She glared at William angrily, and jumped forward again, swinging her warhammer to hit William again with the force of Mount Tai. .

William, who was standing on the ground, just moved his footsteps a little bit, and gently avoided Brunhilde's attack. Then he only inserted the warhammer in his hand into the arms of the Valkyrie and twisted it lightly, forcing Brunhilde to attack. Renhild had to give up his weapon, while William grabbed her delicate and slender neck with his other hand.

William's palm even needed a little force to easily break Brunhilde's cervical vertebrae, but he didn't destroy the scenery with his hands, but just touched him with a slippery hand, and then let go of him.

Brunhilde was half unwilling and half dazed about her failure. She thought that she might have to fight William for several days and nights, and then relying on her skillful and rich experience in astral battles, she finally defeated this obvious As for a strong enemy, who would have thought that he would be restrained in a single face-to-face just by passing his hand a little bit.

After being let off by William, Brunhilde didn't continue to linger, she just gave William a cold look, especially at his dishonest palm, and then turned to greet the others. The star apostle sweeps the battlefield.

William touched his nose, um, the palm of his hand was a little slick, he couldn't help shaking his head, and let go of the unhealthy thoughts in his mind.He handed the warhammer he had picked up to an unfriendly star apostle, and walked towards the little man's castle on the millstone.

It wasn't until William walked away that the astral apostle realized that the handle of the war hammer she had received had been broken in two. She angrily threw it on the ground, and then ran to Brunhilde.

At this time, Elminster and Dove came out of Angel Reef Castle. They came to William quickly and praised him for his achievements in the battle against the githyanki just now.

However, William couldn't help curling his lips, and said, "You two guys ran to the angel to enjoy it, but left me... outside, hey! No! Where's Selena?"

But Selena came out from the ruins not far away, and greeted William with a smile: "I'm here!" Then she jumped up and asked half curiously and half regretfully: "William, why didn't you continue to hit me just now? I was looking excited. That winged woman hit you hard six times, why didn't you give her twelve painful blows back?!"

William sighed: "I killed her once, and that's enough. It's not a good thing to simply abuse the enemy, let alone on someone else's territory."

Selena snorted, and said: "You didn't do that in Jiaoyan Hell, you didn't show mercy at all back then. I think you just wanted to be soft-hearted because you saw that bird man was good-looking! "

William laughed and scolded angrily: "Get out! You are a hairless little girl with a lot of thoughts! I think you are too lenient to you on weekdays, but let you make up your own lord!"

Selena wrinkled her little nose and made a face, but she didn't take William's accusation seriously.

William pointed to the miniature tower castle and said to the old mage: "Old man, do me a favor. Give the creatures in the castle over there the permission to use magic. I need their help with something."

Elminster looked down at the small tower, and couldn't help admiring: "It's actually the souls of the spirit world! I didn't expect to see them here. William, if I open the magic net for them If you link, these little things will probably disappear and run away!"

That's right!In serious times, the small tower in front of William and the others and the creatures living in the tower are always wandering through thousands of planes in the form of parade in other worlds. Although they look weak, few people (or gods) can Spy on their tracks, let alone attack and hurt these spirits.

But the disconnection of the magic net made this small spirit country trapped in the astral world. After losing the support of the magic net, their [Parade] could only lie here temporarily. If Elmins Specially restarted the magic net authority for these little things, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not just walk away.

However, William was not too worried, not to mention his perception told him that the creatures in this small country in front of him were not ungrateful, even if they really ran away, William would not be too entangled.

As the saying goes, if you get lucky, you lose your life. This is an opportunity that came by accident. William just bought a lottery ticket (if there is a lottery ticket in another world). Does he still have to worry about whether he can win the jackpot?

Seeing William's insistence, Elminster stopped persuading him. He concentrated his mind and silently opened the link of the magic net to the kingdom of little people, but saw a translucent film of light rising from around the tower immediately. , Enveloping the entire little person's living area.

Elminster's eyes widened, and he turned his head to William for a long time and said, "This is the Eternal Barrier, a top-notch energy protection device that can rival the barrier defenses of the Gods' Kingdom. It’s far from it.”

The kingdom of little people didn't teleport away, they stayed in place quietly, and after a long time, something the size of a corn kernel emerged from the barrier holding a little person like a rice grain.

As the little person and the thing flew out of the light film, they grew up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon the little person became a three-foot-tall elf. She had a delicate face, slender She has big ears, big gemstone eyes, and two pairs of dragonfly-like wings, while holding an elf under her feet is an exquisite cloisonné emerald jade floating goat cart.

The little person's voice rang out and sang, it should be said that she was singing, but the information she wanted to express had already been transmitted to William through telepathy.

"Thank you! The hero of the kingdom of adults, the guardian of the kingdom of spirits, you saved me and my people. Aura Leon has survived because of your kindness. You are more of the sacred source of power that you brought us. Awakening, praise the eternal Dasophelia, may the divine power shine on you forever."

William felt as if he had heard something great again, the eternal da Sophilia?Is it that woman I once met?In fact, he already knew that it was a long leg that couldn't be thicker, but he didn't expect the firmness of that long leg to be verified here.

Although William had a lot of thoughts in his heart, he replied honestly: "Friends of the kingdom of spirits, if the sacred source power you mentioned is the magic net. I have to tell you a fact, in fact, the power of the magic net is not real. Recovery, it’s just that this friend beside me has a part of the authority of magic, and he is a voter of magic. If you leave him, you will fall into the unfavorable situation of the disconnection of the magic net again.”

The little man sang a beautiful song, and said from his heart: "I am the queen of Aura Leon——Shiko Manimo, the hero of the adult kingdom. We have already anticipated the problems you mentioned. Please don't worry, we have already After activating the Chaos Core, the energy from the Chaos Sea will provide us with sufficient energy reserves.

Kind hero, you are an honest person, please allow the people of Aura Leon to repay your kindness, we are willing to do our best to repay your kindness. "

William nodded and said, "Queen Shiko Manimo, I am very ashamed of your generosity. Please allow me to introduce myself. I am William, a soldier from Faerun.

Actually I am facing a difficulty, I wonder if you guys can help me? "

"Please explain, William, the hero of the kingdom of adults, Olarion is willing to serve you. Praise the kingdom of Faerun, Olarion often visits there, the goblins there are a group of very naughty guys, they always pay attention to the spirits. The country has evil intentions." The little man smiled like a little fox, sweet and intoxicating.

Under the surprised eyes of his companions (they couldn't intercept Shiko Manimo's spiritual speech, they only saw William talking to himself there), he told the story about Phinea being imprisoned by the spirit world's shapechanger again.

After listening to William's narration, the poet Manimo was silent for a while, and then said: "Praise the hero William, Olarion can indeed help you locate your wife, and we can even sneak into the spirit world (in the ether world) another name), to help you rescue that girl. But you must have the assistance of your companions to do this, the energy of the Chaos Sea is not enough for Aura Leon to activate [Parade in Other Worlds].”

"Really? That's really great!" William happily hammered his palm with his fist.

The companion assistance mentioned by Queen Shiko Manimo requires the Archmage Elminster to enter the Kingdom of Essence, and help these Essence Souls maintain the link of the magic net, so that they can smoothly launch [Parade in Other Worlds] to go to the world. The etheric world, and then they can help William get Phinea back.

It is not difficult to enter Olarion, the country of spirits. In fact, the "smallness" of this small country is only small in a visual sense. Any city is inferior, including Waterdeep City.

The existence mode of Aura Leon is similar to that of the fairy fairy house that William acquired in the border forest. The two are basically the creations of a civilization system. The difference is that Aura Leon has more diverse and convenient functions. The spirit spirit inside can basically live well without the help of external power, unlike the Fairy Fairy House, which still needs to find a symbiotic partner.

The process of the old mage entering Aura Leon was unexpectedly smooth. He only needed to accept the authentication device from the kingdom of spirits, a strange brooch for blood collection approval, and then when he walked towards the entrance of the miniature tower, he found that The closer I get to that country.His own figure would become smaller and smaller, and finally when Elminster walked into the castle of the Spirit Kingdom, he had already turned into a small person the size of a soybean grain.

Not only Elminster, but Dove also went to Aura Leon together, even though she has had many close-distance communication with William, but in this woman's heart, maybe the old mage is the most important loved ones.

William was not allowed to enter Olarion, according to Shiko Manimo, because William himself was a key factor in the deal between the spirit world skinchanger and William's wife Phinea, and his presence would interfere with Olarion The accuracy of tracking down Phinea's whereabouts, so William can only temporarily stay in the astral world to wait for orders.

When Olarion actually locates the lair of the spirit world skinchanger and needs to carry out rescue operations, it is the time when William really needs to be dispatched.

Therefore, William can only stay near Angel Reef temporarily, and only the naughty little girl Selena is with him.This little girl is now full of unhealthy thoughts. She always wants to climb into William's bed and give birth to monkeys for her lord.

How could William do what this brat wanted, he wasn't a pervert.He clearly told the little thief that Dove is her model, and before she grows up to be as tall and majestic as Dove, don't think about those dirty thoughts.

The astral world has no concept of time, nor does it have day and night, but when a person wants to sleep, scenes similar to night will appear around him. Of course, the premise is that he is used to sleeping at night.If a person's biological clock is napping and busy at night, then the daytime scene will appear when he wants to sleep.

William is naturally used to resting at night, but just as he was lying in the mansion opened by the Astral Dragon and was about to close his eyes and sleep, a figure sneaked up to William's bedside.

William looked at each other in surprise and asked, "Ma'am, what do you want?"

He didn't want the other party but didn't speak. He just put his finger on his lips and made a "shh" gesture at him, then crawled to William's side, and sealed the question William wanted to ask with his own lips. Xi's golden wings covered the figures of the two of them like a quilt, leaving only the moving panting sound like weeping.

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During the day, the two of them fought to death, but at night they fought hand to hand in another way.Oh, I forgot that there is no difference between day and night here, only William's subjective changes.

Even though William came to the border of Faerun and witnessed many strange events that subverted his three views, William still felt a little uncomfortable with certain behaviors of the people here.

Brunhilde, the leader of the star apostles with the title of Valkyrie, has a perfect face and figure, and also has the strength and courage to convince all the star apostles.

But William never expected that this strong woman would force him to do that. Although William was not without the ability to resist, he was not the kind of poor defender of morality after all.

Brunhilde is worthy of being an apostle of the star world with the title of Valkyrie. Her physical strength is comparable to that of a giant dragon. When the golden wings that were used as a blanket were restrained, William just wanted to have a good sleep, but Brunhilde is so energetic that it is frightening, and the away game is really not good.

At this moment, Brunhilde's heart can be described as inexplicably joyful, not only the satisfaction of some physical needs, but also because her own problems have been eradicated once.

As an apostle of the star realm, even though Brunhilde is really powerful and has even won the title of Valkyrie, she is not a real god after all, and some inexplicable emotions always haunt her like maggots. The astral apostles are very clear about the origin of these emotions - the seven deadly sins.

Seven depraved emotions with original sin, this is the curse that every star apostle cannot get rid of. They are stationed in the star world, fight in the star world, and depend on the star world.

Because these astral apostles are essentially angels who are about to fall, they only rely on the time law of the astral world to maintain their temporary peace (the astral world does not have time and does not flow).

But there are only three final endings for these astral apostles, either their souls sublimate and return to Heaven Mountain, or their souls degenerate and fall to hell forever, or they die in battle in the astral realm.

Among the apostles from the star world, those who resolutely go to the dead are rare, and those who have sublimated their souls are rare, but eternal hell is the most feared ending for all the apostles of the star world.

For any apostle of the star realm, the original sins on their bodies are always gradually accumulated from less to more, and when all seven sins are complete, it is the moment when they will fall into hell forever.

Brunhilde's strength is too strong, which makes it difficult for her to find a chance to die on the battlefield, but relying on her own strength to complete the angel-level soul sublimation is really not something that any cat or dog can do. The sages with great wisdom, courage, and perseverance must have great luck to complete.

Although Brunhilde thinks she is pretty good, she never dares to be confident that she can stand up to the saints.

As a result, Brunhilde's fate is basically doomed. Perhaps in the future hundreds or thousands of years after the main material plane, Brunhilde will eventually degenerate into the devil king of hell.

But the appearance of William completely changed Brunhild's fate.The ending of being easily defeated by William removed Brunhilde's arrogance and laziness, and William's pardon of not killing freed the karmic Valkyrie from the entanglement of jealousy and anger. It was the Valkyrie who suddenly gave birth to Xiji who was about to be redeemed.

As the saying goes, it is the easiest way to catch a sheep and pluck its wool. There is no doubt that William, who has made great achievements in World War I, has become the most delicious life-saving straw for Brunhilde.

Sure enough, another indescribable communication with William even slightly calmed down the inexplicable loneliness that had accumulated in Brunhilde's heart.

Angel Reef is the most important stronghold set up by the Paradise Mountain Council (maybe there is such an organization) on the Astral Plane. The bosses of the good camp have built a super eternal magic circle here-【Feast of the Gods】, It always provides endless food and wine for the angels (the apostles of the star world), and those foods are not only delicious, but also can satisfy all the needs of the eaters, both physically and psychologically, with just one sip.

Therefore, the original sin of gluttony is almost the last thing the apostles of the astral world need to worry about.

Brunhilde certainly wasn't infected with all the original sins, otherwise she would have fallen into a fallen angel long ago.And the only original sin she didn't bear is greed, because greed is often the ultimate poison that those fallen people can't extricate themselves from before bad luck strikes, because those who are too greedy always despise sacrifice, and they finally embrace the fall.

Before leaving, Brunhilde kissed the sleeping William, and blessed him with the unique innate ability of the apostles of the astral world.She left quietly, just as she came quietly, without disturbing anyone on the surface, of course no one is a real fool, not only the owner of the building, the Star World Dragon and his wife secretly listened to the corner, the other little girl was even more envious He gritted his teeth in hatred.

Selena ran into William's room, kicked the sleeping man hard, and then ran away resentfully, but William secretly smiled, and continued to sleep soundly.

But Brunhilde, who returned to Angel Reef, summoned all her subordinates, and then announced a decision that was almost a bolt from the blue for all the apostles of the star world. As a free mercenary, go to the main material plane to pursue your own salvation (marriage in another sense).

Angel Reef, which had just suffered a heavy blow, was about to lose its leader, which made the star apostles flustered. They really wanted to persuade Brunhilde to stay, but they didn't know how to speak.

The female star apostle who was once used by William as a stepping pad was the most frightened and angry. She couldn't help asking, "Bren! My sister! That man is just using tricks to trick you, do you really think he is Your salvation?"

Brunhilde smiled and said: "Sigterifa, don't be blinded by anger. That man easily defeated me. He could have killed me directly, but mercifully spared my life. "

Sigterifa was so pissed off, sister, are you blind when you are an old lady? !She said angrily: "I didn't see that man defeating you by force, but his disgusting love-caress made you-spring-heart-swing! Brunhill De, it was you who defeated you, and it was your original sin! You are no longer worthy of the title of Valkyrie!"

Brunhilde didn't want to explain, but after a little hesitation, she still explained to her sister: "My sister, don't be dazzled by anger. You haven't really experienced the crisis I am facing. Naturally, I can’t see the deadly murderous intent contained in it. The man’s name is William. When he knocked out my weapon, his palm also grabbed my neck bone. He could have broken my neck, but William let go. Pass me."

Sigtrifa was really angry this time and was about to explode, and the other apostles of the astral world were almost the same.The Maiden Angel screamed, "Our bones are stronger than steel, Brunhilde! Are you dishonoring us?"

Brunhilde said: "I didn't! Srudney should be very clear about the situation of the warhammer that William gave you."

A female warrior whose stature was hardly inferior to Brunhilde said angrily: "That man actually gave me a destructive weapon! I think he is humiliating me, he is humiliating a great warrior!"

All right!The woman's brain was so full of muscles that she couldn't be expected to have a better answer.

The former star apostle leader said: "We all know that the long handles of the war hammers we use are all collected from the bone layer deep in the remains of the fallen ancient gods, and they are even harder than our bones. But when William snapped the handle of the hammer with his fingers, his other hand was holding my neckbone.

Can you feel it?How happy my heart was when I heard the sound of the hammer breaking in my ears, I almost thought I was about to find eternal peace. "

At this moment Brunhilde was full of fanaticism like a martyr, but the companions around him fell silent.

Higatelifa still stubbornly argued: "Impossible! That man can't have such a powerful force, how could he do such a thing?!"

Brunhilde glared at his sister, and said coldly: "But the facts happened right in front of my eyes! Otherwise, why do you think I would give up the fight? Stupid girl! Use your brains!"

Of course, the inside story that Brunhilde didn't say is that she has been redeemed by William for more than half, and her behavior of concealing this truth is the last original sin-greed is about to pursue her.

Compared with other star apostles, the current Brunhilde is closer to the human form.

She is going personified.

There is no time in the astral world, and there is almost no end to sleeping in the astral world, because sleeping feels more like hibernation. At least William did not feel full of energy when he was woken up. Both his physical and mental state were almost the same as before he fell asleep. almost.

This is rather pitiful.

In fact, due to certain characteristics of the astral world, sleeping here is a luxury rather than a necessity.

And as a mortal, the biggest behavior habit trap when entering the astral world is sleep. It’s okay if someone can wake you up next to you, otherwise you’ll just wait to sleep until the end of time, maybe one day (calculated in the time of the material plane) you You may be woken up by accident, only to find that your lifespan has long been exhausted, and you are about to become a dead bone in the tomb.

Therefore, when many people use [Astral Projection] to travel in the astral world, they will set a timed passive spell [Reverse Astral Origin Art] for themselves to bring their consciousness lost in the astral world back to the main world , back to the real body.

This is also the reason why many astral tourists have to resist the pull of the silver thread from the top of their heads from time to time, because that is the return spell set on the body from the main world is taking effect.

However, William was not set to return to spells. I don't know if the old mage forgot or didn't do it on purpose.When he was awakened, he found that the old mage had returned.

Of course, those who came back together also included Aura Leon, the country of villains. Elminster brought the real good news. Queen Shiko Manimo and her spirit souls really found Phinea's whereabouts .

It's just that they didn't bring back the female half-giant, because the place where Phinea was "detained" was a bit difficult to break through. The spirit world skinchanger arranged a very strong defense force in his lair, and now Elminster is due to It needs to gather the too powerful magic net power in the body, so it is not suitable for direct combat. Dove alone is a little helpless to save Phinea.

Obviously it was up to William to do it himself.

When William and Selena were about to enter Aura Leon with Elminster, a figure appeared in front of William, Brunhilde.

At this moment, the apostle of the female star world has transformed her wings into a golden cloak, which makes her look more like a stunning human lady.

The old mage was not ashamed. He looked at the specially dressed apostle leader of the female star world in surprise, and then at William, who had a strange face, and whistled involuntarily.

Selena was like a kitten whose tail had been stepped on at the moment, she couldn't help screaming: "Woman with wings! Why did you appear here and dress so disrespectfully!"

Brunhilde said with a smile: "William, I heard that you are about to go on an adventure in a certain realm. I wonder if you have enough people? Maybe I can help you."

Selena said anxiously: "Enough is enough! We don't need you, a golden guy, you will only expose our whereabouts!"

Brunhilde ignored the clamor of the little girl's film, she just looked at William with a smile, which made him feel a little scared.