The Swordsman of Faerûn

When it comes to spell-like abilities, there are countless races with spell-like abilities on all planes, and all kinds of spell-like abilities are countless, but in the final analysis, spell-like abilities can be divided into two categories. The power of the net is not limited by spell slots, but all spell-like abilities above the level can be classified into this category.

There is also a type of spell-like ability that does not pass through the magic net when used, and consumes the energy of the caster itself.This type of spellcaster is usually relatively weak, and the spells they cast are generally relatively weak, and most of them are zero-level spell-like abilities of tricks or weaker.

Speaking of people who can normally link to the magic net and use spells at this time, Elminster is definitely a problematic character. No one knows whether he can link to the magic net. Is it from the permission of the goddess of magic, or whether he has already controlled the magic net? Beyond the goddess of magic itself.

Well, this is a question worth pondering.

Digression and speaking here, let us return to the present.

The Crypt Cleaver among the Skeleton Believers is a very vicious existence. Their bone-chopping knives are powerful enough to cut through steel, and it is no problem to chop and kill living people.

It's just that the moment this bone believer aimed the bone chopping knife at William, it was already doomed to the end of the knife.

William didn't try to block the opponent's attack, but followed the Crypt Cleaver's attack to increase his strength, and at the same time clicked on its arm.

Then a very horrifying picture appeared.

The moment the meatcutter's bone-chopping knife fell through the air, it directly forcibly accelerated the rotation of the wrist of the knife-holder, and with the help of the centrifugal force of the bone-chopping knife's rotation and the reverse centripetal force caused by the pulling of the arm, it turned and slashed. between his legs.

The most frightening thing is that the force generated by the rotation of the bone cutter is unbelievably strong. It actually pulled the wrist of the meat cutter in the crypt all the way up, and even the arm of the bone believer was twisted. The strength has not diminished.

The terrible blade broke through the waist, chest, back, neck and head of the meat-cutter in such a sequence, and directly divided the owner of the bone-chopping knife into two pieces from bottom to top.

Really self-cut!

This astonishing scene not only frightened the other skeleton believers who were hiding, but even William's own soldiers were stunned. These days, many of them can cut themselves with a single knife, and there are also some who commit suicide, but they can kill themselves. It is extremely rare to have one knife and two petals.

William also meant to play tricks on the enemy on purpose, after all these undead monsters came to make people quite uncomfortable.As the saying goes, not only did the opponent hide in the cemetery and be beaten honestly, but he dared to jump out to counterattack, wouldn't it be too embarrassing for him? !

Of course, William didn't really think that he could have any face among a group of undead monsters.It's just that he has a very bad premonition that there may be problems if he continues to entangle with these undead monsters.

This is the reason why he personally shot and killed the local leader after he solved the murder of Phineya.

The tragic death of the second skeleton believer made the other skeleton believers mixed among the undead monsters tremble with fear.Skeleton believers are not afraid of death, but they cannot accept the ending of being tortured without dignity.

After all, believers in skeletons know very well that even if they can resuscitate into new undead creatures after death, after the corpses are severely damaged before death, the transformed undead creatures must be of extremely low rank, and it may be difficult to get the dead Lord's favor.

Sure enough, when William also found out the third skeleton believer, and smashed him into rotten bones and pieces of flesh flying in the sky with an extremely brutal slam, the remaining skeleton believers panicked completely.

Especially when William's extremely sharp eyes swept across the crowd of monsters like sharp blades, all the skeleton believers felt that they were being stared at by that terrifying person without any cover, but they all felt a kind of fear from within. It is an illusion that is seen through to the outside world, and even the thoughts in the heart cannot be hidden.

They couldn't bear this terrible situation any longer, and they all turned around and ran towards the graveyard of the dead.

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The skeleton believers retreated, taking most of the undead creatures belonging to them, and ran back to the cemetery of the dead as if fleeing.

However, the vicinity of the city gate was still tightly blocked by nearly a thousand out-of-control undead creatures left behind. Of course, these monsters could not hinder William's footsteps.

The group easily broke through the barrier of the monsters, and ran towards their own camp like being chased by a dog.

Among the undead creatures abandoned at the gate of the city, only a small part continued to chase fresh flesh and blood, and then they were besieged and killed by William and the others on a piece of wasteland outside the city.

Most of the undead creatures followed their undead instincts and slowly meandered all the way back to the cemetery of the dead.

This is the role of the cemetery of the dead, all undead creatures within its radiation range will instinctively gather towards the cemetery.Even undead with advanced intelligence (such as vampires and liches) will subconsciously feel that the cemetery is a good place for undead to feel comfortable.

The walls of Yuras are not completely intact, and the remaining defenses of the city have three gaps serving as gates. In addition to the east gate facing William's camp, there are southwest gates and north gates.

When William led the second batch of soldiers to fight against the army of undead creatures at the gate of the east city, in a huge building not far from the north gate of Yuras City, a group of weird humanoids or inhumans with blue complexions existed. There is a battle plan for them being discussed.

It should be noted that the behavior of William and his party to build a camp outside Yulas City did not fail to attract the attention of monsters or cultists hiding in the ruins of Yulas City, such as this group of weird guys in front of them. .

These are a group of strange guys with vines or flowers growing on their foreheads. Their identities are followers of Moander, the god of corruption, a kind of heretics called Moander's servants.

These Moander cultists are no longer considered real humans in essence. Before joining the Moander church, they have been specially tested for loyalty and aptitude.

A Moander seed representing loyalty will be implanted into the newly joined newcomers, and then this Moander seed will slowly absorb the vitality of the host, grow slowly, and spread the tentacles belonging to the seed all over the body.

When the seed of Moander completely transforms the entire internal tissue of the host into a decaying vegetative factor, a tiny flowering tendril will protrude from the believer's ear, and the tendril will wrap around the entire piece of hair, and According to the wishes of the host, weave them into their favorite shapes, such as vine crowns or straw hats, hair reeds and the like.

When a servant of Moander makes enough contributions, such as sacrificing some novel prey, developing some new believers, etc., they will be rewarded by Moander—the tendril on the head A beautiful little flower will bloom.

However, this kind of reward is generally more honor than material gain, because the spirit and body of the real Moander believers are always under the direct control of Moander.

For the believers of Moander, there is no difference between their connection with Moander and each other, only the division of labor is different.

It can be said that every cultist in Moander is the real tentacles of that evil god on the main material plane.

To use a popular analogy, the control of other gods over believers is like phone scams thousands of miles away. No matter how many twists and turns of deceit and temptation there are, as long as you don't go to meet people offline, your Personal safety is still guaranteed, at most a little belongings are lost.

And Moander's control over believers is like the parasitism of iron nematodes on mantises. Any actions and thoughts you have are actually what the parasites (Moander) want you to do, and everything about you no longer belongs to you.

After discovering the traces of the outsiders, the believers in Moander have already begun to plan an action plan to wipe out William and the others.

The believers of Moander are very greedy, which stems from the greedy nature of Moander as the evil god, or the desire for freedom.

Of course, Moander's believers are not stupid. Although they have lost everything, their ability to think has never been taken away by Moander. After all, the consciousness of the evil god is sleeping in the seal, and Moander needs the help of the believers. Only with intelligence and intelligence can he do what he wants to do better - to regain the freedom to walk in the mortal world.

In short, when William's second batch of fresh troops were engaged in a fierce battle with the undead creatures led by the Skeleton Believers at the gate of the city, this group of guys with grass (vines) on their heads took the opportunity to sneak out from another gate of the city, intending to Take the opportunity to attack William's camp.

The believers of Moander can no longer be regarded as pure human beings in essence, they can only be regarded as alienated monsters that maintain the appearance of human beings. Even though they still temporarily retain the wisdom of their previous lives, when faced with unavoidable battle scenes, these monsters are like monsters. believers will show a disgusting side.

Speaking of it, William is still very good at building the camp, at least in terms of defense, it can be said that it is rigorous, and it cannot be said that there are no flaws, but at least the cultists in Moander do not have the ability to find out.

Of course, this is not absolute.

In the eyes of the cultists, no matter how strong the log wall around the camp was built, it was still in vain to them.

The reason is that the cultists in Moander are more good at natural spells and divine spells, such as [Vine Overgrowth], [Plant Growth], [Activation of Plants (similar to the Summoning Tree Spirit of the Warcraft house next door)], 【Wood Climbing】Wait a minute.

However, considering the impact of the disconnection of the magic net, these cultists can only use some unique magic spells for the time being. After all, Moander is sealed not far to the north of the Yulas ruins.

This is also the reason why a large number of believers in Moanda gathered in the ruins of Yulas. Only by being closer to the gods can they better listen to the teachings of the gods and get the rewards (divine spells) of the gods.

The sentries on duty in the fortress discovered this group of strange-looking cultists very early on, and the alarm bell rang.But the cultists didn't panic because their whereabouts were leaked. They rushed to the log wall of the camp unhurriedly, and two of them immediately cast the magic spell unique to the priests of Moander against the wall.

【Accelerate corruption】!

But I saw many logs that still had green buds drying up and rotting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then turned into a puddle of mud-like humus.

The remnants of Yulas are no strangers to these cultists. It is these lackeys of Moander who have been harvesting the remnants in the wilderness as leeks in the past, infecting and sacrificing them to the extreme.

Although they knew that bows and arrows were not effective against the cultists in Moander, the members of the auxiliary group composed of survivors of Yulas still shot the arrows in their hands without hesitation.

The triangular arrows made of fine steel were extraordinarily sharp, piercing through the bodies of the heretics almost without hindrance, and brought out balls of black blood like dirty oil.

After being attacked, the cultists who received arrows with their faces did not fall to the ground with howls. Instead, they screamed and cursed loudly while taking arrows from themselves or their companions, and then used the tendrils on their foreheads Make the bowstring bounce back.

This scene is really horrifying, but the survivors of Yulas are not surprised by it. They have seen the various methods of the cultists in Moander before, and a lot of experience was even exchanged with blood and life. .

Usually, these so-called experiences are of little use to the survivors of Yulas. At most, they only let them delay their tragic ending a little bit.

But today, the experience of these ancestors has played a big role.

As long as there is a human being with a brain, no one dares to face the three-edged arrow that is made of fine steel and has an undercut bloodletting slot. Even if the archery skills of the cultists are ridiculously bad, it can't stop these guys from wanting to use their strength to perform miracles. Lai Zhao.

The arrows shot by the cultists can be said to point anywhere, but the power is terrible, and no one can bear it if they are hit for a while, and the arrows are contaminated with the vicious body fluid of the cultists, which will make the victims The victim's wounds are constantly rotting.

The heavy metal shield was hung on the edge of the inner wall of the fortress, which became the most reliable protection. At least those hiding behind didn't have to worry about being accidentally injured by those inaccurate arrows.

Then people shot out new arrows again, but this time the arrows shot were no longer stainless steel triangular arrows, but relatively ordinary refined iron arrows, which were also commonly used training arrows by archers.

The power of refined iron arrows is also impressive, and most of them accurately hit the cultists.And after these cultists crossed the corroded outer wall with gaps, they did not continue to go deeper, but swearing and catching arrows with their faces with great interest, while shooting at the defending shooters.

At this moment, even a fool would know that arrow attacks are useless against cultists.

Of course, the survivors of Yulas are not fools. They even knew about this situation before the battle, but to delay the time, let the main defensive force in the camp—the first batch of soldiers who just came back from the battlefield— With enough leeway to respond, they had to use this inefficient method to harass the enemy.

The soldiers are so tired that they desperately need enough sleep to refresh themselves.It is not an easy task to wake them up and put them fully armored into a fighting state.

At this time, someone needs to stand up and take the lead in organizing the defense. Fortunately, William has left enough backers in advance.

As the former Ice General, Kaoyi's psychological quality is undoubtedly the best. She didn't directly wake up the sleeping soldiers, but ordered more Yulas survivors—those adults with some fighting power The women took up arms and shields, and the stronger members of the auxiliaries put on their armor for battle.

Arrogant and cruel, the cultists view this face-to-face reflex as a game to mock the incompetence of their prey.The cultists also need fun, that is, they know that the defense of this camp has been weakened to the extreme, otherwise the cultists would never be so unscrupulous.

When a group of female soldiers wearing light mail armor and holding swords and shields appeared at the battle positions on the inner wall of the fortress, the soldiers of the auxiliary regiment who were shooting at the cultists stopped their almost ineffective long-range attacks, and they resumed Grab your tomahawk or long knife and prepare to fight those cultists.

Soldiers, aware of the cult's weaknesses, smeared their weapons with kerosene, and some more prepared warriors smeared them with flaming glue.

Flame is the weakness of Moander's believers, and it will completely irritate them.

Therefore, when the blazing glue and kerosene were ignited, the "leisure" cultists who were playing with their prey immediately became manic. ring.

They shouted angrily, and in groups of twos and threes, they rushed towards the inner wall with big strides.

The people on the wooden wall looked anxiously at the charging enemy. Many of them couldn't help swallowing saliva or trembling all over. As I said before, most of the people here are not serious fighters. Their fear of cultists is What goes deep into the bones, that is, the desire to survive unwillingly, supports people's last courage.

Just when the cultists were about to approach the logs on the inner wall, suddenly a flaming hand of fire rushed down from the wooden wall, sweeping the three most craziest cultists in the blink of an eye.

The magical flames ignited the cultists' clothes, their oily blood oozing, and their snakelike tendrils quivering.

In fact, the flames can't directly kill the cultists. What really harms the cultists is the cultists themselves, or the species of Moander parasitic in their bodies.

The tendrils ignited by the flame twisted crazily, and the body of the parasitic species connected to the tendrils also twitched and twisted crazily in the body of the cultist. It should be known that the tentacles of the parasitic species had already covered every inch of flesh and blood of the cultist, which caused had a dire consequence.

The cultist's body is torn apart by forces from within.

The skin-meat that once belonged to humans was torn into a snake-like membrane, revealing its dark, twisted, roots-like essence, and a terrifying monster with a humanoid body appeared before everyone's eyes.

Actually not one, but three.

Any cultist whose tendrils are ignited by the flames can't help but tear off his outer skin camouflage, and then turn into a monster entwined with roots.

The rest of the cultists who have not been affected couldn't help but change their faces. They still have self-awareness and never want to become similar, because it means that they will no longer enjoy the benefits of Moander's servants. , can only transform into another terrifying monster—the magic tree.

The Demon Tree is a walking, blood-thirsty horror that looks like a gigantic vine tree, and loves to make its home on the fringes of populated areas.

The gigantic plant wanders around at night until it finds a suitable place to settle, and then sinks part of its roots into the ground, giving itself the appearance of a large tree that grows at night.

Over the next week, the tree produces between five and twenty fruit pods that, when ripe, split open and release moving fruit called treants.

The mother tree sends out several hunting parties of its treants to bring back warm-blooded food—usually livestock and humanoids.

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Misha'er was standing on the inner wall with a serious look on her little face. She was not surprised that she was able to successfully cast the [Burning Hand] spell.

In fact, with Miluna by her side, even if the magic net is unplugged by a certain goddess, Misha'er can still use all the spells she can master without being affected.

That is to say, the little girl is not keen on using spells. She prefers to defeat the enemy with a perfect combination of strength and skill like William. Otherwise, Mi Sha'er would have already become a remarkable spell-casting existence.

It was the group of cultists below who made Misha'er nervous. Although three of the cultists were torn off their disguise by her sudden blow, more cultists became angry but calm.

Although the cultists in Moander are crazy, they are not lacking in brains. When facing inevitable battles, they will try their best to create as many advantages as possible for themselves.

Just like now, those cultists retreated to the gap in the outer wall, and then began to wear their own equipment, including armor, weapons, robes and so on.

Some cultists have even begun to animate surrounding logs, transforming them into shields or something like a fender shield.And the three cultists or monsters that exposed their essence changed the most. They quickly transformed into three big trees with vines and leaves as big as human faces growing on the crown, and there were at least two dozen (24) The above strange pods are growing.

Although the changes in the magic tree are shocking, the most threatening people are the cultists.

When these cultists were ready to go to war, they immediately rushed towards the inner wall again.They wield scimitars or maces, while protecting their foreheads, or the tentacles on them, with shields.

Mishaer released the second [Burning Hand], but this time her spell did not produce enough results. The cultists who had been on guard for a long time used activated shields to block the damage of the flames to the tendrils.

The girl did not continue to release [Burning Hand] because she only had three spell slots for [Burning Hand]. Misha needed to keep the last spell as an emergency hole card. As for the remaining spells, it was difficult to deal with them. Cultists deal a killing effect.

At this time, another mantra-chanting voice suddenly remembered that, accompanied by a slight smell of burning sulfur, a burning fireball the size of a face suddenly appeared in the air, and then quickly flew towards the position of the cultist.

Misha'er curled her lips in dissatisfaction. In fact, she can also perform an attack with a similar effect, but it is not a standard spell, but one that she imitates William's [flame in the palm] ability and consumes the original magic power. Spell-like abilities.

Although the power of that attack is impressive, once used, Misha'er herself will fall into an unavoidable weak state.

At the forefront of the battlefield where the movie is about to start, Mishaer certainly won't make such low-level mistakes. Even though she is only 14 years old, she is already an experienced "veteran" adventurer and fighter.

In contrast, although Anadol Talladim was older, he was somewhat inexperienced. Although the [Fireball Technique] he released was more powerful, the results were not very outstanding.

After all, when such a big fireball pops out, who can not notice it? Even if the fireball is flying fast enough, the cultists are not vegetarians. The magical magic from the evil god makes them look a little embarrassed, but they really have a way to avoid it. Activated [Fireball] to kill.

However, Anador didn't care about his spell failure, but was pleasantly surprised by the recovery of his spellcasting ability. It must be known that he had many contacts with the three little girls, intending to regain the goddess' favor, but the "favor" was always like this. A touch of water is fleeting.

Never was it like now, the power of magic re-wrapped around his heart, as if he could cast those spells with just a flick of his hand.

Of course, this is just an illusion of Anadol.

In Faerun, if a serious spellcaster wants to cast a spell, he needs to memory-code the spell the day before, so that he can cast it normally the next day, and even if he didn't use the spell that day, he still has to consolidate it again before he can cast it. Continue to use the next day.

Only spell-like abilities do not require daily memory review.

Due to the sudden incident, Anadol did not memorize and prepare the spells in advance, which made him quite limited in the choice of spells. Except for the most proficient specialty [Fireball] and some tricks, he really There are not many suitable spells for the time being.

However, although the killing effect of [Fireball] was not satisfactory, it also broke up the formation of the cultists, allowing the guards on the wooden wall to take advantage of their numbers, and barely resisted the enemy's attack with sophisticated weapons .