The Swordsman of Faerûn

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Eve asked William to fight several times, but William always comforted her with calm words.

There is a reason why William suppressed the fighting desire of the monks. It should be noted that people's physical strength is limited. The fierce fighting cannot be sustained for too long.

According to William's estimation, the physical strength of these soldiers will be depleted to a very dangerous level in at most ten minutes. It is even more unpredictable.

The biggest advantage of undead creatures is that they have no physical limitations. As long as the environment permits, they can even fight with all their strength without limitation until the moment they are smashed to pieces.

Therefore, William needs to grasp the fighting rhythm of his subordinates, so that they can fight in the next round, get as much chance as possible to recover their physical strength, and then improve the endurance of the soldiers.

This is like the boxing match in William's previous life. Even the best boxers can hardly support one or two rounds of physical strength under the condition of full attack power, but through tactical layout and intermission, they can support more than a dozen Rounds of fierce battles consume and the offensive continues unabated.

And the elite armored monks were the relays arranged by William. Compared with the mixed armored team of guards and Yulas remnant fighters, although the armored monks had fewer numbers, their combat power was not inferior at all.

When William noticed that the movements of most of the mixed soldiers began to become slow and sluggish, he knew that these people's physical strength was almost exhausted.

He immediately ordered the six armored monks to attack, and at the same time picked up steps himself.

Eve Xiaoge, as a female monk, is by no means inferior to any male warrior in terms of strength and physical strength. She is wearing a well-protected fire-bronze steel armor, and she holds a flail with a head the size of a baby's head in her hand. , but directly jumped a few times, and jumped straight into the monster pile of undead skeletons.

However, she saw that she was facing the attacks of the monsters, twisting her body was a whirlwind blow, but it wiped out all the skeletons within a few feet of her body, and then Eve Xiaoge was like a roaring pulverizer, crushing the skeletons. The crowd rampaged, setting off waves of bone rain.

Of course, the combat power of other armored monks in front of undead skeletons is not much worse than that of Eve Xiaoge. They basically use weapons such as warhammers and flails. Any undead skeletons can block them. Even if it's a one-shot attack.

William followed behind, looking at these armored monks who looked like tigers coming out of their cages, but he was quite speechless in his heart.

What a f*cking bunch of fledglings with no experience in fighting, you guys worked so fiercely and killed so fiercely, how long can your physical strength last, you can't say that you will be paralyzed by the heat for 3 minutes.

And in such a short period of time, even if the soldiers who fought in the first wave retreated, they would not have time to recover their physical strength, and instead their combat strength would be greatly reduced due to their mental relaxation.

When it comes to these retreating soldiers, William is quite helpless. Even though he ordered them to retreat and rest and regain their strength, a large number of them are red-eyed. Even if they are exhausted, they still wave their weapons weakly. Refusing to retreat, he played with a few undead skeletons who slipped through the net. The skeletons couldn't break through their armor, and the attacks of these nearly exhausted soldiers couldn't break through the bones of the skeletons.

Therefore, William had to lift these unconscious guys away one by one, and then kicked back to the rear of the battle line.

As for those undead skeletons that really have no brains, they can't make any waves in front of William, a super master. It's not impossible to say that they can be knocked down with one breath, but it doesn't take more effort.

There are so many undead skeletons in the cemetery of the dead that even William, who has really seen the big scene, is a little shocked.Without him, there are too many undead skeletons, and the sources are basically humanoid bones. This humanoid is not a common saying, but the intelligent civilization races such as humans, elves, and dwarves that occupy the mainstream of Faerun.

You must know that the source of undead skeletons must be the corpses of people who died in vain, and the corpses of people who died in bed cannot be made into undead creatures.This also means that during the period after the fall of Yulas and after that, tens of thousands of intelligent life forms of human beings were killed in disasters, which is basically no different from the massacre.

Therefore, there is always a bit of resentment in William's heart, which makes him have the urge to draw his sword and look around.However, William has enough self-control anyway, and after all, he didn't wantonly sway his emotions.

The follow-up changes of the armored monks really did not exceed William's expectations. Their violent offensive became unsustainable after only a few minutes, and each of them became like soft-legged shrimps. The support time is not comparable.

William is also full of helplessness, a bunch of brainless rotten wood!This kind of training can make moths out of a single soldier. If these guys are killed by a group of skeletons here, it will really become the biggest joke in the world.

In desperation, William had no choice but to practice cheating.

However, he didn't intend to take the place of his subordinates to destroy the undead skeletons, but chose another method, which was to replenish the strength of his exhausted subordinates.

Of course, William didn't do it too obviously. He just patted the shoulders of those soldiers who had collapsed on the ground, and selectively injected part of the vitality transformed by the energy of the curse fire into their bodies.

Immediately, some soldiers suddenly felt that they had generated a force out of thin air, but they didn't doubt it, they just thought that it was William's encouragement that inspired their own potential.

These armored soldiers who received physical blessings were all carefully selected by William. In addition to the six soldiers from William's guard, there were also four or five fighters from the Yulas survivors with outstanding aptitude and strength.

As soon as their physical strength recovered, they were sent by William to fight against the undead skeletons. As for the remaining soldiers who had not been truly blessed by William, they stayed at the back of the battle in frustration.

William was not idle, but silently broke into the depths of the undead skeleton like a ghost, and picked up the six armored monks who had already been unable to hold back one by one.

William's rescue operation was so relaxed and indifferent, erratic and without a trace of fireworks, he didn't even know that he was out of danger until the six monks were actually rescued.

Eve Xiaoge crouched in front of William with a face full of shame, but her heart was filled with endless frustration.

It is said that this female monk wanted to perform well in front of William, but she didn't want to overturn the car after three or five rounds. If William hadn't come to the rescue, she might not be able to come back.

William didn't have the time to care about the sentimentality of the female monk. He was more concerned about the recovery of the soldiers' physical strength. At this moment, whether it was a ranger archer, a hunter archer, or a thief, they had all given up the idea of ​​tricking.

They also all put on fine-work chain armor, picked up their warhammers and shields and rushed to the front line of fighting against the undead skeletons.

Although the performance of the armored soldiers who had already fought for the second time was still somewhat unsatisfactory, they still made some progress. At least they knew how to keep calm.

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The soldiers who fought rounds did not last much longer than when they first fought. When their attacks and steps became weak again, the soldiers and armored monks who were resting and recovering did not gain much real strength. buffer.

In desperation, William recharged the physical strength of the soldiers who were resting for the second time, but this time he did not leave anyone behind, whether it was the armored monk who had just returned not long ago, or he had already rested for two rounds. The mixed soldiers of time have all gained new physical strength.

It's just that most people basically understood one thing this time, their recovery of physical strength was not due to the explosion of their own potential, but rather their own boss used some special means to recharge their energy.

William didn't say anything to the soldiers who were looking at him with fanaticism, but asked them to replace the comrades in front who had completely fallen into a disadvantage.

So another unsatisfactory succession was completed again, and this time William didn't make much of a move, because the armored monk himself took over the entire battle line.

Seeing the replaced soldiers collapsed like dead dogs on the ground covered with dead bones, William shook his head with a smile, but remained silent about the performance of his subordinates.

Of course, William could directly speak to the soldiers on how to save energy, but saying these things at this time could not really impress everyone.

Sometimes, it is better to experience the truth for yourself than to speak a thousand words of great truth.

It's like the knowledge taught in school. Everyone knows it's a good thing, but when it comes to learning, everyone's level of effort can always be divided into different grades, and some can rely on this knowledge to soar into the sky. , and some spend their days in a daze.

Under the power of William's cursefire energy, a group of soldiers took turns fighting among the undead monsters. There were more than a dozen rounds before and after, and nearly thousands of undead monsters were killed. The floor of the cemetery is almost covered with broken bones.

However, the number of monster legions has not decreased at all, while the soldiers have reached their limit. It's not that William can't afford the curse fire energy to buff their physical strength, but their spirits are almost exhausted.

If they didn't know that the occasion was wrong, everyone wished they could just stick their heads on the ground and sleep soundly until the sky was dark.

In the end, William left the cemetery of the dead with his feet deep and shallow, and rushed back to the camp with a staggering all the way.

These people almost all entered the camp gate, regardless of Sanqi 21, they just lay on the ground and fell asleep, no matter how loud they were, they couldn't wake them up.

William ordered the people staying behind to take off the armor of these sleepy soldiers and send them to the camp to rest.However, he did not go to rest like the others. Instead, he left the camp with another team left behind, and rushed all the way to the cemetery of the dead.

William's step was indeed right, because those undead monsters didn't give up. Even though they were blocked by William when they left, they still followed the way William and the others left, slowly and relentlessly.

This time the battle did not take place in the cemetery of the dead, but near the exit of the city gate.

The mistakes made by this new team are almost the same as those made by the previous armored team, and the process is very similar.

The only difference is that this time Misha and Phineya participated in the battle.Their performance is slightly better than that of the soldiers, especially as a warrior who has half the blood of the frost giant, her physical strength is really different from ordinary people. One person can even survive three or five rounds of rotation of soldiers in one battle.

Although the city gate of Yulas is gone, the constricting terrain in front of the gate hole makes it difficult to exert the advantage of the number of undead creatures.

The undead creatures that William saw this time, undead skeletons are no longer the mainstream, but there are more boda corpses and ghouls, and even a small amount of skeleton knights.

These undead monsters are not only more ferocious than undead skeletons, but also more deadly to the soldiers.Therefore, while supplementing the soldiers' physical strength, William also had to act as a healing nurse.

Feniya will always be the warrior with high fighting spirit. She is wearing the golden yellow golden armor, standing at the forefront of the battle line like an ancient titan, slashing wantonly with the Thunder Frost, regardless of whether the opponent is a ghoul , Boda Corpse, or Skeleton Knight, can't step over the battle line.

In fact, skeleton knights are not the most difficult undead monsters to deal with. Although they are indeed the most powerful among them, the rare number and unsuitable battlefield terrain make it difficult for them to truly exert their power as undead knights.

What is really difficult to deal with is the ghouls. These undead monsters have an infinite hunger for the flesh and blood of living things. They generally retain the wisdom of life, but most of the time they are tortured by the instinct of hunger, and it is difficult to maintain their sanity.

But when there are Bone Cultists commanding and manipulating in the dark, ghouls can temporarily gain a certain amount of sanity from the torment of evil instincts, so that they will become more cunning and ferocious.

These ghouls are not as rigid as undead skeletons when hunting their targets, but they use tricks that only intelligent creatures understand.

For example, many ghouls saw that Feniya was too fierce, so they purposely let the not-so-smart Boda corpse crawl under the edge of Thunderfrost, but they tried to go around and attack.

It's just that when they got close to the soldiers, the ghouls found that these fresh "live meat" were all wrapped in thick armor and protected by brutal weapons, which made them a bit uncomfortable.

So some ghouls leaned down, trying to trip the soldiers, and then shed their hard shells to eat fresh flesh.

However, William is not a vegetarian, but whenever he finds that anyone is entangled by ghouls, or loses his position, he will always take a timely action, or repel the monsters, or drag back the trapped soldiers to help them out of danger.

It is precisely because of the addition of monsters such as ghouls and bodaks to participate in the battle that the intensity of this battle is more than ten times that of the previous battle, so that the physical strength of the soldiers is even more exhausted. For this reason, William The blessing of the curse fire energy has hardly been broken.

The one who felt the most aggrieved in this battle was the female monk Jialinola, one of the leaders of the armored monk guards.

Undoubtedly, the one with the best record in the last battle was another female monk, Eve Xiaoge. After Ms. Xiaoge returned, she endured exhaustion, but in front of Jialinola and the crowd The warrior monks who had never played in the battle showed their results in front of them, showing some prestige.

Jialinola naturally has a heart, and she is about to show herself in this battle, but who would have thought that the monster this time would be more fierce and difficult to deal with, but the biggest limelight was given by Phinya alone. given.

Feniya's fighting style is really fierce, and Thunder Frost is sharp and mopi. Whether it is an undead skeleton, a bodak corpse or a ghoul, it basically ends in one blow. The remains of the monster were smashed into pieces.

Naturally, the Bone Cultists who commanded the monsters would not ignore Phinea, the fiercest opponent, and they immediately organized the elite ghouls to snipe and kill the female half-giant.

Several of the fiercest and cunning elite ghouls are larger, more ferocious, and more ferocious than ordinary ghouls.They first scattered in the gaps between the Bodak corpses, pretending to attack the fighters on both sides of Feniya, but the fighting power shown was not much stronger than ordinary ghouls or Bodak corpses.

When these monsters occupied the space around Feniya and completely surrounded her, they immediately showed their fierce faces, repelled the soldiers in front of them, and then launched a final joint attack on Feniya.

Except for William who was in the background, almost no one noticed the slightest sign before the ambush broke out. Phinea herself was shocked, and she only had time to kill the two people in charge of attracting attention with an axe. The elite ghouls, the monsters behind and beside them have no way to dodge or parry, and can only rely on their battle armor and body to resist.

Fortunately, the golden armor that William made for Feniya was strong enough. Even if the elite ghouls were powerful enough to tear apart the cows and horses, they did not break through the protection of the armor. It was just that the huge impact made Feniya rush three times forward. two steps.

It was also the three or two steps forward that made Phineya walk out of the protection of the city gate. Several skeleton knights who had been on standby for a long time happened to charge forward on horseback, and the huge beheading sword fiercely slashed at the female half-giant's forehead. Son.

Good Phinea!She didn't have time to dodge this fatal attack for a real giant, but she slammed the battle ax across the front door, and at the same time leaned forward and shoulders, and rushed sideways, directly smashing a skeleton knight with a skeleton and a bone horse in front of her. They collided together and scattered, flying in all directions.

Of course, the attacks of the other skeleton knights were not in vain either. The terrifying slash hit the surface of Thunder Frost's ax fiercely, and the huge impact force then acted on the golden helmet of the golden holy armor. Then it passed to Phinea.

However, it was so shocking that Feniya's eyes stared at gold stars, she felt that her feet were dangling as if she had stepped on cotton, and her head was buzzing for a while.

Feniya, whose brain was dizzy from the shock, still couldn't stand firm after all, and fell down among the monsters with a bang.

Of course, William would not watch Phinea being ambushed and killed by the monster. He rubbed his body and jumped to Phinea's side, and flipped several monsters who were about to attack her into the air. Now William's strength has already been controlled. Almost to the smallest detail, those monsters that were beaten into the air hadn't landed yet, but their bones had already shattered into a pool of bone dregs silently, and when they hit the ground, there was only a mass of rotten flesh left.

William has realized at this time that this battle may not be as he wished, so that the soldiers can hone without any danger. After all, the opponent also has smart people (monsters) who know how to use tactics and methods.

While casually killing the undead monsters around who wanted to get cheap, William looked around, and soon he found the traces of those skeleton believers with his extraordinary intuition and observation ability.

The appearance of the skeleton believers is almost the same as that of ghouls or bodaks. They have carried out some necromantic transformations on themselves, of course not to become ghouls or bodaks, but to advance into another A more terrifying undead - a secondary death.

The lesser god of death, also known as the messenger of death, is the loyal servant and pet of Melko, the Lord of Bones. They are good at [quenching souls] and like to use [finger of death] to kill the living.

A believer in bones needs to go through several advanced stages if he wants to become the messenger of death.Such as night walker, bone talker, shroud wrapper, crypt meat cutter, bone singer, ritual worshiper, undead master, withered master, etc., are all the preconditions that bone believers need to go through before being promoted to the messenger of death. Positioning order.

However, the skeleton believers that William found were undead believers like the shroud wrappers and the crypt meat cutters.

Shrouds are almost identical to bodaks, except for their filthy shrouds (shrouds), while Crypt Cleavers bear a resemblance to ghouls.Of course, these bone believers are much more powerful than similar undead creatures.

William patted Phinea with one hand, injecting a burst of vitality into her, freeing her from the inappropriateness after being dizzy.

Then he jumped up suddenly, and threw himself directly in front of a "Boda Corpse" wrapped in dirty cloth, and pushed the monster's head into the chest cavity with one palm.

Accompanied by a muffled grunt, this "monster" who should have continued to struggle like other undead monsters fell to the ground, twitched for a while, and belched.

William also felt that the hand feeling when he dropped his palm was not right. Although the opponent's appearance and breath were almost indistinguishable from the undead monster, in fact it was still a living human being in essence.

And this is exactly the characteristic of skeleton believers. Even if they eventually transform into the dead, they still retain some of the essence of the living and become messengers who can connect with the underworld and the main material plane.

After William killed a skeleton believer, some undead creatures immediately became confused, their attacks became blind and crazy, and even many monsters began to kill each other.

Correspondingly, the pressure on some soldiers immediately weakened. After all, monsters without brains are much easier to deal with than monsters with brains.

William killed a skeleton believer, but he rushed towards another ghoul with abnormal behavior without stopping. Compared with ordinary ghouls, this ghoul was much thinner, but his back was straighter. .

After all, ordinary ghouls like to bend over like cats and dogs and land on all fours. Unless a decent human being is deliberately disguised, it is naturally difficult to imitate.

William's target selection didn't go wrong, it was a Crypt Cleaver.

Although it looks thinner than a ghoul, like a weak and underdeveloped undead monster, in fact, the Crypt Cleaver is far stronger than a ghoul.

When William approached, the skeleton believer took out a bone chopping knife from behind, and slashed at William fiercely.

William only heard the shattering sound of the bone-chopping knife, and he knew that this opponent was really fierce. At least among the soldiers behind him, except for Phineya, I am afraid that none of them could have such power.

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In fact, William should feel lucky, that is, the Goddess of Magic took a drastic action and unplugged all the network cables, otherwise the soldiers under William's hands today would definitely suffer a lot.

It should be noted that the most powerful part of the skeleton believers under Melkor's command is their weird and vicious necromancy and curse spells. His [Finger of Death] spell is recognized as the most dangerous instant death spell in the world.

However, the disconnection of the magic net is to prevent the skeleton believers from recovering and replenishing the undead in real time. At this time, the undead creatures under their hands are all the old stocks accumulated before the goddess of magic pulled the network cable, which can be said to be dead. one.

Speaking of which, let's talk a little bit off topic, which is the matter of the goddess of magic unplugging the network cable.

It is said that the goddess of magic unplugged the network cable because she was killed by the guardian god Heim on the way back to the outer plane, which caused the magic network to lose control.

Actually it's just a ridiculous lie.

Granted, Heim did kill the sage incarnation of the Goddess of Magic, but that was just a scene Helm co-directed with the Goddess of Magic, Mystra.

You must know that there was another incarnation of the goddess of magic as a candidate, and the female saint who was pierced through the heart by Heim did not die immediately. In the arms of a candidate incarnation, as for the final achievement of the candidate Midnight Lady in another timeline, I personally doubt that they played a trick to hide the truth.

The real reason for the Goddess of Magic to unplug the network cable is that she was imprisoned by the tyrant Lord Bane and his accomplices with magic, and played a few dungeon, tentacles, and thirteen forbidden games.

It was a period of humiliation that made the goddess unbearable to recall. We can't describe the process of it. In short, the goddess of magic was completely humiliated by the enemy with the power of magic.

In order to get rid of that nightmare experience, the Goddess of Magic had to give up the incarnation once named Caitlin Moonsong.At the same time, in order to ensure that his next incarnation of the saint will not suffer the same humiliation (the goddess of magic was defeated and humiliated by magic), it is the simplest and most effective choice to disconnect all spellcasters (including those saints) in the world.

Nowadays, unless it is an individual authorized by the Goddess of Magic, such as Miss Midnight, or an existence that has higher control over the magic net than Mystra, such as a certain girl, other people or gods can no longer use magic through the magic net.

Even if there are a few who can use spells across the magic net, they are either true bosses who will not get involved in the battle of saints, or small characters who go astray, such as certain weak races that are born with spell-like abilities.