The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 816 I Might Have Killed a Fake Boss ([-])
From another point of view, Moander's behavior has also caused the chaos of the fate of the entire multi-dimensional world, making the development of the world chaotic and disorderly.

Even Moander himself fell into madness and distortion because of the killing of Taj. His madness and disorder even affected the order of the distant kingdom.

No one likes Moander, including William.

He didn't want the land of beautiful mountains and rivers to turn into a twisted nightmare country, just like the tragedies he had seen in the chaotic narrow space, William refused those tragedies to be staged on his own territory.

Sanyu introduced to William the reason and detailed plan for coming to ask for help this time. After hearing this, William suddenly realized that there was still a little bit of his responsibility in it.

Indeed, he left the end of his own fight with others. If Sanyu and that adventure team hadn't made a move, the worm devouring the body might have really caused him some trouble.

So William really had to participate in this support battle, and it was the kind that spared no effort.William is not usually a person who likes to steal and play tricks. He helped him solve his troubles. Regardless of whether there was any thought involved in it, at least he had to fulfill his responsibilities and intentions.

The road to Yulas is not close. William and his party need to cross the swampy Rees River by boat first, go to Yuanshan City on the south bank of the Moon Sea, and then follow the bow axis road to Yulas.

Of course, before that, William had to settle the elf residents of the Serra Tree. The pool of light at the top of the scorched holy oak had temporarily dried up, and he wanted to wait for its recovery, but he did not know when it would be. Nor is it useless.

This huge super magical plant has not completely died, and there is still a strong vitality in the scorched black trunk. If it can stimulate the vitality, it is not very difficult to regenerate the dead wood, but it can give the elves who have just put into effect a safe place to stay. land.

There are countless benefits for the elves to make their home on the holy oak.

The first one is that the trunk of the holy oak tree is thick and tall, stronger than [-]% of the city walls in the world, and it is naturally cultivated, so it does not need to spend manpower and material resources to build it, and it is quite cheap to maintain.

It doesn't matter whether you are a demon or a ferocious beast, as long as you can't leap over the tree trunks of tens or even tens of feet, it will be difficult to harm the elves living above.

In addition, this holy oak tree is full of vitality and has many branches. The elves like to transplant and graft some lush melon and fruit plants on it. The output is even ten times better than that planted in ordinary fertile soil. If you can live with the lack of taste of vegetarian food, you can support yourself even with these outputs alone.

By the way, the elves are not vegetarians. On the contrary, they like to eat meat very much, and they admire top-quality fresh meat.

For example, edelweiss is an animal that can be transported, skinned, and eaten by the elves after countless generations of breeding. It is said that the meat of the edelweiss is delicious and tender, and its position in the elves' diet is no less than that of William. The domestic pig in the previous life is for the people in the hometown.

There are many more benefits of holy oak.For example, twigs are good materials for making magic bows and bard instruments; on the holy oak tree, it is easier to understand the true meaning of magic, get started with elf magic quickly, etc., and I won’t list them all here.

William opened the gate of flames again, and summoned a curse-fire phoenix to act as an energy source, and then he transformed a large amount of curse-fire energy into surging vitality, and injected it into the holy oak tree.

What kind of changes will happen when a tree trunk that is still alive is injected with a lot of life.

According to common sense, this tree will grow and proliferate extremely quickly, just like a banyan tree, it will change from a tree to a forest.

But the Sierra tree did not follow this rule. Instead of growing taller and thicker, this giant tree with magical power began to explode from the inside out.

The Sierra tree is nearly a hundred feet high, and pieces of bark and trunk are like decayed sawdust shavings. They fall off from the huge mountain trunk and fall to the ground, almost forming a mountain of sawdust.

At this time, a strange gust of wind piercing the forest suddenly blew, and the sawdust, which was almost piled up in a mountain bag, was blown profusely like sand and dust, and soon spread to the entire forest.

The reason why this forest-piercing wind is strange is because the Serra tree is located in the depths of the eastern jungle of Comanthor. The so-called forest-piercing wind is theoretically difficult to appear, and this sudden forest-piercing wind is quite strange. Although it is not big, the duration is extremely long, and there is a posture of swearing not to give up until the accumulated sawdust is blown away.

In fact, the sawdust that fell from the Sierra tree was not useless. The woody debris of the holy oak tree was a very useful material for magic enhancement, and the dead branches and debris that fell off naturally were the best.

Every pound of ground ground from the dead branches of the naturally fallen holy oak (weir tree) can be exchanged for almost double its weight in gold in the human world.

For most elves, as long as a holy oak tree grows normally, it is equivalent to harvesting a natural wealth gold mine.

In fact, due to the natural vitality of weir trees or holy oaks, they rarely shed their branches naturally. Even if the holy oak trees grow to the giant city model, their naturally produced dead branches and leaves can hardly meet one-tenth of the market demand. one.

However, artificially plucked (including any interference with the formation of dead branches) or sun-dried holy oak powder, its efficacy is greatly inferior to that of the naturally shed version, and the price is also very different.

This also gave birth to a unique counterfeit industry of holy oak powder, of course, this is not the focus of our attention.

The point is that William used the life force transformed by the curse fire energy to urge the holy oak tree. Although the holy oak powder it produced was better than the unscrupulous natural version of the holy oak powder, it was also much better than those artificially produced inferior products.

Originally this was an astonishing amount of wealth, but with this gust of wind, except for a small amount of powder that was intercepted by experienced elves in advance, most of it was scattered into layers of dense forest.

Of course, William is not paying attention to this heart-wrenching news. What he cares more about is the newborn holy oak tree. It is thick, hard as crystal, and clusters of green buds grow on the antler-like canopy, which looks like a work of art carved out of huge jasper.

What really surprised William was not the change in the shape of the holy oak tree, but some kind of fluctuation inside the trunk of the holy oak tree, as if some kind of strange life was being bred in it.

When William's body touched the emerald tree, he heard a unique voice from the bottom of his heart: "Father who can walk, Sera greets you!"

William asked in surprise, "Who is talking?"

The voice replied cheerfully: "It's Sera! Sera is a nymph! My father! It is you who gave birth to me with life (energy)! Praise you, great father."

Then William saw that a certain part of the trunk of the holy oak tree became transparent, revealing a cavity in the center of the trunk similar to a culture chamber, in which a unique human-shaped embryo was suspended, which looked like a vine. Like a woven doll, mysterious and beautiful.

But William only looked at it for a while, and the tree trunk returned to the color of emerald jade, and naturally the scene inside could no longer be seen.

When William told the elves about the abnormality of the holy oak tree, most of the elves didn't know the reason for the change, but the three fools who were listening were surprised and praised William's good luck again and again.

It turns out that what is being bred in the holy oak is a strange magical life—the tree nymph, also known as the forest fairy.This kind of life is a natural elf with unique talents and characteristics, and even people in some places worship them as gods.

The most interesting thing is that the tree nymph can combine with any intelligent creature (not necessarily human-like), and breed offspring without reproduction-isolation, which is different from the dryad.

Dryads are another kind of elves born from ancient trees. Many times it is difficult for people to distinguish them from tree nymphs, because dryads are as beautiful and graceful as tree nymphs.

It's just that the dryad likes to lure those humanoid creatures, and some exchanges between the two parties can't produce results. It can only be regarded as a friendship hobby.

According to Sanyu, the elves were originally an extraterrestrial race from a world outside of Faerun. Sailing, almost lost the ability to reproduce.

However, the existence of the native tree nymphs in Faerun helped the elves who had just arrived to solve this fatal problem.

The tree nymph has a lifespan comparable to that of a giant dragon, and its vitality is strong (you know), which is of great significance to the continuation of the elves. As long as the elves still have certain abilities, then the tree nymph as the recipient will be It can be born for you to see (Note: Tree nymphs only have female gender).

For the elves (nobles), the existence of a tree nymph can greatly expand the population quantity and quality of the family, which makes the tree nymph occupy a high position in the culture of the elves.

For some reason, the elves hid the stories that had to be told between the tree nymphs and the elves, but the tradition of the elves calling themselves the children of the forest survived.

There are gossips that the current mistress of the Seldarine pantheon, Angress, the goddess of life of the elves, was formed by the aggregation of three tree nymphs and the children of tree nymphs.

Perhaps there are still secrets about the tree nymphs in the upper echelons of the elves, but these elves of the tree of Sera know nothing about it.Emily Corona, who is a descendant of nobles, may know some rumors, but as a woman of the Corona family, she can't use it even if she has a tree nymph by her side, unless she can give birth to a son.

Emily did not show too much attention to the existence of tree nymphs, but instead proposed to follow William to the northern Moon Sea for adventure.

As for the remaining elves, they had to rebuild their villages not far from the Sierra tree. Even if there was no holy oak tree as the cornerstone of the town, the elves still had the ability to build tree houses on ordinary trees.

What's more, wherever the tree nymphs are born, they will generally evolve into a beautiful fairy forest, which is a truly blessed place free from beasts and monsters.

Soon, William returned to the Chasing Spray with his family and companions, accompanied by five more elves, including Emily Corona, two elf warriors, and two elf Pegasus knights.

As a result, William's team has become relatively bloated, including three little girls, Phinea, Kaoyi, the Three Fools, twelve human guards, and twelve warriors headed by Carinola Bicamus. Monk guards, five elf guards headed by Emily Corian, and three flying horses headed by Mo Xiao.

Such a large team was enough to make the guards of a town feel threatened, and the deck of the Chasing Spray began to become more crowded, because counting the sailors who operated the ship, the crew of the two-masted sailing ship was almost full.

By the way, in order to reduce the load on the ship, William had already dragged the trophy dragon corpse into the flame world for storage, but this operation of his made Hilgert Reddings and others an eye-opener.

When the ship entered the Rhys River, which connects the Sea of ​​Moon and the Sea of ​​Falling Stars, Captain Reddings became rather nervous and nervous.

The Rhys River runs through a dense forest to the east of the Comanthor Jungle. Although it connects the two waters, the hydrological condition of this river is not very good.

The Rees River is basically composed of several connected swamp lakes and corresponding waterways, so the surface of the Rees River looks very wide in many cases, but there are only some relatively narrow areas where boats can actually sail. Most of the water surface is A mudflat that can cause ships to run aground.

If the Chasing Spray was really stuck in it, it would be a real call to the sky, and the land would not work.

This is not the most dangerous, what's more terrible is that many swamp creatures like to hide in the swamp and play ambushes, especially the swamp lizardmen are the greatest threat to passing ships, almost every boat crossing the Rees River has to go through at least one fierce fight In order to leave smoothly, of course, the premise is to win the battle.

No one likes to be shot by the bone arrows and javelins of the swamp lizardmen who don't know what toxin or filth. For this reason, Captain Reddings even pulled up a hard sail between the two masts as a cover.

It's just that this cautious captain still couldn't escape the bad luck of being set on fire. If William wasn't by his side, he might really be in bad luck.

The Lizardmen are indeed very smart. They know that the experienced captains or first mates are the core of the passing ships, because only these people are familiar with the hydrology of the Rees River. As long as they are killed first, those ships and their prey will basically never again. There is no escape.

Stranded in the swamp and tidal flats is their only end, and then there is a happy hunting time for lizards.

William easily knocked down the javelins and darts fired from the water, while the ship's archers began to fight back.The elves with outstanding archery skills shot and killed at least six enemies, half of which came from the handwriting of Emily Corona. I have to admit that this elf does have a few tricks.

As for the harvest of other shooters, it is a bit unsatisfactory.

It's just that the elf's excellent record was not praised by Captain Reddings, and his face became even uglier, even a little annoyed.

William was keenly aware of the problem, and he asked, "Your Excellency, but is there any problem that we don't know about?"

Reddings said with a gloomy face: "The swamp lizardmen here have a strong sense of revenge, they lost at least half a dozen of their adult tribe just now, and they will definitely not let it go.

Mr. William, we will soon reach a shallow water beach with winding waterways, where the speed of the Chasing Spray will become extremely slow, and we even need to use clumsy oars to move forward.

I'm worried that those lizardmen will gather a large number of people to intercept us, and that will be our nightmare. "

　Corrected.I haven't been in a good state recently, I'm very sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)