The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 842 Someone Wants to Steal Home

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 parts of it
The roots sink into the ground, making itself look like a 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.

　Corrected.

　　I don't know what to say.I'm really sorry everyone, I've had a severe stiff neck for the past two days, my back is burning, I can't lift my head, and typing is like being tortured.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)