The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 878 Forming the Valley Legion
After all, the red dragon Ilim still couldn't survive until the moment when William's divine soldier descended from the sky. The enemy she faced was too strong. Each of the five top fighters held a weapon specially designed to slay dragons.

What's more, there are two top spellcasters among the dragon slayers, and their spells always make the red dragon tired.

When William rushed to the scene all the way, the red dragon had already fallen into a pool of blood.Dragonslayers from Zhentil Keep beheaded Ilim's slightly twisted head and dug out the red dragon's heart.

Just as these executioners wantonly divided the spoils, the sudden scream of flames shocked everyone's heart.

William turned into a ball of terrible angry flames, covering the corpse of the red dragon and those enemies who were caught off guard, but the flames that were enough to destroy gold and bones did not directly harvest even a single life of the enemy as William wished.

The reason is simple. These dragon slayers specially prepared a lot of equipment with high fire resistance in order to fight against the red dragon's flame breath. Therefore, the flames controlled by William are naturally not as lethal as the red dragon's breath. The Dragon Warriors had a glimmer of life.

Of course, survival is just a chance to survive, and whether they can really survive depends on whether these people can fully seize the opportunity.

In this regard, the spellcasters of Zhentil Castle are undoubtedly better at seizing opportunities than those warriors. They activated their escape spells almost at the same time they encountered danger.

The escaped caster William has no way to track him down yet, but the five warriors surrounded by flames are hard to escape from his grasp.

William did not return to human form, but controlled the soaring flames with the formless body of the flame lord, and the heat waves that scorched the air around the red dragon's corpse rolled.

The people of Zhentil Castle who just wore the crown of "Dragon Slayer" are still a little smart. They know that the fire resistance equipment on their bodies cannot completely guarantee that they will not be harmed by a little flame, so a few people use the red dragon's wings as a As a natural fire-resistant equipment covered on the body.

It's just that although these people avoided the direct burning of the flames, they didn't know that a more deadly threat was approaching.

Soon, the five top fighters who were strong enough to go up the mountain to catch tigers and go down to the sea to catch dragons felt something was wrong. They felt a little suffocated and began to breathe involuntarily. It turned into a relatively cool breath and inhaled into the lungs, but it could not relieve the feeling of suffocation at all.

The flames drained all the oxygen in the air. Even if those magic talismans could turn the hot air that scalded the trachea and lungs back into cold air with a suitable temperature for humans, they couldn't produce the oxygen necessary for breathing.

And this is the power of knowledge.

In the end, the five top fighters died of suffocation in the pain of lack of oxygen. They didn't even know why they ended up like this. In their last thoughts, they might think that this was a fatal curse.

The death of the red dragon made William regretful. Although he didn't have a deep friendship with Yilim, he was always his partner. William would not ignore other people's sacrifices just because his friendship was too shallow.

Although the red dragon's body is full of treasures, William doesn't think it's a happy thing to dismember the corpses of his dead comrades and make them into so-called equipment.

Some people may say that it is a kind of romance to let a part of our dead comrades fight side by side with us forever.But this so-called romance was not recognized by William. He preferred to let the souls of those who died in battle rest in peace, and the remains of the victims returned to ashes and ashes to ashes.

So apart from leaving some claws and teeth of the red dragon as a souvenir, most of Ilim's body was sent into the world of flames by William and buried in a half-sleeping lava pool.

Since the top powerhouses from Zhentil Fort were either dead or fled, no matter how rebellious the Fuenla people whose walls were breached, it would be difficult to change their fate of being conquered by the enemy.

Especially when William returned to the main battlefield and participated in the command of the last battle of the entire city, everyone on both sides knew that the overall situation was settled.

William knew very well that at this time when he was first trapped in the chaos of the enemy city, it was essential to use severe torture to establish his prestige.

At this time, those scattered soldiers who originally belonged to Fuenla, the local hooligans who took advantage of the fire, and even some people with ulterior motives were the ones who did the most damage to the ordinary civilians of the city and the reputation of the conqueror.

William ordered his soldiers to detain anyone who was running amok on the streets of Fuenla, and any rioters involved in robbery, rape, murder and arson were killed on the spot.

This also led to the fact that in the process of quelling the chaos in Fuenla City, more than ten times more people were killed than those killed on the frontal battlefield at the beginning.

The reason is very simple. Those Fuenla soldiers who fled back to the city did not treat the residents of the city as their own. foreign mercenaries.

When these outsiders faced the fiasco of losing their food, clothing and jobs, most of them had the idea of ​​grabbing some extra money in the city before running or surrendering.

Of course, this is also the normal state of mercenaries in most areas of Faerun. If there is nothing to do, grab a wave. For mercenaries, there is no faster way to get rich than this.

However, the fate of mercenaries who like to plunder is generally not very good, and this group of unlucky bastards who are having fun in Fuenla City is even worse. They even got their heads cut off.

It was also because of William's ruthless hand that the locals in Fuenla did not resist him as strongly as imagined, and even some militias composed of locals spontaneously helped William. People on one side maintain order in the town.

After all, the manpower under William's hands is really insufficient, and the control of the entire Fuenla is naturally not so satisfactory, that is, the deterrent power of the golem mecha is amazing enough, otherwise it would be really hard to completely convince the cunning Fuenla people It's a bit of a struggle.

Fortunately, on the second day after the city of Fuenla was captured, the army of Shadow Valley appeared outside the city of Fuenla. It was a rabble who had no experience and only participated with enthusiasm, but it also greatly alleviated William's current shortage of manpower.

However, the arrival of the Shadow Valley people is both a good thing and a bad thing.

The reason is that there is a long-lasting and insoluble hatred between the people of Shadow Valley and the people of Fuenla. If the people of Shadow Valley are allowed to manage the city of Fuenla, they will definitely retaliate against the locals crazily, causing serious panic and confrontation .

If the people of Shadow Valley can come one day earlier and catch up with the battle against Fuenla, William is really not good at restraining the avengers from Shadow Valley. Lawful and good gods can't say anything.

It's a pity that the people of Shadow Valley couldn't catch up with the battle after all. They were just a group of latecomers who enjoyed their profits. Even though they had all kinds of hatred in their hearts, they didn't have the qualifications to directly avenge the Fuenla people, unless William was willing to give up his principles and support these people Carry out an unjust massacre in the city of Fuenla.

Of course, William would not be so stupid as to give up the foundation of his own life and even the founding of the country in the valley for the personal hatred of the people of Shadow Valley.

Let’s talk about why the person-wife-Cao of the past failed to directly complete the unification of the world when he occupied the general trend, and even made a wedding dress for the Sima family with a foundation that stretched for three generations.

The root cause is that this guy's unrighteous killings were too prosperous in the early years, but he lost the hope of the world, so that it was difficult for countless heroes and heroes to be sincerely close to his people and his country.

Therefore, even if there are heroes of Cao, Wei and Wu, it is difficult to achieve all of them.

As the saying goes, the massacre of the city is a moment of pleasure, but the aftermath will last forever.

A small person like William who came from a humble background with no deep roots, even though he has the courage of a tiger and wants to achieve a career, he still has to learn from Han Zhaolie.

Therefore, William did not directly put the army from the Shadow Valley into the city to maintain law and order, but ordered them to camp outside the city of Fuenla, and publicized the origin of this army, threatening that there were rioters in the city, and the shadow Gu's army will surely enter the city to suppress the rebellion.

Of course, the Fuenla people knew that the hatred between themselves and the Shadow Valley people was as deep as the abyss. If these enemies were allowed to enter the city, the result would definitely not be what any Fuenla people wanted to see.

Therefore, under the deterrence of the resentful army, which is almost like a dangling knife, the Fuenla people showed extraordinary obedience. They sent a representative of high morals to express their submission to William. A large amount of food and belongings were paid tribute to William, and he actively contributed people to join William's team by almost bringing his own dry food to help the conquerors manage the city.

These coquettish operations of the Fuenla people seemed to be impossible during the reign of Zhentil Castle. At that time, they only paid money and did not show people, and in many cases they behaved better than the people of Zhentil Castle. .

For example, those puppet lords who are in charge of contacting the people of Zhentil Castle, the guys called "Bron" by the locals, are voted and replaced by the Fuenla people almost every year.

But now these people still kneel and lick William more than the second devil. If the people of Zhentil Castle saw this, how embarrassing they would be.

In fact, the agents of Zhentil Fort who were still in the city of Faunla had already seen this situation that made them extremely indignant and even frightened.

Many agents of Zhentil Castle, who were somewhat secretive before William's arrival, were actively reported by those ruthless Fuenla people and even turned to the security team in person, and then became evidence of the loyalty of the locals.

And as time went on, some Fuenla who were too active even pointed the finger at their neighbors, and they regarded those who had done more for the people of Zhentil as Zhentil The lackeys of the Fort people, and encouraged William and his men to liquidate the past "sins" of these people.

William quickly noticed the problem, and he immediately stopped the Fuenla people from going too far.William even suspected that there might be some malicious guys who were secretly doing bad things, but he didn't express his doubts, but conveyed the doubts to the leader from the Valley of Shadows—Ms. Storm Silverhand .

It is said that the late arrival of the Shadow Valley army is the handwriting of this Lady Storm.

The younger sister of Hieren has foresight that is difficult for ordinary people to reach. She is well aware of the contradictions between the people of Shadow Valley and the people of Fuenla. The attackers will definitely massacre the Fuenla people.

Lady Storm was unwilling to see such a tragic killing, so she deliberately slowed down the pace of reinforcements.

As for the possibility of William being able to attack the city of Fuenla, Ms. Storm never doubted it.She has already learned about William's background from her sister and life mentor (Elminster), so she is not worried that a small city-state of 2000 people will block William's road to conquest.

And the facts also proved that Storm Silverhand's vision, her prediction was not wrong.

It's just that William was a little angry at Storm Silverhand's self-assertion.If these guys could come here early, maybe the red dragon Yilim would not have to risk alone to lure the enemy, and even be killed on the battlefield.

William thought that the silver-handed lady was too egotistical to be a sub-commander of the army, which required strict orders. On the contrary, the role of regional consul was more suitable for her.

So after slightly straightening out the order of Fuenla City, William decided to carry out a small-scale army reorganization near Fuenla.

He issued sergeant summoning orders to Dagger Valley, Shadow Valley, Misty Valley, and Far Mountain City, and issued civilian recruitment orders to the elves in the Cormanthor jungle, claiming to build the main army of the Valley Kingdom in Fuenla.

Before long, small armies, warbands, or stragglers came to Faunla one after another, ranging from human warriors who wanted to make a fortune, to dwarven, elf, and half-elven adventurers who wanted wealth and fame. With one exception, they all hoped to gain a place in William's Vale Corps.

But William wants to rectify the army, but he has to face two major problems first, one is the matching between different races, and the other is the gender of soldiers.

One of the local characteristics of Faerun is that the difference in identity and status between men and women is not based on gender, but on ability.

Of course, fundamentally speaking, this kind of equality between men and women, which is even higher than that of William's previous life, stems from the balance of the physique gap between men and women by extraordinary professions, especially among spellcasters. Women even have an advantage over men.

This has also created an illusion for most of the women in Faerun. They think that they are not inferior to those of the opposite sex in all aspects.

But the reality is that among those occupations that require strength and physical strength, except for a few female members who are truly talented, most of them basically struggle to adapt.

Among them, warrior and barbarian are the two most serious melee occupations, followed by ranger (ranger) and rogue, but these four occupations have the largest population base.

As of the first lunar month after the fall of Fuenla, the conscription camp in Fuenla has gathered nearly 3000 reserve sergeants, and at least one-third of the members are women, including humans, elves, and dwarves. , halflings, dwarves, etc. are women of most mainstream races, and there are also a few women of sub-human races.

What made William feel speechless the most was that a large part of these female applicants were ordinary girls who had not yet taken up extraordinary careers. Opportunities for success and fame.

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(End of this chapter)