Arcane Journey

Chapter 317 Hirosawa
More than a dozen centuries ago, when the elven Cormanthor Empire still existed, the entire territory of Cormyr was once covered by a vast forest.

Over time, generations of human immigrants settled, crops grew on this land, and countless wars destroyed the greenness of the land.

The land to the east of Cormyr, where Bryan appeared, a vast plain called the Eastern Plains, was formed from this.

From the map, if he wanted to go to Guangze, he could follow the road in the southeast direction - Manticore Road, go for a section and then turn north to reach his destination.

Or choose to walk from the path, go straight east, and pass through a ruined palace.

Thinking of this, Brian stopped and looked at the ruins on the top of the eastern mountain facing the sky from a distance. There was a famous tourist attraction in Cormyr, the ruins of the Unnamed Palace.

The sunlight reflected off the mirror-smooth remnant walls, flashing conspicuously across the plain, which is the fundamental reason why the ruins of this palace have been known as a traveler's signpost for many years.

"You're not planning to walk down the path, are you?" There was a sound of heels hitting the rock, and the slender figure of the sorceress Kaladna appeared beside Brian.

She had long, smooth blonde hair, and was playing with a strand of hair on her chest boredly. With wine-red eyes flashing, she said puzzledly, "You didn't mean to go to Guangze, so why can't we just pass the teleportation?" When the spell arrives, it must pass through this plain."

"Most of Guangze is almost occupied by people from Shar Church." Brian looked back at her and explained to her: "If you break in rashly, it is likely to arouse their vigilance."

"Let's go, let's go to the Unnamed Palace first." He waved at Kala Dena, motioning her to follow his footsteps.

Under the bright sunlight, the long loose hair of this lady sorcerer shone with golden brilliance, setting off a charming and delicate face.

Although she is wearing a dark purple cloak with a hood, her slender and tall figure is wrapped in a thin dark black gauze skirt, and her graceful curves can be clearly seen while walking, especially When the hem of the high-cut skirt flows like water, two beautiful white legs are exposed just right, exuding a flawless silky and crystal luster.

The dazzling light shines on her dark and bright rose dress, which seems to be blooming like a flower. Inside the thin silk hollowed-out fragrant shoulder dress, the black thin silk is faintly separated, revealing the looming snow-white skin, and the curve of the slender body is graceful. In terms of grace, you can even vaguely see her dark purple lace corsage wrapping two groups of proud twin peaks, glowing seductively in the sunlight.

It was only when Brian set off that he noticed that this well-dressed sorceress looked so seductive.

This is understandable, after all, the other party is a warlock with extraordinary charisma, and the charm he inadvertently displayed is naturally self-evident.

The only thing he couldn't understand was why she chose to wear a pair of high heels inlaid with purple agate during the adventure. Although he could feel that it was a piece of magic equipment, he couldn't help complaining in his heart.

This feeling is as if you are sitting in a car, and the driver is not only a female driver, but also wearing a pair of thin and long high-heeled shoes, which makes him feel that his sense of security has dropped a lot.

Fortunately, this is a magical world, and the convenience of spells makes everything possible. This female sorceress who mainly takes risks in her career obviously does not belong to the type with big breasts and no brains.

The most important thing is that before Hesaiah left, she had a long secret communication with the sorceress, which made Brian a little confused and curious about what the two of them were talking about. , Always look like you are obedient to yourself.

A gust of wind blows head-on, bringing the aroma of cooking smoke and barbecue.

Brian came back to his senses. He realized that there must be someone active nearby, so he opened a portal and appeared on the top of a mountain with the sorceress who followed him.

After climbing to the top of the mountain, what appeared in front of the two was the ruins of the famous ancient palace called 'Unnamed Palace', a relic left from the elf period.

The white marble watch was broken and overturned on the ground. The smooth and bright stone wall is still as clean as before. The incomplete thick stone wall still stands between the broken stone pillars, revealing the once closed inner courtyard.

In the center of the hall, there is a small stone platform that is not high, and a small campfire is burning. On the fire, there is a rabbit on an iron bar.

In the crack of the wall next to it, sat a well-dressed dwarf, and a human who was also luxuriously dressed stood beside the wall.

A horse and a foal are tied to a nearby stone pillar.

"It looks like two businessmen." The sorceress said her judgment, "Two businessmen who like to take advantage of opportunities."

Brian nodded approvingly. Standing on the top of the mountain, he took the initiative to say hello to the two through magic sound transmission. After gaining their trust and consent, he and Carla Dena passed the teleportation spell and appeared in the in front of them.

"Hi, adventurer." The dwarf greeted the two with a wary look.

"Hi, beautiful lady adventurer." The human next to the dwarf looked at Kaladna obsessively and smiled.

Before Brian could speak, the two tacit and interesting businessmen introduced themselves as if they were talking about cross talk.

"This is my most respected companion, Colbert," said the dwarf.

"This is my irreplaceable friend, Nori." Human added.

"Would you like a cup of tea?" said the dwarf.

"Do you want to add sugar?" the human added.

"Have some roast rabbit," said the dwarf.

"Although there are not many, Nori's craftsmanship is top-notch." Humans added.

"We are merchants," said the dwarf.

"Small business." The human added.

"But our business is good," said the dwarf.

"Cheap decorations, jewelry, wine, silk..." the human added.

"Something like that," said the dwarf.

"We are adventurers." Brian thought for a while, and said to the two, "I heard that there is an ancient tomb nearby, so I came here, you know."

"Oh, you want to go to that ancient tomb?" - Dwarf

"I have to remind you..." - Human

"We just passed through there yesterday." - Dwarf

"There seems to be a band of bandits already using it as a lair." - Human

"Although there are not many people." - Dwarf

"Some goblins." - Human

"Or kobolds." - Gnome

"They don't actually look like robbers." - Human

"It's kind of dark." - Dwarf

"Dark." —Human

"Armed up." - Gnome

"They're just a little unfriendly." —Human

"Well, not friendly at all." - Dwarf

"We've been working together for eight or nine years, and we know each other very well," the two said in unison.

"I don't think anyone but robbers will go to Collins' Tomb." - Human

"Despicable villain." - Dwarf

"And monsters." - Human

"They must be..." - Dwarf

"Think of it as a base for highway robbery." - Human

"Collins?" - Human

"If only we knew..." - Gnome

"Let's go." - Human

"A lot of scholars are holding money and waiting to ask someone who knows." - Dwarf

"Why did we go to that grave?" - Human

"Well, we have to admit" - Gnome

"We lack a storehouse..." - Human

"There's no money left." - Gnome

"Very few people know about that ancient tomb." - Human

"No one will be bored and go sightseeing." - Dwarf

"So, you know..." - Human

"It's hard for us too." - Gnome

After patiently listening to the two chattering words, Brian and the sorceress next to him secretly looked at each other. The exchange of eyes made him understand that these two guys were not lying, they were telling the truth.

"In that case, you take us to that ancient tomb."

After sorting out the unexpected information he had obtained from the words of the two businessmen, he said, "I can help you deal with the enemies of the ancient tomb, and in the end this ancient tomb will become your warehouse."

"Deal." The dwarf smiled.

"Simply wonderful," said the human excitedly.

Under the guidance of the two merchants, when Brian and Kara Dena appeared on another mountain top, he saw a long ridge lying there quietly half a mile away.

The hillside is covered with green grass, and with the breeze, there are green waves, and many small white and light yellow flowers are dotted in the green waves.

At the foot of the mountain, there is an entrance of a huge man-made building, which is open, as if leading to the mountainside. Directly above the entrance is a beam as heavy as a broken dragon stone. Some writings are vaguely engraved on the beam, but the distance is too far. Ugly.

It seems that this is the ancient mausoleum.

After thinking for a moment, Brian and Kaladna walked towards the ancient tomb together. As for the two strange businessmen, they had already hid far away.

As the two approached the mausoleum, the handwriting on the beam became clear, but there were only a few letters combined together in a very unnatural way, so that Brian couldn't figure out what it meant.

"I feel that someone is watching us secretly." Kara Dena reminded Brian vigilantly through telepathy, "The dark energy around the watcher is very strong, like a shadow creature."

When Brian heard this, he looked at the sorceress in surprise. Although he also noticed that someone was watching him secretly, he was not that sensitive to energy fluctuations.

"Although Sisaiah said, let me follow you, you don't need to use your brain, you just need to do it." The sorceress obviously noticed Brian's surprised gaze, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, showing a proud expression, "It seems that this The statement has been successfully broken by me, and my role is not as simple as a thug. Isn't it?"

"I've never thought of it that way before." Brian said with a smile, "You think too much."

Then, without wasting time, the two immediately hid their breath and walked towards the deep tomb.

The moment they stepped into the tomb, just as Brian guessed, a rain of galloping arrows, like dense migratory locusts, appeared at the narrow opening and enveloped the two of them.

Brian took the initiative to block the female sorceress, but just stood there casually. The dense rain of arrows was all isolated by his legendary characteristic "Estral Barrier" at a distance of 1 meter, and fell to the ground clangingly.

The female sorceress on the side raised her slender eyebrows, as if she was somewhat interested in her strange passive ability.

At the same time, Bryan saw a dwarf-sized humanoid creature in the dark passage in an instant.

It was dressed in black, matching the darkness of the environment, and its bulging eyes revealed a reddish fierce light. The moment Brian noticed him, it tried to escape by jumping through the shadows.

—— "Dimensional lock!"

Brian stretched out his finger, and the shadow creature froze in place.

——"Psionic dissociation!"

Immediately afterwards, his deep gaze flickered slightly, and the moment it locked on the shadow creature, its body exploded with a 'bang' under the influence of a terrifying energy, turning into a little light and dissipating in the air.

"It's amazing." The eyes of the female sorceress next to him flickered, and she played with a strand of hair hanging on her chest with her slender hands, exclaiming: "A single glance can produce an effect similar to the dissociation technique." , is this psionic power?"

"That's right." Brian nodded slightly, and walked with her to the place where the shadow creature disappeared.

In fact, whether it is the dissociation technique released by arcane spells or the dissociation technique cast by supernatural powers, the spell effect is to release a dark green light.

And the reason why Bryan was able to lock on with his eyes and achieve the effect of being able to hit instantly without dodging the judgment is entirely due to the knowledge he got from the mind flayer master's brain.

Although the judgment will be less effective than the normal dissociation technique, the effect is still very good when used to abuse vegetables and Yin people.

For example, the level of the shadow creature just now was at least around level 10, and he instantly killed it with just one look.

"The little dwarf just now is a shadow creature." Carla Dena carefully inspected the place where the creature disappeared, stretched out her hand to sense the remaining traces of space fluctuations, and said to Brian, "It was definitely summoned from the shadow plane."

"That's right." Brian said his judgment, "That is to say, there should be a secret stronghold of the Church of Shar hidden here, as long as we reach the center of the tomb, we may be able to obtain the location of the inner headquarters of Guangze. "

This was the fundamental reason why he wasted no time exploring the tomb.

Brian didn't waste any more time, and walked toward the depths of the tomb together with the sorceress.

The walls, floors and ceilings of the mausoleum are all made of huge white stone slabs, built against the mountain in the depression of the mountain wall.

The top is covered with a thick layer of soil, covered with green grass, and the ceiling is not high, only about 3 meters high, giving people a heavy sense of oppression.

It seems that there used to be huge continuous murals on the inner wall, but the oil paint has long since fallen off, leaving only traces of mottled colors.

In the process of walking, Brian unexpectedly found that the knocking sound of the witch's high-heeled shoes beside him had disappeared at some point, and she silently followed behind him, a little inattentive, as if the other party did not exist at all .

"I told you, I won't hold you back."

Seemingly aware of Bryan's glance back, Kara Dena unconsciously quickened her pace and walked side by side with him, and a slightly satisfactory magical sound transmission sounded in his mind.

"So, I'm curious why you took the initiative to come to Guangze with me." Brian smiled and said to her in a tone that seemed to be mentioned inadvertently.

"Don't make a mistake, what do you mean I take the initiative to be with you?" The sorceress snorted softly, and retorted: "Didn't you see it before I left? I didn't plan to go with you, it's your little girl." My lover Hesaiah begged me, so I was forced to come here with you for the sake of my good sister."

"Forget the past?" Brian was stunned, and said unexpectedly, "I'm afraid I didn't even know it, but I unknowingly provoked you, a beautiful and charming lady warlock."

"So, it's not too late for you to know now." Kara Dena's mouth curled into a playful smile, "And through this incident, you can understand how broad-minded Miss Ben is."

"It can be seen that it is quite broad, thank you."

Brian's frivolous gaze stayed on her plump chest for a moment deliberately, causing the latter's small face to blush, staring at him angrily, and spat lightly.

Chatting through telepathic voice transmission, the two soon came to the northernmost room of the tomb.

Although this is the secret stronghold of the Church of Shar, both Brian and Kara Dena have reached the legendary level. Facing the kitten and shrimp here is easier than solving the fake temple in Huailun City.

The blockers who appeared suddenly died instantly without even reacting. As for those crude traps, they had no effect at all.

At the northernmost end of the burial chamber, there is a wide pit sandwiched between the two walls.

It appears that the pit was once a trap, responsible for protecting the tomb from grave robbers.

Because the pit is filled with countless dirt, rubble, bones of creatures, rusted weapons, and the like.

On the iron nails on the floor on both sides of the pit, someone wove a rope-ladder-like bridge with ropes.

Although the rope ladder has no handrails, the weaving gap is also large, and the top is covered with wooden boards, it still looks solid.

There are two porches at the end of the north end, symmetrically distributed on the east and west sides, and a simple stone carving hangs on the wall between the two porches.

The statue is the face of some sort of horned creature, frowning in displeasure, and the technique of the statue is crude, but it's certainly an ancient style from long ago.

Its mouth was slightly open, revealing a long black slit.

On the stone wall next to the statue, there are many grids vacant, all of which are incomplete or complete remains of humanoid creatures. These corpses look like they were buried or buried.

Some grids still contain complete pottery pots, while others only have incomplete remains and fragments of pottery.

Generally speaking, the things in the upper grid are relatively well preserved.

Not finding anything unusual, the two turned around and came to the south side of the north end. There was also a frowning face with horns on the wall here, facing the back hall to the north.

"This doesn't look like an elf-style tomb." Kaladna said puzzled.

"Indeed." Brian guessed: "It should be the tomb of a human lord in ancient times, but these are not important anymore."

When he said this, he had already found a wrench-shaped mechanism in the mouth of this big face.

As the mechanism twisted, the building began to vibrate, and the face in front of the two of them, together with the wall, began to rise upwards, revealing the corridor behind.

As far as the eye can see, the end of the corridor is a sarcophagus, but there is nothing else.

On the wall behind the sarcophagus is the same horned face, but unlike before, this face is smiling.

At this time, the two businessmen who just walked in and kept silent spoke up.

"Ah, this is a good place to hide things, isn't it?" the dwarf said with a pleasant face like a child.

"That's right." His companion nodded seriously, "So, let's store the goods here in the future."

"It's a good thing those black guys didn't notice it." The dwarf said happily, patting his small chest.

"It's okay, it's okay, it seems that we don't have to go bankrupt." His human companion secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

At this moment, an unnatural mist began to fill the room, making it difficult for people to see normally in an instant.

"Ghost!!!"

"Run!!!!"

The two businessmen screamed in fright, and fled outside like frightened rabbits.

A tall humanoid emerged from the foggy air.

Its face was hidden in a tattered cloak, only its scarlet eyes were exposed, staring fiercely at the two of Brian.

"Mortal, I am ordered by the Lost Lady to guard this place to the death until darkness falls, get out!"

The shadow creature that suddenly appeared whispered in the common language of the mainland. It was a voice that seemed to come from Hell, and it sounded cold and piercing.

The dread spirit, an incorporeal creature born of evil and darkness, usually lurks in the depths of forgotten temples or ancient ruins. It is the oldest and most terrifying evil spirit.

"Is there a way to extract its recent memory?" Brian stared at the evil spirit that appeared, and said to the sorceress.

"It's a small matter." Kara Dena nodded without thinking, "You control it."

With the cold wind blowing up a thick cloud of dust in the secret room, the fearful evil spirit, surrounded by the thick black mist, let out a terrifying scream and rushed towards the two of them.

- "Monster Immobilization Technique!"

Brian stretched out his finger, and this evil spirit lord, whose strength was only about the fourth level at most, stopped suddenly, and froze in place with his pale bone claws outstretched and claws outstretched.

Kaladna immediately recited a spell, and a rose-purple demon fire ignited in her slender white palm, and she threw it onto the body of the evil spirit.

The moment the demon fire touched the body of the evil spirit, it was like dry wood meeting a raging fire, suddenly burning a demon purple flame without any temperature.

In just a moment, amidst the screams of the evil spirit, it turned into a purple crystal the size of a fingernail and fell into Kaladna's open palm.

"A kind of soul crystal condensed from chaotic energy." The sorceress seemed to have noticed Brian's puzzled eyes, and explained to him flauntingly, then lightly closed her beautiful eyes, meditating on the soul spar in her hand.

About 5 minutes later, Kara Dena opened her eyes, frowned, sorted out the messy memories in the spar, and said to Brian:

"This tomb is the first stronghold of the Shar church trying to expand to Cormyr. The real base camp is located in a lost monastery in the center of Guangze."

Brian nodded slightly when he heard the words, and said to the sorceress, "In this case, let's not waste time and set off for the monastery."

Then, the two searched for some valuable gems in the secret room, left the two strange businessmen, and walked along the Manticore Road to the depths of Guangze.

Guangze is the national border of Cormyr and Sambia, but neither side wants to claim ownership of it, unless the monsters living in the swamp try to invade the territory, and the high-level officials of the two countries will face it squarely.

In the past few decades, Guangze has always remained calm. Monsters usually stay in the swamp, so ordinary people have always ignored their existence.

It is for this reason that this vast marsh is one of the most uninhabited places in the realm—for civilized people, of course.

In Cormyr, Guangze is considered the most dangerous area in the country.

Even leaving aside the various monsters that inhabit it, its natural environment threatens any attempt to traverse it.

For example, swamps that don’t mind devouring all passers-by, insects carrying various pathogens, miasma full of poison, quicksand that you don’t notice until you stumble, thick fog that can’t be seen through at all, cold to the bone marrow rain etc...

In recent years, however, the swamp has become less peaceful.

It began to gradually expand, and the orcs, goblins, and lizards living inside kept invading.

These vicious humanoid creatures constantly harass the main road that runs through Cormyr and Sembia - the Manticore Road, causing considerable trouble to travelers and merchants.

When Brian and Carla Dena gradually went deeper into the swamp, there were more and more shrubs and tangled bushes along the way, and the species gradually changed from rough oak to birch and willow near the water.

The surrounding bushes became denser and denser, and the ground became softer and more elastic, as if stepping on a thick layer of mud.

After walking for about half an hour, they stopped in front of a bush full of water.

Silently dotted the ground were stagnant pools of green duckweed.

Cypress trees, water ash trees, and willow trees with hanging branches grow slantingly along the edge of the water, and the trunks are covered with green moss.

Looking around, within the range of their line of sight, such scenes appeared repeatedly.

And not far ahead, among the willow trees with densely hanging branches, a huge, artificially cut log stands obliquely from the swamp. Looking up, it is about 10 meters high.

Many skulls of various creatures are stacked from the bottom of the cylinder, relying on wooden branches and iron thorns, these skulls cover most of the cylinder covered with green moss.

A muddy path bypassed this 'signpost' and extended into the depths of the swamp.

This is the Skull Pillar - a creation of orcs hundreds of years ago, used as a guidepost and intimidation.

It still serves the same purpose when the orcs are knocked back.

If you look carefully, you can find that there are orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, trolls, lizardmen, ogres, crocodiles, wild boars, and even hydras among the skulls distributed here.

On the muddy path behind the skeleton pillar, artificial traces gradually became more and more, and small bridges were erected on some water pools with felled trees.

Along the way, the traces of wildlife on this road have become almost invisible.

Just when the sorceress Kaladna was about to remind Brian, suddenly, a sharp whistle sounded in the air.

The calmness of the water surface of the rotten swamp was suddenly broken, and a large number of bubbles burst out.

Accompanied by a loud noise like an explosion, it was suddenly discovered from the gaps in the bushes that a nearly 30-meter-high water column rose up in front of it, like some kind of fountain.

At the same time, many reptilian figures stood up from the water and let out deafening roars.

These scaly humanoids, hissing at Brian and Kaladna, held large wooden clubs studded with sharp stone spikes.

A small lizard man was shaking his head and secretly watching the two, while another huge lizard man with dark green scales snarled at Kaladna provocatively, as if he thought she was the best bully.

"Don't do it." Brian stopped the female sorceress who was about to raise her hand to release the spell, and walked forward calmly. Amid the threats of many lizardmen screaming and screaming, he said to them in dragon language, "I know you are lying in ambush. What is the purpose of this time?"

He showed his purple dragon seal ring, making it shine bright purple light in the sun, "As you can see, I am an envoy from the Kingdom of Cormyr, we are here to negotiate peace, take me to Meet your patriarch."

The leading lizard man stared at the purple dragon seal ring worn by Brian, thought for a moment, and said in dragon language: "Hiss~ Cormyr, you are the purple dragon knight and battle mage, come with us~ hiss~ "

Brian exchanged a glance with the sorceress who covered her mouth and nose with her hands to block the stench, and walked toward the depths of the swamp with the dozen or so lizardmen.

The two of them used the floating spell to stay about half a meter above the ground. As the lizardmen advanced deeper into the swamp, the air became warmer and more humid, filled with the smell of sulfur.

There was a faint mist in the bushes ahead, covering the swamp and the bushes hazy.

When they walked through the misty bushes, they appeared in an empty field in sight. The ground was paved with gravel and there were many small houses woven with reeds and branches on both sides.

Obviously, this is a lizardman village.

There is also a steaming hot spring in the distance. Several huge rocks protrude from the water in the center of the hot spring, and an old lizardman shaman stands on it.

Leaning on a withered cane, he stood on a rock, closed his eyes, and looked as if he was basking in the sun.

The leading lizardman immediately ran over and explained to the old shaman why Brian and the others had come.

"Hiss~ It must be the holy Serio Anya who guided you here." The old shaman opened his cloudy eyes and nodded slightly, "Hiss~ Welcome to come here, race of hair. Hiss~"

"Hiss~ I'm Xesesek, the chief of the Sharptooth tribe. Hiss~ This is a young man from our tribe, the troops against the Shadowscale tribe, hiss~ We attack you to save you." He slowly Walking up to the two of Brian, he said in an old voice:
"Hiss~Because the hairy animals walking on this road like sleepwalking are all controlled by those hairy guys. Hiss~"

"Have you seen many humans like us?" Brian asked.

"Yes, hiss~ we have seen many hairy ones like you, hiss~ usually rare, hiss~ some of them are with the people of the Shadowscale tribe, hiss~ and more of them like sleepwalking to that The nearby fortress has gone."

"Then what did they do, do you know?" Hearing the fortress, Brian knew that the truth was getting closer and closer to him, so he asked again.

"Hiss~ we don't know what they went there for, but they never came back. Hiss~ the stronghold is deep in the swamp, over there. Hiss~ the hairy and shadowscale tribes live there. hiss~ they often There are too many people coming and going from here, too many for us to fight them. Especially since they still have fortresses."

"As far as I know, all the lizardmen in Guangze believe in one god, your holy Serio Anya." Brian raised his own doubts, "Why did you have such a large-scale battle?"

"Shhh long ago we called the warriors of the Shadowscale Tribe: Dragon Slayers. Hishh but they fell. A black dragon ruled them. Hishhh their chieftain, Kotsala, was as strong as a dragon and Evil. Hiss..." The old shaman patiently told the two of them:
"Kotsala~his, her scales are black, just like her father Despiel's, and she has a horn. For many years, black dragons have ruled this swamp, hiss~decades ago, the dragon slayer The Horde claims they killed quite a few. Hiss~ The last black dragon killed was called Tia. Hiss~ Then Despiel came, and the dragon slayers became slaves."

"I see." Brian nodded slightly, "Then do you know their lair?"

As long as he investigates the location of the stronghold and the tribe, he can break in with Kala Dena, pass the shadow stone fragments, and go to the shadow plane.

"Hiss~ Of course we know the lair of the Shadowscale Tribe." The old shaman nodded slightly, and said sadly:

"Hiss~something must have happened to them. This year when their armies came to our land, they changed a lot. Their eyes burned like fire, and shadows wrapped around their scales, protecting them. Hiss~ They looked as if they were dead, their souls were separated from their bodies and replaced by pure darkness. Now they attack us, kill our people, or take them away. What happened to those who were taken A fate worse than death. Hiss..."

"They changed, became Shadowscale, and came back to continue to hurt their former people! We can hardly resist their invasion, many teeth died in battle, and many more were captured and taken to their stronghold .”

"In Guangze, was only one of your tribes attacked, or did all the tribes suffer the same fate?" Brian nodded thoughtfully and continued to ask.

"Of course, hiss, other tribes were attacked too, and many tribes perished just like that, and we already know that you are not with the hairy animals that mingled with the shadow scales. So I thought, maybe we have the same Enemy, hiss~ Therefore, I ask you to help us. Many of the captured people should still be alive, Asara, my wife. Hiss... and our former chief, Gan Ran, was also captured by them last time has, but has not yet reappeared as an undead."

The old shaman bowed his head deeply, and sincerely begged: "Hiss~ We implore you to send troops to help us, save them, hiss~ If you can help us, we can help you too. Hiss~ Although We have no property of furry animals, no gold and no silver. But I can give you all I have. If you save them, I will give you all my allegiance to help your kingdom of Cormyr defend against the The danger of the swamp will save you from any worries."

"Bryan, this old shaman is quite smart." The female sorceress at the side suddenly said to Bryan through magic voice transmission:

"I have learned about the situation here through mind reading. This lizard man named Kesesek is right. He was originally a small leader. After five consecutive chiefs were killed by the Shadowscale tribe, in order to prevent illegal He was forced to be elected due to layoffs in battle. He is very afraid of death, so he wants to use us to help him deal with the Shadowscale tribe corrupted by the Church of Shar."

"I see." Brian nodded slightly, and said to the sorceress, "In this situation, we can only find the hidden locations of the Shadowscale tribe and monastery through this group of lizardmen."

"I can help you, I hope you don't forget the promise you just made, the loyalty you showed to Cormier."

He said to the sad old shaman, "Arrange a guide for me now and take us to the stronghold of the Shadowscale tribe."

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(End of this chapter)