A sneeze destroys a magical civilization

As the time entered the latter half of the night, around three o'clock in the morning, the entire monster camp fell into silence.

Especially the orcs, who had little sense of responsibility and discipline to begin with, were either already falling into a deep sleep or dozing off with their eyes closed.

As for guarding the prisoners...

Feel sorry!

They didn't think at all that humans who had done hard physical labor for a day and hadn't eaten much were capable of escaping from a camp full of monsters.

What's more, half-orcs are still half human.

When dealing with humans, dwarves, halflings, and dwarfs, no matter how bad the attitude is, they will not be treated as food.

This is also the reason why orcs are arranged to guard and manage the captives.

If they were replaced by gnolls, ogres and trolls, they would probably throw all the captives into a pot and cook them in a few days.

The orcs are slightly better. Although they are not cannibals, the men will unceremoniously violence against the women in the captives, forcing them to become pregnant and give birth to mixed-race children.

As for the snakes and lizardmen, they will be very happy to give these captives as sacrifices to their gods first.

To sum up, in fact, the prisoners are relatively safe when they are under the supervision of the orcs.

But that's not necessarily the case if you run out.

However, these orcs did not notice at all that while they were sleeping and napping, an owl flew silently over the camp and made a full circle.

Then he turned around and landed on the shoulder of a female half-elf in the woods. She tilted her head and let out a cooing sound.

You don't need to ask to know that this female half-elf is the recently rescued Jaheira.

Through the special professional ability of Druid [Understanding Animals], she quickly learned a lot of useful information from the owl's mouth. Then she turned to the other two people and said in a low voice: "There are about two thousand people in the camp. captive.

There were nearly two hundred orcs responsible for guarding them, as well as several very alert and cunning wargs.

If we want to save people, we must first get rid of the wargs and the few sentries guarding near the door.

The entire rescue process must be done very quickly and without making too much noise.

Otherwise, once it alerts other monsters around, it will turn into a terrible disaster. "

"Don't worry! Just leave this kind of thing to me."

Zuo Si pulled up his hood to cover his face, and then tapped himself with the [Invisibility Staff].

The next second...

His whole person disappeared into thin air.

If it weren't for the vaguely visible footprints on the ground fading away, no one would have noticed that there was a big living person hiding here.

Watching Zuo Si disappear into the darkness, Jaheira immediately asked in an uncertain tone: "How do you think he will deal with those wargs and orcs?"

"No... no... I don't know. But I don't think he looks like a human boy of about ten years old at all." Khalid, who has a stuttering problem, stuttered in reply.

"Indeed! He looks much more mature than his appearance. In addition, his name is Soth, so if nothing else, he should be the person we are looking for." Jahila narrowed her eyes and analyzed.

She knew without asking that she had recognized Zuo Si's identity.

After all, he has black hair and eyes, an oriental face, and the time, place, and name all match perfectly. If you can't tell the difference, you don't have to be a harpist.

"Do you... do you think that box is really in his hands?" Khalid asked cautiously.

Jaheira shook his head slightly: "I'm not sure. But judging from his behavior tonight, he shouldn't be an evil person. Maybe we can wait until we rescue those prisoners and then find an opportunity to ask him face to face."

"Alas... Calimport's stronghold was destroyed too quickly. No... otherwise, we should have known what was in that box by now."

There was a hint of sadness in Khalid's tone and eyes.

Because many of the dead Harpers were his friends.

"No matter what is in that box, we must ensure that it will not be obtained by people from Cyric's church. Whether it is for the sake of those dead companions or to prevent the expansion of evil." Jaheira said firmly.

Just when Khalid was about to say something, Zuo Si suddenly released his invisibility and appeared in front of the two of them. He pointed at the camp behind him and said in a relaxed tone: "It's all done! You guys can go in now to organize the prisoners and prepare to escape. ."

"Wha...what! Is it done?"

Jaheira had an expression of disbelief on her face.

She really couldn't imagine how the "little one" in front of her could kill so many wargs and sentries silently in just a few minutes.

You must know that even the top shadow thief assassins in Amn are far from achieving such killing efficiency.

"That's right! It's all done. If you don't believe it, you can see it for yourself."

After saying that, Zuo Si made a gesture of invitation.

Under his "warm invitation", Jahira and Khalid approached the camp with suspicion.

After a while, they saw Orcs and Wargs lying on the ground in a mess, as if they were dead in sleep, and they did not react even if they were kicked.

But as a druid, Jaheira was keenly aware that these enemies did not sleep to death, but were really dead.

The body exudes a dark and cold negative energy.

moment!

The thought "These creatures must have died from necromancy magic" came to her mind.

After all, except for necromancy magic, other spells cannot kill so many targets at once in a short period of time, and they also leave traces of negative energy in the opponent's body.

"You...how did you do it?"

Khalid, who was not too thoughtful, asked directly. At the same time, he no longer looked at Zuo Si with any suspicion or contempt.

Because in the continent of Faerûn, no matter whether you are young or old, righteous or evil, as long as you have strong power, you will be respected.

Regarding this point, let’s see how the Lords of Waterdeep and the chosen ones of the Goddess of Magic deal with digging labyrinths underground in Waterdeep, summoning and imprisoning all kinds of dangerous and ferocious monsters and alien creatures, and causing big troubles more than once. Mad mage Halaster Blackrobe.

Not only did they not scream and kill this crazy legendary mage from the evil camp.

On the contrary, after a big mess occurs, a team is sent to rescue the "culprit" who is captured or trapped.

So in Faerûn, as long as your power is strong enough, you can really do whatever you want.

Zuo Si undoubtedly noticed the change in the attitudes of the two people, and immediately said with a smile: "I have some experience in summoning and manipulating shadow creatures. The corpses you see were all touched by a large number of shadow creatures in an instant. , who cannot bear the erosion of negative energy and eventually die.”

"No wonder!"

Jaheira understood instantly.

If it were normal times, she would definitely not be able to help preaching.

After all, shadow creatures, like all kinds of monsters, are unnatural in the eyes of druids and must be destroyed.

But now, she knew that rescuing people was like putting out fire, so she walked into the camp where a large number of human prisoners were held without any nonsense, and woke up those sleeping people one by one.

Half an hour later, more than two thousand people woke up from their sleep, holding hands with each other and ran towards the direction of the Mailatma City Gate.

Among them, the soldiers and militiamen picked up the weapons and armor from the orcs, and consciously assumed the responsibility of protecting civilians.

Although they were very careful not to make any noise, in the end because of the large number of people, they were discovered by several goblins who got up to urinate in the middle of the night.

Immediately afterwards, there was a piercing scream and shouting accompanied by a commotion, and other sleeping monsters also woke up...