Twenty Sided Dice

Siegel carefully followed the flow of the Blackwater River, neither too far from the river nor too close. He spends only six hours a day on the road, the rest is either dodging nearby orcs or finding a safe place to hide.

The closer you get to Macabota, the more you can feel the detection spells shrouded in the sky. They patrol every day without interruption, the so-called necessary measures to guard against mages. Among all spellcasters, the mage has the most abundant means, and each mage has a different personality, they will have different opinions on the same thing, and their actions are "uncontrolled and unpredictable". Some mages are good at flying, and city walls are a joke to them; some mages are good at shape-shifting and stealth, and all defenses relying on the human eye are useless; some mages are good at explosions, and railings and door locks are just paper in their eyes. Toys; the most terrifying thing is curses and poisons, which make the lords in various places restless and sleepless. In order to avoid this situation, the human lord cooperated with the temple, converted to the faith, and let the temple collect 11 taxes on its own territory in exchange for magical protection. The Starry Kingdom and the Church of Dawn are just such a model of seamless cooperation. The army belongs to the king, and the king's guard belongs to the temple. The cooperation between kingship and theocratic power has created a powerful kingdom that will last for thousands of years.

All other races also have means of guarding against spellcasters. Dwarves do not have mages, but runemasters provide protective enchantments; the royal family of elves must receive magic education since childhood, and they are all powerful mages. As for the orcs, they like to kill and their muscles precede their brains, making it extremely difficult for a calm and wise mage to appear, but they turn to the shaman, the "priest" of the one-eyed **** of the orc race. They set up exclusive enchantments in important areas, on the one hand to prevent priests of other faiths from approaching, and on the other hand to detect the whereabouts of mages.

One of the most important means is to detect magic, which is also the most common spell arranged in various lord castles. Whether it is a magic item or a magic enchantment, it will be invisible under the action of detecting magic, including wands. Even if the anti-magic force field is used to suppress the effect of detection magic, the vigilant can still feel the blank area that suddenly appears in the detection area - that is the area that detection magic cannot penetrate, so as to sound the alarm and attract Guard. Imagine that in the alarm area, in order to avoid being discovered, a mage cannot carry a wand, has no magic items on his body, and does not even have protective spells. Even if the spell material package is not affected, how much threat can only flesh and blood be? Can it be compared to a professional assassin? The lords can finally sleep soundly without worrying about becoming the puppet of the mage one day.

The lords, temples and mages associations have formed a balance, at least not causing major internal friction, and can maintain the stability of the political power, theocracy and the legal authority at the same time. The emergence of the new continent is just right, allowing these three forces to expand outward, and this model has also been brought over. Knights are easy to cultivate, and the lord's army can be formed as long as there is a population, but the generation of priests must be gradually advanced with the belief, which will be very slow. In the New World, the strength of the temple is relatively weak, so the Mage Association was separated from the Mage Association and closely integrated with Waterdeep City, trying to develop a new cooperation model, but other places are still conservative. Orcs have little incentive to innovate. To a certain extent, they are more "traditional", so the shamanistic enchantment around Makabuta is layer after layer, and there is no moment to stop.

The outer enchantment is still only monitoring the main road, using the skull tower set on the side of the road and the center of the Blackwater River—a guard tower stacked with enemy skulls—as the core of the enchantment, releasing detection magic and detection divine power. Siegel didn't take these roads in the first place, and he avoided getting too close to the river bank, and it was easy to avoid these detections. Continuing to approach Macabuta, the number of enchantments began to increase, and skull towers were also set up in some areas such as forests and mountain passes. Siegel can only choose to keep detours, so that the straight-line distance he travels every day has shrunk dramatically. Combined with the need to avoid the constantly moving patrols and watch out for the hidden posts, Siegel walked 60 miles a day, but less than 10 miles at the most to Macabuta.

Even at this speed, he couldn't continue to maintain it. The barrier ahead was already very solid, and there were no gaps left. Siegel had to stop on a small mountain, not far from the last big waterfall of the Blackwater River, and then the height of the terrain dropped rapidly and continued to the sea. Macabota was a hundred miles away, at the end of Siegel's field of vision. There are already swarms of houses and dots of light. The smoke rising from the cooking distorted and blurred the scene of the sea; where the lights were most concentrated, a few large ships could be seen vaguely under construction, and many black spots as small as mosquitoes were busy on the keel, and their work continued all night. . There are several such shipyards, located on the north and south banks of the Heishuihe River, and there is also a large maintenance shipyard by the sea. If you didn't know in advance, you wouldn't be able to tell that this was a city of orcs, and you thought it was the Iron Water Port of the Starry Kingdom.

Building ships requires a lot of wood, and there is a forest under the waterfall. Hundreds of orcs and goblins are busy in the forest, and the sound of axes cutting down trees can be heard endlessly. There are no animals in this woodland, and all of them have been eaten by the orcs. Just like there are not many fish in the Blackwater River, the orcs have no restraint in obtaining resources and are more greedy than humans. Humans will replant saplings after cutting down trees, but the orcs will only leave a devastated open space.

But now is not the time to think about racial inferiority, Siegel needs to think of a way to detect magic enchantment. He can place all magic items in the key space. He has done experiments, as long as the key and the dice are not more than half a meter away, it will not cause a response to magic detection. It's a pity that Siegel doesn't know how to enhance the dice's ability to hide objects, so the wand he's holding in his hand can't enjoy that convenience. Without the help of magic, Siegel didn't think he could get past the line with just his elf footsteps and wild sneaking skills. Whether it was an experienced orc guard or a mount wolf with a keen sense of smell, he could be found without any difficulty. .

Dressing up as an orc might be a solution, at least in the forest and the lumber mill without getting into trouble. But how to get through the gates and walls? Those guards are not easy to deceive, and they don't know the situation in Makabuta City, and no matter what they ask, they will reveal flaws.

Maybe you can make a big circle and swim across the sea? Siegel thought of the crowds of ships coming and going, those orc pirates with sharper eyes than anyone else, and the unobstructed sea, more dangerous than anywhere else. But what if you turned into a skeleton and walked directly from the bottom of the sea?

This idea made Siegel think for a long time, but finally gave up. After Siegel tested himself into a necromancer, it was like a hidden space key, which did not attract the attention of detection magic, and did not need to breathe. There was no problem in walking on the seabed. But Siegel doesn't believe that the entire Macabuta is defenseless against undead creatures. Orcs are more evil, but they also hate undead. Some of the witch sacrifices are means to protect and detect the existence of undead, and there must be corresponding functions in the enchantment circle of the city. And a constantly moving undead approached the shore against the direction of the river's impact. Siegel didn't think he was lucky enough to land, and was likely to be blown to pieces by the spell underwater.

He stayed on the waterfall for three whole days, observing and thinking about the method all the time. He saw the orc logging team below the waterfall throwing the felled logs into the water and letting them flow down the river to the shipyard. Siegel thought about hiding in the wood and drifting past, but the flesh and blood could not stand the icy river water, and the undead body would still be detected by the enchantment that detected the undead, and he would be found.

Every day, a large amount of wood floats on the river. The construction of the warship by the orcs consumes a lot of money. In the end, the wood under the cliff is consumed to the limit, so a logging team is eyeing the woods above the waterfall. Siegel saw orcs begin to climb upwards, aided by a troll. However, the trolls seemed to be of low status, and were still in hand shackles, which were linked together by chains and shackles. It also does not have an axe that can be used to chop down trees, but is only responsible for carrying the coolies.

Siegel suddenly thought of a way~www.readwn.com~ Although he still needs the help of the **** of luck, at least there is a chance of success. He thought about the whole process over and over again and again, including the possible reactions of the orcs. After two more days of observing the logging team, Siegel decided to do it.

He let Balon hunt around and found two rabbits, without gutting and skinning them, roasted them farther from the waterfall, and put them in the key space ready to be used as bait. Then he took out the bottles and jars looted from the witch sacrifice, and found several highly toxic substances, which were filled in the rabbit's belly. He waited until the day it started to snow, because at this time there were the fewest orcs, and only three lumberjacks took the trolls up the mountain to do the hardest work, and the others chose to be lazy down the mountain. Siegel waited for the logging to start, and went to the place where the orcs made a fire to warm up, and re-roasted the prepared rabbits. The wind wafted the aroma into the troll's nose, and it was already hungry and came over after smelling the aroma. Seeing that there were no orcs looking after him, he sighed and ate the rabbit together with the stick in one bite, chewed it hard twice in his mouth, and hurriedly swallowed it.

He didn't even think that the footprints on the snow had exposed his actions, because he didn't have a smart enough head to find the flaw in the whole thing. It's only idea to rush back to where he was and avoid being discovered by the orcs, but this idea will never be realized. Mixing several highly toxic substances, even with the troll's body recovery ability, there is only one dead end. The ugly big man swayed a few times, rammed his head into a tree, and fell dead in the snow.

Siegel came out from behind the tree, holding a dragon tooth dagger. Before the orc discovers the abnormality here, he has only a short time to prepare~www.readwn.com~ Welcome to reading, the latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all at~www.readwn.com ~. ;