Twenty Sided Dice

Compared to the spell of the sorcerer, the spell of the shaman is closer to the way of nature, running with vitality and vitality rather than simple elements. Witch sacrifices use the remains of various plants and animals to cast spells. They can heal and strengthen the physical abilities of the caster, and they can also poison or harm people with intoxication. Among other things, they can predict the weather and foretell the future. Witchcraft claims to be able to pull souls back from the land of the dead and bring them back to the mortal world, but the priests of the Temple of Life strongly disagree, arguing that Witchcraft's ability to resurrect is just a legend, an exaggerated story. Only priests and arch druids of the Temple of Life can resurrect the dead.

The above is all of Siegel's knowledge of the witch sacrifice, and there are only a few words in the library of the entire Mage Federation. Wanting to learn the ability like a witch sacrifice in a short time is a fantasy for Siegel. All he could do now was to confuse the people of Stone Village with smoke, flashes, and strange noises, and then say a few words of blessing, even if they were dismissed. For the rest of the time, he read the magic book in the key space and prepared materials for spell casting.

Fortunately, the people from Nishi Village rarely come to disturb the witch festival. Even if something happens, it's just going out to hunt for blessings, and going home to sleep with his wife to ask for blessings. Siegel would use the long-lasting, but diminished, spirit spells for the former, and the spells that increase physical stamina for the latter. Every now and then, the people of the village began to praise the new sorcerer, saying that he was a blessed and powerful spellcaster.

This deceitful behavior made Siegel very uncomfortable, and he wanted to walk away several times. In order to alleviate this sense of guilt, he took out the things that could be allocated in the key space on his body to improve the lives of the poor in the village. Salt, sugar, and cabbage are all luxuries in the cold North, and Siegel's small bottle of pepper is worth gold. After Lin Ke learned about this, he rushed over to collect the pepper, and carefully hid it in a secret place in the stone house. Siegel didn't care either and continued to distribute things. In addition to his own, he also gave several pregnant women the fur that the witch sacrifice had used to sleep in, so that they could withstand the cold. However, this further confirmed the witch sacrifice of his "God of Reproduction". Often, female orcs would sneak over to pray for a child, preferably a child blessed by the witch sacrifice "personally". For these people's unrestrained living habits, Siegel can only refuse over and over again, at most use illusions to create the illusion of spellcasting to comfort them.

But it's hard to explain why there were the most pregnant mothers in the village that winter.

Siegel wanted to leave the village three times, once because he encountered a blizzard, and he couldn't see his fingers and couldn't move forward at all. The other two encounters with orcs, both with a team of more than 100 people, including real witch sacrifices.

Siegel could feel the sphere of enchantment released by the witch sacrifice. As long as he casts magic, he is likely to be discovered by the other party, but it is impossible for him to avoid the sight of the orcs with his unfamiliar stealth ability alone. If you want to come to the road that can climb over the city wall and mountains, it must be more protected than here. At least a combination of flight and stealth is required to have some chance of smuggling.

There is no problem with invisibility spells, but the flying spell Siegel has not had time to learn, nor is it recorded in the spell book he has. ‘The spells that others can research, why can’t I? ' Siegel became cruel and began to try to study his own magic.

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye, and it is the early winter season. There is very little news from the south. Only a few words can be heard: The two-headed wolf king Wolfhan has entered the prairie, the wolves are hunting, and the skinners are following him. back. The Ironfoot Warlords are still on the Walled Mountains, watching out for human armies coming from the castle's defenses to cut their way. The purpose of the orcs is still to plunder, including food, weapons and slaves. Siegel heard that a batch of things had been shipped back to the north of the mountain range, and he could only secretly hope that the loss on the prairie would not be too great, and the Jackdaw tribe was not included in the list of looted tribes.

Siegel spends the rest of his time meditating and practicing spells, apart from playing witchcraft every day. He has finished reading "A Preliminary Discussion on Illusion and Elemental Magic", and now he starts to read the spellbook and notes of the blood magician. Although some of the incantations are sinister and sinister, they can still increase knowledge and improve Siegel's magic level. In particular, some of the skills of casting spells on the target of life, the blood magician has unique insights, and the way of applying curses through blood also makes Siegel amazed.

There is also good news that the familiar raven has finally found its owner. After a month of flying, Balon experienced blizzards, hailstorms, severe frost and arrows from orc hunters. This also reflects the tightness of the defensive power of the City Wall Mountains from one side. While feeding it, Siegel spread magical energy in the palm of his hand, and gently groomed it's feathers - this would speed up the familiar's recovery and enhance its magical affinity.

With the eyes of a familiar, Siegel can scout a wider area, and the radius of a hundred miles is within his grasp. Ravens fly high into the sky every day to patrol their territory. Around the Stone Village, there are five other small villages of similar size, half-orcs and orcs live together, living a precarious life. Most of these villages are left with only the young and the old, and it seems that the grown-up villagers, men and women, have all joined the expedition.

In addition to these villages, there is also a wooden fortress downstream of the river, a hundred miles away from Wanshi Village. Lin Ke said that it was called Bacon Town. It was the territory of an orc general, Kaka. It had less than 800 residents, but at most it could gather 400 troops. This orc general is affiliated with Waga the Flayer, but he prefers money over enemy skins, and fighting is not as good as trading. So some other orc generals will go to Bacon Town to sell things and exchange what they need.

Over time, a market has formed in Bacon Town, a place where order is maintained with fists. When the exchangeable value is insufficient, making up the old punch can also negotiate a deal. Seeing and listening through the eyes of the raven, Siegel knew that in half a month a shipment of value would be brought back, and the general would return with his skinned guards.

Siegel told the village chief Lin Ke about this. After he heard it, he immediately understood what was going on. "Siegel, I heard about this. Flaying General Kaka invited many surrounding towns and corps leaders to Bacon Town to participate in the celebration ceremony, but Stone Village was not among the invitations. This may not be good for you. According to the news, it seems that the orcs have achieved great victories in the south of the City Wall Mountains, and they have plundered a lot. You also know that the great warlord Three Eyes did not participate in this operation, and his orc generals must be quite complaining. In addition, some left-behind orcs also need to taste the sweetness, otherwise who knows if they will make a black hand on their compatriots after returning? So the orcs on the front line will bring back the spoils. And the Bacon Town Market is the number of the Sun Tears Wasteland. There are not many places where transactions can be conducted. It is estimated that this time Kaka will come back in person. It should be to invite all the powerful orc leaders nearby to share the results of the army. All the orcs show their strength and wealth. After all, the strong orcs are respected, and the elites of other tribes can often be recruited in this way."

"That is to say, where will the goods gather and the news gather?" Siegel thought for a while. He still lacks a lot of things. If he happens to find specific casting materials there, or if he is lucky enough to find a wand , it can greatly improve the success rate of Siegel's next plan. Even if they didn't, they could still inquire about the battle situation on the southern grasslands and the situation of the city walls and mountains, and perhaps they could use this as a basis to speculate on the orcs' action plan. In short, for Siegel, Bacon Town is a must.

"Siegel, do you want to go?" Linke asked.

"Yes, this is a good opportunity." Siegel's eyes flashed. "Whether it's intelligence or supplies, it's what I urgently need right now."

"What do you want to use it for? To deal with the orcs?" Linke shook his head, hiding his true intentions. He knew exactly how many times Siegel had slipped away. What if this mage was captured by the orcs and revealed the village of Stone Rock? Maybe it was too risky to win the support of the Orcs in the village, especially the Orcs who were trusted by the previous village chief, in order to protect Hunk. Siegel becomes increasingly unmanageable, and sooner or later his ambition and ability to act threaten the security of the village and his position as head of the village. Lin Ke's eyes drifted to the weapons in the tent. Unfortunately, during the passionate hand-to-hand fight with the female orcs, he took off his armor and had no protection on his body. The only weapon he could touch was the long dagger hidden under the blanket. He looked at Siegel and thought of the abilities of the mages he had heard of, and knew that they were not easy to mess with. Although being stabbed in the heart by a knife will kill the Mage, can he have that chance? Lin Ke thought for a while, but he couldn't do it yet, he could only find a better opportunity to deal with the trouble. But if Siegel can listen to his persuasion, maybe things can be salvaged. As for dealing with orcs, mages can do it, but the witch sacrifices in Nishi Village can't do it, and Lin Ke can't abandon the lives of all the young and old in the village.

"Don't look at me that way, my spell speed is faster than your weapon." Siegel guessed what he was thinking, and then said: "I am human like you, and in the eyes of others, this has already determined the position. , Orcs can't treat you and me as friends. I recently counted the number of people and found that there was no one sent to join the army in the southern expedition. What would the orc general do when he heard the news? Lin Ke, sober up, Regardless of whether the orcs win or lose, Stone Village may suffer a catastrophe. It's not Hunk's curse, it's just a simple inference."

"You only know one, but you don't know the other. It's not as simple as I don't send people to join the legion, but we try to avoid the orcs who catch Ding. This is not the south. A few people are enough. This is the wild and desolate north, and the generals like free slave soldiers the most. Especially Falcon Waga, all his generals are brutal thugs. Few come back alive. We have our own way of surviving, and we hide every time.”

"How long will we be able to hide?" Siegel patiently said to Lin Ke: "Now that the city walls and mountains have fallen into a turbulent state of war, it is likely that when we are talking here ~www.readwn.com~ on the grasslands And the mountains are already at war. Do you think the Orcs can break through Waterdeep? Can they fight the Mages? Can they face the alliance of humans, elves, and dwarves, and stand on the southern side of the Walled Mountains?"

"The purpose of the orcs is not to land."

"Yes, you're right." Siegel nodded: "When do you think the orcs will return? Do they know how to stop? At the end of this war, the orcs will definitely return to the north side of the mountain, and the soldiers of Waterdeep will no matter what. No matter what, the land here is not attractive to people in the south. No matter whether you win or lose on the battlefield, the only difference is the number of remaining troops. Orcs are chaotic by nature, and each general will take the opportunity to annex the forces of other generals. Replenish troops and population, and compete for hegemony. When they return to the army, it will be the disaster of the Sun Tears Wasteland, and the disaster of Hard Rock Village. Thirty years ago, the Orcs were defeated in the Battle of the Great River, but after fleeing back to the wasteland, the war did not end. It stopped, and lasted for at least three years. There is little record of this from the Mages Federation, but it is speculated that tens of thousands of orcs and half-orcs died in the subsequent conflict, and then a new batch of warlords and generals rose up and began the next The cycle of the wheel. How long can Stone Village hide?"

"According to you, our village will surely die?" Linke laughed and waved his hand in the air to hide his thoughts. "Your words make no sense. The entire icefield will fall into the test of iron and blood. I believe this, but listening to your words will not change the fact that we have to find a way to hide. How can there be a safe place here? To the south of the Walled Mountains?"

"You finally understand the current situation." Siegel nodded: "But help me, and I can find a way for you to find a way out in the warm south."