Chapter 177: Learning from Comrade Ke Ruilon
The reason why Levi made this decision without hesitation was that he had to admit that he did have some selfish intentions.
Since this disguised slave ship came from the north, nine out of ten of the slaves who were captured on board were people from the Silvermoon Federation.
And there is a high probability that it is a retail investor who lives in the riverside area at the junction of the Moon Forest and the Eternal Wasteland.
Because after this generation of the area, it is within the patrol range of Silvermoon City, and a large number of forest rangers are used as scouts every day to scout the surroundings to warn of the invasion and plundering that may occur at any time by orcs, barbarians, and some uncontrolled orc tribes.
These unproductive races can only survive and reproduce by plundering food and women.
After this solid portal, you will arrive at the second portal of the Silver Moon Federation, Elward.
A city of commerce surrounded by walls of humans, elves, half-elves, and halflings.
It is Silvermoon City's staunchest ally, and the ruling Council of the Six Elders is also an important part of the Federal Council.
Because of its location on the riverbank between the Eternal Wasteland and the Nether Mountains, Aylward is attacked on almost all sides.
The trolls who used to roam the Eternal Wilderness were considered stupid, but the giants who had replaced them in recent years were not.
And the towering trees in the Supreme Forest in the south of the city are getting closer and closer to the city wall, and it is the Tulang Tree People who are pushing the Supreme Forest to the north.
Ostensibly to drive the remnants of Hellgate Fort to the east, no one would think it would be a good idea to take an axe into the High Forest.
Only through Aylward will you reach the pocket-shaped valley of the River Revon, surrounded by the Nether Mountains and the highest forests, and here is the relatively safe part of the Northlands.
During the harvest month (September in the Haptus calendar), you can see continuous clusters of golden grains harvested by farmers on both sides of the river and in the hills on both sides of the River.
However, due to the consolidation of the ruling area of the Silver Moon Federation, there have been more and more creatures hiding from the war in the past five hundred years, and the population of this small but safe valley has long been saturated.
As a result, those immigrants who were eager to be accepted and protected by the Silvermoon Federation had no choice but to choose the downstream area closer to Silvermoon City to reclaim the Foundry.
The Silvermoon Federation did assign some rangers to patrol this newly cultivated area, but after all, some of them were beyond the reach of the whip, and they could always be found by those orc tribes or slave traders.
Originally, Levi was still having a headache, how to make Zeellandia naturally integrate into the complex and diverse environment of the surface Northland.
After all, surface creatures are prejudiced against all underground races except dwarves, so the slave ship in front of them has become an excellent entry point for them to intervene on the surface!
The common practice of slave traders was to simply kill all those who resisted and then take the rest captive.
And the thing in front of me is even more ruthless! There are only children and women.
Even if he rescued them, most of them would be homeless, and he could naturally accept this group of people of the Silver Moon Federation, build a small fishing village here, and prepare for the migration and integration of Zeelandia's population to the surface in the future.
As long as they do this, they Zelandia is equivalent to having a northland hukou to some extent!
Isn't it a sense of déjà vu?
That's right, that's what the elven god Corellon did when he smuggled the elves from their world to the Korell continent!
As for doing so, it will offend the forces behind this slave fishing ship?
Levi smiled, how could he be so naïve as a dragon.
Because you can't be friendly with every force, you have to choose sides after all.
At that time, after Zelandia successfully takes root in the Northland, it will also provoke the hostility of some forces.
Moreover, the forces engaged in the slave trade, Levi really disdained their kindness.
There is one thing he strongly agrees with Calvin, and that is:
Slave traders are damned!
And as his words fell, Calvin had already boarded the ship through the [Advanced Teleportation Technique], which instantly caused panic among the crew.
A human who can use teleportation so casually is by no means an ordinary person!
High-level spellcasters!
It's still the top batch!
They hadn't even heard of such a young high-level spellcaster in the Northlands!
They had the impression that the only Northlands who had ever done so seemed to be the former Masked Lord and Archmage Ilminster of Waterdeep City, but these two legendary figures were not young for a long time and rarely appeared in the Northlands.
As soon as Calvin appeared, he almost shocked everyone on board.
"Powerful spellcaster, we're so sorry for the recklessness and rudeness of the crew! I don't know what your purpose is, our Red Maple Caravan will do our best to meet your needs!"
A middle-aged man dressed as a businessman hurriedly came out of the cabin and saluted Calvin with trepidation.
Calvin said unceremoniously, "Caravans, are your so-called commodities the women and children who are trembling in the bilge?"
The 'merchant''s face changed slightly, and bitterness welled up in his heart, and he secretly said that he was unlucky.
And since it has been discovered by the other party, I'm afraid things can't be good.
You must know that Erastro in Silvermoon City has a zero-tolerance attitude towards slave trade, even ordinary slave traders are punished very severely, not to mention that their identities cannot be exposed, otherwise the end will be extremely miserable.
There is no choice!
There is no delay here!
Because they were bumped into by a 'harpist' as they gathered the last shipment, and although they were also caught red-handed and ready to be transported to Neverwinter, God knows if they left any signal markings.
So they're now, sort of a race against time!
Thinking like this, he had to squeeze out a smile, and at the same time his eyes looked back and forth between Calvin and Levi, who was still on the bank of the river:
"It's... Let your eyes dirty, it's really...
"I'm sorry!"
And just as the last two words fell heavily in his eyes, a cold glint erupted in his eyes, and a short sword fell from his cuff and was grabbed by his calloused right hand, and he leaned over and rushed towards Calvin!
At the same time, behind Calvin, a thief who had sneaked past was holding two poisoned daggers and stabbing Calvin in the back.
The rest of the crew raised their longbows as they saw the captain's left hand behind him gesture toward them, half aimed at Calvin, and the other half aimed in Levi's direction for a shot.
The idea of a 'businessman' is simple and crude.
What about high-level professionals!
Being close up is no different from an ordinary person!
As a lawyer, he didn't even bring a single guard, and he dared to teleport directly to their deck, without even opening a shield!
It's just looking for death!
In his imaginary scenario, the caster would activate a defensive spell such as [Elemental Shield] or [Body of Steel] at the first opportunity, and it was likely to be silent or even instantaneous.
After all, high-level spellcasters usually have some life-saving spells on a regular basis.
And when the other party has done this, he will already be approached by the thieves behind him, and the dagger under his command is not an ordinary product, but an extraordinary weapon that has been enchanted with the effect of breaking demons!
Once you are stabbed in the back into the kidney, hehe, the healing technique of the ordinary priest can't save it!
He seemed to be able to see the image of the other party freezing after being attacked and being beheaded by his own sword.
The only problem was that it was so far from the riverbank, what if his elven companion escaped.
That's a 'big beauty', it's just a little taller, but it doesn't matter, as long as the face is good-looking, there are a lot of nobles who like this model in Winterfell!
If the two people in front of him were really normal high-level lawyers, it was really possible to be recruited if they were careless.
But what he wouldn't have thought about when he died was...
These two guys in front of you...
But there's no normal person...
They... Not even a mage...
"Ah!!h
A terrible howl shattered his beautiful illusions.
The assassin behind Calvin suddenly knelt with a twisted face halfway through, clutching his brain and rolling wildly, dying in pain.
The thief felt as if countless steel cones had poked into his head, stirring constantly... Stir it again, turning his brain into a pulp.
It's not a high-level spell.
Just a Ring of Psionic Spells:
[Spirit Piercing]!
"Shoot!Shoot!!"
The thief fell to the ground inexplicably, causing the 'merchant' to change his face drastically, and he quickly pinched the necklace on his neck, unfolded a protective spell, and at the same time slashed at the opponent's neck with a sword, and roared at the same time.
But just as his dagger was about to cut through the 'mage's neck.
He was horrified to find that he suddenly couldn't move!
It's like your body is no longer under your control!
It's not just him, everyone who rushed to the deck couldn't move!
This discovery frightened everyone, and a fear of the unknown hit their hearts.
It was only then that the 'Merchant' noticed the undisguised clusters of spontaneous horns on Calvin's head, and stammered:
"Evil... Don't... Don't kill me, our organization also has business dealings with your abyss. ”
The word 'demon' made Calvin frown slightly, but he ignored the other party, because he didn't need it, and to treat these dregs of slave traders, he directly used a two-ring psionic spell:
【Reading Thoughts】
"Sure enough, it's the scum of the Santalin Society. ”
After solving his doubts, Calvin looked around at the crowd, and some of them were a little uneasy to cast a spell that he had recently learned [Detect Evil].
Seeing that they were all blood-red aura, Calvin was relieved, and pointed to everyone without sorrow or joy:
"Die, go to hell... To those who died under your butcher's knives... Repent!"
Then all the people on the ship began to find themselves moving uncontrollably.
Four-Ring Psionic Spell——— [Group Domination!]
"No... No, the devil, don't kill me, don't kill me, I'm willing to give my soul and everything... Yes... Vomit..."
The 'merchant''s frightened and bloodshot eyes could not stop tears from overflowing, but he still couldn't stop the dagger in his hand from slashing firmly and slowly towards his neck.
Just like they do with men who dare to rebel when they say goodbye.
And before he could lose consciousness, he heard himself and the congregation behind him say in a distorted and fanatical voice:
"Obey... Your will... We... There is no redemption for death..."
"Poof!"
The sound of slitting throats was heard continuously.
The other crew members of the entire ship raised their daggers or arrows and stabbed them in the neck, and then they all fell to the ground with strange and twisted smiles, and the sticky blood quickly accumulated into pools of blood, stretching into patches!
The scene looks like the filthy sacrifice of some evil god...
Bloody and insane!
Poof.
Levi jumped onto the deck, looked at the dead bodies and pools of blood in this place, and smashed his mouth with some headaches.
Sure enough, Calvin still couldn't provoke the anger in his heart after seeing the evil and blood in their memories.
"Are all the professionals on the surface so weak? If we were bumped into them, we would think we were demons in human skin, aha. ”
Levi did not open his mouth to blame Calvin for not listening to his words, but jokingly calmed the negative emotions and throbbing in his heart.
"I'm sorry, boss, I can't help it, these guys are a bunch of complete scum!" Calvin said with some guilt.
"It's okay, you've been holding back for twenty-three years, and if you don't vent, I'm afraid you'll go crazy one day. ”
Levi waved his hand, "Let's clean up here first..."
But before he could finish speaking, he turned his head sharply and looked in the direction of the forest on the other side of the riverbank, and then his face changed greatly, and he violently pushed Calvin, who was immersed in memory, away, and whispered:
"Who!"
As soon as he finished this action, a blurred figure burst out of the woods on the riverbank, and with two cold rays of light, he instantly crossed the calm river and shot towards him!