Chapter 233: Entangled Talisman and Skull Canyon
The land of seasoned merchants who knew how to seize the power and the young traders who planned to share it, the Sambia appreciated the art of trading and preferred the skill of negotiating rather than outright lies or deception to gain benefits, and although Sambia did not control the Commerce of Felon as much as Amm, on the contrary, Commerce had a much stronger control over Sambia than Amm. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
If 60% of Am's economy and kingdom supplies are obtained through trade, then the proportion of Sambia will be as high as 80%! There are almost no shady farmlands, no blacksmith shops that smoke all day long, no water factories, and no hard-working farmers, all but merchants in this country!
In other words, if one day the outer kingdom no longer trades with Sambia, then this commercial kingdom will fall apart if it doesn't last even a month......
However, unlike the lawless mobs in the cities around the Sea of the Moon and the Pirate Islands, the Sambians are not at all fond of deception and robbery, and they usually like to follow the rules of contracts, bets, and interesting payment methods, which the Sambians are very much in attendance to in most cases, but they are also very good at finding loopholes in other people's rules to increase their own profits!
Sambia considers itself a young, aggressive, and expansionist country. He had absorbed a valley, the Valley of the Moon, and transformed it into a capital worthy of great power: O'Dullin, but the elites of Sambia were too keen to find superiority over each other to unite under a single policy or a single warlord.
Sanbia used its geographical location on the northwest shore of the Meteorite Sea to act as a broker between the north and south of Faerun.
The city of Santarim in the Sea of the Moon also traded with other nations, but the Sanbarians did not consider them a real competitor, as much of the Santalim trade had to flow through Sanbia from one port to another, usually through Odurin. The Sanbia did see the Santarim as a magical threat, but the first thing that Sanbia feared was the threat of the magical commercialism of the red-robed mages who were Tore, and the Senate of Sambia did not want to see Tore offer magical goods that the Sanbians could not replicate in order to seize the market that belonged to them........
Overall, Sambia is a land of wealth, and greed drives people to earn more wealth. More energetic and hands-on than the superficial Am, this is a place of peddlers and conspiracies, worship, and other annoying and desperate dangers, and these "vampires" will never be satisfied as long as there is still a little bit of money left to fall into the pockets or vaults of the Sambians.
Most of the Sambians spend their lives making money, doing business, enjoying the fun of showing off their wealth (mainly fashion, fashion, and revelry), gossiping about the general situation of Feron and the details of their neighbors, and it is such a troublesome country that Acoste is now in!
First of all, it took them a few days to pass through the Skull Canyon, a large canyon that would have turned out to be unheard of by other adventurers, but it did not cause any trouble to the Half-Elven Sword Master, and occasionally a few trolls and ogres ran out of the way, and the Night King and they drove them away almost without much effort!
But that's just the feeling of midnight in Kranvo.......
Skull Canyon was originally just an unknown and nameless canyon.
There are many and common canyons of this kind on the Faeron Road, but thousands of years ago, a protracted war between elves, orcs, humans and dwarves made this canyon unraveled!
Battle of the Arrows!
No one knows how long they fought, and no one knows how many people died in total by the end of the battle, people only know that the predecessor of the country of Sambia, the Colony of Gondas, was wiped out in this battle, and the High Elves and Dwarves here also disappeared in the long river of history, only the orcs and humans were strong or down, the outcasts of the Gondarth Colony established the current kingdom of Sambia under the leadership of a mysterious man called Raven, and the orcs fled to the poor mountains and bad waters, With his strong reproductive ability and adaptability, he recovers and waits for his rise again.........
And at this moment, the Skull Canyon is the main place of the great war in previous years, the skeletons after the weathering of the corpses are piled up all over the place, and they are built into one after another hills that are not much higher than the ordinary mountains, and this is said to be a gathering place for the dead, where the ghost fire covers the sky at night, and there is already more than one person who claims to have seen some skeletons here awaken on their own during the day, trembling and standing up, wandering aimlessly in the empty canyon, looking for innocent travelers in the past to kill them!
However, Acoste had not encountered such a strange scene when they passed by in the past few days, and it was surprisingly quiet at night, not as ghostly as it had been rumored.
At first, the Half-Elf Swordmaster was still wondering, but when they reached the middle of the Skull Canyon, Acoste was sure that the rumors were true, and the situation he encountered was an anomaly!
Because he's met a legendary lich here, and there are more than one!
It's clear that this is a mage organization made up of secret lichs, and the wraiths haven't been able to come out lately because they've been controlled by this group of legendary lichs with necromancy!
It was a group of lichs dressed in ornate robes, with a strange sigil carved into the sleeves and chest of the robes, the emblem resembling two rough 3-like symbols twisted together, the edges connected downward to resemble claws, and the left claw was slightly longer than the right.
Acoster's eyes lit up for a moment, he recognized this emblem, and the lich who could possess these symbols could only be the lich in the entanglement rune organization.......
It was an incredibly powerful group of undead spellcasters, the Charm of Entanglement was founded in 864dr by Dark Receran the Dark, an old mage of Karinshan, whose goal was to establish a secret group of mages and make them the true force behind all the laws of the land of conspiracy, for personal interest alone.
These beings have an almost infinite amount of time, they can control a huge amount of power, and the lives of insignificant mortals can give them eternal pleasure, they hide behind layers of secrets and servants, few people know about their existence, and only a very small number of slaves know how to communicate with their masters, this organization is very secretive, but that is only for most people, but the people who exist at the top of the pyramid of the Feron continent in Ilsmin, their organization is a bit like thunder.
How did those guys get here?
Acoste was a little puzzled, but his eyes were fixed on a certain direction, and at this moment, Wei'er, Ling, Salina, and Yalian, who had entered the legend, suddenly felt something, and looked in that direction, and some even put their hands on the weapons, preventing a big war that could break out at any time.......
However, surprisingly, the group of old lichs did not want to make a move, they just glanced at Acoste indifferently, and after recognizing the strength of several people, the lichs snorted coldly and quickly left here with magic, without breaking out into any conflict.
"Sure enough, the turbulent year has arrived, and all kinds of bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods have emerged." Acoste muttered in a low voice after seeing the other party leave, although the entanglement talisman retreated without a fight, but he was not half happy in his heart, Karinshan was in the southwest of Feren, close to the Sea of Radiance, and the Skull Canyon was close to the northeast of the Feren continent, which was not only tens of thousands of kilometers away.
The Entanglement Charm has always had only thirty internal members, and you can see five here, what does this mean?
Everything is self-evident, now even if a few Zaruk Witches, the founder race that had only appeared in the Thunder Era, jumped out in front of the Half-Elf Sword Saint, Yacoste would not have the slightest expression of surprise, because he knew that in the next troubled times, anything could really happen, and no one knew what would happen tomorrow, what if the Planet Torrell was shattered? It's not impossible............
It's just that Acoste and the lich confronted all this, Cranvo and Midnight didn't know that in the eyes of the two still weak professionals, their team was really very lucky, and they encountered almost no resistance in the treacherous Skull Canyon, and successfully arrived in the border town of the kingdom of Sambia, Iheom City.
The city is the only place in the overland valley that connects to the Meteorite Sea, and it is said that the city grew from an old quarry, where the richest merchants lived happily on the slopes of the quarry, while the poor lived further down the slopes, and so on, until the slums of the city were on the mudflats, facing a well-ordered port area for commerce.
A few guards standing at the gates of the huge mottled city stopped Acoste and them.
Due to the continuous harassment of the island archipelago to the kingdom of Sambia, it is not easy for ordinary people to enter and exit this commercial kingdom, every foreign traveler or merchant has to go through tedious steps and a lot of time to get an ID card for himself, with this document you can travel freely in the territory of this kingdom, otherwise once the guards find out that you are smuggled in, they will not hesitate to blast you out of Sambia, when they are in a bad mood, maybe they will kill you!
And now maybe because of the approach of the Sage Rebellion, the kingdom of Sambia is not peaceful, cultists, dark elves and monsters have attacked the city many times, and natural and man-made disasters in the surrounding neighboring countries have also continued one after another, which makes the nobles of the Sambia Kingdom also vigilant, although they have not completely closed this ancient kingdom, but the inspection of entering the city is undoubtedly much stricter than usual.
"I'm sorry, adventurer, you can't enter Iheom City without a pass, so please go back."
As soon as the guards guarding the city gate heard that Acoste said that they had no papers, they immediately stopped them without saying a word, as if they were not allowed to negotiate at all.
"But we're really not those hateful cultists, you know, the world is very chaotic right now, we're just a bunch of poor people wandering outside, just want to go to a relative who lives in your country, this sir, can you help us be accommodating."
The half-elf sword saint took out a few gold coins from his arms with a smile on his face and quietly stuffed them into the other party's hands, joking, according to the normal way, it will take two or three months to get a pass for Sambia, and if it is placed in this kind of chaos in the world, the ghost knows when the certificate will be issued, maybe the Sage Rebellion is over.......
It wasn't that they had no other way to enter the city, such as touching through the steep mountains next to them, using spells to lure them through the gates, or forcing them in, but when they thought that their destination, Arabell, was to the east of Sambia, near Cormier, and that they were now on the west side of Sambia, Acoste gave up these means of seeing the light.
There is still a long way to go for them, now it's better to get a pass to settle down, otherwise if something goes wrong during the journey, it will be a trouble after all, the half-elf sword saint is very strong personally, but he is not conceited enough that he can compete with an ancient kingdom with a few people on his own............
"Thisβ" The little leader looked a little hesitant, but after a moment he shook his head. I'm sorry, the above has been checked more strictly recently, so you better follow the rules! β
"Strict uncle!" Yacoste scolded in his heart, if you check strictly, you will return the labor money to me, just put it in your pocket so naturally, what kind of song is it?
"Big brother, we really don't mean anything else, do you think that there are a group of brave and loyal guards like you in the Kingdom of Sambia, do we dare to be presumptuous inside?" The half-elf swordmaster still had a flattering smile on his face, and at the same time, he grabbed a handful of gold coins from his arms and stuffed them into the other party's hands. "It's also very hard for you to stand guard every day, this little meaning is not a tribute, take it to buy something for the other brothers to comfort me."
"This ......." the leader put his hand into his arms again without thinking, with a helpless expression on his face, "Do you know that this will make it difficult for me, this is a special time, you see." β
"Don't say it, this is all my belongings, you can give me the communication card." Yacoste didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and took out a heavy cloth bag from his arms and stuffed it into the other party's hand, and at the same time the green tendons on his forehead were rising, if the other party didn't know what to do, he would not be able to bear it.
"No problem, here are nine passes, the stamps have been stamped, you just need to fill in your name, I wish you a pleasant trip to Sambia." It's just that the guard is also refreshing, he knows that he has made a lot of money, so he immediately accepts it when he sees it, and quickly takes out 9 documents from his pocket and hands and hands to the half-elf sword saint.
"Hehe, I wish you a happy day!" Acoste gritted his teeth and walked into the gates of Iheum without looking back............ (To be continued.) )