Chapter 406, Yang Fan, Set Sail!
PS: This is actually yesterday's second update, I'm sorry to be late, hehehehe~
In May 1364 of the valley calendar, the sea of swords was calm and sailing smoothly, and the large sailing ship that Aaron and others were riding was sailing on the open sea of Sword Bay, and a day later, the curtain of the endless sea had been opened in front of Aaron.
To the west of Sword Bay are a number of small islands, closer to Baldur's Gate, and the Whalebone Islands and Rusmu, the ancient homelands of the Eluscan ancestors, and the Lunaris Islands, which are now sharing resources with the Folk and the Elven branch Levi.
Among them, the Lunaris Islands are a more magical place, where gods often appear, including Baal, the Lord of Killing, Sivannas, the Father of Oaks, Cetia, the Mother Earth God, Marat, the God of Hunting, and Talos, the Lord of Storms.
The Levi Elves - A subspecies of elves between the Sun Elves and the Wood Elves that inhabit the Lunaris Islands, and it is rumored that the Levill Elves are a branch of the High Elves who tried to retreat to the Isle of Eternal Gathering after the Crown War, but were shipwrecked and forced to stay in the Lunaris Islands.
Not far away is the free port of Mingtan, which also serves as a neutral zone for meetings between the enemy and a recruiting place for various jobs entrusted to sailors.
The voyage began relatively smoothly, relying on the wealth of Reinsdorf and the special recruitment skills of the bald singer Morgan, Aaron soon bought a large ocean-going commercial ship from the "Seven Suns Chamber of Commerce", and Morgan managed to gather a group of sailors - it is said that the sailors' soul contract is all in Morgan's hands, and the Great Devil promises to break the contract as soon as the voyage is completed.
There are a lot of betting dogs among the sailors.
The salaries of ocean-going sailors are actually not low, after all, this line of work is a hard-working job, the main voyage can return safely, ocean-going sailors can get a lot of salary, even in such a chaotic place as Baldur's Gate, they know that they can't owe their wages to ocean-going sailors, and anyone who can prove that the captain or owner owes them wages can basically win a lawsuit in the Temple of Heim.
However, the mental pressure of ocean-going sailors is not ordinarily great, and regardless of the long hours of heavy physical work on the ocean, the long-term residence in the narrow environment of the ocean, the dangerous shipping routes, the small rations, and the enemies of all kinds of bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods, most of the ocean-going sailors are infected with strange habits, and gambling is one of them.
Once a person is involved in gambling, it is only a matter of time before he signs a contract with the devil.
At first, the sailors were happy to hear that they could break the contract and get a large sum of money if they could complete a trip to the sea, but when they found out that the route led to a very distant place in the Endless Sea, the sailors' emotions gradually became suspicious.
If the route of the Endless Sea is the most famous, it is undoubtedly the Isle of Eternal Gathering, a fragment torn by the elven archmages from the elven kingdom of Afando through the magic of the Great Division, inhabited by one million elves, with perhaps the most powerful navy in the country, and a naval fleet of the Elven Empire.
The sailors had expected that this might be a trade with the island of Eternal Gathering, but Aaron was clearly going further afield.
What's beyond in the Endless Sea?
Nobody knows.
It was a land that no one talked about, no one knew, and many explorers had visited those areas, some of whom had even made their way back, but the stories they brought back had changed from generation to generation, with legends of a disparate region with a chain of shipwrecked islands, feathered warriors, and vast expanses of land that suddenly appeared out of thin air as the seasons changed.
The waves crashed against the ship's side, and Aaron stood on the deck and watched into the distance.
The sea and the sky meet, the blue sea and the sky are clear, the bright sun in May shines on the ocean surface and reflects the whole light, and the salty sea breeze is mixed with a trace of imperceptible fishy smell.
Now, I'm going to find Dorne.
Aaron silently felt the salty sea breeze blow through the corners of his clothes and blow his hair.
He had been delayed at Baldur's Gate for too many things to take care of one after another.
Luckily, he quickly found Bod'an's chart, and without alarming the entire Baldurian community, and without even spreading any rumors in Baldur's Gate, he got it from the Sovereign.
Aaron has always been wary and skeptical of this perfect mind snatcher.
The monarch seems to know Bodian very well, not that he knows Bodean's life and deeds well, but he gives Aaron a particularly confident feeling, generally speaking, even the most powerful scholar can only try to restore the historical image of a historical figure according to the existing records, but the monarch gives people the feeling that he has been a bodyguard for Bodean, confidently and conceited to speak in a determined tone, Aaron saw in Candleburg The document recording Bodean's deeds reads like an academic treatise, and the monarch's words are more like memoirs.
Interesting.
Even more interesting is the character of the sovereign.
The monarch is the most standard order-minded evil character.
In fact, there have always been two kinds of evil keepers, the first kind of evil keepers is the devil, and everyone is familiar with the devil, so I won't talk about it here.
If the devil corresponds to lawyers and lawyers, then the monarch's evil style is that of bureaucracy under the bureaucratic system.
If it is useful, it will be used, and if it is useless, it will be discarded, full of mouth for your good, and the heart is full of calculations, only reporting the results, not reporting the process.
Julia's mother and daughter, who finally got started, said that they would send it, and the good words were just to get Aaron's greatest favor, but when the holy warrior came to the door, he immediately cut it rightly, but afterwards he emphasized that if something really happened, I would take action.
The monarch always likes to talk about the "law" and "Baldur's Gate tradition", and it seems that he is a very obedient person to the rules and procedures, but in fact, Aaron understands it too well:
If you don't want to solve a problem, you have to start with "systematization, proceduralization, standardization", and push the problem into the system called "system", so that the problem "goes to the system", I can't do it, but I will never make mistakes.
If you really want to solve the problem, then you won't go through the program.
These are the most typical evil-guarding bureaucratic styles.
Aaron was an ordinary civil servant in his previous life, he understands too well, the knowledge left by his ancestors is to be studied for a lifetime!
It's just that he doesn't need it in his life.
The monarch himself is a CPU master, from the beginning of the meeting, to the time he deliberately said that Aaron liked it (Aaron doesn't believe this at all, because if you really understand him, the monarch's transfiguration image should be different in some places, obviously he just got a generic elf beauty template), from the beginning of negotiations between the two sides to the monarch's initiative to admit that he needs Aaron more, the routine of the Mind Flayer is layer by layer.
What is the origin of this Mind Flayer?
No matter what the origin of this mind snatcher, Aaron only intends to cooperate with him this time, and it is too dangerous to have such a guy as a partner, as evidenced by the betrayal of Lady Julia.
And then there's the Roger Dorn thing.
Aaron's brow furrowed.
How he confronts this primordial will largely determine the path he will take in the future.
Nurgle's power calls, and Aaron believes that Rogdorn's body must have the element to fully activate Nurgle's power.
As Ra Endymion, the Praetorian Tribune, Aaron doesn't quite understand why the stone men of Sacred Terra are involved with Nurgle's "great love".
I believe that this matter will soon be answered.
In addition to the busy sailors on the deck, the demon prince Ann Nuoming was also standing on the deck, Aaron noticed that Charlotte was pulling Eleanor and whispering something, Miss Priest blushed and humiliated but did not run away, and the eldest lady was constantly gesturing, with a look of excitement and anticipation, they looked in the direction of Aaron from time to time, and the matter must have something to do with themselves.
"Annomin, how do you feel?" Aaron turned to the Demon Prince and asked, "Is this your first time at sea?" ”
"I basically didn't leave the Pasha Palace in Port Carlin until my mother fell ill." Anomin's freshness to the first time at sea has disappeared, replaced by a reflection on his own life: "I now understand why the young people of Port Carlin are so keen to go to sea, and at sea they are their own kings. ”
"You also have a sea of your own, and I have given you the boat." Aaron clasped his hands to his chest and looked at the blue sea and blue sky with Annomin: "The question is, Ann Nomin, what is your dream?" ”
"I don't know." An Nuoming was a little confused: "I only want to punish the wicked, especially those powerful like my brother, but I don't understand, obviously I am punishing those powerful, but the civilians oppressed by them treat me as a thug, I bring justice to them, but they see me as evil." ”
"Because many times, order is more important than goodness, I can tell you a lot of great truths, but I think the answer is up to you to find out for yourself, if you can't figure out what you're fighting for, then the power of chaos will gradually eat away at your heart." Aaron nodded: "Actually, I don't want you to go this way, but you have already left." ”
"What about you? Your Excellency, what is your ideal? Anomin was still thinking.
"I think I'll find out soon." Aaron looked at the sea level.
This is the last Chaos Power.
The answer to everything will be revealed on the island of Bodrian.
…………
The news of Aaron's departure to sea could not be concealed from Bilak, who had just left on the front foot, and Bilak immediately ordered the Baal Death Eaters to do it.
Bring Eboud Adrian to me!
The followers of the Killing Lord Baal soon began their activities in the Candlekeep, and one of the guardians of Baldur's Gate, the retired old Grion, sensed the wind and immediately left the Candlefort with Ebud-Adrian.
The adoptive father and son were attacked by the Death Eaters of Baal and the Chaos Monsters outside of Candlekeep, but were rescued by a chubby Sun Elf archmage, Bariel, but the elder Grion was badly wounded, and he told Ebud to go to Belgost's Friendly Arm first to find his two best friends, Khalid and Jahira.
On the way, Eboud meets Aimon, and the eccentric sister tells her childhood sweetheart next door that he may be the son of Baal like her, but Eboud thinks Aemon is talking nonsense and doesn't take it seriously.
Coming to the Friendly Arm, Eboud met Khalid and Jahira, and to Amun's speechlessness, his eldest brother Ebred couldn't walk as soon as he saw the beautiful wife, the green and leisurely Druid Jahira, and the green light in his eldest brother's eyes didn't even hide it at all.
Can you wipe the saliva from your mouth, Brother Ebud!
Little Aemon grumbled.
Jahira and Khalid are now called to the Verdant Courtyard to fight the rat tide at Baldur's Gate, and Jahira asks Eboud and Ammon if they would be interested in going together.
Eboud was not at all interested in the "security of the kingdom" and "fighting evil" in the mouths of Jahira and Khaled, and his attitude was simple: I will go wherever Jahira goes.
The four of them hit it off and headed straight for Baldur's Gate, leaving Grian's instructions behind their heads.
History has changed dramatically because of Aaron's appearance and has begun to move towards an unknowable future.
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