"New faces."

The bartender looked at the black-haired man and said, "First time in Neverwinter?" ”

"It's not the first time." The man was naturally Tang Sen, he nodded politely to the bartender, sat down next to him, and discharged a gold coin: "I heard that the consumption in Neverwinter is very high, I wonder if this is enough for a drink?" ”

"Of course that's enough." The bartender was immediately amused, and quickly touched the gold coin: "Even in Neverwinter, as long as you don't go to the best taverns, one gold coin will be enough for you to drink a glass of ale—of course, it is unlikely that you want a good quality." ”

"And here, in the suburbs of Wudong, in fact, prices are just slightly more expensive than in other cities, ahem, a little bit."

He skillfully poured a glass of liquor for Tang Sen, looked at Xue Xue on the side, and raised his eyebrows: "Drow Elf? Although this place is close to Neverwinter, after all, you have not entered the real Neverwinter realm, and my advice is that you better put on a cloak, otherwise you will still have a lot of trouble. ”

The surface people don't have a good attitude towards the Drow Elves, after all, the vast majority of this race believes in Rose.

"Do I need it?" Xue Xue looked at Tang Sen.

"No, I don't." Tang Sen just smiled and said to the bartender, "Give her a glass of wine too." ”

"I just heard about the entrance fee, and I remember that there was no such thing in the old Neverwinter."

"Looks like it's been a long time since the guests have been to Neverwinter." For the sake of a gold coin, the bartender treated Tang Sen more enthusiastically than the warrior monk, and he didn't care about the question of the drow elves, but said: "In the first year or two, I said that after the dwarf Barn became the lord of the city, Neverwinter did not need to enter the city. ”

"But as Neverwinter grew famous, and more and more people came from far and wide, the interior of Neverwinter became crowded."

"I've heard that even the streets are full of people when it's most crowded."

Tang Sen nodded, the reason for this is easy to understand, in addition to the commercial attraction of Neverwinter itself, those who have fled are probably more in need of Neverwinter's completely incapable environment.

"So, in order to reduce the load on Neverwinter itself, Barn has set the rules for the entrance fee?" Townsend asked.

"And that's not all." "There are a number of other initiatives, such as planning business practices, rezoning the various areas of the city, and establishing the prototype of a winterless suburb. ”

"If fighting is not allowed in Neverwinter, how can Ban force others to follow his plan?" Tang Sen asked with interest: "If it were me, I would have stayed on the street and not walked, and he couldn't do anything about me, right?" ”

"It's not uncommon for people to think like you, guest." The bartender laughed, "But I advise you not to do it." ”

"It's not just a way to punish a person by violating his body, and during that time, the people of the Neverfell Guard were dealing with the old people who thought like you, and put it into action, and it was clear that they were effective, at least for now, very few people did."

Tang Sen nodded in relief: "It seems that Barn is doing a good job." ”

"Listening to your tone, it seems to know Barn?" The warrior monk next to him couldn't help but speak: "Forgive me, when almost everyone mentions the dwarf Barn, their tone will inevitably contain some respect. ”

"Of course I know Bath." Townsend looked at him and laughed, "It's like you know him too." ”

"Guest, you actually believe it?" The bartender quipped: "Carmelo Meyers is a good guy, but I don't think those stories he told are true. At least not all of them. ”

The warrior monk glared at him angrily, then spread his hands and laughed at himself, "At least, it's a good habit not to take all the stories seriously in a place like the tavern. ”

"Carmelo Meyers?" Townsend narrowed his eyes: "In your story, you and the dwarf Barn, and the mage Trish once had an adventure together, but found that there are many strange things about the memories of this adventure, and I am also curious, for example, if you plan to form an adventure party, especially if you go to a dangerous area like the tomb, why didn't you try to recruit a wanderer?" ”

Carmelo was stunned.

"Wanderer?"

He patted his head: "That's right. Why are there no loiters? Wait, how many people were there in that tomb at that time? Four people? Still is. Five people? ”

His brow furrowed, and he even began to feel pain.

"Carmello!" The bartender next to him patted his arm: "Why are you so persistent?" It's just a story. ”

"No, I don't feel right." Carmelo muttered, "I must have forgotten something, it seems that I did recruit a wanderer in Neverwinter, what is his name?" ”

"Maris." Townsend reminded: "Mariss Max. ”

Carmelo raised his head and stared at Townese: "Maris? I've never heard the name. ”

"A loiterer." "Of course, this may be his former profession, and he is now more likely to be a priest. ”

Speaking of this, Townsen's gaze sharpened: "Priest of Share. ”

This is not difficult for Townsend to speculate, and Carmello's memories confirm it.

It was a coincidence that he met Carmello, but with Tang Sen's memory, he certainly wouldn't forget the warrior monk he met when he first came to Ferron.

He remembered that in that team, in addition to Carmello, Barn and Tracey, there was also a wanderer, and later Townsend did not choose to take the wanderer, because the purpose of the other party was really not simple enough.

It's normal for Carmelo not to remember himself, except for Barn, there are probably no more people in this world who can remember him, and even Sazastan, who has a great hatred for him, will be confused about why he ran into a wall in Neverwinter.

However, the other party will actually forget about Maris.

Such a small person who is not critical and does not matter at all.

Townsend didn't believe that Shar would do such a boring thing.

The only possibility is that Maris is important – and that importance should be reflected in the matter of arresting herself.

After all, if Shar wants to find someone who has been in close contact with him, there aren't many options.

"In what way? A medium, or a direct sacrifice to Maris? ”

Since entering the suburbs of Neverwinter, Townsend has seen the priest of Shar more than once, and he can be sure that if Shar intends to do his best to capture him, this place is the best choice, and when he enters Neverwinter, he will have no chance, of course, this god must not know his absolute control over the territory of Neverwinter.

"Shar's priest?" Carmelo couldn't keep up with Townsen's train of thought, and just said, "I don't know any priest of Shar at all, although this powerful deity has been active lately. ”

Faeron, and indeed the entire multiverse, there should be no one who doesn't know Shar's name.

He is the primordial darkness, the complete nothingness before time begins to flow, and like the Goddess of Magic, he is a powerful deity that accompanied the creation of the world, and unlike the Goddess of Magic, He desperately longs to return to the quiet nothingness of the beginning, forever plotting in the shadows to destroy all civilization and order.

Those who understand the scope of Shar's priesthood will have a deep understanding of Shar's power.

"Dark Places, Night, Hate, Loss, Oblivion, Sleep, Nightmares, Illusions, Lies, Frauds, Unrevealed Secrets, Hidden Places, Betrayal, Insidious, Seduction, Thieves, Theft, Murder, Winter."

This powerful deity controls almost all of the cults of the evil faction, and has a significant influence in each of them.

This is why Townsend is so sure that it is the goddess of the night behind everything that is directed at him, after all, hatred and forgetting are his essence, and there is no god in the multiverse who is more powerful than him in the power of forgetting.

"He'll be more active in the future." Townsend drained the glass in one gulp and said, "After His rage." ”

"As for now—"

He stood up and said to Carmelo, "I wonder if Mr. Carmelo would be interested in visiting Neverwinter with me?" ”

"Huh?" Carmelo didn't react.

"I'm sure this will help you correct your memory." Tang Sen smiled meaningfully: "After all, we also know each other. ”

Although it was abrupt, Carmelo stood up, drank the wine in his glass, slapped a few silver coins on the bar, and said, "Okay, but I have to say in advance, I can't afford to pay for the entrance to the city." ”

"Don't worry about that." Tang Sen glanced at Xue Xue.

The other party drank the wine in the glass seriously, and then commented expressionlessly: "It tastes weird." ”

"Because alcohol doesn't affect you at all." Tang Sen said casually: "There's no need to force yourself to drink it. ”

He walked out of the tavern with his head struck, and suddenly a chaotic neighborhood appeared in front of him.

The chaos doesn't just come from buildings with little planning, but from the bustling streets.

To be honest, it was the first time Townsend had seen such a crowded flow of people on the streets, and it even made people feel that the entire people of Fallon were crowded on these streets.

Moreover, this is still in the Neverwinter neighborhood, and there is no real Neverwinter.

After more than a decade of fermentation, the influence of the legendary award ceremony has indeed penetrated all aspects of the world of Ferron.

"It's a pity that the scope of the territory will not expand with the growth of my influence, otherwise, with the current influence, I am afraid that the territory will be able to encompass half of the Sword Bay."

Tang Sen is not a greedy person, such thoughts only stayed in his heart for a moment, and then he was instantly suppressed.

"Look over there." Carmello, who was nearby, pointed to the street corner in the distance.

There stood a large group of people in black cloaks.

On the back of the cloak, a black disc with a purple outer ring is printed.

"It's getting more and more blatant." He whispered, "They have had several serious conflicts with the priests of Tyre and Suren, but it doesn't seem to have brought them back, I don't know what they came to the outskirts of Neverwinter for, but there is no doubt that they are outnumbered here than the priests of all the other temples. ”

"You'll soon find out what they're here for." Townsend snapped his fingers as he said this.

The figures of the three of them instantly appeared on the highest roof nearby.

"You can let me come." Xue Xue opened his mouth and said, "Didn't you try not to use your abilities?" ”

"Not anymore." Tang Sen shook his head: "Look around." ”

There was no need for Townsend to remind him that Carmelo had already been the first to notice something wrong.

On the street, I only felt that there were more priests in black robes, but standing on such a high place and looking down, Carmelo clearly found that there were priests of Shar everywhere in all directions, and they accounted for almost one-tenth or even more of the huge flow of people.

And, if not delusional, these priests are encircling in a certain direction -

Carmello's heart trembled suddenly.

In that direction, it was the tavern they had just been chatting about.

"I knew Shar wouldn't be so sluggish." Tang Sen's tone was relaxed: "However, it's just such a battle, but I'm a little disappointed." ”

"Just a battle like this?" Carmelo looked at Townsend sharply, "I've never seen so many priests gathered together, it's like a prelude to preparing for a god war, you seem to know something, these priests of Shar. What are they going to do? ”

"The Divine War is not going to be, at least not now." Townsend said bluntly: "However, I do know what they want to do. ”

"Arrest me."

"Arrest you?" Carmelo felt his heart beat fast: "Shar is the goddess of the night. Such a big battle, in order to catch you, so, who are you? ”

"My name?" The corners of Townsen's mouth hooked slightly: "So, let me introduce myself again, Mr. Carmello, my name is-"

"Townworthy."

As soon as these two words were spit out, the surroundings seemed to be silent for a moment.

Carmelo only felt an uncontrollable creeping, as if some extremely terrifying existence was suddenly projecting a gaze from beyond the endless void.

No, it's more than that.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the black-robed priests on the street all stopped walking.

Then, turning his head to this side.

Carmelo really couldn't describe the feeling of being targeted by countless evil priests, he claimed to be an experienced adventurer, a warrior monk with a tough personality, but he also knew that his strength was only more than ten levels, even among these priests, he was definitely not in the middle.

Finished.

"Huh."

At this time, he heard a sigh with a smile next to him: "Sure enough, just by pronouncing the name, was it immediately locked?" ”

"She's sensitive, Goddess of the Night."

Before the words fell, countless purple rays of light had lit up.

All the priests of Shar were like lights, completely illuminating the suburbs of Neverwinter, and the neighborhood was in a panic, people didn't know what was happening, but there was no doubt that it must not be a good thing.

"It's . Sacrifice? ”

Carmelo paled: "I once saw the priest's sacrificial ceremony. Directly sacrifice one's own strength and even one's life for the advent of the gods of one's own faith. ”

"But so many priests sacrifice at the same time. Could it be that Shar intends to descend directly into the body? ”

"Of course you can't do that kind of thing." Tang Sen didn't seem to be in a hurry, and even had the mood to analyze: "After all, this is the main material plane, and it can't contain the huge spiritual power of the god's body at all. ”

"The only time the gods themselves walked on the main material plane, or during the Sage War, the AO who created this world reduced all the gods to mortal dust, so that they could no longer shrink into the kingdom of God, even mortals, they could kill the gods and plunder the divine fire. I seem to be pulling a little far. ”

Townsend saw that the priests had formed torches one by one, and the purple flames lit up the entire sky, so pillars of light appeared, and began to reflect blurred light and shadow.

"This is exactly what I expected, it seems that Shar intends to directly consume all the believers and create an unprecedented avatar."

"For. To capture you? Carmelo felt his mind freeze a little, he couldn't understand what was happening in front of him: "He's a god"

"Am I not?" Townsend said, "Well, maybe not yet. It's a pity, this is not a divine war after all, it is just an unequal battle. ”

"It's impossible for anyone to fight Shar equally, his enemy will always be an old enemy like the Moon Goddess Suren, who was also born in the primordial being, obviously, this time, Suren's power is too late to interfere." Carmelo felt a long-lost fear envelop him.

"You are mistaken, Mr. Carmello." Townsend chuckled, "What I mean by asymmetry—"

"It's too unfair to Goddess Shar to fight here."

He snapped his fingers, and Carmelo suddenly found himself in the distance of the street, not far from the gates of Neverwinter.

A voice came from his ear: "Mr. Carmello, for your safety, you better stand far away and watch." ”

So he ran a few steps forward, and suddenly felt the invisible rules envelop him.

He knew that he had entered the realm of Neverwinter, and everyone knew that it was perfectly safe in such a realm.

That's why, the people around don't seem to be panicking, but watching all this with great interest.

"I knew that these Shar priests didn't do good things, but who were those two people they were surrounding? A human. And a drow? ”

"Never seen before."

"This battle is really big, I didn't expect that in my lifetime, I would have the opportunity to see the incarnation of the gods coming."

"Neverwinter."

"Isn't there any other god to stop Shar? What about Tyr, the god of justice? ”

"It's too late, haven't you noticed? There's no way out there. ”

Indeed, when the purple light filled the entire Neverwinter suburb, a cage composed of countless pillars of light completely enveloped the priests, naturally, including Townsend standing on the roof.

And the light and shadow in mid-air became brighter and brighter, and finally it simply condensed into substance, forming a holy emblem that belonged to Sha'er.

The sound of prayer sounded, like the sea and waves, echoing in everyone's ears, and everyone, even ordinary people without power, could feel that there was an incomparably noble and powerful existence that appeared in the perception.

Click-

In the midst of the louder and louder prayers, suddenly there was a crisp voice.

A crack appeared in the emblem in mid-air, and a smooth, slender arm stretched out.

All mortals, even those standing in the realm of Neverwinter, couldn't help but bow their heads, and no longer dared to look directly at them based on some inexplicable fear in their hearts.

Don't look directly at God, it's instinct.

Even if it is only the incarnation of the gods who appear here.

But Tang Sen still raised his head, and even with an interested expression on his face, he watched as Shar was born from the Holy Emblem.

He had a beautiful and graceful figure, and his clothes could only slightly hide her slightly shiny black jade-like skin, and her long thick black hair spilled down the curves of the body created by the creator god himself, and this alone made people feel amazingly charming.

It was a pity that Shar's face was not visible, and his face was wearing an inky feather mask, and those dense black feathers flowed from his face into the depths of his black hair.

"Of all the gods I have ever seen, your appearance is the most pleasing to the eye."

Tang Sen did not hesitate to praise at all, and took the initiative to speak.

Of course, Tang Sen has not seen a few gods, and there are only a few when it is full, so Maia must be counted.

Shar didn't respond, his eyes under his mask stared at Townsend indifferently, his bare ankles moving slightly, and he was already standing in front of Townson.

"Sure enough, there is no smell of AO."

His language was ancient, but Townsend understood His words easily.

"Where does your strength come from?"

"I thought you'd just do it." Tang Sen looked like he was smiling, and he didn't shy away from looking Sha'er's figure up and down: "As a god, don't you feel that talking to mortals loses your majesty?" ”

"Answer me."

Shar's black hair was stirring, and the pressure of the gods was above Town's.

That's authority, authority from the gods enough to force any creature without divinity to lose self-awareness and tell the truth what he knows.

But Tang Sen didn't seem to feel that this came from the authority of powerful gods, he even smiled even more, and said, "It turns out that the way of thinking of gods is not more advanced than that of so-called mortals. ”

"The casters are right, the so-called gods are nothing more than a group of beings with more powerful powers."

"Ms. Share, is it because there is no such thing as 'wisdom' in your priesthood, so you don't realize that I don't intend to cooperate with you at all?"

These almost humiliating words angered Shar, and a purple light flashed in her eyes, and Tang Sen's body turned into nothingness in this instant.

The other authority of the gods is that they can kill any mortal creature with a single thought, even demigods who have no condensed godhead.

Of course, they can resurrect it with just a thought, and there is no way to stop it.

But it doesn't make sense.

Because he didn't need to wait for Sha'er's resurrection, Tangsen's figure reappeared in front of Sha'er.

"Hey, it's really decisive." He opened his arms and said, "It's a pity, I would have liked to continue talking, after all, there aren't many opportunities to communicate with a god up close, even to me. ”

"Fraud—" Shar spat out a word.

"Tsk." Tang Sen sighed and said, "Obviously, you don't value the power of the deceptive priesthood you have, I thought you would find out earlier. ”

"Ms. Shar, even you know that I have been cowering in the kingdom of God and only walking in the realms in my incarnation, you don't think that I am more stupid than you, do you?"

His face turned grim: "But it's okay, I'll make you deeply aware of-"

Shar waved his hand again, and annihilated Tang Sen's words along with Xue Xue, who was standing next to him.

"Realize how boring and stupid your greed is, Shar."

The sound continued, but it was coming from the direction of Neverwinter.

Everyone heard the voice, and people couldn't help but look up and look in the direction of the sound.

A man is standing in the void.

This is not too strange, in Faeron, even the mages of the three rings can fly, but everyone suddenly realizes that the figure standing in the void is in the realm of Neverwinter.

As we all know, there is no one in this realm who can use supernatural powers.

"You're misleading—"

The voice echoed throughout Neverwinter: "The power you are seeking does not come from some unknown, and the rules of Neverwinter can never be plundered by beings like you. ”

Shar's long black hair began to dance wildly, and the entire sky turned purple, and the purple seemed to be alive, and it was surging towards Neverwinter.

The ground suddenly began to panic, and people ran towards the back quickly, but they soon found that there seemed to be an invisible barrier standing in the void, and those purple divine powers were completely blocked by the invisible barrier, and they could not affect the slightest bit in Neverwinter.

"It's just a small temptation that you've sacrificed all your priests, or are you trying to directly confront the rules of Neverwinter with such power?"

The voice continued, even mockingly: "But you have no idea what you are fighting against." ”

Shar swooped down on Neverwinter again, the sacrifice of all the believers, so that the power of his avatar was close enough to get close to a part of the Being.

It's just this part of the power that is enough to destroy the world without the hindrance of other gods.

So, He succeeded, and His body broke through the invisible barrier and entered the realm.

Then He fell in an instant.

"Oh, so reckless."

"I haven't even started agitating yet."

Townsend stepped over step by step and stood in front of Shar.

"My goddess, welcome to Neverwinter."

(End of chapter)