Miklos listened carefully to every word the other party said and engraved it in his heart. Dealing with monster forces requires taking huge risks because they have various acting styles and have no moral constraints. Don't go back on your words too commonly.
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What is more troublesome than dealing with the monster forces is the monster forces ruled by a giant dragon, an evil colorful dragon. Most of them have characters similar to that dragon, greedy, perverse and powerful, and also have various characteristics.
If you can avoid various taboos, your success rate will naturally increase significantly.
"Thank you General for your help. We in Sambia will remember your kindness. This is a little thought from our Selkirk family. With this token, you can withdraw 100,000 from any chamber of commerce in Sambia.
Cash." Miklos pushed a palm-sized metal token to Gost. It had a vague magical aura on it and obviously had a mage mark belonging to a powerful mage to prevent counterfeiting.
"This gadget is very convenient. You can use it just in case. I'm sorry." Gost did not refuse this time and directly stuffed the metal token into his pocket.
This kind of metal token is not only available to Sambian merchants, but also to the Zhentarim Chamber of Commerce. It is completely based on their huge economic foundation and business network, but the quantity of this kind of thing is not large. After all, every time it is used, it will affect
The liquidity of local areas of the Chamber of Commerce is a huge burden and can only be obtained by those who will make significant contributions to Sembia or Zhentarim.
Even at the level of Gaust, I have only seen it before but never had the chance to buy it.
If one hundred thousand cash was thrown in front of him, Gaust might not even blink an eyelid, but if it was this kind of cash exchange order, he would keep it as a treasure.
"Time waits for no one. If there is nothing else, I will take the first step." Mikros took the initiative to resign. The conqueror army has already entered the goblin wilderness. According to their marching speed, they will not reach the surroundings of Thun Swamp.
For more than three days, his time was very tight.
"Then I hope you won't become the Lizard Queen's snack." Gost's blessing was full of black humor.
"Thank you." Mikros didn't even return to the Dark Castle. He turned the teleportation ring on his hand and disappeared in a magical light.
"We don't need to believe in the promises of these hags, we just need to believe in their ambitions." Ximanmeng revealed his intentions a little, "The most troublesome thing about these swamp forces is not how powerful they are, but how powerful they are.
It is they who hide in the swamp and refuse to come out. This is the case with the Lizard Queen in the Thun Swamp, and the same is true with the gathering of hags in the Distant Sea Swamp. As long as there is enough profit to attract them from the swamp, we will have the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on them. When their
After their power is greatly damaged and their control over the swamp is greatly reduced, we will have the opportunity to recruit our own swamp power from them, and then slowly encroach on them and bring them under our rule."
"Lord of the Castle." Gaust did not feel any surprise. He bowed and saluted, and respectfully presented the cash exchange order that Miklos had just given him. "This is his bribe."
As the agent of the Dark Intelligence Network in the west, the radiation influence of the Dark Fortress is much further than ordinary people imagine.
Before the magical aura transmitted by Mikros had dissipated, the transmitted magical aura flickered, and a handsome middle-aged man wearing an old-fashioned black mage robe appeared next to Gost. It was not the chairman of the Dark Castle, Manmeng.
Who could be there.
Only when three hags of different races gather together can it be called an assembly. In view of the treacherous, selfish and manipulative nature of hags, only hags of equal strength can form an assembly. Otherwise, it is unilateral control and manipulation, which should be called a gathering.
It is a hag queen, not a hag assembly. The legendary hag assembly means that it is composed of at least three quasi-legendary hags - the hag assembly is not just a name, but can gather the power of hags to form a more powerful force.
The quasi-legendary hags, when united, have a power comparable to that of a legend.
"Very good." Xi Manmeng nodded with satisfaction, and a smile finally appeared on his handsome face, but it was fleeting. "You organize your army immediately. Our Dark Castle garrison should not use any soldiers. We will
The monster tribes that control the influence all assemble to form a monster army."
"Who said we want to be enemies with the army of conquerors?" The person who answered Gost was not Ximenmeng, but a cold female voice. A graceful figure walked out of Ximenmeng's shadow. This was a bloodline
A pure moon elf with a beautiful appearance, she was wearing the same black mage robe as Xi Manmeng, but she was forced to wear it like an evening dress. Her graceful back was completely exposed, and a precious light shone.
The wide outer belt not only perfectly showed off her slender waist, but also made her breasts appear unusually tall and straight. What she showed in her movements was not the unique leisure and coolness of elves, but that of a human noblewoman.
That kind of confidence and elegance.
Many tasks that were not suitable for Xi Manmeng to do personally were handled by this person, and he won Xi Manmeng's favor.
The emotional connection between the hags in the Far Sea Swamp is fake, but it is true that they were deceived from the Far Sea Swamp in the name of plotting the Lizard Queen's inheritance.
He came to the Dark Castle to take the front line. If everything goes well and the gifts and support from Sembia are just in place, there will naturally be no need for it now.
Only people like Miklos who don't know the internal operation mode of Dark Castle will regard Gost as the second-in-command of Dark Castle. Insiders all know that the lady in front of them is the real number two of Dark Castle. This person's name
Her name is Ashmi, she is Ximanmeng’s student in name, but in fact, she also works part-time as his mistress and dark assistant.
They are not just overlooking the Sunset Mountains and the Gray Observer Mountains. After hundreds of years of operation, their tentacles have already extended to the surrounding cities, including the major cities in the Dragon Coast. Those dark
Among the forces, how many were supported by their dark intelligence network, and how many secretly joined the dark intelligence network, only Xi Manmeng himself knows, and even Mansong doesn't know, because this is Xi Manmeng.
The small network he runs is not a betrayal, but a normal product of the Zhentarim pyramid development model. Those capable senior leaders control their own small networks outside of the big network. The two are mutually exclusive.
promote, influence each other, and are closely intertwined.
Originally, the area of the Distant Sea Swamp was much larger than that of the Thun Swamp. However, due to the erosion from the Enook Desert from the north, its area has shrunk by two-thirds from its peak. Now it is only one-half of the Thun Swamp.
Once arrived.
But in the swamps of the Far Sea, there is a legendary gathering of hags. Their existence is said to be even older than the formation of the Thun Swamp. They have absolute control here, which makes the Lizard Queen, who has always been high-profile and domineering, only dare to hatch conspiracies, but has no real plans.
put into practical action.
"This..." Gost couldn't help but raised a hint of doubt, "Lord Lord, the combat effectiveness of these monster legions is not weak for ordinary people, but for the army of conquerors, I'm afraid it will be difficult to exert their due capabilities.
In terms of combat effectiveness, I heard that they are very good at using trucks to form camp formations for defensive counterattacks, and attacking fortresses has always been a weakness of these monster legions."
Hags are a name for skinny women who look like human beings. In fact, they are not. They are actually the same type of elves as eladrin. They originated from the Fairy Wilderness, but they represent the evil side of the Fairy Wilderness. However, they are in the material plane.
The number of them has far exceeded that of the Fairy Wilderness, especially the swamp, which is their favorite living environment. Not simply because this high-risk environment can provide them with shelter and make them less susceptible to the attacks of good forces.
"Just keep it, this is the prize for this mission." Xi Manmeng waved his hand and said, "Have you told him everything you should tell him? Nothing was left out, right?"
"Gathering of hags in the distant sea swamp?" Gost seemed to recall some bad memories, his cheeks twitched involuntarily and said, "All hags are evil and cruel bastards, every word they say, every word they speak
Promises carry deadly poison. Once you believe their promises, you are not far from destruction."
"The Lord of the Castle has thought of this a long time ago." Ashmi gave Ximanmeng a look of admiration and said, "I just came back from the distant sea swamp and reached a strategic cooperation agreement with the hag gathering there. Once the Lizard Queen Royal Court
If it collapses, they will send their own army to assist us and help us seize ownership of Thun Swamp."
"The size of the conqueror's army is too large now. Even if we intervene, the possibility of completely defeating it is less than 30%. On the contrary, all our years of operation will be involved." Ashmi's eyes were fixed on it.
The flickering light is very similar to Ximanmeng's. It is the light of cunning and cunning. "Since there is no way to fight against it, we must make full use of their strength to seek benefits for us. Kurgor and her royal court,
It has a great influence on our layout in the goblin frontier."
It is also related to their filthy nature. They are naturally fond of things related to death. All kinds of bones, minced meat and filthy objects are their true love, including the mud in the swamp. Typically, they regard ugliness as beauty, so they have a deep love for the secular world.
The beauties in witches have inner disgust, so they always help other creatures to destroy or change their beautiful appearance. However, many hags often pretend to be beauty masters, advertising that they can help people in the world stay beautiful for a long time, and attract those stupid beautiful women.
If they take the initiative to come to their door, they will soon find that their goal has indeed been achieved, but this kind of beauty is not judged by her standards, but by the ghost woman's - which means that they will bear the ugliness.
Amazing face, live forever.
The Lizard Queen has been trying to bring the distant sea swamps into her rule. It is said that she is looking for a powerful magic to sink the land between the two and connect the two swamps.
Those who have never been to a swamp in person can never imagine the dangers lurking here. On the one hand, this danger comes from the unique environment here. The bottomless duckweed mire is just the most well-known one. Many people see it.
There is no danger in the area. Once you walk in, you can never come out. It quickly becomes a new corpse there. Those who are not residents of the swamp don't even know why they died. There are many reasons, including
It may be suffocation by swamp gas, or it may be plague virus. All swamps are natural places for breeding new viruses.
As for the gathering of three legendary hags who are all legendary hags, it is not that there is no such thing in this world, but it cannot be accommodated by a distant sea swamp. Even if they do not expand their influence beyond the goblin frontier, they cannot let an old man
The black dragon established herself as queen in the Thun Swamp and has long since brought this place under her rule.
The Zhentarim are called the Dark Intelligence Network for no reason. Their intelligence is second to none in Faerûn, and no one dares to say it is first.
The implication is obvious, if the fat dragon gains a war advantage, they will join the war as allies, jointly attack the conqueror's army, and leave it in the goblin frontier forever.
"The strategy of the castle master and his wife is really beyond my comparison." Gost exclaimed with sincere admiration, "This is indeed the wisest choice, but if the Lizard Queen is really defeated by the conqueror's army, just rely on
I'm afraid those ordinary monster armies will not be able to penetrate deep into the Thun Swamp."
If he is given a few months, Gost is confident that he can do this with the development and operation of the Dark Castle over the years. Now he only has a few days to organize a monster army with the same number as the conqueror's army.
Amazing.
The troll kingdom on the Giant Plains has proved with its own failure that the monster tribe alone cannot defeat the army of conquerors.
"Thank you Lord Lord for your kindness. Please rest assured, I am doing this completely in accordance with your instructions." Gost's expression was extremely respectful. He could not see any of his previous dissatisfaction with Simon, let alone his previous ambition.
As for whether the previous side was a disguise or a true character, only he knows.
To defeat such an enemy, one must have an absolute numerical advantage, such as hundreds of thousands of monsters.
Although the two are less than a hundred kilometers apart, they each belong to each other, and their relationship is very tense.
Just as Miklos speculated, this was a show played for him from beginning to end, including Ximanmeng's previous rejection. If not, how could Gaust create an opportunity to talk to him?
To be more precise, this situation started when Miklos arrived at the Dark Castle, and Gost contacted him secretly, and the plan was already started, with the purpose of leading him to the Lizard Queen in the Thun Swamp.
Let’s not talk about whether the monster army they organized in the Goblin Frontier will be as powerful as the Troll Kingdom. The army of conquerors is not the same army on the Giant Plains before. Their manpower, material resources, and financial resources are better than those of the Giant Dragon.
The coast has at least doubled in size.
"Your Excellency, you want to take this opportunity to completely eradicate the Lizard Queen's Court!" Gost suddenly realized that he just didn't react for a moment and was not really stupid.
Even the plan agreed upon by the Sambian Businessmen's Council had already been sent to Ximanmeng's desk before it could even be implemented.
Therefore, the Dark Castle knows all the information about the Conqueror's army that the dark forces on the Dragon Coast have, and they also know all the information they don't know, including the speculation that Mikros said before, Ximanmeng is
Half a month ago, when the conqueror army reached the Giant Plains, they had already come out.
Damn it!
Mikros tried to use speculation and intelligence to convince Ximanmeng that it was just a mere trick, and it was natural for him to be fooled around by them.
As for the predators lurking in the swamp, there are so many of them, only a few are known to them, and most of them never know who their enemies are until they die, because they often lurk in the water or mud, and even the mosquitoes here
Flies are more ferocious than those in ordinary areas. When they rush towards a creature in a swarm, the creature is basically not far away from turning into a corpse that has been drained of its blood.
There are two large swamps in the Goblin Border Wasteland, which are out-and-out sister relationships, because they come from the same source, both are formed by the mountains surrounding this place and rich underground water, and both are run through by the River Border Wasteland, connecting the two.
be connected together.
"I have met Madam." Gost bowed quickly and saluted, "This subordinate is stupid, please Madam."
The dark forces on the Dragon Coast unite at an unprecedented speed. On the surface, it is led by Ximen's Dark Night Mask, but privately, the Dark Castle is adding fuel to the flames, in order to drive the conqueror army out and influence them there.
development layout.
This is just one of their evil deeds, and there are countless worse ones than this one.
If the Lizard Queen's army is defeated, it will be a perfect opportunity for them to slay the dragon. If she is slaughtered by the conqueror's army, things will be even simpler. They can just take over her territory.
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"This is the preliminary plan." Ashmi continued with a look that said you are not yet stupid, "This will depend on the development of the situation. We will be like the king of war and always stand on the side of the winner.
Side."
And the monster tribe that I prepared will attack these hags when the time comes.
This conspiracy is simply one link after another. No, this is a web of conspiracy. This net will cover the lizard queen, the army of conquerors, the gathering of sea hags and the sniper plan of the Sambian merchants. None of them will fall.
Pocketed in.
It is not necessary for all of them to succeed, even if one or two are successful, it will greatly expand the influence of Dark Castle here.
The most important thing is that their Dark Castle has always stood on the side of the God of War. No matter how the forces in this web of conspiracy fight for life or death, they will only succeed and not fail. It is nothing more than a matter of success.