Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 65 Murder in front of your eyes
  "It's a familiar old place again."

Nohir sighed a little, then opened the door and walked in.

Ding bell, the bell hanging on the door also rang the moment the door was opened. The clear ringing attracted Nohir's attention for a moment, but then he turned his attention back.

He looked at the familiar shop in front of him, and suddenly a strange feeling came to his heart.

This feeling was very weak, but it did exist, so he scanned the layout of the store, and just when he was trying to find out what gave him this feeling, the store manager's warm welcome directly interrupted Nuo Xi. My thoughts.

"Welcome! Guest, your arrival makes the shop shine."

"What do you need?"

The owner of this shop, Ensor Denseron, a golden dwarf who looks to be in his prime, is greeting Nohir warmly.

This familiar line and voice dispelled Nohir's discomfort, so he closed the store door and walked towards the counter.

"Hello, Boss Danseron."

Nohir took off his hood, dissipated the effects of thaumaturgy, revealed his true face, and then said to him.

"The next words may be a little abrupt, so I apologize to you in advance, but please don't worry, I assure you that I am definitely not an enemy, and I also know what is underneath this store."

"I need the help of the Harpers."

Nohir took off the holy emblem that represented the Father of Nature and was also the symbol of the Green Garden from his neck, and showed it to his boss.

Danseron's brows jumped, and then he spoke to Nohir in a more enthusiastic tone.

"Ah, the symbol of the green garden, you are the Harper's friend, so naturally you are also my friend."

"Come on, follow me. Although many Harpers withdrew from this stronghold some time ago, they still left two liaison officers here, in the cellar downstairs."

"Come on, come this way."

Danseron opened the partition of the counter, waved to Nohir, and walked straight to the back room.

Seeing the boss believe his words so simply and neatly, Nohir was a little stunned.

Although he already knew the detailed information of this stronghold in the game, in reality, this was a highly confidential information that Master Harsin only asked about after asking Jahira. It is a highly confidential and secure stronghold.

Even when the protagonist in the game explains to him how he knows about this stronghold, Denseron will not easily admit that there are Harpers here unless the character reveals Jaheira's name and gives some relevant evidence. , he would reluctantly believe it.

but now.

The vigilance that had been silent suddenly rose to a new level, but Nohir kept walking and slowly followed Danseron towards the room, but he was cautious.

In just a few seconds, his eyes flashed rapidly, and he quickly scanned the layout of the entire room with his keen senses and powerful eyesight, looking for anything amiss through subtle observations. Nohir soon discovered a bit of disharmony. A long sword that should have been hung on the shelf was not hung on the weapon rack for some reason, but stood upright next to the rack.

This kind of low-level mistake should not be something that an experienced store manager would make, but it alone is not enough as conclusive evidence.

But soon Nohir discovered something was wrong. There were some scratch marks on the floor. The clear white scratches on the dark yellow floor were very eye-catching.

The white scratches indicate that they are very fresh and appeared recently, and the marks are very deep. They are not like marks that can be accidentally scratched by pedestrians while walking, but more like something heavy and dragged along. There are also solid items on his body, such as armor or weapons. Only heavy objects with water chestnuts can drag out such marks. And with more detailed observation, he also saw subtle cracks in the gaps of the wooden floor. Cloth.

No way.

The ominous premonition in Nohir's heart is getting stronger and stronger, and various signs are already frantically warning Nohir that this stronghold has been infiltrated by the Baal Order just like in the game, and the boss who is leading the way in front of Nohir is also very... It may have been switched, and his true form is likely to be a shapeshifter belonging to Scarlet Orin.

Damn it, could it be that the plot that was supposed to take place two years later in the game was moved forward because of my butterfly wings? Where is the real boss?

"It's right here, just down here. You can go down by yourself. I have to go back to look at the store, so I won't accompany you."

"Danselon" opened the room in front of him, pulled up a horizontal ring to reveal the cellar below, turned around and said to Nohir with a smile.

As the cellar door opened, a vague pungent smell wafted out from inside. He had smelled this smell before, and it was unmistakable. This smell was the mucus secreted from the carapace of carrion insects, and The bug's slime has a very strong paralyzing effect.

And there is no smell of blood in the cellar, which means...

"...Boss, you are also a harpist. You said before that many harpists have left, so you must know where they have gone, right?"

The expression on Nohir's face did not change at all, but he asked calmly to the person in front of him who didn't know if he was the real boss. Although some of the previous details made him very uneasy, he couldn't just rely on these subtle suspicions. To attack directly, he had to make a final test.

"Ah, of course I know. They went to investigate the fall of Eltoril. That incident made everyone panic. Our heroes took away most of the elite Harpers in Baldur's Gate. Let’s find a way to save that city.”

After saying this, he laughed weirdly twice, and then put on a righteous face towards Nohir.

"Haha, everyone knows that Harpers are like this. They go wherever there is danger and do things without asking for anything in return. They are heroes in people's eyes. Otherwise, how could I become a Harper?"

When Nohir heard this, he just smiled and nodded at him. Then in the next moment, he fiercely pulled out the two battle axes hidden under the wide cloak. The sharp enchanted battle ax was matched with this sudden and precise attack. He slashed hard, and Nohir cut off both of his arms in an instant!
  "Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Without listening to his screams, Nohir directly kicked him into the wall. The wounds on both sides of his broken arms were spurting out gray viscous blood, and the two severed arms also changed rapidly. into long, sharp claws.

"Ensor is not a Harper. It seems you haven't investigated enough, shapeshifter."

The shapeshifter could no longer respond to him. Nohill's kick directly hit him hard on the chin. The iron boots and the huge force made him hit the wall straight. He was now completely stunned. past and completely revealed his true form.

The gray-white hairless skin is full of weird texture, the body is slender but without clothes, the mouth is full of sharp teeth and the skull-like head with only a layer of skin left, the narrow eyes without eyelids have been completely scattered, yes, this is a shape-shifter. A monster that can perfectly transform into another person's form.

Now this guy has completely lost his ability to resist, but the danger is by no means over.

(End of this chapter)