Chapter 499 Method
There is no doubt that the derivatives were persuaded. After those words were spoken, they all agreed to Noshier's request and expressed their willingness to do their best to assist him in restraining the nearly 7,000 derivatives present. Not only them, but also the hundreds of derivatives in the surrounding iron cages who heard Noshier's words were persuaded and joined the action.
This is undoubtedly a good start. Although the hundreds of new derivatives are not worthy of full trust, their joining has greatly alleviated the problem of insufficient manpower in the group. Although this number is still impossible to directly control all the derivatives, this problem is not unsolvable for Noshier.
The first is the Scepter of Sorrow in his right hand. This scepter is indeed as Asdalen said, it has the powerful ability to control the life and death of all the derivatives. Under such ability, any riot will be completely suppressed before it starts. It can be said that it is the fundamental guarantee for Noshier to achieve control.
But unfortunately, it was not until he got the staff that Noshier found that the staff had shortcomings, and its biggest shortcoming was that it had very large restrictions on its use, because the staff strictly stipulated that only Kazador himself, or his descendants with Kazador's blood, could activate the power of the staff and control the life and death of all derivatives except Kazador himself.
Because of this, this restriction locked Noshier's right to use it. After all, he did not have Kazador's blood in his body, nor was he a vampire derivative transformed by him. It was impossible for him to use the power of this staff at all... if he did not have a panel.
Yes, through the power of the panel! Noshier found a way to bypass this restriction! And this way is to directly wear Kazador himself on this staff! Let him and the staff always maintain zero-distance negative contact, so as to maintain it in the activated state! And the staff in this state can be used by any intelligent life form!
Including Kazador himself, but Noshir has found a perfect angle with the help of the panel, and pierced Kazador's throat and part of his brain nerves with the staff, blocking his possibility of giving orders to the staff by physical means.
Noshir's move also turned Kazador into a controllable plug-in wetware, acting as a car key, so that the staff can be used normally.
Of course, unless it is a last resort, Noshir will never rashly use the function of this staff, because its function is to directly specify all derivatives in an area to self-destruct.
Unless you are very familiar with the target you want to kill, there is no possibility of precise control of this thing, which means that once Noshir really uses this thing, it may cause a riot among all derivatives, but this is very different from his purpose, so in addition to this staff, Noshir has to prepare a lot of backup auxiliary means.
His first step was to find a way to temporarily feed the nearly 7,000 spawns with blood before the cold wind completely invaded Baldur's Gate, so that they could eat and drink enough, so that they could control their thirst for blood for a period of time.
Such preliminary preparations were very necessary. After all, sending nearly 7,000 spawns into the Underdark was undoubtedly a very huge project, and such a huge project could never be completed in a short time.
Noshier knew that all these imprisoned spawns had been tortured by endless hunger for many years. Although they were not completely driven crazy by the endless time and hunger due to the undead nature and toughness of vampires, they were only a step away from madness at this time.
If they were not fed and awakened to their sanity, and they were all released directly, it would definitely develop into a major disaster that swept across the entire Baldur's Gate.
Fortunately, there is still some time before the real winter comes, and during this time, the large fishing fleets in Gray Harbor will continue to travel for at least another week.
Fleets like this occasionally capture some large marine creatures, such as sharks and seals. They will drag these animals to the dock of Gray Harbor to skin and bleed them, and Noshier only needs a few more gold coins to collect all the blood that no one wants.
Although the blood collected in this way may still not be enough, Noshier knows that those large fleets will deliberately capture some particularly large sea monsters in very rare cases. In addition to Midsummer Festival and Shield Festival, these very rare cases are on the eve of the Moon Feast, during the Moon Feast, and even after the Moon Feast.
Hunting sea monsters is a very dangerous act. Even if they set out several months in advance, the fleet may not be able to hunt their desired prey when they return. However, as long as they can successfully drag a particularly large sea monster to the port during the days of the Moon Feast, it will undoubtedly be a good start. Any fleet that achieves such a feat will greatly increase their popularity in the coming year and attract more merchants to cooperate with them. It can be said that there are many benefits.
As far as Noshil knows, the fleet that went out to hunt in Baldur's Gate this year has not returned yet, but according to their record of not coming back empty-handed for three consecutive years, Noshil thinks it is still worth looking forward to.
As long as the fleet can hunt a sea monster, there is no need to worry about the blood problem. However, if they fail, then Noshir will have to work harder and go to a few more slaughterhouses in the outer city to buy some blood from the butchers.
Although this is a bit troublesome, as long as you work hard, you can still get enough. After all, this period is the time when Baldur's Gate slaughters the most livestock. Preparing food before the arrival of winter is a fine tradition in Faerun. Noshir is lucky and just caught up with this period.
Noshir told others about his plan. After a brief discussion, Asdaelen and the others also agreed with this method. Although they had to endure for a few more days for their poor compatriots, this was also to ensure the smooth migration.
So everything started to proceed as Noshir expected. Asdaelen and his six brothers kept visiting various cages during this period, announcing Noshir's plan and trying to gain their support.
Their actions were not particularly smooth, and there were many twists and turns during the process. Almost most of the derivatives still remembered these liars and looked at them with hatred. There were also a small number of people who were completely tortured by hunger and thirst and gave up thinking, just wanting to lie quietly in the cell and rot. However, under their hard visits, sincere persuasion, and the encouragement of Kazador's half-dead body, most of the derivatives agreed to this plan and told them that they were willing to cooperate.
Indeed, they hated Asdalen and other liars who dragged them into the abyss, but they hated the mastermind behind all this even more, hating Kazador who would come here from time to time, bring a new compatriot here, and humiliate and mock them!