Volume 4: The Swan Song (Remastered) Chapter 12: The Forest of Casamane (3)

In the world of Ntagre, the lizardmen are also known as the swamp people, and like the minotaurs and trolls, they are a native species of the world of Ntagre, they generally live in swamps around the continent, and rely on raising various beasts to defend against foreign enemies. At the same time, the treacherous environment in the swamp is also their natural protective barrier, and few people are willing to fight them in the swamp.

The lizardmen are mainly animal trainers, archers and spearmen, some large lizardmen tribes will raise some petrified lizards, brute bulls, and even swamp dragons to fight, and some particularly strong lizardmen tribes can even get the protection of powerful creatures such as hydra, and offer food to this terrible behemoth in exchange for the tribe where they are sheltered. In addition, some special tribes of lizardfolk also have the ability to command poisonous insects to fight through their voices, especially the poisonous flies that live in the swamp, this creature like an earthworm with two pairs of dragonfly wings is one of the most terrifying creatures in the swamp, and the swarms of poisonous flies can even make swamp wyverns have to choose to retreat.

And once the poison flies suck the blood of some powerful creatures, they may even evolve into dragon flies, their toxicity and defense will be greatly increased, and they will be more aggressive, and a swarm of more than five hundred dragon flies can even fight against an adult hydra.

However, since the swamps inhabited by the lizardmen are scattered all over the continent, and do not have a connected and safe territory like the undead or demons, the lizardmen are not much of a threat to the orderly camp, and these flippery, upright lizards do not like to communicate too much with the outside world, and just nest in the swamp to fend for themselves.

Yu Bin's appearance quickly alarmed the lizardmen in the stilt houses, and several tall figures quickly rushed out of several of the larger stilt houses. Lizardfolk are generally around two to two and a half meters tall, and in order to adapt to life in the swamp, they have strong lower limbs and wide flippers growing on the soles of their feet, which allows them to move freely in the swamp without worrying about being swallowed up in the swamp. In addition, the scales on the adult lizardman are generally grayish-brown, because they move in the mud of the swamp for many years, and it is easy to form a layer of muddy armor on the surface of the body, which can be said to be the natural defense equipment of the lizardmen.

But the lizardmen who rushed out of the stilt house were very different from what Yu Bin expected, their height was less than one meter five, the scales on their bodies also showed a gray color, their lower limbs were somewhat atrophied, and there were even many holes in their flippers, especially their eyes, which were as dull as dead fish eyes.

Obviously, the power of death has also deeply affected these lizardmen, causing them to mutate significantly.

There were less than ten lizardmen in front of Yu Bin, and they were all females and minors, the former had a short tail, and the latter had not yet developed a hard head mask on his head, so it was easy to identify.

Even if it was an adult male lizardman, he didn't have much power to fight back against Yu Bin who was riding a demon bone dragon horse, let alone these malnourished guys. The individual strength of the lizardmen is not high, the strength of the adult male lizardmen is generally between the third and fifth orders, and the most troublesome part of them is the swamp beasts they raise, whether they are petrified lizards or brute bulls, they all have some special abilities that make people headaches.

The three female lizardmen held bows and arrows in their hands, but the arrows they shot were powerless, and they couldn't even shoot through the leather armor on Yu Bin's body, let alone the few little lizardmen who were obviously underage. Five little lizardmen, armed with spears sharpened from dead tree trunks, stood in front of the female lizardman, and let out a "hiss" roar at Yu Bin, trying to deter the uninvited monster in this way.

Yu Bin glanced at it, and under the perception of soul vision, the entire lizardman tribe was unobstructed, except for a faint soul fluctuation in a central stilt house, the entire lizardman tribe no longer had a trace of life, and the few lizardmen in front of him were obviously the last members of this lizardman tribe.

"Where are your elders? I'm Ice Whisper, an undead! Until my patience runs out, you'd better not try to challenge my endurance! ”

The lingua franca is the language spoken by most of the intelligent races in this world, originating from the archmages of the Elven Empire, originally researched to communicate with captured slaves in order to better understand their reactions in magical experiments. With the collapse of the Elven Empire, this language has also continued to spread, and has gradually become the main way of communication in this world.

The three female lizardmen looked at each other, wondering if they should put this undead in it, their tribe had fallen to the extreme, and the elders were already dying, otherwise it would be impossible for them to stand up and defend their homeland.

Just as they were undecided, an old lizardman dressed in a cloak of dead grass and bark came out of the stilt hut on crutches.

"Let him come! It seems that this Lord is not one of those irrational demons, you are the last hope of the tribe, and you cannot die here for this reason! ”

Although they were very reluctant, the lizardmen still got out of the way, but they did not put away the weapons in their hands, even if those weapons could not hurt Yu Bin in the slightest, these lizardmen were not willing to lose the last means of resistance.

Yu Bin didn't care, and rode up to the lizardman elder: "Tell me, which lizardman tribe are you?" ”

"Greetings to the Greywebbed Clan! I am the last elder of the clan, Porul Severed Palm! ”

Only then did Yu Bin realize that the reason why this old lizard man was on crutches was not only because he was old and frail, but also because most of his left foot was cut off, leaving only the heel part, which made him unable to maintain his balance and could only rely on crutches to move slowly.

"Webbs? I haven't heard the name! Since you call your tribe a tribe, then you must have been a powerful tribe, why did you become the way you are? ”

Maybe Yu Bin didn't shout and kill as soon as he came up, which made the old lizardman have some ideas, and he quickly told Yu Bin the history of this lizardman tribe.

Tribe- or clan-based species, such as trolls and lizardmen, are passed on by elders or shamans to ensure that the tribal legacy is not broken. Once the elder who inherited history dies and the clan's lineage is broken, it means that the clan loses its name and can only become a wanderer, or join another tribe. And this small tribe of lizardmen living in the secret realm, since it still retains its name, it is clear that it has had a period of glory in history, and still retains most of its history to this day.

After the introduction of the old lizardman, Yu Bin finally knew the situation of this lizardman tribe. It turns out that the Greywebbed Tribe was once one of the few lizardmen who had taken refuge in the elves at the outset, thus avoiding the fate of being slaves. But it is precisely because of this that they suffered a catastrophe and eventually declined to the point where they are now.

When the Star Elves and Green Elves decide to murder Prince Lacorette who has returned to the Whispering Forest, they choose to use alien races like the Webbed Clan who are subservient to the Elves, because they fear that the prestige of Lacorette among the common elves will make the elves involved in the murder plan unable to help but leak the inside story.

They first relocated the Webbed tribe to the Whispering Forest, and then invited Lacorette to the Graywebbed tribe's camp to accept the lizardmen's allegiance, and when the Sun Elf prince arrived at the settlement with his men, the Assassins hiding among the lizardmen rose out and handed Lacorette their evil blades.

Lacorette was eventually assassinated and killed, and although the body was desperately snatched out by his subordinates, the elven archmages who had been lurking quickly sealed it under the land, and used the power of magic to build a barrier, turning the place into a secret place. The poor Grey Webbed tribe thought that a lot of rewards and a bright future awaited them, but they didn't expect that overnight, the entire tribe would be banished to the secret realm.

For tens of thousands of years, the Greywebbed tribe has had to fend off the undead who have been resurrected by Lacorette's resentment, while also obtaining as much food as they can to survive. As the power of death permeates the Realm, so do the animals in the Casamane Forest, which reduces the population of the Grey Webbed Clan.

In order to allow the tribe to escape from the secret realm, groups of powerful Grey Webbed warriors did not hesitate to risk their lives and entered the fog surrounding the secret realm, looking for a way to leave the secret realm, but in the end they were either eroded by the power of death and died, or they died of disorientation and starvation. By now, this once powerful tribe of lizardmen has reached the brink of extinction.

After listening to the old lizardman's narration, Yu Bin couldn't help but sigh at the impermanence of the world. I don't know how many of the major events recorded in the history of the world of Entagre have implicated those innocents like the tragedy of Lacorette. Just to keep the power in their hands alive, the elves even did not hesitate to let a powerful tribe of lizardmen become a burial sacrifice.

"In front of you are the last of the Webbed Clan! I won't live long either! And these poor children, because they are infected by the power of death, neither physically nor intellectually can inherit the knowledge that I have passed down! The Webbed Tribe will become a piece of history, a wisp of revenant, and return to the embrace of Mother Earth! ”

"What a sad ending!" Yu Bin said with a regretful expression, and at the same time did not hesitate to draw out the rune sword, and stabbed him in the stomach with a sword in the incredible eyes of the old lizard man.

"Why? You! Why are you? ”

"Am I a fool? You're talking so much nonsense to me just to wait for your people who went out hunting to come back, right? This secret realm is so infected by the force of death that when I crossed the forest before, I didn't even see the bones of a single animal, not even any fish in the river, in this case, how can you lizardmen survive until now, and still give birth to cubs! If I'm not mistaken, the way you survive now is to hunt down the elves left in the secret realm, and fill your hungry bellies with those flesh and ears of flesh! Yu Bin brutally stirred the rune sword in his hand a few times, and then kicked the scheming old lizardman to the ground, "Since the warriors you sent out can bring back enough food, it is obviously enough to destroy me, the undead!" You old guy has a great idea to keep your clan out of danger! ”

The lizardman elder opened his eyes angrily, staring at Yu Bin's face, he could feel that the life force was rapidly leaving his body, he didn't expect the undead in front of him to be so smart.

"You won't have ...... Good end! Warriors of the Tribe...... Zeberu ...... Yes...... For us...... Avenge! ”

"I wish it was!" Yu Bin pulled out the rune sword and took away the last trace of the lizardman elder's nostalgia for life, leaving only the fear of death and the hatred of the murderer!

Those lizardmen who were standing far away hadn't even reacted yet, the lizardmen elders didn't deceive Yu Bin at all, the power of death had indeed affected them, these lizardmen not only had a greatly reduced physical fitness, but even their IQ was no longer able to support them to understand what was happening in front of them in time.

Yu Bin stepped onto the Demon Bone Dragon Horse, slaughtered those lizardmen mercilessly, and then after searching the lizardmen's stilt house, he put away the Demon Bone Dragon Horse and carefully arranged it, covering up the traces he left here as much as possible. Fortunately, this is a swamp, and no matter how good a hunter is, it is impossible to discern much useful information from this mess.

After carefully inspecting it, and then following the route he had come, erasing the footprints and horseshoe prints left on the river bank before, Yu Bin jumped into the river, went upstream against the current for hundreds of meters, and then used the rune sword to dig out a space at the bottom of the river that was enough for him to hide, and after jumping in, he sealed it with the mud stored in the space bag, and went directly offline.

A few hours later, a tall figure carried two bodies along the riverbank into the swamp. It was an adult male lizardman over two meters tall, and his strong body was covered with large and small scars, most of which were already scarred, and only a few shallow wounds could still be seen as new marks. The tip of the tail had been cut off a small bit, causing the lizardman to wobble slightly as he walked. A hideous scar slashed from the top of his head across his left eye to the corner of his mouth.

The belt around his waist exuded a dull brilliance, which looked like a magical item, and on the belt was a machete with large and small notches, and the magic brilliance of the machete was even greater than the belt on his body. Aside from these two pieces of equipment, the lizardman had nothing on his body.

Just a few meters away from the swamp, and before he saw the tribe's stilt house, the faint smell of blood from the air made the lizardman throw down the two corpses on his shoulders without hesitation, and quickly ran towards the place where the tribe was. A moment later, a wail of grief and despair came from afar.

Zeberu, the lizardman, grabbed the weapon in his hand and rushed out of the swamp at a rapid pace, stopping as he passed the two corpses and chopping them into pieces with his weapons. The last survivor of the Grey Webp tribe roared to the sky and ran upstream along the river with a monstrous hatred.

He's going to use the machete in his hand to make those damn long ears pay! Even if it costs with your own life!