Chapter 014: Desert Lizardmen
A sand guard exploring deep into the southern desert spotted a strange team. Judging by the images transmitted to Tyran's mind, it looked as if the team was transporting some cargo.
Coincidentally, these goods Taryn happened to know, and they were the ones that were buried under the sand when the Snow Eagle Principality refugee group encountered the giant scorpion a few days ago.
And the people who transported it were also strange, and Taryn didn't know if they were human or not.
Some have horns on the top of their heads, others have a tail on their buttocks, and there is even a centaur-like guy in the ranks. It's just that the lower half of his body is not a horse, but a camel, so let's call him a camel man for the time being.
They carry things that are many times their size, and they don't feel tired at all, and their physical quality in all aspects should be several times more than that of humans.
Where did these ancient monsters come from?
During the years when Taryn was the prince, in addition to honing his martial arts skills and pursuing his personal limits, he loved to read all kinds of books and documents about the world.
Ke Rao is "well-informed", and he doesn't know what kind of species these guys are.
Could it be some kind of cursed person in the desert? There are too many curses in the Beser Desert, and looking at the posture of these people, it is obviously organized.
And they were obviously on their way with a purpose, and after the temperature dropped in the night, they each put on some clothes and continued on their journey without stopping.
Shawei followed them under the sand layer of about three hundred meters, and there was no way to hear them at this distance, and Taryn wasn't sure if the weirdos had any magicians. If this Shawei is scattered, it would be fine for his own soul to be a little traumatized, and he could rely on the moon well to replenish it, but if he lost that group of weirdos, then he might lose the opportunity to develop!
There are a lot of weird and bizarre things in this desert, but the chances of intersecting with these things are not very high. It's hard to say if you miss it or not, which makes Taryn extra cautious.
But from a distance, it was clear that the eccentric people were communicative, just when Taryn wanted to get Shawei a little closer and try it.
News also came from another Shawei, and its route was also roughly south, but it was relatively close to the west, not very far from the team of weirdos that the other Shawei was following.
It found an oasis in the middle of the area, and at the edge of the oasis, it also captured a group of monsters that resembled both lizards and people.
"Lizardmen? Aren't they species from the Monster Forest? Taryn felt more and more weird.
The Lizardman he knew, an intelligent creature that lived on the edge of the Monster Forest. Once dangerous to the border of the Emerald Empire, after the civil strife subsided, it was swept away by the imperial army and almost wiped out!
Lizardmen are a race that can adapt to the harsh environment, but no matter how they can adapt, they won't run to a ghost place like the Beser Desert where chickens don't poop and birds don't lay eggs, right?
Taryn leaned his back against the trunk of the Tree of Life and touched his jaw, which looked like a frosted one.
He was interested in the oasis, but the reason why the lizardmen were there was not so important. Unlike the team just now, Oasis's location is fixed and has been positioned by him.
So the Shawetry could do more, and Taryn told him to go inside the oasis and check out the lizardmen's population.
But soon an interesting piece of feedback came that the soil beneath the oasis was too hard to sneak into...... So Taryn let it explore around the oasis first.
There are about forty lizardmen operating on the edge of the oasis, and half of them are in armor, apparently lizardmen soldiers of this oasis.
To Tyron's surprise, the armor worn by the lizardmen was not made from a fight. It is an armor with a unified system and a clear process.
If you can't enter the inside of the oasis, you can't know their true strength, but if you let the Shawei be exposed, it may alert them and disadvantage them in the future.
After hesitating, Taryn still didn't let Shawei be exposed, but let him hide in a higher place to observe the situation of the lizardmen in this oasis.
And Sha Wei, who was in charge of tracking the weird team, also got the final harvest at noon.
They entered a huge city that was exaggerated, and in Tyran's judgment, the walls of that city were more than fifty meters high, almost like the walls of a certain anime that they had seen in their previous life.
There were extremely faint but not difficult to perceive magic fluctuations on the city walls, so much so that Tyron directly gave up the idea of letting Shawei get closer.
He asked Shawei to investigate the city walls, and finally came to the conclusion that the city was actually not too big, according to Tyron's estimate, it was only about thirty football fields.
This is not very suitable for its 50-meter-high walls, and it only has a gate facing north, and there is no other entrance or exit, which is also unreasonable.
Due to the height of the wall, the situation inside is completely unknown, but since there is a magical power, in Tyron's mind, this place has been labeled as a danger.
At the very least, it was a potential danger, and like the Oasis, he had Sha Wei watch the gates from afar to gather more information. There are so many strange and irrational things in this desert that he can only try to gather information, and the more he knows, the better he can survive in this desert.
Tyron's primary target now is the oasis, and at a time when the giant pillar cactus is about to wither, the resources of the oasis are particularly important.
But he didn't know much about the combat power of the lizardmen, and with ten sand guards, three archers, and himself who relied on filthy magic stones to maintain his peak state for a short time, it was still a question whether he could take it.
Almost yes, after all, they are all undead, and they have an irreversible advantage over flesh and blood lizardmen.
Even if it's a knife for a knife, it's blood gain!
But are there any rough magicians among the lizardmen? Whether or not there is a weapon to restrain the undead, such as the Mithril dagger, this information is important.
Taryn felt that he needed to go to the oasis himself, if it was within attackable range.
According to the rules of the system, tasks should be issued. No matter how bad it is, it will also give corresponding hints, just like the giant scorpion and the alienated tree of life, only the appearance of people and things that may have a significant impact on him will trigger certain system prompts or tasks.
This can be regarded as an early warning mechanism, after all, Tyron has also studied the system for many years, and as a tool to carry and bind to the soul at any time, it is still very useful in most cases.
The base was given to three archers to take care of, and if it wasn't too terrifying for the enemy, they plus two ancient trees that could fight, it would be enough to deal with it.