When Darius awoke from his sleep, he had gone from being a young man who missed his hometown to being the determined soldier of the garrison. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Thankfully, there was no more mess that night, as the dead cave wolf provided him with a thick fur, and Darius peeled off the wolf's body and smoked it dry, so as to get rid of all kinds of small insects that hid between the fur. Originally, the best way was to cook it in a special slurry and then smoke it, but the conditions here are limited, so I can only barely process it and use it as a mat.

It smells a little bad, but it's nice not to have to sleep on the cold ground.

He walked out of the cave where he had spent the night, the fire in front of it had long been extinguished, and looked up at the position of the sun, and Darius set out in the direction of the Hadland Gorge.

I have to go back, the lizardmen's troops are probably about to reach the garrison's defense area at this time, maybe the scouts on both sides have already had a small-scale contact battle, Darius doesn't want to be a deserter, even if the situation is becoming more and more dangerous now, but for him, it is not an opportunity for rapid growth and promotion.

Passing by a relatively clear stream, Darius took the time to wash, and finally removed the stench from his body, the wound on his back had been restored by the [healing] talent, and he felt that his energy was extremely abundant after this rest.

Darius likes this feeling, the human body is not a machine, it takes a long time to repair and recuperate after being damaged or even injured, but the talent of [Healing] helps him complete this process very quickly, no one likes the feeling of weakness, and the full strength is the foundation of his life.

Walking along the mountain trail, Darius soon spotted traces of the lizardmen's movements.

This is easy to recognize, the large number of three-finger prints in the dirt indicates that a large number of lizardmen troops have been here, and the lizardmen warriors of their incredible weight can easily leave footprints in the mountains and forests. And then there's the ruts of the convoys, which are the ones they use to transport stone and wood.

The stone and timber mined from the Rhodes Corridor were to be transported to the front line to be made into siege equipment, and Darius carefully examined the footprints, judging by the number of the enemy's size to be around eight hundred to one thousand.

This is normal, although the number of lizardmen is extremely staggering, but this time the army is not called all the troops together, it is very inefficient to do so, the mountains are not as wide as the plains, and there are not so wide roads for them to move forward. Therefore, the lizardmen troops will take the method of breaking up into pieces, taking clans as units, and disperse to a designated place - usually an open area in the mountains, and then organize and converge.

Darius looked in this direction, this way forward?

Isn't that exactly the direction of the Hadland Gorge?

He tightened his grip on the axe in his hand and quietly followed. Although I can't compete with so many troops by myself, what if there is a lonely? The speed of the troops was much slower than that of Darius alone, especially when it came to transporting so many supplies.

The lizardmen had scared away the beasts along the way, and their scent was still in the air, and after hours of following him, Darius finally saw the enemies in the distance.

He hung at the back of the line from undetected, an unusually strong warrior carrying a huge banner, and Darius squinted his eyes at it, a totem resembling the first quarter moon imprinted on the banner.

It was the Night Shadow clan, which Darius remembered Demuns had explained to him, that the lizardmen of this clan were proficient in lurking and sneak attacks, and that they worshipped the night and the moon, a primitive totemic cult that did not draw power from the gods of faith like regular church warriors. However, in the dark of night, the Lizardmen warriors of the Nightshade clan are still fearsome hunters.

Darius is even more careful, since this clan is good at night raids and hunting, it must be very alert, and if he is not careful, he is likely to be exposed.

Suddenly, Darius saw the troops ahead of him halt and take a defensive stance. Defensive stance? A trace of doubt appeared in Darius's heart, who would dare to snipe the lizardmen troops here?

Soon, though, Darius got the answer.

There was a shrill roar, and countless black creatures rushed in front of the lizardmen warrior on their thick, sturdy legs.

It was a creature similar to the velociraptor that Darius remembered, nearly three meters long, with an elongated body and thick legs, a special saddle mounted on its back, and a heavily armed warrior charging at the lizardman with a mount under its crotch.

Ground walking dragoons.

One of the strongest forces of the Second Garrison, the direct unit of the Legion General Lesser, the Terrestrial Dragoons led by Thasos.

In his first ambush, the Groundwalking Dragoons were not involved, so this was the first time Darius had seen this class in combat. Since the greatest advantage of the Earth Dragons is their agility and speed, the cavalry are specially selected warriors of short stature.

Being short in stature does not mean that you are weak in combat!

With the speed of the rush, the leading pair of knights suddenly pulled out short spears from their backpacks, and when they were about to approach the lizardmen, they threw the short spears in their hands violently, and the enchanted short spears flashed with purple magic light, and quickly broke through the air with a short scream.

Due to the close distance, the short spear flew very fast, and the lizardman in front had no time to dodge, and was pierced by the short spear.

The lizardmen in the middle of the spear couldn't even scream, and their wounds quickly turned into pieces of purple crystals. He fell straight to the ground, silent.

After the first wave of cavalry had finished throwing, they quickly tore off to both sides and slowed down, and the cavalry that had not made a move behind them rushed forward and continued to throw - like a peeling banana, although the analogy was not quite right, but it was exactly what Darius had in mind.

The cavalry successfully cut through the first half of the ranks of the "Night Shadow" clan, but these lizardmen were not soft eggs after all, and after seeing the menacing earthly dragoons, the troops behind decisively piled up wood in the mountain road, blocking the cavalry from continuing to rush forward.

A strange chanting sounded, and several huge pine trees beside the road suddenly twisted, wooden hands and feet extended outward from the huge trunks, and with a tooth-aching crunch, these giant trees turned into humanoid monsters, rising out of the dirt.

Darius stared from behind at the place where the incantation sounded, and a black-robed lizardman stood with a wooden tent.

Lizardman Priest, Spell: Animate Trees.

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