Chapter 422: Brothers (I)
To the lich's surprise, in addition to Grenada's caravan master, there was another one more, the dwarf merchant among the survivors, who was actually included in the ranks. The Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info Winged Serpent took off again, leaving the other merchants who could not afford to satisfy their caravan owners in the desert, and it was up to them to get away with another merciful caravan. In fact, it's strange enough that the merchants of Grenada didn't kill the merchants and take the last few gold coins from them—perhaps because the threat of petrified lizards made them unwilling to do anything more, and although petrified lizards are lazy creatures, who knows if they will suddenly want to be diligent.
The journey became peaceful and boring, and on the fourth day, when the spirits of the other world came out on duty again, all he saw was a desert like a sea of fire—the desert was not always yellow and clear as those who had never seen them, they were silvery white and dark under the moonlit night, rosy red when the stars were dim and the morning light had not yet come, creamy yellow under the scorching sun, and even emerald green when the clouds covered the sky and the short, pouring rain fell. It's also a very rare sight, and even the cruel Grenada and the Winged Serpent seem to have become gentle and quiet. Delicate grass sprouts emerge from the sand, and the sprouts of grass pull out their leaves as quickly as a freeze-frame camera in the rain, and when the leaves open to small pale violet flowers, when the rain clouds reced, the flowers wither, bearing down and light pods, which dried up in an instant under the scorching sun of regaining dominance, and then burst open with the wind blowing, tiny seeds and shriveled pods, withered leaves splashed everywhere, another round of life was ended, and new seeds were ambushed, waiting for the rain to come。
Cutting off the royal capital of Grenada from the rest of the world is a vast desert, and there may be hundreds of legends about this desert that can tell you how it was formed, but if the knowledge of the lich from another plane is concerned, it is likely that it was formed between the subtropics and the tropics, although it is close to the ocean, but there are towering highlands and mountains around it that block the cold air currents from the north, so that the rain clouds cannot condense for a long time, there is a lack of precipitation, and it is a sunken basin itself, and the hot and restless air currents only swirl and wander inside, and over time, the wilderness becomes barren soilThe barren soil has become a gravel desert again, and the gravel desert has become a desert again, and the area of the desert has expanded again and again before it becomes what it is today.
If the solution to this problem is to open a gap in the long mountain range, let the cold air currents of the north enter here, if the rain is abundant, then the desert will also become fertile fields, unfortunately, no one or god wants to do that, the red dragon of Grenada also prefers the hot and dry climate, and Gredi needs soldiers, not farmers, she noticed this when choosing her future territory, only a desolate and barren place can raise a fierce beast with claws-- That's what she said, and that's true in fact, that the people of Grenada, who are struggling to survive in this land, accept the rule of the red dragon with astonishing speed, they don't care whether the ruler is evil or good, they want bread, meat, ale, women, tents, as long as they can give them these, there is nothing wrong with bowing down to the devil.
Although, before the Red Dragon Gredi came to this place, this place was not even of much interest to the devil, perhaps because the humans here would make them lack a sense of accomplishment?
On the fourth day they saw the gravel desert again, and the strange buildings that stood in the middle of the gravel desert, from the outside, they looked like triangular towers, but only a dozen feet high, they looked like stone tents, with deep black holes on the surface, and the warlocks in the caravan controlled the winged serpents to descend, not far from these triangular towers.
The winged serpent was uneasy, and began to struggle frantically despite the goods on their bodies, the shackles imposed on their minds by humans and magic, and the warlock chanted the incantation loudly, and threw the magic again and again, while the merchants drew their weapons as fast as they could, and at this time the owner of the caravan took out a rune and threw it into the hole in one of the triangular towers, and with a barely perceptible shaking, a sharp thorn stretched out from under the cracked soil. They look like some kind of plant, but it's not, it's the long feet of monsters, and if you want to say that these merchants have seen enough monsters walking on the continent, but every time you come back here and see these things, you still feel chills...... These monsters were originally humans, including Warlocks and Dragonborns, but because of Gredi's anger or disappointment, they were transformed and transformed into their current form by the mentors of the Warlock Tower. Some looked like spiders, others like dogs or wolves, and still others like rotting fish, but one thing they had in common anyway was that they all had a complete face, one face that remained as the bearer had been, and one or two of them were perhaps familiar to the merchants. They also have human brains, they can think and feel, but their bodies are completely out of their control, and they are here to do their last work for Grenada, killing enemies and serving their former companions, and when they die, the gems deep within their bodies will suck their souls, and the monsters that are not dead are responsible for handing over the gems to the warlocks who come to patrol regularly.
The winged serpent was quickly subdued by these monsters, their claws as sharp as daggers, the cold blood of the winged serpent from the wound, and one monster tried to suck them, only to scream in pain the next moment - they kept their memories of being human, but they could only feed on insects and carrion, like any, I mean, fresh and tasty, to them like sulfuric acid and venom.
"Yes...... That one......" The lich heard the two merchants discuss with amusement, the monster that looked like a maggot was once a fairly famous prostitute in the royal capital, and there was no shortage of powerful warlocks and dragonborns under the red dress. The two businessmen may have been ruthlessly rejected by her, but now they were much more honorable and happy than she was. (To be continued.) )