When Shen Yan and Penny were "hurting" each other, they didn't know that there was a reason why this neighborhood was so "quiet".

Less than fifty kilometres north of the ridge, a protracted war was drawing to a close, with heavy casualties on both sides. Exhausting wars have brought both kingdoms to the brink of bankruptcy, with no one really winning. A large number of corpses that had not had time to be collected were discarded in the valley, attracting all the nearby predators like magnets, and they wandered in groups on the edge of the battlefield, while the herbivores fled in the direction of farther away.

This made the place where Shen Yan landed quiet, like a paradise.

However, there is no such place in this narrow land - there is no continent so vast that it can never be reached, and there is no giant city with a population of 10 billion people - only a peninsula surrounded by the sea, the area of the three provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian combined, and half of the land is mountainous, and the remaining half is swamps and forests......

The shape of the peninsula looks like a fist with a middle finger raised downward.

Its main landform is the Penlin Mountains in a "Y" shape, the lower end of the "Y" forms the "middle finger" part of the deep sea, dividing the ocean into the blue sea and the black sea left and right, and the finger end is the largest city in the south, Stormwind City and Stormstorm Harbor. The upper half of the "Y" shape divides the "fist" part of the peninsula into three separate kingdoms - Stonehaven composed of subspecies such as lizardmen, elves, and dwarves, the human kingdom of Upper Penrien, and the human kingdom of Lower Penlin.

Legend has it that the peninsula was once the province of Penglin of a large empire in ancient times, and its territory encompassed the entire peninsula (purportedly, it only occupied a small area in the north). But when dense clouds and a large number of demons appeared on the northern plateau, the peninsula's road to the outside world was completely cut off.

The loss of contact with the Northern Empire plunged the entire peninsula into chaos, and the province of Penrien split into two kingdoms, Upper Penrien and Lower Penrin, occupying the main cultivated areas in the central and eastern parts of the peninsula. During this period, the loss of supplies from the empire led to a severe shortage of food. Humanity has raised the banner of xenophobia and expelled all the subhumans from the kingdom! Most of the subhumans died on the way, and a small number of subhumans reached the swamps and forests of the western part of the peninsula and established their own state, Stonehaven.

Since then, the three narrow north-south countries have been like three sausages hanging from a rope. Whenever the demon tide descends, when a large number of demons rush down the cloud plateau, the three kingdoms will put aside all disputes and fight against the demon army together; As soon as the demon tide retreated, the three kingdoms immediately began to attack each other, fighting endlessly.

As shipbuilding progressed, offshore trade and fishing began to emerge, and a succession of independent city-states and ports spontaneously formed in the once barren (mainly storm-frequent) lands of the southern coastal region. In particular, Stormwind City and Stormwind Harbor, located at the southernmost tip of the peninsula, have a unique topography and the strongest fleet on the peninsula, and monopolize half of the maritime trade, and their strength makes the three northern kingdoms jealous.

It also further complicates the situation on the peninsula.

Racial hatred between humans and subspecies, the clash between the emerging alchemy and the traditional church, the orthodox struggle between the upper and lower forests, the rivalry between the northern military aristocracy and the merchants of the southern city-states, and the continuous conspiracy and infiltration of the peninsula by demons...... There is also the ghostly prophecy that has always wandered over the peninsula, "Only the king who unifies the peninsula can completely end the demon tide, dispel the fog, and return to the glory of the empire...... All of this has made the situation on the peninsula mired and increasingly difficult.

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"But none of this has anything to do with me, now I just want to farm, hunt, and finally die happily in the same bed."

Ozmat, Lizardman Ranger, former Scout Captain of the Third Brigade of the First Legion of the Stonehaven Kingdom.

Lizardfolk have human-like limbs and clearly distinguishable facial features, but their faces are more lizard-like. Their bodies are covered in green skin and large scales, and their leg structure is a more conducive anti-joint than humans for running and jumping. The eyes have snake-like eyelids, and the tongue is elongated and forked. Human society generally believes that lizardfolk are the evil offspring of human-lizard hybridization, but in fact it is a kind of arrogant thinking that is stupid to the point of stupidity!

Lizardfolk are two completely different species from humans, they have their own completely stable genetic chain, and they also possess the intelligence and reproductive ability of humans. Broadly speaking, they are no different from humans and elves.

Ozmat is the "former Scout Captain" because he has already lost his status as a soldier to the Kingdom of Stonehaven and the damned Northern War! Ozmat now plays for a human convoy in exchange for the right to join a new village.

Interestingly, the leader of this convoy, Milton, was also a deserter - though he was the captain of a second-tier regiment guerrilla brigade on the side of the Human Kingdom, Upper Penrien—and at one point, they were mortal enemies on the battlefield!

The 2nd Line Regiment of the Upper Penlin was mainly responsible for maintaining the transportation lines and "collecting" grain and grass from the western villages during the long war, and when he found out that the target was his home village, and the village began to starve to death, Milton broke out! He killed the Overseer of the Troop and defected from the Upper Penlin Kingdom with half of his men and the rest of the village.

Fortunately, at this time, the kingdom itself was exhausted, and there was no energy to pay attention to the whereabouts of a second-tier legion brigade, which allowed them to leave the kingdom's controlled area smoothly. Milton was a man of considerable leadership, gathering men and war orphans along the way to assemble a large convoy. The ultimate goal is to cross the West Penrin Mountains and choose a secluded place between the West Coast and the West Penrin Mountains to establish a free place that belongs entirely to the villagers. To this end, he demanded that everyone who joined the team must put aside their preconceptions and welcome each other regardless of race.

So far, although there are still many problems, Milton has succeeded in doing what he says. By the time the convoy was halfway through, it had almost become a coalition of ethnic groups on the peninsula, and the adopted war orphans were of all races...... However, it is still dominated by human beings. That's why Ozmat is willing to join the new village.

"Fifteen days, twenty days at most, and we'll be there. And then the big guy would come to me and say, "Hey, Omar, have you figured out where to stay?" I would say, village? No, no, no, the imps are too noisy there; Waterside? Too moist, not good for the skin; On the hillside? I have to think that it seems like a good idea to build a hut on a hillside by the woods, but not too far from the water's edge. I can help you watch the woods and keep the wild beasts from breaking into the village, and the little ones will be taken away by wolves like rabbits.

That's right, I'll say that then, and he'll be as happy as an idiot......" Ozmat kept muttering to himself.

He hides his green face in his cloak and hood, and the chain mail on his body deliberately hides most of his lizardfolk features. Still, keep yourself as far away from the eyes of ordinary humans as possible and walk at the front of the convoy. Although over the past few decades, he has become accustomed to all kinds of discriminatory gazes. But when the children cried at his appearance, Ozmat still felt guilty, even though it wasn't his fault.

The current situation is that humans are responsible for orthodoxy, elves are responsible for arrogance, dwarves are responsible for stubbornness, and only lizardmen are responsible for nothing, or rather, they are responsible for ignorance, barbarism, backwardness, and uncivilized ....... In the eyes of the world, all three races have created glorious civilizations, except for the lizardmen, who seem to live like wild beasts, leaving no culture behind.

It's a little sad to think about it. When a child with a bug asked him if he wanted to eat it, Ozmat almost cried...... It's just a little bit of it.

"I never wanted to eat that bug! Never! Lizardmen don't eat bugs, and lizards aren't our distant relatives, no, we shouldn't be called lizardmen at all! Would humans be called monkey people? Do elves be called vegetatives? Only lizardmen do this...... They see a lizard as if they were looking at your own brother. It's ridiculous, they don't call the monkey brother, but they point to the lizard and ask is this your relative? "Talking to yourself, talking to yourself.

In short, although he was with the convoy behind him. But when possible, Ozmat tried to keep his distance from those people.

Lizardfolk don't wear shoes, and their thick flippers are on the dirt and can clearly distinguish changes in the earth. For example, changes in humidity allow him to easily determine the location of surrounding streams and swamps. There is also the change in temperature, which allows him to know the secrets of the depths of the earth. And his tongue that is always sticking out isn't meant to catch flying insects – again, I don't eat bugs!

It is used to identify odours in the air and detect hidden dangers early.

"If there's a lizardfolk teammate on the adventuring party, that's everyone's luck! Because he is not only loyal, reliable, but also versatile. Like this," Ozmat continued his soliloquy to himself, even sticking out his tongue to "lick" the air, "tsk, a burnt smell, someone burning something nearby?" Is this hollow smell of dust the ash of plants and trees after burning? There is also the smell of human bones in it. ”

Ozmat raised his right fist and signaled for the convoy behind him to pause.

Then he took off the broad greatsword on his back, and with a slight leap he quickly disappeared into the grass. Even if someone stares at him closely, they will lose his trace in the blink of an eye! Lizardmen are highly mobile, with their skin and specially crafted armor changing color depending on the environment, while the Ranger's abilities provide more stealth in grassland and forest terrain. As Ozmat himself said, the Lizardmen are actually very valuable teammates.

Humans with a sense of superiority are the most wasteful races in the entire multiverse...... By the way, we generally call it the "most balanced race".

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