"What will happen to them after that?" asked Keou after throwing away the annoying burdens (the Dragontooth Knights and their mounts). Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Will get soaked," said the lich, "and maybe a few sneezes from a cold." ”

"I mean," Keo was not pleased with the reply, "I mean, you just threw them out of Grenada and left it alone?"

"And what do you want me to do?" said the lich, "to ensure that their women will have boys?"

The irony was a translation of a colloquial phrase from another plane, the male-faced sphinx certainly didn't understand, but he immediately realized that he was a little too nitpicky, he should have known how difficult and dangerous it was for his current master to be able to do all this, the black-haired dragonborn not only kept the women and children alive, but also kept most of the males - they were out of the desert, and even the eggs of the spider-eaters could not hatch, and they had to live a rather difficult and bitter life. But this is not necessarily a bad thing for them, and Keu discussed this matter with Mossa's father when he was still the leader of the male-faced sphinx, but Mossa's father, despite his authority and power, still could not let his people give up their way of life, which could not be said to be peaceful, and even full of blood and death. It was a paradoxical phenomenon, and every barbarian hated this barren and dangerous life, but they were unwilling to leave the desert, leave the spider-eaters, and toil like ordinary humans.

And if the barbarians of the desert can't be said to be completely wiped out, they still have a small branch, which will enter the royal capital of Grenada as the relics of Cremar, and survive under the protection of the black-haired dragonborn, perhaps most of them are a good fit for Grenada - Keo remembers how the humans greedily stole the eggs of the human-faced sphinx, and seriously, if Mosa hadn't sent them back in time, Keo's minions would have torn them apart one by one- It's a bit of a way to think of a human-faced sphinx, but that's okay, Keou was never a male sphinx in the usual sense.

"But what about the future?" asked Keou, as the whole sky took on the colors of lead gray, sapphire blue, and gray-red, and the endless stretches of sand dunes were rendered by the last sunlight of the day like gold glittering in the light of fire, a brilliant color that would enchant many people, and the male-faced sphinx flapped his wings and landed on the top of a tower-shaped sandstone in the cool wind, his claws falling on the rocks, the gravel dust falling in a torrent, his huge wings hanging from his shoulders to his hips, The tips of the wings were almost level with the tips of the tail - the lich wondered why Mittkot would have a hard time suppressing his affection for Keo - Keo satisfied the Grenadan fetishes everywhere: the depraved, the wicked, the powerful, the arrogant, and how beautiful it would be to be able to conquer such a human-faced sphinx and become his master, almost second only to conquering a dragon.

Even in the days when dragons were too many to annoy the gods, it was almost impossible to make a dragon a mount and a slave, and even the most trusted people of the good dragons could only be caught or held, and if you saw a man riding on a dragon, don't doubt it, it must be the human form of another dragon, although this can only be said to be a handful.

"Later?"

"You're the leader of the Dragon's Teeth, aren't you," Keo said, "and as far as they're concerned, you've done a good job, that is, you're not going to be dismissed, of course, I'm not saying you can resign from the appointment, and if you could, you wouldn't have accepted it in the first place." ”

Undoubtedly, the lich sighed, he didn't plan to return to Grenada so soon, if he could, he planned to finish his service in Grey Ridge, but it was clear that the hand hidden behind fate wouldn't give him that much time. When Ostarr appeared to him again, calling him by his dragon name, and asking him to return to Grenada, he knew no—he could refuse Ostar, but there was no doubt that he would be sent to a heavy shackle afterwards, which would cause him to enter the capital as a loser, and no one knew better than the Lich how dangerous it could be- If you have to make an analogy, Grenada can be said to be a small pool, in which tens of thousands of piranhas swim, almost so dense that they can collide or squeeze at any time, and at this time, whoever sheds the first drop of blood will be the first to be attacked, this has nothing to do with conspiracy or anything, but it is out of the instinct and nature that Gredy has deliberately cultivated for thousands of years.

"I mean," Keou continued, "what do you do when they're going to attack a country?"

Otherwise, a war on a large scale is much better than a local exercise in full view: "This kind of war doesn't make a human or a dragonborn commander," the lich explained, "Only the red dragon can command the red dragon." "And it is always difficult to define whether war is good or evil, and the struggle between those nations and Grenada has existed since the latter was not yet a state, or more viciously, as long as it is a state, there is no possibility of innocence. Unless there is a majority of the undead and their vassals in the armies of one of the parties to the war, or if there are demons or demons, then there will be hordes of paladins or white-robed figures on the battlefield - and the gods will rarely intervene directly in human warfare, even in turbulent years.

"I'll try to circumvent some of the tasks that might be tricky for me," said the lich slowly, "and I'm favored by Gredy and the King anyway," he said slyly, "I can be as willful as I can, it's my prerogative, isn't it?"

"Hmm," Keo shrugged, a gesture that made the Dragonborn jump on his shoulder, "Okay, I'll help you." ”

"Of course I need your help," said the lich, "can you see anywhere?"

"Where?" asked the male-faced sphinx, looking in the direction of the lich's finger, and all he could see was the intersection of the desert and the sky, where there seemed to be a thin, faint light. "What's that?"

"It's the sea," said the lich, "the sea of Grenada, Grenada has many ports, but the red dragons don't like water, or rather, they don't like sea, so the kings of Grenada are in the plateau and desert, but Grenada is also embraced by the sea, it's a peninsula." ”

"How?"

"I want to have a city of my own," said the lich, "my own fiefdom, and though the sons of Gredi are in the royal capital of Grenada, they all have their own armies and territories, which I do not have." Although," he continued, "I might be able to get one if I went and asked for one, but I don't, I just want to have a territory that the descendants of the red dragon never thought of." ”

"What does this have to do with the sea?" Keo paused abruptly, and suddenly understood what the lich meant, "I see," he said in surprise, "do you want a harbor as your domain?" and he hesitated, "maybe that's a good idea." ”

"Not exactly," said the lich, "have you ever thought that we could have a city standing in the middle of the sea?"

Keo was really taken aback, "Are you going to put your city on the Seventy-Seven Islands? It's not Grenada, and there's a bunch of stinking bones...... Oh, my mane, my mane, my mane, my beep-beep, for the sake of the endless abyss, why would you pull off my mane, even if you're jealous, but pulling off my mane doesn't make your beard any more lush!"

"Respect your enemies," the lich said solemnly, placing the manes that he had subconsciously pulled off into the dimensional pouch - the mane of the human-faced sphinx was also a good spell material, "and I wasn't going to expand my territory into the Seventy-Seven Islands." ”

"But there aren't many islands in Grenada where you can build a city," Grenada is surrounded by only a few small islands that will disappear half or even completely when the tide rises.

The same can be said. The Lich had this idea because of the splendid and elaborate tower-like structure he saw in the minds of uninvited guests from another plane, which was just a complex of buildings on another plane, but here it could be called a city, and he could do a lot with it: "Keo, do you know what Grenada's legions do first when they enter a city?"

The male-faced sphinx was silent for a moment, "Slaughter." He said.

"There are six thousand knights and two thousand warlocks in the Dragon's Tooth Legion, and I can't ask them not to destroy those innocent lives," said the lich, "that's ...... Their pleasures are also their hobbies, and unless I am right in front of them, they will never obey this command, and they will even question and resist me. ”

"What you want to do, and what you need me to do," Keo asked keenly, "Does it have anything to do with this?"

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Two eagle-faced sphinxes staggered into the camp.

Each Harpy-faced Sphinx has a knight's servant, that is, the mercenaries who are responsible for preparing food for them, but this food is fresh but not active enough to fully satisfy the appetite of these bloodthirsty beasts, and they will occasionally fly out to find one or two other beasts and monsters in the gravel desert and desert, or small caravans with insufficient protection will also become their targets. The two Hargy-faced Sphinxes had just gone to attack an unfortunate caravan that had lost many mercenaries in the sandstorm, and there were no Warlocks or Knights of Grenada as hole cards, but the capture of only two slaves and the horses they were leading was enough to fill them with gratitude.

Dinner, and the addition of food, piled up in their stomachs with too much food, dulled their minds, so that when a huge black shadow landed abruptly on their path, they almost screamed in fright, and their hairs stood on end, and even more so when they saw the bastard that suddenly jumped out and startled them...... Anger, and perhaps some fear.

"Keo!" shouted a griffinx, "what do you want!"

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