Chapter 220: The Dragon Arrives in the City
A violent storm struck all of Tartaglia.
Torrents carried rolling mudslides that flooded villages and roads, and the murky river was filled with the corpses of countless livestock and wild animals, turning the already muddy Enrith swamp into an ocean.
In such weather, not to mention fighting or transporting supplies, it was extremely difficult to even move through the endless mud, and the defenders of Hermit City put away the drawbridge early, and the werewolves and lizardmen divided into two distinct teams, each hiding in the corner of the wall to avoid the cold.
Anyway, even if it doesn't rain, there will be no business travel into the city, since King West ascended the throne, in addition to the convoy carrying military rations and baggage, there are farmers fleeing from all over the country, and at this time, the rain mixed with ice chips is almost so cold that people can't feel the existence of their noses.
A loud jolt woke the guards half-asleep, and the flickering brazier on the gatehouse showed that something terrible was coming this way.
Earthquakes, mudslides, but the hermit city is surrounded by a flat river.
The Lizard Warriors, who possess the ability to adjust their long-range gaze, quickly spotted the clues, and among their vertical pupils first a few crimson figures appeared, and then more appeared.
Those strange creatures that had never been seen before had bodies taller than the barbarians' Behemoths, and the rain of ice splinters fell on their bodies as if they were completely absorbed, like a dozen huge fires moving at high speed under the gray dark clouds.
"Dragon...... Dragon!" the lizard warrior who had been the first to notice the anomaly exclaimed in horror as he pointed out his mouth, and although the creature reflected in his pupils was unlike any dragon known to legend, he couldn't find any other adjective.
Strictly speaking, the lizardmen are also one of the descendants of the dragon's mess, although they only have an incomparably thin one-ten-thousandth of dragon blood in their bodies, but it is still enough to make them, as creatures at the bottom of the biological chain, have a soulful awe of the terrifying existence at the top of the biological chain.
"Hurry up, report to the General!" shouted the lizardman captain in horror, and judging by the size of the dragons and the thick crystal armor that glowed red, the guards knew they would not be able to resist.
Weak creatures will instinctively want to huddle together and find support in the face of irresistible powerful beings, in order to seek at least one kind of spiritual comfort, but at this time, they will also instinctively forget that the so-called generals are just orcs like them.
Perhaps, it will be a little stronger?
"What's the matter!?" a deep voice sounded behind the many guards, and for some reason, after feeling that calm aura, the warriors actually felt that the fear brought by the dragon had also dissipated somewhat.
"General Ruken! look!" a lizard warrior's arm pointed to the mist-filled swamp in the distance.
In fact, there was no need for any prompting, the huge figure that was still looming in the depths of the swamp just now had completely appeared on the plain in front of Hermit City at this time.
The terrifying size was accompanied by heavy steps, and each step was a step like a mountain shaking a few feet, and in just a few breaths, Ruken could already see the crystal dragon whiskers on the lips of the strange dragon at the head.
"Go and ask for the Witch of McLind. Lucken whispered to the werewolf warrior behind him.
When West ascended the throne, in order to limit and supervise the rights of these foreign generals, witch leaders were sent to each fortress to assist in the defense, but in fact, it was more to prevent these people from having different intentions towards him.
Luckily, the leader of the witches sent to the hermit city, Merlind, was a wise and kind person, and she quickly established a good personal relationship with the upright and resolute Ruken with her heart for the people of Tartagria.
So the first thing that came to Ruken's mind after seeing these terrifying creatures that he had never seen before was to inform McLind, and perhaps the latter's superior intelligence could help the current situation.
For now, at least, these terrifying creatures had not shown any obvious hostility towards the swamp people, and they stopped a hundred meters before the moat, and when the dragons stepped out of the thick mist behind the leading dragons and lined up under the walls, Ruken's mood instantly plummeted.
Twenty heads!
There are only three hydras in Hermit City, and their size is comparable to that of a giant python compared to these behemoths, and if an attack on Hermit City is launched on such a scale, the entire fortress will be trampled to the ground in almost an hour.
Moreover, the cold light reflected in the eyes of these giant beasts also showed that they were not passing by or visiting in a friendly way.
"General Ruken!" the witch Merlind rushed to the city wall as soon as she received the notice, and even brought hundreds of witches from the magic guild with her in order to deal with the emergency, but when she saw the situation under the city clearly, her pupils instantly widened to the maximum, and her face was full of ghost expressions.
"Crystal Dragon!!" she shouted.
"Do you know these creatures?" said Ruken, with a heavy heart, although he didn't know what a crystal dragon was, but anyone who could be related to a dragon was a good race.
Needless to say, the bipedal wyvern domesticated by the Tatarians only has a little bit of dragon blood, and can already become a feared beast and war machine in the swamp, and these are obviously not comparable to the swamp wyvern.
"No, I haven't seen them either, I've only seen them from ancient texts, it is rumored that they were created by a great alchemist thousands of years ago, but in the rest of history they have completely disappeared, I always thought it was a distant legend, but I never thought they actually existed. ”
McLind struggled to control her ups and downs, patiently explaining to Ruken that the more she spoke, the quicker her own breathing became.
According to the records in the classics, the Crystal Dragon Clan is as powerful as the legendary Holy Dragon, and now how many heads are lined up under the city?
"So these crystal dragons have been tamed?" Luken carefully grasped the details of McLind's words, and at the same time, his heart was cold to the limit.
If these crystal dragons were all wild and had come to Hermit City for some unknown purpose, then he could still find a way to lure them away, even at the cost of some sacrifices.
But if they are all domesticated, and this kind of formation is close to the city, then the purpose is already self-evident, but why don't they attack immediately? There is no need to wait for any reinforcements at all with this level of crushing troops.
In any case, Lunken still ordered all the soldiers to go up to the fortress, and it was his unavoidable responsibility to defend the land as a general, even if he sacrificed his life on the battlefield for this, it was better than those corpses in the court who only knew how to fight for power and profit.
And as the defenders of Hermit City trembled under the reprimand of the captains to carry the city's defenses, a figure rode over the crystal dragons on horseback and galloped to a sudden halt in front of the moat.
"Ryuri!" Naruto stood up as the horse neighed, and Ruken had just taken in the appearance of the knight on the horse.
"General Tuze!?"
As a general defending the frontier at the same time as Tuze, in addition to the love of the robe on the battlefield, the two have a good personal friendship in private, and even when Tuze was declared a traitor and traitor by West, Ruken also fought for it, and even almost fell into a crime of the same party.
However, in the end, he completely offended West, and was demoted from the general of the army to the guard general of this hermit city, but Ruken didn't care at all, he just didn't want to face the ugly lizard face in the court.
But now what surprised him was not seeing Tuze, but the power behind Tuze, could it be that he had obtained the support of the Crystal Dragon Clan during the time he had been away from Tartaglia, and now he had returned with a large army for revenge?
If so, then the country is about to set off another bloody storm.
"Long time no see, Ruken. ”
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