It will take a long time for the officers to assemble the troops, clean up the battlefield, and prepare for the work before the evacuation. So taking advantage of this opportunity, Natalie flew directly to the highest place of the fortress.

Standing on a high place, with a wide field of vision, and the endless Senhai came into view, she couldn't help but relax.

A forest is a forest after all, and even after such a big fire, it has not cut off the roots...... Even Natalie has seen that in some places destroyed by fire, new shoots have sprouted.

The opposition between the colored dragon and the metal dragon is also like this. No matter how one of them is suppressed, it will not usher in complete destruction.

In fact, she is no stranger to such an environment, as a green dragon who left her parents to live alone earlier than her own kind, she has been fighting monsters, adventurers or monsters in this murderous forest since she was a child. Death and survival, eating and being eaten, this world is the law of the jungle, she doesn't think there is anything wrong, but enjoys it.

She loved hunting, and she loved the feeling of fighting the strong, whether it was the cracking of bones or the heart-rending screams of her enemies, which made her feel heartfelt, and she once thought she was made to fight.

This is not an illusion born of arrogance, but an honor accumulated from countless battles.

That's right, Natalie is really strong, it's not like she hasn't fought with other dragons trying to fight for territory, and the results of the battles have proven that she is the best among the young dragons.

And this feeling reached its limit after meeting Iroh - Natalie had never encountered a dragon, and she was able to fight against her youth in her teenage years, and even win it faintly. Not to mention that Iroh has always retained a part of his strength.

To exaggerate, after battling Ello, she no longer expects an opponent below the adult dragon level.

However, none of those adult dragons are the overlords of one side, and the adult metal dragons have a large number of allies to help, and Natalie does not intend to deliberately create difficulties for herself.

Therefore, it has been a long time since an enemy like Iroh who can make her blood boil from the bottom of her heart.

Twelve years ago, Natalie was given an order from Iello to quell the rebellion, which made her quite excited, after all, the leader of the rebel army, Palmer Owen, was not only a long-established young genius, but also a charismatic leader, and she wanted to take this opportunity to compete with the other party to see if she could regain the excitement of fighting Iroh at that time.

It's a pity that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Palmer is not not strong, whether it is his own strength or the situation strategy, he is the world's first-class level, but compared to Iroh, the existence that is also rare in the dragon clan, the gap between them is more than a little bit and a half?

The outcome of this war was predestined from the very beginning.

"Natalie ......"

After reading the report this time, Iroh couldn't help but smile expectantly.

Just as Natalie longs to return to the Ikut Valley and see Iroh again, Iroh is also looking forward to Natalie's return.

In this way, he can see whether this green dragon has surpassed himself in the past twelve years!

......

Northeast of Falkenridge, Black Swamp.

Similar to the Weitz region, it is also in the midst of a long period of war.

Unlike Weitz, however, the Black Swamp is more brutal and brutal than the inhabitants of the Black Swamp, who are not primarily inhabited by humans, but by lizardmen.

They unite ogre thugs, goblin raiders, and even giant robbers, led by four tribes, and fight against each other.

The more primitive folk customs and the harsher environment made it more difficult to pacify the Black Swamp than Weitz in a sense. Although all the lizardmen in this area together are less than one-tenth of the people of the Wetz, as mentioned earlier, the terrain around the Black Swamp is quite unsuitable for large-scale military access, and the lizardmen are more united than the Wetzians when they are outside, which undoubtedly greatly increases the ease of the Black Swamp to defend and difficult to attack.

In fact, the lizardmen tribe here was able to firmly establish themselves in the northeast of Falkenridge, and the history of the rebels in the south was not even shorter than that of the rebels in the south, and it has to be said that this is no longer an accidental event of historical development, and their civilization must have its merits.

As the largest gathering place of lizardmen in the Western Continent, this black swamp covering more than 200 square kilometers is full of poisonous swamps and miasma, which can be said to be a natural barrier against foreign enemies, not to mention that it is also inhabited by poisonous insects, beasts and ogres and other races that are more ferocious than lizardmen.

Except for the lizardmen, who have lived in the black swamp for generations, no matter how elite the army, they are blind when they enter.

Fortunately, the Lizardfolk of the Black Swamp are not as interested in the outside world as the Rebels, preferring to decide the winner in their own homes before thinking about the rest of the matter.

So a stalemate has formed in the northeast of Falkenridge: Falkenridge can't help the lizardmen, and the lizardmen are not in a hurry to attack Falkenridge.

However, this is a destabilizing factor after all, and Iroh knows that as the situation between Falkenridge and Stacy grows more and more tense, the time to actually tear the face into war is getting closer and closer, and if we can't try to eliminate all the instability before the war starts, then what if these lizardmen have a whim and plan to take advantage of the fire?

Falkenridge can't tolerate a failure, and neither can Iroh, otherwise if he wants to find another opportunity to intervene in the power of the country, he doesn't know how long it will take!

It was with this idea in mind that Iroh did not hesitate to assist Falkenridge, develop the Materialist School, send Karamank to help Wetz build the country, send Natalie to quell the rebellion in the South, and then give the order to exterminate the Lizardmen tribe.

That's right, this time it's not pacification, but complete extermination!

Because there is no room for compromise between these two forces. They are aliens to each other, and conflicts between aliens can only be resolved by fighting, ending with the demise of one of them.

Unless...... The half-blood dragon of Hilcart could really understand what he meant.

On this day, in the depths of the black swamp, there was a sudden heart-rending scream, which was so miserable that it was unbearable to listen to.

Deep, murky water, dense trees, and foul-smelling plants grow where the screams come from.

Hilcart chewed on a piece of flesh that he didn't know what it was, and proudly admired the pained expressions of the lizardmen in front of him, while the other lizardmen around him were whipping their kind with whips in fear, for fear that the black dragon would not be satisfied.

"Didn't you eat?

After a while, it seemed that one of the lizardmen was tired from the fight, and the movements of his hands slowed down. Seeing this, Hillcat threw away the piece of meat in displeasure, and slapped him and an innocent man beside him with a claw.

"I'm in a bad mood today, and if you can't make me happy, you'll be responsible for today's food. ”

When Hilcart thought of going back to Iroh today, he couldn't feel better—just kidding, why should he go back to Icourt's Valley to continue to be angry after spending the past twelve years in the Black Swamp?

Naturally, the phrase just now does not mean "let the lizardmen bring themselves food" as most people understand, but ...... Turn these lizardfolk into food!

Apparently the poor lizardmen understood what Hillcutt meant, so they busied themselves with increasing the intensity of the torture, and some even took out knives to dig up the flesh of the victims.

Of course, the lizardmen, who were stimulated and screamed again, calmed down Hilcart's original unhappy mood again.

Of course, he was entitled to admire the lizardmen's misery from above, because ...... Just a year ago, all four tribes of lizardmen in the Black Swamp were destroyed, and the lizardmen either died or became Hirkat's playthings, and there was no possibility of resistance.

"That's enough, now I'm going to get some rest. By the time I returned, there was only one person left I hoped would be able to catch my breath. ”

After admiring it for another minute, Hilkat couldn't help but think of the mysterious black dragon's eyes again, and his mood became bad again. This time he completely lost the idea of continuing to watch, and directly threw a sentence to the pale lizardmen, and then stopped looking at their pleading eyes, and plunged headlong into the swamp water.

Black dragons prefer to settle their habitat in swampy areas because water can give them an advantage in battle, and the common growth and decay scenes in swamps help mask the pungent sour smell of this dragon.

Despite being a red-black dragon, Hilcart prefers his father's philosophy, at least when it comes to habitat selection.

Unlike the shallow swamps of the Ikut Valley, the deep water of the Black Marshes is undoubtedly more attractive. The main entrance to his lair is located underwater, and is hidden under a dense layer of vegetation, as he can enter the lair by swimming, but not necessarily by other creatures.

"Iroh, I'm going to enter adolescence soon, I don't believe I won't be able to beat you then!"

Muttering to himself a little viciously, Hillcat lay on his bed of gold coins covered with a dry boulder, his dark purple eyes full of hideousness.

However, this hideousness only lasted less than a minute before it vanished.

"Okay...... Endure. It's true that there are still a few years before the third awakening, but more than ten years have passed, so let's bear with it. ”

Thinking like this, Hilcart had apparently chosen to forget that the twelve years in which his life had been different from that in the Icourt Valley, and where his brother Vis was now.

"Anyway, I'm definitely much stronger now than when I left the valley, and although it's not time to rebel against Iro, I've conquered these lizardmen tribes, at least I'm credited to the Tokamaks, and Iroh can't ......give me anything when the time comes."

The lizardmen were conquered, and Hillcart seemed to be a fluttering word, but if it was spread out, I really don't know how many people would be shocked.

The lizardmen have been around for hundreds of years, and there have been hundreds of wars with Falkenridge, both large and small, and although they have been repelled many times, none of them have broken their bones. Although there are naturally many outstanding people among the people who have come to conquer the past generations, so far, there is still no one who has been able to achieve absolute victory.

The main reason is the location, for the lizardmen, the black swamp is not only their hunting ground, but also an absolute barrier of defense.

Once the battle is lost, they can retreat to their strongholds deep in the swamp, relying on their natural terrain advantage, no matter how strong the elite corps is.

This alone makes them invincible.

Therefore, in the face of the stubborn disease in the Northeast, Falkenridge has never been able to gain an advantage.

And this situation finally changed under the claws of Hillcut.