Chapter 33: Total War (II)

No matter how much the gods searched, they still couldn't find the gods of the human gods. It was as if they had melted into the void, as if they had never been there at all, and they had not even breathed at all.

Sui Xiong was also curious and wanted to know where they were, but he just watched from the sidelines and did not search.

Judging from the current situation, once the human gods are found, it will probably be the end of the total destruction of the group of servants, and he, as a neutral, of course cannot be mixed in.

Since he couldn't get involved, he had little interest in this silent secret war of concealment and search between the gods. In contrast, it was the intensifying war in the world that attracted his attention even more.

After the swamp tribes gathered a large army, they launched an attack on the Principality of Thunder.

For a long time, the main force invading the Swamp was the Principality of Thunder. However, compared to the country of a thousand springs, which can suppress the dwarves and elves with one enemy and two enemies, the combat effectiveness of the Thunder Principality is much worse, and their "development" efforts against the swamp are much smaller.

There is no unified state in the Swamp, and the various ethnic forces are intricately intertwined, and civil wars are continuous. In this case, the Principality of Thunder can often take advantage of the method of pulling one faction to fight another, and has repeatedly made gains.

But now, for the first time, the various races of the Swamp, under the leadership of the indigenous gods, are united. When the various clans that had been fighting for many years finally stood on the same front, the power of the Thunder Principality was relatively insufficient.

In just one battle, six of the fourteen strongholds established by the Principality of Thunder in the swamp were uprooted, and the remaining eight were also in danger.

The various tribes in the swamp are large in number, and their strength is uneven. Among them, there are weak ones like the Lizardmen who may not be able to outperform humans one-on-one, and there are also those who are as powerful as the Hydra and can pose a threat to a small fortress single-handedly unless they encounter a high-level powerhouse. After they were united, the various races complemented each other very well, and played a greater than two effects.

From the "Mangrove Fortress", the most important stronghold established by the Principality of Thunder in the Everglades, you can see an extremely spectacular and terrifying scene:

In the sky, the bird-fleshed banshees let out a piercing scream and flew in a mess. These monsters that are good at suddenly descending from the sky, grabbing the enemy's head and twisting it off, and then flying away are not very strong, and any well-trained soldier can fight them one-on-one as long as he does not panic. But at this moment, looking at the black pressure in the sky, I don't know how many there are, and the defenders at the head of the city are all pale one by one, and they don't know what to do.

In the midst of the large flock of bird-like banshees, there are also gray-green or gray-red figures. It was a Wyvern, a monster with a little dragon blood. They don't fly high enough or fast enough to compete with real dragons, but their hard scales and strong bodies make them terrifying aerial killers that ordinary soldiers can fight even in hordes. Not to mention...... Some bipedal wyverns also know how to cast a little magic or spit venom......

Leon once tamed a bipedal wyvern, a subspecies of the "bronze-crowned wyvern". Under Leon's training, it is quite capable of flying. If there is a flying competition in the bipedal wyvern population, it must have a chance to fight for the championship. Although Leon has long since become a true dragon knight, with the green dragon Garstobi as the envy of anyone, he still rides the bronze crowned dragon many times in order to avoid causing a riot.

Garstobi was very dissatisfied with this, and often went to trouble the bronze-crowned wyvern in private, and later developed to the appearance of a human from time to time, riding this unlucky wyvern through the market, which made the insider can't help but laugh.

What should you call a dragon that rides a dragon?

These air forces alone have already made the soldiers of Mangrove Fortress very distressed, and they feel that the chances of victory are slim. And the mighty ground forces made them even more sad, secretly calculating the serious demoralization problem of "how long can I live".

No, morale or something, if it weren't for the fact that the entire fortress had been surrounded by regiments and had no way to escape, it would have long ceased to exist......

The ground forces of the swamp tribes are naturally dominated by lizardmen, and these humanoids with hard scales are generally similar to humans in other aspects, except for a slightly lower intelligence. However, their stamina is significantly inferior to that of humans, and they will suffer greatly in the case of long battles. However, the fertility is much better than that of humans to make up for this shortcoming, and if it weren't for their dislike of not being wet enough, maybe there would be traces of them everywhere on the continent.

In addition to lizardmen, there are naturally many monsters such as monitor lizards, giant pythons, giant centipedes, giant scorpions, and swamp demon crabs. There is an intelligent race in the swamp called the "swamp apemen", who are especially good at taming all kinds of poisons, they are natural animal trainers, flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, there are almost no monsters they cannot tame - as long as they are poisonous.

Another intelligent race in the swamp is the frogman, the frogman is a relatively weak race, the individual combat power is not strong, the courage is quite small, the level of civilization is relatively backward, and it is in a lower position in the "food chain" of the swamp. But they are also enough to do a lot of logistical work, and they can provide a lot of help to the army.

As for goblins and the like, of course, there are a lot of them. However, they have never been considered the same kind by the swamp tribes, and they are always driven to trap with their lives. In the first few sieges, it was almost lost, so I can't see much at the moment.

If these enemies were the only ones, it would not be impossible to support them with the strong defense of Mangrove Castle. But in the swamp army, there are more than a dozen super big men who are as tall as a hill.

That's the trump card of the swamp, the giant hydra.

This terrifying creature has a sheer size and strength worthy of its terrifying stature, and while it doesn't know any spells, it has a terrifyingly tenacious vitality - no way can it kill it unless it all heads are chopped off at the same time, and even terrifying spells that can wipe out enemies are useless as long as they don't hit all of its heads at once.

This monster is the most terrifying being in the swamp and one of the scariest things in folklore. As long as you can kill even one one-on-one, you are enough to be called a hero.

In fact, not to mention the giant hydra, even its lower race, the hydra lizard, is already a very dangerous monster.

When Sui Xiong and the others first arrived in Garth City, they were saddened by Sean Riley, the son of the then Lord of Garth City and Carissa's brother, and Sheen asked Leon to catch a three-headed snake lizard to prove that he was qualified to negotiate terms with him.

Of course Leon did, and that may be the origin of all his fate with the Riley family.

Of course, the hydra lizard is nothing, but if Sheen wanted Leon to catch a giant hydra at that time, it is estimated that Leon's choice was not to catch the monster, but to draw his sword and cut off Sheon's cranky head.

It is obviously easier and safer to kill the son of a legendary powerhouse than to provoke a giant hydra.