Chapter Thirty-Four: The Lizardman Camp
In a col to the west of Limestone Town, there is a lake fed by mountain streams, flanked by dense cedar forests. A few months ago, www.biquge.info a group of uninvited guests broke the peace in the mountains and forests. Now a large clearing has been cleared on the shore of the lake and a camp has been built.
If you look at this place head-on, the first thing you will see is a tall wooden hedge.
This fence is more than ten meters high, and the construction method can be described as very primitive. It first inserts the thicker fir wood into the ground, forms a large circle, and then uses a thick wedge to nail the thinner one to the top to make a "well" shape. Through the gaps between the fences, you can clearly see the simple wooden houses inside the camp.
After a few months, some green vines have climbed the hedge.
Whenever the mountain breeze blows through this camp, the hedge will have a clear whistle, and the insects and birds will play a song of the woods.
The place where the whistle sounded was the ornament on the "well" fence - a white skeleton nailed to a cedar tree!
They had been turned pale by the sun, and their sternum and limbs were pinned to the fence. Despite their size, few skeletons fall apart because they have shriveled muscles attached to their joints. The strange thing is that they resemble leg bones and spine, but they have been specially processed, and many gaps have been chiseled inside, so when the mountain breeze blows, it can make a clear whistle.
This unique whistle skeleton is a skill that the lizardmen are proud of. Decorating fences with them is something that every lizardfolk tribe does. In this way, they show themselves to be hideous and terrifying.
Now there are hundreds of such processed ornaments on this hedge. And there are many types, some of them are exceptionally tall, although they are humanoid torsos, they are four or five meters tall. Others have stout bones and horns at the skull. Others such as ribbed wings, tails like long snakes, human wolf heads, and so on. There are two most types of skeletons, one is as short as a young child but has a well-developed tail vertebrae, and the other is clearly human!
In fact, if the tribe of the lizardmen can develop to a certain extent, it is not only the fence outside the camp, but also the sentry skeleton as a marker in the place where they think they are "territory". Some of the most powerful tribes of lizardmen can even build a long hedge of bones tens of kilometers long.
Their purpose in doing so is to swear to other races that they own the land in question. Indicates that within the scope of the Sentry Skeleton's labeling, everything belongs to their lizardmen. To put it simply, it's like a wild dog demarcating territory by smearing urine everywhere.
Of course, whether or not it really belongs to them still needs to be proved by them. And the way the lizardmen prove it is that future enemies continue to be turned into these horrible ornaments.
If they don't have this ability, then the only thing that awaits them is the fate of being expelled.
In fact, every lizardman camp is watered with blood. These half-human, half-lizard-like men were disgusted by most of Roland's intelligent creatures. They are predators, and once they occupy a place, the fate that awaits all the creatures in that place is endless harassment and killing. Therefore, not only human beings, but all creatures who obtain the right to live by their own labor are killed quickly.
Al rode his eagle horse, and as soon as he circled the sky above the camp and took the lizardman camp into view, he gasped.
Looking at the white bones on the fence, he knew what good things these guys had done in the past few months.
Lizardfolk are not in the habit of keeping sentry skeletons. When they migrate, they usually only carry dry food and weapons. Everything else will be set on fire very simply. Even slaves who obeyed them were all killed. That is to say, in the time they have been here, they have killed so many "people".
Looking closely, Al even saw the bones of wild demons and minotaurs on the fence, and he admired the ability of these guys even more.
But what filled El's body at this moment was not horror, but an extreme disgust.
Al hates lizardmen because he had an uncle who died at the hands of them. Even, he is called "Fast Legs" because of the lizardman. When he was fifteen years old, he was caught by a lizardman wandering into the woods outside the town while hunting. After a chase, he relied on a pair of fast legs to escape. So, the decision to go to war with the lizardmen, Al is a die-hard supporter. Even this time, he was willing to take the initiative to ask for help, and he was willing to drive the eagle horse to check here.
When Al arrived in the vicinity, three other Hippogriff knights hovering over the camp immediately came to join him. They carefully steered the hippogriffs so that they kept them at the same speed, circling together at a short distance from each other.
"How's it going, Guito?" said Al, looking at one of the Hippogriffs.
"It's not a big problem, it's just that there seem to be some people coming to the camp at noon. ”
"What?"
"Not only Quito, I saw it too. Another Hippogriff added.
"Did you go down and find out?" Al asked, "This seems like a very important situation. ”
"No, the people down there seem to be very alert, and as soon as we descend, there are stones coming at us. So, we didn't dare to get too close. ”
"I see. As soon as he had said that, Al pulled the reins in front of them and swooped down, intending to further determine the situation of the camp.
Seeing his movements, the other three hippogriffs glanced at each other and had to dive with him.
They are cunning and ruthless.
It's the middle of the day, and the sun is hot. When they drive the hippogriff downward, they follow the direction of the sun, and if someone looks at them at this time, they will find that they can't open their eyes at all, which is too dazzling.
However, as the other three had said, as they had descended to a certain height, suddenly a terrifying stone of the size of a watermelon flew towards them from the camp below, carrying a huge wind.
At the same time, Levi was lying on his stomach on the huge burning head, talking to Angus below.
As the dragonborn beast moved, its head held high as it was in a tank turret with a balancer, always at the same height, and there was no jolting on it.
"Angus, I'm afraid you don't know, I came here for other purposes. Have you heard of the Dragon's Horn Hammer?"
"Isn't that the most powerful forbidden army in the imperial capital?"
"That's right, I'm here to build such an army. Levi smiled, "You know what the main members of this army are, right? Let me tell you, I seem to have found a way to do it when I was looking through the codex the other day......
"Don't make a ...... of anything," Angus heard this, and was about to say "you are joking", but this time, halfway through, he shut up and changed his words: "If you really have such intentions, I suggest that you do not say it in public." If you're just going to make a joke, don't talk about it when you're about to go to war. ”