Chapter 104 - lizard Man
Lizardman is a primitive reptile humanoid creature with a height of about two meters and a weight of more than 120 kilograms. It is a humanoid creature with a lizard head and a lizard tail. It mainly lives in swamps and jungles around the world.
Depending on the living environment, in order to better camouflage themselves, the color of their scales will also change. Usually, the lizardmen closer to the jungle tend to have greener scales.
Where there are few trees, it gradually turns brown to gray.
Most of the small tribes they formed thrive in potholes, semi-submerged ruins, and underwater caves, and some more intelligent lizardmen tribes built their own cottages.
In the Emerald Wilds, these disgusting creatures are also one of the most annoying creatures, as famous as the Gnoll tribe.
The number of their ethnic groups is huge. Although the individual strength is not as strong as that of the gnolls, and the challenge level is probably around level 2, their number is ten times that of the gnolls.
Basically a small-scale group of lizardmen, the number of which is more than 200, the number of young sons is usually half of the total, and the number of eggs is one-tenth of the adult lizardmen.
That is to say, once they fight, the soldiers for defense or invasion can instantly dispatch more than 100 people.
Moreover, there are at least one or more casters in the small tribe of lizardmen, which is unmatched by gnolls.
Although the gnoll tribe also has gnoll fangs transformed from gnoll priests and demon spirits.
Because the ancestors were transformed from beasts like hyenas, the natural wildness is often greater than the wisdom.
As a result, this rare caster only exists in large gnoll tribes at best, not even ogres.
Although the intelligence of ogres is basically kept below 6 points, and even the number of ten is not clear, but from time to time, ogre wizards with amazing intelligence will be born.
As for the small and medium-sized tribes of the gnolls, most of them are still dominated by warrior professionals and wanderers.
Twilight was invaded by a large tribe of gnolls from the Great Swordscar Mountains.
If the gnoll tribal spellcasters appeared as often as the lizardmen, the player’s territory built in the wilderness would have been flattened by them long ago.
The lizard people living in the bottomless swamp were originally a group of absolutely neutral humanoids. They seldom roamed outside the bottomless swamp, and only hunted any intruders within their own range of activities.
Since the clash of beliefs among the lizardfolk, every year a large number of lizardmen are driven out of the bottomless swamp by another tribe of lizardmen.
The original lizardmen believed in Samuanya, the **** of the lizardmen. They were led by the caster lizardman shaman, who was responsible for presiding over ceremonies and worshipping the **** of the lizardmen.
However, there are also many lizardfolk tribes who will leave the lizardfolk **** for another powerful faith – Seth Inak, a reptilian demon lord who intends to corrupt and control the lizardfolk.
Lizardmen born to the lizardfolk who believe in Seth Inak are larger, more invasive than other lizards, and are downright evil.
These evil lizardmen roam the wilderness in large numbers every year, attacking other intelligent races. Although they are omnivorous humanoids, they prefer meat food, especially human flesh.
After the two lizardmen stalkers were discovered and killed by Thorne, the guard leader Ekmon immediately called all the guards to prepare to resist the attack of the lizardmen deep in the jungle.
The only thing that made Thorne more puzzled was why the sorcerer Anaxis, who was sitting in the carriage, didn’t come out to answer the enemy.
The frigid night wind blew frequently, and the stench in the air became heavier and heavier. When all the caravan guards in Stallman Town arrived, the lizardmen gradually appeared in everyone’s sight.
The caravan guards in Stallman Town are basically dominated by the tiefling race. Although these scary-looking races are not popular, their inherent racial characteristics are still very strong.
“Dark Vision” can make their vision at night not too affected, and “Fire Hell Resistance” makes them inherently more resistant to fire spell damage.
And there is a more powerful “Hell Legacy”, which allows these races to have certain spellcasting abilities without any training.
The caravan guards walked in the front row of a group of about 20 people, dressed in armor, holding a shield in the right hand, and holding a long sword or a machete in the left hand. Tiefling warriors.
A dozen tiefling archers followed, and the rest consisted entirely of warlocks.
The appearance of these tieflings is different, and the pair of goat horns on their heads are also bizarre, some are straight like antelope horns, and some are meandering all the way to the back of the head.
Thorne has also seen some rarer tiefling variants.
For example, there is a warlock who floats in mid-air with a pair of wings under his shoulders, an archer with six fingers on both hands, a warrior with a sturdy tail with forked ends, and even a pair of mountains. Lamb’s hoof.
These odd-shaped tieflings, under Thorne’s careful observation, quickly noticed from their temperament and some small movements that these strange tieflings were probably also players.
Then Thorne immediately took out a pot of ordinary arrows from the dimension bag, then sheathed the long sword, took out the composite longbow behind him, and hid in the shadow of the jungle.
In the past, when he was alone in the wilderness, he rarely participated in battles with large numbers of humanoids, so the more powerful the arrows he prepared, the better.
But since the last few battles, he has understood that it is necessary to properly prepare some ordinary arrows.
Just like the situation in front of him, the armor-piercing arrows are obviously overkill to deal with the lizardmen.
The cost of losing one armor-piercing arrow was enough for Thorne to buy more than a hundred ordinary arrows, and there was nothing to feel bad about when such cheap arrows were shot.
The tiefling race is mainly based on the common language of the mainland and the purgatory language, while the language of the lizard people race is taught by the ancient dragon race and speaks the dragon language.
The two races with different languages were destined to start a **** night-time fight the moment they made eye contact.
The lizardmen still like their usual fighting style. After reaching the long-range attack range, they will first throw a heavy rain of javelins, and then they will launch a general attack.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
Immediately, the dense metal javelins shrouded the caravan guards with the sound of breaking through the air in the thick night.
“All spread out!”
When the caravan guard Ekmon saw the lizardmen preparing to swing the javelin, he immediately shouted.
The guards dispersed immediately, looking for their respective bunkers in the dense jungle.
Bang bang bang!
The sound of rapid metal collisions sounded. The simple javelin made by the lizardmen only had a bit of metal on the tip and the barrel was made of wood, so the ability to pierce armor was not very strong.
And the guards who followed the caravan were all seasoned veterans, and these invincible javelins did not cause lethal damage.
Only a few unlucky ones were stabbed in the thigh or elsewhere with a javelin.
For Thorne, who was hiding in the bushes, he was even more unscathed. When he was in the town of waterfalls, the pure metal javelin of the lizardmen gave him an impressive lesson.
To this day, there are still scars left on his left shoulder after being pierced by the javelin.
“Fizz!”
Seeing that the javelin did not produce the expected attack effect, the lizardmen warriors roared and began to launch a general attack.
They hold simple shields made of animal skins, skulls or turtle shells on their arms, and the other hand is dominated by long-handled weapons such as spears and tridents.
– “Magic burst!”
On the way of the Lizardmen’s charge, the scattered warlocks had already prepared their best spells.
A dozen crackling dark magic bullets exploded on the way the Lizardmen charged.
The body of the Lizardman that was hit was directly blown into a **** mess, and a wave of dark energy eroded into the flesh and blood, constantly depriving the Lizardman of its life energy, and bursts of mourning sounded.
Under the attack of a round of magic energy explosions, the lizardmen killed more than a dozen people.
Immediately behind, the sorcerers continued to prepare their spells, the soldiers in the front row were standing by, and the archers behind them kept pouring arrows in their hands.
At this time, accompanied by Ekmon’s obscure incantation and constantly calling out the name of a certain demon in hell, a terrifying energy surged wildly around him.
– “Three-Circle Spell: Hellfire Eruption!”
When Ekmon pronounced the last syllable.
Pungent orange smoke spilled from the surface, then exploded among the lizards with a thunderous thud.
All the lizardmen in the spell area that could be ignited were all smeared with hot flames.