Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 33: ·Total War (Part 2)
No matter how the gods searched, they still couldn't find the gods of the human **** system. They seemed to have melted into the void, and it seemed that they had never been here before, and they didn't even leave a breath.
Sui Xiong was also very curious. He wanted to know where they were, but he just watched and did not search.
According to the current situation, once the human gods are found, it will probably be the end of the group servants. As a neutral, he of course cannot be mixed in.
Since he can't mix things up, he is not very interested in this silent battle of hiding and searching between the gods. In contrast, the raging war in the world attracted his attention even more.
After the swamp races assembled their army, they launched an attack on the Thunder Principality.
For a long time, the main force that invaded the Everglades was the Principality of Thunder. However, compared to the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, which can crush the dwarves and elves with one enemy and two, the combat effectiveness of the Thunder Principality is much lower, and their "exploitation" of the swamp is much smaller.
There is no unified country in the Everglades. The forces of various races are complex and civil wars continue. Under such circumstances, the Principality of Thunder can often rely on the method of pulling one faction and fighting each faction to take advantage of it, and it has repeatedly won.
But now, the various races of the Everglades have united for the first time under the leadership of the native gods. When the various races that had fought 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 14 strongholds established by the Thunder Principality in the swamp were pulled down, and the remaining eight were also at risk.
The swamp races are huge in number, and their strengths are also uneven. Among them, some are weak like lizard people, one-on-one may not be able to beat humans, and some are strong like Hydras. Unless they encounter high-level powerhouses, they can pose a threat to a small fortress single-handedly. After they united, the various races complemented each other very well, exerting the effect that one plus one is greater than two.
From the "Mangrove Fortress", the most important stronghold established by the Thunder Principality in the Everglades, you can see a spectacular and terrifying scene:
In the sky, the harpies screamed and flew in a mess. This group of monsters who are good at suddenly descending from the sky, grabbing the enemy’s head, twisting it off, and then flying away are not actually very strong. Any well-trained soldier can be one-on-one with them as long as they don’t panic. Playing back and forth. But at this moment, looking at the black area in the sky, I don't know how much it is. The defenders at the head of the city are all pale when they see it, and they don't know what to do.
Among the large groups of harpies, there are some gray-green or gray-red figures. It was a two-footed flying dragon, a monster with a little dragon blood. They can't fly high or fast enough, and can't be compared with real dragons, but their hard scales and strong bodies are enough to make them a terrifying aerial killer that ordinary soldiers can hardly fight in groups. Not to mention... some wyverns also know how to use a little magic or spit venom...
Leon once tamed a two-legged flying dragon, which is a subspecies called "Bronze Crowned Flying Dragon". Under Leon's training, its flying skills are quite powerful. If a flying competition is to be held in the two-footed flying dragon population, it must have a chance to fight for the championship. Although Leon has already become a real dragon knight and possesses the green dragon Garstoby, a mount that anyone would envy, but in order to avoid causing riots, he still rides a copper-crowned flying dragon many times.
Galstoby was very dissatisfied with this. He often went to trouble with the copper-crowned flying dragon in private, and later developed into a human appearance from time to time. He rode this hapless flying dragon and swaggered the market, which made the insider amused. .
What should I call a dragon riding a dragon?
These air forces alone have made the soldiers of the Mangrove Fortress very distressed, and they feel that their chances of winning are slim. And the mighty ground troops made them even more frowning, secretly calculating "how long can I live", a serious morale-damaging problem.
No, morale or something, if it wasn't for the entire fortress to have been surrounded by groups and there was no way to escape, it would have ceased to exist...
The ground forces of the various races in the swamp are naturally dominated by lizardmen. This kind of humanoid creature with hard scales is basically the same as humans in other aspects except that it is slightly less intelligent. But their endurance is obviously not as good as humans, and they will suffer a lot in the case of prolonged fighting. However, compared with human beings, the fertility is much better than that to make up for this shortcoming. If it weren't for them to hate the environment that is not humid enough, they might be found everywhere on the mainland.
In addition to the lizardmen, there are naturally many monsters such as monitor lizards, giant pythons, giant centipedes, giant scorpions, and swamp crabs. In the swamp, there is an intelligent race called the "Swamp Apes", who are especially good at tame various poisons. They are natural beast trainers. They fly in the sky, run on the ground, swim in the water, and there are almost no monsters that they can't tame—— As long as it is toxic.
The other 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 relatively small, and the level of civilization is relatively backward. It is relatively in the "food chain" of the swamp. The location of the lower floor. But they are also enough to bear a lot of logistical work and can provide a lot of help to the army.
As for goblins and the like, of course there are a lot of them~IndoMTL.com~ But they are never regarded as the same kind by the swamp races, and they are always driven to trap with their lives. In the first few sieges, he had almost lost, so I can't see much at this moment.
If there are only these enemies, with the strong defense of the mangrove castle, it is not impossible to support it. But in the swamp army, there are more than a dozen super-large men who are as tall as a hill.
That is the trump card of the swamp, the giant hyrax.
This terrible creature has a huge size and a power worthy of this terrible figure. Although they don’t know any spells, they have terrifyingly tenacious vitality--unless all their heads are cut off at the same time, Otherwise, there is no way to kill them, even if it is a terrifying spell that can wipe out the enemy, as long as it doesn't hit all of its heads at the same time, it is useless.
This monster is the scariest existence in the swamp, and one of the scariest things in folklore. As long as you can kill even one one-to-one, it is enough to be called a hero.
In fact, let alone the giant hyrax, even its lower race, the hyrax, is already a very dangerous monster.
When Sui Xiong and the others came to Gals City for the first time, they were embarrassed by Kalisa’s brother Sean Riley, the son of Gals City lord at the time. At that time, Sean asked Leon to grab a three. The head snake lizard came to prove that he was qualified to negotiate terms with himself.
Leon certainly did. That may be the origin of all the fate between him and the Riley family.
The Hydra is of course nothing, but if Shinn wanted Leon to catch a giant Hydra, I guess Leon’s choice was not to catch a monster, but to pull out his sword and cut Shina. A cranky head.
It is obviously easier and safer to kill the son of a legendary strongman than to provoke a giant hydra.