Just being a dark elf in Warhammer

Chapter 129 54. Lizard people fish as a profession

In the end, a pirate grabbed the pendant with a grappling hook and played Tarzan, telling Carlion outside to stop messing around.

Akadan, who was still watching the excitement, suddenly became quiet. He closed his eyes and began to feel. As time went by, his expression became more and more solemn.

"Dear Umak, the spiritual network is starting to become a little unstable." Akadan looked at Darkus and said seriously.

"Are you talking about the spiritual network here or the entire Lustria network?" Darkus, who was looking at the scenery, asked after a while.

"It's the entire continent of Lustria! I can no longer contact Lord Mazdamudi."

"I know!" Darkus said calmly.

While he was talking, the pirate who failed in the talent show just now ran back and knelt down far away from Darkus, waiting to be punished.

There are no weaklings in Nagaros! But this is Lustria.

"Don't be stunned, go help with the work, and you will be at the front for the rest of the way!" Darkus waved his hand calmly and let the matter pass.

The progress of paving the plank road is a bit slow, and the sun has already set. Druchi and the skinks began to take turns to eat. Yakadan was restless. He had already eaten all the barbecue and was still gnawing on the bones. His soul was wandering. Druchi and the skinks who were eating were all eaten by Yakadan. The sound of Dan's teeth grinding attracted.

"Hey, hey, stop chewing. Are you okay?" Darkus, who was sitting next to the campfire, patted Akadan on the shoulder and asked.

"Dear Umak, it's very bad. The spiritual vein network is becoming increasingly unstable, and the spiritual vein nodes here also have a tendency to collapse." Akadan said in a low mood after coming back to his senses.

"Since you can't solve it, you should eat, drink, and do whatever you should do. Besides, why is there thunder at this time?" Darkus sat crookedly, looking at the lightning and thunder in the distance in the dark night, thundering. The falling light sometimes illuminates the distant mountains, revealing their faint outlines.

A lizardman army departing from the city of mist, Slanwupeck, marched silently on the edge of the Thorn Valley, heading towards Holotho. The fourth generation Lord Slantanukli floated in the army in a chariot. His face was full of worry.

The most legendary lizard temple guard in the lizard people society, "Eternal Guard" Chakas is walking beside Lord Tenukli with his star-colored stone hammer and staff, his eyes peeking out of the gaps in the guardian's helmet to observe the surrounding environment vigilantly. .

The outer circle of Chakas is composed of two lizard-man temple guard centurions, three lizard-man centurions led by a lizard-scar veteran, thirty giant lizards, and three skink centurions. The back combat platforms of the two Triceratops in front of the team were equipped with backward bed crossbows. The backs of the four Ankylosaurus in the back simply did not carry any war equipment. They only carried the supplies and baggage needed by the army, as well as a few friends. The Keeper mount on the back acts as reactive armor and long-range firepower.

As for the number of pterosaur riders in the sky, there are quite a few, about sixty-five. A small part of this was done with the help of Darkus. These skink riders were only slightly tamed before being recruited.

This large lizardman army is the only remaining army of Slanwupek. The other armies have already been deployed to support the protracted City of Echoes and Zahhuitak's bloodletting battle.

Tenukli was a little confused and hesitant, and the skink priest who served him stood in the corner of the chariot, holding up a dried Ashe grub and offering it in front of him, but he was indifferent.

When Pahuakos fell during the Great Invasion of the City of Ashes, the second-generation Lord Slanhueni Aitankui defeated the Slaanesh Demon of Shila Ulan at Lake Inkat southwest of Pahuakos by a narrow margin. But Sheila Ulan also caused fatal injuries to him, and he spent a long time falling into a deep sleep to recover from his injuries. There are very few waking hours, but there are also times when you wake up, such as when the elf visited Pahuakos, made the decision to move to Slanwupeck, and taught how to use the Hidden Mist.

Not long ago, Tenukli received a prophecy in meditation. The demon prince Shiraullan Slaanesh, who was exiled during the great invasion, has now reappeared in the Lustria continent. However, Lord Whini Aitankui was unable to do so despite the efforts of his attendants. be awakened. As the subordinate of Lord Whinni Aitankui and the support of the underlying logic structure of the lizard people, he could only lead the team to the distant unknown constellation hall to exile the demon prince again.

After Tenukli gathered his troops, he first teleported to the City of the Moon. Taraxlan asked for some support, but Lord Adoshi Tehega who returned from the Lens City and Spikazuma rejected him. Taraxlan Lan had just encountered an invasion by wild orcs half a year ago, and now the number of lizard-men war groups in the city was estimated to be unable to mount an effective defense on the city wall.

But Adohi-Tehega told a very important piece of information from Tenukli. Umak of the ancient saint Ichi has indeed arrived and is active on the Lustria continent. He should be receiving the news at this time. Come down and move along the route. If Umak is willing to help, he can support the army or directly participate in the battle. He had received messages from Mazdamudi before, but he was relatively conservative and could even ignore the one that summoned Ancient Saint Sotek through sacrifice, let alone an Umak. However, when he passed through the City of Fish Scales and Juitex, he discovered traces of the lizardman army that had marched before. He decided to hold Umak's feet before the battle and see if he could find this so-called Umak for some support.

In the second half of the night, Druchi and the skinks were still working overtime. They had no intention of sleeping tonight and would work non-stop to open the passage.

"Sir, it's okay!" Franais walked carefully around the plank road and reported to Darkus after returning.

"Franais, you stay here, you, you, and you, you guys stay here too." Darkus looked at Franais and several family animal trainers with a serious face and said, as a general The cautious old man didn't want to do acrobatics while swinging pendants when he came back.

After entering the passage again, there are more and more remains of the lizard people, including a double-layered pool building of unknown origin. Darkus studied it for a long time, and he didn't even understand the purpose of building this thing here.

Several lizardman statues were placed in a circle in the depths of the pool. The reason was also unknown. There were no artifacts, equipment or gems among them. There might be something, but it had been taken away by the skinks long ago.

As the team marches, they need to build a wooden board to pass, sometimes they need to climb a rope ladder, and sometimes they need to free fall into the pool and swim through the submerged channel.

Darkus watched Genevieve deliberately swaying from side to side as she walked on the board, threatening to fall at any moment if she lost her footing. He smiled and shook his head. He could clearly feel Genevieve's happy mood. Despite a similar experience in Spicazuma, Genevieve always seemed to enjoy travel and adventure.

However, Akadan was already in a state of extreme anxiety. When he was passing through the narrow passage, he almost stepped on the air and fell. Fortunately, Ren next to him quickly caught him with his quick eyes and hands.

"You go back to the gap in the cliff to rest and wait for news." Seeing that Akadan's condition was really bad, Darkus persuaded him to return.

Darkos didn't pay much attention to the instability of the spiritual network. Many nodes were now in a dilapidated state because the temple cities above were abandoned or the star monuments and pyramids were neglected to be maintained. It's already a miracle that the spiritual vein network can barely work. Occasional network fluctuations are normal to him, as long as it doesn't rub a big devil in his face like last time. Besides, he is also trying to restore the spiritual veins in their heyday. Internet and working hard little by little.

If the spiritual network can be restored to its heyday and coupled with the blessing of Ulthuan's maelstrom, maybe this world of straw eggs will last longer, right?

As murals began to appear on the walls of the deep passage, Darkus, who was waiting for the path ahead, held up the luminous crystal and looked at the murals.

"This is the ancient saint Zoga, he is the stone spirit, the giver and arbiter of power." Chupa Coco also observed the murals through the bright light, and finally he came to a conclusion and started to show off.

Chupaco is a Skink Priest, not a Skink Prophet. His underlying logical structure is to manage and be responsible for the normal operation and maintenance of a temple city, serve the Slann well, and occasionally go on short trips to find the stone slabs. It's his first time to come to the south. The work of sensing and maintaining the spiritual network is done by the Skink Seer and has nothing to do with him. It is not within the scope of his programming. Although he couldn't contact his respected Lord Mazdamudi, isn't it common for the spiritual network to be unstable?

"Sir, we've got through it! There seems to be a tomb inside."

"Let's go in and take a look." Darkus felt that he was getting closer to this disguised city, and he could even sense the location of the stone slab.

The tomb was empty, and there was no sarcophagus in the middle waiting for Dacus to open the lid and draw the prize. There were no mechanisms or mummies, only decayed wooden frames, messy tools, and murals waiting to be painted.

"It seems that the evacuation here was in a hurry."

Getting closer, the sky had already broken, and the morning light began to shine in through the gaps in the mountain.

There are also no traps in the tomb that can be removed to allow spears to pass through, only thick stone walls. Druzi and the skinks began to use force from left to right to open the sealed main door of the tomb.

After a moment, as the sound of teeth grinding ended, the stone wall opened.

Darkus covered his mouth and nose and watched the sunlight shining through the door on the floating dust and floor tiles.

"Sir, we are here, but we are currently in mid-air." The increasingly experienced pirates did not go out rashly, but stuck their heads out to observe for a while and then reported.

"Add the Ancient Saint Zoro!" A skink in the city who was carrying a plow and just about to go out to work in the fields exclaimed in surprise as he watched the wall at the edge of the city slowly open.

"Quickly, go quickly and report to the priest." The color of the skink's crown changed from blue to yellow, and the next second it jumped up and shouted to the stunned companions.

Many skink lizards who came out to work saw it. They gathered around and hissed and talked. Some skink lizards ran to the pyramid to inform the skink lizards to sacrifice.

"My lord, my lord, something seems wrong. There seems to be lizardmen operating here?" The pirate who failed to survive observed for a while and felt something was wrong. He could see that the city did not show any signs of damage, although it was so large. It was so small, there was only one pyramid and it was not big, but everything seemed very orderly, and there were many animals that he didn't know were kept together. He suddenly saw many skinks running towards them and the lizard army starting to gather. He suppressed the shock in his heart and shouted directly.

After a while, rallying horns sounded in the city.

"What are you talking about? What is this? A mud horse? What's going on? Come on, the Ancient Sage! There are actually lizard people living in this city? The dogs outside are all crazy, what about Peach Blossom Land here?" Darkus stood on the stone wall. From behind, he stretched out his head to look at the decentralized city and sighed secretly.

"Don't attack!" Darkus yelled and then retracted his head. He saw that the assembled Skink war group was ready to raise their javelins and blowpipes, and then he looked at Chupa Coco standing behind and shouted. , "Chupa Coco! There are skinks below to negotiate with!"

Chupa Coco stood there thinking that there was still an adventure waiting for him next. When he heard what Darkus shouted, his eyes showed a look of disbelief, and he immediately started to run to the stone door to look.

"One of our own, don't shoot!" Chupa Coco directly pulled out the sword of Zunshen Zongqi, raised it in mid-air, stood at the stone door and began to perform the holy show in front of the lizard.

After some negotiation, the team began to reach the scaffolding with the help of the lizard men below.

This is a rare day for the residents of Horoto today, because they finally don't have to work today, but can gather around a group of legendary hot-blooded species and skink lizards from outside.

Did the legendary prophecy really come true? Can they finally put an end to their daily toil?

"I am the governor of this city, the priest of Coptiti."

Darkus looked at the Skink Priest in front of him. The Skink Priest only wore a gold anklet that was about to turn black, and he was holding a golden staff that was also showing signs of turning black with age. There were no headdresses such as feathers, and no items such as gold necklaces.

However, the cloth bag carried by the Skink Priest on his waist was extremely exquisite. It was the first time that Darkos saw a lizard man carrying such an object. This was something he did not have in the two big cities he had been to. The latticework pattern with different dyeing threads is very exquisite, and the pom-pom decoration of different colors on the edge of the bag is trendy and earthy, and equally adorable.

"Hello, Priest of Coptiti. I am Umak, Darkus Hellscourge of the Ancient Saint Ich."

"Umak? I saw you yesterday. Through the statue outside, you finally came in." Coptiti thought about the distant and unfamiliar word Umak and then nodded. He breathed a sigh of relief and said with relief. .

Darkus felt that the skink priest's voice was not old, and his body was not like Teto Ikao who had entered old age, but the whole skink looked very old, as if it was about to die at any time. The old one needs a sedan chair from the skinks, and the old one needs a gaming chair from Slan to move around. Similarly, the bluffing scene he expected did not happen. Tatto Ikao, who is good at astrology in Taraxlan, is also mature and wise, but he also has an extravagant side. This Skink does not look like a Skink at all. This setting of escape has been deleted in the underlying logical structure. Instead, it looks like a mature and stable wise man's soul sealed in the body of the Skink.

Chupa Coco's reaction was quite as expected by Darkus.

"I said yesterday that the statue must have moved! You didn't believe it!"

Chupa Coco was seen jumping her feet, the color on her crown started to change and she said angrily.

"Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, I wrongly blamed you." Darkus began to comfort Chupa Coco in a language that the Druchi could not understand.

"Come with me, respected Umak, it's your turn to make a decision this time!" The wise Coptiti stood there quietly watching all this, and said after enough trouble.