Chapter 930 · Total War (Part 2)
No matter how hard the gods searched, they still could not find the gods of the human pantheon. They seemed to have melted into the void, and they seemed to have never been there at all, not even leaving a breath.
Sui Xiong was also curious and wanted to know where they were, but he just watched and did not search.
Judging from the current situation, once the human gods are found, they will probably be wiped out. As a neutral, of course he cannot get involved.
Since he couldn't get involved, he was not very interested in this silent secret war of hiding and searching among the gods. In contrast, the war that was raging in the world attracted his attention even more.
After the various tribes in the swamp gathered their armies, they launched an attack on the Thunder Principality.
For a long time, the main force invading the Great Swamp has been the Principality of Thunder. However, compared to the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, which can suppress the dwarves and elves with one against two, the Thunder Principality's combat effectiveness is much worse, and their efforts to "open up" the Great Swamp are much smaller.
There is no unified country in the Great Swamp. The forces of various ethnic groups are complex and civil wars continue. Under such circumstances, the Principality of Thunder can often take advantage of the situation by pulling one faction to fight against the other, and has made gains every time.
But now, for the first time, the various races of the Everglades are united under the leadership of the native gods. After the various races that had been fighting fiercely 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 Thunder Principality in the swamp were pulled out, and the remaining eight were also in danger.
The various tribes in the swamp are huge in number and their strength varies. Among them, there are those like the lizardmen who are weak and may not be able to defeat humans one on one, and there are also those like the hydra that are powerful and can pose a threat to a small fortress alone unless they meet a high-level powerhouse. After they united, the various races complemented each other very well, and the effect of one plus one was greater than two.
Looking from the "Mangrove Fortress", the most important stronghold established by the Thunder Principality in the Great Swamp, one can see extremely spectacular and terrifying scenes:
In the sky, the harpies made piercing screams and flew chaotically. This group of monsters that are good at suddenly descending from the sky, grabbing the enemy's head, twisting it off, and then walking away are actually not very strong. Any well-trained soldier can fight them one-on-one as long as they don't panic. The fight was back and forth. But at this moment, looking at the dark patch in the sky, I don't know how many there are. The defenders at the top of the city all turned pale and didn't know what to do.
Among the large group of harpies, there are some gray-green or gray-red figures. It was a wyvern, a monster with a bit of dragon blood. They can't fly high enough or fast enough, and they can't compare with real dragons, but their hard scales and strong bodies are enough to make them terrifying aerial killers that ordinary soldiers can't fight against in groups. Not to mention... some wyverns also know how to cast a little magic, or spit venom...
Back then, Leon had tamed a bipedal flying dragon, a subspecies called the "Bronze Crowned Flying Dragon". Under Leon's training, its flying skills are quite impressive. If there were to be a flying competition among the wyvern species, it would definitely have a chance to win the championship. Although Leon has now become a genuine dragon knight and owns the Green Dragon Galstobi, a mount that is the envy of everyone, in order to avoid causing riots, he still often travels on the bronze-crowned flying dragon.
Galstobe was very dissatisfied with this and often went to privately find trouble with the bronze-crested flying dragon. Later, it developed to the point where he would transform into a human from time to time and ride the unlucky flying dragon through the streets, which made people familiar with the situation laugh.
What should we call a dragon riding a dragon?
These air forces alone have already made the soldiers of Mangrove Fortress very distressed and feel that their chances of winning are slim. And the mighty ground troops made them even more worried, secretly thinking about "how long can I survive?" which seriously damaged their morale.
No, morale, etc., would have ceased to exist long ago if the entire fortress had not been surrounded with no way to escape...
The ground troops of the various races in the swamp are naturally dominated by lizardmen. These humanoid creatures with hard scales are generally similar to humans except for being slightly less intelligent. However, their endurance is obviously not as good as humans, and they will suffer a lot in long-term battles. However, their fertility, which is much better than that of humans, makes up for this shortcoming. If they didn't hate the environment that is not humid enough, maybe they would be everywhere on the continent.
In addition to lizardmen, there are naturally many monsters such as giant lizards, giant pythons, giant centipedes, giant scorpions, and swamp crabs. There is an intelligent race in the swamp called "Swamp Apes" who are particularly good at taming all kinds of poisons. They are natural animal tamers, flying in the sky, running on the ground, and swimming in the water. There are almost no monsters that they cannot tame - As long as it's poisonous.
Another intelligent race in the swamp is the frogmen. The frogmen are a relatively weak race. Their individual combat power is not strong, their courage is quite small, and their level of civilization is relatively backward. They are at a lower level in the "food chain" of the swamp. . 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. However, they are never regarded as the same kind by the various tribes in the swamp, and are always driven to use their lives to get into traps. Almost all were lost during the previous sieges, so not much can be seen at the moment.
If there were only these enemies, the solid defense of the Mangrove Castle would not be incapable of holding out. But among the swamp army, there are still a dozen super-big guys that are as tall as hills.
That is the trump card of the swamp, the giant multi-headed snake.
This terrible creature has a huge size and strength worthy of this terrible size. Although it does not know any spells, it has a tenacious vitality that is frightening-unless all its heads are chopped off at the same time, there is no way to kill them. Even the terrifying spell that can make the enemy disappear into ashes is useless as long as all its heads are not hit at the same time.
This kind of monster is the most terrifying existence in the swamp and one of the most terrifying things in folk legends. As long as you can kill even one one-on-one, it is enough to be called a hero.
In fact, let alone the giant multi-headed snake, even its lower race, the multi-headed snake lizard, is already a very dangerous monster.
When Sui Xiong and his companions first arrived in Gars City, they were embarrassed by Sean Riley, the son of the then Lord of Gars City and Carissa's brother. At that time, Sean asked Leon to catch a three-headed lizard to prove that he was qualified to negotiate with him.
Of course, Leon did it, and that might be the origin of all his fate with the Riley family.
A multi-headed lizard is of course nothing, but if Sean asked Leon to catch a giant multi-headed snake, Leon's choice would probably not be to catch the monster, but to draw his sword and chop off Sean's crazy head.
Compared to provoking a giant multi-headed snake, killing the son of a legendary strongman is obviously easier and safer.