However, in recent years, the swamp has become less calm.

It began to expand gradually, and the orcs, goblins and lizards living inside kept invading out.

These evil humanoid creatures constantly harassed the main road that runs through Cormier and Sambia, the Scorpion-tailed Lion Road, causing considerable trouble to travelers and merchants.

As Brian and Karadna gradually penetrated into the swamp, there were more shrubs and tangled bushes along the way, and the species gradually changed from thick oak to birch and willow trees by the water.

The surrounding trees became denser and denser, and the ground became softer and more elastic, as if stepping on a thick layer of mud.

After about half an hour, they stopped in front of a bush soaked with water.

There were some stagnant pools quietly spread on the ground, covered with green duckweed.

The edges of the water shui are covered with cypress trees, water ace trees, and willow trees with hanging branches, and green moss is grown on the trunks.

Looking around, such a scenery appeared repeatedly within their sight.

Not far ahead, between the willow trees with dense branches, a huge, artificially cut log stands up obliquely from the swamp. Looking up, it is about 10 meters high.

Many skulls of various creatures were stacked from the bottom of the cylinder, relying on wooden branches and iron thorns, which covered most of the cylinders covered with green moss.

A muddy path bypassed this ‘signpost’ and extended towards the depths of the swamp.

This is the skeleton pillar—the creation of orcs hundreds of years ago, used for road signs and intimidation.

When the orc is repelled, it still uses the same purpose.

If you carefully distinguish it, you can find that the skulls distributed here include orcs, goblins, goblins, trolls, lizardmen, ogres, crocodiles, wild boars, and even multi-headed snake lizards.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! On the muddy path behind the skeleton pillar, artificial traces gradually became more and more, and small "bridges" were built on some ponds with cut down trees.

Along the way, the traces of wildlife on this road have become almost invisible.

Just as the sorcerer Karadna was about to remind Brian, suddenly a sharp whistle sounded in the air.

The calmness of the water surface of the rotten swamp was suddenly broken, and a large number of bubbles appeared.

Accompanied by a loud bang like an explosion, I suddenly found out from the gaps between the trees that a water column nearly 30 meters high rose up in front of me, like a fountain of some kind.

At the same time, many reptile-like figures stood up from underwater and made deafening roars.

These humanoid creatures with scales hissed at Brian and Karadna, holding large wooden sticks with sharp stone nails in their hands.

A small lizardman was shaking his head and paying attention to the two people secretly. The other was huge and dark green scales, roaring at Karadna provocatively, as if she thought she was the best bullying.

"Don't do it." Brian stopped the sorcerer who was about to raise his hand to release the spell, walked forward calmly, and said to them in dragon language amid the threats of many lizard men's hissing and screaming, "I know what the purpose of your ambush is."

He showed off his purple dragon seal ring, allowing it to shine with dazzling purple light in the sun, "As you see, I am the messenger from the Kingdom of Cormier, and we are here to negotiate peace and take me to your patriarch."

The strong lizard man in the lead stared at the purple dragon seal ring worn by Brian, thought for a moment, and said in the dragon language: "Shi~ Cormier, it is the purple dragon knight and the war mage, come with us~hiss~"

Brian looked at each other with the sorcerer who reached out to cover his mouth and nose to block the foul smell, and walked towards the depths of the swamp with the dozen or so lizard men.

The two used the floating spell to be about half a meter above the ground. As the lizardmen marched deep into the swamp, the air became warmer and wet, full of the smell of sulfur.

The bushes ahead were filled with a faint mist, which made the swamp and bushes hazy.

When they walked through the misty bushes, they appeared in an empty field in sight, the ground was paved with sand and gravel, and there were many small houses woven with reeds and branches on both sides.

Obviously, this is a lizardman village.

There is also a steaming hot spring in the distance. Several huge rocks are protruding on the water in the middle of the hot spring, and an old lizard-man shaman stands on it.

He stood on a withered crutch, closing his eyes, looking like he was basking in the sun.

The leading lizard man immediately ran over and explained the purpose of Brian and the others to the old shaman.

"Hiss~ It must be the sacred Seleyanya that guides you here." The old shaman opened his turbid eyes and nodded slightly, "Hiss~ Welcome you here, the race of hair. Hiss~"

"Hiss~ I am Ksesek, hiss~ Chief of the Littooth Tribe. Hiss~ This is the young man from our tribe, the troops of the Anti-Scales Tribe, hiss~ We attack you to save you." He slowly walked to Brian and the others and said in an old voice:

"Hiss~ Because the hairy animals walking on this road like sleepwalking are all controlled by those hairy guys. Hiss~"

"You've seen a lot of humans like us?" Bryan asked.

"Yes, hiss~ We have seen many hairy people like you, usually rare, some of them are with the Shadow Scale Tribe, and more of them walk towards the fortress over there like sleepwalking."

"Then what are they going to do, do you know?" Brian asked again when he heard the fortress, knowing the truth was getting closer and closer to him.

"Shit~ we don't know what they are going there for, but they never come back. Shit~ the fortress is deep in the swamp, over there. Shit~ the long-haired and Shadow Scale Tribe live there. Shit~ they often come and go from here, with a lot of people, so many that we can't fight them. Especially they have fortresses."

"As far as I know, all the lizard men in Hirozawa believe in one deity, your sacred Seleanya." Brian raised his own doubts, "Why is this kind of battle between you?"

"Hiss~ We called the warriors of the Shadow Scale Tribe a long time ago: Dragon Slayer. Him~ But they fell. A black dragon ruled them. Him~ Their chief, Kotsara, is as strong as a dragon, and is as evil as a dragon. His..." The old shaman said patiently to the two:

"Kothsara, his scales are black, just like her father Despier, with a horn. For many years, the black dragons have ruled the swamp. Decades ago, the Dragon Slayer tribe claimed that they had killed a lot. Hiss, the last black dragon that was killed was called Tia. Hiss, and the Dragon Slayers became slaves."

"So that's it." Brian nodded slightly, "Do you know their nest?"

As long as he investigates the location of the fortress and the tribe, he can break in with Karadna and go to the shadow plane through Shadow Stone fragments.

"Hiss~ Of course we know the nest of the Shadow Scale Tribe." The old shaman nodded softly and said with a sad look:

"Shit~ What must have happened to them. When their army came to our land this year, they changed a lot. Their eyes were burning like flames, and shadows were tangled around their scales, protecting them. Hissy~ They looked like they were dead, their souls were separated from their bodies and replaced by pure darkness. Now they attack us, kill our people, or capture them. Those captured encounter a more terrible fate than death. Hissy..."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "They have changed, become Shadow Scale Seeds, and then come back to continue to hurt their former tribe! We can hardly resist their invasion. Many sharp teeth died in battle, and more were captured and taken to their fortress."

"In Guangze, you are the only tribe who was attacked, or are all tribes facing the same fate." Brian nodded thoughtfully and continued to ask.

"Of course, hiss, other tribes have also been attacked, and many tribes have perished like this. We already know that you are not the same as those long-haired animals mixed with shadow scales. So I think, maybe we have the same enemy, hiss, so I ask you to help us. Many of the captured people should still be alive, Asara, my wife. Hiss... And our senior chief Gan Ran, who was also captured by them last time, but has not reappeared as the undead."

The old shaman lowered his head deeply and asked sincerely: "Hmm~ We beg you to send troops to help us and save them, hismm~ If you can help us, we can also help you. Hismm~ Although we have no property of long-haired animals, no gold or silver, I can give you all my mine. If you save them, I will give you all my loyalty to help you the Kingdom of Cormier to jointly resist the danger from the swamp, so that you can avoid worries."

"Brian, this old shaman is quite smart." The sorcerer next to him suddenly transmitted a voice through magic and said to Brian:

"I have learned about the situation here through mind reading. This lizard man named Kseserk is right. He was originally a small leader. After five consecutive chiefs were killed by the Shadow Scale Tribe, he had to be selected to prevent non-combat layoffs. He was very afraid of death, so he wanted to use us to help him deal with the Shadow Scale Tribe corrupted by the Shar Church."

"I understand." Brian nodded slightly and said to the sorcerer, "In this case, we can only find the hidden location of the Shadow Scale Tribe and the Monastery through these groups of lizardmen."

"I can help you, and I hope you don't forget the promise you just made and the loyalty you showed to Cormier."

He said to the sad old shaman, "Now arrange a guide for me immediately and take us to the fortress of the Shadow Scale Tribe."
Chapter completed!