Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 104 Lizardmen

Lizardman is a primitive reptilian 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. Generally, the closer the lizardmen are to the jungle, the more green their scales are.

Where there are few trees, it gradually turns brown to gray.

Most of the small tribes they form thrive in potholes, half-sunken ruins, and underwater caves in harsh environments. Some lizardmen tribes with higher intelligence will also build their own cottages.

In the Emerald Field, these disgusting guys are also one of the most annoying creatures, as famous as the Gnoll tribe.

Their group is huge in number. Although the individual strength is not as strong as that of the Wolf Man, and the challenge level is probably around level 2, their number is ten times that of the Wolf Man.

Basically, in a small-scale lizardman group, there are more than [-] individuals. The number of young offspring is usually half of the total number, and the number of eggs is one tenth of that of adult lizardmen.

That is to say, once a battle occurs between them, more than a hundred soldiers for defense or invasion can be dispatched in an instant.

Moreover, there is at least one spellcaster in a small tribe of lizard people, which is unmatched by wolf people.

Although the Gnoll tribe also has Yeenoghu's fangs transformed from Gnoll priests and demon spirits.

Because the ancestors were transformed from beasts such as hyenas, the natural wildness is often greater than wisdom.

As a result, such a small number of spellcasters only exist in large wolf man tribes at most, not even ogres.

Although the intelligence of ogres is basically kept below 6 points, and they can't even count ten, but from time to time, ogre wizards with amazing intelligence will be born.

As for the small and medium-sized tribes of the Gnoll, most of them were still dominated by fighters and rogues.

It was a large tribe of gnolls from the Great Swordscar Mountains that invaded Twilight Town.

If the Gnoll Tribe spellcasters appeared as frequently as the Lizardmen, the territory the players built in the wilderness would have been flattened by them long ago.

The lizardman group living in the bottomless swamp was originally a group of absolutely neutral humanoid creatures. They rarely wandered outside the bottomless swamp, and only hunted any intruders within their own range of activities.

Since the conflict of beliefs among the lizard people, a large number of lizard people have been driven out of the bottomless swamp by another lizard people tribe every year.

The original lizard people believed in the god of lizard people, Samuany Ya. They were led by the spellcaster lizard man shaman, who presided over the ceremony and worshiped the god of lizard people.

However, there are also many Lizardmen tribes who will leave the Lizardman God and come into contact with another powerful belief-Seth Inek, a reptilian demon lord who intends to corrupt and control the Lizardmen.

Lizardfolk born to the lizardfolk tribe that believes in Seth Inek are larger, more aggressive, and completely evil than other lizardfolk.

These evil lizardmen roam the wilderness in large numbers every year, attacking other intelligent races. Although they are omnivorous humanoids, they prefer meat, especially human flesh.

After the two lizardman stalkers were discovered and killed by Thorne, the guard leader Ekmon immediately summoned all the guards to prepare to resist the attack of the lizardmen deep in the jungle.

The only thing that puzzled Thorn was why the magician Anakeys sitting in the carriage didn't come out to fight the enemy. With the opponent's mysterious strength, it was not easy to catch a group of lizardmen.

The cold night wind blew frequently, and the stench in the air became heavier and heavier. When all the caravan guards in Stallman Town arrived, the figure of the lizard man gradually appeared in everyone's sight.

The caravan guards in Stallman Town are basically tiefling races. Although these scary-looking races are not liked by people, they are born with strong racial characteristics.

"Darkvision" can make their vision not too much affected at night, and "Fire Hell Resistance" makes them naturally have a strong resistance to the damage of fire spells.

And there is a more powerful "Hell Legacy", which allows these races to be born with a certain ability to cast spells without any training.

The caravan guards walked in the front row with a group of about 20 tiefling warriors dressed in armor holding a shield in their right hand and a long sword or scimitar in their left hand.

Followed by a dozen tiefling archers, the rest are all composed of magicians.

These tieflings have different appearances, and the pair of goat horns on their heads are also strangely shaped. Some are straight like antelope horns, and some are winding and undulating all the way to the back of their heads.

Thorne also saw some rarer tiefling variants.

For example, there is a magician with a pair of wings floating in the air under his shoulders, an archer with six fingers on both hands, a warrior with a forked tail at the end of his thick tail, and even a pair of mountains. Sheep's hooves.

After carefully observing these strange tieflings, Thorne 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 dimensional 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 wandering alone in the wilderness, he rarely participated in battles with large numbers of humanoid creatures, so the arrows he prepared were naturally as powerful as possible.

But after the last few battles, he understood that it is necessary to properly prepare some ordinary arrows.

Just like the current situation, armor-piercing arrows are obviously overkill when dealing with lizardmen.

The cost of losing one armor-piercing arrow is enough for Thorne to buy more than 100 ordinary arrows, and it doesn't hurt to shoot this cheap arrow.

The tiefling race mainly uses the common language of the mainland and the language of purgatory, while the language of the lizard people race is taught by the dragon clan in ancient times, and they speak the language of the dragon.

The two races who do not understand the language are destined to start a bloody fight at night when their eyes make contact.

The lizard people still prefer their usual fighting method. After reaching the range of the long-range attack, they first throw a dense rain of javelins, and then all members launch a general attack.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Immediately, dense metal javelins pierced through the air and shrouded the caravan guards in the thick night.

"All spread out!"

When the caravan guard Ekmon saw the lizard man preparing to swing his javelin, he immediately shouted.

The guards dispersed immediately, looking for their own bunkers in the dense jungle.

Bang bang bang!
There was a sound of rapid metal collisions. The simple javelin made by the lizardmen only had a little metal at the tip and a wooden shaft, so the armor-piercing ability was not very strong.

Moreover, the guards who followed the caravan were all experienced veterans, and these invincible javelins did not cause fatal injuries.

Only a few unlucky ones were stabbed in the thigh or other parts by javelins.

Thorn, who was hiding in the bushes, was even more unharmed. When he was in Fallstown, the lizardman's pure metal javelin taught him an impressive lesson.

To this day, his left shoulder still bears the scar left by being pierced by a javelin.

"Fizz!"

Seeing that the javelin did not cause 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 mainly long-handled weapons such as spears and tridents.

——"Magic energy explodes!"

During the lizardman's charge, the scattered wizards had already prepared their best spells.

More than a dozen crackling dark magic bullets exploded on the way of the lizard man's charge.

The body of the lizard man who was hit was directly blown to a bloody mess, and waves of dark energy eroded into the flesh and blood, continuously depriving the lizard man of life energy, and bursts of wailing sounded.

Under a round of mana explosion attacks, the lizardmen lost more than a dozen people.

Immediately afterwards, the magicians behind continued to prepare their spells, the soldiers in the front row were waiting in full force, and the archers behind them kept pouring out their arrows.

At this time, with Ekmon's obscure incantations and the constant calling of the name of a certain demon in hell, waves of terrifying energy surged crazily around him.

——"Three-ring spell: Hellfire Eruption!"

The moment Ekmon pronounced the last syllable.

Acrid orange smoke spilled from the surface, and with a loud, thunderous bang, it exploded among the swarms of lizards.

All ignitable objects around all lizardmen in the spell area are covered with hot flames.

(End of this chapter)