Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 517 The Palace
Rhodes patted the Sand Monitor Lizard under him to make it move.

The monitor lizard knocked away the group of excited lizard men surrounding them, and walked towards the center of the city with the two on their backs.

The expressions on the masks on their heads were very ferocious and realistic, and the lizard people standing in front of them gave way in fear.

"I guess you definitely didn't expect this to happen." Michelle turned to Rhodes and said.

Anyway, the lizardmen couldn't understand human language, even if they were surrounded by lizardmen, they could still talk freely.

"Yeah, in that city before, I saw them worshiping a stone statue of a giant dragon, but I didn't expect them to be so fanatical about us.

Just because we look a lot like dragon people now, we smell like dragon people, and we haven't even shown a little bit of strength. " Rhodes said, looking at several lizardmen kneeling on the ground next to him.

He found that not all lizardmen were as tall as the ones they had seen before.

A large part of the lizard people are less than one meter tall, and they don't look like they are immature.

Their scales are all gray-black, far less bright than those of the lizardmen Rhodes had seen before.

These lizardmen were all standing very far away from Rhodes and the others. Several of them wanted to rush forward, but were pulled back by a blue-scaled lizardman with a whip.

Rhodes felt that these lizardmen who were less than one meter tall should be slaves, and their status was very low.

"Which way should we go? Have you thought about it?" Michelle asked.

This happened completely beyond Rhode's expectation. He originally thought that they could pretend to be travelers passing by, but the lizardmen regarded them as messengers sent by God.

And these lizardmen did not greet them in a certain direction, but followed them in the city, as if they were in some kind of grand parade.

"Let's go in the direction of that palace." Rhodes pointed in one direction and said, "Since we want to pursue excitement, we should follow through to the end. Let's pretend to be the messengers sent by their gods and go to the palace to eat and drink Also pointing fingers.

It doesn’t matter even if they ask us questions, we can answer them in human language, and it’s not because of us that they don’t understand, it’s because they, mortals, can’t understand the language of gods, it’s enough for us to understand what they say. "

"In case we are identified by them, then we will fight all the way out." Michelle said happily.

"I have no objection." Rhodes said, while controlling the direction of the Sand Monitor Lizard, walking towards the palace.

After walking to the street in front of the palace, Rhodes saw a group of red scale lizardmen wearing linen robes standing near the palace and looking at them with smiles on their faces.

This group of lizardmen should be the rulers of this city.

With such a long distance, Rhodes could only vaguely understand what they were thinking.

"Damn...where did it come from..."

"These two people... are fake."

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It didn't take long for the Sand Monitor Lizard to bring the two of them to the lizardmen nobles.

Rhodes sat high on the sand monitor lizard's back, looking at the group of lizardmen in front of him.

According to the aura emanating from these lizardmen, Rhodes can tell that they are all powerful fighters, and none of them are mages.

Thinking back carefully, it seems that Rhodes didn't see any lizardmen with magic power in their bodies all the way.

But this kind of thing is a good thing for him, so that the possibility of their exposure will be greatly reduced.

A lizard man dressed in gorgeous clothes and a steel crown on his head walked over with open arms, with a kind smile on his face, speaking some lizard man language that Rhodes couldn't understand.

Rhodes only knew what the lizard man was thinking, not what it was saying.

What it said might be words of welcome, but in its heart it hoped that Rhodes and the others would leave the city quickly.

But it still makes sense to think this way. This lizard man should be the supreme ruler of the city, and he looks like a king.

Before Rhodes and the others came, it had the absolute right to speak here, but now its actions and decisions may be restricted by Rhodes and the others.

Thinking of this, Rhodes thought of some interesting ideas.

Facing the lizardman king who wanted to hug him, Rhodes did not get off the sand monitor lizard, but continued to sit on the tall sand monitor lizard and looked down at it.

The expression on the face of the Lizardman King standing in front of Rhodes with open arms was very exciting. It was very embarrassed now, cursing Rhodes and the others in its heart, but had to maintain a hypocritical smile.

"I think if we behave a little more arrogantly, they will be less likely to suspect us." Rhodes turned his head and said to Michelle.

"Really? I think the risk is greater." Michel said.

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if something happens." Rhode waved his hand.

After the lizardman king saw Rhodes talking with Misaier, he began to think in his heart whether the two envoys in front of him were very dissatisfied with what he saw in his city.

Rhodes jumped off the sand monitor lizard's back, pushed away the tall lizardman king who stood in front of him, and swaggered towards the palace.

There was a sudden silence around him. The lizardman king looked livid, took a few deep breaths, calmed down and followed.

"I feel that the king seems to be angry." Michel said.

"It's okay, we'll just give it some face later." Rhodes replied.

The lizardman guards who stayed in the palace did not stop Rhodes and Michel who broke in suddenly, but looked at them with pious eyes.

Rhodes couldn't help but glanced down at the dragon scale armor on his body, even he had a hard time discovering that it was actually just a set of armor, not the scales growing on his body.

Several lizardmen nobles in linen robes rushed over from behind, speaking the language of the lizardmen.

"The two adults must not feel that we have neglected them."

"The lord must be too thirsty to ignore His Majesty the King. After they eat and drink, they will definitely feel better."

Rhodes learned the thoughts of the few lizardman nobles in front of him, he nodded towards them, and then walked in the direction of a lizardman's finger.

"My lord envoy is indeed thirsty." The eyes of the lizard nobles lit up when they saw Rhode's actions.

"Have you learned that magic?" Rhodes asked as he walked.

"It's almost there. Now I can hear their thoughts just like you." Michel replied.

Not long after, the two followed the lizardman nobles into a palace, and then walked down the stairs to the ground.

"It turns out that most of their palaces are underground." Misaiel couldn't help sighing as he looked at the tall stone pillars around him.

"Don't show this emotion, it's easy to be suspected by them." Rhodes said calmly.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I definitely wouldn't believe that there are creatures that can build such a huge underground palace under the desert." Misaier said again.

"Lizards in the desert are good at digging pits. These lizardmen should have inherited this perfectly. It is estimated that in the two cities we have visited, the underground is the core of the entire city." Rhodes said.

The two followed the lizardman noble into a room, and under their arrangement, Rhodes and Michel sat on the stone table in the center of the room.

One of the lizardman nobles said a few words to the waiter next to him, and not long after, a group of musicians came in and started playing lizardman music with instruments that Rhodes had never seen before.

The lizardman king came in, sat on the stone bench next to Rhodes with a smile on his face, picked up the jug on the side table, and poured some wine into the glass in front of Rhodes.

Rhodes picked up the glass and smelled it. It seemed that some kind of desert plant juice had been added to the wine, and it seemed to smell pretty good.

The lizardman king suddenly uttered a word, and waiters came in one after another carrying the plates. They put the plates on the stone table, and then left the room, leaving only Rhodes and a group of lizardman nobles.

Rhodes looked down at the food on the table. Sure enough, there were several plates containing insects such as scorpions, ants, and spiders, and several plates contained cactus tubers and leaves of some kind of tree.

But there were still things he and Michel could eat, like roast meat and cheese and dates.

Now there seems to be a problem, that is how to eat these things, they all wear masks and helmets on their heads that are similar to dragon heads.

Although this mask can expose the mouth for drinking and eating, if a part of the helmet is lifted here, these lizard people will definitely notice it.

"Let's pretend to eat, pick up the food and put it in with space props." Rhodes said to Michelle.

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(End of this chapter)