Scales of Eternal Order

“I lay in the dust of the sky for a long time, silent, forgetting the season.”——Gibran “Sand and Foam”

No one wants to be in the hot sun Hiding in the sand when empty, unless you can have a tenacious skin without sweat glands to resist high temperature dehydration and rough grit, a pair of eyes like a crocodile with two eyelids and nictitating membrane protection. This is of course not a human body structure, but the lizardmen robber in the desert can. They can be competent for this kind of ambush mission buried in the sand.

In the “Sandrhino Caravan” of Santos, carefully avoiding several suspected quicksand areas, walking from the shadow of the towering sand dunes into the ambush circle of Lizardmen Robber, the attack swept like a sandstorm.

The lizardmen, who lay in the hot sand and endured three or four hourglasses, sprang out of the sand like fish thrown into a pan, holding the forged sickle bend of steel essence. Knife, throw a throwing axe made of obsidian.

For a time, the enemy flocked to “Sandrhino Caravan” from all directions.

“Don’t mess! Look at your camel beasts, the warriors will resist these short reptiles for me! The others formed a circle, and they all picked up your weapons for your own lives. , Ready to fight!”

Santos saw the attack and drew the scimitar from under the cushion with agility that was completely inconsistent with this fat body, and at the same time activated the ring with the protective arrow spell he bought at a high price. . As the leader of a caravan who has successfully traveled through the desert all the year round, he is definitely not a fragile lamb to be slaughtered. When facing an attack, he immediately made his due judgment.

Lizardmen’s throwing axe caused only a few accidental bad luck egg warriors and some Beit slaves who were carrying luggage and taking care of the camel beasts in the crowd. At most they killed a few caravans. The outer warrior was riding a horse, but these warriors jumped down before the mount fell to the ground, skillfully used shields to resist, used a machete to pierce the flying axe from the air attack, and even an agile and powerful warrior cleverly used a machete He sent the rotating throwing axe home, and directly overturned a lizardmen who threw the throwing axe.

“Good job!” The warriors cheered loudly.

Caravan warriors are mostly skilled bows and horses. After the lizardmen threw the first round throwing axe, the warrior took out his bend bow and place arrow to counterattack, as well as bold warrior manipulation. The desert horse circled the flanks and back of the lizardmen, and harassed and attacked the enemy behind with the “manguy” method in the circle run, that is, immediately using the speed advantage to twist the waist and bow to shoot at the enemy behind.

Faced with the resistance of the hired warriors, some of the lizardmen looters chose to retreat into the sand and dig forward quickly; others chose to resist the warrior because the gravel under their feet was hard to dig. Arrow rain, by the way, throw the remaining throwing axe into the enemy’s line.

lizardmen have rough tenacious skin and protection of scale armor, and use some broken armor from the looting to arm the heart and head, as well as the relatively fragile joints, unless it is used Crossbow arrows, otherwise ordinary bow riding poses little threat to them.

It took only a dozen breaths from the start of the attack to the hand-to-hand combat of the hired warriors who came into contact with the guards. The sickle blades of these lizardmen looters collided with the shields and scimitars of the warriors. Come together.

The height of a single lizardmen is not as high as that of a human warrior, and its strength is also lower, but the lizardmen in the desert are better at cooperating and attacking each other. They are good at attacking opponents in groups of two or three, forming small battlefields. The egg-born lizardmen will form allies with their hatched companions from an early age to become familiar with this hunting and combat method.

Therefore, although the number of caravans guarding the warrior is more and the warrior itself is stronger, the lizardmen even use their agility advantage and small-scale battle formation to offset this disadvantage. While the sickle blade that was swung heavily tore through the air, it would reap a life from time to time. However, this didn’t change the result. A guard composed of more than 30 experienced warriors faced the lizardmen raiders, and they would definitely win in the end.

Santos looked at the caravan warrior and the lizardmen raiders who were fighting together, suddenly frowned.

“Something is wrong? There seems to be something wrong! This road was temporarily changed due to the war between the Salem and Sashan tribes. It is too close to the rule of the giant dragons, generally No caravan would venture out here.”

“These lizardmen, even if they knew about the tribal war, were ambushing here to attack the caravan that was diverted, but…”

Something is wrong!

The number of lizardmen raiders is too small, and the experienced desert merchant leader immediately responded. According to his experience, these lizardmen raiders like to take advantage of the number when looting caravans, in order to be safe. , They usually take twice the number of caravans before they choose to attack. Besides, the weapons wielded by the lizardmen raiders are all made of steel essence, not cheap goods made of obsidian, which can only be afforded by a large raider tribe.

There are more than a dozen raiders launched by large tribes, so the remaining lizardmen raiders can only be–

“Be careful!” I found the problem The caravan boss only had time to shout out his own judgment.

The second round attack appeared before Santos had finished shouting. Lizardmen raiders, twice as many as the first round raiders, broke straight out of the sand in the middle of the caravan circle!

Different from the first wave of attacks, they used throwing axes to open the way. This time the Lizardmen Robber who attacked the caravan took out several leather pouches from his waist and swayed the full green powder. These green powders make up smoke in the entire circle.

“Hold your breath and strike freely! Rush out…”

The sand rhinoceros riding in Santos is the tallest camel beast in the caravan. He was not shrouded in poison mist and had time to give a warning. But others are not so lucky.

Even the driver of the sand rhinoceros under his seat was not spared and accidentally inhaled a thick green smoke. I saw the driver covered his neck, the huge pain caused him to fall off the sand rhinoceros, and he could only writhe in pain on the ground. In this way, he inhaled some poison mist, and finally foamed at his mouth, his face was pale, his eyes protruding in a strange posture, and he died at the feet of Sha Xi.

Other people who are shrouded in poison mist, if they don’t hold their breath, it’s mostly the result. Camel beasts, including sand rhinoceros, after inhaling poison qi, although these animals can persist longer than humans because of physique tenacious, they all went berserk for a while and also died.

The huge sand rhinoceros suddenly broke out in the face of death threats. It ran out of the area covered by thick green poison mist. Under the control of the will to survive, he hurriedly moved towards the desert in any direction and ran for dozens of breaths. However, due to the inhalation of a large amount of poison qi, the four thick thighs of this giant beast were also unable to support the body, twitching and falling to the ground.

Santos riding the sand rhinoceros looked back in the direction of the caravan with horror and distress.

“Damn, these people must be here for me, they may know the news that the formula is on me!”

“Those green skin offal!”

Lizardmen raiders are immune to overwhelming majority toxins due to their race. They are also used to smear their weapons with poison to increase their lethality. However, it is rare to use such a large range of poison mist to attack when plundering a business trip. Such an attack will kill the precious camel beast in the business trip and reduce a lot of gains.

In this attack on “Sandrhino Caravan”, after the death of the camel beast, it is difficult for them to take away the remaining commodities. The lizardmen looters did not prepare for that many camel beasts! If it was an ordinary ambush, and the casualties caused by the first wave of blows were paid in exchange for a pile of goods that could not be taken away, the attack would be a huge loss.

Unless the lizardmen looters are not looking at the fine papyrus and silk fabrics that seem to be transported by caravans at all, but other “goods” with higher value and easy to take away.