Quadruple split.

Chapter 2455: Kiss every generation

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Northeastern continent, south of Broken Head Cliff, Chopping Bone Hills

A large team is advancing at high speed. It is a total of 800 mighty knights. Different from the knights riding tall horses who appear in groups in bardic stories, the mounts of these knights are not so heroic in appearance. However, if we change the angle, such as observing from the perspective of "ferocious" and "brutal", we will find that these quiet and huge war beasts are far more threatening than horses.

And this is indeed the case. These poisonous horned gray lizards, which are covered with metal armor and are literally armed to the teeth, have far greater lethality, impact force and endurance than normal war horses. Except for special species like the Casello Black Dragon Colt that are infinitely close to horse-type monsters, these lizards are definitely among the top in the field of "standard mounts" throughout the entire continent.

You know, the poisonous horned gray lizards already have mid-level to high-level strength. After countless generations of targeted breeding at the Cliff of Broken Head, in addition to their already extremely lethal venom, the teeth, claws, and even tails and other combat parts of these lizards have also been strengthened to an outrageous degree. In addition, they not only have amphibious combat capabilities, but can even ignore terrain features to a certain extent. Not to mention super-large forces such as the Violet Empire and the Griffin Dynasty, even the "Knights of the Church" under the command of the Holy Church and those sects would be suppressed by these lizards if only the level of their mounts was considered.

Of course, this does not mean that the Knights of the Defence of the Religion, which is the core force of each sect, is inferior to the Gray Lizard Hunters of the Cliff of Broken Head. On the contrary, even if the Knights of the Religion of Knowledge are ranked last in the Holy Religion Union, their Knights of the Defence of the Religion [Theorem Knights] are far from being defeated by the Gray Lizard Hunters.

Although in terms of individual combat power, the mount 'Spelled Zebra' of the [Theorem Paladins] is far less powerful than the Venomous Horned Gray Lizard, and the former can only be treated as a snack if the two sides encounter it in the wild. However, in normal combat, as long as the [Theorem Paladins] activate 'Equation Synchronization' and deploy the [Aura of Truth] as a group, the Spelled Zebra, which is generally only at the intermediate level, will temporarily transform into another high-level existence called 'Spell-Breaking Holy Horse' and gain a perverted ability - copy and store the divine arts used by up to twelve Paladin partners, and release them when necessary.

Just imagine a mount that can freely use healing spells, killing spells, buff spells, interference spells and even Holy Words in battle, combined with elite paladins in the Cult of Knowledge who are far more adept at using spells than hand-to-hand combat. This combination is enough to make one's scalp tingle just by hearing about it. It is obvious that it will crush the Gray Lizard Hunter by one, or even more than one, level.

however--

According to the information provided by Ms. Shallia Ain, the adjutant-in-chief of the Dunbuya City Front Army and head of the [Agency] from the Knowledge Sect, the Knowledge Sect's guardian knights, also known as the [Theorem Knights], only have a total of 1,500 people, and the number of high-quality spell zebras that can carry high-level divine arts and transform into "law-breaking holy horses" has never exceeded 2,000.

The information also came from Ms. Xia Liya. As the strongest force among the northern blood barbarians, the main combat force of [Broken Head Cliff], the 'Gray Lizard Hunters', has about 10,000 people, while the number of adult poisonous horned gray lizards is more than three times that, which is at least 30,000!

It is true that except for the 10,000 poisonous horned gray lizards that partner with the gray lizard hunting members, the other 20,000 or so adult poisonous horned gray lizards may not have mid-level combat power or above, nor may they have extremely sophisticated and valuable full-covering armor. There may even be a large number of defective products with problems of one kind or another. But even so, this number is terrifying enough!

Not only that, as mentioned before, although the Gray Lizard Hunters are the backbone of Broken Head Cliff, they are not the only army in Broken Head Cliff. For example, their nature is closer to that of a militia, but they spend more than one-third of their time training every year. The [White Lizard Hunters] who have no armor but only a set of white cloaks can be promoted to become [Gray Lizard Hunters] who are treated much better in all aspects, and the [Gray Lizard Hunters] can also become the extremely rare [Black Lizard Hunters] through promotion and strengthening.

In other words, even though Philip and his men had wiped out seven hundred gray lizard hunters under the city of Dunbuya not long ago, the number of gray lizard hunters would not have become nine thousand three today. Instead, about seven hundred white lizard hunters with the strongest overall strength would have been promoted immediately to fill the vacancies left by the casualties.

Although the combat effectiveness of these 700 new [Gray Lizard Hunters] is definitely not as good as the 700 veterans who died under the city of Dunbuya, if they are dispersed and organized into various teams to "train the old and the new", their combat effectiveness loss will be reduced to a minimum. Coupled with the "actual combat opportunities" that will never be lacking in the Blood Barbarian land, it won't be long before the loss of the 700 veterans will be mostly absorbed.

However, among the 1,500 gray lizard hunters who are marching at high speed in the southern part of Broken Head Cliff at this moment, there is not a single recruit. Their leader is one of the deputy commanders of the active gray lizard hunters, Danon Dan, who is old but still has a tough and iron fist.

Even in the tough Gray Lizard Hunters, Deputy Commander Danon is definitely a recognized ruthless man. In addition to his decisiveness in killing and his wisdom and courage, this guy has one most admirable quality, which is that as long as he leads the team, in most cases the team will be kept relatively intact, and Danon himself has never been afraid of fighting, and has escaped unscathed from extremely dangerous battlefields countless times!

It was a literal escape without any injuries. Even if he was inevitably injured, he never got seriously injured or even disabled. Danon's favorite saying was - 'Only a living person can kill people.'

However, such a wise general who was good at protecting himself became disabled when he was already in a semi-retired state.

To be more precise, two fingers were missing, the index finger and middle finger of Danon Dan's right hand, which were the most powerful and strongest fingers of a warrior!

The Gray Lizard Hunters all knew that Lord Danon lost two fingers because of a trip to Dunbuya City, but no one knew the specific details. After all, the people who traveled with him seemed to have not appeared in front of everyone for a long time. The Gray Lizard Hunters who could vaguely guess the fate of their companions did not ask much. After all, no one wanted to be the next unlucky person to "evaporate out of thin air".

And everyone also felt that although Lord Danon had lost two fingers in Dunbuya City before, he was very happy. More importantly, the great [Evil Eye King] was also very happy, and even gave Danon the gift of moving his residence to the throne area. In other words, from now on, even if Danon lost power, as long as the Evil Eye King himself did not make trouble for him, then any settlement would not affect the old man. In the Blood Barbarians, the four words "enjoy your old age" are almost equivalent to "daydreaming".

But Danon did it. He had received a promise from the [Evil Eye King] that as long as he could successfully complete the mission once again, he would be given a place called [Dark Chamber] after he returned. After that, no matter what kind of old age he wanted, it would be satisfied as much as possible.

It has to be said that being able to live comfortably for the last ten or twenty years was more important to Danon than just two fingers. So instead of hating the person in charge of Dunbuya City who indirectly made him disabled, he was even very grateful to him.

"Reverend Heifan is an excellent person."

Riding on the back of his old but still explosively powerful poisonous horned gray lizard, Danon turned to the young lizardman next to him, his eldest grandson Vasily Petrovich Dan, who was as tall and strong as he was when he was young, and whose mount was two times bigger than that of other gray lizard hunters. He said, "He is not as blind as most of the scum of the Holy Alliance, nor does he like to show off like the past masters of Dumbuya City. He is a very pragmatic person, and also a very selfish person."

Vasily scratched the scales on his head in confusion, "But Grandpa, isn't selfishness a very bad quality? Why do you..."

"Listen, my dear Vasily."

Danon interrupted his eldest grandson impatiently. Although he was quite capable, he was even too slow in some aspects. He said in a deep voice: "Forget the stories your father and that wild woman told you more than ten years ago. You must remember that you are a glorious gray lizard hunter, a sharp sword in the hands of the [Evil Eye King], and a grandson that I am proud of, not a... good guy in a bardic story."

Vasily frowned (although the eyebrows of lizardmen are not obvious) and hesitated, saying, "But Grandpa, shouldn't we be good people?"

"Well, of course, you can be a good person, my little lizard, but we can't just be the good people in the bard's tales. We should be good people in the eyes of our own family." Danon sighed and said earnestly to the grandson who was captured by him more than ten years ago and whose brain development seemed to be much slower than that of his peers: "Just like grandpa will try his best to fulfill little Vasily's wishes and buy you delicious sweet jerky, little Vasily should also listen to grandpa and try to be a good child in grandpa's eyes."

"Oh."

The tall young lizardman, who looked incompatible with nicknames such as "Little Vasily" and "Little Lizard", nodded, then took out a thin piece of sweet jerky from his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he took out two thicker ones and fed one to the poisonous horned gray lizard under his crotch, and then handed the other one to Danon: "Eat jerky, grandpa."

"Grandpa won't eat it."

Danon smiled dotingly, then pushed back the dried meat handed to him by Vasily, turned his head to the south and looked at the city of Dunbuya that was not in his sight, and gently instructed: "In short, after arriving in Dunbuya, you must stay close to grandpa, don't talk nonsense, and don't walk around. Grandpa will find a suitable opportunity to introduce you to Pastor Hei Fan."

While eating the jerky that Grandpa didn't want, Vasily asked in confusion, "Why did Grandpa introduce me to Pastor Hei Fan?"

"Because our king will need a lot of bridges to communicate with Priest Heifan, and because of my two fingers, Priest Heifan might give me some face, because..."

Danon sighed somewhat disappointedly and said with a wry smile: "Compared to grandpa, you are still more like your father after all."

"Oh."

Vasily nodded, then asked curiously, "What do you mean?"

"Grandpa prefers living on Broken Head Cliff and the days of 'hunting' around as a gray lizard hunter," but if it's your father...

Danon laughed dryly and said helplessly: "He might prefer to live in Dunbuya City or some ghost place like the Sanctuary in the south."

"Oh."

Vasily nodded again without giving any extra response.

"Ugh……"

After sighing for the second time, Danon also fell silent and stopped talking.

Just as Danon said, more than a decade has proven that Vasily is more like his father than his grandfather, and to this day, even though the old lizard has long regarded his son as dead, he still can't let go of his grandson.

True, if he were ten years younger, Danon might have severely educated this grandson whose head was full of stupid stories, but now he just wanted this little boy to live a more comfortable and free life.

According to the plan, after arriving at the city of Dunbuya, the team will be divided into two, and three hundred of them will be stationed in the suburbs of Dunbuya. On the one hand, they will guard against harpies, gray dwarves, pig-headed men and the like who may cause trouble for their new allies, and on the other hand, they will guard against their new allies.

The other 500 people will set out together with the trusted "confidants" of Priest Heifan to search for Skork's whereabouts. Considering that Cliff of Broken Head has a wide range of influence, and the [organization] of Dunbuya City should not be underestimated, if both sides work together, it will not take long to uproot Skork and eliminate the root of the problem.

Of course, things like rooting out the problem have nothing to do with Vasily. As a grandfather, Danon had already arranged for him to stay in the suburbs of Dunbuya City. In an ideal situation, the priest Heifan who would definitely stay in the city would take good care of the child and even call him into the city...

In the final analysis, if the negotiations failed, Danon would have to lose not only his two fingers, but even his life. However, if the negotiations were successful, even if he acted on his own initiative, the other party would most likely find a way to compensate him as a "hero".

In that case, perhaps Vasily, who was more like his father, would have a chance to live the life his father dreamed of.

"anyway."

Danon clenched the hilt of the knife in his hand, narrowed his eyes slightly, and murmured in a voice that only he could hear -

"I wish you were dead, my son."

Chapter 2446: The End