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Chapter 130 55. Lizardman Executioner
Dacus rejected the proposal of Drucci and the others to follow, and Chupacoco followed.

Koptiti leaned on his staff and walked ahead on his own, without any intention of introducing the city.

"Priest Coptiti, what type of spellcaster are you?" After a while, Dacius, who was familiar with him, began to try to chat.

"Sorry, my dear Umak, I cannot cast spells."

"?" Dacius was a little confused, what kind of outrageous setting is this?Could it be that this hidden city of disguise has lost its inheritance because it has been closed for too long?

Dacus was observing the city, and the skink residents of this city were also observing him and Chupa Coco curiously. He could see a sense of expectation in the eyes of the skink residents, as if he and Chupa Keke Chuppa Coco arrived like a savior.

The city is well organized without any mess.But the roads are narrow and crops are planted in many places.Each Skink resident did not have the gold ornaments that are common in Lustria, but instead carried a satchel.However, Dacius always felt that some common species seemed to be missing in this city. After walking for a while, he finally realized, what about monitor lizards?Why didn't he see a monitor lizard?Are the monitor lizards staying in the monitor lizard living area and not coming out to move around?

"Priest Coptiti, where's the monitor lizard in this city?" Dacius asked curiously.

"Sorry, respected Umak, there are no monitor lizards in this city." Coptiti said slowly, with a hint of self-blame and hesitation in his tone.

"Then can the incubation pool in this city work?"

Coptiti, who was walking in front, did not answer this time, but nodded.

"?"

Dacus and Chupacoco, who were walking behind, looked at each other. He saw a trace of bewilderment in Chupacoco's eyes. Obviously, as a compatriot, there were some things that Chupacoco could not understand.

After walking for a while, they came to the entrance of a cave, where a group of thin lizard warriors were guarding with big wooden sticks.It was the first time Dacius saw such a malnourished lizardman warrior holding such shabby and retro weapons. He felt that those weapons seemed to have been around for a long, long time, and he was a little worried whether they would respond if they hit the enemy fracture.

"Dear Umak, we have arrived."

Dacius and Cupacoco were shocked when they walked in, because the hatching pool of this cave was very large, even larger than Spikazuma's.The first city, Itza's hatch is the largest of any lizardman temple city to date, and the newly discovered Spikazuma's hatch is just as big.

Then this?

Dacius, who recovered from the shock, watched the hatch cleaners salute Coptiti and then file out of the cave. He could see a trace of numbness, resentment and helplessness in the eyes of these hatch cleaners .

"Dear Umak, can you make this decision?" Coptiti turned around and put the staff on the ground, kneeling down.

Dacius reacted. He quickly walked around the edge of each hatching pool, watching the tadpoles swimming carefree in the pool.He seemed to know what the decision was, and why there were no monitor lizards in the city.How can there be so many resources in this closed city to feed the tadpoles in the pool, and how can these tadpoles gather so many resources for them to consume after they become lizardmen?
"You..." Chupa Keke also reacted. He pointed at the "Lizardman Executioner" lying on the ground tremblingly, trembling with anger, and was about to open his mouth to greet.He was kicked by Dacius who came back, preventing the next greeting.

"Qupacoco, if you were the manager of this city, what would you do?" Dacius asked Chupacoco, who was kicked to the ground by him, sharply.

"But these are our compatriots, they shouldn't be like this..." Chupa Keke shrugged his head and said in pain.

"Koptiti, get up, since we are here, we don't need to make any decisions in the future!" Dacius shook his head, and then solemnly said to the priest of Coptiti who was kneeling on the ground.

Koptiti didn't stand up, but limp on the ground as if drained of strength, making a whining sound.

For the first time, Dacius knew that the Skinks could also cry.

After a long time, Coptiti recovered, he stood up again, and began to tell the story of what he had experienced.

A plague once occurred in this city. The river passing through the center of the city was polluted, and the fields near the river were also polluted.Many lizardmen died in that plague, and the lizard population dropped sharply. The priest who once managed the city also returned to the embrace of the Old One in that plague.Not long after, Coptiti emerged from the hatch, when he was hailed as a new hope by the skinks of the city.

Since there is no inheritance, just such a Skinlizard priest who can't release magic appeared, and Koptiti didn't know what happened in this city?Who is Slan?Where did you go again?He also doesn't know what the Great Invasion is?What is the big plan?
At the beginning, Coptiti also managed the city according to the low-level logic and disorderly, allowing it to develop freely.But soon he was reminded by the survivors of the plague that something was wrong. After the devastation of the plague, the fields beside the river were irreversibly destroyed. Before this city relied on the support of these fields to maintain a huge number of lizards. Human consumption, the new field he opened up with the monitor lizards and skinks obviously didn't have that kind of magic.He could only flatten some unused buildings, and start planting using all available places for planting, on the roof, on the two sides of the pyramid that can be illuminated by the sun, and on the stele square in front of the pyramid.

Coptiti fell into anxiety and hesitation, the population had reached a critical value, and limited food could not support the free development of this closed city.But the tadpoles in the hatchery appear periodically, and he can't stop if he wants to.In the end, as a believer and arbiter of the ancient Saint Zorgar, he summoned the Skinks and announced his decision in an uproar. He changed from the hope of the city to the disaster of the city, and became The object of repudiation by the Skinks.

Soon the Skinks in the city were divided into two factions, one supported it, and the other did not support it. There was a fierce quarrel between the two factions, and finally began to fight.In the bloody conflict, another voluntary faction was born. One night, the voluntary skinks collectively sacrificed themselves to the Old Sage on the newly opened farmland, begging the Old Sage to bless the land again with their own blood and body. The newly opened land gave up the hope of life to the Skinks in the hatching pond.

The Skinks of both factions were shocked by the behavior of the willing faction, the fighting stopped, and more and more Skinks chose this behavior.The monitor lizards watched their partners gradually disappear, and finally the monitor lizards also understood and chose to follow their partners.In this way, the population of the city was balanced, and it was in a very delicate situation. The remaining lizardmen in the city survived tenaciously in a state where they could not get enough to eat, nor could they starve to death.

The incubator cleaners can't do the killing. This thing can only be done by Coptiti. He has to do it every year, but he still has to do it, because this thing can only be done by him.Alpacas in captivity are like pigs during the Chinese New Year. At this time of the year, half-starved skinks can have a full meal, and then some skinks and old skinks who have no hope for life choose to give up their chances of life. Give it up to the Skinks in the hatching pool.

Dacius judged that the plague should have come from the Plague clan during the period of snakes and rats. At that time, the Battle of Marent Swamp took place not far from this city, and the date almost corresponded.Moreover, this city should be the last to be built and used as a backup place that can explode soldiers. The Slann who guarded here led the team to fight against the big invasion, or the Old Sage ran away here and simply didn't have time to arrange Slann.

"Don't you guys think about finding a way out?" Chupa Keke asked dejectedly after hearing the story.

"The message on the slate is that someone will find this place again and lead this city to glory again. The slate did not say who. We also tried to find the way out, but we still couldn't find it. The narrow and long river in the river The tunnel makes it impossible for our bodies to pass through. The tunnel to the outside world is completely blocked, and we can’t get through with Ben while maintaining production. I should have looked more carefully. Maybe I should have tried my best to dig the tunnel at the time .” Coptiti fell into self-blame and hesitation while speaking.

Dacius didn't ask questions like what was there or what wasn't. In his opinion, things were already like this, and it was pointless to ask those questions.Besides, this kind of problem is similar to the math problem of adding water to the water and the problem of pulling the gate on the train track. Without external force, he doesn't think he can do better than Coptiti if he switches to Coptiti.

"Is your heart in darkness?"

Dacius is the Umak of the Ancient Saint Izzy, and not the Umak of the Ancient Saint Zoga. He will not act as an arbiter, pointing at the moral high ground, why have you killed so many tadpoles for so many years? And letting the Skinks die won't your heart ache?Such stupid accusations.On the contrary, he thinks that Koptiti is an excellent manager. Not everyone can do it in a snail shell. If possible, he hopes that Walter can learn from Koptiti, so he asked a relative Unbelievable question.

Chupa Keke tilted his head and looked at Dacius curiously, as if he was wondering why Dacius could ask such a question, and Coptiti also looked up at Dacius, lost in memory.

After Coptiti made that decision, he fell into deep self-blame and pain, and his thoughts became contradictory and confused.In the north, it seemed that some abstract evil thing suddenly appeared to affect and interfere with him, and fought against him on the spiritual level and tried to instigate him. He has always maintained his pure will, always thinking that what he did was right, and finally He defeated that abstract evil thing in a spiritual struggle.

"There used to be an inexplicable thing that tried to interfere and control my will when I was thinking. That thing seemed to want me to fall into endless darkness and madness, but I defeated it!" Coptiti's eyes were full of said firmly.

Dacius now sincerely admires the Skinlizard in front of him. He even thought of taking Coptiti back to Karakarond to learn dark magic from his grandmother. There is no one who is more suitable for learning dark magic than someone who has rejected darkness. up.Or take them to the south to follow those skink priests who believe in Sotek to learn life magic, constantly wandering between life and death.The premise is that Coptiti will not choose self-salvation or self-exile.

"How many lizardmen are there in the city now?"

"Three thousand, four and a half lizardmen battle group, and the rest are Skinlizards. I can name each of them, including those whose souls have returned to the arms of the ancient sages." Coptiti didn't even think about it, and directly Said.

"What about this hatchery?" Chupa Keke asked impatiently.

"two thousand!"

Dacius and Chupa Keke looked at each other in shock again. Dacius was shocked by the number, but Chupa Keke was shocked by how much Coptiti killed?
"Stop staring blankly, work!" Dacius, who hadn't slept all night, suddenly blushed because he was refreshed.

Soon, the skinks in the team and the skinks in the city stopped talking, and Ren took advantage of this time to exchange a few satchels with the skinks in the city for his sister and wife with gold and bird feather ornaments.Even Geneviève had one whole, and Alyssa could carry the Springberry Egg in her satchel now.

"The package really doesn't distinguish between worlds, races, and ages." Dacius shook his head in amazement and thought.

All the Skinks in the city were impatient. Finally, under the leadership of Coptiti, all the Skinks followed Durucci and the Skinks in the team to hunt, salvage fish and carry supplies. Only the Skinks People continued to guard the various key points, and they didn't know if the plank road could withstand the back and forth of so many Skinlizards.

"It seems that the optical device blocks the bird's perception." Dacius and Geneviève wandered around the city. The afternoon sun shone on the city. He watched it for a while, but still saw no birds flying. Pass.

Dacius carefully walked through the crops on the ancient holy Zorga pyramid square, and looked at the ancient holy Zorga stele standing there. Even when I put my hand on it, I was not empowered.

I came to the heights of the terraced fields again and looked down at the city. What I saw at the heights of the terraced fields in the afternoon was completely different from what I saw in the morning. The green area of ​​the whole city was very high, and crops were planted on each floor of the pyramid.

Along the way, Dacius saw many crops, mostly corn and sweet potatoes.

"What is this red crop?" Geneviève asked curiously when she saw this crop for the first time, squatting beside the field ridge, holding a bright red crop in her hand.

"Pepper? My grass? There are peppers?" Dacius walked over, squatted there as well, picked one and chewed it in his mouth.

"There is not a single fish, and the upper and lower reaches of the river are full of holes that cannot be swam through."

Chupa Keke couldn't bear his curiosity and went for a turn in the river that runs through the city. An hour later, he came to Daxus who was dozing in the field and began to hiss.

"As expected, eat roasted sweet potatoes."

　This chapter refers to Slann's inaction in the time of snakes and rats, which led to protests and riots in various cities. It also refers to the death of Zul in Military Book 7.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)