When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 981: History of Conquest of the Eastern Region of Black Snake Bay (Part )

The bright red dragon blood pepper vines are entwined on the huge rock dam of Yurui City.

As the sun sets, the scales of the snakemen guards glow a dark red like rust, shimmering along with the surface of the lake.

They looked at the golden sweet bean fields by the lake, heard the rumbling of the Guala Waterfall, but their eyes were gloomy.

Unseen and unheard, the enemy is approaching from the north.

Not only the snake guards, but even the residents in the city were clearly aware of this.

Occasionally they would look at the huge pyramid behind them, and their thoughts would wander.

As the capital of the Snake Empire, Yurui City is located in the center of Koko Lake, guarding the most fertile lake plain in the Musk River Basin.

After three hundred years of cultivation, the island in the middle of Koko Lake has become a huge city with a total population of 20,000 and 6,000 houses.

The entire city forms a shape of five petals based on the lake island and the polder, which is the origin of the name Yurui City.

The city is surrounded by a five-kilometer-long waterproof dam, and inside the city are neat streets and square squares made of rock.

What the snake guards were looking up at was the 12-meter-high pyramid temple in the center of the city.

This is also where the Snake Emperor lives.

The scarlet sunlight penetrated the temple dome, making the Indra flower totem above seem to be in full bloom.

Twelve snakeman lords sat on obsidian ring seats, and flanking the snakeman emperor were six high priests wearing feather robes.

They curled up on hawksbill turtle seats, snake tongues hissing from their mouths.

As for the opposite side, there were seven beastman lords sitting on cushions made of vanilla.

The gold-inlaid ceramic cup was held up by fingers covered with green scales, and the boiling cocoa paste was surging with crushed dragon blood pepper.

The snake-man emperor Lalaka picked up the cup of thick liquid and drank it all in one gulp. As he swallowed, the scales in his throat flipped backwards, revealing the pink and white flesh underneath.

Those were the traces left by the Beastman Empire assassins from the inland of the forest last year.

Due to their water-dwelling characteristics, snake people often live in river swamps, while beastmen live in inland hills.

Lalaka V is a monarch that many snake people believe could be hailed as the Great Emperor.

Not only did it reverse the decline of the Serpent Man Empire over the past fifty years, it even pushed back the Beast Man Empire and gained the loyalty of ten Beast Man city-states.

However, among these ten beastman lords, three who were supposed to arrive had not yet arrived.

Two of them fell into the hands of the enemy, and one did not come at all.

Taking a deep breath, Lalaka slammed the ceramic cup down, causing gold particles and ceramic fragments to splash everywhere, and the cocoa even splashed into a winding snake shape.

"The humans in the north swept through dozens of city-states (some of which were villages in the eyes of the Holy Alliance)."

Lalaka sat on an obsidian lotus seat, and the sound was like a bone knife scraping against a stone slab.

"The more they plunder, the more greedy they become. There will never be an end to it. Yurui City is the most prosperous area, and they come here just for this.

Do you think humans will be kind to us? They weren't like that when they drove us out of our homeland!
We must defeat this enemy and prevent past history from happening again - within thirty days and nights, I want to see fifty thousand warriors emerge from the Green Dragon Forest."

The air was stagnant like swamp water.

The lords all lowered their heads, looking at their noses and their hearts.

It took three months to conquer all thirty-seven city-states, which is equivalent to three days to capture one city-state, and this also takes into account the travel time.

This is not some rotten fish or shrimp!
If humans were weak, why are they here?
The bone chains of the six snake-men high priests rattled as they whispered to each other.

"The human messenger was disrespectful to me, so I cut off his ears and released him." Lalaka spoke again, "I asked, and they are all humans without horses, and there are only 5,000 of them.

My city-state can send out 10,000 soldiers. How about the remaining 40,000? You can each claim them. I will lead the army myself!"

Hearing this, several snake lords looked up in surprise: "Your injury..."

"It doesn't matter! Since humans dare to come, they must pay the price in blood!"

Lalaka's seemingly arrogant words convinced many lords.

This is a war god-like emperor that the Snake Empire rarely sees in a century. Even the Beastman Empire, which is at its peak, has to avoid his edge.

The Snake Emperor Lalaka, although called an emperor, only has a core ruling area near the capital. This is the Indra system unique to the Green Dragon Forest.

Lalaka has no administrative jurisdiction over city-states outside the capital area and can only use military deterrence.

Compared with the empire's tougher feudal attitude, city-states often did not have to pay taxes and could even serve two masters.

Even if you receive the emperor's summons, you can still make excuses not to go.

Therefore, when Lalaka went on an expedition, he would often send troops to subdue the disobedient city-states first before setting out on the expedition.

The reason for the formation of this Indra system is simple.

There is a distinction between dry season and rainy season in the Green Dragon Forest Area. Once the rainy season comes, the rivers will swell and even cause floods.

Not to mention the beastmen, even the snakemen couldn't march normally.

Therefore, although the Snake People can adapt well to the local climate, they cannot form a larger and more authoritarian country, and can only exist scattered in the form of city-states.

After hearing the emperor's statement, it was the beastman lord Wu Er who spoke out before the snakeman lord: "I have dealt with humans before, and their knights are indeed terrifying, but this is the Green Dragon Forest, and their knights are ineffective."

"Of course, my furry compatriots are certainly not afraid... After all, they can serve as guard dogs when they surrender."

"Edisi, what are you talking about?!"

Aidisi spit out bright red tongue: "I know that those humans have very few beastman guards, but they will select beastmen from the beastman guards to serve as monarchs of newly conquered city-states.

But then, the number of beastmen guards should be decreasing, so why are there more and more beastmen in the human ranks?"

"Are you questioning whether we beastmen are collaborating with the enemy?" Lord Wuer sat up, supporting himself on the table.

“I didn’t say that.” Eddie laughed hissingly. “I was just stating the facts. For example, two of our beastman city-states have surrendered, and one didn’t even come to the meeting.”

"In that case, there are still three snake lords who have not attended the meeting!"

"You may think whatever you like. Anyway, my warriors will not march with you. Let's separate ourselves."

"Do I really like marching with you? You're so slimy. Besides, there are also seven or eight snake-man city-states that surrendered and sent out troops along with the humans!"

The table was overturned, and fruit pulp and mealworms rolled all over the floor, crawling all over the floor.

The sound of the quarrel was getting louder and louder, causing Lalaka's eyes to tremble.

He slammed the table and roared: "…………"

My vocal cords are clearly vibrating, so why can't I hear the sound of people speaking?
At this moment, Lalaka was a little confused.

Then he realized that a shrill scream drowned out all his roars and rebukes.

Then, everyone could feel that the entire palace bounced upwards, and dust fell from the beams.

There were sounds of flying rubble and collapse, and several high priests reacted immediately.

"The gods of earth and fire are angry. Leave the palace quickly to prevent it from collapsing."

Being held in the middle by several servants, Lalaka rushed to the front, and the snakeman lords and beastman lords fled out of the palace in disgrace.

These noble lords did not stop until they arrived at the spacious square outside.

Lalaka was still terrified, and before he could catch his breath, he started shouting again: "Look, the invasion of outsiders has caused the earth to be angry. In order to prevent the gods from bringing disaster, we should drive them away as soon as possible."

If we don't do this, once people become confused, everyone will think that sending troops is a mistake.

However, Lalaka's speech did not attract any attention. Instead, the lords stared blankly at the back.

Lalaka looked in the direction where everyone was looking, and saw that a hole had appeared on the top of the pyramid at some point in time.

Those with sharp eyes could see that a large iron ball was stuck between the bricks and stones.

Where did that come from? Lalaka suddenly remembered the report brought back by the escaped snake man.

"The meteor summoned by humans..."

Lalaka looked toward the setting sun outside the city.

He saw no enemy.

(End of this chapter)