No matter how hard the gods searched, they still could not find the gods of the human pantheon. They seemed to have melted into the void, and they seemed to have never been there at all, not even leaving a breath.
Sui Xiong was also curious and wanted to know where they were, but he just watched and did not search.
Judging from the current situation, once the human gods are found, they will probably be wiped out. As a neutral, of course he cannot get involved.
Since he couldn't get involved, he was not very interested in this silent secret war of hiding and searching among the gods. In contrast, the war that was raging in the world attracted his attention even more.
After the various tribes in the swamp gathered their armies, they launched an attack on the Thunder Principality.
For a long time, the main force invading the Everglades has been the Principality of Thunder. However, compared to the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, which can suppress the dwarves and elves with one against two, the Thunder Principality's combat effectiveness is much worse, and their "exploitation" of the Great Swamp is also much smaller.
There is no unified country in the Great Swamp. The forces of various ethnic groups are complex and civil wars continue. Under such circumstances, the Principality of Thunder can often take advantage of the situation by pulling one faction to fight against the other, and has made gains every time.
But now, for the first time, the various races of the Everglades are united under the leadership of the native gods. When the various races who had been fighting fiercely for many years finally stood on the same front, the power of the Thunder Principality was relatively insufficient.
In just one battle, six of the fourteen strongholds established by the Thunder Principality in the swamp were pulled out, and the remaining eight were also in danger.
The various tribes in the swamp are huge in number and their strength varies. Among them, there are those like the lizardmen who are weak and may not be able to defeat humans one on one, and there are also those like the hydra that are powerful and can pose a threat to a small fortress alone unless they meet a high-level strong person. After they joined forces, the various races complemented each other very well, and the effect of one plus one was greater than two.
Looking from the "Mangrove Fortress", the most important stronghold established by the Thunder Principality in the Great Swamp, one can see extremely spectacular and terrifying scenes:
In the sky, the harpies let out ear-piercing screams and flew chaotically. This group of monsters that are good at suddenly descending from the sky, grabbing the enemy's head, twisting it off, and then walking away are actually not very strong. Any well-trained soldier can fight them one-on-one as long as they don't panic. The fight was back and forth. But at this moment, looking at the dark patch in the sky, I don't know how many there are. The defenders at the top of the city all turned pale and didn't know what to do.
Among the large group of harpies, there are some gray-green or gray-red figures. It was a wyvern, a monster with a bit of dragon blood. They can't fly high enough or fast enough, and they can't compare with real dragons, but their hard scales and strong bodies are enough to make them terrifying aerial killers that ordinary soldiers can't fight against in groups. Not to mention... some wyverns also know how to cast a little magic or spit venom...
Back then, Leon had tamed a bipedal flying dragon, a subspecies called the "Bronze Crowned Flying Dragon". Under Leon's training, its flying skills are quite impressive. If there were to be a flying competition among the wyvern species, it would definitely have a chance to win the championship. Although Leon has now become a genuine dragon knight and owns the Green Dragon Galstobi, a mount that is the envy of everyone, in order to avoid causing riots, he still often travels on the bronze-crowned flying dragon.
Galstoby was very dissatisfied with this and often went to privately find trouble with the bronze-crowned flying dragon. Later, it developed to the point where he would transform into a human from time to time and ride the unlucky flying dragon through the streets, which made people familiar with the matter couldn't help but laugh.
What should we call a dragon riding a dragon
These air forces alone have already made the soldiers of Mangrove Fortress very distressed and feel that their chances of winning are slim. And the vast number of ground troops made them look sad and secretly thinking about "how long can I survive?" which seriously damaged their morale.
No, morale, etc., would have ceased to exist long ago if the entire fortress had not been surrounded and there was no way to escape...
The ground troops of the various races in the swamp are naturally dominated by lizardmen. These humanoid creatures with hard scales are generally similar to humans except for being slightly less intelligent. However, their endurance is obviously not as good as humans, and they will suffer a lot in long-term battles. However, their fertility, which is much better than that of humans, makes up for this shortcoming. If they didn't hate an environment that is not humid enough, perhaps they would be everywhere on the continent.
In addition to lizardmen, there are naturally many monsters such as giant lizards, giant pythons, giant centipedes, giant scorpions, and swamp crabs. There is an intelligent race in the swamp called "Swamp Apes" who are particularly good at taming all kinds of poisons. They are natural animal tamers, flying in the sky, running on the ground, and swimming in the water. There are almost no monsters that they cannot tame - as long as they is poisonous.
Another intelligent race in the swamp is the frogmen. The frogmen are a relatively weak race. Their individual combat power is not strong, their courage is quite small, and their level of civilization is relatively backward. They are at a lower level in the "food chain" of the swamp. . But they are also enough to bear a lot of logistical work and can provide a lot of help to the army.
As for goblins and the like, of course there are a lot of them. However, they are never regarded as the same kind by the various tribes in the swamp, and are always driven to use their lives to get into traps. Almost all were lost during the previous sieges, so not much can be seen at the moment.
If there were only these enemies, it would not be impossible to support them with the strong defense of the Mangrove Castle. But among the swamp army, there are still a dozen super big guys who are as towering as hills.
That's the trump card of the swamp, the giant hydra.
This terrifying creature has a huge size and a strength worthy of its terrifying size. Although it does not know any magic, it has a frighteningly tenacious vitality. Unless all its heads are cut off at the same time, there is no way. It can kill them, even if it is a terrifying spell that can make the enemy disappear into ashes, it will be useless as long as it does not hit all its heads at the same time.
This monster is the most terrifying existence in the swamp and one of the most terrifying things in folklore. As long as you can kill even one one-on-one, you are enough to be called a hero.
In fact, let alone the giant hydra, even its subordinate race, the hydra, is already a very dangerous monster.
When Sui Xiong and the others came to Gars City for the first time, they were embarrassed by Sean Riley, the son of the then Lord of Gars City and Carissa's brother. At that time, Sean asked Leon to catch a three-headed basilisk. Come and prove that he is qualified to negotiate terms with him.
Of course Leon did it, and that may be the origin of all the fate between him and the Riley family.
Of course, the hydra is nothing, but if Sheen asked Leon to catch a giant hydra at that time, Leon's choice would probably not be to catch the monster, but to pull out his sword and cut off Sheen's random heart. head.
Compared with provoking a giant hydra, it is obviously easier and safer to kill the son of a legendary strongman.