lizard lord

Chapter 150 Spring is here
The latitude here is not too high, and the time for spring plowing is not too late. It starts almost in the middle and early March, which is basically the same as the human farmers near Luford.

Tang Zhao can't plow thousands of people's fields with a lizard. He needs to reserve enough energy to guard against the enemy, so within a month, Andrea bought some cattle and draft horses from the human world to deal with the upcoming The coming spring plowing.

Since these two are precious resources, the quantity they bought is not much, and the spring plowing is approaching, and there is a serious premium, but there is no way, they have to buy it because they are necessary.

The goblins are proficient in communicating with animals. They have accumulated a lot of experience in communicating with wild animals before. Tang Zhao gave them full responsibility for animal management. It seems that they have done a good job so far.

The field area itself is not large, and the current number of livestock can barely handle it.

This is not a problem worth too much headache, the key lies in other things.

A certain teacher Zhao in the previous life said it well: Spring is here, everything is revived, and it is the season of animal XX.The spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the grass is growing and the warblers are flying. In spring, there is vitality and romance everywhere.The animals will naturally not let go.

Now that it was spring, he found that he had no thoughts of that kind at all, and he didn't even have any mental excitement, which was very unusual by the standards of a beast.

In theory, this should be considered a good thing. He can think without being disturbed, which is very important for intelligent creatures, but his thoughts are the same as most intelligent creatures. He can't use this function at all, and he is still a little flustered.

His body is absolutely intact, but this thing has its own elements to scare him. For a while, he suspected that he was chemically castrated by the emblem or something.

However, after a short period of panic, he also calmed down, maybe he was still judged as a "minor", maybe his cycle time was much longer than normal creatures, or he was not restricted by reptile habits at all, in short I thought about it.

When he was freeing his mind, a dwarf blacksmith stepped forward, chopped the floor with his heavy leather boots, and signaled his arrival to Tang Zhao.

[What's the matter, please tell me. 】

"The thing you entrusted us to forge has already been shipped."

[It's pretty fast, I thought it would take at least two months. 】

The blacksmith shrugged: "Those roads that have been worked so hard to open up are not useless."
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He turned and left with the blacksmith, and came to an open space, on which was spread a piece of felt cloth, and a set of armor was neatly placed on the felt cloth.

Of course it's not for humanoids, but for Tang Zhao himself.

Before he evolved last time, he made a set of armor, and the effect is not bad. The armor in front of him is an enhanced model of that set at that time.

This was custom-made by him from Dragon's Blood Pass, using better metal. Karak Solmar's blacksmith workshop does not have ultra-high temperature forging equipment, so it cannot make good use of this metal.

The overall design is not much different from before, but some more appropriate modifications have been made in the subtleties, such as thickening the head and joints to facilitate hitting the enemy, or adding a few steel spurs to the tail , in short, it is to strengthen the defense and resistance to confrontation as much as possible on the premise that the flexibility is not greatly affected.

His current physical strength is very high, and he can completely wear heavy armor.

Of course, after all, it weighs nearly 220 kilograms, so it still affects his mobility more or less. He ordered this thing not to deal with a single powerful enemy, but to deal with a large number of infantry.

Sacrifice some flexibility in exchange for more powerful impact and better protection.

Only the scales have strong defensive power, but the problem is that the visual impact is slightly lacking, which gives people a different feeling.

The focus of ancient wars was the blow to morale. Generally speaking, when the leader died, the enemy had a high probability of dispersing. Especially for conscripts, the result was often a literal defeat.

A set of gaudy, highly recognizable armor has multiple functions: to meet the user's spiritual (equipment b) needs, to convey the message "I'm still there" to subordinate soldiers, and to damage the morale of the enemy.

In fact, Tang Zhao admires the human army in this world. After all, the enemies are a group of ghosts and snake gods. Some strong people can even make meteorites fall from the sky to attack the enemy camp. If this situation is removed, the human army often has to compete with several tons of troops. In the battle with the giant war beasts, the ability of human soldiers to remain undefeated is already very exaggerated by ancient standards.

The lizard had no hands, so he couldn't wear the armor himself. With the cooperation of the three dwarves, he put the armor on quickly.

I tried to move around a bit, and it was very close to the body, and I didn't feel any discomfort in the activities of the joints. The design is exquisite.Designing armor for reptiles is not an easy task, and they have no relevant experience, so it's good to be able to do it in a short time.

The dwarf craftsman handed over a bronze mirror that was not clear at the right time. Tang Zhao looked at himself through the mirror, and he was generally satisfied.

This time, he specifically asked the craftsmen to exaggerate the design of the armor to have a visual impact.

The appearance he described verbally is similar to a certain Deathwing. In fact, the finished product is also mixed with many dwarven elements, which is actually the "Viking style" created by modern people.

The actual look and feel is not bad, the dwarf's aesthetics are online, as long as the dwarf doesn't engrave the vicissitudes of the ancestors of the gods on his armor, then it's fine.

The style is a bit nondescript, and from this point of view it matches him quite well.After all, the similarity between him and Deathwing, besides crawling on all fours, is probably only that he doesn’t eat friendly buffs. People don’t bother to use them. Tang Zhao’s immunity is not enough because of his cheating magic immunity. Powerful magic effects, friend or foe.

According to the dwarf himself, the strength of the armor is not bad. Counting Tang Zhao's scales, it can basically defend against all conventional cold weapons.After processing, this kind of metal with a thickness of one millimeter can block the direct shot of more than 300 pounds of winch crossbows, and it has only a certain degree of deformation, almost exceeding the level that ancient metals should have.

Tang Zhao's load-bearing capacity is much stronger than that of humans. The average thickness of its armor is close to four millimeters, and the thickest part is nearly eight millimeters. It is not too much to say that it is a steel plate.

As long as he is not directly attacked by medium and large ballistas or trebuchets, almost none of the weapons on the battlefield can harm him.

Of course, if a strong man above Tier [-] holds a strong enough weapon to slash Tang Zhao, he will still be injured [-]% of the time. If he hits a vital point, he may be seriously injured or even killed.

Wearing the armor and running for a certain distance at high speed, he thought that wearing this set of armor would not affect his combat time too much. So far, the basic test is over.

[How about the design of the crossbow? 】

"There are now fifty black arrows of that kind, which are enough. Those hobgoblins didn't have many spellcasters."

Against mercenary spellcasters, he tried using his own scales as arrows to great effect.After that, Bourne asked people to improve this arrow.

In the past, one crossbow bolt would use up one of Tang Zhao's scales, and Tang Zhao had no regeneration ability. If he produced more batches, a lot of his scales would be pulled out, and it would take a long time to recover.

Now, the blacksmiths grind Tang Zhao's scales into powder, and add a certain proportion when forging crossbow arrows, which can have almost the same effect, and at the same time, it will not cause much damage to Tang Zhao himself.

While forging crossbow bolts, the dwarves naturally discovered that not only crossbow bolts can do this.

Tangzhao's scales are like panacea. Putting them on weapons can destroy magic, putting them on armor can prevent magic, mixing bricks and stones can prevent magic, and even swallowing them can alleviate the poisoning caused by magic. Powder Sprinkling it into the air can temporarily form a magical forbidden space.
In short, any magic will lose its due effect when it comes into contact with Tang Zhao's scales, except for those of the fourth level and above, but this kind of spellcaster is really hard to find. Tang Zhao's magic immunity may be upgraded in the future, and the effect will be reduced by then. more exaggerated.

According to the experiment, his scales will continue to exert their effects within a few months after they are taken out of the body, and the effects will not attenuate.The reason why it is not a longer duration is because it has only been a few months since Tang Zhao evolved the magic immunity ability. With the current level of spellcasters in the settlement, they can't understand this kind of material, so they can only use the simplest observations to determine the duration of the effect.

After discovering this, Tang Zhao felt that the eyes of the dwarves looking at him were not right, and changed from the original respect to the feeling of looking at a large lump of pure gold.

Tang Zhao blocked the news as soon as he discovered this, because he knew that this ability was too precious and would bring disaster to himself.

The anti-magic material was developed by a group of mages. The high-level mages in this world generally like to do weird experiments. It is said that the owl bear is the result of their experiments, making the giant owl and bear indescribable.

God knows what the creatures in this world are like internally. It’s okay if elves and humans, hobgoblins and orcs can mix blood. Home, it is amazing to be able to come up with a new species.

Tang Zhao didn't want to be a material for biological experiments. Now he has no resistance to high-level spellcasters, so it's right to be cautious.

Regardless of this, Tang Zhao pulled out many scales to assist the dwarves in casting various necessary equipment.

In order to deceive people, the dwarves carved runes on the body of each scale weapon, and the runes meant "Elements, break demons".

In the golden age of dwarves a long time ago, this rune did work, dispelling enemy magic, but this powerful rune was lost long ago, and this is a bluffing framework.

The runes of the dwarves can basically be understood as closed doors, and they are very closed. Even within the dwarves, there are only a very small number of rune blacksmiths who can exert the power of runes. There are only a dozen of them.There are many dwarves who can use simple runes, but few are proficient.

It is precisely because of the closure and decline that runes become an excellent excuse-except for the dwarves themselves, there are very few creatures who really understand runes, which definitely does not include hobgoblins. At the same time, rune technology has a glorious past, theoretically Dwarves can realize the development of rune technology through archeology. In fact, some dwarves have indeed done this way, and they have already achieved a lot of results.

"A lizard's scale powder can break magic" and "dwarves recovered some of the previously lost technology through archaeology", from the logic and common sense, the latter must be more convincing, such things also happened in history Been many times.

It doesn't matter if you can hide it for a while, but it doesn't matter if you can't hide it for a lifetime. Tang Zhao only needs to hide it for another year or two. At that time, he believes that he will undergo at least two more evolutions. It is not a problem to deal with ordinary fifth-order humans. The power of war.

Now he began to eagerly look forward to evolution again, and the improvement of strength was still secondary. He hoped to obtain recovery abilities such as regeneration, so that he himself would become a cash cow.

Pulling out the scales is of course painful, but considering that the resulting weapon can be compared to gold, the pain is not unbearable.

Bringing his thoughts back to reality, Tang Zhao leaned down and stared at the dwarf blacksmith in front of him.

[Fifty black arrows are not enough, just double them.We have to guard against not only those hobgoblins, but also the orcs and demons.There are too many magic demons, and the orc shaman may also come across the swamp to harass. 】

"According to what you mean, there are still two cans of scale powder. If you do this, you will use up about a quarter." Having said that, the dwarf paused, "Besides, Chief Bourne asked me to give you a message , The winter defense line has finally been completed, a little later than the expected time, no matter how harmless it is, please go over and discuss."

[Okay, I understand. The scale powder must be well preserved. My recovery speed is no different from that of ordinary creatures. It may take several months to produce some of this thing. 】
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In a month's time, Tang Zhao brought in another 1000 people from Luford's underground kobold city, adding some to the settlements that urgently needed manpower.

Most of these labor forces are used to build the defense line, which can be regarded as fruitful.

The pass to the west of Insula has been repaired with a wooden city wall, which is useless against large troops carrying heavy weapons, but it is still very effective as a warning.

In the past fifteen days, kobold patrols have stopped three groups of hobgoblin scouts there, and the situation is heating up.

There are several similar wooden city wall defenses, but they are all used for delay and warning after all. The kobolds and dwarves put most of their energy on Karak Solmar's own defense.

The marble city wall is filled with plaster and gravel, reinforced with plant magic and dwarven rune stones. The city wall is six meters high and four meters wide. It is not magnificent by ancient standards, but the dwarves are willing to use their beards to vouch for its sturdiness.

PS. After a week of struggle, the author was still recruited. The rest of the article was written when he had a low-grade fever. Please forgive me if it is a bit messy and post it.

Yesterday, I had a slight sore throat and cough, and the antigen was not detected, but considering that my family has been sick for a week, it is not bad.

Today's state is normal except for a little dizziness. My body temperature is 37.6. Generally speaking, I can still play games and cook.

Everyone pay attention to protection.

(In fact, after writing these two chapters, I'm already 38.3, but I'm still in good condition, just a little dizzy.)
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