lizard lord

Chapter 58 The Living Ancestor

Tang Zhao's psychic ability is not enough to support him to directly affect reality, but learning the basic psychic application can also directly enhance his combat effectiveness.

For example, a simple psychic impact can directly affect the minds of hostile creatures, making them stumble, or at least pause for a moment.

This ability is less effective against more powerful creatures, but it does not affect that it is a very useful ability.

For weaker enemies, Tang Zhao can deal with them one step faster.But for a powerful enemy, even a moment's stupor can give Tang Zhao an advantage. Victory is based on the accumulation of small steps. Tang Zhao doesn't mind a few more cards in his hand.

Matters related to psychic energy are basically dealt with, and Tang Zhao still needs to arrange matters related to the settlement before leaving.

Previously, most of the threatening creatures around the settlement were killed by means of thunder, and there would be no huge threats around the settlement now.

However, the dragon beast that seriously injured the tree people was still missing, and Tang Zhao needed to be on guard against him.

He didn't expect the goblins and kobolds to kill the powerful dragon beast directly, but at least he had to make a plan to avoid excessive losses due to the dragon beast's surprise attack.

Now the caves dug by the kobolds have begun to take shape, allowing most people in the entire settlement to take refuge in it, which has a certain use value.

Once the surrounding guards found an enemy that was difficult to match, they would hide if they could, or run if they couldn't. Tang Zhao didn't let them fight any powerful enemies. The most important thing was to preserve their vitality and labor force.

The settlement is basically self-sufficient except for food, and Tang Zhao is not a master of micromanagement. He has no interest in intervening in the detailed planning of the settlement. After the general development direction is arranged, he will not care about more.

He is dedicated to his work, and he just adds chaos to them by intervening rashly.

After arranging everything about the settlement, Tang Zhao set out on the journey again with a limited number of goblins.

He is indeed qualified to act alone now, and the settlement does need manpower, but since he wants to contact the settlement of goblins, having a few goblins by his side will definitely help to simplify complicated things.

Most of the fey creatures are quite simple, and the support of their kindred can dispel most of their vigilance. At least Tang Zhao's relationship with them will not develop into enemies in a muddle.
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At the same time, in another part of the copper-nickel forest, a group of dwarves are camping.

They are not small in size, and there are many livestock carrying luggage, but the luggage is in disarray, and there are many civilians in the team wearing "rudimentary" mail armor and holding crude weapons such as mine drafts. They don't seem to be caravans. It is an extremely rare case.

Except for caravans, dwarves rarely leave the city where they live. Even if they leave to perform some military missions, there will only be fully armed soldiers and civilians will not appear on the battlefield.

There are generally two types of civilians in this situation: either the reclamation team that opened up a new fortress, or the fleeing team.

In this age of dwarves' decline, the probability of the latter is much greater than the former, and it is indeed the case. An extremely heated debate is erupting in the tent in the center of the camp.

A few crates were covered with a layer of cloth to form a simple conference table, surrounded by several long-bearded dwarves in luxurious and heavy armor, who formed the power center of the dwarf team.

Dwarves live in clans. In the world view of dwarves, the elders have an unusually lofty status. The length of their beards represents their social status, glory and military exploits. It can be said that the longer the beard, the more powerful the dwarves are. prestige or power.

Among them, one dwarf's beard was obviously whiter and longer. Although he was not wearing the most gorgeous armor, it was obvious that the dwarves around him respected him a lot.

You can tell by looking at the special rune battle ax that he is equipped with. This is a dwarf "living ancestor". Dwarves who are old enough, wise, and with outstanding military achievements will be given this title. They usually serve as advisors to the dwarf kingdom and assist the king in handling government affairs. .

But the current situation is definitely not normal.

"King Oled Graybeard and his nephew Hader Graybeard both died in the battle with the orc scum. The main bloodline of the Graybeard royal family has been cut off. In view of the current chaotic situation, the election of the king is temporarily postponed. We The parties should sit down and talk about how to go in the future."

Bourne Silver Helmet looked at his fellow clansmen with some headaches. They were one of the few remaining leadership dwarves in the Greybeard Kingdom—there were master dwarf blacksmiths, accountants from the dwarf guild, and the Great Book of Grudges scribe, and himself, living ancestor of the Greybearded Kingdom.

The only remaining mountain dwarf kingdom north of Lake Lane has been destroyed. Some dwarves managed to escape, but unfortunately they did not come together, but fled in all directions.

The team led by Bourne was one of them. They were supposed to join the team of the Greybearded King, but unexpectedly, the Greybearded King was taken care of and failed to break through.

So their team could only retreat first, relying on the unimaginable endurance of other races, they marched all the way, and after throwing off the enemy, they ran all the way to the copper-nickel forest, before they had the leisure to stop.

It's not that the supplies are not enough, but Bourne knows very well that if he doesn't stop to rectify the interior, the whole team will be in danger of falling apart.

He is also regarded as a well-respected living ancestor in the entire Gray Bearded Kingdom. The surviving dwarves respect and trust him very much. He took over the command without a doubt, but the contradictions among other dwarves still exist.

With such a huge change just now, it is normal for different dwarves to have different ideas about the future. Bourne can feel that all the dwarves are trying to suppress the confusion and anxiety in their hearts, but sooner or later they will not be able to suppress it.

Before something really goes wrong, they need to figure out the way forward.

"We are not many in number, and there are not many dwarves who can really become dwarf warriors. Most of them died in the battle before. Now we need weapons to arm the dwarves, and the second is to find the next place to go."

(End of this chapter)