Chapter 41: The War is Coming (Please Read)
This was the first time Lynch commanded an army of this size. Fortunately, the Lizard Leader was in charge of logistics, otherwise Lynch would have been overwhelmed just with supplies.
Twenty pterosaurs flew over one after another. When Lynch led the army out of the city, these lizard riders who dared to embrace the sky had already gone ahead to scout the road ahead for the army.
The Legion moved slowly to the west, the noisy Skinks calling out the war cry.
The scarred people mixed in with the new recruits shared the pressure for Lynch. He only needed to pass instructions to the scarred people, and these veterans could quickly coordinate the troops.
The cold-blooded people completed the overall deployment efficiently, and the priests and leaders were supported in the center of the army.
The skin lizards look scattered, but they are still highly organized.
Lynch learned the identity of the Skink Priest.
Priest Karald is an ancient fourth-generation Slann, the ruler of the awakening city of Huta, one of Lord Volker's servants, and is good at manipulating the wind of beasts.
Gur is the embodiment of wildness and animality. This brown magical wind can control animals or transform into wild beasts.
Lynch and the priest occupied the back of a triceratops. With the help of magic, the priest allowed himself to share the vision of his pterosaur partner and observe the situation around him.
After several days of trekking, the legion arrived at the Star City Asroto on a starry night.
This is an abandoned temple city, destroyed during the first great Chaos Invasion.
In fact, no temple city is completely abandoned, and there are always Lizardmen sentinels hiding in the dark and watching among the ruins.
When the ancient sages chose the location for building a city, they selected the site based on astrological nodes, and each city was a node.
Eventually, countless cities were connected into a huge magical network, which is the spiritual vein network.
The giant network of spiritual veins draws the power of the planet, and the Slan wizards can rely on this stable source of energy to perform spells that can move mountains and seas.
At the same time, every spiritual vein node is also a part of the "Great Guardian".
The "Great Guardian" was supplemented and reinforced by the Slann after the Asur wizard Caledor Dragon Tamer built the "Great Vortex" and integrated the winds of magic to banish the demons of the first Chaos invasion.
Perhaps some spirit vein nodes no longer belong to the Lizardmen and have become towns of humans or elves.
But as long as they exist, the Great Guardian can cooperate with the "Great Vortex" to weaken the power of the devil.
This is why sometimes Lizardman armies are teleported to elven fortresses that are under siege by Chaos races.
They must not fall into the hands of the Darkborn, and the Chaos sorcerers would be happy to desecrate such a node, increasing their master's power in the Mortal Realms while weakening the magical capabilities of the Slann wizards.
The Skinks discuss the city's former glory and the Slann hermits who live there.
This place was once a holy place for stargazing, and countless wizards came here to study the paths of stars and observe various celestial bodies in the universe.
Lynch looked curiously at the purple halo floating in the rainforest.
Stardust was flying in the jungle, and arcs of electricity streaked through the air from time to time.
After recognizing the identity of the cold-blooded species, the dreamy light did not turn into a lightning storm that could destroy the legion.
Lynch could feel the omnipresent prying eyes, as if a chameleon hidden in the dark was sizing up the visitor.
Chameleons are masters of concealment, and these special kinds of Skenks are assassins who come and go invisibly.
The legion gradually passed through the tall jungle with lush vegetation, and the abandoned city hidden by towering ancient trees appeared before Lynch's eyes.
At the top of the abandoned pyramid, on four giant obsidian pillars taller than the jungle, aurora-like spherical energy enveloped the ancient creatures sitting inside, and brilliant magical halos pierced the night sky.
The stars in the sky appeared even clearer, casting a deep starlight over the entire ruins.
The wind seemed to come alive. Four streams of air in different directions were long and peaceful, and each time they brushed across the earth they were accompanied by a long whistling sound. This was the breathing of Shi Lan who was living in seclusion on the stone pillar.
Four ancient creatures breathed in and out the wind of magic, and the almost condensed magical power dominated the omnipresent air.
Just a shallow and subtle breath can drive the circulation of air around the city.
Lynch did not go to watch the meditation of these hermit lords, who were projecting their consciousness onto an unknown celestial body, as they had been doing since the fall of the city.
Before Luther Harken was defeated, it was the magical power passively emitted by these Slann that hindered the vampire pirates' advance towards Itaza.
Lynch led the army past the outside of the temple city, and from time to time, skinks cast regretful glances at the abandoned buildings.
More than two thousand years ago, the Skaven, after the demons, desecrated the city. The plague halted the reconstruction of Star City, and the Skaven still feel resentful about it.
Lynch stationed his troops outside the city, on an empty plain that was once used to house giant beasts such as Triceratops and Ankylosaurs.
The Skinks lit a bonfire, and Lynch ordered the Skink Priests to hold a ceremony to honor Kotego, to prevent the Khorne demon from attacking the camp at night with the help of fire.
This was carried out enthusiastically by the Skenks, as most of the Skinks in the army were devout believers of the Old Saint.
Even after the ceremony was over, there were still skinks singing the praises of Kotego, the Ancient Saint of the Sun, while carrying out their work.
The priest summoned the pterosaur and fiddled with magic around Lynch.
It summoned the skin lizards who were good at carving and led the carvers to carve magical amulets.
It was not until the skin lizard brought the fragrant roasted insects that the priest made some time-limited amulets.
In order to avoid waste, Lynch distributed them to the scarred people.
Although they will lose their effect after tonight.
Occasionally a chameleon would appear between camps, bringing prey in exchange for daggers and poison needles newly forged by the Skink smiths.
The first half of the night passed peacefully. When Lynch was gazing at the sea of stars in the sky out of boredom, the pterosaur scout brought him a surprising news.
On the west side of the rain forest, the Skink Riders discovered a group of lost Savage Greenskin Orcs who seemed to want to join in the fun at the Head of the Cities.
The greenskins are the cancer of this world. Demons have already made the mortal realm miserable, and the warlike greenskins have added fuel to the fire of this broken world.
They are everywhere, and the tenacious vitality of the greenskins is spread all over the world.
The worst part is that to kill the greenskins you have to cremate their bodies, otherwise the spores scattered from their bodies will grow into new greenskins.
When enough greenskins gather together, a powerful green tide is formed, which is filled with the energy that the greenskins call "waagh".
Greenskin spellcasters draw on this energy to cast their spells, making the already indestructible green tide even more powerful.
They revere the two gods "Gao Ge" and "Mao Ge", and use "waagh" to spread the power of the two gods.
Lynch couldn't expect the Slann, who had been meditating for thousands of years, to suddenly wake up and wave his hand to eliminate the greenskins marching towards Itaza.
He must eliminate the greenskin army that is right in front of him and prevent these cancerous creatures from gathering in larger numbers!
(End of this chapter)
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