Chapter 222 Giant Snake Luo Nan's Deal

The land became hard after being burned by the high-temperature dragon fire, but the land that was affected before the fire was now mottled and messy, as if it had been dug by wild dogs.

The once impassable outpost has now become a ruin, with no trace of its past visible. The fall of the snakeman outpost also means that the road to the snake catcher fortress is now completely open to Lind.

A few days later, the soldiers, ready to go, followed Lind and set foot on this land again. The ground still retained its original scorching heat, and the wind brought waves of heat that burned people's skin and caused slight pain.

Attacking the snake catcher's fortress is not Lind's last option. He can ride a dragon across or use stealth skills to get through.

But if they want to return to the central area, it becomes extremely important to open up this road. Not only will it be necessary to continuously transport various troops and supplies in the future, but a sufficiently normal road can also serve as a safe passage for retreat at critical moments, so as to avoid being caught in a jar again after entering it.

The disaster horses formed a team and advanced, the horses with sharp teeth and claws pawed the ground and held their heads high.

Reed and others were seriously injured, so the team had to add pharmacists and wizards. Although the space barrels could solve the problem of carrying supplies, timely treatment of injuries still required professional personnel.

Pharmacists are an important human resource, and we have to make choices about who to include in the combat sequence, etc.

The red figure in the sky spread its huge wings, lowered itself, and swooped down almost to the ground with strong winds. The soldiers' vision suddenly went dark, and then they only saw the huge figure with spread wings flying away with strong winds, and then suddenly rose up in front of them and rushed into the clouds.

The pharmacist who came with him used to work in the Harbor Village. He personally experienced many battles, watched Leon City send people here, and then watched Leon City fall, Star Dragon City rise, the undead attacking the city, the giants attacking the city, dragons falling from the sky, and so on.

The fingers holding the reins exerted a little force, as if what he was holding was not the reins but his own future.

The wheel of history surges forward, and perhaps the tranquility that we once fantasized about in the seaport village is now just a fantasy.

He watched the dragon spread its wings and fly away, and felt the knife-sharp hot air left behind by the dragon as it flew over his head, piercing his armor and helmet, and flowing out not blood but thick sweat after piercing his skin.

The flying disasters and the mutated strange birds of the new era that were hiding somewhere were startled by the flying dragon and flew over their heads with strange screams, as if they were celebrating the arrival of the flying dragon.

Today is destined to be unusual.

Lance and other soldiers have been waiting for more than two years, and what they have been waiting for and looking forward to is... the return of Goliath.

Even from the Snake Catcher's Fortress, it is still a long way to go back to Goliath, and no one can guarantee that this journey will always be peaceful.

It took a lot of effort and cost a great deal to get to the Snakeman Outpost from the foothills of Red Dragon Mountain. The journey from now on will probably be even more difficult, but everyone now has unprecedented confidence in returning.

The lord is leading them forward. The first step has been taken, and the second step will definitely be smoother.

Go south through the snakeman outpost and up the hillside.

Lind rode on the ground, and flying in the sky would easily make him a sitting duck, so he seldom flew over his own territory. Even as a flying dragon, he had to remain vigilant at all times, and it was best not to fly around before the road ahead was explored.

We didn't encounter any trouble along the way. Perhaps the soldiers at the snake sentry post had completely eliminated the disaster in the area to ensure that there would be no problems with the transmission of information.

Arrived at the Snake Catcher's Fortress without any hindrance.

It's like a giant beast lying on the road from the north to the central region.

Some soldiers have already taken the initiative to move forward. Like an Ouroboros, they have formed a circle that can attack or defend, and are approaching the fortress.

The soldiers, whose facial expressions were completely obscured by their helmets, arrived in front of the snake catchers' fortress. The city gate was wide open, as if welcoming them.

The soldiers in the rear were also fully prepared, with their bows and crossbows raised. They were all equipped with crossbows made of secret patterns. The metallic luster and novel secret patterns were very eye-catching under the sun.

Suddenly, poisonous mist spewed out, and then a huge snake came out.

The snakes were standing upright, with snake scales on their bodies, their eyes had become vertical pupils, and they were even spitting out red forks from their mouths. But they also retained the human part, and wore the same style of Lander Kingdom infantry armor as Star Dragon City.

The patterns on their armor are of another style, equally exquisite, and they use a lot of golden yellow as the main color.

The big knight was fighting with the humanoid snake. In Lind's eyes, that thing should not be called a snake. Maybe it was more like a salamander. As we all know, snakes have no feet.

Victory came quickly, as the battle gave the better-equipped Star Dragon soldiers an advantage, and the humanoid snakes were defeated almost instantly.

"Can we communicate?"

"They have not lost the ability to speak, your Excellency!"

This is a surprising discovery.

The Sons of Ronan at the Serpent Outpost retained their human form, but communication with them was full of obstacles. Those guys would rather go to war than use their brains to think about the doubts.

Instead, the humanoid snake soldiers who had already lost their human appearance were able to communicate.

Of course, this may also be related to the fact that Lind has demonstrated strong military strength from the very beginning.

"I'm Linde Arman." Linde refused the soldier's offer to register his name. Perhaps this would make him look very aristocratic, but he had more important things to confirm.

"How is Baron Ronan?"

The humanoid snake soldier looked up at him, and disgusting red tongues kept coming out.

"This is the territory belonging to Baron Ronan!"

"Of course, of course!" Lind nodded, agreeing with the other party.

He absolutely supported the sanctity and inviolability of the lord's territory, since he was one of the lords.

"The Baron is in good condition." said the humanoid snake.

"Can you help us inform him? I want to talk to him."

The flying dragon fell and hit the ground heavily.

It is Lind's sincerity.

The humanoid snake looked at the flying dragon tremblingly. Now he also felt Linde's sincerity.

The moment Lind rode his flying dragon into the sky above the Snake Catcher's Fortress, he noticed that crossbows in more than a dozen locations were locking onto him.

Every territory will have a no-fly zone, and with strong power, their control over high altitudes will only be stronger.

The Snake Catcher's Fortress covers a huge area. It is completely a small city, and there are even farmlands and villages near the central area.

Below was a densely populated area of ​​buildings. Lind tried to recall how lively the scene was when he passed by here.

But most of the areas inside were places he had never been to, so he headed straight for the castle.

The flying dragon landed on the wall of the inner castle, and used its claws to grab the wall in an almost rough manner to stabilize its body.

Facing Lind in front of him was the castle hall. Gusts of cold and uncomfortable air blew in from inside, like long cold nails scraping across his skin, sweeping across his back and leaving a string of goose bumps.

Alex also felt uncomfortable, and his restless breathing broke the cold atmosphere here.

There was a rustling sound; something was wriggling out.

And it sounds very sticky.

Then, a huge middle-aged man's head with a square face stretched out from the darkness of the hall.

Baron Ronan! The moment he saw him, Linde's eyelids could not help but jump.

What a big weird snake, but more like a salamander.

Its body was probably nearly a hundred meters long, and it was like an insurmountable high wall covered with mucus, and the disgusting and smelly smell kept drilling into the nose.

The slender flying dragon Alex seemed a little too thin next to it.

"Lord Ronan." Linde stood on the dragon's back.

Is this what the nobles really have to endure after taking the potion?
Ronan gave Linde the feeling of a person whose body was alienated after failing to take a potion. The undead even called it a "bug".

Only by controlling your body from mutating can you go further and further on the path of taking magic potions.

But at the same time, one also has to face various temptations when taking potions. The alienation of the body is not entirely a bad thing, because the closer one is to that state and the more one is out of human form, the stronger the strength that can be displayed.

This is called approaching the essence of magic.

But at the same time, we also lost the opportunity to go further.

This is the case with Lance and Bud. It's not that they can't drink the potion anymore, but if they force themselves to drink it again, they will definitely turn into monsters.

The Baron Ronan in front of him is the type who can never turn back.

"Oh, it's you, Linde." Baron Ronan opened his mouth, his voice deep and full of exclamations, like a gust of wind blowing through the valley.

His tone was filled with memories: "It's great to see you again. I hugged you back then."

Children are the most heartless creatures. Whatever they did when they were young will be forgotten when they grow up, leaving only regrets for adults.

Even if you have "huggled" each other before, now we are just like strangers.

"Your condition doesn't look good." Lind's eyes turned, and he noticed the humanoid snake soldiers gradually gathering around him. They had extremely similar mutated appearances.

Ronan possesses some ability to bestow power upon his soldiers. From the battle just now, Lind has discovered that these humanoid snake soldiers are not great knights in the traditional sense, and the source of their power is very strange.

It seemed that the root of everything lay with Baron Ronan in front of him.

Lind continued, "I remember you were funny and humorous when I met you at the banquet, but now you have grown scales, are covered with mucus, and don't like to walk on your legs."

"Hahahaha," Luo Nan laughed softly. "I like your humor, but when we are left behind by the changing times, the most important thing to consider is to welcome the new life with the new life. Weren't you also a child afraid of heights before? Now you are riding a flying dragon."

Luo Nan's attitude towards Feilong was very indifferent, as if he didn't care about it at all.

"Are you sure you want to tell me my embarrassing stories here?" Lind seemed to be getting angry.

Every man has had embarrassing moments and has been naughty at times. Ordinary people and poor people need to be sensible from a young age, but aristocratic boys from wealthy families naturally have the capital to be naughty and can live a happier life.

Just like Lind had climbed through a window, or scared Her Majesty the Queen and was caught and beaten up. Although he didn't want to admit it, Lind felt that if Rania died like this, she would definitely take her own dark history with her.

The two of them were like old friends chatting about family matters.

It's just that one of them has completely abandoned his human form, and the other is riding a dragon that is ready to spit out flames at any time. In this situation, the smile seems very fake.

As the soldiers waited anxiously, the lord returned.

There was no flame burning into the sky, nor was there any life-and-death horn being blown. The flying dragon landed on the ground and lowered its slender neck, like a spiral staircase covered with a red carpet, waiting for Lind to walk down step by step.

The dust expanded after the flying dragon landed, and every time it fell from the sky, it would cause dust and storms. They were slowly getting used to it, and even had the mind to change their thoughts from amazement to thinking about something else.

"grown ups!"

The soldiers surrounded the dragon and also felt the tremendous heat contained in the dragon's body.

"I made a deal with Baron Ronan and exchanged some things with him. In exchange, we cannot set foot in the Snake Catcher Fortress." Lind said.

It's like two nobles meeting and giving each other trinkets and jewelry to keep in touch.

What Lind had to pay was that he could never set foot in the Snake Catcher's Fortress again. It could be seen that Baron Ronan was very afraid of him. What Lind gained was the "Snake Catcher's Path Potion", which allowed him to ascend directly to the hero rank.

In addition, there are more than fifty precious books.

"Is Lord Ronan still normal?" Lance, who is usually good at keeping silent, spoke faster than his brain this time.

"Normal? No, he's completely crazy," Lind said, "even crazier than when he turned into that giant snake."

Snake catcher Luo Nan and his entire family are representatives of loyalty.

Just as the ten sons of Ronan would rather be the enemy of justice and fight to the death to protect the Baron even if they know it is wrong, Baron Ronan's loyalty to the Kingdom of Rand is only greater than theirs.

He was a humorous man, and that was not just a compliment, which was what Lind always believed.

Only those who are naive and straightforward enough can be considered humorous in his eyes, and everyone can speak freely.

On the contrary, he is the kind of guy who says a lot of things, even if he dances like a peacock at the ball and tells carefully conceived jokes, he makes the ladies laugh until they are shaking with laughter.

In Lind's eyes, he is the annoying type.

It's like everyone wants to chat and communicate with honest people, but they all hate green tea bitches.

His personality changed and he became selfish. It is even possible that "Baron Ronan" is just a disguise of the giant snake, and there may be other wills and things inside him.

Snake catcher, good at placing bait and then killing with one strike!

Moreover, Alex had been on alert since the initial contact, which meant that the giant snake Ronan was looking for an opportunity to launch a fatal attack on Lind.

I didn't do it simply because I didn't find the opportunity.

The same goes for Lind.

He even suspected that he had "traveled through time" and had completed the "noble madness", but his body had not changed at all, and his strength was not like that of other nobles, who would surge wildly as if they were on fire after drinking the potion.

He just made a deal with Ronan, but never mentioned passing through the Snake Catcher's Fortress from beginning to end.

Given Ronan's condition, Lind strongly suspected that if he led his team through, they would be ambushed and killed by Ronan first.

"There is only one way through the fortress, but we can take other routes. I have just observed from the air that there is a mountain to the east. As long as we open up a path, we can bypass it."

A road that ordinary soldiers cannot cross is definitely not a problem for the current knights of Star Dragon City. If there is no road, just open a new one!
He also has wizards and flying dragons, and can use bombing to blast open a path.

The soldiers had no objections.

Avoiding battle was the decision Linde made after confirming Ronan's strength. There was a roundabout route, and he felt that it was not impossible to leave this BOSS to the undead.

If they ever come back.

It's another day when I miss the undead but am afraid of their return.

　Muscle strain
　　
　
(End of this chapter)