Chapter 57: Scaled Tribe
The Scale Tribe is one of several large tribes with a population of more than 10,000 in Whispering Swamp. It is located in the northeast of the northern swamp, very close to the Land of the Mages, and belongs to a tribe that has a lot of exchanges with other races. The Scale Tribe has always been regarded by the Scale Tribe as a tribe favored by Artemis because the spiritual leader of the Lizards is abundant here. From the Third Age, among the thirty-nine generations of hunting priests, fifteen generations of priests came from the Scale Tribe. This feature made many devout lizards even regard the Scale Tribe as one of the swamp holy places. However, apart from this feature, the Scale Tribe has no strange places. The Lizards in the tribe are like other tribes, spend their lives hunting and gathering together.
Accompanied by the high priest Arcmene and his daughter, the six people from the adventure group walked through the Firefly Plain and entered the settlement of the Scale Tribe. When they first came in, the girls did not even realize that they were in a tribe, thinking that they were just in a functional place of the tribe. Because in the settlement, the girls did not see any residential buildings. Although there were many man-made objects, tables, chairs, cabinets, tools, and all kinds of items around, there was no building. It was not until a few strange lizardmen appeared in front of the girls that the girls realized that this place was already the core area of the Scale Tribe.
Indeed, there is no building in the scale tribe, or it is more accurate. All tribes in the swamp are different from other intelligent creatures, and they never build any buildings. The construction of the lizard people is very distinctive, and they often build places with higher terrain and flat and solid ground between the swamps to prevent the water level from rising during the rainy season to flood the tribe.
"Our tribe never needs architecture. Hiss. We have purely natural buildings to use." Garantis hugged his mother's tail and followed her happily. He turned around and proudly explained to the surprised girls: "Look, this is the house in our swamp. Hiss. You can't think of it anyway."
What Garantis refers to is a large area of Sougu wood forest on this flat high ground. The Sougu wood here is relatively dense and the tree nets on the top are also dense. Although it is impossible to experience it at night, the light here will become very weak even during the day. However, at seven or eight meters high of each Sougu wood, a spherical luminescent body will be fixed. These luminescent bodies should be minerals similar to fluorite. The light is cold and weak, but a large number of spheres gather together can still illuminate the entire settlement.
"Open fluorite veins can often be found in the swamps, hissing, which is very convenient to obtain." Garantis explained to his mother: "After we obtain fluorite from the fluorite mine, we carve them into the same shape, hissing, and then place them on each tree, hissing, so that no energy is needed to ensure the lighting of the entire tribe."
The thick trunk of Sougu wood was surrounded by artificial objects everywhere. The cold fluorescent light scattered from the trunk. The faint white light put a coat on the tribe, causing everything around to shine a faint silver color in the dark. Just under the silver light, a trunk of Sougu wood suddenly opened a hole, and several lizard men drilled out of the trunk. As soon as they came out, they saw a group of people standing outside. Although they were surprised that a large number of humans appeared. However, seeing his high priest accompanying him, they did not show too much curiosity. They just nodded casually to everyone and turned their heads to leave. Soon they knocked on another trunk and drilled into the hole that suddenly appeared.
At this time, the girls realized that all the Sogu woods here were the homes of lizards. Smart lizards were good at using all the resources that could be used around them. In order to save space and save construction materials, they chose the Sogu wood covered with swamps as their home. When they needed to build a house, they chose a suitable Sogu wood within the tribe and used the hollow inside as a room. Anyway, Sogu wood is thick enough, and the diameter of the trunk is dozens of meters thick, which can open up a large enough internal space. Moreover, Sogu wood has one of the biggest characteristics: their vitality is extremely tenacious and nutrients are mostly transported from the outer skin. Therefore, even if the trunk is hollowed out, it will not have much impact on them.
So, the lizards hollowed out tree trunks as houses, and made doors and windows with original bark. Once the doors and windows are closed, from the outside, it looks no different from ordinary Suogumu. No one would have thought that there would be rooms on the third and fourth floors inside, and he would have thought that hunters would live here.
"Come, go here and hiss." Alkemene waved his tail and threw his daughter between him and Catherine to the other side. Garantis seemed to like this game very much. Although he was thrown around, he still held his mother's tail and smiled. Alkemene glared at his daughter, let her restrain her a little, then pointed to a thick tree trunk and said to the girls: "Please come in, hiss, this is my home and Garantis, and there is the one below. Hiss, you can also come out and enter together."
As Alkemen stomped his feet on the ground, in the middle of the girls surrounded, the ground flipped, and a miniature version of the Hydra drilled out of the soil. It was said that it was a miniature version, but it was much worse than her original body shape. In the Yara world, many powerful monsters can scale their body shape through energy control to a certain extent. However, after the body size was reduced, not only would it take energy to compress itself, but the attack and defense ability would also be significantly reduced. If the body size became larger, on the basis of the energy consumption, although the offense and defense ability did not decrease, the agility and flexibility had been significantly changed, so most monsters were not willing to do this.
After the Hydra Jack's body shrank, his voice became thinner. Nine heads twisted excitedly and looked around and said happily: "Ah, is this your home? It's so fun. You have never invited me to your home."
"Because your arrival always creates panic, hissing." Alcmene said helplessly: "Recall it, hissing. From the moment we know that for nearly a hundred and twenty years, hissing, every time you come to the North Swamp to lay eggs in groups, it will cause me how much trouble it will cause to my tribe."
"That wasn't what I did." Jack said aggrievedly: "I did nothing."
Chapter completed!