Chapter 619: The Hag's Oath
"What time is it now? You are still worried about a ring?" The Sea Hag's voice was as ugly as her appearance. When her mouth opened, it cracked all the way to the back. The base of his cheeks exposed his sharp teeth and press, "No matter what method the other party uses, now that idiot Kurgor has completely devoted himself to the other party, that fat dragon's brain Although it is not easy to use, it is undeniable that her ability in the water is very unique, and the strength of the lizardman army is far superior to ours. We are now more than 70 kilometers away from the distant sea swamps, and we will be led by her if we can't make it halfway. The lizardman army catches up, and the moment we are caught up, our amphibious army will be completely wiped out."
After hearing this analysis from the sea hag, the green hag was not convinced either. Debu suppressed his dissatisfaction with Ye Hao for the time being, and said with a worried look: "Not only that, if the amphibious force is lost, they will most likely take advantage of the situation to attack the distant sea swamps and try to uproot us."
The night hag grinned with a terrifying smile and said: "If they really dare to do this, let me try the true power of the nightmare realm. I will let them come without any problem. "Reply."
"Although the nightmare realm is powerful, it is not entirely within our power after all. How to dig out that little thing from the depths of the nightmare realm is a huge headache. , If we send a lot of souls to her, won't we be asking for trouble? Will it slow down our ability to gain real power?" The green hag is very disapproving of the night hag's activation of the nightmare realm.
Not only for the reason she said, but also because the night hag's innate ability to manipulate nightmares gives her an absolute dominance in studying matters in the nightmare realm. The internal balance of their hag gathering is already in jeopardy. Whether the power of the Nightmare Realm itself is gradually growing, or the Night Hag is further studying it, it will be difficult for her to join forces with the Sea Hag to fight against her, and in the end it is likely to become the object of her enslavement and control.
The relationship between these hags is like the broken ship they are riding on now. They are tinkering with it to keep it sailing and unsinkable. If they want to be intimate, forget about it. They each have their own little plans.
“That’s right, even when the Nightmare Realm is activated, its power will be more effective if a large number of soldiers cooperate. We must not give up the troops in our hands until the last moment. "This time, the Sea Hag unconditionally sided with the Green Hag.
The gathering of hags is composed of neither two nor four, but three. It is not only limited by the laws of magic, but also limited by their bad personalities.
If more than three hags gather together, they will not form a more powerful hag assembly, but will become weaker, because a lot of their energy will be used to plot against each other.
Three, no more, no less. When two of the hags are in conflict, the other one can act as a lever to balance. There are many such balancing methods, and they are not limited to one. Like now, the two hags are in a conflict. The disadvantaged hags unite in unison to oppose the most powerful moment of checking and balancing, which is their most common method.
In their eyes, the threat to their companions is far greater than that of their enemies. Even if the lizardman army led by the Lizard Queen is very close to them, they still put their own checks and balances first.
Idiot.
The Night Ghost cursed in her heart. If it weren't for the two of them holding her back, she would have already taken the treasure in the far sea swamp, mastered the nightmare realm, and peered into the nightmare. God's way.
But if you get rid of the two of them, relying on your own strength, which is slightly insufficient, you can only grit your teeth and continue to endure their stupidity, and make a compromise suggestion: "We are in the water, we must He is no match for that stupid dragon, but once her army Once on land, our strength was greatly reduced, especially since we also had an army of Abyssal Jackals on the shore. We combined the two armies, slowly retreated to the distant sea swamp, and then completely blocked it, sitting and watching. Things are changing.”
"This method is feasible. The strength of the conqueror's army far exceeds our original prediction. Now we can ensure that our main force does not suffer losses, which is the greatest victory."
"Our dispatch this time is a bit too hasty. , you see over there at the Dark Fort, from beginning to end, all they are instigating are the cannon fodder of the monster tribe, and they have not used their main force at all. No matter how the situation here changes, they are in an invincible position."
" stand on An invincible place does not mean life is easy. After the conquerors' army builds the Bridge of Faith, do you think they will demolish it? They will definitely build a city here, and then the high road and the east road will lead to Cormyr. The two lines are connected , if nothing unexpected happens, before the conqueror army officially enters the Rockland, he will be awarded the title of Baron of the Rockland. At that time, the situation in the Rockland and the Goblin Borderlands will undergo earth-shaking changes. The layout of the Dark Castle here in recent years, Want them all It will be broken or even overthrown.”
“It will not only be the Dark Castle, but also us who will have a hard time. Therefore, the two old sisters, you should do your best to help me, completely. Break through the nightmare realm and find my disobedient daughter. Only in this way, we don't have to continue to be trapped in this swamp. Not to mention the entire Toril, even the entire multiverse will be at our control. We Will become everyone's nightmare, don't you Don't you want to see with your own eyes how those human beings struggle desperately in the dream, but there is no way to escape? Don't you want to use nightmares to erode their reason and body bit by bit and make them become what we want? Will they become puppets and tools in our hands?”
The topic circled around and returned to them. It was obvious that Night Ghost was very aware of the fatal weaknesses of her two sisters and brought the whole matter to them. The most interesting point.
The ugly eyes of the Sea Hag and the Green Hag suddenly flashed. Didn't they dream of the beautiful vision described by the other party? It's just that they lack the ability of the Night Hag to enter and control dreams, and the nightmare realm is too unique. Even if they are not careful, even they will have to get inside and be played around by the Night Hag.
Knowing what they were worried about, Night Ghost Woman vowed: "We are a whole, and only when we unite are we the most powerful. I promise that as long as this thing succeeds, all the power gained will , I share it with you.”
Hmph!
The two hags snorted involuntarily at the same time. Sometimes they didn't even believe their own words, let alone the promise of another hag.
In desperation, Night Hag could only take out her trump card and said: "I am willing to take the Hag Oath."
Upon hearing the hag's oath, the sea hag and the green hag perked up, looked at each other involuntarily, and said in unison: "Okay."
If there is anything left in their lives to give to the pitifully small ones, Trust, that is the hag's oath.
This kind of oath has a magical effect. It can only be sworn by a hag to a hag. The oath sworn by a hag to ordinary people. When she claims to be a hag's oath, it proves that the fooling has begun, and those who believe it will not even think of themselves in the end. I don’t know how he died.
It’s just that the hag oath has relatively large restrictions on the hags who swear the oath. The selfish hags are not willing to easily bind themselves with the oath, so they rarely use it, let alone take the initiative to ask for it like the night hag. This shows that There are even greater interests that tempt her, making her willing to accept the shackles of the hag's oath.
The night hag solemnly said: "Once Ilbota breaks through the nightmare realm, finds my daughter, and gets back my power, I am willing to fight with Zunuris and She Nader shares this power.”
While swearing, the night hag took the initiative to stretch out her hands and showed them to the two hags, one on the left and the other on the right.
The two hags also stared at her hands for a moment. Since there are loopholes in any oath, the most obvious loophole in the hag oath is that the oath made by crossing the fingers does not count.
This loophole can only fool those new hags. These two quasi-legendary hags who have lived for who knows how many years know all the twists and turns of hags. If you want to use this to trick them, it will be difficult to reach the sky.
When the Night Hag finished her oath, the Sea Hag and the Green Hag couldn't help but reveal a smile, but this smile was as ugly and scary as they wanted. But there is no such consciousness.
“If you had done this earlier, wouldn’t this matter be simple? We would have taken down the nightmare realm long ago.”
"It's not too late now. We will definitely do our best to help you next."
Ye Gui Po said with a smile: "If there is no problem, let those children land and stay." We don’t have much time left.”
If the situation in the Goblin Frontier hadn’t been developing in a direction that was extremely unfavorable to them, and she was afraid of long nights and dreams, how could she have bound herself with the hag oath?
A big meal can be eaten by three people. How can it be more delicious when eaten by one person?
“That’s how it should be.”
"Let's start taking action."
The two hags were in a good mood and stopped obstructing them. With the order, the amphibious army of the Far Sea Swamp did not blindly run along the Bianhuang River to the Far Sea Swamp. Instead, they found a river bank with relatively gentle terrain, and everyone landed on the west bank. The amphibious army of the Distant Sea Swamp is also composed of two types of troops. As cannon fodder, like the lizardman army, they are also bullywugs with green skin, pot bellies and frog heads. However, compared to the bullywugs of the Thun Swamp, the bullywugs of the Distant Sea Swamp are Regardless of their number, equipment, or size, bullywugs are There are a lot more, and they are much better. The only flaw is that their bodies are numb and covered with abscesses and tumors. People with intensive care disorder will definitely become worse after seeing their appearance, especially When they appear in groups, instead of calling them bullywugs, it would be more appropriate to call them leprechauns.
This fully shows that their life under the hags is much better than that of the Lizard Queen. At least they are not disadvantaged in terms of food. Although the hags are sadistic, They have twisted and cruel personalities, but they advocate dark transactions. When you are willing to give something precious in exchange, they can usually keep their promise and then watch you struggle with regret.
It is not difficult to guess what these bullywugs gave up, that is appearance. Only when the entire race accepts the filthy synchrony of the hag, will there be a group change in appearance.
The other core force is trolls, aquatic trolls. Compared with ordinary trolls, these trolls have sky-blue skin, a respiratory system similar to fish gills on the back of their necks, and their hands and feet are also connected. They have flippers and are taller, with an average height of over three and a half meters.
Just like the bullywugs, these aquatic trolls are also covered in boils and boils, but they are not so dense, but the size is amazing. At first glance, they look like sea hags. Sixty to seventy percent similar.
The number of aquatic trolls is relatively small, only four to five hundred, and most of the rest are frogmen.
As for the lizardmen, there are none.
In fact, except for a few lizardman villages and tribes surviving in the swamps of the distant sea, there is not a single lizardman in the core area.
The reason is naturally the Lizard King's Court in Thun Swamp. The Lizard Queen's powerful influence and control over the lizard people makes these suspicious hags dare not let the lizard people appear in their territory, lest one day they and the lizards will be together. When the Royal Court starts fighting, those lizardmen will fight back and side with the Lizard Queen. It is not impossible, but very likely. Her fog of obedience has a permanent effect on many lizardmen.
In a few years, there were no more traces of lizardmen in the swamps of the distant sea.
The Lizard Queen and her lizard-men army hurriedly rushed over. By the time they arrived, all the amphibious troops in the distant sea swamps had landed and quickly retreated to a place three or four kilometers away from the shore to prevent the lizards. The queen directly controlled the flood and led the lizardman army to chase them ashore.
Without the help and restraint of the river and the continuous replenishment of river water, the flood controlled by the Lizard Queen could not run a few hundred meters ashore, so it would be almost consumed.
"General, what should we do now?" The Lizard Queen's words showed deep worry. She was now afraid that Gavin would use her army of lizardmen as cannon fodder, so she also drove them to the shore, even if it was If the war is finally won, the final casualties will be extremely heavy.
"What they did made it easier for us." Not only was Gavin not disappointed, but he could not hide his excitement. This decision seemed smart, but in fact it was downright stupid.
Because the lizardman army has never been their main force, the conqueror army is.
The conqueror army has begun to mobilize troops and launch a counterattack. They actually took the initiative to attack the guns.
Gavin turned to the half-black dragon lizardman who was serving respectfully aside: "General Gregory, you will be in charge of the Evil Fang Army next. March with them. Anyone who dares to enter the water or wants to cross the river , no matter Are they the monsters from the Dark Castle or the troops from the Far Sea Swamp? Do you have any doubts about killing them all on the spot?"
"This..." This sturdy half-black dragon lizardman did not dare to answer Gavin directly. , but peeked at the Lizard Queen.
Even though they had long been accustomed to the Lizard Queen's capriciousness and issuing inconsistent orders at every turn, this reversal was a bit too big.
On the front foot, they were still fighting to the death with the army of conquerors, as if they wanted to drown them all in the river of wilderness. On the back foot, they became allies to deal with the common enemy, and the opponent's coach even more In the blink of an eye, Alhashan was replaced as the new vizier, and Alhashan completely disappeared.
What puzzled him the most was the change in the Lizard Queen's temperament. She was perverse and violent. She always rode on others' heads. When did she allow others to ride on her head?
Especially if the other party is the vizier she just canonized, who is the master? Who is the servant?
Gregory couldn't help but wonder, had his mother been replaced?
But the aura coming from her body cannot be faked, nor can the abilities she uses.
"Gregory, are you questioning my order? I have already said that from now on, all matters in the royal court will be handed over to General Gavin with full authority. You must assist him unconditionally. His orders are mine. command, his will is my will "Zhi." Lizard Queen roared angrily, "Such questioning will not be allowed again, otherwise I will not be lenient."
The anger in Lizard Queen's words is true, but it is not directed at Gregory. But for myself and Gavin.
By now she has basically understood what Gavin is going to do. He doesn’t want to support her to be the queen of two swamps at all. Instead, he is paving the way bit by bit to steal his own royal court and steal himself. Servant, the next step will definitely be to steal his own wealth.
But there is nothing I can do. I can only say and do what the other person wants, and I have become an out-and-out puppet on strings.
"Yes." The half-black dragon lizard man could only bow and obey the order. His inner fear of the lizard queen took over, making him dare not think too deeply.
“Return to the main army.” Gavin ordered the Lizard Queen.
He must keep her with him at all times now, and cannot let her have any single contact with the lizardman army, or issue random orders, which will adversely affect his subsequent reception.
Whether it is appointing the new vizier of the royal court, or stepping on her head to go to war together, it is all to build momentum for the next acceptance.
Not to mention that she will not be able to stay in Thun Swamp in the future because of the restrictions on Vizeme Manor. Even if she could stay, Gavin would not let her stay. The Lizard Queen is definitely not a qualified ruler. , her Lizard Court is just a tool for her to satisfy her own selfish desires. There is no way to create more wealth, let alone integrate into her own power.
Although the Lizard Queen was unwilling in every possible way, she could only obey Gavin's order and turned around again and ran towards the Bridge of Humans and Gods. This time, there was no incident, and it only took a few minutes to return.
"Take off, starting from the east end of the bridge, and fly over the entire Bridge of Humans and Gods at low altitude." Gavin issued a new order.
The Lizard Queen fluttered her dragon wings that did not match her huge body, and passed unsteadily over the Bridge of Gods and Humans.
This slow speed is just right, not only allowing the army of conquerors below to feel the terror of the Lizard Queen's size, but also allowing them to clearly hear Gavin's new round of speeches.
What a negative impact the Lizard Queen brought to the Conqueror's army now, it can bring such a big encouragement now, not only because she has now transformed into one's own fighting force, but also once again proved that her own commander is invincible. With his strength, even a powerful dragon can be defeated, which is more difficult than simply killing it.
(End of this chapter)