Chapter 599 No Idiots

The giant dragon in front of him completely exceeded Miklos's understanding of dragons. In his impression, whether it was a metal dragon or a colored dragon, they were all synonymous with elegance, with smooth lines like cats. Not to mention fat, even those that were extremely strong were rare.

The dragons had such a body shape not only because they deliberately maintained it for the convenience of flying, but also because they had extraordinary digestive abilities and super energy storage characteristics. A lot of energy was not stored in fat like other creatures, but filled themselves with magic. In addition, they had the characteristic of long-term dragon sleep, so it was difficult for them to gain weight.

This black dragon completely broke this traditional cognition. She was like a meat mountain. The leathery flesh broke through the restriction of the dragon scales and bulged out, wrapping the dragon scales in it. This made her look like she was covered with tumors. Her neck, tail, and limbs were all full of fat, making her look so thick. Even the black dragon's cheeks, which were originally like a skeleton, were full of fat, which squeezed her eyes two circles smaller, making her look a bit like an abnormally strong pig.

She was lying on a huge special throne. The outline of her limbs could barely be distinguished. Most of them were covered by the fat on her abdomen. Her breathing was difficult and heavy. Every once in a while, she had to stop eating and breathe rapidly for a few seconds before starting a new round of eating.

Normally, old black dragons usually have super large bodies. She has completely broken this limitation. At least she has a giant body close to the peak, and her weight has even far exceeded.

Miklos had reason to suspect that the reason why she recruited so many lizardmen and built the royal court was to make it easier for herself to eat.

She was simply the epitome of gluttony. Even summoning Miklos did not stop her from continuing to eat. She asked with a grunt, "Have you ever been to the Purple Dragon Palace in Cormier?"

"I visited it ten years ago." Miklos answered truthfully, "Your Majesty's palace, in terms of size, let alone the Purple Dragon Palace, even the Giant Ruins Palace would have to bow down. It is not an exaggeration to call it the largest palace in Faerun."

Miklos did not lie. The size of the Lizard Queen's Dragon Palace was indeed amazing, but other aspects were just a joke. Whether it was the palace design or the workmanship, there was no way to compare it with the magnificent Purple Dragon Palace.

This is the art of speech.

"Okay, okay, okay." The Lizard Queen did not intend to delve into the matter, and said with a grunt, "Tell me, what exactly do you want to see me for?"

All dragons are highly intelligent creatures, especially those over the age of adulthood, who have accumulated a lot of life experience. Even old people are still smart, not to mention dragons, and this black dragon that is as fat as a pig is no exception.

She didn't believe that this human in front of her would come to her house for no reason and give her millions of gold coins.

Of course, she would accept the gold coins, but whether she would do what she asked for or not would depend on her mood.

"Before talking about things, I would like to ask Your Majesty to watch a memory video." Miklos did not beat around the bush and went straight to the point.

"Okay." Kulgol said with interest, completely treating it as a pastime during the meal.

Miklos stopped talking nonsense and directly pinched the seal to project a memory video.

The scene in this video is very simple and simple. It is the scene of the Dragon Coast coalition continuously transporting various materials to Avanso, and finally freezes at the scene of the conqueror army leaving Avanso.

Lizard Queen Kulgol couldn't help but stop her endless eating, drooling, this time it was not because of food, but because of a large amount of property.

Every dragon is an excellent appraiser, with both acquired rich experience and innate genes. Even through the memory projection seen by others, she can easily judge the wealth carried by this team, at least tens of millions, and it is likely to be several tens of millions, because their equipment, food, trucks, and even themselves are all considered part of the wealth. With so many people, not to mention that it is a high price to sell them, even if they are used as reserve food, it is enough for Kulgol to eat for several years, and there is no need for her servants to collect food, let alone eat hard-to-swallow magic creations.

Most of the spells were developed by humanoids. When formulating the flavors, they were based on human taste buds, not dragon taste buds. The supreme delicacy in the mouths of humanoids was terrible for the black dragon with unique taste. Without the fermentation and rotting of the rotten water, it would greatly slow down her eating speed when it entered her stomach, which would naturally slow down her enjoyment of eating, which was the most unbearable thing for her.

Such a huge wealth is already far more than ten times that of her dragon nest.

In terms of the ability to create wealth, those intelligent creatures, especially humans, are second in the entire Faerun continent, and no one dares to say they are first.

Especially when the Lizard Queen's Court has such a gluttonous queen, most of the wealth they created went into the bottomless stomach of Kulgor. The Thun Swamp belongs to the middle swamp, with abundant surface water and groundwater, rich nutrients, and extremely rich products, especially various aquatic and amphibious creatures.

Under normal circumstances, such a force can export a large amount of fish and meat every year. In the spring, summer and autumn of Thun Swamp, it can only barely survive, and in winter it cannot make ends meet. The Lizard Queen will be forced to enter intermittent periods. Dragon Mian is used to reduce consumption, and occasionally he has to use magic to create things to satisfy his cravings.

There is no large amount of external trade, and the Lizard Queen is destined to be unable to fly far away to plunder, so the speed at which she accumulates wealth is naturally very impressive.

This was one of the reasons why they paid special attention to Miklos when they learned that he had brought millions of wealth.

It was not the Lizard Queen who spoke first, but her palace minister, the spirit Naga Alhassan, who said: "What do you mean by showing us this? Do you want us to rob outside the Thun Swamp? What exactly is playing on the projection? where?"

The last sentence directly exposed the nature of the Lizard Queen's court. They are a group of local aboriginals who are stuck in their ways and occupy the land as kings. It's just that the strength of this aboriginal group is extremely strong. Their influence and news are limited to the Thun Swamp and surrounding areas. , they have no way to influence other places, or they are not interested.

This is due to the composition of their army. Although the lizardmen are amphibious creatures, they are relatively dependent on water, especially in summer. Their scales are water-type and they need to take a dip in the muddy water from time to time. Prevent it from drying out and falling off.

Once they have been unable to immerse their whole body in water for more than three days for more than one hour, they are very susceptible to dehydration, and their scales will fall off to varying degrees.

This disease will not kill people, just like a person's fingernails falling off, but if the tender flesh underneath is exposed to wind and sun, it will be extremely painful.

This pain will continue until they return to an environment suitable for their lives - their scales will be regenerated and shed in a continuous cycle.

This is why the lizard people's life is limited to swamps, freshwater lakes and rivers, and they are less common in inland cities. The kind of mutations that arise to adapt to unique environments are another matter.

For example, there are troglodytes living in the Underdark, such as the Ethiopian lizards in the Enook Desert. It is said that there is also a kind of marine lizard people who only live in coastal areas. They are all a type of lizard people. .

Miklos synthesized information very quickly in his mind. From just one sentence, he extracted a large number of information points that were beneficial to him. At the same time, he quickly responded: "This team is called the Army of Conquerors, but don't be fooled by him." The name is misleading. It is not a pure army, but a huge immigrant team.

It was launched by a young baron of Tethyr named Gavin Nott in Darauma, and he was preparing to migrate to the valley.

In the early days, there were only more than 18,000 people who were cobbled together here and there. After arriving at the Dragon Coast, they collected nearly 20,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people. They claimed to be an army of 100,000 people, but in fact, they only had a population of more than 40,000 people. , the number of troops is only about five thousand at full count.

Just this morning, they had crossed Bosku, the northernmost city on the Dragon Coast, and officially set foot in the goblin wilderness. They were heading north along the wasteland path. I believe that within two to three days, they would pass near Thun Swamp.

We have received accurate information that the Kingdom of Cormyr does not allow them to use the east road. They must open a new road directly from the wasteland path to the high road, crossing the entire goblin wilderness, including the area between Thun Swamp and the Distant Sea Swamp. This area is their best choice. "

Mikros just listed the information completely without adding too many personal opinions.

This is his shrewdness. If he does that, no matter what he says, it will be the advice of others, and his enthusiasm will be greatly reduced.

If they have the same idea as their own suggestion based on their own intelligence, then it is their own plan and idea.

"They will pass by Thun Marsh? And are already on the road? Such important news, why did you tell me now?" Each question of the Lizard Queen was one decibel higher than the previous one. Not only did her head raise, her limbs suddenly With great effort, he actually stood up from the ground.

It's just that for her, this thing is a bit difficult. The thick and incredible dragon legs are somewhat overwhelmed, and she feels like she is being bent by the mountain of meat being supported at any time.

Her body shape is even more spectacular than when she was lying there. Her height and length are at the level of a giant at best, but her weight definitely exceeds that of a super giant. From top to bottom, even the tips of her wings and tail, there is no place that is not thick. Everything It is full of strong fat and lumps. Even if it is fat, the dragon's body will be stronger than that of ordinary creatures.

Miklos has reason to doubt whether this guy can still fly. Although the dragon's flight has certain magical factors, its own dragon wings are absolutely dominant. Once the dragon wings are damaged, they will be forced to land.

The Lizard Queen's dragon wings are intact, but she is seriously overweight and has difficulty walking. If she wants to fly, it will be extremely difficult.

The Lizard Queen's last question was obviously unreasonable.

Miklos took it for granted. The other party was a black dragon known for being domineering and arrogant. This kind of scolding was just an appetizer. He did not eat him in one bite. It was not just that the rich gift in the front was taking effect, but also the main reason behind it. There are bigger interests involved, and the other party still needs him.

But this question had to be answered. Miklos answered truthfully: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for this matter."

The Lizard Queen didn't react for a moment, so she could only follow his thoughts and asked, "What crime?"

"The crime of ignorance. Before this, I didn't even know about His Majesty's existence. I didn't contact His Majesty as soon as possible to express my and Sambia's respect. Isn't this an unforgivable crime?" Mikros was extremely humble.

Although the two had not been in contact for a long time, he found that the Lizard Queen's combat power might be higher than that of the Dark Castle Chairman Manmon, but in terms of knowledge and means, the two were completely different.

Even the spirit Naga who thought he was smart was relatively limited in level, which was caused by their knowledge.

As an important branch in the southwest of the Dark Intelligence Network, Ximanmeng controlled a huge amount of power and resources, especially intelligence resources. The amount of intelligence resources passed through his hands every day was extremely amazing. Many of them were not even limited to the Faerun continent, and might come from other continents or the multiverse. His knowledge was definitely one of the top people in the entire continent.

Even if the Lizard Queen and her friends live longer, their footsteps and knowledge are limited to the small area of ​​Thun Swamp. What they can see and think of is only so high and so far, which is determined by a person's vision.

Therefore, some vulgar tricks are extremely useful to them, and they are even used to them.

As expected, after hearing this, the Lizard Queen was very happy and laughed loudly: "Okay, I will forgive you..."

"Wait." The Spirit Naga hurriedly stopped and said, "Your Majesty, I have an important question to ask Mr. Mikros."

"What question? Can't we wait until we finish discussing this matter before asking?" The Lizard Queen, whose interest was interrupted, revealed a strong dissatisfaction in her words. In view of the notorious racial character of the black dragon, she did not angrily give the Spirit Naga a dragon breath, which shows that the other party is still extremely important in her mind.

"This matter is closely related to the next decision, so Your Majesty might as well wait for a few minutes. It won't be too late to make a decision after I finish asking. Please believe that I will always stand by you and seek more wealth and power for you, because you are not only our queen, but also the new god of all our scaly creatures." The spirit Naga looked fanatical and sincere. Every word he said came from the bottom of his heart, because he firmly believed in it.

The highest level of deception is to deceive yourself, then everything is true.

In comparison, Miklos is still far away, he just doesn't dare to lie rashly.

At the same time, he has a deeper understanding of the ambitions of this monarch and minister. They are not simply satisfied with being kings in a swamp, but even want to be deified.

For a moment, Miklos didn't know whether to be shocked by their arrogance or ridicule their shallowness and ignorance. Deification is not as simple as having thousands or even tens of thousands of people believe that you are a god.

If it were that simple, the entire Faerun would have been full of gods. The wealthy people in Sambia were all gods walking on earth. It was a simple matter for them to hire tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people to worship them as gods.

But last year, the gods came to Faerun as saints, and then several mortals were promoted to gods. This made many arrogant people think that deification was a simple matter, so they gave birth to unrealistic delusions. Obviously, this lizard queen was one of them.

The only thing Miklos could do was to remain expressionless, as if he didn't understand what the other party was saying.

"Ask me." The lizard queen's thick tail swung back and forth, revealing a hint of impatience, "Hurry up."

"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty." After the spirit naga bowed in greeting, the eyes formed by the fusion of human and snake features flashed with dangerous light, saying, "Where did you get the information about Your Majesty? Is it the Dark Castle in the north? Those Zhentarim slave traders who are full of lies?"

Before coming, Goster had already warned Mikros, emphasizing that the relationship between the two sides was not good. Now it seems that it is not only not good, but there is a blood feud.

The only thing Mikros can do is to tell the truth: "Yes, it was General Goster of the Dark Castle who told me about Your Majesty."

Since entering the Dragon Palace, he has realized that he is shrouded by an invisible magical force, similar to the magic of detecting lies, but more powerful than that. Once he lies, the other party will notice it immediately.

Everything he did before will be in vain.

Before coming, Miklos had also fully considered this matter, whether it was necessary to use magic to shield the mind and lies from being detected. Those powerful forces would definitely master this ability and would definitely use it.

But doing so would easily make people suspect whether they were spies sent by the enemy, which would be counterproductive and make everything fail before it even started.

It would be better to be clear at the beginning and take a gamble.

Betting on the greed of this dragon and the temptation of wealth brought by the conqueror army would eventually overwhelm the hostility towards the Dark Castle.

"It's them." The coldness on the face of the spirit Naga became more obvious, "I want to see the memory projection of your meeting, without missing a single thing."

This time, even the Lizard Queen did not stop them, but regained her composure, crawled back, and started a new round of eating.

It was obvious that they had suffered a loss at the hands of the Dark Castle, and it was not small. Until now, the Lizard Queen still remembered it clearly and dared not despise it, for fear that she would fall into their conspiracy if she was not careful.