Chapter 102 27. Stormy (low fever at night)
City of the Moon, at the top of the Eclipse Temple in Talaxlan, the astrological fortune teller, observer, and the greatest Skink Priest Taito Ikao is also using him Those cold and deep eyes stared at the night sky, trying to find what he had left behind. As time passed, his eyes were still staring at the stars. His whole body was motionless, only the nictitating membrane was sliding quietly. Despite his best efforts to look for omens, the astrologer could see nothing.
Teto Ikau was hatched when Manasrib completely covered the cursed Morsrib, which was previously seen as a bad omen in lizardfolk society, but with his arrival, this This phenomenon is now claimed by the Slann as a good omen. The Slann also claim that no Skink Priest can match his ability to read visions of the future from the many constellations that hover in the night sky, with the blessing of the ancient wind god Tepok.
Tonight, the constellation of the ancient holy wind god Tebok was the brightest star above the Solar Eclipse Temple, but he found that the arrangement of other stars was all out of order, and the entire star phenomenon revealed a strange disharmony.
It wasn't the atmosphere that blocked Teto Ikao's sight. His shining eyes could see through the fog and thick clouds above the jungle. His sight could even see through the raging wind and see the stars clearly amid the lightning and thunder.
Teto Ikao felt that he had been able to grasp the rotation of the sun and the moon, look for its omens, and ask the sky for another five hundred years. It wasn't the green light of the evil moon Morsrib that was hindering him, or the stars were in chaos. . .
Teto Ikao waved his hands slowly, imitating the Slann, and the skink attendant standing next to him lit the incense again, and he tried to calm himself down. He looked up at the stars again. After a long time, he finally saw the omen, and the omen seemed to be coming to Taraxlan? Just when he was about to heave a sigh of relief and cheer, he saw a huge danger ahead of the omen, also coming towards Taraxlan.
Not long ago, Tiktato took away part of the main force to support the battle of Zahhuitak in the City of Echoes. In the City of the Moon, there are not many troops left in Talaxlan, and the garrison cities are beginning to be stretched thin. Teto Ikao has recently transferred some of the skinks serving the huge market to assist in defense patrols.
When Slann did not wake up, Taraxlan was led by Teto Ikao. He was responsible for maintaining daily tasks in the city, such as patrolling security and coordinating the maintenance of monuments. Of course, no matter which temple city it is in, the skink priests responsible for managing the city have very little decision-making power, and those who are too active are basically sent to the Tyrannosaurus Pit.
For example, which temple building should be given priority to repair, or which part of the jungle should be cleared? Decisions on any unusual, important or unexpected situations can only be made by the Slann.
Skinks, who are easily overemotional and unreliable, do not have the calm personality of Slann. The power of command should be placed in an appropriate position to ensure that no overly emotional biological robot is given too much power. . Except when none of the Slans can wake up. Of course, by then it is already a particularly extreme situation.
As for the City of Echoes, Zahhuitak. It was an ancient temple city, a city that was completely defiled, a city that was finally declared abandoned despite numerous Slann reconstructions over thousands of years. The giant network of spiritual veins here was torn apart. Not long ago, the Chaos Rift opened again, and demons continued to spurt out of the rift.
Lord Slatnok inherited the rule of this cursed city after the death of the unfortunate Lord Zul, and he is leading an army of lizardmen to fight there. The battle has been going on for several years, and a steady stream of lizardman armies have come from various temple cities to support here. The battle was earth-shattering, and the vibrations could be felt even hundreds of miles away.
Ku-Gar, invincible and invincible, the most valiant and skilled lizard general to date, has defeated all kinds of enemies at the hands of the gods, including of course the servants of the Chaos Demons. The lizard people used their violent wildness to resist this twisted unnatural tide. Here, the steel of the Chaos Legion smashed against the hard scales of the lizard people, but the price paid by the lizard people army was high, one queue after another. Many lizard warriors died, and new warriors were born from the hatching pools and rushed to the battlefield non-stop, but they could not keep up with the rate of losses.
Of course, all of this has nothing to do with Darkus for the time being. He is still sleeping at the moment.
Ren had already gotten up to take charge of the second shift. Chupa Coco was still staring at the sky, pretending to be deep. He inspected the post and found that there was no problem and then sat down next to Chupa Coco. There could be no problem. Surrounded by three circles of lizardman armies, he took out the cold lizard skin water bottle at his waist and drank.
"Hey, what are you looking at? Do you want to drink? Hesiota mead." Chupa Coco came to his senses and picked up the cold lizard skin water bottle. Ren reacted faster than him and hung it on his waist again.
"Sorry, I drank them all. Let's eat some red guava."
Renn again took out a few fruits from the noble robe like a magic trick and stuffed them into Chupa Coco's hands.
"By the way, do you really know how to do astrology?" Ren asked with unclear enunciation while chewing on the fruit.
Qiupa Keke was chewing a red guava, but he was obviously not in a good mood. There was obviously an omen, but he had just looked at the stars for a long time, but he didn't see anything. Instead, he felt that the whole stars revealed something. There was an inexplicable weirdness, and he became more and more doubtful about his astrology level during the two years that he had been with Darkus.
When Ren saw that Chupa Coco didn't pay attention to him, he reacted. After eating the fruit, he took off the cold lizard skin kettle, took out a few fruits from the noble robe and put them on top, patted Chupa Coco on the shoulder and left. .
Early the next morning, Darkus took Chupa Coco, Akadan and several Drukhi dignitaries to fly up to the suspended pyramid in groups on pterosaurs. There is a huge woodland garden floating and rotating above, with strange plants planted in it. The garden is occasionally arranged in strange patterns, which seems to be related to magic or something.
There is no waste here. The buildings on the spiritual nodes are still in operation, and skink riders often pass by to take care of them. They usually pass here for repairs when traveling between the north and south of Lustria.
Of course, this is just a spiritual vein node, and there is no precious incubation pool.
After searching for a long time in the suspended diamond-shaped pyramid, there were many rare treasures such as gold and gems, but there were only objects with no practical value. After two days of searching, I found a strange-looking mask in a secret room of the pyramid. .
The mask is made of gorgeous gold and engraved with complex ornate patterns. The entire mask is streamlined and has a raised crown. The crown can be adjusted in height like a speed brake on an airplane. Judging from the shape, it seems to be worn by pterosaur skink riders.
Kalien's eyes immediately straightened when he saw this mask. Darkus had never seen such longing in his eyes.
"Just try it if you like it."
(End of chapter)