Our entire group was pondering what to do with the Lizardmen, we have decided that just getting there leisurely and casually would only make us look suspicious, and if we were so strong, why should we be so humble? A bit of glamour has never killed anybody! Due to that, we decided to do something flashy.
We had decided to do something quite dramatic for our introduction to the Lizardmen, as we decided to move inside of Fuyu and then come out, I made Fuyu make a bright glow behind us to make the entrance even more dramatic to the point the Lizardmen were almost blinded by the light, they all kneeled before us, and they began calling me Holy Spirit or something.
And it is then that I met the Chief of the Lizardmen, a powerful Lizardman at Rank 2 Peak Stage, who was kneeling before me as well, it was a bit funny to see all these biped lizard guys all surprised about us, it certainly increased my ego and made me think of myself as someone important. But aside from feeding my own ego, I had to move on into other things, such as talking to them and letting them relax.
However, one of them wondered if I was a dragon or something so I turned into my dragon form on a whim, I showed them my true appearance, and they seemed way too frightened after seeing it. However, that only lasted a few seconds before their faces turned into devotion, they began calling me the "Scaled God" and kneeled even harder before me… At that moment I felt a bit bad already, so after someone told me to turn back, turned back to my humanoid form and then decided to socialize with everybody through more normal means.
After all, what I truly wanted of them was to be seen as an ally, a friend, perhaps, but not as someone absolutely overpowered that has endless authority over them and some weird shit like that, I wanted them to become my companions, allies, and also people that could bring us up-to-date information about what was truly happening right now.
I approached them leisurely and decided to talk with the chief, whose name was Kraxka, I think.
"Ahem… I have come here because you were at the side of my castle… I thought that you might need my help." I said. "In exchange, you'll provide me with information, as much as I need."
"Y-Yes! Of course!" said Kraxka, as he kneeled before me once more. "Y-You're willing to take care of us, oh, grand nine-headed Scaled God?!"
"Yeah… It is not much of a problem for me, but I don't think I can let you go inside yet. The icy temperatures inside might not be ideal for your kin, so you'll stay outside for now and I will provide with things you might need…" I said. "How's that?"
I also want to see how they can progress without going into my castle, perhaps I could build a whole lizardman nation here, it would be kind of similar to the sects that are far away from me but are still mine… Like vessel nations, yes, that's the word!
I will make this forest- I mean, jungle, my vessel nation. Or try. Well, I will try… Anyways, I moved to the Lizardmen's little village which was improvised and made out of mostly just tents, they were all scaled and most of them looked very similar with one another, so its gonna be hard to identify them completely.
However, there was some differences between males and females. Male Lizardmen are burlier and have larger and harder scales, while females are slimmer and resemble more like salamanders, which slim scales and more delicate and flexible bodies, they're certainly way speedier and agile than males, while males can hit hard and also defend well. I don't know why there's such a difference in their gender, but it seems that not all lizardmen are like this, only the "Pastoralists" that are these guys, which are funnily enough the most civilized of them all, and the lizardmen driven out of the grasslands as well.
I had a lot to discover now, and I was rather excited to ask more to Kraxka while talking on his own language, while my friends looked at us weirded out because they cannot comprehend lizardmen speech, I cannot do anything over that, they don't have an amazing System like me to analyze all things like some sort of futuristic supercomputer.
After thinking it for a few minutes, I decided to bring out some food, the lizardmen barely had a few sheep-like monsters as cattle, and they kept them for a while and seemed to be killing them sparingly because they had to let them reproduce and all. This is why I decided to share my food with them, we had a lot of meat from the monsters from the dungeon, and we also had vegetables and grains for them.
I mostly gave them some prepared food we had inside of Fuyu and then decided to share the raw ingredients so they can eat them later, I decided to not give them too much, because I also want something in exchange from them, it is better to not just give everything away for free.
After all I want them to build their own small town so I will support them, but I want their hard work to build the rest, this is also a reason why I am not inviting them to live inside of Fuyu and have it easy for the rest of their lives… I want them to stay here and make this my territory after some time.
We all gathered around a large bonfire where the chief and his trusted lizardmen were eating roasted meat from the monsters inside dungeons, they were enjoying the food rather happily,
With that said, I began to quickly think about what to ask them, Kraxka seemed very friendly, so we were up for a big info dump.
