After Drake finally reconnected with his family and the rest of his friends living inside of Fuyu, he had a long talk with Fuyu herself, who was very worried about him as well. She told him that she had been taking care of him since he fell unconscious while using her Slime body to stay with Larzak's tribe, in that conversation he learned about what had been happening lately and go an update in many things with the help of Yuki, Miranda, Benladann, and the rest, who all knew a tidbit of information which all coupled into a whole picture so he could figure what had been happening lately all around the place.
First of all, they had yet to move anywhere, he had spent almost a week inside of Fuyu but they decided to not move from the Jungle and had kept themselves in here waiting for him to decide to either move or stay some more in these lands. It was the decision that most made sense as he was the leader of this entire large-scale group of people, which were already reaching half a thousand living inside of Fuyu. They had already reached the size of a medium-sized village in terms of population.
Fuyu and everybody else had been staying in here for a while, most of the time doing small meetings with the lizardmen or taking a trip to the nearby Orange Village or the Orange Forest Duchy, where they had been completing some easy quests and helping the towns folk a bit. In just almost a week they had become rather famous at dealing with thugs, bandits, and defeating a monster wave of Goblins that were coming out of the Goblin Dungeon near the Slime Dungeon. Benladann and company were even treated as "Local Heroes" and now everybody knew their faces… it was quite an insane development.
Meanwhile, the Lizardmen, thanks to Drake, had gained the people's support after they saved them from the evil lizardmen controlled by the Scaled God. They began slow negotiations with the humans, and it seems that a meeting between the Duke, Larzak, Kraxka, and their wives was already done yesterday, it seems that lizardmen will soon be accepted as a race of people, and will be allowed to even live inside the Duchy and the nation, and even sell their products. They'll be even given the ability to register in the guilds and as commoner citizens, allowing them the ability to interact with society even more than before.
Of course, Benladann and the rest, known as "Local Heroes" helped them out a lot in gaining confidence and also the trust of the people through a few speeches, so things were going to a nice ending. Alongside that, Kraxka met Larzak some days ago and the two learned more about the other's culture and tribes. Kraxka realized the lizardmen of the depths of the jungle were not savages, and Larzak forgave him for having slain the lizardmen being controlled by the Scaled God, saying that it was something they had to do anyways to protect innocent lives.
The Pastoralists still wanted to continue living in the border of the jungle, and thanks to their new connections with humans and Drake's people, they had begun to borrow more materials and have begun building a large-scale village to live in there. Meanwhile, a small road is slowly being created by Ice Golems that will connect the lizardmen that live in the depths of the jungle with the Pastoralists.
And alongiside all of that, there was a very important connection between humans and lizardmen that also sealed the deal for their alliance and recognition for lizardmen as people. Hector and Miminga. Their relationship became something rather popular, and it quickly spread through the entire nation and not only the duchy and the surrounding villages. A human marrying a lizardman woman became a topic that everybody was talking about it. Although many found it disgusting, others found there was something beautiful about it, and that there was no such difference between that and people of other races getting together, which was widely accepted by now in here, as there were many citizens that were actually hybrids between humans, giants, elves, dwarves, and beast-kin and Majin.
Miminga and Hector seemed to have been gotten together already and had married in both the human way and the lizardman traditions. Hector as of now was living in the Pastoralists Village helping the lizardmen with his many talents and dexterous scaleless hands. He was widely accepted as a hero and the respected husband of the chief's daughter. It seems the two already had a honeymoon and were deeply in love with one another, even more after their first night of passion. Just yesterday Miminga had reported to everybody that she was going to lay an egg, as a small bulge began to slowly emerge in her belly. It seems that lizardmen could crossbred with humans. The hybrid child that would be born between Hector and Miminga would become a new connection and bridge between humans and lizardmen as well.
The information about the Scaled God was kept a secret, of course. If the rest of society were to know about the lizardmen praying to such a monstrous being that brought that big army against the village of Orange the people would quickly change their opinion about the lizardmen. The origin of the savage lizardmen, however, was quickly explained as an "evil cult of lizardmen" that was swiftly eliminated by Kraxka and Larzak with the help of the Local Heroes, Benladann and company. Also, the existence of Drake was spread amongst the lizardmen, who all prayed to him as the "True Scaled God" now, although without proper shrines, he won't be able to get Divine Power from people's faith yet…
Aside from this, it seems that things were slowly going back to normal and peace in the village and the duchy, and things had been slowly stabilizing… It was surely a big chain of events, but things were finally settling down.
"Alright then… How about we celebrate tonight with everybody in a big feast? Invite the lizardman as well!" Said Drake.
