Lakrak didn’t think taking over Automation would be easy. It was a castle built from soil, but the tall rampart surrounding it was way taller than an average person, so it was a difficult obstacle to overcome. Even if the Lizardmen were to attack the rampart, they would have to brave through all the arrows being shot at them from afar, the wooden fences in front of the rampart, the rocks being thrown at them from the top of the rampart, and the spears that would try to stab them.

‘If we want the salt mine, it would be better to go about it in a way where we wouldn’t see so much blood.’

Lakrak didn’t think this way when taking over the northern parts of the peninsula. This was because the Black-Scaled Lizardmen hadn’t been considered a large tribe back then. The tribe had to grow in population and focus on acquiring the skills and techniques of other tribes, taking their resources as well as taking over their land. These hostile acts, however, would make the other tribes feel antipathy towards the Blue Insect God.

‘I could have forced them to believe in the Blue Insect God.’

However, Lakrak and the other Lizardmen didn’t want to do that. Other than the reason that they would be taking everything else and didn’t want to take away others’ beliefs too, Lakrak didn’t think it would be likely for the others to have true faith if they were forced. Lakrak knew that simply...