Deep in the Tagor Desert.
The Snake-People Holy City.
After Medusa returned to the Snake-People Tribe, she began putting the desert in order, commanding every Snake-Person outside the tribe to return.
All human mercenaries who hunted Snake-People were to withdraw from the desert. Anyone who disobeyed would be killed without mercy.
At first, many dismissed the order. They had been plying this trade in the desert for who knew how many years. Besides, since when had the Snake-People Tribe dared to act so arrogantly?
For nearly a thousand years, the Snake-People Tribe had been suppressed by the surrounding empires and driven into the depths of the desert. If not for Queen Medusa, a Peak Dou Emperor whose presence had deterred their enemies all these years, the Snake-People would likely have been exterminated or enslaved long ago.
But those powers were merely wary of Medusa, not afraid of her. They simply did not want to exhaust their strength in a fight to the death with her.
Moreover, the powers of the Northwest Continent were too scattered to unite. Most remained neutral, tending to their own affairs.
If they fought the Snake-People Tribe to the bitter end and suffered grievous losses, they would risk annihilation. Those ambitious powers across the Northwest Continent would never pass up a juicy piece of meat.
And so a balance had formed, one that no one had broken throughout those long years.
It was precisely this delicate balance that had allowed the Snake-People Tribe to live in relative peace in the desert for nearly a thousand years.
But things were different now. Medusa had advanced to Dou Zong, making her a formidable power even on the Northwest Continent. It was time to lead the Snake-People Tribe out of the desert and find somewhere suitable to live.
That