"The story is that they were forced to, to keep all of us mortals alive. All I know for certain is that they banded together to fight against another god, and disappeared soon after," Kang said dryly. He didn't add in the mortal champions, or the fact that he'd ended up being one of them.
"No, it didn't, but I'll get to that. We ended up losing the war, something I'm not too upset about, and I took my regiment up into the mountains where we could live in relative peace until we died from old age, whenever that turned out to be.
"During the summer of the year the gods left, we heard of a new army being formed, one that actually looked like it was going to focus on winning a war instead of backstabbing and bribing each other to gain power. I ended up offering our services as engineers, but we barely stayed in that camp for one day before leaving. Things had changed, but not their attitude toward my kind; no, we were still the dumb lizardmen, good for nothing but latrine duty and infantry." He snorted, taking a drink of his ale.
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"No, it didn't, but I'll get to that. We ended up losing the war, something I'm not too upset about, and I took my regiment up into the mountains where we could live in relative peace until we died from old age, whenever that turned out to be.
"During the summer of the year the gods left, we heard of a new army being formed, one that actually looked like it was going to focus on winning a war instead of backstabbing and bribing each other to gain power. I ended up offering our services as engineers, but we barely stayed in that camp for one day before leaving. Things had changed, but not their attitude toward my kind; no, we were still the dumb lizardmen, good for nothing but latrine duty and infantry." He snorted, taking a drink of his ale.