[b][color=#38b000]"So basically the wizard stole a bunch of people with that artifact, eats them, then stole an entire town for... whatever he wants?"[/color][/b] Verdant summarized the entire exchange, not quite getting the finer details but she had a sharp knack to simplify things into a more precisely pared chunk. [b][color=#38b000]"And we're going after this guy? Like, not to be the leech under your scales, but with a relatively few people eaten he broke that wall and left a room that tasted like wet bones and screams. And now he got ten years to work off how many sacrifices again?"[/color][/b]

Tens of thousand. The serpent was familiar enough with the concept, but a number that immense wasn't something she can easily visualize. An entire town's worth? If all those people were to be laid down side by side... it'll form a line several miles long. She can hardly wrap her head around a bloodshed that great.

[b][color=#38b000]"Can we even take him on? The lair is probably infested with walking corpses."[/color][/b] This was, like, a job for an army. Not a band of adventurers.