Alien world

Chapter 119 118. Rat Tide
Broken clouds covered the silver moon, and the dark wheat fields rustled.

The four-person team sneaked into the waist-deep wheat field, and followed Willetts Udora to a slightly higher mound.

The indiscernible darkness is not a problem for the elves. Willetts Udora smoothly drew the wooden bow and released her right hand, and the arrow shot into the darkness with a "swoosh" sound of tearing the air.

After a while, there was a faint and dull sound of falling to the ground in the distance.

After clearing out the patrolling ratmen within a hundred yards of the fan-shaped area ahead, the four scavengers continued on.

It was still Willetts Udora who took the lead, keeping the field of vision wide open.

Riddle Gero's firecracker was as conspicuous in the assassination as a torch in the dark forest, so he put away the firecracker, only holding the rapier, and his companions guarded the elf archer.

When the remaining arrows in the quiver ran out, Riddle Gero and Guido Rona began to disperse towards the fallen position to help the elf archers pick up arrows.

squeak-

When Guido Rona pulled out the arrow, a mouse suddenly emerged from the bulging tattered clothes of the Ratman and ran into the wheat field.

whoosh-

An arrow followed and drove into the wheat field.

Guido Rona drew the arrow that pierced the earth and shook off the rat carcass.

Silently clearing the ratman scouts in the wheat field, it took about 10 minutes to advance to the outskirts of the farm.

"Spread out, don't make any noise."

Dealing with a bunch of sleeping skaven was no problem for these experienced hunters, and they regrouped and continued to move forward, approaching the only village in the Viscounty.

They saw patrol ratmen wandering outside the village, dressed in looted cloth, holding spears sharpened by fences and farm forks picked up, or a torch as a weapon.

They no longer stand alone, but patrol in teams of two or three.

Willetts Udora mounted two arrows, took a deep breath, and loosened her knuckles.

The stretched bowstring trembled endlessly, and two ratmen in the distance plopped down.

The Scavenger Squad keeps pushing.

"When will it be our turn? If this continues, she will kill us all." Big Big complained in a low voice.

"When it was discovered."

Arrows were soon not enough again.Big Bigg guarded the elf archer, and the other two approached the farm to pick up arrows.Then they saw a green fel eyeball in the center of the village formed by piles of corpses.

"My lord... this is the Ratman clan!"

The green fel eye rolled and stared at the intruder.

clang - clang - clang -

Then, the death knell echoed piercingly over the farm.

The silent farm began to boil, and sharp howls pierced the night sky. Riddle Gero and Guido Rona fled back to their teammates.

"Why are they alarmed!?" Big Big clenched his tomahawk tightly.

"They are the Ratman clan! They occupy this place!" Riddle Grow pulled out his firecracker and asked the elf archer, "We have completed the first phase of investigation, now that the Ratmen have found us, should we continue or retreat?"

"Let's go back to—"

"Help!!!"

Just then, they saw the cellar door on the side of a shed opened, and a woman with a child on her back climbed up and staggered towards them.

The Ratman who found the intruder rushed to the scavenger team and the woman, and stabbed the woman and the child with a sharp fork in the back——

An arrow shot across the night sky, nailing the Ratman to the ground.

"There are still survivors, take her back!"

Big Big and Riddle Grow fetched the woman and her child, and the echoing bells sounded like death horns all over the wheat fields outside the farm, rustling waist-deep wheat.

"We are surrounded, release a distress signal, and retreat into the farm first!"

Willetts Udora rushed to the buildings in the farm, cleaning up the Ratman along the way, and avoiding being surrounded in the open.

Guido Rona activated the badge, and a crow-shaped spot rose into the night sky, and followed the elf archer into the village.

They ran with the goal of a large sturdy house in the center of the village, and when they broke into a residential house to take a shortcut, they heard panic screams that were different from howling outside.

The Big Bigger, who crashed into the house, paused because he was holding the young Ratman's mother, followed by Guido Rona and Riddle Gross, who also hesitated briefly.

The bowstring trembled, and the sound of the arrow pierced into the ratman's mother, and she died screaming.

The fallen rat cub fled in panic, and was trampled down mercilessly by Willetts Udora's boots.

"You sympathize with the Rat Man, and the Rat Man will not sympathize with you."

When they got out of the house, they saw human corpses piled up in piles, and the ratmen rushed screaming, grabbing rotten thighs as weapons.

The ratmen came rushing in like a tide, and the four of them ran into the rat tide head-on.The blood rose up like a fountain, and then fell like raindrops. The strong smell of blood and decay was blown by the breeze. Big Big roared and swung his tomahawk, cutting several ratmen, but the continuous rats engulfed his roar and figure .

Every time Willetts Udora shot an arrow, ten rat men rushed in. She broke the bow and arrow and swung them into two curved blades.Riddle Gero had long since given up his musket and swung his rapier at the Ratman.The Ratmen kept dying, but they seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, and it was difficult to move forward.

A bright fireball suddenly appeared and blasted into the rats. The dazzling explosion filled everyone's sight, clearing a large bloody gap in an instant.

They stared in astonishment at Annan who emerged from the air, and then took the opportunity to move forward.

"Are you a guardian!" No one was yelling.

"No, I'm a newcomer."

As he spoke, Annan activated the magic ring, and a large fire elemental appeared upon summoning.

Large fire elementals that exude waves of heat raise a sea of ​​flames.Without the magical blessing of fireball, it's just ordinary flames, but it still causes unimaginable lethality to hairy mice.The lit skaven squeaked and slammed into their companions and houses, spreading the flames outward.

Seeing the three magic rings and the self-cleaning magic robe on Annan's palm, Willetts Udora believed this sentence.

The burning village and the swarm of rats relieved their pressure and escorted the women and children into the big house.

The next thing they need to do is to face the panicking Ratman who was set on fire, but they are also completely trapped in the big house.

Annan stepped on a broken piano and almost fell, but his attention was outside.

Under the ravages of the giant fire elemental and the burning ratman, the village quickly turned into a sea of ​​flames, and sparks drifted away with the night wind, dyeing the sky orange.

"How long are we going to hold on?"

"It has ended."

Willetts Udora saw the ratmen on the periphery suddenly fade away, the standing fel eyeballs disappeared at some point, and magical flames flickered outside the fire wall.

Their rescue came sooner than expected.

Damp water elementals extinguish the raging flames, and raven-masked dead march into the village.

One of the figures with a cloak fluttering in the flames came to Annan.

"Good job, rookie."

A familiar voice emerged from the crow mask, and the centurion tossed a flashing silver badge to Annan.

"Welcome to Scavenger."

(End of this chapter)