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Chapter 294 144. Don't Run Away

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Skuk, a strange existence, is an offense to this world as soon as he walks in this world. Why he can live centuries longer than other Skavens has always been an unsolved mystery.

Though Schook was alive in the mortal world, pox, oozing sores, foul-smelling parasites, scabs, phlegm, and other nasty ailments afflicted him, vying for dominance within his withered body, But instead of weakening with age, he possessed a terrible vitality as he grew older. The inexplicable vigor and vitality in his body covered up the fact of being old and suffering many diseases.

Perhaps this miracle can only be explained by the fact that the old thing has always been blessed by the Horned Rat, and with the Horned Rat's blessing he can gain new powers from the new plague he has infected.

In order to show his loyalty to Nurgleridge VII, the Plague Rat King, Schoke pulled out his tricks. Although he lost his eyes, he can observe the world through the shadow of corruption and decay emanating from himself.

Even though the endless miasma weighed down Skeuk's stature, his reflexes were still supernaturally sharp and quick.On his back was a lump of flesh, said to be the result of layers of abscesses, carbuncles, and boils, which, as he staggered, clung to him under his tattered leather cloak. An unsettling shaking occurs.

And the air around Skuk was also dimmed because of the stench it emitted or the parasitic bug swarm. It was hard to imagine what kind of unclean thing could parasitize this ancient plague lord.

From the perspective of the ratmen of other clans, Skuk is a large-scale living infection source that is walking. Because of this, he has the nickname of "walking plague" in the Skaven society.

Skuk is the chief of the seven plague lords, the unparalleled master of plague, he only obeys the orders of Nurgleridge VII, the leader of the plague clan.

Because the second Skaven civil war was once again in a state of anxiety, after the Plague Censer Monk who was dispatched to return to Lustria last time had no news, King Nurgrich VII sent Skulk again The three plague lords returned to Lustria to find the ancient existence that signed an agreement with the plague clan, and extracted new plagues to deal with the ensuing civil war.

Here I want to introduce the system of the Epidemic Clan. The Epidemic Clan can also be called the Pestilen Family, the Pestilen Clan, die! die!Epidemic clan, yes! yes!The leader is the Plague Rat King with the title of "Nurgle Ridge", just like Malekith's spy commander. The real name is unknown to the world, so it is just a noun.

Nurgle I was the leader who led this unknown small clan among the Skavens to the Lustrian continent, and after hundreds of years of lurking in the Lustrian continent, launched an attack on the Lizardmen. After that, it was the familiar war between snakes and rats, and after that, they were driven back to the old world.

After the Plague Clan returned to the old world, that is, in the 50th year of the Imperial Calendar, Nurgleridge I led the Plague Clan to establish a stronghold in the jungle of the Southland and squatted there for 50 years.

In the 100th year of the Imperial Calendar, King Nurgrich I sent a special envoy to Skaven, demanding that the Epidemic clan obtain the right to reproduce and one tenth of the Dimension Stone, and also asked the Epidemic clan to enter the Thirteenth Council. The result? ...The special envoy sent was massacred by the Thirteenth Council, and the body was thrown out of the Skaven City, and then the first Skaven civil war broke out.

Due to the peculiar characteristics of the Plague Clan, the double crossing of plague and witchcraft is prevalent, coupled with the constant speculation of the factions between the north and the south of each clan, the war has come to a stalemate.

The first civil war of the Skaven Civil War version lasted for 500 years. In the year 500 of the Imperial Calendar, the long-lost Eshin clan returned to Skaven from the Cathay region in the Far East.

Soon, with the appearance of the Eshin clan who are good at assassination, the stalemate of the Skaven civil war was broken in an instant. Lords and plague lords began to disappear on a regular basis.

As the power of the south continued to decline, in the 600th year of the Imperial Calendar, Nurgleich I requested to negotiate with the Thirteenth Council, but the assassinations and attacks on him along the way failed. When he arrived in Skaven Magic City , he told the members of the Thirteenth Council that he was carrying a vial of plague, and if he died here the plague would break out in Skaven.

In doing so, Nurgle I had a sense of déjà vu that he was going to the meeting alone with dynamite strapped to his body. He said that he would unreservedly hand over the resources of the Epidemic Clan to the Thirteenth Council, and humbly obey the authority of the Thirteenth Council.but!He demanded a duel in order to give Clan Plague a seat on the Council of Thirteen in the Judgment.

The rules of the Thirteenth Council are very abstract, just like a counterclockwise clock, but there is one more number on it than the clock. Thirteen, which represents the will of the horned rat, is listed at the top, followed by counterclockwise to the left of thirteen One is the supreme lord of the Council of the Gray Seers, and the next numbers represent the various clans, and so on, two and three, and ten, eleven, and twelve on the right, which are closest to thirteen, are the relatively strongest clans. The bottom six and seven are like goalkeepers, and they are relatively the hippest and bottom of the thirteen councils.

It is the year 2019 of the Imperial Calendar, which is the time where Dacius is now.

The thirteen councils ranked first, the lord of the Council of Gray Prophets, Kritis Ritter, who was burned to death by the shadow of the horned rat at the end of his life.

The second is the Moss clan. Of course, the lord of the Moss clan is not the familiar Quake Headhunter, but the Skaven warlord Nordwell, and Quake belongs to Nordwell's gold medal fighter.

The third is the Grin Clan, and the lord of the Grin Clan is not the well-known Drizzt Feartail, but the Skaven warlord Queche Poisonclaw.If maybe the leader of the Grin Clan is Drizzt, the Grin Clan might be the bottom of the Thirteen Councils.

From four to eight, there is no need for much introduction, they are basically the same as stepping and filling.

But the fifth thing to say is the Lebone Clan, whose leader Viris Ironscar is the fleet commander of the Skaven Skaven fleet.

The seventh is also quite unique. It is the Sick Disease Clan, which is also the Thrall Clan among the Skaven. Thrall, as the name suggests, means a slave. It belongs to the Sick Disease Clan, which is a close ally and servant of the Plague Clan. This seat gives the Plague Clan additional Influence, despite its last position in the council, is always voted or vetoed at the behest of Nurgleich VII.

There are many Thrall clans like this, but those who failed to join the Thirteenth Council believed that these Thrall clans formed a united alliance around the Plague Clan, supported the Plague Clan's interpretation of the will of the Horned Rat, and opposed the Gray Prophet Orthodox religious beliefs embodied.

In a word, the Plague clan and these Thrall clans are heresies and alternatives in Skaven society!
The ninth is the Eshin clan, the leader is Snake, the Lord of the Night, and Snicker, the master of death, is the leader of the assassins.

The tenth is the Plague Clan, whose leader is Nurgle VII, and Schook is only the chief of the seven Plague Lords.

No.11 is the corrupt clan, the leader is the Formenkin lord, and the mutant master "Unclean" Slott is one of the most terrifying among the nine hell pit lords.

No.11 is the Skuri clan, the leader is the warlord emperor Mosquita Lord, and Ictor Claw, who is good at inventing, creating and traveling the world, is the chief engineering warlock of the Skrye clan.

Of course, no matter whether these leaders are called emperors, lords, or something else, their titles in the Thirteenth Council are "Lords of Decay".

In addition, these interesting leaders did not appear in the main body of a PC game called Quanhammer and the DLC, only the name and a few words interspersed in it, like a background board.

At that time, Lord Vax, the seventh ranked clan and warlord in the Thirteen Councils, fell victim to the end of the First Civil War. The clan successfully squeezed into the seats of the Thirteenth Council.

Because of the Eshin clan's standing in the civil war, the Plague Clan, which could have won and overthrew the Corruption Clan, the Skryli Clan, and the Council of the Gray Seers, barely squeezed into the Thirteenth Council in this way, thus obtaining the eternity of the Plague Clan hate.

Then another Plague Rat King inherited the title of Nurgle Ridge and became Nurgle Ridge IV. He became active in 1111 in the Imperial Calendar, when the Black Death was raging in the Old World. Half of the empire's population died from this terrible plague.

The current Plague Rat King is Nurgle VII, and the current time is 2019 in the Imperial Calendar, and the second civil war within the Skaven is in full swing.

After the catastrophic defeat of the Red Plague in Bretonnia in 1850 Imperial Calendar, the Decaying Lords of the Thirteen saw an opportunity and demanded that the heretic Clan Plague be expelled from the Thirteen.After months of intense political manipulation, blackmail, bribery, threats and assassinations, the Council of Thirteen finally voted to decide the fate of Clan Plague.

Interestingly, on the day of the vote, Nurgleridge VII attempted to lead the Plague Clan to seize control of the Thirteenth Council, announcing that the existing decaying lords were heretics!Many small warlord clans out there eager for their chance came along with the Blight clan.Fighting broke out as a matter of course, and the Thirteenth Council came to a standstill, entered a state of anarchy, and lost control of the Skaven society.

The peculiar number seven has an indissoluble relationship with the Plague Clan, for example, Nurgle VII and the seven Plague Lords under his seat, as well as the seat number obtained when entering the Thirteenth Council.

These seven plague lords have various titles.

The first one is the "Right Claw of the Plague Rat King", which has the title of the first seat among the plague lords, and has been held by Lord Skeuk for a long time.

The second is the "Deacon of Disease", which is held by Lord Skrimax.

The third place is the "Great Prime Minister of Abscess", which is held by Lord Grich.

The exact title of the fourth Plaguelord is unknown, but was held by Criggs Berserkerlord.

The fifth place is "Words of the Plague", which is a bit special. This position is held by the seventh-ranked leader of the Disease Clan in the Thirteenth Council.

The sixth place is the "Plague Master", who is also the person in charge of the contagion secret meeting. Now Lord Varioles is in charge. At the end of the day, after Varioles was killed by Skuk, the seat was vacated. Served by Lord Gerrylock.

Perhaps the most morbid of all Plague Monk cults, the Contagion Conclave whose primary responsibility is tending the cauldrons of plague, are not simply potion alchemists, but are the most virulent of all the Plague Monks.The robes they wear are known as the worst sources of pollution in the world. When fighting, they either lead the charge or manipulate the plague furnace.

The title, duty, whereabouts and identity of the seventh Plague Lord are unknown even within the Plague Clan, and are unknown to other Skaven big clans outside of the Plague Clan, which makes other big clans very confused , including the Eshin clan who are good at spying on intelligence.Even Lord Kritisrit of the Council of Gray Prophets doesn't know the identity of this Plague Lord.The gray prophets speculate internally that this position may be held by the Plague Rat King himself.

Then there are countless plague priests, their status is second only to the plague lords in the plague clan, they lead their filthy compatriots to create the latest evil diseases, always searching for the ultimate plague that can weaken all countries.

It is the Plague Priests who incite the righteous wrath of the young Plague Priests of the clan, teaching them the scriptures of hatred and showing intolerance for other customs, these loyal and fanatical skaven are dedicated to their sacred cause dedicated.

In the inner workings of the Blight Clan, each member does not pursue personal wealth, but is completely insanely focused on their master's work.It is these diseased but loyal Plague Priests who enforce the harsh discipline, and under the direction of the ruling Plague Lord, the Plague Priests lead the daily rituals, recording and monitoring the latest strains of powerful diseases, which are not only inflicted on prisoners, but even Also infects other skaven and the Plague Monk himself.

For these zealots, these specially crafted diseases are not feared, but seen as a blessing.To them, being a walking altar is the goal of every plague priest, and they lead by example.

In combat, Plague Priests can spew black death virus, or curse enemies from a distance, causing them to burst into searing boils.They possess hideous but powerful magic, and when the outcome of a war is of particular importance to the Plague Clan, they may even approve the construction of a Great Plague Forge to assist the clan in its sacred mission to destroy all enemies.

Among the group of Plague Priests, some priests display white or gray hair and horns, traits that mark them as Gray Seers, orthodox mage-priests of the Horned Rat God, according to the ancient rituals and laws of the Ratmen.

However, as the plague clans often do, the clan openly rebelled against the Council of Gray Seers, and retained the descendants of the gray horned rats in the clan, raised them with the plague teachings, and taught them the knowledge of the plague.

Next is the Plague Censer Monk with the title of Stinking Thing. They are the reserves who are about to become Plague Priests, and then there are the lowest-level Plague Monks.

The Epidemic Clan is said to be a clan, but from a certain point of view, it is more like a group of fanatical religious elements with strict hierarchy and system.
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"You should go!" Utell, the Nurgle army commander, looked at Lord Skeuk looking at him, and a weird expression suddenly appeared on his face.Then he spoke seriously again, the sound of the last word, as if it contained all the evil in the world.

The other plague lords and plague monks present frowned when they heard this sound, and murmured a wheezing hymn that sounded like the buzzing of flies.

Utell looked at the mice in front of him with some annoyance. He thought that the mice in front of him had attracted the group of guys. What he has to do now is to let the group of mice get out immediately, and then close the door of the Jade Throne Room. He has been doing this for nearly 6000 years to perfectly hide himself and Yuzuoshi, and he has never missed it.

At that time, when they came to Queza and survived the plague, before the leader of the Nurgrich I clan was ready to lead the remaining Skaven through the passage to return to the old world to reorganize the clan, they encountered a monster deep underground in Queza. Very scary stuff.There was a never-before-seen creature, resting on the filthy Jade Throne a bloated Chaos Daemon with the same oozing ulcers as the Skaven. Sores, foul-smelling and large herpes lesions.

In order to save his despicable skin, Nurgle I promised the Chaos Demon and the Horned Rat all the rest of the clan, so under his leadership, the Ratmen in the clan chose to accept those who had almost killed them. A plague that utterly destroyed.

On that day, the Skaven truly became the Plague Clan, heretics in Skaven society, carriers of plague, disease, and filth.

From that moment on, the power of the Plague Clan began to grow wildly. The Plague Clan obeyed the supervision of their demon masters, and in return they received secret knowledge about diseases and plagues. The Jade Throne Chamber where Tell was, and assured Utell that this would connect Utell directly to the energy of the Old Ones.

When these plague-carrying Skavens reappeared in the Lustrian jungle, they passed through a plague that swept across the entire continent. After centuries, these plagues have not subsided. Whenever a plague is extinct, There will be a newer and more terrifying infection, and this process will repeat itself.During this time, the Skaven of Clan Plague continued their unholy experiments, expanding their network of caverns beneath the mainland of Lustria, only when they were about to unleash new experiments from the Crucible The disease will only appear on the ground.

This wave of plague without relief and forgiveness continued until Tehenhauin appeared, and the war between snakes and rats began.

Utel existed long before the Skaven came to Lustria for the first time. During the Great Invasion, he came here with the Nurgle Legion led by the Unclean. He was eager for power and left The large army chose to come below Kuiza. When he came out again, he found that the legion had withdrawn and was replaced by the group of lizardmen. He didn't want to return to the Chaos Demon Realm, so he chose to return to the bottom of Kuiza again, lurking When he got up, he took the thousand-peased cauldron down while the lizardmen's army was not paying attention.

Since then, Utell has lain dormant for centuries in the Jade Throne Chamber beneath Quetzal, drawing power from the great web of psychic veins left by the Old Ones.In order to avoid attracting the attention of those always vigilant Slann magic priests, he only draws a small amount from the spirit veins each time.

For a Chaos Demon who was born in the Chaos Demon Realm, the magic wind contained in the Lingmai Giant Net is a completely unfamiliar type, and transforming this power is also a difficult and time-consuming process for him.But with the passage of time, he finally found a way to absorb the power left by these aliens, process the power, attribute it to himself, and destroy the guards and defenses of the spiritual vein network to better operate the power.

What followed was that after the end of the great invasion, the lizardmen stationed in Quiza continued to die strangely.

Since Utell signed an agreement with the first Nurgle Ridge, with more power links, his ambitions have grown, and he feels that he is far away from returning from hibernation and spreading pain, disease and plague to the world The time is coming, if he accomplishes this great deed, maybe he can use it as a merit to declare war on his master, his dear father, the master of the disease himself.

In the Jade Throne Hall, the other two plague lords present looked at Scrooge, waiting for his order, while he hesitated for a while as he watched the green bubbles in the cauldron of thousands of plagues that were about to be prepared.

"Follow your orders, let's get out of here right away!" Skeuk saluted Urter, and let out a decadent tone.

The two plague lords and plague priests present breathed a sigh of relief.

On the other side, the battle is still going on. The plague monk who was blocked and unable to retreat was irritated by the uncomfortable smoke in the plague furnace, and became furious. The two war monks brandished their weapons and opened the way ahead amidst screams. The monitor lizard pounced.

Compared with the crazy Ratmen, the fighting style of the two war lizards is also very wild, but they are still stable and methodical in the wild. They are in a small space, one behind the other, Standing on the left and right, they kept swinging the long-handled weapons in their hands.

The Plague Monk kept flying backwards under the blows of the two War Lizards, or exploded into a mass of flesh and blood on the spot, but they were still rushing forward frantically.

Standing behind the war lizard were the three ancient blood lizard men and the two skinks Tehenhauin and Inhi Huzi.

Except for Tehenhauin, who was casting spells, and Inhi Huzi, who was using long-range weapons, the three lizardmen ancient blood warriors couldn't get in at all. They could only keep roaring manically from behind.

Similarly, except for Kami and Inhi-Huzi who had never experienced the war between snakes and rats, the other lizardmen present knew that they had bumped into a big fish this time under the guidance of Umak.

In the back, Chakas was still screaming and arranged for the temple guards to protect Shakspatty's formation. He did not call out the temple guards to support the battle ahead. His mission was to protect the Slann magic priest from any harm.

The Duruccis did not choose to move forward, but were waiting for Xia Kespati to wake up to decide the next step.

"Leave it for now! We'll deal with it later, listen up! No matter what the purpose is, all kinds of private collection are strictly prohibited!" After Chakas finished making arrangements, Dacius glared at the Druccis, especially the girls. The warlock said seriously that he knew that the Kane disciples of Hal Gancey also played poison, so he went to Ulthuan to test it every now and then, but he was not interested in such things as poison and plague, but was interested in these things There is an innate sense of repulsion, he doesn't want Ursuan and Lustria to be filled with these things, and it will be too late.

However, Dacius didn’t cut it across the board, and ordered all of them to be burned. He planned to focus on the next step, and arrange for appropriate female sorceresses to study if he could avoid the seven. In his cognition, these things can bring The terrible plague can also obtain knowledge of prevention, avoidance and treatment.

After a while, a star stone representing the medieval world floated up, quickly suspended and flew towards the passage ahead.

Dacus looked at the star stone flying past, and he opened his mouth to show a cruel smile. He knew that Xia Kespati should have found the main passage leading to the old world, and the star stone would serve as Xia Kespati's Ti's vision anchor point, let the temple guards on standby at the save point teleport there.

The next thing will become easier, just close the door and beat the dog!No one wants to run away!
After Shakspatty finished all this, the team behind started to march again. On the way to the research room, the team also found that there were many branch roads in the extension tunnel, but the team did not choose the so-called division of troops. Instead, it made Xiakspatti enter the state of perception again, and then except for the hammer held by Xiakspatti, the other star stones flew to different passages.

"Unclean existence!" Before the star stone flew back, Xiakspati opened her round eyes and roared angrily.

Afterwards, the team drove in that unstoppable direction. There were no Skaven guards along the way, only mess, excrement and disgusting smell everywhere. When the team marched, they carefully looked at their feet, In order not to step on any dirty things on the soles of his shoes, Xia Kepati simply crossed his legs and floated in mid-air without Chengyu's support.

"This is?" Hirsis, holding a harpoon crossbow and barely holding a shield, rushed to the front of the team with his two sons. He was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him. A pair of bright green eyes are staring at him. He has experienced many battles, but he is still stared a little hairy. It is a direct look from the soul. It seems that at that moment he was caught by something strange. The existence was watching, and he pulled the trigger of the harpoon crossbow without thinking.

Hearing the sound of the trigger of the harpoon crossbow being pulled and the surprised sound from their father's mouth, Dorian and Julian fired the trigger of the harpoon crossbow without thinking.

Afterwards, Malekith swaggered in, glanced at the fussing Sirsis father and son, shook his head slightly, and then released a light spell to illuminate the huge circular room.

The green eyes are not beasts or skavens at all, but a one-meter-high altar with a bloated spherical object on top. Its most prominent feature is the protruding forehead double horns.The green eyes under the horns were also dimmed at the moment, and two harpoons were poured in, and another harpoon was shot into the forehead between the horns and the eyes.

The smooth walls surrounding the room were marked by the Skaven with a black, foul-smelling fluid that seeped downwards from the ceiling and walls until it disappeared beneath the altar.

Dacius waved his hand, resisting the suffocating stench and walked over.

"Be careful! Don't touch those liquids, unless you want to contract yellow cranial fever!" Colonia, who walked behind Dacius and saw what the liquid was, shouted loudly, reminding Drucci around.

"I can feel the corruption here!" Maranul standing at the door also shouted loudly, he didn't choose to come in at all, he knew how much he weighed, compared to his sister and brother, he just An ordinary male Durucci, so... standing next to this big toad is the best solution. After speaking, he turned his head and smiled politely and awkwardly at Chakas who was looking at him. Trying to lean closer to Xia Kepati's side again.

But Chakas is not used to Malanur's problems, he turned the Starstone Hammer to block Malanur's approach, in his opinion, these hot-blooded species can also threaten the existence of Shakspati , just because of the existence of Umak, otherwise his mace would have passed by.

Even without Colonia's reminder, the Druccis surrounding them would not be so stupid as to reach out and touch the liquid and the altar itself.

Just then, a thick, foul-smelling air gushed out like a fiery breath through a crack in the wall behind the altar.

Malekith, who felt the flow of Agil's wind, immediately swung the Yangyan sword and activated the energy in the sword, offsetting the air. Through the steel headband, he found that there seemed to be something behind the altar?

"There is something behind the altar." Malekith pointed to the strange place with Yangyan sword and reminded.

Dacius walked cautiously along the direction pointed by the Yangyan Sword.

"There is something, but it needs to be brighter."

Drusala, who heard Dacius' words, immediately cast another light spell, and a bright magic light ball floated slowly.

As the light source approached, Dacius saw a brief golden light reflected deep inside the opening.

"There is indeed something!"

(End of this chapter)