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Chapter 1328 1326. Hey, didn’t you expect that? Rats also have big ambitions!
The confrontation in Marlow Town is in full swing.

Relying on the Holy Light Knights' eclectic "fire strike" tactics, the Shadow Bone Undead were unable to rush to the high ground they were defending even though they had an advantage in numbers.

Bullets have little destructive power against the undead, so these armed knights decided to use explosives instead of scriptures and recitations to solve the problem. Fortunately, as the armed forces of the Transians, they have no shortage of similar things.

From the individual hand grenades that have been upgraded to the third generation, to the individual grenade launchers taken from the Halflings, to the improved mortars, to the Iron Fist missiles that can be reloaded, and finally to the many Golden Broadsword anti-infantry mines in each knight's horse pocket, there are absolutely many varieties, which fully demonstrates the Transians' love for big bombs.

If you don't like the mechanical explosives mentioned above, the knights also have explosive rune stones related to psychic power.

Those crystal clear irregular rune stones seemed to contain real flames. All you had to do was destroy the stabilizing runes before throwing them out, and when they landed, they would set off a wild fire storm to destroy the enemy.

The only pity is that these runes can only be used by people with psychic talents. Ordinary people cannot accurately destroy those unique runes.

This unique explosive was first invented by the goat-man sorcerers who surrendered to Transia during the Black Disaster. Initially, they were only intended to show their loyalty to Governor Murphy, but as the battles continued to iterate, these rune stones officially became one of the official weapons purchased by Transia's military units.

These rune stones can often work wonders when certain conventional explosives are ineffective.

In addition to the unique Flamestorm Runestone, the Goatman Warlocks also provided the Transians with a series of runestones of the same specifications for them to choose from, including auxiliary types that can stir up strong winds, sneak attack types that can freeze enemies, and even purification stones with purifying effects and defense stones that can hold up temporary shields.

Currently, only the Bafolk Sorcerers can mass-produce these ingenious things, which fully demonstrates the strength of those insidious guys in this area and expresses the pragmatism of the Transians in walking on two legs.

If machines are useful, use them; if psychic power is useful, use psychic power. Never stick to formalism. Even if foreign allies share great military technology and make Transians feel uneasy, they cannot ignore the supernatural power system that exists in this world.

However, the Holy Light Knights were few in number, and when the shadow bone undead in the entire town of Marlowe became restless, even the ferocious Pinkie knew that she could not charge forward head-on.

They were not the exaggerated "nuclear-powered" cavalry like the Winged Hussars. Once they lost their speed advantage, the Holy Light Knights would easily be trapped and killed on the battlefield. Therefore, Becky decisively ordered a retreat to the highland defense line, and then led the brave knights to dismount and fight on foot using the dragoons that had emptied their ammunition as temporary cover.

Their goal was not to defeat this astonishing number of Shadow Bones head-on, but to buy time for Liwen's team to sneak attack the Undead Spell Formation from behind.

This is a very simple but effective tactic. Fortunately, Lao Hei only used the light-devouring power to strengthen the power of these undead but did not give them wisdom, otherwise such a crude tactic would definitely be seen through.

After fighting for thirty minutes, a beam of purified blue mist lit up in the core area of ​​Marlow Town. Peach, who was fighting in the Shadow Bone position, immediately turned around and heard the dragon roar from her dear Liwen. This boosted her morale. She turned around and raised the Holy Sword of the Stopper that was burning like a curry stick and shouted:

"The necromancy has been destroyed and purified! Shadow Bones cannot be resurrected once they fall. I have the advantage now! Walkers of Holy Light, follow me to charge and defeat the enemy!"

"Ouch!"

The knights and followers on the highland front cheered. They crossed the line with high morale, holding hammers and giant swords, and charged forward with their Holy Martyr War Maidens. Several dragoons were also restarted, and in the burning of fuel oil, they ejected rotary saws that were more brutal than sickles and cut forward. The shadow bones tried foolishly to stop them but were smashed violently. This time they would not struggle to get up after falling down, so this wave of charge quickly penetrated the Undead position, forcing the shadow bones to disperse and then be defeated one by one.

The Knights of Holy Light realized that they had accomplished the feat of retaking the town of Marlow today. An hour later, when most of the dead bones were knocked to the ground and sent to rest, the knights who were born in the town of Marlow knelt down on the land of their former home with deep emotion and tears in their eyes. They prayed devoutly and thanked the Holy Light for the blessing.

Other knights also accompanied these companions and prayed with them.

But just as Lao Qin expected, after the fierce battle in Marlow Town, even the most fanatical Holy Light Knights realized that it was difficult for them to move forward under the dark curtain of Light Devouring, let alone go alone to support Banks City.

The town of Marlowe is not even the deepest part of this land of eternal night, it is only the middle part, but it is already tricky enough.

The deeper they delve into the darkness of the Light-Devouring Knights, the greater the mental pressure they endure. Even with the protection of the Holy Light, the mental and physical exhaustion makes them in urgent need of rest and wait for the arrival of the main force of the People's Army in the town of Malo.

Therefore, without any persuasion from Pinkie, several experienced knights took the initiative to shoulder the responsibility of organizing the position.

They had to clean up the town before the main force of the People's Army arrived, leaving areas for warehouses and barracks to treat their injured brothers and sisters, and collect some usable supplies in the dilapidated town.

As a knightly order brought up by players, "collecting spoils of war" is naturally an important daily training subject for the knights. They must do their best to ensure that valuable spoils of war are used reasonably. This is even a dogma written into the Holy Light Canon as the virtue of "thrift", and no one who has read the canon can find fault with this.

Pinkie was also a little tired.

Ever since entering the area of ​​the Light-Devouring Darkness, she has been keeping the power of Holy Light activated. This is a considerable burden on the spirit of the Holy Warrior. She didn't feel anything during the battle, but after it was over, Becky suddenly felt that she needed to hold Liwen and rest for a while, and take a nap to recharge her energy.

"Ah, this damn shady plot!"

Pinkie scolded:

"Sleeping in such a strange place will definitely give you nightmares, right? Fortunately, the Nightmare Tyrant has been lifted up by Lord Murphy with the Scepter of God, otherwise I can't even imagine how painful it would be. By the way, where is Liwen's dear?"

She searched around the battlefield but couldn't find Liwen, which made Pinkie a little worried.

She carried the Holy Sword of the Warbreaker on her back and led her warhorse towards the center of the town. She soon found the Dragonborn psionicist from Liwen's team, who was guarding the road leading to the catacombs and calling on the power of the Dragonborn to send down a purifying rain in the town to offset the oppression of the Light-Devouring Power on individual spirits as much as possible.

Seeing Bi Qi coming over, the Rain Princess Dragonborn immediately stepped forward and reported to Bi Qi with a serious expression:
"Holy Knight! Lady Liwen has discovered something strange underground and is currently leading a few sisters to search underground. She asks us not to publicize this matter to avoid causing unnecessary suspicion among the warriors, but please enter the tomb and assist Lady Liwen."

"What? There's something underground?"

Pinkie's eyes widened. She immediately handed the reins of the warhorse to the dragon girl in front of her, then jumped down into the tomb with the Warstopper in her hand. There was still a strong smell of undead here, but several spells were destroyed. Pinkie chased out along the strange pit that was broken deep in the underground tomb.

A few minutes later, she met Liwen and the dragonborn.

They were not injured, but at their feet there were a few strange guys tied up and squeaking.

"Is this a Rat Man?"

Pinkie Pie walked forward in surprise and looked at the captured rat man.

These shifty-looking guys were shouting in their dialect, which no one could understand, but Pinkie Pie always felt that the emblems on the tattered clothes of these ratmen looked familiar, as if she had seen them somewhere.

"It's a ratman from the Black Servant clan."

Liwen took the initiative to explain:
"They once briefly appeared on the battlefield of Crimea Fortress at the end of the Black Scourge as vassals of the Jackals, but with the defeat of Xugerson, these guys quickly disappeared."

"Then why did they come here?"

Pinkie leaned on the shining Warstopper and asked curiously:

"The East Prussia region has never been a gathering place for ratmen, right? Isn't their territory on the edge of the ruins of the Brass Fortress and the Dark Mountains?
I heard from Hogg that in some places under the Dark Mountains there are complex and huge underground tunnels. Those were dug out by the ratmen when they were controlled by Dusk. But after Lord Murphy gave the ratmen freedom, these alien races took the initiative to flee the civilized territory and established their primitive and barbaric civilization in the wild areas.

I heard from that generous General Popok before that there is a ratman tribe near the Broken Tooth Highlands in their Gnoll Kingdom, and they will also trade with the Broken Tooth Clan. "

"You know a lot." Liwen praised her as if she was praising a child, making Pinkie puff out her increasingly generous chest proudly, but then Knight Liwen looked at the ratmen under her feet.

As she spoke to Pinkie Pie, the ratmen became noticeably quieter.

They're eavesdropping!
"Can you understand our language?"

Liwen narrowed her eyes and said:
"Who taught you that?"

"Of course we understand. The Nezumi are the smartest! Powerful and smart! There are more of them!"

The captain of the captured ratmen scouts bared his teeth and yelled, then looked timidly at the glowing holy sword in Pinkie's hand.

This thing makes it very uncomfortable.

But the rat man was not stupid. Seeing Pinkie clench her fist, it immediately shrank its neck and screamed:
"The chief taught me! The chief is powerful! Smart! He can call on the gnolls to help fight! The Black Servant Clan has conquered a large territory on the Vampire Coast! The chief is ready to be the king of the ratmen, and Zhizhi could have been a general, but the damn false god Darkness called us.
We must come!
It's not just us.
Many ratman clans have been summoned and are coming here along the tunnels, obeying the will of darkness and becoming slaves!

But the chief said that they could not be slaves, and Zhizhi didn't want to be a slave either.

Zhizhi wants to be a general!

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Just like the fat, big-eared idiot Popok, be a majestic general! "

"Hmm? Have you met Overseer Popok?"

Liwen was really surprised this time.

She looked at the unique ratman under her feet with a curious look. It was not until this moment that Liwen noticed that the ratman scout captain who she had captured with her own hands was actually wearing a piece of "protective gear".

Even though this leather armor was made very crudely from the skin of some kind of sea beast, for the ratmen, being able to wear such protective gear was probably a symbol of "status".

And the most amazing thing is that this rat man has his own name.

It calls itself "Squeak".

"Who is your chief?"

Liwen swung a flying knife made of Qinglan spiritual energy to cut the ropes on the ratman scout, making it stand up. She asked:
"What are you planning to do in Marlow Town?"

"Uh, Zhizhi can't tell, or you'll get your head chopped off."

The ratman captain was a little hesitant, but he soon widened his rat eyes and carefully identified Pinkie's breastplate. After several seconds of finally confirming the People's Army emblem on it, the ratman became excited again.

It jumped up and down and screamed:
"Found it! Found the powerful Transians. We can finally say it! The chief asked Zhizhi to lead his team to Transia to find the great saint and seek help. Our kingdom cannot be controlled by darkness. We still want to go back to the Vampire Coast and continue to be the local tyrants.

The Blood-Feared vampires have abandoned that place. The ruins of Blood-Ravage Harbor are the best rat-man city. That place is destined to belong to us! Zhizhi can be a great general in it, but you must have a great city to build a kingdom!"

This rat man's words were incoherent, which gave Liwen a headache. Bi Qi couldn't help but scold him:

"Tell me the truth! Who is your chief? And who is the great saint? It sounds like your evil master. Didn't he say he doesn't want slaves? Damn it! Is there something wrong with you ratmen?"

"The chief is a chief, a powerful chief. He chatted and laughed with Hogg, the king of the gnolls, and learned powerful wisdom from Hogg!"

The Ratman Captain said smugly, his hands on his hips and his tail wagging:

"Squeaky also followed the chief to the city of the gnolls, and Hogg even praised Squeaky for being smart!"

"Oh, I've seen Hogg too."

Pinkie widened her eyes and said:
"Now I have a rough idea of ​​who the 'great saint' your chief is talking about. He is the only one in all of Transia who is in the mood to tame the barbarians and give you a civilized system. Are you looking for Lord Murphy?"

"That's right, that's right, the supreme master who granted the rat people freedom, the true saint who defeated the false gods and darkness!"

Zhizhi shook his head and said in a pious tone:
"The false god darkness has come again. It calls on the 99 ratman clans to serve it. It wants to dedicate the ratmen to the terrible warp and turn us into monsters. However, the chieftain does not want us to become monsters.

In this desperate situation, only the great saint Murphy can save us again! And the chief has a great plan. We must meet Lord Murphy, and the chief must seek support from the great saint. "

The ratman captain paused.

Perhaps it was certain that these powerful guys in front of it were Transian warriors, so it said with confidence:

"The Black Servant Clan is preparing to start a rebellion! To completely liberate us from the control of the false god's darkness. The chieftain is contacting other rat leaders who dare to resist, but those guys are too stupid and cowardly to fight!

If the Black Servant Clan can get assistance from the powerful Transian warriors, victory is inevitable!

The chieftain is still quietly searching for the true identity of the false god Darkness.
Only the Skaven can hear the voice in the darkness, and it can guide us to find the torso of the false god underground.

The Chief has a big and awesome plan!

Hogg taught it how to resist the false god. The chief has his own plan, but we must find help."

In response to the Rat Man captain's story, Liwen and Pinkie Pie looked at each other.

Both girls saw the shock in each other's eyes. If what the ratman said was correct, then the Dark Lord's plan was not just to use his light-devouring power to complete the Chaos invasion, he was also planning to mobilize his ratman servants to cause a big fuss in East Prussia.

Maybe there are a large number of ratmen gathering under Banks City now, and once the ratmen's iconic burrowing tactics are used in that city,
hiss!
Just can't imagine.

"Master Murphy must be contacted immediately!"

Liwen said decisively:

"The ratmen said they can follow the voices in the darkness to find the Dark Lord's true form. This is important information, report it immediately! Pinkie, don't use other routes. Find the super hacker in the team and hold a communication ceremony immediately!"

(End of this chapter)