From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 303, Chaotic Naval Battle
In the dark ocean, not far from the main continent, there is a huge island. On this island is the only ocean province of the Dark Eyes Human Empire.
Once upon a time, or always, this island had not faced any real threat. In fact, it had long been a threat to the coastal provinces.

The island is large enough, only slightly smaller than the human provinces on the main continent, and towering mountains occupy most of the island's space.

Yes, towering mountains, the kind that rise like steep slopes. It is obvious that this huge island was not formed by the accumulation of countless coral reefs and bird droppings, but was created by the movement of the earth's crust under the sea and was born into this world.

However, this small world does not even exist in the form of a planet, but is more like a flattened pancake. Would such a world also be divided into plates like a planet and have a hot and scalding core that pushes the plates to move relative to each other?

It is unknown, but the peaks on this island continue to grow higher.

On a long time scale, this is a young island.

It’s probably just a young island of tens of thousands of years old.

This huge island was discovered during the great pioneering era of the Youyan people, and has been occupied by the Youyan people until now.

From that day on, the island also gained a new name, Hurricane, Hurricane Island.

Sheng Qi's island-hopping strategy failed when facing the Hurricane Island. This huge island is the home of the Ghost Eye human fleet active in this sea area.

Until now, Sheng Qi has not completely wiped out the Youyan human fleet roaming in this sea area. The difference in flexibility has allowed the ratmen's Western Fleet, yes, with the current composition of the Western Expeditionary Force, perhaps it would be more appropriate to change its name to the Western Fleet.

Helplessly, the Western fleets allowed the human fleets to attack the supply ships and logistics points that continued to arrive.

Gritting their teeth, they pushed forward, passing through one island after another towards the source of these human fleets.

Now, the Western Fleet has found it. From afar, Rope Seven caught a glimpse of the huge island whose outline appeared in the darkness.

The island-hopping tactic is obviously no longer cost-effective, and now it is time to launch a strong attack.

Targeting an island reef around Hurricane Island, a large number of bathtub warships floating on the ocean, a black mass, began to speed up.

At the bottom of the bathtub battleship, where the gears were piled up, the crackling sound of the long whip cutting through the sky seemed so clear even among all the chaotic sounds.

The slave rat gained more strength in fear and pulled the metal chain in his hand with all his might. At this moment, the complex structure of the bathtub battleship composed of a large number of gears began to accelerate, and the bathtub battleship began to speed up.

The humans on the island reef noticed the arrival of the rats, a brazier filled with fuel was lit, and an old sentry started shouting and cursing loudly.

"Hurry up, boy, bring that thing here!"

The residents of Hurricane Island are not so unfamiliar with the main continent. After all, the island owner still has the title of a great noble conferred by the imperial royal family.

Communication often occurs, although sometimes the party being communicated with is not particularly happy about it, because in most cases, such communication has another name, robbery.

A young guy came here, crawling and rolling, holding a cloth bag tightly in his hand.

"Here I come, Old John, I got it!"

He waved the cloth bag in his hand, which was snatched away by the limping old soldier.

The owner of Hurricane Island got a lot of good things in this robbery, such as this, pixie dust.

A handful of dazzling colorful dust was thrown into the rising flames, giving the black smoke from the flames a dazzling colorful glow.

This is a light that is dazzling and brilliant even in the darkness.

The fairy dust came from a cargo ship fully loaded with magical materials. It must be a precious thing, but the king of the island did not take it too seriously. He distributed it casually as a warning.

After all, it was something that was stolen. No matter how precious it is, it is still something that was stolen.

The defenders on Hurricane Island noticed the colorful smoke and dust. One sailboat after another was pushed into the ocean, spreading their sails in the darkness and heading towards the island reef that was giving the warning.

But the rat people’s western fleet is coming faster.

The waves hit the rocks as they surged, and a distorted and harsh sound was heard. Some impatient guys ignored the impact of the hard rocks around the islands and reefs on the warship and forced the bathtub warship to the coast.

Obviously, such a rude landing was still somewhat unpredictable.

The human defenders on the island had just tightened their rapiers and scimitars when the rats began to swarm down from the bathtub battleship.

These island residents are not very timid, perhaps this has something to do with the environment they live in. After all, the sea has always been so ruthless and capricious, so these island residents who grew up in the sea naturally would not lack courage.

Courage alone is of no use.

The old veteran raised the crossbow in his hand, and the arrow flew across the sky, directly hitting a ratman warrior who was climbing up the smooth cliff.

A scream was heard, accompanied by the panicked voices of many ratmen one after another. Obviously, more than one unlucky guy was about to roll down the cliff.

This brazier with burning flames and emitting colorful smoke is located on a high platform at the highest point of the island reef.

But how high can an island or reef be?

Old John, the veteran with a broken leg, is undoubtedly the backbone of this place.

Even though he was just an old man with a broken leg, a rough wooden leg replaced old John's left leg, which made him walk with a limp.

The rough palm reached into the small cloth bag again, and another handful of colorful dust was grabbed and thrown into the brazier in front of him.

It seemed to have triggered some special reaction. The excessive dust caused a violent explosion, and the flames rose high, colorful flames.

Such a scene was not safe. The withered white hair on old John's head was also ignited. The old man obviously had not expected this and was slapping the flames on his head in panic.

It looked a bit more embarrassed.

There was a rustling sound, and pairs of red eyes appeared at the edge of the platform. Short rats with hunched backs appeared in front of everyone present.

It's not surprising that these ratmen warriors are not in very good condition. After all, after experiencing such a disastrous voyage, it is really difficult for them to be in good condition. They are thin, with skin and flesh tightly attached to their bones, and they have an indescribable stench on their bodies. This is a very common condition.

But it made these guys even more dangerous. After all, after experiencing long periods of torture, the rat warriors were on the verge of collapse and even repeatedly touched death. These guys became more manic and dangerous.

Especially before landing on the island, handfuls of blood mushrooms were dumped onto the filthy hull of the bathtub battleship, piling up into a small hill.

Every ratman warrior can receive a blood mushroom before participating in the battle.

One blood mushroom is definitely not enough, but it can make these already manic guys even more excited.

The rats rushed forward, and crippled old John spat fiercely.

He raised the scimitar in his hand high.

"The ocean spirit is watching us. Cowards are not qualified to return to the sea!"

The two sides collided and fought each other.

There was no suspense about the final result. After all, the number of warships that the rats had voluntarily stranded on the shore of this island reef exceeded ten.

Old John had his rough wooden leg chopped off by a sinister ratman and fell to the ground. The ratmen swarmed over him. The tortured rat warriors now had a strong urge to tear flesh and blood.

Clearly, what was about to happen to the poor old guy was probably not going to be pretty.

Last minute.

A cloth bag was thrown high up and fell into the brazier not far away.

Colorful flames exploded on the island.

Soon after, the flames died down, and many ratmen warriors survived, but they were set on fire and rolled madly on the ground.

Such scenes appeared in many places in this sea area, and Sheng Qi was attacking the circle of islands and reefs outside Hurricane Island.

This triggered a stress response among the residents of the Hurricane Island. After all, once these islands and reefs fell, the flames of war would be officially ignited on their homes.

A large number of sailboats were floating on the dim sea, and the towering lighthouse standing on the coast of Hurricane Island burst out with unimaginable light.

The human fleets that roamed this sea area like wolves emerged from the depths of the ocean in groups.

The chaotic fight is about to begin.

It’s not that the rats didn’t have anything new to offer. In fact, some black kerosene was carried onto the catapult.

When mining for minerals in the rolling hills, some black sticky oil was discovered by the rats. Of course, this black oil would also be used in the war, but it was limited by the fact that the black oil excavated by the rats was a by-product of coal mines and could not be mined on a large scale, and the swollen rats were also being used.

These black oils seemed to be useless until the outbreak of the naval war, when the big claw priests dug out these unclaimed black oils from the corners.

After all, among the characteristics of these black oils, there is one that is extremely suitable for warfare on the ocean.

Burning on water.

The excited Big Claw Priests eagerly urged the slave rats to speed up. Buckets of black liquid were lifted onto the catapults. Amid sharp and excited shouts, these barrels of black oil were thrown towards the approaching human fleets.

The next moment, flames were ignited in both camps.

Countless fireballs attacked the Western fleet, among which several unlucky bathtub battleships had their hulls pierced. Seawater poured in and they began to sink into the depths of the ocean.

On the other side, black oil spread over the ocean. The rats’ aim was not very good, but fortunately, these black oil barrels did not require much accuracy to be effective.

Flames spread across the ocean.

One after another, huge sailing warships broke through the flames and rushed towards the western warship group of the ratmen. The flames burning on the sea did not have much impact on these human warships, but it was not the case for the sailing ships floating on the sea.

In order to surround their homes, these warriors voluntarily boarded sailboats and headed for the island and reef belt where the two sides were fighting.

But the burning flame will not retreat because of their courage and conviction.

The sailboats turned into fireballs on the sea.

It turns out that this black oil is indeed very suitable for use in naval warfare.

Killing people with this black oil is as easy as roasting fresh meat with flames.

This scene was not beautiful, but strangely, not many people really retreated. There were still a steady stream of sailboats rushing into the ocean and rushing out of the spreading flames.

Why do they have such courage? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the rat people openly display their glorious deeds.

Well, even though Sheng Qi is not as manic as Shu Zhan, as a ratman general, he obviously will not show mercy to those heretics.

Killing, destruction, cruel and horrific sacrifices, these are the scenes that will appear in any area the rat people pass through. These scenes are not concealed and are directly and temporarily witnessed by all intelligent creatures in the area.

A scene like this that could easily destroy any thoughts of compromise with the ratmen among those who witnessed this scene.

Undoubtedly, the island residents chose to fight a desperate battle with the rats.

This is not surprising. After all, according to ancient legends, every island resident will return to the sea in the sea breeze after death. This is a very important tradition.

Death is not that scary.

But a problem arises. The rats don't simply kill. Their bizarre and terrifying evil rituals are so chilling.

After being treated like this by the rat people, can I really return to the sea in the sea breeze after death?

Amidst the chills, such a tragic scene appeared: an endless stream of simple sailboats broke through the continuous flames and rushed towards the islands and reefs.

War is not so orderly.

The wailing ratmen attracted many thick tentacles that rushed out of the water, clinging to the sinking rat warships and grabbing the terrified rat warriors.

The surrounding ratman warships did not lend a helping hand to their colleagues, and those poor guys were still running wildly and shouting in despair on the warship that was gradually sinking into the sea.

There were more important things to deal with, the human fleet was approaching.

Another salvo of fire occurred.

Sheng Qi began to shout loudly. In his roar, there was no intention of avoiding and he charged forward without fear.

A collision is about to occur between the Ratman Western Fleet and the human fleets.

(End of this chapter)