From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 66, Swamp Murloc

The wailing ratman finally fell silent under the sharp claws of the dragon beast.

The surrounding ratmen were also running away madly.

Huo didn't get any useful information from the newly appointed rat warlord, even though this guy was no longer willing to keep any secrets in order to survive.

But unfortunately, it is not so easy for the ratmen and lizardmen to communicate with each other. The crazy pleas for mercy and the information they revealed only sounded like rapid and sharp hisses in Huo's ears.

Huo only knew that this guy might be a small commander in the rat army, but he was not the rat general he was looking for.

In the midst of that shrill hissing, the noisy ratman was finally killed.

The dragon beast took off into the air again, chasing after the large group of ratmen that were gradually moving away.

The chase was still going on. In order to completely leave the ratmen behind, the dragon beasts hovering over the ratmen army appeared less frequently.

Instead, the warriors or residents from the lizardman villages scattered around the wetlands were recruited in large numbers.

And began to chase the ratmen troops fleeing in the wetlands.

Huo found the newly elected leader of the ogre men and gave him a choice he could not refuse.

Recruit a force of more than 10,000 and rush to the designated location to intercept the fleeing rat army. If this is done, then regardless of success or failure, he will take back his decision.

And accept the kobolds back into the three-tribe alliance.

The ogre leader agreed without hesitation.

And not only that, under the uneasy trend in their hearts, the indigenous inhabitants of this wetland, the lizardmen, are currently occupying the original owners of the hatching pool.

The group of swamp fishmen who were driven to the edge of the wetland were also targeted by fire.

Swamp murlocs are a group of weak races with short stature, slimy skin, human-shaped bodies and strange fish heads that look like they were spliced ​​together.

Their ecological niche is not much different from that of the ratmen. Compared with their relatives in the sea, the widely legendary naga and mermaids, this group of weird and weak swamp fishmen is really hard to look at.

Whether it is combat effectiveness, or something more.

Apart from the equally powerful reproductive ability and the occasional appearance of one or two sea priests in the huge base, there are no advantages at all.

So when the Lizardmen, Snakemen, and Gnolls broke into the wetland together, this group of weak guys were expelled without surprise.

These guys weren't even really considered a threat by the Lizardmen.

They could only retreat to the worst places in the wetlands, living in small patches of rotten swamps that were so stinking that even the Lizardmen were unwilling to set foot in them.

But now, in order to deal with the huge and continuous number of ratmen, and also because the Lizardmen, who should have been the dominant tribe in this initially established group, were seriously injured in the ratmen's great expedition and could not provide more troops.

These ignored swamp fishmen also returned to Fire's sight again.

When Fire, riding on the black dragon beast, descended from the sky, these ugly fishmen did not even think of resisting, and simply chose to surrender in large numbers.

Even the sea priests among the swamp murlocs decisively chose to surrender.

In fact, this group of guys had thought about these things when the Lizardmen broke in. It was not a bad thing to surrender if they couldn't win. Just like the big lizard said, the scaly races should unite. The sea priests unexpectedly agreed with this.

However, even though there were still some tiny scales on their bodies, they were not considered a scaly race by the Lizardmen and were not taken seriously at all. They were driven into this vile, rotten swamp without any resistance.

Even though these guys knew a little bit of the variant snake language, it seemed to prove that these guys might indeed be related to the scaly race to some extent.

After all, the Naga and the Snakemen have a close relationship, and the Murlocs and the Naga also have many connections and entanglements. However, the Snakemen refused to recognize him, so he was directly expelled into the Rotten Swamp.

But now, things have taken a turn for the better. Under pressure from the ratmen, Huo accepted this group of guys. As a price, the beliefs of all swamp murlocs will change, and suitable swamp murlocs will be incorporated into the auxiliary army of the Wetland Kingdom.

At the same time, the sea priests among these swamp fishmen must immediately pull out an army to rush to the battlefield.

Yes, with the weakening of the Lizardmen's power, this multi-racial tribe is more like a kingdom.

However, this was also a helpless move. After two major battles with the ratmen, the Lizardmen directly lost two rounds of manpower that they had worked so hard to grow. Even though Li Sheng, as a god, was always watching them and sparing no effort to provide help.

The Lizardmen will once again have to go through a long period of recuperation.

After finishing these tasks, Huo rode the black dragon beast again to chase the army of ratmen running in the wetlands.

At the same time, a massive military recruitment also began in this wetland.

During that critical period of time, a large number of kobolds who had just been enslaved were released. After a brief observation and a loose screening, they were incorporated into the army. Led by their newly elected leader, a noisy and annoying kobold leader, they began to march in large numbers.

As a part of the three-tribe alliance, the Gnolls have the largest number in this wetland kingdom, and even so, they are not much behind in high-end power.

It turns out that dragons do have eyes that can discover beauty.

The Gnolls are a real dragon vein race. While they have good reproductive capacity, the chance of a dragon vein Gnoll appearing among the Gnolls is also quite high.

The large number of dragon vein ogres means that the ogres are not much weaker than the lizardmen and snakemen in terms of combat power.

It's just a pity that they were easily suppressed by the fire. Not long ago, most of the kobolds were imprisoned as slaves.

Because the Dragon Vein Gnolls among the Gnolls did not resist at all, or it could be said that Huo had excluded that group of Dragon Vein Gnolls from the ranks of those to be suppressed from the very beginning.

The status of the Dragon Vein Gnolls did not change, so naturally there was no huge resistance. In addition, the Lizardmen already truly owned a dragon at this time.

Even if it is just a dragon beast, it is enough for these guys who worship dragons extremely.

The Dragon Vein Gnolls easily chose to surrender, and the ordinary Gnolls, who made up the majority, were easily suppressed by the Snake People while looking confused.

But being suppressed may not be a bad thing in some ways.

Because in this way, the hastily captured Gnolls did not even join the war with the ratmen, and naturally the Gnolls did not suffer any huge losses.

Therefore, the newly elected ogre leader was able to agree to Huo's request very readily.

Because he was indeed able to gather 10,000 ogre-men to form an army.

On the other side, the army of swamp fishmen also set out from the rotten swamp. The number of troops prepared by this group of guys was even more exaggerated.

A huge group of nearly 20,000 swamp fishmen walked out of the rotten swamp.

Although the appearance of this army is really not very good, the army seems to have no formation and chaotic command. The fishmen seem to have no fighting power and are stupid and dull. There are not even many proper spears to be seen. Wooden sticks and big fish bones?
There are also some things that look familiar.

Some big bone clubs, and some skeleton helmets, but those skeleton helmets look familiar, wait? Aren’t those the skeletons of swamp murlocs?
This group of guys actually used the skeletons of their dead companions as weapons and protective gear, using fish heads as helmets, and arm bones, leg bones, and fish bones as weapons.

This... can't be said to be impossible. In a sense, it is much better than the equipment of the rats who were smashing with stones and biting with their teeth at the beginning.

It’s hard to describe, but anyway, the quantity is definitely enough.

Add to that the swamp murlocs that stayed behind, and one becomes somewhat curious as to how that small, smelly swamp could support so many murlocs.

(End of this chapter)