Chapter 119 118. Rat Tide
Broken clouds cover the silver moon, and the dark wheat fields rustle.
The four-person team sneaked into waist-deep wheat fields and followed Willits Eudora to a slightly higher mound.
The indistinguishable darkness is not a problem for the elves. Willits Eudora opened the wooden bow smoothly, released her right hand, and the arrow with a "whoosh" that tore the air. Sound shot into the darkness.
After a while, a faint and dull sound of falling to the ground came from the distance.
After clearing away the patrolling ratmen within a hundred yards of the sector ahead, the four scavengers continued to move forward.
It is still Willits Eudora who takes the lead, keeping her vision wide.
Riddle Gro's fire blunderbuss was as conspicuous in an assassination operation as holding a torch in the dark jungle, so he put away the fire blunderbuss, holding only a rapier, and guarding the elven archers with his companions.
When the quiver was low on arrows, Riddle Gro and Guido Rona began to disperse to the fallen position and help the elven archers pick up arrows.
Zhizhi——
When Guido Rona pulled out the arrow, a rat suddenly emerged from the rat man's bulging tattered clothes and scurried into the wheat field.
Whoosh——
An arrow followed closely and drove into the wheat field.
Guido Rona pulled out the arrow that had pierced the soil and shook off the rat corpse.
Silently clearing away the rat scouts in the wheat field, it took about 10 minutes to advance to the outskirts of the farm.
"Spread out and don't make any noise."
Destroying a bunch of sleeping ratmen was not a problem for these experienced hunters. They regrouped and continued to move forward, approaching the only village in the viscounty.
They saw patrolling rat men wandering outside the village, covered in plundered cloth, holding on to short spears sharpened from the fence, farm forks picked up, or using a torch as a weapon.
They are no longer alone, but patrolling in teams of two or three.
Willits Eudora set up two arrows, took a deep breath, and unclenched her knuckles.
The straightened bowstring trembled, and two rat men fell down in the distance.
The scavenger team continues to advance.
"When will it be our turn? If we continue like this, we will be killed by her." Big Big complained in a low voice.
"When discovered."
Arrows soon ran out again. Big Big guarded the Elf Archer, and the other two approached the farm to pick up arrows. Then they saw a green evil eyeball formed by piles of corpses in the middle of the village.
"My lord Misgma...this is the Skaven clan!"
The green evil eye turned and stared at the intruder.
Dang—dang—dang—
Then, the death knell echoed harshly over the farm.
The silent farm began to boil, and sharp howls pierced the night sky. Riddel Grotto and Guido Rona fled back to their teammates.
"How come they were alerted!?" Dabig clenched his axe.
"They are the Skaven clan! They occupy this place!" Riddle Gro pulled out his fire blunderbuss and asked the Elf Archer, "We have completed the first phase of the investigation, and now the Skaven have discovered us. , continue or retreat?"
"Let's go back-"
"Help!"
At this moment, they saw a shack. The cellar door opened, and a woman carrying a child climbed up and staggered towards them.
The rat man who discovered the intruder rushed towards the scavenger team and the woman, stabbing the woman and child in the back with the sharp farm fork——
An arrow streaked across the night sky, nailing the rat man Die on the ground. "There are still survivors, pick her up!"
Big Big and Riddle Grotto pick up the woman and her child, and the echoing bells are like the horn of death , echoed throughout the wheat fields outside the farm, and the waist-deep wheat rustled and swayed.
“We are surrounded, release a distress signal and retreat to the farm first!”
Willits Eudora rushed towards the buildings in the farm, clearing away the ratmen along the way to avoid being surrounded in the open space.
Guido Rona activated the badge, and a raven-shaped light spot rose into the night sky, following the elven archers into the village.
They ran towards the strong house in the center of the village. When they broke into a residential house and took a shortcut, they heard a panicked cry that was different from the howling outside.
Big Big, who crashed into the house, paused because of the rat mother holding the young rat man. Guido Rona and Riddell Gross, who followed closely behind, also hesitated briefly.
The bowstring trembled, and the sound of arrows pierced the rat-man mother with a sound of breaking through the air. She screamed and died.
The fallen rat cubs fled in panic and were trampled down mercilessly by Willits Eudora's boots.
"You sympathize with the rat men, the rat men will not sympathize with you."
They got out of the house and saw human corpses piled up in pieces, and the rat men were screaming, holding on to their rotten thighs as weapons. Come.
The rat men came like a tide, and the four of them ran into the rat tide head-on. The blood rose like a fountain and fell like raindrops. The breeze carried the strong smell of blood and rot. Big Big roared and waved his axe, cutting open several ratmen, but the endless swarm of rats swallowed up his roar and figure. .
Every time Willits Eudora shot an arrow, ten ratmen rushed towards her. She opened the bow and arrow, turning it into two curved blades and waving them. Riddle Gro had long since given up the musket and wielded his rapier to poke at the rat-men. The rat men continued to die, but they seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, unable to move forward.
A bright fireball suddenly appeared and exploded into the rats. The dazzling explosion filled everyone's sight, and a large bloody gap was cleared in an instant.
They looked at Annan emerging from the air in amazement, and then took the opportunity to move forward.
"Are you the guardian!" I don't know who is shouting.
"No, I'm a newcomer."
As he spoke, Annan activated the magic ring, and a large fire element appeared in response to the summons.
A large fire element emitting heat waves raised a sea of fire. Without the magical blessing of fireball, it was just ordinary flames, but it still caused unimaginable damage to the hairy rats. The ignited ratmen screamed and crashed into their companions and houses, causing the flames to spread outward.
Willits Eudora believed this when she saw the three magic rings and the self-cleaning magic robe on Annan's palm.
The burning village and the rat tide reduced their pressure drastically, and they rushed into the big house escorting the women and children.
The next thing they had to do was face the ignited Rat Man who was panicking and trying to decide which way to go, but they were also completely trapped in the big house.
Annan stepped on a broken piano and almost fell down, but his attention was focused on the outside.
Under the raging raging of giant fire elements and burning rat men, the village quickly turned into a sea of fire, and the sparks dispersed in the night wind, dyeing the sky orange-red.
"How long do we have to hold on?"
"It's over."
Willits Eudora saw the rat men on the periphery suddenly fade away and stand tall. The evil eyes disappeared at some point, and the magical flames flickered outside the fire wall.
Their rescue arrived sooner than imagined.
The moist water element annihilated the raging flames, and the informants wearing crow masks walked into the village.
One of the figures with a cloak trembling in the flames came to Annan.
"Well done, newcomer."
A familiar voice emerged from the crow mask, and the centurion threw a flashing silver badge to Annan.
“Welcome to the Scavengers.”
(End of this chapter)