Chapter 322 175. Honor and Merit
The battle to annihilate the rat nest lasted 1 hour and 14 minutes, killing 514 rat men. No one was injured. They also deliberately let go of the rat priests and some rat elites. .
The musketeers, whose faces were stained by gunpowder, were filled with white smiles and excitedly told their companions how many ratmen they had killed. Annan indulged them. As the leader of the musketeers, the ratmen they killed should be counted among themselves -
"It's up to you to deal with the pollution." Annan and Olmedo said.
Olmedo and the scavenger team that followed said: "It is up to you to deal with the pollution."
"Quiet!"
Losie looked with relief at these young men who made him proud. Although he had no children, he was about the same age as them. Annan opened the portal to send the Musketeers back to Xingyue Bay, followed Olmedo back to Breeze City, and asked her to pass by the park.
“I’m going to see the Centurion.”
Olmedo thought he was going to raise an army to hold him accountable, so the Rat Man ran back to Breeze City and almost continued Annan’s “Banquet Curse.” The scavenger didn't even notice. But in fact, Annan has realized that the scavengers are useless - two Holy Grail knights have died, and the scavengers of the royal city are still wandering on the streets.
Annan visited the centurion and asked him: "When will you pay me back the 100 gold coins you borrowed from me in the royal capital?"
"When did I borrow it?"
"Really...how did you do it?" Annan thought that there were also scavengers in Bethal City and Fenghuo City, so there were also two centurions there, right?
"Secret."
"Then you know what is happening in the capital in real time?"
"Absolutely." The centurion walked around Annan, opened the door and wanted to send someone away guest.
Annan sat down directly in the centurion's room: "Tell me what you think."
"What do you think?"
"The king's capital allowed the McCann ratmen to advance northward. The rat plague was 'defeated' at the foot of the royal city, killing two Holy Grail knights and letting the remaining ratmen come to the north? "
It was like a meteorite falling from the sky and it was torn apart. Except for the royal capital, the surrounding towns were all broken. All lives were in ruins, and only the nobles of the royal capital who survived were celebrating.
“See with my eyes.”
It seemed that the centurion didn't want to say anything. Annan took a deep breath and stared at the centurion seriously: "Last question, what is the goal of the rat man?"
"Maybe it's you." The husband joked.
Annan gave up asking for secrets from her. The centurions are still there, so Breeze City should be fine...but there are centurions everywhere. Who knows if a few of them will die but nothing will happen.
The centurion sent Annan out, passing by the training hall. Annan coveted these elites selected from Breeze City, and was annoyed that it was a waste to be given to scavengers who did nothing...
Step onto the spiral stairs , Annan thought of a long time ago: "Where is the bard who took refuge in Chaos?"
"Dead."
"Dead?"
"He glimpsed the ultimate and magnificence in the chaotic chaos, burned his soul and turned into a star."
You must be at least at the level of a Chaos Executive to say this... Could it be that the Scavengers were also infiltrated by the Skaven?
Annan was worried about the newcomers, so after returning to the city lord's palace, he pulled Francois over: "I'll give you a task. The scavenger who did nothing recruited a group of newcomers and wasted everything. I want you to find them and find a way to get them to join Xingyue Bay.”
"What do you want me to do?" "Coercion and inducement: If you don't join Xingyue Bay, you can't kill the rat people. If you join Xingyue Bay, you can kill the rat people and induce them."
The people who joined the scavengers were all enemies of the rat people. Annan thought it wouldn't be too troublesome to seduce them. But before that, he'd better consolidate his aura as the "rat nemesis".
The Musketeers who had just returned to Xingyue Bay were recalled again, and Annan urgently asked Eli Gravel to design a medal that could be painted on plate armor.
"Medal?"
"It's not a medal, it's meritorious service."
Medal is used to commend a battle, while meritorious service is used to commend individual battles: they will be graffitied on the right chest of the plate armor, including the meritorious design of killing a ratman. It is a drop of blood, representing the first drop of blood. Killing a hundred ratmen turns into red blood, killing ten thousand ratmen turns into black blood, and then the first drop, the second drop, the third drop...
The representation of the ratman head pattern Kill one elite ratman, kill ten and turn into red rat heads, kill one hundred and turn into black rat heads.
Ordinary ratmen and elite ratmen also have special merits, but Annan has not thought about it yet, and the current Xingyue Bay cannot use them.
Annan's idea made Yili Ruishi tremble with excitement. He had no doubts about what kind of disaster the rat people around Xingyue Bay would face after activating the meritorious service - even the person in Xingyue Bay Ratmen residents should be careful when going out, lest their ears be cut off by soldiers seeking merit.
After discussing with Yili Ruishi before noon, Annan asked the city lord's palace to prepare a paint for him and use the square in Breeze City to award meritorious deeds.
Onlookers outside the square blocked the square. Annan stood on a temporary high platform and announced the rules of the Rat Man Medal to the Musketeers under the warm sunshine:
"You can chop The right ear of the ratman will be removed, and the uncountable combat kills will be evenly distributed, so in this battle, one hundred of you will be divided into five hundred ratmen!"
Eli Rubble takes his craftsmen. Aides painted blood patterns on the soldiers' plate chests.
As for Annan—as the holder of the Ratman Nemesis, Frost Giant Defense, and Knights Defense medals, and the lord who commands Star Moon Bay, Annan deserves to enjoy the sweet fruits of this victory—he Obtain two pieces of red blood and black rat head cloth respectively representing the merits of killing hundreds of ratmen and elite ratmen.
He made this apple pie just for this plate of cane sugar.
This reward that is envied by everyone, including the Breeze City guards who maintain order, lasts until the afternoon. The crowd of onlookers continued to disperse and come together again. When the chests of all the musketeers were smeared with drops of blood full of honor, this team of freshly separated recruits had a hint of iron and blood.
After a few more battles, they will become real warriors and elites.
Because Annan's magic power has not yet recovered, all the Musketeers were forced to stay in Breeze City for one day. That night, the Olmedo family's carriage arrived with a hundred gowns, distributed among the musketeers, and invited them to a celebratory banquet - just in case, the banquet was in the name of Olmedo.
Annan looked indulgently at a group of soldiers much older than himself playing curiously in the banquet hall, gathering around the dining table to stuff their mouths, or holding hands and dancing on the dance floor.
A figure came to his side, exuding a faint fragrance like a flowerbed in the sun.
"You'd better speed up."
But the words came out like a storm approaching.
“What’s wrong?”
“The Skaven are running faster than expected...”
"Next spring? Around New Year? It won't be this winter..."
Olmedo answered Annan's last guess: "At the speed they are traveling, yes."
>(End of Chapter)