Chapter 298, The Flame of Hatred
The Rat War seems to be carrying out some kind of planning and preparation.
Preparations for white mice.
Although he seems to have overlooked or underestimated something.
A force with only hatred left set out, and the traces of some long-lost guys have not been noticed for too long.
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In front of an ordinary city that is not too tall, there are many flags standing there, and the scene is particularly lively. They are the flags of the churches of the gods, and a recruitment meeting is taking place at this time.
Not long ago, the brutal rat plague swept through this area. Many people lost their relatives, property, houses, lovers, or more.
But now, this recruitment fair is particularly lively. It may also be called a job fair. There seems to be no difference.
Recruit people who are willing to join this war.
This is a holy war, launched in the name of the human gods. In theory, the church of the gods does not have the ability to recruit troops so blatantly. This right should belong to the nobles and nobles who control this area.
But the prince stood with these churches.
Well, that's not important.
This recruitment meeting, this recruitment meeting in front of the city gate is particularly lively.
The expressions on their faces at this time can be described as frustrated people and numb people. Perhaps they can be described as forced smiles.
I'm just forcing a smile, but I'm still smiling anyway.
The deliberately arranged excitement even attracted many children in the city to peek from a distance.
After darkness fell, it had been a long time since there was such a lively scene. Everyone was so busy and so sad.
It’s lively.
A young man sat blankly on a tree stump, with a blood-stained sword beside him. No fatigue from long-term labor could be seen on his body, the kind of feeling that had been baptized by wind and frost. feeling.
A bulging money bag was placed beside him casually, together with the blood-stained sword.
The young man was a knight's squire, once.
His story is nothing new. When the rat men came, everything was ruined, and then he survived by chance and came here.
The Church of the Gods is not stingy, and gave a large amount of money after signing the contract.
This attracted many third-rate mercenaries who were about to have a hard time living and join the army.
Not far away, a middle-aged man wearing leather armor gave his money bag to a timid woman with a hearty laugh.
Okay, everyone knows what the money represents, but at least, at least the price offered by the Church of the Gods is indeed generous.
Many third-rate mercenaries will no longer be able to support them any longer. Such recruitment and this money have become life-saving straws.
Once upon a time, when the sun was high in the sky.
You can see all kinds of mercenaries in almost every city.
For the Dark Eye people, mercenaries do not have much other meanings, and their social status is not high. They are more like a supplement to the guards. In areas where many lords impose excessive taxes, the villages there Most of them can't even support the amateur militiamen who guard the villages. At this time, there is room for these mercenaries to play.
Most of them do some simple and not dangerous things, such as driving away goblins, collecting fishmen from streams, and other tasks. The biggest leeway may be to coax and intimidate the villagers who have little knowledge. Adding some reward to yourself, or adding some dried meat to the meals during the commissioning period, something like that.
Most mercenaries have a bad life.
Although some powerful mercenary groups can indeed intervene in disputes between nobles.
But most guys are dealing with these trivial things.
The sources of mercenaries are also diverse. A large part of them are young people who cannot inherit their family's land and are unwilling to sell themselves to their lords to become serfs. They don't know what to do, so they just slap their heads and declare themselves to be serfs. hired a mercenary.
This is a very common thing. Not only the nobles will determine the heirs, but ordinary farmers will also choose a child to pass on everything in the family. The logic of this is the same as that between the nobles. The logic of heir selection is consistent.
No matter how powerful a noble family is, it cannot survive several splits, and no matter how wealthy a farmer is, he will not be stupid enough to divide the land in his hands equally among his sons.
A larger field is more likely to support a family.
Well, in fact, it means the solidification of classes. In this decadent empire, whether they are nobles or ordinary farmers, they have almost no possibility of upward progress and are spending all their money. He used all his strength to grasp the things he held in his hands even more tightly.
This situation will undoubtedly continue.
Until the arrival of the rat people, everything changed.
Many of these busy third-rate mercenaries chose to participate in this war.
Most of them are just a little stronger than ordinary people. For them, participating in a real war is obviously a bit out of line.
But there is no way.
In the past, you could barely maintain a difficult life by being busy, but now, if you don't join in this war, it will be difficult to maintain a difficult life.
The absent-minded young man glanced enviously at the middle-aged man not far away. At least, at least that guy would still be missed.
Starting a war with the Skaven Empire would really not be good news, because these lunatics came for all-out war from the beginning.
For those high-ranking nobles, it is still unclear, but for those ordinary people with dark eyes, there are only two situations: they have no choice but to join the battlefield due to the involvement of the war, or they are killed by the rat people. After a violent cleansing, he set out on the battlefield with nothing but hatred.
The young man picked up the bloody sword in his hand and did not grab the bulging money bag. Even though the money was so rich, he didn't know where to use it. .
Everything around was so lively, everything happened in front of the city gate, and there was even a wonderful acrobatic performance in the middle.
Which prince ordered all this.
It’s not that it has no effect, it brings some comfort.
The lively scene lasted for three days. On the third day, the Church of the Gods left with a huge team and disappeared into the deep darkness.
The heavy city gate closed with the creaking sound of gears turning. The children who were most reluctant to part with all this were the children.
It's just clear that this team isn't going to stop for the kids in the city.
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In front of the plateau lying horizontally in the middle of the three provinces, something different is happening.
Today, some special guests seem to be ready to visit this plateau.
A group of mages arrived here.
The leader is an old mage with a long white beard and a pointed hat. This is a very orthodox mage attire that often appears in magic associations that are about to be eliminated.
Although the magic associations of the Youyan tribe are the predecessors of today's magic academies, there are probably not many mages who wear such attire anymore. This old mage was the leader of the mage team. With the blessing of magic, they began to climb towards the plateau.
The cold that once caused great damage to Rat War is obviously not a big problem for these mages. They only need a constant temperature spell, a wind and snow protection, and a If you walk on flat ground, then there won't be any trouble at all.
This group of mages is a group of investigators.
The investigators who set out to prepare for a major project came from the brightly lit City of the Sun and from the prestigious No. 1 Academy of Magical Elements in the Empire.
The magic industrial system is progressing in great strides among the Youyan people.
The core of magic power that has unlocked the restrictions is that epoch-making thing. In other words, the huge controllable magic element has created the progress of the people of the Dark Eye in the magic civilization.
All the mages were ecstatic during this period, until they suddenly got stuck.
The power of the elemental turbulence cannon has created a huge demand, but the production capacity has entered a bottleneck. The traditional magic workshop model can no longer keep up with the times.
Faced with the huge demand and the nobles who were wielding a lot of gold soldiers to buy elemental chaos cannons, an innovation was obviously necessary.
A more advanced, larger, and more productive magic industrial zone entered the planning process, and then, it got stuck.
The mages who designed the Magic Industrial Zone discovered an unavoidable problem.
The shortage of magic power means that the amount of magic power required to operate a huge magic power industrial zone normally is an incalculable amount.
It is so huge that even if it drains out all the elements scattered in the surrounding environment, it may not be enough.
This is an unavoidable problem. After all, the total amount of magic power in an area is there. Even if it is drained out, it will not be enough.
In order to solve this problem, the mages of the Youyan tribe began to try in two directions.
The first is to find ways to gather the magic power in a larger area, and the second is to find some special places and areas where magic power is naturally concentrated.
So a group of investigating mages set off.
Is there such a place in the Youyan Human Empire, or in other words, is there such a magical place in the main continent.
There really is, and this plateau that makes Rat War so embarrassed is such a place.
The further you climb toward the plateau, the more clearly you can detect the presence of elements. Such clarity indicates an increase in the concentration of elements.
Such a discovery made this team of mages ecstatic. They were looking for such a place.
Hurry, we are almost on the plateau.
There was just a little trouble to solve before that. A group of plateau barbarians riding giant lizards appeared in front of the mages.
With eager expressions on their faces, these plateau barbarians not only did not welcome the rat people, they also seemed not to welcome the mage's visit.
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After completing the handover of the goods in hand, Rat Zhan no longer stayed at this border area, did not continue to move forward along this border area, but began to turn back in the direction from whence it came.
That area has already been swept away by the rat war once, and there are no valuable targets except for the cities that are difficult to chew.
Rat War is not planning to attack the city so quickly, at least it is not planning to attack these unimportant small cities.
So why go back the same way?
In order to avoid humans figuring out their course of action.
Go back and kill the carbine, and then continue to run towards the hinterland of the Youyan human race. After learning about Shengqi and Shengqi's sea route, the last trace of the advance towards the hinterland of the Youyan human empire has been lost. No more.
Then it is natural to move forward. Rat War does not want to be firmly blocked by large-scale troops again for endless exchanges and confrontations.
Waving that pitch-black flag, the endless rat people entrenched in this area began to move.
Well, even if most of the rat men were abandoned and a lot of them were lost in the running and killing, the scale of the Eastern Expeditionary Force in Rat Zhan's hands was still so huge.
The rat people are coming back again, but I don’t know if the ghost-eyed people in the area that was just tortured are ready.
The Rat War ran into a human army. The number was not large enough, they carried various styles of flags, and the equipment was not good enough.
The commander of this human army did not expect the rat men to turn back.
During this period of time, the Rat Man's trajectory has always been very clear, and he almost never looked back or turned back to visit the area he had raided again.
Unfortunately, this was the first time they hit me, so there seemed to be no more options.
While shouting, the battle begins.
The number of this human team was completely crushed, and there was basically no suspense about the outcome. However, the morale of the soldiers in this human team rarely collapsed, and even wavered here. Rarely seen among human warriors.
Rat Zhan originally thought that the guys he encountered would fall down in a rush, but he did not expect that these guys actually shook the Eastern Expeditionary Force in his hands. Although the time was short, it was in The collision caused the Eastern Expeditionary Force to stand still for a moment.
It just doesn’t change anything.
Soon after, these lunatic guys were killed by the rat people. The eyes of these rat people who were at the forefront of the battle had a trace of fear and fear. In the battle just now, some humans behaved like crazy. , it kind of makes people wonder who is the real rat man.
The battle has entered the final stage, and there are not many human warriors left standing.
Unfortunately, these guys collided head-on with the rat people before they joined the main force.
A young man, holding a blood-stained sword, gasped for air in the battlefield. His abdomen was penetrated by a rat-man spear. The spear had not been pulled out and was stuck in his abdomen.
It's hard to say whether the early encounter with the Rat Man is a good thing or a bad thing for this young man. Death is not an unacceptable thing. During this time, the young man has always felt this way.
Only just now, he watched with his own eyes the concerned middle-aged mercenary being swarmed to death by the rat people and having his head cut off.
Unspeakable anger, eyes red.
A loud and angry roar.
“You damn guys!”
The angry young man charged regardless, in the unspeakable anger and hatred, but he was not a hero after all, after killing several After the rat warrior, he was caught because he was too aggressive and was attacked from behind by a rat warrior.
At that moment, he saw his body.
The way of death was the same as that of the middle-aged mercenary, his head was cut off.
The battle ended not long after. It was a battle without any suspense, but it really hindered the Eastern Expeditionary Force from running wildly.
Although this obstacle is so weak, there is no way to even make Rat Zhan pay more attention to it.
(End of this chapter)