Chapter 298, The Flame of Hatred

Chapter 298, The Flame of Hatred

The rat war seems to be undergoing some kind of planning and preparation.

Preparation for white mice.

Although he seems to have overlooked or underestimated something.

A troop with only hatred left set out, and the traces of some long-lost guys had 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 fight in 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.

However, 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 the faces of these frustrated people and numb people can perhaps be described as forced smiles.

I'm just forcing a smile, but I'm still smiling anyway.

The deliberately arranged liveliness even attracted many children in the city to peek at it from a distance.

After darkness fell, it had been a long time since there had been such a lively scene. Everyone was so busy and so sad.

Lively and lively.

A young man sat blankly on a tree stump, with a blood-stained sword beside him. There was no trace of the fatigue caused by long-term labor, or the feeling of being baptized by wind and frost.

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. The rat men came, everything was ruined, and then he survived by chance and came here.

The Church of the Gods was not stingy and gave a large amount of money after signing the contract.

This attracted many third-rate mercenaries who were almost unable to survive to 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.

Well, everyone knows what the money represents, but at least, at least the price offered by the Church of 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 in streams, and other such tasks. The biggest leeway may be to coax and intimidate the villagers who have little knowledge and add some rewards to themselves. , or something like adding some dried meat to the meal during the commissioning period.

Most mercenaries are not doing well.

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 nobles will determine their heirs, but ordinary farmers will also choose a child to pass on everything in the family. The logic of this is the same as the logic of heir selection among nobles. of.

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 they are all trying their best to control the situation in their hands. Those who live here are more likely to be caught.

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.

Going to war with the Skaven Empire is not good news, because these lunatics are aiming for a total war from the beginning.

For those nobles who are high above, it is still unknown, but for those ordinary ghost-eyed people, there are only two situations: they have no choice but to join the battlefield in the war, or they are violently cleansed by the Skavens and step onto the battlefield with hatred and nothing.

The young man picked up the bloody sword at hand and did not grab the bulging money bag. Even if the money was so generous, he didn't know where to spend 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 to be done.

It's not that there is no effect, it brought some comfort.

The lively scene lasted for three days. On the third day, the Church of the Gods left with a large team and disappeared in the deep darkness.

The heavy city gate closed with the creaking sound of gears turning. The ones who were most reluctant to leave were the children.

But it was obvious that this team would not stop because of the children in the city.

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In front of the plateau lying between the three provinces, something different was happening.

Today, some special guests seemed ready to visit this plateau.

A group of mages arrived here.

The leader was an old mage with a long white beard and a pointed hat. This was a very orthodox mage outfit, often appearing in magic associations that were about to be eliminated.

Although the magic associations of the Ghost Eye people were the predecessors of today's magic academies, there were probably not many mages who would wear such attire.

This old mage was the leader of this mage team. With the blessing of magic, they began to climb towards this plateau.

The cold that had caused great harm to the Rat War was obviously not a big problem for these mages. They only needed a constant temperature spell, a snow and wind spell, and a flat ground spell, and there would be no trouble at all.

This group of mages was a group of explorers.

The explorers who set out to prepare for a major project came from the brightly lit City of the Sun and the prestigious Empire's First School of Magic Elements.

The magic industry system was progressing in a big step among the Youyan people.

The magic core that had been untied was the epoch-making thing, or the huge manipulable magic elements created the progress of the Youyan people in magic civilization.

All the mages were ecstatic during this period until the sudden jam.

The power of the elemental chaos cannon brought great demand, but the production capacity had reached a bottleneck, and the traditional magic workshop model could no longer keep up with the times.

Faced with the huge demand and the nobles who were waving a lot of gold soldiers to buy the elemental chaos cannon, a reform was obviously necessary.

A more advanced, larger, and more productive magic industrial zone was put into planning, and then, it got stuck.

The mages who designed the magic industrial zone found an unavoidable problem.

The shortage of magic power, the magic power required to make a huge magic industrial zone operate normally is an incalculable amount.

It is so large that even if all the elements diffused in the surrounding large environment are drained, 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 all are drained, it is still not enough.

In order to solve this problem, the mages of the Youyan people began to try in two directions.

One is to find a way to gather magic power in a larger area, and the other is to find some special places, to find those areas where magic power is naturally enriched.

So a group of survey mages set off.

Is there such a place in the Youyan human empire, or is there such a magical place in the main continent?

There really is, this plateau that made the rat war embarrassed is such a place.

The more you climb up the plateau, the more you can clearly feel the existence of elements. Such clarity indicates that the concentration of elements is increasing.

Such a discovery makes the team of mages ecstatic. They are looking for such a place.

Almost there, they are about to climb to the plateau.

But before that, there is still a small trouble to be solved. A team of plateau barbarians riding giant lizards appeared in front of the mages.

With a covetous expression, these plateau barbarians not only do not welcome the rat people, but also do not seem to welcome the visit of mages.

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After completing the handover of the batch of goods in his hands, Shu Zhan no longer stayed in this border area, did not continue to move forward along this border area, but began to turn back from the direction he came.

That area has been swept by Shu Zhan once, and there are no valuable targets except for the difficult cities.

Shu Zhan is not prepared to attack the city so quickly, at least not to attack these unimportant small cities.

So why return the original route.

In order to avoid being figured out by humans.

They turned back and made a surprise attack, then continued to rush towards the heartland of the Youyan human race. After learning about Sheng Qi and Sheng Qi's sea route, they no longer had any hope of advancing towards the heartland of the Youyan human empire.

Of course, they had to move forward. Rat War didn't want to be blocked by a large-scale army again and have endless exchanges and confrontations.

Waving the black flag, the endless rats entrenched in this area began to move.

Well, even if most of them were abandoned and many rats were lost in running and killing, the scale of the Eastern Expeditionary Force in Rat War's hands was still so huge.

The rats were coming back again, but I didn't know whether the ghost-eyed people in the area that had just been abused were ready.

Rat War ran into a human army, which was not large enough, carrying various styles of flags, and the equipment was not good enough.

The commander of this human army did not expect the rats to turn back.

During this period, the rats' movement trajectory has always been very clear. They almost never turned back and did not return to visit the swept area again.

Unfortunately, this was the first time they ran into them, so there was no more choice.

In the shouting, the battle began like this.

The number of this human team was completely crushed, and the outcome was basically undecided, but the warriors in this human team rarely had morale collapse, and even wavering was rarely seen among this group of human warriors.

Shu Zhan originally thought that the guys in front of him would probably fall down at the first charge, but he didn't expect that these guys actually shook the Eastern Expeditionary Army in his hands. Although that time was very short, it caused the Eastern Expeditionary Army to stagnate for a moment in the collision.

But it didn't change anything.

Not long after, these crazy guys were killed by the rats. These rats who fell on the front line of the battle had a trace of fear and fear in their eyes. In the battle just now, some human performances and that crazy posture made people wonder who was the real rat.

The battle entered the final stage, and there were only a few human warriors left standing.

Unfortunately, these guys collided with the rats head-on before they joined the main force.

A young man, holding a blood-stained sword, gasped in the battlefield, with a ratman spear piercing his abdomen. The spear had not been pulled out and was stuck in his abdomen.

It was hard to say whether the early encounter with the ratman was a good thing or a bad thing for the young man. Death was not something difficult to accept. During this period of time, the young man always felt that way.

Just now, he saw with his own eyes that the middle-aged mercenary who was worried about was killed by the ratmen and his head was cut off.

Indescribable anger, red eyes.

Loud and angry roar.

"You damn guys!"

The furious young man charged regardless of the indescribable anger and hatred, but he was not a hero after all. After killing several ratmen warriors, he was caught because he was too aggressive and was attacked from behind by a ratman warrior.

At that moment, he saw his body.

The way he died was the same as that of the middle-aged mercenary, both of them were beheaded.

The battle ended soon after. It was a battle without much suspense, but it did hinder the Eastern Expeditionary Force's mad rush.

Although this obstacle was so weak that it couldn't even make Shu Zhan pay more attention.