He shot an arrow imbued with purple flames into the 'sea of ​​zombie rats' behind him, and then, taking a brief breath from the explosion, Ackerman climbed onto the roof of a two-story guesthouse.

Following behind Ackerman, Parney, her face pale with fright, used her snake tail to wrap around the pillar, her whole body like a gecko, and frantically rushed onto the roof.

Ackerman nocked an arrow and unleashed a violent explosion at the edge of the house, blasting away the rats chasing the snake woman and barely saving her.

Parney used her snake tail to tightly wrap around the chimney on the roof, glanced back, and saw that the street was completely blocked by tens of thousands of rats.

Several civilians who ran out of the house were turned into mangled corpses before they could even scream.

“Oh my god, there are so many…” Parney looked at Ackerman and asked worriedly, “What about my sister…”

Ackerman gasped for breath: "Parley will be fine. She's near the port, and there's a military camp right next to her."

Ackerman lay on the roof and looked down along the eaves.

Rats kept emerging from underground, as if there was a bottomless abyss filled with rats beneath the city.

The dense swarm of rats grew like an ever-expanding carpet, thicker and more numerous, and together with the wriggling black parasites, it looked like a disgusting black swamp.

"The rats in the streets are piled up to be over a meter high. Where did all these monsters come from?" Ackerman, pale-faced, withdrew his head. "I can fight to the death against an army. But these rats are like a tide; there's simply no way to defeat them..."

Parney curled up into a ball, her snake hair trembling, and whispered, "What should we do?"

Ackerman first looked around, then gazed into the distance.

"It's not safe here, we have to find a way to get off this roof."

Parney looked in the direction Ackerman was pointing and saw another two-story house about seven or eight meters away from the guesthouse at her feet.

Parney immediately understood what Ackerman was trying to do.

"I can't get over it! I can't jump as far as you!" Parney clung tightly to the chimney, her face filled with despair. "Since I became this body, I can't even jump over a small ditch!"

After glancing at the ever-growing sea of ​​rats on the street, Ackerman anxiously looked around.

Soon, his gaze fell upon a long wooden plank placed on the roof.

First, he gestured with his hands to indicate the length of the wooden planks, and then he measured the distance between the guesthouses.

Parney seemed to see through Ackerman's thoughts: "No! That's not a good idea!"

Ackerman turned to look at her and said helplessly, "But this is the only way we can do right now."

Parne glanced at the rats under the roof, then at the houses not far away, and finally nodded.

He lifted the plank and placed it between the two rooftops. Ackerman stepped on it to test its stability before easily walking across.

Parni lay on one end of the plank, peeked out at the sea of ​​rats under the house, then quickly shrank back, no longer daring to move.

Ackerman yelled at her, "You can do it! Don't look down!"

"I can't do it!" Parney finally shouted desperately, "I'm most afraid of mice!"

Anxious and distraught, Ackerman shouted, "Look at those zombies in the streets! Do you want to become like them?!"

Parni did as she was told and looked toward the street.

Several humanoid corpses, covered in black parasites, stood out starkly against the vast sea of ​​rats.

Parne closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and slowly climbed onto the wooden plank.

Just as she was slowly crawling toward the opposite roof, a group of parasitic rats emerged from the chimney and swarmed onto the roof.

"Damn it!" Ackerman shouted at Parney as he nocked an arrow, "Hurry up!"

Ackerman fired an arrow wreathed in purple flames, which landed on the roof, halting the swarm of rats while the powerful explosion ripped off the wooden planks.

Parney screamed and flipped to her side, falling straight down into the street.

In a panic, Ackerman dropped his bow and rushed to the edge of the roof, grabbing the eaves with one hand and holding onto Parney tightly with the other.

Beneath my feet lay a desolate wasteland, like a vast ocean, while behind me, rats swarmed in from the chimneys.

Hearing the piercing squeaking of the rats in her ears, Parney looked at Ackerman with teary eyes and said, "Let me go, get out of here!"

Ackerman gave a strained smile and said in a deep voice, "In my world, there has never been an option to abandon a woman and live alone."

Parney cried out, "Idiot!"

Ackerman pricked up his ears and shushed Parney twice: "You're the stupid woman, listen carefully!"

Parni shut her mouth, and faintly heard the clear cry of a griffin coming from the horizon.

"It's the Valkyries!" Parni exclaimed excitedly. "They're here! We're here!"

"Stop shouting!" Ackerman said helplessly. "They're too far away from here. No matter how loud you shout, they won't hear you."

Parney used her snake tail to wrap around the window frame beside her, relieving Ackerman's pressure, and asked, "Then what should we do?"

Ackerman glanced into the distance, laboriously freeing one hand to retrieve the Dragon God Badge from his chest, then closed his eyes and activated his spirit to begin working on his soul space.

In an instant, Ackerman's soul entered the soul space and found the Valkyrie closest to him.

A moment later, Ackerman opened his eyes.

He said to Parney, "Alright, they'll be here soon."

Parney visibly relaxed, but quickly opened her eyes wide in fear.

"Those rats are crawling over here!"

Sensing the presence of living beings, nearly a hundred rats rushed towards Parni along the wall.

Parney turned her face toward the swarm of rats, and the snake hair on her head instantly burst into white light.

In an instant, the zombie rats on the wall stiffened, their skin turned gray, and they all fell to the ground.

Things aren't going well for Ackerman either.

Wave after wave of rats crawled out of the chimney and rushed toward the immobile Ackerman.

Ackerman, who dared not let go, used his other hand, which he could only move, to grab a piece of broken wood that had been scattered after the explosion.

Using his supernatural power to ignite the purple flame, Ackerman brandished it, forcing back the rats while listening to the increasingly loud wind in his ears, shouting, "For the sake of Boss Dragon God, hurry up!"

Finally, a heavenly voice came from the sky.

"It's a rare sight to see the Supreme Commander of the Crusade in such a disheveled state."

Ackerman raised his head and looked up.

Evie, with her long silver hair, looked at him with amusement as she tossed a rope off the griffin's back.