Chapter 358 Before the Curtain Call (Part 1)

After sobering up, the Norse dwarf successfully conveyed the bad news from the land of giants - the trolls were restless, and the dwarf butchers discovered that a large number of trolls and giants were pouring into the troll kingdom.

At the same time, when planning new urban construction projects, the dwarf technicians accidentally discovered unusual movements coming from underground.

They used exploration machines to get some bad feedback from underground. There were a large number of humanoid dwarves, who were definitely ratmen, moving south along the underground cave.

Obviously, these things have nothing to do with the dwarves, but after losing the siege of the Eslin tribe, they don't mind resuming information exchanges with the human kingdom in the south.

In the Southern Province, the Cossack Legion stationed at the Jakova Fortress encountered a sudden greenskin invasion when they were replacing guard with a detachment of the Griffin Legion from the city of Kislev.

The goblins were all killed outside the city wall by Cosa's arrows, and the orcs were disorganized after several rounds of charges after the winged cavalry joined the battlefield.

There were as many as three or four thousand of them, but the fortress also had a human garrison of that number, so their attack was futile.

The adjutant of the Griffin Legion who led the army on behalf of the Tsar speculated that this was just the vanguard of the greenskins, and the scouts he sent to investigate Red Eye Mountain never returned.

It was not until three days later that a lightly armed rider covered in blood returned to the fortress.

Now everyone knows that the greenskins are coming, and according to the scouts' observations, their number is tens of thousands.

Obviously, this is not an enemy that can be repelled by a fortress alone. The Tsar should call all the brothers of the Griffin Legion to guard the fortress.

The Bretonnian expedition approached Ostermark along the border of Ostland.

During this period they were attacked by beastmen many times, but these roving beastman thieves were no match for the knights.

When they entered the border of Ostermark, they encountered a night attack by the undead. In front of tens of thousands of lances, all the fools who dared to offend them fell back into the dust.

Perhaps the Lady of the Lake sent them here to purify the undead. There seemed to be no other enemies worth worrying about on Imperial land.

As for the Norsemen, who the Empire was worried about? They retreated after a tentative attack on the port. It turned out that the Norsemen were not the biggest threat to the Bretonnians.

Just as Egil had expected, humans always focused their attention on one point when faced with the Norse raids.

Prejudice is eternal. The Norscans discriminate against the physical fitness of the Imperials, while the Imperials laugh at the intelligence of the Norscans.

When Egil changed his mind and used the imperial tricks to carry out a smuggling operation, no one discovered the conspiracy.

They successfully entered the interior of Ostland.

Of course, the Norsemen were not naturally good at hiding, and they would always flock to human towns, and every warrior of the Blood God would not think about anything other than fighting.

But under the strict orders of their chief, the warriors of the Skylin tribe suppressed their desire to rob towns. They only massacred a few remote villages to ease the logistical pressure. After all, not all Norscans were Chaos Warriors.

The tribal wizards used some simple spells to hide this huge army, so at least the stupid southerners never discovered them.

When the southerners discover the spirited Norse army in the rear after a tough battle, they will surely be pleasantly surprised.

After resolving the surprise sent by the beastmen, Lynch discovered something strange.

Several blood descendants he captured later reported the different locations of the stone slabs. Based on the trajectories they described, Lynch could be sure that this was not a clue of multiple stone slabs, but a stone slab being moved to a hidden location.

This is not surprising; it would be abnormal if the vampire allowed him to dig up the grave and take the slate.

After visiting dozens of local nobles along the way, Lynch discovered that the migration trajectory of the stone slabs was intentionally avoiding one area.

In order to avoid Lynch's pursuit, the slate has traveled to areas outside the northwest of Sylvania, and its footprints have even repeated themselves.

Now it wanders southern Sylvania.

There seems to be a powerful individual roaming the southwestern swamps of this land.

Maybe the vampire wants to use that unknown existence to deal with the lizard people.

Nagash withdrew his gaze from Kislev and did not even think of looking at Sylvania.

The Imperials were about to push their army to Castle Taranhof, and the Ratmen failed to attack the Imperials' rear from the west as planned. The situation seemed to be very bad if it wasn't here.

Even without the interference from underground, the Imperials encountered obstacles in Sylvania.

Usoran did a good job. The descendants of Sigmar were as fragile as Nagash had expected. Their legions were defeated in the southern swamps, and their opponent was just a vampire from the Strigoi family.

The Imperials have never been an obstacle to Nagash. After the ritual is completed, it only needs to wave its hands a few times to destroy the seemingly invincible human army.

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The Beastmen extended a helping hand just in time. Although they could only harass the Imperial supply lines, their presence allowed Nagash to gain precious time.

After today, time won't be so valuable.

As expected, the dwarves of the World's Edge Mountains cooperated with the Empire in responding accordingly. More than 300 dwarves have fought their way from Stromgate to Eshen, but their main army is in Karak Kadrin, which makes Nagash unsure of their movements.

Are those 300+ dwarves going to die? Or are the dwarves preparing to attack from both the north and south? Before today, Nagash would have cared about the dwarves' actions, but now everything is different.

The time has come.

After discovering traces of human construction, the "coward" Fermat was certain that they had reached the original site of the Strigoi Empire.

It was strange that the residents of this vampire empire did not resist at all. Fermat thought that the green tide would encounter strong obstacles, but Usoran did not seem to be here.

There were very few vampires and humans in the ruins of the Strigoi Empire, but the number of ghouls was in line with Fermat's expectations.

The Strigoi hid underground when they discovered the Green Tide, but the protection of the Ghoul King was not so effective in the face of the Green Tide.

Groups of big guys beat the Strigoi to death one by one, and the ghouls became food for the goblins and farts. Their numbers were enough to fill the dense mines underground, but there were more greenskins.

Their human subjects have since followed in the footsteps of their protectors.

The Strigoi champion, probably a "General Protector of the Nation", had his head easily broken by Gorbad Ironclaw, and it was hung on the side of the orc war general's war boar.

The poor vampire who still had some illusions witnessed another disaster in the land of Strigoi.

Perhaps it should get used to it, just as it once did when the Strigoi Empire was destroyed by the Green Tide.

(End of this chapter)