Chapter 642: The Sword of Promised Victory... Maybe?
Spring of the 342nd year of the Holy Calendar.
That was the spring of the second year after the Torch Church was reunited.
The ratmen's city has already grown to a certain size.
This was originally an abandoned city. After Quiro led the rat tribe here, he began to arrange people to repair it.
The ratmen are not a race with much talent in construction, but after being enslaved and employed for many years, they have accumulated a lot of engineering experience.
This enabled them to build the city that Rand had arranged for them.
Rand's people also came here at this time to help the rat people build a city.
At this time, the ratman Quirrel was chatting with Rand's messenger.
The messengers who came here were Molin and Dazhuang.
After these two people completed their mission last time, they were absorbed as official members of the Sanctuary.
This time they volunteered to come to the Rat City to carry out the mission.
"Did His Majesty Rand know the harm the plague would cause, just as he knew me?" Quirrel and the messenger stood on the top of the city wall, looking at the wilderness outside the city.
At this time in the wilderness, sporadic undead spirits can be seen wandering around.
"Well, we haven't joined for very long, so we don't know what happened before, but there were actually clues about this plague very early on. His Majesty Rand had already warned the southern countries, but unfortunately they were destined not to believe it." Morin was also looking outside the city at this time.
Kuiruo said nothing.
Many questions in this world have no answers.
But he guessed that Rand must have some special means of obtaining intelligence, such as listening to God's prophecies?
If Rand really has a way to listen to God's prophecy in person, what will the future of the rat people be like in the prophecy?
Thanks to Rand's advice last time, he has obtained the holy weapon of the ratmen. Now, can the ratmen survive this plague?
I hope this crisis can be overcome smoothly. The rat people finally got some breathing space to survive, but they didn't expect to face such a test so soon.
Fate is never fair.
"Now we can only hope that His Majesty Rand's great talent and strategy can minimize the disaster brought about by this plague." Quirrel sighed.
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Soon, Rand received relevant information about the Rat City from the report.
The construction of the Ratman City went very smoothly and it should become a very useful chess piece. I hope the sacred artifacts of the Ratman tribe will be of some use by then.
Rand was not sure whether he had any so-called great talent.
But he was indeed closer to matters on God's side, which allowed him to obtain some intelligence in advance.
Rand also hopes that this crisis can be resolved sooner and with less losses.
His industrialization plan has not yet been implemented. If too many people die, it is unknown how long it will take before there is enough population to start the magical industrialization of his dreams.
Rand is quite looking forward to the future, but the evil gods of this world are really persistent in their evil goals.
"Our defense plan is gradually taking shape, but this should be all the good news, right?" Rand said with a smile.
Olenna, who was standing nearby, pushed her glasses helplessly: "Your Majesty Rand, it is true."
Because of the plague, Rand, a lazy man, has been working on the throne for several months.
With such efforts, the Northern Alliance is gradually taking shape, and the line of defense against the plague is also gradually taking shape.
The Champs Elysees Kingdom and the Lionheart Kingdom in the south no longer simply maintained a cooperative attitude as before, but now wanted to directly join and become Rand's allies.
The allies are gradually strengthening their determination to resist and are firmly trusting Rand's judgment.
Even some of the countries that were originally hostile to Rand and did not want their countries to be too influenced by the Church of the Goddess of Harvest and Health began to change their attitude towards Rand.
But this is not entirely a good thing.
The reason behind their change is naturally because the situation is getting worse.
"Some large cities in the southern countries have already fallen. I even suspect that some small countries have already entered the battle to defend their capitals. However, more specific information needs to be reported back by Elsa or Luca." Olenna continued.
"Okay, tell Elsa and Luca to stop when necessary and not to go too deep into the enemy territory alone. There may be incarnations of God among the enemies. If they go too deep into the enemy territory, they may not be able to escape unscathed." Rand said.
Olena nodded to indicate that she understood and would do it soon.
"Did Lysa make any preparations against the Scourge?" Rand asked.
Olena spread her hands and said, "I don't know about that. You should be the only one who knows the Moon Lady's situation best."
Rand found it a little funny to see Olenna spreading her hands. Now she would imitate Ellie or Rand and do some not-so-dignified movements.
"Okay, then let's not worry about Lisa's matter and wait for good news from her. We will make some preparations and go to the front line. What comes next is the real war, our war against the plague." Rand said slowly.
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Luca and his team of adventurers have now entered deep into the hinterland.
Thanks to Rand's intelligence and political assistance in the rear, as well as Luca's personal strength, no noble in the south dares to cause trouble for Luca now.
"What is this?" The dwarf in the team carried the battle axe on his shoulder and looked at the magnificent building in front of him.
It was a huge monster made of corpses, wood, and some iron sheets, and its shape looked like a giant toad.
"The undead are inlaid with wooden strips and iron sheets. They look reinforced. Are they siege units?" asked the more knowledgeable half-elf in the team.
"What's the nearest city?" Luca asked.
"It should be the nearby Black Rock City." The half-elf wizard opened the map and pointed.
"Let's go and remind them after we complete the task," Luca said.
The Sunshine Adventurer Team had no objections.
Although this Black Rock City was the camp that massacred the villages and moved closer to the Scourge, it was threatened by Rand and now belongs to its own camp.
When Luca's adventurer team of only six people was able to escape with a few children through the encirclement of the guards, the Duke of Black Rock realized the gap in strength.
The Scourge could probably destroy Blackrock easily, and Rand seems capable of doing so, too.
So I have been much more honest during this period.
"Let's focus on our mission now," Luca said.
Their mission is very simple, which is to investigate the density of the undead.
Currently, the Holy Land only knows in a very vague way that the plague came from the south, and that the Apostle of the Scourge is likely to personally go to the south to do something evil.
The Sanctuary needs to know more accurate information.
That's why there are many teams of adventurers and warriors in the sanctuary working to get a rough idea of which cities have more undead around them and which have fewer.
And if normal logic is correct, the location of the core of the Scourge can be roughly determined based on this difference in number density.
This core may not necessarily be "God", but it must be very important.
That will become a strategic goal.
This time, a large number of undead armies appeared in the south, but there were no obsidian towers to supply the undead with energy.
Well, if the Scourge Apostle did not directly supply the power of death from the Kingdom of God, it would most likely rely on the "core".
After Luca's team of Sun Adventurers advanced for a distance, they marked the map and prepared to retreat.
The undead here are of high quality and large in number, with powerful death knights and screaming banshees everywhere.
This density is a bit beyond what is needed for siege.
Luca didn't know what this meant, nor did he know if this was a coincidence, but it didn't matter. The work of judgment was not done by adventurers like them. They only needed to pass the information to His Majesty Rand.
The next step is to go to Black Rock City to issue a warning.
"Let's go." Luca said.
When Luca arrived at Black Rock City, it was no longer peaceful. Many guards were patrolling the city roads solemnly.
The sky was blue-gray, and many people in the city looked at the guards with fear, and the atmosphere was already somewhat solemn.
Luca frowned, it was very likely that there were cases of plague infection here.
Walking forward through a collapsed street, there were rubble and broken wood, which were naturally the remains of the Sunshine Adventurers' team when they fought their way out.
Luca still remembers the astonished expression on Duke Black Rock's face after the light waves from his Moonlight Greatsword split several brick and stone houses.
Luca soon met the Duke of Black Rock.
Duke Black Rock's attitude towards Luca was not very good, but now he is still rational.
"What are you doing here again?"
"Hurry up and prepare for defense. The undead army of the Scourge will soon arrive here. Among them are many high-level undead and giant monsters that have never been seen before." Luca said.
"Damn it." Duke Black Rock's expression was already ugly, and now it was even uglier.
Ever since he met the madman Luca, he started to have bad luck. Not only did he fail to reach a successful cooperation with the Scourge Cult, but now he is being attacked by the Undead army.
"Don't look like that. We will help you. Of course, it's not free. Remember to send the reward to His Majesty Rand." Luca smiled.
The Duke of Black Rock remained silent.
Luca continued to ask: "Is there a case of plague in the city?"
Duke Black Rock nodded to indicate that this was the case.
"Observe the Holy Code of Health, then clear out the suspected infected rats or humans in the city and ensure a clean living environment. These methods cannot solve the plague, but they can effectively slow down the spread." Luca was somewhat familiar with the Holy Code of Health.
Generally speaking, when the transmission rate is lower than the lethal rate, the problem is solved. Of course, the premise for solving the problem in this way is that the corpse will not stand up again to kill people or spread the plague.
This is the severity of the problem now.
When the god of the dead begins to spread the plague...
In fact, what Rand really wanted to say was that this kind of thing really allowed the Scourge to find a bug in the world. Using the undead to spread the plague, and it was at the level of the plague, was simply too cheating.
Under normal circumstances, the plague could be solved by just killing enough people, but now it is no longer so easy to solve.
Duke Black Rock was a little unhappy that a commoner gave him advice. He knew what to do, but thinking of Luca's Moonlight Greatsword, he did not give Luca a cold look.
Seeing that Duke Black Rock didn't say anything, Luca left with the Sunlight Adventurers.
Soon, the Scourge's undead legions arrived as expected.
The huge undead toad, whose body was inlaid with wood and iron sheets, also appeared in front of the defenders.
This undead toad is much taller than the walls of Black Rock City.
This caused the morale of the defenders, who had almost no experience fighting the undead, to collapse.
At this time, Luca was already standing on the top of the city wall.
The situation had been anticipated.
So he was prepared.
"Balablaba... Goddess of Harvest and Health bless me." Luca raised the Moonlight Greatsword.
Strong winds blew above the city walls, and giant crows glided across the sky.
This is naturally Crow Coke.
There are a large number of flying creatures following Crow Cola.
These are dragon-blooded falcons that cannot carry people but can fly on their own. They look a bit like an array of migratory birds in the sky.
The power of cattle and horses can suppress the power of other gods.
The Dragon Blood Hound will have stronger suppressive power.
The arrival of a large number of dragon-blood eagles immediately weakened this giant siege monster built from countless corpses.
At this time, the brilliance of Luca's Moonlight Greatsword was becoming brighter and brighter.
Many magicians who came here at Luca's request poured their magic power into the Moonlight Greatsword.
The light seemed to extend the sword hundreds of feet.
The surging power seemed to pierce the sky.
Luca tried his best to control the power of the Moonlight Greatsword.
Then he roared, "Take it."
The Moonlight Greatsword shot out a wave of light, and in a breath of time, it arrived in front of the giant siege undead, and then cut a crack in the body of this huge undead.
The core of the huge undead body was exposed to the outside world.
At this time, Luca jumped off the city wall without hesitation, and stabbed the giant toad undead that was unable to move with the moonlight sword that still had some afterglow.
And of course Rand also saw this scene from the perspective of Crow Coke.
It seems that Luca really has some talent. When Rand checked the Moonlight Greatsword, it was just an ordinary magic weapon. Now Luca has upgraded it in some way and it can actually emit such light waves.
However, if he were in Luca's position, he would definitely shout some slogans, such as: "Sword of Pledge of Victory..." and so on.
Unfortunately, Luka doesn't have the habit of shouting some mysterious, powerful-sounding slogans before using his ultimate moves.
Luca successfully killed the giant undead.
The huge undead collapsed after losing its core, turning into countless pieces of flesh and corpses that were wriggling and trying to stand up.
After witnessing such a scene, the defenders were no longer as frightened as before.
The Duke of Black Rock, who had already escaped, now returned to Black Rock City with his army.
(End of this chapter)
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