Chapter 365 The Long Night (VI)
By now everyone is certain that the enemy they are facing is the rat man from urban legends.
If any more imperial scholars dared to stand in front of them and speak nonsense, promoting the "no rat theory", every knight was confident that they would leave a shocking slap in the face.
madman!
Ikit stared in amazement at the Imperial Knights who were still charging in the dense rain woven by the Ratlin, and almost lost his grip on the experimental ball in his hand.
Crazy, all human beings are crazy.
This is simply impossible. Why didn't their tattered armor get pierced by the dimensional stone bullets? Why did their exposed skin just turn into charcoal instead of being torn off completely?
It was as if reality was playing a joke as humans shouting the name "Sigma" were running rampant among the rats. The most seriously injured human knight had even been shot through the chest by a Dimension's gun, but it seemed as if he didn't have any fatal wounds.
From a scientific point of view, these human things should have died long ago.
But this was magic, although Ikit was sure that the human wizard had not cast any spell on these knights at all.
Ikit couldn't help but recall the tragic scene during the last war with the Empire. Back then, these humans with backward weapons were so contemptuous of reality that thousands of rats couldn't even surpass hundreds of human soldiers.
Now it seems that the initial failure was not accidental.
Maybe it's time to retreat and let the Gray Prophet face this city of lunatics alone. Ikit doesn't want to die in a stray bullet.
The great engineer installed the dimensional cannon skillfully, not even daring to calibrate it, and fled into the sewer in the blink of an eye. Humans were about to rush in this direction.
The unlucky ratman who was chosen took over the post tremblingly, and operated the turret under the command of the engineering warlock from dozens of meters away.
There is no doubt that it would be most valuable to fire a shot at the human tower at this time, but no ratman is willing to sacrifice his life for it. They would rather send firecrackers to the enemies in front of them.
So they did.
The sound of the artillery shocked the entire Xicheng District, and the human artillery fire in other directions became insignificant in the roar that resounded through the sky.
Ikit was quick-witted and used the depth of the sewer to avoid the self-destructing dimensional stone cannon, but the human knight who was rushing towards the Skaven gun position was not so lucky.
The green flames devoured dozens of connected buildings and more ratmen than Shashuo. The rolling green light broke through the dark clouds, and the shock wave, accompanied by a dark green heat wave, engulfed the half-griffin and its knight.
The horrific explosion flattened everything within a radius of hundreds of meters in an instant. The high temperature vaporized the flesh and blood. When the smoke dissipated, only a pool of crystallized green glass remained.
Ikit fled for nearly a thousand meters in the sewer before stopping. It was sure that the human was dead. In any case, the cannon it assembled completed its mission, although the dimensional cannon should have flattened the human's tower instead of just killing a half-griffin knight.
Slight tremors echoed underground, which was normal as there were artillery fire everywhere in the city.
But Ikit was keenly aware of a completely different vibration - a large group of giant creatures were passing by on the ground.
It approached the ground cautiously, and took a peek at the outside world through the gap connecting to the ground: there were fifty-one humans riding on half-griffins rushing towards the ratmen's ground position. The Horned Rat could testify that the rats could not stop them at all.
Without hesitation, Ikit ran deep into the underground without looking back, approaching the faint sound of the bell.
If the Grey Seers did not retreat, Ikit would act out how he unexpectedly disappeared and reappeared after the battle.
Let Nagash and the Beastmen fight to the death with the Humans. Skaven should not be on the surface. They should continue to move north to steal the bodies of the gods instead of fighting the Imperials for short-term benefits.
The Kislevites are much easier to bully than the Imperials. At least that's what the mutant pioneers of the Corrupted Clan told Ikit. A ratman who doesn't look for weak targets is undoubtedly unqualified.
Just as the Elector had expected, the Blood Shield Knights completed their mission brilliantly. First, the enemy's firepower on the north side disappeared, and then the noise from the east and west stopped.
The support from the Knights of Tal's Fury was the last straw that broke the camel's back. When the Demi-Griffin Knights emerged from the darkness and crushed the rats into meat scraps, the endless swarms of rats began to flee.
It is an ironic fact that Nok and his colleagues of the Black Griffin Knights are hiding in the Griffin Forest of Ostermark. They, the knight captains who were supposed to be commanders at the front, have now become roving leaders of the rebels.
The dark forest trapped their vision. They didn't even know what was happening in the outside world, or whether the Empire's army was defeated by the vampires of Sylvania.
The only thing that could bring them a little comfort was that more and more villagers were gathering around them.
At first, only the villagers they rescued took food and inferior horses and wandered with them. Then, the Ostermark people who came here because of their reputation formed a legion of a thousand people. Even a local border guard legion that was disbanded joined their hiding place in the forest.
With their help, Nok also learned some information, but it was more like nonsense - some monster was wreaking havoc in Sylvania, and even vampires were fleeing from it.
It is said that the eastern part of Sylvania has been turned into ruins by monsters, all the vampire castles have disappeared, and even the World's Edge Mountains have been breached by the monster - Nok is sure that the locals have exaggerated the facts. With just a pot of wine, the people of the empire can turn a sea fish into a Leviathan monster.
Nok wanted to know the whereabouts of the Raven Knights more than their boasting.
By order of the Emperor, half of the Knights of the Raven are in Ostermark, where they have several fortresses.
If nothing unexpected happens.
It is impossible for a vampire to easily eliminate half of the Knights. This is not a regiment led by Knok and his companions, but an entire well-trained army, the Temple Knights Army of Mor, the "God of the Dead".
But until now, Knok has not received any information about the Raven Knights. They seem to have disappeared into the darkness.
"The Sixth Regiment has captured the village on the other side of the river. Quick, what are the next orders? They are running low on silver powder."
"The Blood Knights are charging! They're almost across the bridge!"
"Blow up the bridges and let them sink into the water!"
"Our people are still on the other side!"
"Let Mor decide what we are right and wrong in our lifetime. Now, blow up the bridge!"
The roar of humanity and the sound of explosions shook the border between Sylvania and Ostermark. The warriors, attacked from both sides, were still resisting at a remote but crucial battlefield node.
The order they received was to defend the castle, and they would carry out the mission assigned to the Knights by the Holy War before the whole army was wiped out.
Every warrior was informed by the Grand Master of the Order of the Raven, Knight Lord Ford, that the dwarves of Karak Kadrin would come to support them, and that humans were not alone and helpless, they just needed to hold on through the most difficult midnight.
(End of this chapter)
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