Viktor Sterling, the leader of the Skaven, was a warlock from the Plague Clan, a group that was generally disliked. Warlocks were always marginalized and suppressed by their bloodline, and he was also short in stature from a young age.
He still remembers it from more than a decade ago.
The scene depicts an Imperial priest following the grey-robed priest Schwartz to his presence.
"Holiness and darkness are mutually reinforcing existences. In order to help build a stronger holy power, do you want to follow the path of holiness, or walk towards destruction?"
Viktor Sterling was dying in the dungeon, desperate to survive.
He then reached an agreement with the priest named Schwartz.
Help him with some dirty or tiring work.
Looting.
He orchestrated numerous attacks against the imperial nobility who disbelieved in and despised divine authority, working from both inside and outside the court. Moreover, Schwartz had many other subordinates like him.
Victor Sterling knew perfectly well that many of the Barto nobles in the Empire also liked to keep rebels around, to do their dirty work and shady deals. Once discovered, these outside forces would be abandoned and made to take the blame for their dark side. But he hadn't expected the Holy See to be the same.
He watched as ordinary people joined the Holy See and were required to pay tribute to priests.
It requires spending gold coins to bribe the priest.
Bribing the pastor.
Some noble families can become knights, while these rat-men, born to live in the shadows... can only find their place and space in the filthy sewers of the Imperial Forest...
The defeat in Canaan made Victor Sterling realize that he had lost his value and meaning to Schwartz.
His opponent, the Lord of the White Horse, possessed terrifying strength.
"The White Horse Lord is very powerful."
"But I don't want to die... I will surrender... I can continue to live."
From the shadows, a man dressed in a black priest's robe whispered, "No, you can't..."
"No!! No! Don't kill me, I still have value..."
He didn't want to die!
He didn't want to die!
An Imperial cleric in a black priest's robe gently and casually slashed the neck of Viktor Sterling, the rat-man leader, with his dagger... Suddenly, a cry of alarm rang out from the guarded troops.
"Victor Sterling committed suicide!!"
"The Ratman leader committed suicide!"
“Lord White Horse, Su Yue…” the black-robed priest murmured, “You have no idea what happens when you go against the Holy See.”
...
"The Ratman Lord Victor Sterling is dead?"
Su Yue looked at the scout beside him with suspicion.
"Yes, the suspicion is that it was not suicide, but homicide."
"Then it must have been done by the Holy See."
The bizarre death, coupled with the sudden attack on his Canaan Grove, left no room for anyone other than Cardinal Sue of Schwarz to think of any motive or reason for doing this to him.
He certainly understood that the world was chaotic.
However, the conflict between the Devil Cult and the Papacy is irreversible. This is a conflict between opposing camps, and if we really want to trace it back, we would probably have to go back thousands or even tens of thousands of years. Nobody knows anything about the continent of Fesa.
How long has the conflict between the Papacy and heretics lasted? It's a very, very deep lake.
Su Yue only stepped on it lightly.
Everyone felt that the water was incredibly deep and unsettling.
It seemed capable of swallowing even a giant ten thousand feet tall.
As for the battle with the dwarves, Su Yue planned to conduct a proper reconnaissance first.
Napoleon's tactics, which involved establishing a frontal position against the enemy and then immediately launching a decisive attack on their flank, were indeed effective, but they also depended on the circumstances.
Currently, the left wing of the Soviet Union and Vietnam consists of a cavalry assault force led by Walter Lawrence.
The right wing is dominated by dwarves.
In the center, Su Yue was in charge, and his troops were divided into countless square formations, with dwarves on the right and humans on the left.
The largest, miscellaneous frontline force in the middle was under the control of Su Yue.
Units of Tier 4 and above are rather rare.
Su Yue also positioned them on the left and right flanks, but this time he didn't charge through the forest in a serpentine formation. Because no matter how they advanced, it meant their backs and flanks would become vulnerable.
There is no perfect military formation in the world, and no soldier can walk backwards without exposing weaknesses in the rear.
Even the human cavalry on the left flank were moving at a different speed than the third-tier spearmen of the human rebels beside them.
Their connection point.
Connection point.
It can also be used to attack weaknesses.
Once the connection is breached, forming a vanguard breakthrough, it will lead to flanking attacks and pincer attacks from both sides.
Su Yue saw everything clearly.
I saw it all.
"Come on, attack me..."
Lord White Horse seemed to be deliberately exposing the weakness of his flank, waiting for a surprise attack from the enemy dwarves. From this point of view, Su Yue felt that he had already predicted the other party's decision and choice.
"Sir, enemy scouts have been spotted!"
"Two of our human scout squads have been killed."
Su Yue coldly replied, "Continue forward."
A flock of birds took flight in the dense forest. Su Yue thought to himself, "Don't let me down." The plan to sustain the war through war was gradually taking shape; the more troops he defeated, the greater his gains would be.
Those armors and weapons can all be sold for money.
Once he has raised enough money, he will be able to build a Tier 7 port.
...
...
In the darkness, Loire Bragg, a player from the European country of Jeke, was determined to avenge his previous defeat.
Donsuf Oleg said:
"This time, we're in the shadows, and the enemy is in the open."
The troops that the players planted this time are quite significant.
To the right is the "Drengen" forest area, next to a stream. Behind the stream is a mixed force of over 300 dwarves, gathered by 12 European lords. The highest-ranking unit is at Tier 3, with the majority being Tier 1 units.
The players' strength was still not very high on the second day.
However, after the previous defeat, and the Dwarven Empire's admission of its misunderstanding of them, as well as confirmation that Su Yue had recruited two hundred dwarven traitors, General "Red Hammer" Bodun, the fortress lord of the Dwarven Empire, compensated them.
Not only did they compensate the 200 dwarf troops recruited by Su Yue.
They even gave them the authority to recruit fourth-tier musketeers!
Now, beside Loire Bragg, in addition to his companions, there are three sets of organ dwarf cannons and ten fourth-tier dwarf musketeers. Just recruiting these ten fourth-tier dwarves almost bankrupted them all.
In order to continue exploiting people, they recruit others.
They expanded their originally carefully selected elite dwarf group to 40 people—there are more European players here.
Therefore, Loire Bragg and 40 European Dwarf Chosen players gathered more than 1,600 troops and entered a state of ambush and stealth in front of the Su Yue Canaan territory.
Lord's Log: "The allied forces you led have entered stealth mode, with a 50% chance of being detected. Due to the presence of a lord with the stealth talent under your command, the success rate of stealth is increased by 15%."
Loire Bragg laughed. He had recruited another C-rank stealth lord, which would enhance the army's stealth capabilities and reduce the probability and chance of being discovered. This time, he was determined to avenge his previous defeat and take revenge on that White Horse Lord!
Donsuf Oleg said:
"Europe's glory cannot be tarnished by the Dragon Kingdom of the Far East, those damned Asians..."
A dwarf scout said, "We have already killed a portion of the enemy's scouts, and they don't seem to have discovered our ambush."
Donsuf Oleg said, "Didn't we alert the enemy?"
No.
Nikita Pandoko gritted his teeth, thinking back to how his third-tier dwarf long-bearded hammer-wielder, a talent with heroic potential, had been recruited by Su Yue, and a dark feeling welled up inside him!
Previously, a high-ranking dwarf NPC said that his third-tier subordinates had great potential.
There is a probability and possibility of becoming a lord.
Not only did he die, but he was also resurrected and recruited by Su Yue...
He harbored a strange sense of fear towards Su Yue.
"He is capable of resurrection... Is a ninth-order archangel subordinate really something we can withstand?"
The Dwarven Empire was also aware of the possibility that a ninth-order archangel might be behind Su Yue. They said the Dwarven Empire was conducting a behavioral assessment, but Nikita Pandoko believed that they were doomed to lose this war...
Once that archangel appears... everyone will die!
Enemy troops will also revive.
The other dwarves seemed overly optimistic about the situation, underestimating the strength of the White Horse Lord and his ninth-rank subordinates. They naively believed that the Dwarven Empire must have prepared countermeasures, but Nikita Pandoko did not believe that the Dwarven Empire had any means to counter the angels!
That's an angel!
A ninth-order angel!!
"No matter how formidable the enemy's strength and hidden cards may be, we will never surrender... Raise a glass and drink together!"
"A bunch of lunatics!"
Nikita Pandoko's pupils trembled as he recalled the scene of his charge being routed by Su Yue. He had to admit that he hadn't completely shaken off the shadow of that defeat... The thought of the White Horse Lord's terrifying figure made him feel a little scared.
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