The Death List Novel - Chapter 688
Chapter 688 Rodenticide (2)
“Unfortunately, if Ratman had a few ranged attack professions, even if he was only a beginner archer, your followers wouldn’t be so relaxed.” Lorraine came to Qin Lun’s side and looked at the battlefield below.
“After all, Ratmen are only inferior humanoids. If their intelligence is sufficient to grow into a race with all sorts of professions, how can they be at the bottom of the biota in the dark regions?” Qin Lun curled his lips as he looked at the group of rats in the distance and said with disdain.
“Lord Jillim, when will they send out a signal that their vanguard has already entered the ambush circle?”
“I guess we’ll have to wait. The number of Ratmen now is a bit more than our burden!” Lorraine said unconfidently.
Because he originally wanted to rescue trapped Dwarves, Jillim’s expedition team this time was stronger than the previous ones. The number of people he brought was more than 20. Apart from himself being a Legendary expert, there were also a few mid-and high-level experts. Their strength was three to four times that of the previous expedition team.
Qin Lun had seen several heavy-armored warriors with arms thicker than Elistine’s waist. Dwarves’s heavy-armored warriors were different from humans and Elves. Humans and Elves’s heavy-armored warriors were usually not fast, but Dwarves’s heavy-armored warriors were even faster than ordinary Dwarves.
Dwarves’s short legs were a natural weakness, but the Dwarves Heavy Armored Warriors had a “Leap + Heavy Strike” skill, which made up for the weakness to a considerable extent.
This kind of high-level Dwarves warrior was a nightmare for all professions in close combat. They were all heavily armored and held heavy double-edged axes or warhammers in their hands. Once they activated the Jump Slash skill, it would be as powerful as a siege hammer. Even the MT of Apostle’s guild might not be able to withstand it.
“Almost there!” The Ratman Battle Circle slowly moved towards him. Qin Lun stood tall and looked far away. He had already seen Dwarves circling around by the mushrooms behind the Ratman Battle Circle.
Qin Lun took out the [Wind Chasing Frost Weapon Box] from his storage space. With a slight tremble in one hand, the weapon box opened into a World Tree longbow. He took out a dozen long arrows from his quiver and stabbed them into the mushroom lid beneath his feet one by one, making it easier for him to use them.
Qin Lun steadily pulled out his bow and gently pressed the bowstring to his cheek. The first arrow he used was the Secret Silver Magic Arrow that Elder Edeline had made for him. This was to kill one of the two priests of the Ratman Tribe at once.
The Secret Silver Arrow on the World Tree’s longbow slowly deflected with the movement of a Ratman Priest. Just as Jillim’s battle roar rang out, the black Secret Silver Arrow disappeared from his bow with a “bang”.
One of the Ratman Priests standing behind the Ratman encirclement revealed an eggshell barrier, but with a flash of black light from the Secret Silver Arrow, he said, “Bang!” Its ugly head exploded like a watermelon. The headless corpse danced and fell to the ground.
The Ratman, who was in charge of escorting him, had a bloodstained expression on his face. He had no idea what had just happened.
In a short moment, a priest with divine abilities had already died. Elves archers who used Secret Silver Arrows were the nemesis of all mid-and low-level magical professions.
When the sound of air-splitting sounded again, the guard beside the Ratman Priest finally regained his senses. A big-waisted rat man roared angrily as he placed his body in front of another priest.
“Pu!” A long arrow shot from a high altitude rudely pierced through his chest. A tremendous force brought the rat-man’s corpse and smashed into the priest behind him. The two rat-men immediately rolled into a ball.
“Moradin is on!” The dwarves roared in all directions. Apart from a dozen weaker Dwarves who were pulling their nets in the outer circle, Gilliam and the other Dwarves rushed over like battle axes, hacking open the Ratman’s encirclement.
“Kill!” Weiss finally ripped off his disguise, and the pale white bone armor covered his entire body in an instant. He leapt towards the last priest behind the Ratman.
This time, there was no need for Mustacha to command. Apostle, who had originally formed a defensive formation, pounced in all directions. They never thought they were in a tight encirclement, just patiently gathering their prey around them.
The shield guards of the Wei Si team took a deep breath and let out another “war horn”. Actually, this Battle Roar skill was only a dull roar in the ears of his companions, but it was no less than a thunderous roar in the ears of the Ratman, as if even his thoughts had gone blank for a moment.
After the war horn intimidated the group of rats in front of him, the shield guards flattened the tower shield in their hands and swept it across their waist. The cone at the bottom of the tower shield was like a horse chopper, cutting the three rats in front of them into two halves, and their stomachs flowed to the ground. The other rats who were slightly closer also had broken bones and tendons, either dying or crippled.
Mastasia, the black-robed mage, and Hill and Rand didn’t hold back.
Masta Xia began to use the archery skill she had once used in front of Qin Lun-Hunting. Her dexterous body jumped and moved between the mushrooms, and the longbow in her hand tossed out a silver light of death. Although the accuracy had decreased, the attack coverage had greatly increased. For a moment, almost all of the Ratmen seemed to be facing the shadow of an arrow that symbolized death.
Hill and the black-robed mage weren’t as efficient as the Highland Elves, but under the panic of the rats being ambushed, their spells had a better damage effect than before. Especially the rats who had been hit by [Dark Word: Pain], their willpower judgment was much harder to pass.
Rand no longer worked with the Thieves. His task was heavier than the others. Because the magma ball had the largest range after it erupted, everyone had him control the lava to surround the Ratman’s escape route, forcing him to run in the direction of the Dwarves’ main attack.
The only ones who were free were the monkeys and the female priests. The monkeys needed to protect the female priests from the Ratman Thieves. Only the few Ratman Thieves left in this battle would become the final variable.
Qin Lun jumped off the mushroom’s mushroom lid. The World Tree longbow in his hand had already been replaced with the legendary twin spears-Light and Dark Burial!
He had already learned a lot from the switch between the World Tree longbow and the Light and Darkness Burial Sacrifice. When slaying a single target and required magic power to break through, he would usually choose the World Tree longbow and the Secret Silver Magic Arrow.
In chaotic and chaotic battles, he basically chose light and darkness for burial. In all seriousness, the weapon skills of the Legendary Twin Spear were more important to him than the bow and arrow.
However, using the Light and Darkness Burial Technique required a lot of energy. Apart from consuming arrows, the World Tree Bow also consumed a small amount of energy. A small amount of energy was also consumed because of the [Weakness Aiming Star] skill.
As for the [Light and Dark Burial] skill, it was no less powerful than the Demon Breaking Arrow. However, this skill was too powerful and consumed too much energy. It was not suitable for dark snipers and could only be used in a forceful attack.
The battle ended so quickly that the rats collapsed when Wei Si stood in the middle of the battlefield with the last Ratman Priest’s head in one hand. Even though they still had more than eighty people, this cowardly race was like this.
Once there was no hope of victory, they would choose to flee from the battlefield. This move was unsuccessful in the past. The dark region was originally the home ground of the rats. As long as they drilled into any tunnel, the chances of other creatures finding them were basically zero.
However, this time was different. The rodents were trapped too deep in the ambush circle. In addition, there were fire nets laid by Rand and the dwarves’ nets blocking them. Most of the rodents were left behind and turned into rat corpses.
Towards the end of the battle, only twenty or so Ratmen had escaped. The others, including the two Ratman Priests and all the mud monsters, had become the result of the battle between Apostle and the Dwarves.
Although it wasn’t perfect, this battle still had the desired effect. There were no priests and no mud monsters among the twenty-odd rat-men, and they could no longer cause trouble for the dwarves.
At the end of the battle, Qin Lun had an idea and instructed the thieves to sneak up on a few rat men who had fled to their nests.
They hadn’t completely finished their work yet. If they hadn’t found the bodies of the previous Dwarves expedition team, Jillim would have stayed in this place for a while longer, and that was exactly what Apostle lacked the most.
Qin Lun was right. After the battle, the dwarves really wanted to search the rat-man’s nest. If it weren’t for the thieves guiding them in the direction and finding the Ratman’s food storage, the network of tunnels in the cave would have wasted a lot of their time.
After bringing out more than ten corpses of Dwarves, the exploration team randomly searched through the rat-man’s treasury.
Ratmen liked to collect all kinds of shiny items. Most of the items in the treasury were worthless to Dwarves and Apostle. They only took some gems and magic cores with them.
However, in the distribution of spoils of war, there was a large or small black dragon.
Jillim distributed the gems to Wei Si and the others, leaving behind the magic cores and crystals. Perhaps in the eyes of experts in Dwarves, Wei Si and the others, as mercenaries, should prefer gemstones.
As a result, Qin Lun had to use the mages in his team as an excuse to exchange these useless gemstones for magic cores and magic crystals from Jillim’s hands.
Even though each Apostle could only get a few thousand broken crystals, it was still better than nothing.
After that, the expedition team delayed for another half a day, cremating the dead Dwarves, and then they started on their way again.
About a day later, Jillim’s expedition team finally walked out of the Mushroom Plains and set foot on a dark region that had never been explored before.
After crossing the mushroom forest, the advance speed of the troop slowed down greatly. Every time the dwarves made their way forward, they would stop and ask the prospecting experts in the team to collect rock samples, and then give them a blurry direction.
Such guidelines often need to be repeated over and over again in order for teams to determine the correct path. The exploration team began a dull exploration that took two steps forward and two steps back. Sometimes, every time Qin Lun went to a place, he would feel that he had already come.
After three or four days of travel, the rest of the team, except for Dwarves, were exhausted. Apostle, who usually lived irregularly, could tolerate it, but the three beauties, Elizabeth, Mastasia, and Idrea, were on the verge of collapse. His curiosity at the beginning of the expedition had long since been swallowed up by the darkness of the dark region!