Chapter 156: New Strategy for the Underground Fortress (3)
"You mean, you want me to take control directly and hand it over to you? I heard that more than 10,000 infantrymen have just arrived by your side."
Eshiliga frowned.
If the friendly troops are outside and his assassins are inside, it is easy to deal with that kind of stronghold by cooperating inside and outside.
But what Eski meant behind his words was that he wanted to deal with it alone?
"My servants, the Med clan will take over after you take care of it."
Of course, the engineering warlock understands Esiliga's dissatisfaction, but the Mede clan is now almost all Kane's fanatic followers like the witch Heliben's Blood Brigade.
Not to mention the problems that would arise if this kind of problem is exposed to Esiliga at this juncture, their combat logic is also very unsuitable for cooperating with Eciliga.
Eski knocked on the table, also making his voice deeper.
"You can do one-tenth of these things, and the rest is your reward."
Arms that sell for close to 20,000 dimensional stone coins are considered big business even in Skaven City.
Although this price includes 40 times Eski's profit, he feels it is too expensive for someone like the defector.
"That's 10,000 to 30,000 rats, don't say it so easily."
Eshiliga complained that the total number of his own men was less than 2,000. He glanced at the bombs again with his eyes raised, and his tone changed and he said again.
"However, considering the long-term cooperation, that's it. How much do those rats want to leave you?"
"I don't want the money-increasing project. I just want all the rats within a 500-kilometer radius to recognize that it is the territory of my servant clan, the Med clan."
"Actually, it's yours."
"After all, I am not a chief engineer and warlock. It will be much easier to deal with the clan under my name than the assets under my name."
As the engineering warlock was talking, Eshiliga called to the rats behind him to take out a map. The Skavens in black robes unfolded the map in front of Eski. Two candles were placed in front of the engineering warlock's eyes.
Dark vision allows you to see the graphics in front of you more clearly.
The red mark on the map is exactly where Eski asked Hecate to attack last time.
"The N36 area on the map, hell, why did that idiot Gray Prophet name it after the number on the map? If you ask me, that place should be called Highland 219. At least it can let me know the height difference of that place." p>
"However, these are not very important. Anyway, how is the mine in that place?"
Eshiriga asked.
"I told my subordinates before that there is no need to deal with it for the time being. Maybe it has been occupied by humans and undead again? However, I don't know if the remaining troops can be held. I will send a scout to check it out later." Looking at the distant mine on the map, Eski said.
"Developing the mine requires a large number of rats, and I don't have enough food, so I have given up for the time being. But now your troops cannot be dispersed in order to deal with the guests from the big city."
Eski raised his head and said, this guy doesn't want to develop that mine, does he? The copper and iron ore there are relatively abundant, but coal and wood are relatively scarce, and transportation is not very convenient. There is still only Shikuri
It is more reliable to develop the clan...
"Iklit hopes to get rid of the Plague clan with a little sweetness. He has been worried that that bastard Sirik will fall to the big city. And the former Vitrik engineer warlock also needs more rewards, a position as the tenth councilor.
He is not very satisfied."
It's Vitrik, but there is a possibility of development.
Eski's right paw subconsciously pinched the soft long hair hanging down on both sides of his chin, which he didn't know whether it was hair or a beard.
Can that place probably bring an income of 1,000 dimensional coins to Vitrik? After all, the transportation costs of the rats need to be deducted - the food consumed by the slave rat cart is not a small amount.
However, if Vitrik is satisfied with this, it can save him some energy in dealing with Scully's internal problems.
"So, you think this place is good? But after all, I conquered it, and you want to trade it? Isn't it just right? Let Ikrit solve the political problems of that stronghold in the south for me."
Eski shrugged, as if it didn't matter, and then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he approached Esiliga and said.
"Recently, I want to recruit apprentices, and the number may be a bit large. When I get back, ask Ikrit if you have any suitable people. If not, I will recruit them myself."
"You mean, these apprentices?"
"Of course not from the Skryre clan, but they could be."
"Wouldn't this happen to Skulli?"
"As long as you don't put this kind of thing in the West, where there is no surveillance, this kind of troops will be very convenient. For example, you can completely hide your traces without relying on assassins with powerful equipment."
Eski said the same words to Esiliga as he said to Ikrit. Although there was no temptation in the red eyes, Esiliga still held on to his robe and felt a crazy beating.
Heart.
The power of magic, perhaps, is his only chance to be different from the past.
Eski's eyes were full of smiles, and he despised his own thoughts a few days ago.
Of course it would be a waste to spread magic, but if the diversity of Skaven society can be increased, it will become a variable that affects the Horned Rat. The number of wild mages within Skaven is not enough to achieve Eski's plan. It is completely unnecessary to feel despair because the horned rat already has the attribute of plague.
Although it is impossible to change the past, it is theoretically possible to force change from now on.
After all the Slaanesh in this world were plotted by the female Ganqi, Tyrion and Malekith were sealed between the two worlds with 66 chains after becoming gods. There is no reason to say that there must be no way to separate.
The priesthood of the gods.
Seeing Eski's statement, Eshili suppressed the distracting thoughts in his heart and became relatively calm and authentic.
"I'll send someone over soon."
"Send more, we are not sure whether a certain rat can communicate with the wind of magic."
Smoothing out the wrinkles on his chest again, Eshiliga lowered his eyebrows and smiled.
"Have you not solved the problem there yet? I think Trabb is still in his nest."
"Trabb?"…
Eski's mind thought of the great engineering warlock whom he had not seen since the coup began.
However, it is true that Skull's internal problems should also be dealt with.
About an hour later, in the Skory clan territory, in front of the built-in building on the rock wall at the back.
The two Storm Rats stood up straight and tried to stop Eski, but in the end they did not dare to reach out.
It wasn't until Eski walked to the elevator door and pretended not to see Eski's clan rat that Eski grabbed him and said.
"Take me to the Great Engineer Warlock of Traub."
The clan rat immediately shuddered, then jumped up, its tail swaying wildly behind.
"Yes, yes, Eski Engineer Warlock."
Eski frowned. Has his image within Scully changed to this?
In the past few days, what rumors have been circulating in the underground fortress?
The motor continuously drives the steel cable to move above, and the clan rat has its back to Eski, like a sculpture.
Looking at the other party's performance, Esky probably understood something. Is it some kind of rumor that makes people scared? But this fear is also justified. He did set thousands of enemy troops on fire.
As a Skaven, every cell in his body is cheering for the smell of fear revealed by the other party.
Thinking of this, Esky withdrew his attention - this feeling is not bad.
With an obvious creaking sound from steel parts, the elevator stopped at a different floor than the last time. As the clan rat led the way, Esky gradually discovered that this
This time it was not in the other party's nest last time, but in a laboratory.
When you go out of the elevator door, you can see the Great Engineer Warlock of Trabb working there from a distance, as well as the equipment full of green light and wires full of green light.
Although in the factories below, Trabb's equipment is not more advanced than Eski's, the same cannot be said here. Eski has seen several instruments inlaid with pure dimensional stones about 30 centimeters in diameter.
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Utilizing the property of large pieces of high-purity warpstone to attract more chaotic energy from another world, these devices can operate on their own, without the need for slave rats to run the wheels like those of Eski.
"Great Engineer Warlock, long time no see, your workshop is really good."
Esky opened his mouth to boast, but as soon as the other party opened his mouth, Eski felt displeased.
"You idiot took it away..."
Before Trabb could finish speaking, a thick bolt of dimensional lightning struck at his feet, and the small green sparks that kept running around on the ground stopped him from speaking.
"Maybe you could be more polite if you want."
Esky said politely, while approaching Trabb's production equipment.
Several glass jars are equipped with a blue liquid and blue smoke on top.
On the other side, in the transparent jar, next to the object where you can see a little bit of mouse fragments, it is filled with this blue smoke, and a black-green liquid flows on the ground made of glass.
"Is this research on a new type of poison gas?"
Eski asked, approaching the corroded jar. The wind of life penetrated into the jar and a little vine grew out of thin air. It was immediately corroded by the blue smoke...
"The level of corrosion is really strong. Do you want to use this thing to poison skeletons? It's useless. No matter how strong the corrosive gas is, the concentration is worse than a bomb."
Esky complained that he didn't quite believe that Trabb could make a poison that could corrode skeletons with just a tiny amount of ingredients. That kind of thing was a hundred times more powerful than the modern poisonous gases in his world.
Even in this world, the intensity of this poisonous gas is probably similar to that created by the gods of the Plague Priesthood.
Trabb? Just him?
The current level is already his limit.
"Speaking of which, what did you rely on to be promoted to Grand Engineer Warlock? Is it this thing?"
Esky approached an instrument that looked like an ordinary warpstone lamp placed together with several mirrors and circular plates. The large piece of pure warpstone connected next to it revealed that it was not that simple.<
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As Trabb watched, Esky directly turned on the switch on the side.
A green beam of concentrated chaotic energy is reflected by the mirror and several transparent modules, and then hits the object placed on it. Then it passes through other similar structures and finally reflects on the plane behind it, showing a regular pattern.
Eight different colors arranged.
Why does he look at this thing? It looks like a spectrometer? Although there are too many differences in details.
"You use this kind of thing to make poisonous gas?"
Eski asked.
"Is this why you came here? The more poisonous the wind of death is, the more it will be left behind. The strength of the light of other magical winds can also be used to judge its characteristics."
Trabb controlled his anger, but his voice was so low that Eski felt he was in danger.
It's as if the opponent is about to attack in the next second.
Even if he launched an attack, Eski would not be surprised. Many of the Ratman's own spells do not require cumbersome spell chanting, such as iconic spells such as dimensional lightning.
"So this is the principle."
Esky scratched his head and showed a gentle smile to Trabb.
"Sorry, sorry, I'm just making sure that the situation on the front line doesn't exceed expectations."
As he spoke, Eski's tone changed as he approached Trabu.
"But
Yes, there is a promotion path similar to that of the Gray Seers within Skull. If I kill you, I will be the new Great Engineering Warlock."
"However, I'm thinking that it would be better if you left here. I don't want to have another reputation as a chief engineer warlock who kills his colleagues."
As he spoke, a green magical aura emerged from Eski's whole body, which is the color of chaos and the wind of life.
"I admit, Eski Ivo, you are a strange engineering wizard."
Trabb narrowed his eyes, but there was no magical aura on his body, only a faint flow from his eyes. However, under the second vision, the huge activated energy almost burned part of his body.
"Because you are a white rat, and because you are pampered by the horned rat, your magic energy can be restored naturally. This is what we want. We must eat the next primeval stone to let it flow in our blood vessels, but you are different
."
"However, despite this, according to the information from my investigation, your mana capacity is not higher than mine."
"Have you already eaten enough dimensional stones before I came here? It seems that you are going to fight me to the death?"
Esky's eyes turned blue-purple, and his deep magic vision allowed him to see the energy level in Trabu's body through the opponent's body.
"There are actually 8,000? You have eaten nearly a kilogram of pure dimension stone? How did you manage to eat it?"