Chapter 158: New Strategy for the Underground Fortress (6)
A few days later, Eski still felt the ubiquitous warning from the wind of heaven, but still, like the past few days, he could not find the source of the crisis.
Originally, Eski planned to continue hiding next to his relatively safe black magic plant, waiting for danger to arrive, but with the arrival of new reinforcements from Skaven Demon City, the engineer warlock still had to put on a smile to greet him.
of the same race.
"My dear compatriots, welcome to the underground fortress Skryre Clan Industrial Zone."
In front of Eski's eyes were four rats wearing either respirators that fully covered their faces or observers. These were the engineering warlocks who rushed to the front line with the reinforcements.
A group of engineering warlocks who were all taller than Eski looked at this junior from a high position, seeming to wonder where the great engineering warlock in charge of the front line had gone.
An engineer warlock whose tone didn't change at all spoke first.
"Eski Engineer Warlock, why are you here?"
The green imager on the metal mask constantly displays a string of green runes.
This caused Eski to laugh and cover his stomach. This kind of thing is effective in intimidating clan rats, but dealing with Eski, who is also an engineering warlock, is simply creating comedy.
Esky stroked Trabb's head, which was newly hung on the rack on his back, and said.
"Trabb is dead, so I can only reluctantly take over Scully. Your seniority on the front line is still a little lower than mine."
"However, I am still willing to allocate about 16 of the 42 factories currently under my name for you to share. However, these factories must be attached to political treaties."
When I first arrived, there was almost no real estate. It could be said that the attention of the engineer warlocks was immediately attracted.
"16 rooms?"
Although the engineering warlocks only came forward at a leisurely pace, their restless tails swung around had revealed their mood.
"Of the remaining 26 rooms, 13 need to be given to Vitrik Engineer Warlock, and I will only keep 13 for myself."
As he spoke, Esky took out a few pieces of rat-skin paper with luminous green fonts written on them and handed them to the eyes of the engineering warlocks.
"These are the political treaties. Generally speaking, on the front line, the entire Skryre clan must obey the unified deployment of me, the first member of the War Council, in politics. Even though I have not yet been promoted to the Grand Engineer Warlock." p>
"This does not involve any commercial interests of engineering warlocks, it is just a political constraint. Leave your blood on it, make a mark, and I will release the factory to you."
"Are you going to tie Scully to your chariot?"
An engineer warlock who looked older and had part of his lower limbs replaced by mechanical structures asked.
"Don't say that, old warlock. I'm younger than any of you. I'm more favored by the Horned Rat than any of you. The color of your fur says everything."
"If you think it will still be like this twenty years from now, you can try not to comply."
The eyes that looked at them were already filled with a strong green light.
"I didn't say not to comply."
The older engineering warlock released a strong green light curtain, stopping those engineering warlocks who still wanted to speak, and stared fearfully at Eski's head that was topped by spikes...
He just recognized that guy. He was the previous controller here, the great engineering warlock Trabb.
After the other engineering warlocks used dimensional force fields to separate themselves behind him, the old engineering warlock spoke.
"Engineer Eski, your father, Engineer Arclin, asked me to say hello to you on his behalf."
"He also gave you a message. If you can't learn to be steady on the front line, I'm afraid you won't be able to return to the big city in your life."
This gave Eski a rare hint of anger.
"Use Alkrin to suppress me? It's really interesting. You should know how I ended up in a place like this.
Bar."
The dimensional force fields collided fiercely, and Eski's anger turned into a fierce will, infecting the surrounding magical energy, making the energy in the dimensional force field get closer to him.
In the next second, the old engineering warlock took the initiative to remove the dimensional force field in front of him.
"Of course I don't mean to be hostile to you, I just want to know who are we supporting?"
Frowning and looking up at the old engineering warlock, Esky turned around and said something.
"The Rikaik clan and the Gray Prophet want to kill them, so this is also in Skrei's interest."
"If you have no other objections, leave your blood and we will discuss other issues."
When the blood of the rats was left on the rat skin paper, Esky raised his hand and released the month-white cage, and put these things in in front of the engineering warlocks, causing the engineering warlocks to swing their arms uneasily.
Tail.
But, after all, we have already boarded the pirate ship.
Under the guidance of Eski and several clerks who had been waiting for a long time, the engineering warlocks rushed to the industrial zone to collect their shares. By the time the rats' factory shares were divided, it was already half an hour later.
Things.
Before they could sigh at the full set of equipment and skilled workers retained in the factory, Eski summoned the engineering wizards again in front of his factory.
"I need all the dispatched engineering warlocks to jointly establish the Underground Fortress Dimension Technology Academy to cultivate more new generation talents for Skary."
Standing on several boxes, Esky's speech, which looked even taller, made the engineering warlock, who was originally quieter than other rats, become noisy.
The dimensional force field constructed by Eskina's huge dimensional energy immediately suppressed other voices and continued.
"The current number of spellcasters is still too small. Every time we send out troops, and even every precise production step, we need to do it ourselves."
The firm will washes over the souls of the rat people, giving them some willingness to obey beyond the physical level.
Looking at the reaction below, Eski nodded slightly with satisfaction. The effect of this technique, which originally belonged to Nagash, was already quite good after just learning it for such a short time.
"I plan to set up four subjects in the academy: mathematics, physics, alchemy, and arcane spellcasting. All engineering warlocks will serve as professors. There will be no enrollment restrictions, so that a group of qualified engineering warlock apprentices will be produced soon."
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"No enrollment restrictions?"
"That's right. Alchemy does not require spellcasting ability on many levels. As long as they can correctly understand the principles of spellcasting, they can do a lot of preparation work for us."
"At least the damn work of carving basic runes shouldn't be left to engineering warlocks!"
Esky's words caused a heated discussion among the engineering warlocks. They have indeed suffered a lot from insufficient manpower over the years.
While the atmosphere here became more and more lively, Esky looked at a flashing ring on his finger and frowned.
The Skryre clan is in the process of conceiving plans for the next few decades, while on the other end, at the door of the Reikek clan, a fierce conflict is taking place.
"Little warlord of Rikaik, clear out your rat's nest, and the great Gray Seer will live in it."
A Stormvermin warlord who was about two meters tall was standing in front of the gate of Rickek's camp and shouting, holding an infantry spear engraved with runes.
The steep mountain roads on both sides and alleys were filled with storm rats, which blocked the entrance and exit of the Rikaike clan.
"There is already a Gray Prophet's nest in this city. It is at the highest point of the city. You can let your master live in it. Rickek does not want to have anything to do with you."
Ikrit appeared in front of the Storm Rat Lord wearing rune armor that covered his whole body, with only his eyes exposed.
All around him, the dark corners of the clan camp were already filled with the red light of rat eyes - during the time when the other party entered the city, the Reikek clan
The clan has mobilized all clan rats and storm rats.
Such an attitude made Storm Rat immediately pull out the spear that was originally stuck on the ground.
The reason why the original ruler here was asked to give up his tent was to humiliate the other party so that his master could establish supreme authority here.
"A small warlord in a small place just doesn't have much knowledge. A storm rat from a big city can destroy your little mouse nest in an instant."
With the sudden aroma of warpstone in his nose causing his head to heat up, Storm Rat threatened.
"Is that so?"
Before the Storm Rats could turn around to find the source of the sound, a blazing green wall of fire appeared between the mountain paths, separating the rats from their leader.
"I would like to know how many times you can block the Skaven Scorch."
A pink paw kicked on his armor, denting the metal object with such force that Lord Storm Rat fell to the ground immediately.
Taking advantage of the reality of struggling on the ground, Storm Rat looked up and finally saw clearly who the rat who kicked him just now was.
The golden mask inlaid with green dimension stones, the white hair, the pure white color, and the robe embroidered with luminous green runes all clearly reveal the opponent's identity.
"Engineer?"
"Behind Rickek, is the Skryre clan?"
Asked Esqui, the vicious little black eyes stared in the direction of Lord Ikrit.
"Maybe you should take this issue to the Chief Engineer Warlock."
Eski raised his hand, and the power of the dimensional force field slapped Storm Rat in the face, causing his head to tilt to one side...
"If you all return to your rightful place restlessly, I will treat you as you no longer need Skull's help in this war. I heard that Model has been very capable recently. Maybe they can help you more.
Retake several mining areas."
"What do you think, the slave thing of the Prophet clan?"
With that said, Eski controlled the dimensional force field and slapped the Storm Rat's head back to its straight position.
"I think most of the storm rats that entered the city just now belong to the Moss clan. How dare you use such a thing to scare us? Huh?"
Looking at the dark Storm Rats in the distance that almost surrounded the city, Eski frowned secretly.
It seems that the plan to use the undead and even humans to consume the strength of the Dragon Crossing the River must be implemented faster.
"Lord Ikrit, it seems that you urgently need Skull's help."
With that said, Eski took Ikrit's paw, and the green mist sent the two rats to the location of the Skry clan.
A pointed-eared thing was holding a white baby rat, and was teaching the baby rat in his arms to speak in authentic Ratman language without any expression. This strange scene made Ikrit couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
Eye.
Then, there are those giant forging hammers that we have seen last time. Under the action of the warpstone mold and the forging hammer, the steel ingot quickly formed the rough embryo of the breastplate.
Originally, Ikrit wanted to get closer to the forging hammers that were producing plate armor embryos, but the old warlord's eyes were still attracted by another object.
There is a strange-looking object on the desk of the engineering warlock - six pipes connected to a machine connected by green-lighting warpstone pipes.
On this strange machine, in addition to the structure that looks like it can rotate, there is also a structure that seems to be used to allow Skaven to lift it up.
"What is this?"
"The trial-produced ratlin, with a 13mm caliber, should be very effective against mortal troops, but it may not be very effective against extraordinary beings."
This thing is a prototype built by Esky himself. It took a lot of time just to synchronize the motor with the barrel.
The principles of the rattling machine gun and the gatling machine gun are not exactly the same. For example, there are no fixed bullets in the rattling gun barrel.
Essentially, it’s the next time
The energy of the elemental stone is applied to the metal projectile from behind in the form of dimensional lightning, so the most important components are the dimensional energy emitter behind the barrel and the motor used to cool the barrel.
Even so, the ability of this thing to attack extraordinary people is not expected to be very good.
Spells such as missile curse and bullet avoidance shield have made the missile attacks of mortal iron useless, even if these mortal iron are propelled by warpstone.
Esky estimated that bullets made from warpstone would still be needed to pose a threat to the extraordinary.
"Due to the excessive weight, I made a weight-reducing structure here, but the effect is not obvious. Therefore, for the time being, I have to let the strong storm rats use this weapon."
Looking back at the confused Ikrit, Esky shook his head and said.
"Sorry, you don't know much about it yet. This thing is a long-range shooting weapon, but its specific actual combat capabilities need to be tested on a battlefield."
"Although my flames are quite effective in tunnels, if they are on the plains, this thing is more suitable."
"Didn't Staden launch a ground attack before? Let's find a way to let the new Gray Prophet launch it once, so you can try its power."