Only about ten minutes later, Alkadiza followed his uncle Kunti and carried a small number of cavalry, following Tianzhou's instructions and climbed over another hill.
Continuing through a sparse pine forest, they successfully arrived near the land where Tian Zhou reported that there were ground rats.
Kunti is not very interested in the legendary rats that farm the land. Instead, he is very satisfied with the nearby pine forests. They have not found suitable large pieces of wood on the seaside, and the pine forests here can be used by the troops for some time.
Just when he was about to see if the pine nuts here were ripe, his excited nephew had already discovered the target, the mice farming.
The humans dismounted quietly, tied up their horses, and tiptoed through the woods to reach the ridge with a wide view - of course they didn't know that they didn't need to be so cautious, and it was simply impossible for the rats' eyesight to spot an enemy so far away. As soon as everyone poked their heads out, the situation at the bottom of the mountain came into their eyes clearly.
Between the two mountains, on a flat piece of land, what could barely be considered a house was built.
Surrounding this building are hundreds of acres of plowed land, and brown, yellow, or red upright rats are working on this land.
The group of mice closest to them were wearing tattered leather jackets. The leather looked like the skins of these same animals, with some traces of hair on them.
They hunched over and under the supervision of a rat holding a whip, they kept cultivating hundreds of acres of land, holding several small wooden barrels hung on poles and pouring water from large wooden barrels into the ground.
Obviously, these plowed fields are fields, but the crops in the fields have not sprouted, so no one can know what they are growing.
Some rat men were going in and out of several holes, picking out many large wooden barrels filled with water. More rats were responsible for delivering these barrels to the rats who were watering the fields. p>
No one, no matter the worker or the supervisor, noticed that danger was approaching not far away.
The irrigation method is quite inefficient and requires a lot of manpower. Alkadiza commented in his mind that the fields in Nehekhara are much more efficient, as they are directly irrigated with water from the Daming River.
However, this place is very special. Tian Zhou has already reported that the area near this place is sea water, there are no rivers, and the fertile land seems to be at the end of the mountain further away.
His uncle Kunti laughed softly a few times. Akadiza looked at the wooden buckets in the direction pointed by his uncle with a smile, and also laughed softly.
Although we can still rely on the Lizardmen and those Nehekhara apprentices to desalinize seawater to ensure fresh water for the army, it will be difficult to say once we go deep into the north.
It just so happened that these rat monsters brought water to their doorstep, and the gods were blessing them.
A few minutes later, the rats who were working heard a strange noise coming from the mountain.
A small amount of smoke and dust accompanied by the sound of horse hooves made the rats closest to the mountain raise their heads warily, stand upright and look around, but their poor eyesight allowed them to only see blurry black shadows moving.
After they saw clearly that they were the hairless cavalry, within a dozen breaths, the saber was in close contact with their necks.
Before the rats could react, dozens of rats were killed. The few rats that were left behind and survived were about to run away when they suddenly found themselves tightening.
When he looked down, he saw that the hairless monster's cavalry had already swung the rope around himself.
A few unlucky tongues were dragged along the ground. These light cavalry carefully controlled their speed, neither dragging them to death nor allowing them to break free.
Just as they were about to rush towards the large cave with water, a green flash accompanied by thick green smoke appeared. Alkadiza immediately became alert and roared for all the cavalry to stop.
A tall white monster emerged from the flash of light. Its structure was the same as that of other rats, except that its whole body was covered with white fur, pink nose, lips, claws and blood-red eyes dotting its body. This weird rat-man, which is nearly two meters tall and is almost taller than the tallest war horse, has a team of white flesh-pink wings sprouting from his back. He is wearing a complex patterned talisman that only covers his abdomen and above his knees.
Wearing a robe, he also wears a device with a pure green lens on one side of his eye.
Looking at the familiar clothes, seemingly familiar appearance, and familiar green light, the king of Khemri had a rough guess in his mind.
Just the next moment, the rat-sounding Nehekhara language helped him confirm his suspicion.
"Hey, long time no see, Alkadiza, what did you do to my slave?"
Sure enough, it was the damn rat that caused the murder at the Lahmian Court.
Seeing the sudden appearance of the engineering warlock, the clan rats who were fleeing for their lives suddenly seemed to have lost their fear. They even took the initiative to approach the humans with their whips in hand.
Eski's tail hit the ground hard, and he turned around and cursed in rat language.
"Go back quickly, you are a bunch of stupid brats! They also have stupid pointy ears! I will take care of them when I get back."
He raised his paws covered with pink flesh pads, kicked over a nearby bucket, and said again.
"Fetching water from an underground river all the way up, the food you grow on the land cannot make up for the fat you lose from working."
The bloody red eyes looked back in front of him again. On the war horse, which was much shorter than Esky, the dark-skinned king's chest was constantly undulating with a gold collar based on blue, black, and yellow.
"It's really you."
Staring at Eski's claws without a staff, Arkadiza said angrily, and the rope connecting the long gold leaves and long gem leaves on his chest almost broke under his anger.
The king's anger only aroused the ridicule of the engineering warlocks, the sharp rattles and the activities of the tall monsters, causing a group of human war horses to struggle in panic, trying to escape from this place.
The little bit of chaos Eski deliberately leaked added to the chaos among the human cavalry.
Looking at the ugliness of the nonsense in front of him, Esky smiled and said.
"Otherwise, I told you I'm just north of you, and I never lie about hairless things. That's never necessary."
Another rat roar frightened the war horses so much that they dared not move at all, and then the engineering warlock spoke again.
"I see that your formation is going to conquer Nagash in the north. It seems that you believe my intelligence."
"However, in your situation, I think you are going to die. If you want to go north, you have to get through me first."
As soon as he finished speaking, the intense green electric light flickered on and off in Eski's hand, and the huge chaotic energy gathered, causing the crops within a few meters of the surrounding area to begin to grow pathologically into thick and twisted green plants. The distorted chaos plants can only be vaguely seen in shape, and they seem to be crops similar to wheat.
Looking at the plants that were dripping disgusting mucus like asphalt, Arkadiza felt nauseated and slapped himself hard. The Khemri King then pulled out the sickle sword from his waist and pointed it at Eski and asked. "Are you on the same side as the usurper?"
"Of course not, King of Khemri, use your brain that has never been used many times in your life. If Nagash and I were together, would you still be standing here now?"
The engineering warlock smiled playfully, flapped his wings, raised his paw and pointed behind him.
"That thing is a big boss. A brave man like you must first defeat a small boss like me, then pass the middle boss, and finally fight against it."
"What stupid things are you saying?"
Alkadiza seemed to be choking back, but Eski noticed with sharp eyes that he seemed to be gesturing behind him, and the observer showed that there were no sentries behind him.
Esky suddenly thought of something, and then he raised his head and found something that surprised him. What looked like an aerial bomb was floating in the air, flying with the help of a propeller at the rear.
"The airships are out? You make me want to build anti-aircraft guns."
While complaining, Eski adjusted the magnification of the observer to the maximum. If Alkadiza's signal is to the guy on the airship, the other party must be communicating now.
When the magnification in the eyes was clear, sure enough, there were human beings on the airship holding signal flags and transmitting orders into the distance.
Looking at the enemy's air force, Eski rubbed his upper and lower rows of fangs against each other and felt a toothache.
"Why are there airships? Am I in a fight? Why have I never heard of the Tomb Kings having such a thing before? I don't even think of it."
"However, anti-aircraft guns are still too troublesome. Mass production of small fuses is a troublesome matter. Dimensional Wind Howl can also solve it, let's just Dimensional Wind Howl."
Esky's eyes were still focused on the airship in the sky, and he was considering whether to use a dimensional wind roar to knock down Nehekhara's black technology, when the sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded in his ears.
How?
Before the engineer warlock had time to think about why the horses were freed from fear, a cold light accompanied by the fierce sound of wind struck his neck.
It has to be said that the opponent's skills are good, and his speed is so fast that even if he is extraordinary, Esky can only raise his left arm to block it with his body.
The blade of the saber cut into his fur, leaving an incision at least five millimeters deep. Blood flowed out along the fur, quickly dyeing his white hair red.
However, that’s where it ends.
Enduring the sudden and endless joy brought by the wound, Esky's eyes fell on the human with a gray beard on the horse, and he rolled up his upper lip to reveal two long front teeth, and said gloomily.
"Mortals dare to challenge me? Although my melee skills are very poor, my numerical value is high. Do you understand what the level gap is?"
As he spoke, Eski's right paw followed the blade that the opponent had cut on his arm, and pulled him off the horse. The pink flesh pad stepped on the opponent's breastplate, making the entire armor dent.
Go on.
A tail hit the opponent's breastplate, and a string of sparks was created between the white scales and the iron armor, sending the human being flying ten meters before Esky cursed.
"Stupid, you dare to challenge extraordinary power without extraordinary body?"
With that said, Eski looked at Alkadiza proudly again.
"One shot of the most ordinary dimensional lightning is enough to blast four or five mortals to pieces, and of that kind of spell, I can now cast six hundred without stopping."
Before he could finish showing off, the starry-eyed Khemri king jumped off his horse, frantically raised the knife engraved with runes and slashed at Eski's body.
"Bullying me for being defenseless, right?"
Eski screamed strangely and silently recited the Anoquayan incantation belonging to the wind of heaven. The sapphire arch appeared in the sky for a moment, and a giant black serrated sword that was not much shorter than Eski's body fell on him.
in the claws.
It is the equipment of the previous Khorne Vampire, the Hellblade.
The injured left arm was stabbed hard by Arkadiza, causing an incision several centimeters deep. Eski felt the pain, turned the blade sideways, and slapped Nagash's sickle-shaped sword hard.
The king of Khemri also flew out like the old human before.
Summoning the wind of life around him to heal himself, enduring the itching and pleasure that suddenly appeared at an unknown time, Eski's pink flesh pad stepped on the golden leaves of the King of Khemri.
Looking at the mortal cavalry who fled in all directions and quickly disappeared, he sneered.
"Arkadiza, you are so weak, how dare you go to trouble the big guy? Why don't you drink some more of Neferata's elixir of life? You see, your soldiers are so cowardly."<
/p>
But Alkadiza just shed tears and looked at the elderly human on the ground with a sunken breastplate.
"Uncle."
Huh?
Esky looked over blankly.
Isn't Alkadiza an orphan? When did he have any relatives? No wonder it looked like he had exploded just now, but it was of no use.
His intuition suddenly sounded like an alarm. Eskey instinctively wanted to release the protective spell, but it was too late.
Before he could recite the blasphemous incantation given by the Horned Rat, a bolt of lightning so thick that it was almost white struck him. The lightning hit his chest straight and blew Eski back.
Stroking the black marks on his chest and feeling the numb tingling sensation, Esky raised his head and looked at the source of the spell.
After almost dodging several more Heavenly Wind spells, he discovered the shadow of his target in the dense pine forest, a lizard man, who just appeared and then disappeared again.
While the lizard man was casting a spell, the wind of life in the surrounding magical wind was being drawn out, forming a spell connected to the earth next to the "corpse".
Blood of the Earth?
It turns out that his uncle is not dead yet.
"Why are my friends here? The magic before was cast by the Toad God?"
Looking at the barmates who appeared, Eski complained, opened his claws and summoned the dimensional wind roar towards the pine forest, intending to completely destroy the area with the power of the horned rat.
After barely completing the suppression of the pine forest, Esky looked at the airship in the sky again, and immediately flapped his wings and flew into the sky - it would be troublesome if his friends were there, at least to cut off the influence of these Nehekhara people.
Quick communication.
However, before the mission of launching into the sky was completed, Eski's eyes were attracted by the holy creation emitting milky white light in the distance.
The device mounted on the back of the giant Triceratops made Eski grow his mouth.
"Oh, the engines of the gods are out, Private Marseille, sorry to bother you."
Finally, he lowered his head and glanced at the airship. A green light flashed, and Eski disappeared into the sky along with the green mist.