Without waiting for the other party to reply, she continued to talk to herself: "But that's right, when I saw the vampire fighting side by side with the even more despicable rat people, I should have known how cowardly he is."
Ratmen have always been ranked alongside goblins, kobolds and the like. Their biggest feature is their low combat effectiveness, their extremely fast reproduction speed, their large numbers, and their near-inexhaustible killing.
They always give people the impression that they are the weakest among the weak, and those who associate with rat people will naturally not be strong.
Although Levi had reminded her first and after today's battle, Khalida's impression of the rat people would undergo a fundamental change, but this would not prevent her from using this to anger the vampires.
Sure enough, after hearing this, a middle-aged vampire who was relatively gorgeously dressed finally couldn't help but fly out from inside.
"Khalida, don't bully others too much. So what if you are a legend?"
"As long as I focus on escaping, can you still fly up and catch me?"
Khalida chuckled: "Oh, is this your biggest wish?"
Everyone who heard their conversation was a little speechless for a while.
This guy named Edward, if nothing else, should be the leader of the Silver Blood Army, and has the status of a count within the vampires.
He has been here for many years and can be regarded as a figure, but in the end, this is all he has achieved?
Edward snorted twice and said no more nonsense. He just threw out a few magic spells, as if he wanted to vent the anger in his heart.
However, the power of those magic spells may not be very great, but the sound and light effects are quite extraordinary, directly blocking the sight of a considerable area.
Before anyone had time to disperse, several dark figures had already very dexterously jumped out of the ground and headed straight for Khalida.
Although the specific appearance cannot be seen clearly, the short blade shining with dazzling green light has almost revealed their identity.
In the main world, only the Alchemy Masters of Cathay, a very few death-type mages, and the Ratmen can process and utilize dimension stones.
The first two use the energy of warpstones. Only the Ratmen can use warpstones as weapons!
Several arrows of the same color flew out from nowhere and headed straight for Khalida.
At the critical moment, Edward also opened his eyes wide, staring closely at the development of events below.
According to the information he received, Khalida seems to be in a weak state.
If this assassination can be successful, perhaps they will not only be limited to these desolate mountains, but may even invade southward.
They don't care much about Khalida's treasures, they don't mean much to vampires.
But the countless corpses and souls sleeping underground in Lahmia City are exactly what they dream of.
It is really a huge waste for the Tomb Kings to use those gadgets to create broken skeletons and tomb guards. If they could obtain them, they could do more!
But before he could think about the bright future, he saw several rays of light flashing at the same time, followed by the soft shouts of a man and a woman.
"Holy Glacier!"
"Rainbow Dharma Eye!"
First, an ice wall full of sacred aura blocked the rat assassin, and then colorful energy spurted out.
The Rat Assassins, who only emphasized agility, strength, and physical fitness, but were seriously inadequate, were unable to avoid the multiple effects attached to them.
One was petrified on the spot, and the other was first burned by fire and struck by lightning, then passed through acid, and finally was frozen.
As for the last one, it seems a little lucky, because it was just a little bit poisoned.
But that was just an illusion, because in the next moment, Levi's demon pet Xiao Qi had already released a steel restraint on it.
After fighting with it for so long, it has successfully reached level 9.
Although based on the special characteristics of the mage's familiar, its health and defense have not increased at all, so any level 3 soldier may easily kill it.
So most of the time, Levi only injects some summoning magic into it in advance, letting it hide far behind.
But every loss has its own gain, and when necessary, it can also produce unexpected effects, such as now!
Then several groups of shadows, darker than the rat men, floated out from a certain corner.
With just a gentle caress, all the movements of several troubled rat assassins, whether they were running, jumping, or struggling, were completely stopped in an instant.
Because they have permanently lost their lives.
Although after getting it, Levi has hardly used it a few times, and he usually doesn't see them appearing at all.
However, giant shadow elements are still summoned creatures up to level 6. The most important thing is that they can change their body shape at will, so they are really hidden!
There were also several shadow elementals, rattler and wind elementals, etc., which had already touched the direction of the arrow.
Since their body structure is very different from that of humans, rat people are not good at using bows and arrows or crossbows. They extremely prefer simple and practical slings.
But now there is a rat man on the field who uses this as a weapon. It is obviously not a sidekick, and maybe it can bring some unexpected gains.
Khalida, who was originally planning to take action, couldn't help but feel a little surprised when she saw this, but her hand movements did not stop at all, and she directly launched a backhand volley towards Edward.
Following her movements, several snake-like shadows emerged from her body and turned into sharp arrows, knocking out half of Edward's body and wings on the spot.
Without the assistance of magic or props, she is indeed unable to fly, but that doesn't mean she can't fight in the air!
Caught off guard, Edward fell directly to the ground, but the severe pain in his body was far less than the shock in his heart.
He looked at Khalida in disbelief: "Why? You can obviously attack in the air, but you have never used it on me before?"
Khalida chuckled, and the Herald turned the spear into a giant python, completely swallowing the opponent's other wing, and then she answered the opponent's question.
"Because you have never had the guts to be so close to me before!"
The enemy wants to target her, so why can't she use her body as bait?
Although based on the queen's glory and majesty, she originally disdained to use this method to win the battle.
But since the enemy came to her door on her own initiative, it would be a waste if she didn't take advantage of the situation.
Seeing Khalida's performance, Levi finally understood why Khalida, the warrior queen who is said to be the best at bows and arrows, didn't carry any bows and arrows with her.
Originally, he mistakenly thought that the other party was only good at commanding archers to fight, but now it seems that it is more than that.
Her snake-head spear can also be used to launch long-range shots like a bow and arrow, and its power is also quite terrifying. It is probably at least a legendary weapon.
"So that's it? Then my loss doesn't count."
Before he finished speaking, Edward's figure quickly transformed into a large pool of blood, and he seemed to be about to run away.
But Khalida didn't make any move. At this time, the two priests who had been staying behind her and had never participated in the battle from beginning to end finally took action.
I saw flashes of white light, and two light nets condensed by pure positive energy appeared out of thin air, not only wrapping Edward in them, but also forcefully forcing him back to his human form from a pool of blood.
This is the famous Amintok's Web in light magic. It has no offensive power at all, but in the hands of a powerful enough mage, it can exert extremely terrifying effects.
Bind, immobilize, silence.
In normal times, these three effects are very powerful even if they appear alone on a magic spell. But now the three effects combined into one are not only powerful, but terrifying!
It is also a binding magic, but it is much stronger than black tentacles or steel restraints.
Edward's face was full of despair and surprise. He looked in disbelief at the two ancient tomb priests who were still holding out their hands to maintain the light network.
"Damn it, you actually learned light magic? Is it such a rare magic?"
Although thanks to the blessings of the Egyptian gods, these mummies have become extremely special undead, and they can even learn and use light magic, it will also cause certain harm to themselves.
Even God cannot completely eliminate this fundamental thing.
But Khalida just smiled and paid no attention.
Physical wounds or spiritual wounds, which one is more painful?
For others, she was not sure, but for some special priests who had a deep hatred for Nagash, they would rather endure this pain and wait until Nagash returns again so that they can take revenge themselves!
Yes, they firmly believe that Nagash will definitely return again, and they can afford to wait, since their lifespans are very long anyway.
Li Wei was also very surprised. He had noticed these two guys fishing before, but he didn't expect that they were not lazy, but special sacrifices used to fight against powerful enemies.
Although this magic was only at level 5, he had only seen it in the hands of Teclis before, which shows how rare it is.
But Khalida seemed to have no intention of talking nonsense anymore. She just turned her head and looked at Levi: "Levi, purify him."
Now that her strength has reached this level, killing this kind of enemy is no longer meaningful.
If she wants to become stronger quickly, she can only pursue things related to God, such as divinity, godhood, and even priesthood.
Of course, if her opponent is a legend, she will never let him go.
But Edward, his strength is far from enough.
The chosen heroes have always been very keen on killing, which can make them stronger.
Moreover, when Sobek killed the miserable little maid in the Bone Temple, maybe even Sobek didn't notice it, but she, who couldn't do anything in the cage, noticed it.
At that time, Levi couldn't wait to rush up and beat Sobek up. Like other God-chosen heroes, he was equally keen on doing this.
Then by giving him the opportunity now, can it be considered as a way to repay the kindness just now?
Faced with such a good thing, Levi would naturally not refuse. Although Edward's performance was far worse than Khalida's, as the leader of a party, he was at least a level 10+ heroic unit.
The other party is bound by magic again, which makes it even more convenient for him.
But why didn't Khalida ask the other party for any information?
Is it because she doesn't think it's necessary, or...
Since he already had some calculations in mind, Li Wei directly prepared to use the dissociation technique.
If Khalida really had this idea, then it wouldn't matter if Edward lost an arm or a leg.
Seeing his action, Edward suddenly became a little anxious, not only because he recognized the magic, but also because it was completely different from what he expected!
"Wait, Khalida, don't you want to get information from me?"
"Haha, can you say it?"
If she could easily obtain the information, she wouldn't have spent so many years trying to find the true home of the Silver Blood Army.
But this time, she had some hope, not because of Levi's arrival, but because the priests had found a new method.
Edward immediately put on a mask of pain. If you don't ask, how do you know if I will say it?
If you didn't even ask and I just told you everything, wouldn't it be a shame for me?
In just such a moment of hesitation, Levi's magic had already escaped, turning one of his arms into ashes.
Edward couldn't help but scream in pain immediately. Seeing that Levi was preparing for the second spell again, he couldn't care less about being reserved.
"It was the queen who decided to cooperate with the ratmen of the Corrupt Clan to find the secret treasure left by Nagash. They want the dimension stone, and we want the nine volumes of Nagash."
Khalida was immediately extremely surprised. Why was Edward, the leader of the Silver Blood Army, so much more afraid of death than those low- and mid-level vampires?
She originally thought that the other party would never reveal any information easily, so she did not ask. Who knew that the other party would be such a weak guy?
Levi took this as a matter of course. Except for those who have been brainwashed, only those who have no dreams, low abilities, and cannot change the status quo will despise their own lives.
Of all those who have some ability, how many don’t want to live a better and longer life?
However, this guy is still being naughty. He seems to be very frank, but in fact he just said a few nonsense words.
They have already deduced this information, okay?
And Khalida seemed a little surprised? Did she never expect that the other party would let go so easily, or did she actually never think of trying to get information from the other party?
Despite his doubts, his second magic shot out and turned one of the opponent's arms into ashes.
Not to mention, Edward didn't know whether he was really weak or just unlucky, but the success rate of the dissociation technique was unexpectedly high.
If Levi had aimed at his head, he would have been dead by now.
But his vitality is indeed very tenacious. Even though he was seriously injured by Khalida, he received two more dissociation spells, but he is still alive and kicking.
Edward immediately screamed out in pain again, then turned his head and glared at Levi, "I've already cooperated so much, why are you still taking action?"
After a brief period of shock, Khalida also came to her senses. Since Edward was unexpectedly weak, it was a good time to ask him more questions.
"Where is your lair?"
Edward hesitated for a moment, and saw Levi starting to prepare to cast a spell again, but Khalida showed no intention to dissuade him, and he immediately said:
"The underground sixty miles northeast was dug out by the rat people for us. It was also a base of Nagash back then."
"You got the nine volumes of Nagash?"
Edward immediately shook his head quickly: "No, if we had gotten it, we would have left here long ago."
Although vampires have little need from the outside world, blood is their necessity.
However, the environment in this mountainous area is extremely harsh. In addition to the rat people, they are the undead. It is not easy for them to find some high-quality fresh blood.
Moreover, they have to deal with Khalida's invasion from time to time. If they had a choice, they would have left here long ago.
"Where is the Rat Man's lair?"
Edward shook his head again: "How could I possibly know this? We are just cooperating with each other, not superiors and subordinates."
Khalida was very disappointed: "Do you have anything else to add?"
Not only was she disappointed that the opponent's intelligence was so limited, but she was also disappointed that the leader of the Silver Blood Army, who had been fighting against her for at least hundreds of years, turned out to be such a waste?
No, maybe she made a mistake from the beginning.
Edward immediately felt bad when he heard this: "Hey, I've told you everything I know, why don't you let me go?"
Levi next to him couldn't help but chuckle: "Idiot, when did we promise to let you go?"
Seeing Khalida's slight nod, Levi also released the third dissociation technique at the right time. This time he aimed at the opponent's head.
Before he could make any sound, Edward disappeared into thin air without a sound.
Not to mention, this guy is just as good as he is, but his equipment seems to be very good. He dropped one purple piece and two blue pieces.
Levi picked up the things very naturally and put them all into his space ring, and then he looked at Khalida again.
"This guy is probably not the real Earl Edward, right?"
Khalida also nodded slightly: "At first I thought he was, but his performance disappointed me so much. He may be called Edward, but he will not be the leader of the Silver Blood Army."
Although she hated the Vampire Queen very much, she had to admit the other party's skill and strength. It was impossible for her to send such a waste to lead the Silver Blood Army.
Moreover, the other party's behavior was completely different from what she had known before.
In this way, the credibility of the only information the other party just provided will be greatly reduced.
"Okay, let's calm down the commotion in front of us first, and then go to the place he mentioned."
Khalida naturally had no objection, and then turned to look at the corpses of the rat assassins on the ground.
Although there were no obvious features on it, she quickly confirmed: "He is an assassin from the Essin clan, one of the four major clans of the rat people."
Among the four major clans of the Skaven, Skryre is good at plagiarism and imitation. They used warpstone to replace gunpowder and developed some extremely unstable but powerful weapons and war equipment;
The Corrupt Clan is good at cultivating various mutated beasts, or transforming humanoid creatures such as beastmen;
The Plague Clan likes to spread plague, and many large-scale plague outbreaks in the human empire have vaguely pointed to them;
The last Essin clan specializes in assassination. It is said that they have traveled to distant eastern countries to learn related techniques.
I don’t know whether the cost of hiring them this time was paid by the Silver Blood Army or the Corrupt Clan?
As soon as Edward died, the vampires who had been killed almost immediately dispersed like birds.
As for the rat people, seeing that the situation was not good, they took the lead and started to sneak away without even saying hello, completely taking the undead on the spot.
Come and go quickly, this is how the Ratmen fight.
Without immediately participating in the mouse-catching game, Levi just threw dozens of secret magic marks at the fleeing rat-men.
With his current strength, this level 1 magic can last for dozens of minutes. Although the distance is still limited, it is possible to follow the clues and find the rat people's lair.
He probably guessed that Khalida might have some backup plan that could help her find the Silver Blood Army's home base as soon as possible.
But he put in a little effort here just to increase the success rate.
On the other side, Harpulos is also controlling several poisonous scorpion guards, tracking the fleeing ratmen in the underground passages for this purpose.
If we can really find the opponent's lair, then it might not be a bad idea to kill all the rat men before discovering the Silver Blood Army.
After a quick glance around, Li Wei found that not only the tomb technicians and priests, but also the generals showed extraordinary command and combat capabilities as he expected.
Although it is not as good as Elegy or Maltis, it is still very majestic on the battlefield.
Once they launch a charge, almost none of the attacking enemies can resist them.
Similarly, those God-chosen heroes also performed very well, and soon relied on their absolute superiority in numbers to surround several betrayers.
This kind of internal rebellion, once successful, can certainly achieve great results, but if it is unable to follow up, it will trap itself in this situation.
They were not in a hurry to kill all the traitors, and apparently planned to gather information later.
In fact, Khalida thought so too.
Even though she hated the other party's betrayal, she also knew that if she could come up with certain conditions, she might be able to get more information from the other party.
Li Wei took one look and stopped paying attention, because he still had his own things to do.
There were four assassins who had just attacked Khalida, and he and Cindy teamed up to kill three of them easily.
But the one who used the crossbow at the end was unexpectedly powerful and is still alive and kicking to this day.
Under the joint attack of many shadow elements and celestial creatures, it not only did not die, but also killed many celestial creatures one after another.
Its simple attack power is not particularly high, but the poison attached to its arrows is extremely powerful.
Priests are difficult to purify, and if you don't pay attention, the person who is infected may be directly poisoned to death.
Moreover, all its arrows are made of warpstone as raw materials, which is really valuable.
At the same time, it can throw some special plague grenades, and can even use the power of shadow to hide its body.
In this way, it almost combines the characteristics of three of the four major clans of the Skaven: Skuri, Eshin and Plague. It must have a very special status among the Skaven.
So when he couldn't find Wang Jierui and the other heroes chosen by the Rat Man Gods for the time being, he turned to target the other party.
Although the opponent was extremely flexible, under the joint attack of Levi and Cindy, it was quickly forced into a dead end.
Seeing through invisibility is not a high-level magic. Even the Crazy Horse Users summoned by Levi can use three or five of them in a row.
Seeing that there was no way out, this special rat-man assassin finally stopped where he was and turned to look at Levi, as if he wanted to imprint his image deeply into his heart.
"It looks like Twitch is going to die here."
A rat man who could communicate normally? Levi was slightly interested.
"Tuki? Which clan are you from?"
He wanted to confirm whether the many powers in the other party were purely accidental, or whether the rat men were deliberately creating them.
There are endless betrayals and conspiracies within the rat people. Frequent internal fights will occur within the clan, and the struggles between different clans are even more fierce.
Skaven are also one of the few races that will feed on the corpses of their own kind, and they like to do that very much.
Because it is much easier to kill a ratman in a lair than to hunt prey in the wild.
If the four major clans are willing to join forces, it will not be good news for intelligent races such as humans or dwarves.
Of course, for the high elves, this is not a big problem.
Because Ulthuan, the hometown of the high elves, is a giant roundabout protected by magic, it will be very difficult for foreigners to even find the entrance there, let alone break into it.
Even if a lucky person appears occasionally, he still has to meet the navy that the high elves are proud of, as well as some sea beasts in the sea that are allied with them, as well as sea elves, etc.
So basically only the separated dark elves can occasionally pose a real threat to them.
There are no Skaven, Greenskins or Beastmen in Ulthuan, and the Skaven have no navy at all, so no matter how rampant the Skaven are, the high elves will only damage their colonies, but they will never affect the mainland.
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"Twitch is Doomsday from the sewers!"
With such a cry, Tucci still didn't give up resistance, but under the siege of Donna's multi-headed big cat, as well as the Tiger Messenger and the Wolf Patroller, it almost had no room to move around.
After several attempts, Levi still couldn't get much information. He only roughly learned that the other party's hometown was located below a certain human city.
At the same time, that city may be adjacent to the dwarf town, because Tucci also wears a pair of relatively rare glasses that are only used by dwarf engineers.
As for the rest, it refused to reveal even half of it.
Although it looks very wretched, it is indeed a qualified assassin and knows the importance of keeping secrets.
So Levi had no choice but to kill it, because things on Khalida's side were almost settled.
After a black tentacle and a steel restraint, Tucci was finally completely unable to move, but it still worked hard to shoot at Levi in its final resistance.
It's a pity that its pure physical attack can't break through the big slap's defense, can't create wounds, and no matter how violent the poison is, it's completely ineffective.
Levi waved his hand, signaling Cindy to accept its life, and he turned to where Khalida was.
The betrayers have also been dealt with. Except for one guy who was able to leave with his heroes and personal guards, the rest were all executed by Khalida.
And it can be expected that death will not be the only punishment. After all, Khalida is the Queen of the Tombs. If she offends her, their reputation in Lahmia City, military positions, etc. will probably be wiped out.
However, when they decided to betray, they should have already had a similar realization. Maybe the other party really gave them a generous reward that they could not refuse.
Since Khalida wore the golden mask all day long, Levi could not see any expression on her except those eyes, so he could only take the initiative to ask.
"How's it going?"
Khalida shook her head: "It's not ideal. What they know is also very limited. They are not important in the enemy's plan."
That's right, no matter whether the opponent's raid is successful or not, they will suffer heavy losses. How much confidential information can such pure cannon fodder know?
Li Wei immediately asked tentatively: "Then should we wait until the battle here is over, or?"
Although his subordinates suffered almost no losses, the skeleton soldiers under Khalida's command lost at least nearly a thousand in the first wave of attacks.
In the subsequent battles, there were constant attrition, so riding a griffon, he could see very intuitively from a high position that the army that seemed huge at first was already riddled with holes.
The actual combat effectiveness may not be much lost, but it does look a bit embarrassing.
Khalida did not reply immediately, but looked to the side at the tomb priests who had previously summoned the magical locust swarm.
After seeing the other party nodding, she said coldly: "No, we will march directly!"
After quickly issuing several orders, asking several generals to clean up the remaining undead here, Khalida set off again.
Li Wei also noticed that this time she brought almost no skeleton soldiers, and even the tomb guards only had a few hundred.
Her real main force is the God Guards and the Cemetery Knights, followed by some generals and priests, as well as several God-chosen heroes.
Although the size of the troops has been reduced sharply, the actual combat effectiveness has not been affected much.
It seemed that she knew very well that those miscellaneous soldiers would not be of much use in a truly fierce battle.
After contacting some previous signs, Levi was roughly sure that Khalida should have a way to find the other party's lair.
Thinking about it, he can ask the poisonous scorpion guards to track them. These priests who can control magic insects can naturally let them do the same thing!
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