To the east of Rat Mountain, you can see the wild land in the distance and the lush dark forest.
At the foot of Rat Mountain, a rock wall suddenly shattered, and a rat man holding a diamond-like machine walked out first, followed by several tall demon rats carrying a heavy portal.
Followed closely by a large group of rat soldiers wearing iron armor.
When more than 400 ratmen with such sophisticated equipment came out, the rat mage emerged cautiously.
The one walking at the forefront of the rat-men was none other than Morgan. Since the Jagged Rat-men general was captured by the enemy, Morgan had automatically become the supreme leader of the rat-men.
"Sir, where are we going?" A rat-man came to Morgan's side and asked.
Morgan Rat Man looked at the endless wild wasteland, and then at the forest in the distance.
He replied: "Let's go to that forest. Not only will it be easy for us to hide, but there will also be a lot of food for us to survive."
"We have deployed too many forces in order to get rid of the pursuing troops behind us. Now we need to be more careful."
A team of only a few hundred ratmen ran towards the dark forest.
After an unknown amount of time, several hyenas came out of the hole. They sniffed the ground and then ran towards the dark forest, but one of them turned back and returned.
At this time, the portal has been closed, because it requires stable spatial positioning to open, otherwise the passing ratman may get lost in the turbulence of space while moving.
When they reappear, they may be in trees or rocks.
Walking in the forest, this group of rat men were very cautious. This world was actually very strange to them.
Although their ancestors once established a kingdom at Shushan, it was the original Shanhen tribe.
But according to records, this grand occasion only lasted less than a year before it was destroyed by various countries on the continent.
So the lord of the Shanhen Tribe at that time had no choice but to retreat to the Rat's Nest, and at the same time buried a portal, hoping to come back one day.
Until they attacked the Holy Yuan Empire, a human mage helped them and then came here through the portal in Yama City.
After setting the space mark of the portal, we were finally able to get some reinforcements from the Rat Nest.
However, this cost is high. Since this world is a bit far away from the Rat Nest, the Rat Nest requires a lot of energy.
So if they wanted to have more troops, they naturally wanted to conquer the rat tribe here. But what they didn't expect was that the rat tribe here had already defected to humans.
After learning the battle formations of humans, his strength is already on par with theirs.
But when the Jagged Ratman general was captured, the series of defeats became irreversible.
Night had come, and Morgan Ratman led his team to a pond. Looking at the fish swimming in the pond, he swallowed and decided to use this place as a temporary camp.
When the surrounding rat men were busy, four hyenas approached cautiously from a distance.
They lay on the ground and moved forward little by little. When they saw clearly the group of rat people and the portal beside them, a hyena cautiously stepped back.
The remaining three continued to monitor.
One of the rat-men has already entered the water, holding a spear in its hand and staring unblinkingly at the fish in the water.
Suddenly, a huge splash of water rose from its side, and a huge figure appeared in front of the rat man.
Then he opened his big mouth and bit it, tearing it apart and flicking it, and the entire rat man's body was divided into two halves.
Morgan was shocked and immediately chanted a spell, then pointed at the giant shadow that appeared.
A green magic circle appeared on the giant shadow's head, and a green light shot out from the magic circle and fell straight on the giant shadow's head.
With a roar, green light exploded, covering the giant shadow's entire body.
"Ouch..." The giant shadow immediately let out a miserable cry.
When the green light disappeared, the giant shadow did not fall down to Morgan's expectation, but there were many pustules on its body, as if it was entangled by some kind of disease.
"Yes, Crocodile Man, let's get out of here." Morgan Rat Man was a little panicked.
According to its understanding, the crocodile people are a gregarious race and are very powerful in combat. The cuticle on their bodies is a good armor and can resist most attacks.
Just as the rat people were about to leave, nearly 200 crocodile warriors emerged from the pond. They swam to the shore holding big clubs and walked towards the rat people step by step.
Morgan wasn't very worried about this. As long as they left the pond, these slow-moving crocodile men couldn't catch up with the rat men at all.
Morgan fled again with the Rat Man, and soon came to the foot of a towering tree.
"Stop, the crocodile man has been thrown away by us, hurry up and find some food..."
Morgan was panting violently. After a day of running non-stop, he was almost at his limit. If he didn't eat something, he felt that he might faint.
"Sir...sir..." The rat men around him were very panicked at this time.
The frightened voice drew Morgan's attention, and he saw a large circle of human soldiers surrounding him, pointing here with giant bows.
As long as they make any movement, they may be struck by the thunder of human soldiers in the next second.
"We need to talk. We have no intention of intruding into your territory. I think we can leave to prevent misunderstandings."
The Morgan Ratmen thought for a moment and decided to use a diplomatic strategy. They just wanted to leave, while humans preferred wealth, which they happened to have no wealth.
Not far away, Qi Jiguang, wearing fine armor, was reporting into the light mirror.
"Captain, there is a group of rat people, um... the portal... I have seen it... deal with it immediately."
After turning off the light mirror, Qi Jiguang raised his hand and then lowered it. The 1,000 border soldiers received the order and immediately released their bows and arrows.
Before Morgan could wait for a reply from the humans, a hail of arrows flew towards them.
"Shield." Morgan quickly hid behind the demon rat, while being protected by a green energy shield.
But before the other ratmen could react, they were pierced by hooked arrows, and most of them were lost in an instant.
After another wave of arrows, there were basically very few ratmen left.
Even the demon rat, which was as tall as a monster, fell down with arrows all over its body, and Morgan behind it was exposed.
"You humans..." Morgan looked at the rat-man corpses lying around. These were the most elite troops they had left this time, but they were wiped out again here.
Looking around and raising their bows and arrows, Morgan immediately shouted, "I surrender, I surrender, don't kill me..."
As it spoke, it put down the staff in its hand, raised its hands high, and knelt on its knees. It looked like it was experienced.
Faced with the siege of 1,000 soldiers around it, even if it was already a fourth-level archmage, it did not dare to bet that it could defeat the entire army alone.
At Qi Jiguang's signal, two border soldiers stepped forward, tied Morgan with a cowhide rope, and stuffed a cloth into his mouth.
At the same time, several talismans were attached to its back, and then the runes on the talismans lit up. Morgan felt as if the magic power in his body had been blocked, and he could no longer use magic power.
Anti-Magic Talisman: This is a talisman specially used to detain prisoners. It can block the movement of magic in the opponent's body, but the effective time is not fixed. Please change the talisman at any time.
Qi Jiguang then appeared, walked to the portal, reached out and touched the runes on it, "Is this a portal? It can actually cross different worlds?"
"Woooooooo..." Only then did Morgan realize that these humans were here for the portal, but it was too late now.
In the Rat Mountain, White Fang was sitting in a hole sulking. He let the hyenas chase him and only then discovered that the fleeing rat-men had opened dozens of passages.
I don't even know which channel the portal went to.
For this purpose, it sent countless men, but so far, except for capturing some ratmen from the Shanhen Tribe, not even a shadow of the portal has been seen.
Now it can only wait here, waiting for news.
At this time, a rat captain came to Bai Ya and reported: "Chief, the governor asked me to report to you that the portal has been captured by General Qi."
"What, the Dark Forest? They actually ran so far?" White Fang was surprised that the rat men of the Mountain Scar Tribe actually opened a passage to the Dark Forest.
But this way, it will be more convenient to travel between the two places in the future.
A few days later, Shushan returned to calm.
The obtained portal has been summoned to the research institute. Compared with the portal model built last time, this small portal is more valuable.
At this time, in the waters surrounding the Sanfors Federation and the territorial waters of the Silver Principality, a large fleet of ships was docked at the sea.
Opposite it is your single warship responsible for negotiation, with a blue flag hanging on its flagpole.
A small boat was put down, and a nobleman from the Silver Principality boarded the small boat and came to the flagship of the Ming Dynasty fleet.
Facing the ship full of warriors, Baron Coker walked to the center of the ship fearlessly.
He raised his chin proudly and looked at Chang Yuchun who was sitting in the middle of the crowd.
"Do you know that you have invaded the territory of our Sanfors Federation, the territory of the Silver Principality?"
"There are only two ways before you now. One is to be destroyed by us, and the other is to pay tribute and taxes to our Silver Principality, which must be one million gold coins a year."
"However, due to the kindness of my general, I have brought you the mastermind of the misunderstanding we caused last time, and you can deal with it as you wish."
Baron Coker raised his hands and clapped his hands twice. From behind him, two silver warriors carried a disheveled figure to the center of the warship.
The silver warriors all let go, and the ragged man fell to the ground with a thud.
He raised his head in confusion, neither crying nor flattering, just in a daze, as if he no longer knew where he was.
Baron Cork looked around and found that no one on the ship was talking, just looking at him quietly.
Chang Yuchun, who was sitting in the main seat, just watched with narrowed eyes and was not in a hurry to express his position.
Baron Cork snorted coldly, thinking that they really were a group of people from a small country, but they were so scared by me that they dared not speak.
"Okay, since you all have no meaning, let's sign an agreement. You will hand over 1 million gold coins every year. Not only will we not pursue your faults, but we will also provide you with protection. This is a big deal for small countries like you.