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Holding Mjolnir and wearing the Gray Knight's psychic power armor, Ryan charged in first. The warhammer in his hand smashed the heads of five or six clan rats in succession. Regardless of whether the opponent raised a shield or not, Ryan smashed them into pieces.
The morale of the rats was high one second, but collapsed the next, and they screamed and fled into the distance.
It's safe here for now.
"Sir Ryan!" Abel put away his gun: "What happened? Why did so many ratmen suddenly appear?"
"I don't know." Ryan shook his head repeatedly: "Abel, we need your power."
"But the people here?" The witcher looked at the survivors in the hotel hesitantly.
"Do you know where the Church of Justice is?" Ryan shouted towards the survivors.
"I know... I know." The survivors in the hotel whispered: "Your Excellency, Knight of the Holy Grail, please save us!"
"We have cleared the nearby blocks, you all, retreat towards the Church of Justice!"
"clear."
The survivors slowly retreated towards the high wall of Helmgart, and there were still some defenders on the wall who were resisting.
Ahead was the Von-Kensen residential area, and there were gunshots over there! Ryan immediately signaled everyone to rush towards the residential area behind. There was thick smoke everywhere in Helmgart.
The whole city is gradually collapsing. Cries for help and shouts of killing are endless. There are too many rat people. These rat tides are getting bigger and bigger and are submerging the entire city. Sporadic resistance can't stop the rat tide at all.
On the contrary, countless slave rats and clan rats rushed into human settlements under the command of Storm Assault Rats. Adults who were alone and exposed were eaten by the hungry ratmen on the spot into lumps of fuzzy flesh and blood.
The fangs devoured human flesh and blood, pulling out internal organs and intestines, enjoying a terrifying gluttonous feast.
Faced with those humans who blocked the door and hid behind the bunker, the Ratmen also had a way.
The gas rats throw poison gas bombs, the fire rats use the warpstone flamethrower to spit out a lot of flames, and there are hook rats and assassin rats. These rats enjoy the sight of humans screaming in despair. They may be burned by the green flames.
A ball of rotten flesh, or a body covered in sores caused by poisonous gas, turning into a ball of pus.
There were only a dozen survivors left in the hotel, and half of them had inhaled poisonous gas, and their bodies were festering. Ryan felt that it was very difficult. These people had inhaled the poisonous gas of the rat men. Obviously, their time was running out, and they could not compete with healthy people.
People stay together!
But giving up on them would be inconsistent with the spirit of chivalry.
Should we take the huge risk of infecting all survivors with the plague, or should we abandon these people and completely ensure that no survivors will be infected with the plague?
Ryan was still hesitating, but Abel had already taken action. The demon hunter calmly pointed to those survivors who had not inhaled the poisonous gas: "You guys are going to follow us. As for you, stay where you are."
Let’s wait for reinforcements.”
After saying that, the witcher raised his blunderbuss.
The atmosphere was very tense, and a dozen survivors who had finally been rescued from the hotel realized that what they were waiting for might not be salvation.
"Demon hunter! You are really the scum of the world, a man-eating devil!" An adult who had been resisting the rat-man attack with all his strength said bitterly: "I thought you would protect us? It turns out that it is not the rat that brought our destruction.
People, but you!"
There have been many red spots and sores on his face.
"Bang!" The handgun fired, and the man was killed on the spot. Demon hunter Abel calmly pointed the gun at the remaining survivors: "Who else has any objections?"
Eight survivors who had not inhaled the poisonous gas came out, and the remaining people looked at Abel with hateful eyes, and stayed where they were without speaking in anger.
Abel didn't care, the demon hunter said to Ryan and his party: "Let's go quickly!"
The group of people quickly rushed to the Von Kenson residential area. Due to the previous battle between Lane and others, there were no ratmen on the road for the time being.
"It's not good for you to do this, Mr. Abel." Sulia hesitated for a long time, and then whispered to Abel: "You don't need to... shoot."
"We can't save everyone, Mrs. Sulia." Amber almost laughed after listening to the female knight's words. If Sulia's face wasn't so serious, he wouldn't even want to answer the question: "If it wasn't for time,
If you allow them, I will tie them all to the stakes and burn them to death."
"But..." Lidya Su still couldn't bear it.
"Mr. Abel did it right, Mrs. Sulia." The sweet-looking Veronica spoke. She was holding a purple Yundini staff, and her slim figure was hidden in a fiery red leather coat.
Witch Lan said with some disappointment: "If it were His Excellency Duke Francois, he would do the same thing. We can't save everyone."
"Sulia, Abel did the right thing." Ryan also shook his head: "There are gunshots ahead!"
In the distance, a terrible battle was going on on Von-Kensen Street. About a hundred soldiers, leading more than a hundred militiamen, were fighting against the rat-man frenzy coming from all directions.
An imperial captain is directing the battle. He has suffered many injuries, and half of his face is covered with burn marks. This makes him look extremely ferocious. The army is surrounded by rat tides from all directions. They are like an ocean.
The isolated island inside is surrounded by waves caused by rat tides.
"Fire!!!" the cannon roared, and dozens of ratmen were torn to pieces by the cannon's cannons.
This only relieved the pressure temporarily. The sword, shield and spear soldiers were resisting the rat attack with all their strength. These human soldiers used sword, shield and spear to barely resist the enemy's attack.
The Musketeers fired continuously to drive back the Skaven offensive, but the cunning Skaven sent a large group of slave rats to feint to attack, with the clan rats and storm rats hiding behind.
This is the method of the Skaven. The cunning and cruel Skaven send huge numbers of slave rats to the front lines to consume the energy and ammunition reserves of the human army.
The slave rats are in chaos, with low combat effectiveness and extremely low morale. The rat people have never expected them to accomplish any mission goals, but now these slave rats have been forced into a desperate situation. In front of them is the human army, and behind them are the clan rats and the storm.
Rat swarm.
Fight, or die, these are the only two options for slave rats.
The human army is still resisting hard. They use wooden carts, market stalls and carriages to form a fragile front. The soldiers fight bravely to kill the enemy. Each soldier has killed many rats, but the rats
There were simply too many people, and the soldiers desperately discovered that even if they could fight one to twenty, they were still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers.
"Captain Huber! The tactics of these rats on the other side are simply Breton tactics!" a soldier shouted loudly.
"Shut up! If the knights of Britannia were on the other side, we would have been doomed a hundred times! No matter what, we can't retreat, there are innocent civilians behind me!" Imperial Captain Huber yelled angrily:
"Hold on! There will be reinforcements!"
This unit is the Mackensen Musketeers. They were training normally in the military camp today. As a result, the Skaven directly used the dimensional cannon to force open the military camp door, and then the rat tide directly submerged the entire military camp. There was a huge crowd inside the military camp.
Some soldiers were brutally killed before they could respond.
Obviously, the Skaven have been prepared for a long time. Their goal is to destroy the entire Helmgart defense force when they come up.
The Rat Man's plan was mostly successful. Only one imperial captain, Huber, led more than a hundred remaining soldiers to break out of the military camp. Knowing that the situation was over, Huber directly blew up the armory of the military camp in grief.
I would rather destroy them all than leave the Rat Man with one bullet!
"Reinforcements? Captain, where can we find reinforcements?" A musketeer shouted in despair. The barracks had been destroyed. Except for a part of the garrison stationed on the city wall, Helmgart had no troops to mobilize.
"Earl! Your Excellency the Earl will come to support us!" The imperial captain's voice was very unconfident. His hand did not stop, and he killed seven or eight slave rats in a row with his sharp sword.
More slave rats climbed over the defense line, over the fallen wooden tables, and even over the carriage. They howled and approached, but were quickly killed. The Imperial Captain gritted his teeth until his gums bled.
The ratmen did this on purpose! They are waiting for us to get tired and run out of ammunition! If this continues, these remaining defenders will definitely be defeated!
As if in response to Huber's conversation, an explosion was heard from the count's castle on the mountain. Half of the castle's outer wall collapsed, and rubble fell from high places, destroying many houses below the castle.
This situation has given people a deeper sense of despair.
There will be no reinforcements.
Helmgart is finished.
"Dong~dong~dong~" the bell rang.
"Boom~boom~boom!" At this moment, the brick house next to it suddenly exploded, and a Holy Grail Knight wearing silver precision power armor came out from the side with several people!
"For the lady!!!" Thor's hammer smashed several clan rats into meat pies. No matter whether these clan rats used shields to block or not, the only outcome was that the shields were shattered!
"Thunder strike!" Ryan's war hammer fell heavily to the ground. All the ratmen in the east found their bodies rising from the ground. Ryan's huge power knocked away all the ratmen who were close to him.
, swinging the war hammer back and forth in his hand, no matter it was a clan rat, a slave rat or a storm rat, no rat man could get close to him. On the contrary, when he released the psychic storm on the street, the dense rat men could only stand on the street.
Leaves flakes of char.
Ryan's war hammer would kill him wherever it went. He killed hundreds of ratmen by himself.
"For the lady!" Sulia, who exuded countless radiances, shouted and joined the battlefield. The female knight held the Leonese sword burning with pure flames. All the rat men touched by those flames were evaporated on the spot.
"Kill! Human woman!" The Storm Rats immediately gathered towards the female knight. They held halberds and charged forward together.
"Madam, grant me victory!" Sulia didn't panic at all. She immediately dodged and the sword of Lyonnais moved swiftly and turned into a ball of dazzling light and shadow. In the blink of an eye, five halberds were cut off directly. Su
Lia forcefully chopped off the heads of two storm rats, and other clan rats crowded in one after another, preparing to lay siege to Sulia.
The sharp sword in his hand was like a judgment, and Sulia's exquisite swordsmanship slashed along the Storm Rat's neck.
The disgusting heads were cut open by the sharp blade, and the storm rats were killed one by one by Sulia. Before the female knight could take a breath, Abel immediately shouted: "Mrs. Sulia! Be careful, it's the plague monk."
!”
Sulia looked up and saw that several plague monks wearing green robes, with pale skin, covered in pus, and covered with sores and pimples were rushing towards her, the daggers in their hands glowing green!
"Go!" A burning skull appeared in Veronica's palm. She sneered and waved her hand. The skull instantly turned into a huge flaming skull, spitting out flames and engulfing the plague monks.
Directly burning all the ratmen on the street, Veronica released a magic again.
"Light of Conquest!"
The wind of light, Hexi, was surging. Veronica summoned the energy of glory to calm the depressed hearts of these remnants, and the energy of magic doubled their courage.
After releasing the magic, Veronica panted slightly. The Witch of Gloria had already released many spells in succession, and her mana reserves began to become thin.
This can't continue like this. Veronica's magic power is limited, but the number of ratmen is far beyond imagination!
"Kill! Kill! Kill these heretics! Purify the earth!" Demon hunter Abel fought bravely. He rushed in front of a plague monk and penetrated the plague monk's head with the rapier in his hand: "Fight! For Charlemagne
, for the empire!”
The appearance of a few people immediately turned the tide of the battle. As the Skaven troops were attacked from two sides, the leading Storm Rats and Plague Monks were wiped out by Ryan and others. Serious chaos began to appear in the Skaven army. They had previously attacked like a tide.
Now it has collapsed like a tide.
The human army was finally able to take a breath, and Imperial Captain Huber came to Lane with relief: "Are you Lord Lane Malcador? I am Huber, captain of the Helmgart Mackensen Musketeers,
Thank you for saving us."
"You keep shouting that the Earl will come to support you. I am honored that I heard your request for help." Ryan said a cold joke: "I may have disappointed you. I am the Earl on the other side of the mountain."
"Please don't say that." Huber felt a burning pain on his face. Half of his face was burned by the Skaven's flamethrower and was only bandaged hastily. It looked very ferocious. The Imperial Captain bared his teeth and was in great pain.
: "Thank you for coming to support us, we will always remember your kindness."
"Okay, without further ado, Captain Huber, what are you going to do next?" Sulia put the sword back to her waist and the female knight whispered.
"I don't know. The military camp is destroyed, and the count's castle seems to have fallen. If possible, I want to protect some civilians from breaking out and go to nearby towns to ask for help." The imperial captain looked at the burning Helmgart and sighed softly.
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Ryan noticed that these troops were protecting some civilians, about a hundred people.
"In this way, Sulia, Veronica, Mr. Abel, and Captain Huber, you try your best to gather the defeated army and militia, and find those civilians who have not been infected with the plague, and go to the Church of Justice on the cliff.
retreat."
"What about you? Ryan?" Sulia said in surprise.
"I will go alone towards the place where the ratmen appear to attract their attention. Abel, help me point out the possible location of the ratman warlord, and I will solve it!"