Levi's judgment was correct, and within a few minutes, when they entered a new passage again, a swarm of humanoid rats appeared in front of them.

Although they all had rat heads and rat tails behind them, they all walked upright, and judging from the obviously processed wooden, stony, and crude metal weapons they held, it was obvious that they had evolved into intelligent beings, except for some of the most basic rags used to cover their bodies, and there were no extra decorations on their bodies, not even shoes, and only a pair of mouse paws standing on the ground.

After seeing Levi's and his party, these Skaven rat people, who were about one meter one or two tall even if they were lying on their bodies, and were not much worse than the height of the dwarves, seemed to be stunned, but soon under the call of several special rat men holding long whips, they also reacted, and while their mouths couldn't stop squeaking, they launched a crazy attack on Levi and them.

Their attack was completely undisciplined, that is, a swarm rushed straight over, completely ignoring their companions, Levi even saw that two slave rats were knocked to the ground by their companions, and the follow-up slave rats continued to move forward regardless of everything, the two poor slave rats instantly did not know how many companions were trampled on, and when their companions ran over, Levi did not see them stand up again, it is estimated that there is a high probability of being trampled to death directly, and their discipline can be seen.

However, despite the lack of discipline and order at all, nearly half a hundred humanoid rats bared their teeth, red eyes, and crude weapons in their hands rushed over, which could still bring a lot of deterrence to ordinary people.

It's a pity that none of them are ordinary people in front of them, the Moorish knights and foot warriors are very determined to stand at the forefront, without any wavering, although the enemy looks ugly, but they have encountered more enemies, more than two meters tall shark people they have killed more than a dozen, in comparison, these rat men are less than their chest height, it really makes them unable to lift their strength, even if there are many of them.

The dwarves were even more excited, and if it weren't for Levi's stopping, even the axeman who had taken refuge in him would have rushed up to engage in melee combat, according to them, drinking, mining, and fighting greenskins/ratmen were the three most important activities in their daily lives!

"Huh? Why do these guys seem to hate us? ”

Although he was slightly surprised, Levi immediately ordered the troops to launch a counterattack, and at the same time did not forget to tell the half-elf Sienna and the others, "Sienna, aim at those special nezumi with long whips for me, and kill them first!" ”

Sienna followed the direction of Levi's finger and immediately spotted several unusual rat men with long whips, not only their fur was smoother and softer, but they were not as embarrassed as slave rats, and their clothes were cleaner, she did not ask Levi why, but immediately commanded her people to volley at each other.

After a volley, she reported to Levi with her small chest: "My lord, those enemies have been dealt with!" Although the other party looked different from ordinary slave rats, he was unexpectedly vulnerable, and it didn't take much effort to be shot into a sieve by their rain of arrows.

"Well, well done, these are nezumi overseers, if they are here, the combat effectiveness and morale of these slave rats will be slightly improved, although they are only some first-order troops, there is no threat to us, but it is always not wrong to be able to weaken the enemy first."

Although Sienna didn't ask, Levi knew that the other party must have some doubts in his heart, and even Hua Meisi and the others next to him were listening quietly in that ear, so he directly explained to them, he didn't want them to be just simple soldiers, that was really a waste of the other party's talent, they were very different from those soldiers with low intelligence level, and Levi had high expectations for this.

After a brief encounter, the slave rats, who were among the lowest in Skaven's society, were all exterminated, but Levi suddenly walked over to one of the nezumi overseers and crouched down to examine the corpse.

The corpse, which seemed to have existed before the battle they had just begun, was not the one they had killed.

Hua Meisi didn't know what Levi was doing, but she was bored and squatted down behind Levi's ass, anyway, the terrain here made it impossible for her to ride Xiaobai, so she had better obediently follow Levi as an infantryman.

But as soon as she squatted down, she suddenly felt a pungent smell rushing straight over, she immediately ran away a few steps in a hurry, gasped for a few breaths, and then pinched her nose and asked, "Levi, what are you doing there, these rat people are so smelly, can't you smell them?!" ”

Of course, Levi wouldn't be unaware, but now there was something more important, and he had made a new discovery about the nezumi overseer.

He waved his hand to the dwarven axeman, who was relatively more intelligent, "Do you know what kind of attack usually causes this kind of scar? ”

On the ground, the corpse of a nezumi overseer looked as if it had been drained of all the water, and the whole rat was almost half smaller than the ordinary nezumi corpse, which was not caused by the attack of Levi's subordinates, it could only be said that the nezumi overseer was dead before they arrived, and it was such a strange way of dying.

The axeman looked at it for a few seconds, then frowned and shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't seen this kind of attack." ”

Instead, the Moorish Knight Tanatoe took the initiative to speak: "My lord, I think this is very similar to the effect of a death-based spell. ”

Looking at Thanato, who was slightly excited, Levi further confirmed: "Is it death? And not the necromancy? ”

Although the name is similar and the sound is just as frightening, after being in contact with Tanato, Levi has long been able to tell the difference between them.

In short, the people who wield death-based spells are usually followers of Moore, the god of the dead, who are dedicated to destroying all undead on the continent and can be regarded as maintainers of order.

The necromancy, on the other hand, is basically the spells used by vampires, necromancers, or similar creatures from the evil camp, who like to pull up corpses and turn them into their own undead troops.

If there is a necromancer spell here, Levi feels that he can still understand it, after all, there were two necromancers who attacked the dwarves' outposts before, so it is not a big deal for the necromancer here to kill a few ratmen, but if there is a character who controls the death system, according to the information that Levi currently has, the other party is likely to be Thanato's gang, which means that the other party may also belong to the Moorish sect!

"Yes, my lord, although I don't know exactly what the name of this spell is, the energy reaction contained in the corpse tells me that this is definitely a death-based spell!"

Tanatoe looked a little excited, because since following Levi, he has not forgotten to inquire about the information about other Moorish sects, but every time he gets the information, it can only make him more sad, under the conspiracy of the Lich Master, the Moorish sect in the knight kingdom is really dead, many Moorish gardens have been attacked, and the murderers are undoubtedly undead, he can only secretly hate his lack of strength and cannot save other Moorish gardens.

And now that there is a trace of a suspected member of the Moorish sect here, how can he not be excited?

Levi nodded slowly: "I see, Tanato, you should pay more attention to this aspect next." ”

Dwarves, necromancers, nezumi, greenskins, the Moorish Sect, plus the Draken family from Nunn, the empire, seem to be involved in some special incident...

However, Levi didn't have any fear, but looked forward to it even more, because the rewards of the task are usually closely related to its difficulty, and this time the matter involves so many races and forces, if he completes the rescue task, the reward will definitely be very rich!

"Keep going, don't slack off!"

With the clues, Levi became more calm, and under his influence, the morale of the human soldiers, who had been slightly reduced because of the special environment underground, also rose in morale, although they followed Levi for a long time and short, but they all knew that once their heroes were prepared, victory would only belong to them!

Soon, as Levi and the others advanced, the frequency of encountering enemies on the road became more and more frequent, and the number and quality of enemies continued to increase.

At first, they were confronted only by slave rats led by the nezumi overseer, but soon the slightly better equipped and slightly disciplined clan rats began to appear in large numbers among enemy units.

Compared to those slave rats that are purely cannon fodder, the strength of the clan rats is stronger, because they are the cornerstone of the Skaven rats, most of them are Tier 2 troops, and there are also some ranged troops that are also Tier 2, armed with slings and giant slingshots, the appearance of these guys has more or less caused some trouble to Levi and others, because they can't stay harmless like before.

And the proportion of rat overseers is gradually increasing, even if Sienna and other long-range troops launch a salvo, there is no way to kill them all at the first time, with the existence of these nezumi overseers, the attack power and morale of ordinary clan rats and slave rats will be slightly improved, although the value is very small, but it is a little troublesome, in order to reduce the loss as much as possible, the speed of Levi and the others is becoming more and more slow.

But fortunately, probably because they are deep enough underground, many of the passages are now very wide, suitable for them to fight.

For example, the area where they are fighting now is very wide, and the walls and ground are also full of glowing bryophytes, and the light is also abundant, whether it is a melee unit or a ranged unit, it can exert its full combat effectiveness, which is suitable for dealing with these nezumi here, anyway, the quality of Levi's side is to crush these low-level nezumi.

Just as Levi once again commanded the ranged troops, gathering fire to eliminate some of the Skaven ratmen armed with slings, he suddenly felt a pain in his back, and then he heard Dahl, the half-breed hunter who had been waiting by his side, let out an angry shout: "My lord, be careful, there are attackers!" ”

Levi hurriedly turned around and retreated, and at the same time took out a long sword from his waist, although he usually commands on horseback, and occasionally uses a spear to charge, but he still uses a long sword, and after becoming a ranger knight, thanks to the passive skills of weapon proficiency, he is more proficient in the use of long sword.

However, despite Levi's speed, he still could not completely escape the pursuit of the other party, although he repelled an enemy with his sword, he was still stabbed four or five times in a row by the other party, and there was obviously not only one enemy who sneaked up on him from behind.

It wasn't until the half-blood hunter Dahl rushed behind him, swept his shield, and sent the two black shadows out of the air, that he got a chance to breathe, and then Sienna and Kelly, who had been guarding with the half-elves, also rushed over in unison, and each blocked an opponent, Levi was completely out of danger, but there were still several black shadows that rushed directly into the hunter John's ranged troops, causing a lot of commotion in an instant.

Only then did he see clearly that these new enemies were also rat men, but unlike the ones he had seen before, who were poorly equipped, and basically only had one ragged clothes on their bodies to shelter from the wind and not necessarily be able to block the rain, although these new rat men were shorter and more obscene, they were all wearing leather armor made of unknown animal fur, and they were also carrying short daggers with metallic luster in their hands, which was a kind of thief-like rat man!

Looking at the way they fought with Sienna and the others, it was obvious that they were at least 2nd order troops, and there was even an obvious elite unit among them, even in the face of the 3rd order half-elf blade guard Kelly, it would not fall behind in a short period of time, because its movement speed and attack speed were very fast, even Kelly had nothing to do with the other party in a short time.

However, these thieves are not without weaknesses, at least their attack power is not too high, Levi has been attacked by the opponent to at least seven or eight times, and his health has only dropped by about one-third, although this has a lot to do with the ultra-high defense provided by his current equipment, but it is also an indisputable fact that the enemy's attack power is low.

Before Levi sent his reserve team to join the battle, Xiaobai's roar from the rear clearly told Levi that the attacking enemy was not only these nezumi thieves in front of him, but also more enemies, and they were now being flanked by the enemy!

"Squeak, human, rescue? Squeak, delusional! ”

With a tremor and squeak of words, an enemy distinctly different from the other nezumi appeared in Levi's sight.

Unlike the nezumi who were mostly covered in gray-white fur, thin and visibly malnourished, this new nezumi had bright purple-black hair and was far taller than its counterpart, and even though it was now leaning forward slightly and seemed to be a little hunchbacked, it was only slightly shorter than Levi's.

Levi secretly estimated that if the other party could stand up straight, he would probably have to exceed one meter eight, which was definitely a high-level unit among the rat men!

With the appearance of purple-black fur rat people, a large number of clan rats also drilled out of several passages in the rear, this vast area is certainly suitable for large-scale battles, but it also links a large number of passages, and a lot of rat men appeared in all directions at once, just surround the back road of Levi's troops, and even let them have no way to retreat.

If this is not a coincidence, but a trap laid by the other party, Levi will have to doubt the intelligence level of the other party, even the elite of ordinary troops do not have this brain.

Soon, the words of a dwarven ranger answered Levi's doubts: "My lord, it is a rare high-level unit among the nezumi - the Storm Rat!" ”