Chapter 249: Busy Pesti
In all things in the world, there is light and darkness, no matter how dazzling the brilliance, there is always darkness quietly breeding underneath.
The same is true for Warhammer World, where no place is 100% safe.
Whether it is the elven home of Ulthuan, which is hidden in the fog of magic, or the rainforest, Luschia, which is sheltered by the ancient and powerful demon priest, has a tragic history of being invaded by evil forces.
Not to mention the poor and remote places in the eyes of civilized societies such as the "Border Prince's Territory", all kinds of chaotic alien forces have long bloomed everywhere.
In addition to the roaming greenskins, the beastmen who hide in the Black Forest, and the vampires who inhabit the dark castles, the Skaven have also put their underground kingdoms deep into it, which has been entrenched and intertwined for thousands of years.
In the vicinity of the "Iron Rock", the stone knows that there are three super-large nezumi clans' lairs, all of which are famous transportation hubs within the Skaven Underground Empire.
The three nests are located on the northwest, northeast and south sides of the fortress.
They are either old towns with a long history and huge scale, or they are the high-speed upstarts that occupy the choke point, each of which is more than ten times larger than the "Disney" under your feet.
In particular, the "Grinning Clan" in the "Humpback Mountain" in the northeast and the "Morse Clan" in the "Pillar City" in the south, the patriarchs of these two clans even have a place in the "Council of Thirteen", the highest authority of the rat people. Although it is not yet one of the four major clans of the nezumen, it is definitely the top existence on the pyramid of the huge underground empire.
The remaining "Moldkin Clan" in the northwest, in the hinterland of the border prince's domain, underground on the outskirts of the top two large cities "Akendorf", is also an old warlord clan, but it has declined in recent centuries, but its strength is still not to be underestimated.
The scale of the nest of such three super clans can be imagined, and basically all the goods circulating in the rat society can be bought.
But even so, Pesti Calamity went to the most famous "Grinning Clan" and "Morse Clan" twice, but he still failed to meet the female rat man, but fortunately, he did not return in vain, and purchased a large amount of equipment and materials for engineering research from the two nests respectively to expand his empty laboratory.
In addition, he also used his old relationship to contact the "Scurry Clan" of the "Skaven Demon Capital", and ordered five "Dimensional Stone Grinders" from them in one go, and just for the deposit, he spent half of the dimensional stones that the "Nexus Clan" had worked hard to save for hundreds of years, which can be called a loser.
However, when he came back, he said that the stone was not distressed at all, but also praised it greatly, and the reason was very simple, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.
Dimension stones are dead, and although they are also valuable, only by mastering the corresponding techniques and transforming them into real combat power can their true value be maximized.
And with the "Dimensional Stone Grinder", the efficiency can be greatly improved in the future, whether it is mining or digging holes.
This expensive machine carefully developed by the "Scury Clan" uses specially treated dimensional stone powder as an energy source, and at the same time, a spiral-shaped spike is installed on the top of the machine, which is polished into a spiral of dimensional stone crystals, which is specially used to drill holes.
In peacetime, only two ratmen can dig up the soil and rocks very quickly, and even dig tunnels on the battlefield, so that the troops can appear in any corner out of nowhere, and hit the enemy's weakest weakness.
For a race like the nezumi who burrows underground all the time, this machine is of course very popular, but due to the low production and high price, it is still in short supply, and ordinary clans can't buy it even if they have money, and if it weren't for the fact that Pesti is also half of the "Scurry Clan", it wouldn't be so easy to buy.
Of course, this is good news for the stone, he now has a whole vein of dimensional stone, what is lacking is the miner, and as soon as these grinders are in place, there will not be so many nezumi digging holes, and if they are transferred to the mine, the output of dimensional stone will increase immediately.
In the good news and not bad, Pesti has completed another more important task assigned to him, and he has contacted the gutter runners of the "Isin Clan" through the merchants of the "Scurry Clan" who sell construction machines in "Humpback Mountain".
This clan, which is one of the four major clans of the nezumi along with Skrry, can be called the "secret police" in the Skaven Empire, and it is almost impossible to see the traces of these black-clothed nezumi on weekdays.
They are well-versed in assassination, espionage, and sabotage techniques learned from Aurora and Nippon in the Far East, and are true intelligence masters, mastering every move in the vast Nezumi Empire, and are ubiquitous, but untouchable.
In addition to spying on the numerous nezumi clans around the world for the Council of Thirteen, the Assassins of the Clan of Aishin also set a clear price and accepted a variety of tasks, whether it was assassination, poisoning, or treasure hunting, as long as they were paid accordingly.
Pesti immediately took out a lot of money and entrusted them to use a huge spy network to find the traces of the light mage Egrem, the shadow mage Stryksen and the little bell, as well as the origin of the mysterious symbol, but there is no news yet.
On the one hand, it is the regular intelligence network of the "Forgiveness Mercenary Group", and on the other hand, it is the underground channel of the rat people, and the two prongs are two-pronged, and the stone does not believe that there is no news at all!
As for the problem of female rat people, it must also be solved as soon as possible.
So last month Pesti was on the road again, this time targeting the "Moldkin Clan", but unlike before, Stone changed his mind, not only asking him to bring the rest of the dimensional stones, but also bringing an army of thousands of greenskins.
The black orc lord finally reacted, we are not good children, we are violent green skins! Can't buy it? Then grab it!
He told Pesti that if he went to "Akendorf" and still didn't meet a female mouse, then he would find out if there were any weak rat clans around, and go directly to the house with the green skin, and bring all the male and female rats back in one pot.
Anyway, after the tribe's boys have been stable for more than half a year, they have recently begun to be restless again, and they just want to go out for activities, of course, provided that the other party's strength is not strong.
This is also the reason why it is necessary to move around the "Moldkin Clan", this clan stone is quite understandable, and it belongs to the typical example of the ancestors who were once wide and are now dilapidated.
Although the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, it is far from the same level as the "Grinning Clan" and the "Morse Clan", and besides, it is not directly provoking it, but just doing things around, and the risk is definitely far less than that of the other two.
If all goes well, they should have news these days.