The blue-gray rock is half a meter high, and its appearance is so realistic that even the [Eye of Systm] can't see it.

But when the tentacles touch it, they will find that this rock is completely fake, and near the illusion of the rock, there are some special energy breaths escaping.

Sistemm followed the aura of energy and touched it in the illusion, and it didn't take long for a thirty-centimeter-sized rat-man skull to be taken out of the illusion.

As the skull was removed, the illusion of grey rock vanished, revealing a relatively clean entrance to the nezumi cave.

Compared to a normal nezumi cave, the smell in this cave is much cleaner, and although it has a slight odor, it is not so foul.

Leaving the Meatball on guard to prevent the nezumi from escaping through the other exits of the rat hole, Systham led Shava into the nezumi burrow once more.

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In the Warren Plains, the nezumi are also known as the plague ratmen.

Rats are timid and greedy.

Usually when they encounter a strong enemy, they will first choose to flee, and when they encounter the weak, they will show their fangs mercilessly, which is basically a race that is weak when it is strong and strong when it is weak.

But if these timid nezumi are forced to a point where they have no way back, they will never sit idly by, and they will fight desperately.

Of course, no matter how much they resisted, the nezumi still couldn't challenge the overlord of the grassland, the gnolls.

Located in the Warren Plains ruled by the gnolls and pig-heads, the nezumi survive in the cracks, partly because of the way they live underground, the helpless gnolls warriors, and partly because of the strange germs they are contaminated with.

Since the worship of the god of plague and damnation, almost every nezumi has been contaminated with some plague, and there is a high risk that the gnolls who eat the flesh of the nezumi will also die.

Over time, the gnolls, who had suffered many losses, gave up using the rat people as food.

Of course, if you see a lone nezumi, the gnolls are in a very good mood, or very bad, and they will attack the nezumi as well.

Although they won't eat the nezumi, the gnolls can find some pleasure by killing the nezumi.

However, there are still a few such murderous gnolls, so the life of the rat people in the Warren Plains is quite passable.

After the half-snake people were wiped out by the gnolls, and after more than a hundred years of recuperation, the rat people have established hundreds of settlements far away from the gnolls, and even built a city that houses tens of thousands of rat people.

The nezumi, who had been trembling under the rule of the gnolls, became restless and decided to wrestle with the gnolls and began to attack the wolves of the steppe, the gnoll's vassals.

But the nezumi are also a contradictory race, after provoking the gnolls, some bold nezumi began to become merchants, going to the cities of the gnolls to communicate with each other, and even tried to join the Volendre Federation composed of jackals and pig-headed people, becoming the third race of the Warren Federation.

The results are obvious, and several nezumi merchants who travel to the city of gnolls go missing every few days.

The nezumi wizard Lance Coricius lived for a time in the nezumi city, the plague city of Helencia, before moving to the border between the Warren Plains and the Lilt Forest due to plague experiments.

Lens was reluctant to support the Nezumi Clan's entry into the Volende Federation, instead expecting the plague god he believed in to give them more power to end the Gnoll's rule.

However, six months after moving to the border of Lilte Forest, Lens did not make much progress in the study of the plague, and instead encountered evil and murderous monsters.

Lance didn't know what the monsters were, and after receiving a message from a rat of his kind, the same man had died and been eaten by the monsters.

Yes, its kind was eaten, and the monsters were nothing, like the half-snake people, the nezumi people's former nemesis.

A hundred years ago, after the gnolls wiped out all the half-snake people, the rat-man plague no longer had a target that could not be effective.

Only the snakes on the grassland are immune to this plague, but ordinary snakes are no match for the rat people at all, and in recent decades, the snakes on the grassland have been basically cleaned up by the rat people, and only a few snakes will still survive.

Every nezumi who believes in the plague god will have plague in them, and even powerful gnolll warriors will become feverish, unconscious, or even die after eating rat meat containing plague.

Could it be a demon? Or the undead? Or is it a halfling-like creature?

After the ensuing investigation, Lens discovered that the other party was neither a demon from the abyss nor the sluggish undead.

They are a strange bunch of monsters, with cold bodies, just like those snakes.

The smaller ones resemble the ants of the prairie, but are many times larger than the average ant.

Lens knew that neither the big monsters nor the small monsters were definitely the same species as the ants.

These monsters are like the halflings of the rats, but they are weirder and more terrifying than those halflings.

Lance discovers that the monsters are trying to build a nest near his cave.

The fear of the unknown made Lens want to flee from here, but before escaping, Lens decided to scout these monsters for a while longer, and spread the plague even more violently.

However, Lens used the spell of [Shared Vision] to see a monster eat and chew half of the rats through the eyes of the rats, and there were no adverse reactions.

You must know that the rat was sown by Lance with the [Plague Technique] to sow more than a thousand times the plague of ordinary rat people, and even the demons of the abyss could not be completely unresponsive.

At this moment, Lance realized that these new evil monsters in the plains were probably a new kind of halfling snake people for the nezumi, more terrifying than the gnolls.

After all, gnolls are murderous but won't eat them, and these cruel monsters eat them.

Not only that, but these evil monsters build their nests underground like the nezumi, and as long as they dodge underground, these monsters will not repeat the tragedy of the half-snake people being exterminated by the gnolls.

It can be said that after a few days of observation, Lens has taken these evil monsters as the enemies of the nezumi in the future on the Warren Plains.

Lens decided to take advantage of the fact that these monsters were not many in number and their strength was not particularly strong, and passed the news to the underground city of the nezumi.

Although these plague viruses have little effect on these monsters, the Plague Shooter's arrows and Rat Warriors are still capable of destroying these monsters.

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However, when Lance sent the rats out for the last time to scout and decided to escape, he discovered that the monsters had suddenly shown great intelligence, and had followed the rat's trail to his lair, and had seen through the disguise he had made outside the lair.

Ronth, the nezumi wizard in a shabby black and gray robe, trembled slightly, he had to do something......