The battle at the entrance of the rat's den ~ cave has indeed begun!

A quarter of an hour ago, as Qin Lun and the dwarven exploration team left, the seven apostles, led by Mastaxia, began to cautiously approach the nezumi cave.

Tight inside and loose on the outside, they carried the night lights of Tyr and carried the large and small packages left behind by the dwarves, disguising the procession as small caravans to the dungeons.

Ever since the Dark Elves lost the Elven Crown War in the pre-historic years of the Valley and moved into the Dark Lands with the Elven Queens to become the Drow Elves, they have replaced the Sannata Dwarves as the new rulers of the Underworld.

However, after all, the dark region is not as good as the surface world, and there are many resources here, except for stones, only stones remain. Although the underground minerals are extremely abundant, and there are many biological nests, compared to the surface world, it is basically a heaven and an underground.

Where can the dark elves, and their gods, who used to be accustomed to a life of luxury, adapt to this change? Perhaps the perverted psychological condition of the drow elves and the spider god queen is slowly distorted because they can't stand the barrenness of the dark region.

The drow elves and the goddess Rose, who fell into the spider god, have never forgotten that they will one day counterattack the surface world.

Whether they miss the surface life or prepare for the future counterattack on the surface world, in short, after the drow elves have built many dungeons, they generally allow surface merchants to trade in and out of the dungeons.

If it is a caravan that has been working with them for a long time, the dungeon will also send an escort for them depending on the situation.

Because some specialties of the Dark Region are very scarce in the surface world, such as: various gems, dark creatures and magic cores, weapons and equipment produced by drow elves, tame minotaur slaves, etc., so as long as they do not die in the Dark Regions, surface caravans often have great profits.

As a result, even though the caravans know that the Drow elves are hard to trust, they still flock to them, and every year many small caravans venture into the Shadows in search of a trade with the dungeons.

The biggest problem for surface caravans in the shadows is often not the sinister and cunning drow elves, but the unknown dangers along the way. Sometimes, a rat-man tribe like the one in front of Weiss and the others can bring disaster to a small caravan.

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Although the Apostles had heard from Gillie about the characteristics of the Shrill Shrizzle, they were startled by the chain of screams after touching the Shrill Shrizzle for the first time.

The screaming of the shrill mushroom is a bit like the screeching sound of the spout of a kettle when it is boiling. The cry of a single shrill shri shroom was nothing, but when the first shrill shri shroom crowed, the vibration of the air quickly caused a chain reaction.

The whole field of gray mushrooms boiled, and the apostles turned pale, their steps frivolous, and their ears buzzed for a long time, and they could not hear any other sound clearly.

At this time, even Weiss regretted that he had not heeded Mastasia's advice and put a piece of cotton cloth in his ear.

Even with the three nezumi sentinels running out of the nezumi cave, the apostles still couldn't get used to the screaming of the shrill gray mushrooms, which made them look unusually wolf when dealing with the three nezumi.

However, the only good thing is that even if they don't have to act at this time, the nezumi sentinels believe that their weakness is not pretended. Soon a nezumi sentry ran back to the cave and called for reinforcements to catch them all.

When the second group of adult nezumi appeared, there were more than twenty of them, and they also brought a mud monster with them. This mud monster is not very large, about two meters tall, but the mud monster is small at the top and large at the bottom, and the radius of the chassis has reached almost two meters. From afar, it looks like a miniature version of a small hill.

The mud monster does not have long legs, and it moves by wriggling forward, with two large arms at its sides. There are three thick stone toes on the front of the arm, which are like hammers when clenched into fists, and they are very powerful.

The dwarf wounded man Qin Lun saw at the beginning was probably hammered in the chest by the mud monster, and then he finally died.

Despite the large number of the second group of nezumi and the help of the mud monsters, at this time, the caravan disguised by the apostles also stabilized their position. Although they did not ignore the harassment of the nezumi sentries at this time, they had already withdrawn from the area of influence of the Shrill Gray Mushroom.

Once their minds were not affected, the apostles would be able to handle more than twenty nezumen with ease.

However, the apostles did not release water in the dark, and even after stabilizing their position, they broke out in a wave, slaying the five nezumi who rushed to the front, and then fought and retreated, fleeing in the direction of the mushroom woodlands.

In Gillim's introduction, they already know that the nezumi are extremely timid, cautious, and cunning intelligent creatures.

Since they are intelligent creatures, the nezumi have their own ability to observe and judge, and if they are seen to be flawed, the apostles will no longer be able to seduce other nezumi out of the nezumi cave, after all, the twenty-odd nezumi in front of them are only a small part of this tribe.

The reason is that they have completely wiped out the previous group of dwarven exploration teams, and according to this calculation, the nezumi tribe has at least hundreds of adult warriors.

Mastasya and Weiss were right, and after discovering that the current forces were unable to take the caravan, and that no other enemies had been found nearby, the adult warriors of the nezumi cave poured out.

However, it was at this time that the rats finally showed their cunning.

Qin Lun and the others could see from a high place that the rat men gushing out of the nest were divided into three teams, one team of more than twenty people joined the previous attack team, while the other two teams began to surround Masasia and the others on both sides.

The overall number of nezumi teams that had risen to more than a hundred, as well as the two nezumi priests in the team who were holding wooden stick-like staffs, and a few nezumi thieves who directly disappeared their bodies when they came out of the cave, made Qin Lun and the others who were watching the battle couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for their companions in front.

Fortunately, Hill pretended to be telepathic and quickly provided the situation observed by Qin Lun to the leader of the team, Mastaxia, so that everyone did not have to worry about the development of the situation.

To the surprise of everyone watching the battle, the master harpist actually decided to make a plan and wait for the nezumi to successfully surround them before forcibly breaking through after learning that the nezumi intended to surround them.

The advantage of this is twofold, before the nezumi have successfully closed the circle, they will stride back, which is easy to arouse the suspicion of the nezumi. At the same time, he stepped into the ambush circle too early, and he couldn't catch all of them.

And wait for the rat people to close the siege, and then force a breakthrough. The nezumi will no longer suspect that they are in ambush, so they can safely step into the ambush circle of the dwarves.

Of course, the risks of doing so are as obvious as the benefits. There are too many rat men, and mud monsters, priests, thieves...... The attack, defense, and support team Iron Triangle has perfect careers, and once the breakthrough fails, the companions in ambush have to show up in advance to help.

In that case, not only will the decoy plan fail, but the dwarven exploration team will continue to waste a lot of time in this place. Maybe they can finally wipe out the nezumi tribe, but the price will be too great, and there is no telling how much time the apostles will have left.

And to Qin Lun's surprise again, Weiss agreed to Mastasia's plan without hesitation, it seems that this high-ranking apostle is still very confident in the strength of his team.

As for Hill and Rand, Qin Lun was not worried about them at all. Ciel has a spirit-sucking bloodline, and several of the natural abilities he has acquired are the nemesis of low-level underground creatures like nezumi. And Rand's large-area fire skills are enough for him to support the reinforcements in any critical situation.

The subsequent development of events was completely under the control of Masasia and the others, but the fierceness of the battle was an eye-opener for Qin Lun and the others who were watching the battle.

The first of these small teams to stand out was the Weiss team's shield guard, a tall human defender with a large tower shield who showed the true value of the team's MT.

In battle, his two core abilities play a crucial role, one is the area control skill "War Horn" and the other is the area defense skill "Heavy Shield Strike".

The War Horn is a Warrior's Warrior Warcry's advanced skill, and every time the Shield Guard uses the Battle Horn, the encirclement formed by the rat man and the mud monster will be trapped, and a gap will be forced to appear.

The nezumi priest in charge of the command finally had to divide the encirclement into two layers so as not to be taken advantage of by this small caravan to break through.

And the heavy shield attack was the most outstanding of the range defense skills Qin Lun had ever seen. When this shield strike is activated, more than a dozen afterimages will appear on both sides of the shield guard, each of which appears to have a portion of the body's power.

After reloading the shield strike, all the nezumi in front of the shield guard will be knocked away, and even the mud monster will be paralyzed for a long time before he can return to the fight. It can be said that if it weren't for the shield guards possessing these two skills, it would be difficult to say how long this small team's defensive formation would be able to hold out under the attack of the nezumi warriors.

Thanks to the efforts of the shield guards, including Mastasia and the other apostles, they all showed their strength appropriately.

The female apostle of Weiss's team, at this time, finally revealed her apostolic profession, she is a priest of the Holy Light who is more like a priest than Hill. Each of her healing rays was just right, allowing the most stressed shield guards to relieve their fatigue in time and quickly regain their combat strength.

With the Priest of Light's Being, Ciel no longer uses the half-hung Restoration Magic, but instead shows his ability to attack as a Priest of Chaos, constantly emitting purple and black beams of rays from his hands.

Every rat-man who was touched by a purple or black ray either rolled on the ground in agony and completely lost its combat effectiveness, or fell to the ground silently, ossified and died.

Chaos Priest is a promoted class of the Prayer Priest, and when he was a Prayer Priest of the first order, most of the magic skills that Hill mastered were some buff magic and low-level laws. When he was promoted to the rank of second-order Chaos Priest, the terrifying abilities of this career path began to manifest.

The purple rays emitted by Hill are "Dark Word: Pain", and the black rays are the higher "True Word: Annihilation".

"Cryptography: Suffering" is a judgment of the will, and creatures who are unable to understand guò will feel unparalleled pain for a certain period of time.

"Shingon Technique: Annihilation" is even more terrifying, this is a direct judgment of the biological physique, and if you can't judge it, you will die directly.

Of course, these two Chaos Prayers are extremely expensive, and the upper limit of judgment is related to Ciel's own will and constitution, if it is in front of creatures of the same level, it is not as effective as it is on the low-level nezumi.

In addition to Hill, the other two ranged classes in the team can only be said to be decent, and Mastasia's archery skills have not been used to the maximum, and she still needs to observe the battle situation and control the overall situation.

The black-robed mage Romon throws a few fireballs from time to time, while keeping an eye on the actions of the nezumi priest opposite, and he must often interrupt the two nezumi priests' recovery spells.

The first is to prevent them from concentrating and observing their surroundings, and the second is to try to suppress the results of the nezumi priest's treatment of the seriously injured nezumi and reduce the pressure for the subsequent battle.

In comparison, Rand and the thieves have a special role, and they basically do not cooperate with the other people. The duo is working to deal with several rogue classes in the nezumi tribe.

Rand purposefully blasts small lava balls, which form a rain of fire that doesn't do much damage, but covers a lot of area and can break the thieves' stealth. As soon as the nezumi thieves are revealed, the monkeys will immediately entangle them, striving for a wave of eruptions that will repel or even injure the nezumi thieves.

The two of them basically ensured that the small team would not be destroyed by the nezumi thieves, so that it could hold out for a long time.

The only one who didn't perform his combat duties was Weiss, the strongest of the team. At this time, the High Apostle played the role of a depraved and inward-spirited businessman.

He muttered swear words that no one understood, scolded his companions who pretended to be caravan mercenaries, and danced indiscriminately, but everyone cooperated so that no one paid any attention to him.

Weiss succeeded in reassuring the nezumi further and rallying all his forces to besiege them. At this time, as time went by, the rat people kept joining the encirclement in the rat cave, and the number rose to more than one hundred and thirty, and Qin Lun and the others even saw a few obviously underage rat men at the edge of the encirclement.

This nezumi tribe was finally slowly squeezed out of all its strength by Mastasha and others. Qin Lun believed that by encircling and exterminating this group of rat people, this tribe would not be able to recover its vitality for a long time, and naturally it would not be able to interfere with the follow-up dwarven exploration team.

Despite the intensity of the fighting, Mastasha noticed that things were moving in the direction they had hoped. She immediately canceled the breakout plan, and just fought and retreated, luring the many nezumi who surrounded them to slowly move towards the dwarf's ambush circle...... I1292