Without the cover of darkness, the location of the proto-nezumi was exposed to humans. The sudden light made the nezumi start to stir, and it could be seen that these primitive nezumi really hated the bright environment, and even the two nezumi who looked different became a little shrunken under the light of the fire. This is also the reason why Heather was able to rush all the way to the front of the native nezumi without incident, those ordinary nezumi completely forgot to use spears to restrain the human charge, and allowed the enemy to approach a very dangerous distance.

The female knight jumped up on one foot after running a certain distance, using speed and inertia to slash at the gray-haired nezumi who was still stunned, although the attack target had been assigned before, but the huge nezumi was not a target that could be easily solved at first glance, rather than wasting time and wrestling with it, it was better to kill this gray-haired nezumi first.

"Quack!" Heather's attack didn't succeed, however, and the giant nezumi appeared in front of the gray-haired rat at a speed not match its size, its thick forelimbs holding a wooden tenon, and with the strange cry of the nezue, the wooden tenon met the knight's blade with the sound of the whirring wind.

"Boom!" With a sound of strings, the "monkey" shot arrows from a distance to support, but due to the huge size of the nezumi standing in front, the arrow that was originally aimed at the gray nezumi pierced the right arm of the giant nezumi.

As soon as the right arm of the giant nezumi who was shot and wounded weakened, the wooden tenon in his hand was a few points off, and Heather's knightly sword slashed through the top of the wooden tenon, leaving a deep wound on the opponent's chest. The rat-man let out a piercing wail, and its body unconsciously took a few steps back. The female knight held her sword in pursuit of the victory, raising her sword to stab the rat man's neck, if this sword really stabbed, even if she couldn't cut off the head of the giant rat man, I am afraid it would be almost the same.

"Wait, spare it alive!" Cheese shouted from afar. Although very reluctant, the female knight also knew that now that the outcome was decided, there was no need to kill the proto-nezumi, so she temporarily changed her moves, and with the rotation of her wrist, the knight's sword changed from the original stabbing to slashing, and the target changed from the throat of the giant nezumi to the left arm. The sharp blade sliced unhindered into the muscles, and the pungent smell of dirty blood splattered down the wound. Wounded so badly, the nezumi had lost the ability to fight.

By this time, Mona had also captured the gray-haired nezumi, and the female warrior slashed at the nezumi with an axe, and the gray-haired nezumi fell to his knees uncontrollably, although it still tried to struggle, but Jack's hunter's dagger had quickly broken its tendons. At this point, the two leaders who commanded this group of nezumi have been controlled by the human side, and the rest of the original nezumi saw that the leader was captured, and their morale dropped to the extreme in an instant, coupled with the misty white light that had begun to emit on the horizon in the distance, these nezumi scattered in a hurry, taking advantage of the last trace of darkness before dawn, and quickly dispersed and fled.

Although Heather wanted to hunt down these fleeing proto-nezumi, the mage once again stopped the chief knight, and Cheese knew that although these protone-nezumi were now beasts that acted entirely on instinct, it was not impossible for him to find a way to cure them, and no matter how bad it was, he could also let them recover to their senses like Gloria, and there was really no need to kill them here now. Moreover, compared to those ordinary proto-nezumi, these two unusual creatures captured alive are more worthy of mage's study.

And after such a break from Cheese, even if the Knight Captain wanted to chase down the nezumi again, they would have already run away. As the warm sun gradually illuminates the earth, Heather knows that this terrible battle is finally over, as the world around her returns to light. The knights who were still able to move began to tidy up the scattered camp and further deal with the wounded, but fortunately, most of the wounded knights were crushed by their horses, and although the injuries were severe, there was no risk of contracting the plague. As for the few remaining knights who were unfortunately stabbed by the wooden spear, most of them were only bruises. According to the mage's instructions, all the muscles near the wound were cut off with a red-hot dagger, and in the absence of painkillers, each knight could only bite a rag to complete the excision operation, and then sprinkle the wound with cheese-like herbal powder to prevent infection and speed up healing, but in fact, it may be difficult for these knights to participate in the battle again in a short time.

Only a handful of warriors were mortally wounded in battle, and the worst of them was probably the knight who was pierced through the heart by the spear of the giant nezumi. The five knights who died in the battle had a brief funeral under the auspices of Heather, and the team was not in a position to transport their bodies back to the Duchy of Hammer, plus they basically had scars left by the nezumi, so it could not be ruled out that their corpses had become a source of infection for the plague. The Knight Commander had no choice but to cremate their bodies, remove their family crest from their arms, and return them to their families after the mission was over.

While Heather was presiding over the funeral, Cheese did not attend with the rest of the Frost Warriors, and once again put on his gloves and carefully examined the corpses of the slain nezumi. There were no conditions for making these corpses into specimens, and in order to prevent the spread of the plague, the mages had to dispose of the corpses of the ratmen in the same way after the knights' funerals, so time became extremely precious. Fortunately, he had already examined Gloria's body in detail, and the corpse he had found on the road before, the mage had a general grasp of the body structure of the nezumien, and all he had to do now was to judge the mutation of the plague virus through the subtle differences between different individuals.

Soon, though, during Cheese's dissection, he discovers something that isn't quite right.

"Do you recognize this emblem?" the mage tossed a piece of washed iron in front of Heather, and washed his hands with clean water.

Heather frowned, she recognized the origin of the emblem at first glance, but she didn't want to believe that it would appear in the corpses of these proto-rat people, so she carefully picked up the piece of iron and looked at it closely, hoping that she would find some traces to prove her judgment wrong. However, this only made her more sure of her judgment from the details of this emblem, an answer that Heather did not want to admit.

"I'm afraid...... This is the emblem of the Knights of the Kingdom. To be precise, this piece should be part of their emblem. ”

"That's pretty much what I guessed. The mage nodded, he also knew the style of the Kingdom Knights insignia of the Greylion Kingdom, but as the female knight said, this emblem was not complete, so for the sake of insurance, he still asked Heather to confirm.

"Where did you find it?" asked the chief knightess.

"On a nezumi's necklace, it seems that it has taken this thing as some kind of trophy. I think that the original owner of this emblem may have been more than lucky. ”

The mage's answer made Heather's uneasiness even stronger, but her trust in the Kingdom Knights made her still try not to draw too pessimistic conclusions. Now that the troops she led are badly damaged, if the Knights of the Kingdom as a reinforcement also suffers an accident, then the outcome of this mission may be more than lucky.

"Maybe that kingdom knight accidentally dropped it, but was picked up by these nezumi by chance. ”

"Possibly. The mage did not contradict Heather's words, although they both knew that the knights had always regarded their insignia as a symbol of their own glory, and how could they discard it at will?, but it was too early to say that the Knights of the Kingdom had already made a mistake, and that a fragment of the insignia was not enough to condemn an entire army of knights to death.

However, this fragment can't get the clues of those kingdom knights, but the people who get this fragment can. Cheese looked away from the shards and turned to the two heavyweight prisoners of war who were under the strict guard of six or seven knights, the two nezumi leaders.