The Magic Steel Shield is at the front, the crossbowmen and pikemen take turns, and the mages cast spells and support from behind.

With the advantage of the terrain, the soldiers of the Emerald Leader successfully kept the crazy rat tide out of the ruins, giving more than 300 people in the ruins a chance to breathe.

"Elemental concussions, this has never happened before."

In Meredith's absence, the black rose's mage Uzar tried to use the crystal ball to deliver a message to Meredith, but found that the magic element was seriously disturbed and could not transmit the information stably at all, and the male mage put down the crystal ball with a solemn expression.

"What is certain is that within a range of kilometers, there is a powerful source of magic interference, which not only makes the magic out of control, but also affects the state of the nezumi, in the previous battle, the nezumi have never had such a crazy and unified offensive behavior."

Looking at the rats that died fearlessly at the pass of the fortress, Lester understood that the male mage was telling the truth.

The appearance of the nezumi is simply immortal.

Lester, who could feel the chaos of his magic, nodded his head in recognition of the male mage's words, and the man looked at Morris and the other four Nightblade Killers, and said in a deep voice.

"Did your previous expeditions get any information about the number of nezumen?"

"There are some not-so-accurate guesses."

Recalling the dense gnawing marks he saw in the process of going deep into the ground, Morris's expression was a little cold.

"Judging from the traces of activity, there are about 5,000 rats in a large rat nest and more than 2,000 rat nests in the small rat nest, and in the past five years, we have destroyed six large rat nests and nine small rat nests.

If the rat people we killed are all outcasts, it is conservatively estimated that there will be more numbers of rat people still alive, and the number of rat people underground will reach more than 50,000, and the most important thing is that we have never found any trace of the rat king and the rat queen, they are well hidden. ”

"If the number is really more than 60,000, then we will definitely die if we stick to it, just talk about the problem of food, even if we reduce the ration by half a day, we can't hold out for more than a week, not to mention that it is still in a high-intensity combat state, the loss of medicine and equipment is very serious, conservative estimates, under the condition of strict control of food, we can only hold out for five days before we run out of food, and three days we will run out of herbs and straps we carry,

In the blocked underground, we have no food at all except disgusting rats. ”

Margaret analyzed the current logistics situation with a calm face, which made everyone present look not good-looking.

To put it mildly, if these rats had been so crazy and fearless of death, even if they were dry, they would have killed everyone present in the ruins, draining the last drop of blood.

"These rats have wisdom that is not inferior to humans, and they seem to be retreating, but in fact, they are also luring the enemy to go deeper, turning passivity into initiative, leaving us in a situation of isolation and helplessness, and then annihilating us all at once......

The question is, what is their motivation for doing so? Is it just because we're here that we want to eat the hundreds of us? Or is there another purpose? Why didn't you do it before? ”

Lester's words made everyone present fall into deep thought.

Motivation is a very important factor, and the first few strongholds are not too far from here, so why did you choose this day to launch an attack when the conditions are the same? And is it still to storm a more perfect, easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack modified fortress?

It is a pity that such a question, without the support of sufficient intelligence, is destined to not have an answer.

"Unfortunately, we don't know the reason why the nezumi launched an attack, maybe it's because of the lack of food and we need to cut the population, or maybe we think that there can be a bigger harvest at this time, but the most important question now is, how can we change this situation?"

Already having some thoughts and thoughts in his mind, Lester looked at the others, wanting to hear what they thought.

Knowing what Lester meant, Margaret was the first to speak.

"The rat people have their own command system, and it is definitely not a way to stick to the reinforcements, we must dispatch elite troops, give priority to killing the commander of the rat swarm, and destroy the command of the rat swarm, in the elite troops, we have more advantages!"

Nodding, Lester looked at the somewhat hesitant mage Uzar.

Uzar couldn't continue to hesitate, so he could only say slowly.

"We've been fighting the nezumi for five years, and we all know that the nezumi themselves are very timid, even if they have a brief state of rage, they will never last forever, normally just breaking their line or using dark magic to carry out mass destruction is enough to scare their courage,

The constant self-destructive attacks on us like this are due to some non-magical influence, and I can't say what it is, but I can be sure that there is something behind the nezumi that is fueling the rat people and keeping them in a state of madness. ”

"In other words, if we can kill the source of the nezumi madness, we can restore the rat colony to its previous state?"

"It should be so, but I'm not sure, maybe there will be many sources......"

Having received important information from Uzar, Lester asked again after a moment's consideration.

"Do you have a way to locate the source?"

Holding the crystal ball in his hand, Uzar hesitated for a moment, thinking that if he refused to take the risk, he was afraid that he would really die in the world thousands of meters underground this time, so he nodded.

"I can locate the direction of the mana fluctuation through the magic crystal ball, and it should be right to follow this direction."

"Maurice, do you have any ideas?"

"Master, I think this plan is still feasible."

Pointing to his companion, Morris, who was holding the magic steel spear, whispered respectfully.

"With the Black Guard opening the way, and the Nightblade Killer as a countermeasure, we protect the Uzal Mage, kill the nezumi commander along the way, and kill all the way, but we have to find a way to guard against the nezumi crossbowmen, in addition to the corrosive liquid, only the magic steel crossbow arrows can cause us damage...... Can't you bring the big shield with you? ”

Lester glanced at the large shields with hundreds of magic steel crossbow arrows, and could only shake his head.

Let's not talk about the inconvenience of the party, without the magic steel shield to block the rat man's crossbow arrows, the soldier's casualty rate will increase instantly.

"My Blood Knight's Demonic Steel Shield has been tested in the War Workshop, and it is enough to defend against the Demonsteel Crossbow Bolt of the Nezumi Crossbowman, so I will be the arrow when the time comes."

"Lord Lester, you still have to make sure you're safe...... The Black Guard's plate armor can block the Magic Steel Crossbow Arrow, and the Black Guard will quickly kill into the rat colony with the Black Guard as the vanguard, and the Nezumi Crossbowman will also throw the Rat Trap ......"

"Margaret, you better stay and defend here, this place needs your command, believe me, I will return with victory."

“…… Be. ”

"Lord Lester, you can use the range (harmony) magic to break the formation of the nezumi crossbowmen, Klein can do that, and I will also use the lighting magic to show the way forward......"

"We need to prepare something to prevent corrosion tanks......"

In the midst of your word-by-word discussion, a crude counterattack plan is rapidly taking shape.