Section 22 Force

Landa waited silently in the passageway. As a black-clad assassin of the Esin Clan, he and his retinue were ordered by the Abyss Lord Aerufate to investigate the truth of the Saiji Clan. Ashrufat is gathering an army to uproot this bold clan that dares to rebel against the rat god and the Abyss Council's decisions in the name of the Abyss Council. Randa is tasked with reporting the details of the Saiji clan to the Abyss Lord when his army arrives. His predecessor had just missed the assassination of the warlord Masha of the Saiji clan, which led the Abyss Council to finally decide to solve the problem with the army.

The will of the Rat God, or the order of the Abyss Council, is irresistible.

His wait did not last long. The Gutter Runkers, his retinue, emerge from multiple different tunnel forks. They looked around in small teams, and as far as the situation suggested, there was no battle with the warriors of the Saiji clan - at least the kind of clash that involved casualties.

"Master, it's a dead end. There are no roads, only a lot of garbage heaps ......" the first set of returns.

For this answer, the black-clad assassin had already expected it. He nodded, then turned his head to look at the next group, and he knew that only one of the six forks in the road here led to the lair of the Saiji clan. Several other roads are either dead ends or simply traps.

"Lord...... Master, the road here is full of fortifications...... New fortifications...... There are a lot of guards, bad...... It sucks!"

A real path, or a sinister trap, the Assassin pondered in his mind, turning to the other groups.

"This road doesn't work...... There is a collapse...... It's big...... It's big...... Can't pass. ”

"There are a lot of soldiers ......"

Of the six roads, three are either cul-de-sacs or collapsed areas, while the other three are all fortified and guarded. Now Randa is tasked with finding out which one is true and determining how many troops they have.

The Assassin knew that he had to do something to complete his mission. There is a convenient solution for the moment - the easiest thing is to kidnap a patrolling soldier of the Saiji clan and ask him to ask him. However, it is rare for a rat to patrol alone, especially on the periphery under high alert, and there are usually a considerable number of patrols per patrol. Attacking a patrol with a few soldiers under Landa is not an easy task.

However, Randa knew he had to complete the task before the Abyss Lord arrived with his army. He did not dare to go back and report to Ashrufat that he had failed to complete the task he had been assigned. Rather than do so, he might as well try to risk attacking a detachment of Saiji patrols.

The Assassin made his decision, and his men shrank a little. This was because they knew that the enemy was heavily defended, and that a risky move would likely result in the total annihilation of this small scout force.

The Saiji clan is a clan that is on the rise. The word "rise" in the Nezumi society means that it is constantly triumphing. Probably because of this, their leader Masha was overly self-inflated. He had the audacity to do anything to the Grey Prophet who had come to his door to announce the mission—perhaps he hadn't even thought about the background of the mobilization order, and was simply trying to rebel against such a one-sided mission.

In fact, this reaction is not outrageous. As many nezumi know, the Grey Prophet is actually very unwelcome in the eyes of many nezumi lords. This is because there is an eternal principle in Nezu-Man society: the strong dominate the weak, and the Grey Prophets always try to challenge this principle, consciously or unconsciously.

But in any case, Marsha's approach has poked the hornet's nest. The Abyss Council will never allow its authority to be challenged in any way. The Grey Prophets even openly declared Masha a rebellion against the Rat God. In this way, the Saiji have no choice but to gather their forces for a dying fight. And according to the eternal principles of the nezumi society, if he can win this battle, then perhaps the accusations and charges will disappear out of thin air.

"Don't be afraid, just grab a few prisoners. It's easy, simple for the Essien clan!" Randa cheered up his morale as he led his group towards a tunnel that seemed to have the least defenses.

The passage is a bit narrower than normal, probably due to the age of the dug up, which has overgrown the head with strange underground plants. In the first part of the Assassins' walk, mold and moss could be seen everywhere. Ancient traces of excavations have long been occupied by these pervasive things. It seems to make sense that the Saiji clan chose to lay out the defensive line here, as the narrower tunnels are more suitable for the weaker side to organize defenses. It was precisely because these tunnels were so old that they were able to set up a maze here and try to use this trick to disrupt the enemy's army.

The Assassin's piercing gaze searched for every detail in the passage. Even if this was the Dark World Realm underground, his vision was as clear as it was on the surface. Nezumi are creatures born with dark vision, and the Assassins have taken this ability to the limit. He noticed a lot of footprints on the ground, and some efforts to try to cover them up. However, this kind of work of covering up footprints was not professional enough, and the result was that it seemed to be covered up in the eyes of the Assassins.

This is a sign that there was once a large number of rat people in the area, and that there were attempts to disguise it. The Assassin instinctively sensed danger, but he had a mission to complete, so he decided to move on.

Ahead is the fortification that the subordinates mentioned earlier. It was a bunker made of a pile of garbage, shoddy by the standards of the nezumi. However, the Assassins were surprised to see the patrol.

The battle came suddenly and unexpectedly. Just as the Assassins stopped and tried to study the bunker, hidden ambushes burst out from all directions, numbering in the hundreds, and surrounded the entire scout team in the middle. The battle began in that instant.

"There's an ambush!" the Assassin immediately drew his twin blades and plunged into the melee.

It's a battle of outnumbering. There were ten times as many enemies surrounding the Gutterrunners, and while the warriors of the Clan Esin were better equipped and trained, the numerical disadvantage put them at a great disadvantage. Soon, during the onslaught of the Saiji clan, several warriors of the Esin clan were knocked down, and they were immediately trampled under their feet and became the pedal for the enemy's attack.

But the presence of Landa made the outcome of the battle completely different. His formidable twin swords quickly inflicted massive damage. This weapon for the Assassins was made using a special process, in which the powder of the magic stone was soaked in the molten state of metal, and with the help of magic, this weapon emitted green light was finally created. No amount of armor ever made by the nezumi could stop this powerful weapon. Landa's twin blades weave together into a storm of death, moving at breakneck speed, leaving swathes of broken corpses in his path. The warriors of the Saiji clan were unable to withstand the onslaught of the Assassins, and their bloodthirsty ecstasy at ambushing their enemies faded under the Assassins' twin blades, and fear prevailed.

I don't know who was the first to turn around and flee, but in the blink of an eye, the Saiji warriors completely collapsed. They let out fear-filled screams as they desperately fled backwards. Several of their companions, who were physically wounded and incapacitated, fell into the hands of the Essien clan. The few remaining Gutter Runners grabbed the wounded soldiers and rested their blades on their necks.

"Withdraw...... Retreat!" the Assassins did not pursue the defeated soldiers. He received a blow to the back, causing a large wound. And he knew that it was not for nothing that the enemy had set up an ambush here. In fact, even if he hadn't caught the captives, he would have known which tunnel was the real one.

......

"So, it's a conspiracy from head to toe?" Ashrufat asked in his mind.

"That's right, a complete conspiracy, and retarded. Carrie replied with great disdain and disdain. "These Abyss Lords have really taken their 'selfishness' to the extreme. The benefits must be eaten more and more occupied, it is best to be able to swallow it alone, and the losses must be borne by others, and if it is not good, everyone must die together. ”

Carrie babbled. Now, Ashrufat could clearly feel the difference between Carrie. He remembered that in the past, Carrie had always existed as a guide, although she also had a keen eye and a suspicious nature. She was able to point out the potential dangers to Ashrufat, but rarely had a straightforward solution to the problem, and at most offered several alternatives for Ashrufat to choose from. But now, Carrie is straightforward in on the hook. Rather than offering a few alternatives, she directly illustrates the crux of the problem and gives the best solution to the problem.

It must be said that the rats' wrists are completely ignored by Carrie, and their strategy or power skills are worthless in Carrie's eyes. No matter what it is, Carrie can see through it at first glance, and then come up with the perfect way to crack it, so that the other party can ask for their own hardships and steal chickens without losing rice.

It's not an exaggeration to say that Carrie played all these rat men in the palm of her hand.

Although Ashrufat had been elected commander-in-chief, the leaders of the nezumi had never stopped their efforts to evade their war obligations. Complaints, pleadings, lies, bribes, secret reports, etc., and so on, almost all of the means that opened Ashrufat's eyes were used, and they were full of tricks. If it weren't for Carrie, Ashrufat was sure he would have been hit. But with Carrie, all the tricks of these nezumi leaders hit the stone wall, and their heads bleed.

"Although strictly speaking, the Baku people are not very strong. However, they are still afraid that the Baku will have too much say after the war, and they are afraid that you will use the life extension potion to blackmail the leaders of the various small and medium-sized clans, so as to coalesce into a very powerful force in the short term. That's the key. ”

"I've already stressed it...... I'm just here to ......."

"Ha, master, you are so naïve. It doesn't matter what you say, as long as you have the ability, or even as long as you have the possibility, they will try to stumble you. ”

"Then what are they doing with this stumbling block, instigating a clan to betray and fight me, and what effect can this have on me?"

"So, master, although you have the strength, you don't understand the essence of things. ”