Law of the Swarm

Chapter 100 The Ratman Wizard

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

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

System touched the illusion along with the energy breath, and took out a [-]cm ratman skull from the illusion not long after.

As the skull was taken out, the clear gray rock phantom disappeared, revealing a relatively clean entrance to the Ratmen's cave.

Compared with ordinary Ratman caves, the smell in this cave is much cleaner. Although there is a little smell, it is not so foul.

Asking Meatball to watch outside to prevent the Rat Man from escaping from other exits of the Rat Man, System took Shava into the Rat Man's burrow again.

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In Warren Plains, the Ratmen are also known as the Plague Ratmen.

Rat people are timid and fearful by nature, and extremely greedy.

Usually they will choose to escape when they encounter a strong enemy, and they will show their fangs mercilessly when they encounter a weak one. Generally speaking, they are a race that is weak when they are strong, and strong when they are weak.

But if these timid and fearful ratmen are forced to a point where they cannot retreat, the ratmen will never sit still, they will definitely resist desperately.

Of course, no matter how much they resisted, the Ratman still couldn't challenge the overlord Wolfman on the grassland.

In the Warren Plain ruled by gnolls and pig-headed men, the Ratmen managed to survive in the cracks, partly because of their way of living underground, the gnoll warriors were helpless, and partly because of the weird germs on their bodies.

Ever since they believed in the God of Plague and Curse, almost every Ratman would be infected with some plague, and Jackals who ate Ratman's flesh and blood were very likely to die.

Over time, the Jackals who had suffered many times gave up using the Ratmen as food.

Of course, if he saw a Ratman alone, the Wolfman would be in a very good mood, or very bad, and would attack the Ratman.

Although they won't eat these ratmen, the gnolls can find some pleasure in killing ratmen.

However, such bloodthirsty gnolls are still in the minority, so the Ratman's life in the Warren Plain is still passable.

After the Half-body Snake Man was wiped out by the Wolf Man, and after more than a hundred years of self-cultivation, the Rat Man established hundreds of settlements in areas far away from the Wolf Man city, and even built a city that accommodated tens of thousands of Rat Man.

The Ratman, who had been trembling under the Gnoll's rule, became restless because of this, and decided to break arms with the Gnoll, and began to attack the vassal of the Gnoll—the wolves in the grassland.

But the Ratmen are also a contradictory race. After provoking the Jackals, some courageous Ratmen started to become businessmen, went to the cities of the Jackals to exchange information, and even tried to join the Wolverines formed by the Jackals and the Pig-headed people. The Lund Federation became the third race of the Volund Federation.

The result is obvious, the Ratmen merchants going to the Gnoll city will disappear every few days.

Ratman wizard Lance Corysius once lived in the ratman city, Helencia, the plague city, for a period of time, and later moved to the border between Warren Plain and Liert Forest because of the plague experiment.

Lance didn't support the Ratman clan's joining the Warlund Federation. Instead, he expected the God of Plague it believed in to give them more power, so that the plague would end the rule of the Wolf Man.

However, contrary to expectations, Lance did not make much progress in the research of the plague after he moved to the border of the Lierte forest for half a year. Instead, he encountered an evil and bloodthirsty monster.

Lance didn't know what those monsters were. After receiving a report from a rat of his own race, the fellow had died and was eaten by those monsters.

Yes, its kin were eaten, and those monsters had nothing to do with it, just like the half-snake people who were once the rat people's sworn enemies.

After the wolf man wiped out all the half-snake people 100 years ago, the rat man's plague no longer has any targets that cannot take effect.

Only the snakes on the grassland are immune to this plague, but ordinary snakes are no match for the Ratmen at all. In recent decades, the snakes on the grassland have been basically wiped out by the Ratmen, and only a few snakes are still alive. alive.

Every Ratman who believed in the God of Plague would have plague. Even a powerful Gnoll warrior would become feverish, fall into a coma or even die after eating rat meat containing plague.

Could it be a demon?Or is it an undead creature?Or a creature similar to a half-length snake man?

After the next investigation, Lance found that the opponent was neither a demon from the abyss nor those dull undead creatures.

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

The small ones are somewhat similar to ants in the grassland, but many times larger than ordinary ants.

Lance knew that neither the big monsters nor the little monsters were of the same species as ants.

These monsters are like the half-body snake people, the mortal enemies of the rats, but they are weirder and more terrifying than those half-body snake people.

Lance discovered that these monsters actually wanted to build a nest near his cave.

Fear from the unknown made Lance want to escape from here, but before escaping, Lance decided to investigate these monsters for a while and spread a more severe plague.

However, the few mice that Lance planted a huge amount of plague bacteria still had no effect on those monsters. Lance used the spell of [Shared Vision] to see a monster eat half a mouse through the eyes of the mice. Chew it up, and no adverse reactions occurred.

You must know that the mouse was a plague that Lance used [Plague Art] to sow a thousand times more plague than ordinary ratmen. Even the demons of the abyss could not be completely unresponsive.

At this moment, Lance realized that these new evil monsters that appeared in the Plain were probably a brand-new half-body snake-man to the Ratman, which was more terrifying than the Jackal man.

After all, gnolls love to kill but don't eat them, but these cruel monsters use them as food.

Not only that, these evil monsters build their nests in the ground like the Ratmen. As long as they hide underground, these monsters will not repeat the tragedy of the Half-body Snakeman being exterminated by the Wolf Man.

It can be said that after several days of observation, Lance has regarded these evil monsters as the enemies of the Ratmen in the Warren Plain in the future.

Lance decided to pass the news to the Ratmen's underground city, taking advantage of the fact that there were not many monsters and their strength was not particularly strong.

Although these plague viruses have little effect on these monsters, the sharp arrows of the Ratman's Plague Archer and the Junkrat Warrior can still destroy these monsters.

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However, just when Lance sent the mice to investigate for the last time and decided to escape, he found that these monsters suddenly showed great wisdom and found his lair following the trail of the mice, and saw through the monsters he had made outside the lair. camouflage.

The ratman wizard Lance, who was wearing a black and gray shabby robe, trembled slightly. He had to do something...

(End of this chapter)