Chapter 22 Power

Landa was quietly waiting in the passage. As a black-clad assassin of the Essin clan, he and his entourage accepted the orders of the Abyss Lord Ash Rufate to investigate the reality of the Saiji clan. Ashe Rufate was assembling an army to uproot the bold clan, who dared to resist the resolutions of the Rat God and the Abyss Council. Landa's mission was to report the specific situation of the Saiji clan to him when the Abyss Lord commanded the army. His predecessor just failed in assassinating the Saiji warlord Masha, which made the Abyss Council finally decide to use the army to solve this problem.

The will of the Rat God, or the orders of the Abyss Council, cannot be resisted.

His wait did not last long. The gutters, his entourage, appeared from multiple different tunnel forks. They divided into teams to check around, and, as far as the situation was concerned, they did not engage in battle with the warriors of the Saiji clan—at least the kind of casualty conflict.

"Master, this is a dead end. There is no road, only a lot of garbage dumps..." The first group rewards.

Assassin in Black had already expected this answer. He nodded, then turned to look at the next group. He knew that only one of the six forks here was the lair to the Saiji clan. The other roads were either dead ends or just traps.

"Lord...Master! The road here is all fortifications...new fortifications...with many guards, terrible...of very bad!"

A real road? Or a sinister trap? The assassin pondered in his heart and turned to several other groups.

"This road cannot be done...it has collapsed...it is very big...it cannot pass."

“There are many soldiers…”

Among the six roads, three are either dead ends or collapsed areas, and the other three are all fortifications and guards. Now Landa’s task is to find out which one is true and determine how much their troops are.

The assassin knew he had to do something to complete the task. There is a problem-saving solution now - the easiest way is to kidnap a patrol soldier of the Saiji clan and ask him out. However, there are few rat men who patrol individually, especially on the periphery under high alert. Generally, a patrol team has a considerable number. It is not a simple task to attack a patrol team with such a few soldiers under Landa.

However, Landa knew very well that he had to handle this mission before the Abyss Lord led his army to arrive. He did not dare to go back and report to Ashu Rufat that he had failed to complete the assigned mission. Instead of doing so, he might as well try to attack a Saiji patrol team.

The assassin made a decision, and his subordinates seemed a little cramped. This was because they knew that the enemy was defending tightly and if they took risks, it would likely lead to the destruction of the small scout unit.

The Saiji clan is a rising clan. The word "rift" means in the rat-man society that it is constantly winning. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that their leader Masha's confidence has been over-inflated. He actually dared to attack the gray prophet who came to announce the mission - perhaps he had never considered the background of this mobilization order, and was just a simple attempt to resist such a unilateral task.

In fact, this reaction is not outrageous. As many rat people know, the gray prophet is actually very unwelcome to many rat lords. This is because there is an eternal principle in the rat people society: the strong dominate the weak, while the gray prophets always try to challenge this principle intentionally or unintentionally.

But no matter what, Masha's actions have stabbed the hornet's nest. The Abyss Council will never allow its authority to be challenged. The gray prophets even openly declare Masha's rebellion as the God of Rat. In this way, the Saiji tribes have no choice but to gather troops to make a dying battle. Moreover, according to the eternal principle of the rat society, if he can win this battle, then the accusations and crimes may disappear out of thin air.

"Don't be afraid, just catch a few prisoners. This is simple, simple for the Essin clan!" Landa cheered up his morale loudly, and then led his team to a tunnel with the least defense force.

This passage is narrower than the normal road. It may be because it was dug in the past, which made the head full of strange underground plants. The assassin walked through the first part, mold and moss could be seen everywhere. The ancient excavation traces had long been occupied by these omnipresent things. It seems that the Saiji clan chose to set up defense lines here, because the narrower tunnels are more suitable for the party with the disadvantaged forces to organize defense. It is precisely because these tunnels are too old that they can arrange a maze here and try to use this trick to disrupt the enemy's army.

The assassin carefully looked for every detail in the passage with his sharp eyes. Even if this was the dark world underground, his vision was as clear as on the surface. The rat man was a creature born with dark vision, and the assassin even trained this ability to the limit. He noticed that there were many footprints on the ground, and some efforts to cover up these footprints. However, this kind of work of concealing footprints was not professional enough, and it turned out to be overshadowed in the eyes of the assassin.

This sign shows that there were once a large number of rats here, and someone tried to hide this. The assassin instinctively felt the danger, but he had a task that had to be completed, so he decided to move on.

In front of me is the fortifications that my subordinates mentioned before. It is a bunker made of a pile of garbage, which is shoddy even by the standards of rat people. However, the assassin unexpectedly could not see the patrol troops.

The battle came suddenly and unexpectedly. Just as the assassin stopped and tried to study the cover carefully, the hidden ambush suddenly rushed out from all directions, with a large number of which surrounded the entire scout team in the middle. The battle began at that moment.

"There is an ambush!" The assassin immediately pulled out his double blades and threw himself into the melee.

This was a battle of many disparity. The number of enemies surrounding the gutter Runners was ten times as many as theirs. Although the warriors of the Essin clan were more well-equipped and well-trained, their number disadvantages made them extremely disadvantageous. Soon, during the attack of the Seiji clan, several Essin clan warriors were defeated, and they were immediately stepped on their feet and became pedals for the enemy's attack.

But Landa's existence made the battle result completely different. His intimidating two swords quickly caused major damage. This weapon for the assassin was made of special craftsmanship. In the state of melting metal, the powder of the magic stone was penetrated, and with the help of magic, it finally created this weapon that emitted green light. No armor made by the rat man could resist the powerful weapon. Landa's two swords intertwined into a storm of death. He moved at an astonishing speed, leaving pieces of broken corpses wherever the blade went. The clan warriors of the Saiji clan could not resist the assassin's fierce attack. The bloodthirsty ecstasy of their successful ambushing the enemy gradually faded under the assassin's double sword attack, and fear took the upper hand.

I don't know who was the first to turn around and escape, but in a blink of an eye, the Saiji warriors collapsed completely. While screaming with fear, they fled back desperately. Several of them, who were injured and incompetent, fell into the hands of the Essin clan. Several remaining gutter runners grabbed the fallen wounded soldiers and placed their blades on their necks.

"Retreat...ret!" The assassin did not pursue the defeated soldiers. He was hit on his back, causing a big wound. And he knew that there was a reason for the enemy to set up ambush here. In fact, even if these prisoners were not captured, he now knew which tunnel was the real passage.

...

"So, from head to toe is a conspiracy?" Ashu Rufate asked in his mind.

"Yes, it's a complete conspiracy, and it's mentally retarded." Carrie replied in a very contemptuous and disdainful tone. "These lords of the abyss really have made their 'selfishness' very thorough. You must eat more and take more benefits. It's best to be able to take away the losses. Others must bear the losses. If it really doesn't work, you have to bring everyone to die together."

Carrie was complaining endlessly. Now, Ashu Rufate could clearly feel the difference of Carrie. He remembered that in the past, although Carrie had a keen eye and suspicious nature, she had always existed as a guide. She could point out various potential dangers for Ashu Rufate, but rarely directly and clearly solve the problem, and at most several alternatives for Ashu Rufate to choose. But now, Carrie was directly involved. She no longer provided a few alternatives ambiguously, but directly explained the key to the problem and gave the best solution to the problem.

It must be said that the rat people's wrists are completely despised by Carrie. Their strategies or power tricks are worthless in Carrie's eyes. No matter what it is, Carrie can see through them at first, and then propose perfect cracking methods to make the other party ask for trouble and steal the chicken without losing the rice.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Carrie played all these rat people in her palms.

Although Ashu Rufate has been elected as commander, over the past period of time, the leaders of the Rat Man have never interrupted their efforts to evade their war obligations. Almost all the methods that have opened up Ahu Rufate's horizons have been used, with all kinds of tricks. If it weren't for Carrie, Ashu Rufate would be sure that he would definitely be hit. But with Carrie, all the tricks of these Rat Man leaders hit the stone wall and were bleeding.

"Although strictly speaking, the Baku people are not strong. They are still afraid that the Baku people will have too high voice after the war. They are afraid that you will use life-extending potions to threaten the leaders of various small and medium-sized clans, so as to gather into a very powerful force in the short term. This is the key."

"I've already emphasized...I'm just here..."

"Ha, master, you are too naive. Nothing you say is useful. As long as you have this ability, or even as long as you have this possibility, they will try every means to stumbling up you."

"Then why did they stumbling up? Instigate a clan to betray me and fight me? What impact will this have on me?"

"So, Master, although you have power, you don't understand the essence of things."
Chapter completed!