The battle at the entrance of the rat cave has indeed begun!

A quarter of an hour ago, as Qin Lun and the Dwarf Exploration Team left, the seven apostles, led by Mastasha, began to carefully approach the Ratman Cave.

They were tight inside and loose outside, carrying Tyr night lights and carrying packages of all sizes left by the dwarves, disguising the team as small business trips to the dungeon.

Since the pre-historic years of the Valley, the Dark Elves failed in the Elf Crown War and moved into the dark area with the Elf God and became the Drow Elves, they replaced the Sannata Dwarfs and became a new generation of rulers in the underground world.

However, the dark area is not as good as the surface world after all. There are many resources here, and besides stones, there are only stones left. Although the underground minerals are extremely rich and there are many biological nests, compared with the surface world, it is basically one in the sky and one in the underground.

Where can the dark elves who were used to the luxurious life and their queens adapt to this change? Perhaps the perverted psychological conditions of the Drow elves and the Spider Queen are unable to withstand the barrenness of the dark area, and they are slowly distorted and formed.

The Drow Elves and the goddess Rose who fell to be a spider god have never forgotten to one day counterattack the surface world.

Whether they miss surface life or prepare for the future counterattack of the surface world, after establishing many dungeons, they generally allow surface merchants and travelers to and from dungeons to trade.

If it is some long-term caravans, the dungeon will also send escorts to them depending on the situation.

Because some specialties in the dark area are very rare in the surface world, such as: various gems, dark creature magic cores, weapons and equipment produced by the Drow elves, tamed Minotaur slaves, etc., as long as they do not die in the dark area, surface caravans often have great profits.

Therefore, although business travelers know that it is difficult to trust the Drow Elves, they still flock to them. Every year, many small business travelers venture into the dark areas and seek to trade with dungeons.

The biggest problem encountered by the surface caravan in the dark area is often not the insidious and cunning Drow elves, but the unknown dangers along the way. Sometimes, a rat-man tribe like Weiss and others can bring disaster to a small caravan.

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Although the apostles had heard Gillim introduce the characteristics of howling grey mushrooms, after they first touched them, they were still shocked by the sharp screams that sounded from the chain.

The screams of the howling grey mushrooms are a bit like the sharp sound of the spout after the kettle is boiled. The screams of the single howling grey mushrooms are nothing, but when the first howling grey mushrooms scream, the vibration of the air quickly caused a chain reaction.

The entire field of grey mushrooms boiled, shaking the apostles' faces pale, frivolous steps, and buzzed in their ears for a long time, and no other sound could be heard clearly.

At this time, even Weiss regretted it a little, and did not obey Mastasha's advice and stuffed a piece of cotton into his ear.

Even though three rat men sentries ran out of the rat men's cave, the apostles still failed to adapt to the howling gray mushrooms, which made them look extremely embarrassed when dealing with these three rat men.

However, the only benefit is that even if they don’t have to act at this time, the Rat Man Sentinel believed that their weakness was not pretending. Soon a Rat Man Sentinel ran back to the cave and called for reinforcements, trying to capture them all in one fell swoop.

After the second batch of adult rats appeared, the number had reached more than twenty, and a mud monster was brought with them. This mud monster was not very large, about two meters high, but the mud monster was small on the top and large on the bottom, and the radius of the chassis was almost two meters. From a distance, it looked like a reduced version of a hill.

The mud monster has no long legs. The way it moves is to squirm forward with two huge arms beside it. There are three thick stone toes in the front of the arm. After clenching the fist, it looks like a hammer head, and it is very powerful.

The dwarf injured man Qin Lun first met was probably hammered in front of the chest by the mud monster, and then he died in vain.

Although the second batch of rat men were large and there were mud monsters to help, the caravans pretending to be the apostles also stabilized their positions. Although they did not abandon the harassment of the rat men sentry at this time, they had withdrawn from the influence of the howling gray mushrooms.

Once the mind is not affected, the apostles are at ease even when facing more than twenty rat men.

However, the apostles did not release water in secret. After they even stabilized their positions, they broke out and killed the five rat men who rushed in the front, and then fought and retreated, fleeing to the direction of the mushroom woodland.

In Gillim's introduction, they already knew that the Rat Man was an extremely timid, cautious and cunning intelligent creature.

Since they are smart creatures, rat people have their own observation and judgment ability. If the flaws are seen, the apostles will no longer seduce other rat people in the rat people's cave. After all, the more than 20 rat people in front of them are only a small part of the tribe.

The reason is that they have completely destroyed the previous group of dwarf exploration teams. According to this calculation, there are at least hundreds of adult soldiers in the Ratman tribe.

Mastasha and Weiss' judgment was correct. After discovering that the existing forces could not take the caravan and no other enemies were found nearby, adult soldiers from the Ratman's cave surged out in large numbers.

However, at this time, the rats finally showed their cunningness.

Qin Lun and others stood at a high place and could see that the rats gushing out of the nest were divided into three teams, one team had more than twenty people joined the previous attack team, while the other two teams began to detour around Mastaxia and others on both sides.

The overall number of rat man teams rose to more than one hundred, as well as the two rat man priests holding wooden stick-shaped staffs in the team, and a few rat man thieves who had just disappeared from the cave, which made Qin Lun and others who were watching the game sweat coldly for their companions in front.

Fortunately, Hill used telepathy to quickly provide the situation that Qin Lun observed to Mastasha, the leader, so that everyone would not have to worry about the development of the situation.

To everyone's surprise, after learning that the Rat Man intends to surround them, the harpist decided to use the trick and wait for the Rat Man to successfully surround them before forcing the Rat Man to break through.

There are two benefits of doing this. Before the rat people have successfully joined the siege, they have made great strides and are likely to arouse suspicion of the rat people. At the same time, they step into the ambush circle too early and cannot capture all the rat people in one fell swoop.

After the rat man joins the siege, he will forcibly break through. The rat man will definitely no longer suspect that there is an ambush, so he will step into the ambush circle of the dwarves with confidence.

Of course, the risks and benefits of doing this are as obvious. There are too many rats in this group, and there are also mud monsters, priests, thieves... attack, defense, and auxiliary teams have improved their Iron Triangle profession. Once the breakout fails, the ambush companions have to show up in advance to help.

In that case, not only will the bait plan fail, but the Dwarf Exploration Team will continue to waste a lot of time in this place. Perhaps they can still destroy the ratmen tribe in the end, but the price paid at that time was too high, and I don’t know how much time the apostles can stay.

What surprised Qin Lun again was that Weiss agreed to Mastasha's plan without hesitation. It seemed that this high-level apostle was still very confident about the strength of his team.

As for Hill and Rand, Qin Lun was not worried about them at all. Hill had the bloodline of the monster, and the talent abilities he obtained were the nemesis of low-level underground creatures such as Rat Man. Rand's large-area fire-type skills were enough to support him in any critical situation to reinforcements.

The subsequent development of the situation was completely under the control of Mastaxia and others, but the intensity of the battle opened the eyes of Qin Lun and others who were watching the game.

The first to show off in this small team was Weiss's Shield Guard. This tall human defender with a large tower shield showed the true value of the team MT.

In combat, his two core abilities played a crucial role, one is the range control technique "war horn" and the other is the range defense technique "heavy shield strike".

The War Horn is the promotion skill of the warrior's war cry. Every war horn of the Shield Guard will cause the encirclement formed by rat people and mud monsters to fall into trouble, and a gap will be forced to appear.

The Rat Man Priest, who was in charge of the command, had to divide the encirclement into two layers in order to avoid being broken through by this small caravan in the chaos.

The heavy shield strike is the most outstanding one among the range defense skills that Qin Lun has ever seen. When this shield strike is activated, more than one dozen afterimages will appear on both sides of the shield guard, and each afterimage seems to have part of the power of the body.

After the heavy shield attack, all the rats in front of the shield guard will be knocked away, and even the mud monsters will be paralyzed for a while before they can re-enter the battle. It can be said that if the shield guard did not have these two skills, it would be difficult to say how long the defensive formation of this small team could last under the attack of the rat warriors.

With the efforts of the Shield Guard, including Mastasha and other apostles, they showed their strength appropriately.

The female apostle of Weiss' team finally revealed her apostle profession. She is a holy light priest who looks more like a priest than Hill. Every healing light is just right, allowing the most stressed shield guard to relieve fatigue in time and quickly recover his combat effectiveness.

With the existence of the Holy Light Priest, Hill no longer uses half-baked recovery magic, but instead shows his attack ability as a Chaos Priest, and constantly emits purple and black ray beams in his hands.

Every rat man touched by purple or black rays should roll around the ground in pain and completely lose his combat power. He would just fall to the ground silently and die directly.

The Chaos Priest is the promotional profession of the Prayer Priest. When he was a first-level Prayer Priest, most of the magical techniques that Hill mastered were gain magic and low-level laws. When he was promoted to the second-level Chaos Priest, the terrifying ability of this profession route began to appear.

The purple ray emitted by Hill is "Dark Word: Pain", while the black ray is the advanced "Mantra: Annihilation".

"Dark Words: Pain" is a judgment of the will. An creature that cannot pass will feel unparalleled pain for a certain period of time.

"Mantra: Annihilation" is even more terrifying. This is a direct judgment of the biological constitution. If you cannot pass the judgment, you will die directly.

Of course, these two types of chaotic prayers are extremely expensive, and the upper limit of the judgment is related to Hill's own will and physique. If it is in front of creatures of the same level, it is not as effective as it is in low-level rats.

In addition to Hill, the performance of the other two long-range professions in the team can only be said to be fairly average. Mastasha's arrow skills have not been used to the maximum extent. She also needs to observe the battle situation and control the overall situation.

The black-robed mage Romon threw a few fireballs from time to time, and was paying attention to the actions of the Rat Man priest on the opposite side. He had to interrupt the recovery spells of the two Rat Man priests from time to time.

First, to prevent them from focusing and observing the surrounding environment, and second, to try to suppress the results of the rat man priest in treating the severely injured rat man, so as to reduce the pressure for the subsequent battle.

In comparison, Rand and the thief have a special role, and they basically did not cooperate with the other people. This two people are specializing in dealing with several thief professions in the Rat Man tribe.

Rand purposefully exploded small lava balls. The fire rain formed by the small lava balls did not cause much damage, but the coverage was large and could break the stealth of thieves. Once the rat man thief showed his body, the monkey would immediately entangle, strive for a wave of explosions, repel and even injure the rat man thief.

The two basically ensured that this small team was not destroyed by rats and thieves, so that they could persist for a long time.

The only thing that did not perform combat responsibilities was that Weiss, the most powerful apostle in the team, played the role of an angry, harsh businessman at this time.

He muttered swear words that no one could understand, scolded his companions who pretended to be caravan mercenaries, and also ordered randomly, but everyone cooperated and ignored him.

Weiss successfully let the rat people further relieve their doubts and concentrated all their forces to surround them. At this time, as time passed, rat people continued to join the encirclement in the rat people's cave, and the number increased to more than 130. Qin Lun and others even saw several obviously underage rat people on the edge of the encirclement.

The rat man tribe was finally slowly squeezed out all its strength by Mastaxia and others. Qin Lun believed that the clan of rat man would be unable to recover its vitality for a long time, so he naturally would be unable to interfere with the subsequent dwarf exploration team.
Chapter completed!