The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 220 Underground Exploration
In the dark underground, there is nothing more annoying than the undead.

For the Ratman army with abundant firepower, any living creature could not go back and forth a few times. The only thing that could rush to the front of the army with two hundred magic guns was the corpse of a monster.

However, there was a kind of Warcraft that met the kindness of the army, and the injured cave monitor lizards were gathered together to receive unified treatment and reform education.

The monitor lizards expressed regret for their shortcomings in understanding spirituality, but they had to succumb to the threat of numerous guns.

There were even some hungry and thirsty Ratmen who brutalized the female monitor lizards, but the male monitor lizards dared not speak out, only feeling that the color of their scales was greener.

After dealing with the dangerous monsters entrenched in the cave, the Ratmen began to deal with the troublesome undead.

These things are everywhere, no one knows why they gather in large numbers underground, the Ratmen only know that cleaning them up is a simple yet difficult task.

The firepower of the magic rifle is already very impressive compared to the crossbow bolts. As long as it hits the head, one bullet can often kill an undead completely.

But this is only an ideal situation. A type of magic rifle is still a smoothbore gun after all, unless it is within 100 meters, its accuracy is just like that.

The hunters and grenadiers will inevitably fall into close combat. Fortunately, although there are many undead, they are not skeleton soldiers with swords in their hands.

Rat people often think, like those bone frames under the Tomb King, they are not only numerous, but also equipped with weapons and shields in large quantities.
It wouldn't be surprising if they had the industrial productivity of Skaven society, but if a group of less intelligent skeletons were all well equipped, their productivity would be intriguing.

The well-equipped Ratman met the poor skeleton underground, and the result was naturally crushed.

"Honestly, it's exhausting."

A rat man complained, and swung the hammer in his hand again, smashing the skull of an undead into pieces.

The surrounding Ratmen also kept repeating similar actions. The whole army was divided into three parts, the combat group, the rest group and the reserve group.

The combat team is composed of ratmen equipped with bayonets and hammerheads. The bayonets are responsible for trapping the undead, and then the hammerheads deliver a fatal blow.

Under the streamlined operation of the ratman army, the number of undead is rapidly decreasing.

Each layer is the most difficult to clean these things, and the number of undead often ranges from a few hundred to a few thousand.

After the undead were dealt with, the Ratman army continued to go deeper. As the depth increased, the next cave creatures were obviously stronger. The Ratmen cleaned up a large group of broodmother spiders and completely destroyed their lairs. Here, the army The ammunition is almost empty.

Most of the regular troops would stay put and wait for supplies, while smaller expeditions went straight in.

This group of Ratmen are the most elite fighters, veterans of all battles, Skaven superrats, it is basic practice for any single player to carry a gun, and it is trivial to carry a gun with two rats.

Under the guidance of Lani's rune light sticks, the Ratmen expedition team began to investigate the places that adventurers could not go deep into.

Not long after they went deep, the expedition team discovered a lot of magic crystals.

This is a shaped magic crystal similar to the stalactite structure, the grade is unknown, but the reserves.
It can only be described as scary.

"I'm not mistaken, Captain Lani, this entire cave is made of magic crystals!"

Xi Luoerman looked at the crystal clear structure in front of him obsessively. Obviously, this is not all the underground caves. The first discovered magic crystal cave is probably not of high grade.

He once asked Ickert about a kind of knowledge called "geological movement". Maybe the magic crystals and gems in the lower layer would be turned up for some reason, but this possibility is still very small.

According to the principle of magic pressure, Ickert even has a guess.

Perhaps just like a neutron star, when the magic power is extremely compressed, it may produce a degenerate state or a pure magic liquid or solid crystal.

The formation conditions of the Philosopher's Stone must be more complicated. Only a few lucky ones will be turned up to a position that humans can reach, but if it is a liquid magic river or even an ocean, there may be hope.

It's not that magicians have never imagined this kind of thing. In many novels, that kind of existence is described as "earth leylines", but this thing has never been found.

"So hot."

Lani doesn't care about these things, that's what civil magicians study.

All she knew was that as the expedition went deeper, the temperature below became more and more intense.

"By the way, the temperature, the prophet told me before leaving!"

Strangely, Sirollman recalled, Ickert seemed certain that as they went deeper, the cave should have gotten hotter, not colder.

"Heat is a good thing, said the Prophet, which means that the core of the planet is not cooled, and with the help of the molten mantle, the relative motion between the continental plates can be generated, which is conducive to geological activities.

Otherwise, our world is likely to be covered by sand, because then there will only be geological effects such as weathering and erosion on the surface, and the ground will most likely be covered with sand. "

"Then we're lucky, at least we're living on a ball that's still warm."

Lani said, and led the team to move on.

Gems and magic crystals were found along the way, and the temperature gradually increased, but the strange thing was that the way was only full of undead, but no more powerful monsters were encountered.

Logically speaking, although the underground lacks organic matter, there should always be a few powerful monsters under high magic pressure.

The atmosphere of the adventure suddenly became weird, until a ratman accidentally bumped into a huge monster, completely igniting the tense atmosphere.

"Captain, you have to look at this."

The Jaeger brought the mages closer, and when the fluorescent light of the rune blade shone on the huge monster, Lani couldn't help but swear.

"This fucking is an ancient dragon!"

To be precise, this is the remains of an ancient dragon.

Just a skull is enough to be comparable to a boulder. This huge thing successfully explained how exaggerated the physique of a creature can be expanded by high magic pressure.

"Not recently, this thing should have been dead for a long time."

Sirolman said, because the decay rate of the flesh of extraordinary creatures like dragons is quite slow, for native dragons, 1000 years are not enough to rot the dragon skin and scales on the surface.

The remains of the holy dragon located in the former Northern Cypriot Empire are enough to prove this, it looks like it is asleep.

"The death of this dragon is nothing, the key is these."

Xi Luoerman picked up some fragments of dragon scales. These are not ancient dragons that are difficult to classify, but modern cave-dwelling black dragons.

In addition, there is a small piece of minced dragon meat.

"I'm afraid this is the real trouble."

(End of this chapter)