Alien world

Chapter 1568 Chapter 202. Trap
The crack in the sky was like a festering wound. At first it was just a thin gray line, and then it was suddenly torn apart in some indescribable pain. The clouds were dyed a corrupt dark purple, and the edges were red like lava, as if they were burnt organs.

The warriors of the Black Watch formed a steel dam at the pass. The heavily armored soldiers in the front row wore rune plate armor, and the patterns on the surface of their long shields were dyed a strange purple by the sky.

The dark blue robes of the Mages surged behind them like an undercurrent, arcane crystals were suspended on the tops of their staffs, and the accumulated magic power caused ripples in the air.

Their mere existence is enough to terrify all living beings, and it is even more difficult to imagine what kind of enemy this legion is blocking.

The gray tide is coming up from the end of the horizon.

At first, it was like a moment of sunset glow after dusk, and then it appeared on the earth in a real way, like the darkness after the sunset, sticking to the ground, peeling off the colors of the world.

A suffocating sound of surge rolled in from afar - it was not the sound of waves, but like millions of sandpaper rubbing against rusty blades, or like some huge monster gnawing at the backbone of the world.

The waves formed entirely of ratmen rolled and crowded, coming like a tide. They hit the rock wall of the pass, raising waves formed by ratmen and rising rapidly.

The terrain differences were quickly smoothed out. For a rat tide of this scale, any terrain was a joke.

The Hellfire Legion, the Musketeer Legion, the Punishment Legion... If they were here, they wouldn't be able to make any waves.

"Hold back the rat tide until dawn!"

The roar of the legion commander sounded in the sky. The heavily armored soldiers in the front row inserted their steel shields into the cracks in the rocks and pressed their shoulder armor against the rivet grooves on the back of the shield, ready to withstand the first wave of impact.

"Mage Corps, get ready!" Grand Mage Albek commanded.

Mass magic erupted from the wands of hundreds of wizards, and a sea of ​​fire instantly appeared in the vast land outside the pass.

The Skaven's weakness is still fire - the only thing that can stop them is the ocean.

The rat tide instantly erupted in shrill screams - the painful cries of tens of thousands of ratmen combined into a hellish picture of horror.

Then, the second group spell was prepared: a ray of holy light shot out from the Black Watch Army formation, almost piercing the sky, and turned into a thick beam of light that swept through the rat tide.

Wherever it passed, all flesh and blood were vaporized, and a large number of cavities were plowed out in the rat tide.

After being weakened twice, the rat tide was finally no longer so dense that it was desperate. At the same time, the first wave collided with the steel dam.

The moment the rat tide hit the shield wall, the roar of metal and bones made the air tremble. The ratmen continued to surge forward, thousands of hunched bodies piled up into a mountain of flesh under inertia, and rotten brains and broken bones splashed out from the gaps in the shields.

"withstand!"

"withstand!"

"withstand!"

With a stern roar, Blackwatch resisted the first wave of rats head-on.

The second wave of rats followed closely: formed by elite rats and wild rats.

When the ratmen fight, they always use the same three tricks from beginning to end: the first wave of slave rats, the second wave of elite rats, and the third wave of high-level troops and ratman priests launching a general attack.

Most of the time, their enemies could hardly survive until the second wave. Facing the densely packed ratmen, there was no room for maneuver. Even a great swordsman would be swallowed up in the blink of an eye.

But Blackwatch blocked it, and not only blocked it, but also harvested the tide of rats like a meat grinder. The heavily armored soldier kicked over an elite rat that climbed up the edge of the shield, and swept the hammer across, smashing the armor and spine of another one, and the third and fourth ones pounced on it.

Spells were fired indiscriminately, continuously weakening the rats that rushed in. Archmage Albek led the spellcasting mages to kill the dangerous elements in the rat tide, such as the self-destructing rats that rushed in with the Fel Stone.

Every time one exploded, a terrifying green flame would spurt out, turning the area several meters in radius into a pool of fluorescent green pus. The ratmen at the back were squeezed forward, and the parts that came into contact with the green pus melted silently like ice cubes exposed to the sun.

The pressure ahead was greatly reduced, and the rat people reaped the fruits of their own actions.

Just as the shield-bearing soldier relaxed slightly, a cold light descended from the sky——

The flickering rat appeared above the dam. At the same time, the dimensional rat leaped out of the void and appeared within the defense line.

These flickering rats are shaped like woodlice, with short and curled limbs, scales on their backs, and skin as pale as maggots. The moment they flash, they wield their emerald green daggers and stab at the shield-bearing heavily armored soldiers.

The ratmen took the opportunity to launch an offensive: thousands of rats rushed forward from the front, and being attacked from both sides, a gap was actually torn in the front row of the shield wall.

The extra-dimensional rats were even more deadly because they appeared directly around the mages, but at this moment, arrows that were wider, more accurate, and more silent than spells were shot out, instantly piercing through the green fel ratmen that emerged from the void.

This raid did not cause too many casualties to Blackwatch, but it still accomplished part of its goal - the mages were distracted, the number of spells falling on the rat tide dropped sharply, and the front line had to resist the entire rat tide.

If one looks down from the sky, the endless grey wave has completely engulfed the surroundings of the Black Watch. The so-called passes and natural barriers are no longer visible, and there are surging waves of rats everywhere.

From time to time, bursts of fierce light broke out all around, like a lonely island in a deep stormy night, resisting the violent waves of the wind and rain.

The battle lasted from dusk until midnight, and the human soldiers were still holding on without suffering too much loss.

After all, it is the Black Watch, one of the eight imperial guard legions of the Empire. It is a powerful force composed of two legends, ten epics, hundreds of masters, and the weakest is an elite.

After fighting all night, on the eve of dawn, it seemed that the mission was completed. The legendary wizard who had never taken action stood up, waved his staff, and built a huge silver arch in the center of the legion.

The portal spell began to take shape, and at this moment Archmage Albek ordered the mage corps to stop attacking and instead cast a spell to raise a magic shield to protect the entire legion.

Each wave was made up of hundreds of ratmen that hit the magic shield and were blocked outside as if they had hit a solid entity.

The rat tide surged up quickly, completely engulfing the magic shield and forming a semicircular outline.

There was no longer a ray of light shining through the cracks. Under the dark and dim sky, there was only a sea of ​​ratmen surging densely.

In front of the silver portal, the legendary wizard's spellcasting was nearing completion.

Densely packed ratmen climbed on the magic shield, piling up layer upon layer, their scarlet eyeballs surging like stars, but not even a sound could be heard.

After dozens of seconds, the silver portal was officially formed.

"Everyone prepare!"

The mages and rangers gathered in front of the silver gate, and then the heavily armored soldiers also retreated facing outwards.

(End of this chapter)