Alien world

Chapter 1673, Section 306: Little Smo is Cunning and Treacherous
The Stoun ratmen, blocked from the north, caused the six-armed serpent commander to misjudge the situation: so much so that the Stoun ratmen played a trick, shouting and yelling to attract her attention while secretly digging a rat hole to get around to the far north.

So the question is, how do they bypass their own defenses?
The gargoyles, who had been dispersed to conduct a thorough search, quickly discovered the commotion on the sea and confirmed that humans had transported these ratmen here by boat.

The culprit is Free City, which is suspected to be controlled by Lady Lilith.

Ignoring the fact that the contact time had not yet arrived, Biros contacted the Desire Demon.

In front of the model shop, the lustful demon, who was excitedly rubbing his hands because it was almost his turn to line up, suddenly froze. Amidst the puzzled looks of those around him, he hurriedly left the line and disappeared into a small alley before responding to Lady Biros's call.

"Lady Biros, it's not time yet..."

"Is it inconvenient for you?"

Biros sensed something was off about the succubus's tone.

The lustful demon took a deep breath: "It's nothing, I just ran into a troublesome thug... Is there anything urgent?"

"Liberty City sent a bunch of ratmen over, did you know that?"

"I...I don't know...I've been busy spying on the Dark Elves lately...yes, spying on the Dark Elves. Lady Biros, did you know that Free City is actually planning to establish the Spider Queen's Church!"

Biros didn't care about the Spider Queen or the elves. She was about to question the Succubus about what she was doing and how she didn't even know, when the Succubus's cautious voice rang out: "Lady Biros, Lady Lilith should know about this, right?"

Biros was stunned. Could this be Lady Lilith's arrangement?
She stopped talking and pondered Lilith's intentions... A good subordinate knows how to deconstruct their superior's thoughts.

The gargoyle leader landed outside the obsidian house, bringing more detailed information about the rat swarm. After listening, Biros's snake eyes suddenly lit up.

"you sure?"

“There are no rat holes. They are right on the shore. The Rat King, elders, and priests are all there. The rat swarm only numbers in the hundreds of thousands!” The gargoyle leader repeated more clearly and concisely.

Suddenly, Biros seemed to understand Lady Lilith's intention!

Lady Lilith is trying to resolve the entanglement of the Stun ratmen: these Stun ratmen have secretly circled around to the west coast, and even if troops are sent to deal with them, they can only suffer in silence.

Biros felt ashamed that she had to ask Lady Lilith to take action, and decisively gave the order:

"Summon the demons and annihilate the rat swarm before it forms!"

……

"There's unusual activity at the demon camp. Wow, so many of them? Could they have all come out in force?"

Above the outpost island, Little Smo and the mages of the Retribution Legion were aboard a reconnaissance airship. Even without getting close, they could see dark clouds pressing down from the north, making it seem as if the demons were the ratmen.

In fact, their ecological niches are quite similar. During the Abyss Bloodbath, demons relied on demonic tides to consume demons that numbered only one percent of their own.

"Their reaction is strange, too violent." The more composed mage captain frowned.

"If you knew that there was a Rat King, elders, and priests among that small group of ratmen, you would have gone just as crazy." Little Smo had witnessed the gargoyles flying north in groups.

"What do we do now? The Rodent Clan is too few in number; they are definitely no match for the demons."

"help."

"Alright—" The mage cast a Light Feather spell on himself and was about to jump down.

"but not now."

"Huh?" The monk, who had stepped one leg over the basket, turned around.

The mage captain reminded him, "The demons are getting serious; if we're too late, it'll be too late."

“I don’t know demons, but I do know the Stoun ratmen.” Little Smo shook his head. “Those are the Stoun ratmen, the cunning rats who played a trick on the entire Northern forces before McKenne arrived. Would they really rush into the far north unprepared?”

In other words, how could such a cunning entity completely trust Liberty City? They might have some hidden agenda.

Even if they guess wrong, it doesn't matter. The Rodent Clan will be half-dead, and Free City will reappear, and they will be grateful.

"Jie Jie Jie..."

The young mage withdrew his leg, chuckled, and shrugged.

"What are you laughing at?" the mage captain asked, glancing sideways.

"So what if the Stoan ratmen are cunning? We're even more cunning than them!"

……

It's not surprising that the Rodent Clan was discovered by the demons; in fact, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the demons only discovered them after all.

In five days, the three waves of rodents that arrived neither dug burrows to build nests nor hid their tracks, but brazenly exposed themselves on the barren west coast, which had just been hit by a blizzard and had no shelter whatsoever.

Annan and Little Smo did try to warn them, but their warnings were dismissed as nonsense and slid off their smooth brains.

Annan even began to suspect that the rat-man elders were deceiving him. These rat-men, with their faces full of stupidity and clumsiness, were nothing like Maria, who had such a clever appearance. Could they be from another clan in disguise?

Despite their disdain, the outpost still dispatched a reconnaissance airship to warn them: "The demons appear to have come out in full force and are heading this way. Get on board and retreat immediately!"

The reconnaissance airships were naturally arranged by Little Smo. If they obediently retreated by boat, it meant they were indeed unprepared, and they would owe Free City a favor.

Ignoring the situation demonstrates either arrogance or recklessness. The first two can provide assistance when losses are severe, while the last allows for observation of the situation.

Liberty City won't lose out in either case.

……

The first to arrive were the gargoyles, which looked like a large, dark cloud.

Just as demons are weak to water, ratmen are weak to air. Instead of climbing the magic tree, ratmen who chose to develop fel energy are completely unable to overcome the gravity of the world of Allen.

Gargoyles, clutching stones the size of human heads and blocks of ice, hurled them at the rat swarm, which were met only by a few sparse spears thrown at them.

Protected by the rat swarm, the rat king, elders, priests, and other rat-men in the center were not afraid of any gaps, so the gargoyles chose the elite rats on the periphery as their targets.

Animals like the Dimensional Rat and Blink Rat have defenses that are even weaker than the Elite Rat, and comparable to the Slave Rat. When a whistling stone falls on them, they become a bloody mess.

They suffered heavy casualties and began looking for an opportunity to fight back. When they found a gargoyle diving too low, they would blink past it, either smashing themselves into a bloody pulp or slamming the gargoyle into a bloody pulp while embracing it.

The reconnaissance airship, having spotted the gargoyle horde ahead of time and kept its distance, continued to observe from the sea, watching as the rats it had painstakingly delivered were consumed in large numbers by the gargoyles.

The gargoyle attack lasted for a day and a night. During this time, the rat swarm did launch attacks when the gargoyles landed to rest, and they did kill quite a few gargoyles. However, the remaining gargoyles found a balance point—when they rested, they landed a dozen miles away from the ratmen, and when they were rested, they continued to attack, taking turns to wear down the rat swarm.

(End of this chapter)