Warhammer in a box

Chapter 100: Rat Plague
As the ruler of the entire city, Emmanuel had not slept for several days. He thought that the previous actions would make the Skaven give up, but he did not expect that this time it would be an open conspiracy instead of acting in secret as before.

If this continues, most people in the city will fall ill even without the ratmen attacking. The number of sick people now is so high that the soldiers can't even block the sewer entrances.

"Gurman, what do you think about what's going to happen next? You know these Skaven ratmen best among the people present here. Do you have any good ideas?"

"Everything has its root cause. The rat plague is not as invincible as those evil plagues. Count, please mobilize all the doctors to treat the patients. I will lead my people to find the culprits behind this!"

There is a reason why Gurman dares to make such a guarantee.

It would be almost impossible for anyone in any box world to find the root cause of the problem in such a large city, not to mention that the entire Nuln is now in a certain chaos.

But Zhang Heng can. The God's perspective gives him the ability to see the whole picture. If it were the old him, he would never be able to find anything abnormal in such a big city. But now his brain, strengthened by faith, is no longer the same as before.

Zhang Heng's brain was working rapidly, and he began to check all suspicious matters in the entire Nun at an astonishing speed.

As long as these plagues have a place of origin, there must be different places.

Zhang Heng found the factory area from the rich area, and then found the outskirts of Noon City from the factory area. These places were indeed not the source of all this as he thought, either because there were too few people or because the defenses in these places were very strict.

And when he turned his gaze towards the slums of Noon, he saw something unusual.

There is an area where people have a much higher chance of being infected with the disease. In other places, healthy people and infected people are mixed together. Then this area is almost entirely filled with sick people, and even the symptoms are much stronger.

When night fell, these rat people thought they were hiding well, but they could not escape Zhang Heng's eyes.

Zhang Heng concluded that the source of the rat plague must be here, and immediately told Gulman the location, and Gulman also reported it to Emmanuel.

In Emmanuel's castle, a team of one hundred men has been assembled, including dwarves, Terra guards, five Astra Militarum soldiers summoned earlier, and even two combat priests of the Church of Sigmar and two White Wolf Knights of the Church of the White Wolf. Gurman originally wanted to make all the members of this team his own, but Emmanuel insisted on having his own soldiers participate in this operation as well.

She said this was her city, and she couldn't just sit there and watch others save her city!

A team of Nunn's Ironclads also joined the operation, and their long-range firepower had been replaced with freshly-made automatic rifles, but the ammunition was still not enough.

All the output during this period was used to arm this team.

"Gurman, can you really trust what the god you are talking about said?"

Emmanuelle remained skeptical.

The Gulman in front of him doesn't look like a wizard with predictive abilities.

Almost every mortal would think that the god Zhang Heng is too proactive, too generous, and selfless to the point of being frightening.

"Count, his grace is not cheap. He just has pity on the mortals of this world and cannot bear to see people suffer. He has the ability to solve this crisis directly, but he needs us to complete this task ourselves.

People never know how to cherish things that they don’t get through their own efforts. "

Gurman said as he sorted out his equipment.

"Okay..." Emmanuel agreed, but still turned his eyes to his own guards, the Nuen Ironclad Army, the combat priests, and the White Wolf Knights of the White Wolf Church.

She was more willing to trust these old forces of the empire. "Albert, complete this mission for me!"

"Yes, my mistress, I will not lose to these Terra people!" The armored army officer named Albert vowed.

In this way, this team from different forces left the count's castle and headed towards the slums.

At this time, the streets were eerily quiet. The fear of the plague made the originally bustling streets empty.

Only church priests and soldiers would suppress their fear and go to the streets to maintain the necessary order.

The team marched at the fastest speed and soon arrived at the entrance of the slum.

The streets here no longer have the most basic order like in other places, and the army at this time has no spare energy to protect the complex slums.

High-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen have snatched away these last resources, and the common people at the bottom seem to have been abandoned by them.

"Oh, what a damn world!" Civilians have begun to lie dead on the streets of the slums.

A Terran guard wanted to go forward to check, but was pulled back by Gurman.

"Don't go over there, beware of the plague of ratmen!"

"But. Are we just going to just stand there and watch?" The Terra Guards were not like the other elite troops of the Empire who were all children of nobles or large families. They were all from the common people and had all been oppressed to varying degrees. It was inevitable that they felt compassion when they saw these unattended civilians.

"Only by finding the source can we truly save them! You know it in your heart!"

"Oh I get it Lord Gurman, these damn rats!"

With the guidance of the locals of Nun and Zhang Heng, they soon approached their destination. However, as they got closer, people in the team began to show symptoms of infection. Some soldiers began to cough uncontrollably and even began to become weak.

At this time, the priests of the Church of Sigmar stood up, raised the hammers in their hands and began to pray to Sigma.

Soon their hammers began to glow with magical light.

A bald priest chanted, "Flawless body!"

The light of magic began to cover everyone, and the feeling of weakness began to disappear.

"Everyone, hurry up! This magic can't last long, half an hour! The effect will disappear in half an hour at most!"

Cold sweat began to flow from the bald priest's head, and even his breathing began to become heavy. It seemed that performing divine arts for so many people at once was also quite a burden for these senior clergymen.

Zhang Heng was quite envious of these divine arts. Although Sigma was now trapped in the whirlpool, he had existed for so many years, and the entire divine arts system had become very complete. However, the only person under Zhang Heng who could cast divine arts was Rebecca.

Just as Zhang Heng was thinking about how to build his own divine magic system, the team had already arrived at their destination.

This is also an entrance to the sewer, but it has been abandoned long ago and has lost its original function. However, from inside the cave, those people from the church can already feel the uncomfortable chaotic atmosphere emanating from it.

(End of this chapter)