Warhammer in a box

Chapter 44 Ambush
At the same time, Ludwig and others on the boat were also bored looking at the repetitive scenery on the shore.

"Ah... we should have brought more white wine! This wine is so hard to drink, it's almost finished in just a few days. I don't know what to do next... After getting used to drinking white wine, other wines always seem to have no taste!" The dwarves said while lying on the deck in the sun.

"Hahaha, maybe you can pray to the Emperor of God, and maybe a few bottles of wine will fall from the sky?" Ludwig said jokingly on the side.

He was also very curious and wondered whether the dwarf could believe in Zhang Heng, but the dwarf replied immediately without hesitation.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Be careful or my ancestors will come out and chop you up! If they do, I'll smash your head flat, young man. Be careful with your words. But we still have a long time to arrive. Life on the ship doesn't seem to be suitable for us dwarves. We still feel more comfortable in the mines and the large rooms in the mountains."

"It's almost there. I just asked the captain, and we will reach the first supply point in about two hours. We will then take a brief rest there! Maybe you can also buy some of the wine you want there." Ludwig said.

"Hahahaha, that's great! I'm already missing land! Captain, hurry! Drive the boat faster!"

Ludwig's words made everyone on the boat cheer quietly.

The little people felt bored along the way, but Zhang Heng didn't think so. He walked around on the boat with the little people who believed in him.

Large tracts of the fog of war were successfully dispelled.

Looking at the vast territory of the empire, it is countless times larger and more detailed than in the game.

The villages on the shore, the abandoned mines, and the caravans and armies coming and going in the wild, the leisurely Zhang Heng felt like he was playing a sightseeing game, and everything could arouse his curiosity.

Zhang Heng even discovered some small beastman camps and goblins that came from nowhere through his bird's eye view.

I even saw a few cultists in red robes performing some kind of ceremony!
This made Zhang Heng quickly note down the approximate location and told Ludwig. When he arrived at the destination, he would report to Bayershazer. He believed that the Empire would be happy to send its own troops to resolve these hidden dangers.

"All ships lower their sails! Slow down! Go to the transfer station for supplies!"

The messenger on the front ship delivered the order, and all the ships along the way lowered their sails and slowed down.

However, the soldiers at the front bow were confused. The dock, which should have been bustling with people, was now deserted and eerily quiet. With the fleet about to arrive, the order for them to prepare supplies should have been delivered long ago.

Where are the workers and soldiers on the dock? Where have they gone? There must be no one there!

As the ship approached, the crew skillfully tied the ropes to the dock.

"Where are the people?! Where have they gone! The person in charge of the dock, come out quickly. The imperial order has been delivered long ago, why hasn't anyone prepared the supplies?" The soldier on the ship shouted loudly, but he could not hear any response except his own echo.

The entire dock was eerily quiet. Not even the sound of animals chirping could be heard. Everything was as silent as death.

The soldier jumped onto the dock in confusion, and saw debris scattered everywhere on the dock, and even some vomit and blood, as if everyone had seen something horrible and then dropped what they were holding and ran away in a hurry at the same time.

"This is weird. Where are the people? How could there not be even one person? What on earth is this?!"

A feeling of uneasiness slowly surged into the soldier's heart, and his instinct told him that they could not stay here any longer. Just as he turned around and prepared to return to the boat to tell everyone that they could not stay here any longer, he unexpectedly saw a group of monsters piercing the hull with their sharp claws and crawling towards the boat from the river.

The mutated limbs and rotten flesh are enough to make one's scalp tingle just by looking at them.

"Strange. Strange." The soldier who came ashore pointed at the abandoned people and was so scared that he couldn't speak for a moment, while the soldiers on the boat didn't know what he meant.

"Hey, what's wrong with you? Why are you in a daze?" Just as the soldiers on the ship were preparing to go ashore, a large, rotten hand emitting a foul smell appeared on the edge of the boat, and in just a blink of an eye, the owner of the hand climbed onto the boat.

Wearing rotten armor, swollen flesh, and carrying weapons filled with deadly maggot poison, these Forsaken who were transformed by the power of Nurgle actually hid in the river and climbed onto the boat. No one had expected that these monsters would crawl out of the river.

As more and more monsters climbed onto the ship, they immediately began their massacre. At this time, these normal lives in the Forsaken's Gate were constantly arousing their desire to devour and kill.

The counterattacks of ordinary soldiers seemed so powerless in front of these monsters. The monsters between life and death were not afraid of the ordinary swords in the hands of the soldiers at all.

Even though the soldier stabbed him through with his spear, the Forsaken actually approached the attacking soldier along the spear and killed him with the poisoned weapon in his hand. When the swords and knives slashed at the Forsaken, the soldiers would be immediately infected by the plague when they touched the pus splashing from their wounds, and then they would feel uncomfortable and fall into weakness.

When the ships docked behind this ship discovered something was wrong, it was too late. Just as they wanted to join the battle and fight back, Murray came out from nowhere, and the power of Nurgle allowed him to master the spell of plague.

He waved a staff made of human skulls and thigh bones in his hands.

"Withering Abscess!!"

A continuously expanding rotten abscess suddenly appeared on the deck of the ship. As the abscess continued to beat violently, it exploded with a "bang".

The highly toxic pus directly corroded the wooden deck and hull, not to mention the human flesh.

Soon the two stranded ships blocked most of the waterway, making the following ships caught in a dilemma and even causing them to collide with each other because they could not slow down in time.

"What's going on? What happened ahead?"

The chaos ahead was so obvious that even Ludwig at the rear of the fleet noticed something was wrong.

As the ships got closer, more of them crowded together.

Soldiers from other ships also came out of the cabins, and everyone wanted to figure out what was going on.

Originally, Zhang Heng had turned his view back to Terra City. Seeing Terra City changing every day, Zhang Heng was in a very good mood. He calculated that it was about time, so when he turned back to check on Ludwig's progress, he happened to see the scene of the ships colliding.

Looking forward along the entire fleet, Zhang Heng saw at a glance the abandoned people who were blocking the decks of the fleet and jumping onto one ship after another.

"What the hell? Nurgle? Why did the followers of the Four Gods appear inexplicably in the heart of the empire?" Nurgle's soldiers were too easy to recognize. Each of the demons and followers of the Four Gods had very obvious characteristics.

But Zhang Heng couldn't figure it out. Shouldn't these demons need the support of the wind of chaos magic to maintain their existence? But after a closer look, he found that they were just some corrupted and mutated mortals, and there were no real demons among them.

These made Zhang Heng breathe a sigh of relief. It was good news amidst the bad news. If demons of this scale appeared here, it meant that the chaotic magic wind had already swept across the entire empire, and perhaps even the great vortex of the high elves was on the verge of collapse.

There will probably be no safe place in the empire anymore.

"Ludwig! Get ready for battle! They are the followers of the evil god! The cultists attacked the ship in front!" Zhang Heng hurriedly transmitted the message.

Zhang Heng's voice immediately rang in Ludwig's mind.

"What?! Followers of the evil god? Everyone, take up your weapons! The Emperor has foreseen the enemy! Phillips, get your warriors ready to fight! Ferrell, it's the evil god~"

Ludwig immediately spoke to the person in charge of the dwarf's trip and Ferrer.

No one expected the danger to come so suddenly. Fortunately, the soldiers Ludwig brought from Terra were experienced in battle and were not very panicked. Everyone was ready for battle.

But the people on the other ships were still confused and didn't know what was going on. Nurgle's attack was so sudden and so fast that they didn't even have time to sound the alarm to the ships behind.

"Hey! What happened Ludwig?"

There was a questioning voice coming from the ship ahead, and Ludwig looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was the general of the Faldorf reinforcements.

"West, get the soldiers ready for battle, it's cultists! Cultists are attacking the leading ship ahead!"

"Cultists? This is the heartland of the empire, how dare they? And how did you know?"

(End of this chapter)