Chapter 395, Deep Underground
That night, Ryan and others rested in the Justice Church. There are many rooms in the church, and it is very ample to arrange two rooms for rest. Kuangsha Literature Network
In the large room, Suria was resting on the bunk. The female knight was wearing an ivory white carved silk princess dress. Her long golden curly hair fell from her slender shoulders, and her fragile skin was not affected by the battle. Influenced by the influence, a pair of beautiful long legs wrapped in black pantyhose were exposed to the air, and the slender and straight black silk legs overlapped, revealing the charming talent and pink silk feet of a female knight.
The female knight has just finished taking a bath under the service of her maid Sylvia. Her body exudes the fragrance of irises, and she leans lazily and charmingly on the soft pillow. With a hint of dissatisfaction, she looked at the golden double-headed eagle wedding ring on her left ring finger, feeling the power in it.
"Miss, I'm done." At this moment, Sylvia opened the door and came in, and the female knight's maid also took the opportunity to take a shower, and let off her golden hair in a relatively rare way, with some seriousness in her purple eyes. : "Miss, are you still unhappy about what happened before?"
"It's not that I'm unhappy, I know Ryan is concerned about me and doesn't want me to take risks." Surya sighed softly, and motioned her maid to sit beside her: "Sit down, Sylvia."
Silvia could feel that Suria's mood was not very high, and the maid sat on her head.
After discussing with Bellegar, Ryan is going to go deep into the ground with Bellegar and the Imperial Army tomorrow morning to destroy the Skaven's frontline base and portal. Out of consideration for Suria's safety, he Disagreeing with Suria to go deep into the ground together, because it is really dangerous, and no one knows what is in the ground, Bellega repeatedly warned to be prepared.
But Suria still knew about it, and the countess said very seriously that she would live and die with her husband. Despite Ryan's repeated persuasion, Suria's attitude was firm, and Ryan had to agree.
Now Ryan was discussing with Emperor Karl-Frantz and Bellega about the preparations for going underground, and the maid Sylvia took the opportunity to come in and chat with his lady.
"I can understand Ryan's attitude." Su Liya said with a smile: "He has a bad heart."
"Not in a good mood?"
"Well, this trip was originally a honeymoon trip between me and him. He hoped to complete this trip quietly, and then return to the territory calmly to prepare for attacking the Blackstone stronghold." Suria said indifferently. : "However, the plague was encountered here in Hemgard. Now Miss Teresa is seriously injured, and it may take more than half a year to recover. Veronica is slightly injured, but she is temporarily unable to exert any combat power after exhausting her magic power. .”
"So the count is only concerned about his two female courtiers?" Sylvia said a little unhappy, "Miss, you are his wife!"
"What can those two female courtiers do? I didn't mean that, Sylvia, don't think about it." Suria shook her head again and again, with a smile on her face all the time: "I'm talking about Ryan, don't look He seems to be very confident. In fact, he should be depressed in his heart. He chose the champion for the lady's god. He failed to protect his side, and I did too. He always felt that I was facing five giant rats alone. The devil is too reluctant."
"If it weren't for the Earl, who fought endlessly, stopped half of the rat tide by himself, and even destroyed two dimensional lightning cannons, we wouldn't be able to defend the church at all." Sylvia also said something fair: "The Earl is right Isn't that too high of a requirement?"
"Ryan? He has always had high demands on himself, which is understandable. After all, he is the lady's chosen champion, the idol and role model for all knights in the entire kingdom." Suria's eyes shone with wisdom, and the female knight sighed In one breath: "Actually, do you know? The marriage between Ryan and I could have been discussed long ago, but he has always been a little reluctant. Ryan is not willing to give others the impression that he immediately clings to his father just after becoming a baron.
So it wasn't until after he was promoted to earl that my marriage with Ryan was finalized. "
"Yeah." Sylvia nodded again and again. Speaking of Ryan's pride, it was impossible for him to be willing to marry the young lady as a weakling.
There was silence in the room for a while, and Sylvia admitted awkwardly: "Miss, I have to say, I think only Ryan is worthy of you in the whole country."
"But there are not a few female nobles who are worthy of Ryan, Sylvia, you must know that Ryan is a 31-year-old Holy Grail Knight, what does this mean?" Suria nodded: "Since I If you are lucky, you must know how to cherish the hard-won happiness, Sylvia, I hope you can understand, and everyone can understand."
"Lian is my husband, and even the master of the Earldom!"
The maid was startled, she knew that Su Liya's words were not only addressed to her, but also a warning to the entire servant group under the Marquis.
Miss finally found a good match, if these people want to make trouble, even the female knight will not let them go! Disagreement between the two is a private matter between husband and wife, and she does not allow these servants to get involved.
Sylvia naturally knows that many of Suria's servants feel superior to others, and some look down on Ryan's subordinates. After all, Suria's family has been passed down for thousands of years and enjoys a high status in the kingdom. Ryan's subordinates share the same The status is slightly worse.
The two chatted for a while, Ryan pushed open the door and came in, his hair was still a little wet, obviously he had just taken a shower, and seeing Sylvia was there, the Earl smiled and said, "Thank you, Miss Sylvia. "
"This is what I should do." The maid was a little uneasy facing Ryan again, she nodded and hurried out: "Then I will go down first."
After the maid closed the door and went out, Suria leaned gently on Ryan's shoulder: "Is Miss Teresa okay?"
"It's okay, but it's going to take half a year to recuperate." Ryan got into bed and hugged Surya's fragrant body into his arms: "We'll set off tomorrow morning, so get ready, since you insist."
"How do we act specifically?" Suria hugged her husband in turn, and she stroked Ryan's face: "Don't tell me!"
"Belga's plan is that I, you, Belega, and Master Ernst, the supreme mentor of the demon hunters, sneak directly into the secret base of the Ratman along the path, kill all the Ratmen we meet along the way and destroy everything we see. The Skaven construction facilities arrived, trying to create chaos, and Marshal Rick Helberg will lead the combined forces of the Empire and the Dwarves to wait for the internal chaos of the Skaven, and cooperate with the inside and outside to completely destroy the Skaven's frontline base."
"Well." Ryan knew that Suria was also tired, so he didn't plan to do anything more. He hugged his wife, blew out the candles, and prepared to rest.
Unexpectedly, after the room became quiet, the female knight suddenly raised her head and gave Ryan her sweet kiss.
There was a faint sweetness on her lips, Ryan froze for a second, then kissed back.
The two kissed for a long time before Su Liya said out of breath, "Don't hide anything from me! My husband."
"I see." Ryan admitted his mistake decisively: "I was afraid that you would be too tired...and also that you would be injured."
"Pfft~" Su Liya snickered. She put her arms around Ryan and said in a low voice, "You don't look tired, do you? Did you feel tired when you treated Miss Teresa?"
Ryan was speechless, he could only show with his actions that he was not tired.
... Earl has no tired dividing line ...
In the early morning of the next day, the army assembled, and the great swordsmen and foot knights of the empire formed a square formation, followed Belegar, and prepared to go underground to fight.
Belgar was fully armed and stood on top of the ruined city of Hemgard. He looked at the ruins of the entire city and sighed softly: "It is always easier to destroy than to build. Are you ready?"
Emperor Karl Franz stood not far behind Belega. The emperor himself held the emperor's symbolic warhammer "Skull Crusher" Gail-Maraz in one hand, and the Holy Sword of Prince Reick's Elector was hanging from his waist. "Dragon tooth", he said helplessly to Marshal Rick Curt Helberg beside him: "If you and Ludwig hadn't stopped me, I would also like to go down and see where these Skaven rats are in the empire. What was done underground."
"No, they can go down, we can go down, but you, can't go down, my lord, you can't do anything, you are the empire." Rick Marshal Helberg looked at the entire ruined city, he faced Emperor Karl Franz said: "We can die, you can't."
The emperor smiled helplessly when he heard the words. He had heard this kind of remarks more than once. Although he didn't like it, the emperor knew that he had to accept it. Fang Zhu will face-to-face one-on-one in the future, but this does not mean that he can rashly take risks when the situation ahead is unclear.
The quality is different. As the emperor of the empire, he can't do such a stupid thing.
"I will sit in command of Hemgard and wait for your signal." The emperor said to Ernst, the supreme mentor of the demon hunter: "If it really doesn't work, don't force it, and withdraw first, more reinforcements are already on the way. "
"Since I'm required to take action this time, there will be no accidents." The gray-haired Ernst checked his weapon: "I take on one mission a year, and I never fail."
"The dwarves will not fail." Bellegar Hammer looked at the heavy sky, felt the cold wind, and whispered: "At least not this time, I swear by my hammer and beard, I will definitely bring victory. "
At this time, the heavily armed Ryan and his wife also arrived, and Bellegar took out the map: "My ranger has found out the location of the secret base of the Rat Man, which is a mine below the Hemgard mine. In the cave behind the ruins of the Dao Road, the Ratmen built inferior buildings there. The Skaven warlord who escaped was leading a Stormrat Legion and two Clan Rat Legions to garrison. A mighty guardian."
"We'd better not attack the Ratmen's base head-on, because once the frontal attack is not won, the Ratmen's reinforcements will continue to arrive through the portal. At that time, it will turn into a tug-of-war, which is very detrimental to us."
"So, my plan is, those of us rush in, create chaos, and divert the Ratman's attention to the inside. Marshal Helberg leads the army to completely destroy the Ratmen's stronghold, and then uses explosives to blow up the entire mine. In this way, at least in the next twenty years, the power of the Skaven will be temporarily cleared from here." Bellegar finished his plan.
"What about the future?" The emperor was concerned about this question.
"The Skaven are just like the greenskins. They can never be cleaned up completely. All we can do is the things in front of us." Bellegar shook his head: "Victory cannot last forever. In the future, you still need to send people to check the mine regularly. holes and sewer systems."
"It's not bad to be able to do this." The emperor nodded: "Then leave it to you."
Thirty minutes later, in the depths of the Hemgard Mine.
The deep mines have been dug into the depths of the mountains, and Earl Hemgard even built a mine cart track. Humans and dwarves from the Gray Mountains are jointly developing the mine veins here.
After the raging tide of rats, the mine is now full of corpses and traces of destruction. However, because the Ratmen focused their attention on the city, part of the mine can still be used. Bellega took Ryan and the three of them, and walked carefully. In front, Marshal Rick Helberg led a hundred swordsmen, fifty foot knights, fifty sworn guards under Bellegar and thirty rangers followed far behind.
The battle in the mine is not a battle on the plains. It is useless to have too many people. Fewer and more elite is what Bellegar needs.
"I said, you must follow my command." Bellegar-Iron Hammer walked ahead with a torch, chattering: "Listen to me, man, I know you may all be powerful, but short Talented people are the people of the mountains, if you face the Skaven, if you don’t obey the command, those who stand alone will die.”
"Of course, I'm not familiar with places like mines." Ryan and Suria followed Bellegar, and he nodded understandingly: "Dwarves are experts in this field."
"I don't care, as long as I can kill rats." Ernst said impatiently, "Dwarf, instead of chattering, why don't you tell us what we should do? How can we sneak into the secret base of the Ratmen?" ?”
"Symbol." The torch in Bellegar's hand approached the wet rock wall.
Everyone looked at it, and there was an upside-down triangle symbol engraved on the rock wall.
"This is the mark of the Skaven, which means that from here, it belongs to the sphere of influence of the Skaven." Bellegar held the Hammer of Angrond and the Shield of Resistance in his hand, pointing at the symbol with the hammer head .
"If it's identified in this way, it's too simple, right? Let's just walk along the place with this inverted triangle symbol." The witcher's supreme mentor muttered, "Dwarves only have this kind of ability?"
Bellega looked at Master Ernst with silly eyes for a while, and simply ignored him, and continued to explain to Ryan and others: "Skaven ratmen use ratman language, which has a fast scream Ratmen always speak very quickly and have very short pronunciation. Ratman language is actually a very complicated language, but most ratmen can only master two or three hundred words, so you You can hear yesyes, nono, youyou, diedie all day for this reason, the lack of vocabulary makes this group of rats only repeat these words to strengthen the context.”
"I see." Ryan nodded again and again, and even Helberg and Ernst were listening carefully. The stubborn old witcher just had a habitual grumpiness, which didn't mean he was really an idiot.
The empire has very few records about the Skaven, and it is limited to a few words in some books of the great nobles. Helberg even signaled a Rickway to write them down quickly.
The army walked along the mine, and Ryan took the opportunity to say to Bellegar, "King Bellegar, I didn't expect you to know so much about the Skaven."
"If you want to defeat the enemy, you must understand your opponent, instead of rushing indiscriminately with your hands. This is how my first two attempts to regain Eight Peaks Mountain failed." Bellegar sighed softly. Wang is no longer the bloody idiot he was back then. In order to regain Eight Peaks Mountain, he even spent many years understanding the social culture of the green skins and the social culture of the Skaven.
After walking through the long tunnel, three new symbols appeared in the bell stone, the frozen underground lake and the messy mine pit.
"This is?!" Seeing one of the symbols, Bellegar's expression changed drastically.
This is a circular marker with a circle drawn inside it, followed by a long line.
"What is this?" Surya asked with concern.
"There is a rat mother underground!"
"The plan is changed! Let's eliminate the rat mother first!"