vstars Chapter 226: Rat Removal
Chapter 226: Rat Removal
Payen was leading the knights towards the depths of the sewer. According to the Saint-Remy sewer map given by Charlie, there was a relatively open space in the middle of the sewer, which might be the final hiding place of the cultist.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
At this moment, there was an echo of water sound coming from the darkness in the distance. As time went by, the sound became louder and louder, as if it was coming towards them.
"Alert! Musketeers!" Payne gave the order without hesitation, and several knights immediately raised their shields to meet the attack in front. The knights behind loaded their muskets, which were specially used to attack giant creatures, with gunpowder and lead bullets, and placed them on the shields in front, forming a steel defense line.
Since most of the apostles encountered so far are giant creatures, John also ordered people to make muskets specifically for dealing with the apostles. The caliber of the original Mushket heavy musket was increased, and replaced with lead bullets of a larger caliber to cause greater damage to the apostles.
At this time, the sounds in the distance became urgent. Under the illumination of the knights' torches, a huge monster was rushing towards them not far away.
"shooting!"
Following Pa Ying's order, several muskets fired loud noises accompanied by thick smoke. Due to the white smoke, the situation on the opposite side could not be seen clearly in the narrow sewer, but through the faint roar of the monster, it was not difficult to analyze that the muskets still caused certain damage to the monster.
But that was all. The attack had clearly angered the monster, and a huge, angry roar ran through the entire sewer, causing pain in the ears of all the knights present. Then the monster began to speed up and rush towards them. As the distance got closer, they could hear the sound of tiles cracking.
"Captain, what should we do?" asked a knight.
"Lure it to the ground, and then we can use our numerical superiority to deal with it. Everyone, retreat!"
Upon seeing this, Pa Ying gave the next order. In his opinion, it was too dangerous to fight a monster of this size in such a narrow and long terrain. Moreover, they only had dozens of knights. It would be better to lure them out and attack it from all directions together with the mercenaries.
With the help of the map, Paying led his knights to the way back. Since there were no other monsters blocking the way, the process was very smooth. The knights soon saw the light of the entrance under Paying's leadership. With the doubts of the soldiers at the entrance, a large number of knights who had just entered a few hours ago filed out. After Paying came out of the entrance, he immediately reminded:
"Everyone prepare for battle, there are monsters behind us!"
Hearing this, the officers directed the soldiers to defend themselves and called Charlie. When Charlie came out of the crowd and wanted to talk to Paying, the monster in the sewer revealed its true face:
A sharp claw stretched out from the sewer, and then the entrance of the sewer became uneven due to the continuous cracking of stone bricks. From the darkness, a deformed and distorted face stretched out from the sewer. Through this face, everyone could roughly see the original human face of this monster, but the disgusting thing was that behind his face were tumors and lumps of flesh formed by countless rat heads.
When the monster saw the huge crowd of soldiers in front of it, it roared and struggled to free its body from the narrow sewer outlet. As the walls around the sewer collapsed, its body covered with rat heads and limbs was exposed. It was at least five meters long.
"Crossbowmen, musketeers, fire! Spearmen, hold on!"
Before the monster could attack the others, Charlie immediately gave orders to the soldiers, and countless crossbow arrows and lead bullets rained down on the monster. As the monster continued to twitch and howl, countless blood flowers splashed out of its body.
Seeing that these long-range weapons could cause damage to the monsters, Charlie was overjoyed and immediately shouted:
"Just keep shooting like this. Spearmen, hold it back and don't let it attack the ranged troops!"
Rows of spearmen, under the attack of crossbowmen and musketeers, stabbed at the body of the monster in front of them. The sharp spear heads pierced directly into the monster's flesh, but the soldiers soon found something was wrong. It seemed as if some creature was faintly wriggling in the monster's body.
"Snapped!"
A black rat crawled out from the monster's wound and fell to the ground, followed by countless rats falling out from the monster's wound. Most of them looked around and then pounced on the spearman on the opposite side.
Some soldiers who were not paying attention were soon attacked by rats. Despite the protection of protective clothing, they found that the rats' teeth were surprisingly good. The originally sturdy protective clothing was gnawed by them, leaving large and small gaps, which caused considerable disturbance to the soldiers on the front line.
While the spearmen slowed down their attack on it, the monster swung its claws to push away the spears in front of it. The soldiers who were still trying to get rid of the rats' attack were knocked to the ground by the sudden force. The monster took this opportunity to pounce forward and began to rampage among the infantry.
As its claws swung, the soldiers who stood in front of it were either knocked away or torn into pieces by its claws. The soldiers had to resist the attacks of the monsters while being on guard against the attacks of the rats. The scene was so chaotic that the long-range troops could not shoot.
After seeing the current battle situation, Pa Ying had a rough idea in his mind. Although the monster seemed to be in an advantageous position at present, this was only temporary. In the end, it would still be killed by the numerical advantage of Blackwatch. The problem now was how to kill this monster with less casualties.
After recalling the previous strategy for dealing with the apostles, Payen ordered the people around him:
"Bring me a case of kerosene bottles."
For this large creature with poor defense, ordinary hacking cannot kill it if it cannot hit the vital parts. On the contrary, this kind of fire can more effectively block the monster's next attack.
So Paying immediately summoned several knights, and after giving them the kerosene bottles, he only told them, "When the time comes, rush forward and pour the kerosene on the wound." Then he rushed towards the monster opposite with the kerosene.
At this time, the monster was already beginning to feel a bit overwhelmed. Its body had long been beaten to a bloody pulp by various sword and knife injuries, and the attacks from the rats in its body had caused it to be like a leaking balloon. Although it could still hold on for a while, it would definitely deflate in the end.
While the monster was still fighting hard, Paying and several knights came behind it with torches in their hands, poured kerosene on its wounds, and then threw the torches at it, giving it a fatal blow.
A huge fire started from the monster's body. The strong burning sensation caused the monster to turn around. After realizing that he was powerless, he still wanted to put out the fire and continue fighting. However, it did not work as he wished. Some kerosene entered his shriveled body through the wound. The mice in his body also fled from his body due to the fire, making it unable to control its limbs.
Finally, when the last mouse with flames left its body, the monster fell in a body of oil and blood like a piece of skin. But what was strange was that although there was nothing inside its body now, it could still feel pain, so much so that it kept crawling forward, trying to escape the flames.
However, at this moment, Pa Ying's iron boots stepped directly on its big face. Looking at the monster in front of him that was so lively just now, Pa Ying suddenly felt a little weird. In the past, those monsters were either foul-mouthed or loved to mock and ridicule them when they had the upper hand during the battle, but this monster has not said a word of human language since it appeared.
"Do you have anything else to say?" Pa Ying was suddenly possessed by a strange spirit, and at the same time he wanted to ask why he wanted to create such a serious plague, because most monsters prefer blood and flesh and hearty slaughter rather than this time-consuming and inefficient method.
"I...everything I did was instructed by the great Plague God Conrad. You foolish mortals, when the solar eclipse comes, you, your descendants, and everyone on this continent will fall into hell!"
After a moment of silence, the monster said a strange name, and then cursed everyone.
"That's right." After receiving the information he wanted, Pa Ying pointed his sword at the monster's face and said:
"I don't care where you come from, or which god's land you go to after you die, but I can tell you very clearly that no matter how much suffering you go through, the one who survives will always be a human being, not a stupid and degenerate creature like you."
After saying that, the long sword went straight through the monster's head. One year after the plague that claimed countless lives was born, the source of the plague finally fell under the sword of the person it persecuted.