Chapter 277: Raging Rat War
Ah, the dazzling prince, the prince carrying expectations, the future king.

Carrying too many expectations, I knew what I wanted to do since I was young.

This is an opportunity.

A great opportunity.

Gather the most dazzling knights, gather the most noble knights, gather the true knights.

Everything will be brought back to normal. We must always have confidence. No one wants to witness everything in front of them collapse like this, even if this country's once great strength has all gone, decayed, smelly and rotten.

A new era is coming, a new era is about to arrive, but not everyone is willing to witness the arrival of that new era.

The Royal Knights, the Royal Knights, lined up in neat square formations, unafraid of the darkness, and demonstrated their strength.

They are true knights who adhere to their own principles and possess their own honor, justice, bravery, fearlessness, kindness, mercy, compassion and loyalty.

So glorious, yet, he was also the most stubborn goalkeeper of the old times.

This corrupt empire, this corrupt empire.

Collapse should be the best ending for it.

But there are always people who desperately pull at the crumbling building, trying to save the rotten one.

The bright prince with the brilliant smile was even willing to bend down and kiss a dirty and smelly child.

At the departure ceremony, when the streets were covered with flowers, at the most glorious moment of his life, he was willing to bend down and take off the exquisite wreath on his head.

Is he a good man? Yes, he is.

Is he a knight? Yes, he is a knight.

Is he a hero? Yes, he is a hero.

But, why, why did he want to save everything that was rotten and smelly.

It is unknown and there is no way to know.

Countless beautiful girls gathered on both sides of the street, beautiful flowers were scattered wantonly, bold girls were shouting loudly, and young girls were also not stingy in showing their beauty.

Such a scene is so dreamy that it seems that it can only be truly witnessed in picture books.

This may be a scene that the knights in countless picture books can only witness twice in their lifetime.

But now, it has actually appeared in this city named the Sun.

But stories are just stories after all, and even what the hero does can hardly be said to be true. Well, it can’t be said to be wrong either.

There is only one thing that is certain: the river of time is always flowing forward.

………….

The Rat War's advance into the plateau encountered unprecedented challenges, or perhaps it could be called a setback.

Shu Zhan, this arrogant guy, has never truly tasted the taste of failure many times in his life. That is a very rare number of times, and today there is another one.

For the first time, the barbarians on the plateau showed themselves before Rat War.

Shu Zhan was very sure that everything would be over soon once he climbed up, but there was one problem: he had not climbed up yet, or rather, he might not be able to climb up.

An ice-blue lizard, a huge ice-blue lizard, an ice-blue lizard as big as a battleship.

The scales are as big as shields, the eyes are as big as the head, the teeth are irregular diamond-shaped, and the sharp claws can easily pierce rocks, allowing it to easily climb this steep cliff.

Like a giant gecko, a giant ice-blue gecko.

Not just a giant gecko, but also a superb beast ridden by the people of the highlands.

It seems that these people from the plateau have benefited from the first wave of the elemental tide. This is not a good thing, especially for the current Eastern Expeditionary Force and for the Rat War.

The rats didn't even have a chance to resist. They kept falling down, and their screams of despair rang out one after another.

Unable to stand or raise weapons, there was nothing they could do even if there were more ratmen than before.

Climb up, as long as you can climb up, it's fine, it's fine.

But they couldn't climb up, so these sturdy and extraordinary beasts rampaged on the steep cliffs.

Shu Zhan was unwilling to give up. His eyes turned red. He tore off the white fur cape and took off the scarlet spear on his back. The hairless rat ran wildly on the steep cliff and rushed towards the guy leading the plateau people.

Can the Rat War save all this?

Facing Shu Zhan's charge, the huge ice-blue lizard stomped heavily on the cliff beneath its feet. The ice began to spread. The smooth and cold ice was difficult to grasp. Shu Zhan lost his balance and fell to the ground.

There is no doubt that if it were on flat ground, even if it was just as cold, even if the ice lizard were to be twice as big, there would be almost no suspense about who would be the final winner, it would definitely be a rat war.

It's a pity that this is not a flat ground. I fell from the steep cliff, rolling down with a sharp cry like a wheel.

Shuzhan slammed heavily into a ratman warrior who was climbing up. Suddenly, a chain reaction occurred and the rats rolled into a ball. It was an extremely chaotic scene.

The Eastern Expeditionary Force suffered a crushing defeat.

Rat Wars didn't even really make it to the plateau.

His vitality was strong enough, and he still reacted during the continuous rolling, stabbing the scarlet spear in his hand deeply into the cliff, and finally stopped himself with great difficulty.

Anger, boundless anger brewed in Shu Zhan's eyes, and his eyes turned blood red.

Then, then Shu Zhan saw a spectacular scene.

The ratmen were extremely chaotic when they fled.

The environment was so bad at that time that the plateau people didn't even pursue them too much, and not many of the dead rat people actually died at the hands of the plateau people.

Crowding, collision, rolling, and then chaos.

On the steep slope near the top of the plateau, shrill screams continued.

The rats climbed up with difficulty, and retreated in a hurry, panic and embarrassment.

A biting wind blew over, and Shuzhan, who was hanging on the cliff, shivered violently.

Shu Zhan can be considered an absolutely strong man in this world, but sometimes he still has to learn to respect nature.

The Ratmen's advance towards the plateau was a complete failure.

The Eastern Expeditionary Force was defeated in the battle with the rat. If this hairless rat has any absolute weakness, it is its fear of the cold.

He had no way of advancing step by step on this plateau. The extreme cold was simply unbearable for Shu Zhan.

That was why he was so anxious, but facing this high and cold plateau, being anxious was not a good idea. Rat Zhan had no other options.

He led the Eastern Expeditionary Army to retreat to the foot of the mountain in a panic, angry, resentful, and irritable. During this period of time, Shu Zhan had hanged many ratmen outside his own tent, and not just to intimidate the ratmen in his hands.

What's more, he was really going crazy.

Blinded by anger.

But what good could he do just by being angry? He really had no idea how to deal with this tricky plateau.

The black dragon beast caused him almost irreversible damage, which even the blood mushrooms could not make up for.

He thought of the damn red lizard again.

Because it was during the battle with the red lizard that he was marked with the weakness of being afraid of the cold, a mark that is difficult to erase.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!"

Angry yelling in the camp every day.

The Ratman Empire, which has thrown all its efforts into the war, does have considerable room for maneuver.

Even though the Rat War was defeated and a large number of ratmen turned into fuel that coated the rock walls, it was not a big deal. Even such a mistake was not enough to hold the Rat War accountable.

The Big Claw Priests are still continuously bringing in teams of young ratmen to fill the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

This is not a big problem, but Shuzhan behaved extremely irritably and out of control.

During this period of time, another thing happened, something that was not particularly big.

The human coalition has arrived.

In the process of running around in various churches, a huge coalition force was formally formed.

And officially arrived at the battlefield.

They should be pressing forward soon, and their target should be the place where the Rat War has landed and the Eastern Expeditionary Force is stationed. If they push back, the great nobleman who is closest to the battlefield does not want this war to happen in his own territory, so he offered a very high price and paid a huge price in exchange for the coalition forces pressing forward.

These great nobles will fight a decisive battle with Rat Zhan's Eastern Expeditionary Force in this land occupied by Rat Zhan.

Maybe I shouldn't be so anxious.

After all, a war requires so many things, and the cost is just as much.

The rules of the nobles are negotiation, exchange, and interests.

Don't be fooled by the large number of messy etiquette rules, both explicit and implicit. In fact, the most important one cannot be ignored: interest. It's just that the nobles' pursuit of interests is packaged by various rules, making them appear more lofty and with more barriers to entry.

The nobles who are closer to the rat people need to offer benefits, the nobles who are further back have more bargaining chips, the nobles who tend to be independent need to be won over, and those who are close to the royal family need to be guarded against.

The church is a very good force and cannot be ignored, but everyone is afraid that they will return to their previous powerful posture that could force everyone to compromise.

The more anxious they are, the more power they will give.

These messy things are negotiated and pushed every day. Of course, they are not so rude and uncivilized. We are all decent people. There are banquets, letters and ambiguous words.

These are what go on, these are what they call the rules.

Until a variable appears.

The prince who set out on the journey and the dazzling team of knights did bring a little uneasiness to these great nobles. It was funny to say that even though two provinces fell and one province was mostly corrupted, such a situation did not make these great nobles anxious. Instead, it was the prince's trip that prompted the alliance to proceed.

But there is nothing strange about it.

After all, no matter how these nobles pull, they are all pursuing their own interests, and the prince is probably pursuing everything on this continent. After all, everything on this continent is inextricably linked to that crumbling and corrupt empire.

Shu Zhan didn't understand why this group of heretics would come to provoke him at this time, but he seemed to have to thank them.

The appearance of the coalition of nobles brought Shu Zhan out of his manic state. With red eyes, Shu Zhan was ready to climb once again the plateau that had failed him. This was not wise, but it was indeed something Shu Zhan could do.

But it's not wise.

At this time, the human coalition played a role in diverting attention.

At this time, Shu Zhan was extremely manic. His eyes had been red for several days and nights.

Like a madman, or rather, this guy is a madman, a manic madman.

As the flags were waving, Rat War in this state did not give any attempts, did not have any rules, only fierce attacks.

Countless ratmen appeared from various places.

All kinds of strange war machines were pushed out.

Rat Knights and Savage Knights were the first to appear in this war, and even the Rat Raiders began to take on the responsibility of vanguards.

It’s hard to say about other things, but the Rat Raiders are definitely unwilling to take the lead. This group of guys can be said to be the ultimate veterans of the Rat Army, but they still appeared at the forefront of the team at this time.

There is no way. No ratman is willing to face the crazy ratman commander at this time. Even without thinking, you should make the decision instinctively.

Don't disobey the commander-in-chief at this time. He is very unhappy now.

Crossing the battle lines that had not yet been dug, the ratmen raiders threw round after round of short spears from their backs.

As the most experienced of the experienced, they understand better than anyone when they need to work hard and when they can just sit back and do nothing.

Behind him, the pitch-black flag disappeared into the darkness, and the furious commander was watching everything on the battlefield.

The rat raiders didn't even wait for the short spears behind them to be thrown, and rushed into the front line in a violent manner.

Their strength was not weak. Even when they were the vanguards on the front line, they did not show too much effort. At least these ordinary militiamen who were deployed to the front line were just weak guys who could be killed at will by the old hands like the Rat Raiders.

But the premise is that the opponents are just these ordinary militiamen. It is not enough, not enough. These old foxes began to actively look for the magic knights who were scattered among the militia as commanders.

It is impossible to eat it all steadily, and it often takes three or four ratmen raiders to be able to barely keep up with a magic knight.

They were very brave, worked very hard, and really tried their best.

Because if you don't fight hard now, you will really die.

This is an extremely reckless way of playing.

After sensing the presence of the coalition of nobles, the rats began to run wildly almost without stopping until they officially collided with each other.

But there is no way. Don't look back. The Commander-in-Chief is watching everything. Don't step back. The Commander-in-Chief is watching everything. He is angry. He is really angry.

(End of this chapter)