Warhammer: Dark Elf

The Lost Gate on the northeastern border of the Isthmus of Lustria, a forest city built on the central plateau of the rainforest, was occupied by the Skaven, and now only the ruins of the walls and the gnats who roam unscrupulously among the ruins remain.

Beneath the solid marble floor of the Lost Door lies the sinful kingdom of the Skaven. The Skaven clan that rules this place is the Eclipse, originally an insignificant branch of the Skryre clan.

When the rat people first crossed the vast ocean and came to the new world, the Eclipse Clan seized the opportunity and took the lead in entering the Lost Gate. After a long period of development, it gradually became a clan with certain influence.

The incubation pools of the indigenous lizardmen are tightly controlled by the rodents. They divide the lizardmen who emerge from their shells into two batches. The weaker ones will be immediately shackled and sent to factories deep underground. They work in workshops until they die of exhaustion; or they are reduced to meat and stored food to be eaten by the rat people in difficult times.

The fate of individuals with more outstanding physiques is even more bleak. They will be dragged to the evil alchemy laboratory to undergo inhumane biological modifications; a large number of experimental subjects cannot survive the painful torture and die miserably on the spot. Even if a few people survive by chance, their bodies will not survive. Turned into a deformed monster, life would be worse than death.

Trampling on the bones of the lizardmen, in just a few decades, Eclipse gradually emerged from a small, low-class clan.

As the saying goes: A rat who wants to become an immortal when he is a human, wants to go to heaven when he is born on earth, and does not want to climb onto the seat of the Council of Thirteen, is not a good rat.

The proud rats of the Eclipse Clan were bursting with confidence, and naturally they set their greedy eyes on the glorious Sun City, Hesiota.

It happened that Pointy Ears in the north had the same idea, so the two colluded together in collusion. Not long ago, the tribe's great engineering warlock and Lord Pointy Ears jointly sent out troops and led the entire clan's elites to attack Hesiota. The rats who stayed behind They jumped for joy, dreaming of an unprecedented and hearty victory, but they did not expect that this move would lead to a disaster.

On the battlefield of Lustria Plains, Hemo saw the mighty strength of Master Ma Long, and took the lead in rebelling. He cooperated with Hesiota's army to annihilate the poor rats, and at the same time sent Xir to capture the Lost Gate.

On the ruins-strewn surface, Xir's troops easily occupied the main city without much resistance.

The rats who lost their leader fled and scrambled into underground caves, planning a counterattack on the surface in the stinky ditches.

Since he couldn't think of any good way to kill all the hiding rats, Xir had to free the lizardmen's hatching pond first.

The lizardmen who had been enslaved for a long time and finally saw the light of day slowly walked out of the tunnel. Their eyes were stung by the bright sunshine. They looked around blankly at the temple left by their ancestors. The majestic pyramid shrouded in the glow of the scorching sun stood in front of them. In front of me, I couldn't help but burst into tears when I was touched by the scene.

A group of cold-blooded people actually knelt down and cried while hugging each other. This was something Xir and others did not expect.

However, Helmer's order to him was to treat this group of lizard people as ordinary citizens, not humble slaves, so he did not order this group of lizard people to be imprisoned, but allowed them to stay as they pleased.

Most of the lizard people have a love affair with the land and are unwilling to leave the land of their ancestors. With great enthusiasm, they summoned the wild triceratops and monitor lizards in the rainforest to mine stone, cut down wood, rebuild temples, and rebuild among the ruins. Settlement was established and the ravaged homeland was restored bit by bit.

Seeing the groups of cold lizards walking out of the depths of the dense forest, being called around by the lizard people in an extremely intimate manner, Kesir couldn't help but sigh, worthy of being the eldest son of the ancient saint, the lizard people have the racial advantage of being naturally friendly to wild beasts.

It is extremely difficult for the dark elves to train cold lizard knights. Not only do they have to feed them for a long time and cultivate the relationship between master and servant, but the riders must immerse themselves in a thick layer of cold lizard venom to ensure that they will not become the mount's rations.

The long-term effects of this are loss of smell, taste and touch. Although there are treatments, they are expensive and basically only the nobles can afford them.

So although the dark elf cold lizard knights are majestic on the battlefield, they suffer more pain than ordinary soldiers in private.

It's not like these lizard men, who just jump on the back of a cold lizard with a spear, pat the opponent's head, and become a cold lizard rider who comes and goes like the wind.

Seeing this situation, Xir understood why Hemer didn't allow himself to capture these lizardmen as slaves. What he really wanted was to recruit a group of lizardmen warriors to join his army.

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A few days later, Helmer, who led his army back, came to camp at the Lost Gate and saw a typical lizardman city for the first time.

In the center of the lush rainforest, the old city of Lost Gate is laid out in a ring. The outermost ring is the residential area. Temples and temple towers can be seen everywhere in the middle ring. The inner ring is the famous Lost Gate Platform, a mysterious pyramid suspended on the source of magic. .

It is said that the planet engine is hidden here. There is no road leading to the pyramid, and only the secret guardians of the lizard people know the secrets.

As they entered the Lost Gate, Hemer's army received a warm welcome.

The local lizardmen stood on both sides of the street, looking at the dark elf lord curiously. In their impression, the dark elves were all ruthless predators, but this army actually liberated them without committing any crime. They couldn't help but feel sad. They are grateful.

Hemer settled the people and soldiers, and took the officers to the top of the pyramid at the northern end of the city to hold a military meeting.

The plan for the southern expedition was temporarily put on hold. The most important thing about this meeting was to liquidate the remnants of the rat men hiding under their feet.

"Sir, the remaining ratmen of the Eclipse Clan are so frightened that they are hiding in the underground passages of the city and cannot escape. It will be difficult for our army to effectively eliminate them." Ke'sir was the most familiar with the situation here and was the first to raise the issue.

"Well, it is indeed a difficult problem to solve." It is often not difficult to capture a rat city. What is difficult is how to eliminate the rat men entrenched underground. Hemo stroked his chin and looked around at everyone, "What do you think?"

Opposite him, Elladen sat on the conference table without any image, slapping his sexy legs and putting one hand in his trench coat pocket: "Don't rats like to drill holes? Isn't it easy to get rid of them? Use cigarettes to smoke them." Just smoke it out."

She snapped her fingers and said with a wicked smile: "Then burn them all to pieces."

"Okay, this is a good idea." Several commanders nodded quickly.

"By the way...they have gas masks, right..." Anzarez, who has always been irresponsible in thinking, suddenly poured cold water on them, quenching everyone's enthusiasm.

"Yeah, tsk, that's really annoying."

"Why don't we just blow up the ground with explosives, so they have nowhere to hide?" Someone suddenly said with an idea.

"No." Hemo stamped his foot on the ground and said in a deep voice: "The Erosion Clan has been operating here for many years, and has already dug holes in the ground and filled with secret passages. If we use explosives, the huge explosion vibration will inevitably cause It would lead to massive landslides and the entire city would sink underground."

This is how the rat people targeted the southern kingdom of Tyrell in the old world, causing many horrific incidents in which entire cities evaporated out of thin air.

Everyone also thought it made sense, and came up with multiple methods in succession, but in the end they were all pointed out to have loopholes.

Even Estu took the opportunity to make a bad idea in Hemer's ear. She instigated Hemer to take her power, and then injected infinite power of chaos into the ground. Let alone the rat-men hiding underground, as long as they were breathing They all have to die.

In short, it is to transform into Kai Wushuang.

Of course, Helmer rejected it outright.

Using Eth's power is extremely dangerous. Each time he uses it, he becomes more corrupted by Slaanesh and becomes increasingly uglier in appearance. Malus Blackblade is a typical example.

Hemo didn't want to have the beauty of an ancient god without having the strength of the ancient god.

"This won't work, that won't work either, just dig tunnels like a mouse." Eladen complained casually with a look of disgust on his face, causing everyone to burst into laughter. Only Hemo thought for a moment and said seriously: "It's really okay. "

Everyone: Huh?

Eladen's words reminded Helmer of the imperial men of the old world. The major cities had summed up a method during their long-term fight against the underground invasion of the Ratmen.

That is to dig urban tunnels and increase the exposure of the Ratmen's secret passages.

This move can not only find the Skaven in a short time, but from a long-term perspective, it can also prevent Skaven invasion and reduce Skaven corrosion.

After all, I’ve finished digging, what else can Shushu dig?

What was originally a joke was actually adopted by Helmer.

Early the next morning, he and his soldiers began to work in the fields, starting from the square in the center of the Lost Gate and digging down city tunnels. As everyone started working together, underground passages were exposed, and the panicked rat people were More secret passages were also exposed during the escape.

While digging the city tunnel, Helmer also adopted the previous idea of ​​using smoke. After all, not all ratmen had the ability to equip gas masks. As the thick smoke poured into the dark tunnel, a large number of ratmen ran out and were guarded. The soldiers outside captured them one by one.

The vigorous rat eradication campaign was carried out in an orderly manner, and a month later most of the rat people were driven out of the underground world.

Faced with this group of ratmen who were doing crazy things at the last moment, Helmer obviously had no sympathy. He directly put them in shackles and asked Anzarez to take them back to the warm and comfortable underground mines of Ironthorn Town for mining. went.

The original slaves of all races in the mine were released from slavery and placed in the new city on the right side of Iron Thorn Town.

Since you didn't get the mining tools from the Rat Man, you might as well catch the Rat Man and go mine. Although there is a slight deviation from the originally planned reform, the problem has been solved. Helmer was quite satisfied.