The Bizarre Adventure of the Warhammer Elves

Chapter 405 Geralt’s Adventure (400~)

"It is my job to catch corrupt officials. I will carefully check every quartermaster who has taken over the materials. It is a complete waste to use your ability in this regard."

Daario carefully looked at the demon hunter in front of him. For this strengthened warrior who is very good at tracking and hunting wild beasts, he naturally would not easily waste the other party's talents.

Witchers, as the name suggests, are humans who are responsible for hunting down beasts and monsters.

So since we are hunting monsters, are the beasts and ratmen that mutate under the influence of the magic wind and the dimension stone also in the list of achievements of the demon hunter?

"In order to prevent rats and various diseases caused by public health, Lord Rohan built a complete sewer system underground in Grand City and also arranged a special pipeline patrol team.

But recently, our patrol team has always felt that there are some weird smells and rat corpses in the sewers, so I suspect that there may be a rat infestation in the area around Grand City. "

Dario spoke quite seriously about what the patrol had discovered in the sewers recently. The tension and seriousness in his words made Geralt, the white wolf, also become serious.

As a demon hunter from another world, Geralt naturally spent a lot of effort to understand the relevant background of the Warhammer world, which naturally also included information about the despicable race of ratmen:

Ratman, a mutant race that advocates moral nihilism and possesses advanced technology, is an ugly and evil small monster that spreads plagues everywhere.

According to the elf lord Rohan, these despicable creatures will even stab each other in the womb of the ugly female rat if conditions permit!
Although Geralt could not deny such rumors at the beginning, after seeing with his own eyes the crazy beastmen wandering in the forest in the wasteland of Nagaros, he had to accept the existence of ratmen.

"In fact, long before Lord Rohan became the lord of Gran City, the city had already been plundered and plundered by the ratmen. Even our lord at the time had become their food."

Daario silently put his hands into the stove and shook the charcoal inside. In his mind, he kept recalling the past when he was the town guard captain before meeting Rohan and continued:

"Those dirty, ugly and despicable little things never act alone. If there are really rat men in the sewers, then there is no doubt that they would have developed a huge clan by now!"

You must know that the rat people, whose life span is far less than that of humans, are truly short-lived species. They are considered adults in the fifth month after birth, and they have entered old age at the age of 13.

Such a short lifespan is equivalent to that of a one-year-old child compared to an elf!
Now it has been almost 20 years since Rohan took over Grand City. Such a short period of time has even been enough for the Ratmen to reproduce for an entire generation!
"Please, your mission is just to enter the sewers to check if there are any traces of the rat-men, and then report them to us. There is no need for you and your apprentices to go deep into the lair of the rat-men clan."

Facing the gold coins Daario placed on the table and his heartfelt plea, Geralt, who was about to train the demon hunter apprentices, could only choose to sigh softly helplessly, and then said expressionlessly:
"Okay, my apprentices and I will be responsible for entering the sewers to check for traces of those ratmen, but you also said that it may be a large ratman clan, so don't expect me to be able to completely solve it."

"Don't worry, if you can really find any traces of the Ratman clan, then the next work can be handed over to the city defenders."

Facing Geralt's reasonable offer, Dario naturally had no reason to refuse. After all, he knew better than the other party how much hidden danger a ratman clan hiding in the dark would bring.

Stealing food and materials are insignificant. The most terrifying thing is the plague spreading in the dark and various mutated dimensional monsters. These are deadly existences!
What’s even more frightening is that among the ratmen there are some engineering warlocks who can cause dimensional earthquakes. Who knows where they branch from?

Although Geralt has not yet seen the Skaven with his own eyes, the Wolfblood sect's demon hunters have always paid attention to a steady and step-by-step approach, so he once again put forward the conditions:
"Not only that, I also need to have a town garrison that can assist our operations, and at the same time provide us with some high-quality firearms to prevent further escalation of the situation."

"The arsenal is now completely open to you. You can choose any weapons and equipment you want from it, but flamethrowers and bombs are not acceptable. I don't want the entire sewer of Gran City to be blown up to the sky."

Compared with the previous conditions, this time Dario's eyes clearly showed a hint of hesitation. After all, if the methane gas in the sewer pipes is accidentally ignited, its power is no joke.

Although it will not have a big impact on the neighborhoods of Gran City, it is still a state of war now. The news of the discovery of the rat clan in the rear should not be too public, so as not to disturb the battle on the front line.

"There are lighting crystals embedded in the walls in the sewer pipes. Although it is weak and hairy, it is easier and more efficient to attack with fire, but we cannot confirm whether the rat men really exist yet."

As a human who has lived for hundreds of years, the experienced Geralt has obviously understood Dario's concerns through his understanding of the dark elf society during this period, so he took the initiative to propose:

"The Skaven don't seem to have much armor, so I need repeating crossbows and scatter crossbows that can provide fire support quickly, plus some incendiary bombs for emergencies."

"...Well, if you find any traces of the Ratmen, withdraw immediately. I will send troops into the sewers to carry out a large-scale cleanup, and at the same time increase sponsorship and investment in demon hunters."

After hearing Geralt's plan, Daario finally agreed to adopt his opinion. After all, the dark elves were really not good at fighting the ratmen in the shadows.

But demon hunters are completely different. As enhanced humans born entirely to hunt monsters and monsters, their bodies are injected with various weakened monster mutation genes, making them extremely resistant and keen insight force.

Their vertical-pupil eyes can adapt to the dark environment like cats. Coupled with the reaction speed of griffins and the strength of bears, they are simply natural hunters for ratmen!

Perhaps the only problem is that the cost of creating a demon hunter is too high, and the Trial of Grass cannot adapt to mutation of most chaos variants in the Warhammer world, so the enhancements that can be obtained are still limited.

——Half a day later, the sewer pipe

tick tock...tick tock...

There was a faint stench in the air. Although slaves usually came to the sewer pipes to clean them every day, the current situation was obviously no longer suitable for arranging slaves to enter the sewer pipes.

Located at the entrance of the sewer pipe, the fear spearman responsible for guarding this place arranged for his subordinates to use the key to open the iron gate in front of him, while teasing the heavily armed demon hunters in front of him:
"This is the entrance to the sewer pipe. I wish the blood of Kane will bless you, White Wolf. After all, you are one of the few humans who can interest us."

"Although I don't believe in elves, but... thank you." Geralt didn't care about the arrogance of the Jinling officer in front of him towards humans. After all, hundreds of years of getting along with him had already made him well aware of the elves' bone-deep arrogance.

After checking the equipment on his body for the last time, Geralt looked at the wolf school witcher apprentices holding repeating crossbows behind him with encouraging eyes, and then said in a serious tone:

"Remember what I taught you. The ratman's single combat effectiveness is actually not very strong, so it is best not to get yourself into a one-to-many situation, but to use flexible steps to cover each other."

"Understood, instructor!"

"I hope you really understand. I don't want to carry you out of this sewer in the end."

brush--

Geralt slowly pulled out the silver sword that had been smeared with sword oil from his back and held it in his hand. He then took the lead in passing through the heavily guarded iron fence and slowly walked along the stairs deep into the sewers of Grand City.

There was a somewhat pungent rancid smell in the air that blocked his senses, but the environment in the sewer was unexpectedly bright:

Since it was anticipated in advance that enemies might attack Gran City through the sewers, Rohan spent a lot of money to build many ceiling-shaped luminous crystals in the sewers to prevent sneak attacks in the dark.

Although the light of the magic crystal is much darker than that of the traditional torch, in the eyes of the witcher, it still illuminates the entire space as if it were daytime.

Seeing those expensive lighting crystals being randomly installed on the ceiling like decorations, even Geralt, who thought he had a lot of experience, couldn't help but sigh:

"Your Excellency Rohan is really wealthy. No wonder Ciri was able to send so many expensive jewels back to Kaer Morhen. I thought she was led astray by a traitor."

Hearing the instructor's emotion, the apprentices who followed Geralt didn't say much, after all, whether it was their instructor or the lord who swore allegiance, they were existences they could not afford to offend.

This situation is like if you, as an employee, hear your supervisor complaining about the president's waste of money, you can laugh it off, but you must not express your own opinion.

After all, the two of them are in the same group, and you are just an outsider~
jingle bell~
At this moment, a slight ringing sound suddenly came from far away in the empty corridor. Although the sound sounded as weak as a mosquito flying through the air, the demon hunters were still aware of it.

'Quiet, cover alternately, move forward! '

Geralt stopped and gestured to the apprentices behind him, then slowly walked towards the direction of the sound in the distance, while the apprentices following him raised their crossbows and shields on guard.

The entire team of demon hunter apprentices numbered dozens of people, but at this moment they made no sound like kittens approaching their prey, which seemed very strange.

However, witchers need to track prey in the wild for a long time, so naturally they have to learn how to approach and explore targets quietly. This is their basic skill!
"This place is almost close to the depths of the sewer pipes. There is a faint smell of blood and rot in the air. It doesn't look good..."

In Geralt's perception, the surrounding air was filled with a faint blood-red color, guiding him in the direction to go. This situation only appeared when approaching the dead bodies.

As everyone continued to approach, the inexperienced apprentices began to notice the smell of blood in the air, so they aimed their repeating crossbows at the corner not far away.

That's where the smell of blood comes from!
Faced with this situation, Geralt did not give any orders to the young apprentices. Instead, he chose to pull out the repeating crossbow from his waist and slowly walked to the corner wall, then fiercely pointed his head at the crossbow. in:
Squeak?
jingle bell~
A giant rat with a bell hanging from its neck was constantly gnawing on the corpse. It was clearly not expecting Geralt to suddenly appear, so it was frightened and ran towards the sewer.

But while the mouse moves quickly, Geralt is even faster!

bang~
Accompanied by the sound of a crossbow string being tightened, the nearly thirty-centimeter-long rat was instantly nailed to the floor by the sharp crossbow arrows, leaving only its limbs still struggling in vain.

There seemed to be only one big rat in the corner. Geralt did not relax his vigilance, but gave instructions to the apprentices behind him who were still waiting for orders:

"Stand around, I'll go check on the identity and condition of the deceased."

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, the apprentices immediately raised their crossbows and shields to block the corner in all directions, while Geralt directly ignored the tenacious rat on the ground and walked straight towards the corpse on the ground.

It didn't matter. Geralt's face, which seemed to have remained unchanged forever, immediately frowned. Then he took out a luminous crystal from his arms and pointed it at the corpse:
With pointed ears, serrated armor made of black iron, and a standard pointed helmet, this was actually the body of a dark elf soldier!

"It's not good... How could the barracks in Gran City not notice the disappearance of an elf soldier?"

Geralt looked at the unrecognizable elf corpse on the ground that had been eaten long ago with some confusion. Then he squatted down and carefully observed the other person's remains and began to analyze:
"The identity can no longer be identified. It has been about three days since death, and the murderer only had time to take away the weapon but not take off the armor. It seems that he left in a hurry.

Fortunately, the corpse was not completely chewed up. Although there were traces of being chewed on the body, the fatal injuries should have been two penetrating wounds to the heart and neck. It seemed that the heart was hit first and then the wound was sustained. "

Thinking of this, Geralt reached out and began to turn over the corpse that had gradually begun to rot, trying to find more information from it.

However, when he saw the shattered back of the elf's corpse, he immediately understood the identity of the murderer:
"Such scars are not likely to be caused by the skinny figure of the Rat Man. It seems that our enemy should be..."

(End of this chapter)