Chapter 1317: The Dead Scholars' Aftermath

Chapter 1317: The Dead Scholars’ Aftermath

“So what now Cinderclaw?” The Demon Rat Mage General asked the Demon Rat Axe General as he picked up Nathan’s beheaded piece and chucked into his belt like some trophy ornament alongside Douglas’ severed head.

“What now? Get your ass working. Get all the transmissions but send it to the main communications area immediately rather than have it filter through this stupid room.” Cinderclaw said as he checked if the Scholar of the North had any other artefacts that could be used against the humans. “And also, Prideblood, be sure to get all the spells and knowledge from those two heads before they expire.”

“Yeah, yeah. Just be sure to be victorious in your fights. The humans are not pushovers when they are bunched up like grapes.” Prideblood said and Cinderclaw chuckled. 

“So, you are of the opinion to teleport them into various places?” 

“Well, yeah? Just let me get those spells from the scholars and we should be good to go. It will disrupt their formation and we can overwhelm them solely with numbers once we break them apart.” Prideblood said and the other generals who were nearby liked the idea a lot.

“Also, I suggest we do mass teleports and bring the other Demon Rats along with them. It will save on our mana since I do not need to care how many to bring over.” 

“Yeah, just do that and we will take care of the rest,” Cinderclaw smirked at the new way of punishing the invaders. It seems as if the rats had underestimated how coordinated the humans were and as well as the number of talented people in their midst. 

He could only assume that these humans were from either the other regions or maybe a region that was unheard of or even kept as a secret by the Scholars. After all, they were keeping secrets till kingdom come and refused to share anything unless it was necessary. But now that the Demon Rats are not under the rule of these pathetic masters who had spent their lives idly and treated them as mere pawns in the game of chess against the rest of the humans, they are going to carve a name for themselves.

Cinderclaw knows that if those ex masters of theirs only wanted power and luxury of life and to be able to do so behind protection of a race would only further solidify their comfort zone. So what if they were to lose a few thousand Demon Rat soldiers? All they had to do was to make even more of those once the battle had ended. And at most, the scholars will send a retaliation attack to ensure that the humans within the Northern regions would suffer even more losses after this attack.

However, they did not realise that the Demon Rats had far bigger ambitions to invade the East and West regions. The scholars thought that it would be stupid of them to branch out of the Northern region but their insistence left them no choice but for the Demon rats to leave with their own devices. 

Naturally, this brought even more headaches for the scholars when they found out about how coordinated the attack in the morning was when they realised the scale of the ambush. Being targeted when the Demon Rats were about to reach the regions through months of digging? The only regret was that they gave the Demon Rats too much freedom and death was the price they had paid for being oblivious to almost everything.

Even through this attack, the North and South scholars wanted to hide as much as possible without providing much support, hoping to ride off the tide since they thought that they had the entire Demon Race at their behest. But they never thought how the Demon Rats had decided to use this confusion as an opportunity to remove them.

To think all this was because both the North and South scholars got a bit greedy once they had created a new plant based on the Demon Seeds and were drunk with power conquering the entire Northern Region for themselves. 

But all this did not matter now that they were dead and the Demon Rats were in command of everything. The Demon Rat Generals who used the excuse of the masters collaborating with the humans were excited with their new command of the entire Demon Rat race and they are eager to show these humans that they had messed with the wrong people (or rats). 

Prideblood eventually managed to learn how to mass teleport via the remains of the dead Scholars and the Demon Rat Generals had already assigned a few kill zones for that to happen. This move was the game changer for the current battle that the two sides were experiencing. The Demon Rats that were engaging against the cultivators did not have any idea what was happening and thought it was a spell from the cultivators, causing them to enrage while some who had the basic knowledge that it was a Demon Rat spell went berserk to keep the enemies occupied before the spell activates…all for the glory of the Demon Rats.

In the meantime for the Pandarens, they knew it was not a support spell as any friendly spell cast would be indicated in their Heads Up Display (HUD) via their masks and some who were at the edge of the spell managed to move away from it while the rest who were caught in the crossfire continued their fight against the Demon Rats until they realised that they were teleported instead of being blasted into pieces. 

Jin was surprised when the System reported that the Pandarens had been moved to another location deep underneath the current city that they were fighting and the dungeon supplier demanded the HUDs be brought up to the main screens of the Dungeon Maker instance.

There he saw Demon Rats armed not just to the teeth but with steampunk equipment that was close to modern fantasies. Armoured Rats that could give Ironman a run for his money. And the look of grittiness in those Demon Rats’ eyes showed that it was not the first them they murdered people. Jin could only deduce that those Demon Rats had fought against each other to reach a rank or experience that he could not have imagined. 

And yet, those poor Pandarens were sent to these ‘slaughtering houses’ to be killed right on the spot and for the next batch to come in.