A strange world

Chapter 322 Section 175. Honor and Merit

This rat nest annihilation battle lasted 1 hour and 14 minutes, killing 514 rat men, and no one was injured. They also deliberately let go of the rat priests and some rat elites.

The musketeers, whose faces were stained by gunpowder, were filled with white smiles and excitedly told their companions how many ratmen they had killed. Annan indulged them. As the leader of the Musketeers, the ratmen they killed should be counted among themselves——

"It's up to you to deal with the pollution," Annan and Olmedo said.

Olmedo and the scavenger team who followed said, "It's up to you to deal with the pollution."

"Quiet!"

Losey looked at this group of young men who made him proud with pleasure, even though he had no children and was about the same age as them. Annan opened the portal to send the Musketeers back to Xingyue Bay, followed Olmedo back to Breeze City, and asked her to pass by the park.

"I'm going to see the centurion."

Olmedo thought he was going to raise an army to hold him accountable, so the Rat Man ran back to Breeze City and almost continued Annan's "Banquet Curse" without the Scavengers noticing at all. But in fact, Annan has realized that the scavengers are useless - two Holy Grail knights have died, and the scavengers of the royal city are still wandering on the streets.

Annan visited the centurion and asked him: "When will you pay me back the 100 gold coins you borrowed from me in the royal capital?"

"When did I borrow it?"

"Really... how did you do it?" Annan thought that there were scavengers in Bethal City and Fenghuo City, so there were also two centurions there, right?

"secret."

"Then you know what's happening in the capital in real time?"

"Almost." The centurion walked around Annan and opened the door to see off the guest.

Annan sat down directly in the centurion's room: "Tell me what you think."

"What do you think?"

"The royal capital allowed the McKenen ratmen to go north, and then advanced to the foot of the royal city before 'defeating' the rat plague. They killed two Holy Grail knights and allowed the remaining ratmen to come to the north?"

Like a meteorite falling from the sky, it was torn apart. Except for the royal capital, the surrounding towns were devastated. Only the nobles of the royal capital who survived were celebrating.

"See with my eyes."

It seemed that the Centurion didn't want to say anything. Annan took a deep breath and stared at the Centurion seriously: "Last question, what is the goal of the Rat Man?"

"Maybe it's you." The centurion joked.

Annan gave up trying to get the secret from her. The centurions were still there, so Breeze City should be fine...but there were centurions everywhere, and who knew if even a few would be dead.

The centurion sent Annan out and passed by the training hall. Annan coveted these elites selected from Breeze City and was annoyed that it was a waste to give them to scavengers who did nothing...

Stepping onto the spiral stairs, Annan remembered something from a long time ago: "Where is the bard who took refuge in Chaos?"

"died."

"died?"

"He glimpsed the ultimate and magnificence in the chaotic chaos, and burned his soul to become a star."

You have to be at least a Chaos Executive level to say this... Could it be that the Scavengers were also infiltrated by the Skaven?

Annan was worried about the newcomers, so after returning to the city lord's palace, he pulled Francois over: "I'll give you a task. The scavenger who did nothing recruited a group of newcomers who wasted everything. I want you to find them. Find a way to get them to join Xingyue Bay."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Coercion and inducement: If you don't join Xingyue Bay, you can't kill the rat people. If you join Xingyue Bay, you can kill the rat people and use inducement."

The people who joined the scavengers were all enemies of the rat people. Annan thought it would not be too troublesome to seduce them. But before that, he'd better consolidate his aura as the "rat nemesis".

The Musketeers who had just returned to Xingyue Bay were recalled again, and Annan urgently asked Eli Rubble to design a medal that could be painted on plate armor.

"medal?"

"It's not a medal, it's meritorious service."

Medals were awarded to recognize a battle, while meritorious deeds were to recognize individual battles: they would be graffitied on the right breast of the plate armor, and the meritorious design for killing a Skaven was a drop of blood, representing the first drop of blood. Killing a hundred ratmen turns into red blood, killing ten thousand ratmen turns into black blood, and then the first drop, the second drop, the third drop...

The skull pattern of a ratman represents killing one elite ratman. Killing ten elite ratmen will turn into a red rat head, and killing a hundred elite ratmen will turn into a black rat head.

There are special merits beyond ordinary ratmen and elite ratmen, but Annan hasn't thought about it yet, and the current Xingyue Bay cannot use them.

Annan's idea made Yili Ruishi tremble with excitement. He had no doubts about what kind of disaster the rat people around Xingyue Bay would face after activating the meritorious deeds - even the rat people in Xingyue Bay had to go out. Be careful, lest you get your ears cut off by soldiers looking for merit.

After discussing with Yili Ruishi before noon, Annan asked the city lord's palace to prepare a paint for him and use the square in Breeze City to award meritorious deeds.

The crowd of onlookers outside the square blocked the square. Annan stood on a temporary high platform and announced the rules of the Order of the Rat to the Musketeers under the warm sunshine:

"You can cut off the rat man's right ear, and the uncountable battle kills will be evenly distributed. So in this battle, one hundred of you will be divided into five hundred rat men!"

Eli Rubble and his craftsman assistants painted blood patterns on the soldiers' plate armor chests.

As for Annan - as the holder of the Ratman Nemesis, Frost Giant Defense, and Knights Defense medals, and the lord who commands Star Moon Bay, Annan should enjoy the sweet fruits of this victory - he got two medals representing kills. The red blood and black rat head cloth made of hundreds of dead ratmen and elite ratmen.

He made this apple pie just for this plate of cane sugar.

The reward, which was the envy of everyone, including the Breeze City guards who maintained order, continued into the afternoon. The crowd of onlookers continued to disperse and come together again. When the chests of all the musketeers were smeared with drops of blood full of honor, this team of freshly separated recruits had a hint of iron and blood.

After a few more battles, they will become real warriors and elites.

Because Annan's magic power had not yet recovered, all the Musketeers were forced to stay in Breeze City for a day. That night, the Olmedo family's carriage arrived with a hundred gowns, distributed among the musketeers, and invited them to a celebratory banquet - just in case, the banquet was in the name of Olmedo.

Annan watched indulgently as a group of soldiers much older than himself played curiously in the banquet hall, gathered around the dining table to stuff things in their mouths, or held hands and danced on the dance floor.

A figure came to his side, exuding a faint fragrance like a flowerbed in the sun.

"You'd better speed up."

But the words that came out were like the approaching storm.

"What's wrong?"

"The speed of the Rat Man is faster than expected..."

"Next spring? Around New Year? It won't be this winter..."

Olmedo answered Annan's last guess: "At the speed they are traveling, yes."