The game has become a real alternate world-Chapter 733 - 415 Retreat

"Let's head to a safer place; it won't be long before those rats attack again."

The recovering commander couldn't help but say to the medical staff beside him.

At that moment, a Minotaur officer approached.

The total number of Kana's team was around 5,000 people.

In addition to 200 Night Watchers, there were also 600 members from the Holy Light Church.

The remaining 4,000 personnel came from various races and forces.

So it appeared that their team was somewhat mixed.

"Huerbei, I didn't expect to see you here."

The commander known as Huerbei looked somewhat bewilderedly at the Minotaur.

It's no wonder; it's mainly because Minotaurs are incredibly difficult to distinguish, most people rely on the size, angle of the horns, and hair color for identification.

And now this Minotaur had a broken horn, which was a rather noticeable feature, clearly not within Huerbei's recognition range.

"Waro Ironhoof," the Minotaur pointed to himself.

Huerbei immediately responded.

"It's you, shouldn't you be in the coastal regions? Are there any cities left there?"

Huerbei was somewhat delighted and then looked in the direction from which reinforcements were coming.

He said with some surprise: "We also sent people out to see if we could make contact with people outside, but none of the sentries from this direction returned."

There was no way; the encirclement built by the rat swarm sometimes spanned extremely vast ranges.

And these areas were teeming with Ratman and various dangers.

In such circumstances, trying to contact the outside world was truly too difficult.

Even for the United Army, they only reached here through the teleportation gate nodes Kana's team had previously constructed.

Otherwise, it would be almost impossible to force their way through.

"How's the Kingdom's situation?" Waro asked.

Just as Huerbei was about to answer, a young Ranger ran over.

"Father, are you okay?"

Upon hearing this, Huerbei finally reacted: "Hurry, let's leave here first; this place is really not safe enough."

Quickly, Kana's troops led these Ranger Corps remnants, guided them inward.

Along the way, they could occasionally see rats emerging from the grass.

These rats were scouts infiltrating inward, everywhere.

In these grass-covered areas, the rats' concealment was far too perfect.

Once they burrowed into the grass, they were almost invisible.

At this moment, Huerbei, who was slightly better after receiving treatment, was introducing the current situation to everyone.

"The rats' raid was very successful; many pastoral camps in our outskirts and central great plains were destroyed.

Many sheep, cattle, and horses were taken away by those manure-eating rats."

This could almost be considered Green Land Kingdom's most crucial food source.

Indeed, no matter which area they attacked, the rats' primary target was always to eliminate or seize the local forces' food supplies.

"Fortunately, the High Priest discovered it early, sending information to priests of various tribes, gathering around Holy Mountain.

The largest defense circle was constructed there, and we of the Ranger Legion are responsible for rescuing more scattered tribes on the outskirts.

And supporting Cliff City and Moon Lake City."

Holy Mountain, combined with these two cities, were the only three cities in this Kingdom; the others were almost all horse markets and nomadic tribes. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

They almost had no fixed residences, relocating with the seasons, weather, and grassland conditions.

"Thankfully, you came." His son beside him said with some relief.

Huerbei couldn't help but nod: "We've been protecting those pastoralists and sheep, there's no choice, our stored food is already scarce.

And so much has been stolen by those rats, although many have died, the remaining food can hardly last through the winter.

Of the sentries we sent out, only managed to contact Twin Snakes. Oh, and your tribe fled to Moon Lake City, not suffering much loss."

He said to Waro.

Waro the Minotaur breathed a sigh of relief.

The reason he volunteered to join this team wasn't merely because of his familiarity with the area and acquaintances, but naturally because his Minotaur tribe was also nearby.

Though he rationally understood their tribe's chances of survival were low, what if?

Now hearing that his tribe had at least survived, he was already very pleased.

"Twin Snakes can hardly protect themselves, and they don't have enough food, not to mention our transport routes have long been cut off by those damned rats."

Everyone roughly understood the situation here.

It was almost the same as what they encountered before; forces that could still persist at least had the capability to stand against the large rat swarms militarily.

The problem lay in resources.

These rats were evidently strategic.

They try to steal food, allowing them to transport large quantities of food to the nest, enabling them to breed more rats.

By next year, a large number of rats will mature and be capable of fighting, reinforcing their forces.

The burned food would also make it difficult for the attacked forces to sustain themselves.

According to the rats' attack pattern, almost 1-2 years could see most of this continent's regions potentially overrun by them.

Of course, this predicated on no external aid and no unexpected occurrences.

And even if there was external aid, the rats could maintain their numbers and engage in attrition warfare with these forces.

The forces of order would then face reduction and be restrained, allowing chaos launched by other Evil Gods to gain an advantage.

In such wars, the power of [Evil Rat] would also grow rapidly.

The rat swarms would learn and evolve, gradually becoming stronger.

Either way, they held the advantage.

Soon they traversed vast grasslands.

Resting in a burned camp, they reached the rear camp around midday the next day.

Before their eyes were large herds of sheep, cattle, and horses, with packs of wolves even seen driving these sheep.

Several massive war eagles soared in the sky, letting out cries.

"Using wolves to herd sheep?" Alicia questioned.

"The belief of Green Land Kingdom is the wolf totem; many people in their nation can communicate with wolves, from a young age they are companions with wolf packs.

Most wolves on the grassland are their companions, and can even be considered part of their nation's populace."

Kana explained from the side.

He mastered such background knowledge the most expertly.

The familiarity with this country came from once needing to visit a dungeon in this nation during a game for obtaining a wolf mount.

Many people were willing to visit and try their luck at drawing it.

As for the high affinity with wolves, he speculated it might equally be credited to the [Stone of Creation].

After all, when faced with the inexplicable, attribute it to these stones, and it becomes very reasonable.