The game has become a real alternate world-Chapter 783 - 465: Deep Into the Rear

To the north of the Lebia Continent.

Kaela Secret Forest.

This is an area deemed mostly fallen.

Because in this region, there are many races living in a tribal form.

In other words, there is no powerful force here that can unite the surrounding strength, let alone resist the attack of the rat swarm.

Moreover, these tribes are not necessarily harmonious and united; most even have frictions with each other.

In such a situation, it’s hard to imagine any resistance force in this area; at most, some scattered Life still survive.

At this moment, in the dense forest, on a mountain path worn by long-time travelers.

A pebble flew up.

Raelia trotted her horse.

Somehow holding a Long Blade in her hand, swinging it casually in the front.

The blocking branches were cut off.

However, looking at Raelia’s eyes, one could tell that her attention wasn’t on the road ahead, but rather on the air before her.

"Thunk!"

A Metal Scepter knocked on her head.

"What are you doing!" Raelia turned her head in displeasure and asked, looking at Abis behind her.

Abis just quietly looked at her: "Can you stop staring at the channel? Focus on the road ahead; we still have a mission, and we’re almost there."

The Elf Thief Annabelle passed by from the side and gave Raelia a glance.

Karen also passed the two.

The two centaurs followed, and Raelia muttered, "I’m just concerned about everyone’s safety, after all, they’re in battle."

"You just want to join the fight yourself, don’t you?" Annabelle’s voice came from the front.

"Isn’t that normal? A Warrior like me should charge through the battlefield and take care of those rodent pests properly."

Raelia said as a matter of course.

Abis’s voice came quietly: "Oh? So you’re saying you don’t want to be a Soul Guardian anymore? Want to leave this team?"

"I didn’t!" Raelia shouted.

"You’re making it too serious. I’m just venting a little.

Alright, alright, I won’t watch it anymore."

Raelia eventually compromised, turned off the channel, and walked honestly on this path.

In fact, it’s not just her; all the Night Watchers not participating in the war would check the channel during their free time or non-emergency moments to understand the battlefield situation.

After all, there would be some injured soldiers reporting in real-time throughout the screen.

Letting other Night Watchers get a rough idea of the current battle conditions.

There are even detailed situation reports in some aspects.

"There are man-made buildings and enemies 5 kilometers ahead."

Annabelle said, stopping.

Everyone looked at their maps.

In the area ahead on the map, red dots appeared and disappeared periodically.

Obviously, in the sky, Grey Fang was scouting that direction and providing map information through its own vision.

"Quite a few in number, probably between several hundred to a thousand."

"That many?" Karen was a bit surprised by the count.

Abis carefully looked at the map: "That city should be our destination; according to the old map, there should only be this city around here.

Looks like it’s already fallen; all red, it should be those rats occupying the city."

"For the number of rats, it seems a bit too few." Raelia murmured.

"Remember, there’s battle going on on the other side too, this area doesn’t have much resistance force, and the United Army doesn’t intend to attack here, recapturing this area is very low on the priority list.

These rats also know this; clearly, most of the rats here have been transferred to the barrier zone to resist the United Army’s convergence."

Abis analyzed.

Before departure, Kana had already informed them of the feasibility, which is why their team would head here during the war to complete the task given by Kana.

"Can we take out all these rats?" Karen asked.

Their target was in the city, but obviously needed some searching within.

It’s not easy to find without clearing out so many rats in the city, they’d only be able to search at ease afterward.

They have only about a month and need to travel a great distance to reach three locations to obtain three important stones.

Kana had already emphasized the importance of their mission before they set out.

Simply put.

The Night Watchers are to find the first complete Stone of Creation, making these three spherical shards of the Stone of Creation indispensable.

The First Walker team clearly understands the significance of this mission.

"So, now there are two plans."

Raelia spoke directly.

"First method, annihilate this group of rats, let none escape, then we search thoroughly."

"Second method, charge in and fight them off, then quickly search."

The first method is very troublesome and doesn’t necessarily annihilate all the rats; after all, rats are quite good at escaping.

But it’s the safest method.

The second method is much simpler and quicker, suitable for their current limited time for action.

But the problem is, there’s no guarantee that some rats won’t escape with the stones they need.

After all, Kana only told them the location of the stones, but where exactly and on whom is unknown.

Kana himself only had a rough idea; he couldn’t possibly know each shard of the Stone of Creation in detail, where they came from, or what mission obtained them; that’s impossible.

Knowing a rough idea was already remarkable.

Otherwise, he would have already gathered a whole stone by now, instead of still not having done so.

The reason Kana wants Raelia and the others to come here at this time is that if delayed, the stone here might very well be found by rats.

It’s certain that the rats don’t have many Investigation Stones in their hands, and the rats have specialized exploration teams, spreading out and slowly searching the occupied areas.

According to previous intelligence, they are searching slowly from coastal areas towards the inland.

With the pressure from the United Army formed by Kana and the others, the rats have to focus on the barrier zone.

In such a situation, the northern region, which was occupied early on, obviously won’t be easily carpet-searched.

If delayed further, the number of Investigation Stones in rat hands would increase under the manipulations of the Evil God.

After all, the rats have occupied the port for a while, and the fastest batch of supplies transported by the Evil God’s forces might be arriving at the port soon.

Although their navy is also intercepting at sea, the ocean is too vast, and even the Night Watchers can’t keep track of the specifics in real-time.

Couple this with the onset of winter, increasing the difficulty of operations.

This period will be the best time, also the time when the stones are most likely to remain in place.

"To be safe, let’s choose the first method. Grey Fang has sent information: the rats below are not the elite among the rats, let alone the modified ones mentioned in the channel.

Let’s go, let’s surround them."