The game has become a real alternate world-Chapter 918 - 600: Deadly Escape

The forest's rocky path stretched forward.

Apart from the slippery mud and moss, not far ahead was a cliff that needed to be leaped over.

"It's over, there's no way ahead!" the old man who ran the fastest couldn't help but shout.

At times like this, even someone as experienced as him couldn't help but cry out in despair.

A few people gathered at the cliff's edge; tree trunks and branches grew out from the cliff sides, and below, at least from sight, there was no water flow.

Although this place didn't qualify as a perilous cliff, jumping down from here left almost zero chance of survival.

Behind them, a swarm of mice was screaming, getting closer and closer.

In the sky, those relentless bats could be seen swooping toward them.

"Looks like I'm going to die here with you, how romantic." Lisa Lisa still had the mood to joke as she hugged Swade's arm and laughed.

"You woman." Even Swade couldn't help but sigh helplessly at this moment.

Zaharo picked up his curved saber and dagger, striding back with a bloodthirsty gleam in his eyes.

Obviously, he refused to die wretchedly without a fight.

As the cliff emerged through the mist, seven Ratmen riding two-headed Sewn Beasts blocked their retreat.

"Human playthings! You can't escape, kill you and the Evil Rat will grant us Blessing!"

"Kill them, I want to eat them!"

"I want to eat his leg, lots of meat!"

The mice shouted madly.

Zahanu suddenly tore open his shirt, revealing knife scars all over his body.

Swade clearly wasn't going to just sit and wait for death either, gripping his weapon as he strode forward.

Meanwhile, Toby was constantly peering over the cliff edge, his face full of anxiety.

Tavor tapped the rock wall with his pipe, and the old man's cloudy eyes suddenly brightened: "Kid! Use that Explosive Potion you picked up to blow up that protruding part!"

Called out, Toby was as tense as could be, but instinctively followed the order.

The lit, arm-sized Explosive Potion pouch arced through the air; it was called an Explosive Potion, but it looked more like dynamite, just made with special materials mixed with some Magic Herbs.

"Boom!"

The explosion was deafening.

Even the bats about to swoop down from the sky were blown away by the blast wave.

The shockwave shattered the weathered rock layer, with hundreds of tons of rubble burying the path.

Debris came rolling toward them.

"Follow me, jump from here. Grandma, bless me!"

Toby shouted, leaping directly down along the angled cliff edge.

The others had no time to hesitate.

Swade yanked the group off the cliff, branches and leaves whipping against their bodies.

However, the expected pain from crashing into the rocks didn't come—had something caught them?

Intertwined green vines snagged them.

Lisa Lisa's red skirt was caught on an iron bramble, revealing the dagger belt strapped to her thigh.

She cut the vines wrapped around her.

"I love you, grandma, I'll never say your knowledge is useless again."

Toby seemed to be shouting and crying.

"Let's go down from here." Swade saw a big tree beside the vines; holding onto it, they could slide straight to the bottom.

He cut through the vines with his dagger and swung over, sliding down one after another.

They tumbled into a thick pile of decaying leaves.

The old man collapsed in it, muttering, "With my old bones, how am I still having such thrills."

"It's so strange, why are these mice chasing us so fiercely? Just because we killed three of their Scouts?"

Swade rested, looking puzzled.

"Wasn't that supposed to be the mouse army?" Zahanu didn't quite understand, so he asked.

Everyone shook their heads; their understanding of the mice was also limited.

"But it should be, Ratmen rely on numbers to create calamities. Now they have Sewn Beasts and bats, and obviously those Assassins with the Power of Shadow."

"And that damn Mouse Mage or Priest, something's really wrong." Toby quickly added.

The beginning of their painful ordeal fleeing was because of that cursed mouse using some kind of Spirit attack on his head.

"Do we have any value? Worth these mice deploying regular troops to hunt us down?

Did you see? They're even harassing around us."

Clearly shouting to finish them off in one go, but these swarming mice were a bit afraid to attack directly and were harassing around instead.

And those who dared to fight them directly were rather frenzied.

"Shh!" Lisa Lisa suddenly said.

Everyone immediately quieted down, even holding their breath.

Above, loud screams echoed, very distinct explosion sounds, and the rumble of lightning could be heard.

Some debris tumbled down from the cliff.

"Fighting's still going on up there?"

"Have the mice turned on each other?"

"Doesn't seem like it, could it be the Night Watchers?"

Toby's words lit up everyone's eyes.

"No, we can't take risks." Swade suppressed his impulse, shaking his head.

In their current Status, any mishap could be catastrophic.

The others couldn't help but nod.

They were theoretically in the mouse's territory right now.

Unless, during their more than a month's sea journey, the Night Watcher's United Army achieved great breakthroughs, even near-total dominance, almost reclaiming the continent, otherwise, they couldn't have fought all the way here.

What they had seen along the way also proved this point.

Meanwhile, above.

Vier waved her Magic Staff upwards, a few Lightning Arrows flew into the sky, shooting down mice trying to flee.

Tick flicked off the mouse chunks stuck to his sword, curiously asking: "This is the mouse army, they're quite brave, they charged at us while shouting."

Captain Yorndaren couldn't help but nod: "That's right, I haven't seen such brave mice in a long time, almost felt like I was in an assault operation."

"It actually called me a coward for running, absolutely crazy." Anger kept shaking his head.

They followed the traces left by the mice and found a cut-off mouse team.

Following the trail, they slaughtered the entire remaining mouse army.

"They must be chasing something."

Bi'an had climbed over the collapsed rubble, reaching the edge of the cliff.

"They should have jumped off from here, not very high, wonder if they survived."

Vier leaned over to look down.

"Idiot, that height isn't much for us, but for people chased around by mice, it would be lethal."

"Really?" Bi'an didn't quite understand, after all, he was a Half-Demon.

Everyone in his village was a Half-Demon, not this weak.

"Let's go down and check, being chased by mice, it's likely they're allies."

Meanwhile, below the cliff.

Swade and the others continued moving; they had to find a safe haven before they could truly rest.

"Did you see something just now, moving in this direction?" Lisa Lisa asked.

Swade spread out the map and pointed: "This place is marked, not sure what it is.

Had no choice at the time, only option was to charge this way."

"There is something here, like the ruins of some building," the old man examined it closely.

One could see some collapsed ruins, although they were covered with moss.