After listening to Khalida's narration, Levi realized that the greenskins in the west were causing trouble again.
After they had been killing ratmen for several days in a row, they became more and more excited. However, they seemed to think their opponents were not strong enough, so they decided to have a big one.
At the suggestion of Urzago Greenseer, who came from the Bloody Hand Tribe and commanded many wild greenskins, many greenskin warlords and generals agreed to join this carnival and have a super big WAAAGH.
So Gorfang Rotgut began to march northwest, trying to attack the only remaining port city of the dwarves - Seagate.
Morgrum Backstabber will lead the combined forces of greenskins and goblins to attack Ironforge eastwards.
Nashrak of the Bloodspear Tribe united with the greenskins and goblins from the mountains on the edge of the eastern world to form an extremely large army.
He will lead them to attack the Army Fort first, and then try to follow the dwarves' richest Silver Road, all the way north to attack the dwarves' capital, Karaz-a-Karak.
The legendary goblin of the Evil Moon Tribe, the warrior of Eight Peaks Mountain - Skarsnik, will continue to lead his troops to besiege Eight Peaks Mountain. He can kill very happily there anyway.
In addition, many well-known greenskin clans such as Red Fang, Dark Poison, Giant Spider, Robbery Fang, Red Eyes, and Death Crawler also responded and participated to varying degrees.
They are coming from all directions, preparing to launch a massive attack on the dwarves.
The other greenskins who are farther away will randomly choose targets nearby. If there are dwarves, they will beat the dwarves. If there are none, they will beat humans or elves. In any case, they will never be idle.
Even Khalida sighed a little. A greenskin tide of this scale was quite rare in the history of the main world. At least it had not appeared in the last two or three hundred years.
As for the greenskins they are encountering now, they are from the Redfang tribe and belong to the legendary greenskin warrior - Gorya the Grim.
They defeated the outer forces of the dwarves that had occupied the Dracaderin fortress in the west, thus opening the road to the city of Lahmia.
Currently, the Red Fang Tribe has left a part of its forces to continue besieging the remaining dwarves there, while the rest of the troops have dispersed in all directions.
On the one hand, it was to wreak havoc on numerous different towns and villages, to fight to support the war and to grab more food.
On the other hand, it is also to make things bigger, because only in this way will more greenskins and goblins take the initiative to participate.
Greenskins are warlike by nature. If they learn of such a grand event, many greenskins from other clans and tribes may come here with their own food.
Some of the greenskins chose this place. They were willing to cross the mountains to attack the city of Lahmia.
Ratmen rarely attack Tomb Kings or other undead, as their primary goal in war is to obtain more food, which they cannot get from mummies.
But the greenskins don’t particularly care about these things. They only think about fighting, no matter who they fight with.
Then they were killed by Elegy, Donna and the others on the way.
Levi immediately exclaimed, "Wow, this is the first time you've poked the rat's nest and then the greenskin's nest?"
The rat people's actions were because they could no longer conceal their true intentions, and they launched an all-out war under the orders of their god, the Horned Rat.
But these greenskins made such a move at such a critical moment, are they really just joining in the fun?
Speaking of which, the status of the greenskins in the main world is not much better than that of the ratmen. They are hated by everyone and beaten everywhere.
Moreover, over the mountain, past the dwarf fortress that is under siege, and further west is the largest gathering place of the greenskins in the main world.
At first glance, they seemed to occupy a fairly vast territory, which was probably at least ten times larger than the Dragon Prince's colony, but it was called the "Bad Land".
Just by hearing the name, you can roughly imagine how bad the environment there is.
It is a little stronger than the territory of the Silver Blood Army that Levi conquered a few days ago, but it is also extremely limited.
But the undead don’t need to consume food or anything, but the greenskins are more greedy than each other.
Under such circumstances, it is no wonder that they fight frequently.
If we kill the enemy, we will have food to eat.
If you kill your own kind, you can save food.
Now that the greenskins have made such a big move, could it be that they were instructed by the greenskin gods?
If they don't seize the opportunity of the ratman riot, it will become increasingly difficult for them to turn things around with their own strength.
In this case, the green-skinned gods are likely to try to seize the opportunity and launch a Jedi counterattack.
Because their entire race is constantly weakening, while the dwarves, humans and elves are constantly developing.
If the current situation continues, even if no god declares war on them, it is entirely foreseeable that their divine power will further decline in the future.
Based on this inference, is the union of the ratmen and greenskins in Zhendan a pure coincidence, or is it that their gods have actually colluded with each other first?
But I believe that most gods will not pay special attention to the details. They will only see the truth before their eyes, which is that their two races have posed a strong threat to other races!
But speaking of it, apart from the dwarves, their ancient enemy, it seems that the greenskins have no other targets to choose from.
To the west of the badlands is a turbulent river that leads directly to the sea, or rather, it is part of the sea. On the other side of the river are many humans from the southern kingdoms and border kingdoms.
The greenskins are not good at shipbuilding and naval warfare, and even if they find a way to cross the river, they will still have to face countless gunfire and artillery fire, as humans have built many defensive positions there.
To the south of the badlands is a vast desert. Except for some human settlements along the coast, most of the territory is owned by the Tomb Kings.
Regardless of victory or defeat, ordinary greenskins can certainly enjoy the fun of fighting.
But for the green-skinned gods, this is definitely not in line with their strategy.
The only reason they waged war was for the rich land, the continuation and future of their race.
The east side of the badlands is surrounded by mountains, which is also very unsuitable for survival.
In addition to the dwarf fortresses here, there is also a long and narrow strip of area close to the sea in the easternmost part, occupied by Khalida and Kuja, two legendary heroes from different races, on the north and south.
Even if they take over this place, the greenskins still have to take a ship out to sea to have a chance to go to relatively wealthy areas such as Indy, Nebon, the hinterland of Horus, or the Zhendan Empire.
So on the whole, if the greenskins want to expand their territory, they can only go north to attack the dwarves.
Once they have captured the Dwarven military fortress, the Army Fort, they can continue northward and attack the Dwarven economic and political center, the wealthy Silver Road.
To the west, as long as we break through the southern kingdom’s important military town, Akendorf, and then break through the famous Blackfire Pass, we will reach the human Sigma Empire.
Compared to the High Elves and Dark Elves who have been engaged in years of foreign wars and are full of martial virtues, the enemies faced by the Sigmar Empire are not only of far fewer types, but are also completely incomparable in quantity and quality.
Apart from the vampires of Sylvania in the east of the empire and the Norse barbarian pirates on the northern coast, the empire's biggest enemy is nothing more than the beastmen in the forest.
Oh, there are more ratmen now, and the empire's well-developed sewer system has made them the race and force most seriously harmed by the ratmen.
But in general, dealing with humans is definitely much easier than dealing with elves or dwarves.
There is absolutely no problem with the overall strategy of these greenskins.
Once they break through the armory fort, they will definitely not be satisfied with just attacking the dwarf capital, they will definitely attack humans.
"What is their total military strength?"
"The Red Fang tribe had 3,200 vanguards, all of whom have been defeated by us. However, according to the captives, there are still 30 times more main forces following us."
Khalida then changed the subject: "But the greenskins always like to brag. Let's calculate it based on 10 times the troops. Now they are scattered in many different directions and regions. I don't think we will encounter too many greenskins next time."
Although it was the other party's last words, Khalida did not believe it, because the population of the greenskins was there, and the barren land was not enough to support them to mobilise so many troops.
The simplest problem was that they still mainly lived on hunting and did not have that much food.
It is said that many greenskin towns do not have special grain warehouses because they have no reserves at all. At most, they have a few days' worth of food, which can be left in the greenskins' nests.
If there are 30 times as many troops in this direction alone, which means 100,000 troops, how many greenskins were mobilized in the badlands this time?
300,000, or 500,000? Or more?
It’s not that the greenskins can’t mobilize so many troops, but once they really send out so many troops, no matter whether they succeed or fail in the end, the greenskins will have to pay a huge price for it.
And again, they couldn't produce enough food.
But Levi frowned and hesitated for a moment, then reminded: "Kalida, I think we should just count more for now."
"They may not be bragging too much this time. I don't think the Greenseer can easily gather so many greenskins."
Greenskins worship force and fists. Although professions such as shamans and priests are not despised because all races need them, ordinary greenskins often stay away from them.
But the Green Prophet is just a magical shaman. No matter how powerful he is, he can only gain the fear of ordinary greenskins rather than their admiration.
Those green-skinned generals and warlords would never mobilize such a large-scale army just because of his one-sided statement.
Although Levi did not fully explain, after thinking about it, Khalida quickly realized the seriousness of the problem.
She had previously lamented that the world was changing too fast, and she had never expected that she would have to personally participate in it so soon.
"You mean, it might be the decision of the green-skinned gods?"
Li Wei explained softly, "When we were in the colony before, the Greenskin God of War, Inav, taught the Greenskins several simple and effective formations."
"We have every reason to believe that he is seeking to transform himself from chaotic evil to neutral evil, or even lawful evil."
Khalida suddenly became a little serious. The chaotic and disorderly greenskins could already cause great damage. If they followed the rules, it would be terrible.
But fortunately, the prisoners said that Evil Dagger did not concentrate his army because the greenskins simply did not have the logistics to support so many troops.
Evil Dan sent them in different directions and let them find their own way to get food.
In this way, as long as we can do a good job of reconnaissance, it is entirely possible to defeat them one by one.
"Okay, I will have the generals further strengthen their vigilance, and I will also have the priests rearrange the magic array to prepare to awaken more loyal and brave soldiers."
Levi nodded, he knew what she meant.
The Tomb Kings faction advocates burial, so after countless years, the number of dead people underground far exceeds the living.
When necessary, the Tomb Kings will awaken some Tomb Guardians or Skeleton Soldiers, so they are never short of manpower.
They are also one of the forces with the least reliance on conventional, god-given buildings that can recruit troops.
Maybe even smaller than the undead, since they don't even have to go out of their way to look for corpses.
If you throw a boot into the air and dig a few dozen meters down where the boot landed, you might find corpses.
The God-given buildings can recruit a small number of troops every week, but if necessary, they can simply prepare a awakening array to revive thousands of skeleton soldiers.
So even though the city of Lahmia lost tens of thousands of troops during the expedition against the Silver Blood Army, she had replenished the troops in just a few days.
It was precisely because of this that Prince Dragon agreed to Levi's suggestion so readily.
Khalida has plenty of cannon fodder. With them attracting the enemy's attention on the front battlefield, the elves' casualty rate will naturally be greatly reduced.
However, under normal circumstances, the Tomb King would not deliberately maintain too many standing troops, because these mummies and skeleton soldiers also consume energy.
After carefully asking for some details, Levi suddenly had another reason to fight the greenskins.
Because the Drakadrin Fortress that was besieged by the greenskins was the territory of the legendary dwarf of Ironforge, Kazardor the Dragon Slayer.
The garrison commander among them was his son Kazrik.
The strength and status of this dragon slayer could rank among the top five, or even top three, among the dwarves.
Their Iron Peak Castle is also famous for forging and runes, and is rich in meteorite iron artifacts.
After capturing the Black Iron Mine, it was he who sent an envoy saying that as long as Levi killed a greenskin warrior named Big Chopper, the dwarves would recognize their official right to rule the Black Iron Mine. This shows how powerful he is.
If he could save the besieged fortress and rescue his son, the dragon slayer would owe him a favor, right?
Moreover, Levi was also very interested in the legendary greenskin warrior of the Redfang Tribe, Gorya Evildare.
Because this guy was just promoted to legend last year, and he is a greenskin and a pure warrior, so his moves to kill the enemies are probably very limited.
In Lilith's opinion, ordinary warrior legends are recognized as the weakest among all legends. Apart from being a little bit resistant to beatings, they are almost useless.
If you want to try to challenge a legendary enemy, Evil Bold will undoubtedly be the best choice.
When she heard Levi say this, Khalida was also somewhat moved.
Although her territory had rugged mountains and dense jungles as natural defenses, she had originally signed a non-aggression pact and a trade treaty with the dwarves.
She was not unfamiliar with the Dragon Slayer, not only because of the many rumors from the outside world and his glorious past achievements, but also because the priests had whispered to her about it more than once.
It is said that the equipment forged by the other party using meteorite iron, even the worst one, is of at least epic quality.
There is another legendary rune blacksmith in Iron Peak Fort. The various runes he creates have many magical effects, and are no worse than the equipment forged by priests with the help of the power of the gods.
"Okay, Levi, the scorpion warrior originally stationed in Astrid has arrived. I will send a part of the troops as a vanguard to check the strength of the greenskins."
"He is the battlefield commander, but you are the actual decision maker. I will lead the army to catch up. How about that?"
Levi naturally agreed with a smile. In this way, even if those mummies were not his subordinates, he would still be given a lot of experience points when the battle was settled.
So within about a quarter of an hour, when Donna and Wange had just replenished their supplies, a big man covered in black armor came to their door.
Compared to the other skinny mummies, he seemed to be extremely strong and almost twice as wide as the others.
Moreover, his armor is extremely special, just like a giant scorpion, with complete front claws and tail.
Especially the tail, which is not only one inch thick, but also nearly two meters long, and it looks like it is made of solid metal.
Obviously, this seems to be not just a decoration, but can also be used for combat.
After seeing Levi, the big man said in a muffled voice: "Lord Levi, I am General Scorpion, my troops are on standby and can set off at any time!"
Levi nodded: "Okay, then march immediately, speed is of the essence!"
Khalida had just told him that she originally believed in the serpent god. After his death, she became interested in the scorpion goddess who also used poison.
Although there is no temple of the Scorpion Goddess in the city of Lahmia, there is a temple dedicated to the goddess in the southern town of Astri. So in order to repay her, the church also sent this level 15 hero unit to serve her forever.
In addition to being proficient in martial arts and good at using poison, he also has strong survivability and never has to worry about being decapitated by the enemy.
Of course, the reason why she transferred him here was to take the opportunity to find out the details of the church and even the Scorpion Goddess.
Just like Lilith arranged plans and tasks for Levi, the goddess also arranged similar things for her, and the Scorpion Goddess was her first target.
A few minutes later, the army officially set out to rescue the dwarves.
Levi also took a rough look at the vanguard troops sent by Khalida, and could only say that they were indeed elite.
Perhaps she also knew that the war was urgent, so not counting the Scorpion General's personal guards, there were still three thousand vanguards, all of which were high-speed units.
There are two thousand cemetery guards riding on snakes. Their main weapons are halberds, and their backup weapons are fire-breathing dragon staffs from Zhendan and poison staffs produced in the city of Lahmia.
Next came the bone chariots and skeleton cavalry, each numbering 500. It must be said that although these skeletons were not very resistant to attack, they were very light in weight and were not necessarily as heavy as their weapons and armor, so they could run very fast.
Fortunately, in the past few days, Levi has ordered a large number of carriages in the city of Lahmia, so that all the infantry, including the ogre Leslie, can sit. Otherwise, he might become the one who holds them back.
As for General Scorpion and his five or so squads of personal guards, as expected, they all rode scorpions and were dressed similarly to him, though obviously a few sizes smaller.
Although scorpions themselves are not known for their speed, these guys' mounts are obviously special cases.
At the same time, many people held high the flags of the Scorpion Goddess in their hands. No matter where they went, they never forgot to publicize the glory of their goddess.
Since the destination was still hundreds of miles away, Levi went over to chat with the Scorpion General, wanting to learn more about his abilities.
I don’t know if it’s because she tasted the sweetness after luring Sobek into the pantheon, but Lilith still has certain intentions towards the Egyptian pantheon.
The Scorpion Goddess and the Scarab God were both her chosen targets.
Their status within the Egyptian pantheon is similar to that of the original Sobek, so it would be easier to poach them.
Moreover, one of them is good at poisoning and detoxifying, and the other is good at burrowing into the ground and absorbing damage. Their respective abilities are good supplements to the elven pantheon.
Especially the latter, the elven gods basically tend to be mages, shooters, and then flexible warriors or thieves.
If we really talk about people who specialize in absorbing damage, there is only one Sobek at the moment, and he just joined.
Although the Scorpion General was obviously not very good at speaking, he naturally had to answer since Levi asked the question.
Because before they set out, Khalida had already told him that he had to obey Levi in ​​everything from then on, even if Levi asked him to take his troops to die, he had to obey.
Then, as they chatted, Levi discovered that he didn't know whether this guy really didn't have enough brains or the church had trained him very well, in short, the things he said were basically things that could be easily found out from outside and were of no value at all.
So he could only turn around and talk to the other party about the greenskins he was going to deal with next.
Then he found that the Scorpion General had become obviously much more excited, and he indeed knew a lot.
According to him, Gorga Fouldart was notorious among the dwarves because he had literally kicked the dwarves' heads as if they were balls more than once, and used catapults and the like to throw them into the dwarf castle as ammunition.
It is said that he did not do this to kill the enemy, because that thing obviously did not have much killing power.
It was not to anger the dwarves, because his intelligence was not high enough to reach that level. Even though he became a legendary hero, his intelligence was notoriously low among the greenskins.
He just did it for fun.
Even though the Scorpion General didn't care about the dwarf's life at all, he still thought that the other party was indeed a bit cruel.
The dwarves hated him to the core because of this. Every time he surrounded the dwarf fortress, many dwarves who could not bear the humiliation would take the initiative to go out of the city to fight even though they knew they could not win, and were then killed.
There were also many dwarves who swore to become butchers because of his cruelty.
He even once besieged the Dragon Slayer's territory, Iron Peak Castle, when the Dragon Slayer was away.
Although he didn't succeed, but after doing this series of things and facing the crazy revenge of the dwarves, he is still alive today and was promoted to a legend last year. This in itself is enough to show his strength.
Therefore, General Scorpion is really excited about the possibility of facing him next.
Levi was also a little surprised at the other party's brutality, but at the same time he was a little worried.
If there was hatred in the past, and the evil man dared to do the same thing again and provoke again, the garrisoned dwarf general would get angry and rush out to die.
Then there is a possibility that my rescue attempt will fail.
Thinking of this, he secretly sent a message to Luna, Donna and others, asking them to send some faster scouts to the front to take a look at the situation first.
If the dwarves can still be saved, then they will continue their march.
If the fortress had been breached, they would have to rearrange their plans.
But no matter what, this battle must be fought, and perhaps we have to wait until the dwarves and the greenskins are roughly determined to win, otherwise Khalida may not be able to go to sea peacefully.
If tens of thousands of greenskins came and she was not there, with those generals and priests having brains that would make zombies shake their heads, she would be afraid that her home would be robbed.
Then the Venomous Scorpion Warrior seemed to suddenly remember something: "Oh, Lord Levi, I have heard from the priests before that the special ability of the evil gall is to steal experience points."
"Whether it's the friendly forces accompanying him or the enemies he killed, they will lose a certain amount of experience points after the battle. He relies on this to be promoted to the legendary level."
"And the WAAAGH capabilities of the greenskin troops he led are also unique."
Huh? Levi immediately felt something was wrong.
Even Khalida and Lilith were not aware of such confidential information for the time being, because they had never paid special attention to or concern about evil gall before.
He didn't remember that the priests of the Scorpion Goddess had such outstanding intelligence capabilities.
Since Khalida allowed them to spread the faith in Astrid, apart from recruiting believers, they usually did nothing more than making poisons and antidotes, and never went out.
In addition to the mummies' conspicuous appearance, it is difficult for them to run to the greenskins to act as spies, unless the Scorpion Goddess does it herself.
It seems that this goddess is not as brainless as the legend says.
But that's true. She might not know about Set's affairs for the time being, but Khalida cleaned out all the things related to the Serpent God in the city of Lahmia overnight.
Even though she had not changed into any of Lilith's things for the sake of confidentiality, the fact that Levi and the others had been here for several days was enough for her to make some guesses.
After all, whether it is him, Cindy, Luna, Alyssa and others, they all possess divinity and can be regarded as God's agents on earth.
While Levi was thinking secretly, a series of system prompts suddenly sounded.
"The greenskins driven by the dark elves broke free from their shackles and, under the leadership of the gladiator Siba Dakesi, announced the establishment of the Cage Breaker clan and officially began their revenge."
"The remnants of the Shattered Clan, led by the gladiator Gan Ni·Ke Si, have risen up against the drow elves. They will get rid of this humiliating name."
"The slaves of Zar swear to God that they would rather face death than be slaves of the greenskins. The slavery of the Chaos Dwarves will end!"
"It's time to teach those bearded dwarves a lesson. Azhan the Destroyer will lead the dragon army to attack!"
"Grum, the Big Belly King, is about to return to Ulthuan to bring fear back to the pointy-eared ones, but first he'll have to deal with the skinny men on horseback!"
Dozens of system prompts popped up one after another. On one side, the protagonist was a green-skinned person, while on the other side, he was from a mess of other races.
Some of them have enslaved or are currently enslaving the greenskins, some have been or are currently at war with the greenskins, and some simply dislike the greenskins.
But no matter what, the greenskins now seem to be ready to vent their anger completely. They have launched an unprecedented war against almost all the mainstream races in the main world.
Except for the ratmen, although they have been so arrogant recently, they are not on this list.
Needless to say, by now everyone or everyone knows that the green gods must have reached some kind of agreement with the Horned Rat in exchange for peace and help.
But more people were very surprised and curious.
Where did the green-skinned gods get the courage to declare war on such a large scale?
Even the Prince of Lies, Xirik, is not as crazy as them, right?
Or, in order to destroy it, one must first drive it crazy?
"I'm the greenest, I'm the strongest, I'm fearless, I'm invincible!"
"Super large mission - super big WAAAGH, officially started!"
"Although I don't like the taste of hairless green boys, Skaven has no choice. For slaves, for warpstone, for horned rats, for more food, yes, yes!"
"Super large-scale mission - the end of the world? Plague! Officially launched!"