Your war hammer is too fake

"You are strong," the troll leader said. "I am Dorze Voidwhisper, the chief champion of the Unseeing. What is your name?"

"Ha, your name is too elegant for a troll," the dwarf butcher replied. "I am Gotrek, Gotrek Gornisson of Everpeak, a butcher seeking his own doom!"

Gotrek actually didn't want to communicate with these messed up things. According to his personality, he would never waste time talking to a troll, no matter how strange the troll looked. However, before the battle began, the leader of the rangers of Plateau Fort told them that they had reported the situation to Plateau Fort through some "special techniques" unique to Plateau Fort. The reinforcements of Plateau Fort had already set out, and His Majesty Barel Hammer asked them to hold on until the reinforcements arrived.

As a butcher, Gotrek never took his own life seriously, but he was not the only one here. Glancing at Felix who was injured in many places and whose shirt was almost dyed red with blood, Gotrek decided to temporarily restrain his hatred and disgust for the enemy.

"Your soul will become my most precious collection, Gotrek Ogonisson of the Eternal Peak." Unlike Gotrek, who still had a slight accent, Dorze's Khazali German was standard enough for him to apply for a job as a broadcaster at a radio station, if there was such a job in the Mountain Kingdom. "Or my head will become the proof of your glory."

As soon as he finished speaking, a sudden change occurred.

……

Note 1: At this point in time, the duo has not yet been to the Eight Peaks Mountain, and Felix has not yet obtained Karagul.

Chapter 84: Rescue

With hoarse barking sounds, groups of ground wolves leaped out from the rock walls on both sides of the tunnel.

Although they were called "earth wolves", these creatures, which were similar in size to giant wolves, had nothing to do with canines at the biological level. They were not as swift as giant wolves, but they had the natural ability to burrow underground, and could attack from the most unexpected positions of the enemy: these bullies did not attack the neatly arrayed and fully armored cavemen centurions, but instead went after the few crippled centurions that were resting at the back of the battle line.

These hundred-man teams had suffered heavy losses in the previous battle with the search team, with more than half of them killed or wounded, and had lost their ability to fight as an organized unit. After escaping, they took off their armor, threw their weapons aside, and sat on the ground dejectedly. A dozen female cave pharmacists walked among the remnants of the defeated army, checking the soldiers' injuries one by one, applying medicine and bandaging them, and some other elderly or disabled cavemen brought them clean drinking water and hard dry food.

When three groups of ground wolves suddenly emerged from both sides and even from under their feet, not even a single caveman had time to react. The short screams of surprise turned into screams the next second, and the terrifying sound of sharp teeth tearing flesh and chewing bones. The ground wolves swept through the defeated cavemen like marching ants passing through the border. They pounced and bit, tearing off several bloody strips of meat in a swift movement, and then reluctantly holding the still warm meat in their mouths and quickly retreating, leaving only incomplete corpses on the ground.

When the nearest caveman team of a hundred men rushed over with roars, they could only watch as the wolves slammed into the rock wall one after another, and then disappeared out of thin air. The angry cavemen who could not catch up could only smash the rock wall with their maces.

On the other side, at the scene where the underground army was fighting with the search team, 500 Tu Wushang were divided into two groups and suddenly emerged from the rock walls on both sides at the same time. They brandished simple weapons and rushed towards the cavemen warriors who were besieging the search team with almost crazy courage.

Because of the orc-like appearance of Tu Wushang, Joseph Bergman almost chopped the rune axe "Old Buddy" into the head of a Tu Wushang soldier. It was not until the rangers of Plateau Castle shouted loudly that a few outsiders who did not know the inside story learned that this was their reinforcement. And, these reinforcements had nothing to do with the greenskins.

The scene that had happened before was repeated, but this time the cavemen were no longer the ones being beaten. Tsuchigumo was no different from humans in terms of physical fitness, except for his better endurance, while the cavemen had a physique comparable to that of a large orc. The difference in equipment between the two sides was even greater than the difference in physique. Unless Tsuchigumo's stone and bone weapons could hit the gaps in the armor, they would be useless against the cavemen wearing heavy steel armor, and every swing of the latter's straight-bladed machete and mace could make Tsuchigumo fall down.

Tu Wushang's only advantage was numbers. Whenever a Tu Wushang returned to the underworld, more Tu Wushang would immediately rush forward and shout. They besieged the cavemen with a five-fold advantage in strength. Some Tu Wushang desperately rushed over to hug the cavemen, and would not let go no matter how the other party chopped and smashed them. The remaining Tu Wushang took the opportunity to rush forward, knocked down the cavemen who were restricted in their movements, and dragged them back, and all kinds of guys hit them hard through the gaps in the armor.

"Retreat! Retreat!" A Tuwushang leader struggled to squeeze through the crowd and shouted at the dwarves in broken Kazarid language.

"You retreat," Gotrek said, holding his battle axe and making a feint. "I will cover your retreat."

Not far away, Dorzer was trying to rush over. The nearby Tu Wushang rushed forward one after another, using his own life to delay the troll's pace.

Seeing this, leader Tu Wushang was obviously anxious. "Order!" Tu Wushang handed the short-handled iron hammer to his left hand and grabbed the butcher with his right hand. "Retreat, order!!" He emphasized the word "order".

A long horn sounded from deep in the cave. After receiving the order, another hundred-man team of cavemen marched into the battle in neat steps. When the new force approached the melee scene, Tu Wushang, who was still fighting in a mess the moment before, seemed to have received some kind of signal and scattered in a hurry the next moment, screaming and escaping underground.

With a casual axe, he smashed Tu Wushang, who was too slow, and Dorze raised his head and looked forward. The overall terrain of the battlefield was like a gourd, and the position occupied by the previous search team was exactly at the waist of the gourd. The narrow terrain made it impossible for the Faceless Men to play their advantage in manpower, and they could only use the most stupid tactic of adding fuel, filling in one hundred-man team after another.

From the perspective of the Unseen Champion, he could see that an army had appeared on the opposite side at some point, an army with poor equipment but high morale. The 15 teams of Tu Wushang formed a solid line on the barely flat rocky ground, and the survivors of the search team were supporting each other as they walked towards Tu Wushang's square formation.

The two sides confronted each other for a while. After a while, a sharp whistle sounded from deep in the cave. Dorzer took a deep look at the warriors of a race he had never seen before, then turned around and left without looking back.

……

"Xiaoyue, where did you find these messy mercenaries?"

Hearing Gotrek's question, An Jiyue, who was treating Grim Brockson's wound, raised her head. "First of all, they are not mercenaries, they are warriors from the vassal tribe of Zhendan," the girl washed the wound with saline solution, and then carefully applied the golden wound medicine she made, "Secondly, it was these 'messy' guys who saved your lives just now."

"If I hadn't seen the bulging crotch of their pants, I would have thought that there was a new subspecies of greenskins," the dwarf butcher muttered in dissatisfaction, "Ha, I've never seen such a thin orc with that thing between his legs!"

"Gotrek!" Joseph Bergman, who was sipping his homemade dark beer nearby, immediately scolded him upon hearing this: "You shouldn't be so vulgar in front of a lady."

Male dwarves are actually quite vulgar, and they like dirty jokes just like male humans. Of course, if there are female dwarves around, even the most unruly male dwarves will become gentlemen. An Jiyue is not a dwarf, but her current status and reputation in the Mountain Kingdom are not much worse than that of most kings of the fortresses.

"Perhaps I should write a letter to all the brewers' guilds in the fortress," An Jiyue chuckled, and gently wrapped the wound with gauze with both hands. "Just say that in the name of Gazul, the patron saint of the dead, from now on, no dwarf brewery is allowed to sell any drinkable liquid to Gotrek Gonisson."

"Damn it!" The dwarf butcher jumped up and said, "Little Moon, you can't do this!"

The governor looked at the butcher and slowly put away his smile. "Your end is not here and now, Gotrek Gonnisson," the girl stood up and looked at the butcher who was not much shorter than her. "That weird troll is indeed very strong, but it is not strong enough to kill you. It was a decision made by Barel and me to let you retreat, and you swore to obey orders."

Gotrek fell into an oppressive silence. "…I'm sorry, ma'am," he said. "It won't happen again."

"No need to apologize. You followed the order to retreat without hesitation, no matter how much you hated it. You never broke your oath," the girl said. "You just complain too much, and I have no interest in listening to your nagging."

"Let's talk about the next action plan, ma'am," Joseph said quickly as the atmosphere became increasingly oppressive, "I noticed these..." The brewing master frowned, a little stuck. "These warriors don't look like they're going to retreat. Are we going to fight those weird creatures here?"

"King Barel is coming with reinforcements. The defense of Plateau Castle will be taken over by his son, Prince Ragnar Barelson," An Jiyue put away the bottles and jars of medicine one by one. "I suspect the attack by these underground races is not an accident. They are here to attack us."

When the girl mentioned the cheap son of a certain dwarf king, a rather strange expression appeared on her face. As the king of Highland Castle, Barel had a son named Ragnar and a daughter named Valeera - when An Jiyue first heard about this, she almost lost control of her expression.

According to Barrel himself, these two children are part of the "character background setting" arranged by the War Code. After all, a dwarf king who is almost 300 years old cannot have never been married, and continuing the royal bloodline is one of the important responsibilities of the king. Of course, the War Code is still very humane. Barrel's dwarf wife has died many years ago in the "setting", and even in the extremely detailed memory of "Barrel o Magic Hammer", the part involving the relationship between husband and wife is automatically skipped...

Shaking his head, An Jiyue threw away some of the overly weird thoughts in his mind and continued, "Don't worry, the defense of Plateau Castle is strong enough. Barrel and I are going to create a time difference and eliminate these uninvited guys first."

Chapter 85 Dispute

"Why let me retreat?"

This was the first sentence Dorze Void Whisper said after meeting Jilan Soul Blade.

The mind master floating in the air slowly turned around. [Because I can't let you die, teacher.] Jilan lowered the suspension height, and the tentacles hanging down almost touched the ground. [A great existence appeared on the opposite side... That soul was so dazzling in the mind's vision that I felt uncontrollable shaking and panic just by looking at it. I don't have the power to fight against such an existence. I have sent a signal for help to the parliament, and the main force will arrive as soon as possible.]

"How strong?"

[Even Namtaru is inferior to it.]

Namtaru, the most powerful queen in the history of the Nest Clan, bar none. For the Faceless Men, who are naturally indifferent to emotions, there are not many beings that can scare them just by hearing their names, and Namtaru happens to be one of them. In order to eliminate this terrible enemy that once forced them into a desperate situation, the Faceless Clan paid an unimaginable price, and in the end they only sealed it somewhere - they could not kill this terrifying monster at all.

"Namtaru... what a nostalgic name." Long-lost memories surged up from the depths of his consciousness. Dorze lowered his head and found that his hands were shaking slightly uncontrollably. "When I became the Unseeing One, I lost a lot of memories, but I still remember how that monster tore my people apart and turned me into the ugly person I am now."

[You did it, Master. You defeated that monster and saved our tribe.] Jilan raised his right hand and tapped the center of Dorzer's forehead with his sharp nails. [The Council has summoned all the Mind Masters and Unseeing Champions. We will once again fight for the survival of our tribe. As you always said before, this is not the end.]

Neither Dorzer nor Kieran considered the option of "retreating", and they knew that their own people were the same. Getting help from the Chaos Gods comes at a price. In order to defeat Namtaru, the Faceless Men were forced to sign a contract with Tzeentch. On the premise that the Faceless Men could not mutate due to the power of Chaos and the Chaos Corruption could not touch the underground world, they would "fight for Tzeentch once at any cost in the future" in exchange for the Lord of Change's help. Now, it is the Faceless Men's turn to pay the price.

Favors are hard to repay, especially when the person you owe the favor to is an evil god.

"What about the Nest Clan?" Dorzer asked in return: "When we go out in full force, what will happen to our defenses? If the Nest Clan takes the opportunity to launch an attack, even if they don't dare to completely destroy us, after losing most of our territories and slaves, will the Faceless Men still have a future?"

Neither the Faceless nor the Hive dared to push the other side to the edge. If the situation really developed to that point, the tacit agreement of "never letting the Lizardmen discover the existence of the underground world" would be broken, and the defeated party would inevitably stop being silent and actively announce its existence to the surface world in any possible way. This is why the war between the Faceless and the Hive has lasted for tens of thousands of years, but there has never been a winner.

Of course, there are always exceptions. Namtaru not only dared to beat the Faceless Men to death, but also accurately predicted all the Faceless Men's actions to break the silence and countered them one by one. If not for this, the Faceless Men would not be so desperate as to seek hope from the evil gods, and the object of help was the famous Tzeentch (Note 1)!

The mentor's question caused the former apprentice to fall into a long silence. Dorzer looked at his most outstanding and only living apprentice, and his uneasiness grew stronger and stronger.

[We... have made a decision.] Jilan's voice in his heart has never been so difficult. [If the worst happens, we will lift the seal and release Namtaru. This decision has been notified to the Nest Clan through a messenger.]

Where there is power, there is politics, and even magical insects like the Hive are no exception. Namtaru is the greatest queen of the Hive in history, and a ruthless tyrant. Her rule certainly brought the power and territory of the Hive to the peak, but at the same time she also broke the long-standing tribal alliance-style political system of the Hive. With irresistible violence and uncompromising will, she forced all the queens of the Hive to hand over control of their clans, and Namtaru directly managed all the Hive nodes, rather than indirectly ruling these clans through the upper nodes.

After completing the unification of the Hive, Namtaru was crowned as the first Overlord in the history of the Hive, using this new title she created to highlight her supreme status. The reason why the Faceless Ones' desperate struggle was successful was also because the upper nodes who had lost their power suddenly stabbed them in the back at the critical moment.

Every hive queen hates Namtaru, and every hive queen wants to be Namtaru.

If Namtaru escapes, the Faceless Ones will most likely be exterminated. But before that, the traitors will surely be in trouble first, and it is not ruled out that the Nest Clan will even have a civil war because of this.

Dorzer took a deep breath. "Then what was all that we sacrificed for?!" The roar of the Chief Champion of the Invisible Ones made the Mind Master's head buzz. "When the Council made the decision, did they ask us old bastards who are still alive? No, I will never accept such a willful decision!"

[Teacher, we have no choice. And the situation may not develop to that point.]

"When such crazy ideas emerged from your clever little heads, we had already stepped half a foot into the abyss!" Dorzer stared at Jilan: "The parliament is gambling, and the stakes are our entire race."

【teacher……】

“Shut up, I don’t want to listen!” The Chief Champion of the Invisible Ones growled, “I…you…<Faceless Man swearing>! I have no ability to oppose the council’s decision, let alone take any action for it. I can only be forced to acquiesce to all this, but this does not mean that I accept the council’s stupid ideas! Damn it…let’s make the doomsday even crazier!!”

……

Three days later, reinforcements from both sides arrived at the battlefield almost at the same time.

Barrel Magic Hammer personally led a 20,000-man dwarf army to reinforce. In his own words, the job of guarding the house should be left to the short-bearded boy! In order to avoid weakening the defense capabilities of Plateau Fort, among these reinforcements, except for the rangers, ballistae and a few butchers, all were system units that had just been recruited three days ago. For this, the dwarf king spent more than 400,000 points in one go; and the rangers, ballistae and butchers were the armed forces that came with the fortress when Plateau Fort first arrived.

The main force of the entire army is a full 1.5 longbearded warriors. For the Lords of the Holy Scriptures, the dwarf faction has an advantage, that is, the longbearded warriors are core units... Longbearded warriors run slower, but their overall combat power is comparable to that of black orcs (Note 2). Since there are longbearded warriors in the core units, as long as Barrel is conscious, he will not recruit the lower-level version of the longbearded warriors, who are also core units. As for the fact that the longbearded warriors are more expensive than the dwarf warriors, that is not a big deal. The unit price of a longbearded warrior is 4 points higher than that of a dwarf warrior, and the combat power improvement brought by these 4 points is worth the money.

The main ranged forces of the Plateau Fort Legion were 3000 heavy crossbowmen and 90 rune crossbows. An Jiyue felt that there were too few ranged units. After all, heavy crossbowmen were essentially dwarf warriors with crossbows, and in reality, there was no such thing as deliberately weakening the melee capabilities of ranged infantry for the sake of gameplay. However, Barrel convinced An Jiyue: After all, the battle was in an underground tunnel, and the ranged units had limited room to play.

In addition, Barrel also brought five regiments of Ironbreakers and Hammermen, and ten regiments of Highland Hold Rangers. Highland Hold itself had eight regiments of Ironbreakers and five regiments of Hammermen, but Barrel left these troops in the fortress. The Ironbreakers and Hammermen in the reinforcements were newly recruited by the Dwarf King.

Due to the lack of technology tree, many units were not unlocked. Although Barrel was very eager to get the Iron Dragon, he could only put away the two rare cards he drew with regret. The Dwarves have five rare units, namely the Organ Cannon, Flame Cannon, Iron Dragon Hand Artillery, Ranger and Rotor Bomber, and Barrel cannot recruit any of them except the Ranger. As for why the Ranger, which is obviously not rare, appears in the rare units, Dustan Falcon looked at the Eagle Claw Ballista and said that he had to say MMP no matter what.

The rangers of Plateau Fort are full-time standing troops, and they are highly respected. After all, the Emberstone Clan was originally a ranger clan! They are much better than their counterparts in other Fortresses in terms of technical and tactical level and equipment, but even so, they are still not worth a rare card. In the eyes of An Jiyue and Barrel, among the rare units of the dwarves, the most valuable one must be the Iron Dragon Hand Artillery, because the Iron Dragon in the War Codex is a team of 100 people... But the recruitment permission has not been unlocked, and Barrel can only scratch the wall while looking at this thing.

Finally, Barrel brought about a hundred dwarf butchers. These people were not included in the mobilization plan of the dwarf king. They asked to join the war after hearing the news, and Barrel accepted their request.

……

Note 1: Each of the four vendors represents an emotion, Khorne represents hatred, Slaanesh represents love, Tzeentch represents hope, and Nurgle represents despair. This is why Khorne and Slaanesh are mortal enemies, and Tzeentch and Nurgle are mortal enemies, not because "Tzeentch likes change, Nurgle hates change, so T and N are mortal enemies."

Note 2: Although the Black Orcs are stronger than the Longbeards in a certain Total War, that is a game. The Greenskins in the background do not have infantry that can fight against the Ironbreakers and the Hammers. The Greenskins always fight by numbers.

The author says:

Author's words: I saw a comment saying that the underground world is similar to the Dark Forest, and then I realized that it is indeed very similar. However, there is no Cheng Xin here, but everyone is Luo Ji. If the deterrence level is less than 90, I am embarrassed to go out and say hello to people.

Chapter 86: New Soldiers in the Holy Scripture of War

Along with the dwarf army came a group of Zhendan troops and the Skylark Squadron.

Anyway, Tu Wushang has been exposed to Joseph Bergman and others, so some things don't matter anymore. An Jiyue thought about it and recruited ten teams of Tu Wushang and one team of Dajiangjun Cannon. Tu Wushang's frontal combat power is not very good, but his ability to escape underground is still very useful in the underground world; and the team of Dajiangjun Cannon, An Jiyue is going to use it as a killer. These underground races must have never seen gunpowder, and the cannon may play a miraculous role at a critical moment.

In order to allow Tu Wushang and his men to have some output, An Jiyue temporarily borrowed a batch of fine weapons made by dwarven blacksmiths from Barrel to replace the shabby looking rags in Tu Wushang's hands. Of course, they were ordinary goods without runes engraved on them, as cannon fodder like Tu Wushang was not worthy of such high-end things; let alone armor, the spare armor stored in the armory of Plateau Castle was all made for the dwarf's body shape, and there was no time to modify the shape because of the tight time.

Although the new thing is sophisticated, it is not very useful. Tu Wushang's strength is about the same as that of a human, and the axes and hammers used by the dwarves are a bit too heavy for them.

As for why the Skylark Squadron appeared here...

[The prototype of the new soldier template has been sensed, and the target object is being calculated. Current generation progress: 1%]

Dustan Falcon posted a picture in the chat group. According to the Asur leader mage himself, he received the above prompt information from the War Codex after the Skylark Squadron fought the demons on the top of the Plateau Castle for two days. An Jiyue's speculation was confirmed. They can indeed create new soldiers in a specific way.

Perhaps to take care of the Lords of the Holy Scriptures who are in the late stage of the per capita naming weakness syndrome, or of course to avoid some outrageous names, the War Holy Scripture automatically named the new soldier "Tower Guard". The Tower Guard was finalized by the Holy Scripture as a special unit of the High Elves faction, described as a standing professional soldier equipped with dragon armor and fighting in a similar way to the Sea Guard, but there is no more specific information. In other words, the detailed background setting of the Tower Guard has not yet been truly determined.

The progress of the generation of new soldiers does not read automatically, but requires the Lord of the Holy Book to use various means to promote it, including but not limited to establishing the training methods and tactics of the new soldiers, and letting the experimental troops as the prototypes of the new soldiers fight against various enemies on the battlefield. Especially the latter, letting the prototype troops participate in the battle can not only advance the generation progress faster, but also determine what special abilities and expertise the final new soldiers will have.

If it weren't for the fact that the Holy Book of War clearly pointed out that the conditions for the creation of new soldiers also include "equipment distribution, training methods and personnel selection standards must be achievable and popularized by the corresponding faction", Dustan Falcon would definitely equip every soldier in the Skylark Squadron with a full set of magic items to create an extremely luxurious army.

Compared with the new troops, the possible consequences of letting the local dwarves see the elves are nothing. Anyway, a former Supreme King took the Reforger Legion out a few days ago and will not be back for a while.

After leaving the Plateau Fort, the system units that were out of the coverage of the anchor point naturally lost the ability to replenish at any time. In order to prevent the precious prototype troops from being lost without paying attention, Dustan handed over the command of the Skylark Squadron to An Jiyue, and specially entrusted the latter to help take care of his precious bump.

……

After learning that the search team was attacked, An Jiyue immediately determined that this was not an accident.

After rescuing the search team from the siege of the underground race, An Jiyue led the army to confront the army of the Faceless for three days. During this period, there were no major battles, but small conflicts continued. Both sides sent scouts to collect intelligence on the other side and tried to capture prisoners to obtain first-hand information. In this process, the girl finally had a general understanding of her opponent.

"This is a multi-racial slave empire ruled by the Faceless Men," the governor said to the dusty dwarf king. "Soul Search will damage the recipient's soul. The memories obtained through this spell are incomplete and often lack key information, so it can only be used as an auxiliary means... I sent people to capture a few cavemen who seemed to have a certain status, and then used Soul Search on them one by one. Finally, I pieced together a complete picture of our opponent."

"These creatures, called cavemen, are the true natives of the underground world. I suspect they may have lived in the underground world long before the arrival of the Ancient Saints. Due to their living environment, cavemen do not have eyes. I conducted some tests on the captured captives, and the results showed that their ability to perceive the outside world mainly relies on highly developed hearing. Well, basically like Marvel's Daredevil. In addition, they also have infrared senses as a supplement."

"As for the Faceless Men, the cavemen don't know much about their masters. They only know that this is a race with a very small population. Do the Faceless Men have gender distinctions? I don't know. How do the Faceless Men reproduce? I don't know. Another detail worth noting is that the underground race has no spellcasters, at least not according to the knowledge of several cavemen captives. The Faceless Men and their main enemy, the Brood, all use the power of the mind to fight."

Barrel, who was chewing jerky, stopped chewing and said, "Power of the mind?"

"Telekinesis, extrasensory perception, and their extended applications, that's about it. The highest-ranking prisoner my people have captured is a caveman centurion who has been in office for a short time. He has seen his master tear the Nest Clan into pieces with telekinesis. Oh, by the way, didn't I say before that the Faceless Kingdom is a slave empire? The Faceless People's way of dealing with slaves is very unique. They do not rely on violence and fear to maintain their rule, but reshape the slaves' three views through [education], so that the objects of "education" recognize the absolute authority of the Faceless People from the bottom of their hearts."

"Sounds like some particularly powerful brainwashing?" The dwarf king put away the half-eaten piece of jerky and tilted his head.

"Yes. The advantage of this approach is that there is no such thing as a slave uprising on the Faceless side. Only a very small number of cavemen are naturally resistant to the power of the mind and cannot be "civilized". There are too few of them. Even if they are not killed by the Faceless, they can only hide from place to place and cannot pose a threat to the Faceless at all. As for the disadvantages, [Cultivation] takes a lot of time, and a Faceless must lead the whole process. Therefore, the Faceless have never had many slaves, and the replenishment speed is relatively slow. They cannot quickly increase their troops like the Nest Clan."

Hearing this, Barrel pondered for a moment. "Can the effect of 'enlightenment' be removed?" he asked.

"Impossible," An Jiyue shook her head bluntly. "This thing is not a trick like mind control. The essence of [Cultivation] is to turn you into a person who truly recognizes your slave identity and the Faceless Man as your unquestionable master from a physical level, making you absolutely loyal to the Faceless Man. Unless we can find a bald Yuri, we have no way to deal with this thing."

The dwarf king thought for a moment, then asked, "Can the Nest Clan [educate]?"

"No. The Hive is divided into upper nodes with self-awareness and lower nodes that are basically tool bugs. Only some of the upper nodes can use telekinesis. The point is, compared to the Faceless Ones, the upper nodes of the Hive often have more powerful telekinesis, but their skills in using it are far less delicate than those of the Faceless Ones. These smart bugs can't perform such delicate operations. They basically use telekinesis as a stick to hit people, or use telekinesis to indiscriminately cover and bomb people."

"Do you think the 'education' of these fluttering moths," Barrel asked, "is effective on system units?"

"...You asked a question I can't answer, Barrel. The War Codex says that the system units are absolutely loyal to the Lord of the Codex. I don't know how absolute this loyalty is, and I don't really want to test it." An Jiyue crossed her arms and frowned. "It's better to say that after you pointed this out, we already have a reason to eliminate these moths. Well, I seem to understand why the ancient saints want to destroy this race."

……

PS: Ahem, I was stupid at work, and got the emotions corresponding to T and N wrong in the last chapter... Hong Dou Ni Simi Masai! (Bow

Chapter 87 Potential Hidden Dangers

There was something that Barrel didn't say, but An Jiyue already understood the meaning.

If [Education] is effective on system units, then... what about the Lord of the Holy Scripture?

"In fact, this matter may not be as serious as we worry about," An Jiyue analyzed calmly, "The Faceless Ones were driven into the underground world by the Lizardmen. Even their caveman slaves know this. In other words, the war between them and the Nest Clan has lasted for at least 8,000 years. In such a long period of time, I don't believe that the Faceless Ones have not tried to educate the upper nodes of the Nest Clan."