According to what had been said when they first met Vilanth in Baphomet's Great Dungeon, Mejewa, one of the thirteen Shadow Elf families, had already fallen to Dusk's assault about half a year before the Black Calamity broke out.
It was said to have been a trial run, with the Scholar's biological researchers testing the combat capabilities of ratmen.
Evil scientists were a scourge in any world. They truly had no sense of public responsibility whatsoever. Especially after the ratmen went out of control, those people had made no effort to clean up their mess. They had simply abandoned the ratmen and moved on to research even more dangerous things.
But in terms of destructive power and sheer madness, this group of doomsday scientists really knew how to stir up trouble.
After their ratman breeding project failed, they came up with the outrageous locust plague. It was hard not to sigh at how the abuse of technology so often marked the beginning of a disaster.
Back to Mejewa City.
After the ratmen occupied the city, they did not launch any especially explosive invasions. While various crises arose one after another in other parts of the continent, the Eternal Rift maintained a relatively balanced state for a long time.
The Shadow Elves launched a war to drive out the ratmen, but it eventually petered out. The ratmen also tried to invade Shadow Elf territory in search of more food, but their offensive stopped after they broke through the family's main city near Mejewa City. They had not even managed to hold onto the city of the Pamiu family after conquering it. They had simply gorged themselves, then lost it to the Shadow Elves again.
The border between the two sides ran near the underground caves leading from Mejewa City into the