698. The Shameless Gnolls Had Used a Plague Weapon! World Tension +100!

698. The Shameless Gnolls Had Used a Plague Weapon! World Tension +100!

"Chief! Two powerful spirits are fighting in the area beyond Blackflame Pass. The concentration of death energy is rising rapidly. The good news is that all the dead on the front lines have been awakened as undead, and there are a great many of them!

"The bad news is that those undead won't obey us at all. They've split into two factions and are fighting each other amid the ruins of Blackflame Pass.

"Not only are they completely useless to us, they're also stopping our soldiers from pushing deeper into enemy territory!"

At the Rending Claw tribe's main camp beyond Blackflame Pass, a gnoll psychic reported the state of the front to Mother Botana, who remained calm-faced. It shouted:

"That ritual that kept summoning wraiths was impressive at first, but it's stopped working now. No new wraiths are being born, and the warriors from those minor tribes can't break through the rear defenses on their own.

"Chief, the vampires and their servants are retreating and evacuating! We can't let them leave so easily!

"Send our people in!

"Wipe them all out here!

"Bring the Slaughter-Lord the massacre it wants to see!"

"Very well. Since you're so devout, you can lead a force and win the glory of slaughter for the Slaughter-Lord."

Mother Botana of the Rending Claw rolled her eyes and called to her guards:

"Someone take this sincere follower of the hunt outside. Give it fifty men and send it to charge the lines at Blackflame Pass! It isn't allowed back until it's killed five hundred enemies!"

The gnoll psychic was stunned.

It hadn't expected that reporting the situation would land it in trouble. Given the state of the eighth position, fifty men would be nowhere near