From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 1: Desert and Skaven
In the barren woodland.

A group of short figures knelt in front of a stone pillar carved with mysterious patterns, shouting something loudly. From time to time, figures would emerge from the cracks in the caves between the mountains and rocks and join the shouting team.

Soon it gathered into a huge wave of sound, a mysterious connection was established, and a vague shadow appeared in the sky.

Shadow's face didn't look good.

Because of the barrenness of the area, and because of the types of creatures that prayed to him.

Shouting and praying to him were a swarm of dwarf rat-men.

Du Yuan really won the lottery, but it was not the grand prize, but a bad one.

Neither the desert nor the ratmen are good choices. Logically speaking, the anchor he dropped using the divine fire altar is not as good as the various divine objects blessed by those well-off guys.

But there should be an average value, but what is this place? A desert, one of the least suitable environments for dropping an anchor. The barren environment can make any trainee god whose clan has food needs miserable.

Ratmen are one of the least suitable races to be chosen as a clan member. They are cunning, cowardly, weak, and have very poor organizational skills. Although they have strong fertility and are easy to feed, their souls are weak. The faith provided by three ratman believers can barely compare to that of a standard believer of an intelligent race.

Compared with the ratmen, even the goblins seem to have some advantages. At least the goblins can fight better than the ratmen.

Du Yuan covered his forehead, feeling a little headache.

He was a little tempted to give up this anchoring. Perhaps it would be wiser to prepare for the next anchoring earlier, but this was already Du Yuan's third anchoring, and the academy would only provide four free anchoring opportunities.

It is not easy for an apprentice god to successfully anchor, and there is a chance of failure.

The Divine Fire Array will only rigidly place anchors into qualified world fragments. The breath of the gods will instinctively attract nearby intelligent races. If the attracted intelligent creatures can successfully offer their faith to themselves before the breath of the gods dissipates, a connection can be established.

That means anchoring is successful.

Otherwise, anchoring fails.

The first time Du Yuan encountered a group of deer people, a very good initial clan. Du Yuan used the Spirit Rain Technique to seduce the little deer people inside, and it seemed that he was about to succeed, but when the deer people elder noticed Du Yuan's presence, he took all the deer people away directly.

Anchoring failed.

The second time, there was a group of fishmen who had a strong desire to believe in Du Yuan, and suddenly there were many more believers.

However, the Nagas who surrounded them did not agree with this. Soon after, all the murlocs were killed and Du Yuan's temporary anchor point was also surrounded by this group of Nagas.

It was smashed on the spot by the priest who arrived later.

Anchoring failed.

The third time was this group of ratmen, and they were ratmen who caused trouble. Du Yuan, who was floating in the sky, saw from a high vantage point a group of lizardmen coming out of the distant forest. They rushed straight towards the location of the ratmen, obviously running towards this group of ratmen.

He was helpless, but he didn't dare to gamble. What if the next time was even worse and more outrageous? Then he would temporarily have nothing to do with the word "God".

After all, apart from the free times provided by the academy, his family financial situation did not support him to perform the Sacred Fire Ritual again.

And according to rumors, the anchoring location provided by the academy this time is somewhat special. It would be amazing if one could gain a foothold there, although those who spread the news couldn't say exactly how amazing it would be.

There are not many opportunities left, there is no other way. Even facing a double disadvantage, Du Yuan has to try to break the situation.

He cast his gaze towards the rat man praying beneath him, and perhaps because his expectations were low enough, he unexpectedly discovered some bright spots.

There are quite a lot of ratmen here, numbering over a thousand. Compared with the normal sacred fire rituals where there are only two or three big and small cats or the various original races that number at least a dozen and at most a few hundred, this group of ratmen is ridiculously numerous.

But ratmen have a strong reproductive capacity, so when you think about this, this number seems reasonable.

The current situation no longer allows him to wait for the price and choose patiently.

But even though he had no choice, Du Yuan still planned to verify those widely circulated claims.

For example, the fighting power and morale of the ratmen. If they really have no desire to fight and only know how to run away, then even if the chances are slim next time, they can only take another gamble.

His eyes fell on the lizardman coming from afar.

There are only fifteen lizardmen, while there are thousands of ratmen gathered here. If Du Yuan cannot defeat fifteen ratmen with a thousand, then even if he has to gamble on that last chance, he will never choose them.

The power of faith from below continued to flow in, and more and more ratmen kneeling on the ground were transformed into Du Yuan's believers. The trend was urgent and pressing.

But when Du Yuan carefully sensed it, he found that most of them were shallow believers.

But it’s not a big problem. Since these rat people are praying for my arrival, it is reasonable for them to accept my test.

A golden light burst out from the stone pillar, and a picture immediately appeared in the minds of the surrounding ratmen. In the picture, there was a lizardman coming from afar and a simple word.

Probably means.

kill!

At this moment, the chaotic prayers surrounding the stone pillar paused, and the rats looked at each other. This was an easy to understand meaning. The unknown god on whom they placed their hopes had made a request.

They were driven out of the forest by this group of lizardmen, and they couldn't help but hesitate.

While the rats were still hesitating, the lizardmen not far away were getting closer and closer and had already appeared in the rats' sight.

This caused a commotion, and facing the approaching lizardmen, these ratmen subconsciously wanted to escape.

At this time, a rat man stood up.

In front of the stone pillar, the rat man stood up, waved the wooden spear in his hand, and shouted loudly in a sharp voice.

"We're going to kill those lizardmen!"

There was no response, and the other ratmen still looked timid. Without hesitation, the ratman wielding the wooden spear stabbed the nearest timid ratman to death with one spear.

He shouted again in a shrill voice.

"We're going to kill those lizardmen!"

The red eyes looked around, and this time no rat man dared to hesitate.

"We're going to kill those lizardmen!"

Just like that, sporadic cries were heard, and after repeating several times, all the rats in the mountains began to shout in that sharp voice.

The preparations for the war are complete.

"Kill them! Sacrifice to the gods!"

The rats followed the spear rats' example and shouted together. In a chaotic manner, they charged towards the group of lizardmen in the distance.

This scene was seen by Du Yuan in the sky.

I felt a little more relieved.

At least these guys are not that cowardly.

His gaze did not linger for long on the ratmen charging in large numbers. There was really nothing to appreciate in such a large-scale charge. Instead, he looked at the wooden spear ratman who stood out first.

He seemed to have the potential to be a hero.

(End of this chapter)