From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 144: Prelude to the melee, ambitious wolf orcs, a surprise

It’s been a long time.

The place where the Big Claw Priest and the young Rat Priest gathered had its own name, and also attracted Rat Warriors to join.

Such places are called noisy ruins.

As time went by, some simple rules were established.

There shall be no theft, looting, or oppression in the noisy ruins.

Even though this rule is difficult to restrict anything.

In the Noisy Ruins, you can buy some food and items sold by the Skaven, some bugs, berries, or bright feathers, some hard scales, a piece of rusty metal, or some other odds and ends.

Use Blood Mushroom Powder as currency.

The lowest quality light red blood mushrooms are dried and ground into powder, which allows for better preservation and becomes a kind of currency among the lower-class ratmen.

At the same time, a wooden plank will be placed in the center of the Noisy Ruins.

Imitating the actions of great men who used stone tablets to record their achievements.

Patterns that carry some simple stories will be painted on the wooden boards.

A whole story of noisy ruins is engraved on a single board.

Although the wooden boards are not very strong, the stories recorded on them cannot be preserved as long as those carved on stone walls.

Once there is a story that can be recorded, even the most stingy Big Claw Priest is willing to pay a sum of blood mushroom powder to carve the story on a wooden board.

Yes, this is a paid service.

But the rats gathered here never get tired of it.

………….

Shuzhan discovered a suspicious direction.

The ratmen priests heading in that direction were almost wiped out.

What you are looking for should be in that direction.

A team of giant rat knights was sent out by Shuzhan.

If this team of giant rat knights comes back soon, Rat War will decide the follow-up based on the news.

But what if this team of giant rat knights didn't come back.

Then Rat War will dispatch troops directly to the battlefield.

On the grassland.

That's near the edge of the towering mountains.

A shallow river meanders through the grassland, nourishing large areas of fertile grass.

The endless melting snow on the towering mountains turned into streams.

Created an evergreen four-season pasture.

Cattle and sheep gather here.

The races that roamed the grasslands also settled here.

Although they didn't get along well.

Competition, fighting, and killing.

The most fertile pastures naturally deserve the most intense struggles.

Until those shining relics of the gods fell down.

The two sheep tribes in the Four Seasons Ranch received the attention of the gods at the same time and began their own rise.

In a very short period of time, the situation on this four-season ranch changed from many small tribes gathering and fighting to a tit-for-tat confrontation between two large sheep tribes.

Obviously, even though the two sides came from the same origin, the gods standing above their heads clearly did not want the other party to stand in the same area with them.

The struggle begins again.

And gradually evolved into a war.

The hatred grew more and more intense, and an irreconcilable hatred formed between the two tribes that belonged to the same large tribe of sheep orcs.

An unreserved attack.

The war between these two sheep tribes was about to be decided.

A mediocre, normal sheep-orc.

One group has large, coiled horns, so perhaps they can be called bighorn sheep.

But in fact, they call themselves the Argali Tribe.

Although they were a bit more special, the coiled sheep horns did not bring them any special advantages.

They were beaten up by the normal sheep orc tribe.

At one point it even reached the point of being destroyed, and then the god of the Argali tribe decisively slid down to his knees.

But he didn't slide down to his knees towards his opponent.

Instead, he slid down to the real overlord of this area, the wolf-orcs who roamed across the grassland.

Lead the wolf into the room?

The wolf-orc army poured into this four-season pasture.

The two sides once united together on this grassland to resist the invasion of wolf-orcs.

However, at this moment, everything changed and the situation of the war reversed.

The normal sheep orcs were no match for them and were beaten up without any suspense.

They were conquered by the wolf-orcs and forcibly taken in to become a vassal of the grassland kingdom.

The statues of their gods were forcibly carried out of the temple by the wolf orcs and moved into the newly built united temple, seated at the position closest to the gate.

Became the third-ranked existence in that pantheon.

It seems pretty good, but this so-called Pantheon only has three gods in total.

The wolf-orc demigod is the main god, the second ranked is the argali god, and the third is the god of these sheep-orcs.

It sounds good, ranking third, but being placed at the door, it means it is a gatekeeper.

Because the sheep beastmen's initial resistance was extremely fierce, causing considerable losses to the wolf beastmen, and their gods also received such treatment. This naturally made the sheep beastmen quite angry, but with the huge gap in strength, they could only accept it.

And the most hateful thing is!
Those despicable argali, those spineless argali, these weaklings who were about to be destroyed by them, suddenly became members of the grassland kingdom.

At the same time, the Four Seasons Ranch was handed over to these argali, and they became managers.

An extremely sharp contradiction thus arose.

In this four-season grassland, as the former quasi-king of this area, even if he was defeated, even if he became a vassal.

But in the end, a lot of strength was preserved.

In other words, the wolf orcs were not killed completely, and most of the sheep orcs' power was deliberately retained.

The argali was promoted to the position of manager.

It seemed that the strategy of inviting the wolf into the house was a great success. They turned the tables in an instant and even turned their old opponents into slaves.

Well, on this grassland they are called vassals, but in fact they are slaves.

The argali became de facto slave owners.

There was just one problem: the power gap between them and the slaves they managed was not that great.

Their position is not secure.

All of a sudden, the wolf-orc army became the force that decided everything.

They must rely on wolf orcs to gain a foothold in this four-season pasture.

To this end, they spared no effort to surrender supplies and provide manpower in exchange for the illusory closeness and help from the wolf beastmen.

As time went by, the wolf-orc army that remained on this Four Seasons Pasture had all left.

However, the continuous supply of materials did not dare to stop at all.

At the same time, the conflict between the argali and the sheep beastmen became increasingly acute.

It seems that the argali are slave owners.

But they seemed to have no whips at all.

I have to admit that this is an extremely clever method.

The wolf orcs only dispatched some troops and did not invest any others, but they gained a loyal ally and a large amount of resources that could be supplied steadily.

As for whether the conflict at the Four Seasons Ranch is acute or not, what direction the future of the two tribes will take.

The wolf-orcs didn't care.

They don't even care who is the dominant force in this area.

It will simply be a matter of sending out another army to carry out a suppression operation. The loser will be demoted but will not be completely killed.

In order to maintain their status, successful people can only continue to do as they did before.

Continue this cycle.

As long as the wolf orcs remain far ahead in military terms, there will be no major problems.

This is a very appropriate approach, even if it has its problems.

The expansion speed is extremely fast, but extremely unstable, and it lacks actual control over most of its territory.

But the expansion is extremely fast, and there is no pressure to govern. Everything can be piled up towards the military, and a huge empire can be established extremely quickly by simply pushing forward violently.

As long as there are no accidents, there is no doubt that the wolf orcs will sweep across the entire vast grassland.

An exceptionally large and exceptionally elite army is about to take shape.

The huge military gap is about to become apparent. At this time, Du Yuan and the half-elf kingdom entrenched in the corner will not be taken seriously by them.

The wolf orc gods have always kept their eyes on the center of this world.

A huge army will pour into the continent from the grassland to fight for the real dominance of this world.

If no accident occurs.

But what the wolf-orc god might not have thought of was that the nameless guy curled up in the corner, the guy who was unknown and had no sense of existence, had quietly ascended to the status of demigod.

He even divided his troops into two places, which was extremely arrogant.

………….

In the layers of hills.

That's where the half-elf kingdom is located.

A very closed area.

There are not many roads to walk on. The roads are uneven, strange and rugged, with low bushes, sparse but continuous trees, climbing vines, hidden poisonous insects and snakes, and wild animals that occasionally show their tracks in the mountains and forests.

These entanglements make it difficult to move forward.

But even so, the ratman priests still led the team into this rugged forest at the first opportunity.

To find something.

The ratman priests of the Waste City have never given up exploring this area of ​​layered hills.

Because of the same important thing.

For the black stone that can ignite fire, Shu Zhan completely gave up on developing industry after he couldn't figure it out.

These rat priests have always had great enthusiasm for industry. Everything in the Waste City is ready. The Waste City has even forged a batch of iron tools using the black stones found in the ruins.

Naturally, I don't want to give up.

However, the only black stone vein was taken over by white rats, so these rat priests turned their attention to the area where the black stone vein appeared.

Yes, the boarmen's coal mines are located just outside those hills.

A large number of ratmen priests were thrown over.

The Waste City, where a large number of senior ratmen priests gather and jointly decide matters, cannot be as decisive as the Furnace City.

With just a thought, you can mobilize an army and march towards the empty area.

But there is also an advantage, that is, when something is determined, the forces gathered in the bloated city can be mobilized together.

In the layered hills, the rat-man priests who were exploring for mineral veins ran into the half-elves who were expanding outward.

　The weather has started to warm up recently. I will be more active once it gets warmer! I think!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)