From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 163: The Daring Guy, the Industry of the Furnace City

A young ratman tremblingly raised a crimson spear.

This young ratman was the ratman warlord from the battlefield just now, except this time he had taken off his armor that was covered in scratches, cracks and blood, and stood nervously in front of Shu Zhan, not even daring to raise his head.

This is a very daring fellow.

A fake Skaven warlord.

Perhaps Shu Zhan should have killed him with a spear, or perhaps he should have hanged him in front of so many ratmen. After all, pretending to be a rat warlord and mobilizing his army was really an overstep.

Took the spear.

"Tell me, if your answer satisfies me.

There's nothing wrong with letting you get what you want.

Just a Skaven warlord."

But this did help a little. Shu Zhan decided to decide whether to give the young rat man in front of him a chance based on the young rat man's answer.

The ratman looked at the young man in front of him with a wicked smile, and uttered words. The opportunity for promotion, which was often used by Shu Zhan as a reward, the opportunity to be promoted to a ratman warlord was not so cheap, although for Shu Zhan it was just a matter of a word.

The young rat man raised his head, with desire in his eyes, which even suppressed his fear.

Without much hesitation, he knelt down heavily and shouted loudly and earnestly.

"Loyalty! I will offer my loyalty! Great commander-in-chief! I will offer you my unreserved loyalty!"

Crawling humbly in front of Shuzhan.

This is an extremely standard answer. For an ordinary young rat man, he doesn't have much to offer, and even fewer words that could impress the big shots.

Offering loyalty is a very standard answer.

But it did not make Shu Zhan very satisfied, it was just a barely acceptable answer.

"You will serve as the vanguard in six wars. If you survive all six wars, you will become the Skaven Warlord."

With a wave of his hand, the somewhat bored Rat Warrior drove the guy in front of him away.

This is undoubtedly a harsh condition. Serving as a vanguard and surviving six wars is not an easy thing to do.

But even so, this young rat man is still grateful.

These poor guys had no choice.

At least Shu Zhan is still willing to give him a chance.

There are always people who are unwilling to be ordinary, even if it means risking their lives.

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Afterwards, the scavenger team that arrived began to clean up the battlefield.

The crude fortress has officially expanded into a city, and Shu Zhan casually gave the new city a name.

Prairie City.

The Rat War did not continue. Almost all the Rat Knights were killed, forcing him to slow down his pace.

But it doesn’t matter. There is no one on this four-season ranch who can be a match for the rats.

A sheep-beast man who only had one breath left and was almost doomed, and an argali tribe member whose spine was broken.

The huge army turned back, and Rat War needed to replenish its strength and recruit troops again.

Of course, this doesn't take too long.

Thanks to the establishment and improvement of the city, as well as the ratmen that kept coming from the rear, there was never a shortage of troops in the Rat War.

As long as he wanted, the army under his command could expand rapidly.

And this war will bring him a huge amount of blood mushrooms.

It won't be long before Rat War comes back again, bringing with him a larger army and gathering more power.

Then trample on more lives.

Of course, if he encounters some righteous, just and calm guys, the manic Rat Zhan will kill them without hesitation.

The bitter wine that was brewed has not yet been swallowed.

A complete follower of the evil god and a manic evil hero.

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Above the sky, in the hazy light, Du Yuan's incarnation folded his arms and calmly looked at the two incarnations of gods in front of him.

Du Yuan, who leaped to the status of demigod, did not have much pressure in dealing with the two apprentice gods in front of him, even if he was just an incarnation.

The hazy light was stretched out, covering up everything that happened in this area.

Until from afar, a pair of eyes were looking at me.

Blocked by another beam of light coming from a distant direction, Du Yuan's real body opened his eyes in the pillar of the underground Rat City Temple in the desolate mountains, and the two sides looked at each other from afar.

In just a moment, they looked away at the same time.

In order to avoid the increase of world repulsion.

The rats chose the most radical path, and Du Yuan did not interfere, although this would bring him a lot of pressure.

Undoubtedly, both demigods will focus their attention on him.

It is inevitable that we will have to do it when the time comes.

Du Yuan might even be beaten up by two people.

But think about it from another perspective. If the ratmen can eat both the half-elves and the wolf orcs at the same time, then Du Yuan's advantage in this subcontinent will be established.

It will be easy to take over this subcontinent later.

As for the possibility of being beaten up, Du Yuan could only ensure one thing, that is, the gods' affairs would be resolved by the gods, and the clan's affairs would be handled by the clan.

This is Du Yuan's confidence as a demigod who has embarked on the path of war and as a demigod of war.

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Prairie City.

The rats encountered a problem, or rather, they discovered a new food.

A pale mushroom with a nice flavor.

Found on the corpses of those sheep-orc riders.

The plague that was extremely terrifying to the sheep-beastmen was not a big deal to the rat people.

It can even be said that the plague was originally caused by the rat people.

The giant sheep carcasses piled up at the water source polluted the water source of most of the Four Seasons Ranch, but in order to give rise to this horrific plague, the involvement of something else was necessary.

When these giant sheep were just abandoned, or even until now, when these giant sheep were swollen and white due to being soaked in the river water, there would still be many ratmen who sneaked here.

Most of them are slave rats.

The slave rats scooped up these whitish giant sheep for food, and they didn't mind eating the carrion.

This would have been nothing, except that some of the slave rats were not careful and fell into the water.

It was also swollen and whitened by the river water.

You'll find some whitish mushrooms growing out of these swollen, whitish slave rats.

Of course, the emergence of this plague did not make the rat people feel anything else.

The only change is the white button mushroom which was discovered and is more delicious.

Even this kind of white mushroom has not been specially cultivated. It is impossible for the rat people to be so extravagant as to use corpses to cultivate this novel white mushroom.

The only choice for rat priests, rat warlords, and those elite rat warriors will be blood mushrooms.

For slave rats, young ratmen, and ordinary ratmen warriors, cave mushrooms are undoubtedly the first choice because they are easier to grow, not picky about the growing environment, and have higher yields.

In particular, these white mushrooms will only appear in large numbers when the corpse begins to rot, and a corpse that has begun to rot certainly cannot be used as a sacrifice in exchange for blood mushrooms.

Although cave mushrooms have become less and less delicious as the ratmen have cultivated them from generation to generation.

All these factors made the delicious white mushroom a short-lived thing.

In front of the grassland city, Shu Zhan held a high-profile reward ceremony.

A large number of ratmen warriors received rewards. Shuzhan was still a trustworthy guy. Of course, the ratmen who received the most generous rewards had died in the chaotic battlefield, so Shuzhan could not give out any rewards. But it was no wonder that Shuzhan was so ungrateful.

After the reward ended, Rat Zhan began to expand his army.

The process went very smoothly.

At the same time, a large number of blood mushrooms flowed into these surviving ratmen warriors, also bringing some new demands.

The need for weapons and protection.

More refined leather armor and high-quality wooden spears made from better wood were produced in large quantities by the weapon workshops and armor workshops in the grassland city.

Of course, it also attracted the attention of some rat priests who had just arrived in Prairie City.

Everyone wants blood mushrooms.

But if you ask these newly arrived ratmen priests to rub wooden spears and sew leather armor, they definitely won't be able to do it.

But these guys who passed by the Crucible City secretly learned a trick from the poor war priests there.

They built some simple blast furnaces to smelt metals.

Yes, under the threat of Rat War, these war priests who had no choice still came up with something, although it might not be what Rat War expected.

But they were able to actually produce iron.

In the Furnace City at this time.

The blast furnace and rat-powered forging hammer that were built to imitate the Desolate Mountain Industrial Zone were all abandoned and demolished.

Instead, there was a huge earthen kiln. All the openings of the kiln were blocked, leaving only a large hole on the top. A large amount of wood was burned and sent into the kiln.

A large number of war priests stood guard in front of the mound.

Busy.

A giant hourglass was constructed.

Keeping track of time, when the last bit of sand in the hourglass flows down, the rough little bells will ring while shaking.

At the prompt of the bell, a large number of war priests will block the big hole left in the earthen kiln with moist soil.

Such scenes occur frequently in this melting pot city.

These war priests are burning charcoal.

It can only be said that in order to survive, intelligent creatures always have great potential. The desperate war priests initially set their sights on the trees that dotted the forest.

It just failed, as wood alone could not melt metal. However, some black pieces of wood that could still be ignited were found in the burning wood.

In order to survive, these war priests exerted their full potential and began to use a large amount of black stone obtained from wood.

They quickly figured out the conditions for producing charcoal, and earthen kilns for burning charcoal were built.

But charcoal is not as good as coal after all, and there is a difference in the amount of heat they can provide.

The blast furnace was no longer needed, and much smaller furnaces were built with difficulty, and some hard but fragile pig iron was produced in the Furnace City.

(End of this chapter)