From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 169: The Wolf Knight Commander's Doubts, Flag and His Defective Slave Rats

There are always young guys who do a lot of ridiculous and bizarre things for a lot of things.

The same could be said of the young Skaven warlord.

The only difference between him and those weird guys is that he did half of it.

He was not killed by the Argali Knight on the battlefield, nor was he executed by the Rat Warrior when he was in a bad mood.

It is even possible to become a true Skaven warlord, although this possibility is not high.

But he felt he could do it.

Full of confidence.

He even gave himself a name, Qi!
Yes, that’s the flag!

Those fluttering battle flags, the battle flag in his own hand, and the battle flag in the commander-in-chief's hand, these were the most sacred things he had ever seen.

Name your own name like this.

He would become a Skaven warlord, with his own banner.

Although before that, he had to survive six wars as a vanguard in brutal wars.

Can succeed.

But before that, he has to form his own team.

He volunteered to participate in the defense of the city under construction.

Leading a team of rabble with obvious confusion on their faces, and many members even limping.

There is no doubt that most of these guys should be slave rats, and they should be slave rats that were injured during heavy work and were abandoned or escaped spontaneously.

Such situations are not uncommon.

Whether in the underground rat city or in this newly built grassland city.

The escaped slave rats will hide in every corner of the city, living in the shadows.

Become part of a large and complex city.

Become a true rat among the ratmen, surviving on the redundancy and waste generated by the city.

And they will spontaneously gather together and exist in the form of tribes.

What is very interesting is that these escaped slave rats also believe in gods devoutly, and there is mutual hostility and conquest between tribes.

Even in the urban area where they survive, the waste and redundancy produced by the city are clearly enough to support the existence of both parties.

The reason for the war was for the gods, and the conquered enemies would be killed in front of the altar with haphazard paintings.

Their war is not only for food and living space, but also for faith.

Even the great gods never seem to have paid attention to the guys gathering in these dark corners.

And this young prospective rat warlord, Qi, somehow managed to capture a slave rat tribe hiding in the dark corners of the grassland city.

Faced with the flag bearer wearing full body armor, these guys trembled and chose to surrender.

Then they were taken away from the grassland city and stepped onto the vast grassland. Most of them had an irrepressible confusion on their faces, while a small number of them had a little more desire in their eyes as they thought.

Carefully avoiding other ratmen troops passing by, they followed closely behind the flag bearer in the lead.

Surprisingly, they did not have much resentment towards the flag that forced them into conscription.

It might be because of the words that were thrown out casually when the flag was conscripted into the army.

"From today on, you are my warriors!"

It’s just such a simple sentence.

But it gave these humble guys some hope.

Staggering and limping, they followed the flag on this vast snow-covered grassland.

This is an extremely simple team of ratmen.

This is true even in the mixed scavenging team. No matter how poor the scavenging team captains are, they will find ways to fill their teams with some healthy slave rats.

It can at least make me feel more at ease.

The rat city under construction welcomed its first batch of defenders, a large group of rabble.

Outside the ratman city, the wolf knight commander who was watching from afar frowned.

The arrival of the ratmen army was somewhat beyond his expectations.

Were the sheep orcs and argali tribes on this grassland defeated by such enemies?
Even if you watch from a distance, what you see is not so clear, but that huge group of ratmen gathered together, that messy group, does not look threatening at all.

Just one glance, and a word involuntarily emerged in the mind of the wolf orc commander.

Weak.

You can't expect anything from most of the ratmen scavengers, it's unrealistic.

In fact, most of the rat-man scavenging teams are just here to make up the numbers, hoping that this group of mobs gathered together can attract more attention from enemies outside the city and provide some cover for the material transport teams trekking across the grassland.

The construction of the city cannot stop.

Due to the soft soil, the excavation of underground tunnels also encountered great problems. Each section of the underground tunnel had to be reinforced before it could be put into use.

It's not that I'm worried about the safety of the ratmen traveling through the underground tunnels.

However, if the tunnel collapses frequently, it cannot be used to transport supplies.

Those rat cities that are closer to the towering mountains are okay, but this city is really located deep in the grassland.

Even if this group of joint investment mice were determined to build such an underground tunnel, the investment would be too high.

The builders of these cities were not wealthy priests from underground rat cities.

The only option is to rely on slave rats to pull and carry resources across the grassland.

Even the giant rats had to stop at the last city.

Because the group of argali riders had already robbed a team carrying supplies with giant rats.

The losses caused by the large-scale loss of giant rats were simply unbearable.

But the construction of the city cannot be stopped.

Too much has been invested, really too much has been invested.

Fortunately, there are still some hope.

Even though the enemy was weak, the Wolf Knight Commander still acted extremely cautiously.

There have always been only small groups of argali riders wandering around this ratman city.

The half-erected low stone wall and the dense trenches dug around the city played a certain role.

It can greatly limit the mobility of knight units.

But those transport teams were not so lucky and did not have much deterrent power.

A galloping argali rider could easily defeat a large convoy in a single charge.

At this time, you can see a large number of slave rats running wildly on the grassland in panic.

Among the harassing argali riders.

The wolf-orc commander was mixed in with them.

He looked with confusion at the large amount of supplies abandoned by the transport team in front of him.

Large pieces of stone.

Just big slabs of stone?
What about food?
I turned my eyes to the messy camp not far away. There were so many people gathered there, but why were the only logistical transportation items these large pieces of stone?
The Wolf Knight Commander couldn't help but look more confused.

However, this question did not confuse the Wolf Knight Commander for too long.

The answer came quickly.

Starting from the ratman city, the surrounding grasslands are becoming desolate at a very fast speed. The joint investors who hired the scavenger team did not provide food.

No care for logistics.

But so many ratmen still need to eat, and fortunately on this grassland, they are not so short of plants.

The grasslands have been destructively exploited.

Even the tough grass roots were not spared.

Even rat people cannot withstand eating grass for a long time and will gradually become weak.

But it is obvious that this problem is just a matter of adaptation for the slave rats.

Slave rats are not allowed to be picky about food.

The weakness caused by eating grass was solved by a simple method.

That is to eat more grass.

Even though they were clearly feeling full, the slave rats would not give up eating because the energy content in the grass was too low.

Only by stuffing enough grass into your stomach can you ensure that you will not become weak from day-to-day fatigue.

But sometimes, if you can't grasp the importance of the problem, you may end up eating too much and die.

This habit has caused the slave rats' consumption of grassland to increase several times. The grassland near the grassland city has shown signs of desertification, and the lush grassland has gradually transformed into a barren Gobi, where rats gather in large numbers.

in the city.

Behind a low wall, Qi and his team were stationed here.

This prospective Skaven warlord was apparently not wealthy.

At this time, he was squatting on the ground and eating grass with his subordinates.

But even though he ate grass, the food he ate was still much better than the slave rats under his command.

At least he ate the freshest and tenderest parts of the grass, and he didn't have to collect it himself.

A fat worm was carefully pushed up by a skinny slave rat.

The flag was taken over.

Just to ask a question.

"My Lord! My Lord! Can we really become your warriors, those rat warriors?"

Asked cautiously.

This was a thin fellow, and precisely because of his thinness, he was not even qualified to be a ratman warrior. He spent his childhood in a breeding house and was then directly sold as a slave rat.

In response to such a question, Qi patted the thin guy casually.

"Of course! As long as you gather under my banner and pledge your loyalty to me!"

Such an action made the skinny slave rat feel flattered.

But at this moment, many of the defective ratmen gathered around Qi raised their heads with desire.

A large proportion of the slave rats escaped because of various defects, and only these guys with defects were more likely to escape.

Because whether it is the slave owner in charge or the Big Claw Priest, there is a high possibility that they will ignore a disabled and useless guy.

Of course, there is also the possibility of being executed as a sacrifice.

If it weren't for the negligence of the temple guards.

The temple guards have a certain degree of discrimination against slave rats. These hard-working guys are thin, unqualified, and even dirty.

I always feel like being thrown into a pool of blood is a kind of defilement.

Therefore, there were quantity requirements for the sacrifice of slave rats. A certain number had to be drawn at one time before they could be thrown into the blood pool as sacrifices.

Of course, this kind of discrimination is not just directed at slave rats. In fact, goblins, murlocs, and temple guards are also treated equally.

However, the latter two often gather together, and it is possible to catch a lot of them at one time, and slave rats still have a certain value.

At least it is not cost-effective to buy slave rats and then sacrifice them directly.

So the slave rats would be taken for sacrifice.

But overall it caused a lot of trouble and gave these guys the possibility to escape.

But now, the carefree Qi is willing to give these guys a chance.

This sentence was firmly remembered by many defective slave rats.

Especially the skinny slave rat who was patted on the shoulder by Qi.

There was a hint of excitement on his face, and he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"loyalty!"

It’s just that they didn’t hear the last sentence, or in their excitement, they deliberately ignored Qi’s last sentence. Of course, it’s also possible that they didn’t understand it.

"As long as you stay with me through six wars."

An even more impossible goal to achieve.

It is hard to say whether Qi himself can survive six wars and make Rat War fulfill his promise, let alone these slave rats are already defective and inferior.

But strangely, at this moment, these defective slave rats gathered around the flag seemed to be more alert.

It was as if at this moment, I had finally crawled out from that dark corner.

He fixed his fanatical gaze on the carefree Qi who was chewing a fat insect.

Qi was aware of it later.

The armor plate was pushed up, revealing the shape of the flag.

An ordinary gray-haired rat man.

An ordinary young gray-haired rat man stood up from the ground and raised his arms high, under the gaze of this group of defective slave rats and the gaze of his own warriors.

Show a carefree smile.

"Believe me, I am the flag!"

By stating his unknown name, he seemed to be more like a warlord.

It feels a bit weird though.

This kind of behavior is undoubtedly unique among the rat people.

A strange guy.

But it is undoubtedly very effective.

The eyes directed at him became more fanatical, and he easily won the loyalty of this remnant ratman tribe under his command.

Until a crossbow arrow flew across the sky and hit the low wall beside the flag with a sound of breaking through the air.

Not far away, a city defense crossbow placed in the city was fired, but it was obvious that the guy who fired the shot was not accurate enough and almost hung the flag on the low wall.

Qi immediately wanted to curse.

But from a distance, I saw that the guy with poor aim had finished reloading.

Suddenly, he didn't care about anything else and quickly lay down.

"Damn it! Don't let me catch you later!"

Curses were uttered.

That’s right, it’s still a rat man.

A strange rat-man.

The wolf knight commander finally couldn't hold back any longer and launched the first tentative attack. A group of argali knights were pushed out and attacked the ratman city which had only just begun to be built.

(End of this chapter)