From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 18, The rats are coming!
And if Du Yuan wants to deal with these eight hundred lizardmen, he needs at least three thousand ratmen warriors. Before meeting Du Yuan, these ratmen had no classification or concept of ratmen warriors as a group, but it doesn't matter, because they have it now.

In order to feed these 3,000 ratmen warriors and the equally growing number of ratmen priests, all the remaining ratmen must be turned into slave rats. Based on the food consumed by slave rats, it is estimated that more than 4,000 slave rats are needed to feed the ratmen warriors and priests.

But in reality, according to the slave rats' indifferent attitude of crazy exploitation and the pitiful food supply, one portion of food might be shared by three to five slave rats, so the actual number of slave rats might be between ten thousand and twenty thousand.

This is the only way to support the 3,000 ratmen warriors who are comparable to human militias.

Now, Du Yuan has accumulated nearly a thousand ratmen warriors.

Du Yuan felt that it would take about six months in the clan world to accumulate the remaining two thousand.

Du Yuan really wanted Li Sheng to ignore him for a few more days, but today, the situation changed. At the edge of the forest, the lizardmen abnormally left the wall and began to gather in large numbers on this side of the desolate mountains.

Soon, a 300-man lizardman army appeared at the edge of the forest, including 100 lizardman warriors and 200 lizardman militiamen, who were fully prepared.

Almost at the moment of completing preparations, the team rushed towards the ratman army led by spear rats in the distance with great momentum.

But the Spear Rat was not stupid. It had no intention of engaging in a head-on confrontation with the Lizardman army. It fled towards the depths of the mountains with the help of many other ratmen.

However, the posture this time was much different from the previous ones. The Lizardmen did not chase the fleeing rats, nor did they show off their might in the abandoned settlement of the Spear Rats as usual. Instead, they began to advance into the depths of the mountains.

In the forest, another group of much shorter lizardmen came out, carrying large and small logs, and built an outpost at the spear rat's base.

Du Yuan noticed this change and the lizardman began to exert his strength.

In the next few days, the Lizardman army began a crazy advance as if they were in an empty land. The rat people failed to organize an effective resistance and fled at the sight of them.

All of a sudden, the lizardmen advanced deep into the mountains.

From this position, calculated from the starting point of the Lizardman army, they are already halfway to Du Yuan's altar.

Faced with this increasingly dangerous situation, Du Yuan did not issue any oracles to the rats. He kept watching what was happening here, and also took in the rats' spontaneous movements.

If it wasn't necessary, Du Yuan wasn't going to interfere with the arrangements of his own group of rats.

It is impossible to do everything by oneself, especially for a god who holds the lifeblood of an entire race.

Although this battle was very crucial for Du Yuan, he had been closely following the development of the situation over the past few days.

On the other side, a similarly illusory shadow was also suspended above the forest, its sights falling on the lizardman army that was moving away from the forest and into the depths of the mountains.

He frowned, although he didn't think that a group of ratmen could transcend the shackles of race and undergo a complete transformation in such a short period of time, becoming unparalleled in bravery.

But it's strange, it went too smoothly, everything went too smoothly, so smoothly that it made people alert.

Li Sheng also didn't think that someone who dared to provoke him like this would be so reckless as to not make any preparations or have any trump cards.

So where exactly are the other party's preparations and plans?

He looked at the Lizardman army that had penetrated deep into the mountains and the outposts that spread along the way, and suddenly he had an idea.

Was it intentional? Could it be that the other side's purpose was to put their main force deep into the mountains?

But what would that do? Did he really think he could defeat his army of lizardmen with those weak ratmen?

This possibility certainly exists, but Li Sheng doesn't think that the ratmen under Du Yuan's command can do it. This desolate mountain range is too barren.

If development is difficult to maintain, how can we achieve more?
However, after this idea appeared in Li Sheng's mind, he could not get it out of his mind. No matter how he thought about it, it was not right. This mountain range was too barren.

Even the goblins, whose survival ability is almost as good as that of the ratmen, can't be found in this mountain range.

Mr. Li didn't think it through.

Obviously, he did not expect that Du Yuan had accepted the blood sacrifice and burned the extremely precious power of faith for that little bit of food.

Running wildly towards the path of the evil god will always bring you some special gains.

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At night, in this desolate mountain range, the Lizardmen lit a campfire. The dry wind blew with fine sand and gravel on the hard scales on the Lizardmen's surfaces, making most of them feel a little uncomfortable, but it was just discomfort.

They are not as dependent on water as their amphibious relatives, the water lizardmen, who live near water sources and have lost most of their scales.

The hard and dense scales growing on its body provide good water retention and very good defense, and it is not overly afraid of dry environments and blowing sand.

However, if given a choice, Lizardmen would certainly prefer to move around in dense forests.

This barren, desolate mountain environment is far from comfortable.

In the camp, the strongest lizardman leader sat cross-legged in front of the fire, looking thoughtful. The overly smooth progress made him feel a little more worried.

Although the rats were weak, they were not completely powerless to resist. However, during the advance, they had no intention of resisting and fled at the sight of the enemy.

The brave Lizardmen warriors were disdainful of the weakness of the rats and began to proudly cheer for the victory that was within their grasp.

But as the leader of the lizardmen, I cannot be as careless as the warriors.

But what exactly do they want to do?

Suddenly, the commotion in the camp interrupted the Lizardman leader's thoughts, and he looked in the direction the Lizardman warrior was looking.

The answer seems to have been revealed by the opponent.

In the distance, a ball of fire suddenly exploded and began to spread along the mountains and along the path they came from.

That's the outpost's warning signal!
In the distance, on the top of the towering mountains, pairs of red eyes appeared dimly on the mountains, so many that they were difficult to count.

Under the soft moonlight.

A high-pitched, sharp scream was heard.

The rats are coming!
(End of this chapter)