From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 192: The Wonders of the Rat People and the Circulation of Goods

This war is about to end.

This group of guys who have lost their courage are obviously no longer able to make any waves. Even though they are considered powerful in their respective races and there are still quite a few survivors, they are still a huge army, but they no longer have the courage to fight.

In panic, they wanted to escape, they wanted to escape from the battlefield, but how could the rats let these sacrifices in front of them escape?

The rushing rat-man army joined the massacre.

At this time, an unexpected situation occurred.

Many soldiers in this army knelt down. In fear, they wanted to crawl in front of the ratmen in exchange for a chance to survive. Even the powerful deermen warriors knelt down in a large group. In order to survive, they wanted to survive, even if they had to crawl.

This did have an effect, the rats stopped killing.

Or perhaps this action made it convenient for the rat people, as a living sacrifice was much more valuable than a dead sacrifice.

Even though his hands and feet were tied and he was being dragged forward by the rats, he managed to survive and showed a look of relief.

These guys had no idea what being captured by the ratmen meant.

Those who knelt on the ground were tied up with ropes, and those who refused to surrender were killed on the grassland.

This abandoned chaotic army did not hold out for long before it was completely destroyed. The war officially ended, and a corner of this vast grassland was truly torn away by the rats.

Although this grassland is not even as fertile as the rolling hills where the half-elves live.

But this is, after all, the largest piece of land the rat people have ever conquered at one time.

Shu Zhan was very dissatisfied. He did not keep the wolf orc king, nor did he completely keep the main force of the wolf orcs. The altar of the heretic god was naturally taken away by the wolf orcs who left.

He still couldn't hold a grand ceremony on the ruins of the heretic god's temple. This irritable guy desperately needed a grand celebration to consolidate his position.

But perhaps in the near future the Rat War will not have to worry so much. The tunnel that stretched from the Desolate Mountains has reached the Furnace City. Soon, the Grassland City that guards the throat of this vast grassland will officially welcome greetings from the Underground Rat City.

On this scarlet battlefield, the excited rats were happily and impatiently dragging the slaves behind them. The tall deer people who were still unwilling to accept the wolf orcs were like quiet chickens, still being pulled by the rats who were much shorter than themselves.

There was still a trace of fear on his face.

Teams of ratmen brought back large numbers of slaves, wolf orc corpses, living wolf orcs, dead wolf orcs, seriously injured wolf orcs, intact wolf orcs, mutilated wolf orcs, and the giant wolves ridden by wolf orcs.

All these messy things were pushed in front of the ratman caravan.

Under the scrutiny of the Big Claw Priest who was in charge of the caravan, he carefully selected these wolf beastmen in different states.

The most valuable commodities obtained in this war are these wolf beastmen, living or dead.

Different prices were quoted by the Big Claw Priests, and the sounds of disputes and quarrels echoed in every place where the rat caravans were stationed. After being forced to hand over a large sum of travel fees to Rat War, these Big Claw Priests began to be picky about the goods that were pushed in front of them for sale.

The most valuable are the intact, living wolf orcs and the intact wolf orc corpses without wounds on their bodies. The mutilated and dying wolf orcs are also acceptable.

These guys will be uniformly given some special treatment after being acquired.

The spears would penetrate the brains of the still-living wolf-orcs through their eye sockets and simply stir them.

This completes the process.

This treatment method will not cause additional damage to the leather, and as long as the force is controlled well enough, these specially treated wolf orcs will not even die, although there is not much difference between being treated in this way and being dead.

Expression was dull, mouth was open, unable to stand, unable to think, a living corpse.

The place where the leather is processed is not far from the battlefield. Freshly peeled leather is always of better quality. There is also competition among the rat lords, so they have to improve the quality of their products.

Of course, such treatment would also bring about a problem. There was a high probability that those being treated would suffer from incontinence. As the transaction progressed, an unspeakable stench would waft through the area.

But the rats didn't care. After all, what was circulating in the stench were real blood mushrooms, those huge blood mushrooms that drove people crazy.

The rats pulled up the living corpses and threw them into the cart behind them, where they were piled up together with the real corpses.

This horrifying scene made the anger on the faces of the wolf-orc warriors who were dragged here gradually solidify. They could accept defeat and death, but they could never accept being treated like this and becoming a living corpse with incontinence.

This is really horrifying.

They wanted to resist in fear, but it was obvious that they were all brought here and the outcome of the war had already been decided. They no longer had the qualifications to resist. Even if some nimble guys could kill the ratmen who were dragging them, they would soon be caught by the surrounding ratmen and dragged back to the ratman caravan.

Such behavior is not completely useless.

When capturing these wolf-orc knights who are trying to escape, there is a high probability that the ratmen gathered here will wrestle with each other, and some of them will lose their lives in the fight.

It is commonplace that the surviving ratmen will spontaneously carry the dead ratmen aside and discard them.

Right now, the most useless things on this battlefield are these piles of rat-man corpses.

The transaction continues.

The wolf orc knights felt that such means were too cruel and twisted, and were a trampling on the warriors. Even the wolf orcs who regarded other races on the grassland as lambs would respect those powerful warriors.

But this is not the case at all among the rat people.

"I curse you! I curse your gods! I curse you all!"

A wolf-orc knight with a broken arm who was pinned down by a group of ratmen let out a sharp and distorted roar with a hideous look of fear.

It’s a pity that the rats couldn’t understand what he was shouting.

A ratman mercenary skillfully stabbed a bloodstained spear into the eye socket of the broken-armed wolf-orc warrior and stirred it gently. Soon, the restless wolf-orc knight calmed down. His ferocious expression gradually became dull, and with a foul smell wafting away, he was lifted up and thrown into a cart beside him, joining a group of living and dead bodies around him.

The rat people certainly would not respect a commodity, a product, or some resources, even if the wolf beastmen were particularly expensive.

But wouldn't you respect an expensive product? You would just treat it more carefully.

The wolf warrior with the broken arm should be thankful that the rats don't understand his words. Even though the brain destruction is so evil, it is essentially just a means to better preserve the goods, not a deliberate torture. But if you let them know that you are insulting the great god, then things will really get bad. Believe me, those big claw priests who travel with slave rats all year round have never lacked some real torture methods.

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Desolate mountains.

Next to the Ratman Industrial Zone, a new area was demarcated.

Taking blood mushrooms can indeed greatly prolong the lives of the rat people, but blood mushrooms alone are far from enough for the rat people to break the boundary between life and death engraved in their lives.

The day of death will eventually arrive as scheduled. Of course, even at this time, it is not impossible to continue living.

There is not even just one way to do this; the rats have two paths to choose from.

Becoming a hero is the most direct way, but also the most difficult one. If you have reached the end of your life and are trying to grasp the last straw in front of you, you may daydream about becoming a hero and want to rely on becoming a hero to prolong your life.

Then you will probably never be able to truly become a hero.

This applies to any existence, even if you are one of the most powerful ratmen in the ratman kingdom, even if your body is still full of vitality even at the end of your life with the support of the most colorful blood mushrooms.

But impossible is impossible, this is a dead end.

Then there is another way, another way to prolong life. This way is equally illusory, but for these guys standing at the top of the Ratman Kingdom, the possibility is slightly greater.

Pray to the great god in a grand sacrifice. If the great god is willing to respond to you, then the blessing bestowed by the god will allow you to prolong your life, which has come to an end, by a few minutes.

The existence of the white rat confirms this possibility, and even with the blessing of God, he took that step and became a hero.

Before the establishment of the Rat Kingdom, before the great gods turned their attention to the Rat People, white rats were already active among the Rat People.

And now, the white mouse is still alive.

Even though the white mouse is getting older, it has not yet reached the end of its life.

This is naturally something that people envy and want to imitate. The experience of being chased by death gradually drives people crazy, and they madly want to grab the fragile and ethereal straw in front of them.

Under the whipping of the big-clawed priests, countless slave rats pulled a thick iron chain with great effort, and a huge blast furnace was built in this barren mountain range.

This is the largest blast furnace ever built by the rat people.

Even as tall as the continuous peaks in the desolate mountains, a pitch-black blast furnace, a tall blast furnace, a crazy tall pitch-black blast furnace.

This is definitely the craziest building the ratmen have ever built.

A blast furnace made entirely of metal. This crazy guy invested almost all the resources he had accumulated throughout his life into the construction of this blast furnace. It was with the huge mountains of steel that this dark blast furnace in front of him was built.

The person who built this blast furnace was a Big Claw Priest. It was a very unexpected answer, but not surprising. The Big Claw Priest was the one who was in charge of the construction of the ratman city, and only the Big Claw Priests could build such a huge blast furnace.

And this is just a start, a precursor to building something even crazier.

In order to raise enough steel to forge this black blast furnace, the Desolate Mountains have not exported any metal products to the Ratman Kingdom for a long time.

If it weren't for the arrival of those rat lords, the rat wars fighting deep in the grassland would have long had to deal with a serious problem.

Shortage of weapons.

The Furnace City, which relied on charcoal to start its industry, obviously could not afford the terrifyingly huge demand for weapons brought about by the rapidly expanding army of Rat War, even though Rat War had captured several coal veins during the conquest.

But that was something that happened only recently. In fact, the main logistical pressure of the Rat War's huge army fell on the shoulders of those rat lords.

As for where those high-quality and low-priced weapons came from, they were definitely not from the Furnace City under Shu Zhan’s command, and metal products had long been stopped from flowing out of the Desolate Mountains.

There is only the waste city left.

These rat lords who had already separated from the Senior Priest Alliance began to instinctively unite with those who were in the same situation as them. The huge order from Rat War successfully helped the rat lord working in the Waste City to gain a foothold.

A fierce struggle is taking place between the rat lords and those senior rat priests. The winner has not yet been decided, but the situation seems to have not changed. Even though these senior rat priests have been suppressed by the recruited rat lords, the outline of another huge alliance is faintly emerging.

Desolate mountains.

Just filling this black blast furnace that is as tall as a mountain with ore is not an easy task.

A huge set of gears was embedded by the ratmen into the cliff of the towering mountain.

The ratmen carved out and placed a huge platform on the cliff next to the blast furnace.

A conveyor belt starts from this set of huge gears and stretches down towards the mountains. A huge pile of ore mixed with dark red and brown ores like a hill is pushed to the bottom of the long conveyor belt and is driven by this slowly rotating conveyor belt to flow towards the huge platform built on the towering cliff.

The flowing ore will stop at the platform on the rock wall, and when it accumulates to a certain amount, it will be thrown into the towering black blast furnace in front.

It is hard to imagine that such a project was actually done by the rat people, and it did not take the rat people long from the beginning of construction of this blast furnace to the initial completion.

It's almost a miracle.

Of course, in order to achieve this miracle, a great many things were used.

Countless slave rats, the big-clawed priests who drive these slave rats, giant rats, and a broken blue gear.

The rat people paid a huge price for the successful birth of this miracle.

Whether it is the indicators in the industrial zone that have increased several times, the construction of blast furnaces, the excavation of platforms, or the operation of conveyor belts.

Most of them were built bit by bit at the cost of countless slave rats.

The bones of countless slave rats were used to create this miracle.

(End of this chapter)