From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 247: Strange Slavery, the Majesty of the Rat Commander
In a rat-man camp, a rat-man priest leading a group of giant rat-men visited. He came at the right time, as the rat war was almost ready.

There are countless ratmen gathered here, a huge crowd, sharp and piercing noises, and ratmen running around wantonly.

This is an extremely large gathering place of ratmen.

After leaving the vast grassland and entering the main continent, especially after the world returned to darkness, the rat people were like fish into the sea. They no longer had to worry about the flexible cavalry units that might appear at any time, and naturally abandoned the habit of building cities. In the darkness, human vision was limited, and there was no need to worry about enemy attacks. Thus, scattered gathering camps became the mainstream.

The traces of the ratman caravans appeared again behind the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

This time, it was not only to purchase the spoils of the war, but also to sell some new and novel things to the rat warriors. The changes in the world affected a wide range of things.

The sudden abundance of food caused the rat people's population to explode in a terrifying way. Such a short-lived gift might only mean a moment of abundance for other races, but it was an incomparable help to the rat people.

There is abundant food. Just harvest those plants that are gradually becoming crooked and deformed in that area, and the food you get will be incomparably abundant. This great abundance even made the big-clawed priests abandon the good habit of recycling unqualified individuals to make baby food.

When the babies in the bellies of pregnant human women were only half developed, a terrifying number of first-generation ratmen cubs were born during this gap of abundance, and the second round of births had already entered the preparation stage.

The rat people consume environmental resources at a terrifying rate and without restraint.

However, these influences have not yet been spread out. The rat cubs still have some time to mature. At least three months later, this group of young rats will truly enter the screening stage.

At that time, all the unqualified guys will be used as slave rats, and the guys who meet the standards will be separated into a separate area. Their final result will be that they will be put in the window like commodities waiting to be picked by qualified guys.

As long as you can wave the blood mushroom in your hand at these big claw priests, you can choose any of these slave rats and young ratmen.

The Skaven's slavery is imperfect.

There are no laws to protect the ownership of the goods purchased by those who wield blood mushrooms to buy young ratmen and slave rats.

But on the contrary, the guys who buy young ratmen and slave rats have unlimited rights.

Because as long as you can suppress them, no one will care what you do with these young ratmen and slave rats.

They are usually not used for sacrifice directly. In any case, the cost of these slave rats you purchase is higher than the blood mushrooms obtained by direct sacrifice.

This is also the case even in this moment of abundance, when the number of young ratmen will experience an unparalleled explosion.

For a very simple reason.

If this matter itself is profitable, then these big claw priests will do it themselves. If the cost of training a young ratman is lower than the blood mushrooms obtained by sacrificing a young ratman, believe me, the transformation will be completed smoothly in an instant, and the breeding house will no longer be a breeding house, but will be directly transformed into a flesh and blood factory.

Contrary to the unlimited rights enjoyed by these ratmen slave owners, all ratmen are theoretically free. As long as they can tear the throat of the slave owner, they are free and no one will pursue the matter.

This rule applies even to slave rats, but there is a problem. I am an ordinary ratman, or a slave rat. How can I kill a mercenary leader, a rancher, a big claw priest, a rat priest, a rat warlord, and those temple guards?

This seems to be an unsolvable problem.

But there is still a chance. Every year, various rat people die for various reasons, including some guys in power. Whenever this happens, a huge commotion and rout will occur.

This is something many of the Skaven Freemen go through before they truly become one.

A strange social logic, strange rat-man slavery.

The impact of the sudden prosperity was immediate. In the unparalleled prosperity, the power that each rat caravan could mobilize expanded rapidly, and their trade scope also expanded further.

Began to include ordinary ratmen warriors in the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

You don't need a lot of blood mushrooms, just a brand new spear and a piece of leather armor can be handed directly to you. It doesn't matter whether you are poor or rich. Even if you can only take out some yellowish and black blood mushroom powder, there will be tattered equipment just brought down from the battlefield in the ratman caravan and handed to you.

Although the blood mushroom powder is not only despised by the rat lords behind the caravans, but also by the big claw priests in charge of the caravans, it can also be mixed with cave mushrooms as feed for the giant rats. These giant rats that exist as camels in the rat caravans are treated much better than slave rats, and even ordinary rat mercenaries are far inferior to them.

Of course, if you are very wealthy and have gained a lot of merit in a robbery, then these ratman caravans can still serve you, whether it is the full body leather armor inlaid with metal armor plates, or the same full body armor as the Ferocious Knight, or even the bright silver armor on the temple guards can all be included in the ranks of commodities.

Not every caravan can provide such a special product as the bright silver armor of the temple guards. The quality is even far inferior to the armor worn by the real temple guards, and it does not have those complicated patterns engraved on it.

A heartfelt contribution from a mysterious caravan that travels between the main continent and the desolate mountains.

As the finale product, not many ratmen warriors will actually buy it. After all, it’s not that the bright silver armor of the temple guards is not attractive, but the dark full body armor of the same style as the ferocious knight is more cost-effective.

But no rat caravan would consider a rat war. The gold content of the Ferocious Knight's full body armor is much lower than that of the bright silver armor of the temple guards. It is not only produced in the Waste City, but also in the Furnace City. This is a hot-selling product. Even if you pay more, you can get a one-to-one copy of the god's pattern. If you pay more, you can get it fully engraved.

The high-end caravan version even looks much more luxurious than the authentic Brutal Knight under Shu Zhan, and for a moment, it was unclear who the real Brutal Knight is.

This situation made Shu Zhan very nervous for a while, but it was obvious that there was no such thing as appearance protection in the Ratman Empire, and Shu Zhan's face was not big enough to make those ratman lords feel as cautious as they did when facing the temple guards.

This situation caused the Brutal Knights to spread all over the Ratman Empire in an extremely rampant state. What was even more unsettling was that these guys who could afford the commercial version of the black armor were not bad in combat power. If you let a single Brutal Knight fight against them alone, he would most likely be beaten up. The real Brutal Knights would be beaten up.

Although the advantage of the Brutal Knights is not in a one-on-one duel, as long as they gather in a group, these guys are definitely the second strongest team in the Ratman Empire, second only to the temple guards.

Compared with other rat-man formations, they were able to form an absolute crushing advantage. It can only be said that it was unfair for them to follow the notorious guy, Rat War. For this situation, the always manic Rat War accepted it with a pinch of his nose.

When the troops were reunited on the main continent, these ratman caravans naturally completed a deep bond with the Eastern Expeditionary Force, to the point where even Ratman himself was reluctant to let go.

Compared to those idiots under his command, these ratman caravans are really useful.

Rat War had given up preparing equipment for all the troops except the Ratman Overwatch Team, Ratman Knights and the Brutal Knights. However, this approach not only failed to return most of the Eastern Expeditionary Force to the era of wooden spears, but the equipment of most of the Ratman warriors was even better.

The blood mushrooms they spontaneously purchased from the rat caravans saved a lot of money for the Rat War.

The ratmen warriors fought for the Rat War, exchanged their killed heretics for merit, and then exchanged the merit for blood mushrooms, and used the blood mushrooms to buy better weapons and equipment to replace and repair the damaged weapons and equipment, and then joined the battle again to gain merit and fight for the Rat War.

It's a very good cycle, there's nothing wrong with it. After the Rat War cancelled the equipment supply, it did not increase the value of the merit.

Of course, no rat people had any objections, and the promoted rat warlords supported this decision. After all, after the supply of equipment was separated from the Rat War, they would have greater control over their troops.

The Ratman Caravan had no objections. In fact, this change was strongly promoted by the Ratman Lords behind them. The emergence of this change even eased the relationship between these Ratman Lords and the Rat Wars.

Shu Zhan had no objection, this model could allow him to expand his troops more efficiently, and he didn't care about the little tricks of those rat warlords. He was not one of those stupid rat priests. Most of the remaining blood mushrooms were invested by him in the expansion of the Rat Guards, Rat Knights, and the Ferocious Knights. With the blood mushrooms, a real guard team became independent from the Rat Guards.

A group of ratmen heavy-armored infantry wearing full body armor and holding dark shields. These guys have no mounts, but the blood mushrooms they deploy individually are vaguely comparable to the ferocious knights who are noble cavalry units.

The ratmen are still too short, and those stupid ratmen are not strong enough. This is why Rat War is interested in those newly emerging giant ratmen. In order to allow these guys to wear full body armor and still be able to run wildly on the ground, Rat War has to put more blood mushrooms on them.

In exchange for an elite guard.

These are the confidence of Shu Zhan. He is not afraid that these fools under his command will have any evil thoughts.

But if some people benefit, someone else has to pay the price.

The ratmen warriors of the Eastern Expeditionary Force became the biggest victims. In fact, the impact was not that big. It was just that after they needed to buy equipment on their own, the possibility of becoming ratmen warlords by accumulating merits became more vague. However, they had no say and could only bear it silently.

By the way, in addition to the ratmen warriors in the Eastern Expeditionary Force, there was another group that was dumbfounded by such a situation.

Those Rat Raiders were organized after Shu Zhan caught his breath. In the battles, some elite and experienced Rat Warriors gradually became qualified to join the Rat Raiders. However, Shu Zhan did not seem to take the Rat Raiders very seriously.

Even when the equipment rations were cancelled, their rations were also cancelled.

This immediately left these old hands dumbfounded.

Shu Zhan has invested more resources in the elite troops in his hands, but I am also an elite troop!
The situation suddenly became awkward, but fortunately these old hands generally had no shortage of merits, and with the investment of merits, the equipment on them could also support an elite organization. However, the situation of being unloved by their parents still made them fall into deep melancholy.

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A strange team entered the ratman camp. Those tall ratmen immediately attracted a lot of attention. However, compared to the unscrupulous look they showed when looking at other heretic races, after confirming that they were fellow ratmen, the emotions in their eyes mostly turned into fear.

Especially among these giant ratmen, there appeared a particularly hideous and deformed giant ratman who stood out from the crowd.

The team was led by a ratman priest.

He paused in front of the camp, his eyes swept across the lever flag, and quickly determined his target. His gaze paused in the center of the camp, and fell on the tallest and most ostentatious black flag.

There was no obstruction throughout the entire process. The leading ratman priest led the giant ratman team behind him across the huge ratman camp.

Until they got close to the flag, a large number of dazed figures paused in the center of the camp. As time passed, Shuzhan finally replenished his ratman supervision team.

There was a sense of vigilance in their eyes, and many of them even held their spears tightly. The equipment of the Ratman Supervisory Team became better, and the full-body leather armor they were equipped with was also inlaid with large pieces of metal armor.

Such a sight made the giant ratmen feel uneasy, and also made the deformed giant ratman feel anxious, but these emotions were suppressed by the ratman priest. Although the ratman priests have always been at odds with Rat War, facing Rat War alone made him feel nervous. The more he hated a person, the more he would try to understand him, and the more he would acknowledge his strength.

He swallowed his saliva, then remembered the purpose of his visit and raised his head.

The Ratman Supervisory Team did not stop the Ratman Priest. The duties of their personal guards had been replaced by another team, and these stupid guys would not easily exceed their duties.

Keep going.

The raised head wavered in front of a group of ratmen wearing dark armor and looking extremely solemn.

Finally, he completely bowed down in front of a guy who opened his tent and was covered in ugly wounds.

With trembling compliments.

"Ratman Commander!"

(End of this chapter)