From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 249: The guys who promote the change of the times

The rat people never mind taking advantage of others' misfortune. The problems exposed on the city walls successfully escalated the stakes of the rat war. If this guy sees an opportunity, then the all-in game will be carried out, even though all-in game is not a good habit when meeting in person.

Many things are not ready yet, including the ratmen, such as the tunnels to be dug, the arrangements for the ratmen entrenched in the city, the handling of their own kind on this continent, the depletion of morale of the city defenders, and the deployment of troops to deal with possible enemy attacks from other directions.

Many things needed to be prepared and put down, and this siege was just a test. Although Shu Zhan did not mind turning this test into a brutal fight, he actually did so.

Rats kept emerging from the darkness, densely packed, clinging to the towering city walls like ants. The huge catapult stopped throwing stones. The boulders and swollen rats had been exhausted, so the huge catapult had to stop.

The army wizard on the city wall was finally able to free up his hands and cast various spells, mostly fireballs, magic missiles, and other small gadgets, but they still made the ratmen warriors climbing the city wall miserable.

The situation suddenly became worse for the rat people.

However, despite this situation, the order to withdraw troops was still not issued.

A large group of ratmen warriors were driven to the front of the city in a crowded manner and began to climb up the city wall.

The bodies of the ratmen fell like raindrops and piled up in front of the city wall, but there were breakthrough points.

On a section of the city wall, the ratmen warriors who rushed up the wall successfully gained a foothold. In the chaotic war, they fought in a group and at one point the battlefield was about to be ruined.

However, they were pushed back by the magic knights who raised their big shields, formed into a queue, and were shining with dazzling magical light. This group of knights, who were blessed with various kinds of magic, showed their strength. They were like bulldozers on the battlefield, and almost pushed back the rats who were rushing up the city wall.

There was no way to retreat and they were about to be pushed off the city wall. The eyes of this group of ratmen gradually turned red.

They just wanted to survive. These guys who were pushed to the battlefield and the front line by Shu Zhan were the first ones who were not qualified in Shu Zhan's eyes. There were a lot of young ratmen among them.

Being pushed to the front line of the brutal battlefield, he instinctively climbed up the towering city walls and fought with the defenders on the walls, just to survive.

The situation was pushed to the limit and began to become chaotic. Some ratmen began to lift up various pottery jars piled in the corner of the rear wall and threw them out while roaring.

The ratmen warriors continued to climb up the city wall. The pottery jars shattered on the knights' armor and also shattered among the surging ratmen.

Some ratmen knocked over the torches on the city wall and there was chaos on the field amid screams of fear. The madness in their eyes seemed so insignificant in the face of the substantial and pervasive flames.

Ratmen kept falling off the city wall with screams.

But the city wall is so majestic that falling from such a height would mean death. Perhaps one or two unlucky people could be taken with them to death, but the outcome would not likely change much.

Even if you are lucky enough to save your life, the ratmen will still keep coming. If you don't get up in the first time, you will be trampled without hesitation.

Trampled by the black tide, it became a shapeless pool of flesh and blood on the ground.

On the city wall, all the ratmen were pushed off the wall. The flames did not cause much damage to these magic knights. The armor on their bodies greatly blocked the horrible temperature, and they stepped out of the flames.

It is far from the end. During this period, the Eastern Expeditionary Force has accumulated a sufficient number of ratmen.

The ratmen's tentative attack lasted for a day and a night, with uninterrupted attacks. During this period, some ratmen hiding in the city noticed this, popped their heads out, and wreaked havoc in the city.

This immediately caused great chaos in the city, but Shuzhan was not satisfied with the appearance of this group of ratmen, and was even angry, so he no longer hesitated.

With the waving of flags.

A hidden team began to run, running underground, digging underground and attacking on the ground at the same time. It was not surprising that this huge city had structures to deal with underground attacks. After all, many years ago, there was no shortage of dwarves, a race that was good at digging underground tunnels, on this continent, and there have always been active ratmen on the main continent.

There are many stone pillars with complex patterns depicted throughout the underground of the city. These stone pillars can solidify the earth, which has troubled the ratmen's excavation. However, with the passage of time, some of the stone pillars were damaged. At the same time, some tunnels dug by the ratmen on the main continent were discovered and used.

However, these tunnels are not very big, and not many ratmen can pass through them at one time.

Even though more and more ratmen continued to enter the huge city in front of them through the winding underground tunnels, they had never accumulated enough scale.

Even when they were preparing to escalate the Rat War, they did not use this army. They were just preparing to give the humans in this city a surprise. However, this surprise was interrupted by the idiots in the city.

Those excited fools began to spread fire in the city and killed people wantonly, which attracted the knights of the Church who were wandering in the city. In an instant, they scattered and disappeared in this huge and complex city.

But the troops deployed by Rat War were in bad luck. An orderly group of ratmen had just broken through the drainage guardrails on the city square and filed out of the dirty sewers, and they were faced head-on with the cathedral knights who were rushing towards them.

Amidst sharp roars, the two sides collided with each other, because Shu Zhan was prepared to engage in a melee with the humans in the underground tunnels after these tunnels were discovered, and a team of his personal guards appeared in this team.

These idiots were really stupid. Not only did they lead the Vatican Knights to the exit of the tunnel, but they also scattered in an instant. The Rat War Guards in black armor roared and charged at the knights in front of them. The two sides collided with each other and fought fiercely. More city guards were mobilized.

The guards that Shu Zhan smashed out with a large number of blood mushrooms were indeed fierce.

However, faced with such a situation, he was powerless to save the situation and fell down unwillingly. Soon, the underground tunnel was temporarily filled up by the magic of the arriving wizard.

The ratmen's underground attack was unsuccessful.

Unable to break through, this tentative attack came to a stalemate, and the Ratmen began to withdraw. Before the real war started, some preparations needed to be made. It became meaningless to continue the stalemate here. Countless Ratmen retreated at a speed several points faster than when they came, leaving behind a field of corpses, most of which were Ratmen.

These corpses even raised the ground a level, which seemed like a great victory.

But in fact, the ratmen who died in this attempt could not even be remembered by Shu Zhan for even a second. They were just some guys who were not worth mentioning.

The Rat Priests did not appear in this conflict. They had not officially arrived in this area, or in other words, they had not officially been incorporated into the Eastern Expeditionary Force. The contradiction between the two sides still existed. In the full mobilization, they were also thrown into the battlefield as a force, but the Rat Wars and the Rat Priests were not in harmony.

The rat priests did not take the initiative to provoke Shu Zhan. They consciously stayed out of Shu Zhan's sight and began to deal with various logistics-related matters of the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

Without a backbone, they could not gather together, and those senior ratman priests who were qualified to be leaders and had not taken office as ratman lords were all killed in the grassland battle. The most warlike thorns among the senior ratman priests were all radicals, and then these guys were all killed in a war.

Very attentive and aware of the current situation, these rat priests who arrived under Shu Zhan's command lowered their heads obediently. As the real intellectuals in the Rat Empire, these guys are excellent in logistics management.

It also comes from the general suspicion of the rat people. Even though the Big Claw Priests generally crawl in front of the Rat Priests to help them deal with various matters, no Rat Priest will really delegate power to the Big Claw Priests under him. Even though they will not really interfere in those workshops and caravans, these guys are able to know everything about the flow and details of the goods and the operation of the workshops and caravans.

They have their own network, and they can efficiently convert the spoils from the Rat War-occupied areas into blood mushrooms.

For example, at this moment, the dark forest outside the golden wilderness has been sold by these rat priests. Among them, this forest can be roughly divided into two categories, minerals and land. Minerals are mostly purchased by various rat priests. To some extent, these guys are far-sighted. They have a tendency to invest in the future, perhaps because of greed.

The rat lord who acquired the copper mine on the vast grassland miraculously turned over, and the dazzling blood gold was also turned over and took on a sacred meaning. Although this holiness was not recognized by the great god, its dazzling golden color still made the rats quite like it, especially the temple guards began to use blood gold to cast the temple, just because of the dazzling brilliance.

It seems that the rats are beginning to like the golden color.

This instantly increased the value of the two minerals that made up blood gold several times, but gold is also gold, and it is natural gold, but the rat people have no feeling for gold.

They seemed to feel that gold was too soft. The soft golden color simply could not bear the glory of the great gods. Moreover, the gods on the grassland generally liked gold. This might be one of the reasons why they were indifferent to gold.

Gold has another alias in the Ratman Empire: pseudo-gold.

Such examples gave the ratmen priests enough room for imagination, and with the establishment of ratmen workshops one after another, various kinds of minerals indeed became a batch of good commodities.

The mines have become a good bargaining chip in the hands of the rat priests.

As for land, there is no problem in selling it. Every piece of land released will be quickly taken over by ratmen who want to become ranchers. The deeper reason is the support of the temple guards. The temple guards are deliberately cultivating those ratmen ranchers.

Nowadays, ratman ranches have been built in almost every corner of the vast grassland. While they provide stable income to the lords of the ratman cities, they also bring a little risk resistance to the extremely deformed ratman empire. Of course, for the temple guards, the more important point is that the sacrifices floating in the blood pools in the city temples are also provided by these ratman ranches.

Not every city is located on the front line and can enjoy the resources brought by the war. Not every city occupies a strategic pass like the grassland city and can enjoy the benefits brought by commerce.

Ordinary ratmen cities always have to face a serious problem: without sacrifices, the blood pools in the temples of the gods are empty, blood mushrooms no longer produce and grow, and the cities can no longer survive.

The temple guards also have to accept the torture of this issue. If no sacrifices are offered in the temple, then what is the need to maintain this temple?
The Ratman Ranch is a possible way to alleviate this problem. It provides a most basic output and also provides a necessity for the existence of the fallen temples and the temple guards stationed there.

The temple guards discovered this problem, so they spared no effort to promote the development of the Ratman Ranch. Currently, only the temple guards pay attention to this issue. Those high-ranking guys in the Ratman Empire are still more accustomed to taking things in wars. This comes too easy. As long as they can win the war, everything from the opponent can be easily seized. Even if the nature of the guys has shifted and they have become Ratman lords, they still have not turned back from this inertia. The city in their hands is only used as a commercial transit station for them.

Build breeding houses, construct blast furnaces and workshops, produce ratmen and weapons, and then use caravans to divide up everything gained from the war.

This is certainly an excellent cycle, but the temple guards cannot fully devote themselves to such a cycle. They are also the beneficiaries of this cycle, but their structure and power require them to push open one temple after another, and they must also ensure the prosperity of each temple.

So, they began to push forward this plan resolutely and promote the structure of the Ratman Ranch.

Of course, the temple guards also have the idea of ​​increasing their influence.

However, this is indeed a turning point in the times and an important node in the rat civilization.

But it was driven by the temple guards, the most fanatical and devout believers of the great god.

(End of this chapter)