From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 256: Qualified Guys

The frenzied rat war continued this surging tide. The rat warriors climbed the towering city walls day and night, and the guards on the city walls were also forced to fight the rats day and night.

The red eyes, the sharp roars, the boundless and endless fighting seemed to destroy even people's sanity.

On the fourth day, another round of lighting magic hit the sky, and what met the eyes was still an endless gray-black tide. Even though there was a certain rotation, this brutal battle still seemed like an eternally recurring nightmare.

Closing my eyes, I feel like I'm back on the city wall.

His eyes were filled with bloodshot and became as red as the rat people's eyes.

On the other hand, the ratmen warriors are also facing the same problem. After all, ratmen are also intelligent creatures. They are not mindless and indifferent undead, nor are they rigid and inflexible constructs.

Surrounded by the dark tide, without any rest, being swept forward, as time passed, the initial excitement gradually faded away, and fear, worry, terror and cowardice gradually took over.

But the Ratman Overwatch Team did not stop their actions, so these despicable guys could only continue to move forward.

With methodical movements and forming a neat formation, they fell behind all the ratmen. As long as the ratmen supervision team started to move forward, the advance would continue unless the order from the rat war came down.

Don't try to challenge them, they are also trampling on corpses, trampling on the corpses of the ratmen.

Despair is the only emotion left for most ratmen in the end, which makes them even more dangerous. A qualified fighter, a qualified soldier, does not need those wandering thoughts, does not need to be afraid, and only needs to wield a weapon to qualify.

The fight between the two sides reached its most brutal moment on the fourth day. The ratmen stood firm on the city walls and fought with the human guards who were equally numb and in pain. There was no retreat, no fear, and both sides stared at each other with a pair of scarlet eyes.

The city guards began to mobilize the soldiers who were rotated out for rest. In the brutal battle, blood flowed freely on the city walls. The mottled magical light disappeared from the battlefield. Even though the elements were becoming increasingly full and active, the seemingly endless casting drained their mental strength. They could no longer provide any support for this battlefield.

Fortunately, the ratmen's war equipment had also reached its limit. There were no more boulders whistling in the sky. During the continuous operation, these crude and complex equipment reached their limit faster than the city defenders in the city of Jilang.

One after another, huge catapults collapsed and disintegrated with the harsh sound of metal twisting, sending most of the big claw priests who operated these war machines to see the gods.

The Big Claw Priest no longer operated the equipment. Even facing the ferocious face of the manic Rat Zhan, these things had reached their limit. Continuing to operate them would only result in death.

But Shu Zhan didn't care about all this. In his frenzy, he hanged a large number of Big Claw Priests on the spot.

This was not a good move, but in this state, Rat Zhan obviously didn't care what such an action would bring to himself.

Of course, these big-clawed priests are really nothing, not only to him, but also to the war situation.

Even if they were all hanged now, a new batch of Big Claw Priests would arrive soon.

It was not he who was driving the war, but the old man in the desolate mountains who was driving the war.

This is of course nothing. For him, from today on, Rat War means that there is no longer any friendly force in the Rat Empire.

Even among the Big Claw priests, his reputation will take a sharp turn for the worse.

Ratman priests, big claw priests, temple guards, ratman lords, and even the ratman warlords under his own command.

There is not a single friend here, and all these guys have ill intentions towards this arrogant guy.

Well, it’s not that no one likes Rat War. In fact, there are also rat-man ranchers, rat-man mercenary leaders, and rat-man freemen who admire and support Rat War.

Shu Zhan is indeed a legend. He used his arrogance to knock a crack in the solid wall and opened a narrow path for those lowly guys. He will certainly be admired and respected.

It's just that this guy is too arrogant. He looks down on these guys who appeared because of him, and he doesn't care about them. He casually abandons them and watches them being held in the hands of the temple guards. During this time, he was even unwilling to look at them for even a second.

On the high platform, Shuzhan was still waving the black flag. Countless rat warriors advanced under his will and turned into the surging black tide in front of them.

At this moment, he dominated everything on this battlefield.

So powerful, yet so ferocious.

Of course, the war can go on endlessly. It is obvious that Rat Zhan does not care much about the life and death of these lowly guys in his hands.

However, as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Expeditionary Force, he was not without other things to deal with. In addition to capturing the city, there was another very important thing to do.

For example, competing for profits with that group of unscrupulous businessmen.

A big-clawed priest with a face full of fear, who could hardly stand steadily, came in front of Shu Zhan. Shu Zhan's face clearly showed a special kind of anger and disgust, but this big-clawed priest with a face full of fear was not hanged by Shu Zhan in the end.

This brutal battle that lasted for four days came to an end. Following the order given by Shu Zhan, the rats began to retreat, as if they had suddenly woken up from a daze and numbness. The expressions on their faces were still dazed, but their bodies moved instinctively.

It's all over, temporarily.

No longer under pressure, no longer waiting in fear, no longer in despair, they want to show a smile on their faces, but the numbness has not completely faded away. This war will temper these young ratmen and immature ratmen warriors into some qualified weapons, which is very effective.

After all, they are intelligent creatures. Even if they gradually become numb, they will still be happy that they are alive.

The rats left at a speed many times faster than when they came. They turned back desperately, running wildly, crawling on the ground, pushing away the rats in front of them who were blocking them, abandoning the weapons they had purchased with great effort, feeling grateful for having survived a disaster.

Of course, the people who were most relieved about the Skaven's retreat were the human defenders on the city walls. The lighting in the sky was gradually dimming.

There was no reaction for a while. The guys standing on the city wall didn't even react to the departure of the ratmen. They still held their weapons tightly in their hands, staring blankly at the gradually dimming scenery in front of them. Some of them were still subconsciously waving their weapons towards the gap in the city wall. A ratman's ladder was still leaning on the gap. The retreating ratmen did not take the ladder with them and left it here.

Gradually, some people reacted.

They won the victory and the ratmen retreated, but they just couldn't be happy. There was a strange expression on their faces, not sure whether they were crying or laughing. They staggered and knelt on the city wall. The breath they had held up after struggling hard finally relaxed. There were corpses piled up around them, some of their companions and some of ratmen.

A layer of red sticky stuff was left on the ground on the city wall. These things were part of the traces left by the battle and would be washed away by clean water soon. Not only these sticky things, but also the piled up corpses and weapons scattered on the ground, all of these would be cleaned up soon.

After all of this is dealt with, the towering city walls will look brand new, except for the air with a faint smell of rust, as if the battle not long ago had never happened.

But is it true that nothing happened? It is not just those messy ratmen warriors who have been tempered in the war. The human guards standing on the city walls have also been tempered by this brutal war.

There was an indelible numbness on the faces of these human guards.

They have grown and become more qualified.

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The destruction of the ratmen on the main continent began to spread to other provinces of the empire.

There are many reasons, but they are all closely related to the Ratman Empire that invaded the main continent.

After all, the number of ratmen in the Golden Province has a limit, but more and more ratmen mercenaries have arrived here. The temple guards have offered high prices. This is a good deal and has given the ratmen mercenaries motivation. However, for the ratmen living on this land, it is a real disaster.

The ratmen are indeed the ones who know them best. When the ratmen on the main continent were building underground tunnels and settlements, they did not deliberately guard against their own kind.

This made them particularly passive when facing the rat mercenaries.

Faced with the decreasing number of native ratmen, the rat mercenaries began to actively explore this continent.

And it's not just the rat mercenaries. The rat warlords have also started capturing able-bodied men. In order to expand their own teams and also for cheap and cost-free soldiers, these guys have also worked part-time as slave-catching teams.

Of course, they are not picky. They don't have to capture those local ratmen. When they meet suitable rat mercenaries, these guys will never hesitate to capture strong men. It's just that it is not easy to recruit these strong rat mercenaries.

Compared to those native ratmen who huddle in cave tunnels and tremble at the thought of being captured, these ratmen mercenaries are much more sturdy and they will really fight with you.

Moreover, everyone knows each other well. After you have done this a few times, these rat mercenaries will avoid these rat warlords.

Obviously, everyone knows each other's background, and these rat-man warlords are not yet at the level where they can get these rat-man mercenaries to voluntarily join them.

They just did their own thing and everyone was trying to capture the ratmen tribes living native to the main continent.

During this period, it was not only the ratmen who were affected, but also other races who were driven by the Dark-Eyed People and forced to survive in remote corners.

These guys were all losers in the years of hegemony long ago. The only reason they were not destroyed by the Youyan people was that as losers, they fled to places that were worthless enough.

There are all kinds of places such as barren mountains, dark underground, poisonous swamps, dark forests, and bitter cold ice fields.

Perhaps it was too barren, or the environment was too harsh, which saved it from complete destruction. However, in such a place, the resources were too scarce, and the original civilization could hardly survive, and even began to decline. City-states were difficult to establish, knowledge gradually disappeared, and finally it embraced barbarism.

The ratmen of the main continent are also one of these refugee races, and are even a relatively well-off race among them. Relying on the underground tunnels they have built and their strong fertility, they have not completely withdrawn from the mainland stage. Although they have really become a role similar to that of rats, every year during the harvest time, they emerge from the underground tunnels and run wildly across the fields.

Most of the ratmen tribes do not have the courage to attack human villages and towns, but they are very brave to steal food from barns.

It has become a low-risk scourge, and its relationship with the Youyan people is also very strange.

The prosperity of the rat people is also closely related to the harvest of human beings. Counterintuitively, these rat people are more afraid of famine than humans. In the years of harvest, even if they cannot steal food from human villages, they can still pick up the leftover wheat ears in your wheat fields and steal the piled hay. But when the real famine comes and the earth is barren, they will be more difficult to support than human farmers.

After a long period of time, the human villages and towns in this area may still be able to survive, but the ratmen in this area will be extinct first.

Such a delicate relationship makes the ratmen on the main continent far more prosperous than other nomadic races. Even if they are attacked by the combined forces of rat mercenaries and rat warlords, they can still barely hold on.

But other wandering races can't do it.

When rat-men warlords and rat-men mercenaries pursue the traces of rat-men from the main continent and break into these barren areas, it is often not the rat-men who are the first to suffer.

For the rat warlords and rat mercenaries, although the rat people on the main continent were their initial target, they did not mind taking action against these wandering races.

They are all sacrifices. The surviving wandering races are often of good quality. After all, the races without strength were directly killed by humans in the initial stage of the struggle for hegemony.

Those who stay behind either have amazing survivability like the Ratmen, or have some special skills. The most intuitive manifestation of these special skills is their exceptional fighting ability.

This also made the rat mercenaries and rat warlords quite happy. After all, being strong while weak is itself a very excellent trait.

Very suitable for sacrifice.

(End of this chapter)