From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 278: The Power of the Ghost Eye Tribe
Even among the military units of the entire Skaven Empire, the Skaven Raiders are a group of very unremarkable guys.

But becoming a ratman raider is an extremely difficult thing.

Harder than becoming a member of any of the elite Skaven factions, even those that include twisted flesh-mover like the Skaven Flayers.

Only one out of thousands of ratmen could endure the transformation of deformed flesh and blood, and probably not even one out of thousands of ratmen could become a rat runner.

Even among the ratmen, among the vast number of ratmen, the ratmen raiders can definitely be said to be one in ten thousand, or one in a hundred thousand, and the number may be even higher.

Rat people are experiencing sorting throughout their lives, perhaps this word is the most appropriate.

From birth, those without defects and not too thin will stay, and those that can grab food instinctively will stay.

During the growth stage, they can tolerate living in extremely cramped and crowded environments.

Such screening happens almost every day. From birth, to growing up successfully, to standing on the battlefield, each ratman who can reach this step can be said to be one in a thousand.

But the screening is not over yet. In each war, only those who survive are qualified to experience the word growth and only those who survive are qualified to accumulate experience.

From young ratmen to ratmen warriors to veteran ratmen warriors, and finally, to ratmen raiders.

The requirements for becoming a Ratman Raider and the process of becoming a Ratman Warrior and becoming a Senior Ratman Warrior are not particularly different. The only way is to survive in the war.

It’s just that the ratmen raiders live exceptionally longer.

If you pay attention to the battles of these guys, you will find that the fighting style of these rat runners is not particularly different from that of most rat warriors.

They all waved their spears in the same way and dodged the enemy's attacks so deftly.

There is just one thing that is difficult for Rat Warriors to do, but Rat Raiders can cooperate with their companions very smoothly according to the situation.

They are using their own judgment to decide the most appropriate response.

This made their battle process exceptionally smooth, and these guys were also the most outstanding group of ratmen who could demonstrate group power.

Three ratmen raiders surrounded a magic knight. With just a glance, two spears suppressed and blocked the magic knight's retreat. A spear poked out from a tricky angle. With just a glance, the magic knight was nearly killed by these three ratmen raiders.

These ultimate versions of the Skaven warriors are not weak.

They are quite strong.

If they weren't so selfish.

The cooperation of the Rat Runners can only be achieved based on a very critical point, that is, most of the Rat Runners can give similar judgments, which is the basis of cooperation.

It's just a pity that these guys can only cooperate with each other in battle. As for further mutual trust and entrustment, that is something that is impossible.

How can a group of old foxes who have survived countless wars and crawled out of piles of corpses countless times trust each other? On the battlefield, the most important thing for them is to stay alive, to stay alive.

Through war after war, they have gained enough experience in war and fighting. They know what to do in different situations and they know how to kill the opponent as quickly as possible.

So they were able to work together very well.

The magic knight twisted his body forcefully, and the spear that stabbed at him from a tricky angle pierced through his armor, but failed to kill him immediately.

With a cry of pain, flames began to appear on the magic knight's body.

The rat raiders that besieged him began to flee with strange cries. In other directions of the battlefield, another magic knight also noticed these guys and charged towards them.

The three ratmen raiders scrambled to avoid the expanding flames.

The last guy was locked onto by the galloping magic knight. The dull sound of horse hooves became closer and closer until the knight on the tall horse passed over the flames.

There was no thought of rescuing their companions at all. The two guys who ran the fastest were even secretly delighted, because after all, they were not the ones being targeted.

But what they didn't notice was that the guy who was left behind was not far behind them, and was even sticking closely to the two of them.

The magic knight raised his lance high, and a collision was about to happen. At this time, the ratman raider who was at the end grabbed the second guy among the three.

With a tug, the positions of the two parties changed. When their figures crossed each other, the guy who was originally secretly delighted showed fear and anger on his face. He wanted to catch the damn guy who was pulling him and drag this damn guy to death together.

But he didn't do it. Among the three rat runners, the first one was the strongest, and because of his strength he ran the fastest. The second and third rat runners were similar in strength, but one of them was better at calculating.

So the second ratman raider was dragged away to be the scapegoat.

With a dull sound, a figure was thrown high into the air, and landed heavily on the ground without a sound. After all, the ratmen raiders were not wearing heavy armor like the brutal knights.

This guy still had such ferocity and unwillingness on his face, but it was a pity that he lost in terms of both strength and scheming.

The two guys who survived immediately dived into the group of rats behind them and disappeared.

These guys are not united at all. If they really work together, they may be able to advance and retreat together, but unfortunately, they are just so disunited, a group of selfish guys who are experienced and good at making judgments.

This might be the reason why Shu Zhan doesn't think highly of them.

They are indeed a group of powerful warriors, but they can never become a powerful army.

Not long after, the two fleeing Ratman Raiders came back, not only by themselves, but also with four other Ratman Raiders.

The battle continues.

This coalition of nobles was not that weak. Even when dealing with the sudden attack launched by Rat Zhan, they gradually stabilized the situation after the initial chaos.

Relying on enough magic knights.

Every magic knight can serve as an important node in this chaotic battlefield.

Every magic knight can also serve as a leader capable of taking on part of the battlefield.

With various blessings, brilliant magical light beams appeared, and the elemental waves between them tended to be unified in the collision. When all these happened, this chaotic army with different members from multiple provinces and nobles of all sizes was gradually integrated together.

The Dark-Eyed humans were able to defeat all the alien races on this continent one by one, and become the undisputed absolute overlord of this land. They relied on strength, and that strength came from the magic knights who gathered together.

The larger the battlefield, the larger the army, the greater the power that the magic knights can exert. These guys are born to serve as nodes of the army.

This was the first time that Shu Zhan experienced the true power of the Ghost Eye people, which was the most important force for the Ghost Eye people to support their dominant position.

The Bone-Breaking Plateau doesn't count, that's the violent nature, the Golden Province and this nameless province that Shu Zhan doesn't even remember the name of, either, if you take any one of them alone, it's not enough. Shu Zhan still arrived too early.

Farmers, town guards, mercenaries, strong or weak, these various soldiers are connected together in the network that is constantly expanding and connecting everything, with countless magic knights as nodes.

The mages accompanying the army stopped what they were doing.

In the violent vibrations of the elements, they temporarily lost the ability to use spells.

It was a huge ceremony.

The ceremony can be held after a sufficient number of magic knights and human armies from multiple provinces have gathered together.

Of course, it’s not that mysterious.

Don’t be fooled by the big scene, but in fact, it’s just a connection.

The commander is connected to the next-level leader, the next-level leader is connected to each magic knight, and then the magic knights, as the last level, directly mobilize the huge army and finally complete the integration of the entire army.

This is not a rare thing, but relying on this ceremony, the connection and communication seems to be particularly efficient.

You can understand that relying on the power of magic, the Ghost Eye people had already achieved the circulation of orders from top to bottom during wartime.

But after all, it is the power of magic. Compared with real-time communication relying on the Internet and radio, this thing has some other effects.

A variety of buff magic, and some particularly powerful battle magic.

Compared to the rat people who can only walk in a large group, the technological gap is more than one generation.

The rats were stunned.

The noble coalition turned around and showed the rats what wartime mobilization and magic technology were.

The tired ones retreat, the ones that have finished repairing move forward, the weak points are supplemented, and resources are mobilized to the surplus points.

Faced with the ratmen pouring in from all directions, which were several times more numerous than their own, the humans easily held on with such efficient command. On the contrary, the ratmen felt more and more that something was wrong the more they fought.

What he was facing seemed to be an iron wall. Not only that, in the chaos, the fleeting opportunities were always captured accurately. The ratmen's line was forcibly divided many times, and a large number of ratmen were disrupted and eaten.

Morale is gradually declining.

Gradually, fleeing ratmen appeared, although these guys would often be pushed back to the battlefield by the following ratmen soon after.

But this is not a good sign.

In the melee, the ferocious knight who was too close to the battlefield was attracted by the flaws revealed by the noble coalition forces. He launched a violent charge, but was instead surrounded by the noble coalition forces.

This was a targeted lure, and the Brutal Knights fell for it.

The noble coalition did not directly attack with all its forces in an attempt to consume the Brutal Knights, but instead adopted a posture of encirclement and attack.

They want to attract rats to the rescue.

In order to stabilize the morale, Shu Zhan has indeed pressed forward, and the black flag appeared on the battlefield, which was particularly conspicuous.

However, this calculation was wrong. Even for the Ferocious Knights, when the time came to consume them, their losses would hardly make Rat Zhan blink an eye.

The commander of the noble coalition was not aware of this.

Shuzhan mobilized the army very cooperatively and pressed towards the besieged brutal knights.

Under the command of Rat Zhan, the Rat Supervisory Team began to push the rats gathered on the field.

The human side was not willing to be outdone. A large number of magic knights acting as nodes gathered there, leaving a blank space on the network where the military mages gathered.

Shu Zhan noticed this scene.

This crazy guy seized such an opportunity.

With almost a sudden 180-degree turn, the fluttering black flag ran straight into the enemy.

The Rat Guards, wearing the same armor as the Brutal Knights and holding short-handled hammers, dropped their weapons on their compatriots in front of them without any care, just to clear a path.

It’s a shame to say that these guys are called the Royal Guards, but in fact they probably can’t catch up with Shu Zhan.

For example, at this moment, Shu Zhan jumped up and stepped on the ratmen and ran wildly on the battlefield, while these guards could only vigorously wave their short hammers to clear a path in front of them and chase after Shu Zhan madly.

This raid has entered a critical juncture.
But the many guys on the battlefield made different decisions.

The magic knights did not immediately return to support, but completely pressed forward against the brutal knights.

The commander of the noble coalition also became furious and decided to eat the ferocious knight first. After all, no matter how crazy the rat was, there were still many troops standing in front of him and the mages accompanying the army.

Shu Zhan simply gave up on the Brutal Knights. He and the commander of the noble coalition had the same idea and decided to take down the most troublesome group of guys on the opposite side first.

These versatile military mages clearly fit the definition of the most troublesome guys.

As early as the siege of Jilang City, Shuzhan had already experienced the troubles of these military mages.

Even though the human army was helped by various auxiliary spells and had greatly improved in every aspect, they were still vulnerable in front of Rat Zhan. Just one person was enough to make the outermost formation of the noble coalition army totter.

A magic knight who came rushing over was caught by Shuzhan and his arm was torn off.

Under the attention of the Blessing of Killing, Shu Zhan found that he liked tearing the enemies apart on the battlefield more and more, not for any other reason, but simply because it allowed him to clearly experience his own strength.

The magic knight whose arm was torn off was thrown aside at random. Amidst his desperate wails, even his anger was slowly disappearing.

This is indeed a good way to relax.

Behind him, Shu Zhan's personal guards caught up. These solemn guys in black armor gathered behind Shu Zhan one by one.

At this moment, this hairless guy was simply terrifying.

(End of this chapter)