From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 389: Building a Huge Temple

Of course, simply appeasing that group of ratmen warriors wouldn't mean much.

The bigger problem is that after the war ended and the objects of plunder were lost, the output of the Ratman Empire was simply not enough to sustain the operation of this huge empire.

Blood mushrooms are not real currency.

It cannot be distributed at will. Without sacrifices, there will be a lack of blood mushrooms. Without blood mushrooms, everything will go wrong.

It’s not that no one in the Ratman Empire has noticed this problem, and it’s not that no one has tried to solve it.

The Skaven farmers are an attempt at this.

It's just not enough.

Far from enough.

Even if the temple guards used all the land on the main continent to raise goblins and completely turned this planet into a goblin planet, the sacrifices produced would still be far from enough for the current huge ratman empire.

No matter how you mess with those goblins, the rewards you get can never be greater than destroying a group of heretics, tearing down a city, destroying a country, or burning down an empire. That's for sure.

Throughout the Ratman Empire, these guys have long had their appetites spoiled by the endless wars.

How could they be interested in these goblins?

But we have to admit it, these greedy guys have to admit it.

Now, the rats looked around and found that there was no war anymore. Maybe there were still some guys hiding in some corner or in some secluded place, but a truly commendable opponent had completely disappeared.

Even if you look down on these goblins, they are the only ones left at the moment.

Instinctively, these guys started cutting back on their spending.

The first groups to be hit were the gadget sales points in the ratman city that were decorated with magic lamps of various colors.

Ornaments, sacrificial utensils, carved weapons, hair-smoothing services, wailing concerts, corpse soaps.

These things that have been selling well for many years suddenly lost their market.

This is a very urgent matter.

After all, these best-selling products are backed by almost all groups in the entire Ratman Empire.

The changes in habits represented by these things are more meaningful and important than they seem. It is far from being as simple as losing these guys and there will be fewer guys among the rat people who are dressed up with all kinds of accessories.

Decorations and sacrificial utensils.

These are the only support for those super-standard industrial areas besides weapons and siege equipment.

Without war, the production of weapons and siege equipment has stopped. If the demand for these things is lost, then these super industrial zones will have to face operational stagnation.

Perhaps the black smoke that never ceases to rise from the desolate mountains will finally stop?

Those other things are also more or less related to something.

The cost is fatal.

It can even be said that the entire Ratman Empire is implicated.

Because they represent the only remaining pillars of the Skaven Empire after they lost the war.

A reform had just swept across the Ratman Empire, and one Ratman city after another had its autonomous independence broken by the intrusion of rumbling steam trains.

Absorbing resources more efficiently, we can carry out crazy expansion and transformation of those major cities.

But now, the war was over, blood mushrooms became valuable, the production of weapons and siege engines began to stagnate, those fancy gadgets became less attractive, and everything began to decline.

Those super cities can still hold on because they are big enough.

But what about the others, those independent cities that were forcibly broken out of their self-sufficiency?

The roaring steam trains were gradually disappearing.

The various supplies that were brought were also gradually disappearing.

All kinds of resources were piled up high in cities, but these things became worthless after the steam trains passed by.

These guys, who had just been beaten up by the righteous iron fist of the Ratman Council not long ago, suddenly found that they seemed to be abandoned.

They gave up all the workshops in their hands and humbly chose to exchange various resources for blood mushrooms. In the end, the resources around the city have not even been exhausted, so you don't even want the resources?

what?
The rulers of these resource cities, the rat-men priests who were big shots but not that big shots, were dumbfounded.

And then, there was a big evacuation.

These guys abandoned the cities, lands, and resources they owned and began flocking to those super cities.

Then, another wave of guys were dumbfounded.

Those lowly rat-men freemen, those abandoned slave rats.

They are the most vulnerable group of guys in the Skaven Empire.

Hunger, and with it comes hunger.

After the Rat Priests' strategic shift, they together were no longer qualified to bargain with those bigwigs, and the steam train was completely shut down.

A great famine occurred.

Of course, this process was not so quick. Even in many resource cities, the ratmen priests and ratmen lords made various choices.

Some people choose to leave, and of course some choose to stay.

We began to take this opportunity to restore the rat workshops, cave mushroom cultivation rooms, and breeding rooms.

But once a few unlucky guys decided to abandon the city, things were bound to become a mess.

In hunger, those abandoned guys, those guys who were left in the empty cities, they filed out through the underground tunnels that had been built.

Like a virus or a plague, it began to run rampant in the intricate underground tunnels built by the Ratman Empire.

Of course, you can't blame them. After all, these guys have no other demands and just want to survive.

But things are becoming increasingly confusing here.

The sadistic ratmen once spread throughout the entire Ratman Empire.

Blocking tunnels, stopping trains, sneaking into those rat cities that were still able to function normally, and robbing and stealing at will.

And it’s a chain reaction.

Every time a city goes bankrupt, countless rat victims will pour into the underground tunnels.

Paralyze traffic in an area for a long time and try to attack cities that are still functioning normally.

This will make those rat cities that are still able to function normally difficult to maintain and eventually go bankrupt, and then release a larger group of rat victims.

As chaos spread, even the Twin Fortresses began to lose contact with the Underground Rat City.

More and more ratmen began to pour into those huge super cities.

They brought confusing news and also fear for the future.

The liquidity of blood mushrooms decreased again.

Even the wealthy ratmen priests began to save money.

In order to deal with this situation, the bigwigs of the Ratman Council held various meetings frequently during this period.

Finally, after repeated quarrels.

The result is no result.

There is no doubt about the greed of these guys, and their bottom line is also unquestionable. Is it really difficult to solve this chaos?
It’s not that difficult. The only problem now is the lack of blood mushrooms.

And why is there a lack of blood mushrooms?

Because after the war came to a halt, the ratmen who possessed the blood mushrooms began to hold the blood mushrooms in their arms tightly and were unwilling to let them out at all.

Not to mention more, as long as these guys in the Ratman Council were willing to loosen their hands covering the blood mushrooms a little, the chaotic situation would not be so bad that it would not escalate.

But who would be willing to do that? The blood mushrooms you hold in your arms are yours, but the blood mushrooms you release may become these guys'.

As long as not all guys give in at the same time, the guy who gives in first will become the complete scapegoat.

Amid such preparedness, the chaos was allowed to happen.

Everything is going wrong.

All kinds of problems, since the war stopped.

The vast Ratman Empire even showed signs of crumbling at one point.

It has been less than two years since that victory!

Of course, someone wants to save this.

Of course there are.

What no one expected was that it was Sheng Qi who took the lead in breaking the stalemate.

He was the first to become a loser.

That day, he slammed the table with a ferocious look on his face and roared loudly.

"If you want a civil war, get out of here now and raise your army. If you don't want a meaningless fight to the death, then get together and start this fight!"

Just for these guys on the field.

Sheng Qi's roar was really nothing.

There was an indelible gloom on Sheng Qi's face.

When the second Ratman Parliament was convened, Sheng Qi had already thrown all the blood mushrooms in his hands into the chaotic Ratman Empire. All kinds of small items and sacrificial supplies that used to be extremely expensive were piled high on the long table where the meeting was held.

The bright magic lamps shone with light, and these objects made of blood gold reflected different colors in the eyes of the ratmen councilors with different expressions.

During this meeting, Sheng Qi made a proposal and it was successfully passed.

The construction plan was launched by Sheng Qi and the loyal ratman priests, temple guards, ratman lords, ratman priests from other parties, and big claw priests.

They will build a huge temple in each of the three ratmen super cities, a huge temple dedicated to the great god.

A super temple made entirely of blood gold.

On that day, a large number of blood mushrooms were thrown into various parts of the Ratman Empire.

Those crumbling resource cities once again welcomed steam trains.

This is an extremely ambitious plan.

The ratmen once again began to build huge temples, offering them to the great gods while also trying to rebuild the ratman empire that was on the verge of collapse.

Those super industrial zones began to operate again, the silent blast furnaces were ignited again, and all kinds of ores were thrown into the blast furnaces.

Amid the wails of slave rats and the roars of the big-clawed priests.

It’s like going back to the past.

The super industrial zone began to recover.

Of course, it's not just super industrial zones.

The steel trains that had been stagnant for a long time started running again.

Although the construction of these temples has not started yet, it doesn’t matter. You just need to know that they will be temples of incomparable size.

In short, materials, ore and labor are needed.

Sheng Qi, the Ratman Councillor, the Ratman Parliament, they did not help all the resource cities.

Instead, they selectively pulled up those resource cities that had blood gold veins, in addition to those more important cities.

Cities that occupy important positions.

In this widespread chaos, almost two-thirds of the resource cities were directly abandoned by them.

This is a very cruel choice, but Rope Seven and the Ratman councilors are indifferent to making this decision.

In the chaos, the abandoned cities fell into desolation one after another. Countless ratmen chose to leave these abandoned cities out of hunger. It was not easy to move forward in the tunnels filled with poisonous dust.

But they had little choice.

Before exhaustion in a highly toxic environment, the first thing to come is starvation.

They moved forward in chaos and were killed by ratmen from other cities. Now, these hungry guys with no other choice have completely become the source of the disaster.

Every ratman city that survived was resisting their invasion.

Sheng Qi's decision saved many surviving rat cities, and the steam trains once again ran through the entire Rat Empire.

But no one cared about these hungry guys and they were simply abandoned.

This is an extremely large number.

Millions, several million, no, ten million, tens of millions, or even more.

No one can count them all.

As the surviving ratmen cities became more defensive against these hungry thugs, attacking the cities became increasingly difficult.

The food brought by intercepting and attacking steam trains was obviously a drop in the bucket compared to their huge number.

In desperation, they began to leave the underground tunnels, trying to find food on the surface and survive.

Like locusts, they devoured everything on the surface, leaving behind patches of barren land, and were soon met with an attack.

In order to maintain the stability of the city and the safety of their own pastures, the rat lords and rat farmers began to hire large groups of rat mercenaries to clean up these hungry guys.

This added a lot of tasks to the huge ratman mercenary group that retreated from the main continent.

They began to organize attacks on these desperate guys.

After several large-scale hunts, the hungry rats returned to the underground tunnel network in fear.

In this complex underground tunnel.

Even the most ferocious rat mercenaries, when they are unable to deploy formations or use war machines, have to consider the possibility of being killed by a sudden attack.

Here they were safe, but the problem arose again.

hunger.

In that deep underground tunnel.

Pairs of red eyes looked at each other.

In that unbearable hunger, some bad things happened.

It is unclear how these guys survived the long hunger.

But soon after, a huge number of rat-man zombies appeared in this underground tunnel, and along with these rat-man zombies appeared pale skeletons scattered everywhere.

(End of this chapter)