From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 390, Twin Cities, Future, Twins
The grand temple was built bit by bit.

In the desolate mountains.

The prepared metal melted in the blast furnace, bursting into a dazzling golden color.

At the most turbulent moment of the Ratman Empire, it was indeed the great god who saved it once again.

Even if Sheng Qi pawned his underwear, it would not be enough to force those greedy and despicable guys to hand over the blood mushrooms in their hands.

Even if this huge country is divided, even if a brutal civil war is fought.

But it couldn't scare those guys.

If you can't do it, you can't do it.

The impossible is impossible.

Sheng Qi can't do it. He is not a white mouse. He can't do it. But the great god can do it.

Dedicated to the great gods, these temples are dedicated to the great gods.

Peace brought more serious divisions within the Skaven Empire.

In the past, such differentiation was suppressed by the white rats. After the death of the white rats, this differentiation was suppressed by the Rat Council.

But all these efforts are now falling apart.

In order to cope with the war and to better control the increasingly bloated Ratman Empire, railways were built, but it was too fast, the evolution was too fast.

With the destruction of independent rat cities, power was taken back and began to be centralized once again.

Those rat-man priests who had been divided and cut together reunited again.

I have to admit that these rat priests, these guys, seem to have a destiny. They are suppressed time and time again, but they stand up again in this era.

The Rat Priests who govern the city, the ones who hold power and faith are the Rat Priests.

There used to be Rat War as a check and balance against them.

But now the entire ratman warlord force has been dismembered.

And now.

The war stopped, peace came, and great chaos descended. It seemed that the rat priests were the hardest hit.

In fact, this turmoil brought together the rat priests who had been suppressed and divided time and time again.

Of course, after the differentiation, the current rat-man priests can no longer return to their original state, and their names have simply changed from rat-man priests.

Rat Lords, Rat Priests, War Priests, Loyalists, Primitives, Pilgrims, Oceans, and Minerals.

The white rat acted decisively, and the Ratman Council and the temple guards shattered the formation of these guys time and time again.

Endless differentiation naturally emerged among this group of guys.

But today, their gathering is still so smooth.

Amid the destruction of the cities, the wailing of the rat people, and the disgusting peace, everything gathered in these four super cities.

And began to gather in groups.

The birth of supercities is accompanied by superclusters.

The situation now is somewhat different from any time before.

In such turmoil.

At least that's the case for the ratmen priests who have been divided into countless small factions.

It is no longer based on the slogans of the previous major factions.

Instead, they come together based on their own interests.

Several major aspects of the entire Ratman Empire are divided up among these three super cities.

The Slag City annexed the rolling hills and began to monopolize that vast ocean and sea lanes as a basis.

The secret city and ports of the Gear Cult were annexed by the Slag City.

The dense sea lanes and the last remnants of the war allowed these guys and the Waste City to escape the great turmoil.

Now we can still maintain that prosperous scene.

The Crucible City received support from the Temple Guards and the surviving rat lords, who also threw themselves into the transformation of the Crucible City during this great turmoil.

With the help of this super city, they were able to stabilize the scarlet grassland that was about to collapse in chaos.

And pulled up the city with the most resources.

At the same time, they also controlled most of the steam railway roads in the Ratman Empire and took over most of the military forces.

Various resources gather in the Crucible City.

Most of the temple guards and rat lords are entrenched in this revitalized super city.

You will find something very unusual.

There was mutual blending and infiltration between the various factions of the rat people.

The ratmen priests recognized the Big Claw Priests and the Gear Cult, and accepted the intervention of Rope Seven, whose wings had grown full again, in exchange for the transformation of Waste City, the control of the ocean, and the fall of the Western Expeditionary Force.

On the other hand, the temple guards acquiesced to the existence of the Skaven Lords, accepted the rebellious war priests, and brought the remaining Skaven warlords into their hands, in exchange for the rise of the Crucible City and the control of the Scarlet Steppe and the main continent.

When all parties are no longer fighting alone but are gathered in a larger structure, mutual penetration and integration begins.

There are deeper implications as well.

Slag City and Furnace City.

One side dominated the ocean, held the Western fleet, and also had the vast waterways.

On a deeper level is the birth of radical commercialism and the changes in cultural logic and rules.

Waste City, a city that was once full of rules and distinctions between high and low, is now moving towards extreme freedom and chaos. The driving force behind this is the gradually distorted religious principles of the rat priests.

When the number of blood mushrooms became the standard for measuring the piety of faith.

So is it any wonder that the Waste City, which is home to many rat priests, has become a chaotic city of extreme utilitarianism, liberalism, and commercialism?

After all, everything is for the blood mushrooms, and everything is possible for the blood mushrooms.

On the other hand, in Furnace City, the situation has changed again.

The temple guards are building a stable structure.

Cities, vast tracts of land, rat-men freemen, rat-men warlords, wars, a culture of settlement, and the budding laws.

These have taken the Crucible City to a completely different extreme.

Imperialism, agrarianism, pragmatism and extreme xenophobia.

The temple guards and the rat-men priests had different understandings. They did not accept the rat-men priests' distorted logic of merit, but instead carried out the most simple construction.

The belief in the Great God was seen by them as simply a few things.

More believers, bigger temples, more sacrifices, more kneeling ratmen, and more heretics killed.

Naturally, their behavior would also attract the rat lords to join them.

This is a very simple decision, because the foundation of the rat lords is ultimately land and cities.

To be honest, the radical business logic of the Waste City made it difficult for even the old guys who created the business system of the Skaven Empire to accept it. On the other hand, it was reasonable for the Skaven caravans, the Gear Sect, and the Western Fleet to join the Waste City.

This is complete voting with your feet.

Even beyond the limits of hatred and class.

This is also what is happening now. In a fierce shock, the rat people are choosing their future path.

Is it utilitarianism, liberalism, commercialism, or imperialism, agrarianism, pragmatism, and xenophobia?

A fork in the road was born in this shock. As the old fighting factions gradually disintegrated and merged with each other, this fork in the road appeared in front of the rat people with two cities as the beginning.

Of course, there is no need to be so anxious, the time to choose has not yet come.

But choices always have to be made. In the future, when the differences become too great to be bridged, a brutal war will inevitably come.

Although that day is still a long way off.

Of course, such a scene or such a war may not happen.

After all, the rats are not so alone, there is a guy high above them who is always watching over their existence.

The Underground Rat City, the earliest super city of the rat people, still has such a high status.

As the faith center, industrial center, cultural center and blood mushroom gathering point of the Ratman Empire.

The glory of the underground rat city has hardly faded at all.

Everything in the Ratman Empire is gathered in this city.

All the prominent groups have their place in this city.

In the glory of that great God, in that heart-stirring faith.

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In the difficult peace, some things began to flow.

The super breeding farms and the rat-man universities that the Waste City once prided itself on are gradually disappearing and being taken over by the Furnace City.

Well, this is a very normal thing. After all, after the cheap ocean route connecting the two continents was paved, countless extremely cheap ratmen freemen who didn't even have to pay for blood mushrooms flocked to the Waste City.

Especially during that horrific turmoil, these guys not only came in more numbers, but also became cheaper.

For a time, even the cost-effectiveness of slave rats was somewhat inferior to that of these free ratmen.

In the Waste City, a widely circulated debate is about this issue.

Two Skaven priests are arguing about whether slave rats are cheaper or free ratmen are cheaper.

Of course, this is a difficult question to evaluate.

Slave rats only need to pay once and they can start working for a long time at an extremely cheap level.

The ratmen freemen will work for you for a period of time for a very small amount of money.

The disagreement is mainly in the short-term and long-term costs.

Of course, the enthusiasm is not included in the debate. After all, the ratmen are all old slaves. When the Big Claw Priest uses his methods, you have to give 100% of your motivation to work.

In debate.

One party thinks that the slave rats only need to pay a price once, and as long as they work for a certain period of time, they can operate at almost zero cost. On the contrary, the free rat people, even if they are paid a small amount at one time, as long as they are hired for a longer period of time, the cost will be far greater than that of the slave rats.

The other side argued that slave rats needed maintenance and could not be used indefinitely, and there was the possibility of premature death and loss. However, free ratmen only needed to pay a very small price, and only healthy ones were hired each time. Even if they died during use, the cost would be very small.

The two sides exchanged sharp words over this issue, and as expected, the debate turned into an extremely chaotic verbal abuse, and then into an even more chaotic fight.

But the views expressed in this debate still spread.

One by one, the ratmen merchants made their choices after weighing the pros and cons, and ratmen free people began to be hired in large numbers.

This made the Big Claw Priests in the super breeding farms so anxious that they were about to jump up and down. At one point they even lowered the price of the young ratmen they produced to ten for one blood mushroom, which was an extremely cheap price.

But there was nothing he could do.

Along with the ratmen universities, they began to decline.

On the other side, the Furnace City perfectly took over these weakened super breeding farms and ratman university.

It comes from the demand for high-quality soldiers.

The war is over, but not without the demands of extreme xenophobia and the temple guards' vigilance against the horrors of heresy.

In the last hunt for heretics, the temple guards paid a very painful price.

They need reinforcements, and also need to be prepared to face those heretics again.

The huge army was still maintained.

Even the weapons workshop continues to operate with the input of the temple guards.

The ostensible reason given was to guard against the rat-men ghouls that roamed the underground tunnel network.

But in fact, these guys are nothing to the temple guards.

Those rat-men ghouls were able to commit cruelty because of their indulgence.

In order to maintain an existing enemy, and to force the rat lords to maintain the huge army and investment in the weapons workshop.

But this routine is becoming less and less effective.

In that great chaos, both cities experienced a brief period of prosperity until they devoured everything from those resource cities.

Peaceful days are so hard to endure.

The blood mushrooms in the hands of these big shots were becoming increasingly powerless as they were poured out bit by bit.

Those magnificent and miraculous palaces are already half completed, and are waiting for the blood mushrooms to be put into use.

Peaceful days are so hard to bear.

Everything requires blood mushrooms.

Everything requires blood mushrooms.

The rat people are still expanding too quickly.

It's not that there is no good news.

The industrial area of ​​the Desolate Mountains recently finally succeeded in launching a strange-looking object into the sky.

After tinkering with the technology left behind by humans for so long, the rat people finally have some ideas about exploring the starry sky.

But distant water cannot quench immediate thirst.

What we need now is blood mushrooms. What we need now is blood mushrooms.

This is what the rat people are worried about.

A horrific tsunami swept through a ratman port on the coast amidst the rolling hills.

A group of old friends of the Ratman appeared.

It can be said that they came at the right time.

What a great group of guys!
(End of this chapter)