From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 399, Ratman Code

But he decided to do it anyway.

The sight slowly fell from the height.

Landing on the towering furnace that was spewing flames, countless ratmen were now preparing for the sacrificial ceremony.

They were densely packed and gathered from all directions.

Regardless of identity or status, noble or humble, such a large number of rats gathered here.

This is an incredible scene. After all, theoretically speaking, the conflicts among various kinds of ratmen are difficult to eliminate. There is no need to provoke their differences. They can't wait to kill each other and fight to the death.

These are the rat people, a pile of mud and loose sand, but somehow, they are able to gather together at this moment and do something big.

All this can only be done by the great God, and all this depends on the faith in the great God.

But he just wanted to see more.

In the long night, he stretched out his claws, and from afar, it seemed to catch all the rats gathered in front of him, one by one, in his hands.

Is this an offense to the great gods? Perhaps, after all, there is always such a contradiction between divine power and royal power.

Fortunately, at this moment, when this ambitious guy was about to take the most critical step, another guy was also watching all this.

Du Yuan has been witnessing the history of the rat people, the history of this group of noisy guys.

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A grand sacrifice, a grand sacrifice, blood, corpses, boiling iron, cheers, and the gaze of countless eyes.

The leader of the temple guards stepped onto the platform.

With their arms raised high and shouting loudly, all kinds of people gathered in the audience.

Today is a great day.

Today is the first step towards that envisioned future.

This guy, this guy who often hides behind all the ratmen, is indeed the best person to inherit the position of high priest.

It's not because of anything else, the arrogance is just the same.

Looking at him on the platform.

In a trance, the figure of the white rat vaguely overlapped with his.

It's all like this, not being driven by the times, nor conforming to the times.

Instead, he jumped up arrogantly.

All the ratmen seemed to be just pawns in the hands of such a guy.

Seeking what they want to see.

The towering furnace began to collapse in the flames, and in the scorching flames, it collapsed piece by piece, and a huge black bell appeared in front of all the ratmen gathered here.

The flame had not yet gone out, but it began to dim after leaving the towering furnace.

But the other flame began to burn vigorously.

Shout loudly.

The sacrifices were brought onto the platform one by one, and blood kept splattering onto the crude bell embryo.

But everything is not so smooth.

The bodies of the sacrifices were piled neatly on the platform, and the splattered blood extinguished the flame on the bell embryo.

The rats who were watching gradually became silent.

From day to night.

The commander of the temple guards stood on the platform for a long time without moving.

This guy wants to truly create a ratman empire.

But he fell at the very first step.

The rat people are too deeply bound to the great gods, and no one can disobey these rules without the approval of the great gods.

In such a situation, the rat people are destined to make everything revolve around God.

In order to open a gap, he chose to use the Cold Soul Giant Bell as the breakthrough point. As long as the Cold Soul Giant Bell was willing to recognize this code, it would be equivalent to tearing a gap open.

To this end, he did not hesitate to offer such a grand war sacrifice.

It’s just a pity that something seems to have gone wrong.

The Cold Soul Bell did not respond.

This grand sacrifice, which lasted from morning to night, did not receive any response.

It all seemed to be turning into a dismal farce.

It can only be said that they really chose the wrong object to worship. The Cold Soul Giant Bell was really too lazy. When Du Yuan was trapped in the sky and in a stalemate with a group of demigods, the Cold Soul Giant Bell was still quite active.

But now, this guy hardly responds to anything from the outside world except for the bell ringing at a fixed time every day.

A grand sacrifice might attract Xiaochun to visit, but ten grand sacrifices probably wouldn't be able to make this guy move an inch.

It was a sacrifice doomed to fail until one guy couldn't stand it anymore.

In the desolate mountains, the underground rat city, in the original temple, on top of the pyramid in the blood pool, a huge bell was shaking its body lazily.

The time is almost up, it is about to knock on its own head.

As for the sacrifice offered to it, it had already sensed it, but had just been too lazy to move.

But inexplicably, a bad feeling appeared in its heart.

I always feel like I'll be unlucky if I refuse that sacrifice.

This lazy guy muttered this in his heart, but it was obvious that as a clock, he didn't think he could be that unlucky, so this premonition was completely ignored.

The sacrifice was about to end, and the connection was getting weaker and weaker. That was good, so as not to disturb him.

Just as he was about to stretch his body and ring himself to announce the arrival of a new day.

Suddenly, a crack opened behind it, and then a big foot kicked out. It was unable to make any response at all, and the Cold Soul Bell flew out like that.

With a series of crisp sounds of being dragged, the lazy guy flew out sideways.

Of course, in order to prevent this guy from destroying something, a crack was deliberately opened in front of him. When the Cold Soul Bell passed through the crack and reappeared, it was already in the sky above the Desolate Mountains. With remaining momentum, this guy turned into a meteor and streaked across the sky.

In front of Prairie City.

When Leng Hun Juzhong, who looked confused, appeared here in a posture hanging high in the sky, everything continued.

The guy on the platform finally took his last step.

Shouting loudly on the platform.

Shout out a sentence like that.

"I will pass down the code at this moment, in the presence of the sacred bell!"

The rats began to shout loudly.

Among the guys gathered here, probably more than 90% of them don’t know what this sacrifice is for, nor do they understand what this so-called code is.

But this does not stop them from shouting wildly at this moment.

After all, it was a true miracle, and it really happened.

Of course, not everyone was so happy. The rat lords looked as if they had lost their parents. It was obvious that since such a code was passed, they could no longer stand up straight in front of the temple guards.

How could this not frustrate them?

Apart from them, the only ones who had strange expressions were the two limping guys.

With the combined effects of large doses of blood mushrooms, trauma mushrooms, and various strange supplies, Qi and Heimao were finally able to get up before the grand sacrifice and limped here to watch the ceremony.

At this moment, they no longer looked as desperate as before.

The two limping guys withdrew their gaze from the miracle in front of them and looked at each other, only to find that there was something puzzled in each other's gaze.

However, this strangeness did not last long. Soon, the two guys withdrew their gazes and made a submissive expression.

The dull blood color and the gray shell on the clock embryo were peeling off bit by bit.

The pieces fell off and began to shine. Apart from the complicated patterns that had been there since its creation, the code was the largest part of the clock.

Its existence is a proof, which is enough for the ambitious guy to do what he wants.

However, long after the sacrificial ceremony ended, the huge cold soul bell hanging high in the sky did not dare to leave.

Obviously, it has inexplicably cast a shadow on what happened today.

But if it doesn't leave, the sacrificial ceremony will not end.

Although the rats had no objection to this, they knelt on the ground one by one, raised their heads high, as if they wished they could engrave the giant cold soul bell in the sky into their eyes.

Until the day officially alternates with night and a new day begins.

The Cold Soul Bell rang unconsciously, and the clear sound of the bell washed away the surroundings, and everything came to an end.

The Cold Soul Bell disappeared here, and not long after, it was able to return to the original temple, but it no longer dared to be so lazy. For a period of time, the clear bell sound that washed the desolate mountains became much clearer.

It’s a pity that this diligence only lasted for a short period of time.

After the Imperial Code was officially enacted, the temple guards began large-scale construction.

New rat cities were built by them, and the abandoned rat cities were repaired one after another.

A new set of rules has been established in this area.

Moreover, the rules are somewhat different from the previous ones. This set of rules not only covers the slave rats, rat freemen, big claw priests, but also rat priests, rat lords, and even the final temple guards are all subject to the constraints of this set of rules.

This is something hard to imagine.

Although this set of rules is not that fair, it even clearly records the status gap between the rat people.

If a slave rat kills another slave rat, the murderer will be sentenced to death by hanging.

However, if a free ratman kills a slave rat, he only needs to pay a certain amount of blood mushrooms as compensation.

This is passed up level by level until the last rat lord and temple guard.

There are many interesting entries. For example, in the entry about slave rats, it is written that if two slave rats belonging to the same rat slave owner commit murder, the rat slave owner can use fewer blood mushrooms to absolve his slave of the crime of killing another of his slaves.

This is a very interesting entry, the essence of which is obviously to break up the absolute control of the ratmen slave owners over the slave rats.

There are many such entries, and the targets include all kinds of ratmen.

The plot was very simple. This code almost broke down all the things and rights that the big men in the Ratman Empire originally had. It did not erase them directly, but instead included them in the imperial code.

It must be admitted that this code is still very rough.

But the guy who wrote about him was also extremely bold and arrogant.

He dismantled the rights of all the rat people in this land, including his own, one by one, and summarized them into this sacred code.

Although at first glance there seems to be no difference.

For example, there is such an article in the Imperial Code.

If slave rats and rat freemen offend the rat lord, the rat lord has the right to execute the offending slave rats and rat freemen.

This kind of thing seems to have been like this before and now.

After all, if the rat lord wanted to execute the slave rats and rat freemen who offended him, it seemed that he could easily hang these guys high from the past to the present.

This is a right that has always existed, and the existence of this law simply provides a transit point for this right.

There doesn't seem to be any difference, but is it really the case?

Obviously, the leader of the temple guards would not do something useless, and he would not go through so much trouble just to come up with a useless thing.

What we need is such a transit. It seems that this is just a useless thing that has reached the extreme of formality, but in fact...

What the Rat Lord could do at any time, after such a transfer, was no longer the right of the Rat Lord, but became a right granted by the Imperial Code.

What they were originally able to do was simply transformed into a right granted by the Imperial Code.

At this point, you have to understand why the first thing the temple guards have to do before preparing for this sacrifice is to eliminate the destabilizing factors on the scarlet grassland.

First there were the rioting slave rats, rat bandits, and rat ghouls, and then there were the rat warlords and their armies.

There is no shortage of smart people among the ratmen. They certainly know what this code represents. If they don't take the lead in clearing out these rat warlords, a civil war will probably break out as soon as the Imperial Code is implemented.

In order to prevent this terrible scene from happening, the temple guards decisively and directly selected these rat warlords as sacrifices, and invited those rat lords to the observation deck. After a brutal massacre, they performed the sacrifice that gave birth to a miracle.

Only by doing all this can they push this code forward.

Everything is to build up momentum, and now, the momentum has been built up.

The chief of the temple guards standing on the high platform glanced towards the group of rat lords, and what he saw were a group of guys with extremely gloomy faces.

In this way, he is qualified to promote all this.

(End of this chapter)