From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 408: Life-sucking Vampire

Did the establishment of the Rat Empire bring more and better changes to the rat people?

No, probably not.

Time passes very quickly on such a vast scale as the universe.

Two hundred years have passed since the day when the rat people successfully walked into the starry sky.

Colonial cities were built on the seven planets that made up the subspace corridor, and the Ratman Empire also expanded rapidly.

In two hundred years, many changes have taken place in the Ratman Empire.

These crazy guys pushed a lot of things.

But a faint sense of decay lingered over the entire Ratman Empire.

A true disconnect was born with the passage of time, from those blood mushrooms, from the scarlet filtered through the rotten corpses.

The essence of life has never been able to prolong life indefinitely, even when combined with the soul gem.

The effects will fade with use; this is not a permanent elixir of life.

But it is indeed something that can be called a miracle. Combined with the life essence of the Soul Gem, it decays again and again, but it will always be effective when you use it.

It's nothing more than a multiple increase in dosage.

From one drop, to a mouthful, to twice, and finally, these rat nobles, bigwigs, people in power, greedy monsters, were completely immersed in the extremely bright pool water.

The rats have nothing to do with vampires, but at this moment, these guys are more like vampires than vampires.

The Ratman Empire has entered a state of complete solidification. Sheng Qi is still the high priest of the Ratmen today, and those greedy guys have also regained their youth one by one.

But Qi was already very old. He abandoned the blood mushrooms and the temple guards on the day the Ratman Empire was established. I don't know if he regretted it later.

After the emperor of the empire resolutely resisted the tentacles of the remnants of the Ratman Council fifty years ago, he has never been able to obtain the life essence that can be used to prolong his life.

These remnants, well, maybe it’s right to call them that. After all, the great gods have all gone away, and it’s only too appropriate to call them remnants. They want to use the scarlet blood to turn into reins and put them around Qi’s neck.

But I didn't expect Qi to be so decisive.

Even the capital of the Ratman Empire was relocated, leaving the distant temple, leaving this small planet, and moving to the end of the Miracle Channel, the last of the seventh planet.

Is it all worth it? After all, what those greedy guys want is not that expensive.

Just those lowly rat-men.

Or lives that can be used for sacrifice.

One drop of life essence requires enough blood mushrooms to fill a room, and the number of living creatures that need to be killed can form a hill.

And a small sip of life essence requires tens of thousands of lives.

To what extent is the life required for the blood pool that was built to sustain these corrupt vampires?
With such horrific demand, even external plundering is difficult to maintain.

They can only focus their attention on the other ratmen around them, who are becoming more and more prosperous with the development of the starry sky.

The curse on Longclaw eventually lingered. He did not become a god, and these deformed ratmen who fiddled with his corpse could not become gods either.

These guys who cannot live without the essence of life have become like stink bugs that cannot live without water. They cling to all the ratmen and greedily suck their blood.

But in fact, even at this point, the conflict between Qi and these guys is not that difficult to mediate. After all, what these guys want is not excessive. Even if the number is so exaggerated, the rats can actually afford it, as long as the number of these greedy vampires does not expand indefinitely.

Would Qi take those lowly guys too seriously? I'm afraid not.

In fact, the lower classes of the Ratman Empire have always had a hard time. There have been some changes compared to before, but it seems as if nothing has changed.

The roaring factory, the puffs of black smoke, the sharp and scolding rat-man overseers, the rat-man nobles who run the factory, the unimaginably meager pay, and the work that seems to never stop.

The abandoned code did change some things. There was no more senseless killing, no more wanton trading, and even the rat breeding houses were swept into the garbage dump.

But nothing seemed to have changed.

Big Claw Priests, Rat Man Priests, and that country that is so deformed that it is unimaginable.

These things seem to have reappeared with just a different name.

As for why, why nothing has changed.

After the Ratman Empire had embarked on this peaceful and miraculous road, its exploration of the physical universe came to a stalemate. The terrifying physical scale between stars is something that every race that steps into the starry sky has to face.

There are not many paths to choose from. Either increase the speed of the spacecraft to the limit of the physical universe, and then use a series of means such as hibernation capsules to carry out this long exploration, or take a shortcut and explore the physical universe through subspace.

This is not an easy task, especially when the technological leap of the ratmen is so exaggerated.

Positioning, star maps, navigation, and experience in subspace exploration, all of these are problems. But it is almost impossible to expect the rats to patiently stop and climb the technology tree based on the resources on the seven planets.

These impatient guys chose the simplest and most brutal way to carry out this expedition to the stars.

Exhaustive.

While building large-scale star fleets in large quantities, they also continuously threw various reconnaissance ships into the subspace, using these rat-man scouts to conduct exhaustive searches.

This is not without effect. At least over the years, three relatively stable subspace passages have been explored by the ratmen.

These three passages lead to three star fields, and have also become the source of suffering for these lowly guys in the Ratman Empire: the constantly assigned targets, the never-stopping blast furnaces, the increasingly bloated cities built on the mineral veins, and these pathetic guys who appear to be free but are born in exhaust fumes and die on steel.

It was still the firewood that was constantly burning, and it seemed no different from before. Their burning brought about the prosperity of the Ratman Empire and the Ratman warships that were formed in the outer orbit and in the starport.

This created the burning flame in the eyes of the Rat Emperor.

Qi did not give any preferential treatment to these guys in the Ratman Empire. He did not love these lowly guys. In essence, there was no essential difference between burning these guys in the Ratman Empire and turning them into corpses floating in the pool of blood.

But Qi felt an indescribable disgust towards the group of vampires, and was not even willing to make any compromise with these rotten guys.

Indeed, he didn't care about those lowly guys, but he would not allow these greedy blood-sucking worms to snatch anything from his clenched hands.

Even the passing of life and the aging of the body could not move him at all.

He is the Rat Emperor!

This is very rat-man, very rat-man, very much like the rat-man under Du Yuan, a crazy guy who is truly ignited by the fire of desire, extreme and paranoid.

The truly ruthless ones among the rat people are never afraid of death.

But this also triggered irreconcilable contradictions.

The conflict between life and death.

There is no doubt that those guys want to survive, those greedy vampires, and Qi is gradually becoming an obstacle to their survival.

Now, the conflict has not yet completely erupted.

Because of the mutual fear.

These greedy vampires have too much influence on the Ratmen. Even though Qi separated them from the Ratman Empire, their influence is still spread throughout the Ratman Empire due to their faith.

Even if a life or death situation really had to be decided, the best time had not yet arrived.

All we can do for now is wait.

On the other side, those guys who transformed into vampires were also waiting, and they were less anxious than Qi.

After all, time is on their side.

Even if Qi is so stubborn, how long can he be stubborn? If he dies, then everything, everything will still go according to their wishes.

Thus, this strange balance appeared.

The two sides maintained such a strange balance in mutual entanglement and spying.

Obviously, the rat people are still young, but this rat empire is inexplicably so corrupt and rigid. Today, nothing happened and everything is the same as before.

………….

The third planet colonized by the ratmen, it is a high-quality mining planet named Steam and Steel, but the Big Claw Priests prefer to call it by another name, Black Iron Star.

This is the source of raw materials for the first, second, and third fleets that the Rat Empire is currently building. These three interstellar fleets and even many future fleets will be built.

This is a gray planet, a relatively young planet. The core of the planet is still in a state of turbulence and has not yet subsided. There are a large number of volcanoes, rifts, and geothermal resources that are so exaggerated that if you make a deep hole in the rock crust, the geothermal resources will gush out.

The movement of volcanoes and the core of the planet brings a large amount of rare minerals to the surface. The huge rift valley can be used as a natural mine, and the surging geothermal heat is simply a natural cheap energy source.

This is an extremely high-quality planet suitable for mining, and if the building damage and earthquakes caused by its overly frequent geological activities can be solved, then this planet can also become an industrial planet extremely suitable for industrial activities.

Can the rats solve this problem?

Of course they can. Although with the progress of the times, the increasingly large cities of the rat people have to spread towards the surface and the sky in order to avoid damage to the cities caused by geological activities and to avoid damage to the geological structure caused by the rat cities.

Well, this is a situation that is difficult to describe. We can only say that when the rats dug the city deeper and deeper underground, they finally encountered the insurmountable marginal effect.

The exaggerated rat holes dug by these super-evolved rats, although not to the point where the planet could not bear it, had reached a level that even they themselves could not bear.

The magma that could erupt and flood the entire city, the unstable crust structure, the frequent earthquakes, the collapsed urban areas, the toxic gases buried in the underground caves, and of course, the groundwater, all these messy things are making it increasingly difficult for the rat people to bear.

As a result, they had to move most of the city's structures to the surface.

But that doesn't mean the ratmen learned nothing from their struggle with the insurmountable marginal effects of the underground city.

Their structural science and architecture have reached great heights. In short, they will have no problem dealing with the restlessness of this young Black Iron Star.

Naturally, Black Iron Star became the industrial center of the Ratman Empire, attracting most of the Big Claw Priests who were on the road of machinery. No, it seems no longer appropriate to call them Big Claw Priests now. These new generation of Ratman engineers still have faith, and they even still believe in the great god who is somewhat mysterious in legends and epics.

Although they themselves may not know this.

Because now, the symbol representing the Rat Engineer is derived from the technician emblem of the Gear Church, which is an emblem with a huge claw mark as the base and embossed metal gears.

The spirit of gears, machinery and metal.

This is the object of their faith.

Undoubtedly, this also comes from the great god, but with the passage of time, such a connection is gradually being forgotten.

Now, these ratmen engineers no longer have their iconic big claws. These big claws that are revealed due to labor have gradually become the symbol of those wild ratmen.

But there are some things that have not changed, that is, these guys are still a little neurotic. At the same time, the aesthetic concept of liking bigger and stronger, and the design concept that does not pay attention to user experience, these messy things have been inherited.

It can be said that good things cannot be learned, but bad things are passed on for thousands of years.

The gathering of these guys on Black Iron Star naturally made Black Iron City an extremely important technological node in the Ratman Empire.

Covered by so many halos, a star port was officially established in the outer orbit of this black iron star thirty years ago.

Today, the Ratman Empire, including the original planet formed from the corpse of the small plane, controls a total of eight planets.

Among these eight planets, except for the two planets, the Original Star and Shenqi, which are the starting point of the Miracle Bridge, and the fortress at the end of the Miracle Bridge, only the Black Iron Star has a star port.

However, it is not surprising that Shenqi and the fortress, which is now the capital of the Ratman Empire, have star ports. The symbols and significance of these two planets are extremely important.

Compared with the above two planets, Black Iron Star is incomparable in most aspects, but it can have a starport only because of a very simple reason.

value.

It's of great value!
(End of this chapter)