From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 411, The Miracle Disappeared
This is not easy.

There are just too many ratmen.

I want to leave my name, leave my name in that blast furnace.

It's not easy!
He is going to die.

This nameless guy is a young ratman mercenary.

No one knows what he was thinking about before he died. Perhaps it was the day when he fought with his brother when he was young and was left with a hideous scar on his face, or perhaps it was the curiosity he felt when he first heard about the outside world in the tavern, or perhaps it was the resentment of not being able to leave his name in the blast furnace.

Maybe there are.

But the last one may be more likely.

The rat people are so unwilling, so resentful, and have so many passionate desires that there is never any peace or rest.

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In the endless wilderness of the Black Iron Star, there appeared a stagnant tracked transport vehicle, and on top of it, there lay the corpse of a dead ratman curled up.

Perhaps in the near future, other rat mercenaries passing by here may find this tracked transporter stranded in the wilderness. At that time, they may take the tracked transporter away and clean out the curled up corpse.

This old vehicle will be used again after being repaired, although it will become more worn.

And this might not even be the first time that this tracked transporter has experienced something like this. Among the mottled marks all over the body of the vehicle, who knows if there are any traces left by other dead ratmen, and who knows what kind of stories are buried in them.

These are the rat people, a group of guys who are born quickly, die quickly, have short lives, and whose lives are mostly meaningless. At the same time, they are full of endless desires, but it is difficult for them to leave any strong traces in this world.

Not long after, a group of ratmen came along the route, but these guys were not ratmen mercenaries, nor did they accidentally find this place while wandering.

This group of guys are from a ratman gang and were sent out as a special recycling team.

The loss of the rat transport vehicle attracted the attention of the rat gang leader.

Therefore, such a recycling team came along the road specifically to search.

This transportation business caused heavy losses to the leader of the rat gang, but just like those rat guys he sent to transport the goods could not refuse his assignment, he also could not disobey the orders of the rat bureaucrat above him.

A target was issued. He had to gather all the ratmen laborers who were voluntarily sent to the wilderness within the specified time, and at the same time he had to send them in an orderly manner to the city camp that was under construction.

Those guys who volunteered to go to the wilderness were easy to deal with, but after encountering such an unexpected incident as being attacked by death worms, the transport vehicles in his hands became stretched to the limit.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to send out a special recycling team for an old crawler transporter.

These rude guys threw the already dried corpse on the driver's seat out of the car, and after a simple inspection, they hooked the crawler transport vehicle.

After finishing all this, it’s time to return.

It's just that everything isn't going so smoothly.

As they were returning, the raging wind began to blow up a lot of iron sand again, and it was another sandstorm. Fortunately, there were no lurking death worms and rock beasts in such a sandstorm. Unfortunately, they lost their way, and the vehicle's engine malfunctioned.

In desperation, they abandoned their own vehicles and boarded the battered and dilapidated tracked transporter with prayers.

A miracle happened.

Not only was this dilapidated tracked transporter not damaged, it also successfully brought them back to the blast furnace.

Brought them back to the huge steel city that looked like a towering blast furnace.

This is simply a miracle, as if they were guided by something in the dark.

This is not an illusion.

Later, the rat people driving this crawler transporter experienced difficulties in the wilderness more than once, but every time, this old crawler transporter was always able to bring them back.

Bring it back to this blast furnace.

It seemed that at some point, a guy engraved his reluctance to not be able to return onto this old transport truck.

It can only be said that such things are not accidental. With the passage of time, the rat people gradually discovered these miracles born in obscurity.

At some point, those cold machines will have some unusual abilities.

The steam gun that is sure to hit with the third bullet, the transport vehicle that is sure to return to the city, the calculator that can complete difficult calculations in three seconds.

Such miracles kept happening, but they were unable to create huge waves in the Ratman Empire.

Because most of the mechanical miracles are not replicable, not all of their functions are useful, and most of them can only be regarded as toys.

However, the rat engineers who were extremely curious about this phenomenon still carefully studied and recorded these miracle machines, and soon found a common point that existed in all miracle machines.

The reason why these machines can perform such miracles is closely related to one thing, that is the Soul Stone.

Only those machines that use Soul Stone in their manufacturing have the potential to become miracle machines.

This aroused even stronger curiosity among the rat engineers who were studying induction.

They didn't understand why this was happening, but there was no doubt that the Soul Stone, in addition to being able to serve as an energy source and provide a better magic reaction multiplier, seemed to have other changes to mechanical creations.

Perhaps we just need to understand why they are able to make this miraculous addition to their works in batches.

And then, their research just got stuck.

The ratmen engineers were embarrassed to find that they had no idea where to start with these dark blue stones.

It is not surprising. The current rat people are still far from being able to understand and explore the soul. Although they have indeed transformed, how should we put it? They have changed from primitive people who used antimatter to light torches to modern people who use antimatter to burn boilers.

There were changes, but they didn't seem to be that big. With no progress, the Skaven engineers gradually gave up their exploration of the Soul Stone and their pursuit of these miraculous objects.

In fact, these things are not that complicated, and the principle of the birth of the so-called miracle things is not that complicated either.

It was just the resentment and obsession of a group of lowly guys who lived and died in a day. Normally, these resentment and obsession would not cause any waves. Even when Du Yuan was still sitting in the subspace, these resentment and obsession would be attracted by his instinct, and then collide with Du Yuan's body, becoming one of the many distracting thoughts that eternally entangled him.

And now, Du Yuan has immersed himself in the gap between the physical universe and the chaotic universe and no longer accepts these distracting thoughts. Then these paranoia and unwillingness will have the possibility of staying in the physical universe for a long time.

Of course, this alone is not enough to make these miraculous things emerge. Another hard condition is also required, which is the Soul Stone.

The Soul Stone provides these obsessions and unwillingness with the possibility of staying, because the two are of the same origin. The Soul Stones in the hands of the ratmen, except for the green stones dug out from flesh and blood, those purer dark blue Soul Stones all come from those obsessive thoughts that Du Yuan has eliminated.

The combination of the two makes the birth of these miracles possible.
In fact, it’s a bit of a stretch to call it a miracle. It’s just the resentment of some unwilling guys who are unwilling to let go no matter what. It’s also the traces left behind by some lowly guys like mayflies out of helplessness.

For example, this old tracked transporter, why can it return to the blast furnace again and again.

Once, there was a young guy who curled up and died. He thought that if he could go back safely, he would be able to leave his own name in the blast furnace.

Such obsession is engraved on this mottled tracked transport vehicle, creating such a miracle.

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Although most of these miraculous things that appear from time to time are toys, they have also attracted the attention of powerful people in the Ratman Empire.

After all, they are rare, unique, and unusual. Although most of them are useless, some of them do have unique uses.

They waved blood gold coins, soul stones, or blood mushrooms in their hands, vying for these rare objects.

But this doesn't change one thing: most of the miracles are just toys to these guys.

They have no use for these things, they just collect them as a kind of collectibles, a kind of curious ornaments.

The blast furnace, the miracle vehicle whose fame spread more and more widely, made it known to the city's governor. Soon after, a mottled crawler transporter appeared in the showroom at the highest point in the city.

It can be seen that when it was sent here, it underwent extremely detailed cleaning. It is no longer gray, but it retains the mottled marks all over the body of the car.

He was placed in the center of this display room as a precious collection, never to set foot in the wilderness or experience the hustle and bustle of life again.

But this did not allow this crawler transporter to continue to maintain its legend and miracles.

It gradually dimmed, and soon, the tracked transport vehicle became completely dim, and it really turned into an ordinary old transport vehicle.

Why is this happening? Perhaps it is because the obsession that has always been unwilling to dissipate has finally made him realize something that he has always been unwilling to recognize.

In this quiet and spotless showroom.

That is, even if he returned to the blast furnace and returned to this city, he might not be able to leave anything behind.

The miracle dimmed.

The obsession dissipated.

The crawler transporter naturally became ordinary.

The miracle is gone!
The miracle is gone!
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Just as the Skaven Empire was booming in the starry sky, the Eldar captain who had fled from the Divine Star in a panic and the AI ​​hiding in the lifeboat finally escaped from the misty and chaotic subspace.

The good news is that they did not deviate from their course. This time, the subspace jump did not deviate. They arrived at the designated place and were not randomly swept into the corner of the universe by the disordered space turbulence, or simply kicked into the hands of those paranoid and indifferent guys whose bodies were covered with keratinous shells.

They returned to the ruling area of ​​the Eldar Federation, and even from a distance, they saw the mothership parked in the center of the galaxy.

The huge mothership, which looks like a planet, can still be clearly observed with the naked eye even though it is now hovering in space.

Fortunately, their presence seemed to be noticed, and a stream of light broke away from the mothership that was stationary in the center of the galaxy and moved towards them.

Soon, they should be able to be rescued successfully.

However, the elves and the AI ​​on the lifeboat did not seem to have reached a complete agreement.

A negotiation is about to take place.

The tall captain seized this opportunity and wanted to reach a more favorable contract with the controller.

After all, they are about to return to the Eldar Federation again. At this time, the relationship between the two sides has reversed again. Undoubtedly, as the captain, she now has more initiative.

Deep down, she had actually decided to take a gamble and completely tie this master control AI, which had become unusual, to her own chariot.

But this did not prevent him from asking for something more and extorting some more money at this most important and final moment.

Not long after, the guy who looked like a victorious rooster failed to pass the verification successfully and board the arriving Eldar warship.

Obviously, something unexpected happened somewhere, and she quickly found out what the accident was.

Almost two hundred years have passed since she disappeared on the battlefield and returned again.

Her name has been on the list of missing in the war for almost two hundred years.

The mouth slowly opened.

Two hundred years was not a short period of time for the Eldar, especially during the turbulent war years.

Everything went awry.

(End of this chapter)