From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 412: The guy trapped in the past

This is not good news. The connections she has accumulated, the relationships she has maintained, the patrons, all these things, after two hundred years, it is hard to say what is left.

In short, as time goes by, there may be nothing left of the things she relies on.

This was clearly demonstrated when she returned to the mothership and was first sent to a pale interrogation room. No one came to visit her for a long time, and she looked like nobody cared about her.

In a quiet room.

The terminal in her hand vibrated, and a few lines of text were typed out and projected into her sight.

"It looks like you have nothing left."

Such words did not anger the tall captain, whose mood was unexpectedly stable.

In this pale, empty room.

She denied the words that popped up in the terminal and whispered to herself calmly in the empty room.

"No, I still have you!"

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Shenqi Star, Desolate Mountains, Underground Rat City.

Today, the Underground Rat City is no longer worthy of its name.

A towering, unimaginably tall steel city rose from the ground.

It directly encompasses the entire desolate mountain range.

This is still the center of the Ratman Empire, one of its centers, and it still represents the beliefs of the Ratman Empire.

After the advent of the interstellar age, the power of the Ratman Council, or the priests of the Ratman Temple, has skyrocketed.

On that increasingly large scale, the Ratman Empire needs a link to connect the entire Ratman Empire.

The scale of the universe presents an insurmountable dilemma.

The rat people now occupy only eight planets, but this unimaginably vast scale has already brought countless difficult to solve problems.

The distance is increasing and transportation is inconvenient. Even if there is a Miracle Corridor to maintain the loyalty of each planet to the Ratman Emperor, the Ratman fleets will not stop on every planet for every moment.

Rebellion, lip service, and the growing tendency towards division.

These are the specialties that an interstellar empire must taste.

Therefore, a bond, a bond that can connect the entire Ratman Empire, has become extremely important and necessary.

The question then becomes, what can best serve as such a link?

It seems that the answer has already appeared, and there is no need to hesitate, that is faith.

The belief in the great god expanded with the rat people, was carried into the starry sky, and fell on these eight planets.

These ratmen councillors did a great job. The ratmen believers who believed in the great god reached an all-time high, and also raised the power of these ratmen councillors to an unprecedented level.

If Qi had not made an early judgment and prepared for this possible scene, he would have forcibly separated half of the Gear Church from this group of guys and turned this group of guys and most of the Big Claw Priests who were attached to the structure of the Ratman Empire into Ratman engineers.

Otherwise, at this time, these ratmen parliamentarians would probably be the real controllers of the Ratman Empire.

However, even if these were suppressed, with the spread of faith, these guys were still secretly trying to take half of the Ratman Empire into their hands.

The current power status of the Ratman Empire is that Fortress, Steam and Steel, Transit and Commerce, these three planets and the Ratman fleet are in Qi's hands, while all other planets are in a tug-of-war state.

It looks bad, and actually it is bad.

Qi was able to suppress this group of temple priests, but he could not completely suppress them, and this was the source of the unrest.

When this group of guys raises the banner of holy war, almost every ratman planet will have ratman believers responding, and this number will increase depending on the prosperity of the planet.

That flag, the flag depicting the great god, is still able to command a great response in the Ratman Empire. These temple Ratman priests can stir up a commotion with just a slight wave of this sacred flag.

But the more this happened, the more Qi watched those ugly and greedy vampires doing such things, the more he disdained and sneered at them.

The greatness of the gods is unquestionable, but can they really have any connection with the gods now?

A bunch of rubbish, wriggling maggots, stupid idiots, stinking, rotting bugs.

Qi made this comment on this group of guys.

Of course, don’t think that Qi looks down on these rat-man temple priests. He even moved the capital of the rat-man empire to the last stop of the Miracle Road a long time ago. But in fact, there is still a connection between the two sides.

However, the connection is not particularly close and is entirely dependent on the maintenance of the two ratmen.

One is Shadow. The rat assassins are still active on the Shenqi Star. Shadow follows the instructions given two hundred years ago and is still guarding the rat people's high priest.

The second is Sheng Qi, the second high priest of the Ratman Empire. He was a puppet supported by Qi to the position of high priest. Now he has become a key figure to bridge the conflict between Qi and the priests of the temple.

It is really hard to imagine that these two guys have maintained a good relationship for these two hundred years, even until now. It is quite amazing.

In the original temple.

Sheng Qi did not become as young as imagined. On the contrary, he now looked old, with dry hair, a hunched body, cloudy eyes, and a wooden stick in his hand that he always kept in hand.

Logically speaking, this shouldn't happen. In the turmoil, he has long been a simple puppet. As the high priest of the rat people, he will not lack blood mushrooms, and he certainly will not lack life essence.

Even if it is to maintain life and restore youth, it will use up countless life essences. These precious things must be piled up to create a blood pool that is so luxurious that it is unimaginable, but this is still affordable.

But today, he looks very old.

In the original temple.

The sacred pillar still stands, the blood pool has never dried up and there has never been a lack of sacrifices, the Cold Soul Bell also stands quietly on the top of the pyramid, and blood mushrooms still emerge continuously.

Each of these holy objects still remain in the same condition as they were more than two hundred years ago.

So much time has passed, but here, nothing seems to have changed, as if time has been frozen. This is all thanks to Sheng Qi.

In the Ratman Empire, the rats have experienced a lot of things and a lot of changes over the years. The rat priests have also experienced the same series of changes, and the turmoil is even more intense among them.

When the rat people walked out of the starry sky, discovered the first planet on this miraculous road, and excitedly began to try interstellar colonization.

There was wailing everywhere in this underground rat city.

On that occasion, a full one-third of the ratmen priests went crazy. This was an even crazier turmoil that came from those desperate ratmen priests.

In the past fifty years, many of the ratmen priests felt that they were ready for the cruel reality. Or maybe the production of the life essence made them excited and they thought they could wait. But when that day came, they found that things might not be what they thought.

That day, in the underground rat city, the crazy rat priests began a frenzied killing again. Amidst the wailing and desperate sobs, they waved their weapons, smeared their bodies with blood, and rushed madly towards the original temple.

The temple guards who were supposed to stop this group of crazy guys did nothing until the door of the original temple was carefully pushed open by this group of crazy guys.

Until the dim divine pillar appeared in the eyes of all the ratmen priests.

Until the confused guy who was slumped in the original temple appeared in the eyes of all the ratmen priests.

The turmoil ended just like that.

On that day, the underground rat city was littered with corpses, all of which were the corpses of rat priests. The sacred pillars dimmed, and the rat priests also lost the ability to cast divine spells.

They all had to accept a fact that they were unwilling to accept.

Maybe, maybe the great god has really left.

Before that day, Sheng Qi felt terrified about this possibility, but not desperate. Strictly speaking, he had never been pious. Even though he was the high priest of the ratmen, he had never mastered more divine arts, such as berserk. He only knew berserk.

After all, although the great gods have been watching the rat people, they are still too far away from these guys.

He could not see the great gods, nor did he hear the great gods' preaching.

But he was already very lucky. At least, he had truly received the blessing of God, although he was only used in the original temple to set off the arrogant ratman commander and the terrifying high priest.

But he had received a gift, and this was something that countless rat priests in the Rat Empire would long for in their entire lives.

Even so, he still felt that God was far away.

He didn't think he was religious.

The departure of the great god may have made him more worried about his own power.

Until, until that day really comes.

Sheng Qi was not as calm as he had expected. That day, an indescribable feeling of panic gripped his heart.

Not fear, not despair, but panic.

The guy who was slumped in the primordial temple was him.

That day, he stared blankly at the dim divine pillar, staring at this sacred divine pillar.

Desperate wails and sobs echoed in his ears.

One hundred and fifty years later, he often wandered in this original temple, and the desperate wails and sobs still echoed in his ears.

He might be more religious than he thought.

He may be more dependent on the great gods than he thinks.

Kneeling in this great hall where nothing seemed to have changed, kneeling in front of the sacred pillar that had gone dim for one hundred and fifty years, Sheng Qi knelt devoutly.

"Great God."

I just looked up, and still nothing had changed.

A long look.

Until a young rat boy came behind him at some point.

"High Priest, the temple meeting is about to begin."

The boy spoke when Sheng Qi noticed him. Sheng Qi nodded in response, slowly stood up from his kneeling position, and used a wooden stick to support himself to stand up.

The rat priests who had experienced the turmoil one hundred and fifty years ago quickly built a more majestic temple in the new city area of ​​the underground rat city, the new city area built on the surface, and left the old city area as if they were escaping.

They didn't dare to come back, nor did they dare to face all this.

Just as Sheng Qi was about to leave this already dim hall, he paused, stopped, and turned his head.

Nothing in this temple has changed. There is not a single difference compared to its appearance over two hundred years ago, but everything has also changed.

The corruption of the rat-men priests and their rapid transformation into a group of greedy vampires began at an irreversible speed after that incident.

After all, Sheng Qi is a talented person. He is not like those guys who live in fear and cannot face all this.

But sometimes having courage also means being more cruel.

After the god left, Sheng Qi found that he was far more pious than he thought.

After the great god who was high above and never felt real truly left, he found that he was far more pious than he thought.

Sheng Qi looked at this for a long time.

Sheng Qi seemed to be tripped up by the past. Who could have thought that this guy who had always been lucky, an apprentice god who only knew the berserk spell, who was often in a miserable state and despised by white rats, would eventually become the ratman high priest. It was just like who could have thought that he was actually a devout ratman priest and was tripped up by a past that was so long ago that it was unimaginable.

One hundred and fifty years have passed.

These one hundred and fifty years were twice as long as his entire previous life, but he was firmly trapped, trapped in that brief past.

What a freak.

Finally, Sheng Qi left, and peace returned to the original temple.

Sheng Qi has done a lot of things over the years, and he himself has changed a lot.

This former underground rat city has completely turned into a slum. The rats have taken to the starry sky to prolong their lives, but even this still important city, the center of the center of the Rat Empire, is still infested with skinny rats.

While rushing to attend the temple meeting, riding in the luxurious aircraft, Sheng Qi looked out of the window and saw a group of skinny rat boys wandering on the roadside.

However, his luxurious aircraft seemed to make those skinny rat boys particularly frightened.

It's not surprising that after all these years, those big guys are still deadly to these ordinary ratmen.

Shortly after he left, several ratman guards came here and put down the cave mushrooms in their hands.

That's probably why Kai gave him the nod all these years.

Over the years, Sheng Qi has become old and frail, but he has become more merciful and is willing to focus his attention on more rat people.

I don't know why this is.

(End of this chapter)