From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 415: The Collapse of the New Holy City
The good news is that the Eldar did not mobilize their most powerful fleet to charge towards the Skaven who had just entered the universe. The bad news is that even so, the Skaven would probably have absolutely no way to fight against this Eldar expeditionary force.

The good news is that this Eldar expeditionary force may be stuck in the disordered time for a while before it can get out of the chaotic center of the physical universe. The bad news is that the ratmen are not preparing for this war, developing, or continuing to explore. They are about to start a civil war.

The elderly Rope Seven failed to suppress the last-ranking temple councilor who was grinning at him.

Everything went smoothly at the beginning. After all, the rat people have an extremely excellent virtue, which is that it doesn’t matter whether you do it or not, but how I do it.

There was no investigation, no deliberation. When it came to Sheng Qi's position, what he had to do was actually very simple, which was to list a suspect and then pin him down like an ant.

There is no doubt that Sheng Qi can do this. He is no longer that empty puppet. Although until now he still cannot have the final say over the ratman priests, there are too many old guys from the old times who are still alive.

But he is now undoubtedly a true ratman high priest. During the religious reform, Sheng Qi took back most of the power and hung his title of high priest over the heads of all the ratman believers in the current ratman empire.

He finally did it, even though it took him a long time, and became a true rat-man high priest.

Now, for Sheng Qi, it is very simple to attack anyone he wants. All he needs is a speech, just a few simple words. He is the temple priest who was introduced to balance the conflict between the new generation and the old guys in the Ratman Council.

The rat-man priest who was so proud and successful, like the protagonist and the center of everything, had everything taken away from him. He fell from his lofty position, with a look of disbelief on his face.

Obviously, what this young guy didn't realize is that rules are just a fig leaf for the weak.

He thought so. He perhaps felt that he might be able to pull back and forth with Sheng Qi, the old and decayed high priest, the corrupt elephant, within the framework of the temple council and the tacit rules observed by the rat priests, holding meetings one after another, fighting against each other as if they were standing in a ring, using all kinds of chips, clues, evidence, interests, and other vain things to compete with each other.

Maybe he also felt that he could step on Sheng Qi's head and then enhance Sheng Qi's prestige a step further, and felt that he was the warrior who was ready to embark on the road of slaying the dragon.

But with just a few words, Sheng Qi easily stripped off everything from this young guy who thought he could see a higher position.

From the wilderness to the starry sky, the most fundamental rules of the rat people have not changed.

Power, everything is power.

Following Sheng Qi's light words, countless young priests, temple knights, pilgrims, and rat believers put on their armor, picked up their weapons, and began to cheer fanatically, gathering together.

Do you think Sheng Qi was able to hold the position of high priest because of his extremely long life and false qualifications? He relied on the fact that he gradually took control of the huge organization of the Ratman Church after the religious reform. At that moment, he became a true high priest of the Ratman.

But this young fool was not so stupid as to be beyond redemption after all, and the last bargaining chip he prepared for himself worked.

One army, a fully mobilized mixed fleet equipped with a large number of retired warships and modified ships from the Ratman fleet.

Such an army passed through the Miracle Corridor and jumped from the third colony of the rat people to the star port of Shenqi Star.

It's a miracle, right? Such an army broke into Shenqi City so brazenly. It's an incredible thing, but it happened just like that.

The two major centers of the Ratman Empire, the former capital of the empire, the reserved area of ​​the Ratman Church, the origin of the rats, and still a cultural center today, an important resource node, the most important bargaining chip of the Ratman Church, and the truly sacred place.

Today, he was completely stripped of all his fig leaves by a young ratman priest, leaving nothing even in his underwear.

But if we look into the actual reason, it is not surprising. When Qi moved the capital of the Ratman Empire, in that grand stripping, there was no regular Ratman army stationed on Shenqi Star anymore.

And also because of the existence of Qi, the Ratmen Church has never blatantly crossed that line to recklessly form a large-scale Ratmen fleet. Even the military forces stationed on the Shenqi Star are difficult to gather together in rounds of wrangling and mutual checks and balances. For a long time, these arrogant guys just didn't think that the Shenqi Star would suffer a real attack.

After all, no matter what, this is a truly sacred heart. Even Qi had mixed emotions when facing the God of Qixing.

So, in such a situation, a guy who was about to lose rushed in without caring about anything and did something that was both the first and the most shocking thing in the world.

During the fierce exchange of fire, the few defensive artillery pieces on the Shenqi Star Port were completely destroyed, and the star port lost the ability to attack outward.

This ragtag fleet wanted to further occupy the star port to put more pressure on the temple priests on the Shenqi Star, but after just a simple attempt, they retreated in disgrace.

They couldn't do it. Well, this rebellion started by the guys who were desperate to lose was really embarrassing, whether it was the temple priests who had their underwear torn off, or this former temple priest who was desperate to lose.

There are Temple Knights Guards stationed on the Shenqi Starport, as well as the Inquisition and Rat Assassins. Both the Temple Knights Guards and the Inquisition were guards separated from the former Temple Guards. Perhaps now you understand why this rebel fleet cannot occupy this starport.

It is precisely because of various historical issues that there is no systematic ratman fleet stationed in the star region of Shenqi Star. Otherwise, how could these ragtag fleets composed of second-hand warships and modified ships be able to show off their power.

In the landing battle, these guys were defeated and could only run back to the battleship and take off urgently.

No matter how great the advantage of space power is, if you want to truly occupy a planet, you still have to rely on ground troops. Even now, land warfare and the army are still an indispensable part.

The starport could not be captured, and the rebels were unable to destroy it.

These bigwigs on Shenqi Star and their elite private armies stationed there are also unable to take to the sky to fight against the rebels. Although this is only a second-hand fleet, it is at least a large-scale ratman fleet, which is not something that the large number of reconnaissance ships stationed on Shenqi Star can deal with.

The situation has reached a stalemate.

But the situation won't always be this stalemate.

Of course, he was not the only one who secretly prepared a ratman fleet. Don't doubt the hidden intentions of these guys. It's just that these guys have always had a tacit understanding, or in other words, they are afraid to become the conspicuous leader.

This guy who was desperate for loss was just a fuse, a spark, but he successfully ignited everything.

On the second day after the fleet arrived, there was still no progress, and the young former Temple Councillor had not achieved any compromise. He had already sensed the fate of his own. Even this final madness did not change anything. In the frenzy, he issued the order to attack.

One after another, soul bombs and magic energy bombs were dropped from the orbit of the Shenqi Star.

This crazy guy no longer expected to survive, he just wanted to bite those guys hard before he died.

The New God City was collapsing, and a large number of steel high-rise buildings were toppling over in the attack. Countless ratmen were running wildly in fear, but facing the attack thrown from the sky, they didn't even have a chance to react.

Sheng Qi lowered his eyelids and looked at everything in front of him.

Hold your head high.

I don’t know what I’m thinking.

The bombing soon stopped, but the new holy city that had been built fell into ruins and no longer had its former prosperity.

Wailing, blood, flames, running ratmen, steel twisted by fire, the city turned into ruins.

An endless stream of Skaven fleets came to the Planet of the Gods through the Warp, just a moment after that crazy guy launched the orbital bombardment. These were the private fleets of the Temple councilors, hidden fleets, forces that were not put on the surface, and they were from the same source as the rebel fleet that was bombing the Planet of the Gods.

The rebel fleet became a hot commodity at this moment.

These guys pressed forward madly, wanting to take a bite out of this rebel fleet.

In a way, a carnival began.

Strength is the only creed in the Ratman Empire, and there is nothing wrong with that. Therefore, since the religious revolution, after Shengqi and Qi reached a tacit understanding, an invisible shackle fell.

There is never a shortage of ambitious people in the Ratman Empire, and what is even more terrifying is that these ambitious people often possess power.

Sheng Qi is already old, and he is increasingly unable to control these ambitious temple priests, these greedy guys who have survived from the old times to the present.

Only the chain that had fallen was still working.

Now, an opportunity has arrived.

Thus, a carnival began.

These ratman fleets, those temple priests, the ratman fleets in their hands did not just leave after tearing the crazy guy to pieces, but used the tone of preventing such a thing from happening again, using the collapsed and burning new holy city as an excuse.

They left all the ratman fleets behind.

For a time, these guys became saviors, and Sheng Qi's prestige suffered a major blow. The elderly high priest was unable to prevent this tragedy and the collapse of the New Holy City.

Sheng Qi's prestige fell to the bottom, while these temple priests jumped up in such a terrible disaster. Sheng Qi could no longer suppress them. Dense ratman warships were now cruising in the sky above Shenqi Star.

It all went so smoothly that it was unbelievable.

In the flames, in the twisted steel, in the wailing, in the corpses of countless ratmen.

These ambitious guys were laughing wildly.

Everything is spiraling out of control.

The civil war has entered the countdown. Qi will not allow this group of greedy guys to completely control the Ratman Church. When Sheng Qi can no longer suppress this group of guys, there is no doubt that the Ratman fleet that was about to go on the expedition, the huge Ratman fleet displayed in the Fortress Star Port, they will turn around without hesitation and then follow the miracle channel into this sacred area.

This sacred planet surrounded by countless halos, the origin planet of the ratmen, will become the battlefield of this civil war.

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The collapse of the New Holy City was undoubtedly a tragedy, but it also became an opportunity for some rat boys.

The establishment of the new holy city can be regarded as a miracle for the former ratmen. The ratmen priests who crawled out of the underground rat city built a steel city, a sky-high city, a super city that was unprecedented for the ratmen at an extremely fast speed in this barren mountain range.

At the same time, this also led to the decline of the underground rat city. The most intuitive indicator of this change was the ratman industrial zone that gradually became a garbage dump after being abandoned.

The Desolate Mountains Industrial Zone, which was once the first of the three major industrial zones in the Rat Empire, has been completely abandoned and filled with a large amount of garbage thrown from the New Holy City. It is difficult to get a glimpse of what this place looked like before from this huge garbage dump, and it is also difficult to imagine how important this place was to the rats.

The only traces left were the tips of the blast furnaces poking their heads out from the rubbish.

In fact, this situation is not unique to the underground Rat City Industrial Zone. After the new holy city was built, almost the entire surface of the barren mountains became a garbage dump.

This series of mountains is not suitable for building a city, but the rat priests who rushed out still built the city here. As a last resort, huge steel pillars were poured one by one, and the city was built up bit by bit in the sky.

The city was dropped high in the sky, and the barren mountain surface below the city naturally became a huge garbage dump.

(End of this chapter)