From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 454, Virtual Rat Life

The expansion of the empire entered the fast lane, one planet after another, larger territory, and these were made possible through the unobstructed subspace channels.

It is a very wise thing to seek knowledge from the vast physical universe which seems to have no boundaries.

Plunder is always the fastest and most convenient way.

A feast for the gluttons, everything can be obtained in this unscrupulous plunder and conquest.

Technology, resources, various novel pets, and habitable planets.

Of course, it wasn’t always so smooth. The Ratman Empire also encountered some troubles during its expansion, but in the end, these troubles were all resolved.

The Ratmen had encountered the equally powerful cosmic empire more than once, but in the end, these powerful enemies were all defeated by the rising Ratmen Empire.

Admittedly, several of the ratmen's victories relied on tricks and were based on the abuse of Soul Scream. The ratmen discovered another function of Soul Scream, which is also its shortcoming that cannot be ignored.

The use of Soul Scream will deepen the connection between the physical universe and the subspace in this area, weakening the connection between the two worlds. At the same time, it can also disrupt the subspace in this area, causing it to completely fall into disorder and chaos.

When facing a cosmic empire covered with shells and extremely proficient in energy weapons and shield technology, the ratmen were defeated step by step. In the end, they relied on the Sand Soul Scream to completely disrupt the subspace order outside the ratman empire, and forcibly imprisoned this cosmic empire with the extremely terrifying physical universe scale.

To put it simply, the rat people cut off the Internet for these crab people in the subspace. The subspace connected to the physical universe where the crab people exist was directly turned into a local area network by the rat people's soul screams.

These crab people have neither been defeated nor wiped out from the physical universe, but how to say it, in that extremely rigorous physical universe, if they do not use the power of the subspace, then if they want to send a fleet to the outside world, when this fleet encounters the Ratman Empire again, it may be thousands of years later.

What's more, these crab people may not be able to crawl out of this extremely vast physical universe.

Just like that, a powerful race with unlimited potential that could leave its home planet and create a cosmic empire was locked up in a small dark room.

Such a way of exiting is really too depressing. In fact, during the expansion of the rat people, they encountered many cosmic empires that they could not defeat and were locked up in small dark rooms like this. The crab people are not the first victims.

After all, they are indeed powerful and can directly use ether bombs to bomb the enemy. Yes, Soul Scream can strictly be called an ether bomb.

However, such abuse is not without problems. The most significant issue that needs to be considered is the rapid consumption of ether crystals. Genuine ether crystals are a non-renewable energy source. The Death Comet has been officially declared to have been mined out, and the Soul Moon is also so small that it is about to be out of the category of satellite.

After all, this gift will not be boundless and inexhaustible.

Perhaps the aimless expansion had to be stopped temporarily, as the Ratman Empire had expanded too much during this period of time.

This year marks the 700th year since the rat people left their home planet.

They have occupied one hundred and twenty star systems and have nearly two hundred colonized planets. Their territory has become so vast that it is unimaginable.

But it must be admitted that they are still too small for this universe. The territory currently occupied by the rat people is only the majority of the edge area of ​​one of the four arms of the Milky Way. They just dyed a little bit of the edge of this space arm composed of countless planets, celestial bodies and cosmic dust with their own color.

The physical universe is truly vast to an unimaginable degree.

Conquest and expansion continued unabated, and the Ratman Empire was prosperous as the areas they controlled grew larger and larger and their technology continued to improve. During this golden age that lasted for nearly five hundred years, the Ratman engineers captured a terrifying scene.

They have warned the Rat Emperor sitting on the throne more than once.

In the center of the physical universe, there is chaos. An unspeakable disaster is evolving and will continue to expand. The rat people currently have no possibility of resisting this disaster. If they are affected, according to the estimates of these rat engineers, the rat people will be easily wiped out like a broken soap bubble.

We must respond, we must respond!
This group of rat engineers, shouting and screaming like mad, constantly emphasized the horror of the disaster.

There is just one problem. When you ask them when this disaster will affect the rat people, the answer they give is ten thousand years later...

Okay, okay, what a devastating number this is, and it's unimaginably terrifying.

The process of the rat people going into space has only been going on for more than 700 years, or 10,000 years, which is an unimaginable number for them.

How unimaginable this is.

About fourteen seven hundred years.

However, it does not seem that there is no need to be on guard. After all, it is only about fourteen seven hundred years.

During the past five hundred years, the ratmen engineers have continuously modified and upgraded the transformation surgery, using the Dragon of Life as the original. This technology has changed a lot compared to its initial crude appearance.

The most obvious point is that the object being transformed is less and less like a ratman, but a completely new thing that has nothing to do with ratmen.

Powerful strength, swift speed, nerve reaction speed more than ten times that of ordinary ratmen, and of course, the most precious long lifespan.

In short, this group of ratmen engineers used the Dragon of Life to tinker with a completely distorted and controllable deformed form.

This complete control allows these modified ratmen to break the genetic limitations on life.

Infinite life, immortality, this ability is once again beckoning to the rat people. This is definitely the second most powerful achievement that the rat engineers have come up with in the past five hundred years.

The most amazing thing is the birth of the ratman prophet.

I just don’t know if this eternal life will bring curse to the rat people.

With such an idea, immortality no longer seems to be a problem. For the rat engineers, they control the distortion of life. From another perspective, they also use this completely controllable distortion to completely freeze the length of life.

Utilize the controllable distortion to store the body's data, and then restore the changed parts at any time.

With this idea in mind, the rat people were the first to achieve immortality. All rat people could fix their bodies at a certain moment and would not age at all until they died.

What a wonderful thing this is, but what annoys you is that they have achieved immortality but have not been able to achieve longevity.

Even though they have eternally young bodies, the rat people will always die suddenly at a certain point. This is puzzling. In order to figure out why this is the case, the rat engineers began their own attempts.

The first direction proposed was to record the brain. Just like fixing the state of the body, they also used controllable distortion to completely fix the state of the brain. Of course, this is not a particularly humane technology. Fixing the brain and refreshing it every once in a while will lead to a situation where the memory of the subject is completely fixed on the day of the refresh.

With each recovery, the memory is lost and the brain reverts to its youthful state, which means being trapped on the same day forever.

This is a very scary kind of prison, but it can indeed prolong survival time.

In an unknown laboratory in the Ratman Empire.

At this moment, such experiments are ongoing.

This is an observation experiment, and all the guys in the base are experimental subjects.

A group of rat engineers in white coats are observing and recording an experimental subject.

This is a young rat boy who has experienced almost two hundred refreshes.

Two hundred years ago, the moment he walked out of the academy gate, he was brought to this laboratory. Two hundred years have passed, but his life has been forever frozen in time two hundred years ago.

Every year, the rat engineers would erase his memory and put him into a new cycle.

In order to observe the emergence of variables, everything he experienced in these two hundred years was not an empty repetition, but a completely different experience every year.

In some stories, he became a rat engineer, in some stories, he joined the army, in some stories, he achieved nothing and lived in a daze, and in some stories, he encountered happiness.

And so he was observed.

The cycle of year after year has passed until now.

This guy is owned by the ratmen engineers and is the second longest-lasting subject in this observation experiment.

Two hundred years, this is almost three times longer than the natural lifespan of the rat people. Perhaps they can really gain eternal life through such a refresh.

This year, the life arranged for Experiment No. 2 is a self-made rat businessman.

In one year, under the arrangement of these rat engineers, he completed a series of processes from starting from scratch to becoming a big rat businessman. In the observation room, he could be seen wearing a helmet, sitting on a cold chair, waving his arms.

Well, in order to save money, the rat engineers also began to use the gerbil people's virtual reality technology. After all, giving the experimental subject a helmet and a host computer is much easier than actually building a real scene for him.

A large screen was installed on the wall of the cold laboratory. Behind the poor experimental subject wearing a helmet, the screen reflected the appearance of this poor guy. However, the him in the screen was not the poor guy sitting in the cold laboratory, but seemed to be a real ratman businessman.

…………,
The top floor of a high-rise building has a wide view, from where you can easily overlook the entire rat city. Not only that, if you raise your head slightly, you can also clearly observe the spaceport hanging high in the sky.

This is already a pretty good position, and the person who holds it is undoubtedly not an ordinary character.

In fact, this penthouse suite was just bought a month ago by an extremely domineering ratman businessman. What is even more shocking is that this domineering ratman businessman is an extremely young guy.

At this moment, the young ratman merchant was sitting in his suite, shaking the wine glass in his hand, and looking at everything he owned in front of him with comfort.

Who could have thought that such a young ratman merchant who could make the city governor bow his head was just a young ratman boy who had just walked out of school a year ago.

He is still a very failed young rat boy who seems to have no future.

To be honest, a year ago, when he just graduated from school, he was very confused. He had no family background, no connections, the college he attended was not strong, and he had no talent for mechanics and technology. He once wondered whether he should sign up for interstellar exploration, to conquer the unknown planet and gain a relatively decent life in a new world.

Who could have thought of that?

It was only one year, just like a dream. No, it wasn't even a year yet. There were still six days left to a complete year of 306 days. In these 300 days, he had almost everything.

Wealth, power, a transport fleet of his own, status, and yes, a very beautiful Rat Lady.

Picking up the wine glass in her hand, the beautiful and tall rat lady hurried over.

Respectful words rang out.

"Great Roland, tailor, ratman merchant, do you have any instructions?"

Roland, the tailor, the great ratman merchant, Roland, the tailor, this is the name he inherited. His father and his family before him had always been humble tailors, but starting with him, everything is different. The name inherited from their family will start with him and carry the title of the great ratman merchant.

And he achieved this in just three hundred days, which was six days away from a year.

Shaking the red wine glass in his hand, he spoke to the beautiful rat secretary beside him with a bit of reproach.

"I've already told you, there's no need to be so formal, you can call me Mr. Roland!"

"Okay! Mr. Roland!"

With such address, he drank the wine in his hand with satisfaction.

Everything was going so smoothly, and there were still six days left until the year was up. He had done all of this himself.

The proud ratman businessman thought so complacently.

"It's one year away..."

He couldn't help but repeat it again, and this time he suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Wait? Why do I keep repeating this?"

(End of this chapter)