Chapter 24, Twisted Chain
The selected rat men will be trained into rat warriors. This was done by spear rats before. The conditions for rat warriors to obtain are to be good. Quite a few.
Compared to the literal treatment of slave rats, rat warriors are treated as standard civilians. However, compared to civilians of other races who work in agriculture, rat warriors need to fight.
And you cannot retreat in every battle. If you retreat, you will be beaten into a slave rat and taken away. On the other hand, if you survive the war without retreating, you can get blood mushrooms. In theory, in constant battles , the longer the rat warriors live, the stronger they will become with the continuous supply of blood mushrooms.
But in fact, this depends on the Skaven Lord who commands them.
Because of better treatment and being able to obtain blood mushrooms every once in a while, these rat warriors are not that addictive to blood mushrooms.
Bringing a question.
These rat warriors are the most ungrateful group of rat warriors under Du Yuan.
But even if the rat warriors are not pious, the meaning of their existence is to contribute to Du Yuan. Fighting for Du Yuan, the aloof god, they will either die in battle or become the most powerful after retreating. Lowly slave rat, no other choice.
This is the second ring, the second ring of the rat people's distorted social state, and the third ring is the rat priests and rat lords.
The rat priests are the most pious rat men who have awakened the priest's magic, while the rat lords are the rat men who have outstanding talents. As the rulers of the rat men group, the two parties not only obtained sufficient blood mushrooms supply.
You can even get some special rations, those two-color blood mushrooms that are half red and half black that grow near the altar and have more residual flesh and blood essence but are contaminated by the resentment separated by the blood aura.
This kind of blood mushroom has some other functions than ordinary blood mushrooms. It can stimulate the spirit of the rat people. In this stimulation, the wisdom of the rat people can be improved.
This special two-color blood mushroom can only be used by rat priests and rat lords. The higher the proportion of black, the stronger the mental stimulation effect of the two-color blood mushroom.
And because it grows near the altar, at the end of Xiaochun's spreading root system, the remaining flesh and blood essence is more and better than ordinary blood mushrooms.
Long-term use can even give the rat-men a faint power, like a degraded version of the fear halo, which can better control the rat-men.
But these are not without cost.
After all, the reason why this blood mushroom is dyed black is because it is contaminated by the resentment that Xiaochun separated from the blood-colored aura. Being stimulated by this resentment for a long time will bring about a very intuitive change.
Crazy.
The rat priests, spear rats, and even white rats under Du Yuan all showed crazy and distorted personalities to varying degrees.
This may be why it is not difficult to understand why evil gods are always so easy to go crazy, and even actively self-destruct.
As the pinnacle of rat society, the twisted chain is bound up by rat priests and rat lords. As the top of the people affected by blood mushrooms, the devout go crazy, while the unbelievers become irritable and suspicious.
There is only one thing they have in common, they are inseparable from blood mushrooms, which is destined to return to Du Yuan's command no matter what, either greedily or piously looking up to Du Yuan, and constantly working for Du Yuan. Yuan offered a steady stream of sacrifices in exchange for the gifts given by the gods, in exchange for the swaying bright mushrooms.
For myself, for the blood mushrooms, for the twisted desires, and for the gods.
The establishment of this twisted order even used only two forms of blood mushrooms. For the rat people, the ordinary blood mushrooms and the two-color blood mushrooms were the most important. As for the third form of blood mushroom, there are not many rat people willing to try the black blood mushroom, or in other words, not many rat people are willing to take the initiative to try it.
The closer it is to the altar, the more black the blood mushroom will be, until it crosses a certain limit and completely completes the transformation. The bright red on the blood mushroom turns into pure black. At this time, the blood mushroom becomes pure black. It is no longer suitable for direct use. The ratman who eats it will be instantly overwhelmed by the resentment in it, followed by the irreparable flesh and blood distortion.
It manifests as flesh and blood proliferation, body size enlargement, strength enhancement, and powerful regeneration ability.
Mutated into a crazy terrifying beast.
However, not every rat man is qualified to experience this drastic change. The white rat once conducted experiments on slave rats, but no matter how the black blood mushroom is diluted, the slave rats that eat it will remain in it. After exceeding a limit, it turns into a flesh and blood balloon due to the expansion of the body, and explodes with a bang.
And if you feed it to a rat warrior, as long as you control the portion, you can get a crazy giant rat that is two or three times larger than an ordinary rat warrior.
This is also the existence that the lizardman lord encountered on the battlefield before.
However, for these two uses, the white mouse felt that it was too much of a loss, because the emergence of black blood mushrooms is not easy and is extremely rare. After so long, only three were born, and two of them are still Born at Du Yuan's first big sacrifice.
Whether it is creating a flesh bomb or an ordinary crazy giant rat, it is a big loss.
Unless you focus on some more powerful and qualified guys.
At this time, the distortion was particularly complete, and the Spear Rat, whose strength had doubled several times and even retained some simple wisdom, was considered a standard work by White Rat.
Yes, the spear rat who ate the black blood mushroom did not die, and even retained some superficial wisdom. Unfortunately, it was of no use. After losing most of his wisdom, he was destined to be nothing more than Can become a tool, a tool driven by the madness of the Skaven Priest.
The White Rat did not understand why there was such an obvious gap between the three types of ratmen in the Black Blood Mushroom, but this did not affect him in the slightest from grasping the key points.
I believe that in the near future, black blood mushrooms will also become a special offering for rat priests and rat lords, specifically for those rat priests and rat lords that he feels are not suitable for existence or have betrayed them.
Du Yuan can guess some reasons, probably because of his background and resistance. The slave rat is weak and cannot support the catalysis of the black blood mushroom.
As the rat warriors eat a lot of blood mushrooms, as long as the dose is appropriate, they can barely survive the catalysis of the blood mushrooms, but they will fall into madness.
The Rat Priest and Rat Lord, who had eaten a lot of Double-Colored Blood Mushrooms, had a certain resistance to the resentment in the Blood Mushrooms when their bodies could support it, so they were able to Keep some basic wisdom.
I have to say that by chance, Du Yuan really made a treasure. Although he didn't know why a divine card that was originally so bright could become so twisted and evil. something to come.
Or maybe the rats under him who use blood mushrooms are just too evil.
But no matter what, there is no doubt about the potential and value of blood mushrooms. If you use it as a foundation, you only need to firmly grasp the blood mushrooms, which is equivalent to capturing all the rat people.
(End of this chapter)