Chapter 34, Desire and Faith
In the rapid advance, it was not that no race thought about resisting. A mixed goblin tribe with hobgoblins and bugbears as the ruling class took the lead in standing up.
They were also the culprits responsible for the first great defeat of the Skaven since they fully entered the forest.
A force of five thousand Skaven, led by Good-Eye's Skaven warlord, faced off against this combined goblin force.
Then the armies of the hobgoblins and bugbears rushed into the team and beheaded the rat warlord, followed by an unquestionable rout.
The rat warriors and the young rat men ran away in the forest, and they were all gone in one go.
Regarding this situation, the ratman's performance was not as expected by the bugbear leader.
Not even much fear.
Not long after, all the rat troops in the forest got the news and rushed towards this area with red eyes.
A total of four rat armies of five thousand rat warriors came, led by the rat lord Good Eyes and his younger brothers, three rat warlords.
A team of 20,000 rat men was formed.
There are also so many young rats, almost as far as the eye can see, who serve as auxiliary troops.
After acquiring the resources in the forest area, the number of rat people doubled at a rate of two months.
This allows the Skaven to easily pull out a large, loose force.
It is a very pure feeling, just in terms of quantity is a creepy feeling.
Although these gathered rat troops did not attack the goblin tribe.
The red-eyed warlords, instead, led their own rat-men and began to hunt down the fleeing rat-men warriors and young rat-men all over the mountains and plains.
Soon after, a long team of slave rats, escorted by rat priests, set off towards the mountains with the forest as the starting point.
After everything was settled, the rat warlords once again turned their attention to the goblin camp in front of them.
Without any twists and turns, the huge rat-man army successfully overwhelmed this mixed goblin tribe, which was already quite large in the forest.
At the same time, perhaps because this time, too many slaves and sacrifices were obtained, which even exceeded the requirements of the white mouse.
The priests made some plans to store sacrifices, after killing the unruly hobgoblins and bugbears.
A large number of short ordinary goblins were also brought back to the mountains on ropes as slaves.
Of course, the rat warlords who did this did not get nothing. In exchange, the priests would use the blood mushrooms in their hands in exchange for sacrifices and slaves.
This will save them from the stringent requirements of the white rats, and also allow the rat warlords to work harder.
Under the temptation of blood mushrooms, they did not even hesitate to send the fleeing rat troops of the dead rat warlord to the priests in exchange for mushrooms.
Under the operation of such rat priests and warlords.
The number of slave rats began to expand rapidly, which also further promoted the construction of rat people, more tunnels, and deeper caves.
More mushroom cultivation rooms, nurseries, production rooms, storage rooms, and the winding mineral veins that are gradually being dug out deep in the mountains.
With the help of excavation mastery, the Rat People naturally tinkered with a ventilation system that was not complicated.
As a result, they dug deeper and deeper.
But this is not the most important thing.
Among the series of projects, the most ambitious and the one being excavated by the most slave rats is the temple project under the command of White Rat himself. Countless slave rats are floating in the blood lake. They are not sacrifices, they are all still alive slave rats, or they are not all sacrifices.
While the slave rat was sinking, it used its sharp claws to dig out again and again to widen the size of the blood lake, so that the underground lake that was not originally huge has been fully expanded. doubled.
Of course, this process is not easy, especially under the watchful eye of the rat priests and overseers. Many skinny slave rats sank into the blood lake and then floated without breath. By the way, they were used as sacrifices. Waiting for the blood mushrooms to grow on his body.
After being picked several times, it turned into a skeleton and sank to the bottom of the blood lake.
During the continuous excavation, huge stone steps, one after another, have appeared under the blood lake.
The White Rat wants to dig out a huge pyramid that sinks in the blood lake.
Du Yuan's altar and divine stone pillar are set up on the top platform of the pyramid.
This is undoubtedly a big project, but the rat obviously doesn't care what the cost of this project is.
He watched feverishly as the pyramid in front of him slowly took shape.
Unspeakable happiness brewed in his heart, which was his gift to the gods.
He couldn't help but relax even a little bit. Even though he was now the leader of the ratmen, he was no longer a young and energetic ratman.
But the white rat will still jump into the blood lake every day, and in the constant ups and downs, determine whether there are any errors in the slowly forming pyramid.
The devout white mouse looks forward to the completion of the pyramid in front of him.
In terms of piety, Bai Shu is indeed the most fanatical rat man among the rat men for his belief in Du Yuan.
But to take a step closer, Du Yuan feels a bit suspenseful about going from a fanatic believer to a saint. Not only him, but also many priests among the Ratmen who are also fanatic believers are unlikely to enter. Saint.
Because compared to fanatic believers, what saints need is not simple fanatical belief, but to have their own thinking in fanaticism, and even be able to give opinions to gods and help gods make up for their shortcomings.
Of course, it is not difficult to make conditions, make suggestions, and make up for deficiencies, but the difficulty is that you must have a pious and unreserved belief to meet these conditions.
Only then can one be called a saint.
It is because of this that Du Yuan feels that the white rat cannot do it, and even other rat priests find it difficult to do this.
Because these guys are more eager for blood mushrooms, eager for gifts, very fanatical desire, pious desire or greed.
Until desire and greed were mixed with the gifts they could get because of Du Yuan, they couldn't tell whether it was their own uncontrollable greed or their fanatical belief in Du Yuan. .
These rat men became fanatical believers.
It is difficult to judge whether this can be regarded as a kind of piety, but since the rat man fanatic believers born in this way are both pious and fanatical, and can also provide faith value, although it cannot be said to be a pious belief, they still succumb to desires.
Put your desire on Du Yuan.
Then Du Yuan just ignores this awkward feeling, but he is very sure that this will not make him a saint
But Bai Shu is indeed a devout believer of Du Yuan, not that A kind of fanatical rat man who confuses desire and longing, but the problem also lies in the piety of the white rat, which is too pious and even fanatical.
You can’t become a saint either.
However, because of this piety, sometimes Du Yuan would not interrupt his decision-making, especially for the sake of faith.
This is a concession from the gods to believers.
Although, he may not know that his god is actually more helpless about his actions.
(End of this chapter)