Chapter 49, God’s Joke
As time went by, as more and more rat people were sent into the wetlands and onto the battlefield by the priests, the progress of the rat people did not stop.
Just as you go deeper, the surrounding environment becomes more and more bad, and you will even be attacked by some extraordinary creatures that originally lived in the swamp.
And along with the lengthening of the front.
The handover between the large army of ratmen and the priests responsible for transporting young ratmen and supplying blood mushrooms became increasingly difficult.
Often, the priests have to take the young rat people through a long distance before they can deliver the things they want to deliver to their destination and take away the things they want to take away.
During this period, there was also an attack by lizardmen.
But even so, there are still a large number of rat priests coming one after another.
Because Rat War negotiated a deal with them.
As long as these priests can successfully bring the young ratman to him, then he will give sufficient rewards, or extremely generous rewards.
Those lizard-men heads.
Even limited by the distance, these evil god believers could not be brought back to the mountains intact, and were thrown into the sacred blood pool to serve as nourishment for the blood mushrooms.
But if their heads are placed on the temple altar and their deeds are engraved on stone paintings, it will definitely be the best thing to show their piety to the gods.
With the passage of time, especially inspired by the patterns carved on the temples built by white rats, the rat priests gradually began to popularize stone paintings.
Abstract patterns were carved on the stone walls by slave rats with their sharp claws, and then placed in private caves.
Although due to the low level of civilization of the rat people, such stone paintings are only better than stick figures, the rat priests are still enjoying it.
There are various contents, including my own image, things that happened, praises of gods, and my devout beliefs.
Especially the devout belief in gods.
In the past, except for the god Du Yuan, piety could be known at a glance. For the rat priests, it was always in an abstract state. However, after the appearance of stone paintings, the situation changed a little.
The more stone paintings that praise the gods in my cave, the more pious I will be. The more sacrifices I offer to the gods, the better, the more pious I will be to the gods. The more senior he is.
The more senior I am and the more pious I am, the better I am as a priest, and the more I am a good priest who can legitimately gain more!
In the past, various rat-man priests did not know the records and would not display them.
Until the appearance of stone paintings.
In this way, a large number of rat priests set off towards the wetland one after another, bringing with them a large number of young rat men and blood mushrooms, just to find rat war in the depths of the wetland, just to make their caves more comfortable. There is an additional scene of stone paintings recording offerings to gods.
Make yourself appear more senior among the numerous rat priests.
Driven by such motivation, the rat priests continued one after another. Even when the rat war went deep into the wetlands and the journey became difficult and dangerous, they did not give up.
But fewer and fewer priests arrived.
But this did not make Rat War change his strategy.
With the swarm of rats gathered around him, Shu Zhan rushed towards the wetland without hesitation.
He had no way out, the moment he did not choose to give the Spear of Divine Punishment to the white rat.
Only by completely destroying the Lizardmen and the corpses of these evil god believers, with the supreme glory, and under the gaze of the gods, can we go back.
Only before I can go back.
This is not easy. It is very easy to leave all the rat troops led by him in this wetland. But it is obvious that Rat Zhan chose this path without hesitation. .
Maybe the White Rat knew this well, but the White Rat did not stop it. He who disappointed the gods will never do anything to disappoint the gods again. Before the rat war fails, the white rat will do its best to support this war of gods.
Until the rat war failed.
In addition to the two rat men, White Rat and Rat Zhan, who have their own thoughts, there are also people, or gods, who have been watching the situation here.
Yes, Du Yuan has also been paying attention to the situation in the Lizardman Wetland here.
Du Yuan was also a little surprised by Rat Zhan's radical offensive strategy, but he was just surprised.
Even if there is a possibility that the rat army here will be completely wiped out, it is just a surprise. I just gave the wooden spear infused with some divine power, but there is no more Interfering too much.
Perhaps it is because even if the entire Skaven army on the expedition here is destroyed, it will not be considered a traumatic event for the entire Skaven clan.
After all, no matter how hard the rat priests brought the young rat men to the wetlands for sacrifices and to show their piety, the young rat men brought only accounted for half of all the young rat men. That’s all.
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Deep in the mountains.
In that dark and deep abyss.
A broken, cracked furnace lay quietly in this abyss. It was a rather delicate furnace with intricate carvings.
Just the pattern on the surface can give people a dazzling feeling at a glance, not to mention the complicated stacking and fitting inside that can be vaguely observed through the cracks. The gears are gone.
It's a pity that in the center of this furnace, a hole climbing through the ferocious cracks suddenly appeared. In it, the heart inside the furnace has disappeared, leaving only a few embers emitting a faint blue light in it. Chen Fang.
Originally, this heartless furnace was quietly accompanied by a huge mountain of flesh made of limbs and heads.
Just now.
A little flame exploded in the dark abyss.
Accompanied by the heavy knocking sound.
The blue flame burst out and bloomed into beautiful flowers.
But it reflected an increasingly ferocious rat-man face.
"Failed again! Damn it! Damn it!"
"I just can't hold this hammer. Why is there such a thing as a hammer!"
"I've obviously received a revelation from the gods! But I just can't hold it! I just can't hold it!"
The owner of that face is the long claw that was forgotten in the deepest part of the mountains, organizing the slave rats to continuously dig out the metal veins.
As his name suggests, he is an excellent slave rat, even though he has already got rid of his status as a slave rat and has become a priest.
But those sharp and thick claws are still firmly growing on his hands, a gift left to him by his experience as a slave rat.
He is very lucky to have long claws. He is the first ratman to be enlightened by the Broken Craftsman's Heart. At the same time, he is also very unlucky because he has a pair of thick and sharp claws that make it difficult for his hands to make other movements.
It's like a joke from the gods. Although Du Yuan will not be so boring, the craftsman's heart may not have thought that the object of his enlightenment may not even be able to hold a hammer properly.
In the light of the blue sparks, the expression on Long Claw's face became more and more gloomy and ferocious.
(End of this chapter)