Chapter 247, Strange Slavery, and the Majesty of the Rat-Man Commander
In a camp where rat-men gathered, a rat-man priest leading a team of giant rat-men visited. He came at the right time. The battle is almost ready.
There are countless rat people gathered here, there is a black sea, harsh and sharp sounds, and the rat people are running around wantonly.
This is an extremely large gathering place of rat people.
After leaving the vast grassland and entering the main continent, especially after the world returned to darkness, the rat people seemed to be swimming into the sea. They no longer had to worry about the flexible cavalry troops that might appear at that moment. Naturally, the habit of building cities was abandoned. In the darkness, human vision was limited, and there was no need to worry about enemy attacks. This way, scattered gathering camps became the mainstream.
The traces of the rat caravans appeared again behind the Eastern Expeditionary Force.
This time it was not just to acquire the spoils obtained in the war, but also to sell some novel gadgets to the rat warriors. The changes in the world have affected a wide range of things.
Suddenly, no matter how scarce the food was, the number of rat people showed a terrifying explosion. Such a short-term gift may only represent a moment of abundance to other races, but for rats But it is an unparalleled help to people.
Abundant food, just harvest the plants that are gradually becoming twisted and twisted in that area, and the food harvested is unparalleled richness. This great richness even makes the big claw priests abandon it. It has adopted the good habit of recycling unqualified individuals to manufacture baby food supplements.
When the child in the belly of a human pregnant woman is about to reach half of its growth, during this fertile gap, a terrifying number of first-generation rat-man cubs have already been born, and the second round of The birth has entered the preparation stage.
The rat people consume environmental resources at a terrifying rate and do not control them.
However, these effects have not been spread yet, and the rat cubs are still some time away from maturity. At least three months later, these young rat talents will truly enter the screening stage.
At that time, all the unqualified guys will be used as slave rats, while the guys who meet the standards will be divided into a separate area, and their final result will be like commodities. Go to the window and wait for qualified guys to pick you up.
As long as you can wave the blood mushroom in your hand at these big-clawed priests, you can choose between these slave rats and young ratmen.
Slavery among the Skaven is imperfect.
There are no regulations to protect the ownership rights of these guys who use blood mushrooms to buy young rat people and slave rats.
But on the contrary, the rights enjoyed by these guys who buy young rats and slave rats are unlimited.
Because as long as you can suppress it, no matter what purpose you use these young rats and slave rats, no one cares.
Generally, they will not be sacrificed directly. In any case, the cost of these slave rats you buy is higher than the blood mushrooms obtained by direct sacrifice.
Even in this moment of abundance, the number of young ratmen will usher in an unparalleled explosion. This is the case.
Because of a very simple reason.
If this thing is profitable in itself, then these Big Claw priests will do it themselves. If the cost of cultivating a young ratman is lower than the blood mushroom obtained by sacrificing a young ratman, Believe me, the transformation will be completed very smoothly in an instant. The breeding house will no longer be a breeding house, but will be directly transformed into a flesh and blood factory.
Contrary to the unlimited rights enjoyed by these Skaven slave owners, all Skaven are theoretically free. As long as they can tear out the throat of the slave owner, then they are free. No one will pursue this matter.
This rule applies even to slave rats. There is just one problem. I am an ordinary rat, or a slave rat. How do I kill a mercenary leader and rancher? , Big Claw Priest, Skaven Priest, Skaven Warlord, and those temple guards?
This seems to be an unsolvable problem.
But there is still a chance. Every year, various ratmen die for various reasons, including some who hold power. Whenever this happens, a huge commotion and rout will occur. .
This is something that many free Skaven people will experience before they truly become a human being.
A strange social logic, strange rat slavery.
The impact of the instant prosperity was immediate. In the unparalleled prosperity, the power that the rat caravans could use rapidly expanded, and their trade scope further expanded.
Began to include ordinary Skaven warriors in the Eastern Expeditionary Force.
You don’t need many blood mushrooms, a brand new spear, and a piece of leather armor. Even if they can be handed directly into your hands, it doesn’t matter if you are poor or rich, even if you can only take out some yellow and black blood mushrooms. Powder, in the rat caravan, there will also be the tattered equipment that has just been dumped from the battlefield and handed over to you.
Although these blood mushroom powders are not only looked down upon by the rat lords behind the caravan, but also by the Big Claw Priest in charge of the caravan, they can also be mixed into cave mushrooms as a The food fed to the giant rats. The treatment of these giant rats as camel beasts in the rat caravans is much better than that of the slave rats, and even the ordinary rat mercenaries are far behind.
Of course, if you are very wealthy and have gained a lot of merit in a robbery, then these rat caravans can still serve you, whether it is full-body leather armor inlaid with metal armor, It's the same full-body armor as the Dire Knight, and even the bright silver armor on the temple guard can be included in the ranks of merchandise.
Not every caravan can provide such special products as the bright silver armor of the temple guards, and even the quality is far inferior to the armor of the real temple guards, and the complicated patterns cannot be engraved on it. .
Coming from the dedicated contribution of a mysterious caravan traveling between the main continent and the barren mountains.
As a final product, not many rat warriors would actually buy it. After all, it is not that the bright silver armor of the temple guard is unattractive, but that the same dark full-body armor of the Dire Knight is more cost-effective.
No rat caravan would consider the rat war. The gold content of the ferocious knight's armor is much lower than the bright silver armor of the temple guard, not only in Waste City, but also in Furnace City. It can also be produced. This is a hot-selling product. Even if you add money, even the god's patterns can be copied for you one to one. If you add more money, it can be fully engraved for you.
The high-end caravan version even looked far more luxurious than the original Dire Knight under Shu Zhan. For a moment, I didn’t know who was the real Dire Knight.
Such a situation once made Rat Zhan difficult to deal with, but it is obvious that there is no such thing as appearance protection in the Rat Man Empire, and Rat Zhan’s face is not big enough to make those Rat Lords look like faces. He was so scrupulous about the temple guards.
As a result of this situation, fierce knights were spread all over the Skaven Empire for a time, showing an extremely overflowing state. What is even more difficult is that these can afford to buy The commercial version of the guys with jet-black armor and stomach are not bad at fighting ability. If you let a single ferocious knight challenge them in a one-on-one fight, there is a high probability that they will be beaten violently. Those real ferocious knights will be beaten violently.
Although the advantage of the Dire Knights is that they are not in one-on-one duels, as long as they gather in a group, these guys are definitely the second strongest team in the Skaven Empire and will only be under the guard of the temple.
Compared with other rat-man formations, they can form an absolute crushing advantage. It can only be said that they are still wronged by being under the command of the notorious rat war guy. Regarding this situation, Rat Zhan, who had always been manic, pinched his nose and admitted it.
When the troops in hand were reassembled on the main continent, these rat caravans naturally completed the deep binding with the Eastern Expeditionary Force, and had reached a kind of rat war that I was a little uncomfortable with. The level of willingness to let go.
Compared to the idiots under my command, these rat caravans are really easy to use.
The Rat War has given up on preparing equipment for all armies except the Rat Man Supervisory Team and the Rat Knights Fierce Knights. However, this approach has not allowed most of the Eastern Expeditionary Force to return to the era of wooden spears, and even most of the Rat Men. Soldiers' equipment will become even better.
From their spontaneous purchase from the rat caravan, they saved a lot of blood mushrooms for Rat War.
The rat warriors fought for the Rat War, exchanging the heretics they killed for merit, and then used the merit to exchange for blood mushrooms, and used the blood mushrooms to buy better weapons and equipment to replace and repair the damaged ones. Weapons and equipment, and then go into battle again to gain merit and fight for the rat war.
A good cycle, there is nothing wrong with it. After canceling the equipment supply, Rat War has not increased the value of the meritorious service.
Of course, no rat people have any objections. The promoted rat warlords support this decision. After all, after the supply of equipment is separated from the rat war, their control over the army in their hands will change. Got higher.
The rat caravan also had no objections. Even this change was promoted by the rat lords behind them. The emergence of this change even eased the relationship between these rat lords and Rat Zhan. .
Rat War has no objection. This mode allows him to expand his troops more efficiently, and he doesn't care about the little thoughts of the rat warlords. He is not one of those stupid rats. Human Priest, most of the remaining blood mushrooms were invested by him into the expansion of the rat warrior team, rat knights, and the ferocious knight. With the blood mushrooms, a real personal guard team was formed from the rat warriors. became independent in the supervising team.
A group of rat heavy armored infantry wearing full-body armor and holding up dark shields. These guys have no mounts, but the blood mushrooms that need to be invested individually are faintly comparable to the ferocity of the noble cavalry unit. Knight now.
The Skaven are still too short, and those stupid Skaven are not strong enough. This is why the Rat War is interested in those new giant Skaven, in order to make these guys affordable The armored stomachs were still able to run wildly on the ground, so Rat Zhan had to put more blood mushrooms into their bodies.
In exchange for an elite personal guard.
These are Mouse Zhan's confidence. He is not afraid of these idiots under his command.
But if some guys benefit, that means someone must bear the cost.
The Skaven warriors of the Eastern Expeditionary Force became the biggest victims. In fact, the impact was not big, but after they needed to purchase their own equipment, the possibility of becoming a Skaven warlord by accumulating merit became more elusive, but They have no right to speak and can only suffer in silence.
By the way, in addition to the rat warriors in the Eastern Expeditionary Force, there is another group who was dumbfounded when faced with such a situation.
Those Skaven Runners, after the Rat War took a breath, the formation of this army was also pulled up stumblingly. In the battle after battle, some elite senior Skaven runners The warriors also gradually became qualified to join the Rat Runners. However, Rat War didn't seem to attach much importance to the Rat Runners.
Even when the equipment rationing was cancelled, their rationing was also cancelled.
This group of old fritters was dumbfounded at once.
Rat War has invested more resources in the elite troops in hand, but I am also an elite troop!
The situation suddenly became embarrassing, but fortunately, these veterans usually have no shortage of meritorious service. With the investment of meritorious service, the equipment they carry can support an elite establishment. It’s just that this father is not a mother. The lack of love still makes them fall into deep melancholy.
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A strange team entered the rat-men camp. Those tall rat-men immediately attracted a lot of attention. However, compared with the unscrupulousness when looking at other heretical races, after confirming that they were also rat-men, the look in their eyes Most of the emotions contained turned into fear.
Especially among these giant rat-men, there is also a deformed giant rat-man who is particularly ferocious and stands out from the crowd.
The team was led by a ratman priest.
Paused in front of the camp, his eyes swept over the lever flag, and he quickly determined his target. His eyes paused in the center of the camp, and landed on the tallest and most flamboyant black flag. superior.
Without being blocked during the whole process, the leading rat-man priest led the giant rat-man team behind him through the huge rat-man camp.
Until they got close to the flag, a large number of dumbfounded figures paused in the center of the camp. As time passed, Rat Zhan finally replenished his team of rat-man supervisors.
There was alertness in their eyes, and many even held the spears in their hands. The equipment of the Rat Man Supervisory Team has become better, and the full-body leather armor they are equipped with is also inlaid with Large pieces of metal armor.
Such a sight made those giant rat men feel uneasy, and also made the deformed giant rat man feel anxious. However, these emotions were suppressed by the rat priests. Although the rat priests He has never been able to deal with rat wars, but dealing with rat wars alone made him feel nervous. The more he disliked a person, the more he would understand him and the more he would recognize his power.
After swallowing a mouthful of saliva, he remembered the purpose of his visit this time and raised his head.
The Rat Man Supervisory Team did not stop the Rat Man Priest. The duties of their personal guard had been replaced by another team. These stupid guys would not easily go beyond their responsibilities.
keep going.
The raised head wavered in front of a group of rat men wearing dark armor and looking extremely solemn.
Finally, I was completely humbled in front of a guy who opened the tent and was covered in ugly wounds.
With trembling compliments.
"The Great Commander of the Rat Men!"
(End of this chapter)