Chapter 333, Holy War!
The rat people present, the rat people in this sacred temple, all the great rat people, they have been waiting for this blessing.
They finally received this blessing.
At this moment it was like finally waking up from a big dream.
Loud shouting began.
"Great God, great high priest!
Great God! Great high priest!"
Fanatical and excited.
The flame of desire was ignited again, as is always the case with these guys. They couldn’t see the piety of the white rat that knelt before the altar, and they couldn’t see the blessing that the great god bestowed on every rat man. , the only thing they saw was that the death of the white rat was blessed by the great gods.
A civil war has entered the intensive preparation stage.
Not long after the death of the high-ranking commander, the blessing of the great god fell.
There was little that could be done to prevent this civil war from happening.
If you still want this deformed country to survive.
Faith is the cornerstone of this empire, the Skaven Priests are the cornerstone of this empire, and the Great Claw Priests are the cornerstone of this empire.
This is a situation that cannot be changed. Perhaps only by understanding this can you understand why Rat War was the first to be eliminated in this turmoil.
Yes, war is extremely important to the rat people, but faith is even more important.
The uncontrolled rat war will completely tear this deformed and twisted country apart.
So Rat Zhan became the first guy out.
It’s just the rat priests. These guys are also embarrassing and useful. No one understands the virtues of these guys better than the white rats.
The White Rat looked down on them, so the White Rat forcibly pushed the temple guards onto the high platform, tearing apart the authority of the rat priests.
The Skaven Empire is just a broken wheel forcibly held together by faith.
While alive, the white mouse did not want to make any changes to this bad situation.
Distortion itself brings piety.
Twisted and boundless suffering, the wailing that forever lingers on this land, and the never-ending war.
This is what he wants.
This is what the white rat wants.
Until his death, until he succeeded in building a throne for his great god.
Change will always go on.
Such a distorted state is unsustainable.
Of course the White Rat is aware of this, but even though it has caused so much suffering and wailing, he still insists on one thing.
Skaven must be pious.
Under such circumstances, he left behind the Skaven Council, the group of Skaven priests who were still aloof, and a national system that was almost irreversible.
This is intentional.
It is as if he did not leave a designated heir until his death.
It seems fair and gives all the Skaven a chance, but in reality this only brings chaos.
The title of High Priest of the Rats was left in the Rat Council, but everyone knew that there would never be another High Priest of the Rats as high as the White Rat.
We quarrel in this council, quarrel at this long table, and we can no longer unite, and we can no longer merge into a complete whole.
Only in this way, only in this way will the rat people crawl at the feet of the great gods forever, and only in this way will there always be an endless supply of cheese on that golden dinner plate.
The sage born among the rat people spent his life casting an extremely vicious curse on his fellow humans.
Unable to unite, embrace chaos, embrace abnormality, and then embrace God.
How vicious.
After a busy period, all the Ratmen on the field wanted to leave in a hurry.
Sheng Qi was pushed towards the door of the palace by these guys, but he turned his head when he was about to leave.
In this rapid turmoil, the Skaven Warlord faction was almost completely wiped out.
This has something to do with Rat Zhan’s extreme approach to gathering power.
But Sheng Qi, a nondescript leader, seems to have become the only important person left in the military faction.
At least he is still qualified to stand in this palace at this moment.
Turning his head, his eyes fell deeply on the white rat kneeling in front of the altar in a trance.
I don’t know what he is thinking.
This sacred temple gradually returned to silence, with only the standing temple guards remaining.
What remained was the body of the white rat kneeling before the altar.
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The situation is turbulent, and the rat priests have lived up to their greed.
An army composed of rat mercenaries, slave rats, war equipment squads, and some rat pilgrims appeared in the lush forest.
The ones who took over the war were the temple guards and the rat-man pilgrims.
Both sides maintained a certain degree of restraint in the early stages of the war.
Maybe it’s because both sides are constantly raising strength.
This is a fairly restrained war.
Although the army is getting larger, countless ratmen are either forced or actively involved, and the battlefield is even in front of the desolate mountains and in front of the sacred city, but this is indeed A fairly restrained war.
At least both sides are competing for dominance over the Skaven Council.
It was not an all-out war sweeping across the borders and affecting every Skaven city, nor was it a war of division at all costs.
Whether it is the temple guards or these rat priests, they are competing for the dominance of the rat council and the dominance of this twisted country.
Although the size of the armies raised by these two parties is getting larger and larger.
This is in the center of the empire after all.
What’s interesting is that in this battle, both sides uniformly played Du Yuan’s banner.
One side is to eliminate heretics for the sake of the great god.
One side is to protect the sacred temple, for the great god.
Well, the two sides are indeed going to have a fight. After all, the rat priests have always been a little bit upset about their authority being taken over by the temple guards.
This war is not just about deciding who will dominate.
It is a war started by the rat priests in order to complete their orthodox status as gods.
Logically speaking, they could not achieve this step just by relying on the rat lords, but it was not just the rat lords who joined this war.
The largest group of loyalists, or in other words, surrenderers, wererat priests joined the war.
These loyalists who had been kneeling in front of the white rat from beginning to end, maintaining the operation of the rat council and the underground rat city, decisively joined the side of the rat lord after the death of the white rat.
A more interesting point appears.
Both sides feel that they are the one who can inherit the high priest's legacy.
They all feel that they are the orthodox ones.
This thought made the war gentler and a little more weird. It’s just a pain for the pilgrims.
The sacred city they wanted to visit was the trace left by the great god, but in fact they walked on this unstable road and faced their But it was a recruitment under the same banner.
“For the great gods!”
Of course, this kind of recruitment is called a recruitment, but in fact it is no different from recruiting a strong man.
Otherwise, how could the armies of both sides expand rapidly in such a short period of time.
It even attracted Du Yuan's attention for a time.
After ascending to the throne of God, Du Yuan no longer needs to sleep for a long time, but there are still many things to think about and face.
The world that is as dazzling as the sun not far away is already close at hand.
Moreover, the ceremony was not completely over. He needed to stabilize his status. In that bloody battle, Du Yuan was too seriously injured. Even with the compensation of the ascension ceremony, it would take some time to close the tiny cracks in the god's body. .
Of course, this is not a serious matter, just wait.
Until he was disturbed by two armies that were equally fanatical, pious, and shouting great gods... How should I put it, Du Yuan was not prepared to interfere in this war, even he had to admit it.
This form of conflict is already considered an extremely mild form for the rat people.
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The civil war that held high the banner of the gods in front of the barren mountains did not affect every part of the Skaven Empire.
Even the temple guards have not been mobilized.
This is right. As long as the leader of the temple guards is not stupid, he will never remove all the temple guards who guard the temple of gods for a war.
Their glory comes from their actions in stationing themselves in the temples of the gods.
However, in addition to these unmobilized residents, there was also a group of temple guards who did not join the war.
These temple guards gather in a special place.
Gathered in those two dark fortresses, firmly grasping the intersection of the two continents.
Although Sheng Qi’s breakthrough in the maritime war makes this node no longer the only one, its importance is still undoubted.
Even though the holy war in front of the desolate mountains is about to begin, the number of temple guards stationed here has not decreased at all. On the contrary, more temple guards have come here.
This is an important node.
It was originally used to contain the Eastern Expeditionary Force that might return, but now it was used to guard against the possible impact of the Dark-Eye Human Race.
The temple guards attach no less importance to this vast and increasingly scarlet grassland than the rat lords.
If these heretics are allowed to sweep through and corrode this vast bloody grassland during this turmoil, it will be an unparalleled blow.
Although it is not entirely a bad thing, the invasion of heretics can allow the victors of this dispute to quickly unite all the rat people, and then start a holy war again.
A vast Northern Expedition will begin again, but the increasingly scarlet grassland will not bring any benefits to the Youyan people for a while.
But the price was the destruction of the farm system that had initially achieved results on the scarlet grassland.
The leader of the temple guards attaches great importance to the rat farms on this grassland.
Of course, if the temple guards have a certain understanding of what is happening in the human empire, then they should not have to worry about this issue.
In fact, a more terrifying turmoil is also going on in the human empire.
In this turmoil, they were able to maintain the aristocratic coalition stationed outside the Twin Fortresses, and they could be regarded as the commander-in-chief of the aristocratic coalition, which was somewhat responsible.
It's especially peaceful here.
It was so calm that the sea monsters wandering here day and night have become more and more restless driven by hunger.
Is this a good thing?
So be it.
But the flag stationed here became more and more uneasy at this time.
Ever since Qi was abandoned by Rat Zhan and retreated here in embarrassment, he seemed to be a little more idle.
Wandering behind the dark fortress all day long.
During this period, he did not dare to expand his army.
Compared to Rat Zhan's violence, the temple guards' lack of expression towards him made him even more uneasy.
In the past, when some conflicts broke out between the Dark Eye humans and the rat people in front of the fortress, he was able to participate in them.
But now, now it is completely fine.
There are no enemies, no targets, only the strong wind that keeps blowing at the edge of this empty grassland.
As one of the few remaining Skaven warlords, if there is no war, then there is indeed no use for him at all.
In such an overly leisurely environment.
A strange scene appeared.
Qi’s training camp, a small brainwashing class, and a crash course on self-confidence.
All of these.
A group of rat men gathered together in ignorance, waiting for Qi to board the high platform on time every day, raising their arms high and shouting loudly.
The first round is to offer reverence and faith to the gods.
Shout to the greatness of God.
The second round emphasizes the possibilities of every Rat Man.
"Being humble is not a problem, we all have possibilities, God protects us!"
The third round, emphasizing the importance of oneself.
"Follow me! Follow me! I will bring you glory, bring you opportunities, I will bring you everything, follow me!"
I have to say, this This set is quite useful, although it seems a bit like a group of demons dancing around, and it has an inexplicable sense of déjà vu, especially after more and more rat men gather in front of Qi.
But it is particularly effective, because the object of the story is nothing else, but a group of real despicable guys. Not every rat man has the courage to be greedy, and most of the despicable guys appear to be extremely cowardly.
They like this very much.
Especially now that Flag is an actual rat warlord.
They need courage very much. Although courage is most likely to bring death, but how can I say, even if they have been crawling on the ground in a humble way, for these despicable guys, it is more likely that they will die. Or death.
In fact, a large part of the rat men gathered around Qi were defective products whose bodies had become mutilated due to various reasons in the Twin Fortresses.
The great god blessed all the ratmen and eliminated the deterioration of the bloodline, but under the whipping of the big-clawed priest, the number of defective ratmen never decreased.
Not only the disabled ratmen, but also some young ratmen who fled the battlefield in fear, some free ratmen who arrived here with the ratman caravan, and the passing ratmen servants. soldiers.
These are the troops of the Wuyangyang rat people gathered in front of the flag.
After hearing the flag’s chants over and over again, they can become braver, desire more, and respect the flag more.
Swarmed around the flag, shouting enthusiastically.
"I want to become greater, I don't want to be so mean!"
Well, the source of such a strong sense of déjà vu has finally been found.
MLM leader?
Hmm..., it's a very strange situation.
(End of this chapter)