Chapter 390, Twin Cities, Future, Twins
The grand temple was poured bit by bit.
In that barren mountain range.
The prepared metal melts in the blast furnace, bursting out a dazzling golden color.
In this most turbulent moment of the Rat Man Empire, it was indeed the great god who saved it again.
Even if Sheng Qi pawned his underwear, it would not be enough to force those greedy and despicable guys to hand over the blood mushrooms in their hands.
Even if this huge country is divided, even if there is a brutal civil war.
But it was impossible to intimidate those guys.
If you can’t do it, you can’t do it.
Impossible is impossible.
Sheng Qi can't do it, he is not a white mouse, he can't do it, but the great god can do it.
Dedicated to the great gods, these halls are dedicated to the great gods.
Peace brought greater divisions in the Skaven Empire.
In the past, such differentiation was suppressed by the White Rat. After the death of the White Rat, this differentiation was suppressed by the Rat Council.
But all these efforts fell apart now.
In order to cope with the war, and to better control the increasingly bloated Rat Empire, the railways were built, but it was too fast. This evolution was too fast.
The independent rat cities were destroyed one after another, and while the power was being reined in, centralization began again.
The divided and cut rat priests reunited again.
I have to admit, rat priests, these guys seem to have destiny. They have been suppressed time and time again, but they have stood up again and again, in this era.
The rat priests who manage the city are the rat priests who have power and faith.
There used to be Rat Wars as their counterbalance.
But now the entire rat warlord force has been dismembered.
And now.
The war has stalled, peace has come, and great chaos has come. It seems that the ones who have been hit hardest are these rat priests.
In fact, this turmoil caused the rat priests, who had been suppressed and divided again and again, to reunite again.
Of course, after the current rat priests have been divided, they can no longer return to their original appearance, and their names have also changed from rat priests.
The Skaven Lord, the Skaven Priest, the War Priest, the Loyalist, the Original Doctrine, the Pilgrim, the Ocean, and the Mineral Faction.
The White Rat acted very decisively, and the Rat Council and the temple guards also smashed the composition of these guys time and time again.
Endless divisions are naturally born among this group of guys.
But today, their gathering is still so smooth.
In the destruction of the city, in the wails of the rat people, in that disgusting peace, they gathered in these four super cities.
And began to gather in groups.
Along with the birth of super cities are super clusters.
The current situation is somewhat different from any time in the past.
In such turmoil.
At least this is the case for these rat priests who have been divided into countless fragmented factions.
It is no longer the slogan of the previous big faction.
But they gather together based on their own interests.
Several major aspects of the entire Skaven Empire were divided up by these three super cities.
Scrap City annexed the rolling hills and began to monopolize the vast ocean and sea lanes as a basis.
The secret cities of the Gear Sect and the ports were annexed by the Waste City.
The dense sea lanes and the last remnants of the end of the war allowed these guys and the Waste City to escape this grand turmoil.
We can still maintain that prosperous scene.
The Crucible City was supported by the temple guards, the surviving rat lord giants, who also devoted themselves to the transformation of the Crucible City during this grand turmoil.
According to this super city, they stabilized the scarlet grassland that was about to collapse in chaos.
And pulled up the most resource cities.
At the same time, they control most of the steam train roads in the Skaven Empire, and they also take over the most military power.
Various resources gather in the Melting Pot City.
Most of the temple guards and rat lords are entrenched in this reborn super city.
You will find a very unusual point.
The various factions of the rat people intermingled and infiltrated with each other.
The Skaven Priests recognized the Great Claw Priests and the Gear Sect, and accepted the intervention of Sheng Qi, whose wings were full again, in exchange for the transformation of Waste City, control of the ocean, and the fall of the Western Expeditionary Force.
On the other side, the temple guards acquiesced to the existence of the rat lords, accepted the rebellious war priests, and gathered the remaining rat warlords into their hands, in exchange for the rise of the Crucible City. Control of the Scarlet Steppe and the Main Continent.
When all parties no longer fight alone but gather in a larger structure, mutual penetration and integration begins.
A deeper meaning also exists.
Waste City and Furnace City.
One side dominates the ocean and holds the Western Fleet, as well as the vast waterway.
What is deeper is the birth of radical commercialism and changes in cultural logic and rules.
Scrap City, a city that was once full of rules and distinctions between high and low, is now moving toward extreme freedom and chaos. The driving force behind it is the gradually distorted belief principles of the rat priests.
When the number of blood mushrooms became the criterion for measuring piety.
So is it any wonder that the Wasteland City, where many rat priests gather, has become a chaotic city of extreme utilitarianism, liberalism, and commercialism.
After all, everything is for the blood mushrooms, and anything is possible for the blood mushrooms.
On the other side, in Furnace City, the situation has changed again.
The temple guards are building a stable structure.
Cities, a lot of land, rat free people, rat warlords, wars, settled culture, and the sprouting law.
These take the Melting Pot City to another completely different extreme.
Imperialism, agrarianism, pragmatism and extreme xenophobia.
The temple guards and the rat priests had different understandings. They did not accept the twisted merit logic of the rat priests, but carried out the most simple construction.
Belief in the great gods is simply regarded by them as a few things.
More believers, bigger temples, more sacrifices, more kneeling ratmen, and more heretics killed.
Naturally, their behavior will also make the rat lords join in.
This is a very simple choice, because the foundation of the Skaven Lords is ultimately land and cities.
One thing to say is that the radical business logic of Waste City makes it difficult for even the old guys like them who created the rat-man empire's business system to accept it. On the other hand, it is reasonable for those rat caravans, gear sects, and Western fleets to join the Waste City.
This is a complete vote with your feet.
Even beyond the limits of hatred and class.
This is also what is going on now. In a fierce shock, the rat people are choosing the path for the future.
Utilitarianism, liberalism, commercialism, imperialism, agrarianism, pragmatism, xenophobia.
A fork in the road was born in this shock. When the old fighting factions gradually disintegrated and merged with each other, this fork in the road appeared in front of the rat people with two cities as a sign.
Of course, there is no need to be so urgent, the time to choose has not yet come.
But you always have to make a choice. In the future, when the differences become too great to be bridged, a tragic war will inevitably come.
Although that day is still far away.
Of course, there may not be such a scene, such a war.
After all, the rat people are not always that lonely, and there is a high-ranking guy who is always watching their existence.
Underground Rat City, the earliest super city of the rat people, its status is still so high.
As the center of faith and industry in the Ratman Empire, it is also the well-deserved cultural center and blood mushroom gathering point.
The glory of the Underground Rat City has hardly faded.
Everything in the Skaven Empire is gathered in this city.
All prominent groups occupy a place in this city.
In the glory of that great god, in that heart-pounding faith.
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In the unbearable peace, some things also began to flow.
The super breeding farm and the rat-man universities that Wasteland City was once proud of are gradually passing away and were taken over by Furnace City.
Well, this is a normal thing. After all, after the construction of cheap ocean channels that connect the two continents, those countless are extremely cheap, and even the blood mushrooms are free of charge. The people just flocked to the Wasteland City.
Especially during that horrific turmoil, not only were there more of these guys, they were also cheaper.
For a time, even the price-performance ratio of slave rats was a bit inferior to that of these free rat people.
In Waste City, a widely circulated debate focuses on this issue.
Two Skaven Priests are arguing about whether slave rats or free Skaven are cheaper.
Of course, this is a question that is difficult to evaluate.
Slave rats only need to pay once, and they can start working in an extremely cheap state for a long time.
The rat free people, on the other hand, pay a very small amount of money and can work for you for a period of time.
The differences are mainly in short-term costs and long-term costs.
Of course, positivity is not included in the debate. After all, the rat people are all old slaves. If you use the methods of the Big Claw Priest, you have to be 100% motivated to do it. alive.
Debating.
One side feels that the slave rats pay a one-time price, and as long as they work for a certain period of time, they are operating in a state of almost zero cost. On the contrary, the free rat people, even if the one-time payment is small, as long as they work If you hire them for a longer period of time, the cost will be far more than that of a slave rat.
The other side argued that slave rats need maintenance and cannot be used indefinitely, and there is a possibility of premature death and loss, while free rat people only need to pay a very small price, and they hire healthy guys every time , even if you die during use, the price paid is very small.
The two sides exchanged words on this issue. In the end, as expected, the debate turned into a very chaotic curse, and then turned into an even more chaotic fight.
However, the opinions in this debate still spread.
One by one, the rat merchants made their choices after weighing the pros and cons, and the rat free people began to be hired in large numbers.
This made the big claw priests of the super breeding farm so anxious that they even lowered the price of the young ratmen they produced to ten blood mushrooms, such an extremely cheap price. superior.
But there was nothing he could do to save it.
Together with the rat universities, they began to decline.
The Furnace City on the other side has perfectly taken over these weakened super breeding farms and rat-man universities.
Comes from the demand for quality soldiers.
The war is over, but amid the demands of extreme xenophobia and the temple guards' vigilance against those horrific heretics.
In the last round of hunting for heretics, the temple guards paid a very heavy price.
They need to supplement their personnel, and they also need to be prepared to face those heretics again.
The huge army was still maintained.
Even the weapons workshop continues to operate with the input of temple guards.
The reason given on the surface is to guard against the rat ghouls running wild in the underground tunnel network.
But in fact, these guys are nothing to the temple guards.
Those rat ghouls were able to inflict cruelty on their indulgence.
In order to maintain an enemy that still exists, and to force the rat lords to maintain the huge army and invest in the weapons workshop.
It’s just that this routine is getting harder and harder to use.
In that grand chaos, both cities ushered in a moment of prosperity, until they devoured everything in those resource cities.
Peaceful days are so difficult.
The blood mushrooms in the hands of these big men are becoming more and more powerless with the pouring.
Half of the majestic palaces that can be called miracles have been completed, and the follow-up is also waiting for the investment of blood mushrooms.
The days of peace are really difficult.
Everything requires blood mushrooms.
Everything requires blood mushrooms.
The rat people still expanded a little too fast.
It’s not that there is no good news.
The industrial area in the desolate mountains finally successfully launched a strange-looking thing into the sky.
After tinkering with the technology left by humans for so long, the rat people finally have some clues about exploring the stars.
But water from afar cannot quench the thirst of the nearer.
We need blood mushrooms now, we need blood mushrooms now.
That's what the rat people are worried about.
A terrifying tsunami swept across a rat port on the coast of the rolling hills.
A group of old friends of the Skaven appear.
It can be said that they came at the right time.
What a great group of guys!
(End of this chapter)