Chapter 396, Rat Empire, Weapons Falling from the Sky
Those rat ghouls wandering everywhere eventually aroused the dissatisfaction of the big figures in the Rat Empire.
A settlement is about to begin.
This situation was created by the indulgence of the Skaven warlords.
After all, if it is too safe and nothing happens, then what is the meaning of the existence of rat warlords like them?
Even if it is just to increase the amount of supplies delivered to oneself every month, such indulgence is undoubtedly necessary.
The depravity of these Skaven warlords is faster than most people imagine.
The plummeting price of slave rats has a large part of the reason in the dark. In the peaceful years, these guys were unambiguous in their trafficking of humans.
Even if the seller is the rat warrior in his own hands.
And it’s not just that, these guys have never lacked in all kinds of things.
Selling soldiers and reselling weapons, in the name of suppressing the rat ghouls, they robbed small rat development stations and mined minerals privately.
Doing these bad things without any scruples.
And I have been doing it for many years.
Perhaps this is inseparable from the current status of these rat warlords.
These guys who command the army and serve as weapons, in peacetime, many guys hope that they will be more useless.
Before a new all-out war occurs, it is impossible for these guys to improve their status even a little bit. Even if a total war occurs, as long as the Skaven are not at a disadvantage, their status will not be able to improve even a little bit. .
With this situation coupled with the temptation of some thoughtful people, it is not surprising that there is depravity and indulgence.
It has only been a few years. Although the rat people have never been known for their combat effectiveness, at this time, the combat effectiveness of these rat warlords must be really questioned.
But no matter how depraved he is, it is still enough to suppress those rat ghouls and the slave rats who started the riot.
Rebellions, large and small, have always been deliberately indulged. This has been going on for many years and will continue until the next war breaks out and the water recedes. Then these guys swimming naked will Only then will it be fully revealed.
But now, the situation seems to have changed.
A high-ranking rat man seemed to have made some kind of decision.
A very violent guy and his army were mobilized.
The temple guards have completed cooperation with the rat lords a long time ago, but it is different from the cooperation chosen by the rat priests of the Waste City.
Their integration with the rat lords will be more complete.
Not acceptance and integration, but complete subjugation.
The temple guards accepted the rat lords who were severely injured during the turmoil and recognized their status and existence. Instead, they were worshiped by the temple guards.
The great gods have become the prerequisite for the rat lords to rule the rat cities.
Support more rat people who believe in the great gods, support the temples in the city, and at the same time support the stability of the city and the destiny of the land.
The leader of the temple guards, that strange guy, began to practice what he said.
He wanted to draft a code, an imperial code for the Skaven themselves.
Judging from the various actions of the temple guards, it seems that he has wanted to do this for a long time.
But I have never dared to take that first step, or in other words, I have never been able to really take that first step.
The resistance does not come from anywhere else, but from the temple guards themselves.
Now, even the group of rat priests no longer ridicule these guys with the unavoidable question of the temple priests.
But they themselves remembered it clearly and were frightened.
This group of devout guys has never received real revelation from the gods. Even the divine grace was purchased during the war when Sheng Qi destroyed the half-elf kingdom.
This group of guys are so pious that they only dare to collect all their interpretations and dogmas of gods, and carefully collect and kneel down together.
They dare not describe too much about the great gods.
This situation is truly in line with their own positioning.
Loyal defender.
It is hard to imagine that they have at least half of the power to interpret the beliefs in the Rat Man Empire at this time, but they know that now, a large number of temple guards will carefully go to the Gear Church every year to listen to the roar of those groups. The Great Claw Priest shouted crazily about the Great Spirit of Gears.
They dare not break through and depict the image of gods.
So naturally, a great, sacred, and supreme god, he will not have more specific responsibilities and titles, but more of a so-called protector of the kingdom, like this.
Of course, if he insists on adding it, Du Yuan will not respond to such a change. He has not participated in the Ratman's own decision for a long time.
But the temple guards didn't dare.
But if the supreme god is not used as a witness and guarantee, this matter cannot be determined at all.
The leader of the temple guards wants to truly knead this twisted empire together. This is the first step he will take after preparing for a long time, but this first step is always like this. difficulty.
In the temple in front of Prairie City.
A guy takes a seat in a hidden space in the corner.
Even though the increasingly majestic Furnace City has gradually become the center of this scarlet grassland and the main continent, it is also the absolute center of the temple guards except the underground rat city.
But he is still more accustomed to standing in the temple in front of this prairie city.
The fingers tapped on the stone table, making a crisp and rhythmic sound.
He has drafted most of the imperial code.
At this time, it was placed in front of him.
This guy is different from the white mouse. He is not as pious as the white mouse, but his extremeness is still the same.
It is difficult to imagine how his idea of unifying and integrating all ratmen came about.
But he is so persistent.
This is a difficult thing, very difficult. Rat people who succumb to desire are naturally more inclined to chaos.
I want to make them submit to an overall order.
It's hard.
And think about it carefully, is this really necessary? Just maintain a loose framework and launch one war after another.
Then the Rat People are naturally able to gather together.
Why do they have to be kneaded together?
It’s really thankless.
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After the rat lords were subdued, most of the power in their hands was naturally robbed.
In the final analysis, the most fundamental principles among the rat people are power and interests.
The rat lords who were helpless in that turmoil did not have the strength to compete with the temple guards who competed with them in the same area, so naturally they had no choice but to surrender.
As long as you choose to surrender, it is normal to lose everything. Of course, the rat lords actually had another choice. In the past, that was to join those colleagues in the Wasteland City. After all, no matter what, although the rat priests themselves acknowledged the separation, In the final analysis, the relationship between the rat people and the rat priests is still deeper.
This is what the Skaven Lords thought at first.
Until those greedy guys from Wasteland City started to make trouble for them without hesitation.
I don’t know how many minerals, workshops, and blood mushrooms went into the pockets of these rat priests during those years.
One-third of the resources used to build Wasteland City over the years came from the plunder of the Skaven Lords.
One can imagine how much the rat lords hate those damn colleagues now.
That is why it is understandable why the rat lords would rather ignore the harsh treaty of the temple guards and choose to approach the temple guards.
It was during such turmoil that Heimao changed his employer.
In one leap, the Skaven Warlord jumped from the Skaven Lord's command to the hands of the temple guards.
And not only that, in these years, compared to the depravity and silence of other rat warlords, he is quite eye-catching.
Not only did he run wild when the murlocs invaded, but he also gained a reputation for his crazy battles with the rat-man pirates on the west coast of the main continent.
Active on the front line of the competition between Scrap City and Furnace City.
There were almost no disputes between the temple guards and the rat priests of Waste City on the surface, but secretly, they fought unceremoniously.
Relying on the recruitment of most of the rat warlords, the temple guards gathered almost all the land in the main continent.
Then the rat priests brought together groups of rat pirates to wreak havoc on the west coast, and rushed into the interior to plunder from time to time.
The temple guards want to rely on the vast land and various minerals in their hands to suppress the Waste City.
Then the rat people did not hesitate to backstab the misty rat lords, and plundered most of the ownership rights of the mines and workshops in these guys' hands. Maintain the operation of waterways.
In the fight between the two sides, various methods emerged in endlessly, so naturally, the most obvious method to take action was one of these methods.
It’s just that this is not done explicitly.
It was in this situation that Heimao fought fiercely with the rat pirates on the west coast of the main continent every day.
Compared with other rat warlords, he has many outstanding points and advantages.
His storm army is not that bloated, flexible enough, and at the same time, capable enough to fight.
So naturally, he has prospered in these years.
Days like this were going to continue until a transfer order appeared.
He returned to the Scarlet Grassland with his Stormtroopers.
To be honest, Kuroge didn't have a good impression of this place.
During those peaceful years, he was also abandoned here, entrenched in an abandoned Skaven outpost to engage in meaningless waste.
If the big man hadn't promised him war and a grand war, then he would never have come back.
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The clearing of the Scarlet Grassland has begun.
This is not a simple settlement.
The rat warlords and the black men transferred back from the main continent were all mobilized. All the abandoned underground tunnels on this grassland had to be carefully cleaned. At the same time, one by one The Big Claw Priest appeared with the groups of slave rats in the ranks of the various rat warlords.
The real big shot of the temple guards spoke.
This time around, there is finally no more cheating and cheating.
A large number of rat ghouls, wandering rat vagrants, rioting rat slaves who are unwilling to return to the empire, defecting rat free people, and those rat mercenaries who join this complex tunnel network as robbers , those wild ratmen who still linger in the ruins after the destruction of the city.
There are also the informants sent by the rat priests and some guys with good intentions.
Everything is being bulldozed quickly.
All resistance is under the pressure of being crushed.
The situation suddenly became a bit tense.
Many guys felt uneasy amid the huge efforts of the temple guards.
Until the temple guards announced their grand plan.
They will re-open this grassland and drop new rat cities one after another.
Everyone who knew about it was a little confused.
What is this?
Obviously, while all the other guys in the Rat Man Empire were focusing on sending firecrackers to the sky, the temple guards silently announced a large-scale construction plan.
What are you doing?
No one could figure out what the temple guards were up to.
Just one thing must be certain, since what the temple guards have decided to do, they must either destroy it or follow it.
It didn’t take too long to think.
The Ratman Priest of Waste City chose the latter, and launched a similar reconstruction plan soon after.
There is no way, even if they want to destroy it, how can they destroy it.
Should a large regular army be sent into the Scarlet Grassland to prevent the temple guards from cleaning up the Scarlet Grassland?
Is this realistic?
Obviously, this is not realistic.
So naturally the only choice is the second option.
Of course, the rat priests also used other methods, such as poaching the big-claw priests and increasing the selling prices of various resources.
But they were all eaten one by one by the temple guards.
Not long after, many rat priests in Wasteland City were making a lot of money.
As they earned more and more blood mushrooms, their stance also changed, and soon there was even more chaos in the waste city.
It is not easy to get some of these profit-seeking guys to defect.
Of course, the problems these rat priests had to face were not just the temple guards who suddenly made moves.
Some unusual changes occurred among a group of rioting slave rats roaming the rolling hills.
A group of rat mercenaries who were hired to clear out the rebellious slave rats were severely defeated. They fled back to Wasteland City in embarrassment and began to angrily accuse these rat priests.
According to the escaped rat mercenaries, this was not a group of rioting slave rats, but a fully armed army of magic energy.
But such words are regarded as nonsense born for one's own face.
What a joke, all the trade rules in this entire area are controlled by them. How come they don’t know when a batch of magic weapons flowed into their territory and also into the hands of a group of slave rats.
Where are you from?
Why, there will be magic weapons falling from the sky!
(End of this chapter)