Chapter 400, Greedy Beast
In the rolling hills, the rioting slave rats are becoming increasingly difficult to control.
The momentum was huge, sweeping all directions.
The mines in this rugged area supported the torture of these guys and provided enough slave rats and soldiers.
Another mine fell.
A group of big-clawed priests were hung high.
A large number of slave rats were driven out of the mines by their compatriots who were not working. Most of the guys still had a bit of confusion and fear on their faces.
It’s just that they can’t help but choose things.
With chaotic shouts, the big-clawed priests were killed one by one in the struggle. Simple weapons were distributed to these humble guys who were just digging for ore, followed by Wuyangyang's Filed out.
Soon, everything calmed down.
Only this chaotic tunnel was left, as well as the various destroyed and discarded equipment.
The rioting rat people swept across all directions.
Of course, they are not just destroying.
In the process of sweeping across the four directions, some things were deliberately collected, such as blood mushrooms and those soul gems.
This land, the land where the half-elf kingdom once stood, is extremely rich, with many mineral veins hidden under the undulating mountains.
Naturally, the rat people will not give up these wealth.
With the unscrupulous excavation and the towering blast furnaces, the environment in this area has become increasingly bad.
Nowadays, the land is hardened, the rocks are exposed, everything is brown, and wind and sand are beginning to spread.
The running rioting slave rats ran into a group of rat mercenaries who broke into this area.
The two sides began to fight in the chaos.
Compared with the fighting that broke out in Prairie City not long ago, this conflict was really not enough to watch.
The slave rats of Wuyangyang are holding all kinds of messy things in their hands. Such a group of guys are facing a group not far away who are also messy and have all kinds of things in their hands. guy.
The rat mercenary group began to pull the trigger in the chaos, and the magic energy beams thrown out at random successfully stopped the charge of the slave rats.
These messy guys are extremely sensitive to the death of their companions, or to use another adjective, these guys are extremely cowardly.
Fleeing around, hiding behind piles of rocks, dead trees, and even the corpses of other slave rats.
Trembling, he even began to pray to the great gods.
In this situation, even if the number of slave rats is a hundred times that of your rat mercenaries, the final situation is not likely to change significantly.
After all, no matter how many cowards and weaklings gather together, nothing can be changed.
These rat mercenaries became bolder. After witnessing such a scene, they began to put down the magic firearms in their hands, and they took out the ropes one by one. They seemed to want to It's time to launch a charge.
This is the time.
Suddenly some unique guys came out of the slave rats.
The expressions of these guys were particularly dull, and they held uniform silver-white weapons in their hands. They seemed to have no fear, and faced the rat mercenaries in such chaos.
A fierce firefight broke out.
But at this time, the situation was reversed.
The rat mercenary group was retreating steadily in a very short period of time. Even the leader had no time to escape and was surrounded by this group of sluggish rat men who were not afraid of death.
A short figure walked out from behind these stupid guys.
With the fearful expression on his face, the leader raised the bloody mine manuscript high in his hand. With a crisp sound, his head was as fragile as a watermelon, with red and white splashing everywhere.
There is no end.
This short figure pulled out a faint blue gem from the arms of the fallen leader in front of him.
To a certain extent, slave rats are not the ones who don’t get ahead.
After all, there are almost as many slave rats as there are that run out every year to become the first generation of free rat people, and there are also some who get out of the way.
For example, this fallen rat leader was just a runaway slave rat at first, but now he has become the leader of a rat mercenary group. This is already an extremely exaggerated story. crossed over.
The story contained in it must be extremely exciting.
So why, why does the status of slave rats always seem to be like this, as the most despicable guys.
The reason is actually not complicated.
These guys who came out of the slave rats are no longer willing to admit that they are slave rats.
Rat people always climb upwards. After all, the identity of slave rats cannot bring them anything, so naturally they will not remember such an identity.
These guys are a very practical bunch.
Not to mention these slave rats, just those big-clawed priests. Who wouldn’t envy those rat-man priests?
How wonderful it would be if I received the gift of the gods and became a real rat priest before I grew big claws.
Identity tags intuitively represent power and status in the Rat Man Empire. If there is a chance of climbing up, they will never have any nostalgia for their current identity tags.
Those who can be proud of their identity are only a small group of people in the Ratman Empire.
After defeating those rat mercenaries again and again.
This group of slave rats began to gradually come into the sight of the big businessmen in Waste City. These guys had to admit that the cost of suppressing this group of guys was constantly rising, and so were the rat mercenaries. A very practical bunch of guys.
Although they are a group of hyenas who can do anything for blood mushrooms, they are not idiots and will not take the initiative to target some obviously troublesome guys.
At first, these big rat merchants only needed to put up a bounty and give out some blood mushrooms, and then these rat mercenaries would swarm in like sharks that smelled blood. However, after losing several rat mercenaries one after another, After that, the bounty alone was no longer enough to make people take the initiative to pounce.
These big rat businessmen must give something more practical.
Just like giving some deposit.
The costs have predictably risen, which made these big rat businessmen frown.
Ever since, a recruitment was born naturally and naturally.
A large cart carrying blood mushrooms appeared in the distance.
This is a meeting gift, sent to the place where the slave rats gather.
There is no need to doubt that these big rat businessmen are doing things safely. Unless you have irreconcilable principled conflicts with them, then in all aspects, they can make you enjoy a home away from home service. In this aspect, They are professionals. In fact, this group of big rat businessmen have already given a lot of face to this group of rioting slave rats.
If the temple guards had not done a big job recently, they would never have been able to do this.
The cart filled with blood mushrooms wandered far away to a remote corner of the rolling hills.
A big-clawed priest with a flattering smile jumped out of the cart.
Slave rats with different expressions on their faces surrounded the big-clawed priest and the cart behind him, but they did not take action immediately.
Even though many of these guys directly executed the Great Claw Priests, and even gnawed on the flesh and blood of these guys.
But after the anger slowly subsided, he could not get rid of the fear, as if he was born shorter than these guys.
This is an extremely complex emotion.
If I had to say it, it might be something like a solid steel seal etched in by all the domestication experiences from birth to rage.
Just like domestic animals, they are afraid of their owners.
This description is a bit weird, but it is also the most appropriate.
Finally, after some negotiations, the cart and the big-clawed priest on it were put into the camp to meet the man who started the riot and continued to threaten more people. The leader of the slave rats who joined the riot.
Those big rat merchants offered a price that was not low.
At least they felt that such a price would not be rejected by a slave rat.
But the real situation slapped them hard in the face.
They didn't understand why the stupid guy was so stupid, but he really annoyed them.
It’s just a slave rat leading a group of slave rats.
It's just a slave rat leading a group of slave rats!
Soon after, these big businessmen in Waste City began to mobilize their forces.
Actually speaking, the background of these guys and Wasteland City does not seem to be that deep. It can even be said that this is a group of losers who came together to form a force when the times changed.
But unfortunately, they have now become one of the three poles of the entire Skaven Empire.
And among them, the things relied on are not complicated, and are even extremely simple and easy to understand.
That's blood mushrooms, that's many, many blood mushrooms.
Yes, it's that simple. They have a lot of blood mushrooms, many, many blood mushrooms, and that's enough.
The large amount of blood mushrooms finally mobilized the rat mercenaries gathered in Wasteland City.
Those super-large rat mercenary groups, those with magic firearms, lightning cannons, steam tanks, and even rat warships, began to take action.
For a time, more than ten super-large rat mercenary groups gathered together with more than three million rat mercenaries. They dragged various kinds of rat mercenaries through the steam trains provided by the great rat merchants. All kinds of weapons and war equipment began to rush towards the rolling hills.
This is an extremely terrifying potential for war that requires no preparation and can be mobilized at any time.
It is also the best expression of the power of the blood mushroom.
So many rat mercenaries left, but they couldn't even make Wasteland City deserted.
This super city really feels like a feast for the eyes, with countless ratmen traveling through it, and complex spider web-like steam railways running through the surroundings of the city.
Dazzling objects are placed in shops one after another, and those rockets are still launching.
Of course, this city is not always so glamorous. Behind the prosperity is the evil that happens all the time.
Murder, theft, robbery, fraud, competition in every possible way.
Although these seem to have never been separated from the rat people, the Waste City is somewhat different from every rat city that has ever existed.
All the evils in it are gradually pointing to one thing.
That's the blood mushroom, that's money.
In this torrent of abnormal germination, all the old things are being torn to pieces, and a new set of rules is gradually born.
The roar of the steam train, another batch of ratmen, or a batch of goods, in short, a steady stream of things is being absorbed into the city.
Such a torrent gradually made the rat priests somewhat unable to withstand it.
The most striking example is the senior ratman priest who was forced to retire from his position as ratman councillor.
A group of young rat free folk defeated the caravan in his hands and destroyed the industry he ran. He lost everything and had to step down as a rat council member.
Among them, you can see the existence of many conspiracies, including the presence of his colleagues and other rat-man councilors.
But no matter how you put it, on the surface, he was defeated by a group of rat free people.
This had a very bad impact, although at the last moment, this guy angrily tore apart these challengers who were overestimating their capabilities.
Many of those rat free people merchants were hung up at the junction of the inner city and the outer city of Waste City. The person who took his place as rat councilor was another senior rat priest, but after all , some things are no longer the same as before.
I am afraid that the rat priests themselves did not expect that this beast created by them, this unparalleled super city, and those guys chasing blood mushrooms, all of this happened in such a short period of time. It has become a little difficult to control, and there are even signs of backlash against them.
But few of them had the idea to turn around and put the brakes on.
There are a few guys among the Ratmen who are not crazy.
These rat priests were probably eaten by this beast the moment they created it.
Chasing gifts, chasing status, chasing power, chasing everything, chasing blood mushrooms, chasing money.
Then was eaten by the beast.
Chased by money.
What is very interesting is the current situation in the Skaven Empire. A newly born greedy beast, an arrogant guy who wants to capture all the Skaven, and a group of kneelers who stick to their beliefs.
Of these guys, two want to compete for the future, and one wants to maintain the present, but they all exist in the same era.
I just don’t know who can win in the end and who can really get what they want.
Of course, this is all for later.
Nowadays, everyone has their own troubles to deal with.
Just like this suppressive war that is about to take place in the rolling hills.
(End of this chapter)