From Skaven to God-King of War - #213 - Chapter 212, Rat Man and the Sea

outpost.

As the only city in the barren mountain range, the outpost has been silent for a long time. The small temple standing in this city has also fallen silent along with the outpost. There are many reasons, but the most critical one among them should be The departure of the enemy.

Both the lizardmen and the wild boars were swept into the trash heap of history, and the names of these two races are a bit unfamiliar to the new generation of ratmen.

The war is getting farther and farther away from the Desolate Mountains. It is not surprising that the outpost, which is the gateway to the Desolate Mountains, will come to an end.

But this small temple standing in the outpost still carries a ray of glory.

The only saint of the rat people left everything he had here, but the statue that was not ignited was not taken seriously by others, and even the coveters would not pay attention to it.

To a certain extent, the Rat Man is extremely pragmatic and is not moved by the dusty stories on things. This huge Rat Man statue was forgotten in the corner of the small temple. It fell silent along with the small temple. On the contrary, The remains of the dead saint were solemnly placed in the sacred hall of the underground rat city, accepting the worship of one rat man after another.

Long Claws stared at another thing displayed in this small temple.

Several sneaky figures appeared around the small temple, groping and carefully stepping into this now silent temple. You can still get a glimpse of the original group of arresters from the fine and complicated patterns engraved on the small temple. The opulence of the slave priests.

The blood pool has long since dried up, and no sacrificial ceremony has taken place in this temple for a long time, which represents a long period of silence.

But the strange thing is that there is no dust in this temple.

The dim and turbid light illuminated this small hall.

It comes from a statue displayed in the center of the hall, a rat-man statue made of turbid crystals. If you look carefully, you can see a bright red color among the spliced ​​turbid crystals, and a trace of red is still surging. of red.

The sneaky figures found the target they were looking for and surrounded the statue. The turbid light illuminated the appearance of these guys clearly.

They were a group of tall, slender figures with pointed ears. Such features seemed to be seen only in the half-elves who had been confronting Sheng Qi for a long time.

Just comparing these guys with the pretty half-elves, it is too insulting to those half-elves with elven blood.

This is a group of rat men, a group of rat men with no fur and exposed pink skin. Their bodies seem to be stretched out by something.

It was forcibly presented in a tall and slender state, with slender ears like a half-elf. How to describe it, it was like forcibly stretching and heightening each rat-man into a half-elf, but in essence This is still a rat man, so weird and inconsistent.

This kind of transformation is not without any use. This group of ratmen seems to have inherited some talents of the half-elves and silently performed this series of actions.

Very smoothly, they carefully lifted the muddy rat-man statue and began to evacuate.

These guys are of course the creations of long claws, or in other words, in the current rat kingdom, only long claws can create such deformed guys.

The small temple is indeed a very suitable target, not only because the place has fallen into silence, but also because there are no temple guards stationed in this small temple.

When the white mouse left, Jujue started his own plan. What a crazy guy.

There was just one problem. Long Claw seemed to have accumulated too much frustration from the long-term accumulation of frustrations, and the surging flames of desire seemed to have caused some deficits in his ability to think normally.

If there is no reason, how can the temple guards abandon this temple dedicated to sacred objects, although there is a statue here that they think is quite heretical, even though the sacred objects displayed here do not seem to be welcomed by white rats. .

But no matter what, the small temple is also a temple dedicated to a great god, a sacred temple displaying sacred objects, so how can it be a place that can be forgotten.

There is only one reason that can make this group of paranoid guys give up stationing in the small temple. Another group of guys has occupied this place, and it is a group of guys who are not weak. The temple guards are deliberately avoiding this group of guys.

Pairs of scarlet eyes suddenly appeared in the darkness, staring at the twisted creation that was gradually moving away.

Even though he was hiding in the deep abyss, there was no way the long claws could escape the gaze of the guy who looked down at the entire barren mountain range.

The white rat has always been paying attention to the progress and development of major and minor matters in the rat kingdom, which naturally includes the trend of long claws.

Long Claw indeed chose a good time, because the occurrence of the blasphemy made the white mouse a little more panicked after a long time, and during this period of time, he left the barren mountain range where he had been entrenched for a long time.

And as a qualified blade, these rat assassins will never go too far.

It was simply a miracle that he succeeded.

But all this was not done secretly, and he was too arrogant, committing one of the most serious problems in the Ratman Kingdom that must not be touched.

Long claws must come at a price.

The white mouse is really pitiful. It encounters such incidents one after another when it wants stability the most.

In the dark secret room, a terrifying and gloomy expression echoed on the face of the white rat. The sharp and piercing friction sound echoed in the deep darkness, but the white rat turned a deaf ear to it.

A deep mark appeared on the stone table. Unconsciously, the white rat left a deep mark on the table with his nails.

Blood dripped.

Suddenly, he showed a hideous smile.

“Dream? Transition? I will let you recognize yourself, humble guy.”

The expression was no longer so gloomy and terrifying. At the moment when this sentence fell, he even grinned.

But the danger of the white rat reached its peak at this moment.

The long claws naturally have value, and even this matter is far from alarming blasphemy. Perhaps it is not a big deal. After all, the sacred object displayed in the small temple, the statue transformed by Teacher Shengqi, is far less valuable than the craftsman’s heart that was studied by the long claws.

The only victim may be Sheng Qi, whose teacher was stolen. However, even if Sheng Qi knew about this, he probably didn’t care. This guy never clearly understood how important the favor of God was in the rat kingdom.

Long Claws chose a good target. Among those holy objects, he chose the most insignificant thing.

But he should never, ever, really offend an old and devout believer. White Rat just wanted to die with glory. White Rat wanted to give God more.

Long Claws should wait, and he also had time to wait, but it was obvious that he couldn’t wait any longer. He was going crazy.

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West of the rolling hills.

A huge army was advancing, but the guy leading it was in trouble.

Staring blankly at the endless blue in front of him.

The rolling hills were already the edge of this subcontinent. As they advanced to the west, the rats were going to witness the vast sea for the first time.

Sheng Qi was somewhat helpless about this vast river that he could not see the end of, but the Ratman Council ordered him to move westward.

Damn, if there were no enemies on this vast river, he could return home naturally.

But when he just arrived in this area, he was unlucky to meet the natives of this sea area.

A group of black fishmen.

I don’t know if these guys are brainless or just simple reckless men, they attacked the Western Expeditionary Force led by Sheng Qi regardless of anything.

The result is naturally not very good.

Well, now the enemy has also appeared, but Sheng Qi is still afraid of this river that he can’t see the end of at a glance. He has never seen so much water.

What should I do?

While building an altar of the gods with the bones of these dead fishmen, Sheng Qi was still thinking about this problem.

This will be a complicated problem, but it can only be thought about and solved by the miserable Sheng Qi.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will become the first rat general to set foot in the sea.

There is only one question.

Why do rats set foot in the sea?

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On the vast grassland.

The brief peace is about to be broken, and both sides have gathered enough strength.

In the city where the temple guards are stationed, huge war machines are densely piled up, including huge and powerful catapults, huge and complex siege crossbows, and the war bell towers that appeared in the Rope Seven Army also appeared here. By the way, this war tower is also huge, a huge and pious war bell tower.

These things are so new that they are pushed to the battlefield almost the moment they are produced.

The powerful industrial capacity of the rats has been fully mobilized. These things are only a small part of the materials produced in the three industrial areas of Desolate Mountains, Waste City, and Furnace City during this period.

Produced together with it are a large number of weapons and armor.

The gift of God makes the rats fanatically promote all this, of course, there is also a price.

The loss of slave rats has increased several times during this period, maybe five times, maybe ten times. No ratman would count, so the exact number is unknown.

No longer stingy, even young ratmen are treated preferentially and can be issued metal armor, although this thing is really simple, two thin iron sheets are pierced at the top and tied together with a rope. After wearing it, the shaking iron sheet can only protect a limited area.

Such armor is really simple and has extremely poor defense, but it is not without advantages. It is easy to produce and simple to assemble, which is enough for young ratmen.