From Skaven to God-King of War - #249 - Chapter 247, Strange Slavery, the Majesty of the Rat Commander

In a camp where the rat men gathered together, a rat man priest who led a team of giant rat men visited. He came at the right time, and the rat war was almost ready.

There are countless rat people gathered here, there is a sea of ​​darkness, harsh and sharp sounds, and rat people running around wantonly.

This is an extremely large gathering place of rat people.

After leaving the vast grassland and entering the main continent, especially after the world fell into darkness, the rat people seemed to be swimming into the sea. They no longer had to worry about the flexible cavalry troops that might appear at that moment, and they naturally abandoned building cities. In the dark, human vision is limited, and there is no need to worry about enemy attacks. Such scattered gathering camps have become the mainstream.

The traces of the rat caravans appeared again behind the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

This time, it was not only to acquire the spoils obtained in the war, but also to sell some novel gadgets to the rat warriors. The changes in the world affected a wide range of things.

Suddenly, no matter how scarce the food was, the number of rat people showed a terrifying explosion. Such a short-term gift may only represent a moment of abundance to other races, but to the rat people, it is unparalleled. of assistance.

Abundant food, just harvest the plants that are gradually becoming twisted and twisted in that area, and the food harvested will be unparalleled abundance. This abundance even made the big claw priests abandon the recycling of unqualified individuals for manufacturing. Good habits like baby complementary feeding.

When the babies in the bellies of human pregnant women are only about to be half-grown, in this fertile gap, a terrifying number of first-generation rat-man cubs have already been born, and the second round of births has already entered the preparation stage. .

The rat people consume environmental resources at a terrifying rate and do not control them.

However, these effects have not been spread yet, and the rat cubs are still some time away from maturity. At least three months later, these young rat people will truly enter the selection stage.

At that time, all the unqualified guys will be used as slave rats, while the guys who meet the standards will be divided into a separate area, and their final result will be put on the window like a commodity waiting for those who are qualified. Guys pick.

As long as you can wave the blood mushroom in your hand at these big-clawed priests, you can choose between these slave rats and young ratmen.

Skaven slavery is imperfect.

There are no regulations to protect the ownership rights of these guys who use blood mushrooms to buy young rat people and slave rats.

But on the contrary, the rights enjoyed by these guys who buy young rats and slave rats are unlimited.

Because as long as you can suppress it, no matter what purpose you use these young rats and slave rats for, no one will care.

Generally, they will not be sacrificed directly. In any case, the cost of these slave rats you purchase is higher than the blood mushrooms obtained by direct sacrifice.

Even in this moment of abundance, the number of young ratmen will usher in an unparalleled explosion. This is the case.

Because of a very simple reason.

If this thing is profitable in itself, then these big-claw priests will do it themselves. If the cost of cultivating a young ratman is lower than the blood mushroom obtained by sacrificing a young ratman, believe me, the transformation will happen in Completed very smoothly in an instant, the breeding house will no longer be a breeding house, but will be directly transformed into a flesh and blood factory.

Contrary to the unlimited rights enjoyed by these Skaven slave owners, all Skaven are theoretically free. As long as they can tear out the slave owner’s throat, then they are free. No one can do this. pursue.

This rule applies even to slave rats. There is just one problem. I am an ordinary rat, or a slave rat. How do I kill a mercenary leader, rancher, big-claw priest, rat? What about the human priests, the rat warlords, and those temple guards?

This seems to be an unsolvable problem.

But there is still a chance. Every year, various ratmen die for various reasons, including some who hold power. Whenever this happens, a huge commotion and rout will occur. .

This is something that many Skaven freefolk go through before they truly become a human.

A strange social logic, strange rat slavery.

The impact of the instant prosperity was immediate. In the unparalleled prosperity, the power that the rat caravans could use rapidly expanded, and their trade scope further expanded.

Began to include ordinary Skaven warriors in the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

You don’t need many blood mushrooms, a brand new spear, and a piece of leather armor. Even if they can be handed into your hands directly, it doesn’t matter if you are poor or rich, even if you can only take out some yellow and black blood mushrooms. Powder, in the rat caravan, there will also be the tattered equipment that has just been dumped from the battlefield and handed over to you.

Although these blood mushroom powders are not only looked down upon by the rat lords behind the caravan, but also by the Big Claw Priest in charge of the caravan, they can also be mixed into cave mushrooms and used as feed for giant rats. , these giant rats that exist as camel beasts in the rat caravans are treated much better than slave rats, and even ordinary rat mercenaries are far inferior.

Of course, if you are very wealthy and have gained a lot of merit in a robbery, then these rat caravans can still serve you, whether it is full-body leather armor inlaid with metal armor or the same style as the fierce knight. Full body armor, and even the bright silver armor stomach on the temple guard can also enter the ranks of merchandise.

Not every caravan can provide such special products as the bright silver armor of the temple guards, and even the quality is far inferior to the armor of the real temple guards, and the complicated patterns cannot be engraved on it.

It comes from the dedicated contribution of a mysterious caravan that travels between the main continent and the barren mountains.

As a final product, not many rat warriors would actually buy it. After all, it is not that the bright silver armor of the temple guard is unattractive, but that the same dark full-body armor of the Dire Knight is more cost-effective.

But no rat caravan will consider the rat war. The gold content of the fierce knight’s full-body armor is much lower than the bright silver armor of the temple guard. Not only the scrap city, but also the furnace city can also produce this. But for hot-selling products, as long as you add money, even the divine patterns can be copied for you one to one. If you add more money, you can even have them fully engraved.

The high-end caravan version even looked far more luxurious than the original Dire Knight under Shu Zhan. For a moment, I didn’t know who was the real Dire Knight.

This situation once made it difficult for Rat War, but it is obvious that there is no such thing as appearance protection in the Rat Empire, and Rat War’s face is not so big that the Rat Lords are as powerful as facing the temple guards. scruples.

As a result of this situation, fierce knights were spread all over the Skaven Empire for a time, showing an extremely rampant state. What is even more difficult is that these black armored stomachs can afford the commercial version. The combat effectiveness of these guys is not bad. If you let a single ferocious knight fight with them, there is a high probability that they will be beaten violently. Those real ferocious knights will be beaten violently.

Although the advantage of the Dire Knights is that they are not in one-on-one duels, as long as they gather in a group, these guys are definitely the second strongest team in the Skaven Empire and will only be under the guard of the temple.

Compared with other rat-man units, they can form an absolute crushing advantage. It can only be said that they are still wronged by being under the command of the notorious rat war guy.

Regarding this situation, Rat Zhan, who had always been manic, pinched his nose and admitted it.

When the troops in hand were reassembled on the main continent, these rat caravans naturally completed the deep binding with the Eastern Expeditionary Force, and it had reached a level where the Rat War itself was somewhat unwilling to let go.

Compared to the idiots under his command, these rat caravans are really useful.

The Rat War has given up on preparing equipment for all armies except the Rat Man Supervisory Team and the Rat Knights Fierce Knights. However, this approach has not allowed most of the Eastern Expeditionary Force to return to the era of wooden spears, and even most of the Rat Men. Soldiers’ equipment will become even better.

From their spontaneous purchase from the rat caravan, they saved a lot of blood mushrooms for Rat War.

The rat warriors fought for the Rat War, exchanging their merits for killing heretics, and then exchanged their merits for blood mushrooms. They used the blood mushrooms to buy better weapons and equipment, replace and repair the damaged weapons and equipment, and then invest again. Earn merit in battle and fight for the war of rats.

A good cycle, there is nothing wrong with it. After canceling the equipment supply, Rat War has not increased the value of the meritorious service.

Of course, no rat people have any objections. The promoted rat warlords support this decision. After all, after the supply of equipment is removed from the rat war, they will have greater control over the army in their hands.

The rat caravan also had no objections. Even this change was promoted by the rat lords behind them. The emergence of this change even eased the relationship between these rat lords and Rat Zhan. .

Rat Zhan has no objection. This model can allow him to expand his troops more efficiently, and he doesn’t care about the little thoughts of the rat warlords. He is not one of those stupid rat priests. These are the rest. Most of the blood mushrooms were put into the expansion of the Skaven Supervisory Team, the Skaven Knights, and the Fierce Knight. With the blood mushrooms, a true personal guard became independent from the Skaven Supervisory Team. .

A group of rat heavy armored infantry wearing full body armor and holding up dark shields. These guys have no mounts, but the blood mushrooms they need to invest individually are faintly comparable to the ferocious knights as noble cavalry units.

The rat men are still too short, and those dumb rat men are not strong enough. This is why the rat war is interested in those new giant rat men. In order to allow these guys to wear full-body armor and stomach, they can Running wildly on the ground, Rat Zhan had to put more blood mushrooms on them.

In exchange for an elite personal guard.

These are Mouse Zhan’s confidence. He is not afraid of these idiots under his command.

But if some guys benefit, then someone must bear the cost.

The rat warriors of the Eastern Expeditionary Force became the biggest victims. In fact, the impact was not big. But after they needed to purchase their own equipment, the possibility of becoming a rat warlord by accumulating merit became more elusive, but they did not have much say. , and can only bear it silently.

By the way, in addition to the rat warriors in the Eastern Expeditionary Force, there was another group that was dumbfounded by this situation.

For those rat runners, after the rat war took a breath, the organization of this army was also pulled up stumblingly. In the battles, some elite senior rat warriors gradually joined. The qualifications of rat runners are just that Rat War doesn’t seem to attach great importance to rat runners.

Even when the equipment rationing was cancelled, their rationing was also cancelled.

All of a sudden, they were dumbfounded.

Rat War has invested more resources in its elite troops, but I am also an elite troop!

The situation suddenly became embarrassing, but fortunately, these veterans usually have no shortage of meritorious service. With the investment of meritorious service, the equipment on their bodies can also support the elite establishment. However, the fact that the father does not love the mother still makes it difficult. They fell into deep melancholy.

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A strange team entered the rat-men camp. Those tall rat-men immediately attracted a lot of attention. However, compared with the unscrupulous way they looked at other heretical races, after confirming that they were also rat-men, the look in their eyes Most of the emotions contained turned into fear.

Especially among these giant rat-men, there was also a deformed giant rat-man who was particularly ferocious and stood out from the crowd.

The team was led by a rat priest.

Pausing in front of the camp, his eyes swept over the lever flag, and he quickly determined his target. His eyes paused in the center of the camp and landed on the tallest and most flamboyant dark flag.

Without being blocked the whole way, the leading rat-man priest led the giant rat-man team behind him through the huge rat-man camp.

Until they got close to the flag, a large number of dumbfounded figures stopped in the center of the camp. As time passed, Rat Zhan finally replenished his team of rat-man supervisors.

Their eyes were wary, and many even held the spears in their hands. The equipment of the Rat Man Supervisory Team has become better, and the full-body leather armor they are equipped with is also inlaid with large metal armor pieces. .

Such a sight made those giant rat men feel uneasy, and also made the deformed giant rat man feel anxious. However, these emotions were suppressed by the rat priests, although the rat priests had always been unable to fight rats. But dealing with the rat war alone made him feel nervous. The more he disliked a person, the more he would understand him and the more he would recognize his power.

After swallowing a sip of saliva, he remembered the purpose of his visit this time and raised his head.

The rat-man supervising team did not stop the rat-man priest. The duties of their personal guard had been replaced by another team. These stupid guys would not easily exceed their responsibilities.

keep going.

The raised head wavered in front of a group of rat men wearing dark armor and looking extremely solemn.

Finally, I was completely humbled in front of a guy who opened the tent and was covered in ugly wounds.

With trembling compliments.

“The Great Commander of the Rat People!”