Chapter 1, Desert and Ratmen

In the barren woodland.

A group of short figures knelt in front of a stone pillar carved with mysterious patterns, shouting something loudly. From time to time, figures would emerge from the cracks of caves and rocks and join the shouting team.

Soon, they gathered into a huge wave of sound, and mysterious connections were constructed, and a vague shadow appeared in the sky.

The shadow's face was not good.

Because of the barrenness of this area, and because of the types of creatures praying to him.

The people shouting and praying to him were a large group of dwarf rat men.

Du Yuan really won the prize, but it was not the big prize, but the bad one.

Neither of the two deserts nor rat men was a good choice. It stands to reason that he used the divine fire altar to place anchor points, although it was not as good as the various divine objects of those wealthy guys.

But there should be an average, but what is this? Desert, one of the most unsuitable environments for anchoring. The barren environment can make any apprentice god who has a family with food needs miserable.

Ratmen, one of the least suitable races to be selected as a family, are cunning, cowardly, weak, and have extremely poor organizational skills. Although they have strong fertility and are easy to feed, their souls are weak. The faith provided by three ratmen believers can barely match that of a standard intelligent race believer.

Compared with ratmen, even goblins seem to have some advantages. At least goblins can fight a little better than ratmen.

Du Yuan covered his forehead and had a headache.

He wanted to give up this anchoring. Perhaps it would be wiser to prepare for the next anchoring earlier, but this was Du Yuan's third anchoring, and the academy would only provide four free anchoring opportunities.

It is not easy for apprentice gods to successfully anchor, and there is a chance of failure.

The divine fire array will only rigidly place anchors into qualified world fragments. The breath of the gods will instinctively attract nearby intelligent races. If the attracted intelligent creatures can successfully offer their faith to themselves and establish a connection before the breath of the gods dissipates, then the anchoring is successful. Otherwise, the anchoring fails. The first time, Du Yuan encountered a group of deer people, a very good initial clan. Du Yuan used the spirit rain technique to seduce the little deer people inside. It seemed that he was about to succeed, but the elder of the deer people noticed Du Yuan's existence and took all the deer people away directly. The anchoring failed. The second time, a group of fish people, they had a strong desire to believe in Du Yuan, and there were many more believers. However, the Nagas who surrounded them did not agree with this. Soon after, the fish people were killed, and Du Yuan's temporary anchor point was also surrounded by this group of Nagas. It was broken on the spot by the priests who arrived later. The anchoring failed. The third time was this group of ratmen, and they were the ratmen who caused trouble. Du Yuan, who was floating in the sky, saw a group of lizardmen coming out of the distant forest from a high-altitude perspective. They rushed straight to the location of the ratmen, obviously heading for this group of ratmen.

He was helpless, but he didn't dare to gamble. What if the next time was worse and more outrageous, then he would have nothing to do with the word "god" for the time being.

After all, except for the free times of the academy, his family background did not support him to perform the sacred fire ceremony again.

And according to the rumor, the anchoring location provided by the academy this time was a bit special. If you can gain a foothold in it, it will be amazing, although those who spread the news can't say how amazing it will be.

There are not many opportunities, no way, even in the face of double difference, Du Yuan has to try to break the situation.

He cast a look at the ratmen praying under him, and perhaps because of the low expectations, he accidentally found some bright spots.

There are quite a lot of ratmen, thousands of them. Compared with the two or three cats and kittens encountered in the normal sacred fire ceremony, and the various initial races with at least a dozen and at most a few hundred, this group of ratmen is ridiculously large.

But ratmen have strong breeding ability, and thinking of this, this number seems reasonable.

The current situation has made him wait for the price and patiently choose.

But even if there is no choice, Du Yuan is still ready to verify those widely circulated sayings.

For example, the fighting power and morale of the ratmen.

If they really have no desire to fight and only know how to run away cowardly, then even if the next chance is slim, they can only gamble again.

Set your eyes on the lizardmen coming from afar.

There are only fifteen lizardmen, and there are thousands of ratmen gathered here. If one thousand can't beat these ratmen, then even if it's the last chance, Du Yuan will never choose them.

The power of faith from below continued to flow, and more and more ratmen who knelt on the ground were transformed into Du Yuan's believers. The trend was urgent and urgent.

But Du Yuan carefully sensed that they were almost all shallow believers.

But it was not a big problem. Since these ratmen were praying for my coming, it was reasonable for them to accept my test.

A golden light burst out from the stone pillar, and the surrounding ratmen immediately had a picture in their minds. In the picture, there was a lizardman coming from afar and a simple word.

The general meaning was.

Kill!

At this moment, the chaotic prayers around the stone pillar paused, and the ratmen looked at each other. This was a very easy to understand meaning. The unknown god they placed their hopes on made a request.

They were driven out of the forest by this group of lizardmen, and they couldn't help but hesitate a little more.

While the ratmen were still hesitating, the lizardmen not far away were getting closer and closer to here, and they had already appeared in the sight of the ratmen.

It brought a commotion. Facing the lizardmen who came, these ratmen subconsciously wanted to escape.

At this time, a ratman stood up.

In front of the stone pillar, the ratman stood up, waving the wooden spear in his hand, and shouted loudly with a sharp voice.

"We're going to kill those lizardmen!"

Without a response, the other ratmen still looked timid. Without hesitation, the ratman wielding the wooden spear stabbed the nearest timid ratman to death with a spear.

He shouted again with a sharp voice.

"We're going to kill those lizardmen!"

The red eyes looked around, and this time no ratman dared to hesitate.

"We're going to kill those lizardmen!"

Just like that, the sporadic shouts rang out, and after repeating several times, the ratmen all over the mountains and plains shouted with that sharp voice.

The preparations before the war were completed.

"Kill them! Sacrifice to the gods!"

The ratmen followed the spear ratmen and shouted together. In a mess, they charged towards the team of lizardmen in the distance.

This scene was seen by Du Yuan in the sky.

He felt a little more relieved.

At least these guys were not so cowardly.

His eyes did not linger for long on the charging ratmen. There was really nothing to admire in such a huge charge. Instead, he looked at the first wooden spear ratman who stood out.

He seemed to have the potential to become a hero.