Chapter 144, Prelude to the Melee, Ambitious Wolf Orcs, a Surprise

Time went by.

The place where the big claw priest and the young rat priest gathered had its own name, and also attracted the rat warriors to join.

This place was called the noisy ruins.

As time passed, some simple rules were set.

In the noisy ruins, there must be no theft, looting, and oppression.

Even if this rule is difficult to constrain anything.

In the noisy ruins, you can buy some food and items sold by rats, some insects, berries, or bright feathers, some hard scales, a piece of rusty metal, or some other odds and ends.

Use blood mushroom powder as currency.

The inferior light red blood mushrooms are ground into powder after drying, which can be better preserved and become a currency among the lower-level rats.

At the same time, a wooden board will be placed in the center of the noisy ruins.

Imitating the actions of those big men using stone tablets to engrave their achievements.

Carrying some simple story patterns will be painted on the wooden board.

A wooden board engraves the story of the entire noisy ruins.

Although the wooden board is not very strong, the stories recorded on it cannot be preserved as long as those engraved on the stone wall.

When there is a story to be recorded, even the most stingy big claw priest is willing to pay a sum of blood mushroom powder to carve the story on the wooden board.

Yes, this is a paid project.

But the rats gathered here never get tired of it.

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Rat War found a suspicious direction.

The rat priests who went in that direction were almost wiped out.

The things he was looking for should be in that direction.

A team of giant rat knights was sent out by Rat War.

If this team of giant rat knights comes back soon, then Rat War will decide the follow-up based on the news.

But if this team of giant rat knights does not come back.

Then Rat War will allocate troops to go directly to the battlefield.

On the grassland.

The edge area near the towering mountains.

A shallow river meanders on the grassland, nourishing a large area of ​​fertile pasture.

The endless snowmelt water on the towering mountains turned into streams.

Created an evergreen four-season pasture.

Cattle and sheep gathered here.

Those races running on the grassland also settled here.

Although they did not get along well.

Competition, fighting, and killing.

The most fertile pastures are naturally worthy of the most intense struggles.

Until those shining tokens of the gods fell down.

The two sheep tribes in the Four Seasons Pasture received the attention of the gods at the same time and began their own rise.

In a very short period of time, the situation on this Four Seasons Pasture changed from many small tribes gathering to fighting, to tit-for-tat between two large sheep tribes.

Obviously, even if the two parties came from the same origin, the gods standing above their heads obviously did not want the other party to stand in the same area with them.

The struggle began again.

And gradually evolved into a war.

The hatred accumulated more and more, and the two tribes belonging to the same large tribe of sheep beastmen condensed into an endless hatred.

Unreserved attack.

In these two sheep tribes, in that war, the winner was about to be decided.

One was mediocre, belonging to the normal sheep beastmen.

The other had large horns that were coiled together, perhaps they could be called bighorn sheep.

But in fact, they called themselves the Argali Tribe.

Although they were a little more special, the coiled horns did not bring them any special advantages.

They were beaten by the normal sheep tribe.

They were even on the verge of destruction, and then the god of the argali tribe knelt down decisively.

But he did not kneel down to his opponent in front of him.

Instead, he knelt down to the real overlord of this area, the wolf orcs who roamed the grassland.

Let the wolf into the house?

The wolf orc army poured into this four-season pasture.

The two parties once united on this grassland to resist the invasion of the wolf orcs.

However, at this time, everything changed and the situation was reversed.

The normal sheep orcs were defeated and beaten without suspense.

They were conquered by the wolf orcs and forcibly gathered to become a vassal of the grassland kingdom.

The statues of their gods were forcibly carried out of the temple by the wolf orcs and moved into the newly established joint temple, sitting in the position closest to the gate.

Became the third-ranked existence in the Pantheon.

It seems not bad, but there are only three gods in this so-called Pantheon.

The wolf beastman demigod is the main god, the argali god is the second-ranked god, and the third is the gods of the sheep beastman.

It sounds good to be ranked third, but being placed at the door means being a gatekeeper.

Because the sheep beastman's initial resistance was extremely fierce, it caused a lot of losses to the wolf beastman, and then their gods also received such treatment.

This naturally made the sheep beastman quite angry, but in the huge gap in strength, they could only accept it.

And the most hateful thing is!

Those despicable argali, those spineless argali, these weaklings who were about to be destroyed by them, became members of the grassland kingdom instead.

At the same time, the Four Seasons Ranch was also handed over to these argali, and they became managers.

A very sharp contradiction arose.

In this four-season grassland, as the former quasi-king of this area, even if they were defeated and became vassals.

But they still retained a lot of strength.

Or the wolf beastmen did not kill them all, and the strength of the sheep beastmen was deliberately retained.

The argali was promoted to the position of manager.

It seems that the strategy of bringing wolves into the house was a great success. They turned the tables and even beat their old opponents into slaves.

Well, they are vassals in this grassland, but they are actually slaves.

The argali became the actual slave owners.

There was only one problem. The gap in strength between them and the slaves they managed was not very large.

Their position was not stable either.

The wolf beastman army became the force that decided everything.

They had to rely on the wolf beastmen to gain a foothold in this four-season grassland.

To this end, they spared no effort to hand over materials and provide manpower in exchange for the illusory closeness and help of the wolf beastmen.

As time passed, the wolf orcs' army that stayed in the Four Seasons Pasture had all left.

But the supplies that were constantly supplied did not dare to stop at all.

At the same time, the contradiction between the argali and the sheep orcs became more and more acute.

It seemed that the argali were slave owners.

But they seemed to have no whips in their hands.

It must be admitted that this was an extremely clever method.

The wolf orcs only dispatched some troops and did not invest in others, but they gained a loyal ally and a large amount of resources that could be stably supplied.

As for whether the contradiction in the Four Seasons Pasture was acute or not, and what direction the future of the two tribes would go.

The wolf orcs did not care.

They did not even care who the leader of this area was.

It was nothing more than sending out another army to complete a suppression. The loser would be knocked down, but would not be completely killed.

And in order to maintain their status, the winners could only do as before.

Continue this cycle.

As long as the wolf orcs were still far ahead militarily, there would be no big problems.

This is a very suitable method, even though there are many problems.

The expansion speed is extremely fast, but it is extremely unstable, and it lacks actual control over most of the places in its territory.

But the expansion is extremely fast, and there is no pressure to govern. Everything can be piled up for military affairs. It only needs to advance violently to establish a huge empire very quickly.

As long as there is no accident, then undoubtedly, after the wolf orcs swept across the entire vast grassland.

An extremely large and elite army is about to take shape.

The cliff-like military gap will appear. At this time, Du Yuan and the half-elf kingdom entrenched in the edge corner will not be taken seriously by them.

All along, the gods of the wolf orcs have always focused on the center of this world.

A huge army will pour into the continent from the grassland to compete for the real dominance of this world.

If there is no accident.

But the god of the wolf orcs may not have thought that the nameless guy curled up in the corner, the guy who is unknown and has no sense of existence, has quietly ascended to the demigod.

Even divided the troops into two places, extremely arrogant.

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In the layers of hills.

Where the half-elf kingdom is located.

A very closed area.

There are not many roads to settle down. It is uneven, strange and rugged, with low shrubs, sparse but continuous trees, climbing vines, hidden poisonous insects and snakes, and wild beasts that occasionally show their traces in the mountains and forests.

These entanglements make it difficult to move forward.

But even so, the rat priests still led the team into this rugged forest at the first time.

In order to find something.

The rat priests of the Waste City have never given up exploring this layered hill.

Because of the same important thing.

For the black stone that can ignite the fire, compared to the rat war, who completely gave up on the development of industry after he couldn't figure it out.

These rat priests have always been very enthusiastic about industry. Everything in the Waste City is ready. Even relying on the black stone found in the ruins, the Waste City has forged a batch of ironware.

Naturally unwilling to give up.

But the only black stone vein was taken over by the white rats, so the rat priests set their sights on the area where the black stone vein appeared.

Yes, the wild boar coal mine is located on the outskirts of the hills.

A large number of rat priests were sent there.

The Waste City, where a large number of senior rat priests gathered and jointly decided matters, could not be as decisive as the Furnace City.

With just one thought, they could march towards the empty area with great force.

But there is also an advantage, that is, when something is determined, the forces gathered in the bloated city can be mobilized together.

In the hills, the rat priests who were exploring the veins collided with the half-elves who were expanding outward.

The weather has started to warm up recently. I will stand up after it gets warmer! I should!