Chapter 183, the Beginning of the Terrible Rat Plague, the Sadistic Rat War, and the Beginning of the Rat Mercenaries

The war broke out between Xumi.

Everyone has something they can't let go of.

The wolf orc tribe guarding the salt lake can't let go of the pale lake. Even if their king gave an order, they would not hesitate to disobey it, and they would linger around the salt lake, unwilling to leave.

Because of power, their power is all dependent on this pale lake.

This wolf orc tribe is like this, and so is the wolf orc king.

Rat War found a central area where many wolf orcs gathered.

Located in the absolute depths of the grassland, it takes a distance of a whole four-season pasture to reach it.

No one could have thought that Rat War could find this place, including Rat War himself.

There was no problem with the strategy of the wolf orc king, if there were not many tails left behind.

The wolf orc god especially likes gold, and the young wolf orc king also inherited this hobby of the god.

In this mortal world, if you want to find the dazzling gold, there is only one thing that can give it, gold.

The wolf orc king especially loved gold. Holding the dazzling gold made the young wolf orc king feel like he was holding the dazzling sun.

However, there were not many gold mines on this barren grassland. A gold mine near the Four Seasons Pasture was preserved.

It was discovered by the ratmen, and a team of rat knights visited this place.

One of the many tails left by the wolf orc was held by Shu Zhan.

A heavy wheel track stretched into the depths of the grassland under the gaze of Shu Zhan.

This secret gold mine welcomed the visit of the ratmen, and the killing was accompanied by flames. A simple altar was built by the rats.

The dazzling gold that made the wolf orc king unable to extricate himself and unwilling to let go was scattered around this mine like garbage.

The rats were not very interested in these heavy and soft yellow stones.

The corpses of the wolf orcs were piled on this simple altar, and the bright red blood flowed out, bringing waves of commotion.

Many new rat warriors who joined the army witnessed their great leader's extravagant behavior for the first time.

The fresh sacrifice was beheaded, blood flowed freely, and corpses piled up on the altar of the gods.

This was a rough sacrifice, and there was not even a professional rat priest to preside over it.

But the effect achieved was almost the same, in the bright red color, in the piled corpses, and in the wanton waste.

These rat warriors who stepped onto the battlefield for the first time had a little more excitement in their eyes, for the flowing red color, for the piled corpses.

Their breathing became rapid unconsciously.

If the wolf beastmen were obsessed with gold, then the ratmen were obsessed with the bright red color. The brighter it was, the more beautiful it was, and the scarlet it was, the more elegant it was.

In this scarlet color, they became fanatical, as if they had seen everything they could get.

But this enthusiasm had not yet completely risen.

It was completely suppressed by a hideous flag. It was a black flag with complex patterns, which was inserted high on the top of the piled corpses in front of the altar of the gods, announcing the subordination of these sacrifices and calming down any unnecessary enthusiasm.

This is the flag of Rat War.

It is also the first lesson that Rat War taught his ratmen.

The wheel tracks extended into the depths of the grassland. The rat knights ran wildly for a long time without finding the end. This tail would not affect anything most of the time.

Is there really a guy who would lead his army through the vast uninhabited area just because of a wheel track?

Is it really not necessary to consider the risks and dangers that may exist along the way?

The corpses piled in front of the altar have not yet rotted, and the huge rat army has already set off again, heading towards the depths of the vast grassland.

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When Rat War led the main force into the depths of the grassland.

A large number of slave rats also moved.

The arrival of those senior rat priests is not without any benefits for Rat War.

They took over the business of the scavengers reselling the spoils.

Even though the two sides hated each other.

But the two jobs of transporting supplies for the Rat War Army and purchasing spoils of the Rat War Army still fell into the hands of these rat lords.

The alliance of senior rat priests has fallen apart, and these guys also want to seek some practical things for themselves.

They are more professional in doing these things than those messy rat scavengers.

The rat priests have always been the group responsible for mobilizing and transporting resources a long time ago.

Although this matter has been taken over by the big claw priests recently.

But there is no conflict, and most of the big claw priests are subordinate to the rat priests.

The big claw priests are more disunited than the rat priests, but this disunity is not due to chaotic infighting, but the big claw priests have been torn into countless large and small groups by the rat priests.

Because of the obscure ruling power.

Countless big claw priests gathered under the command of rat priests.

Now, senior rat priests have come to this vast grassland and transformed themselves into rat lords.

The task of purchasing and transporting the spoils of the rat army was taken over by these rat lords.

As for this phenomenon, Rat War turned a blind eye.

Nothing else, this group of senior rat priests who took office as rat lords also had an ability that he couldn't refuse, just like the group of temple guards.

Entrust the logistics to those rat warlords who were not doing their best.

One blood mushroom can only be exchanged for one resource.

Entrust it to the group of rat scavengers.

One blood mushroom can be exchanged for two resources.

But give it to these rat lords.

One blood mushroom can be exchanged for five resources.

Rat Zhan didn't want to worry about where the extra resources came from. With such a price, even hatred can be temporarily put aside.

These damn guys are really rich.

He couldn't refuse such a price, it was too much.

But this made the group of guys who followed Rat Zhan suffer.

But there was no way. Because of Rat Zhan's disgust, the rat priests would not appear by Rat Zhan's side, nor could they appear by Rat Zhan's side. As the two sides parted ways, the things around Rat Zhan that should have been squeezed out by the rat priests were naturally scattered.

The young priests, big claw priests, slave rats, and excluded rat priests who came after hearing the news were divided up.

But with the blow to Rat War, he had to squeeze into one place with his old enemy.

The rat priests would naturally begin to collect these interests that originally belonged to them.

No one expected such a change, but after it really happened, they could only accept it.

A large piece of the cake on the vast grassland was taken away by these guys who suddenly appeared, and it was taken away from the weakest rat scavengers.

The rat scavengers could not resist, but they were unwilling to give up.

They certainly did not want to go back to the past after drinking the broth.

There were not many roads left.

Either catch up with Rat War's pace and follow the great commander to plunder in the war.

Or focus on the vast grassland in front of them.

More and more rat scavengers set out from the city and began to chase after Rat War's footsteps.

There were more and more rats chasing after Rat War.

But at the same time, more rats chose the latter.

A large number of rats set foot on the grassland in batches.

It can be foreseen that in the near future, you will be able to see traces of rats in every place on this grassland.

This is not a good thing, after all, these guys have never come to promote friendship.

Rat War has not yet defeated the overlord of the grassland in this area, but the harm caused by the rats to this grassland has begun to spread.

A disaster that can be expected has entered the formal accumulation stage.

A terrible rat disaster.

The wicked Rat War is not very clear about what kind of opening he has opened. This is the power gathered by the countless desperate and wailing lower-level rats.

These guys are the real majority in the rat kingdom.

A large number of rats gathered into teams of varying sizes, leaving the rat cities standing on the grassland, either with confusion or with desire.

They are all humble people who are not taken seriously.

They are also the beneficiaries of this continuous change.

Du Yuan's relaxation of blood mushrooms is still changing everything in the rat kingdom.

The gift from the gods eventually benefited these poor and humble guys.

These ignorant and humble guys would not understand why all this happened, but their choice had been made long ago.

Great gods!

This sentence was shouted out in a remote corner of this vast grassland, and was shouted out at a simple sacrifice.

A group of wandering ratmen captured a fox tribe entrenched in this secret corner, and suffered heavy losses. Most of the ratmen fell in this fox tribe.

But the faces of the surviving guys were full of joy.

A simple altar was built by these guys.

An altar that was not standardized and even had errors in the pattern, but these ratmen were willing to push the captured fox slaves onto the altar.

In pious prayers, these surviving ratmen shouted fanatically.

"Great God! Great God!"

These guys who were humbly crawling in the darkness before, simply couldn't utter more prayers.

The great god was mentioned over and over again.

But their expressions were so fanatical and pious.

And such things are still happening everywhere in this vast grassland at this time.

Whether this is a great change, or even whether it will be a successful change, is a constant without an answer.

The war may end, and these guys may be beaten back to their original state by those high-ranking guys at any time, crawling back to the dark corner.

But at this time, at least at this time, these guys finally have the right to call on God.

Great God! Protect us!

Great God! Please protect us!

Fanatical shouts, pious shouts.

Of course, if possible, other races on this grassland will undoubtedly raise objections.

Tribes and races, in the foreseeable future, will be swept and swallowed up in this brewing torrent.

The rat people's transformation will come at the cost of this vast grassland, and at the cost of all the lives on this vast grassland.

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After crossing a distance of a four-season pasture, Shu Zhan arrived at the real heartland of the wolf orcs.

It was not that he was not warned.

An army of this size could not hide its body in this open grassland.

It was discovered by the wolf orcs early.

Shu Zhan did not catch the regular army of the wolf orcs. To be precise, he did not even catch a larger tribe.

These guys were very cunning and did not fight Shu Zhan head-on.

This huge and bloated army could not catch up with these wolf orcs who fled with their families.

But this time Shu Zhan was not impatient at all.

Along the way, Shu Zhan destroyed many veins that were being mined by the wolf orcs, and there were even coal veins that Shu Zhan had been looking for for a long time.

But he did not focus on these insignificant things.

As long as he won this war, as long as he killed these damn guys, then would there be any objection to the ownership of these things?

And since they could mine iron ore, Shu Zhan was very curious about where these guys put their metal smelting places.

Can those blast furnaces burning with flames also be pulled away?

Run? Can anything of yours run away?

He cast his eyes into the depths of the grassland, revealing a ferocious smile.

The huge rat army was rampaging in the heart of the wolf orcs, and at the same time, a large number of rat knights were sent out.

The wolf orcs discovered the intention of the rats, and a large number of wolf orc knights were recruited to surround the outside of the huge rat army and fight with the running rat knights.

But in the battle, they were at a disadvantage.

With the huge rat army behind them, the rat knights suppressed the wolf orc knights, and their overall quality was inferior to that of these running wolf orc knights.

Among them, the number of the ferocious knights, which was constantly increasing and soaring to 5,000, became the absolute star.

These running wolf orc knights had no way to deal with these fully armed iron cans.

And the speed of these ferocious giant rats was also faster than the giant wolves that these wolf orc knights relied on.

The wolf orc knights who were chasing the huge rat army suffered heavy losses.

Rat War used the scattered rat knights as bait and began to strangle the annoying flies that surrounded him.

Soon, the wolf knights who were chasing the rat army came to a farther and safer distance.

It also made it easier for the rat knights to explore the surroundings.

In the rampage, Rat War found what he was looking for.

The blast furnace of the wolf orcs was certainly not mobile, even in order to deal with the intrusion of the rats, that important area had not been ignited for a while.

But it was still found by Rat War.

For the first time, the wolf orcs in this area did not escape, gathered together, and a large team of wolf knights stood in front of Rat War.

In order to protect the area behind.

That important industrial area.

This is what Rat War wanted to see. In a ferocious smile, Rat War announced the march. There was no more command for this huge and bloated army, and no more command was needed.

That was a black mass of rats that could not see the end.

Perhaps two groups, behind the regular army of ratmen, an equally large group of ratmen scavengers also followed and began to charge.

Even though there were not many wolf orc knights gathered in front of them.

There were about 60,000 people, which was already the largest cavalry team that Rat War had encountered on this grassland.

But the army in Rat War's hands was no longer the same as before.

Absolute numbers brought absolute advantages.

The endless rats were enough to wear out all courage and confidence.

At the last moment, the commander of this wolf knight team lost his courage. In the waving flags, this huge wolf knight staggered the rushing rat army.

Not reconciled, but without courage, wandering around the rat army, witnessing this huge rat army that came like a tsunami engulfing the industrial area it was guarding.

But in the end, there was still no courage, no courage to launch a charge with almost no chance of victory.

In Rat War's angry expression.

"Damn coward!"

Anger roared in the center of the army.

The wolf orcs' industrial area was turned into ruins by the rats.

The wolf orcs were still quite wealthy.

Even though they didn't get too many slaves in this raid, the various weapons and resources abandoned by the wolf orcs in the industrial area still made the rats extremely excited.

Because of the wolf orcs' avoidance strategy, the rat army following the rat war had not eaten meat for a long time.

Until now, they were excited to search for anything that could be used in the ruins.

Various weapons and armor became the first things that the rat warriors searched for. Although they would not use these things, the subsequent buyers would still take them without any picky eating.

These buyers organized by the rat lords also have an advantage that the rat warriors cannot resist.

That is to settle on the spot.

Bags of blood mushrooms will be placed on the battlefield by these people to exchange for the spoils in the hands of these rat warriors, which is simply impossible to refuse.

As for Rat War's gains, later, a large group of rat transport teams will come here and transport away the piles of iron and coal in the ruins.

These things will soon become weapons and continue to be delivered to Rat War.

The rat lords gave Rat War more generous conditions, which of course would only be given if it was profitable.

They would provide supplies to Rat War at the price of five supplies for one blood mushroom, but would purchase the spoils of the rat army at the price of one blood mushroom for ten supplies.

In the end, a considerable part of these spoils would be sold back to Rat War.

In any case, this is a good deal.

Of course, there are certain risks, that is, there is a risk of being attacked, and Rat War will not guarantee the safety of this transaction.

Anyway, he will deliver the blood mushrooms only when the things arrive.

And due to the restrictions of the contract signed with Rat War, they cannot organize their own army, so some large rat scavenging teams were organized.

Of course, these rat lords, like Shu Zhan, do not look down on this mob.

But in order to earn Shu Zhan's blood mushrooms, there is no better way for the time being.

They put forward more stringent requirements for these rat scavenging teams.

With this opportunity, a group of truly professional rat mercenaries began to appear on this vast grassland.