Chapter 24, Twisted Chains

The selected ratmen will be trained to become ratmen warriors. This was previously done by spear rats, and the conditions that ratmen warriors can get are much better.

Compared with the literal treatment of slave rats, ratmen warriors are treated as standard civilians, but compared with other races of civilians who work as farmers, ratmen warriors need to fight.

And they cannot retreat in every battle. If they retreat, they will be beaten into slave rats and taken away. On the contrary, if they do not retreat and survive in the war, they can get blood mushrooms. In theory, in the continuous battles, the longer the ratmen warriors live, the stronger they will become with the continuous supply of blood mushrooms.

But in fact, this depends on the ratmen lords who command them.

Because the treatment is better and blood mushrooms can be obtained every once in a while, these ratmen warriors are not so addicted to blood mushrooms.

Brings a problem.

These ratmen warriors are the least pious group among the ratmen under Du Yuan.

But even if the rat warriors are not pious, the meaning of their existence is to contribute to Du Yuan, to fight for Du Yuan, the lofty god, and either die in battle or become the most humble slave rat after retreating. There is no other choice.

This is the second ring, the second ring of the rat people's distorted social state, and the third ring is the rat priests and rat lords.

The rat priests are the most pious rats who have awakened priest magic, and the rat lords are the rats who have shown extraordinary talents. As the rulers of the rat group, the two parties not only get a sufficient supply of blood mushrooms.

They can even get some special rations, those two-color blood mushrooms that grow near the altar, have more residual blood and flesh essence, but are contaminated by the resentment separated by the blood-colored aura, and are half red and half black.

This kind of blood mushroom has some other functions compared to ordinary blood mushrooms. It can stimulate the spirit of the rat people, and in this stimulation, the wisdom of the rat people can be improved.

Only rat priests and rat lords are qualified to use this special two-color blood mushroom. The higher the proportion of black, the stronger the stimulation effect on the spirit.

And because it grows near the altar and is at the end of Xiaochun's spreading roots, the remaining blood and flesh essence is more and better than ordinary blood mushrooms.

Long-term use can even make the rats appear with a faint aura, like a degraded version of the fear aura, which can better control the rats.

But these are not without cost.

After all, the reason why this blood mushroom is stained with black is because it is polluted by the resentment separated from the blood-colored aura by Xiaochun. Long-term stimulation of the spirit by this resentment will bring a very intuitive change.

Crazy.

Du Yuan's rat priests, spear rats, and even white rats have all shown madness and distortion in their personalities to varying degrees.

This may not be difficult to understand why evil gods are always so easy to go crazy and even actively self-destruct.

As the top of the ratman society, the twisted chain ends here at the ratman priests and ratman lords. As the top of the group affected by the blood mushrooms, the devout ones go crazy, while the unbelievers become irritable and suspicious.

They have only one thing in common, they cannot do without the blood mushrooms, which means they can only return to Du Yuan's command no matter what, either greedy or devoutly looking up to Du Yuan, constantly offering Du Yuan a steady stream of sacrifices in exchange for the gift from the gods, in exchange for the swaying bright mushrooms.

For themselves, for the blood mushrooms, for the twisted desires, and for the gods.

The establishment of this twisted order even uses only two forms of blood mushrooms. For the rats, the ordinary blood mushrooms and the two-color blood mushrooms are the most important.

As for the third form of blood mushrooms, the black blood mushrooms, not many rats are willing to try, or in other words, not many rats are willing to take the initiative to try.

The closer to the altar, the more black the blood mushroom will be, until it crosses a limit and completely completes the transformation. The bright red on the blood mushroom turns into pure black. At this time, the blood mushroom is no longer suitable for direct use. The ratman who eats it will be instantly overwhelmed by the resentment in it, followed by irreversible flesh and blood deformation.

It manifests as hyperplasia of flesh and blood, enlargement of body size, enhancement of strength, and acquisition of powerful regeneration ability.

It transforms into a crazy and terrifying giant beast.

However, not every ratman is qualified to experience this drastic change. The white rat once experimented with slave rats, but no matter how the amount of black blood mushrooms was diluted, the slave rats who ate it would directly turn into a flesh and blood balloon due to the expansion of the flesh after exceeding a limit, and exploded with a bang.

If you give it to the ratman warrior, as long as you control the amount, you can get a crazy giant rat that is two or three times larger than an ordinary ratman.

This is also the existence that the lizardman lord encountered on the battlefield before.

However, Bai Shu felt that these two uses were too much of a loss, because the appearance of black blood mushrooms was not easy, and they were extremely rare. After so long, only three were born, and two of them were born in Du Yuan’s first great sacrifice.

Whether it was creating a flesh bomb or creating an ordinary crazy giant rat, it was too much of a loss.

Unless you focus on some stronger and qualified guys.

At this time, the lance rat that was particularly deformed, with its strength increased several times and even retaining some simple wisdom, was a standard work in the eyes of the white rat.

Yes, the lance rat that ate the black blood mushroom did not die, and even retained some shallow wisdom, but it was a pity that it was useless. After losing most of its wisdom, it was destined to become a tool, a tool driven by the rat priest with berserk magic.

The white rat did not understand why the black blood mushroom had such a clear gap on the three types of rats, but this did not affect his grasp of the key points at all.

I believe that in the near future, the black blood mushroom will also become a special supply for the rat priests and rat lords, and it will be specially supplied to those rat priests and rat lords who he thinks are not suitable for existence or betrayal.

And Du Yuan can guess some reasons. Probably because of the background and resistance, the slave rat is weak and can't support the catalysis of the black blood mushroom.

As the rat warriors ate a lot of blood mushrooms, they could barely withstand the catalysis of blood mushrooms as long as the dosage was appropriate, but they would fall into madness.

As for the rat priests and rat lords who ate a lot of two-color blood mushrooms, they had a certain resistance to the resentment in the blood mushrooms while their bodies could support them, so they could retain a certain basic wisdom.

It must be said that by chance, Du Yuan really made a treasure, although he didn't know why such a sunny god card would produce such a twisted and evil thing.

Or maybe the group of rats under his command who used blood mushrooms were too evil.

But no matter what, the potential and value of blood mushrooms are unquestionable. If you use it as a foundation, you only need to firmly grasp the blood mushrooms, which is equivalent to grasping all the rats.