Chapter 247, Strange Slavery, the Majesty of the Rat Commander

In a rat-man gathering camp, a rat-man priest led by a giant rat-man visited. He came at the right time, and the rat war was almost ready.

There were countless rat-men gathered here, a huge crowd, piercing and sharp sounds, and rat-men running around wantonly.

This is an extremely large gathering place for rat-men.

After leaving the vast grassland and entering the main continent, especially after the world returned to darkness, the rat-men seemed to be like fish entering the sea. They no longer had to worry about the flexible cavalry that might come and go at that moment, and naturally abandoned the habit of building cities. In the darkness, human vision was limited, and there was no need to worry about the enemy's attack at all. Such scattered gathering camps became the mainstream.

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

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

Suddenly, the food that was no longer scarce made the number of rats present a terrifying explosion. Such a short-term gift may only represent a momentary abundance for other races, but it is an incomparable benefit for rats.

Rich food, just harvest those gradually crooked and deformed plants in that area, and the harvested food is incomparable abundance. This great abundance even made the big claw priests abandon the good habit of recycling unqualified individuals to make baby food.

When the children in the belly of human pregnant women are only half grown, in this abundance gap, a group of first-generation rat cubs with a terrifying number have been born, and the second round of births has entered the preparation stage.

The rats consume environmental resources at a terrifying speed and are not restrained.

However, these effects have not been spread yet. The rat cubs are still a long way from maturity. At least after three months, this group of young rats will really enter the screening stage.

At that time, all the unqualified guys will be used as slave rats, and the guys who meet the standards will be divided into a separate area. Their final result will be that they will be put in the window like commodities waiting for qualified guys to choose.

As long as you can wave the blood mushrooms in your hands to these big claw priests, you can choose any of these slave rats and young rats.

The slavery of rats is not perfect.

There are no laws to protect the ownership of the goods purchased by those who wave blood mushrooms to buy young rats and slave rats.

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

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

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

Even in this moment of abundance, the number of young rats will usher in an unparalleled explosion, and the situation is the same.

Because of a very simple reason.

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

In contrast to the unlimited rights enjoyed by these rat slave owners, all rats are theoretically free. As long as they can tear the throat of the slave owner, then they are free, and no one will pursue this matter.

This rule applies even to slave rats, but there is a problem. I am an ordinary ratman, or a slave rat. How can I kill a mercenary leader, a rancher, a big claw priest, a ratman priest, a ratman warlord, 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, and there are also some guys who hold power. Whenever this happens, a huge commotion and rout will occur.

This is what many ratman freemen will experience before they truly become a person.

A strange social logic, a strange rat slavery.

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

It began to include ordinary rat warriors in the Eastern Expeditionary Force.

You don’t need much blood mushrooms, a brand new spear, a piece of leather armor, that is, it can be directly handed to you, and it doesn’t matter whether you are poor or rich. Even if you can only take out some yellow and black blood mushroom powder, there will be tattered equipment just brought down from the battlefield in the rat caravan.

Although these blood mushroom powders are not only despised by the rat lords behind the caravans, but also by the big claw priests in charge of the caravans, they can also be mixed with cave mushrooms as feed for giant rats. These giant rats that exist in the rat caravans as camels 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 the full-body leather armor inlaid with metal armor plates, or the full-body armor of the same style as the Fierce Knight, or even the bright silver armor on the temple guards can also be included in the ranks of commodities.

The special commodity of the bright silver armor of the temple guards is not available in every caravan, and even the quality is far inferior to the armor of the real temple guards, and it will not be engraved with the complicated patterns.

It comes from the passionate contribution of a mysterious caravan that travels back and forth between the main continent and the desolate mountains.

As the finale product, not many rat warriors will really buy it. After all, it is not that the bright silver armor of the temple guards is not attractive, but the dark full-body armor of the same style as the Fierce Knight is more cost-effective.

But no Skaven caravan would consider Rat War. The gold content of the full body armor of the Fierce Knight is much lower than the bright silver armor of the Temple Guard. It can be produced not only in the Waste City, but also in the Furnace City. This is a hot-selling product. Even if you pay more, you can get a one-to-one copy of the god pattern. If you pay more, you can get a full engraving.

The high-end caravan version even looks much more luxurious than the genuine Fierce Knight under Rat War. For a while, I didn't know who was the real Fierce Knight.

This situation once made Rat War very nervous, but it was obvious that there was no such thing as appearance protection in the Rat Empire, and Rat War's face was not big enough to make those Rat Lords have concerns like facing the Temple Guard.

This led to the occurrence of such a situation. For a time, the Fierce Knights were all over the Rat Empire, showing an extremely flooded state. What was even more frustrating was that these guys who could afford the commercial version of the black armor were not bad in combat power. If you let a single Fierce Knight fight them alone, he would most likely be beaten up. Those real Fierce Knights would be beaten up.

Although the advantage of the Fierce Knights was not in a one-on-one duel, as long as they gathered in groups, these guys were definitely the second strongest organized team in the Rat Empire, only under the Temple Guard.

Compared with other rat organized troops, they could form an absolute crushing advantage. It can only be said that they were wronged to follow the notorious guy Rat War.

For this situation, the always manic Rat War pinched his nose and accepted it.

When the troops in his hands were reunited on the main continent, these rat caravans naturally completed the deep binding with the Eastern Expeditionary Force, to the extent that Rat War himself was somewhat reluctant to let go.

Compared with the straw bags under his own hands, these rat caravans were really too useful.

Rat War has given up preparing equipment for all the armies except the Rat Warlords, Rat Knights and Fierce Knights. However, this practice has not only failed to return most of the Eastern Expeditionary Force to the Wooden Spear Era, but even most of the Rat Warriors have better equipment.

The spontaneous purchases from the Rat Caravans saved Rat War a lot of blood mushrooms.

The Rat Warriors fought for Rat War, exchanged their killed heretics for merit, and then exchanged merits for blood mushrooms, used these blood mushrooms to buy better weapons and equipment to replace and repair the damaged weapons and equipment, and then fought again to gain merits and fight for Rat War.

It was a good cycle, and there was nothing wrong with it. After canceling the equipment supply, Rat War did not increase the value of the merit.

Of course, no Rat Man had any objections. The promoted Rat Warlords supported this decision. After all, after the supply of equipment was separated from Rat War, their control over the army in their hands would become higher.

The Rat Caravan had no objection, and this change was even pushed by the Rat Lords behind them. The emergence of this change even eased the relationship between these Rat Lords and Rat War.

Rat War also had no objection. This model allowed him to expand his troops more efficiently, and he didn't care about the little thoughts of the Rat Warlords. He was not one of those stupid Rat Priests. Most of the remaining blood mushrooms were invested by him in the expansion of the Rat War Team, Rat Knights, and the Fierce Knights. With the blood mushrooms, a real guard team was independent from the Rat War Team.

A group of Rat Heavy Armored Infantry wearing full body armor and holding dark shields. These guys had no mounts, but the blood mushrooms to be invested individually were faintly comparable to the Fierce Knights as noble cavalry units.

The ratmen were still too short, and those stupid ratmen were not strong enough, which was why Rat War was interested in those newly emerged giant ratmen. In order to allow these guys to wear full body armor and run wildly on the ground, Rat War had to invest more blood mushrooms on them.

In exchange for an elite guard.

These were the confidence of Rat War, and he was not afraid of these idiots under his command having small ideas.

However, if some guys benefited, there must be guys to bear the price.

The ratmen warriors of the Eastern Expeditionary Force became the biggest victims. In fact, the impact was not great. It was just that after they needed to buy equipment on their own, the possibility of becoming a rat warlord by accumulating merits became more ethereal, but they had no say and could only bear it silently.

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

After Rat War recovered, the organization of the Rat Raiders was also pulled up. In the battles, some elite veteran Rat Warriors gradually became qualified to join the Rat Raiders. However, Rat War did not seem to attach much importance to the Rat Raiders.

Even when the equipment ration was cancelled, their ration was cancelled as well.

This made these old hands dumbfounded.

Rat War invested more resources in the elite troops in his hands, but I am also an elite force!

The situation became awkward, but fortunately, these old hands generally have no shortage of merits. With the investment of merits, the equipment on their bodies can also support the elite organization. However, this situation of being unloved by their parents still made them fall into deep melancholy.

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A strange team entered the rat camp. Those tall rats immediately attracted a lot of attention. However, compared to the recklessness when looking at other heretic races, after confirming that they were rats, the emotions contained in their eyes mostly turned into fear.

Especially after a particularly hideous and distorted giant rat appeared among these giant rats.

The leader was a rat priest.

He paused in front of the camp, his eyes swept over the lever flag, and soon determined his target. His sight paused in the center of the camp and fell on a dark flag that was the tallest and most ostentatious.

The whole process was not blocked. The rat priest led the giant rat team behind him across this huge rat camp.

Until approaching the flag, a large number of stunned figures paused in the center of the camp. As time passed, Shu Zhan finally replenished his rat supervisor team.

Their eyes were alert, and many of them even held their spears. The equipment of the Ratman Supervisory Team became better, and the leather armor they were equipped with was also inlaid with large pieces of metal armor.

Such a sight made the giant rats feel uneasy, and the deformed giant rats felt anxious, but these emotions were suppressed by the rat priest. Although the rat priests have always been at odds with the Rat War, dealing with the Rat War alone made him feel nervous. The more you hate someone, the more you will understand him, and the more you will admit his strength.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, but remembering the purpose of his visit this time, he raised his head.

The Ratman Supervisory Team did not stop the Ratman Priest. The duties of their personal guards had been replaced by another team. These stunned guys would not easily exceed their duties.

Keep moving forward.

The raised head wavered in front of a team of rats wearing dark armor and looking extremely solemn.

Finally, he completely bowed in front of a guy who opened his tent with mottled and ugly wounds.

With trembling compliments.

"The Rat Commander!"