Chapter 1, Desert and Rat People
In the barren woodland.
A group of short figures knelt down in front of a stone pillar carved with mysterious patterns, shouting something loudly. From time to time, figures would emerge from the cracks in the caves where the mountains and rocks were stacked, and join the shouting team. .
Not long after, it gathered into a huge sound wave, and a mysterious connection was established. A vague shadow appeared in the sky.
Shadow's face didn't look good.
Because of the barrenness of the area, and because of the types of creatures that prayed to him.
What was shouting and praying to him were the dwarf mice in the jungle.
Du Yuan really won the lottery, but he didn't win the grand prize, but the lottery.
Either of the desert and the rat people is not a good choice. It stands to reason that although he uses the sacred fire altar to place anchor points, it is not as powerful as the various divine objects of those well-off guys.
But there should be an average, but what is this? A desert, one of the most unsuitable environments for anchoring. The barren environment can make any trainee god who has a family need for food miserable.
Ratmen are one of the most unsuitable races to be chosen as a Familia. They 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 the three ratmen believers is comparable. A standard believer in the intelligent race.
Compared with ratmen, even goblins seem to have some advantages. At least goblins can fight better than ratmen.
Du Yuan covered his forehead and had a headache.
He almost 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 circle 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 be successfully attracted to themselves before the breath of the gods dissipates, Offer your faith and build a connection.
That would be considered anchoring success.
Otherwise, the anchoring fails.
In the first three times, Du Yuan met a group of deer people, a very good starting family. Du Yuan used the spirit rain technique to seduce the deer people inside. He was about to succeed, but he was noticed by the elders of the deer people. After seeing Du Yuan's presence, he took all the deer people away and left.
Anchoring failed.
The second time, a group of fishmen had a strong desire to believe in Du Yuan, and many more believers appeared at once.
But the Nagas who surrounded them didn't quite agree with this. Soon after, all the fishmen were killed, and Du Yuan's temporary anchor point was also surrounded by this group of Nagas.
The priest who arrived later broke it into pieces on the spot.
Anchoring failed.
The third time was this group of rat men, and they were the rat men who caused trouble. Du Yuan, who was floating in the sky, saw a group of lizard men coming out of the distant forest through his condescending vision. They looked straight at him. He rushed towards the location of the rat men, obviously heading towards this group of rat men.
He was helpless, but he didn't dare to gamble anymore. If the situation was worse and more outrageous next time, then he would have nothing to do with the word god for the time being.
After all, except for the free times in the academy, his family does not support him to perform the divine fire ceremony again.
Moreover, according to the rumors, the anchoring location provided by the academy this time is somewhat special. If you can gain a foothold in it, it will be great, although those who spread the news can't tell what will happen.
There were not many opportunities left and there was no other way. Even facing a double difference, Du Yuan had to try to break the situation.
He cast his gaze at the rat man praying beneath him. Perhaps because his expectations were low enough, he unexpectedly discovered some bright spots.
This group of rat people is quite large, numbering in the thousands. Compared to the two or three big cats and kittens encountered in normal divine fire rituals, and at least a dozen or more, but no more than a few hundred of each initial race, this group of rat people is much larger. Outrageous.
But the rat people have a strong breeding ability. Thinking of this, this number seems reasonable.
The current situation has forced him to wait for the price and patiently choose.
But since he had no choice, Du Yuan was still prepared to verify the widely circulated claims.
Just like the combat effectiveness and morale of the rat man.
If you really can't muster any desire to fight and are too cowardly to just run away, then even if the chance next time is slim, you can only take another gamble.
Focusing on the lizard man coming from a distance.
There are only fifteen lizardmen, but there are thousands of ratmen gathered here. If one thousand against fifteen ratmen can't defeat this group of ratmen, then Du Yuan will never bet on the last chance. Won't choose them anymore.
The power of faith below continues to come, and the rat men who kneel on the ground are constantly transformed into followers of Du Yuan. The trend is urgent and urgent.
But after Du Yuan took a closer look, he found that almost all of them were shallow believers.
But it’s not a big problem. Since it’s these rat people who are praying for my coming, then they should accept my test. This makes sense.
A ray of golden light burst out from the stone pillar, and a picture immediately appeared in the minds of the surrounding rat men. In the picture, there was a lizard man and a simple word coming from afar.
Probably means.
kill!
At this moment, the messy prayers surrounding the stone pillars paused. The rat people looked at each other in confusion. This was a well-understood meaning. The unknown god on whom they placed their hope made a request.
They were driven out of the forest by this group of lizardmen, and they couldn't help but hesitate a little.
While the rat people were still hesitating, the lizard people not far away were getting closer and closer, and had already appeared in the rat people's sight.
It caused a commotion. Facing the approaching lizard men, these rat men subconsciously wanted to escape.
At this time, a rat man stood up.
In front of the stone pillar, the rat man straightened up, waved the wooden spear in his hand, and shouted loudly in a sharp voice.
"We're going to kill those lizardmen!"
There was no response, and the other ratmen still looked obedient. Without hesitation, the ratman wielding a wooden spear stabbed the nearest obedient ratman to death with one spear.
He shouted again in a high-pitched voice.
"We're going to kill those lizardmen!"
He looked around with red eyes, and this time no rat man dared to hesitate.
"We're going to kill those lizardmen!"
Just like that, a sparse shouting sounded. After repeated several times, the rat men all over the mountains and plains started shouting with that sharp voice.
Preparations for the war are complete.
"Kill them! Sacrifice to the gods!"
The ratmen followed the same pattern as the speared ratmen and shouted together. In a chaotic mess, they charged towards the group of lizardmen in the distance.
This scene was seen by Du Yuan in the sky.
A little more relieved.
At least these guys are not that cowardly.
His eyes did not stay on the charging rat-men for a long time. There was really nothing to appreciate in such a fierce charge. Instead, he looked at the rat-man with a wooden spear who stood up first.
He seems to have the potential to become a hero.