Chapter 24, Twisted Chain
The selected ratmen will be trained into ratmen warriors. This was done by spear rats before. The conditions for ratmen warriors are much better.
Compared with the literal treatment of slave rats, rat warriors are treated as standard civilians. However, compared to civilians of other races who work as farmers, rat warriors need to fight.
And you cannot retreat in every battle. If you retreat, you will be beaten into a slave rat and taken away. On the other hand, if you survive the war without retreating, you can get blood mushrooms. In theory, in the constant battle, the longer the rat survives, the more likely it will be. Human warriors will become stronger with the continuous supply of blood mushrooms.
But in fact, this depends on the Skaven Lord who commands them.
Because of better treatment and being able to obtain blood mushrooms every once in a while, these rat warriors are not that addictive to blood mushrooms.
brings up a question.
These rat warriors are the most ungrateful group of rat warriors under Du Yuan.
But even if the rat warriors are not pious, the meaning of their existence is to contribute to Du Yuan. Fighting for Du Yuan, the superior god, they will either die in battle or become the most humble slave rat after retreating. Other options.
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 rat men who have awakened the priest's magic, while the rat lords are the rat men who have outstanding talents. As the rulers of the rat men group, the two parties not only obtained sufficient blood mushrooms supply.
You can even get some special rations, those half-red and half-black two-color blood mushrooms that grow near the altar and have more residual flesh and blood essence but are contaminated by the resentment separated by the blood-colored aura.
This kind of blood mushroom has some other functions than ordinary blood mushrooms. It can stimulate the rat man's spirit. In this stimulation, the rat man's wisdom can be improved.
This special two-color blood mushroom can only be used by rat priests and rat lords. The higher the proportion of black, the stronger the mental stimulation effect of the two-color blood mushroom.
And because it grows near the altar, at the end of Xiaochun's spreading root system, the remaining flesh and blood essence is more and better than ordinary blood mushrooms.
Long-term use can even give the rat-men a faint power, like a degraded version of the fear halo, which can better control the rat-men.
But these are not without costs.
After all, the reason why this blood mushroom is dyed black is because it is contaminated by the resentment that Xiaochun separated from the blood-colored aura. Being stimulated by this resentment for a long time will bring about a very intuitive change.
crazy.
Du Yuan's rat priests, spear rats, and even white rats all showed madness and distortion in their personalities to varying degrees.
This may be why it is not difficult to understand why evil gods are always so easy to go crazy, and even actively self-destruct.
As the pinnacle of rat society, the twisted chain ends with rat priests and rat lords. As the top of the people affected by blood mushrooms, the devout go crazy, while the unbelievers become irritable and suspicious.
There is only one thing they have in common, they are inseparable from blood mushrooms, which is destined to return to Du Yuan's command no matter what, either greedily or piously looking up to Du Yuan, and constantly offering a steady stream of sacrifices to Du Yuan. In exchange for the gift given by the gods, in exchange for the swaying bright mushrooms.
For myself, for the blood mushrooms, for the twisted desires, and for the gods.
The establishment of this twisted order even used only two forms of blood mushrooms. For the rat people, the ordinary blood mushrooms and the two-color blood mushrooms were the most important.
As for the third form of blood mushroom, there are not many rat people willing to try the black blood mushroom, or in other words, not many rat people are willing to take the initiative to try it.
The closer it is to the altar, the more black the blood mushroom will be, until it crosses a certain 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 rat-man who eats it will be instantly overwhelmed by the resentment in it, followed by irreparable flesh and blood distortion.
It manifests as flesh and blood proliferation, body size enlargement, strength enhancement, and powerful regeneration ability.
Transformed into a crazy and terrifying beast.
However, not every rat man is qualified to experience this drastic change. White rats once conducted experiments on slave rats, but no matter how diluted the black blood mushroom is, the slave rats that eat it will directly suffer from the disease after exceeding a certain limit. The expansion of the flesh turned into a flesh and blood balloon, which exploded with a bang.
And if you feed it to a rat warrior, as long as you control the portion, you can get a crazy giant rat that is two or three times larger than an ordinary rat warrior.
This is also the existence that the lizardman lord encountered on the battlefield before.
However, for these two uses, White Rat felt that it was too much of a loss, because the emergence of black blood mushrooms was not easy and extremely rare. After such a long time, only three were born, two of which were the first in Du Yuan. Born at a grand ceremony.
Whether it is creating a flesh bomb or an ordinary crazy giant rat, it is a big loss.
Unless you set your sights on some more powerful and qualified guys.
At this time, the distortion was particularly complete, and the Spear Rat, whose strength had doubled several times and even retained some simple wisdom, was considered a standard work by White Rat.
Yes, the spear 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 his wisdom, he was destined to become only a tool, a tool driven by the rat priest with the berserk technique.
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 will be specially supplied to those rat priests and rat lords who he thinks are not suitable for existence or betrayal.
Du Yuan was able to guess some reasons. Probably because of the background and resistance, the slave rats were weak and could not support the catalysis of the black blood mushroom.
The rat warriors ate a lot of blood mushrooms, so as long as the dosage was appropriate, they could barely withstand the catalysis of the blood mushrooms, but they would fall into madness.
The rat priests and rat lords who ate a lot of two-color blood mushrooms 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 magic card would turn into 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 it is used as a foundation, you only need to firmly grasp the blood mushrooms, which is equivalent to grasping all the rats.