Chapter 163, The Daring Guy, the Industry of Furnace City
A young ratman tremblingly raised a red spear.
This young rat man is the rat warlord who was on the battlefield just now, but now he took off his armor with scratches, cracks and blood, and stood nervously in front of Rat Zhan, even his head was broken. Dare to lift.
This is a bold guy.
A fake Skaven warlord.
Maybe Rat Zhan should kill him with one spear, or maybe he should hang him in front of many rat people. After all, pretending to be a rat warlord and mobilizing his army is really a step beyond his reach.
Received the spear.
“Tell me, if your answer satisfies me.
It doesn't matter if you get what you want.
Just a rat warlord. "
But this did help a little. Rat Zhan decided to decide whether to give the young rat man in front of him a chance based on his answer.
The rat man looked at the young man in front of him with a bad smile and spoke. Rat Zhan often used it as a promotion opportunity as a reward. The opportunity to be promoted to a rat warlord was not that cheap, although it was not cheap for Rat Zhan. Just a matter of words.
The young rat man raised his head, his eyes filled with desire, which even suppressed fear.
Without much hesitation, he knelt down heavily and shouted loudly and seriously.
"Loyalty! I will offer my loyalty! Great Commander! I will offer you my unreserved loyalty!"
Prostrate humbly in front of Shu Zhan.
This is an extremely standard answer. For an ordinary young rat man, he doesn't have much to offer, and he doesn't have much to say that might impress the big shot.
Loyalty is a standard answer.
But it didn't make Shu Zhan very satisfied. It was just a barely qualified answer.
"You will serve as the vanguard in six wars. If you survive all six wars, then you will be a rat warlord."
With a wave of his hand, the somewhat boring Rat War drove the guy in front of him out.
This is undoubtedly a harsh condition. Serving as a forward and surviving six wars is not an easy task.
But even so, this young rat man is still grateful.
These poor guys had no choice in the first place.
At least Rat Zhan is willing to give it a chance.
There are always people who are unwilling to settle for the ordinary, even if it means risking their lives.
………….
Subsequently, the arriving scavenger team began to clean up the battlefield.
The simple fortress had officially expanded into a city, and Shu Zhan randomly gave the new city a name.
Prairie City.
The rat war could no longer continue. The rat knight was almost completely damaged, so he had to slow down a bit.
But it doesn't matter, there is no one in this four-season pasture who can be the opponent of the rat people.
A sheep-orc with only one breath left and almost declared destruction, and an argali tribe whose spine was broken.
The huge army turned back, and the Rat War needed to replenish its strength and recruit troops.
Of course, this time does not take long.
Thanks to the establishment and improvement of the city, as well as the constant stream of ratmen arriving from the rear, there has always been no shortage of soldiers in the Rat War.
As long as he is willing, the army in his hands can expand rapidly.
And this battle will bring him a huge amount of blood mushrooms.
It won't take long for the Rat War to come back again, with a larger army and more strength.
Then trample more creatures.
Of course, if you can still meet some upright, just and calm guys, then the manic rat war will kill them without hesitation.
The bitter wine brewed is far from being swallowed.
Completely a descendant of the evil god, a manic evil hero.
………….
Above the sky, in the hazy brilliance, Du Yuan's incarnation folded his arms and calmly stared at the two incarnations of gods in front of him.
Du Yuan, who had jumped to the status of a demigod, even if he was just an incarnation, would not have much pressure to deal with the two trainee gods in front of him.
The hazy brilliance was even more stretched out, blocking everything that happened in this area.
Until far away, a pair of eyes came to my sight from afar.
Blocked by another line of sight from a distant direction, Du Yuan's body opened his eyes in the sacred pillar of the underground rat city temple in the desolate mountain range, and the two sides looked at each other from a distance.
Just for a moment, they accidentally lost their sight.
In order to avoid the increasing repulsion of the world.
The rat people chose the most radical path, and Du Yuan did not interfere, although it would bring a lot of pressure to him.
Undoubtedly, both demigods will focus on him.
It's inevitable that you'll have to do it once.
Du Yuan might even be beaten by two people.
But thinking about it from another angle, if the rat people can eat both the half-elves and the wolf-orcs at the same time, then Du Yuan's advantage in this subcontinent will also be established.
This subcontinent can be easily taken over in the future.
As for the possibility of being beaten by a group, Du Yuan could only ensure one thing.
That is, the affairs of the gods are handled by the gods, and the affairs of the dependents are handled by the dependents.
This is Du Yuan's confidence as a demigod embarking on the path of war, as a war demigod.
………….
Prairie City.
The rat people have encountered a problem, or they have discovered a new food.
A pale mushroom that tastes good.
Found on the corpses of those sheep orc knights.
The plague that was extremely terrifying to the sheep orcs was not a big deal to the rat people.
It can even be said that this plague was originally caused by the rat people.
The giant sheep carcasses piled up at the water source polluted the water sources of most of the Four Seasons Ranch, but in order to spawn this horrific plague, something else had to be involved.
When these giant sheep were just abandoned, or even now, when these giant sheep are swollen and whitened by the river water, there will still be many ratmen sneaking here.
Most are slave rats.
Harvesting these giant whitish sheep for food, the slave rats don't mind eating the carrion.
This was nothing, it was just that some slave rats were not careful and fell into the water.
It was also swollen and whitened by the river water.
You'll find whitish mushrooms growing from these swollen, whitish slave rats.
Of course, the emergence of this plague did not make the rat people feel anything else.
The only change was that white mushrooms were discovered and more delicious.
Even this kind of white mushroom has not been specially cultivated. It is impossible for the rat people to have the luxury of using corpses to cultivate this novel white mushroom.
The choice of rat priests, rat warlords, and those elite rat warriors would only be blood mushrooms.
As for slave rats, young ratmen, and ordinary ratmen warriors, cave mushrooms that are easier to grow, have greater yields regardless of the growing environment, are undoubtedly the first choice.
In particular, these white mushrooms will not appear in large numbers until the corpse begins to rot, and the corpse that begins to rot cannot be used as a sacrifice in exchange for blood mushrooms.
Although the cave mushrooms have become less and less tasty as the ratmen have cultivated them from generation to generation.
These various factors made this delicious white mushroom ultimately become a short-lived thing.
In front of the grassland city, Shu Zhan held a high-profile reward ceremony.
A large number of rat warriors have received rewards. Rat Zhan is a guy who keeps his word. Of course, the group of rat warriors with the most generous rewards have died in the chaotic battlefield. Rat Zhan cannot give rewards. It’s coming, but no wonder the rats are fighting.
After the rewards were over, Rat War began to expand its army.
This process was very smooth.
At the same time, a large amount of blood mushrooms flowed into these surviving rat warriors, which also brought some new needs.
The need for weapons and protection.
More refined leather armor and high-quality wooden spears using better wood as bases were produced in large quantities by the weapon and armor workshops in Prairie City.
Of course, it also attracted the attention of some rat priests who had just arrived in Prairie City.
Everyone wants blood mushrooms.
But if you ask these newly arrived rat priests to rub wooden spears and sew leather armor, they will definitely not be able to do it.
But simply, these guys passing by the Furnace City secretly learned a trick from the hard-working war priests there.
Some simple blast furnaces were built around them to smelt metal.
Yes, under the threat of Rat War, these war priests who had no choice still came up with something, although it may not be the kind that Rat War expected.
But they were actually able to get the iron out.
In the melting pot city at this time.
The blast furnaces and rat-powered forging hammers built to imitate the desolate mountain industrial area were all abandoned and demolished.
It was replaced by a huge earthen kiln. All the openings of the earthen kiln were blocked, leaving only a large hole at the top. A large amount of wood was ignited and sent into the earthen kiln.
A large number of war priests guarded the mound.
Busy.
A huge hourglass was built.
Time is stuck, and when the last bit of gravel in the hourglass flows down, the rough little bells will be struck while shaking.
At the prompt of the bell, a large number of war priests will plug the big hole left in the earthen kiln with moist soil.
Scenes like this happen in large numbers in this melting pot city.
These war priests are burning charcoal.
It can only be said that in order to survive, intelligent creatures always have great potential. The desperate war priests initially focused on the trees all over the forest.
It just failed. Wood alone cannot smelt metal, but among the burning wood, some dark wood pieces that could be ignited were found.
In order to survive, these war priests exerted their full potential and began to use a large amount of the black stones obtained from the wood.
They soon figured out the conditions for producing charcoal, and earthen kilns for burning charcoal were built one after another.
But after all, charcoal is not as good as coal, and there is a gap in the amount of heat the two can provide.
The blast furnace was no longer in use, and many smaller furnaces were built stumblingly. Some hard but fragile pig iron was produced in the furnace city.