Chapter 273, Ratman's Background
The handover between the old and new eras is not just happening to the ratmen.
What kind of city is this?
The resurgent elemental tide has brought too many possibilities.
Designs that were originally unrealistic and abandoned in the corner began to shine.
Elemental cores, universal channels, elemental siphoning technology, of course, these are too high-end and cannot be perceived by everyone.
For ordinary ghost-eyed people, these things are the same as the giant crucible of the dark wizard in the story, incomprehensible, strange functions, dangerous and mysterious.
But not all magical creations are like this.
The magic element lamp is one of the most typical existences.
A structure that is not complicated, only requires a semi-constant spell, the most inconspicuous illumination spell, is to be able to shine for a long time and stably, without any technical threshold, but it has not really shined on a large scale on that day in these long years.
Simple structure, extremely low threshold, any magic apprentice can easily make it, but in exchange for a problem that cannot be ignored, if you want to keep the magic lamp bright for a long time, you must have magic power to penetrate the semi-constant magic structure at all times.
In the past, the Ghost Eye people could not do this.
But now, this is no longer a big problem.
The dazzling and constant light dispelled the darkness, and the magic lamps were spread all over the city.
The city called the sun by the Ghost Eye people flashed like the sun for the first time.
Everything is changing. In the surging element tide, it is not just the Ghost Eye people, the underground rat city, and the dark abyss.
A revolution has also entered the brewing stage.
The rats are not as sensitive to elements as the Ghost Eye people, nor have they accumulated anything over the long years.
Those little traces are engraved in history, all kinds of fantastic ideas, countless sages sighing, and what is left is the foundation of the Ghost Eye people.
This is something the ratmen don't have.
Their history began with their encounter with the great gods, and so did their progress.
The foundation of the ratmen, apart from the endless rats and the monstrous killings, was only the piles of corpses.
The underground rat city was also affected by the famine caused by the rat priests, but the affected objects were very limited, and did not even involve slave rats, after all, slave rats were protected property.
In this huge and extremely twisted sacred city, the group of pilgrims faced the crisis head-on.
They were all Du Yuan's most devout believers, but they were the only ones who faced the crisis head-on.
During this period, the birth of rat priests reached a peak, because these guys didn't have many choices, either kneeling there and praying for the favor of the gods before starving to death, or really starving to death.
Unexpectedly, the pilgrims were not hit, but became more and more fanatical.
Their bodies were emaciated, their skin and flesh were close to their bones, and they looked hideous and ugly, but they were still kneeling and praying devoutly, even though the crisis was over and all kinds of food that had become cheap due to hoarding began to circulate again.
But they still chose to starve, not for a very complicated reason.
In hunger, in desperation, more rat priests were born than usual, that's all.
This is an unconfirmed answer, but it was regarded as a criterion by these guys, and they imitated and practiced it fanatically.
Or maybe they were desperate, kneeling for a long time, trekking through mountains and rivers, and walking such a long distance, and they were really unwilling to accept the reality that they were talentless.
They were so pious that they were willing to do anything.
God! Why don't you bless me! Why don't you bless me!
In these accumulated thoughts, even death is no longer so terrible, even if you witness your body getting weaker day by day, and witness the life slowly passing away in your body, this process is not so terrible.
Death even became a kind of relief. Until the moment of death, there would be a smile on their faces. However, in the illusion before death, most of them became a real rat priest.
Rat life is meaningless.
The dead pilgrims will be thrown into the dark abyss by the guards in the city.
This is a sacred city, and cannibalism is not allowed.
At least it is not allowed on the surface.
Of course, these guys, these pilgrims are not the protagonists of the change, they are just a group of pitiful lunatics.
Not all rats are convinced that they can achieve their wishes in that extreme pain.
Not everyone even believes that they can become a rat priest.
But not becoming a rat priest is destined to be reduced to a lowly rat running in a dark corner in this huge and twisted city.
Free people, free people, they are called free people, but in the eyes of the real big men of the rat empire, these guys are just a group of wild rats without belonging.
This is a dangerous thing. After all, the death of lowly guys is a normal thing.
But you can't die, you can't die yet.
During this time, Huishi experienced many things in the underground rat city. The blood mushrooms in his hand had been used up, and his hope of becoming a ratman priest was so slim. However, he held the leather scroll in his hand tightly and never let go.
No blood mushrooms means no food.
No food means death.
He can't die yet.
He came to the abyss, on this land of flesh and blood, and began to chew the skinny pilgrim corpses in big mouthfuls in order to survive.
This is not decent, and there is no hope. This stupid guy is just the same as usual, just insisting on his own.
Although it is a little different from usual.
In the past, he just listened stupidly, but now he really wants to do it.
He doesn't want to let that guy down, even if he is dead.
The stupid guy chewed the arm in his hand in big mouthfuls.
It's not that there is no possibility.
Graystone witnessed a very special scene.
The flesh and blood land squirmed in front of him, as if alive, swallowing a skinny pilgrim corpse.
Faintly, you can hear a fanatical call and a burst of blue light.
This is a very special scene, fortunately this stupid guy seized this opportunity.
The Ratman didn't have much background, and the pile of corpses was an important part of it.
The stunned guy dropped his arm and tried to explore the pile of flesh and blood.
Although it was still unknown what he would create in the end.