Chapter 360, Three Years
In the vast starry sky, two races were chosen.
There are intelligent beings in this huge world. Among the vast stars, in the past, these guys were not so inconspicuous. They were like insects, powerlessly living and dying with the rise and fall of the starry sky.
Until those two great men wanted to make some changes.
Two races were selected as the first generation protagonists of this starry sky.
Also as a new participant in this never-ending war.
In a very short period of time, they have gone through most races and there is no way from birth to destruction.
Birth, enlightenment, understanding the world, exploration, war, and going to the stars.
But what they don't know is that all this comes at a price. Their growth, their culture, their wars, and their proud heroes were all born under their gaze.
Everything is guided.
One side embraces extremely regular physics.
One side embraces the boundless chaotic space.
By the way, they have their own understanding and name for the boundless chaotic space and the dense power within it.
Warp, psionic energy.
Like two stags specially bred to fight, their fate and future have been marked. Stepping into the starry sky is just a step into a wider and destined arena.
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This holy war has been going on for three full years.
A lot has happened in three years.
The war has not stopped, and it cannot stop. This is an absolutely impossible thing.
Even if we reach a deadlock, even if we make little progress, we will never stop.
This is a great holy war. Whether it is the temple guards, the rat priests, or Sheng Qi, they all have reasons to maintain this war.
What was unexpected was that even though the war reached a stalemate, the Rat Man Empire did not gradually weaken due to the stalemate of the war.
More ratmen were pushed onto the battlefield, more war instruments, weapons, equipment, and more cave mushrooms. The huge demand brought about by the war started the rotation of resources in the ratman empire.
In the past, too many things, most of the blood mushrooms, were eaten by those high-ranking guys in the empire, but now, this war is forcing these guys to spit out what they have eaten.
Drop more Blood Mushrooms on all aspects of the Skaven Empire.
The defeat and stalemate in the war made these greedy guys loose their mouths.
Have there been more blood mushrooms? No, that grand sacrificial ceremony, which was enough to pile up a mountain of sacrifices, has not happened for a long time. How could there be more blood mushrooms?
But now the Rat Man Empire is more prosperous than ever before.
The rat priests supported the flow of materials and commerce.
The temple guards established a rough order among the countless rat-man corpses that were hung high and shaken.
The Greatclaw Priests lead the advancement of industry and maintain every aspect of this deformed kingdom.
The Storm Skaven squad rose to prominence on the battlefield, and the name they once shouted to attract attention became their name.
This group of exceptionally different guys were named Storm Rats.
The rat men running like a storm, the rat men raging like a storm.
During the short distance running, the speed of these guys was even faster than that of the giant rats.
The steam engine completely defeated the Horrible Hamster Flywheel, and the technical disagreements born within the Great Claw Priests came to an end.
Mobile war fortresses, this form of war equipment began to become more and more important in the wars on both sides.
The Skaven's steam tank has reached its fifth generation, with gears, tracks, and flamethrowers. It crosses the ravines on the battlefield and ignites everything in front of it with a sharp roar.
Ordinary rat warriors were gradually unable to cope with such a war, and more rat trolls were sent to the battlefield, accompanied by the terrifying steam tanks to attack the lines of the Ghost Eyes.
Only the rat trolls could survive the terrifying magic attack.
It was extremely large, and the status of the army composed of ordinary ratmen was constantly declining.
On such a battlefield, often their only role is to hold the spear in their hands tightly amidst the piercing bells after the rat trolls and fire-breathing tanks tore through the enemy's defenses, regardless of All forward.
Used to occupy and fill the torn front line and prevent the enemy's counterattack.
The invention of gray stone saved these poor guys.
Being worthless is really a terrible thing in the Rat Empire.
Imitating the things in the hands of the Nether-Eye Human Race, a long pole was born in the hands of Gray Stone. Perhaps it was because he was technically unable to compete with the mages of the Nether-Eye Human Race. The long pole in Gray Stone's hand was extremely long, almost It is twice as long as the magic energy gun in the hands of the Youyan people.
The dark barrel is engraved with complex patterns and wrapped in unknown leather. The over-long barrel has caused a chain reaction. In order to meet the necessary requirements for structural strength and carrying soul energy, the barrel is cast as a whole. And the thickness of the barrel is increased.
Ordinary rat warriors simply could not operate such a long-barreled rifle alone, so they were forced to form a team of three. One rat man raised the head of the gun, one raised the tail of the gun, and one observed the direction of the enemy. and assist in aiming.
This imitation has many problems. The too long barrel makes it not portable enough. The too long barrel makes it difficult to deploy in the trench. It is not easy to move and shoot. It is too heavy and even requires three rats. Only human warriors can control it.
But there is only one point, this long-barreled magic gun imitated by the Rat Man does not have any major problems, its range and power.
These two points are not inferior to the magical firearms of the Youyan people, and even have an advantage in range, and they actually save the ordinary rat warriors from the increasingly embarrassing situation.
On the long front, you can see the three-person rat-carrying team everywhere. The observer in the team will suddenly poke his head out of the trench, nervously running through the situation and situation on the battlefield. The direction of the enemy.
After discovering the enemy's position, they will start shouting loudly, and the other two rat men will work together to lift the dark spear out of the trench.
One was squatting on the ground, raising the barrel of the gun high, one was trying to aim and shoot, and the other was gesticulating on the side.
Until a gray beam of light struck, they immediately dropped the spear in their hands in a tacit understanding, and rolled and crawled to escape into the trench behind them.
The sporadic exchanges of fire that occurred from time to time were always carried out on the long front of the confrontation between the two sides.
A total of three large fronts were opened up.
On the endless plain, this is the home ground of those steam tanks. The tanks of both sides sniped at each other on the vast plain. Amidst the smell of flames and rust, they ruthlessly crushed this once fertile land.
One is in the mountains of Lianyan Province. The rugged mountains limit the use of war equipment. It is also difficult for heavy mechanical tanks to work here. A large number of rat trolls and storm rats running wildly in the night have become this. The absolute main force on the battlefield.
The two sides are fighting madly around the towering mountains.
The last one, the most chaotic, and the most extensive, is a long position stretching straight from the northern coast of the Human Empire.
Countless Skaven warships cruising along the coast brought unspeakable chaos.
A long front was built based on the castles abandoned by the nobles, and the ratmen participating in this front were even more diverse.
Sheng Qi’s Western Fleet, the rat legion made up of dumb rat men, the rat mercenaries mixed with good and bad, the slave catching team, and some despicable guys who hope to change their destiny through war.
Sheng Qi lost control of the Western Fleet and created such a chaotic situation.
Without a complete commander to suppress the ratmen gathered here, the situation would naturally get out of control, and all the ratmen would be able to reach here.
There were also rat priests involved.
These damn guys are real troublemakers, even if Sheng Qi cooperated with them to snatch back part of the blood mushroom share produced by the original temple from the temple guards, after all, it gave them a large share of the profits.
But these guys didn't take Sheng Qi's feelings into consideration at all when doing this.
A large number of rat caravans began to sell so-called ship tickets. In simple words, they described the distant coast as a place where the second great development was underway.
Countless ratmen were directly stuffed into crowded battleships after paying for a so-called summons.
He was thrown onto this battlefield in a turbulent way.
Yes, there are indeed many opportunities here, but this battlefield should have been opened by me as a ladder for me to accumulate merit.
Instead of being profited by these damn rat priests like now, these guys dumped those despicable guys on the main continent like garbage, telling the story of the so-called great development.
In fact, you earn a fortune of blood mushrooms from selling ship tickets, earn a fortune from selling weapons to those lowly guys, and earn another fortune from buying blood mushrooms from those guys.
Earn it from start to finish for next to nothing.
Instead, he was left with an extremely chaotic battlefield.
It can be said that Sheng Qi hated these greedy, stupid, and short-sighted rat priests, but he was helpless.
No matter how much he grinds his teeth secretly, he always smiles on the surface.
On that long coastline, the Storm Rats became the absolute protagonists. The overly vast area greatly dispersed the intensity of the war, and they would not be like the other two battlefields that would create brutal positional battles that looked like meat grinders.
And more of them are offensive and defensive wars relying on strong castles and fortresses, or long-distance raids across the enemy's front line.
These are exactly Stormvermin's strengths.
During the full-scale rotation of the three battlefields, countless ratmen were worn out on the battlefield every day, but the ratman empire became more and more prosperous.
In death, this twisted and deformed country is progressing rapidly.
Not only the changes on the battlefield, but also many things happened outside the battlefield and changed a lot of things.
The rat people have completed the development of the golden province.
After the scarlet color completely infected the land, the rat people officially replaced the ghost-eye people and became the real masters of the land.
The temple guards have been exploring the scarlet transformation of the vast grassland a long time ago.
They found the reason, although they did not know the deeper reason of it all, and attributed it to divine grace.
In this golden province full of ruins, temples were built one after another. A large number of goblins and human captives transported from the front were beheaded on the altar, and their blood flowed into the blood pool.
After a period of silence.
These still bright red blood will be splashed all over this land.
The sprouting trees are stained with scarlet, and the once large wheat fields begin to climb with weeds with a bit of red. Occasionally, one or two wheat heads poke out of the land, and the ears of wheat are also with a different bright red.
Goblins are released in this area.
In this strange environment, these guys run around, and the rats are not interested in them most of the time.
They are entrenched underground and in those messy ruins.
If you only look at the situation on the surface, you might even think that this scarlet is inseparable from those whining goblins, thinking that they are the masters of this land.
Until the day of harvest.
Rat farmers of all sizes appeared from everywhere, harvesting the ripe crops to their heart's content.
The farmers' farming techniques have improved to a certain extent.
They will now take the initiative to create a suitable growth environment for their crops, dig out rivers, plant more suitable forage shrubs, and buy some of the lowest quality cave mushrooms to supplement their fat.
They are moving towards a production model of intensive farming.
The rats in the Golden Province developed very quickly. In the second year of the war, they already had enough energy to supply slave rats and a certain number of rat warriors to the front battlefield.
However, it is normal to develop quickly. After all, the Golden Province is now one of the closest war zones to the areas controlled by the rats. In the dividends brought by the cruel war, such a development speed is not a strange thing.
In fact, it is not just the Golden Province that has benefited from the war. On Hurricane Island, a huge port city has sprung up. This is a young ratman city, and it is a rare surface city. In order to better maintain the ratman warships that have arrived here, and considering the poor mining conditions on the island, the Great Claw Priest who built this city built this Hurricane Port into a surface city.
This young city has also become prosperous as the war progresses.
The towering chimneys, huge cranes, and small, crowded residential areas are all a bit messy, probably because the city did not expect to become so prosperous at the beginning of its construction.
All this happened in three years.