Chapter 390, Twin Cities, Future, Twins
The grand temple was cast up bit by bit.
In the desolate mountains.
The prepared metal melted in the blast furnace, bursting out a dazzling golden color.
At the most turbulent moment of the Rat Empire, it was indeed the great god who saved it again.
Even if Sheng Qi pawned his underwear, he was not enough to force those greedy and despicable guys to hand over the blood mushrooms in their hands.
Even if this huge country was divided, even if a brutal civil war was to be fought.
But it could not scare those guys.
Can't do it can't be done.
Impossible is impossible.
Sheng Qi can't do it, he is not a white rat, he can't do it, but the great god can do it.
Offer to the great god, these temples are offered to the great god.
Peace has brought more serious divisions, divisions in the Rat Empire.
In the past, such divisions were suppressed by the white rats. After the death of the white rats, this division was suppressed by the Rat Parliament.
But all these efforts are now falling apart.
In order to deal with the war and to better control the increasingly bloated Rat Empire, the railways were built, but too fast, such an evolution was too fast.
The destruction of independent Rat cities, the power was taken back, and it began to concentrate again.
The Rat priests who were divided and cut reunited again.
It has to be admitted that the Rat priests, these guys, seem to have a destiny. They have been suppressed again and again, but they have stood up again in this era.
The Rat priests who manage the city, the ones who have power and faith are the Rat priests.
There used to be Rat War as their check and balance.
But now the entire Rat warlord force has been dismembered.
And now.
The war has stopped, peace has come, and the grand chaos has come. It seems that the Rat priests are the ones who have been hit the hardest.
In fact, this turmoil has contributed to the Rat priests who have been suppressed and divided again and again, and let these guys gather again.
Of course, after the division, the current rat priests can no longer return to their original appearance, and their names have also changed from rat priests.
Rat Lord, Rat Priest, War Priest, Loyalist, Originalist, Pilgrim, Ocean, Mineral.
The White Rat was very decisive, and the Rat Council and the Temple Guards smashed the composition of these guys again and again.
Endless divisions were born naturally among these guys.
But today, their aggregation is still so smooth.
In the destruction of the city, in the wailing of the rats, in the disgusting peace, they gathered in these four super cities.
And began to gather in groups.
Accompanying the birth of super cities is the super cluster.
The current situation is somewhat different from any time in the past.
In such turmoil.
At least for these rat priests who have been cut into countless fragmented factions, this is the case.
No longer using the previous big factions as slogans.
Instead, they gather together based on their own interests.
Several aspects of the entire Skaven Empire were divided up by these three super cities.
Slag City annexed the rolling hills and began to monopolize the vast ocean and sea routes as a basis.
The secret city of the Gear Cult and the ports were annexed by Slag City.
The dense sea routes and the last remnants of the end of the war allowed these guys and Slag City to escape this grand turmoil.
Now they can still maintain that prosperous scene.
Furnace City received the support of the Temple Guards, and the surviving Skaven Lords also devoted themselves to the transformation of Furnace City in this grand turmoil.
Based on this super city, they stabilized the scarlet grassland that was about to overturn in the chaos.
And pulled up the most resource cities.
At the same time, most of the steam train roads in the Skaven Empire were also controlled by them, and they took over the most military forces.
Various resources gathered in Furnace City.
Most of the temple guards and rat lords are entrenched in this rejuvenated super city.
You will find a very unusual point.
Mutual fusion and infiltration between the various factions of the rats have appeared.
The rat priests recognized the Great Claw Priests and the Gear Sect, and accepted the intervention of the Wings of the Seventh Rope, which brought about the transformation of the Waste City, the control of the ocean, and the fall of the Western Expeditionary Force.
On the other hand, the temple guards acquiesced to the existence of the rat lords, accepted the rebellious war priests, and gathered the remaining rat warlords into their hands, in exchange for the rise of the Furnace City and the control of the Scarlet Grassland and the main continent.
When all parties are no longer fighting alone but gathered in a larger structure, mutual infiltration and fusion began.
There is also a deeper meaning.
Waste City and Furnace City.
One side dominates the ocean, holds the Western Fleet, and also has the vast waterway.
On a deeper level, it is the birth of radical commercialism and the changes in cultural logic and rules.
Waste City, a city that was once full of rules and distinctions between high and low, is now moving towards extreme freedom and chaos. The driving force behind this is the gradually distorted faith principles of the rat priests.
When the number of blood mushrooms becomes the standard for measuring the piety of faith.
Then what's so strange about the Waste City, which gathers many rat priests, becoming a chaotic city of extreme utilitarianism, liberalism, and commercialism.
After all, everything is for the blood mushrooms, and everything is possible for the blood mushrooms.
On the other hand, in the Crucible City, the situation has changed.
The temple guards are building a stable structure.
One city after another, a large amount of land, rat free people, rat warlords, wars, settlement culture, and the budding laws.
These have led the Crucible City to another completely different extreme.
Imperialism, landism, pragmatism and extreme xenophobia.
The temple guards and the rat priests have different understandings. They did not accept the twisted merit logic of the rat priests, but carried out the most simple construction.
The belief in the great god was simply regarded as a few things by them.
More believers, bigger temples, more sacrifices, more kneeling ratmen, and killing more heretics.
Naturally, their behavior will also attract the rat lords to join them.
This is a very simple choice, because the foundation of the rat lords is land and cities after all.
To be honest, the radical business logic of the Waste City makes it difficult for even the old guys who created the business system of the Rat Empire to accept it.
On the other hand, it is reasonable for the rat caravans, gear sects, and Western fleets to join the Waste City.
This is a complete vote with their feet.
It even exceeds the limits of hatred and class.
This is also what is happening now. In a fierce shock, the rats are choosing the future path.
Is it utilitarianism, liberalism, commercialism, or imperialism, landism, pragmatism, and xenophobia.
A fork in the road was born in this shock. When the old fighting factions gradually disintegrated and blended with each other, this fork in the road appeared in front of the rats with two cities as the beginning.
Of course, there is no need to be so urgent, the time for choice has not yet come.
But there is always a choice to be made. In the future, when the differences are so great that they are difficult to bridge, a tragic war will inevitably come.
Although that day is still a long way off.
Of course, such a scene or such a war may not happen.
After all, the rats are not always so alone, and there is a guy who is high above them who has been watching their existence.
The underground rat city, the earliest super city of the rats, still has such a high status.
As the faith center, industrial center, and well-deserved cultural center and blood mushroom gathering point in the rat empire.
The glory of the underground rat city has hardly faded.
Everything in the rat empire is gathered in this city.
All the well-known groups have a place in this city.
In the glory of the great god, in the faith that makes people's hearts surge.
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In the unbearable peace, some things also began to flow.
The super breeding grounds and the ratman universities that the Waste City was once proud of are gradually disappearing and being replaced by the Furnace City.
Well, this is a very normal thing. After all, after the cheap ocean route connecting the two continents was laid, countless ratman freemen who were extremely cheap and even did not have to pay for blood mushrooms flocked to the Waste City.
Especially during that terrible turmoil, these guys who came were not only more numerous, but also cheaper.
For a time, even the cost-effectiveness of slave rats was a little bit inferior to those ratman freemen.
In the Waste City, a widely circulated debate was aimed at this issue.
Two ratman priests were arguing whether slave rats were cheaper or ratman freemen were cheaper.
Of course, this is a difficult question to evaluate.
Slave rats only need to pay once to start working in an extremely cheap state for a long time.
And ratman freemen pay very little money to work for you for a period of time.
The differences are mainly in short-term costs and long-term costs.
Of course, the enthusiasm is not included in the debate. After all, the ratmen are old slaves. The methods of the big claw priests are used, but you have to work with 100% motivation.
In the debate.
One side thinks that the slave rats pay a price once, as long as they work for a certain period of time, they are operating at a state of almost zero cost. On the contrary, the rat freemen, even if they pay less at one time, as long as they are hired for a longer period of time, the cost will be far more than the slave rats.
The other side argued that slave rats need to be maintained and cannot be used indefinitely, and there is a possibility of early death and loss, while the rat freemen only need to pay a very small price, and each time they hire those healthy guys. Even if they die during use, the price paid is very small.
The two sides exchanged sharp words on this issue, and in the end, as expected, the debate turned into an extremely chaotic curse, and then turned into an even more chaotic fight.
But the views in this debate still spread.
One by one, the rat merchants made a choice after weighing the pros and cons, and the rat freemen began to be hired in large numbers.
This made the big claw priests of the super breeding farms so anxious that they were about to jump up, and even lowered the price of their young rats to ten per blood mushroom, which was an extremely cheap price.
But they were powerless to save the situation.
Together with the rat universities, they began to weaken.
On the other side, the Furnace City perfectly replaced these weakened super breeding farms and rat universities.
It came from the demand for high-quality soldiers.
The war was over, but in the demand for extreme xenophobia and the temple guards' vigilance against those terrifying heretics.
In the last hunt for heretics, the temple guards paid a very painful price.
They needed personnel replenishment, and they also needed to be prepared to face those heretics again.
The huge army was still maintained.
Even the weapons workshop was still operating with the investment of the temple guards.
The reason given on the surface was to guard against the rat ghouls running wildly in the underground tunnel network.
But in fact, these guys are nothing to the temple guards.
Those rat ghouls were able to abuse them because of their indulgence.
In order to maintain an existing enemy, and to force the rat lords to maintain the huge army and investment in the weapons workshop.
But this routine is becoming less and less useful.
In that grand chaos, both cities ushered in a moment of prosperity until they devoured everything in those resource cities.
Peaceful days are so hard to bear.
The blood mushrooms in the hands of these big men are becoming more and more powerless as they pour out bit by bit.
Those magnificent halls that can be called miracles are already half completed, and the follow-up is also waiting for the investment of blood mushrooms.
Peaceful days are really hard to bear.
Everything needs blood mushrooms.
Everything needs blood mushrooms.
The rats are still expanding too fast.
It's not that there is no good news.
The industrial zone of the Desolate Mountains has finally succeeded in launching a strange-looking thing into the sky recently.
After tinkering with the technology left by humans for so long, the rats finally have some ideas about exploring the starry sky.
But distant water cannot quench immediate thirst.
Now they need blood mushrooms, now they need blood mushrooms.
Just when the rats were worried about this matter.
A terrible tsunami swept through a rat port on the coast in the rolling hills.
A group of old friends of the rats appeared.
They came at the right time.
What a great group of guys!