Chapter 112: The Fallen God
The boarman craftsmen's hammers, the slave miners, the slave miners' pickaxes, the longswords and armor that had not yet been forged, and various irregular iron pieces, all of these became the spoils of the ratmen.
Soon, some strange mixes appeared.
A senior ratman warrior appeared with a miner's pick in his hand, a knight's helmet on his head, a large piece of iron tied to his chest, and several metal spear heads wrapped around his tail.
How can this not be called a mix and match style?
As for this situation, the boarmen warriors on the city wall could only watch angrily.
Even though the city defense crossbows were constantly fired, they would occasionally take away a few unlucky ratmen.
But this did not interrupt the enthusiasm of the rat people at all, especially the enthusiasm of the young rat people.
It was a rare attack that I wasn't pushed onto the battlefield, and there were a lot of random things to pick up.
I couldn't help myself from the excitement.
Where they whizzed by.
Even the scraps were swept away.
Soon after, the artisan area outside this industrial city became clean and tidy.
Not only that.
Of course, the rat people would not cherish the facilities of these boar people.
After a round of smashing and frantic relocation, the fire was ignited and spread rapidly.
Until those piled black stones are set on fire.
Thick black smoke rose into the sky.
The area outside the city turned into a sea of fire.
The rats had a great harvest and without staying, a large number of them disappeared into the underground caves, dragging all kinds of miscellaneous things.
The ratmen completed their evacuation before the boarmen's support arrived.
Afterwards, the fire was quickly extinguished amid the devastated expressions of the boarman craftsmen.
But the reconstruction of the artisan area was simple, with the slaves killed and captured by the ratmen, the burning black stones, and the exquisite hydraulic forging hammers.
It is not so easy to recover these.
Predictably so.
This industrial city of the wild boar people will be in stagnation for a long time to come.
The complete suspension of metal forging has made a problem even more acute.
That is the reform of the boar knights.
If a large number of boar knights no longer only obey the orders of priests, but are transformed into infantry and incorporated into the boar warriors.
Then a powerful infantry army can be formed immediately.
Some radical boar commanders even proposed such unrealistic ideas as entering the underground tunnels to clear out the ratmen.
But no matter what, the pressure was placed enormously on the boar priests.
They control all the Quilboar Riders.
The development of intelligent races is always accompanied by the mutual confrontation and consumption of various forces.
Even with the participation of gods, this problem cannot be avoided.
In other words, when gods become concrete, clear-cut, and appear among intelligent races.
The divinity in him has completely disappeared.
You are a powerful creature, you are not a god.
Then when you fail, when your wisdom is no longer absolute, doubts arise.
The boar man's god was shortsighted and thought that the biggest problem at this moment was Du Yuan, the ratmen under Du Yuan, and the disastrous battle situation.
For this reason, he went to form an alliance with Li Sheng.
This is indeed a problem
But for him, the bigger challenge at this time should be.
As the leader of the wild boar race, is he still qualified to lead the wild boar people after making a serious mistake?
Those boarman commanders are already trying to deprive the boarman priests of their power.
But the boar priest represents Him.
The contradiction is becoming more acute. Faced with this complex situation, how does the great god deal with it?
He made the choice on behalf of his priests.
The boar man's god, the young apprentice god, the young god who showed a tendency to take on a concrete personality in front of his believers.
A young god.
He gave up the power held by the priests.
An oracle directly broke the fierce internal friction and struggle between the Boarman Commander and the Boarman Priest over the ownership of the Boarman Knight in the lush forest.
The gods supported the reform of the Boar Knights.
A large number of boar knights will be assigned to various boar commanders as elite infantry soldiers and the backbone of the boar army.
It is foreseeable that the reform of the boar knight will be completed soon.
The strength of each boarman army will expand rapidly, and even each one will no longer be something Sheng Qi can handle.
The situation can be stabilized and reversed in an instant.
But is this really wise?
No longer a god.
No longer the leader.
What is the final result, a mascot?
………….
In the lush forest.
Following the oracle's descent, the boarman priest fell into despair.
As the group of people most closely tied to the gods, they lost their rights overnight at the gods' command.
Some priests even chose death in despair.
But that’s not all.
The boarman high priest was the first to react in despair and anger. They had lost their rights, but the gods could no longer lose their dignity.
At least everything in this war, the deaths of those wild boar civilians, and the strategic failure, can never be attributed to the gods.
Theocracy cannot continue to fall!
This clever high priest sent out his men almost immediately, and a team of knights followed the orders and filed out from the industrial city that had just been attacked by the ratmen.
He needs someone to take the blame, and this scapegoat cannot be a priest, but must be a boar commander.
Haven't lost yet.
At least this industrial city and the boarmen's capital are still controlled by the boarmen priests.
The boarman high priest, who had been bedridden ever since receiving the oracle from the gods, dragged his exhausted body and prayed to their gods with sorrow.
"Oh God! Why? Why?"
Got no response.
He has spent his entire life trying to lead the boar people into what he believes is a bright future.
That theocracy.
This has always been his dream.
But he didn't expect that the one who dealt a fatal blow to his dream was the great god.
But even so, his level of faith did not drop, and he still fanatically believed in his own god.
He is indeed a devout believer.
As for Du Yuan.
Du Yuan seemed to have never encountered this problem and had never worried about it. Ever since the troublemaker Spear Rat passed away, the ratmen under his command had never had any problems with their faith.
This group of rat people devoutly and seriously believe in their almighty god whose name, appearance and abilities they don't know.
Extremely pious.
At one point, Du Yuan even thought these guys were a little too crazy.
To some extent, this is indeed the same God but different destiny.
(End of this chapter)