Chapter 208: The True Elite of the Rat People
The humble people who made up the vast majority of the city stood up and blocked the solemn temple.

However, the temple guards, the rat priests and big claw priests had all fallen, so what was the point of them standing up?

The instability and fear were inevitable. Many rat people chose to escape, but more of them stood here.

This is why those grassland demigods were surprised.

The temple guards are qualified and should stand up because it is their duty. The ratman priests and big claw priests cannot escape because they are Du Yuan's priests.

Why do you lowly guys want to stand up? Is it really for your beliefs?

Such piety is rare to see, but why does it appear among such despicable and twisted rat people?

The sacrifice of the humble is meaningless, even if the reasons are legitimate and noble, for the sake of faith, but in the end they are too weak and not even qualified to become currency.

The echoing and piercing bells stopped, and the Centaur Knights started the massacre indifferently. These humble guys were far less resilient than the temple guards, and they began to call out to the gods in fear as they died.

"Great God? Great God!"

They began to waver and wanted to escape, but the scene was too chaotic. Many ratmen were ready to sacrifice their lives for the gods. In the surge, it was an effortless killing.

Soon, the last ratman blocking the temple fell down, his eyes wide open, looking at the sky unwillingly.

The city was quiet, and no more rustling sounds were heard.

The commander of the Centaur Knights passed by a group of Centaur Knights and came to the solemn temple built by the ratmen.

This solemn temple has a sense of refinement that is out of place in this city.

The torch in his hand was thrown out, but was blocked by the blood-red aura wrapped around the temple. The commander of the Centaur Knights began to call on his god. The whistling sound that appeared when the city wall collapsed appeared again, and the gathered storm attacked the temple in front of him.

However, this violent wind could not even shake the faint blood-red spiritual light on the temple.

The Centaur Knights became a little more agitated.

The demigod who witnessed this scene in the sky was also anxious. He moved his mouth and exhaled a gust of wind. The Centaur commander summoned the wind again. The wind became stronger. The violent wind blew towards the temple but still failed to shake this solemn temple.

A crazy laugh was faintly heard in the wind. It was a ratman priest. The surviving ratman priest still had an arrow stuck in his chest. He was not dead and climbed to the top of the temple. Here, an exquisite bell fell.

The blood-red light protected the temple and also protected the rat-man priest, shaking the sacred bell accompanied by crazy laughter.

At this moment, the Centaur god's face turned completely dark, and he didn't care about too much. The wind became stronger, and finally, it overwhelmed the blood-red color entangled in the solemn temple. The shrill bell sounds did not stop, and the crazy laughter did not stop either.

Until the violent wind destroyed everything.

Above the sky, the Centaur god breathed a sigh of relief, but just as he raised his head, he was met with Du Yuan's cold and dangerous gaze.

Just by being watched, he felt the danger and subconsciously summoned his authority and instinctively defended himself.

At this moment, Du Yuan smiled. It was the first time that he showed other expressions in front of the grassland gods in front of him. It was a sarcastic laugh, or a mocking sarcasm. Both were correct. It was not only directed at the gods of the Centaur tribe, but at all the gods gathered in front of him.

This attempt came to nothing, and there probably won't be a next one.

The Centaur god did not blow out the dim light on Du Yuan's temple. The ratmen's piety exceeded their imagination. Du Yuan was even more powerful than they imagined and had no flaws. Even if they still had the advantage, a cruel war was about to be pushed forward. When the ratmen were defeated and their devout faith began to waver, that would be the time for them to fight.

The Centaur Knights left the city, leaving behind ruins and fire. Some surviving Skaven emerged from the ruins. After the Centaurs left, they wandered in front of the temple that had turned into ruins in panic and fear.

But nothing could be done, the flames engulfed everything, and the surviving ratmen would not have a good ending.

A group of pious guys and an old ratman were completely enraged.

The White Rat left the barren mountains and the underground rat city where he had lived for a long time. He would come to the vast grassland in person.

He did not bring a very large team, only a few temple guards and some rat priests following him. It was not a large team, but it was enough to create a storm in the rat kingdom.

Outside the grassland city, in the temple of the great god, the leader of the temple guards who sat in the secret stone chamber put on a helmet. The temple guards would never allow any violation of the sacred temple. If that violation has already happened, then be prepared.

The most brutal and crazy revenge is coming. The temple guards stationed in the grassland city started to move. As the most elite force in the rat kingdom, the temple guards are not limited to the distinction between infantry and cavalry. Since the giant rats appeared in the rat kingdom, riding giant rats and riding in combat have become a compulsory course for every temple guard.

Five thousand temple guards rode on giant rats and left the temple outside the grassland city.

Along the way, temple guards kept rushing out from one ratman city after another and joined the large group of temple guards running wildly on the grassland.

This is a sacred revenge, an everlasting feud has been concluded.

In the middle of Four Seasons Ranch, the temple guards caught up with the galloping Centaur Knights, but they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers.

Even though they have planned to step onto the stage and continue to invest their strength in this grassland, the birth of every qualified temple guard is not easy.

The total number of Ratman Temple guards on this vast grassland is only 20,000, which is even less than that of the slightly larger Ratman Mercenary Group.

But these 20,000 temple guards are already a force that cannot be ignored on this grassland.

The reason why the temple guards are so rare in number and yet have such a high status is not because of anything else, but just one simple reason: they are good at fighting, very good at fighting.

The flag was raised, a flag with a blood-red background and golden patterns.

There was no need for any pre-war mobilization, or rather, the pre-war mobilization had already been done. After learning that the temple of the gods had been desecrated, the temple guards naturally went into a state of violence.

It only took them one day to find the Centaur Knights roaming in the Four Seasons Ranch.

In just one day, half of the temple guards on this vast grassland spontaneously joined the team that set out from the grassland city, and came to the front of these blasphemers in an uninterrupted frenzy.
After a day and night of running, there was not much fatigue to be found on the faces of these temple guards. Instead, there was only brutality projected from their scarlet eyes.

They still maintained order even in the midst of the surging violence, forming neat queues and gathering behind the figure raising the flag.

The number of Centaur Knights was ten times that of the temple guards. It was a huge cavalry of 100,000 people. This was the confidence that enabled them to cross most of the grassland and destroy one rat city after another.

It was obvious that this number was not enough to force the temple guards to retreat, and the Centaur Knight was also not prepared to give in.

This was the second time they encountered the Ratman cavalry. On the first day of the war, they were deeply impressed by the Ratman Knights and Ratman Striking Knights who had fought a bloody battle with them head-on.

But it was just a deep impression. If their isolated team wanted to wreak havoc on the enemy's rear, they had to have the advantage of speed. And the easiest way to maintain the speed advantage was to absorb all the enemy's strength that could catch up with them.

The Centaur Commander didn't think he would lose.

With their flags held high, both sides launched the charge at the same time.

Taking off the longbows on their backs, the Centaurs threw a hail of arrows. If the ferocious knights were to face this hail of arrows, then those dazed guys would probably choose not to do anything and just rely on their armor to resist.

But this was exactly what the Centaur Knights wanted, because the Centaurs did not use the short bows that most of the steppe races used, but real long bows.

The shortbow was indeed light and flexible, but the arrows shot from it were far from lethal enough and were simply not enough to penetrate the full body armor worn by the brutal knight.

The longbow is different. It has a heavier poundage, a longer range, and its special armor-piercing arrows can completely defeat the full body armor equipped by the ratmen.

The destroyed Savage Knights suffered a great loss in the rain of arrows thrown by the Centaur Knights. Even though the rat people's industry was no longer a weakness, and Rat War did not save on the full body armor provided to the Savage Knights, after a round of arrow rain, a large number of Savage Knights were still pierced by arrows and fell from the Savage Giant Rats.

At this time, the Centaur Knights once again fired targeted rain of arrows, but the effect was not as good as when dealing with the brutal knights.

The violent charge did not disrupt the formation of the temple guards. Dazzling silver shields were raised above their heads, and most of the falling arrows were blocked by these silver shields.

Even if a falling arrow avoided the shield held high above the head at a tricky angle, it still could not cause any effective damage.

For a very simple reason.

The armor-piercing arrows that could easily penetrate the dark armor of the brutal knight were powerless against the silver armor that looked much thinner and was carved with delicate patterns.

The equipment worn by the temple guards is much better than that worn by the brutal knights.

The temple guards are also much wealthier than Rat Warriors.

(End of this chapter)