Chapter 388: After the War, Conflicts in the Rat Empire
The Ratman Empire entered a stage of rapid development.

After this war.

Resource cities were built one after another.

More and more prosperous, more and more prosperous.

Exploration of the sky was launched together.

In round after round of negotiations, the rat assassins got what they wanted, and the rat people also began their own attempts.

This is not a good phenomenon.

In order to cooperate with the war, the rat assassins also expanded their size.

But this also made them less independent after the war.

This is unavoidable, as the rat assassins also need a variety of resources.

But being no longer independent means having bias, and having bias is undoubtedly a dangerous thing, especially for these rat assassins hiding in the shadows.

But unfortunately, there is currently no one in the Ratman Empire who can prevent the Ratman Assassins from deviating from that impartial state.

Until now, Sheng Qi's integration of the Ratman Empire is still a long way off.

You can't deny the effort he made.

In the mediation, Sheng Qi has actually accomplished a lot.

Regarding the redistribution of the blood mushrooms of the original temple.

To win over the Big Claw Priest to be closer to himself.

Relying on the black water, he rebuilt his own private army in the sewers of this underground rat city.

He mediates among the divided Western Fleet and still maintains his rights as the commander of the Western Fleet.

Take control of the Gear Sect and those ocean ports.

He has done a lot, but it is still not enough.

Well, everything seems to have returned to the starting point.

He went from being a ratman warlord with real power, to a ratman high priest in name only, and now, to a ratman high priest with the power of a ratman warlord.

After all these years, everything has gone round and round, and it seems to have returned to the starting point again.

And he also noticed something even more terrifying.

The short hair on his body, the thick short hair, was losing its luster and even starting to fall off.

No, he hasn't done anything yet. He has only done one thing. He has not yet become the guy in his memory. He is still far inferior to him.

But time was fair to him.

In a panic, he postponed all the matters for today, the meetings, and everything else.

Sheng Qi summoned a group of guys, the guys from the Distortion School.

Not for any other reason, just because these guys claim they can make something that can increase lifespan.

After today, the newly established school of distortion has one more supporter.

In fact, it is not just Sheng Qi who is betting on this group of crazy guys.

Many people have placed their bets on them.

Each of them is a big figure in the Ratman Empire.

It's not surprising. After all, the lifespan of rat people is not long, and these bigwigs even despise their own short lives.

It is normal to pursue a longer life.

Of course, in addition to relying on these unreliable guys, there is another way, a way to prolong one's life, and that method is not illusory because it has actually happened.

That is the gift from God.

If God bestows upon you a gift, then you will naturally be able to live longer.

It’s a pity that even though the gods had just revealed the truth not long ago, they were not very confident that they could obtain such a gift.

Shengqi is no exception.

Although he felt that he had been blessed by God since the encounter on the sea, he felt that he had received divine inspiration on the day he took office as the high priest of the ratmen.

But he also had no confidence in this matter.

Does he believe in God, in that great God? Probably he does, but does he have absolute faith? Does he have absolute faith to obtain the gift from that God?

That’s not necessarily the case.

Believe, but not in that sense.

Everyone is fighting against each other in this increasingly complex power structure.

Using a show-like mode to show one's contribution to God.

Then naturally, it became like this, faith, but not belief in that way.

"In the grand sacrifice not long ago, the great gods did not leave out any gifts."

After doing all this, Sheng Qi began to mutter to himself, looking a little uneasy.

Why are we so uneasy? Everyone knows the reason.

What those guys from the distorted faction want to do and what they are doing are not so aboveboard, or they absolutely cannot be made public.

Their research may contain some blasphemous content.

This was the reason why Sheng Qi was feeling uneasy at this moment, and also the reason why Sheng Qi was muttering in a low voice.

But there is no way.

He also has many guys in the Ratman Empire who can be called big shots.

They want to live.

………….

The Rat People's exploration of the starry sky has just begun, so it is inevitably a bit rough.

Based on the complex blueprint that seemed like a heavenly book, Huishi began his own exploration.

But this is not easy, and Huishi has no clue for a long time.

Fortunately, there is more than one feasible way in that pile of complicated information, compared to this complicated magic engine that is like a heavenly book.

But there is another way that is more to the rat people's liking.

That is a solution that relies on flames and explosions to provide kinetic energy.

The Big Claw Priests quickly produced the first batch of experimental products.

A long tube, filled with various flammable materials, then ignited, followed by a loud explosion.

Well, the first experiment was not very successful. Even the Big Claw Priests who participated in the first experiment did not survive.

Of course, this is just a minor setback and they will not give up so easily.

After all, the dark blue Soul Moon is still hanging high in the sky, and the Death Comet will still pass through the sky at fixed times.

How should I put it? Their journey to the starry sky will have many twists and turns and difficulties, or in other words, a lot of twists and turns and difficulties.

The task is arduous and the road ahead is long.

The second time the ratmen experimented with rockets, they were still not that successful, and even caused a more exaggerated explosion.

Another batch of Big Claw Priests were sent to heaven.

The task is arduous and the road ahead is long.

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After the fall of the human empire, the rat people experienced a long period of peace without war.

But this was not a good thing. After all the resources, land, and huge sacrifices were consumed, signs of chaos appeared.

It is obvious that that vast land has not been completely consumed, and technology and those super cities are also constantly improving.

But the signs of chaos still reared their heads regardless.

Many questions arise.

Those rat warlords who lost the war, the huge rat army, the large and small rat mercenary groups formed during the war, and the sacrifices that were gradually stagnating and becoming tight, and the horrible industrial zone that gradually began to stagnate because of the loss of the war.

This distorted and deformed excess is simply inseparable from war.

As soon as the war came to a halt, all kinds of problems, big and small, emerged and quickly became acute.

A huge amount of idle troops and a large number of rat warlords who want to be kicked away after losing the war but are difficult to get rid of.

Various super-sized rat-man mercenary groups.

There are also huge industrial parks that have begun to shut down after losing orders.

These problems do not exist independently, but are intertwined with each other, forming a huge trouble.

Things are different now than before. During the Rat War, the rat warlords owned their own land. Even if there was no war, they could stay in their own territory and sphere of influence. Until later, this right was deprived.

These guys have become beings that completely need to be fed.

Whether there is war or not, you have to provide for them.

Now, these rat warlords and those rat mercenary groups are entrenched in the main continent, which has become a veritable bottomless abyss.

At this moment, the ratman lords really wanted to kick these guys away.

And they are actually doing so.

As for what the ratmen warriors would do in the face of such treatment, there seemed to be no further doubt.

Don't believe in the Rat Man's bottom line and so-called loyalty.

These guys have no problem fighting heretics, humans, and even rat people.

If most of the industries of the high-ranking ratmen had not been swallowed up and dissipated by those super cities, attacking ordinary ratmen cities would now become a worthless thing, and it would even be hard to say whether enough food supplies could be obtained.

Even if these guys really rebel, as long as they stop the steam trains, these rat warlords will not be able to get through the scarlet grassland without enough supplies.

In such a situation, the bigwigs can temporarily relax and more control still belongs to them.

Otherwise, they would probably have to prepare countermeasures immediately.

However, it would be better not to let such a situation happen, otherwise the rebellious rat warlords might be able to make the main continent escape from the control of the Rat Empire in an instant. In this way, the Rat Empire, which has just finished the holy war, might have to immediately launch a counter-insurgency war of the same scale.

And it's not impossible.

What those rat lords did was really immoral.

After the victory of the war, the backbone and elite of that huge army were withdrawn, but the main group of ratmen warriors were abandoned without hesitation.

No more resources were sent over.

That huge Western expeditionary force was abandoned in this way.

Even the rat lords planned to stuff these lucky guys who had just emerged from the brutal war into mines and sell them cheaply as slave rats.

This is like stirring up a hornet's nest.

Amidst the chaos, hunger and fear of becoming slave rats, this group of ratmen instantly turned the area where they were stationed into a chaotic quagmire.

Attack newly built resource cities, raid steam trains, and rob all kinds of resources.

More than half of the ratmen warriors quickly turned into rebels, while the other half maintained their superficial loyalty.

This made the temple guards extremely dissatisfied, but the other rat warlords who were also left in the main continent chose to disobey the suppression order directly.

They even began to actively promote chaos in this area.

The rat lords, this group of greedy vampires, shameless guys, disgusting rats, they really took the act of crossing the river and destroying the bridge to the extreme.

This made all the rat warlords feel a sense of grief for the other party.

It also completely ignited this powder keg that could explode.

The rat warlords do not want their armies to be split up, while the rat warriors do not want to be reduced to slave rats after fighting this brutal war.

This discussion came up again and again in the underground rat city.

It is not easy to get these greedy vampires to give up the blood mushrooms in their hands.

In fact, this group of guys has already completed half of the disarmament task, because the elite troops and commanders in the army have all been transferred away by them in exchange for more generous rewards.

However, supporting the huge number of ratmen warriors became a complete loss for them.

They didn't care at all about the corruption of the main continent by the out-of-control ratmen warriors, and they were even indifferent to the threats of the temple guards to open the Twin Fortresses.

This is normal because they are not afraid of the out-of-control ratmen warriors turning against them.

Although the number of these guys is so huge.

But so what? To suppress them, they only need to give a huge amount of blood mushrooms, recruit enough rat mercenaries, and then push forward those elite troops who have just retreated from the battlefield, then all this can be done easily.

But if they choose to support this group of guys, then they will have to pay a huge amount of blood mushrooms every once in a while.

With simple calculations and a long-term perspective, the blood mushrooms naturally helped the rat lords make their choice.

Until the temple guards said something lightly after facing these scoundrels.

"If you don't want to accept it, then they will all belong to us."

Well, they were unwilling to continue investing in blood mushrooms. They no longer needed those lowly guys, so they just handed them all over to the temple guards.

No! This is absolutely not allowed!

After just thinking about this possibility, these greedy vampires quickly changed their minds.

Saving money is important, but that doesn't mean they are willing to continue allowing the temple guards to expand.

After the Skaven Priests once again began the unstoppable division, the Temple Guards have essentially become the largest force in the Skaven Empire.

No matter who the other guys are, no matter what conflicts they have, all the other factions except the Rat Assassins have reached the same consensus.

That is to suppress the temple guards.

During this meeting, the rat lords relented and were willing to give blood mushrooms to appease and maintain stability among the rioters.

It also prevented the situation from becoming the worst possible outcome.

(End of this chapter)