From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 440: A beast in a civilized skin
As the ratmen army fell like dandelions, this progressive city of the gerbils fell.

Even though this war has not ended yet, with a steady stream of wasteland mercenaries heading outside the city, the outcome will basically not change.

After the electromagnetic storm left over from the nuclear explosion in outer space gradually subsided, a large number of rat warships entered this yellow sand planet. Now, even if those city councilors wanted to die together with the rats, they couldn't do it. The air supremacy had been completely occupied by the rats. It was very difficult, or even almost impossible, for their nuclear missiles to successfully take off, or even to penetrate the defense network composed of a large number of rat warships.

In some aspects, the rat people have not climbed the technology tree as well as the gerbils, but in some aspects, these gerbils are unable to effectively attack and block the rat people.

With the help of the psychic engine, to a certain extent, the speed of these rat warships flying around in the sky even exceeds the speed limit of the physical universe. They only need to open a small tunnel to the subspace and then immediately get out of it. This is a successful supersonic cruise.

This is something that gerbils cannot imagine.

The disparity in technology.

Even though the rat people's technology makes them climb crooked and twisted, they can still climb high.

A group of wasteland mercenaries gathered and were running wildly in the desert. They were bombarded by the ratman warships. Amid the sharp laughter of the ratman pilots, one psychic bomb after another was thrown from the warships.

The explosion left these wasteland mercenaries in a state of disarray.

Of course, they did think about resistance, but their attacks were simply no match for the ratmen warships that could flash in the sky. It was just a shame that in this almost one-sided attack, the ratmen still suffered losses.

Two of the Skaven's small gunboats were damaged, but what saved their face a little was that these small gunboats did not fall in the attack of the Gerbils, but were destroyed by those strange creatures in the Warp when they were making Warp jumps.

This makes the rat people less embarrassed.

After several rounds of bombing, no rescue troops came here on their own initiative.

Enkos, this city which is only half left has just got a new name, City No. 1, which represents the number one colonial city that the ratmen are about to build on this yellow sand planet. What will follow is a mop-up.

There are still a bit too many gerbils in this half-remaining city.

The ratmen need an open area, not such a large group of indigenous captives. Although these guys are not without value, the slave trade has never been interrupted in the Ratman Empire.

The rat people nobles are very keen on collecting all the known alien natives like a collecting card game, and raising them together like toys.

From the rat people's perspective, these gerbils are an extremely good choice for slaves.

Smaller, with fluffy hair and huge round ears, it is an extremely high-quality plaything.

If the jump point of this planet could be closer, and the travel time could be shorter, then I'm afraid that by now, those ratmen merchants would be able to break through the threshold of the flagship team's command room.

They will attempt to purchase the gerbil slaves by waving blood money, or something else the ratfolk deem valuable.

But unfortunately, the jump node is too far away, so far that it takes twenty years to complete a reincarnation.

So naturally there won't be any rat merchants coming to buy these gerbils now, and the rats of the First Expeditionary Fleet don't need so many toys.

In this case, the only solution left is naturally a simple and direct one, which is to kill him.

The surviving gerbils were driven out of the swaying high-rise buildings by the rat warriors and gathered in squares and empty streets.

It was at this time that the two races first got to know each other on a large scale.

The rats discovered these gerbils who looked very similar to themselves.

The gerbil people also discovered that these guys were different from them.

However, at this moment, such a scene is not very beautiful, and it is like this to various degrees.

Let’s not talk about the blood relationship between the two sides, that of grandfather and grandson. Just the fact that they met for the first time was not friendly.

The two sides did not meet for the first time in the consulate in harmony, get to know each other, and then exchange ideas. Instead, they met after a brutal war that was initiated by the rats, a brutal war that was started by the rats and opened with a sneak attack.

At this time, the ratmen warriors stood, holding the steam rifles in their hands, while the gerbils squatted honestly in fear.

I have to say that these gerbils really conform to the rats' aesthetic. Now that these guys are squatting on the ground and gathered together, even the rats who are guarding them are in a better mood.

Until suddenly one or two guys stood up and tried to run away.

The guarding ratmen shot them to death without hesitation. Of course, the ratmen also appreciate beauty, but they mostly admired these heretics and natives as cute little animals like cats and dogs.

The ratmen who fired the guns scratched the fluffy fur of the sand rat man with great ecstasy. The texture was really good. Perhaps after Qi successfully found and opened up the subspace channel between the Yellow Sand Star and the Ratman Empire, in addition to the slave business, those ratmen merchants would also do some fur business.

After being intoxicated for a while, they did not forget the main business. These guys dragged the fallen gerbil man to the huge deep pit made by the Destroyer. The lava in the pit had not yet completely solidified and was not even calm. It was rolling in the deep pit, and even brought out a few waves from time to time.

The dead sand rat man was thrown directly by the rat man into the big pit where magma was surging. At this time, this big pit became an excellent processing station.

As for whether this would be a waste, we should expand the ways of utilizing these corpses a little bit.

Get rid of it. The rat people have already entered the interstellar age. They have long stopped eating corpses, and they no longer eat corpses openly. They have become civilized people. Well, at least they have a little bit of civilization.

Although a lot of the canned meat sold by the rat merchants are mixed with some special meat whose origins cannot be verified, at least the rats no longer eat corpses openly.

Besides, after the First Expeditionary Fleet successfully gained a foothold on this planet, with the replenishment of various resources, these guys will never lack supplies. After all, they are treated the best in the entire Ratman Empire, and they actually have a huge city floating above the starry sky as a supply rear.

When all the remaining gerbils in the city were gathered together and there were basically no survivors, an order was issued.

A complex expression suddenly appeared on the faces of these gun-wielding ratmen warriors: excitement, agitation, nervousness, and bloodthirstiness.

Standing there, they were indeed a little more civilized, able to remain quiet at such a moment, waiting for the final order to come down. "Three! Two! One! Shoot!"

Finally, at this moment, there was no need to be patient anymore. Bullets rained down like raindrops, knocking down the heretics and natives who were very similar to them like wheat.

Screams, roars, cries, and desperate wails all sounded at this moment.

The blood slowly flowed out, gathered in the depression, and dyed the earth red.

Well, how can these barbaric guys be called civilized? Maybe they can be called civilized, but only a little bit.

Rudeness, tyranny, barbarity, cruelty, and the little bit of civilization that is gradually being covered.

The killing lasted for a long time. The dead gerbils were pushed by the rats into the big pit of boiling magma. All day long, there was a sizzling sound in the magma pool.

In space, in the command room of the flagship of the First Expeditionary Fleet, the affairs officer handed a list of losses to the flagship.

After tying the flag, I simply flipped through the pages.

In this landing battle, the Space Airborne Corps suffered the most losses. Out of a team of one thousand people, only 503 were left alive when the battle plan for City No. 1 came to an end. Among these 503 surviving Airborne Corps soldiers, 56 were about to lose their combat effectiveness because their power armor was damaged and the rat engineers in the expeditionary fleet were unable to repair it.

The casualty ratio is close to half, but these guys have also proved how tough they are.

At the same time, the losses in this landing battle were not only the super ratmen warriors of the Space Airborne Corps, but also a Comet-class transport ship, three hundred fleet armies, and fifteen small ships. Although this loss was nothing compared to the losses of the Space Airborne Corps and the power armor.

These can be replenished quickly once the industrial zone in the flagship is actually up and running.

The losses were not serious; this was a great victory, as could be seen from the joyous expressions of the rat officers in the command room.

However, Qi did not show any joy on his face, he remained calm.

He asked the rat officer in front of him.

"Have the Rat Engineers set out yet?"

"Let's go, Captain!"

Qi paused for a moment and said honestly, these natives showed a lot of highlights in this landing battle. The exaggerated explosive weapons even made Qi look sideways.

Pointing at the frozen mushroom cloud projected in front of him, Qi gave instructions to the officer in front of him.

"Tell them to complete the construction of the fortress city as quickly as possible and at the same time try to recycle the indigenous technology, especially the technology related to this."

"Okay, Captain!"

The rats are not averse to taking some useful things from the corpses of their enemies for their own use. This nuclear energy technology may be able to give the rats a surprise.

Of course, nuclear technology is not the only thing on this yellow sand planet that could surprise the rat people.

Nuclear energy, advanced power transmission technology and electromagnetic weapons, virtual reality, and highly intelligent AI.

By the way, the highly intelligent AI has disappeared, so the one stored in the Enkos Archives may be the last highly intelligent AI on the planet, but it was destroyed, easily destroyed by a single shot from the ratmen.

The first step in conquering this planet has come to a perfect end. It went smoothly without any setbacks, but we cannot relax yet. This is only the first step in conquering and colonizing this planet. There are still many troublesome things to deal with later.

But no matter what, the war on this planet has now been determined to be a business that will not lose money.

The technology that these rats never mastered, the planet with a suitable climate, and even the sand rats themselves, any one of these can make this war an extremely worthwhile thing. What's more, at this moment, the yellow sand planet has all three.

Fortunately, the first target chosen by the rat people after leaving the sacred passage was such an extremely suitable planet.

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The Ratman Empire, Shenqi Star, as early as ten years ago, the horrific civil war that once swept the entire Ratman Empire ended.

With the endless deployment of ground troops, the Ratman Empire used six planets as its base camps, and little by little, almost wiped out the previous generation of Ratmen on Shenqi Star.

At the beginning, the temple priests were still in a state of crazy excitement in this war. Countless ratmen died on this planet, and their corpses were piled up on the altar. Endless blood mushrooms sprouted and turned into food for the continuation of their lives.

Until the war was pushed forward like this, little by little, little by little, until the Ratman Empire pushed the front line to their Xinxin Holy City. No matter how crazy they were, they had to sober up at this time.

No matter how long they can live and how boundless their lives are, the very realistic problem is that they will die.

They wanted to struggle in desperation, but these temple priests found that they no longer had any suitable chips in their hands.

They placed their hopes on the lunatics who were studying flesh and blood deformation, and on the dragon of life. However, the ten-year long war not only wiped out the ratmen who were willing to be loyal to them, but also completely eroded people's confidence in them.

While these temple priests were waving the Dragon of Life and hysterically intimidating the Imperial Alliance, those lunatics from the School of Distortion took the initiative to defect.

This is a very normal choice. After all, they just became crazy due to studying the deformation of flesh and blood, but they are not stupid. Is there any absolute necessity for them to follow you, a bunch of hopeless temple priests?

Just like that, the betrayal of the Distortion School dealt the final blow to these temple priests. Even the deterrence in their hands was gone, so it was clear what the outcome would be for them.

The temple priests were then publicly executed in the form of live broadcasts on every planet and every city within the Ratman Empire.

This chaotic rat-man civil war officially ended.

(End of this chapter)