Chapter 34, Desire and Faith

In the rapid advance, it is not that no race thought of resisting. A mixed goblin tribe with hobgoblins and bugbears as the ruling class took the lead.

They were also the culprits of the first major rout of the ratmen since they entered the forest.

A 5,000-man ratman army led by a ratman warlord under Good Eyes faced off against this goblin joint force.

Then the army of hobgoblins and bugbears rushed into the team and beheaded the ratman warlord, followed by an undoubted rout.

The ratmen warriors and young ratmen fled in the forest and ran away in a flash.

In this situation, the ratmen's performance was not as expected by the bugbear leader.

There was not even much fear.

Soon, all the ratmen troops in the forest received the news and rushed to this area with red eyes.

A total of four armies of 5,000 rat warriors came, led by the rat lord Haoyan and his subordinates, three rat warlords.

They formed a 20,000-man rat brigade.

There were also endless young rats who served as auxiliary troops.

After obtaining the resources in the forest area, the number of rats doubled every two months.

This allowed the rats to easily pull out a large number of loose troops.

It was a very pure feeling, and the number alone was creepy.

Although these gathered rat troops did not attack the goblin tribe.

Those warlords with red eyes, instead, led their own rats to search for the fleeing rat warriors and young rats all over the mountains.

Soon after, a long team of slave rats escorted by rat priests set off from the forest to the direction of the mountains.

After all this was settled, the rat warlords turned their attention to the goblin camp in front of them again.

Without any twists and turns or accidents, the huge rat army successfully submerged this mixed goblin tribe, which was not small in size in the forest.

At the same time, perhaps because they got too many slaves and sacrifices this time, they even exceeded the requirements of the white rats for a while.

The priests mentioned the plan to store the sacrifices, after killing the undisciplined big goblins and bear goblins.

A large number of short ordinary goblins were also tied up with ropes and taken back to the mountains as slaves.

Of course, the rat warlords who did this did not get nothing. In exchange, the priests would use the blood mushrooms in their hands to exchange for sacrifices and slaves.

This can save them from the strict requirements of the white rats and make the rat warlords work harder.

Under the temptation of blood mushrooms, they even did not hesitate to send the fleeing rat army of the dead rat warlord to the priests in exchange for mushrooms.

Under the operation of such rat priests and warlords,

The number of slave rats began to expand rapidly, which further promoted the construction of rats, more tunnels, deeper caves.

More mushroom cultivation rooms, nurseries, production rooms, storage rooms, and the winding mineral veins that were gradually dug out in the depths of the mountains.

With the help of excavation proficiency, the rats naturally worked out a simple ventilation system.

As a result, the depth of their excavation became deeper and deeper.

But this is not the most important.

Among the series of projects, the most ambitious and the one that most slave rats were digging was the temple project directed by the white rat himself.

Countless slave rats sank and floated in the blood lake. They were not sacrifices, but living slave rats, or not all sacrifices.

As the slave rats sank and floated, they used their sharp claws to dig and expand the size of the blood lake again and again, making the originally not-so-large underground lake doubled.

Of course, this process is not easy, especially under the supervision of the rat priests who are watching closely. Many skinny slave rats have no breath when they float up after sinking into the blood lake. They are used as sacrifices, waiting for blood mushrooms to grow on their bodies.

After being picked several times, they turned into a skeleton and sank to the bottom of the blood lake.

With continuous excavation, huge stone steps have appeared under the blood lake.

The white rat wants to excavate a huge pyramid sunk in the blood lake.

And Du Yuan's altar and divine stone pillars are set up on the platform at the top of the pyramid.

This is undoubtedly a big project, but the white rat obviously doesn't care what the cost of this project is.

He watched the pyramid in front of him slowly take shape with enthusiasm.

Indescribable happiness brewed in his heart. This is his gift to the gods.

He couldn't help but relax a little. Even though he has become the leader of the rats, he is no longer a young rat full of energy.

But the white rats would still jump into the blood lake every day, constantly rising and falling, to determine whether there were any mistakes in the slowly forming pyramid.

The devout white rat was looking forward to the completion of the pyramid in front of him.

In terms of piety, the white rat was indeed the most fanatical ratman in Du Yuan's faith.

However, if we go a step further, from a fanatic to a saint, Du Yuan felt a little suspenseful. Not only him, but also many priests among the rats who were also fanatics were unlikely to become saints.

Because compared with fanatics, saints do not need simple fanatical faith, but they need to have their own thoughts in the fanaticism, and even be able to give opinions to the gods and help the gods make up for their shortcomings.

Of course, it is not difficult to put forward conditions, make suggestions, and make up for deficiencies, but the difficulty lies in that you must have a devout and unreserved faith, and then meet these conditions.

Only then can you be called a saint.

It is because of this that Du Yuan felt that the white rat could not do it, and even other rat priests found it difficult to do this.

Because these guys are more eager for blood mushrooms, eager for gifts, very fanatical desires, devout desires or greed.

Until the desire and greed, and the gift that they could get because of Du Yuan, mixed together, and they themselves could not tell whether it was their own uncontrollable greed or their fanatical belief in Du Yuan.

These ratmen became fanatics.

It is difficult to judge whether this can be regarded as a kind of piety, but since the ratman fanatics born in this way are both pious and fanatical, and can also provide faith value, although it cannot be said to be a pious belief, they are still succumbing to desire.

Put the desire on Du Yuan.

Then Du Yuan just ignored such awkwardness, but he was sure that he could not become a saint in this way.

However, Bai Shu is indeed a pious believer of Du Yuan, not the kind of fanatic ratman who confuses desire and craving, but the problem lies in Bai Shu's piety, which is too pious to the point of fanaticism.

He can't become a saint either.

However, because of this piety, sometimes Du Yuan will not interrupt his decision, especially for the sake of faith.

This is the concession of the gods to the believers.

Although, he may not know that his God is actually more helpless about his actions.