Chapter 25

Rat people, one of the most unique races in the infinite continent.

Rat people appeared to be large rats that had been magnified dozens of times and almost appeared human. Their individual combat strength was not strong, and they were only able to fight the weak goblins to a draw. They were able to dominate the continent and become an existence that everyone feared, they relied on their own advantages and characteristics.

The first major characteristic was that there was a large number of rats, easily numbering in the tens of thousands. They came from all over the mountains and plains. Just a small unit had hundreds, and a standard army had over 100,000, this was equivalent to the entire military strength of an ordinary human kingdom.

The second major characteristic was that within the race, there was a strict slavery system. The division of labor was clear, and the huge amount of slave cannon fodder provided for a small number of elite troops and sinister rat people schemers. Most rat-men were not intelligent, but those few Schemers provoked thousands of times the sacrifice and war. Other than being cannon fodder, rat slaves were even used as backup food.

The third characteristic was inherited from the second one.. Rats did not care about the lives of rat slaves. Many times, they did not even bother to brainwash them. They let the slaves use dangerous rat technological creations. The most famous were the self-destructing rat soldiers which would ignite their tails, they would even throw their compatriots like cannonballs, without the slightest bit of compassion.

The fourth major advantage was that the rats also had the ability to use magic, especially the terrifying magic that could spread the plague. The rats had no morals at all.

Fortunately, the rats were not completely united. More than a dozen different clans were scattered in various corners of the world, one after another, and it was difficult for them to communicate effectively.

To the east of the Dark Forest, on the bone wasteland, there was a huge rat empire.

The Rat Empire.

The Eli clan was one of the three major clans in the empire.

Although he heard that the team that chased the escaped slaves had been completely wiped out, the clan leader did not take it to heart.

It was just a thousand pieces of trash.

He still had to think of a way to manage the millions of people under him. Of course, the slave rats were also included.

At the moment, the tyrannical Rat Empire was at war with the Dwarves in the east and the humans in the south. The head of the Eli clan only wanted more benefits for his clan. He wanted to think of ways to make his clan contribute less resources and send fewer troops to aid the empire.

As for the forest in the west, there was indeed nothing good there for the rats.

“My Lord, I request to enter the Dark Forest and expand the empire’s territory!”

The chief looked at the Rat general without any expression on his face, but his heart was filled with disdain.

This rat general was indeed very annoying. He only wanted to go to the west.

What did he mean by expanding the empire’s territory? Did he not have the Eli clan in his heart?

Thinking of this, the chief spoke.

“General, you should own quite a bit of property, right? I feel that you can completely attack the dark forest yourself!”

The property that the clan leader spoke of was the private soldiers and slave rats under the name of the rat general.

In the rat society, these were all completely reasonable and legal.

“I grant you the right to expand the empire. You can expand the territory on your own. As long as it doesn’t conflict with the interests of the Empire, then the empire and the clan will protect your reasonable rights and interests. Of course, the eleven taxes have to be handed over to the empire and the clan respectively.”

“Respected clan leader, I feel that my strength is not enough!”

“Not enough?”

The clan leader was also a little surprised. “Why do you say that?”

“I’m just being cautious. If the slaves don’t calculate their combat strength, I only have 500 elite warriors. I don’t think I can safely defeat those mysterious and ugly enemies who killed 100 warriors in a second.”

“It seems that you’re quite smart. I heard that you’ve been getting close to the Wizards of the Rat Council recently, right?”

The general immediately knelt down and squeaked in fear.

“My Lord, please support me with 500 warriors! I’ll give you half of the harvest! Together with the taxes, it’s 60% of the harvest!”

Hearing the benefits, the clan leader became happy and helped the Rat general.

“Give me 70%, and you will be granted 600 elite soldiers!”

“Thank you, my Lord!”

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After leaving the clan leader’s mansion, the Ratman general immediately put on a bitter and vengeful expression.

This damn old clan leader!

He was simply an old fat pig who was not worthy of his position!

Walking to the corner of the street, a rat wearing a cloak immediately walked to the side of the rat general.

He was a schemer, which was the equivalent of a strategist in the world of rats.

He came from the rat parliament. On the surface, the rat parliament was supposed to communicate with the rat-man forces all over the world. It had boundless glory, but in reality, it did not have much territory. It mainly relied on exporting schemers to increase its own sense of existence.

Their greatest ambition was to truly unite the rats of the world and sweep across the entire infinite continent.

The cloaked rats followed the rat general all the way and soon returned to the rat general’s base outside the city.

“General, according to our observations, the wild monsters in the world have experienced unusual fluctuations and changes. We have to be a little late before we can send out our troops!”

When the rat general heard these words, he became even more depressed. He used his fist to hit the table in front of him forcefully. The jar of wine was overturned by the shaking force, and the wine flowed onto his body.

“Damn it!”

“This means that I have to stay in front of that smelly rat for a few more days!”

“He had actually dared to ask for 70% of my earnings. I’ll only be left with 20% after paying my taxes then! He’s really asking for death!”

The schemer comforted the rat general.

“Doesn’t the general plan on not giving anything anyway?”

“So what if the general were to give 200% of his earnings?”

“When the general gets his territory and becomes a king, he will be able to build a great clan on his own!”

“With the support of the parliament, it is not impossible for the general to swallow the Eli clan in the future!”

The Rat general calmed down after hearing this.

Indeed, if he could successfully occupy the dark forest area and obtain the conspiracy, matrix, and Rat technology that the parliament supported, he could take advantage of the chaos in the Rat Empire to unite with the other rat generals to become independent, in the future, when he caught that greedy old thing, he would definitely demote him to a slave Rat!

No, they would make him a breeding rat and tire him to death!

Thinking of this, the rat general laughed and drank the new wine that his subordinates had sent over.

He was a dignified level 9 powerhouse, and the other two rat generals were also level 8.

There were a total of 1,700 rat soldiers under the three of them!

In addition, there were more than 6,000 slave rats!

Wouldn’t it be easy to eliminate those demons that were only level 6 or 7 according to the intelligence reports?

It seemed that the party that was defeated back then wasn’t directly defeated either. The main reason was that they were still in a state of chaos. However, it was just as well. It would be convenient for me to seize the territory!

The Dark Forest was the foundation for my meritorious deeds!

The shouts of the rat warriors in the military camp were earth-shattering. Joey, who was far away, was completely unaware of this. He was busy strengthening the castle’s defense and putting the equipment that Liz had forged on the shelves.