The news of the Great Horned Rat God's arrival spread so quickly and far that quite a number of warriors from the clans heard about it.
However, the warriors were busy gathering their armies to participate in the competition between the five races and the Battle of Glory, so they did not pay much attention to the groundless news.
After all, it was the tradition of the warriors in Turan to fight against the strong.
Who would care about the messiah that these filthy, powerless, stinky rats with filthy blood in their veins came up with?
After Meng Chao gathered a lot of information from Leaf, he asked Ice Storm indirectly whether she knew about the Great Horned Rat God.
"Of course I know."
The female Snow Leopard Warrior shrugged and said nonchalantly, "The war is about to start, and the naturally cowardly rats are very nervous. What's so strange about them praying to the spirits of their ancestors?
"Although I don't believe that there really was a valiant Rat Man hero with large horns all over his body a long time ago, if the Rat Men are willing to daydream, then let them be.
"Right now, all the warriors in the clans are busy fighting against each other and devouring totem armor to become stronger. No one has the time to care about the rat people's trivial matters!"
"But …"
Meng Chao thought about it and said, "Right now, many of the rat people in Black Horn City believe that the Great Horned Rat God has already descended and formed an army in the depths of Turan Lake. It's an army that belongs to the rat people.
"Aren't the warriors of the clans and the important people of Blood Hoof Clan worried that this army of rat people will affect Turan Lake's future?"
"Rat people? An army?"
Ice Storm snorted and sized up Meng Chao as if she was looking at the greatest idiot in the world. "Harvester, my experiences over the past month have made me believe that you're smart enough. Why would you believe in such preposterous words?
"If a rat people village in a barren land was unwilling to be forcefully recruited by the warriors of the clans and rose up to fight against them, then used the dangerous terrain to fight against the recruitment team …
"Or rather, a talented rat person used some sort of miracle to obtain the protection of the spirits of their ancestors and killed the warriors of the clans who held a grudge against him.
"Both of these scenarios are possible.
"But an army of rat people?
"You should know that no matter how small the armies of the five great clans are, they still have a hundred thousand warriors.
"Do you know how many Devil's Snare Fruits, how many secret medicines, how many armors, and weapons are needed to maintain the combat ability of a hundred thousand warriors? Do you know how strict the organization and brilliant the command is?
"No matter how intolerable the Rat People are, how can they conjure these things out of thin air?
"Therefore, the so-called 'Great Horned Rat God descending and forming an army of rats' and whatnot is complete nonsense. It's just a small ruckus before these pitiful little rats embark on a journey of certain death.
"There have always been rumors of the arrival of the Great Horned Rat God during the Glory Era, but it never caused too much of a stir, so there's nothing to be nervous about."
"Really?"
Meng Chao scratched his head. "So, the important people of Blood Hoof Clan actually know about these rumors, but they just don't want to care about them?"
"They should know. It's not a secret, and the rat people aren't people who can keep secrets," Ice Storm said nonchalantly.
"In any case, when the Blood Hoof Army is done gathering, all the servant soldiers, slave soldiers, and slave workers will be incorporated into the army, and they will be sent far away from their homeland. They might even be sent to the Land of Holy Light, which is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and the Great Horned Rat God they yearn for has yet to descend to save them. At that time, they will naturally accept their fate.
"At that time, their illusions will be shattered, and they will serve their masters obediently. They will understand that if they want to change their fates, they can only fight bravely for their masters on the battlefield.
"It's always like this during the Glory Era. So, it's not just the Blood Hoof Clan. All the important people of the five great clans will have nothing to worry about."
"I see …"
Meng Chao nodded with a contemplative expression.
Ice Storm's words were not without reason.
It was one thing for a few rat people who could no longer tolerate it to fight back in anger.
It was another thing for them to form a revolutionary army of more than one hundred thousand people.
It was just like how Ice Storm now had three hundred servant soldiers under her command in name.
But with her own strength, she could not provide for the three hundred servant soldiers to eat, drink, and poop, much less increase the intensity of their training.
A rat people revolutionary army with more than one hundred thousand people?
Just the thought of it was the biggest joke in the world.
But in Meng Chao's memories from his previous life, there was a lot of information about the rat people's riot.
He knew that the rat people who rose up in revolt numbered far more than one hundred thousand or even one million.
When the angry rat people formed a wave that covered the sky and earth, all of Turanze would tremble under their unified roars. Even the battalion-level fighters who wore totem armor that had been around for more than ten thousand years could not help but have their expressions change.
Even though the rat people revolutionary army was suppressed by the five great clans in the end.
But after ruling over Turanze for more than ten thousand years, the high and mighty masters of the clans would also pay a devastating price for their brutality, stupidity, and arrogance.
The sacred royal power would fall from the hands of the lion-people, tiger-people, minotaurs, and the other old nobles. It would fall into the hands of Canus, the jackal who had miraculously risen to power by suppressing the rat people's riot.
And to strengthen his rule, Canus used mad geniuses to stir up the ultimate war that swept through all of the Other World.
In the end, it led to the destruction of the Turan civilization and Dragon City civilization.
Based on this angle, it was impossible for Meng Chao to just watch the rat people's riot.
Because when the first rumor about the descent of the Great Horned Rat God spread through the stinky drainage pipes and the depths of the dark mines, the rat people slave workers who were tortured to their last breaths by the warriors clenched their fists for the first time. Their eyes burned with anger as they stared at the dark cave walls and the sky and called out to the Great Horned Rat God. At that time, the death knell had already rung.
The death knell was not just for the warriors and the Turan civilization.
It also decided the fate of Dragon City and the Other World.
Meng Chao could not figure out how the rat people managed to gather the resources they needed to fight back no matter how hard he tried.
It has to be known that the uprisings in the Other World and the uprisings in ancient Earth were two completely different concepts.
In ancient Earth, the people at the bottom of society who had nowhere else to go were literally uprisings. As long as they could turn trees into soldiers, they could "uprisings".
After all, no matter how great the emperors, generals, and ministers boasted about themselves, they were just people with two shoulders and one head. It was impossible for the difference in fighting strength between people to be more than one hundred times. Even a famous general who won all his battles could be stabbed to death by a small bamboo spear.
But the Other World was a world with supernatural abilities.
The emperors, generals, ministers, shamans, and chiefs controlled most of the cultivation resources, and they had the ability to fight against thousands of people on their own.
It was impossible for a bunch of riffraff to pose a fatal threat to a ruler who had supernatural powers.
In his previous life, the rat people's riot had shaken the ruling order of the Turan civilization because they definitely had their trump cards and secrets.
Right now, Meng Chao could only think that the rumor about the descent of the Great Horned Rat God was different from the commotion that would appear at the start of the Glory Era, which Haifeng had mentioned.
The greatest difference was that the prosperous era before the Glory Era was too long.
It has to be known that the prosperous eras and the Glory Eras in the past would cycle once every seven or eight years, or at most every ten or twenty years.
In other words, the rat people would be summoned by the clan once every seven or eight years, or at most every ten or twenty years, to fight for the glory of the warriors.
The Glory War could strengthen the warriors' control over the servant soldiers and cultivate the servant soldiers' loyalty to the warriors. At the very least, they would respect them.
Through the war, they could also get rid of a large number of unruly and unnecessary rat people and stir up the rat people's hatred toward the holy light camp. They could then push all the injustices and even torments the rat people faced to the holy light camp.
At the same time, no matter how many rat people served as cannon fodder or slaves and died quietly on the battlefield, there would always be some lucky ones who could stand out and become new clan warriors through the Blood Bestowal Ceremony.
This gave hope to the restless and restless rat people.
In the words of Dragon City's civilization, the path to ascension was always open.
If the rat people could not become warriors, it was their own problem.
It was their own fault for not working hard and not taking advantage of the chances they were given.
But when Dragon City transmigrated, it interfered with the magnetic field of the planet around Monster Mountain Range and caused the spirit energy there to become chaotic, which led to the longest prosperous era in history.
With the rat people's astonishing reproductive abilities, during the prosperous era that lasted for half a century, they could produce four or five generations of descendants, which meant that they had more than twenty times the original number.
For the new generation of rat people like Ye, not only had they never been conscripted, they had never worked under the warriors, and they had never seen the full power of the totem armor. Therefore, they had an indelible awe and subservience to the clan warriors.
In fact, even his father and grandfather had never been summoned before.
The so-called "glory" was just an illusory concept. The young rat people who were used to living a carefree life in the wilderness had a much stronger desire for "freedom" than all the rat people in the past thousands of years.
This was probably the ideological basis for the rat people's chaos to erupt in the Glory Era.
Of course, Meng Chao had never thought about stopping the rat people's chaos, and it was impossible for him to do so.
When it came to the fight between the rat people and the warriors, he, who had received modern education from Earth since he was young, naturally stood on the former's side.
It did not matter whether he was against Jackal Canus, who was about to rise to power, or the Apocalyptic Wolf, who had started the war in the Other World and ruined everything.
He was also against the masters of the clan, who were represented by Casava Blood Hoof.
Meng Chao did not have a good impression of them at all.
As long as he could save Dragon City, he had enough strength and chances.
Meng Chao did not mind killing all of them.
But he could not just watch the rat people's chaos follow the path it took in his previous life. It would erupt and disappear just like it did in his previous life, which would benefit Jackal Canus and lead to his eventual destruction.
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