Chapter 43 The Mother Rat
Chapter 43 Female Rat
As Ictor said before, slave rats are just consumables, and they are super consumables that are used in huge amounts and consumed very quickly.
There is a high probability that a slave rat will not survive more than a year. If it survives for a few years, it can be considered a longevity among slave rats.
Ah no, for Shushu, it should be said that he is lucky to live so long, because to survive the "sustainable fishing from the marsh" production activities requires more than a strong body and a smart mouse brain.
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To sum up, it is easy to consume a slave rat, but what about producing one?
Easier!
Here, we have to mention the "women" in the rat society.
Just now, Iket was led by the clan rats to the "breeding pit", where the most precious "mother rats" in the clan were stored.
Yes, yes, although the Skaven can be regarded as sexually reproducing mammals, they do not have large groups of women like the civilized societies on the surface.
Instead, there was a slowly squirming, huge mountain of flesh.
That kind of thing can only be called a lump in Iket's opinion, not a female rat!
The fat body like a hill exudes the stench of decay, and you can barely tell that it is the rat man's face with his eyes closed, as if he is asleep.
They have been in a coma for a long time, and specially castrated eunuch slave rats are responsible for regularly injecting hypnotics and reproductive-enhancing drugs into them, turning them into complete fertility machines.
Moreover, mating rights are also one of the important means for clan leaders to control their rat people. There will always be rats that burn out their brains because they are in heat, and that is the time to control them!
Since all the rat men who previously had mating rights were killed by Ictor, he had to allow the new rat men to carry out the clan's "breeding business".
Under the influence of hormones, even the most powerful Skaven warlords are at risk of dying while reproducing. Strong physiological impulses will drive them to keep moving until they die.
Iket needs female rats, but what he needs is a more normal female rat person, not a simple breeding machine like this.
Ictor could not describe the evil in it. He wanted to feel angry, but he could only despair in the face of the dark reality.
What he wants is a female rat-woman who can not only participate in labor but also be responsible for the reproduction of the race, just like a peasant woman.
With sufficient food, it only takes about five months for these little mice to develop into mature Skaven.
Some upper-class ratmen will also covet the beauty of slaves of other races, so there will be a demand for more lustful female ratmen.
In this scene, even the most "heroic" Furikong would shake his head and not even have the slightest desire to reproduce.
Food is forcibly pumped from the pipe into the body of the brood mother, and some digestive medicine is mixed in it. The excrement is also regularly pumped out of the pipe by the eunuch rats.
If you want the Ratmen in your territory to have the ability to reproduce, this huge female Ratman in front of you is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.
Just like the queen ant, the female rat-man will turn into a huge physical womb after reaching sexual maturity at the age of two, and will not become the so-called "mouse-eared lady".
An extremely blasphemous carnival was staged in front of him.
A group of dark, chaotic, dirty, and blasphemous evil races that "let a hundred flowers bloom".
Rats are actually very similar to humans.
But it's a pity that the female rat-man in front of me is already in its original state.
What Iket needs to think about now is how to obtain this service?
This is actually not difficult to imagine. This group of rats who have been with the dimension stone for a long time has such a huge base, so it is not surprising that any kind of mutation will occur.
This is the reproduction method pursued by the rat people. The reason why I pay attention to this point is because Ictor hopes to realize the natural development of rats in the territory, instead of spending a lot of money to summon rats every time they are short of rats.
Although the impact of most mutations is negative, there is no guarantee that there will be good mutations among them.
As the saying goes, if you are right, you will get more help, but if you are unjust, you will get less help. If you do this in a world with basic moral concepts, you will not end well. If you are not safe, one day a "just partner" will come to disturb him.
In addition, among the newborn rats, there will also be some rats with white fur and evil horns. These rats are called gray prophets. They are natural rat-man spellcasters and have an appearance very close to that of the great horned rat.
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It would be more appropriate to say "finished". If Ictor hadn't ordered the eunuch rats to forcibly remove the clan rats and storm rats, they would have died of exhaustion on the belly of the mother rat.
The black-furred, muscular rat rats can become storm rats. They are natural warriors among the rat people and the backbone of the clan's fighting force.
As far as Ictor knows, those really high-level rat-on-rats will raise their own beautiful female rat-men.
Yes, yes, mating rights are also very precious to rat people. Although female rats have unimaginable production efficiency, there are always more rats than porridge.
But Ickert thought of another possibility.
Of course, clans always seek to expand, so most rats with brown fur will become clan rats.
However, with such a bad breeding method, if you were to switch to the main world, you might be labeled as a cultist and burned at the stake.
Ictor even began to doubt whether he was still a normal person after coming into contact with the rat people.
As long as there is this demand, the industrialized Skaven society will have corresponding services.
If the breeding mother hadn't been exuding "hormones" that tempted the rat-men all the time, there would have been no rat-men with the urge to reproduce.
The same is true for the rat people.
The Skaven's research turned them into the most suitable tools for war.
Those with neater fur will be selected again and replenished as clan rats. If they do not need to be replenished, they will be thrown into the mines together and become slave rats.
Not to mention that although the female rat man in front of her has strong fertility, she is completely unable to take care of herself. One female rat needs at least twenty to thirty eunuch rats to take care of her. How can he get so much labor.
Any normal person would not want to be associated with these guys.
But reality no longer allows him to think so much. In short, what he has to do now is to use the rat men as orderly as possible to develop his own power.
At that time, the eunuch rats will carefully identify their fur. Those with mixed hair and weak rats will be immediately labeled as slave rats, and will be thrown into the mines once they are raised.
At the same time, the breeding activities of many rats have made the female rat's fertilization rate reach almost 100%. It will not take long for this breeding mother to give birth to a litter of rats.
Over there, the rat people's carnival is over.
Iket could feel that the ratmen around him were almost unable to suppress themselves, and they prayed to Iket to obtain "mating rights."
This is the true face of the Skaven.
Generally speaking, all gray prophets born into a clan must be sent to the gray prophet clan to receive spellcasting education.
Moreover, the biological technology of the rat people is also very powerful. Ictor suspects that most private female rats may be transformed from ordinary rat rats.
After all, he can create a weird stitching ratman like the Abomination of the Hell Pit, so it shouldn't be a problem to sew a beautiful female ratman.
Unfortunately, technology has always only served the rich, and the cost of customization is definitely not low. This road is not suitable for the poor.
Ever since, Ictor's eyes finally turned to mutation.
Chapter completed!