Murphy and Black Servant Sen's "evil conspiracy" continued until dawn. They had more or less gone over everything the ratmen would need to do next.
The vampire governor acted like a seasoned pro, a master criminal plotting a crime. That was understandable, since this wasn't his first time doing something like this.
With Hog's example to follow, Black Servant Sen only needed to revise the old PowerPoint to pursue his "apotheosis ambitions." Replacing every mention of "gnolls" with "ratmen" would be enough to turn it into a plan of action.
Of course, Murphy had no reason to overlook the same problems Hog had noticed.
The ratmen's terrible tendency to fracture into factions was a serious issue. And according to Black Servant Sen, their endless tunnels spreading beneath the earth had already reached the Red Earth Province as the ratmen continued to dig. There were even traces of them beneath the vast yellow sands of the Sang Hai Empire.
In other words, although the ratmen had yet to develop a mature civilization, they had indeed become a "global" race, just like the fishmen.
That meant Black Servant Sen could never unite the ratmen in his lifetime. Just as the fishmen could never have a single Fishman King, the ratmen were destined to enter the stage of history as scattered nations.
Still, Black Servant Sen was ambitious, and even more unusually, he was a man of action. Murphy was confident he could establish an underground ratman kingdom before he died of old age, stretching from the Vampire Coast to the Eternal Rift. It would be a little smaller than the Gnoll Kingdom, but far larger than Transia.
To achieve that, though, Black Servant Sen had to get moving.
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