The Rat Clan within the Ruins
At night, in the cellars of what had once been the ruins of Goblin civilization, great swarms of Magic Rats gathered together, preparing to charge toward the area where the Goblins were. Before long, the sounds of slaughter, weeping, and groaning rang out through the ruin zone under Goblin control.
The Ratmen had existed in the cellars of these ruins for far too long. In the present rat swarm, from intermediate Rat Kings and Ratman divine Retainers down to the shortest Mana-Less Ratmen, all of them had been told from birth that their clan originated here.
Even Pink Claw could not clearly explain the earliest origins of this group of Ratmen. He only knew that before the former Rat King broke through to high tier, the Rat Clan had been suppressed by the Goblin race for a very, very long time. The Ratmen held the advantage in physique, while the Goblins held the advantage in technology, After the previous Rat King broke through to high tier, the rat swarm, relying on its dual advantages of size and numbers, used their skulls to wear down the Goblin cannons, yet even then they could only press the other side down slightly, find a bit more food, and breed more elementary magic-patterned rats.
As for the overall elevation of the species that the Rat King had hoped for, it was limited by the total amount of food inside the Sky Pit. Thus the rat swarm could only use the Beastmen Royal Court's campaign against the Gallop Plains as an opportunity to search outside for chances.
In the very core region of the cellar, a hairless white rat lay among the many Ratmen. The magic patterns on her body brightened and dimmed by turns, while beneath her, litter