"Wake up... Wake up..." A floating voice hovered in his ears, slowly pulling his will back from the chaos. Ash Rufate slowly opened his eyes. He felt a strange feeling, as if his body was floating in the void at this time. He could not feel any touch on his whole body, and there was nothingness above and below.

"What's wrong...Who am I...Where is this?"

Memory and rationality came back to his mind bit by bit. By the way, I... had a duel with Yilan at that time... and then... exploded? By the way, Yilan's body was a metal mechanical body, so it exploded...

"Carrie, where is this?" Asu Ruffat asked instinctively. Because she had been with Carrie for so long, it had become a subconscious thing to ask her if something had become a subconscious thing.

My mind was empty and there was no response. Then Ashu Rufate remembered what happened before Yilan died. By the way, what did Yilan say at that time? "Close"? Ashu Rufate already had a general concept of Carrie's existence, so he could understand the meaning of "Close".

"Carrie!" he shouted in his mind. In the past, when he yelled like this, Carrie would definitely respond, but now his mind is empty and there is no response.

Is Carrie no longer here...

Ashu Rufate felt an inexplicable emotion surge in his heart, which was indescribable emptiness and loss, an impulse mixed with anxiety and sadness. Although he knew it was useless, he was still shouting Carrie's name again and again in his mind. However, the silence around seemed to be mocking him, and Carrie did not respond at all.

He once thought Carrie would always be with him, and even Carrie himself promised the same. If you want to say that the feeling of losing Carrie is like a part of his soul has disappeared.

"Are you awake?" A voice suddenly appeared in my mind.

"Carrie?" Ashu Rufat was shocked, but he immediately realized that it was not Carrie. It was a male voice, and the voice was not heard by his ears, but was directly heard in his mind - the same as Carrie.

"Carrie? Is it the name of your servant?" replied the mysterious voice. "It's a pity that I'm not. Don't worry, your servant has just been asleep for the time being, but has not been eliminated."

"Who are you? Where is this?" Ashu Rufa asked with a specific concentration.

"Where is this? Actually, there is no fixed name here... This is the gap between the world and the world, the cracks between space and time. For physical creatures like you, this is a very troublesome place. You cannot move here, all your senses and your body have failed here, and here, you can only do one thing: think." The mysterious voice seemed to be laughing. "In fact, I'm very sure that without the help of a third party, you can't leave here. It's a good choice to think about the philosophy of life here forever."

Ashrufate did not answer. He tried hard to act, but the facts seemed to prove that the mysterious voice was not false. He was clearly conscious, but could not act at all. All he saw was darkness, all his ears heard was empty, the nose could not smell anything, and the body could not feel anything.

By the way, he just said that Carrie was just sleeping for the time being? So, will Carrie wake up?

"As for who I am..." the mysterious voice replied. "I can tell you that I am a god."

"A god?...even if it's a god, I'm afraid there's something to tell me if I take the initiative to say hello to me?"

"Haha... I'm saying it very well. I like this way of saying it, simple, direct, and there is no need to beat around the bush. I am the rat god."

"My name is Ashu Rufate." Ashu Rufate replied. He was a little confused. Did you hear it wrong? Is there such a god? What a strange name.

"I know who you are... In fact, I know you very well, I know your name, identity, race, origin, ability and many other things. It is because of this that I am looking for you here."

"I remembered that you woke me up just now, right? You know me very clearly? I never saw you."

"It doesn't make any sense to say this." The Rat God laughed. "I'm here to make a deal with you."

"Trade? But you say you are a god."

"Yes. I am a God, and that's why I need to rely on your power. Because now, my people are in a great crisis."

Ashu Rufate felt the anxiety in the other person's voice, but he was not sure that it was not revealed to him on purpose.

"What ability do I have to make a God trade with me?" Ashu Rufate smiled in his heart. "Well, since it's a transaction, at least we should understand what I want to do and what I can get."

His eyes suddenly lit up. Then he found that he had seen something. Wait, this wasn't it! Ashu Rufate realized that some images were directly input into his mind without passing through his eyes.

He saw the dark underground cave, which was not the "ground cave" in ordinary human concepts, but a place far below the crust and far away from the surface - these concepts poured into his mind in an instant.

There were creatures walking through underground caves. This was an almost light-free environment, but Ashrufate immediately realized what these creatures were - those were rats! When he went on a war as an elf prince, he once saw this creature on a captured dark elf ship. Of course, when he saw the rats, the rats were dead. Later, he also saw rats driven by the dark elf town in the conquered dark elf town - not many, and soon the Divine Martial Elfs executed them all.

In fact, the name given to them by the elves of "Rat Man" can make people understand the general appearance of these creatures. Like this name, their appearance is like a combination of humans and mice. Rat man is a bipedal rodent race, slightly shorter than humans, with thick fuzz and long curly tails. Their small eyes are shining and are very adaptable to life in the dark.

The Rat God poured more things into Ashrufate's mind. This feeling was like a voice flowing quietly in his heart, telling him all the news he needed to know. He saw the ancestor of the Rat Man - a big rat who was used to traveling through the underground world. But under the guidance of the Rat God, these mice began to contact the underground dimensional stone veins, and these dimensional stones eventually led to the mutation of the rats. Their size became larger and larger, and these mice used their feet to stand and tried to communicate with other rats in a simple way. As time went by, generation after generation, they eventually evolved into today's rats. Under the influence of the radiation of the dimensional stone, this creature eventually had a high level of wisdom that was not inferior to any race, and formed a unique and well-organized society in the underground world far away from other races.

Ashrufat saw the rats digging dimensional stones to develop their civilization and technology. He saw how the rats used various unheard methods to use the energy contained in the dimensional stones. He saw that the rats called the dimensional stones magic stones and regarded them as the most precious minerals. He also saw how the rats engaged in cruel and ruthless civil wars, eliminated the weak groups of them, and demoted them to slaves. All this happened in the name of the rat god.

Sometimes, the rats also left the underground world and came to the surface. But their evil and selfish nature (half from their ancestors and half from acquired social education) caused them to quickly clash with other races. These also included the elves. Ashrufate saw a battle between rats and elves - for the rats, it was an insignificant event, but it made them listed by the elves on the list of "enemy".

He saw the beliefs of the rat people, the altars and holy icons they created, and the full-time clergy among them. These rat people, known as the gray prophets, were born with gray fur and were favored by the rat god. It was their existence that made the rat society affected by the hatred of the civil war never divided. Although the tribes in the rat society were full of conflicts with each other, the gray prophets who vowed loyalty to the rat god were like adhesives, using religion, belief (of course, necessary force) to firmly combine the rat people together, so that all civil war destruction was within a controllable range.

He saw the ruling institutions of the rat man, a total of twelve rat man leaders composed of rat man leaders called "Abyss Lords". All major matters in the rat man society were decided by the Abyss Council.

The scene suddenly disappeared, and Ashu Rufate felt a little surprised and curious.

"They are my people, they are my creations and I love." The voice of the Rat God sounded in his mind. "So, I must not abandon them in this critical moment."

"What kind of crisis is it?" Ashu Rufate asked in his mind. Indeed, at least in the information provided by the Rat God, although the society of the Rat Man is weird (relative to the human world), it is still stable. There is nothing to put the entire race into crisis. Because the underground world excavated by the Rat Man is indeed big enough, even natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanoes cannot pose any threat to the entire race. Not to mention wars, diseases, etc.

New information flowed into his mind, and suddenly, he realized what the crisis was referred to as the Rat God. The civilization of the Rat Man was based on the magic stone (that is, the dimension stone). Whether it was the evolution of their race, the civilization they built, their weapons, their tools, their lives, everything was inseparable from the magic stone. The magic stone formed the foundation of the rat man society. But the magic stone was ultimately a mineral, something that would be consumed. The crisis of the depletion of the magic stone mine had already occurred. If it continued to be consumed at this current rate, the magic stone mine of the rat man would be consumed in the foreseeable time.
Chapter completed!