On the second day of the new year, the city of Crewe was still bitterly cold.

In the old days, most citizens would wake up at 5 a.m. and go about their families day after day.

But this morning, the clock on the towering bell tower had reached six o'clock, and the city was still terribly quiet. On the streets, there were hardly any citizens to be seen, except for the officers of the police station and the soldiers of the garrison regiment.

Everyone got up late, including the workers in the outer cities, who had to get up early every day.

Because they had been partying almost all night yesterday!

The sixth block of the inner city, where most of the most powerful people in Crewe live. In the middle of this block, among the dense forests and flowers, there is a row of high-rise villas made of white jade.

These villas are not privately owned, they are managed by the Kavar Fort.

Morinda Morinda, the only orc among the kingdom's retainers, was granted the right to live here last month as proof of his allegiance to the Reagan family. His progress was enough to make all the nobles of Crewe jealous, and in less than a year, he moved from a single apartment to a small independent building in the eighth block, and then, when the kingdom was founded, he directly crossed several classes and moved directly to the upper villa area where only the king's retainers had the right to live.

Last night, the whole city cheered.

They were cheering for the first New Year of the kingdom and for the speech of their king.

Cheers all night!

But Morinda did not join in the cheers, and after the meeting in the inner hall he returned to the extravagant villa, and then stayed in his study in a daze until dawn.

As an orc, an orc who once had a high status in the orc tribe has a different understanding of the series of events that have occurred in the past two days than others.

The war for the unification of the clans was over, two years sooner than he had imagined.

As one of the actual planners of the Orc War three years ago, Morinda had suspected the real reason why Shikan-Silveraxe had instigated the other two Great Chiefs to fight this war before the war began.

At that time, Shikan-Silveraxe's strategy was to divide the empire with werewolves, goblins, and the kingdom of Baru.

Morinda was not optimistic about the war at that time, after all, although the empire at that time was constantly in internal troubles, its powerful strength was not something they could subvert. And Shikan-Silver Axe, as the specific planner of that war, must have a better understanding of the strength of the enemy and the enemy. However, Shikan-Silver Axe, which has always been profit-oriented, still made a war decision and poured out the strength of the entire northern clan to fight this war!

Later events proved that Morinda was correct in his inference, and Shikan-Silveraxe wanted to use the war to invade the empire to realize his dream of unifying the orc tribes.

Although he encountered some accidents during this period, in the end, Shikan-Silver Axe realized his dream.

Morinda was one of the first Orc Overseers to follow Shikan-Silveraxe, and from the bottom of his heart, he was happy that the young Grand Chief had achieved what he had achieved.

Two days ago, when Morinda first received the news of the unification of the orc tribes, a voice in his heart kept urging him: Go back, go back to the Great Chief, and continue your unfinished business!

For a moment, he almost impulsively ran to his king and begged to return to the tribe.

But when he calmed down, such thoughts were immediately extinguished by him, and he was also scared into a cold sweat by his impulsive thoughts at that time.

Yesterday, Kesai sent someone to meet him, and he refused without hesitation.

When the Tower of Dawn was first built, Patved, its founder, said that the survival of races and civilizations does not require war and annexation, but can also coexist peacefully with each other.

The entire group fought for this sentence and the future of the clan for more than two hundred years, and finally got in touch with the empire through ocean trade with the help of goblins. Although the empire at that time was more interested in the mineral resources of the Western Continent, many members of the organization were encouraged.

Then, in contact with the Empire, because of the arrogance and pervasive ridicule of the human race, different voices began to appear within the organization, and many people began to doubt whether Patved's thinking was correct.

Twenty years ago, divisions erupted within the Tower of Dawn, advocating the absolute leadership of the organization by leading the orcs to rise in the form of war. As a result, the entire orc tribe is engaged in a civil war while urgently preparing for war against the Empire. However, their plans were shattered twelve years ago when the Commander of the Anku Fortress, Count Anse, counterattacked.

At the height of the orcs' helplessness, a young man came to the northern clan...

He claims to be the representative of the 'Radiant Power'!

Later, with his help, the northern clans quickly integrated the surrounding tribes and began a war to unify the entire orc northern forces nine years ago. It was rumored within the orcs that it would take only three years for Shikan-Silver Axe to unify the entire northern tribe, but in fact he had been preparing for this for more than ten years.

And now, the legendary young Great Chief has used his power to unite the entire orc tribe. Although there is a certain historical inevitability in this, Morinda is still happy from the bottom of his heart for Shikan-Silver Axe to achieve such an achievement.

However, that doesn't mean he's going back.

Through the proof of this time, Morinda understood that the ideals of Archduke Patved were not wrong and unfeasible. However, this idea must be preceded by a precondition... That is, there must be a huge war to get humans to recognize the orcs!

The war has already been experienced, and through this war the empire recognized the status of the orcs,

Now, he wants to stay here and fight for the ideals of the first half of his life, for peace!

These are the questions that Morinda thinks about all night,

Before going to meet Kesai for negotiations, he needs to think these questions out. Because only in this way can he truly represent the kingdom.

"The future of the orcs—" Morinda muttered as he looked out the window, there was already a faint light in the sky, and out of the corner of his eye, the magic clock on the wall pointed at half-past six.

When I think about it, time always flies quite quickly, as if I have just sat down and ushered in the next morning.

Looking at the somewhat defeated courtyard that could be seen outside the window, the old man instinctively walked to the window and pushed open the sealed window. The cold wind blew on his face, but he didn't feel cold, because the weather here was a paradise compared to the winter in the Western Continent.

He just stood by the window, looking at the courtyard and the misty city in the distance to continue his thoughts. This is a common problem of the elderly, who always like to stand alone in one place, looking at a certain scene and falling into a long period of thought.

"Tuk Tuk"

There was a knock on the door of the study, and before Morinda could respond, the door was pushed open from the outside, and at the same time as the modified door sounded with a characteristic "squeak" sound, a tall figure appeared in the doorway, it was a young orc, it was Morinda Morinda's eldest son, Wolf Ma.

Because of Morinda's importance in the kingdom's court, his eldest son and his family members in the western continent were taken to Crewe City. Now, the family lives in this villa.

"Father, haven't you slept all night?" Wolfma walked in, the human servant behind him holding the old man's breakfast for the day.

"You also woke up early today. Morinda closed the window and walked over to the fireplace, stirring the charcoal fire with the tongs.

"Yes, it's a bit unaccustomed to waking up so early in winter. "In the early days when the orcs fled to the Western Continent, they developed the habit of sleeping more because of the lack of food and the cold weather. Of course, only in the winter, and in other seasons the orcs are busy every day, busy for their survival, busy for the next winter.

"You have to get used to it slowly. When the Morinda turned the fire up and returned to his table, the servant had already set his breakfast and bowed down and exited the study.

Wolf Ma glanced at the servant who had exited the study and whispered, "Do you really plan to stay here forever?"

Morinda raised his eyes and glanced at his eldest son, "I'm going to the castle later, there are a lot of things going on today." ”

"You know I'm not talking about this, I mean..."

"Did the people of Kesai look for you?" Morinda interrupted his son.

"Yes, I talked to them. Wolf Ma watched her father slowly approach the table, squinting at the smell of breakfast, and whispered, "They said you refused to meet with them." ”

"What did you all talk about?" Morinda slowly drank the wheat porridge and expertly smeared the bread with honey, "or what did you talk to them about, and what did you promise?"

"They want me to help the emissaries stationed in Crewe City obtain information about Fort Kavar. ”

"You promised them?"

"I'm not that stupid yet!" Wolfma shook her head, looked at her uncaring father and frowned, and asked repeatedly, "Do you really plan to stay here forever?"

"Isn't it good here?" Morinda munched on the delicious white bread, "In the past, can you imagine that we could watch these children grow day by day while we had a leisurely breakfast and chatted about our favourites as we do now?" he asked himself, "No, and I can't even think about it." ”

"But—" Wolfma tried to retort, but perhaps he felt that the language of his rebuttal was too much to say.

"I know what you're trying to say?" Morinda pointed to the stool across from him and motioned for his eldest son to sit down, and looked at the clock on the wall before saying, "You want to go back to the clan, but what can you do when you go back?continue to be your flag leader?continue your war?" He stared into his son's eyes, "Can your war change the current predicament of our tribe's life?"

"Still can't!" Morinda put down the bread in his hand, "but we can, you should have communicated with the immigrants of the tribes in the kingdom, right? You know better than me how they are doing, and you know how the people who have settled in the eastern part of the Iruk Territory and the eastern part of the Kumar Fortress are doing now. ”

"I—" Wolf Mar looked tangled.

"What did we start a war against the Empire three years ago?'The Tower of Dawn' has been working hard for hundreds of years in exchange for peace with the Empire, and why did we finally decide to go to war?" Morinda pointed to his breakfast today, "Isn't it just to have such a life?"

"Now that we have this kind of life, we have to fight for our people to at least not go hungry!" Morinda said with a stern expression: "You should find something to do for yourself now... The Cabinet is interested in creating a town in northern Elok for orcs, and I would recommend that you form a town government. ”

"You have to go!"

Wolf Ma was stunned, and looked at his father with some confusion, "I don't know how to manage the tribe yet..."

"Instead of managing the clan, but forming a town government, the cabinet will send professional administrative officials, but the head of the main department will be elected by the orcs themselves..."

"What is the use of the chief officer we have elected when the cabinet does this?"

Morinda immediately asked, "What do you want to do to develop your own clan within the kingdom?"

When Wolf Ma saw that his father was leaving, he immediately said, "Where are the Overseers of Kesai..."

"Don't believe Kesai's words, why didn't he come to me himself?" Morinda said quickly, "Because Chief Shikan would not make such a request at all, and that clever big chief would not even mention me, this is Kesai's own cleverness. ”

"Don't fall into the trap of Kesai. Morinda said with a warning, "They have long been brainwashed in the civil strife organized twenty years ago, and their minds are thinking about war all day long... In the words of Kingdom scholars, they suffer from severe paranoia of victimization. ”

"But can we really buy peace by doing this?" Wolfma frowned, "The current Pedy Reagan can put aside his prejudices and accept us, but it doesn't mean that future kings can, if..."

"Trust is mutual, my child. Morinda stood up and patted Wolf Ma on the shoulder, "Even Shikan-Silver Axe won't trust us absolutely... So we have to try to get the future kings and nobles of the kingdom to trust us! Some trust can also be exchanged for strength. The old man's words grew quieter and quieter, "So, trying to make our people strong within the kingdom is the ultimate means of peace." ”

Wolf Ma nodded thoughtfully after being stunned, Morinda had already walked to the door, he held the handle and looked at the eldest son sideways, "You only have three months to learn the kingdom script, and then go to Iruk to take office." ”

...

By the time Morinda boarded his special huge carriage, the sky was already bright.

Half an hour later, his carriage arrived at the gate of the castle fort, and when he stepped out of the carriage, he was immediately greeted by the eyes of all the officials at the gate of the castle.

Nearly a year has passed, and these people still have extreme distrust and bloodthirsty hatred in their eyes.

In the beginning, Morinda would even encounter attacks and humiliation from some nobles when walking down the street. Many people were punished for this, and the punishment became more and more severe, and it was only after Pedi deliberately promoted the orc immigration and the kingdom introduced relevant laws that gradually improved these problems.

But secretly, there are still many nobles who capture orcs and torture them!

These people could not understand why the kingdom wanted orcs to settle, and Pedi would not explain to them like a fool that our enemies were not orcs from the Western Continent, but humans from the Suk Plains and the Twak Heights.

After getting out of the carriage, Morinda looked calmly at the flat road where he was heading, and he ignored the whispered curses and hidden insults nearby.

Although it was not easy for the orc commander, who was once the orc overseer and was in charge of 50,000 warriors, to endure the humiliation and discrimination that the lowest laborers in the orc society had to endure, nearly a year was enough time for him to get used to it.

He also had to get used to it!