Gray slashed his sword at the orc who was being tortured by Karen.

"What? It's my trophy, I haven't had enough of it! Karen was covered in blood, and she put away several sharp knives of different styles with an unhappy face.

Gerry looked at him with hatred and anger in his eyes, and sighed: "Cruelty and tyranny are not worth boasting about, because there are no human beasts like this, and those who have been fighting with hatred will eventually be burned by the flames of hatred." ”

"Huh?" Karen sneered and said disdainfully: "Now you are accusing me like a virgin, you were the one who ordered the slaughter of orc women and children, what qualifications do you have to come to me to preach?!" ”

Gray smiled self-deprecatingly, "Yes, it's my fault, I taught you hatred and ruthlessness, but I didn't teach you how to fight with love and protection, after all, I didn't learn that." ”

He beckoned to Karen, sat on the grass beside him, and looked at the White Tower City in the distance: "Karen, how did humans and orcs come into contact?" ”

Recalling the history class she had taken at the academy, Karen replied without thinking: "About a thousand years ago, a group of orcs invaded the human home in the southwestern mountains, and more than 2,000 civilians were killed at that time, and since then, the millennial war between the Empire and the orcs has begun. ”

Gray sighed leisurely: "At that time, there were not many people on the southwest border at all, because at that time, people were still living on the Northeast Plain, and it was difficult to say whether they could gather 200 people. ”

"What do you mean?!" Karen's voice changed a little.

"A thousand years ago, people began to migrate southwest along the Mar River, when Kalan was just a small kingdom, and the mountains in the southwest, and the Devil's Mountains in the depths, were home to orcs.

Have you seen White Tower City? It was also the home of the orcs, but in fact, all the territories in the southwest of the empire were now taken from the orcs. Gray said expressionlessly.

Her body trembled slightly, and Karen said in a slumber voice: "So, we are the invaders, and the murderous orcs are defending their homeland?" That's not what it says in the book, it says......"

"yes, have you ever written a history book? Or have you witnessed that history? Do you know that human beings are the most capable race of storytelling, people can write holy scriptures, scriptures, it is not God who created man, but man who created God, angels, devils......

Everything is imagined by man, there are no miracles, only people's imagination! The so-called supreme god is also made up by people. ”

Gray took a sip of water and looked at Karen, who was silent next to him: "History, iron-like inscriptions, yellowed paper, seem to be indestructible, but they will shatter when touched. Let me tell you what we did. ”

Originally, only a very small number of mountain dwellers had seen orcs and thought of them as some kind of cannibals, and this is what the Devil's Mountains meant to be, and there were man-eating devils living in them.

And the orcs, at first, only regarded humans as some kind of rare food, and when humans entered the southwestern hills along the Mar River on a large scale, the orcs were happy at first, and there was another kind of cattle and sheep, and they kept humans in captivity.

Unlike orcs, who only eat meat, humans can be vegetarian and quite "smart", they can help them take care of cattle, sheep and horses, and they can also eat.

But soon they couldn't laugh, in that era, the effect of the holy crystal to open the potential of the human body had been discovered, and the aristocratic private army "knights" appeared on a small scale, and it was difficult for ordinary people to fight against the orcs with copper skin and iron bones, but knights could.

The Frontier Knights came into being, and initially there were only seven formations, Dawn, White Tower, Light Shield, Rain of Swords, Thorns, Roses, and Sacred Rings.

The first batch of border knights numbered 3,500, and the number of orcs has always been a mystery, some say around 20,000, some say around 50,000, and some say more than 100,000.

To be sure, they were very scattered and very disunited, and in the beginning, there were almost no orc tribes of more than 300 in number, and they fought each other fiercely.

It can be said that the fact that the orc tribe with a number of thousands of people can appear later is still the credit of the human race pressing forward step by step and wanting to kill them all.

The orcs, who are not united at all, are retreating one after another, and a large area of fertile land is occupied by humans, which is rich in products, whether it is agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic fisheries, etc., it can be well developed, and the wind and rain are smooth all year round.

In addition, people have not only found a lot of fruits here, but also found crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, as well as important resources such as iron ore and gold mines.

The rest of the matter became simpler, the war machine was activated, and the land of the orcs was encroached on step by step, not only by the increasing number of border knights, but also by the coalition of nobles.

In this way, the ferocious orcs were stunned, left behind large territories, and kept moving to the depths of the Devil's Mountains.

The empire was founded, and since then, for every point of glory in the empire, the situation of the orcs has become more difficult, and humans do not eat orcs, but they have almost wiped them out.

The fertile lands of the southwest became the granary of the empire, supporting the expansion of the population and the economic boom, and gradually approaching the operation of a vast empire of tens of millions of people.

In this way, the Kahlan Empire digested the land of the orcs on the one hand, and did not give up external expansion on the other hand, and the surrounding small countries were either destroyed or submitted.

It can be said that the empire can have today's glory, and it must be half of the credit of the orc land.

For a long time, the Frontier Knights acted as executioners, not only killing orcs, but also being transferred to attack other human kingdoms from time to time.

Because of the long-term battle with orcs, the combat power of the border knights is well-known throughout the continent, after all, the Devil's Mountain Range is the only place on the continent where orcs exist.

Orcs are very ferocious, they eat people, human beings pay attention to civilized etiquette, do not eat orcs, the result is that now the orcs are about to be exterminated.

Sword blade quenching poison is just a basic operation, every time the border knight enters the unknown orc realm, in addition to reconnaissance, the first thing is to sprinkle the water source with saint quartz powder, for a period of time, these water has been "baptized" knights drink fine, but the orcs drink iron and die violently (saint quartz toxicity is comparable to arsenic), orcs and humans are two species, they can't use saint quartz to open up their physical potential.

It wasn't until the population in the southwest of the empire grew larger and exceeded one million that the Border Knights finally had another meaning in addition to being executioners, shouting for the sake of humanity and the empire, killing all the orcs, and protecting the millions of civilians in the southwest from the orcs.

After all, although the orcs are losing ground as a whole, they are not unable to fight back, besides, after losing a large area of land, when the orcs spend the winter, they must plunder humans, or human pigs, cattle and sheep to survive the winter.

"But the most ironic thing is that if we hadn't encroached on the land of the orcs and moved the population over, we wouldn't need to protect anything at all, because the orcs can't leave the southwest region, otherwise they will die soon, and the reason is unknown for the time being." Gray said lightly, all this is really wonderful.

Orcs are also a civilization, if you stand in a third-party, neutral point of view, or humans are more hanging, killing more ruthlessly.

The body trembled slightly, and it was strange that Wren had no waves in his heart: "Hehe! Ha ha! It's really interesting, other people, how do they react when they know the so-called real history? ”

"Some people don't think so, orcs are not human, what kind of morality do you talk to them! There are also people who think that although we are invaders, who calls us human beings, we have no choice but to continue to kill, as for the peace talks, you know, they have never succeeded, and now this kind of people have almost disappeared.

Anyway, as long as it continues, the orcs will definitely be finished, although the sacrifice will not be less, but now the hatred for each other is too deep, and one must fall.

I'm telling you this, if nothing else, kill the orcs, there's no need to torture them and make yourself like a demon.

Tian shamelessly said that people still have to be a little human. ”

After that, Karen was normal, and she was decisive against the orcs, and then that day came.

The white and shiny minarets of the White Tower City are faintly in sight, the waters of the Mar River flow slowly, the thorn flags flutter in the wind, the desolate trumpets sound, and the knights line up, singing ancient songs and riding forward......

It was a big showdown, one that happens almost every few decades.

They were surrounded, and after a few battles, the Knights of the Thorns, with only more than 300 people left, were surrounded by the largest orc tribe, nearly 2,000 orc warriors.

The howling wind blew through the battlefield with a solemn atmosphere, and in late autumn, neither side made any move on this wilderness for a while.

A moment later, an orc with green fangs, leather armor, a tiger skin tied around his waist, some bright feathers on his shoulders, and muscles like steel stood up.

He was 2.5 meters tall and very strong, exhaled hot air, roared angrily, and threw the thick iron rod in his hand to the ground.

The meaning was obvious, and the knights laid down their weapons and surrendered, and a few contemptuous laughters rang out, and although many knights were afraid, none of them laid down their weapons.

Surrender is also death, at most live a few more days, and the end is to be eaten, the knights know this truth very well, rather than die so badly, it is better to die in battle!

While there was still a moment, Gray slowly turned his head and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, comrades, it's my incompetence that has led you to hell. Now, I can only apologize to you in the next life. ”

A smile appeared on his face: "We are actually not righteous, I am an executioner, I have killed a lot of orcs, I don't regret it, it's not that I don't regret killing, but I was born as a human being, I don't regret it!"

Comrades-in-arms, it is difficult to die through the ages! Over the past thousand years, more than 500,000 knights have died in border battles, and as the original establishment, the Knights of Thorns have been wiped out 6 times in history, and now it is the seventh.

Comrades-in-arms, friends, there are 500,000 dead souls watching us ahead, tell me, are you afraid of being alone in the road ahead?! ”

Silence, silence was an attitude, Gray turned around, his face was grim, he clenched his right fist horizontally, tapped his chest, and the knights did so.

"Bang Bang~"

The dull sound of a drum echoed across the battlefield, seemingly intertwined with the beating of the heart.

The meaning of this action is obvious, to put it bluntly, it is life and death downplay, and if you don't accept it, you will do it.

The orcs were vigilant and clenched their clubs and axes, they were limited to craft, mostly heavy weapons.

Gray drew his knight's greatsword and shouted, "Knights, charge with me!" ”

"Boom!"

Karen pulled out the standard long knife, the knights used more swords, on the wilderness, the sunset was like blood, there was no temptation at all, the two sides just met in short arms, and the battle reached a fever pitch.

Gray took the lead, the surging fighting qi permeated his whole body, and a faint layer of blood enveloped his body, which was not to say that his divine fighting qi had a color, but that the overloaded fighting qi brought out the blood in the veins!

"Huh!"

With an indescribable edge, several orcs separated from each other, and the border lion roared angrily, wielding a big sword, and his moves were fierce, like an iron stake piercing into the tofu.

Gray stood up to the siege of dozens of orcs and rushed to the previous orc chieftain, covered in blood, like a Shura, sweeping with his sword!

"Khooth!"

The orc chieftain's iron rod broke in two, and he fell to the ground clutching his blood-spurting neck, horror still in his eyes.

Gray, who looked like a bloody man, fell to his knees, his great sword in his hand almost broke, and his whole body was torn apart, and he died, with a line of blood-stained footprints behind him.

"Utuka!" (Mighty Warriors)

The orcs bypassed his corpse, they respected the strength and feared the strong, at least they would not vent their anger on the corpse, nor would they eat the warriors they confessed.

Karen saw Gray's death, he forced it not to cry, which would affect the vision, Gray Douglas did not have a wife, and so far, the direct blood of the Douglas family was cut off.

The disparity in numbers was so great that when more than 600 orcs fell, almost all of the knights were killed.

Karen fought to the last moment, his knife had broken, and an orc bit on his right arm, tearing him off!

He endured the severe pain, condensed the little fighting energy on his left fist, and punched the side of the orc's forehead.

"Click~"

The sound of bones cracking, the orc fell, and the fingers of Karen's left hand were also white and boneless, and she couldn't lift her strength.

6 heads, and when the 7th orc rushed at him, Karen smiled, and he rushed at him as well.

The leg muscles exerted force, and with all their strength, they knocked the orc to the ground and lay on him.

With no strength left in her left arm, Karen opened her mouth and bit down on the orc's neck, smashing his throat!

Blood splattered, and the orc whimpered a few times, and stopped moving.

He got up slowly, half of his face was covered in blood, both orcs and blood coming from the corners of his mouth after his teeth were broken, and if there were demons, maybe it would be what he was now.

When Karen looked around, there were no knights in white leather armor still standing, the knights and many orcs were lying in pools of blood, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, the red glow of the sky and the blood-stained land reflected each other, as if she were in an abyss purgatory full of magma and ash.

Bleeding so much and exhausted that only one bone was exposed and her arm hung weakly, Karen was already confused.

In the bloody twilight, the orc didn't give him a chance to breathe, and an orc armed with an iron rod slashed him away.

"Poof!"

"Ahem!"

Karen fell on his back on the cold ground, his ribs were broken, the blood stained the leather armor on his chest, and before he died, he felt warm all over his body, as if he was in a gentle embrace, as if he heard some strange sound.

He immediately broke free from this illusion of returning to the light, his face was covered with dust and blood, he blinked vigorously, his eyes were a little moist, and he widened his pupils to see the last sight.

The sky is still high, but the stars are still out of reach.

On the stone, Wren woke up and sat up, it was already evening, his face was joyless and carefree, calm and peaceful, and his eyes were deep, like a deep pool.

Remembering everything in the past, he walked in the forest, enjoying the breath of nature, and when he saw the village with smoke curling, he showed an inexplicable smile, this is the real him, what should be feared, but not him!

His story is not over yet.