Chapter 27: The Dilemma
I don't know if it's because of the orc constitution, or if the effect of the medicine is too good, or if Luna's prayers worked, anyway, Orkash recovered quite quickly, and was able to walk on the ground soon after waking up, except for weakness and weakness, a little dizziness, there was basically no big problem.
This is nothing short of a miracle in the eyes of the orcs.
The Stone Crow Clan has struggled in this wilderness since the history of the orc, and in the memory of the orcs, there is no telling how many people have been killed by the curse of the fire demon, and only the fiercely strong-willed warriors can resist it.
And such warriors are very few in the records of the Stone Crow tribe.
If Caesar could read their thoughts, he probably couldn't help but laugh and scream, you put a patient with severe heat stroke in the scorching sun and heat? You must know that the temperature in the northern part of Eladia can reach more than 50 degrees in the dry season, and it is really blessed by the gods to be able to resist this situation.
Although I don't know how Caesar saved Orkash didn't stop the orcs from being grateful to the black dragon, they had to work hard every day to hunt horned oxen for the black dragon, even if the stone crow clan was outspoken, they would feel a little uncomfortable.
But now that sentiment has been swept away.
The orcs didn't become more attentive, and Caesar didn't receive any thanks, but since then, every orc who saw the black dragon would subconsciously stop what they were doing, puff up their chest, and watch it pound his chest with his right fist.
That's enough.
Orcs are not a flattering race like dwarfs and kobolds, most of them are not good at words, and their emotions are not strong, which is enough to show their respect for Caesar.
However, Caesar did not have the heart to delve into these things, because he had other things to do, and was busy studying the plant that he named "summer grass".
At that time, this thing was picked purely because of greed, and he liked to chew a few slices, but after boiling water and chilling, he found that it tasted good, and Luna liked it quite much, so Caesar kept a lot of it in the lair.
Feeding it to Orkash was only a temporary idea, and he tried it with a useless mentality, but he didn't expect to achieve such outstanding results, and even Caesar, who was the initiator, was amazed.
Immediately after this, he realized that this might be a potential opportunity for Caesar to complete the primitive accumulation of capital.
The problem was that he had to make sure that Orkash had awakened because of the effects of the summer grass, not because of the orc's own constitution and Luna's prayers.
Another point is that the summer grass has worked well on the orcs, so can it have the same effect on Caesar's target group, the humans?
Verification is required.
Caesar immediately thought of contacting the orc leader Sifu.
Because of the study of spells some time ago, he is already quite familiar with the old guy, and the relationship between the black dragon and the stone crow clan is not what it used to be, so there is no need to be polite, after arriving at the cave where the old wizard lived, Caesar went directly into it without saying hello.
The firelight flickered, and Sifu sat solemnly on the stone pier, his sparse brown head hanging above his head, lying limply, his robe stained with a layer of dust, and holding a worn-out roll of sheepskin, not knowing what to read.
"Hello, Caesar."
Finding that the light at the entrance of the cave was completely obscured, Sifu turned his head, stood up, and squeezed out a wrinkled smile to the black dragon that crawled in: "For the matter of Olkash, I would like to express my gratitude to you on behalf of the Stone Crow Clan, thank you. ”
"I'm not here to receive compliments."
Caesar lowered his head, looked at the somewhat rickety old orc, and said in a deep voice under Sifu's inquiring gaze, "The fate of the Stone Crow Clan should not be like this. ”
In fact, the orc race is reproducing quite fast, however, the stone crow clan has never been able to form a true scale, and the reason is not because they are too barren.
Their limited food could not feed more orc children to grow up, and without a constant supply of warriors, they could not increase their numbers to plunder more resources.
This is an obvious vicious circle, but the Stone Crow Clan, which is in the wilderness, seems to be unable to get out of it.
Caesar knew that there may be other reasons for the predicament of the Stone Crow Clan, but in the final analysis, the crux of the problem lies in the problem of resources.
Resources are not only food, but also weapons, water sources, territory, population, and so on, and in the wilderness, every problem can drag the Stone Crow Clan into a quagmire, like a mountain pressing on them.
Caesar could see that the old man was different from other orcs, he was more flexible and wiser than ordinary orcs, and he might have thought about leading the Raven clan to rise up.
But what can Sifu do with these orcs? It is nothing more than plundering like their ancestors.
But in the vast wilderness, although everyone has eyes, the orcs are no different from the blind, without intelligence support, how inefficient it is can be imagined.
In addition, these guys must have encountered some kind of robbery, but the stolen goods can only be piled up in their own territory waiting to rot, there is no channel to exchange for the materials they need, and they have to face the elimination of the human army, how difficult life is self-evident.
The pattern is too small, and Sifu can work hard to support the Stone Crow Clan from being swallowed up by other forces, which is already the limit of this old wizard.
Caesar thought, and without waiting for the wizard to speak, he threw a weed-looking plant in front of Suff.
"What is this?"
The wrinkles on the old wizard's face deepened, he had seen this grass, but as Luna had said, in Eladya, there was no such thing as a plant that was neither satisfying nor dangerous, and no one would put the effort and time into researching it, so even if he had seen this plant, he could not guess what Caesar meant.
"Boil this thing into water, and you can lift the 'Fire Demon Curse'."
Caesar said that he did not want to bother explaining the idea of "disease" to Suff, and chose to inform the orc leader in a way that the wizard could understand.
"Impossible!"
The old wizard unsurprisingly flatly denied it, refusing to believe the black dragon's statement: "'Curse' can only be expelled by divine magic, and I have never heard of a method that can eradicate a curse with plants. ”
"No one has ever tried."
Caesar then choked, and then added: "Otherwise, how do you think Orkash survived, on his own?" That Stone Crow Clan is really favored by the gods. ”
The old orc was silent for a moment, as if wondering if the black dragon was deliberately trying to make him happy, and it was rumored that the black dragon's close relative, the Red Bronze Dragon, liked to do so, and lived in the pleasure of making pranks all day long.
But the black dragon wouldn't, and Caesar wouldn't.
Sifu thought, his eyebrows furrowed, and he raised his head to look back at the young dragon in front of him: "You're right, it's true that no one has ever tried. ”
He picked up the summer grass from the ground and handed it back to Caesar: "But this is your thing, what do you want to do with it?" ”
Caesar narrowed his eyes: "I said it, the fate of the Stone Crow Clan should not be like this. ”