Chapter 412: Slaves
The Orcs invaded Azeroth under the spell of the Burning Legion, and given their unique nomadic social structure, these orc invaders almost exclusively acted as a tribal unit...... This led to a problem, and all the old, weak, sick and disabled people in the tribe followed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Male orcs in the prime of life are the main force of the tribal army, and their numbers have been greatly reduced during the war, so it is no wonder that Loria sees all the old and young orcs in the shelter, including many newborns, who were born in the world of Azeroth with the invaders' army...... These ferocious creatures of another world are now kept in captivity in a harsh environment, and often a dozen orcs can only be assigned to a small simple grass hut, and the food is pitiful, let alone any medical assistance.
It's not because humanity's thirst for revenge is too strong...... The post-war Human Alliance was so short of supplies that it was too much to rebuild and have no room to keep the prisoners alive in a healthy and decent prison - Loria suspected that the orcs would not be willing to let the invaders live a good life, and that they were able to survive thanks to the Kingdom's intervention...... The high-level leaders of the Human Alliance, led by the Kingdom of Lordaeron, forced the local area to contain the captured orcs, and because of this, the relationship between the center of the kingdom and the local area was very stiff for a while.
Perhaps for fear of intimidating the two young ladies, in the shelter under the high walls, a small number of middle-aged orcs were chained in the iron cages in the distance, and the elderly orcs were also hurried by the soldiers to the cramped chicken coop-like shack, only those little orcs with confused eyes were allowed to roam freely in the open space.
"The management of this shelter has been effective."
On a high platform far from where the orcs lived, the Captain smugly boasted to Hetty about his accomplishments, such as how well-behaved the orcs under his rule were, as docile as cats and dogs in a pet shop, as if these green-skinned creatures had become the best workforce except for laziness.
Loria pursed her lips, knowing the history, she naturally thought these words were ridiculous, but she also asked herself, if she didn't know what happened in the future, would she be happy because of the orcs who were driven by whips and worked hard to learn the art of clown acting, carpentry and carving, as if she saw that the human nation was finally about to stand on the top of the world, and she always felt the inspiration of the rapid upward times.
Hetty coped perfunctorily, and from time to time let out some admiration and asked questions that even she thought were stupid to keep the conversation going, so that although she had a quirky personality, she did not know how to socialize with her kind, but Loria had no interest in standing aside in a daze, and no one stopped her anyway, so she slipped down the high review stand, wanting to get closer to see what the orcs were doing.
She lived in an age surrounded by roaming dead people, but it was difficult for her to hate orcs as much as she hated the undead, and no matter what crimes they had committed against humans, she still lacked realism...... Loria herself was unable to explain her attitude towards orcs, both based on aesthetic and physical prejudices, as well as curiosity about intelligent beings that were completely different from her own.
She wasn't the only one who was curious, as it seemed that the little orcs who had been confronted with the cold armor of the human all day long had rarely seen a human like Loria who not only did not wrap herself in a tin can, but also dressed beautifully (at least in terms of color aesthetics, humans are indistinguishable from orcs).
Similar to human children, these little orcs also have a strong curiosity and instinctive fear of creatures larger than themselves, they hesitate to watch, and finally curiosity overcomes fear, and they begin to lean towards Loria - a guard sees it and wants to come and drive them away, and when he sees Loria actually take a large handful of candy out of her pocket to tempt the orcs to come closer, he returns to his original position, he probably thinks Loria is one of those kind little girls who are overflowing with compassion......
Unlike being always rejected by small animals, Loria has always been liked by children younger than herself, for no other reason than that she always has candy in her pocket that never seems to be finished.
There are many similarities between orcs and humans, such as taste, and although these young orcs were born in the worst times for their race, they have not never seen candy - occasionally, the guards will throw some snacks at them with the mentality of teasing the animals, and naturally, the magic of candy quickly infected these young orcs, and now, this magic drives them to forget the fear of humans that has accompanied them since childhood, and they begin to approach Loria, tentatively reaching out for candy to eat.
When Loria saw that the orcs were lined up and began to receive the candy one by one in an orderly manner, she felt a pang of sadness for no reason, and she had the impression that children would not have any discipline in the face of the temptation of food...... What attitude will those whose nature has been worn out have towards those who have suppressed and enslaved them at the moment of awakening?
Hatred is mutual, and the greatness of a certain orc's love years later may lie in the awakening of a group of lowly slaves.
However, Loria's candy was quickly distributed, and there were still a few little orcs looking at her empty-handed, which was really unbearable, and Loria had no choice but to stretch out her hand and condense ice cubes out of thin air.
She has a noticeable better grip on magic than she did when she lived on Lake Lordamere, and while she can't make lifelike ice sculptures, the ice sculptures she makes are acceptable to little orcs who have never had toys - at least to the extent of what kind of animal they are.
The sudden appearance of magic made many people look sideways, and the old orcs who had been lying lazily in the shack became very nervous, they seemed to want to call back the children around Loria, but they were afraid of the guards blocking the doorway, Loria was no longer interested in this stupid interaction, she stuffed the ice sculpture into the arms of the little orcs who didn't get the candy, and turned away.
She wouldn't say stupid things about why she didn't let these poor things go, and she had to pay for her crimes, although most of the orcs' atrocities against humans had nothing to do with these imprisoned orcs, and the revenge of the orcs against humans that would come one day was also the rightful right of the enslaved.
It was not her job to ponder such unsolvable complex questions, and it was up to the king and the philosopher, though the former was always absent. (To be continued.) )