Chapter Eighty-Four: Orison's Ambition
Faced with the lord's request, the big-eared monster Orisen agreed without thinking about it.
Not only that, but he also expressed his willingness to contribute his family's inherited skills, the skill of domesticating wolves, and the same is true of the skill of domesticating wild boars that he learned in Diya.
Orison is an ambitious man who is eager to use his abilities and skills to make a name for himself in the world.
As a child, after learning about his grandfather's past glory, Orison aspired to be a hero, dreaming of one day leading an army of wolf knights across the fields of Erathia, shouting exciting slogans and wielding a sharp scimitar to defeat powerful enemies.
He studied very diligently for this reason, and although his family was not valued in Deya, Orison believed that he would one day be able to make a name for himself in Diya with his courage and ability.
It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes, and the king of the big-eared monsters of Diya is not a heroic lord with great talents, and the supreme leader of the all-Dia big-eared monsters only likes to stay in his luxurious palace to eat, drink and be merry, and be content to be under the protection of the necromancers.
The same Big-Eared Monster Clan, Deya's Big-Eared Monsters are far inferior to their fellow clans in Krurod, when the Big-Eared Monsters of Krurod shook the continent with their wolf cavalry, Deya's Big-Eared Monsters were only satisfied with fighting the Autumn Wind of the Erathia Empire or the Elven Kingdom on the border, even if they wanted to fight, they would follow in the footsteps of the necromancers, and never dared to fight alone.
Orison joined Diya's regular army at the age of seventeen, and now at the age of twenty-seven, he is now only a small soldier to a small leader in charge of a hundred-man squad, and his ambitions have disappeared year after year, and he has begun to become like other Diya big-eared monsters, not thinking about his achievements, but only about where today's dinner is.
This is a very sad thing, and it is also a very helpless thing, who made him a foreign big-eared monster? Who made Diya's big-eared monster king in order to strengthen his rule, and the chief of the army has always appointed only hereditary nobles?
A grassroots like him is only afraid of being mixed up for a lifetime, and he may not be able to have any good way out, and the biggest possibility is just to die in obscurity on the battlefield like other ordinary big-eared monster soldiers.
But the unexpected happened, and he was a prisoner of war during the attack on Hammondal.
Orison thought he was finished, believing that he would either be sent to the mines to work as coolies or be executed, as humans had done in the past after catching the big-eared monsters.
Either way, it wasn't what Orison wanted, and if he had to choose, he would rather be executed, at least that way he wouldn't be slowly tortured to death.
But to his surprise, the strange human lord did not send them to the mines or execute them, but instead gave them another way - to work obediently and obediently, and then have something to eat, and the food was not bad, at least better than the food they had in Diya.
After that, strange things continued, first asking them to clean the dungeon and improve the living environment, and then giving them winter clothes and bedding, if he didn't live in the dungeon, Orison almost thought that his identity was not a prisoner of war, but a guy working for the lord, but there was no salary to get.
During the small talk, Orison found that he was not the only big-eared monster with this thought, and many big-eared monsters felt this way.
This made Orisen curious about the human lord, and he began to pay attention to the lord.
From the small talk of the guards, from the words of the lords who worked with them, and from the bulletin board that he passed by every day, Orison slowly realized that this lord was really too different.
One of the things that struck Orison's heart the most was that the human lord was eclectic, he had a half-blood half-elf under his wing, and his recruitment order also recruited a thief and a crook into the lord's guard, both of whom were said to be quite notorious in the local area.
Orison's once-lost ambition has suddenly reappeared.
He began to think that if he could join this lord's side, it seemed that he would have a much better future than when he had been in Diaham.
Orison, who didn't have a sense of belonging to Deya, immediately thought about it, but he was a little uncertain about whether his identity as a big-eared monster would be accepted by the lord, and at the same time, he had no chance to get close to the lord.
But Orison was very smart, he began to speak for the lord among the big-eared monster prisoners of war, intentionally or unintentionally, to increase their favor for the lord, and began to use his former small boss status to win over some big-eared monsters to listen to his words, and slowly, he became the leader of these big-eared monster prisoners of war.
The attack of the elves and the incident of the elven spy gave Orisen a fairly good opportunity to finally meet the lord.
It was he who encouraged the big-eared monsters to help the lord, and in the battle with the elves, he took the lead and saved the lives of Polly and Robert in the melee, and later, when he was seriously wounded, he also led a few of his diehards into the passage to help the half-elves and the sorceress.
Everything he did was to increase the chips in his hand so that he could join the lord's side smoothly.
He knew that this was his only chance for Orison, and that no one on the continent could give him that chance.
Thankfully, he succeeded. And for some reason, the lord doesn't seem to mind much about the racial identity he is very worried about, and even does not hesitate to force it out in order to get them to join. The lord also trusted him Orison, and once again let him go out alone on a silver pegasus despite the opposition of everyone.
This generosity and trust made Orison grateful.
When the lord offered to let him teach the soldiers the sword skills of the Big-Eared Monsters, Orisen keenly realized that this was another opportunity for him, a chance to climb up.
So he immediately gave all his skills without reservation, he believed that with the means of the lord, it was impossible to stay in this small place forever and be a little lord, and one day, the lord would take him with him and soar into the sky.
When the time comes, he will not only be able to realize his childhood dream and become a hero, but may even become a major figure on the mainland!
Perhaps, he will have the opportunity to lead his army and step into the land of Krurod again, and blood the shame and grievances of his own family.
And the premise of all this is that he must now do his best to help the lord build an army that is so powerful that the whole continent will be shocked!
The continent of Erathia is now in troubled times, and in history, in such troubled times, there is often a powerful new power rising.
Orisen firmly believes that the lord can think of such a way to improve the combat power of the soldiers, and can also accept creatures of different races to join his guard, this scheming and stomach is definitely not small, maybe this new force will appear in front of the world little by little under his nose.