"Boom!"

The ogre's massive body fell to the ground as if it had caused a small earthquake, which also made the Riptide Commander see the "man" who saved him, and then his eyes widened:

"Beast, orc?" He stuttered a little.

Itreg wiped the bloody axe with the cloth on the ogre's body, grinning at the human commander he had saved, revealing a mouth full of yellowed teeth. In particular, the two fangs are very conspicuous.

Then he raised his weapon and rushed to where the other ogres were, continuing his fight.

The Riptide Commander was tempted to rub his eyes to see if he was hallucinating: an angel, an orc, a paladin, two mages, and a troop of cavalry had saved them when they were in a desperate situation. The reinforcements seemed so powerful that the angel single-handedly killed two ogres who had inflicted massive damage on them, plus three ogre warriors. The rest was quickly dealt with by the others, and when he tried to help, he found that the only thing he could help was to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded - even the angels and paladins were the main force in treating the wounded.

Fortunately, he finally found someone he knew in this group of reinforcements.

"You are High Lord Tirio Fordin!" The commander of Fort Riptide greeted the old paladin after he had healed a wounded soldier. He had too many gratitude and questions to ask the Paladin Lord for confirmation.

"It's me." Fordin glanced at him, then went to heal the other wounded with the light.

The commander knew that now was not a good time to chat, and he ordered his soldiers to do all they could to help the group. A group of people were assigned to escort the uninjured refugees to the safety of the refuge valley.

It was already late when they were done. It gets dark very quickly in winter, and after another hour at most, if they can't find a place to stay, they'll have to camp in the wilderness.

At this point, the Riptide Commander finally caught up with Fordin.

"On behalf of Riptide Castle, I am very grateful to you for your timely rescue, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid most of us would have died under the pursuit of ogres."

"That's what we're supposed to do," Fording didn't take credit, he looked at the relatively young-looking Riptide Commander with a look of familiarity, "You know me?" ”

"Of course, you are the hero of the League! I was with my father during the last war, and I had the privilege of meeting you. ”

"Oh-" Furding looked at the burly man, finally knowing why he looked familiar, "You're the son of King Soras?" ”

"Yes, I'm Galen Tolbairn." The commander of Fort Riptide said.

Ferding said: "Then it was really a coincidence. ”

No one would have imagined that the person they happened to meet on the way to the mission would be the heir of the kingdom of Stormgard.

Prince Galen then recounted his fate: Recently, due to the frequent activity of the Stonefist ogre, the nearby human settlements are no longer safe, and there is a threat from the orcs nearby, Prince Galen has been ordered to assist the people here in retreating to the Valley of Refuge. Galen and his men had already escorted away two groups of refugees, the last of them.

Unexpectedly, on the way to retreat, he encountered ogres who came out to rob, and he dispatched nearly twenty ogres at one time - such a number of Prince Galen's troops could not be stopped. You must know that these ogres are all rough and thick-skinned, and they are naturally powerful, and they run like an earthquake. An ogre can easily deal with a squad of human soldiers, let alone nearly twenty of them at once! The human soldiers were powerless to resist, and the retreat turned into a rout. If it weren't for Jiang Weihan and his party to support in time, then these soldiers and refugees would definitely suffer a more severe blow.

"So—you guys?" Prince Galen's quizzing gaze swept over them.

"We are the emissaries of the Alliance, and we have gone to negotiate with the orcs. You should know that His Majesty Terenus invited King Solas to rejoin the Alliance, but your father refused on the grounds that the Orcs threatened the rear. We're here to eliminate the orc threat for Stormgard. ”

Prince Galen looked at the old orc who had saved him, and suddenly understood: "You want to talk to the orc?" ”

"Yes."

Galen hesitated, but said, "I don't think my father would be happy with the result. ”

"As we expected," said Ferdin, with a helpless smile, "we actually met your brother, Prince Garin, on our way to Arashi, who seemed very dissatisfied with our actions. I think your father should have known by now. ”

"I'll talk to you when I get back." Prince Galen couldn't help but look at Itrig again, the old orc was talking to a dark-haired human mage, and the angel was there. It seemed that these people did not hate the orc, but were kind enough to him, which somewhat subverted his usual impression - how could an orc live in peace with humans? Aren't they all savage and bloodthirsty beasts?

"Thank you very much."

"Uh, your team is really peculiar, that angel - that's an angel, right?" Galen was a little unsure, though he did see the angel descend from the sky, wield a flaming sword and kill an ogre from the air, and later showed his might and soul to the crowd, so to speak, as their savior. But he's grown up so big, and he's really only heard of this creature in legends. I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes this time.

Furding nodded: "That's right, that's the Angel of Judgment Miss Kyle, the black-haired Excellency next to him, Jiang Weihan's guard." Ginger is the leader of Valoran, and I know you haven't heard of this place. They came from another world and have now joined the Alliance. They were stationed in Dunhold. Actually, you're neighbors. ”

Galen digested the astonishing news, and he laughed at himself, "It seems that our kingdom is too closed to know anything like this. ”

Ferding looked at the sky, the sun was about to set: "So, what are you going to do next?" ”

"What are you going to do now?" Prince Galen asked rhetorically.

"We are going to set up camp nearby. Depart early tomorrow morning and be there in the afternoon. ”

"So, do you mind if we are wounded together?"

"Of course not, welcome. I remember this was Stormgard's territory! Furding laughed.

In the evening, Ferding introduced the Crown Prince of Stormgard to Jiang Weihan and others, and told him about the threat of natural disasters and the Alliance's preparations for the crusade by the fire. The prince was clearly more knowledgeable than his brother, and Galen immediately said that he would do his best to persuade his father to return to the alliance.

This is certainly good news for Fordin.

Early the next morning, the Valley of Refuge sent an army to meet Prince Galen, help transport the wounded and supplies, and keep them safe. Galen was supposed to go back with the team, but he thought about it for a long time and eventually changed his mind.

He put the captain of the guard in charge of escorting him, and informed his father that he was with the emissaries of the Alliance, and that he would return to Riptide with them to meet King Solas.

Then he joined Ferdin's party with only a few of his own soldiers.

"After all, this is the affairs of our Stormgard Kingdom, and I, as a prince, cannot help but participate in it." Galen said to Fordin. He thought very clearly, this was a peace negotiation initiated by the alliance to avoid the troubles of Riptide Castle, as one of the parties, how could they not be involved?

Ferding patted him on the shoulder: "Then I welcome!" ”

In fact, long before Thrall became the leader of the tribe, there were some orcs operating in the Arathi Highlands. They unite under the banner of Clan Warsong Chief Grom Hellroar and continue their confrontation with the Alliance. In fact, it is not so much confrontation as exile. Because there are very few people under Grom. They took possession of the abandoned town of Hammer in Stormgard and quietly set up camp there.

After Thrall began to liberate the orcs, the previous Great Chieftain, Orgrimmar Hammer of Destruction, gave Thrall his legendary weapon, the Hammer of Destruction and Black Plate Armor, and appointed the young orc as the new leader of the tribe. After this, the Warsong clan of Grom also recognized Thrall's status and submitted to his leadership.

So after completing the liberation movement, Thrall led his people to Falling Hammer Town. The place could no longer meet the needs of the rapidly growing number of orcs, so he ordered the orcs to begin to expand outwards and began to colonize a land in the southwest called Geshak. At the same time, compete with the deadwood trolls entrenched here for forest resources.

Their actions alerted the kingdom of Stormgard, and many battles broke out between the two on the northwest side of Geshak Farm and on the line of the Valley of Refuge.

Although Fort Riptide has not been attacking for a long time, and the orcs have not fought with humans for a long time, a quarter of the orc warriors are still stationed nearby.

Jiang Weihan and Fuding's team quickly stepped into the orc defense.

The orcs saw a troop of human cavalry entering their sphere of influence and immediately began to mobilize their soldiers. However, to their surprise, the humans, although vigilant, did not attack before they could assemble. Even stranger, they found an old orc in the crowd.

"It's up to you, Itreig." Ferding patted the old orc on the shoulder.

Itreg grinned, "You'll see that we orcs are also a race that keeps our promises. He took the package from Fording and walked over to the orc's side. The package contained a letter to Sal stating their intentions.

The orc soldiers took up their arms and surrounded the group, and as Itreg walked towards the orcs, two orc warriors hurried over and pulled him into their camp.

Itreig found the leader of this unit and said directly, "I'm Itreig of the Blackstone Clan. I want to see the Grand Chief of Saar. These humans are here to negotiate, not to fight. Don't point weapons at our guests! ”

"I've heard the name Itrieg, but I don't know you." The orc chief was a little undecided, he looked at the old orc and saw that he had not been mistreated, "I'll take you to Lord Overseer, he's from the Blackstone clan. ”

The orc commander then ordered the warriors to continue the siege, but not to move, and then led Itreg to meet the orc overseers on this front.

PS: This Galen is not the power of Demacia - Galen, don't get confused! We're going to shine behind the bushes