Chapter 2: Orcs and Forest Elves
() Perhaps the relative balance of power on the three continents of Olopa is because each race has its own advantages
Elves are the longest-lived race except for dragons, their lifespan is ten times that of humans, about 1000 years old, elves generally grow to about 20 years old, there will be a growth retardation period, greatly delaying growth and aging, and maintaining the body and appearance in their 20s for hundreds of years, so they can have a very energetic body for a long time, this body is most suitable for agile combat skills, archery and magic practice
The life span of the dwarves is second only to the elves, they generally live to 600 years, and the dwarves usually grow into their 30s before there is a growth retardation period, and then the body and appearance remain at this stage for a long time in the rest of their lives, so their bodies are always kept in the strongest state, which is the best body for a blacksmith and warrior
As for humans, they don't have a growth retardation period, so their lifespan is very short, only 100 years at most, but they have an advantage that elves and dwarves can't match, that is, fast learning ability and extremely strong reproductive ability, so now humans can occupy the most territory among the three major lands of Olopa, and crush other races to the edge
In this way, the long-lived race is not strong in reproduction, and the race with strong reproductive ability does not live long, so the balance of strength is formed; then will there be a race with strong reproductive ability and longevity? Will this race become the overlord of Olopa, of course, the answer to the former question is yes, there is indeed a race with strong reproductive ability and longevity, that is, the orcs; the answer to the latter question is no, if the orcs can become the overlord of Olopa, how can they be squeezed by humans to the shamannian plain located in the southern corner of the glorious continent
Of course, this has to start from the social structure and racial tradition of the orcs, in the orc society, the most common are the burly porcupine people with two fangs, they account for 86% of the number of orcs, and also occupy the dominant position of the orc race, the others are centaurs (12%), bullfighters (34%), cyclops (06%), the main force of the orcs, porcupine people generally live 400-500 years old, and their reproductive ability is better than that of humans, but the extremely high mortality rate in the orc society greatly limits the strength of the orcs
Not only was the internecine fighting among the orcs shocking and incredible, but even the humans, known for their penchant for infighting, were dwarfed by the fact that although humans often fought among themselves, their struggles were usually based on intrigue and power tricks, as the orcs did in mercilessly slaughtering their fellow soldiers
The strong live and the weak die, this is the only creed that the orcs have believed in for thousands of years, an orc child is just sensible and then thrown into the wilderness by his parents, leaving his survival instinct to fend for himself, a few years later, when these orc children return to their tribe, usually only less than the first fifth is left, and then these orc children who survive in the wilderness will be sent to the fighting training camp for years of bloody life-and-death training, before they complete all the training, nearly half of the orc children will die, after completing the training, they will have to undergo another test to become a real orc warrior, the test method is very simple, is to kill the companions around them, and then take the head out to pass the levelfinish
After becoming an orc warrior, the real killing has just begun, and there are more than a dozen tribes of different sizes in the orc society, and in order to unify the command of all orcs, there must be a common leader of all tribes-- Khan on the selection of the Khan has no requirements, which tribe is the strongest, which tribe leader is the Khan, every time the Khan fights for the position of the Khan, it is when the orc clan corpses are in a sea of blood, because the Khan dispute will not be a one-on-one duel between two orc leaders, usually one tribe against another tribe, or several tribes against a tribe, or several tribes against several tribes, when the leader of a tribe if he feels that he is strong enough to be a Khan, he can challenge the current Khan, of course, no matter which side of the challenge is victorious, the tribes on both sides will go through a baptism of blood, if a Khan has no challenger before the end of his life, he and his tribe will be beatenIf he loses, then he can set a rule: hold a competition, and whoever is the winner of the competition will be the next Khan
Of course, the content of these competitions is varied, the simplest is to let the tribes involved in the fight for the position of the next Khan fight each other, who is the final winner is the next Khan, this kind of competition is also the largest internal friction for the orcs, there is also no lack of creative competition rules, for example, the Khan dispute in 897 of the Bright Age, when it was the sixth invasion of the Poseidon Clan, its content is to see who killed the Poseidon the most; the Khan dispute in 1456 of the Bright Age, the content of which is to hunt skulls in nearby human territory, so the kingdom of St. Oluphi, which is adjacent to Shamannia, The Kingdom of Pole was known for its subordinate minor states, principalities, The city-states were all defeated, until the Central Curia sent the Templar Order to intervene to completely suppress the orc headhunters, and the winner of that time was the winner of two challenges during his 219 years as Khan, and now the 467-year-old Khan has come to the end of his life, and he has set a more challenging competition rule for the next Khan to fight for the next Khan as he is dying: the tribe that crosses the Blood Mountains between the Orcs and the Elves to the Elven Forest to plunder the most Moon Stones is the winner, and is not allowed to bypass from human territory or the sea
The Moon Stone is a specialty of the Elven Forest, these things are of no use to other races, but it is one of the most important strategic materials of the Elves, its role is to allow the Elves to remain strong enough for a long time after leaving the Elven Forest, because the Elves are different from other races, they are condensed with magical energy and survive in the Elven Forest, the Elves can continue to absorb energy through the power of the Guò Forest, so as to maintain their own survival and combat effectiveness, but once they leave the Elven Forest, their own energy is not replenished, they will be dizzy, and then gradually lose their combat effectiveness, if they do not return to the Elven Forest for a long time, they will even die, and the Moon Stone can make up for the Elves this dayWeakness of life, this kind of ore that can be seen everywhere in the elf forest absorbs a lot of magical energy, the elf wears it, leaving the elf forest can provide energy for the elf in the outside world for a long time, as long as it returns to the forest to replace before its energy is exhausted, then the elf can be active in the outside world for a long time
More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Thuro Empire and the forest elves fought a war with the elves because of the logging problem, and the rulers of the empire relied on the vast territory. The crowd looked down on the forest elves, and in the face of the elves' request to stop logging on the outskirts of the forest, they ignored it, but instead sent troops to attack the elven forest, burning and killing the empire along the way, which greatly angered the elven elders' house, and they launched a terrible elven rage, under the blow of the elves' angry magic and arrows, the empire collapsed, quickly defeated, and the angry elves did not stop there, they commanded the main force composed of 7,000 elves (this is already the limit of the elves can always send troops) Counterattack into the hinterland of the empire, the seemingly powerful empire was turned upside down, and even the empire's capital city Relman also occupied, forcing the empire's nobles to move the capital, and finally the cunning human beings surrounded the capital of the large army, but surrounded but not beaten, and the elven warriors who guarded the capital of the human empire were exhausted after a few months, and their combat effectiveness plummeted, and finally after the city was broken, they were all shot by humans and martyred
This war made the power of the Shumiro Empire in its heyday plummet, due to the death of the old king, the three sons fought in the same room in order to fight for the throne, and finally divided the empire into three, of course, this is a later story, of course, the elves were also greatly injured in this battle, although the elven elders later improved the use of the moon stone, not simply wearing the original stone, but condensing the original stone into the moon crystal, so that the validity period was extended from a few months to a few years, but the loss of 7000 elf warriors was unprecedentedly huge, only later the submission of the human druids made the strength of the elf race a little restored, fù some now, in the face of the orc's large-scale invasion, the forest elves can only gather to 3500 elves at mostThe more than 10,000 Druids living at the edge of the forest also declared their fight for the elves
Originally, the elves relied on the terrain to form a strong resistance and calmly drive the orcs out, but the whim of an orc genius made the elves lose their winning hole cards and had to ask for help from the neighboring kingdom of Pole.