Elonian 588, November 20.

Judgment of the Throne of Bones mission countdown: 142 days.

Several heavy snowfalls have brought the territory of Evta into winter completely, but at the same time, seven hundred miles to the west... After crossing the endless Nehemian steppes, the orc kingdom still seems to maintain the dryness and coolness of early autumn.

Affected by the grassland climate, there is almost no rain in the orc kingdom in winter, and the temperature is not low to below zero, but it is a little chilly when the night comes. Even though the starry sky was shining overhead, the orcs who were accustomed to it would only curse the weather for a few words, and then wrap their smelly sheepskin clothes tightly.

Chief Rohar was no exception, and as he sat in his tent, with the wide wolfskin shawl around his neck, he asked in an unkind tone, "Is this really what the tribe of Gresh did?"

Standing in front of him was the witch doctor Busar. Since Sarota's death, Bousar has been Rohar's first lieutenant, so the chieftain consults with him, both big and small.

"It's not just Grey who is a little unconvinced, it seems that the Bloodhoof tribe on the other side... There are more conspiracies brewing, but their people are not as strong as the warriors of our tribe, and there is nothing to worry about. ”

Witch Doctor Bousar is one of the best in his class, he has mastered "restorative" witchcraft, because he always pulls wounded warriors back from the line of death, and he has always been popular among the clan witch doctors. In the second month after Salotta's disappearance, he became Chief Rohar's most trusted lieutenant, and thus lived a "powerful" life - eating whatever he wanted, and serving as many women as he wanted.

Of course, not to mention how terrible the existence of such a heavy taste of female orcs is, but Busar's "favor" is obvious to all. Just at this time, Rohar believed his words completely, nodded without doubt: "I like this kind of result, they are willing to provoke, who wants to go out and fight hard in the winter? I really don't know what these guys think..."

"Our wolf cavalry is always the strongest, and those lowly fellows are not worth mentioning at all!"

Bousar's naked sycophants were untechnical, but they still made Rohal laugh, his big yellow teeth and bad breath, and his image was gruff.

"Wait until next spring, I'm going to smash these provocative guys one by one and make them the next Bloodspear Clan!"

Rohar's eyes flashed with bloodthirsty light, and he made this "battle plan" with arrogance.

Obviously, the Bloodspear tribe that once clashed with the "Rohal's Hammer" clan has become a dust in history - and recalling the battle a few months ago, Rohal remembers a figure who has made a lot of contributions...

"Busar, that apprentice of Sarota... Where did you go?"

The chief's question made the corners of Busar's mouth twitch slightly, and he tried to calm his mind, and replied in a low voice: "Sauron seems to have something to do recently, and he took his people to the west, it seems to be the side of the Gondola Mountains, maybe he went to collect herbs..."

"What can I collect this season?"

"Some precious herbs are indeed only available in winter..."Busar lied very poorly, and swallowed nervously.

Rohar didn't have any doubts after hearing this, and after a few words, he pulled it out to other places, so that Busar could put his mind at ease...

Speaking of which, Zoro did go to the Gondola Mountains, but he went to the kind of place where birds don't poop, not because he wanted to collect herbs, but because he was "ostracized" by Busar and several witch doctors.

In the previous battle to destroy the "Blood Spear" tribe, Sauron, the future "King of Ten Thousand Axes", fought bravely with the remnants of Sarota, and soon made great achievements and became the greatest hero in defeating the enemy. However, Rohar's "appreciation" for him immediately made the few witch doctors who had just seen the opportunity to take the position stand on the same front...

This is also where Sauron is not very mature, he is at this time when his foundation is unstable and he should be hiding clumsy, but in order to make meritorious contributions, he accidentally becomes the focus, which directly leads to open guns and dark arrows one after another.

Just after the end of the war, Sauron's troops could not resist the blows from within, and finally had to retreat, away from the core of the tribe, completely cut off from the "inner circle" of the chiefs...

Chief Rohar has been kept in the dark so far, and the other witch doctors are happy to hear about it, wishing that Sauron would freeze to death in this ravine.

However, they did not expect that such an act would provide Sauron with a rare opportunity.

At this moment, at the foot of the Gondola Range, more than a hundred miles from the chief's tent, the young witch doctor in a cloak of animal skins was sitting comfortably on the fire and sitting in a simple wooden hut with his eyes closed.

The young "King of Ten Thousand Axes" was strong and well-proportioned, with long black hair braided and a huge battle axe beside him, with several pages of straw sandpaper and a map in front of him. Outside the house, the orcs are building new houses in the cold wind - after arriving in the forest at the foot of the gondola, they no longer live in tents, but collectively begin to build "villages" with wooden walls and high sentry posts!

A wolf cavalry entered the stockade from outside, and then came to Sauron. The other party respectfully knelt down on one knee to report the situation, Zoro nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, and only when the wolf cavalry retreated, he opened his eyes slightly...

"You thought you drove me here... You'll be able to sit in your place?"

Zoro's fingers touched the double-edged battle axe beside him, and his cold tone was cruel: "If you don't fulfill the teacher's last wish, then I will fulfill it for him." Who stopped me..."

"There will be a price!"

Turning his gaze to the swasty sandpaper map in front of him, Sauron's focus was on a sentry sign only twenty kilometers away from the village, he shook his head and sighed, "Heh... Alert humans are always as fragile as rabbits. ”

"Do you really think that such a small sentry can stop me?"

"Shhhh

Roddy took a slight breath and felt the hot power spread through his body from the runes on his arm.

The muscles of his body tensed, and the sharp pain suddenly appeared, and then suddenly receded—a few seconds later, Roddy raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat oozing from his forehead, but he frowned and thought about the route he had just taken when the pain had traveled all over his body.

Is this the power that truly belongs to you?

In reality, as a "modern person", it is actually difficult for Luo Di to accept that there is a chaotic "power" in his body, and when he uses the skill, he only feels it slightly, but this time he clearly feels the division of this "power" in his body-

They are like blood, everywhere, yet elusive.

Luo Di thought carefully for a long time, and found that he couldn't think of anything about such a power, so he shifted his attention, looked down at the expensive and delicate rune crystal in his hand, rested for a while, and pressed the second and third to his arm.

"Whew-"

The translucent runes were the size of fingernails, and the moment they touched his body, they melted Roddy's skin like a soldering iron - it really "melted", which is why Roddy was sweating in pain.

However, the rune itself will be like a melted ice cube, and within a few seconds, it will completely disappear on the surface of the skin of the arm, leaving only the burned rune-like scar.

The reason for using three runes is that Roddy can only inlay the three skills of "Stealth", "Concentration Shot", and "Leap", and the effect of these runes is basically the same: reduce the cooldown of the skill itself.

The cooldown of "Stealth" has been reduced from 1 minute to 45 seconds, "Concentration Shot" has been reduced from 1 minute to 30 seconds, and "Leap" has been reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds, although it doesn't seem to have changed much, but for Roddy, such an increase means that his survivability and lethality have increased by at least 20%

Looking through the panel to confirm that the rune had successfully worked, Roddy silently picked up the bandage and bandaged it with the sharp pain of the burn.

It had been five days since he arrived at the Duke's Palace, and during that time, he had risen to the next level and had also bought the runes he needed at the hidden "Rune Sale" shop in the city. The rest of the time, he worked hard to craft leather armor with Suren's help, and made judgments and decisions with Angmar and Benjamin on a daily basis about the information he was constantly gathering.

At first, it was a little busy, but today, Roddy seems to be much more relaxed.

For Roddy's outstanding contribution to killing Ansatine and others, the Duke of Angmar did not hesitate to reward, and rewarded Roddy with land, so Angmar could only "discount" and gave him a large amount of weapons, armor, horses and food.

Such a fortune is definitely more practical than gold coins, Roddy smiled calmly... In fact, both of them understand that now that they have already boarded the same chariot, the so-called "reward" already has a sense of "watching and helping each other".

It sounds ridiculous to have a duke and a small role like Roddy "watch and help each other", but what is even more absurd is that Bishop Benjamin's last personnel transfer to the abbey before his promotion was to directly assign two priests to Roddy in the name of "going out to practice"!

These two priests have been with Benjamin for many years, and their strength has reached the level of advanced level 2. If they had been promoted, they would have had to stay in the monastery for another ten to fifteen years before they could see the hope of becoming "bishops"... Therefore, for the two priests, following an "upstart" did not seem to make much difference from living in a monastery, so they obediently obeyed the order and came to the Duke's Palace, becoming Roddy's new men.

"It's a good thing to have three advanced treatments... Ansadine also has a batch of high-quality ores, which can be stored for high-end equipment, and the problem of military resources-"

Roddy, who was sitting at the desk, shook his aching arm, drew a circle on the parchment with a pen, and after confirming the next plan to expand the source of soldiers, he immediately opened the [Task Bar] and sighed slightly at the words "Mission Countdown: 142 Days" in [Judgment of the Throne of Bones]...

"Where do you need to find clues for this mission?"