The signs of war all come from the orc tribes that are connected to Andrarui. There are hundreds or thousands of orc tribes large and small in the wasteland, among which there are dozens or hundreds of small ones, and the large scale is even more intimidating than today's Andrarui. Less than a tenth of them had direct trade ties with Andrarijian, and through the intricate rivalries and alliances between the tribes, Andrari's source of information would be far more than just a small part of the Wasteland Orc tribe near the Whispering Forest to the east.

The orc tribes of the wasteland have maintained a complex relationship of division and integration, cooperation and competition since 500 years ago, and the reason for this may be due to the reshuffle of the situation after the victory against the demon invasion. Elves and dwarves retreated to their ancient territories, and the limestone dwarves who had lost their homes crossed the elven kingdom and finally settled in the Misty Mountains in the southeast of the continent. Compared to the elves and dwarves who returned to a peaceful life after the war, large-scale racial wars broke out again in the vast wastelands and plains west of the forest.

With the end of the war against the demon invasion, the fragile balance between the alliance's interests and alliances was quickly shattered. Dwarves and elves were able to pull out, while orcs and humans went from frequent skirmishes to full-scale warfare over the redivision of territory and living environment. The war between humans and orcs lasted for more than ten years, during which the elven dwarves in the east of Garlandia watched from the sidelines, and the orcs and humans had to finally end this dispute that affected almost half of the continent because of their internal interests.

The war ended in the victory of the Human Alliance, and the orcs, who were forced to accept a humiliating end, were forced to rule along the boundaries between the wasteland and the plains. Humans occupy the rich Xingjin Plain in the western part of the continent, but the orcs can only be forced to migrate to the central wasteland to survive. In the process of migration, the orcs were further persecuted by the human side, but they were powerless to resist after two consecutive wars, and the orcs whose original sphere of influence spread throughout the central and western parts of the continent and were united by tribes and tribes turned from prosperity to decline.

Most of the orcs living in the wasteland today hate humans, but the entire orc population originally included different races, and the orcs who could not truly unite did not have enough strength to break the shackles that humans had put on them. To the east of the wasteland are dwarves and elves who are stronger than humans, and orcs are powerless to provoke. Although there is little that can be done about the elves and dwarves who once ignored the oppression of orcs by humans, it is still the humans who occupy the rich plains of the western continent that make the orcs hate even more.

Hundreds of years have passed, in order to maintain the continuous chaos between the orc tribes, human beings have constantly created contradictions and disputes between the orcs who are not one in the first place. On the other hand, in order to maintain their current status quo, each tribe has to exchange daily necessities such as salt and iron with humans, elves, and dwarves outside the wasteland. As a result, the orcs continued to be suppressed in the wasteland, while human traders and adventurers were mundane in the relatively mild orc territory. On the other hand, the orcs in the human city-states were mostly lowly slaves captured by humans, with no glory or dignity to speak of.

Despite their long-standing hatred of humans, the orcs are incapable of breaking the impasse before them. However, if human beings do something interesting in the wasteland, they will not be helpless to do so, even if they are inconvenient to hinder it because of their own interests. Especially when the gathered human adventurers, slave trappers, robbers, and criminals set their sights on the rich towns in the valleys east of the forest, even the orcs who took a wait-and-see attitude did not want the human plans against Andhrari to succeed easily.

Even if the orcs allow humans to carry out some ill-intentioned activities on their territory because of their own interests, they will never allow human armies to pass through the territory of the tribe. It's like the slave hunters often attack the lone orcs on the border, but once discovered, they will also face the endless pursuit of orc warriors in the wasteland.

Those who had ambitions for Andrari's wealth seemed to be controlled by a pair of invisible black hands, and the troops of merchants and adventurers slowly gathered through the vast wasteland and slowly gathered on the forest border to the east of the wasteland.

If only one or two of the teams casually mentioned Andrari's wealth and prosperity, the orcs who had dealings with the towns of the valley probably wouldn't have paid much attention to it. Nearly every human contingent passing through the territory would talk about the new town, and even the orcs who admired prowess and showed disdain for the flies and dogs could smell a sense of conspiracy.

The first to warn Andrarui were the Goldmane and Chew Bone tribes who had received news from other orc tribes. A few days later, a messenger personally sent by the Blackhoof Clan brought the same news. If it was just an accidental piece of uncertain information, André might have left it to his attendants, but the fact that the human adventure party was far more frequent than in previous years and the unpredictable size of the team had already alarmed the children of the abyss. By the time he sent his young guards to patrol the forest border, the Emerald River had gathered a thousand-strong human army near the exit of the Whispering Forest.

With them in the way of this large caravan to Andrari, the emissaries of the Blackhoof Clan had no choice but to abandon the best route along the banks of the Emerald River into the valley and instead force their way through the dense forest. If it weren't for the fact that these messengers were all powerful minotaur totem warriors, the beast path between the dense jungles would not be easily accessible to the inhabitants of the forest.

After settling the minotaur warriors who had come from afar, the children of the abyss couldn't understand the human team that was camping at the entrance of the forest. The scattered human beings who have begun to appear frequently in Andrarui in recent days must have come from the unscrupulous band, who had gathered nearly a thousand men and remained at the mouth of the river. It must not be a small profit such as "small business", and it is afraid that the main reason for such a blatant stationing on the border of the forest is that these human beings, who are spies operating in Andrarui, do not discover the undercurrent hidden beneath the surface of the city.

Andrari's total resident population so far is only 20,000, but the number of official guards has reached 2,000. The ratio of conscription to 10 is already incredible, but if you bring in the reserves in the city with a certain training base, Andrari's available troops can even reach nearly 3,000!

At this point, the towns of the valley have already entered the stage of preparation for war under the orders of the children of the abyss. However, these military intentions and movements did not have any impact on the normal life of the civilians in the city, and the training of the Andrarui Guards has always been carried out outside the city, although there are corresponding military facilities in the city, but the military camp itself has been set up in the jungle five kilometers outside the city from the beginning. The officers and men of the Guards all had their own quarters in Andrari, and they returned to their own quarters in the city during their five-day vacation every month. Judging from the military facilities inside Andrarui, outsiders who are not familiar with the system will not be able to understand the true size of Andrarui's army.

Five kilometers up the Emerald River from Andrarui is the secret river port hidden between the jungles by the Andrari Guards, the dense jungle provides natural cover for this port, which is less than half the size of Andrari's main port, and the port, which is located deeper into the forest than Andrarui itself, is no secret to the few elves on this tributary. But in Andrarui City, the people who know this place are important people in various departments. Every night, the port sends out a fully staffed scout team, including at least four experienced Elven Rangers, two Dwarven Striker Warriors and Shield Guards, and two Demon or Orc Warriors to act as flexible support and all-rounders in the team. The scout squads, which have been adjusted many times, have proven their superiority many times during the exercise, and the intensive training over the years has allowed them to cooperate well when working together, not to mention that each scout team will be accompanied by at least one accompanying druid. Such scouts, as long as they were not compelled by the situation to launch a reckless charge against their enemies, could only be matched in the forest by the same friendly formation. Twenty of these squads took turns spying on the humans stationed at the estuary, and the unaware human forces could not escape the eyes of the Children of the Abyss.

As for the humans who were scouting the enemy inside Andrari, André didn't choose to startle the snake. Morrigan and her secretly recruited informants were used for such occasions, and if the twenty or thirty humans were safe, the Children of the Abyss decided to let them stay in the city for the first time. If one of them is self-aggrandizing and wants to make trouble in Andrari, Morrigan's spies will immediately cooperate with the city guards to arrest him on various "attempted" charges. In the interrogation room, Andrari's intelligence chief has time for the blinders to reveal all the information her Highness wants to know.

"What strikes me strange is the true intentions of those human teams, even if they think we are weak and deceitful because they can't see through Andrari's true strength, haven't they thought about how they can safely bring them back to the human city-state west of the wasteland through the orc's territory after they have acquired a lot of wealth? In the conference room, the speakers of the various departments of Andrarui and the dignitaries from Garlanod gathered around the military map near Andrarui to discuss how to deal with the presence of the human motley troops.

Enriel had long been accustomed to the words of unknown meaning that came out of the mouths of the children of the abyss, and the old priest thought for a moment, and then gave his opinion based on what he knew about humanity hundreds of years ago: "Your Highness, as you once said, interests and wars drive people into madness. These so-called armies, which are made up of many small teams, have no real leaders at all, but people with ulterior motives push behind their backs, which has contributed to the fragile alliance and situation that they are today. Your Highness, you have used your wisdom to speculate on those greedy human beings, and you really think too highly of them. ”

"If they really plan to carry out a complete plunder of Andrari, how are they going to retreat to the human city-state after this?" The Children of the Abyss thought that the old priest was probably right, and some people who could rush to the top of the army with hot brains really couldn't guess with the common sense in their hearts.

"If they were targeting artifacts that were of great value to the human aristocracy, they might be able to cross the wasteland with the same army they had gathered as they were now. Aside from necessities like salt, metal weapons, and tools, the orcs of the wasteland were not in desperate need of other goods. If their team could be larger enough, no tribe would take such a risk against them. The Orcs' luxuries could only be resold to the city-states through human merchants, and the chiefs could not reap the benefits proportionate to the risks of the stingy merchants. So as long as those humans exercise restraint, no tribe should go back to touch this mold. "Livia, who has carefully studied the relationship between the orcs and humans in the wasteland, offers her own idea here.

The Lady of the Wind Chaser continued, "They may even choose to return to the city-state in pieces, just like they did when they came, and for the orcs anyway, as long as they don't cause trouble in their territory, they are already thankful, unless they carry a lot of hard currency such as gold and silver, no blind orc will choose to fight those human villains." ”

At this point, Andre also understood that it didn't make much sense to speculate too much about the greed of those humans, but he still didn't expect that the humans who had suppressed the orcs for hundreds of years would be so unbearable in the impression of these forest dwellers.

Thanks to Lei Zhi Shuangyu's reward support, I have been in a bad state recently, and I am very sorry for the delay so late......