In the northern part of Thrace City, in the "Upper Town", there is a rather quaint and elegant manor. Unlike other manors, this manor is full of orcs, from the janitor to the servants to the officials to the masters.

Because its owner asked for so.

The owner of the manor was Jon, the brother of the former king Richard Thrace, who was two years older than His Majesty Richard.

If in an ordinary country, King Richard died a violent death, leaving only a few children who were not even ten years old, and it is said that if Prince Jonn does not succeed to the throne, he should be the regent until the king grows up. But in Thrace, this is impossible.

Because Prince Jon was a half-orc.

The Thracian royal family has married orcs, and the first son born to the king and the marriage partner was canonized as the "Prince of Galloping Horses", becoming the theoretically highest-ranking nobleman in Thrace.

However, this title does not bring power, and the Prince of Galloping Horse does not even have a domain worthy of his status, and is simply a court nobleman.

Not only that, but since the Thracian kings of the previous generation, successive generations of kings have only married small and medium-sized tribes among the orcs. The reason, of course, is clear - the small and medium-sized tribes are weak, and it is impossible to give any substantial help to the prince of galloping horses, which can prevent the first Thracian nobleman from sitting on the throne.

Though...... In fact, so far, no prince of galloping horses has ever sat on the throne. But as a king, you can't wait for trouble to arise and then find a way to solve it, and it is the best choice to strangle the trouble in the cradle.

It's a good idea, and the kings have done it well, but there is a situation in the world called accidents.

The first king Richard died young, leaving only a few young human children behind, and did not give birth to a son and a half daughter with the orc concubine who was married.

In this case, the replacement of the "Prince of the Galloping Horse" is naturally impossible to talk about. Everyone can only wait for the current little king to grow up, marry the princess, and have children.

However, the little king is too young!

Seven years have passed since he ascended the throne, but he is only eleven years old! Who can expect an eleven-year-old child to marry a wife and have children? Even if the great nobles wanted to do this, the auxiliary minister Alan Vina would not agree—what the little king needed was care and care for, so that he could grow up well, not for the sake of his heirs!

If that's all there is to it, Prince Jon's maternal lineage is a pig-man, a relatively short-lived orc, with a normal lifespan of less than fifty years. As a first-generation half-breed, Prince Jon's lifespan was only shorter than that of a normal pigman, and he was now in his early forties, so he should have been in his last years.

But Prince Jon's situation was not "normal" at all, even "very abnormal".

He was a warrior, and a very strong warrior, and though he was not good at horseback riding and archery, and knew only the art of fighting on foot, when he wore good armor, a large shield in his left hand, and a short spear in his right hand, there was hardly anyone in the whole king who could overcome him.

The Auxiliary Chancellor, Alan Vena, was a legendary assassin and could certainly win against him, but Aranvina had been guarding the little king almost every step since the death of the previous king, and it was impossible for him to leave the king behind to fight him.

In addition to Alanvina, the famous knights in the royal capital, or the martial arts teachers hired by aristocratic families, could only tie with Prince Jon at most.

Of course, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the royal capital, not to mention far away, the "rock madman" Sheen Gaoling alone is estimated to be better than Prince Jorn. However, these people were not suitable, and it was impossible for them to come to the court with Prince Jon. The luthier of the "Minotaur Rock Band" is said to have had a private encounter with Prince Jon, but the druids were so boring with the hoplites that neither of them could see any chance of victory.

This record is very amazing, you must know that Gordez is not an ordinary person, she is a member of the "Inhuman", and she is on an equal footing with the legendary figures such as "Dragon Slayer", "Northern Demon King", and "King of Sea Dragons".

So after the discussion with Grades, Prince Jon's reputation became even greater, and his status among the "Thraces" was higher, and even more than one important figure of the Thracian family once hinted that the rules could be changed.

What rules can be changed?

Of course, the rule is not to let the "Prince of Galloping Horses" take power!

So now, the atmosphere in the royal capital of Thrace, the atmosphere at the top of the Thracian kingdom, is really a bit gloomy and weird.

This atmosphere did not seem to affect Prince Jon, who continued to exercise every day and strive to become stronger. He still barely asks about politics, just concentrating on being a quiet beautiful man - well, that's true, even though he's a half-pig and a hoplite, he's quite skinny, and he doesn't look like a warrior more like an assassin. So when he was younger, he even had the nickname "the skinniest pig man", which was obviously a joke.

But...... Is Prince Jonn really that peaceful?

"You've finally figured it out!" said the white-haired old shaman in the reception room on the top floor of the manor smiled happily, "It's not a good idea to keep your head down. What's more, even if you don't shrink your head yourself, when the little prince grows up in the future, Alan Vina will not let you go!"

Faced with this fateful topic, Prince Jonn smiled a little bitterly: "You are right! I cannot put my life in the hope that the king will show mercy to him—as his uncle, I have lived too long and my prestige is too high, and something must have happened." ”

Now that the Great White Plague is about to break out, all the tribes of the grassland will form a coalition army to march westward. Although this time someone is obstructing it, the size of the coalition army will not be as large as before, but now Thrace has no resistance at all. You take advantage of this opportunity to come forward and make a match between the two families as an orc, and then both sides will promote you as the king of 'New Thrace...... Everything falls into place!"

"I understand. It's just that...... Are you so sure that the 'strangers' will not be able to prevent the catastrophe from coming?"

The old shaman laughed: "How can they stop it? The great chief of the horse tribe, Aviyin, is also an alien, but she can only put forward the idea of 'joint spell casting, dispersing the cold wave, and cooling the entire north' - this method can only save the emergency, not avoid disasters, and the white disaster will still happen, but the scale is smaller." ”

"It's smaller, but it's already amazing. ”

"It's really powerful, but so what? The scale is smaller, it's nothing more than a reduction from a big white plague to an ordinary white plague. The steppe tribes will still form a coalition to march westward. They were hostile to Thrace and could not help Thrace resist. In the face of the coalition of the steppe tribes, the only option for Thrace is for you to mediate and form a new state. The old shaman said confidently, "When the time comes, we orcs will definitely be able to achieve dominance in the 'New Thrace', all this is logical, no one can stop it!"