Chapter 169: Shock and Control
In the end, Evangeline did not dare to resist the Pope's order, and after a long secret conversation with Vitasia, Roxana, and several confidants from the Holy Goddess Temple, she had to send four elite legions to Fauck to take to the southern front. When the patriarch Falk was leaving, the smile on his face made Evangeline clearly see a thick mockery and pride! The saint swore secretly in her heart...... In the future, he will definitely pay enough for today's offense!
Four Elite Legions...... Iron thorns, three-headed vultures, double-headed eagles, golden horns. Shortly after the departure of Elder Fokke, the Rogsana-appointed Legion Commander and the high-ranking Commander Samurai were expelled and returned to the Dulong Imperial Capital. And Falk kept his promise to reinstate all the deposed legion leaders who had reported to him. In this way, almost effortlessly, the 40,000 elites that Evangeline wasted his hard work to build were deprived of them in a grand manner, and they didn't have to think about taking them back in the future!
Seeing the newly appointed samurai generals return with disgraced faces, Evangeline and Roxana smiled............ As long as these backbones come back, it will not be difficult to reorganize the legion, although it will have to be trained from scratch, and its strength will inevitably drop a lot, but it will always be stronger than an ordinary army.
Only the newly formed [Crown Bucks] and [Storm Legion] remained, and Evangeline was very worried! Even Roxana had to admit that it would be difficult for these two elite legions to recover the Equestrian Grassland.
Since there are not many elites, and the Royal Praetorian Guard and the Lionheart Legion want to protect the imperial capital, they can only make up for it with numbers. Quickly use the generals and commanders of the four legions as the skeleton to build four ordinary 10,000-person legions. The next winter drill. It will definitely be able to have a certain combat power, and when the time comes, two elite legions plus four ordinary legions, 60,000 people. Why can't you recapture the grassland of the horse farm?
Roxana led the spirited generals to take their leave and move quickly. Without weapons and armor, Vitasia took out a portion of the royal family's wealth to buy it, and if there was no food, it was transferred from the various grain-producing provinces. The most difficult puzzle is the problem of mounts, and there is no doubt that to keep up with the pace of the orcs, a large number of cavalry will definitely be needed. For this reason, the Marquis of Delta, who took refuge in the Holy Virgin, took on the heavy responsibility. He braved the scorching cold weather and brought a large amount of gold and jewelry. Lead the caravan to the Landor steppes of the Kaplin Empire once again, and make sure to acquire enough horses and mounts within three months.
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Baroque was received by Bucred many days later. He rushed from the tribe to the grassland of the horse raising, and immediately asked Muru and the others to choose the most courageous from the 50,000 orcs. The most powerful forty orcs, and then he disappeared into the steppe with forty orcs. Mouru and other leaders in the know forced themselves to suppress their excitement, because they knew what Baroque was doing with them. It's just that the Baroque didn't let them talk about it, and they didn't make a big deal about it.
More than half a month later. Baroque led the orcs back again. It's just the original forty orcs. Now there are only thirty-two left, and looking at Baroque's gloomy expression, it seems that he is in a bad mood. Mu Lu and the others immediately became nervous, especially the few battle shamans stationed in the army, and their hearts chuckled, and an extremely ominous premonition struck.
The time to come is still coming, and Baroque only has a gloomy expression, but in fact, his heart is much more relaxed. The battle shaman in the Valley of Miracles was definitely not a well-intentioned one who came to the Frostwolf Tribe to help fight. Their conspiracy Baroque could not be clearer, it was nothing more than secretly co-opting the legions that divided the Frostwolf Tribe. Let the orc warriors take refuge in the Valley of Miracles. And it seems that the effect is good during this time, at least among the forty orc warriors selected by Muru and others, eight of them have chosen to take refuge in the Valley of Miracles, and they don't know about it! ―――――― are all orc compatriots, Muru and the others really didn't think about some bad things, otherwise with the cunning of Anglei and others, they would definitely be tempted.
But that didn't stop there, Baroque took these orc warriors to find a hidden place where they could fuse with the Erni snow leopard in beast armor. When the totem pole was erected to be worshiped by everyone, it was already noticed that the power of faith did not come from the eight orcs. This means that the eight orcs are just pretending, and they are not really offering their faith to the baroque totem pole.
Baroque was never a benevolent man, and kindness was only for his people and brothers who were loyal to him. The eight orcs didn't know that they had become dead in the eyes of the Baroque, and they were still thinking about how to obtain the Baroque's powerful beast armor, and then go to the shamans in the Valley of Miracles to ask for credit.
Before Baroque began to fuse the beast armor, he warned everyone very seriously: "Brothers of the frost wolf, you must offer your faith to the ancestor totem! The totem pole in front of you is the manifestation of the ancestor totem, and you must regard him as a great totemic spirit in your heart, and give it unreservedly." Only in this way can you gain the approval of your Phantom Beast companions through your training and become a powerful beast armor warrior. If you have a different heart, you will be punished by the totemic spirits...... You're going to die!"
This is Baroque's last admonition, the eight orcs said that it is impossible not to be nervous, but the stubborn temper of the orcs makes them think that they are well hidden, and they are all offering faith and worship to the ancestor totem, why do they have to rely on the totem pole in front of them? As long as they think about the ancestors in their hearts, they will not suffer any punishment in the future.
Baroque sneered in his heart - if you don't give your faith to my totem pole, how can I receive the power of your faith, and if I can't get the baptism of the totem pole, how can I let you safely bear the power of purple electricity in the soul sea?
Now that they had made their choice, Baroque did not hesitate to recite shamanic mantras and begin the ritual of fusion.
Sure enough, as Baroque thought, with the baptism of totem power, all forty orcs went through the first steps smoothly, and fused with the snow leopard phantom beast that had been waiting for a long time, but they had not yet experienced the baptism of Baroque purple power, and they could not obtain the power of qualitative change to form beast armor. When Baroque unleashed the power of purple electricity, he threw it into the soul sea of forty orcs. A scream rang out. The difference was that although the other thirty-two orcs were screaming miserably, they could clearly feel the changes in their bodies, as well as the armor that was forming on the surface of the phantom beast's mercury-like body, and a unique but powerful force gradually emerged. But the remaining eight orcs were not so lucky, they were completely destroyed in the soul sea as soon as the purple electric power entered the soul sea, and immediately fell to the ground, and when the eight phantom beasts who were at a loss fell off their bodies and turned into snow leopards and jumped to the side, these eight orcs had no breath of life, because of the forcible fall off of the phantom beasts, the appearance of these orcs was extremely miserable, and the flesh and blood were blurred and miserable.
After a long time, all the orcs finally survived the experience that life was worse than death, and then regardless of the sweaty and extremely tired body, one by one excitedly urged the beast armor, looking at the snow-white armor like Mithril on the body, waving their fists or galloping, all like sharp swords I don't know how many times faster, and the destructive power is indescribable. They...... He has also become a powerful beast armor warrior!
The eight orcs who died had no sympathy, and some even had contempt and contempt on their faces, and couldn't help but spit at the mouth. Because the baroque shaman said lightly: "Not pious enough, not enough belief in the spirit of the totem, and delusional to get the blessing of the ancestors, this is what they deserve!"
The tribe had more than thirty more beast armored warriors, and everyone's confidence had greatly increased, they had never been so confident about the future as they were now. Even if the Baroque shaman learned that there would be a big battle with humans next year, all the orcs were no longer afraid and retreated as in previous years, but were eager to try!
The remaining eight beast armor warriors were taken out by Baroque, and all 50,000 warriors of the team of 50,000 people fought for it, and whoever won in the end would be able to get it. The orcs who originally thought they had a chance but were not selected were suddenly ecstatic, and some orcs who knew that their strength was not good did not intend to let go............ So a huge jousting contest raged, and Muru and the others were busy presiding over their contest, and the Baroque did not want to reprimand them for their negligent mistakes, so they went about it with peace of mind. It's just that with this lesson, it is inevitable to launch an investigation on totem beliefs in the future, and if there are still people who violate the yang and yin, they will be cleaned up directly!
The warriors were fighting, and the Baroque found the hundred battle sacrifices. These shamans, who were supposed to be respected, were not treated well in the Frostwolf Tribe. The warriors of the Frostwolf Clan only have Baroque shamans in their eyes, and the warriors may still receive their totemic blessings on the battlefield, but in private, few people come into contact with them. Because everyone knows the contradiction between the Valley of Miracles and the Baroque shaman. Almost all of them fell to the side of the Baroque, and the prestige of the shamanic presbytery was not as influential among the young warriors as it might have been.
"I don't want to play a conspiracy with you, because I don't have time!" Baroque was all on the human side, so he was very honest about a showdown with the battle shamans: "You want to control the army of the frostwolf tribe, and even get the secret of the beast armor, which will not succeed in any way." So let's all die of that heart, and next year we will have a big war with humanity...... A terrible battle. If you don't want to die fighting, leave as much as you can. But if you stay, it's better not to have any other thoughts, we are all orcs, we should unite in the face of humans, if we still fight loosely and separately, we will only be slaughtered as before. ”
"I know that the shaman elders will be hostile to me, but these really don't matter. As long as you support me and let us defeat the invading humans next year, then I will naturally go to the Valley of Miracles. I will obey whatever the white priest says to me, and I will not resist even if he asks me to surrender all my rights. But before that, we must win next year's war. I will do whatever it takes to do this, who dares to stop me...... Only death!"
Baroque's words were so cold that even the shamans trembled. They knew that this young man in front of them, whose eyes were suddenly cold and could kill people, could definitely say and do! )