Section 373 Orc Legends
The name of the orc city is Dairo City, which is also a relatively large city in the orc empire, and a few of us walked through the streets in the middle of the city, feeling the strong alien customs. The people here give me the greatest feeling of simplicity, unity and camaraderie. There were no beggars on the streets, and everyone had a satisfied smile on their faces.
We have seen more than once that orcs with no money take goods in the store, all of them are just a word, and the boss doesn't even make records, just waves to see them off. But there was never a case of bargaining, and sometimes several men would pass by carrying fresh prey, and from time to time they would tear off a piece and give it to the children by the roadside, and the orcs were very happy at this time.
The sudden appearance of a few of us humans didn't cause a stir, nor did it break the rules of life here, and although the orcs occasionally looked at us a few more times, they stopped bothering us when they saw Aluk and the troll sorcerer Rathaki beside us. Yaluk and Rajuk were obviously very popular here, and many people took the initiative to greet them, but everyone was busy with something, whether it was sharpening weapons or weaving ropes, so no one would stop what they were doing to talk to them.
At this moment, a group of people came running quickly, and they carried a wounded companion, and the street immediately made way for them, and the troll sorcerer Rathink ran straight over, stopped them, and then carefully treated. Soon the soldier's injuries improved. Everyone was very happy, and after thanking Rajank, several warriors hurried away with their companions, without paying Rajerk not even a piece of meat.
Afterwards, Poor Dao asked the troll Rathik if he knew those people, and he shook his head in surprise, "I've never seen it!" Poor Dao was a little in awe of him at that time. From the conversations of the past few days. I learned from the mouths of the three troll knights that the troll sorcerer Rathuk has a very high status among the orcs, even the priests of the temple respect him, and his status is similar to that of the six great mages of the human race, and here he is an equal figure to the beast god prophet.
In the human world, it is hard to imagine that a cardinal would be willing to expend magical healing for a soldier he did not know. Compared to them. I think the cardinals are more like beasts.
However, although Poor Dao was very touched, the question came, the person that the troll Rathik had just saved was a half-orc, weren't they mortal enemies? So, Poor Dao asked again, "Master Rathik." I've heard that you trolls and orcs are sworn enemies for generations, right?"
"Alas!" the troll sorcerer Lahallk sighed, "It's all over, we just have some disagreements over the source of food, and we don't look down on each other, and occasionally there will be a lot of conflicts. But after all, everyone is an orc, and there is no big war. But we only found out when we fought with you humans. It turns out that the cooperation between each other is so tacit, although we lost that battle, but the hatred between our two races has also been resolved, in this dangerous place, only everyone can survive better!"
"Not bad!" said Arouk. "Not only them, but also the Minotaur and the Flails have also reconciled, and they have all suffered heavy losses in this battle, and they can no longer be consumed for no reason. If we orcs can't unite, then the Monster Forest will become our graveyard!"
"yes. In such a dangerous place, only unity can survive!" said Poor Dao with emotion. The orcs all understand the principle of unity, but it's ridiculous that we humans don't know that the Holy See is still gathering troops to kill the pirates, and I don't have any sympathy for the pirates who collude with foreign races to kill their compatriots, but the Pope refuses to let me go until now, which really makes me depressed!
For his own selfishness, he destroyed the relationship between his grandfather and grandmother, and also launched a war, with countless casualties, although under the leadership of his father, the Long family won, but who did those innocent people go to to complain? The old guy relied on Carter's trick to deal with the dragon family for the second time, and I sabotaged it again, and now he sent me to such a place again, obviously conspiracy is his theme, but I don't know what tricks he is going to play this time, or rather, how many innocent people he is going to kill, alas, for the happiness of the people of the world, poor and heartfelt hope, he is still sick and dead!
Just as we were thinking about it, we finally came to the center of the city, and our destination, the Temple of the Beast God. Most of the buildings in the city are still wooden, and this temple, which is all built of huge stones, is undoubtedly the most conspicuous. Its architectural style is very broad, the tall and magnificent hall, not lower than the royal palace of the Holy See, there are not many carved patterns on the boulder, only a few simple strokes, but it reveals the incomparable devotion of the orcs to the gods.
In front of the temple were huge stone pillars, carved with many stories from their myths and legends, which Aluke told me very carefully. It turned out that in their myths and legends, in ancient times, they were just some magical beasts, and later a god came to the world, transformed them into gods with divine power, and gave them wisdom and fighting skills, so that they could survive in such a dangerous realm.
While the gods were still alive, he once led the orcs to defeat several of the most powerful beings in the Warcraft Forest, because they looked down on the new orcs, so they killed the orcs with impunity and fed on them. These pillars record the battle between them. Yaluk has a good talent for language, and the sensational language makes us listen to it with relish.
Poor Dao was amused to find that the so-called god on the stone pillar looked like that stinky monkey in particular? In particular, the weapon in the god's hand was also a mourning stick, and his expression and movements were full of cynical funny, which was really funny! However, I didn't think it would really be him, and that was too incredible! Besides, I didn't think it would really be him! Besides, it's too incredible! With that monkey's ability, it is estimated that it will only take a few breaths to completely destroy the strong man in the Warcraft Forest, where is it so hard as Yaluke said?
While Yaluk was telling the story, the head of the temple came here to greet us. This person in charge is a minotaur beast god sacrifice, he can actually be the person in charge of this temple and thank Poor Dao, I slashed twelve beast god sacrifices with a sword in the orc battle. Among them is the person in charge of the original temple, and he has a chance to replace him, but it seems that he doesn't seem to have a lot of favors?
After Yaluk introduced us, I learned that the name of this sacrifice was Wolf Ben, and it was a cow but it was called "Wolf Ben", what a sweat! Then, under the cold face of Wolf Ben, our group entered the interior of the temple, which was still in a rough carving style, full of power. It makes the poor road who is accustomed to seeing those pretentious sculptures in the Holy See have a refreshing feeling. With novel sculptures along the way, we walked through corridors and halls, until finally, we came to a courtyard.
Preliminary estimates. The scale of this temple can cover an area of hundreds of acres, it is really strange, where do they have the spare time? In the room prepared by the orcs, Poor Dao found that everything here was so simple, and the bed was just an animal skin on the ground. A small stone pool was filled with clean water, presumably for washing. Other than that, there was nothing in the house. There are not even tables and chairs that should be in the human race, which is so simple.
In the evening, we all got together for dinner, which was actually a barbecue and a few wild fruits, and they were all rationed, and no leftovers were allowed. Poor Dao and Kerry didn't care, but Uncle Zu was a little annoyed, he thought that it was the orcs who snubbed us, or Yaluk was embarrassed, and slowly explained to us. It made us understand what the orcs are all about!
It turns out that the food source of the orcs is indeed very scarce, and they can't even afford to raise any idlers. Take this city, for example, there is no lord here, there is no army to protect it, there are no tax officials, there are no police and city managers, in short, there are no idle people in this city who are not engaged in production. The temple is the master of the city, and the beast god sacrifice is responsible for dispatching everything in the city, but in fact, his greatest duty is not to preach, nor to build a gorgeous temple for the beast god, but just to find a way to fill the stomach of all the people in the city.
The temple had its own armament, an elite army, but this unit spent most of its time not fighting the enemy, but hunting around to prepare enough food for the temple to help the orc tribes who did not have enough prey. If this unit has gained a lot, then they will have some free time to maintain and recuperate the temple.
And every time at this time, the people in the city will happily join in, they have to thank the beast god for everything, the best way is to add something to the temple, so, thousands of years of accumulation, there is such a scale. In the past, the orcs had organized a large-scale invasion of the human race, which was really a helpless move, who told them that they had a large population and less food at that time? And the seventh princess probably realized this, so that she could smoothly integrate into several tribes of half-orcs.
Having said that, the uncle naturally didn't know much, in fact, he had already heard of the poverty of the orcs, but he really didn't expect it to be so serious. As the heir of the Long family, he is also very knowledgeable, so he realized the problem almost immediately, and my uncle didn't have the same scruples as me, so he asked directly in the face of the person, "Since you are so poor, how can you still have supplies to start a war of that scale?"
"Hehe!" Yaluk was a little confused, and after smirking twice, he said, "We prepared early, and we accumulated it slowly!"
Judging from their current situation, they are just barely having something to eat, and they want to save up hundreds of thousands of troops to feed them, unless they themselves don't eat for half a year, it's absolutely impossible! Isn't this a clear nonsense? Uncle Zu understood at a glance that they were shirking, and although he was dissatisfied, he did not continue to ask questions. After all, it's in other people's territory, and it's not good for us to fall out.
During the meal, I suddenly noticed that the daggers of the three troll knights were missing, and I found out that they had turned them over to the priest, not that the priest had asked for them, but that they had turned them in. Because the three of them are also the armed forces of this temple, the official name is the Temple Knights. According to the rules of the Orc Temple. After entering the team of Temple Knights, there is no personal or racial distinction, everyone has something in common, all items are common, there is no such thing as private ownership, and there is no difference between races.
And the daggers I gave them automatically became the property of the temple under this rule. So it has to be handed over to the public. Poor Dao thought that they would be very dissatisfied, and wanted to comfort them, but they were surprised by them, it turned out that they were really sincere and did not have a trace of dissatisfaction. Later, when I took a closer look, I found out that this temple knight had a very high status in the minds of the orcs, and ordinary people couldn't get in. Not only must you have super martial arts, but you must also be recognized by everyone, which can be regarded as a very noble profession.
This incident has touched us three people from the human world quite a lot. Obviously, if they abandon their appearance and talk about virtue alone, they can be called angelic and pure people. Compared to them, the Pope is an ugly crow. It seems that Poor Dao has come to the right place this time. There are some similarities between the orcs and the equality of all beings proposed by the poor path, and the possibility that we can become friends becomes very great.
However, I would have to take a closer look at their view of humanity, if they were united and fraternal at home, and if they pursued a policy of extermination and extinction at home. Poor Dao still can't cooperate with them, although I am not happy with the arbitrariness of the Holy See, but I don't want to call orcs to enslave humans!
We had a day of rest in the city. On the road again, leaving this city without police, urban management, and crime, Poor Dao was a little reluctant! On the way, Poor Dao asked them more than once about their understanding of human beings. Their answer was a thousand strange words, such as human cunning, strong, weak, mean, and even diametrically opposed.
It seems that their understanding of human beings is still very thin. And the view is in the stage of a blank slate, as long as the poor road is carefully guided, maybe they can really make friends with humans, at least as far as I know, when the demons invaded four thousand years ago, humans once cooperated with orcs. Since it can be done once, it can definitely be used for a second time, and Poor Dao has this confidence, but the premise is that as long as the Pope does not misbehave.
After another three or two days, we came to a place, a small village of trolls. What was different from usual was that there should not have been many people there, but now hundreds of warriors had gathered, anxiously discussing something. They seemed very excited to see us coming, and they surrounded us before we even came down!
A slight look at the poor road showed that there had obviously been a battle a few days earlier, and the village was covered in congealed blood, and many houses had collapsed and burned. Poor Dao carefully examined the footprints on the ground again, although it was messy, there were still some intact footprints in the corners that attracted my attention. It turned out that these footprints were large and light, completely different from the troll's, and looked like there were webs between the toes, but like the footprints of a toad.
While observing the poor road, he didn't forget to listen to the trolls' report to Yaluk. It turned out that the village was very close to the swamp, but only a few miles away, and was often attacked by the swamp fishmen. Recently, probably because of the abundance of food for the fishmen, their numbers have begun to increase, and it has become more and more dangerous to constantly harass the surrounding villages.
In this case, several surrounding villages began to ask the temple for help, and the temple happened to have no spare troops at that time, just in time for the ninth princess of the Beamon royal family to have an adult trial, in fact, it was just that the child was older, and she was just asked to go out and travel around alone. When the princess got the news, she asked the head of the temple to come here for support.
The people of the temple agreed very casually, in the eyes of the orcs, the reason why the royal family is respected is that they use their strong combat power to protect the safety of the orcs, so they will not always guard the royal family like an iron bucket in the consideration of safety like the human race, for fear of breaking a little. The third prince personally broke off the queen at that time, which was also a manifestation of this thought, and now sending the princess to hunt the fishmen is the same.
Actually, it is said that this life is really not very dangerous, although this Nine Princess Hei does not have the strong martial arts skills of the Third Prince, but after all, it is also the bloodline of Beamon, and the strength is definitely much stronger than the human Sword Saint. If you fight the fish-people on flat ground, it is absolutely no problem to block a thousand of them. Besides, she also brought a Beamon mount, which is easy to deal with the little amphibious fish-men, as long as she doesn't go into the swamp, no matter how many fish-people come there is definitely no match for her!
But things are just strange, and I don't know how she made a mistake, this legendary brave and invincible Beamon royal family was actually captured alive by a group of fishmen, and many trolls who fought together saw all this with their own eyes. A few days ago, thousands of fishmen had suddenly arrived, and despite the hard work of the Nine Princesses and her Beamon, they were quickly killed. However, there are too many fishmen, the village is so big, it is impossible for the nine princesses and Beamon to take care of all of them, and the fishmen's nets seriously hinder their movements, so that many children in the village are captured by the fishmen.
The Ninth Princess was furious, it was a shame for her to have such a thing happen under her care, so she led people to chase after her and went all the way into the swamp. In the swamp, it was another hard battle, Beamon was lured into a bottomless deep pond, and he didn't go in and never came out, and the ninth princess was difficult to support on her own, and was covered by dozens of nets of the fishmen and became a prisoner.
The troll warriors who followed the order of the ninth princess and ran out to find reinforcements, which led to the scene just now. After listening to the poor road, Hao Xuan didn't faint to death, and after looking for reinforcements for a few days, he put together such a few people, besides, it's been a few days, and the fishmen are afraid that the princess will have bones left, right? What else can you save?