Chapter 1: The Orc Proving Ground

"Children, today is the time for you to take the test and become a true orc warrior......"

The bright and dazzling sunlight shone into his eyes, Jabbar stood on the playground of the tribal tent, listening to the bloody speech of the tall orc on the stage, but there was no trace of mania and excitement in his heart, since he was reborn in this other world, he was tired of the killing and bloodthirstiness of his companions, and just wanted to be that quiet and ordinary self again, but all this seemed impossible to achieve now, because after being reborn, he was not a human farmer, nor an elf hunter, but the third son of the chief of the snowfall clan.

And today, he and many young orcs are standing here, not to hold some coming-of-age ceremony, but to participate in a cruel survival trial.

Orcs, a savage and warlike race on the planet Anderella, like the Germanic people of ancient Europe or the Mongolian nomads of the steppes, who live without a fixed place, do not grow food, and live by plundering the thin races around them.

So, every time there is a drought, a large-scale barbaric invasion of the south unfolds in such a specific environment, at the beginning, each orc clan acts alone, they use rudimentary weapons, no armor, but brutally destroy every village and town in their path.

It wasn't until 3910 A.D. that the orc clans, who had been migrating south, encountered their most formidable foe in history, the humans.

Instead of simply fighting the orcs by force, humans built tall and thick walls on the periphery of their homes, and the walls were covered with giant crossbows and catapults, and the orcs were defeated in repeated attacks, and had to stop the pace of plundering on the central steppe.

However, only five years later, a great orc chieftain was born - Lockhan. It no longer matters whether this great orc chief was born, what is important is that this strong and intelligent orc chief conquered all orc clans in just eight years and became the leader of all orcs.

After unifying the orc tribes, Lockhan changed the previous habit of orcs fighting alone, but led them in an organized and planned way, using strategy to win the war.

And of all these plans and stratagems, the method of training recruits undoubtedly provided the most powerful orc warriors for the entire tribe!

After only two years of training, the orc warriors who graduated from the Tribal Proving Ground were brave and experienced orc infantrymen on the battlefield, and this powerful and brutal training method continued until sixty years after Locke Khan's death.

Every young orc who had undergone a year and nine months of basic training in his clan would come to the northern forest, the Moonlight Glade, in the late autumn of the following year. It's a vast no-man's-land where only the strongest beasts can survive. Young orc recruits will enter this huge black forest in late autumn, until the end of winter, the snow melts, can come out of the forest, if at this time, the orc recruits wear a bear skin or tiger skin, then he can become the leader of these orc recruits, such a simple and crude selection method seems to be low-level barbarism, but for the tribe to cultivate a group of brave and fearless warriors. And gradually the territory of the human race was pushed south, winning more land and livestock for the orc tribe.

And today, Jabbar also has to face such a seemingly perverted test, and around them, many orc companions are eager to try, and their axes are covered with various ornaments, symbolizing their beliefs and families.

But Abdul-Jabbar is not as full of anticipation and excitement as they are, and it is simply the saddest thing for a traverser to enter the Black Forest alone and face the test of survival. The other orc companions are orthodox orcs, they have been trained harshly since childhood, and have the experience and rules to adapt to the survival of this planet, but Abdul-Jabbar knows nothing about it, all his memories of this world are only two months! That is, before the time travel, Jabbar has only lived on this planet called Herrera for two months, and the fighting skills he has learned are only limited to slaughtering a wild boar...... And these orc companions around him are already able to deal with even wild wolves, and some of them have even been glued to human blood. Compared to them, Abdul-Jabbar's trial came so quickly and so quickly that it was almost certain that a traverser like this would not make it out of the forest alive.

"Jabbar, how are you feeling now? Do you feel the hot blood coming to your head! Ha, I would like to chop off the head of a giant wolf with an axe and drink its blood. ”

As the trial ritual was about to end, Baladin began to hold back and whispered to Abdul-Jabbar, this young orc who looked as strong as a bear, was the first friend Abdul-Jabbar met in this other world, but although Baladin regarded Abdul-Jabbar as a close friend, Abdul-Jabbar did not trust this friend in another world without reservation, because in essence, they were not the same race, but the appearance was the same.

Paladin has the most distinctive characteristics of the warriors of the Snow Fall Clan, tall and strong, violent to the outside world, moral, zealous and trustworthy to his fellow comrades and his own tribe. Abdul-Jabbar became friends with him because he liked him.

"Well, I don't feel anything, I just want to get out of this hellish place quickly, the dense Black Forest in front of me is like a lump of shi. ”

In the face of Baladin's enthusiasm, Abdul-Jabbar only responded lightly that the natural warlike and bloodthirsty nature of the orcs did not show any active performance in him, on the contrary, Jabbar appeared as docile as a sheep among all the orc recruits.

"Alas, Abdul-Jabbar, I don't know what's been wrong with you in the last two months, you cringe, you weren't like that before, you were the bravest and most commanding of all the snowfall children, and when we went out hunting together, you were the one who commanded and assigned the tasks to each of us, but since you were hit on the head by a rhinoceros, you have completely changed, and you have become a different person, alas. ”

Paladin said, his eyes could not hide a trace of chagrin and loss, the blood just now disappeared at once, and his blood-red eyes were also filled with a trace of gloom.

"Dude, stop thinking about it, now that I've become like this, just accept the reality. Some things, things that seem bad, are not necessarily bad things, and what seems to be good things does not necessarily turn out to be good. For now, let's think about how to spend these three months in this no-man's land, which is really difficult for me. ”

Jabbar looked at the loyal orc companion next to him, who was taller than himself, and said lightly.

"The instructor of the trial will not let us act in groups, otherwise, I will definitely be by your side to protect you. My brother. ”

Hearing Abdul-Jabbar's concern, Baladin replied very cheerfully. Come to this other world for two months, such a direct and refreshing dialogue always makes Baladin feel extremely comfortable, in the past in the earth society, people have to intrigue in the dialogue between people, and there is a knife in the smile, in this other world, these pretentiousness is not used at all, the orcs and orcs are always so straightforward, there is something to say, when there is a difference of opinion, a fight is over, and the loser must obediently obey the winner. They won't have a time to debate, unless something as big as migration, civil strife, or war.