"Did you hear that? I heard that Graeme's granary was destroyed by worms again. ”

"Yes, I don't know how recently, there are these rumors everywhere, these insects don't know where they came from, and there are a lot of bugs in my animal pen, although they are very small, but there are a lot of them, and they can't be killed by any means. ”

At the end of autumn, when the rain was pouring down, the two orc farmers hid in their homes to take shelter from the rain and chatted about strange things that had happened for a few weeks. Since the First Orc War, many orcs have learned the way humans obtain food, and growing food is no longer a shame among orcs, but an effective way to support their families, and many orcs have even started a food trading business. However, the orcs do not seem to have as many means of doing business as humans, and often suffer losses in buying and selling, but this does not affect their enthusiasm for trade with humans, and trade produces more wealth than plunder, which makes many orcs rush to contentment, and their hatred of humans is gradually disappearing.

"I've heard that the bugs that appeared in Graeme's house are three meters tall, almost taller than us,**, imagine what kind of monster it is. ”

Farmer Fabre said.

"No matter what kind of monster it is, believe me, if it dares to appear in my pen or granary, I will cut it in two with an axe. ”

Another orc, Tam, is very bloody, two or three years of farming life has not made him forget the bloodthirsty nature of orcs, for everything unknown, Tamu is still full of fighting and plundering. If it weren't for the Orc Great Chief Baladin's order not to plunder the human village for no reason, Tamu would have rushed to the human village next door and plundered it.

"Haha, that's what you say, if those disgusting giant worms really appear in front of you, you'll be cowardly. ”

Bray sneered and said, at this point, Tam's bestiality was aroused, and the orc roared and began to argue...... But they are just fighting at hand, not really using knives and guns, it is normal for orcs to fight and fight, sometimes they fight with blood in their mouths, and after a while they sit and drink together.

"Wait, listen, what's the sound?"

The two orc farmers were arguing, and suddenly, Bray seemed to sense that something was wrong. Something seemed to be wriggling beneath them, rattling the dirt on top of the ground.

"What's that?"

Tamu also noticed that something was scurrying under them, like quicksand, like an underground river.

The sudden unidentified movement alerted both orc farmers, and Bray picked up the axe on the wooden table in one hand and kicked the ground with his foot, trying to lure the strange creatures underground out of the ground.

Tamu was a little smarter, and he ran to the fire, picked up a burning piece of wood, and scalded it towards the uneven ground. If there really are monsters, it is believed that they will crawl out quickly. But Tamu burned at the undulating ground, and the commotion suddenly disappeared.

Such a strange atmosphere suddenly surprised the two orc farmers, and they did not react to the harassment of the flames, which only proved that the monsters under the ground are a group of creatures with advanced intelligence, at least they know how to ambush, know how to hide themselves, and will not expose their targets without brains.

"Tam, forget it, maybe there aren't any monsters at all, just quicksand underground?"

After scouting for a while and not finding it, Bray was too lazy to be on guard, and his spirit was highly nervous, but he didn't find a trace of movement, which is not the style that orcs like.

"It's not like that, we've moved to the south, and the soil here is very strong, unlike the Gobi where we used to live in the north, where there is no quicksand in such a solid soil layer. ”

Bray had put down his axe and sat down to continue gulping down his wine, but Tamm remained on guard. Although there is still no trace of it.

"Maybe the land of human beings is different from what we know, who knows what the hell this human lived in before. ”

Bray said impatiently that since the orcs moved to the southern continent, the geographical differences often made the orcs feel uncomfortable. And Bray also took advantage of today's incident to complain.

"Perhaps. ”

Tam searched for a long time, but found no movement, and sat down.

However, at the moment when Tam sat down, a pair of huge claws burst out of the uneven ground and stabbed into Tam's back at great speed! Bray didn't even have time to shout, the hard claws pierced directly through Tam's heart, and the claws stabbed out of the chest with the bloody orc heart.

"Oh, my God!"

Bray was dumbfounded by the sudden scene, and he sat back in his chair as he watched his companion being impaled by the claws of the giant worm.

"Roar. ”

But the next moment, Bray, who was in a state of flux, grabbed the axe on the table, grabbed the rough limb with one hand, and slashed at the huge claw, a disgusting black liquid gushing out from the wound of the claw. The giant insect that was counterattacked withdrew its forelimbs and continued to bury itself in the ground.

The dirt ground began to stir again, like a pair of large, invisible hands stirring the dirt below, Bray picked up his axe and slashed at the undulating ground, but no more bugs were found.

Until all four claws struck Bray at the same time.

The orc farmer slashed at one limb, but the other three claws stabbed at Bray at the same time. In an instant, the sturdy orc farmer was impaled through his body by three giant limbs, and blood gushed out like a fountain, staining the table and the floor of the room red.

At this time, the insect that had been hidden underground slowly crawled out of the ground, revealing its dirty and ugly body, covered in pitch black, with two pairs of compound eyes hanging from the outside of its head, looking around the small orc hut. It wasn't until it was confirmed that there was no other danger that the sandworm began to slowly devour the corpses of the two orcs......

Teletham, the rebuilt Great Hall of Kings, the Hall of the Conclave.

"Your Majesty, are you looking for me?"

Passing through a vague wooden door and through a long corridor of secret passages, Defense Secretary Quintus walked to a secret conference room made entirely of boulders. There, Hradi, the new king of the Kingdom of Teletem, was sitting on a wooden chair, waiting for the general of the kingdom to be summoned by him.

"I've heard that orcs have been active in our market a lot lately. ”

As soon as he entered the secret chamber, the cold and harsh atmosphere made Quintus feel uncomfortable for a while, but as the king's most capable subordinate, he had to adapt to this environment, because many things, Hradi would issue orders here, as the thirty-fifth king of Teletem, Hradi had a completely different personality from his father, he was born weak, and did not have the strong body of his father Alonso. likes to play with power, and the conspiracy is exhausted. Hradi, who was only twenty-five years old at the time, had a cunning and insidiousness that no middle-aged man at forty years old had.

"Yes, in the autumn they sold twice as much grain and fur, and of course twice as much wine and ceramics and olive oil from us. ”

Quintus seriously reported to King Heradi the recent activities of the orcs on the border, as the first general of the kingdom, Heradi issued a secret mission to him two years ago, King Heradi of Telat let his general secretly monitor the activities of the orcs, including the number of border orcs and the main settlement areas, cities. Find out how much the orcs have standing army. The young king's eyes were full of cunning and resentment, and he could not forget the massacre of the city ten years ago, when the orcs united with the undead and breached the walls of Teletum, and tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered alive in the streets. At that time, he was only fifteen years old and could not do anything. But now that he had become king of Teleth, with his own power and his own people, the damage the orcs had done to the young prince was now doubly repaid.

"Starting tonight, close the gates of the city, capture all the orcs who trade in the city, and lock them in the dungeon in preparation for execution. ”

The order from the young king's mouth was so cold that the great general Quintus gasped, but quickly took the order. In the secret conference room, the mysterious wizard wearing a black cloak had been standing in that corner, and he hadn't said a word from beginning to end, and Quintus looked at him very uncomfortably and walked out of the secret conference room......